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Episode Date: August 25, 2015

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Tell me about Super Slam! What? Super Slam! Super Slam! That's the thing. That's what you're actually doing it correctly. Yeah. Intendably.

The Summer Slam, me, Patrick. Welcome to the Super Best Podcast. I see what you did there. I like it. You're doing some cool ass shit, Liam. You're welcome. The three of us partook in the Slam of the Summer. That's correct.

I wouldn't say it was in a slam. It was kind of like a wet thud. Yeah, exactly. Kind of. A sweaty thud. A wet thud that just kept you behind for four hours. You're totally right. There isn't a... I've never, and this happens a lot, that a rustler would sweat, and maybe

other liquids would seep from their body. I've never really made a mention of it, but the last match on the card, well we'll talk about it in a second, but... We can stop now. A dog lastner was a fountain. A blood and sweat bubble. And spit. And you could see that it was mixed.

I just want to say, I think a wet thud, ceases to be a thud, becomes more of a splurge. It's more of a slouch. It depends on the level of moisture. Yeah. Oh, meal consistency. It's like, is it softened by the wetness, or does liquid actually shoot out upon impact? That's the difference. Yeah, that makes the splurge.

But we all saw it, and it was alright at the very least. It was alright. There was ten matches, I think, like three of them. Ten of the best bout you'll ever see! What was the hashtag narrative? The hashtag narrative was there was one point where the event was number one on Twitter. And the guy behind us confirmed that that was the case. But no push in minor hashtags.

They were there in the top corner the whole time. Title for title was the one that I used when I was typing that this match sucks. I saw John screwed John. Yeah, that's a good hashtag. That was a good one. That was a good one. Even though it was misspelled almost every time I saw it. Yeah, John Stewart does not have an H in his name, guys.

But we'll just quickly blast through it. The tag match, and not too long ago, not too long ago, two years ago, they were saying the tag division in WWE is abysmal. There was maybe five. Now they got bunches of them, and there were some that we weren't there. The Usos were not there, for example. And some other guys, and we saw this tag match, and we all, you're especially impressed by that. I thought that was probably the best try. I think that that was the best match of the show.

I think it was the most entertaining. And all turned around, is that like everyone kind of went, okay, Matt, well, we're not angry at you anymore, because your opinion was based on outdated information. Because the last time I saw The New Day, and I remember I told Woolly when this originally happened, Woolly was like, are you serious? And I'm like, yeah. So they took a bunch of the Black dudes and put them in an evangelist stable where they're singing and clapping, and they're wearing the robes.

But apparently everyone loves this gimmick now. Because it's now a totally different gimmick. And now it's totally a gimmick where they're just hilarious. Now they're just hilarious Black people. They're Twitter Black guys. That's what they are. Xavier Woods, the third man, does this one step in the ring, and he is being a hype man yelling the whole time. That's the camera man.

Explaining how they have the market cornered on tricep meat, and nobody else can touch it. And look at these shoes. Look at those. What are those? I like comfy shoes. Look at these Phoenix shoes with golden wings on the side. And he explains what they are. It's like what, a 15-20 minute match, and Xavier did not stop screaming all the time.

He did not shut it all down. And he is so loud that he is very clear over the camera man. I had to get closer to the mic when he wants to be heard. So Black Vine has come to the ring. It's Black Vine. It's amazing. And I turn to Liam and I say, watching this match, it is now so obvious how Xavier Woods got up, up, down, down. Out of all the guys.

We need to do an internet thing. Who should we get? It's like Xavier, he was probably the guy who asked. And when I first heard of this, we all saw a couple of interviews together where Kofi did amazing shit. And he never got a really, really good push. So when I first heard he's thrown in the stable, I was like, he's not going to be anyone special. He's just going to be a guy, like a force, or a guy that comes in and interrupts. But they all had their moment.

And Big E Langston, which is just, I'm a big tough black guy, is now hilarious because they win. And I think Pat said he's- He's Carlton Banks. He's just a big big Carlton Banks. And he's dancing all like Goofy and shit perfectly. Like with sincerity, you know? Yeah, and it's just like, these, it's like, I've never seen happier wrestlers. And the best bit about it is even though they were good, they weren't even the best wrestlers in the ring.

Like the Lucha Dragons were much more impressive with the stuff they did. You see, I believe this is the first Cinecara because they keep changing the guy because they're like, you're shit. But you have a mask, so it doesn't matter. We need a new shitier Cincara, you're actually too good. It's like King, but you don't have to die. Yeah, I know. But you probably will. They did some pretty cool stuff and then there was the other team, the champions, I forget their names.

The prime time players, the millions of dollars. And like, they weren't doing anything too special, but they were good. And they had the hot tag going. You get a hot tag and I said, is there anything more depressing than leading up to a hot tag and then the crowd just doesn't do anything? That's the most depressing. That is abject failure. That didn't happen. That didn't happen. The hot tag was good.

It didn't happen this. I was like, thank God, because it's so depressing when it doesn't happen. But then there was, I forget their names. Los Matadores. Los Matadores. These two Matador costume guys with El Torrito at the side. They just, they were the worst out of that match. They botched so much.

They botched other people's spots. Yeah, they botched the Luchador spots. They were really weak. We kind of said that's probably the most entertaining match, but there was a bunch of bullshit. Randy Orton versus Sheamus who cares. Before we get a look at that tag match, I want to point out that they invented, or at least this is the first time I've ever seen this tag move. It's the strongest tag move I've ever seen in a tag match. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

By New Day, of course. And they sold it. So Xavier's barking and doing his shit. And Big E tags in Kofi and it's the hot tag and then they both stomp on him. The guy in the turnbuckle. And then Kofi sits onto one side of the turnbuckle and then loops around to the other side. And then tags in Big E and gets in and starts stopping him. And Big E poops around and they get that like six times.

And this whole time Xavier's just going nuts. The cameraman goes so he puts it so that he can have Xavier Woods on the right side between hyping it up. And they're just doing these multiple rotations as they kick him for fucking like two minutes. And Xavier's got a script he's following and he's killing it. He's killing it. And I look at this like why even in the ring? Why hasn't every tag match just devolved into this corner stun lock? Because they don't have a hype man.

It's so good. It's so good. A re-dizzy combo. Yeah, absolutely. So there is a bunch of crap. Orton and Sheamus who even kick Sheamus. I forget a lot of the other matches. Chesrow versus Owens is okay.

Well I was going to, right before that, Liam introduced the diva match. Oh, there was the 40 man diva match. Which was fantastic. That's what it felt like. Three teams of three ladies. So literally nine. Which appears to be the entire diva division. There was like one or two people that are maybe missing.

Natalia or whatever. But there was three things. And I go aww, I can't wait for this. I like Paige. I like Becky Lynch. I like some of these girls or whatever. What are the girls? Don't forget the narrative by the way.

This match was the revolution for divas. Yes, the diva revolution is now. Did you know about this? It's happening. What is it? So I don't know. I'm already a part of it. But from what I could tell from the pre-show, it's that Steph McMahon came out and said,

yo divas, that shit sucks. But this new shit with all the same people, it's a revolution. It's going to be a huge difference. What we've done is instead of having like solo wrestlers, they're all in stables now. So we're going to have the revolution. But it's also like, yeah, you girls, you can do it as good as the guys. And I agree with that. They still do garbage.

Like when the team loses, they make the girls cry. Like fuck off. Holy shit. No, no, no. It's going to be worse. Do you know what the difference is? Let's say another team lost. Let's say Bella's won.

Sure. If another team lost and they cry, that's bullshit. But team Bella, the Bella twins, I'm okay with them crying. That's kind of their thing. If they kind of, if they have the other tough girls crying, then that's bullshit. Like that's kind of their thing. But like to come out and be like, yeah, like as girl wrestlers can be as good as the guy wrestlers and then have written in the script that, but you're going to cry at the end.

Like, come on. If it's in character, then yeah, but if it's not in character, then that sucks. Like, but then why didn't Randy cry? I wish I would see that. He is crying. Stupid, stupid. Exactly. He basically cries.

But then our three teams, the three teams are team Bella, which are the two Bella twins and Black Lady, Foxy, Felicia. Felicia Foxy. Felicia Foxy. They're all, they're all, that's fine. Cause that's all the, the heels nobody likes. And then there's team bad, which is one of Jimmy Snooka's daughters, Tamina. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

She looks like a murderer. And two other girls. One girl that I swear was just like, she's, they picked her because Nicki Minaj is popular. And that girl is Nicki Minaj cause just ass. She was the one with the boots, right? She was the one with the, yeah. She had, okay. She had a good, she had boots that lit up and that was her giving.

I'm like, that's awesome. Yeah. And then there's the other girl, PCP, who do not know how to color coordinate at all. PCB. PCB, which is Paige, Becky and Rick Flair's daughter, Charlotte. Okay. Who actually is just the woman that played him in Rustling is in Rustling. It's not really, but it looks accurate.

But it's the same concept. That went from drugs to fucking computers. I know. I was like, wait, really? Did they even know that that's a thing? That's a real object? Yeah. I guess they did.

They didn't even color coordinate their costumes. So apparently they don't give a shit. That's the difference between a stable and a super group. Yeah. Right? Yeah. They're three individuals. Three is not a stable.

When Mick Foley and fucking Rock were a tag team, they did not come out in matching costumes. No, of course. Three is not a stable. Four is a stable. Cause the four horsemen were like a stable. Yeah. And it makes sense because of the fucking four. Cause they're horses.

Anyway, the Dudley's are not a stable. The match is not good. You need one more. Divas, you put them to the right of the horsemen. The match gets. Not in WWE. Yeah, in ECW. In ECW, they were double.

They were double. There was a third. There was a fourth one. Oh, really? Yeah. The only thing I think of note of the match was that we saw the most vicious thing, where as two girls came at each other and were kicking each other at the same time. And the impact time was perfect.

It was five. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kicking each other's faces and knocked each other the fuck out. It was as good as anyone could ever do. And Foxy did a really good suplex into a bridge. Oh, God. Really good. When a really good bridge happens, I freak out.

Okay. It's a thing of beauty. There was this, I don't even remember what it was. But there was a move that the announcers just loved and it wasn't even that special. Oh, God. And they replayed it like six times. And when that really nice suplex and a bridge was happening, they had it up in the corner and they were replaying this mediocre, I don't even remember what it was.

Someone had them over their shoulders and I think it was a page. One of the announcers. Bella did it to one of the pages. To page, yeah. And she just flipped her and she kind of pancake, like, slapped onto the mat outside. Slammed on the ground. It was all right. But this beautiful bridging suplex, which I lost my mind at.

It looks great. It was so beautiful. And I was just like, I want to see it again. And the replays are really good nowadays because they show you a regular replay. Yeah. Then they show you the replay again in slow motion. And the slow motion, you see everyone making dumb faces. It's amazing.

Yeah. It's too bad. That match wasn't very good. The more deep as you put it, the worse it gets. So backstage, there was a segment where John Stewart's talking to the guy that plays Aero. He was there. He had a match, right? Yeah.

And they're talking to some other. There's a random kid that's just sitting there. They don't talk to him. And then all the lights go out and then they go, what's going on? And then you see Undertaker really close to the camera. Just walks by. Just walks by. So you're telling me that Undertaker fucks with the electronics out in the ring.

And then the smoke follows him. Oh, the smoke is coming in. Oh, it smells like gold-boned medicated powder and old Kid Rock albums. Fuck, it was so weird. So I get it. Is he supernatural? Does he just kick people in the balls? Yes, he is.

Oh, man. So then there was the title match. The title for title match. Really, really quickly, you mentioned a bit. Kevin Owens versus Cesaro. Kevin Owens made that kind of husky dude from NXT who has the KO shirt. And do you know what his mantra, what his catchphrase is? It's the best thing I've ever seen.

It's called Fight Owens Fight. That's it. That's it. It's on the back of his jersey and it's, you fight! Solid. Like, Russel doesn't have to be more than that. Yeah, no. Fight!

Do you fight? Yeah. Do you fight? Yeah! Anyway. What's in that glass? Sorry? I'm just excited.

I had a good time. But yeah, that match was really good and we talked about how Kevin Owens is actually from, like, Nowhere'sville, Quebec. Yeah. Oh. So it was like an English name. And you could hear it. Summerville.

Yeah, you can hear it. And he talks a little bit. Maryville. Someone that doesn't know might just think, oh, he has a weird lisp or something. But he talks and we can hear it. And then Paco's like, oh man, I really wish there was a thing with, like, Quebecers came in and started doing some stuff. I love the Quebecers.

That'd be a good, awesome plot. And I was like, imagine, the Quebecers, they're in a ladder match and up on the briefcase are the papers for sovereignty. And they get up to the top and they're like, no! You can separate a Jew with them. You can do with them what you want. And you can do it over a child. You can do it over the sovereignty of a province.

Yeah, why not? The Quebecers sucked. What did I say? They lost more matches. They were tiered. They were Z tiered. Like bushwhackers. The Quebecers lost more matches than they had.

That's right. They somehow found some. I could never remember a single Quebecer win. I can't remember. So yeah. The title match over a title and a fake not mattering title. Yeah. So it was Seth Rollins who, you would love this.

Seth Rollins, you remember his outfit. It's kind of like the X-Men movie costume. He came out as the fucking white power ranger. It's the same costume but white and gold. It was amazing. It looks good. So the plot of this match was because he busted Cena's nose. Remember?

And so it was like, I'm going to get you. I'm going to take revenge. We're going to fight. Yeah, exactly. Because you busted my nose. And so you get in there and it's just the most boring nothing match. Like Super Dwayne. They were fighting Big Show for the title of Who Can Sit Longest.

Okay, so last time that descriptor was used for the Cena match in the event we watched before that. That was so clear. So did Rusev have that one? Well, yeah. Because the Rollins match was fucking amazing with Orton. Yeah, that was great. This is clearly Cena.

Cena watched the console time. Even Seth's stuff wasn't too special. No, it wasn't. But neither person had a good show. And it has bad matches a lot. And that's why people like him. But this was a bad Cena match. It got fine in the last two minutes when everyone starts hitting L2.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right? That's the thing with all this booking is that I find it happens almost all the time. They don't know what to do. There's no heat for the match. No one cares about the actual match. So just have everyone do their finishers. And reverse their finishers.

Reverse the finishers. The last two minutes was fine. But it still wasn't as bad as like Seamus vs. Or Seamus vs. Rusev. So I went through this match. I go on Twitter and just go, this match sucks, title for title, which was the hashtag. And then once the match ended, I got a bunch of people going, I was like, oh, you feel dumb now, huh?

What a cool fit. Like, no. No. And that was still a slog. But the screw job came out. Yeah. John Stewart runs to the ring with a chair. Well, this is after Cena picks up Rollins, accidentally hits the ref with Rollins.

Of course, the ref. The ref rolls out of the ring. Cena pins him for way more than three seconds. What's the ref's bump, so you're fucked. And then John Stewart comes on, hits John Cena, gives the chair to Seth. But he looked at both guys going, which one do I hit? Who do I help? Yeah.

Why? Because he wanted to run in, but he didn't know, because he's in the moment. He's like, no way, I get to decide who's the champ now? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so, yeah, then Rollins takes it. And now he's going to have a big statue of him made. That was his thing. Seth Rollins says, if I win, and I get both titles, you have to build a giant statue of me outside Titan Towers.

Because I'm the best. And that's awesome. Yeah. That's the best thing that's ever been put on the line. No, my statue doesn't get built. Well, that's where the plot's going to go, right? Because Cena did win the match. Just the ref was off in pain.

You know when Peter Jackson was exploring movies, and he makes little update videos? Here, we're on day 15. Yeah. I want that for the statue. Absolutely. I want to know when it's being made. And repeated attacks on the statue. And the corporate face guys are all trying to defend the statue, and they're just like,

oh, yeah. Just not a good match. No, no, no. I was really disappointed, because I was really hoping that we would end up with consecutive knees to the face back and forth. There was one big knee, and it was to what you wanted, but it was the one. There was one, but I wanted it to really go all the way. They knew they had to.

I don't really want to talk about the match too much, but the match that Rollins and Ambrose was in, who were they even fucking fighting? The Wyatt. The Wyatt? Yeah, the Wyatt. It's real bad when you sell so hard on the fucking bottom next to the ring that the crowd starts to chant. They're not Rollins.

They're not Rollins. They're not Rollins. They're not Rollins. The fucking crowd starts to chant, Rains is sleeping. He was gone for like five minutes. He was just out all, I don't even remember what had happened to him. He got bounced off the side. And he's doing it because he has to.

Yeah, yeah. But why? It was like empty space. They were just beating up on the Ambrose. Rains is sleeping. And then that when that chance started to pick up around like six or seven, like he immediately got up and got back to the ring. It's like, yeah.

Well, I guess I got to do a job. Then beating up Ambrose isn't enough these days. It felt really good to see him get beat up. I don't know why. It doesn't like his head. We mentioned the title match, which was. Four matches from the end. Four matches from the end.

Title for title, the U.S. and fucking the international heavyweight. Followed immediately afterwards by the Divas match. And Kevin Owens. Followed by Cesaro and Owens. And then the actual main event. And then the actual main event, which was Taker versus Lesnar. Yeah, Lesnar. So, Wally, let's give you a slight bit of backstory on the lead up to this.

In the lead up to this, Undertaker has repeatedly appeared, teleported into the ring by a dark magic in order to kick Brock Lesnar in the dick. Yeah. As he is known to do. This is real. Since the loss. This is now his new power. For the last like two months.

Yeah. That's the entire build up to this match. It's amazing in a way. Okay. He just keeps ruining his matches. He cost Brock a title shot last time. He kicked them in the balls super hard. If there's anything more Lovecraftian than kicking someone in the nards, I can't think of it.

Doing it from the Netherrealm. Doing it from the Netherrealm. So, that was basically it. Undertaker's pissed off. Portal opens up. I imagine you beat the streets. This takes the balls. It goes back into the portal.

I was really bothered because at the beginning of the match, I came up with this narrative. Oh, this is amazing. I wanted to happen so dearly. Like a minute into the match. Remember, Undertaker looks like an old dead grandpa now. Yeah. Like it's not, they can't hide it. So, I was saying, I want Lesnar to win.

But what I want to happen is at the very end, you see Taker put his hand on Lesnar's face and do some magic shit and imply a transfer of force. And for it to... And like as it was going on, whenever he was on the ground, I would be like, dude, the body's no good anymore. You have to do a soul transfer. You have to soul transfer. Your body can't take it.

Rock's body's still good. Liam says this in the first minute of the match. And then they go, that's amazing. I really wish that could happen. But then as the match went on, there was several moments where it seemed like they could do it. And I go, yeah, Undertaker's just kicking people in the balls and tweaking their asses or whatever. Like dumb man thing he's doing.

But not too long ago, last year, they did supernatural shit where Bray Wyatt's face came out of holograms and fucking missed and tell prophecies. They're not above doing this or below it. They can do it. So why not? Why not say Brock for the remainder of your contract with us? We just dress you up in a little bit more black and you talk even less. You're going to be Undertaker.

Don't say Suplex City anymore and just be the new Undertaker. I would so be down with that. That'd be great. That'd be amazing. That did not happen. And Paul gets more pale as time goes on. His name is already Paul. His name is already Paul and just Adam Barrow.

If anyone could live up to the Paul Barrow legacy, it would be Paul. Yeah, Paul. Exactly. He's the same size. Like big fat guys. There were so many really well-framed shots of Taker on the ground. Yeah. Just like gone and Brock in the background.

So just do it. Do the soul chance first. Despite Taker's so cool. Despite Taker's advanced crampost status. Pretty decent match. Much, much better. Very, very interesting ending. Really weird finish.

So bizarre. Brock had him in a submission hold. Yeah, Brock has an arm breaker submission. And the bell just dings. And the ref gets up the roll. He's like, what the fuck is going on? There's a detail that matters. Brock's submission includes him lying on his back in order to break your arm.

I don't think this detail matters. No, because... It matters a little bit. Taker then stands up a little bit and that puts Brock's shoulders down. On the mat. On the mat. And then the ref hits, starts to count and then Brock immediately wiggles out. The bell keeper thinks that's like the match is over due to submission and rings the bell.

No, that's wrong. But you're wrong too. Yeah. That's not what happened. So the ref goes to the corner and he's like, what the fuck? You don't ring the bell unless I say so. Brock, that's his garbage. And they go back to the match and then Taker pins him.

Well, Taker does some underhanded shit. He hits him in the balls. And then he pins him. And he pins him for three and he wins the match. No, no. He makes Brock... Dude, it was a submission. What are you talking about?

Taker then put all the... Oh, it doesn't matter. He will escape. That doesn't really matter. He makes Brock submit. Yeah, he will. No, Brock doesn't submit. He passes out.

Oh, he passes out. He gets in the middle finger in the middle of it and then passes out. So nobody takes a win. That's the most Brock has done. But then they play the replay and in that submission where the bell dinged... You can clearly see that Taker was tapping out. But the ref couldn't see it. But the ref couldn't see it.

But the timekeeper is on that side and saw him submit and... That's... Okay, that makes more sense. Yeah, exactly. Taker is in slapping the ground. He's slapping Brock's leg. He's slapping inside of Brock's leg. But he does it like 10 times.

You see it. I don't understand why they did this. It didn't make... It didn't matter. It's to prove that Brock totally won. But to forgive Undertaker his winner. But they already did it by making Brock not submit and just pass out and flip the bird. That keeps Brock strong because they did that with Austin.

Yeah, like he won't lose. He just has to go... He didn't lose. He just lost the match. I have never seen such a stubborn you didn't win go this hard this long. After this Undertaker raises his hand and they play the music. He walks out. Brock finally wakes up and then they look at the replay on the big screen and Paul goes,

Look, Zoe was Brock that won. Brock then celebrates and walks back to the... With his music playing. And I'm like... Undertaker's right there. Paul grabs the fucking hammer and he's hammering on the bell. And yelling, No, no, no. So they literally both won the match.

Well, Undertaker has the check mark. Brock actually won it in the same way that Cena actually won his match. I just realized, find out what happens next on Raw tomorrow. That's why it's dead. Well, of course. Well, yesterday. For viewers. For listeners.

Yeah, that was SummerSlam. Spectacular. It was alright, I guess. The soul transfer. It was fun to watch. The soul match. That would have been the best. Even the things that we saw that sucked like that one world rumble.

I think we'd all agree that wasn't a very good show. We always have fun. Actual ConRaw shit going on with Undertaker. You no longer need this. The fact that we're talking about it so animatedly demonstrates how good it would have been. And the only way to get Brock's soul back is to go back in time and stop it from happening in the first place. No, when the time is right and when Taker's ready to hang it up for good, that's the path you take. I think we should pass it down to someone.

Maybe not even Brock. To a 20 year old guy. Tell Taker why it? Why not? Why not? No other gimmick in the history of wrestling has the power to do this. To be passed down. There's always the legacy or I'm the student of.

Like a young Hulkamaniac is not going to be anything. That's not going to happen. I know. But you know what I mean? There's nowhere where that works. There was a bit in the impact we're talking about where Taker was in a submission and he was reaching for the ropes. And I was like just split the screen like MGS4 and have Kane like opening a box with his mask and like starting up the psycho drive. Yeah, exactly.

The police engine is going. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Now let me always have fun. But like for what was being built as the WrestleMania. The best 10 matches you'll ever see. The best 10 matches ever seen. That was a blatant lie, Mr. Stewart.

There was one that was entertaining. There was one that was good. That had no build. And then there was one that was just kind of like what? Yeah. I think there was three good ones. Was Stewart funny or was he just great? He was great.

He's natural. He had a lot to do. But what he did was pretty funny. He could totally be. And there's an alternate reality in which he is a popular like Paul Heyman style. He had a good joke like wrestlers are the polar opposites of politicians because they respect their audience. Right. And also.

You had a couple of guys. After 15 years of covering politics, it's really nice to cover reality again. That was the one. I was like, okay. All right. I get it. You know what you're doing. So there you go.

All right. All right. Let's break it down. What would you do? Still watching wrestling? I had a pretty short week, not much. He's discovered time trials. So one thing I finally got around to finishing off Life is Strange, the most recent chapter.

Yeah. Chapter four. And that is the best chapter of the game. It's great. Okay. That is a chapter that not only has no nitpicks for me to point out, but the ones that did happen. I was like, yeah, but wouldn't they do. And then the characters did the thing that I was pointing out.

Yeah. What happened often where I would go, oh, I really hope that's. Oh, just do this. And then they did that. And I was like, yeah. What did you think of the awesome detective section? That was cool. It's great.

That was fun. It's just not great for an LP that's blind. Oh, no. Oh, no. It was fun. It was fun. My only thing is like, what is it like? I can't say I did it way fast.

Oh, I'm sure. My only thing is just like, so anytime the powers are being used blatantly when everyone's around, they're just seeing Max teleport all over the place and it's not a deal. Well, they're not seeing it because they're getting put back in time, right? Except for when they appear at the very end. They just appear at the very end. From one place to another. Yeah, only at the very end.

There is a moment of teleportation. Well, no. Because she was there in the first place. I thought this through. I thought this through. She was there in the first place. Only drew graphs. But then when it gets rewound and then she goes to the other place or has to wait in that other place,

then she disappears from where she was. Because remember when you did it in the principal's office? Yeah, it would appear to be intact. In a case like that, for sure. And there's about 10 seconds of nothing. She was the part where you have to drop the tractor to pull open the door, for example. She's on the ground, then uses it to get up above where the tractor is, and then rewind everything.

If Chloe was looking at her, she'd see her disappear and reappear on top of the rafting. Well, there's one episode left, so they need to go full on the world. Well, and it's really easy to telegraph where it's going. But the one other thing I'd say is anytime you go somewhere you shouldn't be, or like leave footprints somewhere, or something like that, just undo it so that you have the knowledge but don't leave the evidence. Yeah, you can do that. But they don't do that.

Like you can leave Nathan's door unbroken. Exactly. Oh, I know that. That's the stuff that I was thinking about. There's a lot of bits like that. We omitted some of them like that one. Yeah, I was talking to some fans and they were like, wow, it's really a shame that people...

Oh, you're wearing a hot dog sweatshirt. We're both wearing a hot dog sweatshirt that Matt stole from me. That you stole from me, I believe. You know, we're going to have to... I'm going to go on my email and I'll show you the time frame of the receipt that I got. So does anyone... I got the shirt first. It's who bought it first.

Is that where we're going to? That's my hot dog. She bought it for me. Okay. But I was going to say is that people going... That means Leman. It's a shame people that were maybe rightly turned off of the shitty... the shitty kind of writing of the first episode go,

oh, it's going to just be this. That's hella dumb. Yeah. And then they don't continue on. And then because they're turned off from that first episode in the writing style, but then like some people are saying, but I continued on. I really didn't like the first episode,

but now this is my adventure game of the year. All of telltale stuff. I don't care. Yeah. It's just this. I'm really invested in this. And they're like, it's still a shame that people would have been turned off.

And they wouldn't be, you know, they might miss out on something, but if they really didn't like the writing, it's not like the writing got better. I think it's a bit hyperbolic to say of the year onto anything with it, but I think that it's a episodic adventure game. I think it's pretty solid. I think it's really solid.

What's going to fight it? What's going to, what's better than it? When did Wolf Among Us wrap up? Not this year. Last year. Was that last year? Yeah, last year. Was there anything else episodic this year?

There's Telltale's Game of Thrones, which what I hear is it's better than Game of Thrones, and people still say Life of Strange is better. Yeah. I think Life of Strange is better. Well, Resident Evil, but that's not really an advantage. Life of Strange is currently better than Game of Thrones as well,

but I will say that it has stepped its game up, and I've talked at length about the cast theory problems, but this episode is the longest and it's the tightest I felt. It was long, right? Did it feel like, oh, this is too long. I want this to end? No, it was more like, oh, shit, there's more. Well, because it was like there's a point

where you can clearly have cut to cliffhanger. We did that twice. It's like they could have had six episodes. They could have, yeah. Almost, yeah. And I'm like, no, I really want to know what happens with this follow-up, so I'm glad they did that. Although it was a bit weird when the last moments of that

are going down where there's the big reveal and then you're kind of going into the epilogue of the episode. Yeah. You're in the little snippets of the future. Yeah, and yet you as Max is you're kind of following Chloe around. Clearly Chloe's on a mission to do something, and you're kind of like, she shouldn't do that, but I'm going to go along with her plan anyway

and you don't really have a clear counter plan. Yeah. So I was like, why didn't you kind of like have a bit more of an idea of what to do here? You're kind of like, I'm with you, let's do this, but then you're like, no, let's not do this. It was a really unclear where she stood at the end of that. But still, it's all like.

I got the shit spoiled out of me. Spoiled out of you. Spoiled out of you. For Life of Strange like three hours ago. You know what? It doesn't even matter because there's still like. I know that. It's like, I saw a piece of, I watched that Life is Solid trailer

because I didn't think it would have spoilers for some reason. And I saw a character gets shot with a gun and who shot them. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. And that's what's irrelevant. That's why I'm bringing it up because that's what I wanted you to tell me. It actually doesn't matter. Good.

Great. Awesome. That happens multiple times. Different people. Different people. And who knows? Great. It's fine.

Aw, thank you. That being said, I still don't think you'd be able to. I think you'd get way too annoyed at like the fucking teen drama shit. No. I don't think I'd like it too much. Well, there's that. Is there a will they won't they? No.

Well then fuck this. Because you kind of get to pick. There's a moment but it's inconsequential both ways. That's the best part of teen drama. A character will literally remember it and bring it up from time to time. You've got, not you've got, well I got to Killer Enking and Killer Instinct. Congrats. So now you're locked in.

Now I'm locked in. You were killer. That battle, dude. Oh my god. So the ride up there is like, you're still playing the- You're against Rico, right? You're playing- I was going to say is Rico standing at the entrance?

No. There's a whole bunch of other names actually. There's a team called C88, which is the crazy 88s. Wow. And they're the fucking gatekeepers. There's a lot of good players in that crew. But no, the Killer Enking is where Child's Play ends. So all that-

No online goofing around. Because you basically- I rode my way up to the top with just fighting a lot of people that- Well okay, because this brings up something where we're just talking about how people on Street Fighter V would have the fireball game. Yeah. But they wouldn't know how to do anything else once you stop it. Exactly.

And I saw some people that were making comments on like, oh, Willie complains about the fireballs not knowing- Like vast misunderstanding of what he said. Yeah, because it's like, the thing I'm talking about is people that jump back and throw it from full screen. When you use fireballs in closer range as an extended footsie tool, that's amazing. And jumping back in fireballs is valid.

But he's commenting on the people where you can clearly see they don't know what to do when you take it away. People that don't understand or have a neutral game. Yeah. So are the people that have- I actually talked about this very recently where he's worried about SF4 players going into a game that is now just like old Street Fighter games, very footsie dependent. And SF4 has focus attacks and dash cancels and invincible back dashes,

which like reduce footsies dramatically. And how like it's really easy to crush these people who don't know how to play footsie. Exactly. So that's exactly it. Like there's a misunderstanding between all fireball usage. Like you're not saying that jumping back and shooting fireballs isn't valid, because it is. It's just hilarious when you take it away and they don't know how to do anything else.

And they just actually stand completely still and go, So for a lot of people and killer instinct, like that's their method of fighting thunder is I don't want to fight him. Yeah. So jump back into that thing. It's tough to fight him. And you kind of, you know, you use basic like counter-breaker shenanigans to get your way up there. But once you enter that bracket and now you're fighting people with like the stars,

that mean they got top 32. Right. This game, dude, is the fucking hardest game. It's so hard. It's unbelievable. I don't want any match. It's a level of defense I have. It's literally you've been in your own town for a while.

Yeah. And you entered a new neighborhood and everyone in that neighborhood is like, High level K.I. is fucking, oh my God, man. Because every character is running a vortex on you. Yeah. That's K.I. in a nutshell. And like if you didn't take the time, because I basically found out I get beat by something like four matches

and then I fucking quit the mode, go over to the character. And get a better idea. And learn the character to understand what's happening. How is this happening? What buttons is he pushing? Because if you don't know anything about that character, you will never beat them. Especially in K.I. where you need to know the normals perfectly. Or the traits that they're using in the middle of their combo strokes.

That's right. For all of season one, I never, I think I might have picked Sidira once. Yeah. And then whenever I fought her, I didn't know. It is not enough. It is not enough to pick that main and stick with it. Yeah. And like some of the blocks, the blocking mix ups along are like Marvel's speed

in terms of what you have to react to, how fast you have to react to it. And then like get in your counter type of thing. So, wow, am I blown away at like where this game is at this point. After the month, you don't, you're not a killer. No, it goes away. But if you were in the top 32, you're going to start. Like dude. You're going to start.

I'm going to start. How many people are in Killer? Uh, right now. I don't even know the full ranking. I don't know. Okay. But like you're talking like thousands or? I didn't look.

I didn't look. Okay. Dude, I wish Rising Thunder locked you in because like, I can't maintain my master rank. I can't, I can't stay up there. So, I'm a master in Rising Thunder now. Yeah. It's interesting. Some days I am.

It's interesting. And some days I get all the way up to master two. And then it just evaporates on me depending who's in there. And I'm seeing other players do the same thing. I'm playing the same people like semi-regular. There's a guy named Mayhem King who I beat to get in again. And then beat me out of it later that night. It's crazy.

No. And the funny thing with the way Rising Thunder is going to parallel KI is that the difference is when you lose an imagine Rising Thunder that like knocks you out of the ranking. Like you understand immediately why you lost and you adjust right away based on the fuckups you made. I don't do that. But there's never anything happening that you don't understand. Yeah.

And killer instinct is really requires intricate knowledge. Where they're doing what appears to be a normal jump in and it hits you in the back of your head. And you go, what? Like magic is occurring. Yeah. You know? There's too much going on.

Like I can't, I do not intend to put in anywhere near enough time required to get good at that game. Because like, because the amount of time it would take to learn all the characters to sufficient amount would be like enormous. In my top 10, that's why I say like, you know, starting with six characters. And if you really want to stick with the game, if you want the game enough to stick with it, you're there for every time a new character gets added. And that's where you really get the knowledge.

No, for sure. Well, yeah, I mean, you know, I didn't have an Xbox one for the first five or six months. So I only play it like here and there. But like ever since I've had it, I play it all like I play it at least a couple of times a month. Like the amount of devotion you need for KI relative to any other fighting game is crazy. It's absurd. It's absurd.

It's totally different. And you have to recognize autodoubles and know how to break them. Yeah, exactly. And like, there's a whole thing where you can just have a decent oaky mix up on people, a good wake up mix up on them and know how to bait out a counter breaker. And you can take yourself to like high intermediate. That's enough to get far for sure. High intermediate.

But you are not going one step beyond that. And I was listening to Max give some commentary and how he was describing, you know, basically when you watch the highest level matches where, you know, people are not breaking, people are not counter breaking, they're really just doing short, tight, hard just to get the damage hard combos, you know, because then they don't have to think about all that other stuff. If they kind of well, because the suffering hard, the 5050 suffering is just not worth it. I just guarantee a solid 20% on you and keep the match going, you know, and I'm starting

to understand the wise, like, fucking words. Because getting a hit in is hard enough when they have a, they literally have buttons to stop your attack to mid attack. Yeah. God. That being said, it's fun when you see some like crazy left field shit, like an agonist player that's like taking you to task. Yeah.

And you're like, I love this because it's agonist. For sure. Yeah. I mean, I learned that battle, but man, there's nothing else like it. Like I said, like, like it starts out at that like street fighter, like, like level of complexity level of wall street fighter to like basics and speed. And then you go up to a Marvel level of walking in the same game, you know, but great. It's weird.

Yeah. And I guess, well, these are new stories, but I'll mention like, I tuned into some of the events that are going on this weekend. It was the, um, the Toshin, Gekitotsu, Guilty Gear X mode thing. Yeah. It was, it was just a really cool first of three where they brought in a bunch of top players and Guilty Gear and had them face each other. Watson, Guilty Gear.

And Daigo showed up and everyone's like, oh, how's Daigo going to do in this, in this world of anime games and whatnot? Not great. And it's like, he's played anime games before. And actually. You did okay. Did okay. Okay.

Did it, did it win, but like, got it, he took it, took it like, it was about first of three and he got two games and then the guy got three games in like Daigo knows how to play. Yeah. He's playing a, he's playing a very Ryu like soul bad guy where it's just like, I am not going to do any of this anime game shit. I'm just going to follow his defense. Yeah.

The moment it opening happens, I'm in there. You can't make it work. You can't take the Ryu out of him. It's great. It's fun to watch. He's going to find a way to play it that way. And it's just like, it's like he's not, he's doing some basic air dashing, some basic pressure, but nothing fancy.

But his fundamentals are super strong. His first power is super strong. Just fundamentals and that's carrying the life bar all the way to the end. Learn your fu- like, God damn it. Every time people ask us, like, how do I get good at fighting games, like, practice your fundamentals. Yeah. Play something with footsies.

Well, when people refuse to play footsies. Go, go, go play fucking super turbo until you get good. It's great. That'll do it. It was sad to watch my guy, Dogura, the sim player, get utterly destroyed. Because sin is just like, I like sin. I'm waiting for my kid. I think you mispronounced that.

You mean destroy? Destroy. Thank you. It's the only fighting game series where that's appropriate. Hey, did you guys check out any of that Pokemon tournament stuff? No. I just saw the news really. I watched Blaziken stuff a bit.

Okay. That was a bit ago. So there was an invitational tournament. Yeah. And they played through the whole, the play through it. How's it look? It looks, it looks fine. Looks good.

And it's really weird and interesting what they're doing with the whole fighting game, not fighting game thing. Because you know how you'd see the trailers? It's both. Okay. It's Dissidia until a heart attack lands or like a, a sequence lands where there's a huge amount of damage in a combo. And then it switches from this third person like Zoe camera to a 2D fighting game mode.

Yes. It swings it in a little bit. Yeah. And so you have the field phase and the dual phase that it switches back and forth between the two. That's neat. Okay. So characters that are zoning you and shooting you and whatnot, like you can as a, as if

you're like match up. Yeah. I'm sorry. Match up. Yeah. And you get in there and land like a really hard hit. You switch it to dual phase. Zoning is over now.

Yeah. It's a fighting game and then they can get knocked out of that and back into the Zoning mode. That's, that's interesting to have like a, like, cause there will be characters that's like, I never, ever, ever, ever want to be in that mode. Yeah. I want to zone with my bullshit in the 3D arena the whole time. But there's a lot less lag and start up on any of your moves compared to Dissidia.

Like Dissidia's like lag and start up on every move is absurd. They're hot. And that's not present. Yeah. Like every basic, you know, light attack, heart attack, jump, special button kind of thing. Then you have a throw and you have a focus attack. Sure.

You know. And so you can just. Yeah. That's kind of all you really need. Yeah. And so the mind games are there. You know, it's like make a good read. Capitalize.

Damage is through the roof. You have assists too. You have assists. And the assists are damn good. Yeah. Yeah. You call in assists to set up block strings and things like that. Fucking watching Pikachu do.

Who? Pikachu? Who? Because that doesn't matter anymore. Okay. Watching. It's all about lucha pizza. Oh, sure.

I have whatever. I saw the picture. You saw the picture of them doing T-Zawks pose. Well, that's cool. But way cooler than that is Pikachu doing Mishima fucking moves. I love it. Yeah. Watching.

He has the kicks. He has the uppercut. He does the hunting hawk and then the fucking electric grid godfist. Why didn't I just know that that was going to happen? And that's the coolest thing in the world. Of course. Of course Pikachu's going to be Heihachi. So I'm like the whole time I'm like, yeah, I can't.

Dude. Yeah. And I'm like, I can't wait to be match him. For this tiny awk. No, Pikachu's where it's at. I want to do fucking hunting hawk kicks into Shaker. Yeah, exactly. And then the Heihachi wing pose with the...

Dude, in every game where you can do that, it's the best. Like when I was playing PlayStation All Stars, I had a hard time not picking Heihachi. Because he's got his stuff and it's like, damn, it's just so satisfying. And the godfist actually goes under attacks. Yeah. Like characters. Like Tekken's great. Like Tekken's not as great as Heihachi.

Yeah. No, man. They should make a death by the grease game where you just play as Heihachi. It's so weird that like the villain, like the villain boss character who's a normal fighter is easily the best and most popular of the characters. Like Akuma doesn't have that. No. Um, so that's cool.

But it's so weird. Blaziken doing Hoarang shit is always fucking fun to watch. That makes sense. It's gonna be really good. It's gonna be really good. That's awesome. The only, like... It is really good.

People already like it. Well, when it comes here. Spray. Spray. What does is like, what hurts is you're watching the backgrounds and you're like, and there's all the other fighting type Pokemon. There's Salk and Thro. Standing at the backgrounds.

And Xangus literally sitting on the bench. Not a fighter, but... Like he's literally sitting on the bench and you're like, I want these guys in there. And they know you want them there. This is, this is like Neon Joe Saddle Coliseum level of just like, fuck off. But you know what? It's like... I like the console version to be like, you know, how it used to be.

The arcade version has this many characters and the console version comes out and Scott like, you know... Well, I don't remember where we leased it on this, but like I just straight up wish there were characters who were not in the game and there are characters and there are characters who are not in the game who were in the game. Like Gerrit of Suicune, Gerrit of Gengar, Gerrit of all these not fighting types and bring it all to fucking sea-lister fighting Pokemon. I think we will not happen.

I know. We had this discussion. No, I did not. We had passed that. I was waiting for you to bring it up, because you bring it up already. We both 100% agreed this would be an infinitely better game with just fighting types in it. And I am surprised they sell that. You literally just described how awesome it was that Pikachu was hatching.

I know. I am surprised that Gardevoir didn't have to be so delayed though, like with just the equivalent version, but it's a fighting type. Yeah. And you know, I feel like there is so much cool shit to be seen with the fighting types. Well, like you just put Lucario and Machamp and Blaziken on the box and it's like you've got three, like, not S-listers, but three A-listers up there. Because you can't put like a dragon type in there.

You can't put like a giant quasi, because then you've got to fucking, you do the entire game. No, Steelix needs to be in though. No. Steelix does need to be in, he's cool. That's my favorite. Magikarp needs to be in it. Yeah.

Seeking needs to be in it. Fuck yeah. Magikarp works like Dan, and then you build up a meter and turn it into Gerrit of all this. We'll have fun with some of the cast, but for the most part, it should be like fucking I really just want all the D-Lister fighting books. I actually totally disagree, and I think they should have as wide of roster, like as varied as roster as possible. Well, to me, the lack of like...

I guess that's what they're doing. The lack of Hitmon anything. Hitmon, Chen, Hitmon. Look at that. That is absurd. It's ridiculous that there's no Hitmon anything. Yeah. How is Steve Fox not in this game?

Where? Like how? Fair. Where's Farfetched? Where? Whatever says where Farfetched belongs with Dunsparse. No. I like Farfetched.

And that ice cream Pokemon. Yeah, Vanilla. Get the fucking ghost sword in there. I hate that. Hot edge. Hot edge sword. Just a sword. Floating sword.

Fight that. There's a lot of dumb Pokemon now. I know. I think a lot of them are dumb. I think you're dumb. But no, I think that's a good tournament to watch, to get what this game is going to play like. Most people with like half a year of experience in it.

Yeah, although some people with way less than that. Yeah. It was an invitation that had card game players versus fighting game players. But it actually broke down differently than you'd think. If it comes out in the spring, could it make Evo next year? I think so. Yeah, totally. Why not?

And you get to watch. Cross Tekken was like online there. That got it. The new weird, the new weird, yeah, Nintendo branded D1 is like, show up as like, D1's D1. But like Nintendo branded D1, I'm like, wait, I know D1. But what is this? Like it's a fraud.

Yeah. Yeah. No, he's great. He's great. Yeah. And like when he's, when he's announcing official Nintendo stuff, he dials it down to like com level. Exactly.

You know, like you just keep like, oh, banned already. That stage is banned already. Yeah. They just need to get like local, well not local, but they need to get like matching with friends into Splatoon and then Nintendo should just hold their own tournaments next year. I think so. Like, yeah.

And Nintendo, and it would be even better if the Wii U supported system like it would be even better because then, then they wouldn't even have that. But that's just supporting a feature that's only good for your own tournament. They'd be confiscating and breaking copies of Melee at the door. Yeah. It's true, eh? They look like you're banned, they see you have weapons and they're like, I don't care about that.

Oh, you have a fucking copy of Melee! Get it out of here! But like, you'd have a Splatoon tournament and you'd have a, you'd have a Pokken tournament, then you'd have like an unbalanced Mario Kart tournament and then you'd have a Smash 4 tournament. Is it actually called that? The tournament? The unbalanced Mario Kart tournament?

No, I just called it that. Oh, that'd be great. The actual Mario Party tournament. You get all that in there and then you have another Nintendo World Championship happening in the corner. Some 3DS game, yeah, totally. And, and it's like, you've got a fucking show, you've got a show. Spirit Book tournament.

Oh, uh, Fatal Frame. Fatal Frame. Not Fatal Frame. Not Fatal Frame. 3DS tournament. 3DS? Yeah. Can you get less scared than your opponent?

You win. Yeah, exactly. Uh, and I'm, all I, the only thing I gotta say is the Twitch Place Dark Souls thing is just, like, I hear this and I'm like, what a waste of time. I watch. I tune in and it's a ridiculous waste of time. I tune in days later and it's like, they've done the thing which is democracy versus chaos because otherwise nothing happens.

With fucking time stop. With a time stop on it and I'm watching them, I'm watching them fight a boss. Asylum. Asylum. No, it wasn't asylum, it was another boss. And, um, and, and it's just like, so this is, there's something immensely satisfying about seeing all the rabid people go, it's not gonna work. Don't do this, don't do this, don't do it.

And then it works 40 seconds later and everyone gets blown the fuck out. I just, I kinda love that. Yeah. How sure people are and then they're super wrong. Yeah. It just reminds me of everything. Oh, they're having to be wrong. But it's, but it is, it's lost fights even successful ones which are unlikely.

It was the tourist even. It's like, are now going to take 40 times as long. Yeah. It's due to the way that this is like, this will be checked back in on for a long time. And then they lose the fight and then everyone goes fuck this anarchy and they goes back to anarchy for another couple hours. And nobody moves anywhere. No one goes anywhere.

They manage to delete their weapons. Or set the, set the, the estus button to something else. No, that was, all their weapons are broken. Yeah. So yeah. What a foul. I can't wait till they win. Yeah.

No, no way. It'll be years from now. Yeah. But aren't seen in small, don't stand a chance. Don't stand a chance. They don't. I saw a bunch of stuff this week. Usually like I do, but it's a little bit more.

I saw Mission Impossible. I heard that was good. I said that. Well, you have not seen it yet. Nope. Not as good as Ghost Protocol. Nope. I don't even think it's close.

Understandable. Those protocols are fantastic. Really good. Really good. And it actually reminds me a lot of Mission Impossible. And with all of Pat mentioned a little bit, but all the team switching and who's working for who, and I don't really get what's going on, it felt more like a spy movie that way. Cool.

And they still had ridiculous scenarios. Like the thing they got to steal, they literally go, we can't do it this time. This is impossible. And it was, but then they still do it, right? There's espionage. As, as, as any Mission Impossible espionage. The thing they need to steal is so difficult to steal that they go through an entire sequence of how they would normally steal it and how every, every trick they've ever used would

fail. Would fail. Remember Ghost Protocol? What it is? It's data. Remember Ghost Protocol? It's just a situation. I finally get to wear a mask.

I can wear the mask now, right? And then they go, no, the vast machine fucked up. We forgot to plug it in. He's like, oh, no masks then. And here he goes, I get to wear a mask. And then like Pat says, they show the scenario of him wearing the mask and he instantly gets found out and they pull the mask off him and he's crying. And then they cut to reality.

Like none of this will work. So technically he got to wear a mask. But my only real beef with it is that while the villain was a lot more interesting than the one in Ghost Protocol, which is just I will barely say anything and walk around silently and I'm going to- I was in a better movie with the Swedish. With the Swedish, the guy that was in Girl of the Dragon tattoo, the original one. The villain is much better, but I really dislike the fact that you have the same team from Ghost

Protocol minus the really personable hot lady agent, Carter, I believe her name was. The black lady that fights the French assassin and kicks her out of the window from Ghost Protocol, she was just inexplicably not in the group. Because there's another lady. Bitch, she's not as interesting. The new lady is British. And if she wasn't British, it would have been the most forgettable character ever. Hey, she has an accent, so you remember her.

But she's very plain looking. She's evil. Nah, she's not. She's not evil. And that was the only kind of weak link where I'm like, I'm kind of just interested in in her. Plus she's not even really interested in Ethan Hunt. Like there's no romantic thing there at all.

So I'm like, something why is she really- I don't know. She's kind of there. Is she? Nah, she's so evil though. Why is this franchise so good now? The last three have been great. The first one's amazing.

The first one's amazing when you watch it. You're like, I don't- I love that first one. It's so- It's just an action movie and it's not trying to do it. Look at cool gadgets. With a huge budget and it's not- Okay, you know why?

We gotta try to rewrite it. It just keeps running the play. It is an action movie to spy shit the way that Fast and Furious is an action movie for carship. And it's like we happen to like spy shit, so we like it. I also think that it's not as constricted as the Bond franchises. Because the Bond franchise- Well now-

The Bond movies have been fantastic recently. But they're more rooted in reality than this is. Yeah, yeah they are. And at the same time I feel like the Bond movies like they're more tied in to legacy, they're tied to a lot of things that Mission Impossible isn't. Yeah, they just go wherever. The only thing Mission Impossible is tied to is the fact that Tom Cruise is an amazing actor.

Like that's it. He is. That's all you really got. He legit is, but I haven't- Crushes it every time. He's so good. At the same time it seems like Tom Cruise is like recently, or I guess recently, for the last like 10 years.

It seems like he only participates in movies that he can have a direct say in. Sure. That he makes sure that- Almost every single one says produced by Tom Cruise. That's what happens when you become a super billion box office master man. And so he can make sure that it's not his shit. Yeah. And like anytime I go-

I'm like- I'm like- Every time we're going to get there- Brad Pitt too as well. Yeah. Not so much. In the World War Z like he's like- He produced the shit out of it.

And saved it. But Tom Cruise is just great because when I look at him now I'm like you are a crazy man. That's awesome. But fuck all that shit. But you are a crazy man and you entertain me. Good on you. That's fine.

Still think his best role was in Tropic Thunder. I'm not going to argue that. I also saw Sinister 2 for free. Oh. I don't have much to say. Is that the right price? Or is that the subtitle? Sinister 2 for free.

Yeah, exactly. The first one is actually quite a very effective horror movie and this one is just fine. Not much to say about it. But there's just one line that's amazing. It's about this ancient demon that's called Bagul. The name is just so forgettable to me. It's not great. But the one thing I want to say about this-

Sinister 2, Don Gate. The one thing I want to say about this is that the only part where I really think it's just an amazing line and an amazing premise is that there's this demon, he requires that you sacrifice, children sacrifice their own families for his perverse pleasure. That's a rough deal. And to do this though, you have to do a certain thing. You can't just kill them. You have to commit it to art.

And it's called in the movie, the aesthetic appreciation of violence. He requires this. So you have to make a song while you kill your mother. You have to film a movie as you burn your family. That's good, man. That's good material. Fucking Sinister. That's good material.

And they say this word. He needs the aesthetic appreciation of violence. And I'm like, that's really strong. I get it. I think the actual movie is kind of goofy in the sense that the hero of this movie is the cop from the first movie that helps out the main hero, which was Ethan Hawke, which is an actual actor. This is just some guy.

I don't know who he is, but he's a goof. He's like, oh god. And that's his role. He's Luigi. Oh, okay. And he goes into a place and he sees like a rat under a thing and he's like, oh, on the main, a pasta pizza. Mario.

Yeah, exactly. It's hilarious. I'm like, this is kind of a question. So it's basically Luigi's mansion with Gore. It's kind of very gory. Yeah. Actually, you know what they do? What?

Game of Thrones season two, three. They do the rat thing. Oh, yeah. And I've already seen it. I saw that in goddamn fucking need. No, not need for speed. What's the fast and furious two? I don't know.

Something like that. There's a rat thing. I've asked about that in a torture book from the Dark Ages. And I think everyone would make a book. It's the rat bucket, right? Yeah. That's also in the sort of truth series. This takes us to a whole new level just really quickly.

Rat buckets are mean. That's mean, man. All these kids have to kill their families in a different fun way and they film it and they look at how good I did. Look at my Let's Kill. Watch my Let's Kill. Watch it. Like, subscribe.

What? What did they get out of it? Internal life, being a ghosty character. Oh, that seems pretty cool. They can do some stuff. They're invisible, basically. But anyway, this is the most elaborate rat thing ever. All right.

So the kid's looking down and he's in a church. I'm like, I'm in a church. That's good. That's perverse, right? So I have all these four dead bodies. I'm going to put them down on the ground. I'll put them in a pentagram, the bodies. Pagool's symbol is not the pentagram.

So he's like, oh, you already fucked up there. And Pagool's like watching the video. He's on his iMac. And he's just like, oh, fuck. Wait, what? No, I make you the narrative here. But I imagine you have to submit him your video. Yeah.

And he goes, look, that's not my... Fine. And he's scrubbing through. He's like, all right. So you have them. But you nailed them. You nailed the rest of the floor. I like the Jesus allegory.

That's fine. All right. You got buckets on their stomach. So, oh, you're in the church, the rundown church. You put lots of rats in there. Good on you. Well, this is getting elaborate, though, kid. And he's looking at the kid.

The kid's like, but I thought I wanted to, like, do it a lot. And he's just like, all right. Oh, you're burning the buckets so the rats... Yeah. Okay. So you killed them. Good job. You killed them.

You could have just shot them. And other kids do way more simple things. I'm getting really confused. Is this a conversation that happened? No. One of the kids is dumb. And just it's really shitty. What's really great is that the last kind of thing in the movie, a kid just makes a movie

and it kind of fucks up really bad. And as he's trying to save his movie, he's like, oh, God. Oh, man. Oh, geez. And then the other ghost kids are telling him, he's going to be really pissed. When he sees this, this is shit. Oh. It's amazing.

This is weird. Show your what. I'm making my narrative, but they do tell him he's going to be mad. This isn't good. You need to finish this and get it all. This is weird. Your narrative's fucking me up. Because ever since you introduced this Bagool character on his iMac, I can only imagine

him voice as Regis Philbin for some reason. Right. And then my fiance goes... What is this? If they found a black kid and they try to make this black kid go, hey, kill your family. Will the black kid make a vine? That's tough. Yeah.

It's tough. He would. Six seconds. And it's probably really good. Imagine that. It would be strong. It would be probably bad. All the ghost kids are all white kids throughout time.

That dog vine you showed me. That dog vine, have you seen that? That's the best. Hey, Duke, do you want this ball? Do you want this ball, Duke? He's asking a German Shepherd. Cut to just a fake-ass German Shepherd doll being launched through a bunch of glass. It's fucking amazing.

I also saw Ex Machina. Did the trailer spoil that fucking movie for me? I don't know what your spoiler was. The trailer implies that one of the characters is a thing. A thing? Don't say anything. That's not a spoiler as far as I know. It depends on which character you're meeting.

That's the premise. I'm not going to go into it. Incredibly well-acted. We'll have this discussion afterwards. Incredibly well-acted, I don't like the main character that's in it that is investigating what's going on with this billionaire and whatever he's got going on. He's a sex robot, whatever. That's not really a spoiler because it's the movie.

The main actor, I hate him because I saw him in a previous movie where he looks like a Weasley, first of all, but he's not. He's just Weasley. He's trying to play an English guy like a North American dude. Stop faking it. Stop faking it. I know who you are, but even though I don't, it's still well-active. I hate this main character so much, but it's still a really interesting movie.

I recommend it for sure. It's really, really high on Ron Tomatoes. There's that. I finished Cora Season 3. Amazing. Told you. What a great season and you said... What a good group of villains.

I wish the game had those guys as bosses. Oh, absolutely. The Four Devils of C'mon. The Four Kings. The Four Kings. Shantino. Yeah. Exactly.

And they did such a great job of going, Cora is better than these guys. She can actually beat all of them, but they do such a good job of skirting around the world map. Going, they're here, Cora's here. Oh, they kind of miss each other. They fight each other a little bit, but they're not really. I just love the consistent villain victory beatdown. Is it Evil Rival Team?

Psycho Rangers? It's a rival team. Except the rival team is better in every way by 100%. I like that. And they have extra powers. Yeah. That no one else has. On top of just being better.

Yeah. The main guy. The main guys I hear is voiced by one Henry Rawlins, which is random. Crazy. But it was great. It's great. It was a really good season. I can't wait to watch the fourth one.

Like, as an example of how overpowered the team is, like, you know, the day of the bending and all that shit. Yeah. One of the guys, instead of being an earthbender, he bends lava. So instead of throwing rocks at people, he is causing lava to come everywhere. And everyone goes, oh, shit, lava! And all the guys, every time they would ever have like, hey, the earth guy's finding the earth guy, they're throwing the rocks.

This dude's shit just melts the other guy's rocks like they're nothing. And he just wins. I assume that they're the rules of, like, this bending in the world. Or just like, if you're creative, you can be way higher tier than the others. Yes. And don't forget, the explosion bender. Yeah. Okay.

I just make things explode. Basically, shoot lasers. And what's great about this character is that people go, oh, shit! Right. We have to think of a plan specifically for her. They never forget how powerful she is. Yeah. They always go, she's a problem.

Yeah. The other ones, yeah. They're really tough. They're tough. We can get around it. With that one, though. There's Bobby Drake just going, oh, ice beam, ice beam, snowman. Exactly.

Exactly. And it's like, you idiot. Do you understand what ice is? You're the best. Use it. There was two things that I was disappointed, though, is that the, the, we're watching an Xbox video and it has a little short description that says, Asami and Korra get trapped in a desert.

And they went, ooh, yeah. And I thought we're going to get sexy island fun time. Yeah, children. And I was, well, Avatar was for children. They had sexy fun island time. Oh, really? Yeah. Jesus Christ.

It's the best episode in the series. But also like this, this bit of Avatar is like digital only not on TV. Yeah. So like for their children, really? Yeah. They're still teenagers, right? Yeah. They're, they're very, so it, I mean, like it doesn't even air on TV anymore.

Avatar, the age range went from eight to like 14. Yeah. Zuko being like 16. Yeah. Yeah. And this one, the like youngest character is 16 and like they're, they're hitting like 20. And they're young adults with raging hormones.

I was disappointed when I watched the episode. I'm like, oh, it's just a standard, like we got to get out of this bad place. And the last thing is like, I'm really starting like, maybe the show is doing it, at least in the season, but Mako, the main firebender is just, he, he does so little in some episodes. It's just to be a fucked up love interest in the first season. It's just all about, it's just all about Bolin. Yeah. Guess what?

It's all about Bolin. What's Bolin doing? Is he being funny? I want to see Bolin. Yeah. He's being a fucking hero and marrying royalty and fucking making dealies. We're doing all of the things where as Mako is like, I like being a policeman anyway. I have a scarf.

And like you said, like you said, they do such a good job. Yeah. Yeah. See, he really gets it. That's the character. Good job scurred the fact that I'm Cora. I literally beat Satan last time. Yeah.

And they, they skirt around how powerful she is. Yeah. So good job. Like I can't wait to see the last season. And I was on cranky stream. I kind of got, Am I hitting lights there? I kind of got blown up by cranky there.

On Tetris. On Tetris attack. Tetris attack. But it was so fun. But holy shit, my eyes started watering because I wasn't blinking. I got a headache. I started sweating. We're never going to stream.

It's so much pressure. Never say no to the world of being in grand finals on stream, man. But there's something, there's something about, because Tetris attack is the most pressure. It's literally you're shooting blocks of pressure onto another person. And the blocks feel the pressure and their faces react to it. And I was just like, oh God, oh God, oh God. And I got super salty here and there.

But then like, like, I, who am I fighting? I'm fighting cranky. He's having fun. Yeah. There's no reason to be upset. If you carry off, he gloats over, you just beat him up. I just beat him up. He's small.

We need to double down on it. We need to have you in your underwear. We need to have Kokujin announcing the battle as it's going on. But yeah, no, I had a really good time. And we were talking about maybe we'll try to find other stupid, because he found this client evolution to play online. And it worked really well in this song. We just booted up with Z Super NES.

It just worked really well. And the real thing, you know, like maybe we can find some other weird game to play together. Because yeah, we had a really good time. And like, he's really good at Tetris Attack. And when he came over here locally and we played for like two hours of matches. And you were just like... Yeah, you were mentioning it was more even. It was more even then.

But I just, like, it's his house. It's his stream. And also the pressure was on you. He could handle the pressure. So you let him have it. No, I didn't. Okay. I used to have Pride at Tetris Attack.

And my basement king status has been thoroughly exposed. So now I only have Pride in my normal default Tetris skills. I said it before. I was like, I can take newly in Tetris Attack. Tetris? No, sir. That's impossible. I thoroughly revoke Tetris.

I've never heard the term basement king. I'm in love with it. I mean, in love with it. It's real. But no more heroes. So specific. So that was my weird. Yeah.

Uh, I did do much. I mostly played video games is what I do. Video games? You got me a present. You went somewhere. I got you a few presents recently. No, what? When this yesterday, literally, you got from the U.S.

Yeah. Okay. So you found some tech. So I was in the States this weekend, which is why that Star Fox video didn't get fixed right away. Um, and yeah, shopping for junk as usual. Brownie batter Oreos are pretty strong. Brownie batter Oreos.

Those are pretty good. You should pull them out. They taste like chocolate. You should pull them out, but. I don't know where my bag's at. I'm not saying that Matt is dead now. Yep. But yeah, those were, those were really strong.

Pull the coffin up to the altar. Um, but yeah, I played some, some video games. Uh, I played a little battler's experience, which came out this week. Uh, yeah, exactly. So it's, uh, it's a 3ds game by level five and it's like a. Oh. Level five. Level five.

Yeah, exactly. And it's, um, it's like a, uh, a little kid robot battling game where you, where you play as the shonen and you battle the little toy robots against each other. Of course it's a little kid. Which is, well, it's level fives. M.O. Nowadays, right? It's to make those kinds of games.

Um, it's pretty good. Uh, it's really, really polished. It looks great. It's got the same problems that every other miniature robot fighting game has, which is just the combat's really stiff. And that is not as good as Gacha. Exactly. And now that I've like actually been in Gacha force and played it, like fuck, yeah, nothing,

nothing fights with that. Uh, but it's also kind of a bummer cause I guess they, they hope they're going to be able to localize the whole series cause they, they've localized effectively the first game. Um, when there are superior games already out in Japan. But I guess it's going to be like yokai watch where we're getting the first one this year but there's already yokai watch three coming out soon in Japan. Is it level five art style or is it a different art style? It's their, their little kid anime art style.

Yeah, it's okay. Well with slidey limbs and things like that. Or with the slidey limbs? Or the, the animation has a very particular look. What, what game are you thinking of? Yeah. Uh, like. Ah shit, nevermind.

Forget it. Yeah. Okay. Do you think they're a raw company? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

No, level five. That's taking a fifth sell. Yeah. No, level five. Oh yeah. Okay. It is cool guys for sure. No, it's, it's nice 3D like generic kid anime art, but it's a solid game, but like nothing

really stood out in it cause it's just kind of kid plot line and. One thumb up. Like kind of stiff combat. Well, it's like, yeah, exactly. If you, if you like those kid mech battling games, yeah, you'll enjoy it. It's really polished, really well produced, but eh, nothing too special going on there. Um, the other game I played, which I, I don't have as brilliant, uh, recommendations of is, uh, Resident Evil Revelations 2 on the Vita, which came out.

Uh, so that came out this week. I'm actually really excited to hear why. Uh, so. Cause you tore that game up on the console. I love Revelations 2. Um, I could start by saying I only recommend the Vita version to people who love the other versions and are down for. I need, I need to play this on the go.

Yeah, exactly. Like you're willing to, to stomach the. Okay. What's, what's the problem? So, okay. So Borderlands 2 is here on the Vita, right? He's all, he's holding his hand around the middle. And Borderlands 2 is not a good pool.

No, exactly. Uh, in terms of how games run, it's there, right? And. Middling. It's middling. Middling to poor. Yeah. Revelations, is it like kind of a six in terms of performance?

Average. Six to seven. Average. Mediocre. Okay. Sure. Um, so it's got the same exact issues that you see in Borderlands 2, which is like, it's a game that was made baseline for 360 and PS3, which is already a little bit stronger

than the Vita can handle. Considerably. In some cases. In some cases. And then nah, just rip it and jam it in there. Yeah, exactly. So just rip and tear and get the flesh in there somehow. Rip and tear.

And so like, just like Borderlands 2, when you're in the big areas, it chugs. Not nearly as bad as Borderlands 2, but it's like low 20s. When you're in the small areas, it stays a lot closer to 30, but it still. Dude, that sucks. Yeah, like that absolutely sucks. It's not great. And then when you have like five enemies on screen, which only happens like six or seven times in the whole game, you lose a bit more.

One of the glaring issues that they really need to fix is whenever there's an alpha effect, there's a notable dip in frame rate just quickly. That's a Vita thing. These are other platforms too, just most other platforms. Yeah, but aren't running as like overpowered games for that situation. Yeah, no, exactly. Alpha effects always drop your frame rate. Oh, sorry, do you mean that's a Vita thing in regards to it doesn't happen on the other

platforms? No, no. For revolutions too? Or do you mean like this? No, I mean like alpha effects always drop your frame rate. Yeah, exactly. But it happens more noticeably on the Vita because it's usually trying to punch above its weight in the first place.

Any platform that does that kind of stuff is going to encounter that. So yeah, whenever there's an alpha effect, you get a little dip. So whenever there's a blood splatter, it just like you lose a frame or two for a frame or two. It's really not noticeable for the blood splatters, but where it gets bothersome is the damage indicators on the side of the screen. The more damaged you are, the more the frame rate goes down. Wait, does he stay damaged?

Like when you're bleeding out in that game? No, well you know when you have the red on the side of the screen, you need to use an herb. Because of all those alpha effects, the frame rate dips. So as you get hurt, your control ability goes down a little bit. So that's what we call it. Others would call it a bug that needs to be fixed. That's a bug that needs to be fixed.

How do you fix that? But when you're bleeding out, don't you have... Or you just do a screen filter and make it look like shit. Is there an effect that stays on the high when you're bleeding out? Yeah, it's the strawberry jelly. Yeah, and that stays until you... Until you use an herb. So is it constantly just not perform well during that?

Yes. You lose like, depending on how far into the red you are, you lose like two to five frames at all times. But if it's running at 30, that's like 20% of the fucking frame rate. No, I know, exactly. It's not a great mix. And one of the other alpha effects is the flashlights, right? So Mara's got her flashlight that lets you stun enemies, right?

Yeah. And you get that little flashlight beam. I'm well aware of that. Right, it's great. That was my duty. Really, really great. Barry has a flashlight as well, but it doesn't have the ability to stun enemies. It's true.

It's just for visibility. In this game, they had to sacrifice all the nice shadow stuff, because duh. Just can't. And so as a trade-off, they upped the gamma in the whole game. So it's brighter and you can see around and stuff. Sure. And that's a fair trade-off. Okay.

But you end up with a spot where Barry's flashlight does nothing but decrease the frame rate. Because there's no more true lighting in the game. The flashlight isn't actually breaking through the darkness. It's useless. And it doesn't have the stun properties that Mara's flashlight has. So you can turn it off. So it's a turn your frame rate down. So literally, when you have it on, you're dropping the frame rate by not much, but I was just spinning around and turning it off and on.

You're losing one to two frames at all times just by having the flashlight on. On top of whatever else causes you to lose radio. Exactly. That sounds like a bad point. If anyone's playing the game, just turn off Barry's flashlight, because there's no recently. Or play it on a platform that can handle it. There are five of those. Well, like I said before, what I would say is if you haven't played this game, A, go play this game.

And if you only have a Vita, still go play this game, because it's great. It doesn't matter. But if you have another platform, go play it somewhere else. And there are, it's PS3 through 60, PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Yeah, exactly. So you probably own another platform. Most people would have the option for something else. Was somebody responsible for this?

Sorry? Was another company responsible for this? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, for the port. Yeah, who? No, I'm going to get... Okay, well, Frima Studios, who are in Northern Quebec, actually. What are you doing?

Capcom? That's the most random... I didn't know people lived in Northern Quebec. You know what I mean? Capcom hiring... Well, it's the same as Other Ocean for Street Fighter IV. It's the exact same situation. I guess, yeah.

Yeah, you're right. Well, remember, it was Sony's third-party productions for both of those. It just sounds so foreign. But, like... Like, why would Capcom reach all the way there? Sony did. It's third-party production, like I said. Same with Other Ocean.

They reached other people. So, like, ultimately, like, the port is, it's impressive, just like Borderlands 2, that it even runs. Like, it's impressive, but it's easily... That does take the sting out. It's easily the worst version of the game, but it's still consistently significantly better than Borderlands. This is not a Borderlands tier disaster. The Borderlands problem was the scale of that game was just way too big. The scale's insurmountable, plus it's first-person, so, like, you just...

You're fucked. And, like, I played that game to completion. I know how bad that one is. Revelations 2 is not near... Not half as bad as that. Because Borderlands was created in the set that they didn't know that the Vita existed maybe when it was being made in the console game. These Revelations, I think, they always had plans to put it out. Both of these games were made without consideration for those.

I know that on Insider stuff. I even know that it got released. I knew it was getting released. I thought it was, like... No, it just came out on Thursday. It was kind of quiet. So, then now that guys can show up in those PlayStation blogs and comment threads. Yeah, exactly.

They confirm they're going to be patching stuff, because they still have stuff to do, so hopefully they can improve it. But, like, seeing the framerate vary. Like, when you're at the Vossack, like, the framerate hovers near 30, and that's really good, and that's a solid area. But then you get to, like, Chapter 4 with Barry when you're at, like, the sluice section. And the area is just so big that it chugs. And, like, the very next area knocks it back up to almost 30. It's a bummer. It sucks. I hate that.

It's all over the place, so... I'd recommend it to anyone who really loves Revelations 2 and just wants it on the go. Or anyone who cannot... Literally has no other way to play it. But otherwise, either wait for a sale or play it on another platform. Hopefully the patches will address stuff, but I doubt they'll fix it so drastically. I can see improvements coming, but I can't see it becoming, like, 30 long. No, exactly. No way, never.

Ever. If they'd say what you described. No, exactly. If they could get every area to be, like, 100% above 20, it'd be great. Oh, it goes below 20? When you've got five enemies in the big areas, where you're in severe damage. Like, it's very... You have to line up all the conditions.

Yeah. And maybe turn on Barry's flashlight at the same time. But still, under 20 is so totally unacceptable. It's not like fucking come on. No, it's not great. So hopefully they can do that. And yeah, again, that's like just... It's unfortunate Capcom couldn't do that port in-house, because, like, with the Ace Attorney

games on 3DS, Revelations on 3DS, Marvel 3 and Crosstekin on the Vita, like, they showed empty framework work super well on the Intel platforms. EX Trippers as well. But, like, just... The Crosstekin to PS was pretty bad, though. If you played Crosstekin, like, one person on Vita, one person on PlayStation, it was... I'm not sure. I just know the game runs at 60, and the only sacrifice was animated backgrounds.

It might have just been the network, but the fucking fight slowed it down. Did that? Maybe, I'm not sure. I played that. There was a setup at Evo that had a... When you went? Yeah. Wow.

There was a setup that had a Vita hooked up to a PS3, and they were playing the Crosstekin platform of versus mode on it. And there was... Because I know for Marvel it was pretty good, but I don't know. But yeah, it's a bummer. It could have been a really, really good port, ended up being mediocre. Check it out on sale. But, yeah.

Oh, and the real stinger is there's no Crosstekin. That's the biggest stinger. Oh, come on. Can't transfer your progress. Between PS4 and Vita, it should be built in. That's every piece of evidence that Capcom did not touch this port at all. They didn't even add the functionality to the PS4 version to transfer your safe. Come on.

I'm still playing. I'm still enjoying it, though. It's fun. But had I not beaten Revelations two, like five times, I got to admit there would probably be some sections that would have been way insurmountably hard because of the frame rate and such. Oh, that sucks. That's the best. That's the worst thing you can say.

The better you are at the game, the better your experience will be. Is that it affects the difficulty. Well, because the frame rate. No, but it's intimately tied to it. That's the worst. What do you want me to lie about the quality of the game? No, no. That hurts me.

I still like it. It's still fun. Because that's the first time you said that, where it affects the difficulty. You just kind of said aesthetically it's bad. But the more enemies on screen affects the frame rate. Is that not going to affect the difficulty? And that's when you need the frame rate to be at its best. One interesting takeaway is this game has gyro aiming.

Like Splatoon, Uncharted, Golden Abyss, and a couple other games on the Vita, and Ocarina on the 3DS, I think. And this is the first game where you get gyro aiming coupled with a bad frame rate. And it reveals just how unusable gyro aiming is with a bad frame rate. You need to have a super good frame rate to get that one-to-one movement to feel good. And that's why I would work at something like Ocarina or Majora's Mask, because the game's already kind of basic looking. Yeah, and I went back to Uncharted because I was like, oh, how did that feel considering

how ass that game performs? And I was like, wait, no, this game performs great. What am I talking about? And I played that a lot, actually. But yeah, gyro aiming's really cool. It doesn't work if your game performs bad. Is there a center camera button? There, I mean...

Because Splatoon was... There's no need... Exclusively because of that. There's no need in any other games because, like, why would you need it? Like, you just use the right stick to move the camera. Like, they're adventure games. They're not. But if you're in a situation where time is of the essence, I feel like you'd have...

Because Splatoon has moments where you rotate strongly and then you've got a curve. I know, but you don't need it in this game. You don't need it. Because you aim, and it re-centers your vision wherever you aim. Yeah, aim, aim, and re-center camera. And then you tweak it. Gyro aiming is only in the games when you're aiming. Yeah.

So pulling up your gun re-centers the... Yeah, okay, okay. Because, like, why would you want to look around the games by doing that to move the camera around? Like, in Splatoon, it works because it's like an arena shooter, and you're constantly just looking for things to shoot so you need it. But in these games, yeah, whenever you aim it, like, de facto re-centers it, I guess. But, yeah. What's up, Pat?

Oh, that's it? I'll call it a day on that. I spoke about that game a lot. You talked about brownie batter Oreos, so it's all good. Where... when are the Oreos coming out? Hey, I have a... People don't like us eat, like, chewing on the podcast. I like chewing on the podcast. I'm chewing right now.

We'll have it later. You know, I recently just read this week that there's a name for the phobia of, like, the sound of people eating. Ooh, that's nice. There's, like, a whole thing out of where the, like... When people get irritated by the sounds of chewing and stuff. Like, I do? Yeah, I get really upset. Yeah, and it's like, actually, that's a known thing.

And, yeah, we've studied it and da-da-da-da-da. Like, it's actually a kind of phobia. It's mild, but it exists. Yeah, not totally. I don't know, it's a phobia that's just really irritating to me. It makes you uncomfortable. Yeah. I'm like, can you stop that?

Yeah. It's like the man-kissing noise. It's just loud man-kissing? Yeah. We're loud kissing in general. We're wrestling. But I don't mind all forms of chewing. It's just the ones with the really wet mastication sounds that I hate.

Yeah, where the mouth gets opened. Yeah. I fucking... Terrible. That's why, I think that's near universal, because that's why your parents tell you not to chew with your mouth open. So, I have a piece of advice for everyone who's listening to this, who can hear the sound of my voice.

Unless you know exactly what you're doing, do not try and clone your C drive in order to upgrade to a new hard drive. Every time, at least once a week now, you go, my PC, there's something wrong with it. It's going to be out of commission for five months, and then you go... Within three hours, I'm like, I fixed it. I fixed it perfectly, and now it's... That has happened three weeks in a row, and one of those is... What the fuck was that?

One of those, guess my D drive was dying, which was my game's drive, and I replaced that, and that was fine. I was like, I should upgrade to a bigger solid state drive, a C drive, and that'd be great. And I totally fucked it up, and botched it so bad that I fucking ruined the boot, like the boot fucking sequences on both the new one and the old one. Perfect. Which required me to completely go on a brand new Windows install, which was a fun ass process, and I luckily lost almost nothing.

If that ever comes down to me, if I have to reboot my, like, redo Windows, I just throw out the computer. Yeah. Just buy a new computer. Whatever it's come to backing up stuff, dude, I just grab the folders and drag them to the place I want them to be. I had unforgivable folders. I had, what's it called?

I had all my work stuff. That's all safe. All the uncut together footage for stuff. All my save games. You're the only one who's worried about that. Well, I only saved games, like, backed up. I always backed those up. So I only lost, like, install programs that I could just get all back.

And now my PC runs better than ever, now that it's bad, but like, fuck. And then when it came into recording your place, like, you're like, oh no! It started up an indie game, and it broke Shadow Play so bad that I had to restart the computer and was convinced that it was my fault, but no, it's because it was an early access game. And the silver lining to this was that I had used a fucking ghetto Russian set of drivers in order to get PlayStation 4 controller support on my PC. And it was just like, I installed these drivers onto the thing and it spoofed all the shit so that every time I plugged in a PS4 controller, it just said, that's not a PS4 controller,

that's a 360 pad. Right. And that was cool, but it was very limited in options, and I started to finally use DS4 Windows. The program is amazing! Well, I was going to say, because I know the exact drivers you're talking about, and I'm pretty sure it came out that those things are just disgusting wear for your computer. They're just the worst type of malware, so all that shit comes with it.

No, no, that, you're thinking of the DualShock 3 one that was ages ago. Yes, I am. That thing came out, it's like, this thing is pinging China! Yes. And that's when everyone stopped using it. Yes, okay. But yeah, DS4 Windows is amazing. It's super easy to set up, but more than that, you can do stuff like, you can mess with

the color bar and stuff like that. Easy as the Chronos Max? Dude, it's seamless. Does it ever get back to you? Dude, it takes five minutes. Yes, but it also comes with full controller remapping, including the touchpad, so you can use your, when I play Rising Thunder now, I can use the mouse to go to the touchpad to click on the next match.

That's great. I set it up so that in the Witcher, I have the touchpad, different swipes, open up different menus, and different, like, it's really, really good. The only other thing I did, I played a lot of Witcher, and I kind of want to talk about two things about that. Yeah, you were telling me, how do I do it? I still don't know how I'll get around it, so I'll go with the ones I do know how to get around.

Self-regulate, self-regulate. That game has an amazing point of no return. That game, yeah, messages of point of no return are like, you can do them in so many actual ways. It is a next level point of no return, where you get to a point in the story, and it gives you a series of quests that says, hey, for this big thing, do these quests. And you go, well, okay, I'm clearly getting to the end game, and I'm getting close to that thing that got spoiled for me, the blank of blank.

Yeah, the blank of blank. Well, people will know what it is. Anyway, so, okay, I've done all those. Great, so then I get on my little boat, and I move towards the area that I'm supposed to move towards, and a message pops up, hey, you want to make a manual save of your game, because you will be locked out of most of the world for the next few hours. It's very clear. And I go, okay, I'll make a manual save, and then I go into it again.

With warning, many time sensitive side quests will fail if you move past this point. And you go, whoa, okay, I'm going to look up what side quests they fail, and it's the ones that they have told you to do beforehand. I go, oh, that's great. But in process of looking up that information, it's all these steam talks, like, oh, this point in no return, what would fail if I did this? I found that it's not the point in no return, because you come back. And what I thought I was gearing up to the end of the game is gearing up to the third

act. You just kill the roachie. Yeah. I'm gearing up to fight the fucking Ninetales. The roachie for the first time. And I go, but I thought I just beat the second act, and I'm still, it's, it's, what? Yeah. It's what?

Game's too short, though. Game's too short. It's supposed to be this short. What? The other thing is that who here played Dead Space 2? I don't. Extensively. Okay.

Well, did you play Dead Space 2? No. Okay. What's the best part of Dead Space 2? Managing to get the trophy for beating it with only three saves. Okay. Fair enough. Matt, I already had this discussion, so just tell me what I want to hear.

What is the best part of Dead Space 2? This has been a while, son. Is it the eyeball there? No. It's going back to the Ishimura. Going back to the Ishimura. Yeah, you said that. It's going back to the Ishimura, and having them fuck with all your expectations.

That's yellow boot space police tape. Yeah, it's real. It's real. So the very beginning of Witcher 1, the tutorial area takes place in a little castle called Kermoren, where Jerry's home, and you run around, and you have a boss fight in the courtyard, and you do a side quest or two, and then you move to Act 1, and you never, ever go back there, and in Witcher 2, you never, ever go back there. And the tutorial of Witcher 3 takes place there, but only in like three rooms.

And then eventually, you get to go back there, and they have actually gone to the fucking trouble of completely redoing the entire thing with identical layouts. Cool. Which really, really got to me, because I still knew my fucking way around, because of course I should if I'm playing this character, and this is his house. He should know. He should know when the guy says, hey, meet me up at the guest room. I know where the guest room is.

You go through the kitchen, which is now even worse looking than before, and bigger just repair, and go up to the top, and it's fucking great. It's such a... And they... It's even its own little zone, so you get to go to areas that only existed in cut scenes, or parts that were mentioned. And actually walk around. It's fucking great.

Cool. I'm super in love with it. Is it the past? Is such a cheap gimmick at this point? It's the best! It's always worse. It's so good. It always works.

The third thing is, there will be minor spoilers for the romance storylines in Witcher 3, in the next 5 to 10 minutes. And I'm going to try and talk around it as much as I possibly can. So, in Witcher... Wow, you just leave him just straight up leaving? I'm getting a drink. I'm about to go get up and get one as well. Ah, fuck you motherfuckers.

I'll listen. All right. So, in Witcher 1, Geralt has amnesia, and it comes off the books in which he died. He died? Yeah. At the end of the last... What? The end of the last book is Geralt gets fucking murdered by some kid with a pitchfork, and

he's dead. What? Yeah. And then he comes back to life, and he's like, I've got amnesia. And the reason why CD Projekt did that is because people didn't read these books. How these books are even in English. Yeah. You can't assume that people know what happened.

It's incorrect for you. And that's tough, because part of those books is that he is basically married to a character for like 20 years, and that's a big deal. So that character isn't in the games. Right. So... Because that's a book exclusive character. So, for Witcher 1 and 2, it builds up...

That's Yeddafer? That's Yeddafer. So, book 1 and 2, it builds up to like, oh, he's going to get his memory back, and then he gets his memory back. He's like, oh, I got to find out what happened to her. We were basically married for like 20 years. But to get their own story, they focused on a different character called Triss. Triss, of course.

Poland exclusive DLC. No, no, not quite. Language locked content. And that's where your romance, like, storyline went with this character. So, Witcher 3 starts, and there's a problem right at the beginning of Witcher 3 for people that didn't read the books, which is almost everyone. And that is since Geralt has all of his memory back of all the shit that you don't know about, he, like, breaks up with the character you as the player got with to chase after his ex-wife,

basically, who you don't know about. And all the early cutscenes involve him going like, oh, I missed you. And like, there's no mean option. There's romantic, and there's kind of playful neutral. Yeah. Suddenly. Playful neutral is a new genre. Conan's fucking Clueless Gamer video makes a ton of sense when she's acting like a huge shit

and you have no idea why. Yeah. Yeah, okay. And that's why in an early podcast, I'm like, oh, I don't want to hear about, like, she's basically accusing you of cheating on her, and you go, I had no memory and you didn't exist. And she goes, whatever, fuck off. I lost my memory, God damn it. And you can bring that up in a fight later again.

She has the same reaction. You do what? Fuck off. Anyway, point is, that continues throughout the game. You can even go and re-romance the Triss character. And be like, no, let's do it again. Let's have a real relationship. Let's start making another one.

But then you go to the main story, and then the main story gains the main character, and they're still kind of an item, and it's fucking weird, and there's no way around it. It sounds bizarre, yeah. I like heroes with baggage. It's a very cognitive dissonance where I'm going in, it's like, I don't like you, Yen. I want to divorce you right now. I never saw the good bits. I never saw the good bits.

I don't know, and I don't care, because what you show me here sucks. I want to visit a high rule where Link has some X's, and it's awkward and it sucks. All of them. But like, I get what you're saying, but the difference here is, like, jerk. They actually wrote the good bits with an interfero. And so I spoke to Bunny Hop about this, and Bunny Hop read all the books during his play-through, and at the end of that, he's like, oh, Yennefer all the way. Like, of course.

Like, they've been together forever, and that's like, I don't know that. So it's a problem when you go to a ball, and he's like, man, you look beautiful. It's like, I don't want to say that. I don't want to say that. You look like shit, Yen, you're a bitch. So like this character whom you should have a good amount of control over, you lose control over that. And the character you're trying to find is your adopted daughter. So there's an actual marriage thing going on.

It's like if you boot up Mass Effect 3, and you've got a canon romantic partner who was only in the book that was only printed in Polish. Well, no, but the fact that you can play it knowing or not knowing is fine. But it's weird, because I'm like, no. I literally just did a quest in which I'm going to get married to the other chick. Geralt, stop. You're being weird. I agree with Pat, though. Like, I don't like that.

It's not about knowing or not knowing. So, literally, I can't choose. I'm stuck with this character. But I can romance this other character. It doesn't matter. It was getting more and more frustrating the longer it went on, because it wouldn't stop. And then you hit the point, because both of them have a quest line that determines this. Then you hit the point where you get her quest, and it's the title of the first book called The Last Wish.

And I go, well, this is book-heavy as shit now, because what are they... So, you get in a boat, and what do they do? They fucking tell you what happened in a bunch of the books. They literally just go, hey, man, remember that time? Like, five times. And you get to go, man, that's pretty nice. And then you find out what you're actually doing on that quest. And this is where it becomes difficult to talk around.

And the goal of that not only totally solves that problem 100% and makes everything make sense, it introduces the most ballsy alternative medium to original medium, far-reaching series-annihilating retcon I have ever seen in anything. Literally, there is a retcon here that you can choose. You can choose to retcon it. You can say, no, the books were right. Or you can take an action and say, no, the books were wrong. And it completely rewrites every single interaction between those two characters in all of the fiction up until that moment

and completely fixes that problem and makes all of it make sense, and it is perfect. That's good. If you have no intention of playing the game, I will tell you and you will know it is amazing. It is masterful. And I was worried because they're trapped by the books now because now they have to incorporate it. And I was worried there was going to be no way out of this. There's totally a way out. And guess what?

Dumping people sucks even in a video game. Because your options are like, stay in the romance or say the meanest thing in the universe. Those are the two options. There's no good way to do this. And when you do it, the reaction is like, what? What? And then throughout the main plot, you constantly fight because you're a divorced couple that has to work together. And it's the best.

To get the wild hug. Yes, basically. The game is so good. It's the best. That quest is one of the all, for interpersonal relationships and a game story. How confusing it is and having to be anchored to the books, that sounds funny. It's masterful. It's amazing.

It's the best. Interesting. It's the fucking best. Okay, cool. I will tell you after that because you're never going to play it. That sounds curious. That sounds curious. I want to know.

What a curio. Actually, I'm not sure how you guys think about it. In the last couple of weeks, we've been falling into a habit where we're running 50-50 mark on this. We're around 140 something at this point. Do you guys... We're talking about video games. Just let it run? I'm good with that.

What do you mean? Do you think we should try to have a hard limit on the weeks? I think there should be less weeks. Yeah, yours was the shortest. My far. This week. I think... Because I have seen...

I planned it out and I tried to kind of tell. The problem is some people want one. Some people want another. Yeah, of course. It's never quite a clear thing. Some people don't really care that much about video game news and care about what we do. And other people don't give a shit about what we do. Blank.

And then other people don't care. They just say the funny thing about the story I care about. It's entertaining into different things. I've been making an active effort to try and congeal my thoughts before coming on so that they're more succinct. I think I did okay. I tried. Okay. I tried.

Okay. I'll keep it. You had the longest week. Because I know in the... It's your fault. If we engage the person... Then it goes on. At the beginning of the podcast, the weeks were significantly shorter.

They were. They were. But I think when it comes to topics like things, the group things, like not wrestling media, like a wrestling event. Or like Life is Strange where we're all talking about something. When we go to a con or like there's an event or something, obviously it can't be like for sure. Yeah. Otherwise, yeah. There's group discussion things.

I needed to talk about that side point. No. I'm not at all... I needed... There's no points... No, I needed it. I'm just curious if that's... Now let's talk about people that don't like Pokemon.

Yeah. Or do because they were on the invite list. How much do or don't they like Pokemon? Let's first of all, before we even get in there... Let's congratulate the fucking organizers and security at this event for totally catching on to this shit. Yeah. And contacting the authorities. So what could have been a really, really shitty time for everybody at the Pokemon event?

That's the understatement of the century. I had a shitty time with that event. Yeah, well... Basically, a massacre was prevented because authorities knew about Kevin Norton and James Dumbo, who were heading down to the Pokemon event with a shotgun, a rifle... Hundreds of rounds of ammunition. And knives. And we're planning to just go...

And the most damning bit about this is not even like the overt threat that we're going to kill people with this thing, that they posted on Facebook with the guns. It's the fact that they transported these guns in flower boxes. I'm gonna watch Terminator 2. No one transports a gun in a flower box unless they intend to hide that fucking gun. You have a gun case for that. They're gun grave everything. Over those.

But yeah, it's just a ridiculous case of these dudes that... Again, we're on the invite list. Supposedly this stemmed from someone getting banned on a forum. Really? I was reading up on it, apparently people think that the motive is like the older guy got banned off like a Pokemon forum and was like, fuck that. Because they made their group on Facebook basically go, I'm like, yeah, no, we're gonna do this.

And they put the picture of the guns on the front. On the trunk, yeah. And they're like, hey, we're gonna do it. What are you gonna do? And he's killed the competition? Like, yes. Yeah, well one guy was like, hey, good luck in Boston or whatever. With killing the competition?

This is just another one of those things that if you announce it before it's ready, it's gonna get stopped. Like... When you put it that way, Jesus Christ. Whenever I think it's terrible, and I'm glad it got stopped, but just another instance of don't talk about it until it happens. Whenever I think that Pokemon is not the most serious thing in the world, it proves itself to be. You see Pikachu Libre, and you're like, alright. I was wondering who was gonna get to the dark joke first,

and I knew it was gonna be Liam, because last night he had a similar dark joke about this. Dark joke. Which was darker than that one! It's like, oh no, the FGC was there, and they could have been in trouble too. No, no, that's really like fucking kudos on everybody that like fucking stopped that shit, because yeah, what... No, for sure, it would have been a fucking catastrophe. And like, not only would it have been like the new...

Well, it's like America's headline, and like the world's headline for this day, but it's like suddenly games are in the spotlight again in the shittiest possible way, and then just all kinds of horrible follow-up. It was stupid as if anything did happen, it's fucking Pokemon, and nothing to do with it. It could have been like a stamp collection tournament. But that doesn't determine the new circumstances. Also, Boston's had a rough run in dance. We have to do the song and dance, because something happened,

so it's gonna go through the same shit emotions. And, you know, like, Stuart is not covering this type of stuff anymore, but back when he was, it was like, yeah, you see just a pattern, you know? Like all these headlines, like, they wanted to be the very best too much. Because nothing. Like, no one... Here's the thing, this is a dark-ass story that... They're blasting off again.

But because nothing happened, the need inside your chest to make the bad joke that you wouldn't be able to say if something happened is so strong. Well, what I really want more than anything now that this is the first part of the story... See, Rocket's stepping it up, like that's the most common one. I feel Monty really just giving us the statement or the ads or whatever to when they sent them down and go, what the fuck were you thinking? Like, I want to hear the, you know...

Did you think when you announced your planned massacre on Facebook that no one would catch you? Because years ago, Pat, when you and I were talking about how these types of shootings go, it was something where I remember we were discussing how, like, there was not enough data because it's almost always ends in a suicide. Yeah, that's right. No one ever gets caught. Because they just die on the scene. They realize, uh-oh, they're gonna get me and pop.

Yeah, so it's like, you want it no more. I want a hundred hours of interview to, like, okay, no, wait, what, why? No, why, though? The Oslo night was like one guy that gave a lot of info on this type of thing, but we need to talk to these fucking people that are like locked out and arrested and actually find out what's happening here. How'd you get to go? How'd you get from...

It's hard to get that far. From, I'm excited to go to the Pokemon Championship to buying, like, $10,000 worth of shotgun shells. So, yeah, no, uh, that's good news, you know, that was a verdict. Great, yeah, definitely. Like, kudos to that local security. Well, to be fair, they were checking Facebook shit for fucking the tournament and saw someone that guns and was coming to murder them.

Right. Like, there was no investigation here. It just happened. Like, it was right in their fucking face. Super lucky. Yeah, and then they, you know, they had the kids. And they took it seriously. They had the kids' name on the list when they showed up and they, you know,

padded the cards on, yeah. Um, so there's that. And then, I guess, like, now went to, like, significantly less important real video game news. Yeah! Uh, there's some stuff we missed. Tell me about DLC costumes. Well, there's some stuff we missed last week, including the return of Cratberry Jam

to Guilty Gear, Excerpt, Road Runner, which is pretty fucking cool. Jam's back. Jam's great. She looks really good. Everybody likes Jam. She looks really good. Jam had a statue really early on when Guilty Gear came out, where I was like, oh!

Jam! She's so cool! With the leg up. And then he kind of just dropped off on that character. Yeah, the leg up, yeah. And so, yeah, it's nice to see her come back. Jam gets the leg up on the competition. Now, bup bup bup.

Uh, big shout-outs to our buddy Max Amillian, who has now joined Team Madcats Twitch. Ooh, interesting. And he's going to be part of that crew, so he's going to be streaming for Madcats. Oh, cool. Does this mean we can add him to the list with Mark Man of people to constantly hassle for new free arcade sticks?

Yeah. That's what it means. That's exactly it. Yo, Max, send me, like, 10 arcade sticks, please. Why do I need 10? Not your business. Yeah. Max is not as useful as I thought when I was like,

hey, tell me if Gargoss is in. He's like, I don't even know! They don't tell me! Yeah, I'm like, damn it! I wouldn't tell you if I did, but I'd tell you if I knew, but I don't. Yeah, they didn't tell me that. That's great.

If I beat you in Virtua Fighter, you mean on arcade stick? Uh, we've got, what else was last week? Last week was Mercury Steam pitched a Metroid game to Nintendo. Thank God that didn't happen. I totally agree with what he just said. And apparently the way this information came out was because they were so antsy to talk about it that people that came in to apply for jobs, because they hired a bunch of people,

people that came in to apply for jobs in the middle of the interview process, they take them in to the studio, walk them through, and just basically go, so long, without being solicited, they're like, yeah, so we're working on a new Metroid game, and we're going to be pitching it to Nintendo. They're so excited that they shared it with everybody. That's literally the most fucked up backwards way of ever taking people, because when I went through I'd ask, you can't see that.

You can't go anywhere. What's behind that door? Nothing! Where all the golden black light is coming out. Don't think, don't smell! It's strafe. Don't look this way. Yeah, so that's fucked up that they were too dead. Don't smell this way.

And yeah, they apparently weren't working on that, and that didn't work out too well. The problem is that Mercury's team's art team is so fucking strong. Amazing. I would like to see at least the concept art of it. Yeah, I would like to see the concept art only. Well, what you're going to get now is a new IP that takes place in space. Yes, I saw this.

And they have a piece of concept art with that. Design a cockpit. Looks actually really interesting. Do it in a cockpit, smoke it a cigar. I like that. That's new. I'm keen to see what that is, but they made the worst quote-in-quote metroidvania of the last long time recently, so fuck that.

I would not want to do that. I would not want to do that. Two is a fucking train wreck. That was a beautiful train wreck. A gorgeous train wreck. The first game was a little already. They killed Castlevania. Metroid's already dead.

What would they have managed to do there? I can't get over Mirror of Fates. That should have been a fucking slam dunk. It's not good. It's you slamming the basketball through the hoop from underneath to steal points off yourself. Kind of. And it's weird, because you know how there's a difference between a metroid game and a metroidvania, right? Axiom Verge is a metroid.

Rogue Legacy is kind of, well, even that's not really. But like, a lot of games don't qualify for metroidvania, because they're missing the RPG elements. Even fucking Mirror of Fates doesn't have the RPG elements, and thus isn't even really a metroidvania. Yeah. It's just, you know, like... Yeah. Yeah. That game is so false.

It's Jackal's curse. It runs so bad. I think though, I think that like, the... I like when studios go for the method of like, we're just going to work on this cool pitch and just throw it at you. Yeah, that's valid. Like, oh, I'm solicited. Shoot for the moon, right? That's how every single studio got their goddamn Silent Hill game.

Yeah. Just go for it if you care, you know? And then it turns out anyone can get this shit. And it's real shame, because as much as like someone, or like two of you at least, will go like, Lord of the Shadow 1 is terrible. It's like the best-selling Castlevania in the last couple of years. I like Lord of the Shadow. And the fact that they botched it so hard and did not sell Lord of the Shadow 2 is that it was like the dark...

Well, even Dark Siders 2 was like Dark Siders 2. A lot of people just like it, compared to the first, because it's not what they wanted or expected. It's different. It's a different game. But I'm still going to buy the definitive version on the PS4. You know what's made by the actual team? Well, by some certain numbers. I forget.

A gunfire game is a problem. I'm still going to play that. So it's one of those things where I'm like, this actually could have swerved into even better territory and did not. So, Woolly, I don't know if you reciprocate this, but kind of a funny story about Lord of the Shadow 2. A bit of a feel-good story. Lord of the Shadow 2 came out the same day Thief came out. And I was in the office on NeoGaff, just watching the review threads fill up. And the thing that made me happiest throughout the day was to see that we weren't the worst AAA game that happened.

I was so baffled that Lord's 2 was doing worse. I don't know where they ended up on Metacritic. I don't know. Way worse. Spent more money on the show. I'm pretty sure you get a Metacritic like Lord of the Shadow 2 is red, whereas Thief is merely yellow. A firm yellow. Yeah.

I need to know. In both cases though, it's something where you can feel the cracks. You can see where the problems were and how easily it could have been fixed. Right after Lord of the Shadow 2, the economic producer Brian Cox just like, yeah, I'm done. I'm leaving. Well, I'm getting out of here. No reason. Yeah, there was also the, I guess, I'm not sure how new this is.

Just fucking say it. There's a site called Metal GearTimeline.com, which is exactly what it sounds like. Bullshit. And I clicked on it. That sounds laughably difficult. And I started scrolling and I was like, okay, no way. This is looking really legit. Now, before we go any further, I'm going to advise everyone to not go to that website and not go to the Metal Gear Wiki page.

Any Metal Gear fan site, stream with the chat on or anything. In fact, just unplug your router. Yeah. Just cut the cord. Burn it all down. Well, you see, yeah, right now the guide is out. The time that this is the most views have been written and therefore people know. Yeah.

Supposedly the ending was removed from the review bill. I've heard that from like, I've read that a couple places. I saw one of the designs from one of the Metal Gears, which is fucking amazing. Spoilers are working Metal Gear. Everywhere. So dodge that shit. Be diligent. I am.

I'm being overly diligent. Yeah, I know. We made fun of you slightly. I didn't want to come record today because you thought we'd spoil it. No, but I'm not reading those reviews right now. Big Boss is quiet. Yeah, sure. Literally, he doesn't talk much.

Yeah. I guess he's having a week. It's a small one for anybody who like is able to do this, but these guys made something called the Game Boy Interface, which is a replacement for the Game Boy Player disc. That finally, that basically fixes a lot of the emulation problems. Wow. It brightens up the player by like a huge margin, fixes the gamma. So effectively it's an alternate piece of software that uses the Game Boy Player hardware.

Exactly. And he uses it way better. Awesome. And they showed you like some examples of like Sonic Advance and things like that, like running better without the frame skip issues. Yeah. I'm looking it up right now. This is like.

So I can finally play Sonic Dark Chronicles. There's some stuff. How does that game ends? How does that game end? With the Bioware one? Yeah. Bioware one. You know how that game fucking ends?

If they all fuck up and they fight Eggman or whatever, and they're like, oh no. And they go way into the future. Like way into the future. And go, oh man, everything's ruined. We fucked it all up. We screwed up the timeline. And then the credits start to roll and how they talk about what a crazy twist ending that was. And ask you to come back for the sequel.

That never came out. That never came out. Amazing. If you've never heard it, you should listen to the music in that game. The soundtrack in that game is. Amazing. This is a travesty. You played a few tracks for me.

It is an oral travesty. It's quite the fucking gem. I do say so myself. Speaking of gems, we've got this genius bootleg amiibo device. Oh, I thought you were going to say gem on the hologram. There's a lot of gem going around. A lot of gem. This solves a real problem.

Hey, you can't find amiibos that you want, right? Of course not. Get this thing and load up some amiibo images into your bootleg amiibo device. This is a device that spoofs up to 200 figures worth of data. Now give me my yarn amiibo. If you don't give a fuck about the actual amiibo and just want to use the data that you need for your games. And that is fucking great. You know, I'm going to keep buying the amiibos I like.

I really want to get Falco and Ganondorf. For people like me, I am going to get this because I don't want to buy the ones I don't want. But I'd like the content. This is a legitimate solution to a serious consumer problem. Also, I'm still legitimately angry at how useless some of the amiibos are. This is like me twisting the knife a little bit. You're right. That being said, run the clock until Nintendo tries their hardest to get on top of this.

Didn't they fail to shut down R4? And that was a straight up bootleg cartridge loader. See, they have a way to shut this one down and the question is whether they'll be able to act on it. And they might because one of the promises of this device is it comes pre-shipped with 10 images. I'll take those images out. Which, yep. They can't fucking do that. Hopefully this Chinese company will be able to get through that.

So if you want it, get it now or else you'll have to wait a six-month delay as they remove the fucking images from it. It's not idea, but it's called the miiquo. It's a Q instead of a B, right? Exactly, a miiquo. I have a deep love for fucking weird Chinese bootleg devices. The great... Only when they fit my narrative. Yeah, they're great.

Yeah, not like the uiye. The uiye. Well, I remember... That's not even a bootleg. That's just like... That is just a demonstrator of like Chinese lack of creativity. I would put a trademark logo, but that doesn't mean anything in China. I remember like a lot of people for the R4 in particular.

They still bought all the games. Yeah. And then they just downloaded the images because... And same thing with PSP hacking. If I'd say a lot of people, but a percentage. I knew some. And there are dozens of them. They did not play many games, but they wanted to have all their games on one thing.

And like it was a dramatic value add. Yeah, no for sure. Same thing with the PSP phone. On the PSP being able to not have crazy load times. And have your little custom fucking intro. Yeah, that's what the shit was about. It's a problem when your illegal bootleg version of a device is way better than the legitimate version of the device. In fact, pushing it over the bar for whether it's worth the purchasing.

I see your yarn in me though. It's like jelly. I did what I needed to do in order... Well he's going to get the mega yarn Yoshi. Maybe. I want to get the giga yarn Yoshi. I did what I needed to. It's making him top a yarn Yoshi.

Yeah, exactly. Six feet tall. 500 pounds. Jumping through the leaves and doing what I needed to do and getting the cables and equipment I needed to play fucking Crisis Core on my television. Right. Which was, should be impossible. But I managed it and it's very easy though. It sucked.

Yeah, well, no, I mean like the whole... That stuff makes me nervous. You take a PSP and you plug the cable in. Crisis Core was... Wait, which one? You take a PSP and you plug the video cable in. Sorry, off my PSP go. You take a PSP go and you plug the video cable in.

Crisis Core was never released. The video out only came out with the later models though. 2003,000 years ago. But yeah, Crisis Core wasn't available. Crisis Core and others were put by sleep, yeah. And it's like, nah, you can't play this on a PSP go. How about you go fuck yourself and don't tell me what to do. I'm gonna do it.

Such a bummer. Music rights. Fucking Square Enix and their fucking music rights. Come on. This happens every time. Get them for good or get... Final Fantasy IV Team's title track. Is it on its own album?

That's stupid as fuck. It is. There is... It's stupid. Something that I think is pretty genius and some people are fans of this. There's a Rick and Morty announcer pack for Dota 2. Yeah, I saw that. Which is fucking great.

I really need to start watching it. So the coolest thing about that announcer pack is it's a mod. It's not even an official thing. But they just did it. They just did it. And you can't stop them. Did Adult Swim do it? Was it?

It's on the Steam store page but I'm pretty sure Adult Swim got that together. Because it's great. Yeah, it's great. I listened to it. The most clip of Rick and Morty is I can't believe it's like recent. And... 3DS runs in and starts screaming about the 3DS and there's something about it where it's like so far beyond how long it's been since the 3DS came out.

Like this is actually pretty fucking funny. It's a direct... It's a gaff thread in real time. It's fucking stupid. It's super solid. Guys, you can put these for 230 easy, okay? We're gonna be rich. Let's all run down and buy 10.

Yeah. It's the fucking best. I want more of this path. I really need to start watching. Follow this to the end. There's the reveal of the Star Fox Zero box art and the notable absence of the Platinum logo on it. Yeah.

I don't think it's notable since the last Platinum game did not also... Bayo was not... Bayo did not have a Platinum logo on it and if you go back even earlier than that, Metroid Prime didn't even have everything but a Nintendo. Nintendo does that. Yeah, that's how they do it. Nintendo be like this in Nintendo. But I did notice that Teen Ninja was on the other M box.

I did see that. The question is, what's on the Fatal Frame 5 box in Japan? I bet for other M... That's the most recent example. The reason why they got away with that is because it helped Nintendo distance themselves from other M. There's been companies that have done weird stuff like that. Nintendo, like you said, on the other M 2009 was that.

They had a logo and now they don't have the logos. And then like Sony for a while didn't put the SCE like Diamond logo on boxes and they just put like Media Molecule or Naughty Dog or whatever. But like it's shuffled around like that. I don't know. Microsoft is the only one who's consistent with the Microsoft games company logo. I'm actually pretty fine with like you know Platinum not really being on Star Fox because we know that they're just helping out.

Whereas like Bayonetta is like... Exactly. Nintendo just you know published it. It's a bummer that it's not on. Totally agree. But I agree with Star Fox. It's a great box art though. It's just that main art but it's awesome.

Every time I look at Star Fox Zero I just desperately hope that 80% of the way through the game there's like the big... The huge swerve. The huge swerve. And it's not Star Fox 64. It's actually Pepper that's the villain. Yeah, sure. Now you're playing as Slippy's kids.

Yeah, I don't even... I don't even need the swerve. I just need the like the extra stuff you know besides the remake. The code X? Yeah, exactly. Imagine. Find out about the abuse that Slippy went through. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I like it. Like it sucks because like we're in a weird place with Star Fox where all we want to do is spend time with the Star Fox characters but their games last two hours each time. You don't get any time with them. Not Star Fox Adventures. You get... No, but you only get Fox. You get Niners.

Even then you get fake Fox. You get 19 lines of dialogue for each character every 10 years. Yeah, exactly. But I'm afraid that the characters are too paper thin that they can't withstand like the weight of four or five hours. C'mon prove it. C'mon prove they can do it. Really, that's what I want.

I want paper thin characters being forced to suck like the weight would crush them. 2D characters like in terms of writing depth like being forced to fill out and just the horrible contortion of like... And then it starts having these robot legs. There's only so much like old man peppy style advice you can get before you just start sweating and it has nothing else for you. Yeah, that's what we want. But I mean look at this fucking character depth.

Fox and Falco leave to be G-Zero racers. G-Zero, of course. I don't remember that. I know but it happened. You missed it. I missed it. Also in the Nintendo news. I love that game so much.

Look at this picture of Fox crying. It's the best. That's weird. Oh, it's not. It's not. Oh, it's so good. Everyone would cry if Crystal left them. Yeah.

Nintendo filed a patent for a console with no disk drive and a display unit, which some are speculating is the NX, but I think it's more likely that it's a disc-less Wii. Like the Wii Mini. It's hard to say, really. Like, you know, because patents can also turn out to be nothing. Like that Nintendo mouse writing. It could also, yeah, it's true. It could also, like, unlikely, but turn out to be like an arcade cabinet structure.

It could, you know, like, there's a lot of things that you could use. The two things are like no disk drive and a display controller. Yeah. That sounds to me like a bundle version. So here's what I think this thing is. I do think it's the NX, and I think that the next handheld is still going to have two screens. Therefore, for the, if it's actually like a combined ecosystem, that you would need a gamepad for two screens, right?

Yeah. Like, and the touch screen would be the bottom, and the gamepad would be the bottom screen. That kind of thing. And I was looking at it, and what's weird about it is there's no optical drive, but there's like a very weird memory card slot. Yeah, people are saying like SD card games. It appears like, it looks like it's possible that it's not a digital console or device. That it is actually a cartridge-based device.

This is what I want! And then they're coming back! Sixteen bits! And then you would literally be using the same cart between your handheld and your console. Your console. Which would be the greatest thing. That sounds actually... Wow.

And the game would cost more, because it would be interesting. That's even doubling down more on your idea of like a handheld turning into a console. I don't know how likely that is compared to how much I want it. That's also still deeply rooted in speculation, and like, I've looked at it too, and it's like there's so many different ways to interpret what I'm looking at. Or it could be nothing. Exactly. Or it could be nothing.

Exactly. I would be really excited for like a straight up take your cart out. Another example of that is like the patents for the quote-unquote like at the time unknown Vita model. What is this that has an HDMI plug on it? Well, it's a dev kit. You know, why does this Vita model have an SD card slot? Well, it's a dev kit.

Like, so this could just be a kit. You know, this could be any number of things. I think it's a new piece of hardware, but it's hard to say. The only thing I'll say is I've never been more afraid from the digital future since it started becoming the digital present. Elaborate? Like, five years ago, ten years ago, everyone was like... You were not scared of the digital future?

Everyone was like, oh, I really hate the idea of discs going away, but whatever. That's not... That's far away. That's far away. And now we're getting there where... Ubisoft puts out data that says that their games are... It's not the majority purchased digitally, but it's like inching towards like 40%. Dude, and they're not alone.

The digital profits are really up. Matt, your toast is good. Like, the closer we get to the digital present, the more it scares me because I don't like that. It's really full in the digital present. I don't buy any physical games anymore. I want some things to exist, but not everything, but I also have a deep-rooted hatred for brick and mortar at this point.

Yeah, but like, ten years from now. No, five years from now. Your Wii U screen breaks. Nintendo's stall for placing them. How are you going to play your games? That's a particular example of it's like, it's shitty that you can't replace parts of this console. But in a world where the console had the data that you didn't have like shitty little weird

things like that, where it was just like, okay, the game is digital, it's on the console, and it doesn't require that I have to be online to play it. I think that's fine. I think with a Wii U, you're right. You can't get a gamepad from that. The Vita TV that I have, that's going to be fun. But like, again, like 20 years from now, like, Oreshka's gone. I want to point out that your Wii U nightmare is not only the digital case.

What do you mean? I know it's not. It's just a situation where your digital game... And I first let, no, but I mean that exact... The game is completely fucked and you can't even put the disc in another console because it's gone. You know what I mean? Oh yeah, because they're super terrible.

Yeah, Nintendo and the Wii U... Like, that's the ultimate situation. It's probably the worst case. And that's why I said five years from now, but I could easily say 50 years from now, when you want to play X-digital-only game and it's just gone. If I haven't said it before, mine is like by game. If you want to get your lame digital version of Ground Zeroes, that's fine. I want the Shinokawa artwork on my box.

But that's exclusive to Metal Gear. Of course. And there's Wolfenstein, the new order, who cares? I don't care. I have no affection to this. Well, that's what I was about to say. Just make the physical copies of the cool shit. Yeah, you have to know what's cool to me, publisher.

So the thing is, this worry is not unfounded, right? It's not. So the Xbox... Like, games will literally get lost over time. The Xbox original marketplace is gone. And the 360 one remains, the PS3 one remains, the PSP one... It still remains. It still remains.

You have to download them to your PC or your PS3, but you can transfer them. So PlayStation Mobile just got removed and all the games gone. So what I can see is that because Xbox One and PS4, I'm going to just talk about these ones and Steam. These all exist now. They were made knowing about this. Yeah, of course. The 360 and PS3 were not. They did not plan on the big digital push.

Because how could you? Eight years before. It's like for real. I can see that I would imagine that in the future, much like Steam, there will be a dramatically increased for the next series of consoles, if there are any. Backwards compatibility is... Yeah. I imagine that this stuff that exists now is being made in such a way so that having it

being backwards compatibility with the future stuff, and that's partly because their architectures are both very similar, and the online infrastructure, it exists now. The original Xbox online infrastructure was a fucking crazy shit compared to the 360. I see this being less of a danger. There will always be some games that don't work, and some games that de-listed, and maybe two to like a year from now, they'll say, guys, we're taking PS3 stuff off. Come on. Would you accept it in a world where there were precautions such as, let's say a console

had the ability to back up its hard drive with all your games on it, and not obviously clone and pirate it, but you'd be able to make your own backup of your data, and then not necessarily lose your hard drive. You can do that on PS4. You can do that on PS4. It's not about losing them. It's about losing them over time, when there's no way to regain them. You know what I mean?

Like PT? Right now, I have a hard drive in my drawer that has PT on it. Yes. And I have to hang on to that forever, and that sucks. And that's one game, or Deadpool, or Marvel. I just bought another retail copy of Marvel, because I don't want to ever not have that. I did too. But what I'm kind of getting at is that if you are able to make backups whatever you

want. Take some of the edge off. Yourself. You don't have to rely on any other company. Xbox Live and PSN can go down forever, and you still have your games, and you can still make your backups when you need to to play on your working console. I mean, it helps a little, but it's not all there. And I kind of feel as well, like I'm not too worried about a future where the hardware

will not be available, because you can always go find a console that you can... It takes a long time for hardware to become unavailable. And actually, it's going to take a lot longer this time, because last gen was so long. Yeah. So in a world where it's as simple to me as like, grab your new console and put your backup part drive into it. It takes the edge off, like you said. It's not flawless, but it gets rid of a lot of the major concern in my opinion.

A little bit. And basically, you're looking at, like Steam has already had this problem, in that I still own all my Steam games, even the ones I bought back in like, when did Half-Life 2 come out? Like, 1996? Even though the ones I bought back then. But a lot of those games were made for XP. Yeah. They don't work now.

They just don't. They're just busted. They just fixin' them. And sometimes people fix them. Sometimes GOG fixes them, and that's amazing. Yeah. Sometimes you get a patch out of nowhere for a fuckin' old game on Steam that it's fixed now.

But it's like... It's hard to... Yeah, like code are too kinda. But well, that still ran, but it was just busted. Yeah. Gary was just like, I know how to fix it. It's like playing on PC, like there are people out there that are like, I need to make an old PC.

I need to find old parts. Yeah. To make a fuckin' Windows XP PC. That's cool. And with consoles, that's not really something you can do. But like what I mean is you get that feeling, you get to see it now. With Windows 8 was the last time that it happened. It was really bad.

Yeah. People updated to Windows 8, and like a bunch of relatively modern games just broke. That's not happening with Windows 10. And I think that Microsoft is also... Well, it's Microsoft, and I think they also get that that Windows' biggest strength is its backwards compatibility with old shit, and that includes games, and that everyone realizes, because this wasn't a problem 20 years ago, because there wasn't 20 years built up of digital shit.

Exactly. Only now do we have that problem. Everyone is realizing, like no, wait, we actually have to plan for this stuff in the future, because whoever fucks up first is going to get hit with some giant lawsuit, and that's going to determine the new law. Like you said, yeah. And now I assume that you're going to say digital present, and I think like, like as much... Like we're getting to the point where major releases are digital all the time.

Yeah. In certain ranges. Shit as they are, mobile games have always existed in that place, you know what I mean? No, for sure. Luckily they're not very... I would rather there be a cart slot on my iPhone. To pull your shit off if you want to put your shit in. Well, no, so I could buy a cart for Infinity Blade or some shit.

There's a phone for you. It's called the End Gauge. Like having a cart will always be better than having a nothing as far as I'm concerned. I disagree. Why? Because it's more convenient to be able to switch without having to physically change the device. Yeah, but then it might be gone. Then you can play it zero.

From a digital store. This is the opposite argument you've had with me every time. I agree with you. I'd rather have a slot in case it ever gets taken down. There's two priorities to it. Before I totally caved on never buying digital Nintendo games, I would describe losing my console, getting my handheld stolen, having it break, and having my account locked. You would sarcastically go, well, yeah, anything could happen.

And now we're just on the complete opposite side of that. There are two separate arguments. There are two separate arguments. Because it's future-proofing versus convenience. I will always, right now, fall on the convenience side. But the idea of future-proofing is something that, like I said, I understand that that's a worry. But as long as we can get the digital games to get more future-proof, I'm more comfortable with letting it go physically. I think digital games are more future-proof than people think, but not as much as they want.

I think they're kind of, but we're not all there yet. And the software gets lost regularly. Disk broad is a thing that's starting to happen as recent as PS2 gets played. That's the other problem, is that having your retail disks is no guarantee of having it forever, because those disks just melt over time. No, for sure. Of course, this is not taking illegitimate means of getting these games into account, though, because that will always be another way of getting games you can't get anymore.

That should always exist. And no, it shouldn't. It should always exist. It's one of the best things. It's probably the best thing in video games ever. It's probably the best creation anyone in video games has ever made is the idea of emulating something. Which is a very abstract creation. But it technically future-proofs something forever.

But we need to actually have it, because if you don't have it, you're fucked, like the Xbox. I mean, depending on what you want, eBay will always be there. There should always be someone. Depending on what you want, eBay will always be there. You know, for a Shitstorm or a WrestleMania, there's certain games. Very, very few. It's like, maybe three. Where I'm like, I want the European version of Dead Deep Fear, which is a Saturn survival horror game

that only came out in Europe. That will never be digital. And that's super rare to get on eBay, and that's the one example. But if you really want to copy a Deadpool, if you really want to copy a Marvel, you should always be able to get one. There's a reason. Because they printed them about. The reason that piracy and emulation has this very specific term called abandonware for this exact purpose. And abandonware is not legal.

It's a fan-enthusiast. There's no one there to take the money. It's like System Shock fell underneath that umbrella for a long time, in which someone technically owns this somewhere. And nobody knows. And no one knows. And whoever owns it doesn't know that they even know it. And it got found out to be some fucking European insurance company, somehow picked up the ride after a fucking company default. Street Fighter of the Cartoon was abandonware.

Yeah. For a little while it was. It's like the companies that own this no longer exist, and there's no way to acquire it. Who owns you? If there's no way to legally acquire it. I wonder if Street Fighter of the Cartoon has a share of it. Who owns you? I completely stand for it.

Don't get caught. Yeah. If the person isn't providing it in your country, go nuts. It's like, oh fucking nuts. You want to play Mother 3? Go torrent it. It's like the Hotline Miami shit. Or it's like, oh you're going to ban my game?

Okay guys, just take it. Just go nuts. Just take it. Here it is. Just as the makers of the game. Exactly. That was the right stance. It's not your fault.

Like CD Projekt. They do all DRM free like fucking crazy. Because they used to be dirty, dirty pirates. Translating games for regions that would never see release. There you go. Yeah, we'll see what we get there. But you know. It's why it is leaning in this one.

It's why Evo Online is an MMO. Because piracy in Denmark. Is it Denmark? Speaking of MMOs that will not get translated. What? Fantasy Star on my 2. Oh that's good. It's getting translated.

Oh. It's not. No it just is. It's been translated. Did we talk about that last week? The recent news that it will never come over to North America. Oh. No plans.

No plans. The house of Alan Miller takes a blow. I don't think that. Literally you should have lost right now. No. No. There's no way. It has to be until the date.

There's always the possibility that they fucking can't make it. Hold on. Pat. If someone needs to say this. Do you have to ever come over? Is the bet hinging on Liam's concession or the facts of reality? The facts of reality. Okay.

And the facts of reality is that I say never. But because never is an unwinnable bet. I guess basically until PSO3 comes in. Well not at all. Yeah. Even then. No. We nail it down year to year.

So on December 31st, 1159, 2015. That one minute it'll be like they have 30 seconds to release this game in the west. They have 20 seconds to release this game. It's down to the wire. And then the next day on New Year's we can decide to re-up or not. At the very least chances are more in your favor. Chances are well they've always been in my favor. Well no.

I don't think they were until an official response was given where it's like there are no plans. Is there any blanket to bother play PR statement more kind of annoying than you have no plans? No. It's the most annoying. I don't think there's a more annoying one. It'd be better for them to be silent. Especially when it's transparent with games like Deep Down and stuff. Come on.

Like. Either way. Yeah. If it's transparent like no or never or yeah we totally are we're just hiding the announcement. Yeah. Like fuck off. All right. So the Cosmic Ballet goes on is what you're saying.

For at least four more months. Four more months. Four more months. The real fake turns. Lazy Susan of fake turns. Put your Hugh Cass helmet on. Yeah. There's a huge ass leak from the Bandai Namco TGS lineup.

Yeah. This was old. Wait. Seriously from TGS? I thought this was old. Well they made their website. They made their website and not unlike the Marble League or they got the cast just by looking at fucking JPEG names.

Yeah. They got their list of console and smartphone games they're going to be talking about. Which is 14 in total. Which is a lot of games. Anything of note on there. Yeah. Well let's go down the list. We've got.

So a lot of them were already announced. The new ones are the new Zetaitoshi game by Grandzella which is disaster report series. Yeah. People kept flooding my Twitter going. New disaster report. Yeah. And I heard about a similar story. Okay.

So you've got giant shadow city Grandzella. You've got crows burning edge that really weird looking. That was announced before. The thing that the trailer was after before. Yeah. It's based on. It's a beat them up. It's based on a manga, right?

Exactly. Game looks cool. It's based on the academy. Based on a. Based on a manga. It was announced yesterday. Yeah. You have two idle master games.

Well. One Vita, one PS1. The Vita one's a trick. It's actually a taiko drum master game. Skinned as an idle master game. Crazy. Japan's weird. Because it's way cheaper to make a taiko game than it is to make an idle master game.

Whatever it is. I'm in love with the name of it. It's called the idle master. Must songs. Yeah. Like the best collection is pretty bad. But when you drill that down to must songs. You have no choice.

You must songs. Yeah. Yeah. That's some good shit. Must songs. Is this name. Is this name really okay Hiroshi? We do it.

We've got, of course, Kamen Rider Bachelorette War creation. I don't like that creation part. We've got Extreme Versus Force. Bachelorette Wars was the Musou-esque game, right? Yeah. We've got the new Extreme Versus game for Gundam. Hopefully this one's on PS4 as well. Namco's been really good with supporting PS4.

No console maps weren't just yet. No, exactly. But they've been really good with supporting it. So I hope they do PS4. This is probably for an arcade release because all the other ones have consoles. Most likely. A new Summon Knight game and a taiko game and a bunch of smartphone and smartphone share. This taiko game also has the ringmaker theme in it.

Okay. That's where it's at. And it also has SoulCal 2 music in it. I forget which song it was. Somebody knows what's up. It better be No Turning Back because that's like the second best soundtrack. Let me check. Track.

I'm already here. And you just tripped all over your song. Yeah. That's pretty bad. The intro is the best theme. Brave Sword, Braver Soul. Oh, that's pretty good too. Brave Soul.

That's pretty good too. That's pretty good too. But that's like fourth to me. That's a good one too. That's a good one too. That's a good one too. Oh, and it's also got database. Yeah!

Which is fantastic. Living in that database. That's how it's legitimately amazing. That's horrible. It's like stop giving free rides to shit. No, the song is great. Move it up to first class. Yeah.

Speaking of free rides to shit and music, actually. Ooh. Wow. Free rides to shit. I don't know. Might not be shit. I fucked up. But here, no.

That actually, that's apt. There's a promo that I think is interesting and this should be used for other things. Madden 16. Oh. So. Oh, we switched it. Okay. So I don't know if you've seen that game art video.

I've seen this fucking. I've seen this. That thing is ridiculous, right? This fucking Madden ad. It's ridiculous. Over the top. The T-Rex and McLovin. The T-Rex and McLovin.

But what they're doing for the game is apparently when it comes out, they have a promo where like every city with an NFL team is gonna have Uber cars that have copies of the game and if you call it and put in the code, they bring a free copy of the game to your house. So a lot of regions, they're already out. They're already out like within hours, within minutes. Like New York was done within 10 minutes. What's the game about now? Not yet.

Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. Official mass release, but this is like a, like. Cause Madden, you just come out some October, October. Yeah. This is just like a marketing thing. But when you're, when you're this big, who cares?

I guess. Cause it's pretty cool though. It's a cool, that's a cool marketing plan. I saw it and I was like, do you want to copy this game driven to your house? Cause anything that's discouraged in my existence is when I'm trying to look into fucking bins to find cool awesome stuff and just seeing 5,000 unsold copies of Madden cause no one gives a shit cause they over print the shit out of it. And one person in every city is going to have a copy brought to them by like an NFL player

from that team and they're going to win a console and a big prize. It's a bundle. It's the Xbox one. The big Xbox bundle. Exactly. Wow. You're a fucking huge cheater. Oh no kid.

Thanks for, did you cheat to get to my house? Hey, did you deflate my copy of Madden too? Oh. So I'm like, I had Pat yelling that guy for cheating. But I want to see that. Why would I care about Madden? I know you don't. I'm clearly not the child in this scenario.

Also, today, Tuesday. Tuesday. As of 4pm, the Street Fighter 4, 5 stress tests for North America is happening. It's not the official beta thing. It's the pre-stress test thing again. So this is still not counting towards that again. But if you get some games in today and you can get some games tomorrow. People have been getting games in.

Oh yeah. On and off. Oh yeah. This is almost better because this is how betas should be run constantly. This is actually better than what it would have been if we got the one weekend and then it shut down. I think this is way better than that. Beta weekends are great for MMOs at the end of long ass internal stress tests with large

amounts of people. Beta internet tests should be like every weekend for 4 months so that it fucking goes. Exactly. And that huge mass rush of, oh it's only going to be good for today. It doesn't exist. Yeah. And it's giving people the chance to mind for tech. And we're seeing some crazy shit coming out.

There's some speculation story-wise that Nick Halley is from a tribe of people that all have the dark head-o. Maybe. Yeah. That could be intriguing. It's pretty stark. Your Godot is just straight up murderous intent. Murderous intent.

Yeah. You know. That's bullshit. But I like it. Yeah. But I don't even believe it. That's why Ingrid has to stop us. Oh god.

Do you need to get fired a second time? I just, I don't hate her. Everyone on Twitter that's just like I don't get it. What's the big deal? And it's just like no. She's like not even my least favorite. Who's your least favorite? Yeah.

That's a good question. That's a good question. I've never really heard anything. Probably a lot of the EX cast. Well that doesn't count. They don't count. They don't count? No.

I don't count. I don't like L-14. Okay there you go. That's a good choice. Damn. I'm Rufus. I've learned to love him. See exactly like I like Rufus too.

Who's my pick for the bottom of the bottom? But there's no one who can eat him. Rufus. Okay wait. Hold on. Hold on. I thought for the purposes of this conversation we were automatically disqualifying. Disqualifying Ingrid from the bottom.

No. No. Because it, no. No. Bear freaks all chains. You're talking about a character that appears in Count Calm Fighting Jam which doesn't count or a port of Alpha 3 which doesn't count. The whole exercise doesn't mean anything if you discount Ingrid.

Serious. Who after Ingrid? Dude. The power gap is so huge. After Ingrid. After Ingrid. The power gap is so huge that it's like fucking, it's another nebula. It's like it doesn't even.

She's really not that bad. She's just like, whoa. She's just a character not prepared to your taste. Don't you also really like Necrans? Necrans are pretty cool. You see this? What? I was Necrans.

I was 10 when that game came out. I was 10 years old. She was really young. But Necrans still cool. No, you can't use both. You can pick one or the other. If I have to grab someone after Ingrid, after light years of fucking travel, we hit Lee. Yeah, Lee.

I still, yeah. You know what I mean? I think Rufus is still normal for me. I don't like him. It's weird because I really love Bob. She's just that bad though. Because Bob is dumber. Like when you think about it, his story is dumber.

And it's better then. Like I know you really don't like her, but there's nothing past that. Most people are pretty dumb in Ingrid. Most people don't know what we're talking about. Most people who do know are kind of in the middle of nowhere. Let's try some other active words. Let's try loathe. I loathe Ingrid.

Anyway. You are putrified by her presence. I would rather be more upset by Ingrid. You know what I mean? I'd rather me hate her than me going, she's nothing. She's both. That's the worst. I'd rather be something about her that's always easy.

She's nothing about her. She's Kat Von's attempt to put Athena in their game. Basically. Yeah. And I hate Athena! Along with, but not just Athena. Like other trumps that fit into that category. How come she always gets the costume?

We all have different tastes. Do you not like Angel from Tekken? I don't. No one likes Angel from Tekken. She's not really a fighter fighter. She's not even a character. She's an alternate costume. She's a character.

I'm pretty sure she's got a character slot. No, I mean like an actual character. I'm not a fan at all. She's just like, Alex doesn't have a fucking storyline because it's all about Roger and Roger Jr. Like she's that. Well, Doctor B then. I'm gonna sub in Doctor B. I like Doctor B a hell of a lot more than Ingrid.

Same here. You know, a better parallel is like Lily, right? Lily's great. And I'm not super into Lily. I see how she plays off of Asuka. But the type of character that's like Lily and Ingrid that for me works is the Karen. That's the version of that character that should be there. I think they name all the new characters in Tekken 7.

Oh. Shaheen, Lucky Chloe. Yeah. Shaheen, Lucky Chloe. And Elizabeth Dill. The new chapter of the sets. The rage. The big rage guy.

You're done. You're done. He's got tentacles. Tekken 7 doesn't look good. No. It has to be fine. Anyway. Anyway.

Ingrid sucks. Yeah. Rock Band 4 compatibility is pretty much everything. Good. That's wireless. What about my Rock Revolution controller? That triangle drum kit will plague your house. You know what I'm going to do though?

I'm going to throw out all my fucking old instruments and get the new ones. Please. Why do you sell them? Because they're worthless. No. They're worth 20 bucks to somebody. They're not worth my time. I loaned them to my neighbor for a really long time and I got super bummed with it.

They've been sitting in my closet for years. He dropped them back like a week or two ago and I was like, fuck. I don't even want to touch them. Because you can brand them to the store and they'll give you like 10 bucks of credit. I don't think they will. They will not. They will not take them. They'll give you like 10 bucks of credit.

They stopped taking them years ago. They will turn you away like the animal you are. Tell me about the pop store. Do you suggest he goes to the store? The game zone is going to take fucking... You walk in there with your hands full and they will fucking lie. You're fucking with your hands full and they will put to the door. And you're asking them to literally bring them back at a time where they know they're the

most worthless. Go on Craigslist and sell them. And get robbed! And sell them for 10 bucks but include like a personal concert. I think you should just burn them in your backyard. And include a back massage or something and you'll sell them for free. Yeah, you have to add something then they're like a happy massage. If you sell a back massage with them on Craigslist, I'm sure you'll get 10 bucks out of it.

That's a little much. That's money. What's going on with Richie Branson? I just wanted to point out that like he passed the Kickstarter and the stretch goal is the best stretch goal ever. Have you seen it? What have we got? Have you seen the stretch goal Willie?

What is it? Okay, hold on. I'm just going to fucking read it out. It's the absolute best stretch goal ever. Since he passed music. We made it. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Let's start with a concept EP I've wanted to deliver to you guys for a long time.

Jupiter Jazz. Motherfucker. Does he know or does he know? He knows. Oh my god. How fucking on point he hit. If we hit 10,000 which he's like 500 bucks away from as of now. He's going to make a fucking concept album about Cowboy Viva.

How on point can one motherfucker be? It's literally the most specific thing ever. Yeah. But for the people that know. He knows. He knows. Like you've far gone past. So yeah, Willie, you told me about that and told me there was a fucking Tengen Tapa album

and I was like Richie Branson. I've heard that and you told me to go watch Sig Xeon and I did. Super good. And then I went to his kickstarter and like I could kick him over right now. And then I did. There you go. Super good. There you go.

I felt like a big man. You did it. You're a good guy. Seriously, it's like a public service. Like there needs to be a girl in a log and wrap up. Dude, it has to happen. Yes, yes. And now there needs to be a B-pop one.

Now that you've put that in my mind. Exactly. When it comes to fucking like shit like this. He's got. I can't even. So like imagine the list of stretch goal albums. Like what's underneath the girl log and B-pop? What's number three on that list?

Samurai Jammer. Is it Trigun? Is it Samurai Jammer? Is it what is it? Is it Asmonga Dio? You can go anywhere. It's amazing. Epo, whatever.

Epo's soundtrack is good, but it's not like. It's not, yeah. There's like the four really good songs. No, but the good intros are the good intros. They're real good. Shit's getting weird down on the set of Suicide Squad. Really? Yeah.

So first there was the. Stop pulling on my pigtails. First there was the story about how since Jared Leto was a method actor as we all know and he's in character as the Joker. So it's like, hey, he's being crazy. Yeah, he's giving people gifts like he gave Harley Quinn a rat and he gave other actors like dead pigs and just weird stuff. Okay, that's not cool.

Stop doing that. No, it's method. Right. It helps. And then they had to get an on set psychiatrist to a therapist rather because if characters got too in character and felt too evil in their. Wow, that's fake. No, it's not that actors are famously crazy people.

They have this dude around to help them. And now they've started tattooing each other with Suicide Squad tattoos that say squad. And there's a picture of Will Smith tattooing one of the other guys. And there's a picture of the actors that's playing Harley tattooing. This is what happens. This is how the actual Suicide Squad happens. And it's like actors go rogue. Do you think you are Lord of the Rings?

No. What are you doing? Here's what happened. You filmed for three months. Michael is a fucking established method actor, right? And he did the Batman's, right? And the Batman's made billions of dollars, right? Sure.

So in this process, I bet they sought out a bunch of method actors without thinking what happens when you have ensemble casts of method actors. Right? Okay. Okay. Like when there's one guy who's playing the main character, that's one thing. But when it's like six of them. Yeah.

And there's supposed to be a team of crazy people. Yeah. Like no one thought for a second that that would be a problem. And maybe it's totally a problem. Like imagine a movie with Denzel and Joaquin Phoenix. Like you wouldn't even... Guns are being fired off. For real.

For real. Get Daniel Day-Lewis and... Yeah, exactly. Like just those three who just never stop filming because the movie goes on forever. It's going to be a real shame. Like let's say, and if Suicide Squad is just nothing, it like, fantastic fours it. It makes 20 million bucks. All you guys went through nothing for nothing.

And you have tattoos to prove it. No, you don't understand, man. And it was publicized in such an orderly way. It was about the art. We're playing dumb comic book characters. About the art. That are more dimensional. Damaged.

Because I'm all messed up inside. Yeah, there's a mobile game that's making four million bucks a day. That's mobile games. It's like... It's a Japanese... It's a structure. It's Japanese. Because that's literally their headline.

That mobile game has the spot for this week. Yeah, whatever. And we'll lose it next week. Usually they're pretty consistent. Yeah, but they don't... Yeah, look at Zynga. No, what is cool is... Ah, Zynga.

We played Assassin's Creed Chronicles and like... I don't remember that. No. Well, wait, is that the side scroller? So, yeah. I've never played that. Okay, so Liam, you and I played Assassin's Creed Chronicles. We played it.

And you just... I forgot it all. And you hit that most jarring moment where your teeth hit the foil. When you first gained control of the character. No, when you start talking to Ezio and he goes, Try to remember this. Oh, I know where this story is going. Because it was ridiculous that Ubisoft did not have Ezio's voice actor.

So some fans just went to Roger Craig Smith and said, Hey man, you want to just record these lines? And he's like, sure. And they're like, why didn't this happen in the first place? And he's like, well, they never asked me. They never asked me. What the fuck? So there's a video that this channel put out of him doing all those lines over properly.

And then he's sounding great. Then slap it in again. He did do embers, correct? Yes. Makes no sense. It doesn't make any... They just didn't ask him. Maybe they thought it would be insulting to give him for such a small role.

Maybe they didn't give a fuck. Maybe the money didn't want to be spent. Maybe they just didn't give a fuck. Maybe they didn't give a fuck. Thank you. But it's just the weirdest. Because like with Konami, the voice acting shit was always pure malice. But with Ubisoft, I find that explanation to be much more easily absorbed.

Probably just got lost in the shuffle. Somewhere between like Konami sending dudes to Hater's house to take food off his plate. Well, it's where it's... At Ubisoft, they're like, oh no, Jin from... Or Jin Wei or whatever from the Chinese office. He's supposed to do it. And then he's saying like, oh no, Bjork from the fucking Swedish office is supposed to do it. And Bjork is like, no, one of the fucking 18 South Americans like...

No, Bjork is saying Bork, Bork, Bork, Bork. Thank you. And then Ubisoft and voice actors, they know. Like, hey, for Prince of Persia, we need to change a voice actor because it's tough and cool. Fucking edgy. So have this guy do it. Then tons of people complain and literally, we need Yuri Lowenthal back. And they did it.

They brought him back for the third game. And then they've used him in every subsequent game after that. Except for Nolan North, Prince of Pop Zero. But they brought him back for Forgotten Central. And usually, I think they're kind of proactive with people who want this voice actor somewhere. And Yuri Lowenthal, whatcha doing? Just voice acting. Yeah, just more voice acting. God, thank you for saying Pop Zero, by the way.

Every time I hear that, it's the best. Pop Zero? Unless it's a... Everyone in Montreal knows Prince of Persia for 2009. Everyone who's inside is called Pop Zero. Doesn't hate. Everyone who's inside knows that that game is called Pop Zero. But no, unless it's a Chie situation where you're fixing a wrong...

You know, you're fixing a slight... Yeah, that switch is always fucking weird. Like a full third of the fucking Persona 4 voice-up cast has now been recast. It sucks. And lastly, we've got this cool news. River City Ransom Underground passed on Kickstarter a couple years ago. I looked at this trailer and it's just like four non-stop minutes of, look at, River City Ransom has never had this much shit and moves and crazy crap ever.

So it's almost like... This is official, eh? Yeah. This is an official license from North America. Because it's the same thing as fucking Double Dragon or the Technos characters. Who owns it? I don't know. You want it?

Maybe. Call us. You might be liable to own part of Double Dragon and River City Ransom. You just make it and we'll see what happens. How about that? We'll hop on. So yeah, this seems to be official. The Kickstarter, when it went up, I remember it was.

And then it was like some Toronto guys were working on this. So good job, Toronto. That's a... No, on the down. Good things coming out of Toronto. Don't encourage them. For once. For once.

Exactly. Go-Habs. No, no, no. Like pet the dog when he does nice. It's not a dog. It's a fucking playground. Go-Habs. But there's a trailer for the Steam Greenlight.

Boo, Toronto. There. It's on Steam Greenlight. There's a trailer that came out. Keep digging yourself a grave. As long as that grave is into Toronto. If you've got an ounce of love for River City Ransom, I'll go look at this. It's very elaborate looking games.

Those guys probably moved to Toronto for business and are probably not from Toronto. It's literally what you want a fan project to be, but it's official. Barf. Barf is the best. Did she hit somebody? They don't barf. They say barf. They yell barf.

Barf. That Mega 64 fit brings that to life in the best way. Barret it on. If you want to tell us about the times when you said barf out loud, send an email to superbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarfbarf Super best friendcast at gmail.com. Liam, what's that thing? Super best friendcast at gmail.com. And we might ride you right.

You might sound something like barf. You might barf like this. You might barf. School's starting up again. No, it's not. Not for us. Barf. Barf.

Take that, losers. Victor wants to know what's the worst class we've had to take. Oh, the worst class I had to take? Oh, man. Economics. Used to be entrepreneur. Economics. Sorry.

Economics and technical drawing. I hated technical drawings so much. Yeah, but Woolie's like art was all about technical drawings. I hated it because everyone handed in the same project. Good job. That's the point. That sucks. But technical drawing is for like...

I don't want to do it. For buildings and stuff. If I didn't want to do it, I should be able to opt out of it. The fact that it was a required course to get out of it. The content was boring as shit. The content was boring as shit. The content was boring as shit. Yeah.

Well, okay. It was the best art program. If you sign up because they make you do it. If you sign up for fine arts, then you're going to hate technical drawing. I started doing that. Okay. For me, technical drawing was like... The content is the most boring worship ever because you're drawing houses.

Or the inside of mechanical pencil. But the reveal, the twist reveal where it's like you never thought. You thought you knew how to use a ruler, but you didn't know shit. I don't want to know how to use a ruler. For years you've been just putting it down and drawing on it. You don't know anything about rulers. Yeah. All curved lines and matte drawings.

No straight lines. Do you learn the truth about rulers in that class and it changes you? For me, it was for sure my Spanish class in Asia, which I had to take as an elective or whatever. For a Gen Ed required? I gave no shit no for your specific cinema or whatever. Syncom. Shit program. Don't sign up for Syncom with Dawson's shit program.

And I fucking hated it. I had no interest in learning Spanish. I just had to pick a class. And the worst bit was the teacher was the nicest person in the world. And so I felt bad on top of it. I fucking hated that class. I'm right. I had to do a language elective like that.

And I picked Greek because I wanted to hear what people... Oh that explains your shirt. No, not the one you're wearing now. The Greece shirt that you wear. Oh well, not really, but sure. You didn't actually say it. Did you say a class you didn't like? For me, it was probably restructured statistics.

And entrepreneurship was the most boring thing ever. I thought it was going to be any by the end of this. Man, there's just nothing. I remember for qualitative methods, you had to do, and say Jeff, you had to do a fucking full on study with observing people on the street for sociological data and put together a proper study. And I remember I had a friend who thought, wait a second, I'm smart enough to just not do this

and completely fabricated the study in its entirety from scratch and fucking faked over a hundred surveys. How did that friend do? That friend got an A. Because they were really smart. Good job, friend. That was a really smart friend that I had. My worst class ever that I did was easily,

there's no question, was my fucking typing class in grade nine. That was the best. No, you get to race with the fucking hurdles. Wait, because it was on typewriters. Oh, that's different. And the reason why I took that and was elective is because I already knew how to type because I was young and I was on the internet and I was typing all type. You got electives in high school?

Yeah. Shit, that's crazy. Well, I went to like a shitty real high school unlike a boonie high school. You get like two or three at the last class. So I picked up and it's like I already know how to type and I can type like pretty fast for my age. I think I don't remember where it was, but I remember it being faster than the other kids that could type.

And I ran into a problem and the problem was that your grade was not determined by getting, writing the thing perfectly with no mistakes without looking down at the typewriter. Your grade was determined half by that and half of you learning the perfect method to type which includes putting your fingers on the home key and moving your arms in the specific ways to hit shit which I fucking couldn't do

because I already knew how to type. I had self taught myself. The best way to type is with two index fingers. It's the same thing. My dad can type real good with chicken typing. No, it's the same thing. Is that when I had a computer like word processing class or whatever I type with like four fingers or two or whatever

and using no you're supposed to put all your fingers down and this on these letters. But I'm sir, sir, sorry sir. I'm doing it faster than you sir. Should I be teaching this class? Because clearly your method is the shit of the rules. It's the problem with all self taught skills. I'm doing it the wrong way

but I'm so used to it that I'm doing it fast. And like my grade, I almost failed that class because it came down to the exam and I literally just kind of hid my hands and busted it out. Number one in the class, no mistakes, no white out, no nothing. Perfect. So you used the home key?

Yeah, totally. I did it the way you wanted me to. You fucking drunk. Special mention, special mention. You had a ball of booze in her teaching desk. Yeah, I've had two of those. Because she's running a fucking grade nine typing class on typewriters in the computer age.

The best teachers are the ones that are sloshed. Geography teacher. Special honorable mention goes to Monday morning art history. No, you're done, you're done. Monday morning art history in which you sleep for an hour and 15 minutes. You've got a complimentary pillow on the way into your class. Dude, I had Thursday at 3pm.

That was great. But Monday morning, oof. Let's dim these lights and watch slides for the next hour. And then everyone decided to draw nothing but cubes. Nothing but cubes. No, our history is just history. Just with art. Yeah, it sounds pretty pointless.

Guess what? This painting was about boobs. What? That's what they were all about. Boobs? Paintings? Even the clocks one? Yeah, especially that one.

It's about time for boobs. There's a whole lot of naked Madonna's and then some God eating his babies. Yeah. Have a good time. Oh, you're talking about Chronos, huh? That God loved to eat those babies. His babies, he can do what he wants.

They just hung out in his stomach for like a thousand years. But then it gets to the modern shit. Like, here's a dead dog with a speaker attached to its stomach. Yeah, no, it's not great. It's art. It's playing Green Hill. I remember reading this amazing article by a guy who was a former art critic who had been an art critic

for 20 years and like all the fucking hoity-toity, top shelf, rich people, guy like, like, praising art and shit. And he's a fucking leader in the field and he just, one day he like walks into a fucking showroom and he looks around and he's like, I don't know what the fuck I'm doing. This is all fucking nonsense.

And he's writing about his total existential crisis, about how he's just been making it up the whole time and how no one knows a goddamn thing about the modern art scene. Like, no one... Oh yeah, that picture of a dick being shot with a gun. That's fucking cool. 10 million. You need to head out down to Applebee's

and break your way through that wall to reveal the true art. Well, it really says, you know what he's saying, like in fiction, they go, if you're immortal or if you live very long, you see the greatest tragedies looking at people that you love that aren't dying? No.

What it is, is that if you're not immortal, you don't get to live past the part where kids are actually learning about stuff that you would... Like, I want to be, live in the time where kids are learning about Sonic Dream's collection in art history and going, this changed everything or this or that and I'm not going to live to that and that's sad.

Maybe you will. I don't think I will. Maybe make your own school and start teaching it right now. It's like, oh, your ancestor was a huge coward. I know, I was there, says Pearl, you know. Dear wonders, I bought suits. That's a great one. Vasquez wants to know...

Yo, Vasquez! Have you ever swerved? Have you ever been mistaken for a man? No, have you? Oh! Too bad! Lift that gut. Next question.

Have you ever swerved or unspoiler, or unspoiled something for someone else and allowed them to have a great first-time reaction? Yes, consistently. Okay, I don't... But are you sure it worked? Yes! Okay.

I'm super sure. Okay. I don't get the question. Yeah, but I don't think it ever worked. Unspoiling something. Unspoiling is an art form. All my friends are too smart. I've never seen it work.

You have to double it down. You have to double it down. Now, the trick that I found for unspoiling is that when you accidentally start talking about something and realize that specific blank look, like, uh-oh, what you do is you keep going. You add more and more, and then you back up and add stuff in front of it,

and all of that has to be totally blatant obvious lies. You want the signal-to-noise ratio on the truth to be terrible, so you just start needing to lie for hours. I think I successfully managed to undo the damage you did to your lady friend about Avdol. Yes! I also helped with that. But yeah, it's a talent that not many people have,

because it's usually like an off-the-cuff, oh shit, I thought the Mrs. was keeping up with JoJo. She was not as caught up as I thought she was, and I went, could you believe when that happened? And she went, what? And I went, oh, and then started making up a bunch of shit. How does that even happen? How do you not start the conversation with where'd you get up to?

Because I assume everyone that I know is up to date on everything. I'm thinking about it. I can't remember a time where I spoiled something for someone that they gave a shit about. The usual scenario is someone coming to me because I know about it and asking me if something is a spoiler. That's the most common one. If somebody reads something somewhere and they go,

are you for real, that person dies? What? No! In fact, they become a playable character. And you use the bonus kit. And then you draw a 28-minute OVA for that character so that they think that it's real. It's possible. It's super hard. It relies on the person trusting you

so that you can lie to them more effectively. Yeah, exactly. So I was going to say, is that not really to fiction? But when I said, hey, lady type, I have your birthday gift. And she goes, oh, really? And I go, yeah, it's coming in the mail. Is it this?

And it was. And it was what I got. That's the best. And I went, oh, no. I actually contacted them and asked them, can they bring and ship it? It wasn't going to happen. It's not going to get here in time. So I decided not to get that.

I got you something else. I don't think it's quite as good. I also make the thing that the narrative looks shittier, too. And they go, it's not sorry. And then it actually shows up late, too. And I go, oh, well, I guess it's sorry. It's not just not coming. And then I had it shipped to another place

and not come to the door to a friend's place. And then I go, I'm going to go out and get milk for us to drink. I'll be back in an hour. I'll be back in 20 minutes. And I come back and I take the packaging all off of the front stairs. So I'm not bringing it up and awkwardly going, here you go. Because the shape betrays what it is, which is a painting, a piece of art. So awkwardly, I take all that.

And I go, ta-da. And then you lied to me. Like, yeah, that's so nice. Sometimes quadrupling down is the only method. It's the only method. If someone asks, X dies, you just go, no, who doesn't. The better question is who doesn't die. Everybody dies.

So my place goes dark. So there's the one unique one that is the scenario that you described. And I will not discuss what show it is. But somebody came to me and said, holy shit, I just got spoiled. And I can't believe that character dies. And I said, dude, they all die in the end. Every single one of them. Every character you care about, they're going to die on screen.

That's going to be brutal and you're going to be devastated. And they go, fucking, haha. But it was super true. And you guys all know what show I'm talking about. And then they got that. And they were like, oh, what? No, he didn't lie. I remember someone saying they watched up until Berserk episode 20.

And they go, does everyone die? And they go, no. They're all fine. In fact, it's a Shakespearean comedy. In fact, some people come back. Or they get them. What are you doing over there? This is cool ass shit, Pazusa.

That's what you do. What are you doing? OK, so in a follow up to our menu music thing, because there was all kinds of shit going on with that, a much more straightforward and honest one. Thank you. George Moore, the third watch, asked us about the first level music of a game.

What's a game? I don't remember music being categorized in this way. Castlevania is a good take for me. That's a fucking good. Which Castlevania? I don't know about you, but my brain knows most of it. Most of it. Mega Man X, one.

Mega Man X. That goddamn fucking intro level music is one of the best of all time. Dude, I don't know. Lost Odyssey starts so strong. That intro is so strong. They completely sold both of us. The intro FMV transitions seamlessly into the first battle. Wonderful 101 starts off with the track that you remember the most.

That's a good one too. Dude, I don't know. Rising. I stand by Castlevania. Castlevania is probably my defect. That's a series of good examples. I don't know. I want to say a Resident Evil game,

but what the fuck is the first level in a Resident Evil game? Every single room has a different track. One, one, one, one, one, one. I would say if it counts, I'll say the RE2 lobby theme. When you get to the police station. Well, because you can't separate Resident Evil from the lobby. I know.

That's my problem. Mason says cast the Street Fighter character in a romantic live action comedy. Oh, wait, wait. Back to the last question. Crazy Taxi. That's a good one too as well. That's my pick. Gief and Eagle in a remake of You've Got Male,

originally starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. Done. Claw going through his dates every week. That's a dark movie. That's a live action. You're more beautiful than me. You're dead. Let's fix that.

Let's fix that shit, yeah. Throw in Shade of the Liza because she's all probably going to shit. Fighting game character is in her own comp. Blanka, 50 first dates. He keeps going out with a girl. Who am I forgetting? Who am I fucking kidding? You know who's the perfect rom-com character?

It's Dan. I thought that too. It's fucking the Psycho Master. Because then you get to like, oh hey, come over to my dojo. And meet my students. And there's a fucking green monster and a schoolgirl throwing fireballs.

Zack from Dead or Alive. Yeah. Wait, he's a Street Fighter character. That's true. I did Psych Street Fighter. And that would be a different genre. That would be a different thing. That would be a romantic comedy.

There would be funny parts, I guess. I guess. Skullomania in the notebook. There you go. He wrote to her every day. For months. Matt Andrew wants to go. It's a scarf.

Fluttered behind the back. And you also know if Matt, do you have a favorite episode of Broken Pixels? Oh God. No, the answer is I have least favorite episodes. Ooh. I love almost every single one. The ones I don't like are when they play Spider-Man 3.

Sean Baby kind of goes off the deep end a little bit. Probably said some things he probably should have. There's that. And fuck, there's one or two. They also play Red Steel. And you watch that now. And it's like so blasé of the time. Look at these dumb motions.

Their thing was so not talking about the game and talking about the dumb shit that's in the game, like the bad stereotypical Asian stereotypes. They're just harping on about how they don't like that. And when you watch that nowadays, it's not all that funny because so many people did that already. But it doesn't really hold up. It doesn't really hold up.

But every other episode, I love, I love the Spice Girls that play Spice World. And I love, love, they play, what's that fucking Neo Geo game that got released in the Wii Virtual Con? China Warrior. China Warrior. You're just a Bruce Lee guy that constantly walks,

it's a walking simulator. That episode is like one of my favorites. So yeah, love Broken Pixels. It should come back. They should have a Kickstarter for Broken Pixels. I will fund it myself. Not all of it. I will.

Okay. Kevin wants to know how, or... D. I guess, Kevin or D, whatever. I'm looking for him. Who wants to know... Kevin D. Kevin. How much we knew about Sonic Dream's collections

before recording. I had seen pictures of... This is the best explanation. The first person of you sitting on the couch with Sonic. And I had heard there was a character editor in it. And the Oculus support. I knew about the Oculus support, but nothing else. But I knew Arcane Kid's background.

I played all their other games before. Yeah, okay. But I did not know anything else going into it. And I just want to, I'll put it out there, because some people were confused. We did figure out the Eggman Origins thing on our own. Just the footage is out of order. It got spliced in to Eggman.

But we dug through the files and found that. And all you learned is like, no, this can be played. And then we figured it out. But we just cut off the figuring out part. Because it was just like... A long protracted ten minutes of going, wait, what did we do? We figured it out.

It was great. I clicked on a link that Matt sent. And I didn't really read it. But I saw a picture of some creepy Sonic sex thing. And the title of the article was like, creepy Sonic sex thing is out now. And that was it. But I closed it.

And that was it. Mine was, I put it up on my computer and Liam was walking into my house to record something else. And I literally went on the main menu, just went to my roommate Sonic. I got to the part where Eggman is watching you from another building with binoculars. And I went, this is good.

And I pressed exit and said, we need to do this at that point. And then Liam was like, no, we absolutely need this. Have you played it yet, Pat? I've seen nothing. I'm building up my anticipation to watch your video. That's probably what you should do. I think so. I'm not going to go through the hoops.

There's no hoops. It's really good. There's a little bit of hoops. There's a hoops. It's the best Sonic games since colors. And I like generations. It's not that I can pretend to be there. Silent and horrified.

And in that fucking... We cover most of everything. Yeah. Although we didn't get into the file digging of the batch files and the hidden TXDs and shit. We went everywhere. Bring back Billy Hatcher. Do you have a copy of Unfinished Swan?

Do you? That doesn't exist. Why do you hate Unfinished Swan? It's only Unfinished 3 and Vita. What is that? Anyway. What's coming up? Okay.

So we're just going to blow it all out here? No. All of it? Just blow out what's this week? Not all of it. Okay. Oh, we're not going to talk about what's coming up? No.

Only what's starting tomorrow? Well, because next... Today or whatever... Because next week, podcasts are going to be late. Those are just happening. Don't talk about those. And what's coming out? We have our podcast on the 31st or the...

I think it doesn't matter. It's what's coming up that week. All right. What's coming out this week? What's coming out this week is me and Pat playing Until Dawn. It's fucking awesome. LP, I will be playing this in a very specific manner that I will explain when I start it up. What?

Because there's... Since you were playing as horror team tropes, there's... I will... I'll just say it. I'll be playing the game as that character would react to things. You'll do it. You're trying to go canon. I will play the jock as a jock will do.

Right. I will do stupid things as a jock. You'll try and play canon. Not what you want, but what they want. If I'm the nerd, I will be playing as the nerd would do. You are going to get... If I'm the virgin, I will be playing as the virgin. You want to role play this game?

Yes. Permiscuous chick. Awesome. I will be playing as a promiscuous chick. Sick. That's how it's done. That's what we want. Right?

Whatever ending I get is the ending I get. Yeah. So there you go. Good times. So that's coming up. Otherwise, I guess everything continues. Everything else continues. Star Fox keeps going, where Replace still has another three episodes left.

And then once WrestleMania ends, there's going to be a nice big gap. A new stage is going to have to start. Oh, and Liam and I are going to packs. We're going to packs? Yeah, that's true. I guess that's what's... Me and Pat are going to packs. We'll be in packs this weekend.

Fine, this weekend it might be too late to get tickets, but if you're there... Definitely. No, it was too late. You know what? It was too late 10 minutes after the tickets were on sale. There's going to be a guy on the quarter. A? Yeah.

More like 10. But we're going to be there. So... If you're there and you see it, say huh. Exactly. It would be a nice time. It would be nice. It would be nice.

Playing unreleased video games. What are you looking forward to? Playing unreleased video games. Until dawn. Honestly. Until dawn. Until dawn. I've been waiting for this game for like three years.

What is a new giant Splatoon stage that looks amazing? What's it called? It's like an apartment complex. Yeah, that's good. It's a huge rooftop complex. It looks so fucking cool. Heights. Something like...

I'm actually looking really forward to Until Dawn, but like I'm frustrated because like I can't play it and also I have to... I can't play on my own either. You have to stay clean. So like I'll get my play through. I'll try to get as much done in the short term as possible. I don't know. I'm looking for...

I think Until Dawn's the one for me. I think. There's something else that comes up today. No, with packs. I was like, I was gonna say maybe I can beat Witcher this week. Gears of War. But no, I can't. I'll play Gears of War Ultimate Edition.

I'll try that out. I'm gonna wait for the sale, but I'm interested to play it. For sure. Because I actually played Gears of War 1 the least. Hey, it doesn't come out until next week, but I got a review code of Zeo Drifter and I actually played through it 100%. What a fucking fantastic matured game. Go play that game. Yeah, it's not out.

How can they possibly play it? It's out on 3DS. Out on Wii U and out on another thing, I think. Yeah, well... I only stopped to like the first boss, but like it was really, really solid. Solid, solid man. Yeah, good guys. Good guys.

Okay, so everything's gonna continue until Dawn's coming. As soon as possible tomorrow. And let's just say... It may not be up for 9pm. I'm gonna see if I can get up as fast as I can. But we'll go up tonight, I promise. Mm-hmm. From 9pm?

Yeah. And next weekend, more stuff. More stuff. More stuff's gonna have to start. It has to. All right, I think we did it. No. We completed the podcast.

We didn't do it? No, you forgot to record the podcast. All right, well, we'll start over right now. Welcome to episode 107 of the Super Best Friendcast. Oh, she started 200? Oh, god. It's not even close to 200. So, Summerslam!

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