Castle Super Beast - SBFC 118: Tactical Marriage to Avoid the Panel

Episode Date: November 10, 2015

Gutter-tier Youtubers speaking into empty auditoriums, and the censored things they love.

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I have to give up my set of plastic keys that I chew on. Dude! Seriously, I didn't even notice until like halfway through that fucking panel, I was spinning my headphones. Of course you have. That's how much of a fuck I didn't get. The headphone spinning is a problem, right? Liam's battery destroying vibration on his phone is another thing, checking the vibrator

on it, killing your motor for no reason. I did it for years and it did nothing, but the headphone spinning, even if you're not hitting anything, creates a noise. There was like episode 4 or 5 where I accidentally hit the microphone, and you constantly hit yourself in the head with it too. And you gave me the most vicious death glare ever, and you were right, you were right. That is a child thing that I was doing. Oh my god.

And welcome to podcast 118. That's correct. What's our goofy fact about 118? You know. I should point out at 117, not a prime number, 13 times or something. Yeah, the comments will correct you. I got blown up. Body.

Immediately. You said one of the most transparently right or wrong things that simply took a calculation. Math thing. We should almost make a segment at the beginning of each week where we just make corrections based on the comments that lasted. Have you listened to the Giant Beast cast? No. Before their letter time, they have fucking corrections.

And redactions. There you go. Okay guys, we're in it. It's time to cover up. And they have their bad sax music, like brum, brum, brum, brum, but we can't do that because I would take the whole podcast. I appreciate you asking, but I want Liam to ask so that he has to live out his own ill-fated bit.

What's your esoteric fact about episode 118? Well, 118 is the hottest new K-socio drama that's on the air. Oh, K-drama? It's a K-drama. That's good. K-drama's cool. And it's about six people living in a flat with not enough room for all of them together. That is a very classic Korean drama.

That's a gimmick I've never heard about. They've got to work together and there's a coffee shop nearby and they got to get along. I will try to be trendy and talk to my sister about it because she is a... What do you call them? A Koreaboo? Koreaboo? Yesterday, she impressed me by showing off, well not showing off, but she was reading off Korean text and I was like, fuck.

You were like, hey sis, what are you keep showing off? Did she call you Ejoshi? No. Okay. Stupid. If Korea stopped making so much of Japan's anime, they could make their own anime and then puts their headphones back on and listens to Rooster Teeth stuff and not me. Man, that really sticks in your crawl.

That's like the stuff you mentioned there. But you know what, if it was your sister, you would feel a little bit like that. Stop watching Achievement Hunter, sis, you know what I'm saying? She needs her Chivos. Why doesn't she do that all the time? My sister doesn't care about Chivos. Stop listening to my direct competitor, no, no, it's not, it's not actually. So watch this Captain's Mark.

They're way too big. Did he buy a mansion the other day? He did. Oh yeah? Yeah, he did. You're like why? No, we talked about that. You're like why didn't your sister get us a mansion?

But it's like if we imply that we are anywhere near the level of Achievement Hunter or anything to get the fuck out of it. No, exactly. Did they start like 10 million years ago? No, actually. It's like when the internet was born or something? They started as drunk gamers and they were just little skits and then they got red versus blue.

But that was like Halo 1 and that was like 10, 15 years ago. After that took off they became Rooster Teeth and then Achievement Hunter was lost. Maybe in 15 years we'll be where they are now and they will own a country. I mean if we have a level of like the individual streamers owning mansions then let's just extrapolate this outwards to Utopia. When we get to that notch level and Jay-Z is looking out on our mansions. Jay-Z will be dead. Well Blue Ivy is looking in on our mansions.

Yeah, Achievement Hunter will have their own country. Wow, we're getting big in our britches considering the events of this week. Yeah, well you gotta build me up Buttercup. Yeah. Alright? So don't worry, one day you'll be Jayden Smith's roommate. Oh man. Oh man!

I would just leave the mic on. It's coming. Leave the mic on. There's a reality show I can get behind. Oh we should mention that shit's streaming all day. We should mention Matt's not here, he's still on his honeymoon. He's on the honeymoon. He's being in love with his Mrs. and on some beach somewhere.

And avoiding horrifying levels of embarrassment by not being in town. Oh it was fun. Oh that's great. So we should just start with that. Why not? This week was Geekfest Montreal. We went down to Geekfest Montreal. Did you show up on Saturday at all?

No. I was busy on Saturday. Should we start with Saturday? Well I want to start with one thing, which is every now and again I read some French Canadian fans on the internet saying don't forget to support your local con. And I've read this a couple of times. I mentioned this to Wally a few times, I remember. And I just want this to sit alongside this story that you've had requests from local

people to come to those cons. So just put it on the picnic stretch as we get into this. Right there next to the pasta salad and your cousin's goulash that you don't really want to eat. So Wally you went down there slightly for me on Saturday. Well let's start with this. What is Geekfest? Prior to this we didn't really know.

I had never heard of it. And you know a friend that I used to work with got in touch that does some French game journalism stuff for Montreal. And yeah you know there's a college con that was going on and it's one of those things where it's like alright. It was like a UB con in Buffalo. It was a lot like that actually. Exactly.

But here in Montreal. And you know you look at it and you go like alright I don't know too much about this. But it's fine. They seem to have it. It'll take us half an hour to get there. And he says hey I'll give you a slot. So it's like yeah what kind of fucks would we be to not show up to a con in our own fucking place.

I hopped in a cab. I was there 20 minutes. So Saturday it's a Saturday Sunday con. I got there. I had to check it out on Saturday because you kind of like you know you feel a bit of an obligation to sort of like appear and like check things out. Even if it's very small. Just make the rounds.

Right. Look at the stuff. Play some stuff. Be a little bit grateful that you know you got invited to be a guest. And so yeah. It's very humbling. So you know it was a tiny event. Tiny little game room.

Not much going on. But like it was what was there was fun because I got to try out the Oculus with Keep Talking and No One Explodes. Yeah. I wanted to talk like still good. So me, William, both of our girlfriends played that. You were disarming the bomb and me and the girls were giving the pro tips. Confusively telling you how to not.

Dude, that game with certain we like we talk for a living. Right. Yeah. And that helps. For anyone that doesn't like fuck that game is impossible. Yeah. That game is super hard. It's designed for you to fail.

Oh yeah. No. And it's absolutely like a party fucking like a icebreaker. Yeah. Because you can play it with only two people. We had four and me and the girls are just flying through pages. Go ahead. Go ahead.

If you, oh god. Right. And I'm doing the thing and then like they can't see it because I've got the Oculus on. But as shit's going bad, the fucking lights are dimming and shit's shaking and sirens are going on. Yeah. My favorite. So for those who don't know, Wally is trying to disarm a bomb that nobody else can see

and they've got printed paper. We all have physical books that tell us how to do it. That tell us how to do it. We have to, it's like unclear shapes and stuff. And so my favorite. I have to describe what I see to them. My favorite part of the entire exercise was relatively early on when it was like, because we had three panels and we each took one and mine was the wire panel.

And Wally's like staring at the wires and he's like trying to figure it out. And I go, okay, Wally, how many wires do you got? He tells me how many wires. What colors are they? He goes, these colors. I go, okay, what's the serial number of the bomb? And he goes, what? Yeah.

And he goes, uh, uh, and he uses the controller to start frantically looking around and he's like, oh man. You had to find somewhere on that object was something. That shit was a blast. That's good stuff. And like you can play it with a laptop with the bomb disarmor isolated, but the Oculus adds it to it. The Oculus gives it a better experience.

It really does. So that was cool. They had that set up. Yeah. I really liked. So they had a little game room that had a bunch of older stuff set up, which is cool. But I really liked that they had a little like outdoor, um, they called it the garden. The garden.

The garden. But there was video games outdoors, mini, mini botanical garden. That was indoors. Was it indoors? But it was an entire thing to see. I didn't even look up. That's, that's why it's an arboretum and not a garden or a greenling of green outdoors. But it's actually.

I didn't look up. Yeah. If you look up, I would see like a slanted room. Shit. That's even cooler. Yeah. I think the best thing I've read apparently, at least in that respect. Yeah.

Well, I mean, Mike went there for one semester. He wasn't too. Well, okay. We'll have to defer to his job. He left a two star review on Yelp. But, uh, you know, did that, uh, play giant Jenga. Uh, that was, that was fun. And a little bit of, uh.

Why is it not like Giga Jenga? Right? Yeah. Yeah. Cho Ginga. Cho Ginga. Cho Jenga. Cho Jenga.

Yeah. Connect. Connect. Connect four. Connect four. With your girlfriend, who'd probably beat you. She, she kind of walked up the floor with me. Wow.

That was a good time. Uh. And, uh. That was about it. That's a nice. So when I, when I showed up with the girlfriend, like, we first had a wonderful experience of how the fuck do we enter the building? Oh yeah.

The fucking college has like 16 exits all sealed all locked no signage not a single arrow the points. Hey, this way to the con. The correct entrance to the con leads you to like a escalator set up where you then have to go. Yeah. Super confusing. I came in the front door and it was quiet and I was like, huh, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

And I just kind of had to walk and listen. Super confusing. So, so I, I find Willie relatively quickly, like we're talking on the phone like, where are you? And then he comes around the corner like, oh, there he is. So I said, oh, you have a pass. Should we get, we'll get our passes and he goes, oh, no, you can just, you can just pick them up.

Like we're guests. Yeah. And I had gone in and got my guest pass and you'd gotten one for your girlfriend and a company pass. It literally said a company on it. So, oh, that's cool. So me and the girl go down to the thing and we go, hey, I'm, I'm, my name's Patrick Wovey.

You have a pass for me. He's just, uh, looks for it like, no, like, oh, okay. Yeah. And like, is it, do you have Pat from, oh, here it is. There it is. Really? You couldn't make that jump. But the weird thing where you can say it was, yeah, whatever.

The weird thing is when I say, oh, and can I get that in a company pass for my girlfriend? Friend of mine told me we could get one. She goes, who told you that? Right. Who, who told you that? I go, oh, a friend of mine is, if it's a big deal, no, never mind. I'll just buy it. It's like, no, who, who said, who told you we were giving out a company pass?

Something going on. What, and I forget the name. She said, was it JP? Was it JP that told you? You're like, you're involved in another, yeah, yeah, I'm not a part of the story. I actually put my hands like, no, it was a friend of mine. He's over there. It's just, okay.

And just kind of does look at us and then goes away and like, and then gives me like a super VIP pass. And then we show that to you and you, what is this? The silver one and shit. Yeah. I don't, I don't understand. I felt attacked. It was, it was.

It was, it was. It was. JP attacked you. Yeah. Yeah. Weird. So that was that. Was he peering from around the corner?

Like laughing? So that, that was that night. Yeah. And then we went back the next day and we ran into Liam. Yeah. Uh, walked around the, the, the, the artist alley showroom, whatever the, the, the, the cafeteria. The cafeteria.

Uh, there's some cool stuff in there. Yeah. And then we had our panel. And then we got, and then we had a panel. Right. So we, we do what we usually do and we kind of like, you know, got posted up around the entrance to the panel. And I was like, okay, we're, we're set to go on in like 25 minutes.

We should be able to get in there five minutes, 10 minutes for setup, set up our laptop and do that stuff. Took a look inside. Couldn't really set stuff up cause the whatever was in there. They were playing a show. Yeah. So the previous guys who were in there were not informed that our panel was coming up. Yeah.

And thus. They thought they had a full two hours. And thus they just ran headlong into our hour. Um, kind of shitty. Uh, and, and so we sent a guy in and he felt like, he felt like, he felt like, he felt bad cause he forgot to tell them. So he said, ah, finish your episode to which we go, this was your mistake. So let's just, let's just like, you're not allowed to get off clean.

Well, we were standing, we were standing, uh, outside and whatnot. And like, we were looking inside and like a good, maybe 50 people in there enjoying them. Yeah. And so we're like, okay. Well, what do we do? It's, it's 115 now. Yeah.

The director, she rolls up on the little, the little, the little, the mini segue thing. And it's like, hey, there's that guy I met cause I met him the day before and it's like, our, our rather earlier. I was like, okay, can you help us out here? We're supposed to, we were supposed to be on 20 minutes ago. We only had an hour. What's the deal? What happened?

Yeah. And, uh, yeah. So he set that up. Eventually the, the, the show stops. Yeah. And people start filing out of the theater, you know, so we're like, all right. I guess we'll take it from here. We get in our hour long, our 55 minute slot bisected into 30.

Um, and, uh, and we take a good, take a good stock of like, okay, there were some people waiting outside. You always take a minute and let people filter in. There are some people waiting outside the door for us. So we let those people get in. And, um, uh, so it was, uh, uh, Mike's zero dude. It was, it was four people we know by name. Yeah.

Mike's zero dude, two fans, Levi and those guys run, those guys run the fancast. Yeah. Gus, who was a friend of theirs, who we met at earlier cons, my girlfriend. Yeah. And then two, a couple of them. Two fans who were exhibitors and were coming before we were, I didn't know they were exhibitors. One of their friends who isn't a fan, but has a friend who's a fan. She was, she was getting a, she was getting a birthday thing for a friend of hers.

A random guy who walked in, didn't know us and said he was looking to fill time when we inquired. He was in some kind of a sense. And then there was another dude on his phone. A guy who sat in the back on his phone, probably also filling time or dealing with a breakup. And two Naruto cosplayers who were waiting for the next panel. And what's our audience? I think my favorite part, I think you're, and I think that's overselling it because the

people that weren't even up front barely even counted. Yeah. Let's not forget the guy that was running the stage. So here's my favorite part is as people would filter in and look in and be like, what's going on here? Hey! Hey! What's going on?

And they would run away. And so eventually it came to the point where we're like, hey, they got stuff, do you got, do you got, and sound guy, audio guy, yeah, that's the audio guy. And he refused to look at us. Didn't even know. He refused. And then our camera guy and he was there and just, yeah, so now all I can say is you guys will see for yourselves on Friday, we're going to throw up the, the actual panel.

Yeah, we're going to throw up this panel. You'll see it, but panel. I am, I am so happy that the blowout was as harsh as it was. Yeah. Because what do you not want? You do not want to get that 20 to 30 middling response. No, exactly. You want nobody, because then you're like, okay, nobody knew.

Or you want a full room. You want, you want the full house or the fucking butt blast. And we got the butt blast. You want it raw. So that's exactly what we got. Depending on how you count exceptions, the only person who came to see our show, came to the college to see our show was someone who had never seen our show. Yes.

Yes, that's correct. And she was prudent. She got it with us in case she liked the show later. Yeah. Knowing that her, her boyfriend's best friend, our best friend would be happy to know that we were around. I felt appreciated. So that's, that's good.

The pre-fan photo. That's good. That's good. It's real good. We met two people we knew out in the halls too. We did. Sorry we missed your panel. Yeah.

It's like. We met two people we knew. And we're like, how could you not even make it to our panel guy we've known forever? Yeah. Well, I can't really. No big lie. I don't blame him. I wouldn't have gone up.

Yeah. That being said. Oh, we got blown up. Can you imagine we all didn't go as well? Well, that's part of the fucking thing, isn't it, right? But that being said, we're getting rave reviews on the panel since. Yeah. From our friends.

Yeah. Two out of seven attendees said it was the best panel we ever did. It was like, it was so personable. It was intimate. Couldn't have a better experience. It was intimate. It was very intimate. Yeah.

I've read it. You can look at the photos of us just shooting the shit. Yeah. Just fucking it up. Yeah. So I was just thinking about it. Had we not even shown up? Okay.

Right. The people who would have been disappointed are people we know by name who we could have just hung out with and made up for. And the con would have gone on as planned. They would have got their two hour slot. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing would have changed.

Everything would have rolled on our and that would have been our involvement. Nothing is actually a sum total of zero meaningless like completely negative actually. Because after the guy went in to like clear it out and whatnot, he then kind of came back out and like he was kind of going off and I kind of went, hey, so should we just go? And he was kind of like, oh, are you still going up? Okay. Well, hold on.

And then went back in to make sure that the tech guy. Like what? Assuming we were just cancelled? Yeah. And to tell the tech guy, actually no way. Stick around. They're going up. Wow.

So the assumption was we were just going to fuck off anyway because they were late. Because it was all just done. So good times. Good times. And looking forward to next year. It was an unmitigated disaster. The worst ever. The best ever.

It was the best. It was the worst of times. It was the best of times. It was a great experience. It was a great experience. And if you ever had to take stock in your own worth, just keep that photo. Hometown represent. Yeah.

Keep that photo on your phone ready to remind you of where you stand in this life. Let's get into. The best friends will return at Geekfest 2016. Oh man. Fucking blowed up. You can't hold us back. And then we hung out with most of those people afterwards for most of the day. We went to go eat dinner with Mike and Levine dudes.

And it was a good time. It was fun. What do you want to say? We couldn't do it anyway. Yeah. That's my point. It was like we could have literally just skipped that and just gone straight to the restaurant. And wasted no time.

So yeah man. You got to support your hometown cons. Yeah. Exactly. You got to support your hometown cons. If you're going to ask for us. Whoever said that comment didn't show up. Did not.

You did not show up guys. The other guy from Montreal that Mike knows asked if we were going to stream it. He's like motherfucker. You're in Montreal. It's down the street. No. I understand. I don't blame you.

Yeah. I wouldn't have shown up either. Yeah. I wish I had shown up. Matt knew better. Yeah. Matt knew better. He got married.

Yeah. He long gained. He long gained. I see Geekfest coming up. Time to get married. Snipe that shit. He's going to go for the snap divorce after. Like a snap.

Yeah. Like Geekfest is over. All right. Plan successful. Yeah. God damn it. What did you do with your week pack? Not all that much.

Hanging out with a girlfriend going out for dinner. Hanging out with you guys. You and your girlfriend at beer market. That was a lot of fun. That was tasty. Nothing fancy. Like plan FF14 here and there. Got my special horse mount that has energy wings.

Yeah. Girlfriends were sick about hearing about it. Because I kept going. Because I kept going. Hey look I got the energy horse. She was telling me you were describing it in your sleep. No that's not true. No that's I hope not.

Was she telling you that? Yeah. Oh that's bad. No. That's real bad. Played a little syndicate. Syndicate's still good. Nothing really of note.

Did you finish it yet? No. What I did do is completely max out my character. Which takes no time at all. And now I can start doing the remaining 65% of the story missions. Yeah. I'm at 83% total. Yeah.

So I'm getting there. Man. Good ass game. Like is there a piece of Eden? Yeah total. Okay. It's the shroud. All right.

It's a continuation of four. Like probably the only new thing that I would have to say about syndicate is that I never considered this because I was always like oh Victorian London's so boring. Except like because you know there's always the historical figures that you hang out with in whatever time. Historical London's like figures are awesome. There's some of the better ones. It's Charles Deccan's baby Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Marks and Alexander Graham Bell.

I'm sure I'm forgetting one of them. You are. Charles Darwin. Well there's also Queen Victoria. I think that's later on again. But like getting to hang out with like Karl Marx. You mean Karl Marx. Yeah.

Like getting to hang out with Karl Marx and getting like this really eye full of like man. Capitalism in the 18th century was the worst. Well and like in the Assassin's Creed games like AC3 where we couldn't give less of a shit for whoever this is on screen. Yeah. And then you have this one and it's like yeah God save the Queen. It's like hey Karl.

It was Ben Franklin in Washington. Hey who? Hey Karl. Hey Karl I hear you like unions. Hey can you help assassinate these guys who are coming to shoot the union? Oh okay. Sure. That seems cool.

I miss him. Darwin's beard looks so fucking terrible. It looks so bad. Yeah. The hair tech was like big step back from. Oh yeah. Like that's why Evie has her hair up in a bun and why Jacob always wears a hat. Yeah.

Because. Jacob's hat looks good. Yeah. All of his hats look good. But like Darwin's beard just stands right the fuck. It looks so bad. Yeah. The hair doesn't look good.

Yeah. Good game. You know I was thinking about since you guys have been talking about AC3 so much I was thinking a bit more about like time periods and I think like something that actually would interest me outside of the future in Asia and all that shit would be like I know that this is like done. You're just going to say I'm going to bear with you don't worry. But hear me out here at World War II.

Okay. Not the fucking first person shooter type World War II world in the beaches of Normandy shit but something that's a bit more like. Like in a city. But exactly. Like Paris and World War II. Well I mean I mean okay obviously like the Saboteur. Saboteur is fucking Saboteur.

But also no. In Unity there's an entire sequence. In Assassin's Creed Unity you go to World War II in Paris. Yeah for that one segment. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. And like occupied occupied city.

And will it. An interesting thing. In Assassin's Creed. In Syndicate. Syndicate you go to World War I London. And it's an occupied city. And you hang out with Winston Churchill. Oh it actually did a good actually.

And you play as another character. Okay that's interesting. Yeah. Yeah. But you know what. Yeah. Occupied city. Occupied city is a fun thing.

And they're doing it. And it's good. I totally agree with you. The World War II is it's like man you know what happened on not the trenches. A whole lot of stuff. Yeah. Tons of stuff. Yeah.

Like I didn't say it last week because I didn't want to spoil packs. I knew it wasn't there yet. I'm still not there yet. Oh well I know you got spoiled. I got spoiled hard. Yeah. So yeah you eventually you get to go to World War I and you play as Jacob's granddaughter or great granddaughter.

I can't remember. Great grand niece or some shit. Grand daughter. And like there is tons of Juno dialogue in there and like it's all there. The future shit. Yeah. And it's just a big chunk of a map and shoved a bunch of years in the future into World War I.

And you get to man. I'm really shocked. I'm really really shocked that it's an actual open world setting even if it's smaller. Like his unity was a couple missions because that's easy. Yeah unity's thing was I think it was one or two fairly linear missions just climb up the. But it's you have like four of those Templar assassination points. One of the boroughs is converted basically.

Yeah. It's cool. It's really cool. Okay. Yeah. But yes you're right it is a good premise. It's it's. But I think I have to pick somewhere different.

Yeah because I just I'm thinking I'm like you know what that would interest me. Yeah. I'm like I can't think of like any other settings right now but that's one that came to mind. It's funny because like it's really not how the series starts but like the guns in Assassin's Creed always feel really fun to use. I totally agree. Like they're just really satisfying and like I totally. I don't think these ones feel quite as bad with I don't I don't think this game feels

quite as good as Black Flag sure because Black Flag seemed to have a lot more focus on Kenway shooting his guns. Yeah. And there's that awesome animated gift for the guy having to fight on the thing but these ones are. Oh sell this game in one gift. Yeah. Swinging on to.

There's a gift. I'm sure. Fighting three guys. In the reddit thread of this podcast but like he kills like 14 guys and then he shoots six dudes in a gun kind of thing and then the last dude comes at him and he just kicks them off the side. Right. Yeah.

Yeah. And it's like oh that's the fantasy. Yeah. You can only do that once per game but it happens once. And yeah and Syndicate it's the brawling instead of the guy. Yeah Syndicate yeah the brawling is is sick. Doing doing fucking doing fireworks with a blunder bus. Have you seen the gun finisher where you do like the execution and yeah it's it's it's

I like the boss variant more. Yeah. Where where you you you spin them around you shoot them in the back and they go they're all they're all very neat. Do they say like rest in peace and cockney. It's not cockney it's like London. But I don't think they don't say rest in peace. No they have this new thing where they wipe a little handkerchief on their neck blood.

That's like proof of here. Here's the guy's blood. So you could have just put your period on here. Yeah. Yeah. It's different but it's it's cool. Man there. I found one tailing mission in the entire game so far.

Yeah. I've done like two. It was one of the cooler missions in the entire game is a hypnosis mission. And that being said the fucking objectives the side objectives to completely bugged out. Oh my. It's like keep on the same cart. It's like I did stay on detected. I did tough luck.

You didn't. Oh well. Fuck it. Yeah. On my end. It goes 14. Oh my. That patch is coming out tonight.

Was the other one Assassin's Creed 14. How many Assassin's Creed. Yeah. Funny. Yeah. I started patch. It's tonight. Tonight.

Wow. Are you going to play with your steam controller? No. Go ahead Willie. What's up. Barf. I'm actually adding PS4 controller support to the PC version. Like native.

MMOs. All right. I'm done. Cool. Yeah. All right. Doesn't matter really. No.

Of course not. I started Tales of the Barf. We've got. We've got. Yeah. You did. It was really funny. I'm like having a blast with that writing and I knew that like this is my first experience

with anything's borderlines. Not counting the little Pax preview we did of pre-sequel. Oh right. Yeah. Which where we got a bit of hands on time. We got a little bit of hands on time but this is my first actual screen sitting down with it and whatnot. And yeah man.

Like I think it's really great and like I can definitely tell that like I would appreciate this more. There's always the little things right. Yeah. I don't know if I knew and knew about the world and whatnot. You know what? You know what? Maybe not.

But. Okay. Not on borderlines. Maybe not. There's some things like handsome Jack appears in this series. Right. Or at least you hear his name and stuff. In this game he's not around.

No. Okay. They talk about him. But he's. Because yeah like knowing who handsome Jack is and the details would be like. So here he's no longer a thing. Okay. They just they mentioned he was a thing and he's not a thing anymore.

Oh yeah. I don't know when this takes place. So okay. But the thing about it that I can tell that's interesting is like you are playing as someone that works for the bad guys. Yeah. And I'm like in any other series or in any other fiction that would be an interesting thing to do is like you're in the offices of the fucking Epstergo or whatever you know

what I mean? Yeah. And you know and it's just yeah it's a very like sort of charming thing and you set up the characters. All the girls are making telltale faces at you and whatnot. Telltale faces. I forgot the fucking guy's name but God Brock Samson slash putty putty yeah whatever putty putty putty putty man I'm sorry you rule keep talking you're the coolest and I'll discover

this you don't you do doesn't fray to nothing. And like he's like the first the first motherfucker to like pretty much talk to you in the game and like sets it up nice and hard and I'm really Patrick Warburg. Thank you. And the very first Google image search result is him sitting in a still shot waiting for the phone call which is the funniest Seinfeld joke. Yeah. Him just as a devil takes a close second for me.

You're the devils. Oh my god I need to rewatch Seinfeld. You know it's I've only done like the first like like things so far so I mean not much to say. Yeah of course. Fucking solid like like yeah absolutely telltales strong days as opposed to they're not strong days but maybe it's because there's like so many other people involved since it's another game property for my company.

Let me ask you a pointless but snide question. How's the engine in Tales of the Borderlands. You're playing it on Xbox one. I'm playing it on PC. Does it just I have not seen a hiccup yet. That's good. But but it's I have to wait to see what happened last time on the next episode. So like it gets worse.

And even then your and I's PCs are not representative. Of course not. Those are the one percent. It's it's not the point five percent. Yeah. I also started Lisa. Yeah. The pain.

It's very I've played through that game. Okay. Have you you beat it. Yeah. Okay. So I'm maybe like four or five hours in or so. I didn't know what I was signing up for with pain mode. So I kind of just went sure.

Well I know it was kind of like presented in a way where it's like like the default choice not the default choice but it was like put up front to you. Yeah. The cursor is on. It doesn't seem like a bad option. Yeah. And I was like all right I'll take some extra difficulty not knowing that it also meant save spots.

Yeah. Destroyed once you use them. Pain mode is is that not my mouse is a game. That was the foot that I restart. No. You're a dumbass. I I was getting really not happy with the setup until I was like hold on a minute. Is this the actual thing or is this pain mode.

And I looked it up and said no only in this mode. These are save point not read not come back. Yeah. And it's like what my girlfriend saw that and she's like she thought about it for a second. It's like wait that doesn't make the game harder. That just makes it more annoying. Yeah. Yeah.

It just makes the game worse. It doesn't make it. It doesn't make it more difficult in any way. It just makes it more frustrating for you when you die. It's thematic. So fuck you know but beyond that I'm like it's all right so far but I don't really see Matt and I not it's you guys. You'll see.

It's funny in some places. It's really not funny in other places. Yeah. But so far I'm kind of waiting for the the hook if you would not unlike walking through Undertale in the beginning waiting to see what the deal is. Yeah. So that's where it's at right now where it's like this can go someplace interesting. You're waiting for the font character to spawn.

Yeah. Yeah. You can see that. I mean it definitely doesn't have the same tone as I'm not going to know. And I'm absolutely not going to expect that level of escalation or whatever the same thing in any way. But you're like you can see that this is a setup and it's it's amusing you know in that exact tone of voice.

I like the setting a lot frankly. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's again it's amusing but I'm kind of waiting to see where this goes before finalizing what I have to say. Well what else happened there was watching a bunch of Satoshi Khan movies again because there's never a bad time. There's never a bad time but they are just put that in me and like was and you know

got a show got a show of the lady friend anime will never be that pretty ever again Paprika ever again Paprika can be watched infinitely forever. Yeah. On loop almost perfect blue pretty much the same thing. Yeah. And we'll see from there. Yeah. I don't know.

Did you get your hands on any time on Laura this week any of you the Street Fighter 5 No. Minibeta. Minibeta. Secret stress. Secret stress has popped up. I didn't even get a text about it when I saw it. It was like 430 and I was like I gotta go to fucking bed.

I'm a fucking child. I you know caught the winds of that that was going on and like it's weird because I went I just randomly refreshed and like the like the server tweets to it Twitter. You happen to see it. Like just to go look no no and nothing was happening. Okay. And then 10 minutes later I get a message going all shit's just going on. I was like fuck I just checked you know.

It was a lot. So yeah they threw up a mini beta with Laura Karen and like two other characters and like that was Laura just Blue Mary Laura is not Blue Mary. Oh no. That's what I want. I envision in style of her moves hitting and throwing you but not in place. Then what is she? She's Laura.

She is Laura. Nice. I like it. There's nothing else to compare her to and like that's good. You can make you can try to make comparisons but you shouldn't. Okay. Because she's super unique and yeah man it's cool. She's fun and takes a minute to understand what's going on.

You can't just go nuts on her grab her command grab because buttons are going to knock you out of it. Yeah command grabs to have been nerfed across the board. So you have to play her like you have to use her projectile to kind of like make your way in find a trick kind of get a little bit of a counter hit going. But when you get your counter hit you instead of going into our counter combo you go for a throw. Okay.

Right. Okay. So it's but she's cool. She can combo into her command grab. She can combo into her super. Okay. Yeah. The geef is the one that can combo into her normal SPD.

Also with that we saw some other little system changes. There's like the tutorial mode with a little preview of like I guess what's going to be the training mode. Yeah. Which may or may not be the story mode. I don't think it's going to be the story mode. I hope it's not going to be the story mode. I mean I think the story is going to start with that video we saw of like basic training

with Ken and Ryu but I don't think that like. I think that's going to be tutorial mode. I don't think that's going to be story play. I don't know. I feel like the beginning I think like why would the cutscenes be in there you know what I mean like. Well I wouldn't call that a cutscene even I'd call that a still. Yeah.

But well for lack of a better visual novel sections I don't like the more I thought about it the more I thought it's like that looks like the perfect amount of work for a basic systems level tutorial like Skullgirls does right. Not they don't have fancy. They don't have any story set. No but I just mean like how to do every single thing in the game. And then I can imagine a story mode actually having like in engine cutscenes. That's the hope you know after like having all those interviews with Matt and Nono about

that stuff and I mean Mortal Kombat was never directly mentioned in like that exact way. But come on. That's what it was mentioned. It was implied. Yeah. It was implied exactly. You kind of are looking at this going like alright we really hope you're going to get some kind of mode.

Yeah. So that you know. If it really just ends up being visual novel in between that's a bit of a lie. That's going to that's going to let down me and a lot of people. I'll be one of those people. Get ready for it. Yeah. Damn it.

That's turning into me now. Well I mean no but like we saw like we already saw footage of visual novels. So it's it's hard. You're super right. You know the games in the games four months away. You're super right. So it's not like you know it totally could be what we're getting. I'm expecting that game to come out and have a lot like a ton of like already available

alternate costumes for those characters. Yeah because they showed off young Ken and Ryu because they're trading alpha Ken and Ryu are in there. They are. Like like so I guess you'll probably be able to play as them in the story and then you'll you'll use bison dollars to buy them. And like this makes bearded Ryu's costume make sense. Yeah.

Because that's post SF2 where he's just like out in the fucking whatever doing punching waterfalls and shit. Yeah. Maybe we can get a non-boring beef costume. It's it's it's conceivable. Like it's like like what I was saying is just give him the shirt from his art in two. And that's good enough. I would say literally just give him any shirt at all.

And as opposed to nothing and he would be better as opposed to just to be different. Yeah. Just to be different. Yeah. Absolutely. You need fat geef and skinny geef. Oh shut up. That's what you need.

Shut up. Shut up. Yeah. No. And then that that was that was pretty much me. The rest of the stuff is skinny. It would be horrific. Yeah.

Although it's big and lanky like a big slender man like a big Waluigi. Yeah. It wasn't there. God what what. There was a 3D render of geef from something you know it was it was it was a fan thing. Yeah. It was a pre Street Fighter 4 when they only saw Ken we only saw the awkward super weird dick models of Ken and Ryu.

Right. Yeah. Someone made a mock-up of what geef would look like and it was like thin geef. Oh man. Huge bulge. And it was way awkward. Oh no. Couldn't get into it.

I don't want to see it now. And more than a hundred million people have upgraded to Windows 10 for free. Did you know you can upgrade to Windows 10 for free right now. I went into my Windows updates and did what I needed to do to fuck off to make that shit go away. Can I do that right now. No. It's it's involved.

You have to go uninstall an update and make a restore point and then restore point. Fuck off. That's too much work. No. Because when you're messing with updates it always makes your story and then you have to hide the update. I'm gonna upgrade. I just don't want to do it now.

I don't want to do it until somebody comes and tells me Audacity and Elgato's will not all our software will be fine when we use it. Flashbacks to my mom fucking telling me to clean up my room and upgrade my Windows. Yeah exactly. I don't want to do it now mom. I'll do it later. You don't want to. I'll upgrade your Windows.

That's not your mom. That's not my mom. That's close to your mom. It's nothing like your mom. Let's take a quick word from our sponsors. So in a minute we're gonna get to October's box. We got it right here. On hand.

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Where are you going with this? So talking about conflict is something we like to do a lot. We conflict with each other often. It's every other day. Yeah exactly. Where can I go to buy conflict of my own? The thing is, while we like to conflict with each other, we have not yet come to combat terms.

We don't often pull out knives, maces, swords and guns. No, it happened that one time. Yeah, that one time was bad. Switchblades, full on musical style. We decided to not do that again. But there is a certain romance to that shit. The idea, if you would, of combat. The premise.

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Yeah, exactly. It's like Combat X. It's like American Battle Royale. There you go. Right? So all these things, all these things, and likely more, to be included in this November combat box. We're gonna see where that goes.

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That's a hoverboard. It's floating. Actually, that's nice. That's really cool. There you go. We have a Doctor Who Sonic Spork. What? Not a Sonic screwdriver.

Which may or may not actually also work as a real spork. Matt, can you confirm this? This looks like a real spork. That's a real spork. As somebody who knows nothing about Doctor Who other than he's English and he time travels. Is there a button on it to play noises? Usually there is, but not on this spork. Is there a button on that to make people put on a scarf and pretend they're overrated?

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Print, like, slash, like, set or stage. Oh, it's Bill and Ted with all the dudes. It's Bill and Ted with all the dudes. Hey, it's kind of like Maniac Mansion art style. Yeah, exactly. I like it. That's pretty cute. What's the pen this week?

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I think you won that one. Thanks, LootCrate. Thanks, LootCrate. Liam, what's up? Not much. I finally finished Corpse Party Blood Drive. Yeah, good job. It's something longer than I expected.

Yeah, clearly, because you've talked about it like three weeks in a row. It's stretching alongside the Assassin's Creed talk. Yeah, basically. Well, that game's junk food. I don't think Corpse Party is. There seems to be more subsist there. Corpse Party is pretty tight, yeah, exactly. But I don't know where I stand on it.

It's the final of the Heavenly Host Trilogy, basically, and there is a Corpse Party 2 out in Japan. That's what it's called, the Heavenly Host Trilogy. Well, people call it that, kind of. It doesn't, I don't think it has a real official name. Are there biblical references? It takes place in Heavenly Host Elementary, which is an old, destroyed elementary school. Okay, so the name is...

So people kind of call it the Heavenly Host Trilogy, or what have you, you know? Gotcha. And there is a Corpse Party 2 in Japan that takes place in a different setting with a different cast of characters, and that has yet to come over. But this is the contained story of these characters, right? So what's the qualification? Why are you like, meh? So, like, well, the first game was made significantly before the other two, and it's a really self-contained

story, and it's good, and I recommend anyone who likes visual novels give it a try. It's a bit dated, and like, it doesn't really guide you around and stuff. You can get that on your PSP, your Vita, and your Vita TV. Yeah, I love PC now. Really? So these weeks, you've pretty accurately, like, you've in-depth described, like, the relationship to, like, going back to the school and all that cool stuff, and closing off the stories during the real one.

So where's the negative here? So the first game is the super-contained. Go play that game. Doesn't matter. This game, the third game, changes a lot. I mentioned this before, where it doesn't really stay horror the whole way. It kind of changes into, like, a fantasy game halfway through, and it becomes much more diverse, I guess, in terms of genres.

But it doesn't do a great job of taking advantage of the new stuff, and that's not to say it's bad. It just comes off as, like, a bit unsatisfying, where you do get a good conclusion to the horror stuff, and it completely concludes and seals the horror stuff, and the horrible, terrible stuff that you're combating gets combated, and that's great. But then it has this whole fantasy thing stuck on the latter half of it, and it's just not satisfying. It's introduced quickly, and you kind of get a little bit of a hold on it.

So they wanted to go for something broader, and end up diluting it instead? It's the one writer, exactly, and I feel like this is kind of weak in that regard. So I would say absolutely play the first one. If you like it, and you don't mind having a little bit of a weaker sequel, definitely play the second and the third, but you have to play the second and the third. Because they're one totally direct? They're mandatory. You can't play the third without the second, and you can't play the second.

Don't ever recommend Soul Reaver 1 only to someone. No, exactly. Because fuck. Because fuck them. But it's good, and I do like it, and I think it adds to the series, but it's just a bit of an unsatisfying conclusion considering this is Return of the King, right? You know what I mean? So I liked it overall, and they have a series of, all the games have a series of interviews

with the cast members, where you get to hear just their thoughts, like a second after they finished recording. What do you think about this? That's really interesting. They're fantastic, and they're great in all of the games. I wish more developers would do that. Me too. And listening through those, it always takes 20, 30, 40 minutes, and they're always a joy

to listen to, and that's a super high point every time I play those games. But yeah, I would totally recommend go play the first game, and if you really like it, check out the second and third, but they are a little bit weaker, unfortunately, and that's a bit of a bummer. Otherwise, yeah, Funny Assassin's Creed Syndicate, that game, it just goes. It's the premise of Corpse Party, like another sort of closed rule system, like death game. No, it's a much more traditional horror thing, where like there's a curse on a place, we're in place.

It's not nine kids in a room, and they've all got a pair of pliers. Yeah, we'll close the room system death game, because if you were saying this equals a weekend, that was the premise, I was like, I'm not surprised about that. It still stays to its roots of like, this is horror place, and we are go to horror place, but yeah, it's definitely not that. Assassin's Creed Syndicate is good game, I'm almost done. It's good game. I'm really excited to get to the ending, and talk to you about the ending, because every

single time I've ever seen anyone talk about the ending is, that's one of the worst final bosses ever. Yeah, I heard that too, so I'm keen, so I'm really enjoying the game. Well, how many Assassin's Creed endings have you been satisfied with? One, and it's twos. Two, right? I like twos, and I like Unities, but Unity is a, you have to get through the game. Twos is like, fucking near unmatched in terms of triple A like, big budget game endings.

Like, that game, no fuck it, I spoiled that in a machinima episode like two years ago. You fucking fight the fucking Pope in a fist fight and beat his old ass in the dirt. It's the sickest. Excuse me. It's the sickest shit. Two is good. That's super easy, that's the best part about it. Yeah, two is the good ending, although the music fucks up there, and it's a real shame

that it does. Yeah, that's a bug on every single version of the game, when you're climbing up the Cathedral and then you're getting ready to do that last final fight. It cuts to like a weird silent tune, and then there's a way more bombastic theme. Is it actually a bug? Yes, and it plays the wrong theme there, and it fucking sucks. But yeah, that ending, and then, was it Brotherhood? Brotherhood, where you fight Chisarro in the Burning Castle?

That was okay. It was like, no, no, that's not, no, no, that's not, then I guess the one I was thinking was the one where he goes into the tune. The tune? Is it Revelation? I guess it would be Revelation. Oh, but that's Ezio. That's not Ezio's ending, that's Davison's ending, and he stabs her.

No, not that, not that. No, no, that's Brotherhood. That's Brotherhood, isn't it? No, no, that's... Fuck us, man. That's Revelation. It's got to be Revelation. It's got to be Revelation.

I didn't play that one. Okay, Ezio goes, the end of Revelation, he goes into the tune of Altair, and that's a really good tune. Except you forget the super shitty sequence, and that predates that, which is that fucking parachute thing on the first set. Yeah, no, no, no, for sure. But I'm just saying just the ending, right? Because that's a really good moment.

That fucking level, that is the ending to the mundane story, is like you do that and fight the bad guy, and a king you've never met comes out of fucking nowhere and goes, I'm arresting him, you're the winner. Once again, just talking about the ending. Revelation was a fucking drecked plane to get through with the bombs and the bullshit. I never have anything to say about it. What are you doing with the fucking bombs you want to make, man? The extension hook was a nice idea, but fuck that game.

Ezio's old. Fuck that game. But I like that ending part specifically for that, like, he goes in, and he's looking at it, he's at the Altair thing, and he's having his big moment, and then you get the Minerva, I think, appears, and starts talking to Desmond. And then Ezio whispers something to Desmond, and guess what? What did he say? We're never going to find out, ever, ever.

I don't remember the details. No, he said something to him, and you are never going to find out, because everyone involved with that is dead, and all of those storylines are, it was a stinger for a plot line that never happened. I do remember Ezio kind of having a thing where he was like, I realized that my life is not about me, and it was a nice cool little somber moment of him being like, everything I did is just for you, so whatever the fuck you're doing, make sure you do it, because I don't matter.

And it was a nice, it was a cool thing, you know? And it's old at CO2. You know what the best part of Revelations is? The fucking woodkid song they used for the trailer called Iron. Oh yeah, sure. Like that's the best part of that game. And the other game I played this week that I'm really enjoying is Yo-Kai Watch, which just came out in North America.

So how much better is it than Pokemon? It's a monster collecting game, kind of like Pokemon's, and it puts Pokemon to shame. Oh, really? It is like, in terms of production values, it puts Pokemon and like, all Nintendo first party games to shame. Who makes this? Who makes this? Level five.

Like more than production value to topple Pokemon. No, no, for sure. But I'm playing it, and I'm like, this is the most triple A handheld game I've played since Kill, so I know exactly what it means, because even with the new Pokemon, it happens every time. Like, I picked it up, and it's like, oh, 3D models. Why do they look like shit? And why is the frame rate shit?

And why is the overworld map? Why doesn't the game run good? Why is the overworld map just a fucking polygonal representation of GBA sprites? Why doesn't Pokemon look unbelievable? Yeah, yeah. It's the richest Pokemon. Fucking Pokemon. And you get to Yo-Kai Watch, and it's like, it's like, the, okay, one of the things I

really, it's in English, it's in English, absolutely. Well, time to look at it. One of the things I really like about it is, in Yo-Kai Watch, pretty much every monster I've encountered so far has had a thing, like either a side quest, or a main quest, or something, where you see this monster doing some shit, as opposed to walking around the grass and finding a ponytail, which is cool, I like that Pokemon. But that's it. That's all the ponytail I guess.

What was it, a shiny ponytail? You know what I mean? In this game, they all kind of have a thing, and you always get to see them do their thing, and go do the thing with them. There's cutscenes, there's voice acting, like, you can understand why it's doing gangbusters in Japan. It's an impressive and good game, like, straight up, it is good. There's a demo on the eShop, and I played it, and I really didn't like it, actually,

and I was kind of bummed. I was like, shit, 3DS, like, I've been bummed out by a lot of the games on the 3DS this year, it'd be a bummer if it wasn't good, and I looked it up, and people said that the demo is not representative of the actual game. Then you should have really said demo dipshit. And I rolled my eyes, and I said, ah, that's bullshit, and I bought it anyway, and I can totally confirm the demo is not representative of the game. Trying to find, like, real screenshots here, but I have trouble because this is all fucking

fanart and stuff. Yeah, well. God damn it. Good luck. Thanks, thanks. It's just a really good monster-collecting adventure. Is it like, is the demo just like, you're only in Mt. Moon or something? The demo is like, you're in the main city, and it's a big city, it's not like a little

Pokemon city. You're in the main city, you've got a full party of six, there's a few objectives on the map, go do them, basically. And an unbeatable boss. I'm going to imagine these are called, the monsters are called yokai. They're yokai, which is like traditional Japanese monsters. So you watch the Japanese monsters, yes. Yeah, exactly.

It's just a good monster-collecting game. Would you say it's better than the Pokemans? I'd say I'd prefer it to X and Y, which are the last ones I played. I'm going to pick it up. How many are there in total? I think there's like 200. That's a good number. I think, I'm not sure.

But there is yokai watch 2 and 3, and I don't know what the number blows up to in those billions. But like a billion. I think in the first game, it's like 200 or something. Why can't all of the new monsters just come and eat the old ones? And then that's how that works. I wish that was how that works. Hey, you know, Kim Kar?

When he busted on the scene, he fucking murdered Charizard. That Pokemon's fucking dead. They got genocided out by the Kim Kar's. And the classics that are still around, they're bad asses, survived. That's what happens. That's what happens. But there's a lot of cool stuff, like there's an early scene where you meet a boss, right? And it's a cutscene.

Voice acting and shit. What? And like a fucking legendary Pokemon shows up and protects you and then like fucking vanishes away and you're like, I want that guy and it makes you want him right off the bat. You know what I mean? You know, you just find this yokai watch and eventually you meet another guy and he's like, yeah, I make these watches.

I can go. Wait a minute. Hold on. Stop. Wait, what? Yeah. The watch means watches in watch on your hand and not watches in like looking out for. Yeah.

God damn. Okay. Fucking world on its head. I'm now so much more on board with that and it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing how that changes. It's a wrist watch. Yeah. No, it's great.

I never fucking got that. What you're describing is like, I've seen this argument have before. It's like Pokemon has become a fucking total slave to its original incarnation. Every Pokemon is literally just trying to make red and green again. And black and white succeeded. Black and white are the best. Yeah. But like, there's like, hey, we've innovated how you can ride the bike in more areas.

Yeah. No, it's like, it's like, it's not even that I hate Pokemon. It's just I like X and Y were so it was like yokai watch is a game aimed at kids just like Pokemon X and Y, but yokai watch is script is so much more entertaining. You know, like there's things that like X and Y shouldn't have gotten wrong that yokai watch gets right. Let me ask you, what's your game flow on yokai watch? So you start a like chapter and you get a little like title card and you go do whatever,

introduce yourself to the story, talk to your mom, whatever. And then and then you just go solve the problem. And the problem solve themselves in about 40 minutes. And then you go on to the next step. So let me let me ask you a question. So do you run as that rut that you run into in every single Pokemon game of like, oh, I can't wait for the next gym. There's no gym.

I can't wait for that to happen because it's the only time the game is ever interesting is when you're fighting the fucking gym leaders. There's no gyms. There's boss monsters. Okay. But like the combat has real agency to it. It's not just turn based like it's turn based, but it's also real time. And you have to do little mini games.

You might not like it because there's a lot of touchscreen mini games. But like, there's a lot of agency to the combat and it's balanced. The Pokemon like path is so strict, it's so strict and we've walked it. I don't even like Pokemon that much. I've walked it like four times. Okay. But what about IVs and EVs and shut up. Okay.

So what about my nature? So I don't know what I see next to my yokai is that they have things like grouchy and stuff like that. That stuff does exist. And I've gotten some books that let you change their like, I guess it's nature or whatever. I don't know. Maybe that's related to their growth and stuff, but I just, I don't know. You have a grouchy fence monster.

That's the best. But like the battle system is really cool. You have like that little Pikachu's being cunty. Can't change that. Oh no. Like the battles you have six yokai and they're arranged like that right three on the top three on the bottom. The three on the top are actively in battle and they take their turns automatically and

they do their attacks. Okay. And you rotate a disc on the bottom screen to like rotate the groupings. All because it's a watch. Yeah. And the more it will know, but yeah, and the more of the same type you have on the screen at once, the more bonuses they get and they do their thing on their own. And if they get like hurt.

You're losing me. You're losing me. You want to roll them to the bottom screen and cure them while the other ones are fighting. Okay. And like when you do special attacks with them, you do a little touch screen mini game. Because you have unfortunately completely lost. Yeah. And it's hard to explain the consequences.

And you have now like revoked my my instant purchase. Well, because you what you said sounds a little bit like um um subarashiki. Um, well done. Well done with you. Well done with you. Is it kind of like that where you're healing on one screen and fighting? No, no. It's much easier to pay attention to what's going on.

Okay. That game demands like absolute attention. This game demands a kid's level of attention. All right. You you you saw it. You see saw it to sell kids are stupid and I'm not that stupid. So I should be able to play. Exactly.

All right. Am I picking up? All right. I'm at the I'm at the I'm going to go watch two trailers and make a decision. Can I buy this digitally? Yeah. I'm 3ds. I should be able to.

That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to watch. I don't want to go to the store. I'm not 3. 2. Not 1. 2. 2.

I don't watch the Nintendo of America live action trailers. Okay. Please. There. Or if you do now I have to please watch them as extras. Fuck. Now I have to man. But it's like it's strong and like in a year of like stinkers on the 3ds I'm really glad

to get this game. Well, there's it's been a year of stinkers and hey what's coming out of that the nature of it's been it's been what is that the nature of the 3ds stinker. No. It had better years. Like it definitely had better years. There was Majora which was great but a remake Xenoblade which was great but like a re-release Monster Hunter which is great.

I don't know. I didn't play it. Monster Hunter is great. I'm denying it. 2013 3ds was proud. Is that the last game I played on my 3ds? I think it is. That's fucked up.

That came out in March. 2013 dude 2013 was the 3ds year. Because between then it's what you get code name steam which wasn't that good. You get Puzzle and Dragons which wasn't as good as the mobile game. You get Chibi Robo Zip Lash which isn't very good. You get Little Battlers X. I didn't even know what that is. It's the ports of awesome games you've already played.

Yeah like and then Monster Hunter. So it's long. It's yeah they've had stronger years. But Yo-Kai Watch is super good. I'm really happy. Come on in X. I can't wait for the second and third ones. Come on in X.

Come on in X. We need something here. Do it. They'd be smart to uh... It's Dusk now. Yeah they're flexes kicking in. They'd be smart told to have things like Mario Maker be like on an X when that launches. That would be cool if that was on the system.

If they were actually able to put together a half decent launch lineup for once they would kill it. You can say this like every generation. If they can launch with Smash and Splatoon and Mario Kart they will kill it instantly. And you can substitute one of those for Zelda. You can substitute one of those for whatever. What I just posed isn't even a smart solution. That's a dumb thing because you want Mario Kart for the second year and you want one every

year. If Nintendo were smart they will never ever let a system launch without another Mario Maker ever again. Just type thing. Like just don't repeat the 3DS and Wii's launch. But like Mario Maker is clearly a big success and people love it. But it's that kind of big like that desire to make Mario levels I don't feel like that's going to go away.

And I'm sure Mario Maker didn't break the bank for them. But also how much could it have for a new console? They barely made levels for it. Think of like PS4 is getting a lot of traction out of certain HD remakes because they're on the 360 or what have you. Like if you put Mario Maker on the NX there's a shit ton of people who don't own Wii U's. Let's save you right from there. I think Smash 4 and Splatoon and Mario Kart and Mario Maker are all going to get straight

ports. Do it! Let's do it! Let's say GUI right from there. Let's say GUI. Into the pretty nuts Black Friday Wii U bundle. That's going to be some place called Major. We don't have them up here.

It's a good ass bundle. But in the States it's a store called Major I guess. How nuts. Fucking 250. 250 US dollar reduced. Gets you. The Black Wii U with Smash and Splatoon and it's the 32 gig one. I expected that to be a lot crazier.

For 250 that's pretty good though. I expected like two extra games to be in there for 250. Well because you said the crazy Black Friday deal I think for two years. Americans. That's a good ass deal. That's a good ass deal. Those are 60 dollar games. No that's a good ass deal.

For the big Wii. But that's not a crazy Black Friday deal. It doesn't exist anymore. Black Fridays be like that bundle for like a hundred dollars. Because Black Friday is nuts. Considering the price of those games is still 60 dollars. Yeah but that's only because Nintendo never brought those prices. They don't drop prices.

They'll bundle but they'll never drop those prices. I think it's a good ass bundle. Good enough for me to call attention to it man. There was one that lit my alarm or was like okay everyone who has a Vita go buy it at GameStop on Black Friday Freedom Wars is five dollars. It's worth five dollars every day of the year. I'd say that game is worth five dollars. Well put it this way Pat.

It's never going to get better than that. No. No it will. Oh it will. Trust me. When the NX comes out and we use half to come off shelves. Sure. It's going to get better.

But not with the NX. We're going to ask about that. I'm foreseeing some fucking Dreamcast level. This shit needs to fucking go now. But like with those two games with those two games I don't know. I don't see that happening with those two games. I mean I could see the console going down to like 150 but not with the games but we don't know.

But that's the same cost overall. Yeah. They're going to take those boxes open and take those codes out man. They're not it you know. Alright so have you checked out Failsafe? New Kickstarter projects. No I haven't heard of it until you just said it right now. Put it up on the Jumbotron.

Yeah absolutely. Take a look at this. It looks pretty cool. Take a look at it. Oh that part's really cool. All your papers are going all over the apartment. Failsafe. Piper'sville San.

Okay we can't. It's dance near Piper'sville. We can't use OK Google. We can dance near Piper'sville. It's still going. Oh no. Alright I'm going to kill it. Okay yeah you really can't use OK Google on this.

Not while we're actively podcasting. Not while everyone's talking. No. Yeah that's fucked up. Alright so it's called Failsafe. Failsafe. Failsafe is currently at 15 out of 80k. What kind of game is this?

There we go. Yeah right there. There's the trailer. Yeah. Failsafe Gameplay Trailer. I'm going to move you in so you can see that it's final. So this is Failsafe Gameplay Trailer 1 on the Game Over channel so if you want to find out what we're talking about go check this out.

What genre is this game? You're going to see some first personing. Dude. Okay so we're looking at is a first person game. And you're going to see some wall running. Oh I see some wall running that looks exactly the same as Mirror's Edge. So genre is Mirror's Edge. And you're going to see some jumping and some grappling.

Okay. That looks good. So when you said Failsafe and Kickstarter my brain auto completed to a top down like lock cracking. With 2D pixel art. 2D pixel art. Yeah yeah yeah absolutely. Retro style.

This is way more ambitious than I thought. We've got some slides. We've got some and a cool character design. So we're looking at like an Urbance Mirror's Edge Biocon game. Yeah nowhere near as bright and as colorful as that. No but it's all three of those. So I wonder why how you saw this. Yeah yeah exactly.

How did this cross my fucking path right? They need $80,000 bucks. Who's making this? $80,000 reduced. Did these guys work on a thing before? This is gameover.la. I'm going to imagine that's brand new. And if we look at the staff.

The team. Worked on Journey. Journey is an animator. You have an animator. Yeah. So no they haven't. Yeah they've worked on stuff. This is a brand new team.

Yeah. Made of. Made of people who have experience. Various artists that worked on Shadows of the Damned and Guns of the Patriots. So yeah a bunch of people who have worked on games. People that have worked on some things. These people exist but it's a new team. New company etc.

So you know what can I say take a look see if it strikes you fancy. It looks cool. Might be cool. Might be cool. M-I-T-E be cool. Like the bug? Yeah exactly. That's literally it.

Like ticks. Like ticks. And then there's the other news which is Indivisible just broke 52%. And if you want to take a look at what Shovel Knight and Juan would look like in Indivisible Lab Zero proportions. It's there. And I'm over to that update page. Check them out.

I think they look cool. Who was it they were adding in from Skullgirls again? Was it Annie? The Skullgirl. I think it was Annie but I don't know. Yeah they were adding a character from Skullgirls. I'm really excited to see her in there. Like my bitchy answer is anyone they want.

Not to mention a ton of incarnations. Oh that new incarnation looks good. Yeah. Fuck. Antoine looks cool. A ton of new incarnations that are all like I want to see moves from this character. Yeah of course. She's got a fucking cannon on her shoulder.

At every stretch goal, not stretch goal, at every milestone they've been releasing a new incarnation to show you some of the characters and stuff like that. Some of them really don't speak to me but then I look at them on the whole and I'm like that's a fucking... There's so many! There's so many! How can there not be at least a couple? Because I look at it and there's a couple where I'm like yeah.

For every eight you don't like there's another 12 that you probably do. Exactly. So that's what's going on there. Have you guys heard of Indivisible? Yeah go back this video. I'm pretty sure you guys have brought it up on every single podcast for a month. It's really fun. Yeah we're just going to be sad if it doesn't make it so we wanted to make it but yeah

November 10th. Well next week's podcast will either be discussing about how it miraculously met its goal or how it unfortunately did not. That's what we know. Because it's only five days left as of today. As of today. So it'll be funded or not four days after the release of this podcast. Thus ends our weekly Indivisible shilling.

But guess what, in the future if there's ever a project that we really want to happen we're going to talk about it. It's going to happen again I'm sorry. We're going to talk about it. Yeah exactly. It's going to happen again. So there's that. Oh god.

Alright. Let's. It sounds like a big topic. What are you looking at? Well we didn't talk about it last week but we might as well start talking about SNK. SNK yeah. And their decision to bunker down. So ditch the patchy slot business so they can deliver a more pure focus.

I was wondering playing. I want to point out. You sounded like you're being cynical. Totally. There was a weird when I like he was struggling to start the topic and I leaned over to look at the list and he kind of got weird and defensive and this goofy look on his face that I didn't quite recognize. So I think I know why you have that weird look on your face.

Why is that? Because we're talking about like it's this amazing good piece of news that your friend is going to quit his abusive job to go like start a dumpster company. And just trade. So haul trash every day. This news should have been me standing up and applauding as I deliver the word that SNK pulled out a patchy slot. There's no way to interpret that badly.

Focusing on that. You're right. There's literally no way to spin this into a bad story. Liam. You're completely right. No I'm just baffled. Like yeah. Because there's this great news.

There's this second part of the story. Fantastic news on its own in an isolated chamber. But the second part is here's the new KOF 14 trailer. Let's take a look. Oh dear god. Oh boy. Oh boy. So the KOF 14 situation pains me even more now because I broke something to you.

The new trailer I think it looks pretty good. Like it doesn't look amazing. It certainly doesn't look as good as Street Fighter 5 or newer stuff but I think it looks pretty good. I think it looks. I think it looks. I'm going to respectfully disagree in the strongest terms. Like in a world where we look at stuff like Aquapasa and stuff and we're like that looks

good. It's like yeah this looks fine. I think it looks like a pap smear. I have no other dude. It looks better than the first trailer. But in the way that a dried turd looks better than a light one. Yeah. When I read I saw the trailer and then later in the day I saw a tweet from you that was

just a picture of a dumpster and a YouTube link and I went oh I bet I know what that is. So I bet I know what that is and it was right. So the thing about this is of course you know it can't just go it can't just be isolated and be its own thing where you see it and you go oh man and then close it and you go on your merry way. Because then we have to have Shoryuken.com reporting that actually we have what looks to be a leaked roster list that was that popped up a while ago.

And you go all right let's see what this looks like. Fuck it looks kind of cool. It's the coolest roster like you just I didn't get to see all of it but you tell me about the cap ones. So here's the thing is most of the list is pretty much the same. The Akari Warriors. It's all the art of fighting team, fatal fury team, Japan, China, criminal, K team. Who's in the criminal team?

Criminal team is Chang, Choi and a newcomer. Okay that makes sense. So everything's all the same there but then you get down to stuff like the Mexico team which is Ramon, Teasock and Angel. Teasock. Angel? Angel's coming back. I thought she was owned by that other company.

Evoga? Well I think it's because. Angel the girl with the white hair. Yeah, yeah. She does the rock bottom. Yeah. So she was created by Evoga or Eolith but I think because she was created under the KOF.

They were able to get it. They got her. That's a good team. So that's a pretty cool team Mexico exactly right? Mid Boss is listed as Russian billionaire which I hope that's his name. That could be anything right? And then you get to the fucking Kim team. Kim team.

Kim Kapwan. Well one of the coolest guys in the whole fighting game. Kim's master and Kim's wife. Two characters that have never born before been seen or even like mentioned? Like I'm like in my head prior to this I'm like if it's not Dong and Jay fuck it and it's like no bad people. Bad people. Shit.

It's their mom and Kim's fucking master. Heavy D. That's the coolest. Yeah I love that your brief exposure to Heavy D now has you on the permanent Heavy D trade. Now when the words KOF come up, Heavy D will follow. Well that's how it's supposed to be. But like oh man. And that's where we're at.

That's like that idea possibly being wasted. I like. You know what I mean? I mean I don't know. I think wasted is pretty strong. I don't think it's strong if this game ends up sucking and everyone hates it and it's a total bad entry in the franchise. It's a wasted use of what could really cool characters.

I know. That statement. I can't follow your optimism on this and it's KOF. That statement is fine. That statement is fine. But we literally don't know about the gameplay. We don't know. That's like what you're doing is you're looking at like the first screens of Street Fighter

4 and saying the gameplay is going to be bad. No. Literally don't know. And I corrected this like five. You're looking at a hudless screenshot of the modern Street Fighter 4 without ever playing it. Let me jump in here. I'm sorry to cut you off.

I corrected like a ton of people on Twitter about this and we covered this last week. I said that the gameplay will likely be fine and tight because we know the guy. Gota is the battle planner and he's done good shit. I am only correcting the statement you just said. I'm sorry I don't have a photographic memory of your. I don't have the fucking tight. It'll be a way. Imagine quotes that you said it'll be a waste.

It's like we don't know how good this game is. If the game plays great and the characters and everything that we see in the trailer end up looking that way in the final, that's still a waste. That statement's not wrong to me. That's totally correct. Well yeah, because these brand new characters will show up in their first incarnations and look like complete garbage in a game that'll otherwise be written off as a bad KOF like I don't know.

I don't know, I still think, I look at it and I struggle to see how the word shit gets put in there. Like, because where does shit fall on the zero to ten of ten being perfect and zero being like, I don't know, literally nothing. I would call this embarrassingly sub-zero. Garish usage of color, horrible texture work. Bad costumes. The textures are fine.

They look terrible. I think they look terrible. I think the costumes, like the clothing and the stages, like the two stages we've seen a glimpse of, they look so like fucking neat, like the colors are just so weird and inconsistent with what we saw in 12 and 13 as far as like creating a, even those backgrounds with the weird racist people in them had like a composition to them. You know? And here we see a black thing with like a weird sort of unlit ground and some weird neon

lights back and forth and it's just not mentioned. But you're changing your statement. I just, like I said, I just don't, like the word shit, I just don't get where it is or where that comes from. I would say this game looks like objectively, like in the totality of like fighting it looks like a two or three, but like you, you, like, and this is not to be like your opinion doesn't matter because you don't love King of Fighters, but you're not the biggest King of Fighters man I am.

I'm not. We all like appreciate 13 and like, I really, really like 13. Like me and Wally are applying, like it's a two or three objectively, but it's minus five for like being these, these subpar 3D models instead of the sprites. So it ends up being like negative on the spectrum. Here's where, here's where it is. KOF and the reason, and the way you asked about that number, KOF is supposed to get me rock hard when I see it.

Not even talking gameplay. Yeah. When I look at it, I mean, I'm supposed to have a fucking chub in my pants. Even when I look at the 98 and 2002, I'm not just talking about the new, cool ones, older ones as well. Yeah. They look gorgeous. For sure.

That's not only is like this, like the, it's not the first time this has happened, but this is maximum impact screenshots coming at me. And the way I felt when I first saw that and my heart sinking going, and your dick retreated inside your abdomen, right? So my heart sunk in and I felt really bad and I was like, okay, Falcoons on this or whatever. But the only thing that kept me going was the fact that I knew and everyone knew from day one that maximum impact was a side game like EX.

Yeah, sure. It didn't have a year. It didn't have a number. This side game look is the main title, right? When Street Fighter EX3 is actually Street Fighter 6, I can't deal with that. No, I mean, I have a hard time linking that to like absolute zero, you know what I mean? Call this Street Fighter. It's the context.

You're coming at it from a different context than we are. If you call it maximum impact three, I laugh and I go, ha, and I go, all right, whatever SNK. And then we move on. Sure. This 14. It's as simple as by slapping the official name on it, the subpar like bad looking like assets and all that take like a hit in our personal rankings and to you, it doesn't.

Like just putting the name on it, does it hurt? No, and like I said, that's all where I'm coming from is I look at it. It looks fine. It doesn't like like if it was a new fighting game and you looked at it, you'd be like, yeah, it looks sure. Yeah. And that's exactly. That's a new fighting game.

I would be like, that looks okay for a bloody war game. Yeah. Like you said, a two or a three on the sum totality of fighting games, right? I think two or three is low considering some of the steam games we've played. Like what was that one that was in like the 1940s or something? Oh yeah. So here's the thing. Here's the thing about that, Liam.

I would like, and we would argue about this forever if we actually go into it, I would rate anything below a certain threshold as zero. Like I don't have like a relative scale. Which just doesn't make sense. That doesn't make sense. Yeah. But that's that's an idea. But it's like, I'm like, anything below this marker is zero.

Sure. But it's like, as soon as you put the KOF filter on that search for fighting games and that list shrinks down to 94 through 13 maximum impact and I may be even a couple of the hand out of the game. Exactly. You have a fucking list of 10s and 9s and then this chasm where it's like, what happened here? And that's maximum impact.

But maximum impact is that it drops the way the fuck down, you know, but it doesn't hit the bottom. It just drops way the fuck down and the fact that it's a side title, you give it less weight and importance. Do it less flat. You know? Like when we play maximum impact on fist cuffs, we're just like, ah, this series is going inside game.

Ah, fuck it. Exactly. But when we play 14 on fist cuffs, we will crop. It's so much harder to do that when it's a mainline title. No, for sure. I like, you know, like usually you're not the type to be like this. So like that's why I'm so confused. I love KOS.

We're like in the context of maximum impact, you know, everything about maximum impact. And so it's easy to say, well, I know exactly where it's locked in and just this game we know it's so little. I think it's, I think it's forced, I'm forced to take it seriously. Like we don't even know what the HUD looks like. I think it's totally fair to say that me and Woolly are being irrational and I will judge it in the state that I see it in until it gets updated. No, no, but like, so when it's updated to see to look better, I will then change what

I'm saying. But, but right now to me, that's fucking dumpster trash. But Woolly, I'm willing to admit that you and I's reactions are irrational and overdone. Okay. I don't think it is. No, because in terms of objective value, like Liam's probably right, but it hurts so bad. Just like I struggled to see how you rate this below girl fight so far.

You know what I mean? Who cares about girl fight? No, but that's what I'm saying. And I struggled to see how girl fight was going to end. Because of precedence in history. Because of precedence in history and weighted bell curving. And the biggest problem is, yeah, it comes off as bell curving. Exactly.

It's totally, I'm super bell curving. I feel like someone who loves fighting games, but has never played KOF, might come in and if the game plays as good as, let's say like, Street Fighter 4 or something, then people will come in and be like, yes, game is great. The biggest pro, I will launch a campaign, trade in your copies. I will give you a KOF 13 instead. The biggest problem when you look at it is that in my opinion, and I'm sure other people agree with me, I don't know if you do Woolly or you do Liam, I think KOF 13 is the visually

best looking fighting game of all time without question. That's not debatable. Okay, so you went from the best, period, to the worst looking modern one in a while. Like I think this looks worse than like, I think this is on par with that early Street Fighter 4 stuff, but we're a whole generation. We were drinking champagne in the penthouse, and now we're lapping up piss out of the gutter. That's what it feels like. But we're drinking something.

And Liam, I know that this unfairness to this stuff. It's just because I don't get it, because I hate Smash 4. But Smash 4 is like the 8.0 game. It's a great game. And so coming into this, it's like, I get the feeling, but I don't understand the calling it gutter trash. They're literally without knowing. Oh man.

The absence of knowledge. There's so much to it, because it's like, KOF and it's the art of KOF, it's so important. It's so important too. I can say the same thing, because Smash 4 just takes the art styles of melee and brawl and says, have this generic shit instead. But it falls in the middle instead of below. I think it falls below, but you know, like. I'm not going to lecture you on KOF stuff.

I'm definitely not going to argue on the steps of brawl, because I can't tell if the melee models look better than Smash 4. They have that black, dark look to them and stuff. And they're supposed to be action figures and toys or something like that? Well no, they just have that dark. The whole game has a dark look to it, and brawl has this washed out, white look to it. And Smash 4 just kind of looks like, here's what the Super Mario look is nowadays. I can see what he's saying.

It's definitely a different scale than what we're talking about going from sprites to this. I get it. Here's how irrational I'm being. There's a relatively large part of me looking at this game where I want it to be terrible. So that it's complete garbage, and I don't have to look at it or legitimize it. If this game ends up being great and it's being played at EVO, then that legitimizes their decision, and I want a barf.

That would make it way worse. And that's dumb! That's stupid! I didn't think that. If this comes out as terrible as it looks right now, and then the community just glosses right over it, that would be for the best, because next year we'd have a whole different shot. Yeah, of course.

But I recognize how stupid, and it's this fucking urge in my body to just... There's stupid things I say all the time. I argue for stupid shit all the time, just on principle. But we literally don't know about the gameplay, and that's why I'm so... This is a scenario in which I'm gonna sound like an asshole, but you're completely right, but I don't care. We do know that the gameplay animation is stilted. We do know that the animation is stilted, and that's there.

Yeah, man. This is weird. It's never really occurred to me for real, but fighting games came back, and then stayed back. And now we're gonna go away again. And now we are entering the second Golden Age. Yeah, for sure. You know what I mean?

Definitely. And it's a fucking good time to be a fighting game fan, and when you have new challengers like Skullgirls coming out and stepping up to play and fucking knocking it out of the park, it's just such a good feeling. Skullgirls, you know, blue past former benchmarks. It's such a good feeling, because you've entered the pantheon, you're in there, and KOF has a seat with its name on it, always reserved in the pantheon. Whenever he wants to come and sit there, he can take it, and no one will say nothing.

But now that might be called into question. No, it's a bummer for sure. And that's not right. You know what I can see? Like legitimately, and this isn't like to be right, I can see a Smash 4 situation happening in this game, no matter how good it is, people will just be like, well 13's better, it's like 13 instead. Yeah, no.

Especially with how combo and technical heavy 13 is. Yeah, no, I totally get that. And like that, like once we can play it, if it's bad, it's bad, like that's all there is to it. And then Kim's wife's first appearance is going to be this fucking 3D model. Oh my god. I'm excited to play it at PlayStation Experience, just because I want to get hands-on, because I'll feel if it's trash right away, you know what I mean?

Yeah, all I can say is like... Do a short hop and it's floaty, like oh my god, no. Yeah, I know, that's not right. We'll see if it goes the way of cross-tech, and I'll check in with my other clone, Hellpockets, and see who's here. How many clones you got? Let's see where that line is. Well, FGC clones, he's my only other FGC clone.

But then there's Brennan, and then there's Moby. Man, Brennan and Takahata fighting over the Persona 4 white foos on Twitter is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. That's pretty funny. Did you see Takahata's vine? No. It's him, he fucking went to his garbage and wrote Chie and Marker and took his garbage out.

That's funny. That's fucking great. But on the SNK... We've got to move on. No, just on the SNK thing real quick, I'm happy that we're doing it again. Yeah, absolutely. I hope we get a new Metal Slug. That's not going to happen, but goddamn, would it make me happy.

But also... No, that's one of their... I wonder... Because Metal Slug Defenders is one of the reasons they're back, because it did so well. I wonder why they pulled out of the Pachinko Market. Because it wasn't going well for them. Too competitive? Or like...

I guess. I don't know. That just can't be as lucrative as it used to be. It's like mobile. Everybody wanted to get in, and then it's crowded. But you know, if anyone would know, I guess SNK would know, right? Yeah. A lot of space is opening up in the MMO market, so they could start moving into that, because

there's a good... 12... No. 6 million people that are down from... Because Levi told you about the Warcraft subs. I asked him about that, because I read the story. Oh, that's why. Okay.

So Warcraft subs now at an all-time low. Well, to be fair, all-time low is still higher than FF14 all-time. Of course. It's all higher than nearly every MMO ever. But here's the thing. Lower than their starting numbers would be much. No, I'm aware. I'm aware.

And that's the actual... Just I'm seeing some people spin it as, well, they should just quit. No. No. That's the most lucrative shit ever. They're twice as big as FF14. But when WoW came out in, like, November of fucking 2004, like, they blew out the gate so hard that they had to stop selling the fucking game.

From what? Yeah, they started at 7, right? I think they started at 7. Yeah. It was crazy. And they just held that. That blowout huge release is what caused the entire MMO bust boom over that whole period of people constantly making new MMOs, them completely failing and...

Trying again a second time. Trying again a second time, going bankrupt, et cetera. So that's how we got the weird genre of buy-to-play with the Guild Wars 2. So what we get in hand-in-hand with... Buy-to-play. That one drives me nuts. It's great. So what we get in hand with this is Blizzard announcing that they're no longer going to

be giving out active sub-numbers. And there's other metrics they can use to measure the level of interactivity that's planned. Hey, how much money did we make? How many... It's no longer to our benefit to tell you that our numbers are going down. Let's find other ways to... Like, it makes sense too, because it's not for the fans, it's for the fucking shareholders

who are drop-out winners. Of course. Yeah. Like, they're still making... What is it? Oh, it's like $12. $12. Wow.

There's like... Yeah, wow. But it's such a blatant word. We got to massage these for you guys. Yeah, because the shareholders are going to leave, because our mobile game is coming three months late. What can I say? And you know what?

Like, I don't think... Wow, it's fucking old. It's 11 years old. It's going on 16. No, it's 11 years old, actually. It's November right now. Yeah. It was released in November 2004.

It's 11 years old. Like, an MMO can't fucking last forever eventually. And this thing's going to last 15 years of this, right? Easy. From now on? Yeah. I mean, from launch to 15. Oh, especially in the month of August.

Especially now, dude, I'd say it would last 10 from today onwards. Possibly, yeah. Especially now that we know that Titan is not the successor to it in any way shape or form. But like, you know, that game's old as fuck. I don't know if you've looked at WoW recently. It looks like fucking dog shit, just from a visual perspective. Yeah. Like, it looks terrible.

Even after the big upgrade. Well, like, it's intentional, right? So they... So everyone can actually... That was the metric. Back in 2004. Yeah. Exactly.

Like... Even the upgrade now doesn't... And that's only the character models. It's only the character models. It's only the character models? Yeah. Well, I actually didn't know that. Yeah.

I never got into WoW really. Like, all the MMOs, like, look way better. And, like, to a new audience, that matters. A new audience that might be coming out of theaters high off of the movie. What? Wow, you really struck while the arm was hot there, didn't you guys? So smart, though. Did you see the Warcraft trailer?

Yeah. Looks like generic fantasy, so it's Warcraft. Here's the thing. I have no stake in this one. It looks less interesting than it's... I need to double down on this. I have no stake in this one. The thing about Warcraft and the...

It would have been fine. I think this would have looked fine if they went all CG. But the fact that they got live action in there makes it jarring and kind of weird. I'm still gonna go see it. Oh, yeah. That's mandatory. Yeah, exactly. Um, the biggest problem with Warcraft, like, fiction, is that it's less interesting.

than its source material, which is Warhammer. Yeah. Where it is directly lifted. But because it can't be as interesting because it's not as fucking metal as Warhammer, they put a lot of humor into it. They make the goofy noises when you click the grubs and the guy accidentally says, my life for I are every now and then. When I look at some of the stuff in Hearthstone, it's like, oh man, that's like the goofy levels

of... Yeah. Off the chart. You can't put that in a movie. You can't put that in your serious fucking set. So instead, you have like boring, not quite Warhammer or... Don't you dare show a pandaren in that trailer. Well, I'm sure like 25% of that movie is gonna be like wow jokes, you know what I mean?

Or like lore based on... If I don't see a bunch of Murlocs in that movie, I'm gonna quit the movie. You know, I would make a subscription to my movie. The subscription to my movie. The movie subs go down. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I go into that movie and there is a character in that film named Leroy. Yeah.

Just throw it in the trash. I'm going to kill myself in the theater with poison. You're gonna misfire them. I know. I know. I'm going to drink myself to death in the theater. Because that is the news headline they deserve. Is Pat from Local to Chess.

Pat hits himself before dying. Death in the theater kills himself with booze in response to bad joke in shitty movie. I don't know, man. I just can't... Like the mesh of the orcs in their CG look. It looks weird, I agree. And the humans are not on the same level. Now by the way, I should mention if that character exists, I'm not going to follow through with

what I just said. That was the fastest back down ever. I'm a huge coward. Because I started to think about it and I became actually worried that it could actually happen. So you have to talk yourself down. So I'm like, wait, no. Like that absurd what if that I just said could happen and I don't want people to hassle

me to kill myself. Also, again, no stake in this world. No, me neither. Yeah. Doesn't that main character, isn't he? Yeah, whatever. Isn't he like supposed to be like old and gray? Who's one?

Medivh? The main human with the long black hair and the beard. Both are? Yeah. Isn't he like depends older? I don't know. Whatever. All right.

What time period does this take place in? Yeah, exactly. Well, me and you and Levi were talking about it at the at the at the restaurant, like I pointed out that every single time while sub numbers drop, they have a fucking let's go back to Warcraft 2 storyline visit all the old characters. And that's what this subsets. That's what this movie is. Right.

Right. It's literally, hey, remember before. So, okay. Assuming this number, this movie is like at least good. Yeah. It'll do one or two. But when you take an existing property and turn it into an MMO and that MMO runs for several years, there's you've run out of shit to tap for stuff.

Activision announced just the other day they're going to start making media in general because they have the brands to support it and like they announced the Skylanders cartoon show already. That's why that works. But yeah, you have to remind people why they care. How many taught how many fucking like the new expansion is let's refight the villains of Warcraft 3 and the second expansion Burning Crusade, like how like from 2006 there's nothing left.

There's nothing. And now Warcraft is like, you can never make a Warcraft 4. What is it supposed to take place? How are you supposed to explain the entire storyline and events of fucking 15 years of Warcraft World War? Ah, fuck it. It would have to be the in between starting. I remember vividly when I read some fucking thing in the like year one of WoW about Sargeras,

the Dark Titan or whatever, and I was like, that's cool. And that shit is ruined. And shit is just ruined. And fuck it all. Why did Sargeras appear as a pet? That's some, no, there is the Burning Legion and it's frozen to, fuck it, I don't even know. Okay, okay.

I tried to catch up when Frozen Throne came out and I literally couldn't. Now all of that being said. Are you sticking to Blizzard stuff right now? There is our cool ass fucking character that was announced for Heroes of the Storm. Did you see it? Chogal? It's Chogal. He's the Orc Magi from Warcraft 2.

It's a two headed orc guy. If I ever play Heroes of the Storm, it's to play as the Lost Vikings. Okay. Yeah, that's cool. That's pretty awesome. That's pretty awesome. Yeah. But here's the thing.

This is a character, it's a two headed orc. You literally need two people to play as this character. Shut up. How does it work? Let me throw up on the big screen. Yeah. That's nuts. That is like, I'm like, that sounds the fucking coolest.

I bet it's one character for movement, one for attacks and the character's like 2.5 times as strong. Like that's my guess here, but that's fucking awesome. So you have to team up with somebody and... Like locally or online? Online. Online. Because everything's online.

Right? And so you control, one person controls Cho and the other one controls Gao and they have their own abilities and their own like stuff and you have different spells and whatnot that you can do. Do both of them control the movement? I think no, I think the Cho controls the movement and like Gal is just kind of along for the ride. So it's like a fighter pilot?

And with a gunner? With a gunner. Yeah. So one of them, well rather when you kill the character, it counts for two kills. Oh, that's why. Yeah. Cho controls Cho-Gal's movement and wow, that's great. Yeah.

It counts for two kills and... I guess he's incredibly strong. And then you would have to be like 2.1 or 2.2 times as strong as other characters to make up for the control difference. Or at least like 1.75 or something like that. Something. You know, but yeah, exactly, right? So you...

Congrats, genre that I kind of hate. That's fucking cool. That's it. And when you beat him, you get the ability to use him for like one or two games and if you win with him, then you unlock him permanently, type of thing. Okay, that sounds cool. Yeah, without the hands on the wall. Here's the Storm is apparently a really good moba for babies.

Yeah, I don't. Like if we wanted to play a moba, this is the moba we should play. You could play anyone. I don't know about nothing, but two player fucking character in a single player game. But also I honestly like literally prefer like every character I see even in here as a storm because I played all those games and like, oh, I'll play as Diablo, I'll play as the medic from StarCraft. Like what?

And like that also sets what could be groundwork for like other characters that have weird control options. Control options. Yeah, that's fun. I like thinking about that. I thought you were going to talk about Tracer actually because they announced Tracer for it as well. And I'm like, yeah, I like Tracer.

What's Tracer? From Overwatch. Oh. The girl? Yeah. She's in the game? Yeah, exactly. That makes sense.

I'm really happy about how the game's not free to play and stuff. What is it? What's the business model? You buy a $40 disc. What? You get all the 20 whatever characters. That's the game. That's, that's a video game.

And people are upset because it's not free to play. You buy the game and then you play it. Buy to play. Buy to play. Hmm. Buy to play. Buy to play. I think expectations, man.

I think people are coming at it from the perspective of like, I don't want to buy a disc and then have a bunch of like moba characters added on. Well, hold on. Are you a company that has released something that brought in a whole bunch of people looking for free games? Then you have those people on your plate. Yeah, no, exactly. Well, luckily it's a PC game, so you're not going to buy a disc.

It's on PS4 and Xbox One. What? How do I miss that? And I'm going to buy it on PS4 for $40. Yeah, so why? Overwatch is a console game, dude. What? What?

No, for a long time it was PC only. For a long time it was PC only. Until just this week it was PC only, in fact. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What? Wait, hold on. They only just announced it for consoles, like only just.

I could have sw- At BlizzCon. Wow. Okay, then I'm nuts. How come? Because I was in the same boat where I was like, fuck, I wish. I could have sworn that they announced that as a console and PCA. Well, because I remember reading it last week that like code was found somewhere, I don't

fucking know, where there was PS4 and Xbox One, nomenclature and Overwatch, and the Overwatch beta, that's it, because the beta just went on, right? And people found Xbox One and PS4 stuff like last week in it. And people were like, ooh, I guess it's coming to consoles eventually. Yeah, okay. And at BlizzCon they announced, yeah, $40 disc. Oh, okay. I'm into that.

Well, like I said, even though- I'll play shooter. Yeah, be cool. It's going to be, like for people that don't play PC games, if it's on console, it's kind of going to be in your face. It's going to be around. Yeah. And when it's that more accessible, you know, you might take a look.

I'm going to take a look. Definitely. I'm excited to play it. Blizzard seems to be doing, like, so we talked about how Wiles is in subscriptions, but they're doing really well in Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm and- Diablo probably still sells pretty good and Overwatch is set to do quite well. Blizzard's still their money fountain that they always were. And of course, in Activision's presentation, they cited Diablo and World of Warcraft and

Overwatch as, like, media brands to make, like, shows and movies. And you look at Overwatch's CG trailer and you're like, yeah, I want that too. I would really like a new Diablo that isn't made for babies. Which doesn't have fucking rainbows in it. Which Overwatcher speaks to you, Liam? A lot of them. There's a little, like, you go through it and you're like- Exactly.

I actually haven't been paying much attention to that game because I've resigned myself to never being good enough to play it online against PC players with a mouse and keyboard. Yeah, of course. So now that you tell me that I'll be a console version that I can play with a controller, well, I am good enough to play with those people. I still have leftover destiny, like, residue inside of me. Where you want that kind of experience. Like, what I was hoping to get and I didn't get.

So I'll throw it into this, you know? Yeah, a pink-haired girl with big gun and hammer guy look cool. Pink-haired girl with big gun. Oh, uh, I can't remember her name. She's cool though. The samurai guys are cool too. Oh, yeah, that guy. Yeah, samurai guys too.

The new character, Eva, with her mech is like super cool. Yeah, she's a second samurai guy now and they're brothers. Yeah, I know. I haven't been paying attention to that game. Yeah, Zadia. It's time for me to start paying attention, I guess. Because, again, it's going to be in your face now. Yeah, for sure.

I forgot the fucking hammer guy. Soldier 76 or whatever his name is looks cool to him. He's a generic soldier. It's great. Also, you've got a man with no name. A man with no name. Hey, uh, border... What's the...

Borderlandos? Battle, clash, battle... Battleborn got delayed. I showed... We watched... My girlfriend and I watched the Overwatch trailer together and then I said, now let me show you another game. And I showed her the Battleborn trailer for a couple.

And after a while, she was like, can we stop? I was like, no. And I was like, which game appeals more? And she was like, what the fuck was that second game? Beautiful. Beautiful. Exactly. Battleborn...

I still can't match on to why. There are people out there who will like it, I'm sure. To me, it is 100% beaten out by Overwatch. There's something so unappealing about Battleborn. When we were at PAX and we saw it and we were like, hey, we get it. Nah. I bought it online. And I left.

And it was like a 10 minute line. PAX is very short. My brain sensors the name out every time you say it. It just goes to something. It's just apparently unappealing. Poop Poop. Poop MP3. Poop Poop.

I don't know why. The kazoo noises. Yeah. Yeah. Full LP of Battleborn. Okay, so here's a segment. That will be long. We should do an Overwatch video and it's just Battleborn.

Here's a segment where... People don't like it when you do that. The news itself... The news itself is the punchline. Alright, let's get it. Let's get it. I'm ready. You're going to take a guess though.

There's a little bit of interaction here. Okay, okay. We'll wait for... Alright, we haven't talked about it for a little bit. But it's time to bring it back for once one more time. The Falco Amiibo is exclusive to... Oh man. I really wanted the Falco one too.

The hola hola. Is it a retailer that I can actually go to in my country? Please? Like, no. Like... Actually though. That's such a relevant question. I really want the Falco Amiibo.

The Falco Amiibo is exclusive to... The answer is no. Please say Amazon. Please say Amazon. Blockbuster Mexico. I really wanted it too. I knew it. I knew it.

I knew it. You lost your stress... Oh, there it is. You lost your heart-toed stress ball. Dude. Block. This is not a joke. Block.

When I was in Mexico... I saw Blockbuster and I went in because I was like, Man, these still exist. Nintendo? And I thought nothing of it, but I guess they're the big dogs. The Nintendo's mishandling of Amiibos is garish. No, double down. Double down.

Go all in now. This is what I need. Russian Happy Meals are the only way to get Ganon. You know, like, thank God there's going to be a different distribution method for every other country because fuck. Says who? That's the standard. Well, let's see. That's the Amiibo standard.

So the one that was really ugly was the target exclusives, right when Target was moving out of Canada. That was the one that fucked up. Well, I think the worst one was Lucario, Toys R Us, where the worst source would receive zero. Yeah, that was... We have 40 pre-orders! We've received zero!

I forgot about that one. I say the worst one is Amiibos. Yes. Hey, you know what I saw? You be games earlier today? An Amiibo? I don't believe you. The three pack of Splatoon's for like 25 bucks.

What the hell? Yeah. You just buy it and flip it on eBay, two seconds. Well, because they're resupplying finally, and I saw a bunch of zero suits, which I've never seen in the wild, and I don't want... I think the fact that you... Oh man, you know what's hard to buy?

That fucking Xbox controller, that fancy expensive one. Oh yeah. That thing's impossible. Really? I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised. Literally impossible. I didn't know it actually came out.

I had a moment a little while ago when I went to the EB games that we would go to, and I said, hey man, you got that fancy Xbox controller? He says, uh, no. But what console do you want it for? Maybe we can figure something out. I go to the PC. He goes, what? I go to the PC.

He goes, oh, I can't help you. I'm like, what? He's like, well, if you had an Xbox One, right, and then you wanted to trade in your Xbox One, I could have sold you the Elite Xbox One, and it would only cost you like $30 extra, because the controller's in there. I go, no, I don't want the PC for so long.

Well, there's a guy, he didn't pick up his pre-order. Out the door. And he's, his pre-order finishes at five o'clock today. If you want to come down here tomorrow at 10 in the morning, you can come down, and if he didn't pick up his pre-order, I could sell it to you, I guess. You can't, I can't hold it for you though. Out the door.

Like, out the door. I didn't used to get it, because I just went in and bought a game, and that was it. But when you ever try to add anything, they are like, just, I was there earlier when I saw the Imibos, and I had gone in, because I pre-ordered the Blue Vita, that's exclusive to EB Games, and GameStop, right?

And I didn't remember the release date, so I said, I asked him. What color blue is that? It's the electric blue one. The blue one? The matte finish one. And I asked him, sorry, what's the release date for the Blue PlayStation Vita?

And he was in front of his computer, and he just stood there and said, that's not a product that's coming out. And I said, I have a pre-order on it at this store. When's it, what is the release date for the Blue PlayStation Vita? And he said, they stopped making Vitas. Are you sure you pre-ordered that?

You sure you didn't pre-order nothing? And he says, they stopped making Vitas, it's dead. And I said, can you please look on your computer and tell me when the release date for the Blue PlayStation Vita is. Oh my God. And he said, okay man, and he looked it up, and he went, November 13th.

And I said, and I'll get a Blue PlayStation Vita on November 13th. And he said, I guess so, I don't know how I missed it. And I'm like, and I just walk away, like just shaking my head at him. Every time you have ever had to interact with them more than nothing at all, it's the worst. Just like, hey, hand me the keyboard,

can you turn the monitor around? Yeah, exactly. Let me just handle this for you, EB Games employees. There is one worse than that, there is one worse than that, and it's Best Buy Employees, who, Best Buy Employees who, you know, they have the two computers,

they have their green scale computer, which is, it's a fucking command line that you type all sorts of dumb shit into, and then they have their website next to it on a laptop. And when you ask them, hey man, I haven't done this for years, so maybe they've improved, I doubt it. Hey man, when such and such is coming out,

it's supposed to be out today, do you have any in stock? And they will walk over, and click on their fucking website, and then usually have a tough time finding it on their own fucking website. Yeah. And I will go, never mind,

and then I will go find someone else, and you will rotate through the staff, until you just check the store. Until you find somebody who fucking knows, and every time, oh yeah, actually we have some in the back, someone forgot to bring it out and put it on the shelves. It happens to me too, yeah.

Every fucking time. The only thing, the only thing better than out the door is out the door and on your phone, browsing, browsing Amazon. Yeah, that's it, that's it. Anyway. It's like when there's an EB Games exclusive product, just shoot yourself.

It happened to me with Disney Infinity 2 on the Vita as well, and actually I got a really good response, where I said, hey, I called them, like every week for a month, asking them, hey, when's this coming out? When it's coming out in America, on this day, when's it coming out?

And after I called them a few times, the manager took the phone, and he said it's not coming out in Canada. And I was like, fuck, shit. So I imported it from the States. I paid, like, more, because I could import it from the States. And then I went to EB Games the next week,

and there was two copies right there. And I talked to the manager, and I was like, do you remember the guy calling me with Disney Infinity? And he said, yeah, that was me. You have them right there. And I paid, like, almost double for an American copy. And he said, sorry, they weren't coming out in Canada until,

and I'm like, fuck off. That's not true. That's not true. You're just fucking like that. You just want me to stop calling. What are you guys getting copies of KOF 11? Try us next Thursday. Thursday?

Try us next Thursday. For four months or so. Try us next Thursday. Yeah? Next Thursday, right? Yeah, okay. Anyway. They wonder why they're getting blown up

by digital game sales. You know what? It costs more. I don't care. Fuck that. I just buy stuff off Amazon. Yeah, you know what? And it's cheaper.

And I don't have to step out the door. As far as I'm concerned, a digital game sale and an Amazon game sale are fucking so close. Yeah. I never want to do it again. It's the worst experience. Fuck the border. I have no love.

I have no love for it. It's like mom and pop shops are dead. So enjoy. Well, when I got my PS4, I ordered a PS4 off Amazon and it showed up on the correct day, but I still went and bought one of the DB games because we needed them for fucking work.

We had to make sure. And some of them were failing. Some of those early ones were failing. And I was fucking pissed that I had to do that. If I was a regular consumer, I could have just sat in my fucking house and gone on one of the Amazon. Instead, I had to go do it.

You had to make sure you don't. Just everybody had their edge card. And the fuck... Oh, Jesus. I hate them. So you guys catch hashtag MikaGate? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I spoke about this with my girlfriend a bunch last night.

And it's just like, just don't show me something if you're going to change it. To me, I look at that and I go, okay, here's what I see, right? The first thing that happens is my brain... Explain. My brain goes and explains. Yeah, explain this situation.

Yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right. Thank you. Sorry, sorry. Mika's critical art animation works that. Okay, but that's the main one, right? The main one is her critical art animation. She slaps her butt during her critical art animation. And it jiggles a little bit.

And the camera showed that. And now the camera stays on her doing nothing. The latest build of Street Fighter 5 was played in the IGN offices. And some weird... The first thing is actually that there's some weird bugs that showed up in that build that are not in anywhere else, where audio doesn't play during certain attacks and certain intros. Rashid's intro has no audio or anything like that.

So there's some bugs going on. But there's some camera angles and details that were changed about moves, where Mika, her butt slap, now the camera is a little bit raised up, so that the butt slap is off camera a bit. Then she does the move, and when she and Nadeshko do the double slam and then drop to the ground, they don't grab your leg and do the splits anymore.

And the legs are just kind of loose. That's a weird change. And then the second one was Kami's intro, where she flips in and then lands, and it has a low angle. They move the camera significantly higher. They move the camera up, and they moved her waist and butt off frame

so that it's just like her torso and legs, and then she gets up. So very minor camera movement to clearly get it out of frame. So the first thing I think when I see that is, my brain goes QA mode. ESRB teen rating possibilities. The game was originally rated as mature. It was rumored.

Yeah. Right? It was rain-pended. For blood, liver, and sexual content. Now, a lot of the time, that's the first thing I thought, because I've seen some shit over the years where it's like, I've seen things way more risqué in other games,

but the ESRB has given this game a hard time. This stuff should be able to pass the T. Right? So I go and I'm like, that shouldn't be enough for this to be the case. It's got to be them internally deciding that they want to change that. Yeah, undeniably.

And it's something where you kind of look at it, and it's like, it could just be them being like, we don't want to, or rather like, we don't want to like push, we don't want to push like, what would be Japanese fan service quote unquote, as hard as they would if this was a fully Japanese developed game, because we're Capcom America.

Like, it's just, like, I don't know, man. I wish they wouldn't do this kind of stuff, because like, I don't mind if you develop a game and you don't put sexual stuff in it at all. That's fine. In fact, that's better. There's so much like pure cheesecake games

like Senra and Kagura that are just trash. Oni Chambara is pure fucking garbage. You know, like, I would rather we get better games in that regard than have that stuff. And I'm not saying there's no place for like cheesecake and stuff. But when you have a game that has little

bits of sexuality in it, don't show me something and then remove it. I think, yeah. And that's what's making everyone react in kind of a negative way like this. If it was never there, nobody would mind. Yeah.

If it was always the other way from the get-go. At the same time, it's like, the guy from Sony responded more or less, this is out of the song, so it's just me. This is how people are seeing games being made. It's true, like, how many times was something in a certain state during early beta or even like late alpha?

Yeah, where it changes. And then it hits final and then what the fuck? Yeah. Force Unleashed. No, for sure. So I know that this is something that is very, very common. That's quite a coffee head there.

Yeah, I just, oh, I gotta get some Vicks vapor up to get that. Force Unleashed. Oh, something in my throat. Oh, Star Wars, the Force Unleashed. Excuse me. Tough. Sorry.

That's a rough one. Alright. Game on. Yeah. But I'm chained. The way that I see this is like, it doesn't bother me all that much that it's being changed,

because I do accept that this is how the sausage made the thing. Yeah, definitely. I think it's like kind of a bummer because I thought that was a cool aspect of like, I think that's a goofy critical art, but whatever. What bothers me a lot

is that she still has the same animation, they just pitch the camera up. Like, the sound effect of her hitting her ass is still there. Like, that's the core problem. And like... Change the whole super. The focus of the shot doesn't exist anymore.

So the whole... Like, if you look at the shot, the new ones, I'm sure you've looked at it a couple of times. The animation makes no sense. Like, all you see is like this. You see nothing. And there's no more focus to the shot. It looks super shitty now.

It's kind of ruined. And like, change the whole super. Yeah, and part of why it's ruined is because we know what it's supposed to look like. It's like the Joker thing. In MK versus DC, the fatality. Yeah, exactly. It's the exact same thing.

We know what that fatality's supposed to look like. Right. And now they just move the camera over. Yeah. And it's unfortunate. And it's so minor. It is. But it's a weird play on like...

Don't you worry, guys, if you want that shit to stay intact, you can play that PC version. Yeah. And I'm sure you'll have it. You'll find a way. In a second. You'll find a way.

You'll get where you need to be. You know, it's unfortunate, because this just twists once again into perverts need their pervert games. And it's like, no, it's not that. Don't show me something, and then change it. Because there's definitely the other normal person

viewpoint on that, which is just like, I don't need Kami's crotch and ass in my face. Which is like, that's not an irrational thought. That person's probably a lot. You see it in one second. But I really don't...

And at least in Mika's case, I'm like, it was just a little funny thing. It was more or less harmless in my eyes. But, yeah, I do think, though, that it probably wasn't... There's theories like, oh, maybe Sony was forcing this or something. I don't think that was the case.

And I really don't think it was ESRB. We have zero information. Because, yeah, in my experience, I've seen games get treated unfairly, unevenly, but this is something that likely wouldn't be an issue for them to go from T to M. Definitely. There's stuff like,

okay, you want to release Wolfenstein, the new order in Germany. Okay, you're gonna have to get rid of the Swastikas. And that's the kind of thing where it's like, okay, there's unfortunately some actual... There's a weird geographic context here. That's a real cultural difference. A bikini costume,

that's not a cultural difference. That's just whatever. And there's stuff like, you want to travelers to where, no, that's a four-year-old and you can see most of her chest. Maybe that's worth changing. But there's stuff like this where,

like, that is a healthy adult who slaps her ass. There is no problem there. She slaps it to get it ready to kill you with. Like, it's not even worth raising your voice over. It's not. No, the biggest bummer, haha, is literally that it's like, if the change was she had a completely new animation

for that entire super, you'd go, oh, that's weird. That's like when they changed Able's animation from the early version with all the punches and the kicks to just the throw. Just the throw, yeah. And you go, oh, okay. Or she did a different pose.

But she has the same pose. And they just pan the camera over. The one that's blatantly covering it up is like... Well, the one that bothers you the most of the three changes is the fact that they don't grab your legs anymore because it's a weaker move. Yeah, definitely.

I'm like, it was way more like, ah, fuck that. It looks painful when they grabbed your legs and it was a... A car driver. It was an homage to fucking muscle docking. It's ultimate muscle. It's a bummer it's gone

because that was really cool. Now it's just kind of a loose drop. It's like, ah, man. Pre-order canceled. But I don't know. It's shitty. But it's like... Do you see that?

But some people for real. That's the joke. Yeah. It's... I've been in fallout threads today, man. You want to see some pre-order canceled drama. Yeah. I remember when this happened with Bravely Default,

like that was shitty too, it's like you're making a controversy where there didn't have to be one. Yeah. Like you're literally engineering negative PR for your game. There would have been no controversy if you left this as is.

And Fire Emblem Awakening and Xenoblade as well. Yeah. And Fatal Frame. There would have been no controversy and you just engineered one. I suspect they didn't think people would catch on. I suspect that too.

I think that's usually the case. But like nowadays, you know, people import the games and people know them back to front before they even come out in English. And then people go through it and because of this, immediately go to the racy stuff.

And like when Danganronpa came out in Japan, Ultra Despair Girls, someone said this isn't getting released without being censored. And that was one of the things that made me say I want to do a full LP of that. Okay. And it did get censored.

But that's where people are at now is the Japanese version comes out without an American version and people say that's going to get censored. That's going to get censored. So it's like companies are just engineering their own problems by doing this now.

They're wasting money on it. If you think you're going to release the game in multiple regions, how about you make a game that can be released without editing in multiple regions? Like that wouldn't even be a problem. If the bravely costumes

in the American version were the default in the Japanese version, nobody would even have it. We're not talking about like, what was it? What was it called? The fucking Lost Planet game? EX Troopers.

Not talking about EX Troopers. Where you plan so not far ahead that you hard-coded the Japanese art assets. Like we're talking about games like you probably had it on the table that you'd release this game in regions in which this might want to be cut or edited or local in some way.

So here's what you do. All right. That was a buggy build. There were some other weird things we saw during that footage that look a little bit odd. You run it back. You don't run it back,

but you add stick camera control to the intro so that you can do move it around like MGS and DOA. And you let you move the camera. That's work. Well, they'll never do that. There you go. You're in the process of changing up

the camera system during the intros. That's what that was. Whatever they do. Good enough for Kojima. It always comes back to the same thing of like, but you didn't need the bikini. It's not about the bikini. It's about a company saying,

I'm not good enough for the, like this region can't handle it. Like fuck off. Or more likely, like people internally on the team looking at it and some people are going like, I think that's too much. And some guys are going,

no, it's not. And some guys are going, yeah. Or maybe it is. There's stuff. And then it becomes a discussion. And then they go to a board room. I always figured it was like, all the guys with the suits are saying yes.

I always figured like, you have your Otaku audience who buys these games on mass like crazy. When they have racy stuff in them. And that racy stuff is in there so that the Otaku crowd buys them. And that crowd doesn't really exist outside of that,

not in that scale. Well, kind of actually. That's a sad world we're in. We're kind of, yeah. And some of that stuff gets thrown in by like just the, you know, the artist and the guy who's working the camera during the interest,

just throws it in and it stays in there for multiple bills. Until a man with a tie says that. Yeah. And it just works its way around and no one has anything to say about it until someone has something to say about it. It's shitty because it's like,

hey, you want these honey glazed peanuts? They're coming soon. The honey glazed peanuts. And then you buy them and you get wasabi peanuts. But that's, but I bought them. And you're like, I wanted the honey ones.

And then the guy next to you is like, I actually prefer wasabi peanuts. Well, and then you, and then you, and then you import the honey ones from Japan. Yeah. And you realize, shit, now I need a Japanese 3DS.

Like. Ah. Ah. I need these peanuts. Good stuff. Hey. I love, I love your analogies just failing right at the end.

Just like, ah, fuck it. I couldn't figure out what the, I couldn't figure out what the 3DS is supposed to be here. So, ah, it's a 3DS. I love it. The question is, is Umatsu working on the FF7 remake?

No. Answer. That's not at all. No. He says, nah. He hasn't worked for that company for like, it's a fucking,

five to 10 years. A lot of people who are like, oh, they're going to ruin the thing, are using this as evidence for them ruining the thing. But FF14 soundtrack is incredible. So. Yeah.

They have a bunch of talented people out there. They have some robots out there. They have, they have better musicians. Like, I remember,

I remember, he's a composer, not a musician. No, no, but like, that's where I'm at. It's like, you know, like they have so much talent

and it's like, but it's not Umatsu. So, I remember a million years ago on some shitty form that I, it wasn't a popular, it was some shitty,

offshoot form where people were talking about Umatsu versus Mitsuda. Yeah. And there's this comment that's stuck with me all this time. I have no idea why.

Like, Mitsuda is a composer and Umatsu writes jingles. Oh my God. Oh my God. That's offensive. That's offensive. But then you think about

like the specific, like restrictions placed on Umatsu for most of his career in the early days and like, what you have to do with those like, there are jingle elements

to his songs that makes them memorable. And like, like Umatsu has made some of the best soundtracks ever. Absolutely. Yeah.

Like, I'm loving it. The dude can't just live forever and make every project that you want. There's room for new guys. Like, look at Meguro.

Nobody knew who fucking Meguro was until like Persona 3 came out. Like, he was super niche. Now, Meguro is like fucking king, king dick,

pop man. Rhythm game based on his music. Yeah. Like, fuck. He got a Botox injection. Yeah, write his balls.

Balls, balls, balls, balls, balls. I think, I think the guy's name is Soren. Okay. I'll look it up. I'll look it up.

Because like, that guy's fucking phenomenal. Yeah. He makes a lot of music too. I've gone back and listened to some. And it's like, fucking rock solid. Yeah.

And like, and you see people like, Yoko Taro, who's working on that. It's Masayoshi Soken. Yeah. Yeah. Dude's killer.

It's not the end of the world that you don't have Umatsu. Yeah. Like, you know. Who did Gilor's Tue's music? Did Gilor's Tue's music? I don't know.

I remember somebody really good though. Yeah. Damn straight man. Gilor's Tue's Tue's Tue's Tue's Tue's Darksiders 2 soundtracks. Mm-hmm. Like that one.

Fucking Yoko Taro doing, doing Ragnarok online too. Yeah. We haven't talked about it at all. It's probably because both of you guys are worth the manga, but I just want to say something quick.

Yo, I watched One Punch Man episode six. Yeah. Yo, that's when it starts turning into a different thing. What does that show about? What's, what's,

what happens in six? You start to see stuff about the Hero Association. And, and he fights the, the, the Tangela monster, made out of seaweed and

the ghost town. I'm like, what? What is that? That show is great. I'm, I'm waiting. I'm waiting.

That animation is, I know. Remember we talked about episode one and you're like, can they keep up with the animation? Yeah. Yeah, they can.

That's kind of crazy. No, I'm waiting, I'm waiting because if I, if I get in, it's, I can't do the weekly. It's, it's like,

it's, it's not, it's not as good as, as red line. It's not, it's not, it's no red line, but it's like 70% of the way

to red line. It's, it's like shockingly good looking. Yeah. Speaking of nice animation in video games, Banner Saiga 2, not coming this year.

Oh well. Moving on. Gives me more time to not play it. Speaking of things that look really nice. I'm pointing at Liam, making a face, because he's right.

Oh yeah. Cause I want to play the first one. Oh yeah. And I, I got to a hard tactical battle. Man. I'm patiently waiting to get my portable fire emblem fixed.

Okay. Banner Saiga is good. It's a good game. And it's not long. I'm excited to play it. It's not long. I was probably really close to the end,

I bet. You attack a Titan game, there's new screenshots that look fucking gorgeous. Yeah. New characters too. Go take a look. Is Poochy the main character

of the video game in those screenshots? No, no, no, no, no. It's still Aaron's game. Oh good. One little pixus makes me think he might be playable, and that's pretty exciting.

Yeah, that'd be cool. I mean, they've got to have enough, like, extra missions. It's not just going to be the story, you know, it's like it's a techno-coe game, after all. Yeah.

They said they're going to have weapons that aren't represented in the manga or anime. Okay. So, like, new weapon types. Like the helicopter. Yeah. Like the tank.

Like the APC. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. But they said they're going to have new weapon types, so. Dude, I don't know how to describe the feeling I had. You did.

You tried to when we talked about it. Okay. Yeah, that's true. No, okay, but there's another thing. How does it make you feel that you didn't see the movie? I don't care.

I feel great. I feel pretty okay. No, sorry. I mean... Back at Anime North. I have it down a little bit. Close enough. Close enough.

Back at Anime North, I saw an Eren and Mikasa cosplayer pair that were wearing, like, armor. Like, they looked like fucking... Like a full-on... Full-on...

...kind of thing. But I didn't know what it was. So I was looking at it and just holding my head, like, wait! Wait! No, wait! What?

Wait! When do they get that? You're standing in a physical location in the real world, and you want to scream out spoilers of people that weren't talking to you. And I was going to go ask,

and I'm like, no! Don't ask! I have to let him stew. No, we'll just pretend it's a fan design. And that's what it is to me. Yeah.

And that's what it is. And I'm pretty sure it was. That's what happens to me. But I don't know. Don't fuck off your fingers, right? Every time and every time. Because, you know,

we have all the public... Oh, that's too funny. We will read comments on stuff. We have public Twitter. We can go to a gaming website. So you're going to see spoilers. So I just like the things like, oh, that person's just trying

to mess with people. They don't even know. Why does that communist glasses have more points? Oh, yeah. Because you see fucking orange glowing, tiger-striped Naruto, and you're just like,

yeah, okay, whatever. The ultimate... SSJ7 brolinks. You know? Yeah. The ultimate is happening right now. Like, do not go anywhere with the word fallout on it,

or you will get the end of that game spoiled. Oh, yeah. That game comes out tonight, and they're fucking, like, the whole thing is known. It's so frustrating, isn't it? Because the game leaked in some

Spanish-language country, like a full week ago. So people have had plenty of time to just tear through it. I want to know how many views there are on fallout, all cutscenes, on Rajman Gaming.

Rajman Gaming HD. Like, tomorrow. No, now. Oh, right now? Yeah, because it went up last week. Beating... BeatingSpanishLeaks.com to the full punch.

But, like, after that one Metal Gear Solid 5 one, thank God it didn't get spoiled. And EndingOL, Jogo, Dogmeato, the final boss-o. Yeah, exactly. But, like, fucking, pause all of that.

I apologize to all of our Spanish and Portuguese-speaking friends for that embarrassing display. Oh, they must love that. Emila Dórez. I see you're better. I see you're better.

Yeah, you're better. We've got the news that Sweary needs to lie down for a little bit. Because he's got the high-flow guysemia. He's got to lie down. Yeah.

Just give him a minute. I hope he comes back to making games. So, high-flow guysemia, I looked it up. Eat an apple, Sweary. It's like, you got to eat all the time,

because your blood sugar is all fucked up. Eat a fucking apple, dude. And the first comment, or one of the first comments that I read on this topic that I saw last week, was like, holy shit,

the stamina system in D4 now makes complete sense. You're just eating all the time? Yeah. Did you play D4, or will you? No, but I am. And each time you move

a fucking step, your stamina goes down, so you're eating like six times in one scene. Yeah. It's like, oh! You're just opening every cupboard

and all the food. Now here's the funny part. And there's cut scenes about food. There's a game that was about that, or it was a character that had to keep

his insulin levels high. Right. And it was, build is that, and it was like to teach kids, or whatever. And it was like, oh, this game teaches you,

but no one says that about D4. No. Or points that out, that was the thing. Well, you find that out like a year later, like, oh, that might be

a hidden theme. Because like, David, as far as we know, isn't hypoglycea, he might be. It's never mentioned, you know what I mean? It's the same way

that it's never meant like any... Like one? Yes, absolutely. Kind of, whether that's canon or not, who knows, maybe that's why that's that way.

That's cool. Yeah. I'm sorry, it gets better soon. Yeah, me too. I hope it comes back to making games. Eat an apple. Eat an apple.

Eat an apple. You said, please wish the best for access games or something like that. What happened? Oh, man, I got to talk to you

about that afterwards. And then the, we can talk about it right now. It's amazing how everyone thinks they know. Oh, so I, because I like,

I didn't want to... Because that thread, I fucking read it. I read the thread and then I was like, nah, nah, nah. And so I just had that moment just now.

Yeah. So, so we've been saying, what happened? What happened? What happened? For a while. And the original explanation

got lost, which is Boca, Austin, like, and you guys were somewhere. And... But that was a different thing entirely where,

where, you know, because that was, that's what happens. Yeah. And that's a different thing with Mac. And that's not it.

Oh, yes. The reason I like Macs and sometimes we explain them and sometimes we don't, like, do combo will never be explained. Nope.

But what happened is interesting, because there's no inside joke at all. One day, I just said, what happened? And one day,

Liam just said, what happened? And we all say, what happened? And that's it. And seeing people race, go on the fucking

easy, easy detective work and find, looking at videos I've never seen before. I don't think you can understand.

Yeah, exactly. And the ultimate, my favorite, is they found it. They found where we stole it from and it is a Bugs Bunny cartoon

from, like, the 40s with a bunch of dwarves or those guys with super long beards and that. And they're French.

And one of them, like, slaps one in the face with a pie or something and he goes, Joseph or Pierre, what happened? No,

there's a Mickey Mouse cartoon where he goes, well, so that's not from that. It's not that old. They found nothing. They found,

they found the truth. Yeah, so that's always amazing. It was a fucking telephone. That happens about once every two months and there's a thread that's like,

where does this saying come from? And the answer is always, like, fucking garbage. Way out there. This is the crowdsourced, hilarious version

of when you make a really funny joke to a friend of yours and they go, oh man, that's great, where'd you get that from? And you go,

yeah. The whole reason we keep the channel alive is just for that. I don't just rip off, I don't just rip off everyone else. That one was mine.

That was a, that was a pat or a woolly or a lean or a mad. Like, you know, I love it though. Back to the evolution.

Back to stealing jokes from Seinfeld. Yeah. And The Simpsons. Yeah. And Red Letter Media. A lot.

And pretty much everything. And Larry David, man. And, okay, I gotta, I gotta watch their, Mike and Rich's predictions for fucking

Star Wars, The Force Awakens. Title of that video is Rich and Mike's terrible predictions for Star Wars. And it's 47 minutes long. Like the most negatively slanted

possible. I don't know what the fucking is. I bet it's like, I bet Han Solo will do that and Mike's like fucking big fat head. He's like,

I don't know. And then they'll fall down and I will be so happy. I love those guys. We have the Dote Nod co-founder implying a life in strange sequel and then

unimplying it with his words. Not with his actions. Dude, I'll imply it too. So he says, Imply away? Yeah, he basically says, Well, that's an

implication right there. He says, I already implied to you that there's going to be a sequel. You did? I can't go any further, but I'm implying

there's a sequel. Okay. It was basically the weird word age. Oh, wow. Oh, sorry. Weird wording in him saying like, Yeah, we worked on it

and I'm going to be working on Life is Strange 2, which then everyone goes, Oh, okay. And then he comes out and says, No, wait, correction. I would be happy to work on a sequel if it existed.

No, wait, you're an idiot. You fucked up. It's too late. You fucked up. You fucked up. If you fucked up, you can send a letter in.

Yeah, you could. Wait, where? But here's the problem. What if you fuck up sending in a letter? You fucked up. So you should probably not fuck up and make sure to send it to

superbestfriendcastatgmail.com. Now don't fuck that up. It's one simple email address. That's superbestfriendcastatgmail.com and you know why I tell them not to fuck up? Why is that? Because we know that some people

fucked that up because there's those other people with similar emails. Who send us messages. By the thousands. They go, hey, man, what the hell? Yeah.

Sometimes they're very polite and just forward it, but other times they're like, can you please? I used to have a cell phone number that was one off from a taxi cap company. Oh, fuck! I got calls usually very early

in the morning and they would wake me up all the time and it was the worst and I had to change the number. Yeah, you know it. And do it all the way out. No, exactly. It's one Kramer gets his numbers

in one month. Welcome to Movie Phone. What movie would you like to see? Kramer? Is that you? Why don't you just tell me the name of the movie you'd like to see? We got one coming in from Liam.

Okay. Hey, thanks for sending in a letter, Ian. He says, So, doing some research, I think I found Zangief's lacklusterultra to be a reference to a move known as the backdrop driver used in Japanese pro wrestling

often followed up by a bitch print bridge pin made famous by a wrestler named Steve Williams, large white bearded men in red trunks. Oh, Dr. Death. It looks kind of like Zangief. Yeah. So, sir, you're talking about Dr. Death

and I don't think that's where it came from and I watched the little video you linked and it's not really... Sorry. I'm looking for more for like a manga page that shows the impact happening three times. Oh, lonely because it was supposed to be closer than that. Or some shit like that.

Yeah, it's not really... It's not Dr. Death, man. Is he alive? No. CADHD posted Dead Wrestler Island as their newest song. Jesus Christ. Damn it.

Fuck that. Dude is great. It's fucking awesome. Jack wants to know... Excuse me. Jackson wants to know... You dropped them sex criminals, but it's a big pile of pile of books.

It's okay. It's not your fault. Jackson wants to know... Basically... Don't drop those sex criminals. I... With the launch file out for, I've been thinking about pre-orders,

seeing quite a bit of negativity towards them and I can't really understand why, for the life of me. The only reason I pre-order games is to get the game day one from Amazon. Why is pre-ordering a bad thing? Well, pre-ordering a bad thing, depending on how or why you bought it,

is because you can't, in most retail outlets, you can't return a game once it's opened and if you pre-order the game and then it ships, you know, the morning of the game's release and then the reviews come out the midnight of or whatever,

you don't have the ability to go, whoops, that game's terrible because you already bought it and that's a big hassle. On Steam it used to be a million times worse because you'd pre-order a Steam game and then the instant it unlocked, you're fucked, that is no longer the case.

Pre-order Steam games, all you fucking want, you can try that shit. I don't really, well, go ahead. Where I stand on it, I pre-order games all the time because, well, I use Amazon and by pre-ordering games, you get deals. So for starters, I'm saving money, but let's say I wasn't saving any money

and the only reason was to get pre-order DLC. So there's zero wrong with pre-ordering a game. There's nothing wrong with pre-ordering a game. Assuming you're doing so in a situation in which you could, you would be able to get to reviews or user reviews or buzz on time before opening it so that you could return it if it's dog shit.

The shitty side of pre-order stuff is when you see stuff like Deus Ex Mankind Divided where they're like, we need a question mark number of pre-orders so that you guys get all the content. When companies try to bait people in, that's dirty because they just want to get a full price purchase. I mean, it makes sense, but it's kind of dirty.

The way I stand on it is that they're not inherently bad, but the thing is that the more steps you are removed from product complete with all of its features for money done, the worse off you are in my opinion. So whenever, if you have a little bit of pre-order content that's on the back end that's like, okay, if you pre-order you get to sex your character or skin or whatever, I don't like that.

You get the white jacket. I don't like that. That kind of makes me frown, but it's such a minor thing that it's like pre-orders. It doesn't even matter, right? If you go back a little further and it's like, if you pre-order before this cutoff date, you get more shit, like two greater discs.

Call of Duty Black Ops 2. The worst ever for that was Bioware and EA for Dragon Age 2, I think, and Mass Effect 3 where they said, okay, guys, we'll sell these on Steam. Don't worry. And they're like, well, when are you going to sell them? When are you going to open it up for pre-order? Because you have this date, let's say it's May 18th,

that you pre-order before this date, you get the signature edition, which comes with a bunch of pre-order shit. It's not like a collector's edition, but for free, just for pre-ordering. And the day that those games went on sale on Steam was the day after that cutoff date because they wanted you to buy it on Origin.

It's like, fucking come on, man. But I get where this guy's coming from because you see people all the time, well, all the time. You see people saying that if you're pre-ordering, you're part of the problem. And it's like there is the tangible difference between pre-ordering a game

and knowing you're going to buy it on day one and going out to the store and buying it on day one. Regardless of all factors. Regardless of all factors is so minuscule. And as long as you have the presence of mind to just maybe not open it until the reviews come out if you're kind of on the edge. If the reviews come out after the game is over.

Yeah, exactly. There's no issue. And in fact, all you're doing is you're just providing useful numbers to marketing teams. I should point out that he's talking about Fall 4, right? The Fall 4 has no pre-order bonus at all. Except on PC, you get a Dota announcer pack. Was it the Pip Boy only for pre-orders?

No, that was a special edition that was that was functionally for only for pre-orders because that was super rare. But no pre-order bonuses. Apparently it has no microtransactions of any kind. No microtransactions. That is a buy-to-play game. And that's exactly what it comes down to.

Not every game has pre-order DLCs or like that. So I don't have that feeling of the idea of pre-ordering. It's just when it gets attached to things that it's like there's a piece of content that you took out of the game because you wanted to put a stipulation on it, I kind of frowned. I would say that the only game or genre or whatever type of game that you should unilaterally, if you're smart,

never ever pre-order is games with massive online components because almost every single one of those is going to be a fucking disaster for like a whole week after release. It happens, it happens, yeah. Like Master Chief alone. That's a fucking Halo game. That should have been a slam dunk for sure.

Like not everything can launch as well as Diablo 3 even. As long as you're a, like quote-unquote, I'll say responsible consumer, there's effectively nothing wrong with pre-ordering a game. Especially if the game doesn't like have any sort of incentive or whatever. No, exactly. Because it's reverse DLC, right?

Yeah. You know? It's just it's on the upper's opposite side. I've got full circle on pre-order DLC in which now I often look for ways to disable it or not install it because it's usually... Gamebreaking or damage? It's usually overpowered ugly shit in the early game.

That like the Dark Souls 2 weapons, like I've never used them a single fucking time. And I hate it when you're like, oh, good job you pre-ordered it. Now you gain an extra level for your character at the beginning. Like fuck no, I want to be like it's mostly game balance. Or like if you don't like those super cool big weapons then go you can go sell them.

In Transformers, in Transformers for a Platinum game, like I've pre-ordered it, and there's a big dark energy sword that I realized was in my inventory and I was like, let's start playing with that. This thing's really, oh that's a fucking pre-order bonus and I immediately went and trashed it. Yeah. That's it.

Yeah, that's it. Don't feel too bad. Don't pre-order Super Fighter if you like fighting games. And I mean if you're gonna buy it on day one, like save yourself the hassle. Just fucking... Especially if it's Amazon, because Amazon is a very liberal return.

I was gonna say like would you want to stay up, would you want us to stay up till midnight until the pre-order turns into buy? Just so we don't... Well, the idea is that you stay up till midnight when the review embargo lifts. No, for sure, for sure. But again, as long as you're responsible...

And then that just goes into hey, you know what makes me feel really confident about your game when your review embargo isn't midnight of the night that it goes on sale, or the noon of the day it goes on sale. When you have a game like Witcher 3 or there's been a bunch of them. Nintendo does that sometimes.

The Last of Us was the biggest. When's the review embargo? Two weeks before the game came out. The Last of Us was crazy. That screams before. That screams before. Confidence. Holy shit.

Like... I still remember Square Enix mailing out Project Seal Feed in like 2006. During E3. The day of E3 to reviewers. And like I was listening to the bombcast and they're like okay guys,

we're not gonna be able to review Project Seal Feed. Like, act accordingly. You do what you gotta do. And guess what? That game sucks. I, you know, like you would think that like reviews would serve the purpose in the same way that like a magazine would where

you're getting to read that prior to the game coming out. Oh yeah, totally. Like movies, dude, movies are way older and they've been doing it forever. It's like hey, there's no reviews for this movie. How about that? That's weird. How about that?

Oh, it's shit. Yeah. Jocker. We got one coming in from Anthony. He wants to know. Anthony? Yeah. It's right there?

Sure. Okay. That's a suit. Besides your hate for mobile games, are there any pet peeves that come to mind when it comes to people playing games? I'm asking because one of my friends, after his 90 hour experience with P4G,

got a text and ignored the part where you leave in EBA. Another thing that annoys me is when my younger brother... Another thing that annoys me, I know, right, is when my younger brother multi-tasks between watching anime and playing MGS3, so he's totally not in motion. So with the games. So that pet peeve is broader than games

and it's like hey, you want to watch this movie? Yeah, sure. Okay, here we go. Watch the movie. No, no, no. No. Watch it. Dude, so Paprika, I was just talking about this.

Yeah. And it's like looking down to cut the food or to grab the drink or to grab the phone. And I'm like pause. You don't, you can't... You have to fucking walk. Back this up. Because the money.

A lot of people that I know will be watching a TV show and it's a plot. I'm watching Monster with a friend of mine. Absolutely. And he'll get up to go to the bathroom and I'll pause it. Yeah. And it'll come back.

Oh, you didn't have to pause it? Like yeah, I did. Yeah, I did. You know what? And make no mistake. We are the assholes in this situation. Because we sell jerks. We're watching other people.

We're watching this wrong. We're watching this with you so that we can relive part of our vicarious original experience with this work. Don't stare at them while you're watching. That's creepy. That's the worst. No, just feel it.

Fuckers that stare at you to wait for your reaction. That's the worst. This is the worst. No, it's just you feel the excitement. I was with some people recently and we put on God, Arrested Development. Episode 1.

It's a riot. That's a good show. Hilarious. One of the people was on her laptop the whole time. Nice. Barely looked up. Another guy was on his tablet the whole time. Barely looked up.

The other woman was on her tablet the whole time. Looked up a bit more. And the other person was literally talking on the phone. And I was watching it and I was like, what is the fucking point? What is the fucking point? Did you hit that moment where you're like,

oh, do you guys want to do something else? No, no, no, no. No, let's do something else. And I said, do you want me to stop it? And they're like, no, I'm enjoying it. We're enjoying it. That's fine. And I'm like, no, you're not.

And you want background noise. This is one level removed from the people that text and talk itcessantly at the theater because they don't care. They just don't care about what they're doing. They don't care why they're there. Everything is a prayer. They're just hanging out.

And this is the baby version of that. This is the... And like... Amphor sand. Yeah, exactly. You nailed it. You fucking nailed it. That's the worst.

That's the worst one. You did it. It's infuriating. It's beyond infuriating. I can't think of anything in the top set. I can't think of a single fucking thing. And it's like... Imagine if we were playing until...

The disinterest with the tablet is a whole other level for me because I wouldn't entertain that. Like, eating your food and not and missing it because you look down and stuff. It's like, all right. You're eating something. Fine.

You got text from work. You need to read that. Yeah, right. It's subtitles. Just browsing, whatever. If it's a subtitled show, you know, especially, it's like, you have to read that. But no.

If it's a fucking tablet or something, nah. No way. I can't. I couldn't do that, man. Imagine. Dude, it was the most frustrating thing. Imagine.

And I... Eventually, I was like, I'm just gonna stop. And he said, what are you not enjoying? And I'm like, no shit, I'm not. We're supposed to be traversing

and hanging out and never... Serles before swine. Yeah. If you would. Yeah. Imagine if Matt and I were playing, like, until dawn and we got to the ending and it's the big action scene in which,

you know, it's very tense and you could... And I got up to go to the bathroom and wasn't back for 10 minutes. Exactly. And then came back in and said, oh, what happened? Talking on his phone the whole time. Oh, that's cool.

Yeah. But Pete, you would be right to desert our content. Now, the other... The thing with it, though, is that it touches... Fuck. It actually touches on another thing entirely,

which is some people do not get immersed. Ever. And if you know that, then that's just unfortunate. Imagine what you need to do. That's all there is to it. Is just stopping friends with them. Yeah.

But if you do know the person can and does get immersed, but is just not helping the situation, then it's not... You just step in. Yeah. And fix that. Yeah.

We got one coming in from Luke and he wants to know... Like ruin my day. It's a battle. It's a battle. Because it's on point and it happened this week. Yeah. Dare super best mayores amigos.

Very appreciated. This guy can get a fucking falco on me both. Of the major... Of the major fighting game protagonist slash poster boys. So Ryu, Keo, etc. Straight up. Who's the strongest?

Strictly in terms of lore. Who's the strongest? Ryu, Scorpion, Jago, Kezuya, Keo, Ryo, Teri, Makura. Probably Ragna. Or Salt. Or Salt. Exactly.

It's probably Ragna or Salt. Ragna the Blood Edge and Soul Bag Guy. It depends what Daisuke says. Now here's the thing. I'm going to give it to Soul over Ragna. Because he's cooler. Because it's not Ragna. It's the Black Beast.

Yeah. And I don't know where the story is at now that they're in... Churio's Fan Fiction. Blue Central Fiction. Churio's Fan Fiction. Churio's Fan Fiction. But I do know that...

Soul is the shit. Soul in full-on installed gear mode. Takes the headband off. Turns the... Takes the firebrand and turns it on. There's nothing on the planet. Like world-ending fighting game character. Like Ryu and Keo and all those guys.

They're dust. Well, you lose if you're human to begin with. Yeah, they're freaks. And then if you're just a human with something special inside of you, you still lose. Even because those fucking Soul's not human. And if you're like a pathetic coward like Ryu, you double lose.

Even like the Darkstalkers cast of mutants and actual monsters are like... Who's the frontman for Darkstalkers? Dimitri. Dimitri. Like Dimitri and then Morrigan on one of them. But like that's it. Yeah.

Dimitri and Morrigan and well, Jetta is the vampire savior. Yeah. Yeah. But still. Yeah, no still. Exactly. Nothing.

So, Jetta and Morrigan are not guilty gear vampires. Guilty. Exactly. If this thing is what is the strongest fighting game character, like I would have to thank for a long time, but I might say Slayer. Ingrid. Alright.

Ingrid, fuck off. But... It's true though. Like shut up. I don't like Ingrid, but... Taboo. Well, then Athena. Yeah, Athena.

You know what I mean? She's a god. She's a god. I didn't know. So the way that I asked... She acts like a pop star for fun. Yeah. The way that I asked Wally about Athena is like,

okay, is Athena like minor deity strong? Or, and he's like, Athena is like Jesus Christ in heaven. God is strong. Jesus Christ with all his heaven powers. Girls just want to have fun. Right. She's the legitimate goddess Athena for real.

And all that that would entail. It's probably a Blazaboo character who's even strong. Oh, yeah. It's Hasma, the Michael Jackson. Stun the insect. Fuck it. Stun the insect. Oh, that's Tarumi.

Not really. Oh, I'll get out of here. Oh. Okay. It's Tao Kaka. She's the secret fucking final protagonist. Kokonono. Koka, Koka, Kokonoe.

Koko. Koko, Koko, Koko. All right. We got this guy just... How do Koko Bo? This guy just ranted about how American internet is bullshit. He just says, You're preaching to the choir here.

Dear team four star friends. Long time fan and email spammer here. That's a new one. The question for you this week is, What price do you pay for your internet speed and how is your service? Too much. In America. Not good enough.

In America, I don't know if you know this or not, but the internet's controlled by an oligopoly contract between nearly all major companies, so it's not great. Kind of like up here. Actually ours is weird and better and worse. It's worse and better in some ways. Bell used to own the world and now... They still kind of do.

It's their lines. Yeah. But the government forced other companies to be able to use their lines. If you're not familiar with it, that's what it is. I suggest you look it up if you want to see some vomit where the... Oh, I know. Everybody knows Comcast sucks shit. Same deal up there.

Just because we're Canucks doesn't mean we don't know about your AT&T and Comcast boos. Dude, personally that PlayStation E3 press conference is still the best. Ever forgotten. Where they announced that the Vita 3G model will be using AT&T. Audible boos. Audible boos. The only three conference I have ever seen. Ever.

Ever ever ever ever. The entirety of E3. Ever. No cheering. The only boos. We know. I personally ended up paying big fees for a full internet speed package that I was only getting a quarter of. I even had points where my cable internet speeds were being performed by AOL Dilup.

Nice. How? Yeah, it's all bullshit. It all sucks. You want the ultimate. You want the fucking ultimate when I went to fucking Japan on my trip and I got there and my girlfriend had this fucking Wi-Fi device. Yeah, I had one of them too.

That she just put in her purse. Magic Jacks. And this fucking thing was almost as good as my internet at home. It was this fucking temporary satellite Wi-Fi device. Absolutely. And I pay, I'm not going to tell you the exact number because this is what I don't want to, but I pay easily like hundreds of dollars for my fucking internet. Hundreds?

No, no, okay. It's under 200. Over 100 bucks a month? It's between 100 and 200 and it's going to go up when I move. And the quality isn't good enough and the price is too high. No, unless you're getting the fiber optics. Well, I am. That's why it's going to go up.

Yeah. And I got to pay the extra $35 so that they don't cap my data because I am pulling down and uploading a lot of data. My thing was around like $80, $90 for unlimited internet, not the fastest but unlimited. She's the fastest. And I just called a bell and complained hard enough and now I pay like $17 a month. But that's going to go away in two years. Where they had a zap the cap kind of policy whereas like at a certain time frame you're

unlimited. Boom. All right. And they are just changing that now to a weighted share policy where it's... Are you a tech savvy? Yeah. They're doing that. Okay.

Yeah. And it's the like heavier users but it's only like a 0.5% of their users that use the most bandwidth are going to start seeing some slowdown when they hit a certain threshold of their usage. No. Internet's bad all over, man. Yeah. But the funny part is he ends this with...

Yeah. So whatever. It's all shitty. Forget about streaming Netflix because I got a cap and all of that. It's a lot of caps. So okay. Comcast used to be uncapped and they're putting in a thing where you're going to have to pay $30 to have it uncapped and that sucks.

But what is a million times worse is having no uncapped option at all. Yeah. Because like I have had months where it is like 10 terabytes of fucking data. Wow. We're uploading videos and sometimes they fail. I know how many videos we upload. Yeah. That's a lot of Star Trek seasons.

Yeah. Shut up. No. But I've completely cut the cord. Everything is through that pipe. If you're a crazy power user, that's possible. Even on normal months, it's one terabyte. Right?

Yeah. So it's like I often find myself wishing I was living in another country and maybe Canada would be a pretty good place to live. Canada is a nice place to live. I'm sure you'd like it. I'm sure you'd like it. But Canada, you'll save it on the rent. You'll save it on the rent.

Unless you live in TO. Or Vancouver. Or Vancouver. But you'll have that mental hurdle where Canadian bucks are always higher and more expensive sounding than American bucks because the American dollar is worth more. So when Americans come up here, everything seems super expensive. Oh, yeah. No.

My girlfriend, every time she comes up here, she goes and looks at the makeup. Yeah. She goes, what the fuck? Yeah, exactly. At the makeup prices. And then you think about it for a second. And then she'll go over to tomatoes and be like, how do you people eat? And then we'll go over to something else and like, oh, this is like a scent.

And we go down to the States and we go, oh my God, everything's so cheap. Yeah. No, no. This is how it is. Everything's so fucking expensive. Yeah, because you do the math in your head because you're smart. I guess. You stop doing that.

It'll seem cheaper. Yeah. Yeah, just be ignorant. Victor wants to know, basically, have we ever used the play speed modifier while watching videos? And do you think that there are LPs that having the play speed going can make the LPs lose a part of the entertainment value? Um, okay.

Great question. I have never watched a video with play speed except when I'm editing stuff and like, oh, I know there was a part I was supposed to cut, but I can't quite remember. Same here. I'll play at a double speed or at 1.5 times speed. For my own watching purposes, I've never spent up a video. Or the, or the, or like when I was doing a Chrono Trigger and there was a couple others where it's like, okay, I want to speed up this footage.

What's the feasible limit that I can speed up this footage? No, for your, for your own watching purposes. Never. During Super Mario RPG, which is up and finished when we got lost in the forest, I, I sped that up significantly, but I sped it up by the correct multiple. So if you put the play speed to like 0.25, you could just watch it normally. The audio is a bit distorted because of the nature of it, but it is totally, you made it the right speed.

It's totally watchable. If you adjust the speed downwards. When I was doing the Chrono Trigger, but it's an hour, yeah, when I was doing the Chrono Trigger got grinding, I was like, okay, I doubled the speed. I was like, this is enough. I doubled the speed. I doubled the speed. I doubled the speed.

Like 16, like 32. That, like you could go look, look back, look at those parts like that shit is a fucking blur. Because we were doing it for a while, but I wanted the proof. Let me, let me give him some more context. He's been listening to the podcast for two years now. And when he started, it was in mid to late August. It took, it took time to keep up and it was pretty hard.

So after following 50 podcasts behind, I started attempting to up the play speeds. That's tough. It started at 1.1 and nowadays it's at two. I think even once it got to 2.4. What's this guy's name? Victor. Hey. Then I wanted to catch up on the LPs.

Victor. Started boosting. Play speeds to 1.25. Hey, you should listen. And soon it became 1.5. Oh, wow. What's get, what's nuts is at the end, so he's like, and then he got, it's an alien. That's an alien.

Sorry. Well, we've been having a resurgence of, of love over the snail. I know. He loves it way more than me. It's the speed bit. I know. And then, you know, the, the, the, the bloodborne have talking about me and every episode compilation hit the thing.

No, no. You mean the shit storm thing? Shit storm. Yeah. No. I'm aware that every other video I'm not in, you get seven minutes of running or whatever the fuck. No, no, no.

I know that you push it so hard. I know. I just might have been super not what the thing was. I know you know. The first part of that shit storm video is like 25 episodes in where we're like, hey, man, I think we're overdoing it. And then, and then the fucking stat was 34 mentions out of 31 videos. Whoa.

That's too much. It was mostly mad. I'm going to throw him under the bus on that. I should watch it. It's good. It's a good shit storm. This. Can we upload that to our channel?

So the, the thing. Oh no, we don't. We're not. Let's leave Montez at his thing. This guy got so used to speed binge watching that he started, then he started. That's a term. That I would get. He's like, I would get through a 26 episode anime like Try Gun running at 1.25.

Holy shit. Dude, you can't do that. That's like, if you're, I mean, if you're accustomed to it, I guess you could. Are you, are you enjoying it? Do you like it? Do you like it? I think that's, I think that's the question. If you adjust to anything and it should be.

If it's a, if it's a rewatch, maybe it's doesn't matter as much, but like on a, on a, on a very like core reason, when you, depending on what stuff you're using to speed it up, like you could be like pitching the audio up considerably into ranges that it was never intended to do. Yeah, for sure. Which could screw it. And like, I don't, I love Evangelion a lot. I absolutely adore that, that anime.

There's a, I think it's episode 22 or something, it's The Elevator Shot. Yeah. Right? In which Asuka and Ray stand in an elevator and it's very awkward and it's like fucking two, three minutes long. It's crazy long. It's cause they ran out of money. If you watch that scene and that scene took 30 seconds or a minute, it's not the same

scene the whole, but it, but everything else is, is adjusted, you know what I mean? Yes! Like, I guess if you subjected it to yourself for long enough, you'd adjust to it. I'm totally obsessed with watching things in their proper environment under their good conditions. It's like Street Fighter Turbo, right? Ah. Like.

No. If it's a show though, if it's a media of some kind. They were planned to be this way. And if you've already watched it, especially, and it's your second watch, just go watch fucking Death and Rebirth then. Yeah. If you want to re-watch Gurren, but you want to speed it up, just watch Gurren, Hen and Lagann Hen.

Or just skip to the ending of the movies. Fucking go watch compilation movies. That's the way I feel about it, you know? I, I, I, I, it'd be too weird. I can't. I would never do it myself, but I, I, I think if you really subjected it to yourself, it could probably get in that next set. Alright, so Ampersand.

Um, Victor. Victor. No, Ampersand. Uh, here's a new pet peeve. If you sit down next to somebody to watch a movie and they crank it up to an above average peeve. That's weird. Yeah.

If that happened, I would punch that person. But that's, that's pretty cool though. Like, I appreciate, I appreciate the ability. Except, except for if you're watching Gaim and you're getting really tired and you want to know if the episode's worth it or not. I can't. It was only a filler episode, I think we did that for. Yeah, it was.

It was the, uh, it was the, the guest episode that we were like losing my shit over. Yeah. I couldn't handle it. I couldn't handle it. It was such garbage. Yeah. Just like the other baby shows that we watched. Yeah.

And last one coming from Angelo. He said that simple challenge, name a game that you believe everyone forgot about. Everyone forgot about? Yeah. Uh, Silent Palmer. Tongue of the Fat Man. Oh, wow. Okay.

Yeah. What? Fuck, I don't know. I want to ask, I've never heard of, uh, uh, Tongue of the Fat Man. Have you ever heard of Silent Palmer? Uh, I've heard of Silent Palmer. Yeah, okay. That doesn't count.

I've heard of Silent Palmer. Okay. Um. That's the best, that's the best response. Cause it's like, there's always someone out there, but I don't know, like Silent Hunter or Jules of the Oracle. Jules of the Oracle, I've definitely never heard of. Silent Hunter is a good one too.

That's the Ubisoft sub-series. So, uh, everybody forgot about the Silent Games. What's, what's, uh, Jules of the Oracle? It's a, like, first person, missed, like, puzzle game on PC. Oh, okay. Like, I'd want to- Yeah, if we're going back to PC. On PC and Mac.

I've got a fucking handful. Oh, there's like a hundred games that I've mentioned that, and everyone, I'm like, yeah, you remember Cyber Dogs, and everyone goes, no? Did you play Creature Shock? Yeah. Like, that's a tricky question, cause it's like, there's always someone, right? I'd say, like, everybody should have forgotten, but people go like, yeah, I love that game. Silent Bomber is a fucking awesome PS1 action game, where it's, it's not made by Hudson,

but it is like a futuristic Bomberman, and you paint targets with a lock on, like, Star Fox, and set bombs on them, and you have a bunch of different power-ups, and it's, it's just a fucking amazing action game. It's really great. Okay. You would really like it. Okay. Target of the Fat Man is a shitty fighting game.

What? Yours was a shitty fighting game? Crazy. If we didn't do Mecha, we could have said Ex-Renza. So, what we're gonna have is this week's Fisticuffs will be a combo of Tongue and Fat Man and BlazBlue. Yep. I'll look forward to it, and next week will be an Ultimax and Naruto combo. Guaranteed.

That's not gonna stop being funny. We're not lying. I love it. I love how happy people are when we tell them that, you know, BlazBlue's coming. What are you looking forward to? Ultimax? Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, that's good. I love it. What are you looking forward to, though? Oh, that was the question. Follow us this week, Sean. I'm debating. My girlfriend says I'm an idiot, and she's right. I'm debating, because I have a bunch of Red Bulls in my fridge, and Fallout unlocks at, like,

10 p.m., and the servers go back up for FF14 at 4 a.m., and I'm debating, like, playing it just six hours, and then... Just fall outing my way into patch 3.1, and those are the two things I'm looking forward to. I hope Fallout's not too broken. Hey, if you play Fallout, can you do me a favor? Can you play your entire first session with the Steam Controller? No.

Yeah, do it. No, you have the other one. I don't care. Hey, I tried using it this week. What a fucking capture. You wanna talk about that for two seconds? So I profit into playing Portal 2, the fucking game. Portal 2, right?

Portal 2. Made by the company. And everything's working, except the stick isn't mapped to movement. It's mapped to nothing. So I'm like... Strong. Fuck. And so I go into the controller settings, and I see, oh, it's on keyboard.

Shit. I change it to controller. Everything works perfectly, except the fucking stick doesn't work. Fuck. So I grab the mouse, every time I grab the mouse, I think to myself, man, I sure look around a lot better when I'm using a mouse versus this touchpad thing. So I close the game. I close Steam.

I hold the button. The controller turns off. Steam opens again. That was my experience. There you go. I don't... Yep. And then he came back, told me that story, and gave it back to me.

Oh, you gave it back? I actually gave it back to you. You filled that in your mind, because you wanted it to be gone. Okay, fine. And I was informed today on either Reddit or Twitter, if you're aware. In Fallout 4, they talk to you, and there are characters that will use your first name. Yeah. Because they recorded tons and tons of lines.

Including stuff like John Cena. Including John Cena. And Gray Fox. And Fuckface. Fuckface is a name that your character can have in Fallout. Is it like wrestling, where you type out whatever, and then you have to choose the audio? No, I don't know. You choose it.

They just have an automatic thing for like a ton of them. You type in Liam, Liam will be in there. And they'll just... John Cena's in there. And if you say something, and if you put something that's not in there, they have a different line. Okay. They'll, like, travel there.

But it's like a thousand... But, and it'll be a lot of goer, won't take a thing. No, I'm looking forward to Fallout, and past 3.1. And no, I'm not going to play my fucking first couple hours of it. Like, the game's gonna bug out on me, and... Well, that's why they don't have... Sorry, that's why the dialogue trees are nowhere near what they used to be then. Yeah, dude, totally.

That's the reason. Because there's infinite fucking name variations. That's the reason. And because your character speaks. Geez, okay, yeah, I don't know. It matters. There's reasons, but it's... I don't think most characters use your name, though.

I think it's only like your robot butler. Well, otherwise they'd have to report a thousand lines for every character. No, like that game's gonna be buggy. How buggy? I don't know, because I really enjoyed the launch day Skyrim on the 360. That was buggy enough. And if I get trapped in an elevator or some shit, like that article, which is amazing, if you want to go read an article about how buggy games can fuck up your life,

go read the article. I don't know what to say, but it's... I'm the Verge, I think. I'm trapped in an elevator in Fallout 4. What do I do? What do I do? What do I fucking 10 hours save? A few hours back?

And he regressed to save multiple hours, and the bug recreated itself. So he's like, do I just start the whole fucking game over? But on PC, I'll have no clip. So let, you know, we'll see what happens. I'll probably end up diving right the fuck into it. What are you looking forward to, then? I'm not playing that. Why would I fuck up my first experience of that by playing with a Steam controller?

Holy shit! Oh, I know. Damaged! I don't know. I started playing Norn 9, so I'm looking forward to continuing to play that, and Syndicate, and Yo-Kai Watch. Maybe I'll check out, I'll keep playing Syndicate. The one game that's coming out this week that I am looking forward to playing is Spelunker World.

Do you know what fucking Spelunker is? Yeah, that's some bullshit. That's amazing 2D platformer. Not Spelunky, definitely not Spelunker. Yeah, Spelunker. That. Spelunker World is like, it's a free-to-play multiplayer, Spelunker by Square Enix.

And Spelunker's fucking sick, so I'm excited to play that. You want a hard platformer, you want Spelunker. Okay. Spelunker HD on PS3, also amazing, also not free-to-play. Okay. Amazing game. Very tough. Well, you're looking forward to playing Street Fighter V, I bet.

Yeah, so here's what I'm doing, actually. This fucking genius of a dude named Tool Assisted, God Blessing, has put out frame data, and I'm in there. And I'm creating my frame traps, and I'm adding numbers, and I'm crunching and dividing by zero, and I've got some setups. You know my doll. Yeah.

Yeah. He doesn't care. Yeah, I know, I'm just, I know you know. We all know. Yeah. But the few writers are still valuable. I'm pointing at myself, you're stage one, and I'm pointing at, well, they're stage two.

Yeah. The value, they're all valuable. They are, they are, they are. And on that, like, same train, I'm watching back episodes and catching up on what is vastly and quickly becoming my fucking favorite news show, which is Capcom Pro Talk with Mike Ross. Oh my God, this show is the best.

It's like, it's just Mike Ross interviewing people and then defending, playing against people to defend Twitch Turbo accounts, which if you beat them, you get a Twitch Turbo thing. And he has, like, Flow On and LPN. There's like two seasons of it now. Shit. And it's an official Capcom Pro Talk.

And it's officially hosted on Capcom Stuff. There's some episodes that never made the cut for due to various reasons. Shit got a little too real. Well, if they're on YouTube, you can go find them. And I fucking, I'm having a ball. Mike, Mike Ross. It's hilarious.

Is it, is it like, fucking, what was the cross-tec thing called with Mike Dongren? No, not at all. No, okay. That was, that was a competition. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is just a talk show. Don't say, is it a mess like that?

No, no, no, no, no, no. This is a talk show and it's just Mike Ross and, like, friends with him just shitting on them. Or them shitting on him. And everyone gets blown up and it's beautiful. I love Mike Ross. Mike Ross is the best. Everyone loves Mike Ross.

Like, I want him to be the proper actual face of the FGC. Dude, like, he is the best. Like, just so many beautiful, perfect moments of, like, shit gets wrecked horribly. And he has this, this moment of stunned silence that he often has. Yeah. That's just so fucking perfect.

It is thinking. It's great. It's great. I love it. Capcom Pro Talk is the best. Capcom Pro Talk. I can't watch enough. Yeah.

No, I, I, I'd like to check that out. I actually, I actually. Because I love Excellent Adventures. No, I, like, like, I watched a bunch of the older episodes and then there was some that were, like, not up on YouTube yet, that were on the Twitch archives. And I fucking subbed in to just to go watch. Just to go watch it.

Yeah. So. Cool, cool. That's it. That's it. I got, I got no outros. Make it smooth. Matt, what are you looking forward to this week?

His new married life, I suppose. Hey, we have to stop saying the misses, or especially I have to, because that's going to get confusing, because he has a real missus now. Yeah. So you just say Matt's wife. The wife.

Or. Is he turning into Dom? Have you noticed he's doing that now? He keeps, every time he says my wife, he screams. He always says it as loud as possible. Yeah. It's true.

It's true. This is a terrible outro. It's pretty bad. This is what happens when I have no topics. But I think it's fitting of Geekfest. Yeah, it's fitting of Geekfest. Yeah. So that will go up.

Friday. That will go up. You can watch it. It's awkward. Like this. This is like this. This is pretty much it. Of what it's going to be like.

Yeah. Okay. So don't even put music. Don't even put music in the end of this one. At this point. Just like, let's just do a hard cut in the middle. Yo girl was on me like

Yeah. She wanted more. So I was like Yeah. I said girl let me try something new. Please. Yeah. Yeah.

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Gravity squeeze. Gravity. Gravity. Gravity squeeze. I was like No. First stop squeeze. Up on that chest.

Now you want to have some sex. I can't let you do that baby. I just want to squeeze. And then I want to leave. Nothing more. Nothing less. Grab them butts and then them chest. I can squeeze enough for a whole damn crew.

But I will not have sex with you. Can you understand? I'm a tan squeeze man. Hand full of booty in each my hands. I see you want to dance. Well do me your dance. But I ain't cancer. Sure you can't have sex with me.

I see you running on my leg. That's gross. Girl stay still. Just like a life post. I'm a grab all night. If I damn well please. Cause no girl can resist my grace. Gravity squeeze.

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