Castle Super Beast - SBFC 130: Grand Unified Theory

Episode Date: February 2, 2016

This week on the Friendcast: Woolie summons Paul Mooney, Matt visits Phendrana Drifts, Pat takes a hit of crack and Liam bears Witness.

I'm not fucking asleep. Don't wake it up, don't wake it up, don't wake it up, daddy. Whatever you do, don't wake fuck boyvin'. I'm so fucking tired, God. We had a lot of fucking last night. We were talking about this, about drinking red bulls when you're fucked up and tired. Yeah, there's a threshold you hit. And after your second and third wins, when your red bull will make your heart beat and

you will feel your heart beating as you fall asleep. That sounds dangerous. I've never drank a red bull in my life. But the idea of you falling asleep and your heart is racing probably isn't a good thing for your body. It doesn't feel good. I possibly consult a doctor. I was talking to, no, it's just sleep more.

Let me read this label. I was talking to Liam and I was drinking the red bull and I was falling asleep while I was talking to Liam. He was literally falling asleep. It's the feeling you get right after you've been touched by the hundred crack fist. Something's wrong. I'm sleepy. To be fair.

God, what was it where someone's head starts to distort and they're like, oh, I feel fine actually. They wait for a little bit and then it like comes back and explodes and they're like, oh, I feel worse now. To be fair to Liam, that feeling has nothing to do with red bulls particularly. It's just caffeine. Sure. Like I've had the same thing happen to me with coffee and tea.

Oh, embarrassing. Why does your phone keep going off? Because I'm getting text messages. But it went off before and you went and looked at it and didn't put it on silent. Because I have friends who love me. Okay. It's a good one. It's a text that says, like, I don't like it.

I don't like you. Everyone gets that text. It's a better text than that. I've got that text a bunch of times. It's good news. It's a good time. I'll fight you. Yeah.

Man, sleepy. Yeah. Welcome back to the Scatcast. No, we've moved. We're the Scatcast. Oh, sorry. Sleepy Scat. We've moved forward.

We've moved forward. Sleepy Scat. We're in a post stream world. So why are you feeling sleepy, Pat? Because yesterday night, you couldn't sleep. Okay. Thank you. So yesterday night, we had a six hour stream.

It was sick. We did Demon's Souls. It was more like it was almost seven and a half, like eight, seven and a piece. It's a brave new world. We enter. Hey, well, well. And yeah. A bunch of demons and souls.

A lot of paranoia planning stopped most of the bad things from happening. There's still some stupid... Still a few issues. But that's just forgetting things. Can't sort of get them. Yeah. Audio mixing a little too high. But stuff that'll be fixed next time.

All the stuff that you would have spooky sitting in a corner taking care of is the stuff that we should. Should we hire him to do that? Yeah. I'm sure he's not doing anything. He? Sure he's not a busy guy. I can shoot him a text.

He's probably cheap to hire. You just give him nuts. Oh. I understood that. Oh, today's going to be a good podcast. We'll just leave it. Pat's falling. He's like squinting.

Leave a trail. I'm trying super hard to stay awake. Leave a trail of poverty. But your heart's pounding harder than ever. Yeah. No, it's speaking. This is a bit. It's speaking.

Can I just get this up? For anyone wondering, it will be archived because a lot of people are still asking that. Yeah. And it will absolutely all be archived. And they will continue to ask. That's correct. But hopefully some people will get this. Oh, well, he's looking at a text message now saying, when will it be archived?

No, me and Willi are just texting each other. Hey, hey, hey. Did anyone hear me get that text message? No. Exactly. We're just texting back and forth me and him. So, uh. iPhone's on sonar and I can text me whatever you want.

You fucking asshole. So, YouTube, we're going to be putting the archives of the stream on YouTube. Uh-huh. It's going to go up in giant chunks, so don't worry about it if you missed it. This chunks will be so good. And I'll preemptively answer an email we got from a couple of people. Are you doing an email at the top of the show? It's one that came in from a lot of people and it's just saying against all our morals.

That yes, when we do stream in the future, I'm definitely going to be making a shift off of Sundays until like Saturdays. Yeah. Because that'll be a Friday. That'll be a better day for everybody, especially us. For the viewers, you'll get to be able to stay up late and not have worked the next day. And for us, we won't have to die to be reborn.

Back to back four-plus-hour reporting sessions. To do the podcast. In the woolly zone. Yeah. Um, last night was a loopy night, man. It was fun. It was a good time. It was a good time.

After you left, though. Like, I was just in a weird haze of like, taking feedback and answering questions. I saw some of those pictures. There was a fire. I was about to say that Healing Bonfire Chan really got me feeling better. What's up with Uno? I love that he put that up there. I thought that was a Bible black animation at first.

Hey. And I got really excited. You don't question Uno. That's fair. Yeah, you don't. You leave it. There's only one of them. You can't question them.

We need to send people on their way. That one person. Feeling good. Anything that'll make you feel real good after you feel like that is Uno. Okay. Never forget. It's such a good feel to look like several characters were all drawn by different people and overlaid on top of each other.

Good question, Liam. Episode 130 of the podcast. Thanks, Woolly. Uh, 130's esoteric fact is that 130 Liberty Street refers to the proposed building site for Five World Trade Center. Oh, I see. That was the actual address. Does anyone know the address of famous buildings like what's the White House's address?

Some bullshit. One, two, three. White House Lane. Oh, President Lane. Yes. Awesome. No, that one actually. It's one President House Street.

One, two, three. What about the Parliament? The Sperm House. Parliament? The Parliament. In that fucking Ottawa town. Ottawa town. It's like the Harper, Harper Road.

Burlington. Rockefeller Plaza is on Rockefeller Street. And I'm on fucking point today. You're on fire. We know things. Fucking President House Street. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. That was my next guess.

We the best. We the best. Is that the Parliament? That's where the Parliament is. Yeah. Oh. Sperm Town. Sperm Town.

The White House. So, Woolly, what'd you do with your week? My week, prior to streaming. Willson. Excellent segue. My week, prior to streaming, was pretty, pretty fucking busy, man. I'm doubling down on how much boxing I'm going to, because... Sure.

By that, do you mean you're going twice as often? I'm putting more time in. Okay. I'm putting more time in. That's good. And it's super fun, and it's super exhausting. Is it making you better at Street Fighter? No, but it's making me appreciate the new moves that TJ Combo is going to be getting.

But anyway, no, I'm at the point where I'm like, okay, I'm now pulling out my piercings and getting set, so the stuff's going to be really fun. Sizing up people. The biggest problem I'm having right now is the coach said that like, there's like, I'm in... You know, beings are only allowed to look one way. I'm a super heavyweight. I'm a super heavyweight.

It's not even... No, it's not age. It's an age. Oh, you're classified as a super heavyweight? I'm a super heavyweight. And like, in my class, there's like, pretty... There's almost no one else. Okay.

You know, so there's only one or two other contenders that are like, have to keep up, or catch up to be able to spar with me. You're a regular old Takamura. There you go. I'm too heavy. They have to catch up? Are you saying they have to eat? Like...

I can't wait so we have to look at this emaciated, like super thin, willy who's... Oh, man. Yeah, yeah. I just want... And he's got to eat like an apple or something. I know. I have to chew on like a tea bag. No, a mushroom.

A mushroom. A mushroom. A mushroom. Yeah. A single peanut. And then I start going crazy and telling everybody that let me impregnate your woman. Yeah. Did you know a single peanut can power your fists?

The sun is speaking to me for over an hour. The sun told me to stop boxing. God, Takamura was such a cool guy and then he said such a dumb thing. What the fuck? It's fine. He was crazy. He's just a Japanese brand. As long as he wins, it's fine.

As long as he fucking wins, it's fine. Yeah. And he'll win every time. No, what I did do, what I did do is besides like a lot of paranoid stream set up stuff, was I played some Street Fighter V. What? I'm pretty miffed because a lot of my crazy frame data is no longer applicable. Wow.

Shocking. I remember someone, I forget who it was, was talking to you about your frame data and saying, man, that's all going to be useless and outdated. And you said, man, even if they change it, they'll only change it by one or two frames here or there. It's still going to be mostly useful. I wonder who said that. So here's the difference now.

It's not that you throw it out completely, but it's that block strings have become frame traps. Yeah, I know. So I can still use them. But yeah, it's not, but I got it. Dude, it's not a final. Like, come on. Yeah.

So Nicali's got some different frame data and that's all like, oh. Guess what? Nicali's frame data? I don't know it, but it's scary as shit. Yeah. It's fucking horrifying. He's a trap monster. It's pretty fun.

I played some of that and it took a while for me to warm back up, but having tons of fun with that and my balls were on stream for a little bit. Did you find the online play in the beta? It was awful. And then I turned it to PS4 only, four or five star connections only, and then it was fine. Okay. So for me, I had the exact same experience and changing it to PC or PS4 only, that doesn't actually matter.

That that's just like load times and whatever. What matters is the bars, like forcing the bars. Well, what I seem to, what I think seemed to be the case was like PC players that are running on a suboptimal PC that have lag on their computer will then lag the match. Yeah. That's the case. And that's an extra component of lag that we don't need with the Internet. What it was in the SF4 on PC is you had to pass a benchmark to even go online.

And then you'd be able to see what the person's PC is. I imagine it'll be something similar. So here's the thing. I run my PC version of four or five rather, and that is running on its lowest settings and it's still not running perfectly smooth. What? How? I'm like, because, because I think there's something with Nvidia cards.

I have the, I have an Nvidia card. You have like the same computer. You have a GTX? I have a 970. 970. Okay. Then I need to do some jiggering. Because yeah, I throw it all, I throw it down to lowest.

Maybe it's because the, maybe it's, it's not optimized that well. And the, like the, what do you call it? The Nvidia game optimization. First beta was okay. But. Everything after beta two? Oh, then it's total. Then it, then it's a specific card, like.

That's what I'm, that's what I'm, that's what I'm getting at. Yeah. So there's that. But whatever. Yeah. But first anyway. So how are you finding the, the GIF? So like, I played a lot of the beta, right?

And. At least 27 matches. Dude, I was so happy. I was so happy I got that win streak. I'll never get a win streak that high ever in your life. Never. When it's, when it's the start. 26 fucking games in a row with Nash, I don't, well you do play Nash.

I guess I play. Don't say you don't play Nash. But also I was like in that perfect zone where all my hit confirms were working and I could do everything perfectly. And now I can't do supers from the left side anymore. Like, I remember that. It fell off and I, it just, because I don't know, it just left me. So I gotta.

I know that. I know that. Dude, shame. Anyway, but GIF, I don't know, man, like with banishing flat, it's a different game. It's a different game. Now. I think I like birdie better than GIF. Fair enough.

Birdie's a beast. If you watch the footage, but like. Fuck combos. Hit buttons. To make GIF work, you need to basically make them afraid to jump because you're going to air SPD. Yeah. And I'm not quite good at the air SPD stuff.

What I am decent at is the splash into the super, which is the most disgusting thing ever. Yeah. Because that combo. Combo into 17B. Yeah. Yeah. Like that's, it's fucking gross.

So gross. So yeah, man. Still no fang, but we'll get that soon. A lot of scary meek is out there. A lot of shitty Karen. She's a scary meek. She's got a lot of cool stuff. A lot of Karen's that think they're scary until you realize how to fight her.

So many shitty Karen's. Karen is a character in general. Like story wise. She thinks she's scarier than she is. I feel like Karen was the most commonly poorly played character. Well, well, the funny thing about Karen and the reason why she's so good for beginners is because her mix ups are baked in the high, low game is baked into her follow ups. So you can just run that on.

But all you need to, all you need to know is that her follow ups hit high. So crash. Did you see and, and, and mash in between her dumb block strings that are not sure. Did you see Ono talking about why Birdie's a fat piece of shit? Yeah, that's great. Because he's just been slumming it up at Karen's place for years. And when you look at birdies for 10 years, he's just been doing nothing at Karen's place. Yeah.

Doing, why is he there? He's her training partner. Oh, that's right. Okay. So, what about Izaki, the butler guy? When you, when you look at, when you look at a birdies profile, it says likes the care, the Konzuki estate. Yeah.

That was always in there. When, when Karen beats Birdie, she says, get up. We have 999 more matches to go today. Oh, I guess, I guess, you know, every character needs to have a story link character as to why they're there. Like all the joke characters like Blanka and Dan are all like hanging around together. And they're both from Alpha and they've been gone forever. Yeah.

So that's hanging out. So there's that. I, I'm a fan fix. I watched as much of the, the K.I. World Finals as I could. You had a lot of streams. And yeah, we'll definitely, and there's, we'll get more into that in the news because there's some cool season three stuff.

More into that later. But it was, it was, it was a fun watch and shout outs to Max and those guys for putting that on. Yeah. It was pretty cool. Ultra Arcade. Apparently that, that Grand Finals is a total blowout. Unfortunately didn't get to catch up yet because of the stream, but I'm not going to

say who won, but like apparently it was like done. Yeah. Damn. That sucks. I'm still on the first day. So. I want to see the Omen matches. I, I have been a background watching 0079 because you get you fucking, I didn't get, I didn't

get that much farther. I only got to like, you know, episode 14 or something. Cool. Cool. That's fine. Yeah. That piece of shit got what he got. Yeah.

Yeah. And that's going to be a running theme. And I got, and I got to see the, the Zabby family and the next or like, you know, they're all hanging out. You gotta hang out. And I'm like, wow. These guys are dirtbags. Every time you go on about space traders, I'm like, oh, just wait till you know the

truth. Oh, they don't seem very nice. Yeah. Fucking Zabby's. Um, and people are the worst in that show. And it's char char old people, whatever, old people in that show. Fuck off. We're going to take hostages.

Let us die on earth. What? Just, just no, just let us out right here. No, no, no. I'm going to, I'm going to take my child and walk into this desert of nothing to find my city that's been buried forever. Like, but we have food and resources. No, the worst, no, my child.

Anyway, shoot all those old people anyway. Yeah. Fuck those. I agree. But there's some good old people that come later. Yeah, probably. Um, that's gotta be a couple. That captain from the beginning was pretty cool.

You know what is full of awesome old people? The hateful eight. Yeah. Oh, he finally saw it. Finally got to go see that. I saw it too this week. Yeah. God damn.

So what did you think? I liked it because it was like one of Tarantino's old movies in that it was like a play. There was, there was one set, there was one set and like two scenes outside of it. And that's it. You know, and you're like, this is back to reservoir dogs. You know, this is back to the dialogue is just so good, like so strong. Exactly. And you're like, every line is a quotable.

Everything is everyone's at least somewhat intriguing. Every character's got something going on. So they argue about tipping for 15 minutes. No, but they bother things. The only thing I will say though is that like, like he's delivering on all of the Tarantino like, like cylinders, but we've had like three period pieces in a row now. I really hope he mixes it up for the next one because this was in glorious and goes to a different period of this one and they're all within the same time period.

It might be a little too early, but where do you think it stacks up? Cause like I was saying when I saw it that I think it's, it's like not as good as Django, not as good as Inglourious Basterds, not as good as either Kildwells. I liked it better than Inglourious Basterds for sure. Cause Inglourious Basterds was my favorite. You would be. Uh, woolly. Yeah.

World War II is no, no, no, no, no, no, not at all. But period piece. Period piece. You're right. No, you're super right. 400 years ago versus. What? The gap between hateful eight and World War II is smaller than the gap between World

War II and modern day. Yes. That was a super stupid thing to say. You're right. 400 years ago. Slavery. Well, whenever they refer to slavery, they say 400 years of slavery. Okay.

Yeah. Sure. But it's like 1800s. That stuff takes place. Early 1800, 1900s. Uh, it was. It was fabulous. I think it was 1800s.

I'm trying to remember. I don't remember the dates in Django, but I feel like it was like, didn't they have some. Abraham Lincoln was the current president. As far as far as. In hateful eight. Yes. Yes.

But in Django. Then that's like. I'm trying to remember where Django was placed. It was placed like pretty much alongside. Over that. Over that. That's what I was thinking of. Yeah.

Those two were in the same time period. They are explicitly in the same. Yeah. Django. Django's 1858, 1859. Okay. Okay. Um, hateful eight.

Probably the same time period. Probably. I'm looking it up. Go on. Go look up. Lincoln's fucking run. Whatever. I don't know.

And then we go to World War II, which is. He's on the penny in the 1940s or 30s. So, um, yeah, the where do you think it stacks up the film? I might be a little too early. I, yeah, it is a bit early to say, uh, there's parts of Inglourious that I like a ton, but I feel like I like hateful eight as a whole better than Inglourious. Okay. I'm just expecting that.

So how much better than Pulp Fiction is hateful eight? Hey, hey, hey now. Hey, come on. Cool it. Cool it over there. Watch out. Watch out. Fall asleep.

Take it easy. The first hour and a half is kind of, it drags its feet a little, it gets, it gets so intense and so much better. But I think that's just such an insane statement. I think that's just like. The movie's three hours long. Yeah, I know, but like most movies are done by the movies. The movies split into five acts, I believe, and like they are split title card and everything.

It stops. The movie says next act. So when he says that, he means the first three acts and that's the setup. Yeah. So we'll say it takes a while to set it up, but the setup, but the setup is so full of tension because you don't know who's doing what. One of my favorite things about the tension was the intentional break after the third act.

Yeah. Everyone go take 12. Yeah. Everyone go take 12. You're right. You're right. This minute, this movie's over three hours long. Everyone take a break.

Yeah. Wait, what? There's an intermission. There's a 12 minute intermission. Are you for real? Yeah. Now there's. Yeah.

That's awesome. Yeah. It's sick. It makes the three hours not feel like three hours at all. Pissing your beer bottle. So there's one thing. And this is not a spoiler. This is just a Tarantino signature, but anytime Tarantino refers to a period of time within

the story, it is never accurate to like what they're saying will happen. Well movies in general always cheat that. But he overdoes it. Yeah. You're probably right. The bride is talking to Vivica Fox and you're like, all right, we're going to fight it sundown and we're going to meet with our swords out on that field over there and then, oh, shit. Oh, bad.

Can't. All in black. Right. And he always fucking does it and it gets me, but I know it's going to fucking be bullshit. And this was yet a great one this time. So shout outs to that. It's a great movie. Go see it.

Now that the two of you have seen it, I made this observation, but no one had seen it at the time. I kind of think that when your movie is pretty, pretty long and it's just mostly filled with dialogue that you actually run out of words and you're forced to then say the same words over and over and over in scenes and the words then lose impact and they start losing like like certain words like kill a motherfucker and like a bunch of words like it said usually in the last 40 minutes where I was like, poor black cock. Yeah.

Yeah. That's too scared to say nigger. Well, I. You like the word? You go see this movie because they'll say it's 400 times. It's very true. I heard Sam Jackson's in this movie. Yeah, man.

Boy, is he. I think he's actually the standout character. He's great. Yeah. He's great. Every character. Well, 90% of the characters are great. Some of them like the driver end up.

Yeah, but everyone's got something to them. Everyone's got something. Yeah. Do they fuck it? Like, I think they double down. I think Tim Roth got really cheap, cheaped out. He had nothing to do. Sorry.

I'm not really good with actors. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He had a good gimmick, though. Definitely rivaling Django and Usages of Nigger all throughout the movie. That's crazy. I know. Yeah.

I know. Because Django is about slavery. Yeah. That's. Well, okay. Hold on. I feel like Paul Mooney had described. Let me.

There isn't a single slave in this movie. Let me go down my racial epithet checklist. Is Sam Jackson in this movie? Yes. Is Sam Jackson opposite an antagonistic black man? No. No. He's the only black man.

Oh, he's the only black man? Oh, wait. No, there is one other black man. Yeah. He's the down-soul. Down-soul. And they don't, they don't play a part in each other. In a Tarantino script.

Yeah. Okay. We're the ghost of Paul Mooney is present. Paul Mooney is super alive, right? Like Paul Mooney's ghost in the past. Not sure. What? I mean a hundred times every morning just to keep my teeth white.

Paul Mooney. That's good writing. You are a treasure. But do you guys like. It's getting crazier. I like it. You guys like agree or disagree with that statement? I like, I'm not.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. It's a nocturne. Oh, that they read it. They lose their glues. They have so much dialogue. They curse so much that it just. That the dialogue actually loses a bit more impact as it keeps going on. And Ambassador.

Ambassador. Yeah. Ambassador. It's a bad thing, but. I think, yeah. It's a quintessence. Ultimately, yes, but I didn't really personally think it was a problem. I feel like.

I could see how that could be. Okay. It's the opposite of Kill Bill where there's less talk, way less talking so that when dialogue actually comes out of the bride's mouth, you're like, I'm listening. I feel like bastards swerved around this problem probably intentionally by having so many different languages. Languages. Yeah.

Languages. That you don't run into the problem. Yeah, that's very true. There's comparatively little English spoken in that film. They speak relatively simple English in this movie too. Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's not. No, but not simple.

I mean, little English. Like most of that movie is in German and French. It doesn't happen too much in Reservoir Dogs though. No. You know. They speak fancy English. Yeah. Reservoir Dogs.

They're like 100 years ahead. So, yeah. Yeah. Walton Goggins, who was in, you know, he played the, I forget his name though, the character. That's not a real name. That's crazy. Yes, his name. The guy that played opposite Sam Jackson, like all the way to the end, you know, kind

of like, he was in, you know, Predators, if you remember, as the prisoner. Yeah. He was also in Django. The guy you want to see is mom? That character? No, the guy that was excited about five o'clock. The sheriff. The guy that said he, I'm going to be the sheriff.

The sheriff. Yeah, okay, yeah. Was he the guy that was excited about five o'clock in Predators? Yes. Yes, okay. Yes, he was. All right. Yeah.

I really liked it though. I'm glad you liked it too. Yeah, no, absolutely. I got to check this out. They got all these crazy theories. But can you prove it, Cameron? Yeah. The costumes were 10 on 10, fantastic, impeccable.

Jackson's fucking outfit was like, I feel like him standing next to Sparta in a fucking beat him up in a character action game would be a perfect setup. Yeah, no, he looked, he looked fantastic. He was great. Yeah. So that was cool. I spent a bunch of the time on The Witness. I played a whole bunch of that.

I also played a bunch of The Witness. How much did you guys play of it? I want to say maybe five hours. I want to say two or three from him. Okay. I finished it. Whoa. Nice.

This is the best puzzle game in recent memory period. So I have a bunch of questions for you then and not spoilery ones like mechanical ones. This is being called the Dark Souls of Puzzles game. Which is weird because it's fly in The Witness. I wouldn't quite say that. But I would say this. Saying the Dark Souls of something is reductive. It's the best puzzle game in recent memory period.

I will say the Dark Souls of it is unequivocally a hashtag game changer. It's fantastic. It's absolutely so. As Bray was, this is a game changer. Jonathan Blow is in no way a one and done kind of guy. No. He's the Daniel Day Lewis of the video game industry. So this game kicks Bray's ass.

Yeah. Every way. No question. No question. I feel like I should start considering I played the least and all that. But like, Woolie called me something the other day, something that cracked me up because it was actually dead on, but I had never heard the term before. He called me the Puzzle Fail.

A Puzzle Fail. Because you don't like. No. You called me the Puzzle Fail. Because you don't typically like puzzle games very much. In fact, I despise them and anybody who's seen any of our play throughs in which I have to do a slide puzzle or anything with spatial logic reasoning. I'm just, I'm thinking back to the slide puzzle in Barclay.

You can just hear my, you can hear my brain. Or that video of the Resident Evil color puzzle. Oh, that was good. Nothing happened. So, the puzzle in Barclay, Pat's trying to tell me how to do something and I just finish it. Yeah. Like one second.

During that. So, I'm quite bad at this and the witnesses puzzles are like very similar to a slide puzzle. Like they're not obviously the same. Like you're, you're tracing that line, but it's the same kind of mentality, like moving places around. And. We have to be able to visualize the end goal. Right.

And I found that once I discovered the concept, I had no problem crushing everything in front of me. As is the name of the game. But if I didn't have that concept, I was done. Of course. Well, a lot of, a lot of it, I don't want to say too much. No, of course not. Too easy to spoil things.

But a lot of it is basically deduce and then learn and then reapply what you've learned. Didn't have much trouble deducing the ones that I found the, the, what I would call them like learner puzzles. Yeah. Vegetatorial. They're very clear. Introductory concept. I didn't have much trouble with those and I didn't have much trouble with applying them

and all that. But it's, it's just like the, my biggest frustration with that game is that I want to move forward and learn a puzzle solution and do my puzzle and now learn the new puzzle solution. At the early, because I got to the city, the little town and I haven't gone to the, the orange forest yet and I was very frustrated by running into every area and seeing shit that I had no chance. Like symbols. The colors.

If you see something that you can't figure out, just walk away because I'm trying to mentally catalog where each of those are. The coolest thing about the game is you're, you're, you're basically playing against Jonathan Blow the whole time and the city is, or the town in the middle is the biggest, like Jonathan Blow knows you can't do this. It's the hardest area. Okay. Is that cause, cause I'm trying the problem that is frustrating me is cause I want to

mentally catalog for when I do find out how to do it, where that I should go back to. There are so many that I ran into that I couldn't solve that I can't keep track and I stalled out. So you're trying to funnel it? It doesn't work. Yeah. The density of the island is far too great. It's impossible to keep track of all the places.

And if you just try going around in a circle, eventually you'll run into a block and you'll have to go elsewhere. That, that was my frustration part. That's, I played like three hours in a, in like in one go and, and that's when I hit it was like, I can't keep track of all these ones I have to come back to. Oh. Yeah. So there's definite, this game is definitely chock full of holy shit moments, which is

crazy for a puzzle game. I got to one. Yeah. I got to the first one with that. Yeah. Don't say anything. No, there's the hexagon. Okay.

The first of the hexagons. And I couldn't believe that was in the game. I was really weirded out. Now there is one thing I will say that like lens that the reason why we're building this up so much is a lot of different reasons, but for me, one of the big ones is I always talk about how Icaruga is like one of my favorite games and I've never heard that. And the reason why is not just because it's an excellently designed shmup, but because it does something unique to you and it makes your brain feel a sensation that you never

felt before. That's right. Which is the switch and processing information differently, like trigger, like I don't, I don't particularly like Icaruga, but I recognize that it's one of the best games ever going from enemy to friendly is a crazy weird thing to process, right? And then switching back and forth. Yeah. Process it fast too.

So this game has that. It has a moment. A thing that you've never really felt for me at least was there's points where you've learned the rules to this puzzle and you know them and then you look at a fucking crazy version of what you've learned and you know how to solve it, but it's just too much for you. Yeah. Oh really?

You can't handle it. You know the solution. Or you know, you know the theory of the yes, you understand exactly how you're supposed to. And you also know that, you know how to do it and you're fully equipped, but you feel overwhelmed. It is the puzzle equivalent. I imagine I have not gotten to that part, but I, the way you're describing it sounds

like there's tons of parts. It sounds like the puzzle equivalent of fighting a boss in a, in a action game and losing and going, Oh, that must be one of those battles you're supposed to lose. And then no, you get a game over. And it's like, no, you are supposed to beat it. And you realize that it is within your power to beat it. And every other. And you can do it.

And in fact, you should. And every other mission in that chapter you've S ranked. Yeah. Yeah. So you know that you're doing it right. Yeah. But you hit a point and you're like, I, this is my limit. He just clicks up another level and you're like, this has got to be it.

And then it clicks up another level and you're like, I can't, and you're, it's up another level again. Yeah. More. Jump out the window. Yeah. I've like, unlike me, I've totally like, I've given myself a very hard and fast rule of don't look at solutions.

Oh yeah. Like for, for braid, I got stuck on the last puzzle I needed for like two weeks and then I finally caved. But this one, because there are so many more, uh, I'm going to try and oh, I, I haven't I haven't. I've been looking anything up. That being said, tons of things, this game, like part of its genius is that if you get fucking stuck, stuck, stuck, your, your freedom is a single screenshot away.

Uh, well, I was about to say, did you use the print screen tool, Liam? Yeah, it's handy. Oh yeah. Well, on, on PS4, the share. Yeah. Yeah. I, I used print screen. Okay.

And so, well, there was the hexagon. I would, would not have been able to remember it. If you're, if you're playing this game with a pad of graph paper, your experience will be significantly better. Yeah. Yeah. I was told that. Get ready to take notes.

Specifically. Okay. Graph paper. Yeah. Because that's what, that's just what you need. You don't need it. But I had a lot of trouble with the, the city puzzle with the columns took me a lot longer than it had to because I wasn't writing it down a lot longer.

Yeah. So. That makes sense. Not going to say much more on it, but it's a fantastic puzzle. I, I, I think my favorite thing about it is how anyone can play it. Yeah. Anyone can play it. There's no language barrier getting in the way.

There's nothing. There's no language. Yeah. Well. There is. The only, the only. Not enough to matter. The only spoken language is quotes and they tell you who the quotes from.

And so it's just quotes from famous people. But the actual core game, there's, there's nothing extrinsic about it. They teach you every concept in the game. Wordlessly. Wordlessly. And you almost teach yourself the concepts just by observing your actions. And then you can beat the whole game. There's no concept that requires any sort of external.

I have a couple of questions for you, Liam. Idea. About you said you beat the game. Now I know you don't have to beat every puzzle to beat the game. Have you ever checked your save data and seen the number next to it? No. I did not. Okay.

Well, if you, you can see how many puzzles you've cleared. Out of how many. Well over 500. So. Okay. So you don't have to clear every puzzle to beat the game. No. Did you?

I've gone back and I'm. You're doing it? You're. I'm doing it. Yeah. Absolutely. So. I need to know.

I saw little bits and pieces here and there of stuff. Is there a payoff to that? Wow. That's, he can answer that. That's really ambiguous. I don't know. Okay. Well.

Is the ending good? Good things that seem like extras? No. Like are you asking if the ending's good? I don't know if the game even has an ending. Like. Maybe you can ask him this off podcast. No.

I mean, okay. There's a statue of the jester. In the middle of the city. Yeah. Everyone will see that. Yeah. Absolutely. And it's super creepy.

Did you find other statues? Yeah. I found a little, I found other statues here or there. Yeah. That are weird and unsettling. Is there a payoff to. You might just have to play and find out that. Yeah.

Well. Well. Well. You said the game has an ending. So that. You said, you acknowledged it had an ending initially when you said you don't have to finish every puzzle to beat the game. It could.

You. Liam as far as I'm. Is that a sentence you read? No. But yeah, I read that in a review. Okay. But like the, like beat the game could be like a thumbs up and then it crashes to the desktop.

Okay. Sure. Right. Like I appreciate knowing that the game has an ending. Yeah. Okay. Sorry. What did you want me to say?

Does that, does those weird disparate elements, do they go somewhere or do they go nowhere? Yeah. There's nothing disparate about them. Okay. Thank you. That's all I wanted. It feels like he spent six months making it and designing the puzzles and seven and a half years fine-tuning it.

Yeah. And it's true. I don't think that's true at all. I think he actually said that it's quite the opposite. Feels like it. You should go watch a lot of the older packs gameplay from older conventions and you can just see the evolution of the environments. There's no spoilers in this.

It's only the very early game. I would kill further to be like a double fine adventure style making up for this. There might be. That'd be really fun. Do you have Jonathan Blow on that really cool series, Dev's Play or whatever? Like in the future? Maybe. You could find out about that bottle he helped make.

For my part, I didn't play it. I downloaded it and I did something in my week in which I can go more details on, but I'm interested to play it. But I kind of feel it's one of those things that I'll start and go. I'm tagging you in. Okay. Well, as far as I can see, it's like a game of the year candidate easy, so we'll play it.

Right. Well, I'll just go into that. One of the things I did with my week was that I was on the, sorry, TOVG podcast. That's the one video gamer podcast, super bunny hop invited me on and very early on in this podcast, Jimmy, that one video gamer just basically said, man, it sucks that everyone's going to have to pack it in for the rest of 2016 because nothing will beat this in regards to the witness. That's quite a statement.

The witness is like, dude, it's incredible. He was really adamant. Bunny hop, of course, went, man, I played it for an hour. It seemed like shit. Yeah. I hated it and every part of it, it's, it's like, it's one of those things like video games. It's, it's no, but it's one of those things is like, it's the best puzzle game in ages,

but it's still just a puzzle game. Well, all of duty will have to move its release date. Yeah. But bunny actually was gotta get more than 10 months away from the witness. Don't, don't try to get, don't try to encroach on that territory. Who was more like, I played it for an hour and I don't find there anything special or engaging about it. He got stuck in the first room.

I maybe he didn't really like, I really liked how easy that earlier stuff was. It's teaching you. Yeah. But like I said, hallway. That's bullshit. Hmm. Hopefully I'll have some time to, to, we love you, George. No online multiplayer.

I'm out of here. I was a really fun podcast to be on though. Those. Yeah, cool. Matt visual is the other guy. Matt visual who we met at a momocon is one of Bunny's friends. I think he's a cool dude. I think I'm going to be jumping on it in the second week.

Yeah. Bunny mentioned. Yeah. I should talk to him, see if I can get on there and week three or four or some shit. Or if we just fuck that. Oh, I'll start. I'm sorry. Sorry not to interrupt.

Speaking of like podcasting. Did any of you guys check out Xavier Woods on co-option? I saw a little bit. I listened to a little bit. I didn't see it, but I saw that it happened. That dude is funny. Well, he make, make, make the contacts. You can do it.

We trust you. There's a line here from someone we know to Xavier Woods, but I think we don't even need to use that line. Like I think in general, hey, Xavier Woods, look at where our podcast is. Which line? There's two. There's two. What's the second one?

I was thinking of Brennan. There's Brennan. Because they're wrestling. And then there's the FGC line. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

You can make that connection. It's a more muddled line though. In terms of what I did play. They're both indirect. Yeah. I completed the Tomb Raider, not the base game, but like the Temple of the Witch, the Tomb of Bobby Yard. Oh yeah.

How long was that? I streamed it as well. You know what? It's actually, it was kind of a little bit disappointing. It was about two hours long, which is, that's just one of the tombs that I've been mentioning on the podcast here and there. And it was a very involved tomb and there's several puzzle rooms and stuff. But like I've said, I'm really excited because survival horror and there's demons and there's

monsters and there is, but there's a story caveat that I was kind of like, that's fine. Was it all a dream? But no, but they play their hand too quickly about what the deal is with this tomb. They play it off right now. It's just a joke, bro. It's not a joke, kind of is, but they just play their hand on what this temple is and like story wise, I was like, oh man, if you would place that revelation towards the end, this would have been way more effective and creepy.

But what's there? Like, well, he's looking at a video that happens in the game of all these skeletons looking and turning their heads to Lara in like the first couple of minutes. And that was really, really creepy. And that's just a thing to, to like establish the mood. Is it the Lara's on drugs? That's all drug trip? And I'm not going to, I'm not going to go into it that much, but it's drugs.

And what was cool though is that you do it and Ashley Birch shows up in a role just for this DLC, I think, as a character and I was like, that's Ashley Birch. And I looked it up. Is it normal Ash voice? It was pretty normal. The weird thing about the survivor is the locals of this weird Siberian like landscape. All speak American English. Perfect American English.

So weird. Yeah. As per the usual. That being said, it was still, it was still good. I like, it came with a season pass that I bought because like I said last time, I was really enjoying it and it came with like a really awesome like a set, like a costume set for Lara that I'm like, oh, it's so cool and it looks awesome. How long was it by the way?

It took me about like from start to finish. It took me like two hours to beat it, but it's all it is an optional tomb. Yeah. Okay. Is it bigger than the other two? Yeah. Yeah. It's like, it's like several rooms and you have to, you have to zone out of the temple

and then and get some resources and come back. Good piece of content though. I think, I think it was, I was just kind of a little disappointed with its story. Okay. That's, that seems fair. So, and what's the weirdest thing about that DLC is that I kept asking you and anybody who knew about Tomb Raider. No one really knew.

For the PC, right? It's like, because that, that DLC came out two days before that game came out on the PC. That's true. That's out now, isn't it? Is that going to come out on the, and it totally did. It came out alongside the base game. Okay.

Neat. And that's fucking weird. No, no, no. We don't know if it is. We talked about this before when it was like exclusivity really just means not on the other guy's system. Yeah. But like, like you delayed the PC thing.

That's why they always say console. But none of the DLC is delayed either. Like it's super weird. I think it's mostly because of the season past DLC. It's all little things. It's not like big, huge story chunks like the GTA 4 experiences that were huge right now. When you were hiding from Red Dead One, Undead Nightmare.

Yeah. God. I never even finished that. Adding from? The Bobby Yags. Yeah. Did you, did you use bottles and cans to distract it and to, and to make noise? No, actually, that, that, I never go for that option because that's like.

That is a mechanic in the game. That is a mechanic in the game, but I don't think it's all that fun. I either run and gun or I try to stealth them like normal. The biggest problem with that bottom mechanic is that it doesn't work exactly like Last of Us. No. In Tomb Raider, it only affects the enemy that's closest to the, to the noise. So if there's two guys in front of you, I'll check it out.

And you throw it. Well, because the last of us was because Clickers had like. Yeah. And, and humans would do it, everybody, but it only affects one person. Yeah. Makes sense actually. But. But I, I played that and I, and I'm about actually 50% done Tomb Raider in general.

Like when I'm looking at the, the, the overall progress. So you're farther in the story then because a bunch of those unlockables probably. Not unlockables. You're getting there. Unlockables unlock later. You, you finished the first one, right? Yes. This one seems significantly longer or am I crazy?

No idea. Okay. I, I, I assume so. Not can't tell. That's fair. The other thing I played is not the witness, but 3D Realms is bombshell. Oh, geez. I read through all the reviews and every review I read, I was like, no, there's got to be

something. There's got to, there's got to be something. Okay. I only played about, I almost feel like you should save this shit, but go. I only played around 30 minutes of it and wait, wait, wait. Yes. Let's take a quick word. This month, this month, this low energy podcast, this, oh, I thought this was an ad read.

I thought we were just reading an ad read, but it's, I guess it's a kind of a low energy ad read since we're all kind of low energy right now. Play some jazz. Yeah. Oh, you know what? But you know what? Hold on a minute. There we go.

Initiating jazz mode. So this month, is it slow or is it, or is it low energy? It's, it's, this is an ad read. This is the kind of jazz that, you know, lets you feel, you feel like you want to just get a sip of a nice little drink at the bar, look over at that special silver one, that kind of jazz, you know? Yeah. Loot Crate, that's what I'm trying to get to.

A Loot Crate, slides down the counter towards you. Oh, oh. Hey, special summons at the bar. You, right, you take a look, the person winks at you, right? Your mailman. And you like, you just kind of do that, like, kind of nodding head up move, like, yeah, I see you there with that Loot Crate. And this month's theme is probably an accurate way to describe us.

Mm-hmm. The theme, you open up the box, that, you open up the box, that the stranger slides to you and you see dead. Dead? Dead. Wait, the theme's dead? Yes. Dead things come out of the box, suddenly the music picks up in tempo, zombies attack the

bar, that's, that's Sultry Stranger, reaches under the slip of the dress and pulls out a revolver, she, she loads in the bullets and starts going to town, this, this jazz scene has turned into an action, I don't know, where are you going to get your equipment to survive? You open up the Loot Crate, and inside that Loot Crate, you have all the equipment that will help you survive this sudden action scene. You get your mummies alive. I fucking wish. You get your Con-Raw.

Oh, Con-Raw. I fucking wish. Tell you, here's what you do, here's what you, well, you never know what you're going to get. You would get some Con-Raw on that box. What are two examples of some things you would get in the Dead Crate? You never know what you're going to get in the Dead Crate, right? But what you might actually get.

But what we can say is that you're going to be looking at some stuff from the Walking Dead. You're going to be looking at some stuff from Deadpool. He's dead. Oh, of course. He's a dead guy. And that's two good, dead things. Yeah.

A lot of people said there's very few things that are dead that are good, but we, God, they could just put in, they could literally just put an ad for Deadpool in and I'd be happy. Yeah. The ads have been so on point. It's just Ryan Reynolds' head inside the box. That'd be great. A Deadpool mask.

I've gotten so much enjoyment just seeing the Deadpool ad machine roll. A Deadpool mask would be fantastic. Yeah. Absolutely. With the little, with the little, like funny little thing on the top of his mask. Yeah. Why not? Yeah.

And how much you think, how much you think that costs? Like, like less than 40 bucks. I was going to say like, I was going to say like $400. Hmm. Well, that's a little high. Because I tell you what, for less than 20 a month, you're getting tons of miscellaneous items shipped straight to your door. You head on down to ludecrate.com slash super, enter the promo code super, you're saving

three bucks on your new subscription, and they're guaranteeing over $40 in value in each crate. So, if that's, if that's a mask that's not made out of the super expensive stuff, but maybe the less expensive stuff, you get a Deadpool mask in there. The spandexy thing that's stretching. You know what, there may not actually be a Deadpool mask in there. We don't know. We don't know.

We don't know. You don't know. The theme might be... But you could find out. The theme might be dead, but it won't kill your wallet. There you go. Good one. You're on the wall.

It's alive and kicking. Deadpool pencil holder where you just shove the pencils inside his brain. Was that a thing? Yeah, no, I'm fucking, it's like Pauly Stone. That's cool. Awesome. That's fucking best. That's not going to be in there.

There can never be enough Deadpool merch, and he's been such a sleeper character for so long. I can't wait for him to be like, overrated and too popular. Yeah. Wait till Deadpool 3. Deadpool 3, too many Deadpool. But for now, he's super cool, and if you want some of that merch, you head on down to ludecrate.com slash super, promo code super, you know what it is.

You get in this box every month, and who knows what the theme is going to be next month, but to get in on the dead month theme, you got to get in when? Oh, what's before the 19th and 19th of 9 p.m. Pacific. That's correct. All right. If you break your leg, Deadpool will write Deadpool on your cast. And then break it again. That's right.

Then jump in the pool. Yeah. Thanks, Lucre. Thanks, Lucre. Thanks. Yeah. It really stinks, though, because I was actually anticipating this in a weird way, because I get really, I'm interested to see, it's like, hey, this was going to be a Duke Nukem

game. Then they lost the rights or whatever, Legals of Agmire. They got to shuffle it around and make it something else. So they put Furiosa. So guess what? A bunch of aliens attacked the earth, and the generals asked Duke Nukem, sorry, Shelly Harrison, kill them, and that's the set up from Bombshell. And it's really weird.

It's like, I actually like that character now, like her design. She doesn't seem like the problem. They retooled it several times. Oh, she's great. She can't lose. She's cool. She's got a bionic arm. No, she doesn't have one.

Oh, she has one. But she does one. The first move you get is the power punch, which she just dashes and bashes you with the bionic arm. All right. How much I got in my steam wallet? It's about $30. It's a little steep, actually.

At the end of the day, it's a really mediocre twin stick shooter, and that's all it really is. And visually, it's so fucking busy. There's so many shadows and lighting effects that you don't get a good sense of anything. I like how close the camera is to her, though, in the footage I saw. Oh, no, because when you do execute moves, it zooms in really far, and you watch her do the most canned, scripted, long death animation ever that's not even that cool. And I'm like, I'm never going to do these, because I don't know if it gives you better

resources. I didn't really play that far into it to see if it does, but I'm just kind of disappointed because Interceptor, the developer that made this, they were doing some other work for 3D Realms that was decent. They're doing some good ports and things, and I'm kind of disappointed that it's just this kind of mess sort of thing. And Liam, you'll hate this. They go, man, this mission's real boring, it's like it's from a video game.

And then you do the boring mission to completion. You're going to say that, don't do the thing. They do it all the time, like a lot. And when you meet NPCs, like soldiers, speaking over each other, they're like, man, sure, 3D games. You know what? If you want that experience, there's a game for you. It's called Duty Calls.

And you'll get, that's all you need is a full playthrough of the 11-minute Duty Calls, and you'll have a great time. Also, that first person shooter that you hop around to different first person, Bedlam. I'm just saying it's a character design I could take another time. I like it. I talked to Pat, and I think Willie briefly about it. I watched also the new X-Files revival, which I'm really enjoying. I only watched the first two episodes, but I really like it just because it's good.

It's just the same writers, and do you know what? It's the same intro in that they didn't even remaster it. All that's added is Skinner's badge, like his FBI badge, there's a camera zoom on it, and it looks like shit because it's new. And Chris Carter's name is all blurred out on the font. Slightly, yeah. So I'm really enjoying it. The first two episodes.

The first one was kind of like, you know, here's the story of this revival. And the next one is, here's an isolated thing. That's like a case that's vaguely linked to it. And then the preview for the third episode was literally this. It's Scully looking in a microscope and going, Mulder, we have a new case, and it involves a monster. You see Mulder going like getting super hyped, and he gets to go to a sheriff and says, I'm we're looking for the lizard man.

So I'm like, yeah, look, my only like fear. But like the thing that I would wonder is like, because they're coming back after such a long time and it's been so there's been so much like parody, are they just like parodies of themselves? No, are they playing it normal? It was it was pretty normal. Like aside from that preview, which was just edited to be funny. OK, I mean, it had like, you know, little chuckles here and there, but it felt really

grounded and like they weren't playing parodies. I don't know if it's grounded like looking for the lizard man. Yeah, well, grounded in characterization. Yeah, and the last thing is that you guys mostly know, but I went up north this week into Montranblanc and a few not Canadians. That's just basically a gigantic sprawling mountain. What we do in life echoes in eternity. I was a little loopy when I did that, that little thing for various reasons.

But we went to being, which was really, really fun. I'm too much of a huge coward to go snowboarding and skiing because to be and you can't really fall because you're so close to you have to work to eat shit. You have to work really hard. If you put on the snowboard and you don't do a 1080, then why do you even bother? I forgot that there's snow blades. Yeah, I forgot about those. I never tried those hours way.

So I'm glad that I didn't forget because I don't know what the hell you're talking about. They're like skis, but they're smaller. What's the point? They're like rollerblades, but for the snow. They're the coward's way out. They're like mini snowboard. I don't know. I'm just trying to create something.

Yeah, I don't know. No, nothing about them. But I went with my wife and her sister and her fiance, David. And my responsibility, of course, was to bring the entertainment. So I brought a bunch of DVDs and we brought Rome, the HBO series. Because they all were all like, yeah, Rome, we're going to watch it because there's a little DVD playing your little chalet room, right? Was Mark Antony a big hit?

He wasn't because I forgot my bag at home. God damn it. So how are they supposed to know about your tightest pillow? How were we supposed to fuck someone on their wedding day? God damn it. No, on their funeral. Yeah. Yeah.

And how hot Cleopatra is. Cleopatra is. So did you have to rebuy clothes and shit? No, I know. I forgot one bag that had my iPad and DVDs and comic books and one candy. Candy. Yeah. So we took, there's a little charming village and all these fun places to eat and go.

And then we got, let me just go to this unipri, this 7-Eleven, and I go in and I look at all the DVD selection and I made my choice. It's the only thing. So we watched the, the Dark Man Trilogy. This entire story's a ruse. Yeah. The unipri in the town of Montrambeau, that one. Yeah.

I know exactly where that is. It's the one. I used to go there. Well, I used to drive through there every day for school. It was about 10 minutes away from where I used to live. Jesus Christ. Yeah. So I, Willie, what do you know about the Dark Man Trilogy?

I will never be, I don't know much about the trilogy, but I will say that a Dark Man one, I am convinced, I am convinced that that character walked off the set and into 30 Rock and, and, and fucking walked up and took the job as Tina Fey's boss. Really? Because. Wait, are you thinking of the shadow or Dark Man? Because the shadow is Alec Baldwin. Fuck!

Alec Baldwin. Is he not Dark Man? Dark Man's Liam Neeson. Shit! Fuck! Damn it! I mix them up every time. My friend, Willie, I will, I will, I will say.

I will set you on the path is that Sam Raimi, Sam Raimi directed Dark Man, all his idea, what he tried to do was get the rights for Batman, and he failed, DC would not give him to him. So he tried to get the rights for the shadow and also failed. They didn't give it to him. So he said, he fuck it, I'll make my own. Yeah. So Dark Man puts on different masks of people's faces.

Yes, yes, yes. So, so Dark Man one, Dark Man one is actually a fun, pulpy, dumb nineties movie, and I enjoyed it. Dark Man two, the return of Durant, the memorable villain from the motion picture, Dark Man returns. God. After a helicopter explosion, and we all go, well, if he's in the sequel, he's all burnt up, they make his face.

He literally wakes up on a hospital bed and he's like, I hate Dark Man, and he's fine. So Dark Man three, this is what I was getting about just now, die, Dark Man, die. No, the Dark Man V is even worse, or they're actually both really bad. But do you know who plays Liam Neeson obviously didn't come back for to direct straight to video. Oh, bummer. Why not? Did they get Casper Van Diem?

Any guest, not Casper Van Diem. Never guessed, but Paul Verhoeven, Seth Green, Freddie Prinze, Jr. The guy that plays Imotep, the mummy from the mummy. Imotep. Oh, I know that guy. He was also like in, you know, Hard to Kill, John Clive Van Diem is Zartan and the G.I. Joe movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

He plays the most, because in Dark Man one, it's hilarious, because Liam Neeson always goes off the handle and starts screaming at everyone, because Dark Man can't feel pain. He has no pain receptors, and because they all got burnt off and something. That's why he's... So to compromise, paddle of this, to compromise, the body also makes your emotions go crazy at every whim, because he needs to feel something. So if he can't feel physical things, he has to feel emotions and constantly like screams of people and like shouts in their faces all the time.

Was it Dark Man or the shadow where at the end they're fighting on a construction site and then... That's actually Dark Man. Okay, and then the bullets hit each other in midair? No, wait, that might be the shadow. The shadow fights Genghis Khan. The Dark Man fights... I give up.

I give up. I fucking quit. Lee, why do you even fucking care? Because I remember in Grenada watching this on the sci-fi network way back the fuck when, and then the other one came on like... But Dark Man does end on a construction site. Also Bruce Campbell makes a cameo in the movie, which is nice, but the one thing I'll say, the last thing I'll fucking say about Dark Man is that he has a super art that he

performs in all three movies, and the second movies, they just reuse the footage of the same super art. Oh, wow, that's weak. And which is someone looking around and going, where are you? Huh? And then the camera zooms, huh? And then much too late, the camera looks upward and Dark Man, the camera zooms in into his iris as he falls downwards, and then some type of death happens, you never get to see

it. It's a Dark Man death. An abstract type of death. So in the second movie, they do it again, but it's clearly footage of Liam Neeson. And in the third movie, they do much similarly, so we actually had a good time watching that, and... I actually used to think it was cool, because his face was bandaged up. I dressed as Dark Man for all of you.

Man, if you want to fucking go... I love them. He may or may not have influenced my character, Suluet. If you want to go deep inside as to garbage superheroes, did anybody see the Mantis on Fox? The Mantis? Yeah, the Mantis. Not familiar at all.

It was a fucking... It was this black dude who was in a wheelchair, but he turned into the Mantis with his super suit, and he looked like a black Lord Zed from Power Rangers. Exactly. You talking about Blank Man? Are you talking about Meteor Man? No. I'm talking about the Mantis.

Okay. I don't know. Dark Man's pretty shitty. That's some gar... The fucking ending was that he just died, and then the show got canceled. Aside from that, I had a really good time up north. I'm going to want to do it again. We kind of got a little messed up, and we didn't like plan our week that well, and there's

like this hot tub that's right outside in the snow that we all wanted to go to. You know the one, Liam? Near the mini-golf place. No, this is like right in between the chalets on the control room. Near the mini-golf place. That's where the cabriolet goes over them, and people spit in the pools. Oh, great. Yeah.

I'm glad we didn't go over. Don't worry, they chlorine them. It's the closest thing you'll get to an onsen, and it ain't close at all. It's still really cool though, and it's a very nice place. So it was real good fun, and we're going to try to go again at some point, and I was telling Liam that we went to a place called Casey's for dinner, which was really, really awesome. Lots of stuff.

But they had this fucking entree, which is called the potato tornado, which is shaved like potato shavings, like kettle chips, and they're all like garnished in sea salt, and you have Cajun dressing, like there was a plate that was like the size of like a pizza plate of all these potato chips, and we all just fucking developed one of the best entrees I've ever had. It was so super, super good. So I had a great time up north. Did you happen to go to the tiny movie theater?

Oh, I saw it, but I didn't go into it. They had Star Wars. It was the only movie they had. I'm sure. Dude, there's two theaters. There's two theaters inside, and I think they're probably 40 capacity. Yeah. They're tiny.

One was playing Star Wars, the other was playing Premium Rush. Yeah, the one was playing Dark Man. Oh, also, I left Dark Man in our room, and I put it in the DVD player. As a thank you. So the next people that take that shallay will be like, fuck you, dark man. You're not supposed to vandalize the shallay. Well, it was empty, so I'm adding. Guys, guys, guys, this trip just became an 11.

The only the negative is that I, yeah, like I drank and ate a bunch of stuff like the night before, so I came. My stomach was not great during the stream, unfortunately, but you had the little purple like swirls coming off. Yeah, I was a poison status effect. Someone could have used antidote against me. Did you get that stuff on the candy shop on the mountain? No, we got the unifree.

There's a good candy shop there. Yeah, I'll be sure to make next time next time. All right, that's me. It's me. Don't wake up. I'm not asleep. Don't wake daddy. I'm not asleep.

Don't wake fuck, boy. You guys are. I played the witness. I played a bunch of street fighters. Mansory fighters. Good. That net code when it goes bad is the worst. Yeah, like rollback net. There's nothing worse than bad rollback.

You hear the sound of your hitting and then it's like, no, you didn't. It's like Kami is is wiggling back and forth and you throw out a normal and her normal beat yours because it was already there. I like, oh, I don't know. I landed that sweet, but he's still standing. So it's so weird. And I actually played a bunch of Tomb Raider also. The PC version.

Yeah, the piece, it's it's pretty. It's real nice. Did you did you play the first one as well? Yeah, I didn't finish it, though. I got really bored near the end. The end is cool. Well, the part right before the end sure isn't. Anyway, what do you think?

I really like it a lot better than the Uncharted series, like the open levels. There's a lot more going on, just like just getting to wander around and find like challenge to. Yeah, they still do set pieces, but it's not 99 percent set pieces. Yeah, how far how many hours do you think got to the Soviet installation? So I'm only like three hours in. So did you get to a cut scene where Lara is on a chair? OK, just making sure why I just want to know what you think of that.

Once you see it, OK, there's there's a there's a there's a thing that happens. OK, um, that American English thing is super fucking weird. I don't know why there's no reason. Especially since the background of that location, like they should be speaking a different accent. Yeah, not Russian that reminds me of Assassin's Creed Unity. Yeah, where they were speaking English and I was like, ah, who cares? And then for some reason, I was playing Assassin's Creed Liberation

a few weeks ago, and I was like, they're all speaking French. And New Orleans, they're all speaking French. Oh, it's true. I forgot. So it's like there's actually a precedent for them doing French citizens. Yep. Can't do that in the console release. How do you feel about your your roll button being a scoot slash roll button? Scamper. Yeah, I like it. I have you done any mandatory dungeons, mandatory dungeons?

Sorry, I mean, that's what he calls them. Yeah, I did the the ship one. What did you think of it? I thought it was fucking great. I think for for like a challenge, mandatory dungeons, like an old timey like Viking ship that's frozen into a waterfall is the coolest thing. And like I said, the next one you'll do will be completely different from that one. Yeah, it's super boring. I did that one.

I wanted to say that the scoot slash scamper slash roll button where you do one into the other is so fucking good that I want everything to have it. I like it a lot. I want that standardized. Well, not every character type could do a scamper. But like if you have a really. Yeah, but if you have a roll, let it have like a first set and then you double tap to get the right. I actually like I.

Yeah, they'd be pretty op in some games. You know, you don't have a level if you don't have levels wide enough to support it. It's a problem if it's pure invincibility frames, then it's no good. But you need to have a window and then another window. And I really like about this game, like you start the game off as like a horrible murderer and that's fine. Yeah, yeah, that's completely fine. There's no build up to it. She's never not been a horrible murderer.

Instantly kills a bunch of people and she's like, oh, that was tough. But I'm glad I murdered them. Yeah, that's what that's that's she's that kind of makes so much more sense than the original game, so much more that I'm still mad about. Well, she's right. She starts murdering pretty quickly in the original. No, but she. No, but my whole point in that in that first game, she's like, oh, no, I killed. Oh, I mean, the response I killed a deer. Oh, I'm going to kill all these people like like in 10 minutes.

It was terrible. I think it being a video game is a problem. It's that for that story, it's a huge problem. Like for a movie, you can stretch it out. But it was so weird because like I shot a guy in the face with an arrow and she didn't get upset. I was like, good. You'll notice that there's also a situation. There's also way less.

Gory kills way less like really. You they're there, but they're really spaced out. They're not every. I thought it was really neat for some reason. I don't know why it was like some weird gimmick that it happened in Tomb Raider original, whatever the hell it's called now, Tomb Raider, like it felt like every single possible way you could die at a unique death animation. Yeah, yeah, like almost like every every failed cutscene led to a Gory.

Well, there's a lot less cutscenes that you would fail. Like I can't even remember any cuties in this game. It's mostly like they're there. These these like kill states, but it's mostly just falling off the edge of something in her and her body ragdolling 5,000 miles away. If I if I had one big complaint, it's I don't have any. There's a minor one that actually literally drives me crazy.

And that's when you walk over to mine the rocks out of the thing. Oh, God, that's annoying. Why do you have to mine it three times to get one? It's the only collectible where it's you have to continually press the X button. It's not like a like when you're wedging a door. Yes, she hit she hits the pick against the rock once. And then you have to hit it again.

She hits it again. And the third time she gets it really in there and wrenches the rocks loose. And then you get it. What value was like the monster hunter? It's yeah. But every time you fix that, though, didn't every time you do that in Monster Hunter, you get one piece of ore in this. You hit it three times.

And didn't they fix that anywhere where you just hold it now? No. Is that replacing in Cross? Oh, I don't know about Cross. Is that replacing salvage? No, there's a million different salvages here. It's just that these these mine rocks, like they lead they the only one that that takes this prompt and the there are the the doors

that you kick open the same way. Do the exact same thing where you have to do it three times with doors. Like the the cracks in the walls, like oh, yeah, you're right. Like hit it. Doors are the ones that she hits with her with her side. No, she hits it with the the X. It's like it's a very similar animation. She makes a Lara whole.

And all I can think of is like what possible benefit is there that I do this twice more? Why the only other it's pure busy work. And you know what? You know what? It's not one of those things that you can level up. The only thing you can level up is like when you have to mash X. Yeah, the thing that was already faster, that even at its base level level up

so that you don't have to mash. But the other thing you do is any boss fights. I thought a bear. That was a boss fight. Yeah, that's cool. That's nice. How can I come back? I killed it.

No, there's more bears. Oh, well, oh, there's more bears. OK, that's good. I don't know. Bobby, the Bobby Yaga DLC has culminates in a huge boss. Cool. Cool. That's good.

Good. That's an improvement. It's actually a very like it feels like the final boss of some games. Because the first game had a shitty large enemy archetype. Yeah. And that was used as a boss. I liked the the shipyard boss fight, though. God, was that one again?

The big black guy. Not I'm actually not remembering. God, whatever a boss is at the Cove, whatever a boss is big guy. It's a shit boss for me in this case. In this case, it wasn't too bad. It's the part right before I remember now. One of somebody buys it really hard. Yeah.

Yeah. OK, yeah, yeah, yeah, I never got that far. I think that's the right where I stopped right before that. All right. I didn't really do all that much. We talked about the witness. We talked about Street Fighter. We talked like Matt said more about Tomb Raider.

I mean, do you want to hear that I'm back in NFF 14? Because there's nothing to say other than I'm playing again. I'm sure I am. Good job. Oh, fuck. I played I played a little bit of that's his tag in Metal Slug. When you put it in the arcade. L.A.M.

LAM should be Lima being should be the actually my initials. So yeah, should be them. I played a little bit of Lego Marvel Avengers. I'm really enjoying that. I finished the first week. Yeah, definitely. I finished the first third of the game, which is the first Avengers movie.

That's pretty good. I got to say, though, in the Lego games where they have all the voice acting, their humor comes across a lot weaker. It's not as charming as the silent. Now, now I will maintain that the best one is Lord of the Rings because it just took the clips of the movie. And I think that's hilarious.

So no voice acting. Recording new dialogue. That's what I agree. That's wrong. Like that's not as funny. But when you're here, they have the original dialogue. OK, well, that's not straight from the movie. Wait, OK, no, but that's what I like.

Oh, OK. Well, for Lord of the Rings, it's hilarious because maybe you'd fall off the edge. You would just use the same clip of fucking Elijah. I was just going like it was hilarious to me. But I can imagine that that Avengers would be different. I found in Jurassic World and Avengers, it's a bit weaker. And there's some that are really good

where they're saying something and there's other shit going on that wasn't going on in the movie. And that really kills it. But it doesn't happen too often. A lot of the time, but the silent miming was just so great. I don't feel anything was wrong with that. Like their cutscenes pacing is like super off. Their cutscenes always end like two and a half seconds too early

where the person just finishes their sentence and it immediately cuts to black instead of having proper like cinematic timing, let it have a few seconds to sit, you know? And it sounds like just a niggle, but considering the amount of cutscenes in the game, which is to say there's a fucking lot, it is constantly. Sounds like open world one. Is it open world or is it a linear thing?

Maybe, but the game's like way lower than the space restrictions. I know, but tight FMVs and things like that? No, it's weird. No, it's weird. It's open world this one. Yeah, exactly. It's like Marvel superheroes. It's by the... Well, I'm playing the handheld one. It's by the guys who did Lego City Undercover, which is cool. Other than that, though, most of my...

Well, I played one other game other than The Witness. Matt actually passed me a code that we got from Xseed for Nitro Plus Blasters. Which I put just a little bit of time into. I only got the code very recently. You've got to teach us how to play that. It's really easy. What is Nitro Plus Plus? It's the fighting game we mentioned last time with all the characters that you know.

All the characters from Nitro Plus stuff. All the characters from that game. So the game is by Saber, Sonico, Sia. Yeah, Sonico. That's it. Crash out. Quit. There's Homura from Centering Kagura. To my Ender, level three.

There's Homura from Centering Kagura. Which one is she? She's the girl with all the swords. Okay, she's cool. Yeah, the ten one. And I Know Heart, the main character from Arcana Heart. I Know Heart, she's there too. Yeah, exactly.

So it's by Eximu, the Arcana Heart guys. And Arcana Heart is overwhelmingly complex. It's really good and we did it in no justice when we played it. And Pat, you played it a little bit. That game is intense. Yeah, it's complex. It's systems heavy. I will never underestimate how deep that system goes.

And how much of a sleeper it is in terms of just combat damage. No, it's pretty incredible in that regard. I'm not ready to start digging. Yeah. No matter what Arturo says. Don't listen to Arturo. Nitro Plus Blasters pulls that complexity way, way back. It's kind of about what you'd get in like Aquapasa, maybe...

Dengeki? About the same. I haven't put quite enough time in to be 100% sure, because Dengeki's a little bit simpler. But somewhere in that region for sure. The only complex thing is you have two assists that you pick, in addition, that aren't other characters. They're purely assists, so you always have to pick two.

And that's a hell of a... Picking one assist is always like, yeah, I'll just work that one assist into my combo. But now you're doing Marvel. Now you're picking two assists. Now it's Marvel Thoughts. The thing with Nitro Plus, that I think it fits into this new anime genre.

Like, as old anime, you're talking BlazBlue Guilty Gear and those types. Nitro Plus is old. But what I mean is the simplicity of the system seems to be in the same vein of... You mean anime fighting games. Anime fighting games. Because I was like, how the hell is BlazBlue old anime? Sorry, I'm using anime as in FGC anime.

Sure, sure, sure. Nitro Plus is an old company and really did not mean to call me old. No, no, no. I mean anime fighters. That should specify. Like post-BlazBlue fighters. Exactly. New anime in FGC terms is like... It's like, yeah, the stuff that has a way more simplified system than BlazBlue and Guilty Gear.

Like Dengeki Bunko and a lot of the stuff we're seeing. This fits right in with those. And it's... I mean, it plays solid. Nothing wrong with it. Not game-changing, but like super solid, fun game. And I'm actually quite keen to go back home and play some more of it. It's pretty good, so... Sure, we will check that out at some point.

I've just got to be at least one other character that I'm going to recognize. There might be. I feel like there's got to be. I know this just through you, the Senran character thing. You might recognize her, because she's one of the two, like, cover characters. I'm at zero, right, on this game. I know someone called Saber. No, no, you know Saber.

From Fate Stay Night? You know the girl from Fate Stay Night. Yeah, you do. She has armor. There's no way you don't know her. She has a sword, and she's blonde. She's blue. She's blonde.

Her color, her costume is blue. Does it count if I didn't know that character's name was Saber? No, you knew. No, I didn't. Well, you know, I know. You know what Fate Stay Night is. Yeah. OK, I know that Fate Stay Night exists,

but I didn't know that that character was from Fate Stay Night. OK, well, you know Sonico? No. What the fuck is Sonico? Is that a Sonico? Well, you know, I know Sonico because he's blue. You know, I know Hart. Because you played that game.

The main character from Arcana Hart. I don't know him. The pink girl. Yeah. Oh, you know that, damn it. I know you know that. You know. OK.

You'll recognize Sonico by her giant, giant headphones. Yeah. The Parasite Eve playthrough proves that you know. Yeah. It's a download complete. And yeah, the witness. It's been a while since I've played a game where. How come Sonico isn't in the witness?

You know, it's a big miss for it. Imagine you look at your shadow, and you just see these giant fucking weird anime silhouettes. Yeah, that'd be great. That's good. But yeah, I was playing it. It's been a while since I've played a game where I've just completely lost myself to time.

Sorry. Your shadow is just a sonic head with only legs sticking out, like fucking Eggman World. Yeah, like the Eggman World, yeah. I don't remember what it was, Matt. There was a game where you had this happen recently where your significant other left the house for work or whatever, and then came back in the evening.

Tokyo Otomare! Yeah, exactly. It was blood-borne and far cry. Tokyo Ogoku-ness. What the fuck happened? How was it nighttime? That's what happened. I kept looking at my watch every two hours

and being like, well, how's this happening? Holy shit. But I played a, I don't know. I wish there was an hour counter on it, because I'd love to see. On what? On the witness. There is.

Is there? Where is it? It's on Steam. I'm not playing it on Steam. Oh, well, then there isn't. Yeah. It's fucking fantastic. It's like epiphanies.

Aside from? That's what the game is. It's just constant epiphanies. Aside from not including Sonic-O? Yeah. Yeah. That is a big, I'm not going to take you down on that. I have no idea if Sonic-O is big.

Sonic-O. Sonic with an O at the end. Jonathan Braid. Jonathan Braid. Jonathan Braid. Jonathan Braid. Jonathan Braid. Jonathan Bru.

God. Jonathan. Charlotte. Jonathan blows sitting in a chair watching you play. Should be the de facto set. That was actually my only point of reference for the witness. I never looked at videos. I never looked at screenshots.

All I know is Willie just giggling over the idea of Jonathan blows sitting there. He wants to make sure everyone can make their way through it. It's actually very easy to imagine Jonathan blows sitting next to the TV watching you while you play the witness. It makes sense. Never saying anything. Because like I said, the whole thing feels like,

what was that message in Bayonetta or Wonderful 101? This is a challenge directly to you from Platinum Games. Yes. You cannot use items, you know? Catch me if you can. That's what it feels like. This is a challenge directly to you from Jonathan Blow. It's brutal, and it will stonewall you harder

Here is a Skype call straight to his house as he watches you play. And doesn't speak. He might not even be there. He watches you sleep through the crack in the door. So when you're doing a lot of the tutorial puzzles, you'll get like a little red like buzz when you fuck up and it'll just go, eh, do it again, do it better. But when you start getting into the harder, significantly

more advanced versions of every puzzles, they stop giving you any feedback at all until you've succeeded. When you succeeded, it bings and you succeeded. But if you fail, it won't, it's nothing. And sometimes you'll succeed at something and you won't even know what it does. You just succeeded. But it might do nothing, but they all do something.

Very small moment where a sequence of puzzles has the same solution, but it's teaching you different concepts. Yeah, it's awesome. Fuck. No, it's incredibly well thought out. Game is beautiful, game is absolutely gorgeous. This is what a AAA puzzle game fucking looks like. Yeah, we didn't even discuss that

because this could have been puzzle clear next. Yeah, exactly. But the difference is letting you walk around and discover it all on your own instead of using a menu or something adds a lot to it. Here's the thing though, puzzle games like this, it varies by puzzle for me. If I find a puzzle I really don't like or I don't understand,

I hate it. If I find a puzzle like it clicks, I go, yeah. But puzzle games, like your touches attack, your wild snake and all that. Those are like action puzzle games. Those are action puzzle games. Like competitive puzzle, yeah. Like if I had just a game that was just

the Renaissance art in Assassin's Creed II, where you had to spin the map, I would love that game. That's not even a puzzle. Those were so hard. What do you call it? Spin to win. You mean a puzzle. Or if every time you complete the puzzle,

Raphael Raven or Blarg go, blah, blah, blah, blah. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Oh shit. Oh, no, oh no. Over on your game, a giant brick gets in the way of your witness puzzle. Do you remember that puzzle in Braid where you have to wait for three hours

until a star crosses the sky so you can grab it? Yep. There's nothing quite like figuring out the equivalent puzzle in the witness. Because, boy, is that some shit. When you see it and you're like, how long, how long? And you just come back every now and then you come back to it and you see if it's time and you see if it's time.

And eventually it gets close. And then you wait, you just wait it out. And it's the most satisfying thing. If it's on your PC, at least it's not going to be some like you need a wired controller bullshit. What's that? If you try to do that three hour trick with a wired controller, you have to keep moving it.

And that's not going to fucking fly. Jonathan Blow hates it. Yeah, and Braid, you had to be in the same place. You had to be in that level. And the witness, open world, go do other shit while you wait. Which was a problem I ran into. Although that wasn't a mandatory thing, of course. No, it was not mandatory.

Just fabulous, fabulous game. I can't recommend it enough. If you like puzzle games at all, you'll have a blast. Man, I don't like puzzle games. And I really like this one. So, you know, there you go. It's 40 bucks. It's worth it.

There's a lot of people who are very dismissive of it because of the price tag and how it's an indie game. It should be billed lower. It is a full game. It is a full ass, long ass game. And it's great. He must have really marathoned it, huh? Dude, you can ask my girlfriend.

Like, I played it all the time. He was supposed to do the laundry. I was supposed to do the laundry. She did the laundry four times this week. That's how many clothes I went through. No. Yeah, I played it. Just peel it off his body as he plays.

Some days I played it like almost all day. It was bad, but it was the best song. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Can't save that pair. It was the blurst of times. You stupid monkeys. We have a ton of KICs in three news.

Oh, yeah. Start with the best one. What's the best one, Willie? Willie has to decide. Start with the coolest one. Action figures. Oh, I thought he was gonna say the better poop-up people. I don't know.

The better poop-up people. The best piece of KICs in three news is Kim Woo. He looks dope. Wrong. Oh, what the hell? You're completely wrong. I saw that character. She looks terrible.

You're crazy. No, she looks good. She looks way better than the original version, but she doesn't. She's not like my favorite. I don't know. She looks like crap compared to all the other new characters. Are you excited about design or?

Yeah, totally. No, you're right. Her design looks super stupid. Are you excited about heavy combo breaker flip-outs? No. The other new character. Flip-outs. Oh, yeah, for good.

The other new character. The Arbiter? The Arbiter. What a sick pick for a character. That's interesting. Liam, I talked to you this before. I'm just mad that it's Halo, because not that I dislike Halo

or I don't think it's important. I know you like Kikudo Chojin. Well, yes, I do. But it's such a safe choice. It is a safe choice, but it still gets me high. I'm glad it's the Arbiter over Master Chief. Because then you get, what's his face? Keith?

Yeah, you might get Keith, well, did you think about that? You might get Keith David recording for them. You need the voice of the Arbiter. Very likely. That would be interesting. I'd like to think so, because K-I Characters like naturally have to talk a lot

because they have quotes and whatever. And it's not like they ever lost Keith David for that character. I don't know, I always thought the Arbiter was really cool. I'm not even like a huge Halo fan. For some reason, it just tickles me pink. I'm way happier that it's him and not Master Chief. Or General Ram.

Yeah, absolutely. Or General Ram. Anyway. Because that could have easily been like, oh, Master Chief was a fucking thing. I think gameplay wise, Kim Woo looks like great. I really love the dragon thing and her dragons can just blast through all projectiles,

but she can only have four. She works a little bit like Spinal and that Spinal has the skulls. They look weird when they're floating around on her. I thought they looked really cool, actually. I was looking at the animation. But it's not, no, the animation of them looks fine, but the way they move around on the screen,

it doesn't look like they're being affected by the world. They're just kind of sliding around her. It looks unfinished a little bit. No, no, what you're describing is exactly how the skulls kind of float around with Spinal. Sort of, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I will say, though, I'm just so impressed that you took this character that was just nothing.

That was literally a nothing. A nothing clone of Maya. She's my least favorite character in the classic KIs. And then you made it interesting by making her Buffy. Yeah, no, that's the thing. Because you couldn't have both characters being like, I am the guardian of my race. That's why one of them was nothing.

It was dependent on who was talking about it. Age Kim Woo, make her a design student and make her sarcastic about saving the world. I just think that her costume's a little too similar. Like, I don't know what her classic costume will look like, but it's not going to look that much different from what they already have. She just has a longer coat.

It'll look more plastic-y. But the open coat thing, and like, long sleeve. It was cool. Yeah, that's a new thing. And I really liked her stage with the fucking, like, the big trouble in Little China, like, send out. With the bison truck that rolls in at the end. Yeah, yeah, that was great. Like, I really thought her stage looked cool too.

Also, she's doing gato kicks. She's doing chia kicks. She's got all the fucking dragon kicks that every other character has. You also forget that Kim Woo in the original games, like, she had a lot of special moves. She had more than most, actually. She had, like, all these different variants

of fireballs and kicks and things. The nunchuck flipping. There's a lot. Yeah, her nunchucks look cool too. I love nunchucks, so fuck. No, like, everyone, the crowd reacting to, like, her doing, like, the nunchuck katas or whatever, was like, oh my god, what am I looking at? That's insane. It's like, no, they're not true block strings.

It's okay. Yeah, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it, you know? So that was exciting. Yeah, that was nice to see, although I'm disappointed that they didn't have an explanation of her. It was really just the trailer. The trailer was it. Yeah, yeah.

And because we went to PAX, it used to be where we got that long explanation of Ahsako. Oh, you take a course, you take a course. Yeah, I take a course. It was a 101 class on this character. But there were Kimu matches that you could just watch people play with her. So you could, like, they had,

because they had a setup where people were learning her off-stream and then going on stream and using her proper, so you could kind of figure them stuff out. I wish KI were more popular, because they, everything other than its popularity is perfect. Yeah.

With the PC version, hopefully, you know, gains even more, like, you know, fans. No, I don't. We'll gain some for sure. I really hope the Arbiter brings in a bunch of people. Because when they debuted that trailer, or the teaser, rather, the community manager announced that that same teaser

went out at some major Halo event that was happening on the same day. Really? Possibly the X Games. Probably at PAX South. Or PAX South, yeah. One of the two. Yeah, X Games, I think.

Okay, yeah. Makes sense. Because that's like. So a bunch of unknowing Halo players just watch the KI trailer. They're really cool-looking stage, then the Arbiter a little bit, and then. Maybe Pat'll know this a bit more,

but the Arbiter is considered pretty popular in terms of Halo characters. I don't know about popularity, but like, nah, no, it's Master G. Everyone liked him, I mean. No, I know, I mean, but like, people, like people look fondly on the Arbiter. Or is he?

As far as I remember, people thought he was cool, but they wanted to play as Master G instead. Okay, that's fair. In every situation. All right, well. So, like, this announcement is from a, crazy Halo fan perspective, way better, because it's a way more interesting character

than Master G. That fits with the fighting game a bit more. But if it's from the perspective of get those Halo fans in here, like all of them are gonna be like, where's Master G? Yeah, well. There's a game for you, and it's Dead or Alive 4.

Yeah, that's also not Master G. No, I know. And that, I remember people getting mad then, that it was, it was not actually Master G. Even though it's a character that looks exact. You can dress her up like him. Her default costume is the same color. Was it the default?

Shit. Yeah, totally. Christ, then there you go. Spartan, what a 9-1-3 or whatever it was. It's not John-1-1-7, man. Yeah. So, will he is bringing up a seven page list of all the rebalancing and changes to characters?

And I'm not, we're not going through this. No, no, of course not. It's huge. Take the move change. But the universal changes that are really, that quickly that we can review are they basically, a lot of them keep the pace a lot tighter. So, like grounded combo breakers

are no longer knock down attacks, but they just knock you and flip you backwards and then the fight keeps going. Similarly. Like you land on your feet? You land on your feet. Can certain moves hit you during that? Like, can they capitalize?

No, no, no. You're invincible? It just gets them out of the combo. Exactly. Okay. Furthermore, you can't take, do things like combo break into instinct and then continue a combo. Like you used to, which was crazy.

You know what changes are really interesting? They're just like, if you make a combo and they know they can't fix it in every instance, but if you make a combo that is unbreakable, you simply will not, the game will be programmed not to let you cash out the damage. You don't cash out your damage. Yeah.

It's like this kind of. Like Skullgirls. Yeah, exactly. So there was combos that some people came up with. A lot of high level play was based on unbreakable combos. Right. You know? But you don't get the big, big damage anymore.

Jago does a throw into fireball into super uppercut and you can't break anything. Do Jago's changes? So now they change that. Jago can charge all his fireballs to be like a giant fireball. Like Sakura? Yeah.

Cool. And more like Makoto, because he can go like start up the charge and then dash cancel it. Yeah. So it just makes you scared. Does he kick the charger? No.

It just puts the fear into the pressure. All that would be crazy. And then dash it through. It would. Also Orcid can do that now too. Yeah. They gave it to like three characters, I think. You know, the ability to like do a threatening thing

and then dash in or dash out. Actually, I have all the characters. I was most excited to see Orcid because it's like, I like her a lot and she's okay. You kind of just fell off of her for a while. Well, I mean, I mean, it's just because like not like, she didn't actually have all the tools that she needed. But now like she can do her slide and before it hits,

as long as it before it hits, she can cancel it into her DP. Yeah. Which is super, super awesome. Like and, and like her fucking throw, her air throw is so cool. And they increased the fucking hitbox on it. And they made the, the like it way more viable.

Like if Kami could cancel out of spiral arrow into cancel. Yeah. Like basically it's a really fun thing. Like there's a ton of specific changes that we can't go into. Ian, did you actually look at, sorry, will you just- The Glacier stuff?

Did you actually look at this stuff? No, but like I said the other day, like I kind of fell off because I mean, I got my Xbox when season two was coming out and I was already a bit late. So I said, you know what? I'm just gonna wait till season three and now I'm very keen to look at it.

The Glacier stuff is bonkers. But Matt told me. But that's where I'm going is like everything was bonkers. And it was so fun to watch the stream because as they revealed the changes, one by one. Everyone's Omen. They revealed this live to the audience.

It's amazing. You got to hear everyone go, what the fuck did it nerf? We got to see these people react to things. And then go, oh my God, at the buffs. I want to watch that stream just for that. Dude, like every time they say it, they bring up a new character.

It's like the guy who's known for playing that character would like stand up and be in the middle of the aisle like, what'd you do to my boy? Cool. What'd you do to my boy, you know? And they're like announcing to be like everyone's like, ah, they got you. But really quickly.

Now you gotta think smart. Really quickly Liam Glacier's can now like liquidize in a puddle form and go behind you. Like he can go the entire screen and cross you up and go straight into the uppercut. Like he could in the old games. And now he can has a proper dash, but it sucks. Still, that's better than nothing.

And he can shoot out three or four, three fireballs instead of just one at a time. And each one can have a different behavior. So he's almost Omen-like. Cause they said we realized, like we made a Conrad, like a zoning character that has traps, but we realized we always had one. And it's Glacius and we didn't properly emphasize him.

So he can have three of the hails and one does the bounce. One goes straight and another one can be held behind you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's all kinds of fireballs. You know, like Sedira has like a troll head bounce that can go forever. Cool.

And like, you know, thunder. Lots of stuff. They improve this people-up people. And when he does a DP, he can no longer do like DP-DP, but he can tag three different kick-enders types. That's handy. The light semimish like is now basically invincible. So yeah, there's, again, it's a giant ass list,

but it's a proper, like super, it's a proper super turbo. I was saying to Matt the other day, this Halo partnership has to be that big one they were talking about. You remember we were talking about, like, oh, it might be Scorpion or someone. It's gotta have been this one. Yeah, that makes sense.

And you know, when I say it's safe, like it is safe, but I mean, rash is in there. So I'm fine. They picked a safe one and they picked a fucking rash. Rash's taunt is so good. It's a fucking- You know, wasn't they saying it's the longest taunt in fighting games?

Yeah, he's got his, it's, it's looks like- It's his- How long is it? Because it's like our Mika kind of thing, but it's like, he has two of them. And he's got a bunch of idol poses where he just flexes. They didn't show this. They did.

Oh, they did. Yeah, they showed both. I didn't see it. They showed both and they gave a prize to anyone who memorized it and did it live on the stream. They gave prizes for everything. It was crazy. Yeah.

Rash's taunt is a bunch of stupid like 90s dance moves, including hip thrusts. And like the hip thrust, both taunts start with either a slow gyration or a really fast pump. And like the animation is set so that you could loop them forever perfectly. Wow. So they're good for gifts.

Yeah, yeah. Doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot. Exactly. Doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot. Which is, which is the rhythm he does his ultra to. It's really good. That's so good. And with all that, I didn't get to see like, yeah,

we talked about earlier, but I didn't get to see, especially during the stream, we didn't get to see like who won the KI Cup? But whoever won, like they're $30,000. What is it? What was like the price? $30,000 was the pool. I don't know if that was the whole pool.

I think it was the whole pool. Yeah, it was the whole pool. Yeah, that's true. It might be a 70, 20, 10 situation. And we got to look at all the new figures that are kind of like unannounced ones, orchid. And I'm sorry, I'm not like sorry, Willie, but if you're wondering, I saw a quote there,

like we're actually bringing these out by character popularity. So it seems like Thunder, Riptor, and someone else will be like the last two. Oh, is Riptor that low? I can wait, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can wait.

I didn't know that. And Shadow Jago needs a fucking life-sized one, because he's the most popular character. No, no, you guys get the life-sized one. No, no, no. It's Jago. That's only regular Jago. Okay.

Shadow Jago is just a special edition, because specials are there. Because he's new and stuff. I don't know. I don't know. Don't think about it too hard. You'll get Thunder after season three. It's fine, it's fine.

The Orchid one, Liam, if you saw it, has the fire cat on her base. Oh, cool, I didn't see it yet. Oh, it's fucking cool. I love how they're posed, and also partly articulatable. Did you know why? You would think I want Thunder,

but I think an agonist one would be way more interesting. Agonist would be cool, for sure. Oh, we're gonna have a fun action figure theater. I'm really excited for it to start getting the characters I want. So, like Glacius and Sedira and stuff. That's why Glacius and Sedira,

you know, Sedira, you know, C.D. Jr. wrapped her pretty hard. She's still kind of a lower, like popular character or whatever. I like one for Rash, too. Yeah, no, like. He's got new textures. Boy, does he?

All right, and that's K.I. 3. We've got some news coming in about Meta Bot's girls mission. Yeah, what about that? Apparently, hyper attacks let you rip the girls' clothes off or something like that. K.O.F. 24 style. Okay, so there's a question.

Do the girls' clothes explode off as a result of the attack? Yes. Because he wrote, like, lets you rip their clothes off. That's a very different sentence. No, they explode off of their bodies. Okay, great.

So, I was confused because I thought this was being aimed at girls as well. I want girls to play this Meta Bot scheme type thing. I saw people commenting that their initial impression was, oh, I thought this was aimed at girls. I really thought that. No, the C rating should have been the tipper for you where you're like, wait,

that's like the borderline mature rating. Art Meta Bot's. Like how the more mature Digimon games are C rated as well in Japan. So, yeah. They're the robots, exactly. They're robots. Because this is the-

They're robot. So why are robots wearing clothes? No, the girls who control them or control them, guide them. Give them advice. I know nothing about robots. That's fine. It's like Pokemon, but replaced with Pokemon's with cartoons or robots.

So wait, why are you attacking the pilots? If I hit your Charizard with my Hydro Cannon, they blow up real big. My Hydro Cannon is so strong. And this makes even less sense. It blows up your Charizard and your bra. Okay. Sick, isn't it?

That's fucking tough. Two birds with one stone. But like, I think this is the 10th or 11th game. And I was curious, I had to like go through the archives and pull up the sales numbers. And ever since the first 3DS one, which was like the seventh or something, the sales have been having every iteration.

This is the 11th. They've been having every iteration. Oh, the Silent Hill. And like, they need to fucking do something. And this is something, but I don't think it's gonna work. We keep losing sales, double down on the niche. It'll like, it'll work once, but it's not sustainable. Yeah, cause then you're locked into that audience.

Like they'd have to double down in a different direction again. We're gonna get the foot fetishists this time. That untapped market. There's some sales there. Metabots, Rekusho, Scat Edition. People that don't have foot fetishists might like Metabots, we don't know.

Thankfully. That dial got turned way too fast. We don't wanna know. Please move on. It's a market we could do without. Yep. How about that? Metabots.

How about that Song of the Deep? And Somniac announces a new game called Song of the Deep. And Liam, what did you correctly say is the most interesting thing about this announcement? It's not a super interesting looking game. It looks all right. The most interesting thing by far is it's published by GameStop.

And. Is it digital only? No, it's a $15 game that you can buy. You can go to your GameStop and buy a boxed copy of. Do you know why that's awesome? That's shareware. Kind of all that. Little $15 boxed copies?

Yeah. But it's not. Shareware's free, man. Now I have to pay $5 for them. A radio shack? That's what you're thinking of freeware. There's a different one for it. No, no, no, no, no.

Shareware, you have to pay a little bit. You bought shareware, but then you give it to your friends. Yeah, you can. But you had to buy it in the first place. You had to buy it in the first place. Oh, okay, that's, because I never actually bought shareware. Everybody gave it to me, okay.

No, because remember, you get Doom knee deep in the dead, but that's all you got. Yeah, totally. And then you have to get all the other campaigns. Which you never ever be able to do because you had to call and mail them. Yeah, I know. That's terrible.

It's interesting. Like GameStop putting money into game development. Is that their solution? It makes sense. I mean. It's gotta be part of it, right? Yeah, they're never gonna be able to fully stop the, you know, they can't fund half of them.

They'll never fully stop the games. They can't fund half of all video games. It stops zero. They can never really fix the problem, but if they manage to fund games that are good and turn out successful, that could do really well for them. I don't think this is the one, but.

We're gonna fund a lot of games. There's a lot of that stuff. And make them all retail only. It's something to start with, for sure. I'm just glad Insomniac, maybe they want to work. It is digital as well. Oh, that's weird. You can download it, but.

They probably want to work on a small, you know, a little fun idea. Yeah, you don't have to work on it until a GameStop. Also, that means this game won't be in Walmart. Probably not. I don't know. We don't actually know the details in that regard. Just that in the press release,

it's very clear that it's published by GameStop. Weird. Very weird. Pretty neat, though. I think the game looks neat. It reminds me of a PC game back in the day, like in the early 90s, where you controlled a little submarine.

And I think you had to solve math problems. It reminds me of Aquaria that everyone got in Humble Bundles, that game. I was really excited to play that game. Well, did you play it? I played a lot of it. Did you like it? No.

Well. It reminds me that I need to go back and finish Insanely, twist a shadow upon it. That's old. Yeah. Man, you're behind. Game looks all right. You put that back on the shelf like a while ago.

Yeah. We've got a new Conan game. Striking While That Iron Is Hot. It's a new MMO. It's not a survival game. That's why it's even on the docket, because I wouldn't talk about this if it was another MMO. Conan Exiles.

I remember there was a press release not too long ago, Funcom put out. And Funcom, they're quickly realizing we need to actually put out games instead of shitty. They're a fun company. MMOs. They're not. Actually, I worked for them.

Funcom. I didn't have fun. It was actually one of the most miserable periods of my life. Because you enjoyed that Conan MMO so much. It was so bad. So here's how you get. Not so much the game, but the work.

Here's how you get me. You can craft any multiple weapon types, but if you do a lot of work, you can find some star metal. Oh. Anyway. Will any company ever finish a survival game? No.

Ever, ever, ever. Oh yeah, that's a thing. No one's actually finished one. You should name one. Daisy hasn't had zombies in over a year. That's actually not true. What? That thread was a fallacy.

What? Just a lot of people make servers with no zombies. Yeah. I thought the zombies were removed because they were broken. No, they're still in. Ah, well shit. But the game's not finished.

I was wrong. And Dean Hall is working on another game. Did you just read the title? I clicked on it. It took a while for that to come out, so don't worry about it. I thought the same thing too. Fungum put out a press release a few months ago

saying we want to leverage the Conan IP and make something else. And I was like, please, anything but an MMO where you're not allowed to play as Conan. Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft. You know where Conan was in Age of Conan? Chillin'. He was chillin' on a throne

and you can go, hi Conan, and you can wave at him. Yeah. What do you expect? Everyone to play as Conan? Yes! That's how MMOs work. It's really not. Everyone's the hero.

To fight for the glory of Chrom. It's so not. You're all Conan's fighting each other and only one Conan can come back to life. That's a movie I want to see. You're gently the one Conan. The flow of time is malleable in Conan's head. And there's only one, there's only one Chrom per server.

And he never, and he never hears your pleas. And you have to tell the server to hell with you. Then Matt would have the same problems. Like, whoa, no, I want to be the Chrom. No, I want to be Conan. Whatever. Just be a Conan. No, I want to be Falconer.

Just be a Conan. I don't want to look alike. I want to be, I want to be a Rathamon. I want to be neither. Was that your problem with the MMO that you couldn't be Conan? No, no, no. Oh, okay.

One of the many. Okay. Actually, Age of Conan did a lot of good stuff with the lore and like it felt like Hyboria. I remember there were people that like got into Matrix Online, they were like, this is bullshit, I can't play as Neo. Like, no, never.

What were you expecting? But to be fair, when people played Enter the Matrix, they were like, fuck this, where's Neo? And then they actually made an apology game. Yeah, that's what MMO was. No, but it's a significant game because important characters will die. Yeah.

Morpheus is fucking dead, bro. He died in a useless MMO. That's Canon. Canon. Useless MMO. Well, the Canon actually, since the Matrix Online shut down that that entire universe is dead.

Yeah. Which is a weird, weird cross-media thing. But Funcom recently put out the park, which was a spin-off of The Secret World, which is a little like hour or two hour survival horror thing. So I'm actually excited because to see what they actually like, survival games. Like, I get it, they're popular.

Not my favorite thing in the world, but I mean. They're the most popular. I would like one to be finished. Right behind the MOBAs. But I like the little trailer for this. It's Conan wandering the desert, looking at Hagrid as fuck. And in the FMV, like he looks like Conan. Right.

That's cool. Does he look like Arnold Schwarzenegger or other Conan? He looks like, you know, he looks like Conan. Okay. So he looks like... Arnold Schwarzenegger looks nothing like Conan. He looks anime Conan. No, the proper Conan.

Comic book Conan? Yes. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. That's actually what I meant. I don't know why I said no. She's... But yeah.

I think you said anime Conan. He did say it. I did say that. Jesus fuck. He looks like Conan O'Brien. I meant like the Conan from the cartoon, but my brain autocompleted that to anime. Oh, it's kind of an anime.

Is it Conan O'Brien? Dan, you just said that, didn't you? I did. Yeah. Anyway, I'm excited to see when they show gameplay if it's even first person or third person. That's probably first person. It's fucking Tonari no Conan.

Oh, we need an intro song with Japanese brackets. Conan. Yeah. Conan. By porno graffiti. Conan. Conan. And Falconer is so dark you can't even see him.

You just see his face and lips. It's great. Wait, no, you mean Zulu. Zulu, rather, Zulu, not Falconer. Yeah, Falconer is Zulu's black man. Man, I remember watching an episode of Conan in the cartoon anime series. Is evil-ack in it?

No. And Zulu and Conan, they're like, oh man, we're blood brothers now, and they slit their wrists and put their wrists up against each other to share each other's blood. And my mom happened to be walking through and saw that shit, and she was like,

whoa, don't do that. Don't do that. That'll, no. Don't do it with that guy. Densetsuno Barberian. Yeah, exactly. Conan, Conan, Conan, Conan. Don't forget, but what if it's Conan cross detective Conan?

Oh man, Conan cross Conan. Cross Conan. With guest starring Arthur Conan Doyle. Solve the murder. Who killed this guy? Conan did. Conan did it. Really hard.

Which one? It was me, it was me by Crom. It was me. One of my favorite comics growing up is, what if Wolverine punched Conan the Barbarian? He'd be like, ow. It's so stupid, because when he wakes up, he's like in Conan's world, and he sees red Sonya,

and of course, especially cartoon Wolverine, just shouts, Jean. I'm like, really? You can't tell red headed chicks apart? Is this a dream? What is this? Yeah, he just punches Conan in the face. That's a dream match.

I'll tell you what a real dream is. What's that? The recent tweets from KnuckleDoo's Twitter are the greatest. Me and you were giggling about this. I'm so happy. KnuckleDoo's a fighting game player who plays fighting games good.

Yep, now EMP Triforce, AKA Triforce Johnson. The hero of forever. Empire Arcadia. He doesn't pop up very often. The true Arcadia. But when he does, you better pay attention. Don't sleep on Triforce. Don't sleep on Triforce.

He's always in the background. Back in your groceries. That power glove is always plugged in. I've never worked in nine to five, man. Never. So, so, so. Enjoy this picture of me. So what happens when you never work in nine to five?

Well, what happens is you go out to dinner with KnuckleDoo, right? And, and, and, apparently, we have a tweets from like, KnuckleDoo's like, hey, a rare Triforce has appeared. He's sitting at a restaurant. Oh, he doesn't look happy.

Sitting at a restaurant about to eat some food at Triforce. Now, KnuckleDoo- Making an unhappy- KnuckleDoo left- Smiley. KnuckleDoo left EMP. So like, there, you know, he's like, he had enough of that shit

and they had a very public falling out. But anyway, so smack my head. Triforce got mad and didn't want to pay for his food. Ends up running, which leaves me no choice but to pay. Wish I was kidding. That has 700 likes, that tweet. Food was pretty expensive. I did not agree to pay for your food.

Stop it, please. Hashtag struggle. Sad face. Hashtag free Geron. Hashtag hostage. Triforce! So Triforce saw KnuckleDoo eating somewhere, sat down, ordered food,

and ran off. And KnuckleDoo had to pay. To be fair, that's a strong- Suck it with the bill! That's a strong strat. Arcadia style! Fuck, man. Oh, that Triforce.

That's drive-by-eating. Triforce just keeps digging his hole. With that power glow. Like, instead of a gun, he used his mouth. EMP Dine and Dash. God. God. I'm so happy.

Triforce should have left a picture, like a photo of himself at the table. Now, I want- And told the photo to pay for the food. Now, I need a nice five-year gap before I hear another story. Five years. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We need Triforce Shippuden. Wally, that's not gonna happen. The next Nintendo console's coming out too soon. Five years. You'll be in line here. You'll be first in line again. You'll get one this year. You'll get a new Triforce story this year.

I need a gap, and then I need the return. Yeah. Well, after the N- Whatever he does with the NX, after that, then you'll get your five-year gap. Maybe. Maybe. You know, when they update the power glove

just so that he can find something else to wear. Triforce hit by Karsu's hospital. He's that ridiculous. He could do anything. Triforce has been arrested after going to the NX event wearing only his power glove. He wore a costume that was composed of only power gloves. Yep.

That's so bad. What's this about Star Platinum and Idolmaster? Star Plat- Idolmaster Platinum stars got announced. It's fucking awesome. It's for the PS4. I really hope they have Oculus. PlayStation VR, compatibility.

This is the Idol Management Simulator, right? Like Soccer Manager. Yeah, exactly. No, it's two parts. It's the Idol Management Sim and then seeing the concerts and fucking- Is there a rhythm game or is it just the concert? Some of them have rhythm game.

This one has a rhythm game built in. So where do the magic spells and electric powers and giant battle axes come into play? They have starred in so many movies in the canon and been to so many places. There's an alternate universe where they pilot mechs called Idols and they are the masters. There's so much.

I think I once referred to it as the Capcom of Idols. Now I'm asleep. It's magic crazy stuff. Should I even be thinking about these things? It's worth thinking about. They're really good. Anyway, that game got announced. I really hope it gets localized.

Probably won't. The director left Namco today, actually. The director of the Idol Master Project. So that's kind of sad because he's been there for 10 years. Why did he leave? No reason, no reason given. He just kind of said,

I want to see Idol Master continue growing after I leave. He wants to see his little girl grow up. Looks like someone created a power gap for Harada to step in. Yeah, exactly, eh? The fucking story about how Harada fell in love with it where he was doing loke tests for Tekken two or three or something and the first Idol Master in arcades

wasn't really performing and so he sat down to play it to make it look like people were playing it, to make it look a little more popular and he hated it, he hated playing it. That's a crazy story. And after playing it for long enough, he, I guess, developed Stockholm syndrome and just fell in love with one of the characters.

He liked a bunch of the characters but he fell in love with it and now he goes to Tekken interviews with Idol Master shirts. Dude, you remember when we were watching TGS and the summer lesson thing came up and Harada had an Idol Master shirt on and I fell off the bed?

Absolutely. Like, unapologetic. He's a huge fan and for any Ace Combat fans, Ace Combat Infinity has Idol Master costumes for just this week. That has always driven me so fucking crazy. I really hope Ace Combat 7 has Idol Master costumes. It drives me so nuts because...

Tekken 7 has Idol Master costumes. Because you play Ace Combat and then you go to look at the stuff and it's fucking 900 pages of fucking Idol Master shit. It's the best. Well look, I mean, I don't care about anything that shit. Give me anything other than that. Well, while we're talking about Namco,

we might as well go into, we've got Pokken updates. Apparently, anyone who was looking forward to cool new fighting type characters joining the roster is wrong. You got Chandelure instead, which I was like, why? And then I watched the trailer and I was like, okay, no, wait. Pretty neat apparently. That's actually cool.

I feel weird about Pokken. The longer this goes on, the less I'm interested. I feel the problem is we haven't gotten our hands on it yet. I don't know. I feel like getting your hands on it is gonna suck. No, I think the bigger problem is like, man, I don't care about any of these fucking Pokemon. I know for me, it's like, I'm gonna buy it.

No question, I'm gonna buy it. I'm gonna buy that controller because it looks cool. But for me, like two things have really bummed me out about it. One of the things is obviously, I kind of wish the roster was just fighting Pokemon. Yeah, we've been there. That's one of the dumbest.

We covered that ground. No, no, that's fair to say it's one of the dumbest things. We covered that ground. I'm not gonna defend that and say it's not a dumb thing, but it's just kind of what I want. And the other thing is like the weird one player has to use the gamepad. Well, that's a real problem.

Yeah, that one has to be defendable. There's no reason that game can't have split screen and turn off the gamepad, because that's a thing they can do. But you ain't got love from Match-Amp? Seriously? Match-Amp's one of the ones that I like. Yeah, because you said you don't care about any of them.

I was like, what? No, not any. Every new one that's been announced in like the past year. Okay, okay, okay. All the post-launch ones, basically. Everything that's not from red and blue. I don't give a fuck. Eh.

Chandelure is actually pretty cool. When you have like, when you have 5,000 characters. Yeah, it's a problem where they're fucked. They have 721 or something to pick from. I only care about like 10. 151. No, like 15, maybe, tops. Should have been in ages.

Like, do I wish they're all farfetched? Yes, I wish every character was farfetched, but I'm not gonna get that. That'd be a nice version, though. It'd be a farfetched version. That'd be a good universe. You could say that it would be a farfetched version. Eh.

Doing how Maru slashes with that fucking leak. Yeah, yeah, that'd be cool. And then the other Pokemon news, of course, is, we're trying, I believe we got our first trailer for the creepy talking Pikachu thing. So good. I don't know plus that petition for DeVito. Cause I was gonna say, like my first thought was,

it shouldn't have been a Pikachu. It should have been Meowth, it should have been Hypno. I don't know. And what's your second thought? My second thought is, wait, fuck that, Danny DeVito. There you go. Danny DeVito time. I like the Pikachu doing it.

I think it's sick. I love the bit in the trailer where he speaks in his voice. And to a normal Pikachu. And then the other Pikachu just says normal Pikachu bullshit. I love that. Yeah, that's a way to get around it. Very unsettling. So it's proven canon then.

There's one Pikachu that's really smart. So the Meowth thing is a thing that can happen to any Pokemon. They can just learn. If you beat them long enough and hard enough, you can train them to just rob them. They can ride them up their station. That Christopher Robin looking kid is a slave driver.

And be a particularly useful animal slave that can do numbers. Maybe it's like the Pikachu that decided not to turn to a ride shoe. So he took the, like that evolving energy and like focused it into the English class. I don't know. Meowth got a pass for me for some reason,

but the idea that any Pokemon has the like, the capacity to be a sapient being that can speak makes everything in the Pokemon universe completely horrifying. Or the ones like Mewtwo and stuff. Well, no, because guess what? Now that that dying Arbok that's been cut in half can go, why'd you send me out?

I'm dying. Yeah, no, it makes like the ha ha slave animal thing like super overt and crazy. And that Onyx will have last words before he becomes a pile of dead rocks. Yeah. It's super freaky. At the end of the day, it's a dumb spin off

that you can ignore in a year. No. I'm really keen on it. I think it looks great. It's coming out so soon in Japan too. I wish it was already announced for localization here. Yeah, with DeVito. Well, no, they gotta wait for DeVito.

They gotta wait for DeVito. I would rather they wait for DeVito. So here's where I'm torn, right? Because yeah, like the Pokemon, the Pikachu speaks and I want to be DeVito. Everyone wants it to be DeVito, but I would actually be much happier if it was just DeVito just doing peak, like the whole time.

So he's being confused about it. Destructoids article about this is just a Photoshop, yellow naked DeVito game. I saw that. I sat at the couch. So here's what you do. Here's what you do. You bring back Aerodactyl.

You beat him until he learns how to speak English. Then you ask him, who did 9-11? This is, who killed Tupac? Every answer. Every answer. This is uncomfortable. This is not good. Did Jesus really come out of that tomb?

He knows. He'll know. Someone asked him. The worst bit, though, is you just, you know. How do they make the pyramids? You know at Nintendo, they've already decided who's doing the voice. And it's not Danny DeVito.

But if you give a shit, you should fill out that petition and don't let them get away with it. Did anyone ask Danny if he's been running? Make them fire, though. No. No. No.

At no point was he possessive. Here's the area. But Danny DeVito has voiced cartoon characters. He voiced, like, you know, that little guy in Hercules. Pikachu. Disney movie. Oh, Phil, yeah. The fantasy here is that Nintendo capitulates

and contacts Danny DeVito, who goes, what, what are you talking about? Then he goes, okay, I guess. What's a Pikachu? Pikachu's a human trash. Just trick him into saying the whole script in an episode of Always Sunny. That new trailer with the Always Sunny quotes in it

is just, just, somebody's got cut, and he trashed to plug up the whole, like, man. I'm forsaking the human race. It's so strong, man. And he's kissing a girl like Sonic at the end there. Yeah. She's kissing him.

I thought that was funny. That's such a detective thing. That's true. Like, there's something about it that's just super charming. Also charming is the new Guilty Gear Revelator character. Yeah, Cum. Super great. Cum Hei-Hun.

She's super cool. We're gonna be saying it super wrong because we don't have the Japanese adjushe. But, how long... Did I say Japanese? Because I meant to say Korean. You meant to say Korean? We're all dead on today.

We're all fucking... How long can an arc system further bury the knife in Woollie's heart? Well... I mean, look. Cum was pretty cool, though. This character's great. This character's super cool.

No, I'm not saying the character's bad. I'm just saying how... Oh, does her storyline involve her killing Bikin? Bikin will be the last character in it. Bikin will be on the cover box, dead. For the Game of the Year edition. Every new character standing on her corpse. Everyone has one of Bikin's body parts.

Did you know that Dizzy, Bridget, Zappa, and Bikin all killed each other in a mass suicide? Nice. So the new character, Cum Hye-hyun, is a giant, beefy, old guy. Who looks not unsimilar to Gokun. But when you split him open, secretly inside, he's a little girl.

There's a girl piloting it. He's piloted by a little girl. She's not like super young. No. She's like a teenager. But she's a girl. Isn't she like 20? Anyway, regardless, yeah.

Reminds me of that weird character in Bloody Roar 4 that's a little girl and an old man. Non-evil jury is piloting Gokun. Gokun, Gokun. Basically. So a girl. It's a pretty good gimmick. It's a great gimmick.

I love that one frame of animation in the screenshot where they hit animation and his mouth is wide open and you can see her face. Inside of his mouth. Like anime crying face. It's great, it's great. Weird ass design, very guilty gear. Yes, absolutely.

Definitely. And now we've got our kick watcher section, so. Kick watcher. Kick watcher. Kick back. First, okay, I'm gonna try this in one take. Root double before crime, after days, extend edition. Anyone wanna take a guess where the asterisk

in that title is? Everywhere. Crime. It's after crime, you did it. That's good. Why? How did that do it? Cause he knew.

I don't know why the asterisk's there. I don't even know what the ansterisk really is. It's a little. The thing that you put on your Rick and Morty character's eye. It's OP one for Bleach. It's a really, one of the best visual novels that has yet to be localized. I wonder why.

By some of the guys who worked on Ever17, who have of course like connections to 999 and et cetera. Does more words in a title mean more power in Japan? No, so what it was, was root double was the original game. Root double was the original game. Before crime was an expanded version. After days was an expanded version. And extend edition is this version.

Jedi Outcast. So yeah, that's basically, as far as I can see that's not happening. Yeah, instead of just changing the first one and making a new second one, just add them on. Just add them all on. No, root double before crime, after days, extend edition, Dark Forces one.

Yeah. Dash, Jedi Academy. Take it from there. No, exactly. It's Kickstarter being run by Sekai Project, who've gotten a lot of visual novels across. And the Kickstarter is for the localization of this version? Yeah, it's for the localization, exactly.

They're really close, actually. They're just $10,000 off of their $135,000. Oh, they'll make it no problem. So they're doing really good. So go check that out if you want, what is supposedly one of the best unlocalized visual novels. That will be eventually localized now.

Yeah, presumably so. Go check that shit out though. Only 69 hours left as of now. As of now? As of now. Or as of like? As of time of recording. Okay, so like 40 hours left.

As of past, not Tuesday. Yeah, exactly. So I'll check that shit out. And the other thing on our kick watch is... Kick watch. Dual gear. It's an Indiegogo, actually. It's not quite a Kickstarter, but...

The spirit remains. Yeah, dual gear, just click on this link and you will see all the things that make me happy. Somewhere between Front Mission and Valkyria Chronicles, this happened. Right, it's a tactical mecha RPG. And the action is third person, but it's turn based and it looks so fucking cool.

It makes a very strong first impression. Yeah, definitely. They're pushing very strong. As far as I could see, I only glanced at it. They're pushing for consoles for Xbox One and PS4 as well, right? Makes sense. So what we can see from the Indiegogo page

is PC is the main platform. It set it right up at the top of the video. Oh, did it set it up at the top? Okay, because it was... Do they have a sword in his hand? Yes, there we go. Yeah, PC, Mac, Xbox One, PS4. Yeah, so they're looking to make it across all majors.

The thing that I don't know is... You can... There's a demo. Yeah, there's a demo and that's gonna be down. Don't you worry, right after this. But the one thing that still makes you look at it... I'm looking and I'm tilting my head a little bit is that this is...

So it's from a dude in Thailand and it says... Which is fine. Which is fine, but it says there's two team members. And there are no names. Well, there's one name here. It's Pong-Pak Pong-Secto Gortorn. No name. And I don't know...

Bearing in mind, we have not read the Indiegogo page thoroughly, so perhaps they allude to hiring more team members on. But... But that is a curious thing. Too many people is a little bit, I don't know. That being said, everything else on this page looks fantastic. It looks gorgeous.

The designs are amazing. They're a very armored course. It has this really amazing flat look that I really like. Yeah. And the color palette is very muted on everything. It's stylish. It's everything I like about Mecca.

It's like PN09. But yeah, this is the work of two people which is fucking crazy to me. That's one program. It's probably a programmer and an artist as a dream team. Probably. And I don't know anything else about it right now. It's a neat game.

So I'm gonna stay tuned. There's 60 types of weapons. And I'm gonna put some faith in. Oh, here's some of the humans you're looking for. Oh, the pilots. Shit, they're... Well, they look... Okay, they look all right, I guess.

Can't really see their faces there. Yeah, we gotta find out a bit more about this. But I'm gonna throw a couple bucks at it. It's nifty looking, that's for sure. I would love a version of it. I would like the timeline where this exists to be my timeline. I'm gonna throw some money at this probably as well.

But I would file it directly under Straight Up Gamble. This is gambling because I have... There is no... Well, there's all the team members. Okay, we have more team members here. That's more than two. Yeah. No, wait, there are multiples.

They're duplicates? Yeah. No, there's four people on this list. Okay, there's four people. So they were underselling it. Unless... Well, that's a robot or something. Unless three of these guys are the same person.

What company is this? Our teen year old blade. It's just listed as... It's an eternity blade. Sorry, this guy ported deadly premonition to director's cut. Because I'm looking at their title history and those games are terrible. Eternal Blade is...

Deadly premonition is cool. It's ferocious. I know, I backed that on Indiegogo. Crazy Strike Bowling, Wicked Monster Blast, same deal, terrible games. So... Oh no. What are their jobs?

What are they doing? Are they artists or... Artists? Art director. Art programmer, programmer, artists. Art director, project leader. Yeah.

Cross your fingers. Gamble. Gamble. Gamble. This straight up gambling. Like straight up, you could look at Eternal Blade on the there Indiegogo and you could kind of tell that was gonna be a weaker game than this.

This looks really good. Well, I was gonna say, did the other games look as impressive as this shit? No, no, they didn't. But I'm just saying their past games do not inspire confidence in me having backed them in the past. To be fair, does have a demo.

Yes, it does. It does have a demo. And this does look significantly better right off the bat. But gamble. Yep. More research is required. Also, their writing is terrible. Yeah.

That one I will stand by. Yeah, sure. Well, this, I feel like this is gonna be like a series of missions and then like story mode. I feel like you can organize Kickstarter campaigns into Sure-Fire promise. Sure-Fire... Somewhat promising.

Don't worry. Unremarkable promising and gambling. Yeah. There's a... Below gambling is like, your money's gone. No. Don't think about it. That's what the website KickFailure is for.

Below that is Booz and Strippers, which is what happened to that. What game was that? Yeah, Ant Simulator. Ant Simulator. Yeah. I feel really bad for that guy. You sounded so crushed.

Yeah, did you see that stuff? No, no I didn't. One of the programmer on Ant Simulator came out and said, that was a very small store. Actually a cool looking game. What was it, $4,000? $4,500. Okay, so he came out and said,

hey, so all of my friends that I've had for a decade, they were my business partners. They all wrote this contract in such a way that they're all consultants, so they don't have to work on the game, but they can still spend the money, and they spent all the money on Booz and Strippers. Sick.

It's just $5,000. Yeah, well that's Booz and Strippers. But now he's paying everyone out of pocket. And he is saying, I want to have a fucking career in this industry. So I'm getting away. So I'm going to refund everyone, and I'm sorry.

I believe, yeah. I will... But that's not like... I hope you follow me on that. And they said, and they said if he finishes the game or tries to keep making it, they'll sue him. Because they're signed on the LLC agreement and stuff.

But it's not like retro games when Nintendo put millions of dollars in signed contracts, and then they just started having sex in Ferraris and crashing them off the Gorgias. It's like that, but you only have $5,000, so it goes a lot quicker. I guess so. How does a punchline become a reality?

I just... Because life imitates art. If we have one more kick watcher to add into, I backed something recently. I was just... Sorry, the last thing I wanted to say on it is, whatever happens to dual gear, that logo is the shit.

It is, it is. The logo is nice, yeah. That there was recently a... Fuck, that movie was awful. Here's a Gem in the Holograms fan film. Oh, I saw that that was going on. Kickstarter called Truly Outrageous. And do you know who plays Gem?

The same woman that... You know what? Maybe one day. Maybe one day I can be the Grover Gem model that I was on. It's the girl that played Triple H in rustling is in rustling. Oh, really?

Good pick. Good pick. Yeah, so... She was too old, no? Not really. Really? I don't know. There's photos of her in the makeup,

she looks good. How old is too old for your Gem? Yeah. I always read Gem as like the early 20s kind of age. She looks like she's in her early 20s. Anyway, they have like a really like, they have like a $12,000 goal. They're about almost halfway, 18 days left to go.

And it's still just like a fun, like they've done Gem reacts to, well, when you were allowed to, they did a video of that to the trailer of the Hollywood movie. Oh, yeah. So they did a video, like a little eight minute video and they had all these characters dressed up

as all the characters. And it was quite funny. I remember it back then. So they're basing it off that. Cool. So it's like a little half hour and then maybe like a full hour, depending on their funnyness.

So I think that looks fun. And again, I love the girl that played Ruslan isn't Ruslan. I love all those girls. So whatever. I like this new world of us not being allowed to react to things. Don't say that.

Don't react to that. Just have, you know, feelings that you thought of as a response to a thing. But keep that shit to yourself. Yeah. Unless you're part of a reacting world. There's stimuli. You get stimulated by.

Is that the next thing I'm talking about? I have her. Well, we could just continue to keep it on the fucking edge. Just keep mocking it. Keep it on the undertone as we roll into the super hot release date on February 25th. I'm going to react to that release date.

That sounds super hot. Yeah. Super hot. You know, that's a gimmick that I really thought would have worn. It's welcome by now. Still good, man. It's still rock solid and super hot.

Super hot. So that's why February what? February 25th, but it ain't the real experience until you've got a headset. I don't know, man. I played it in like a browser and that was fucking dope. Yeah, you play with a headset, it's doper. Yeah.

There's various levels of dope going on. The game that only moves when you do. Yeah. It'll take its time for you. We've also got the Final Fantasy 15 release date announcement. They're doing a presentation for Final Fantasy 15 in a few weeks now.

It's exactly one month after the super hot release date. So that's March 25th. Wait, they're going to announce, oh wait, I thought the date, I thought the release date had been announced. No. It's the announcement of when they're going to announce the release date.

They had their other, they had their monthly presentation that they do every month, you know? And this one was fucking awesome. I don't know if you watched any of it. Like it had a lot of new gameplay and a lot of new mechanics that they hadn't shown off before

and it looks really cool. And next month, instead of having another monthly thing, they announced instead it's going to be a big presentation. With the really, like, yep. How far up your own fucking ass? Really far. Do you have to fucking be the furthest ever?

It's, it's fine to have a conference talking about the game. Holy shit. But when one of those things in the conference can just simply be the release date. The small intestine. A little piece of information. Somewhere around the small intestine

and, and you're fucking. Like here's how you do it. We're gonna have a big conference. We're gonna have a big panel talking about Final Fantasy 15. It's going to be great. And to what your appetites will let you know right now that the release date of the game, be sure to tune in to the panel for even more details

and ways that we want you to make animated gifts of these assholes in a car. I actually really like the idea of assholes in a car. I like that too. Don't get me wrong. But when you ask people to do it. When was this game announced? When was this game announced?

They didn't ask people to do it, eh, Matt? People just started doing it and the producer went and made a nice PNG with assets he had and put it out. It's kind of asking. Okay, here we go. It's giving people a better avenue in which to do so.

They were like, they were doing it anyway. Announcement in May, 2006. So we are now 10 year, no, nine years and. 13 versus? Yeah, 13 versus. We are nine years and what? Eight months, maybe nine months from its original announcement.

And we're finally, they're gonna tell us that they're gonna tell us like, oh fuck, holy shit, holy shit. Don't say anything until you have a date. Just to give a date. People will be happy. I'm really happy seeing all the updates they put out. No, that's good.

But like, you know, like. Every time I see a new webm of him teleporting around and doing stuff. It always looks super cool. No, exactly. But it's like, the only thing that could have been worse than this is that we got to count down to this announcement of the announcement

of the release date. It's just really, really awkward pre-release marketing. That's always the worst. Get the countdown to the teaser for the real trailer that'll be at E3. Or whatever. The new producer, God, I forget his name, which is a bummer, because I like him a lot.

Tabata, exactly. When he took over it. It's my friend Tabata. He was pretty frank in saying he feels like a lot of people lost faith in them. And in order to regain that faith, they're doing these monthly presentations to show people, like, look, look, it's happening.

It reminds me a lot. Like, I think it's actually a good thing. In a different format of the stuff they did with 14, where they're like, ah. Like, I feel like if the presentations were shitty, I would be super cynical about it, too. But the presentations are consistently really good. No, but it has nothing to do with the presentation.

It's just like the gall to announce the announcement of release date. Like Atlas. What? Oh, yeah, you know what? Like every persona game ever. Yeah, you know what? And guess what?

Those were the worst things. Nothing will top how bad those were. No, sure. Those were the worst ever. No, you're right. Just announce it. Your head so far up your own ass that you can see where Atlas is in their own ass.

Because watching that fucking stream to get nothing. What a treat. Oh, man. What a treat. That fake news lady. When the Dancing All Night trailer started? Damn. Oh, my God.

Just invert yourself. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Wow, there's a head coming out of your ass. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. How'd you do that? You're giving birth to yourself from your ass. Danny DeVito. You just said, tell us what the release date is.

You just sunk in from the top. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. It's faster. Just caving. It's way faster. Ha, ha, ha, ha. How else are you gonna find out what you need to know? Right in there.

Oh, God. I found a release date in here. Meanwhile, if that's not 2016, that is extra horrible. Yeah, I mean, he announced a couple of times, it's gonna be 2016, so. It has to be. Right? Meanwhile.

Watch it's gonna be like 10 years to the day or some shit. Oh, that might be good. That'd be pretty amazing. Exactly. We're gonna do it, do it. The exact opposite of this news in almost every possible way

is Volition just going, fuck it. Here's Saints Row undercover, ISO. We didn't finish this one. We threw this in the garbage. For good reason, maybe. We threw this in the garbage and then later we realized we hadn't taken the garbage out in a long time and we were like,

hey, who wants to play with our garbage? So I can't remember, I mentioned it on the last podcast. I think I might have. I think we did. That they were gonna do the stream. Yes, you did, you did. So they did this awesome stream. I don't know if you guys tuned in and watched that.

It's fucking fantastic. They're good video content, just like the double fine stuff. And then at the end of it, they were like, yeah, here you go. It's out now. So you're able to go legally download this ISO. Post it on Unseen64.

And then semi-legally play it in whatever way you want. Of this not quite real game? Of this completely unfinished pre-alpha PSP game. Here's an ISO. We don't know what you're gonna do with it. Have you guys touched it? No. I really, really hope they put in this buggy ass white car

into Saints Row 5. Sorry, a little bit more context. There's a car, you crash it into stuff, it starts flying into the sky. I really hope they put this exact model into Saints Row 5. That is the exact kind of humorful thing they would do. I don't want a Saints Row 5 to come out to Wig way later. Yeah, sound effects don't play right.

The car just floats into the sky. They put out a lot in a quick amount of time. And it's like, no, no reviewers. That's a feature. That's a feature, exactly. The bug car. Pre-order now for them. Pre-order now for the Saints Row Undercover Pack.

And you get like a four hour mini campaign in this unfinished PSP graphic area. The map is right there, the whole thing. That'd be good, but you've got all your abilities. And in your playing is your nice fancy PS4, Xbox One quality character. Strong. That'd be super cool.

That's pretty strong, man. It was really weird to me, because I love Saints Row the third like a lot. And I beated it and I burned the fuck out on Saints Row. That's about right. But go, if you're curious, you can run it on a hacked PSP or the great emulator, PPSSPP.

If you have, if you have a... Is that a Super Saiyan God emulator? That's what it stands for, yeah. If you have a Vita with a hacked PSP side, it won't run, it'll crash unfortunately. Weird. But yeah, because it's unsigned. So something to do with that.

This PSP glows yellow and you're like, wow, that's really cool. Then it glows like an ugly blue and you're like, wow, that's not really as cool. But I wonder if there was like an internal mention of like... I think that Sony was super okay with this. Yeah, like exactly. Do you think Sony might not really super appreciate this

or... Yeah, I don't think they would have much to say. Yeah, I bet there's somebody at Sony who was like, please don't tell people the PSP emulators even exist. Yeah. Like the official acknowledgement in some ways or at the very least the official release of source material and files, which you can mine for Sony data,

is probably not okay. It's not big business anymore, but PSP games still release and the PSP prints are still going and like discs keep getting printed even for North America. So like North America really for what? Summit Night 5 just came out like two months ago on PSP.

I don't know what that is. It's a good ass RPG. It's ask for forgiveness. It got a retail print. Maybe it's a case of, you know, we did it and then what? Yeah, no, exactly. Like what? Are they gonna block them from making a Saints Roveda game

that they weren't gonna make? No. So, no, exactly. I don't think there's like, it's so far the PSP's life cycle that it's probably a who cares thing. They will send them a very sternly worded letter. And then they'll thumbs up them. You know what really sucks about this or not sucks,

but like in the sense that like, since this is a THQ property, it stinks that we won't see a lot of those abandoned THQ games, like other ones show up like Avengers and such. Avengers is a good one. Well, when I was there, I saw the early, like early pieces of art for Saints Road Drive by as well. Oh yeah, that one.

And there was a, there was- Oh yeah, that one got announced though officially, right? Like it was- That one got announced at that one big Nintendo thing where they announced Resident Evil Revelations and Kingdom Hearts and Metal Gear and everything and killed it. I remember there was a mock-up before,

way before the Majora's Mask 3DS mock-ups. There was an internal mock-up of like an original model 3DS that was purple with the Saints logo on it. Cause that was their, that's the Saints color. Yeah, of course. Yeah, exactly. I know.

It was pretty cool. If you've got some- Never went anywhere. Crazy, rare, abandoned wear and- Don't announce it. It's gonna super hold you to an NDA for the rest of your life. You should tell us about it

at superbestfriendcast at gmail.com. Please attach it. Yeah. And as a file on your Google Drive. Please don't attach your reactions to it unless they're for the community. No, your email will get sued for the community. You can be stimulated by it though.

We will react. But- For the community. Are re- Hey, if you see other podcasts having email sections, please tell them it's not cool to steal the super best friend cast format. Not unless they join Zybatzu World.

Yeah, Zybatzu World. Now you say that but Zybatzu World is literally a great concept. Yeah. Oostabayaz is a part of that. Can we sue Oostabayaz? Yeah, totally. It's the only way to defeat them.

Yeah. But why- Because they have no money- Brennan totally stole Woolie's format of being a black eye with dreads. Yeah. And color dreads. And he already said on his Twitter

that he's gonna copyright color dreads. Is he older than you or are you older than him? He's younger than me. Oh, then you win. Yep, yep. Yeah, he's like 15 years younger than Woolie as well. How old is he? He's like mid-20s.

Oh, how embarrassing. Me and Plague are both probably about 10 years younger than everyone thinks we are, but we're probably the same age. But here's the deal. Here's the deal. We can sue them now or we can wait for them to make more money and then take our money.

Yeah, let's do that. No, but here's the thing. Here's the thing. Plague gets paid by us. Cranky gets paid by us. Takahata physically can't make money off his work. Physically. They couldn't even fucking defend themselves in court.

Oh, good. Brennan just needs one hard accident. We just one bad bump. One bad bump. One bad bump and then he can sue us. Hey, don't jinx him. That place is fucking cursed right now. Yeah, exactly.

That's true. We need to get him on the payroll somehow. And then. Just give him a dollar. Then we strike. Hate those guys. Yeah. I hate that they're better versions of us.

They're all better. They're all more extreme versions of us. Yeah, they're like for a younger generation. Oh, God, no. That's fucked up because Liam is Liam. We're Mario and they're Sonic. Take us and insert talent. No, no.

We're Mario, they're Aero, the Acrobat. We're Sonic and they're Bubsy. Oh, no. No, they're Zero, the Kamikazes Squirrel. Oh, you can't take that back, Liam. Hey, if you want a few of them. They're Bob. We just rambled so hard.

It's the super best friend cast. We're Mr. Domino and they're YorBee. Also that joke about bugging people for email formats. Do not do that. That was a joke. Do not do that. What's our question? We can't make jokes.

That's trademarked by the fine brothers. Chatterbox. Is Chatterbox again? That's crazy. Secret Dagger. I don't know what you're talking about. Secret Dagger. All right, so Chatterbox, the person you said talks a lot.

Yeah, he does. Sends a lot the most emails. You guys keep referring to terms like nult and blech as shown in anime for those that aren't weebs. Naruto, ultimate ninja. What does that mean? Nult. Nult.

What's a shown in anime? Any anime that has a boy hero. What were those two words that you pronounced? Blech. N-A-U-L-T. Nott. And B-L-E-E-C-H. Bleach.

Blech. A shown in anime is a power fantasy similar in core tone to the most popular one that everybody would know with DBZ, where the hero is like, hey, I'm a per... I can do it. That's way too specific. Is that specific? The word shown in just means boy.

Oh. That's why I said it's a boy hero. Manga aimed at boys. Action manga aimed at young boys. The end. That's it. I feel stupid that I should have looked up what that word means because I thought it meant something different.

No. Shonen. Shoujo. OK. They're usually pretty tame as part of their problem. We got them. I thought the format was the word shown in. I didn't think the shown in the word meant boy.

OK. OK. We got an awesome one from Jordan. Hey, guys. Thought you might enjoy a little trivia. The game is name that code name. OK. And the object of the game is to name as many consoles

handhelds with their development codes names as possible. Oh, jeez. I'm going to give you... That's rough. OK. OK. So don't look. Don't look.

You cheater. I'm not looking. I'm not looking. I see your glasses reflection. I'm looking at the screen, but I'm not looking at the words. I see your reflection. He's got glasses. That's too far away.

I'm going to read out a code name. And let's see how many you can get. All right. OK. All right. Let's do it. All right. I can do some, but not a lot.

I can do like all the mainstream ones, but not like the turbo graphics or something. All right. All right. Mercury. I don't know what that is. Saturn? Saturn, isn't it?

No. No, Saturn's was Neptune or something like that. Close, but no cigar. Is that the master system? No. Getting closer. It has to be Sega though. Genesis?

The Game Gear? I don't know. Game Gear. Game Gear, yeah. Oh, OK. Xenon. Oh, that's the Xbox 360. U.S., I don't know, yeah.

Dot Matrix Game. Game.com? No. Dot Matrix Game, Game Boy. Game Boy. Wow. Nice. Nice.

Nido. That's what it says on the Game Boy. I see it. Also, DMG. Yeah. Atlantis. That's, I don't know, is that the Saturn? Advance.

Game Boy Advance? Ah, Shucks. Yeah. NGP. Oh, it's PSP. That's the Vita. No, it's the Vita. God damn it, I'm so stupid.

Not the Neo Geo Pocket. It's the Next Generation Portable. No, I was about to say the Neo Geo Pocket. That's fucked, but yeah. It's the Next Generation Portable. That's totally right. Project Reality. N64.

Of course. White Belt slash Black Belt. Dreamcast. Black Belt. Dreamcast. Dreamcast was Katana, man. But it was also Katana. No, Dreamcast.

OK. Because they had an American side and a Japanese side. That's fucking nuts. And one was Black Belt, one was White Belt. And one was Katana. But Katana was all, it was another code name. That's so weird. Yeah.

I wish it was called Katana. Durango. Oh, Durango is the Xbox One. That's right, Pat. Yeah. Yeah, it was. No, Kinect was Natal, I'm retarded. Yeah, it was Durango.

It was Durango and Orbis. Yeah. Fuck, no, OK. Xenon threw me off for some reason. But you were part of those email threads. I'm retarded. Yeah, no, I absolutely know that. And the original Xbox was the Direct Xbox.

I want one of these. It's the most fucking, oh, they're so lazy. I want one of these to be attributed to the Yucama Game Sphere. No. Orbis. I just said it was the PS4. Mark V. The Mark V?

Mark V. Game key? Mark V. It's not a game key. That was Dolphin. Is that the TurboGrafx? No. Retron? This one, I had no idea.

Yeah, what is it? Genesis. Oh, wow. Why Mark V? Probably because they had four other Marks. Interesting. Interesting. That's pretty cool.

Marking real hard. You don't have the really easy ones in there like Dolphin. I didn't see Dolphin. I didn't see Nitro. I didn't see Revolution. Yeah. Which one's Cafe? It was Wii U.

Really? Yeah. It was good. It was a funny email. What was the Wii? Revolution. Revolution, yeah. RVT.

RV, yeah. Yeah, if you look at Nintendo game carts, the old part of the old code name is part of their number. OK, so Flea Doctor Bathroom wants to know, have 60 FPS always been the dream for video games, or is it only required now that it can be done? No, like 60 FPS existed way the fuck back as soon as PCs existed. It was never a standard though. Never a standard. Never.

The first time. The first time. Ocarina of Time runs at 14 FPS. Virtual Hyde Lied dips to four. The first time I ever kind of heard what that term meant and then actually played a game and went, oh, that's why this looks like that, is fucking Sega Soccer Slam. Because it ran at 60. And I remember on the back of the box,

it was like the first game I can remember, that like a console at least, that said like 60 frames per second, you know, whatever. It was bragging about it. And you put it on, you're like, oh, that's why this image looks so smooth. And I went, that's where I click on my head. That's what that means. PCs in arcade games often ran or could run games at 60. And that was one of those things where, you know, you bring it home and it's like,

oh, this doesn't look as good as the arcade. And beyond the obvious differences. So the requirement, quote unquote, only existed once it was achieved. Also, it's not even the dream now. The dream now is 144 for crazy people, which is great. Which is on human eyes. Super crazy. Not these crazy people.

144 FPS is like one of the most ridiculous, not standards. There are a minority of people expecting anything beyond that. Like, go sell that to those people. It's not even about that. It's about like games. A lot of games just aren't optimized enough. No, most, the vast majority or not. The vast majority can't get all their computations within that amount of time.

With modern machines, Unreal 3 games can do it. And at that point, it's almost like not of, it's almost like just a feeling at that point. You know what I mean? It's not even visual. No, I mean, it's perceptible, but it's, you know. 120 is the hyperminority. Anything above 120 who are not detecting with this human eye. I actually don't know about that.

I don't know about that. I don't know about that. I bet it's possible. I bet people could tell. Not you or I. Jimmy wants to know what your favorite Sentai transformation is. I don't know, fucking Sailor Mars. That's precisely Sentai.

It's magical girl. I know. You guys go because there's one that's to me hands down. Wonderful 101. The greatest of all time. I like it when the Power Rangers, Billy yells out Triceratops, because I have a friend of mine that looks like Billy and we make fun of him for that shit all the time. But that's the reason I different Billy, not the Billy, you guys know, green range over

the top. Amazing, fucking crazy, awesome one for me is Karris because it's not fair changes every time. That's not fair. And it's always the one that's the kick is not like always to the next level and it's never the same thing. And then and then in the complete opposite direction is a Barry killer who is the White Ranger, White Dino Thunder Ranger, quote unquote in Japan, where the guy who transforms

into him. Everyone else does their big pose, pose, pose, transform. And he just barely lifts his hands up and doesn't even give a shit. And he just goes change and teleports, he's like, fuck this shit. It's awesome. I like beautiful Joe. I always like beautiful Joe. Yeah, that's cool.

When the mask comes out. Liam equals AJ Styles. What? No. I just watched Royal Rumble 2016 and realized if Liam was more muscular and got tattooed. Oh, I can see this. He'd look exactly like AJ Styles. I can see you look like.

It just looks a little older. Let's pull it up. Let's pull it up. Does he have a picture attached or are you just looking for it? I'm grabbing one. Hold on. Let's just type in. Let's take a look.

It depends. Depends on the picture. That picture. That picture. Kind of. Yeah, it's possible. Depends on the picture. But that picture has large portions of his face obscured.

That's true. But then you look at something with his short hair, like right there, he's got the bell. Yeah, no way. No, no. The short hair stuff, definitely not. The thing we're saying with a rustler is like, unless you're talking about John Cena, most rustlers actually change and have different looks. No, you're crazy.

It's a pointless comparison to making a world with Gotier. A world with Gotier or Gotier or whatever. John Cena changes. Yeah, he wears different color shirts. I got. That's different forms. Yeah, that's different. And last one is just informative.

Okay. Let's get informed. Know a body says, hey, super best meta friends. Like no body. Know a body. Know a body. Also, that last email was addressed to horseporn.com. Good.

Good. Thank you. I'm glad I got through. Perfect. Glad horseporn.com's forwarding our emails. Recently, in your FF10 playthrough, Seymour asked you to marry and then walked off. In the Ravens Cry video, you used William Taylor as the intro and outro song. This is a shanty about a guy who proposes to his girl and then walks off.

The girl then tracks him down and shoots him. Not sure if it was planned, but I wanted to call attention to it. That's weird. Interesting. It was not planned at all. I just looked for Assassin's Creed seed shanties and just put it on for the video. That would be cool if Yuna tracks Seymour down and then shot him with a gun that she totally has.

Yeah. Well, later. Later. Almost happened. Shoots him with a gun. And then kisses pain and I get happy. Well, man. This is the ballad of Seymour Taylor.

Oh, man, can I explain something that I saw a lot of people confused about when I was talking about JoJo Stands last week? I don't remember. I talked about how happy I was in one of the parts that a character in JoJo just pulls out a gun. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they said, well, what about whole horse? Like, no, whole horse's stand is a magic gun.

Yeah. I'm talking about a character, Enigma Boy, where he has the paper folding thing. Yeah. And he uses the paper folding thing to pull out a gun. Yeah. And just shoot someone. Yeah. Because, like, Stands are cool and all.

But guns are handy. But anyone that's not start platinum fast or whatever is susceptible to be shot with a gun. That's correct. Yeah. So I was very happy. I wish there were more characters that just shot each other with guns. Fair enough.

I say that about rustling a lot, too. Part four is pretty good. Also, I like that thing that JoJo does with the gun in part five, the banana. The gun banana. Yeah. The only rustler I think to got a gun was Brian Pillman. And he got in trouble for that. Yeah, he got in trouble.

That was bad. Boss Man looks like he's packing at all times. No, he only has a night stick. I know. But you feel like he's got the gun aura. You know, like if you're watching Boss Man in the ring and suddenly the screen pops. And you're like, holy shit. And you came back on the metal gear, items, weapon selects.

And he's like, roll down to a femmath. And now you have to assume that Boss Man had a car had a had a gun in the car that he used to drag Big Show's father's casket. Yeah, I believe that. I believe that. Which is only bad ass is dragged around coffins and chains. I feel like that's something that would happen in Madden Town. He's in good company, really.

Beyond the grave, the Terminator. Yeah. Boss Man. Big Boss Man. I was talking to somebody about like the dumb wrestling shit. I was like, man, Scooby Doo and Robocop happened in the same year. It did. It's true.

Robocop. Like all sort. Like when you connect the dots, Robocop is you remember that it couldn't be more official because J.R. Called that. Yeah. He called the match for Robocop showed up. Also, the Terminators appear.

There's a bunch of stupid dumb shit at WrestleMania last year, which means Robocop takes place in the Terminator universe, which we already do because of the game. That's right. Which takes place in the Triple H universe. Lil Mac exists in the same universe as Mark Henry's hand son. Do it. I did it. Mike Tyson.

Done. That's the way. There you go. Amazing. You could go way further with that. Okay. Yeah. Because.

Oh my God. Metal gears in there. Don't forget snakes in there. Don't forget snake links up with Assassin's Creed and that links up with all of history. That's a good one. That's a good one, too. Ezio then connects to Crush Hour. Yeah.

Directly. Yeah. It makes you shock that why was there not an Ezio car. And it means the Terminator is a snatcher. Wait. No. Wait. No.

Hold on. Because Ezio was in Soul Calibur. So that was also and Soul Calibur had Darth Vader was in Soul Calibur. So Yoda is a part of the WWE universe and then Thanos comes in. No way. Wait. No. No.

Disney owns Marvel. Yoda was in Lego. Wait. They didn't cross over yet. Harry Potter was in Lego. Hold on. They didn't cross over yet. Hold on.

Okay. Who connected to Star Wars? Soul Calibur? Yes. Soul Calibur. Okay. Is there any Star Wars thing? Lego Star Wars.

Because all you have to do is touch anything to Kingdom Hearts and the whole universe just implodes on it. Cloud. Cloud. Smash Brothers. Smash Brothers. A bunch of stuff. Yeah.

Back it up. And Cloud was in Kingdom Hearts with everything in Disney ever. Jack Sparrow. But there was no Star Wars at the time. Tron. Which means? Yeah. Tron was in there.

Tron. The Skynet is Tron. No. Oh, man. You can connect everything. If you try hard now. Sebastian is in the same world as John Cena. As John Cena.

This is canon and confirmed. It's canon. We did it. Just follow the money. We did it. Follow the money. That was a good pull on Cloud. There you go.

That solves it. There you go. That solves it all. That's not a bad line. Up in that mystery where that famous elevator meeting between Disney and Square. Because in Kingdom Hearts. Cloud is jumping worlds. So we go back to that elevator meeting between Disney and Square, and then like McMahon is

also in the elevator and Sakurai standing behind them? Here James Arnold Taylor played Titus and FF 10. Oh, but now it's a voice. No, no, no. Titus was in DeCidia with Cloud. Yeah. And also played Michelangelo. But no, he sees a voice though.

No, no, that's voice. That's gotta be the character. That's gotta be the character. Because it's the characters in the universe. It's gotta be the essence of the character. Raiden was in PlayStation All-Star. Oh, man. Oh, man.

The rap of the rapper. And Sackboy was in PlayStation All-Stars, and Sackboy was in 3D dock game heroes where the president of the United States was in. Michael Wilson. Michael Wilson. And in the WWE universe, Michael Wilson is the president. You could lobby that. Yes.

He had a term. Smash Brothers, PlayStation All-Stars. And the Moonlight Greatsword was in that. Yep. And I was also in Ninja Blade, where Michael Wilson's father fought a ninja. So we're in the age of fire right now? Smash Brothers, PlayStation All-Stars, and Dream Mix TV fighters are all in the same game.

I had that one in my mind. They're all in the same universe. Because Snake's in both. Yeah, he is. He's not in PlayStation, but Ryden is. Ryden's in PlayStation All-Stars, yeah. They're everything. Optimus Prime is in Dream Mix.

Yep. Bomberman as well. So is Simon Belmont. Yep. Simon Belmont's in a lot of games too. Simon Belmont is in... He's in Captain N, the Game Master. That means you get Nester.

And that dog? Nester was in Nintendo Power. Oh, man. Nintendo Power. What? Like when I'm... There's a zapper in Captain N, yep. Is it a duck hunt dog?

And Nicholas Pickles had a zapper on the wall behind him. That was in his main characteristic. And Nicholas Pickles' show was on YTV, which had Shang Tsung as a host on The Zone. That's true. And The Zone was secretly about Chemtrail. Yes, Snit was an allegory for that. When I came up with this Scooby-Doo, WWE, Robocop thing, I didn't realize how far it went.

You didn't know. Dude, the hole goes... The rabbit hole's quite deep. And that 70's show exists in the WWE Universe through the Robocop thing because of Clarence Boddaker. Also, Clarence Boddaker was in Rambo 3, so Rambo, throw him in there. And we're an instant jump away from... And Robocop fought the Terminator, who also fought a Predator, and Batman, and Magnus Robot

Fighter. We're an instant jump to Tatsunoko versus Captain N. Oh, you know what? Spawn fought Bad Rock. That goes to Disney Infinity. No, I know. Marvel goes to Street Fighter 7, which then opens up the Image Universe. Marvel vs. Capcom 3 has all the heroes and heralds cards, with Blood Spot.

So Mega Man, Iron Man teamed up with Magnus Robot Fighter, X-O Man of War. So the Maverick virus is an alternate dimension of Skynet? No. Created by Wily instead of... Ywee. Ywee. And Shadowhawk teamed up with Spawn. He teamed up with Savage Dragon, which had a cartoon, the same time that the Barbarian

on Street Fighter, the Warrior King, and the Warrior King, and the Warrior King was everywhere. So Warrior King and Parappa Rappa, same universe confirmed. So Warrior King and Parappa Rappa, the Warrior King, and Parappa Rappa, the Warrior King, and Parappa Rappa, the Warrior King, and Parappa Rappa, the Warrior King, and Parappa Rappa, the Warrior King.