Castle Super Beast - SBFC 232: Get Ready For The Next Chad

Episode Date: February 6, 2018

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That that that's that's us going live right there Yeah, so you're supposed to write as right as the clicky click right. Yeah So here we go. What's up? Speaking of clicky sandwich clicky clicks. Yeah, you got we brought that with you right now. Okay. That has his hands full of you have to right now. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. So Matt is handing me the Atari standard controller right here. And this is unwieldy. Yes. This is how you like in their shoulder buttons like the world before ergonomic was a term that we would use Super Nintendo controller at the time was ergonomic. There's no shoulder buttons.

There's they're not. I know I feel like there should be because we're supposed to your fingers supposed to go on the top like it's like I can't I have to it's hard to explain it. So I mean this is a visual and it sucks but it's like my normal resting hands are like let's see they're here right which is basically away from where the d-pad is and away from where the buttons are and to do either of these things I have to reach over really far into the controller to press these buttons and that's and that's my giant manhands I have. Oh also I remember there will be fighting games that have attacks on the numerical keypad that's not a there is a fighting game that's like no punch there pressing the zero button is like the maximum of my my thumbs

length while also like hurting my bones yeah to reach into it so rocky the real rocky wow came over and I said here you go and I go this is the worst like default controller for a majorish console I think in the world and he goes yeah it's pretty bad but then he said something similar to like what one of you said is like but there was a controller I remember that had like a weird dial and then a bunch of numbers below which I think was the in television or whatever we talked about last time and I'm like that was he's like I just have a vague memory of as a kid just being no this is the worst but this is really bad this is this is unbelievably terrible because unlike the in television or whatever console that was those were basic games this had like

fighting games this had like doom nothing here it's so weird because nothing here is placed in a way where a hand would naturally rest it's like maybe a horse can use it you know nothing about this is showing you like like like this is where the default hand would rest on this and smaller hands are fucked also like it's so kind of big but it's like hollow yeah you know yeah it's it actually is is surprisingly light for the for the size of it wow jaguar well you had you had a name and a logo so there's that um I want to get hands on but I got to wash my hands because I don't want my dirty disease on nom nom yeah it's a good sandwich man yeah it is all right we never said anything about it we don't care that's fine um remember right before we started the podcast

you were talking mad shit about that sandwich I don't uh so hey you know what we should my my thing is all fucked up I gotta lean on it's hey we all right that's this is fine this is more than fine I'm rapping with the kids and whatnot let me touch the the horrible yeah I need it all right get it over only you have to touch it again to get it to me yeah Pat does it whoa I almost died you're okay thankfully just passing the controller across the table almost killed Matt it was worth it though all right here you go give me the cord too yeah all of it all up in there oh my god yeah yeah that's that's what we're dealing with this really does feel like it's had shoulder buttons but yeah it doesn't hold it up hold it up in a way so that like you can yeah

I want to see where your thumbs are in relative position to like so I can get the buttons but they're splayed wrong they're going really hard diagonal I did I did it's not a d-pad it's not it's a it's a it's a disc it's a disc it's like the the a shittier version of what the original 360 controller had yeah I think so but like the bottom ones are just unreachable and they're horrible like plastic phone nubs yeah I hate it uh this is an extremely hateable controller I uh I'll can you help me by getting the wire no okay I want to like review the jaguar where I never play any games on it because that's not the point I just because it's the cheapest console like the the entire console feels like this it feels hollow and cheap and plastic yeah it

feels like an uya uya actually felt like the total opposite of that it's like a weird brick metallic cube like the uya feels really heavy oh oh my god but the uya that comic out from under there that's the problem that might be helping but the uya actually yeah maybe maybe move that comic I can't see it the uya actually had a smaller controller here I mean the atmosphere of the uya you know like yeah fine fine uh anyway this this struggle woolly is having with this camera that is not gonna stay I've never gotten this camera stand it's fine it's so top loaded yeah cameras on and on it gets thinner and thinner as it goes down like it's like a nail mp3 files don't have cameras what are you talking about woolly you just held up a controller to a camera

and said look at this look at it I didn't do anything yeah I am a sound fight in an mp3 file oh he's backing even further away playing into your ears this is not even me we're not even real people this is just like a recording of a sound would you say we are something of a robotic simulacrum at this current time sure even if you're catching this live you're not really watching us you're watching like pixels you know it always blew on a monitor when you'd watch like a live like hockey game or like a live wrestling show and then you're like wait a second is this actually several minutes behind because of the way broadcast works probably it's it is well raw yeah it was raw was they would delay that in case someone took their titties out like the rocker yeah

rocked put those titties away wait we talked about this remember there's a time where the rock wore a shirt to the ring to fight like for three months that's a bad idea surgery oh is that why you got peck implants or something oh put your shirt on and go do diehard again you gotta delay raw in case hmo's are evil or that uh so i mean like the before we even get into any any of that because i'm assuming you guys saw that what the rock fucking doing diehard i did no oh he's got a nice scraper he's doing oh i saw the para parabolic yeah diagram of that poster but i didn't see he's climbing nakatomi plaza oh it's really like they're like being from one thing and they're like what do we can we what do we do to make this not so diehard rock hard uh that's a that's the

wrong type of movie take the he's got he's missing a leg parody is called is he missing a leg he's missing a leg kater stillman climbing a fucking well that is a one-upping of diehard for not having functional he's terry foxing it yeah that's cool so he's like a cyborg basically gonna get an oscar for that um we should probably probably say thank you for 700 000 subscribers hey oh for the youtube channel yes i thought you meant for the podcast i'm like wow the podcast is wow that's crazy no hey hey thanks everybody who's subbed including what is likely 18 to 25 000 chinese robots possibly uh thanks to you robots who's to say but either way um we appreciate it greatly well because i didn't want to be all celebrative because remember every time we would

get like set it over a number youtube would roll out some bullshit oh yeah hey we're deleting a bunch of fake accounts it just happens for sure knock your shit down yeah but hey but it felt like it might be nice to just tell people also the blaze blue video also helped dramatically definitely yes yes obviously but uh but blaze community also the sandbagging of catwoman is also of course contributed to these subs but but either way the the we're just talking about that change today that youtube made so our videos will be even harder to find from now on the glacial and steady pace i wouldn't call it glacial i would 100 000 every every youtube pr guy i've ever talked about described as great every one of our youtube friends is like guys why am i passing you

right now like there's max mother's basement all running half a window printing takahata and crew are like what get in losers yeah and we're like now we'll just we're going subbing hey man that turtle won that race in the end and then the fox died because he wouldn't make work like the ants i may have and and then the scorpion stung the frog and everybody drowned the nuts the nuts the nuts that the thing kept that one that's the thing the kept because the other guy didn't want to work hard yeah that's the ants right and then the i think there's a similar one with the bear slept all winter and then he came out and killed whoever that's the moral of the story and little yeah so that's man big ups to thomas to make in that video the world's first dog-based halo

jump uh if you haven't seen it on twitter uh trongasm aka mom made just gotta click it hey it took footage of the littlest hobo from last week and just overlaid the audio of a snake eater and it was oh man that just yeah that just completely perfectly matches up i didn't see the video but i'm like yes of course it was beautiful move to the back and as soon as he lands drop off in 10 seconds as soon as the dog like pa as soon as pa's touch ground a game by hideo could you if only littlest hobo was looking down yeah the badass dog pose and then look this little doggy gas mask and then it's ridin yeah i think we'll actually get to have that moment with uh with that stranding like the the the fucking the the cool like hero shot he's gonna have he's gonna have

maybe one nod right because you have to but i i can see him being like that's behind me i worry that the game is gonna be too much like metal here i'm i'm gonna i'm worried that it's not gonna be enough no no no no no no no i feel like there's a very small chance of that because you have to remember this guy's been trying to break out of that franchise yeah why would you go and when in the last time he did he made the most the weirdest stupid handheld game ever he's really trying to get away from it i now the last one was lunar nights which wasn't really a bit bucked i was like i i don't know if he's talked about the concept uh and in terms of where it came from and and such but i in my head he must have been thinking about this for like 15 years

yeah probably like think so you know what i mean and like we know any like when you uh have one of those ideas stirring in your head for 15 years you basically got a game of thrones it in your head along the way and i don't know what that means what do you mean game of you mean you mean you world build and you just don't finish it you world build to the point of absurdity and then you choose a slice to represent the plot that you want to tell um but there's so much living and breathing in your head about this world because you've been in it for over a decade um that like the moment you kind of go like but like i'm sure there's like an abundance of ideas for gameplay and he's just kind of like picking out of this giant you know wiki bubble in his head

because again you've been world building for that long and when it's a game you also have to kind of think of something that's like possible yeah of course because you're writing you can write whatever complete speculation he could have just bullshitted and came up with the idea last year but i i i imagine this is the case because we know he wanted mgs2 to be his last mgs every single metal gear game like starting with sense of liberty every game starting with sense of liberty ends with a final ending that has like a big speech to carry the series off and then it's like that's weird because metal gear 2 just ends so like the means there has to be a sequel right but like let's say he's like well that's it solid though yeah solid too that's it for me though

like i'm done the last time he did that then they made snakes revenge with a team that had barely worked on the first two games he was like i have to fucking yeah fix this god damn out of retirement god damn it yeah so no no for sure but uh either way i i i have a lot of confidence that like his pent-up ideas are gonna come bursting forth splooging spewing yeah yeah glopping perhaps even because he's had so long to think about it that's what i say i don't advocate the use of glopping you wouldn't now ropy streams yes glopping ropes that's just a loot you can count ropes that's true yeah ropy ideas just shoot out a bunch of ideas and see what sticks where they stay where they stay they all stick where do you want my ideas to go one of the all right on top of the

tv okay there you go i don't know all right i'm very disappointed uh oh jaguar then to ropy ideas no jaguar then to littles tow boat then to death strandy yep hey strands how about that so anyway um oh there there was a there was a there was a football this weekend what and during the football there was a lot of trailers for stuff yeah so uh a whole lot of what we talk about should probably be about some of that there's some stuff there there's some stuff we're talking about there a football you but uh but first before the football uh there was a week oh oh and in it things occurred oh so hey man let's start with what happened hey man i'm looking across the table at you i passed that jaguar controller are you wearing your own shirt no i'm wearing stop skeletons

from fighting okay what's wrong with your shirt i'm wearing in my own shirt that's cool no it's cool oh my god i thought i thought i was gonna get let's get sorry woolly versus shirt no i was i was gonna i was gonna say why you covering it up fucking let's you know like yeah i don't know stups talks about his best shirt yeah available on the internet um yeah no i passed the the jaguar shoulder to rocky because he came over and streamed a bunch of n64 games with me and not any good ones really he was like uh my cousin has smashed so he can't play smash but i brought mario 64 though nice and he hands me the cartridges and i'm like why is this the japanese version oh because i have the japanese version do you not have a japanese n64 no no i don't he's like oh well i do but i thought

you did i guess i just thought you might have one but he's like do you have any pliers to cut off grab the screwdriver i'm like and we looked i'm like not one's powerful enough because we can just yeah and he's like okay i guess we won't play mario 64 i'm like do you have perfect dark he's like no neither do i all right wow well thought out nukem zero hour and flying dragon it is yeah uh but no we played we saw a golden sd mode uh we actually did not do sd mode we did like real it realism mode you know what that that held up that wasn't too bad i was like expecting way way worse no i was like whoa that's i mean it's a it's a faster it's like kind of a meld of tecan and virtual fighter but it was fast i remember it being like just nukem zero hour

yeah third person shooter hmm you played the multiplayer that was bad okay never mind that the first the person part of i thought i thought you were saying flying dragon held up and i was like what yes oh wow that's what you're saying oh yeah i said mix of virtual okay not a man do nukem yeah well look is good then you jumped in he jumped over at that and i was like what no flying dragon was okay we're having two conversations here all right so flying dragon from to me was hot ass in the caliber of gas fighters next stream but but but what you're saying is it played a little bit tighter than that yes okay the realism mode at least i don't know if sd was any worse because i feel as if like in my head i kind of had tears right and there was like i thought he meant like

in your eyes no no no in like in like in bad n64 fighters there's tears and i think there's an upper echelon that is like mace and dark rift you know those are like amongst the less of the least shit and then you get into the muck and and flying dragon and and gas fighters next stream and dual heroes uh destiny that's upper tier fighters destiny is absolutely i would say this was below fighters destiny above a lot of others fighters destiny is almost like it's all it's not fair no it's not no because fighters destiny is actually good yeah that doesn't count you can't put that in that but it's still fighting no it's still it's those in n64 fighter anyway uh i held up on goal and i pretty well i just assume rocky would destroy me but it did really well but he was

like well you know we don't smash here so i destroy you smash i'm like yeah you probably would but that was still really fun uh i played a bit more celeste really glad i got slow beef on celeste he had no idea what it was i saw that um and i always like it like hey slow beef play this game now hey slow beef play this game now hey slow beef play a barbarian fine okay he plays it and i see the video gets uploaded it's like 45 minutes i'm like oh yeah yeah he didn't like that yeah yeah but uh when uh celeste went up i saw like two hours and i was like yeah he likes it i and he played iconoclast too a lot of great indie games coming out i mean iconoclast has been in the oven for fucking ever like every other indie game seven years is the name is the metric after noi

to love to devolution but owl boy was like five years and celeste even goes back like the celeste was like a prototype game from like 10 years ago or something a game jam so all this stuff just happens like that but yeah i played a bit more celeste i i got into it and um not sure if i'll beat that that has like super meat boy style like try these like you finish the game but try these things if you're crazy yeah try these like two b sides and like all these other like super tough levels golden eyes interesting because when i think about like when i think about like perfect dark's better but golden eyes still look good golden eye is no but here's the thing about it though oh yeah uh and this might just be crazy nostalgia all right i feel like that's a

game where the the controller just felt optimal like that was a game that maybe really like and get the n64 controller and it's crazy in a way but i also think that that made me associate the feeling of like a thin like nunchuck with the stick on it with nintendo you know what i mean like because then they brought it back because i uh i like the middle prong with the stick i get i i get what you're saying but you didn't you didn't play the the n64 stuff that much you didn't like it right you didn't like that can i know you never like that controller i well you were always a sony guy it wasn't even sony it's like i played doom and heretic and all those games on the pc and moving from click with your right index finger to shoot yeah to to pull with your left index

finger to shoot yeah it that that is the weirdest ever uh i obviously and like even even like i'm thinking back on like uh quake two for the playstation uh had a playstation one yeah for i think for the ps1 had like dual analog support of what we would think of now and just like yeah using your left finger to shoot it was always the weirdest fucking thing in the world to me i mean i'm you know like prior to that not prior to that but like i'm thinking about like fps is from early early on like wolfenstein and shit where it's just like okay use your fucking you know number well there's user there's no movement there's not complicated yeah yeah um fine but but no but the user keyboard there but anyway i i felt like like as someone

that wasn't playing pc fps's at the time that like gold and i really kind of got me to understand the controller well i mean it was the first time i can remember 64 is what got me like it came out and i think it was the first time you could play a shooter on a console and also you could fucking strafe right you could look and also you could move to the left and right at the same time right whereas like doom and wolfenstein and that turkey fucking game with the noah that and the checks game those fucking things the super nintendo ones but you didn't have two movement controls you had forward and you had turn so you couldn't strafe and in golden eye you you could absolutely fucking strafe you could use the the c c button c button to properly strafe

i'm not sure if there's any other control schemes on golden eye because it the defaults fine but going through a bunch of other n64 games it's shocking the amount of other first-person shooters that in the control schemes there will be like do you like your control scheme shaken yeah so so many we're like we need to just have how golden eye works i'm good i yeah we just need to have like fuck that just golden eye people need their control scheme 100 and a lot of time they throw a bit of shade on them by labeling the golden eye control scheme arcade or sometimes yeah newbies sure sure so our controls are advanced yeah for large boys and smaller men and well because that was also the era of like developers basically going hey there's nothing set in stone in terms of like

habits yet so i've designed the optimal controls i think and i think you gamers need to that shit still happens right i forget i'm imposing it because i know this is better i was so intense because you because i've been in the room oh yeah you know what i mean it's like no no they will learn because that still happens i've disciplined they'll learn discipline it is but there's a game and i think it's like call of duty or something like that that it offers the optional control scheme called green thumb and it's halo controls and oh yeah i know one it's always called the chief and the chief is the opposite thing where there's one where it plays like all duty and it's called like so and it's just like and it's always like two or three deep and they're like

okay we fucking get it you don't want a hundred percent hundred percent and and so fps is got meld into into the the control scheme based on golden eye yeah and in the halo is the next one and uh and i was gonna say and then for uh third person games the moment you grabbed ocarina and just locked on with the z targeting any any game that was it any game like that perspective on the instances before that came out after ocarina if it didn't have something similar to z targeting it always was kind of like and even though even the idea of like wait i have to i automatically jump what is that it's like because you can just design your game around the game where you don't need to jump until that's crossing a gap right but um i always like to reference it because it's the

one of my favorite visuals in lost odyssey when a memory comes back and you see glass shatter inside of chimes mind and it's like that's the z targeting moment you know you suddenly you start strafing around like goma or whatever you know what i mean like whatever in that first part and then you're like oh my god it doesn't have to be two sets of camera controls there was a really abysmal time right after ocarina time came out where it would it took too long to copy yeah and every game released in that like two year period everyone's just like oh why can't i see target oh my god and this is like more to do with things that had like a bit of involved combat i feel like a platformer it's like you didn't necessarily need you're just jumping on things or you have this

wide of course but it's like anything that had a lot of combat options like you had to fight an enemy like back and forth a little bit it's like yeah and of course if it's a game where your gun play is what you're focused on then like z target something like z targeting takes the challenge away so obviously i can see how that's not a design choice you might want to consider because you always are gonna hit a mark right i'm talking about like games where you're looking at something and then you have to run up to it and swing on it you know like hand to hand anything that's where it's lock on is of yeah like it's completely beneficial with no downsides this was a good moment where i'm like rocky i have to go get a drink play this and i slap a cartridge and he's like okay what is

and he's like uh all right die katana what is this i'm like what do you mean i'm yelling what is what do you mean what is it what's die katana play it oh and he's like oh and then he just starts the game he goes what's hitting me what's hitting me and goes forward and then looks at like a turret and then just died and he's like next game man he's never even heard of it i maybe if i say john remeber may use bitch i don't think i've ever actually seen die katana after all these years it's red i know that the n6 the n64 version is like a weird port that has a lot of differences and the pc version is like as bad as it is is still a pc version is likely totally unplayable now yeah maybe maybe it's on gog but i doubt it um but like it's still so cool that like die katana

i got an n64 port it's just fucking weird uh yeah and really quickly um i finished the show peeky blinders on netflix very very good as like i said before that four seasons i know it's a weird name no no not that not that i'm just like the stupid die katana logo from afar you're always like is that a karuga it's not a karuga yeah yeah yeah it's true you know it's the fucking like that's awful because it's the wrong colors and it's completely inverted but it's like it's almost like because you know ike ruga is blue and white with the white on it black and red and it's black and red so which is also ike ruga's inversion and like is that it no it's not uh but yeah peeky blinders is really enjoyable i think it's still gonna have like a fifth season but like i finished

everything that netflix has adrian brody shows up as an italian don who like comes to ireland for revenge and it's just the most godfather like i'm not i'm just doing you destroyed my family you fucking irish fucks and then he's just he's just doing his like irish accent and it's just who can out like exterior type like i know killian murphy is like whatever irish bit or british whatever it is because they're all over the place like there's game of thrones actors thrown in there you'll see like you died and game of thrones season whatever so they just show up with charles dance who wasn't no it wasn't charles dance but there's someone else like oh my god cool and i think tom hardy has scenes and of an episodes or two in every season i still don't really understood

anything he ever said because he's doing a irish or bane okay without like a bit of the voice modulation but it's still his like cadence to like did he go round and round the riro it's actually for a lot of money okay there's a lot of money at stake all right uh but it's a little bit like rounding the riro um in terms of his voice but still really enjoyable show and um last night uh i was just kind of sitting around and i i looked on my phone i got a message uh i talked about this before um unfortunately i can't share it with people but believe me i say when it's good but yuzo koshiro it's handed in his track for the the game i'm working on the takeover and it's really really really good that's that's the yuzo koshiro track describe it

it sounds like a modern third strike okay well yep it's super good that's third strike is always modern that's uh it sounds like it's done with modern instruments oh man the and it sounds clean like third strike music can you just tell him that you're working on a different game but the game isn't real and it's just a trick to get a whole album out of him if i say that i doubt i'll get the whole album just that's what you get hopefully you can share work with a god yeah hopefully you can share that online uh pretty soon but it's this marketing so uh yeah that was that was a thrill to listen to that and yeah that's me i'm jealous now can i listen to it uh i have to get clearance so that's great because i didn't i didn't i didn't broker the deal oh your ears your ears

are on nda oh okay or an l never repeat what you heard yeah yeah yeah can i hum it mimic it with your what if you try what if it was like like just try humming it a little bit no invisible handcuffs appear on your mouth to close it uh about you pat uh i've been sick all week i'm finally getting better i feel like i have not coughing or sneezing today i'm still stuffed up so whoo i'm better aside from that i did two things one i played monster hunter shocking uh i'm really deep into that game now and the end game on that is fantastic with uh basically once you get all the way to the end of high rank you unlock what are called tempered monsters which are basically they have the same health as the end game stuff but they they are scaled so that they will always

be able to kill you and they drop various upgrade shit you can use to keep going over and over but i mean for monster hunter i mean i i don't have much interesting to say i'd actually much rather to hear what you have to say about it walls isn't there a like is what's the point of that though if there's a cap to how strong you can get get it okay if you wear the best armor in the game and you fully upgrade it yeah that's the end of there is no best armor in the game because what though uh don't worry about it go on don't worry about that uh there is no best armor in the game because the best armor in the game for your particular weapon set would depend on what skills you have mixed and matched with what pieces with what decorations which i literally mean the highest

number your defense your you take they all fully they all upgrade to the same final defensive value right okay so ultimately i mean that's what i'm saying so like there's a point where like you can maximize the amount of defense of the amount of life a hit does to you that's correct and therefore what's the point of having the enemy scale with so that when you're uh when you're fighting monsters in order to upgrade your weapons and there is a final tier of of armor augments that you can get per piece from tempered monsters okay but you're mainly upgrading your weapons to like several tiers of upgrades later okay long story short use monster parts to make your weapons right you also use monster parts to make your armor sure sure sure sure in addition once you finally you know

say you get yourself out and you have your mix set that has all the skills that you like on it right yeah there's also a form of additional skill point thing you can get called decorations which well there's a lot of ways to make you ever see that there's slots in the armor you put a gem in there one two or three levels and that gives you appropriate skill levels that you can there's lots of ways to make yourself tough right so once you get to the end of the game and you have say maxed out default armor uh the monsters then get tempered which rescales them to appropriately always be a threat and they will drop special materials that they will you can either reroll for new decorations augment your weapons and armor one final step beyond which on based on rare drops so like what

it what I don't understand what the re okay they get stronger so that the game is not boring as you grind the monsters are still yeah let me let me let me just explain then um it's just that when you usually say you play an rpg and it's like you have scaling enemies right that's usually because like um if it's I don't know what's a good example like an mmo where it's like it's not that there's no cap to your level right but it's very very high or such correct then um the scaling is is appropriate so that like below being the max level you can still have enjoy the game it's not a wall right and then it kind of tracks you all the way up and then you have that point where you're like okay we know that no one's going to get much tougher than this so I guess in monster hunter's case I kind of felt

like you could just have different thresholds of missions that's how it works you know and then you have you have essentially you have low rank and you have three tiers you have the little guys like a jagriss yeah or a gyros and then you have your anginafts and your baraths yeah and then you have your uh rathalos and up let's say like right so like everything from rathalos to nirgigante to the final boss right and then you have high rank and those ranks present themselves again those divisions and then you get to tempered and then those ranks present themselves again okay in which because you like at the end of high rank you can get stronger but not that much stronger like five to ten percent so it essentially rescales the monster's strength okay to as it was when you

came into high rank so that the game is still playable and you're not just invincible and stomping all over okay in my head like offering a static variety from holy shit to nothing was like sufficient because of the yeah you'll know you'll never get to nothing there will always be something out there so the the scaling the basic way it works is that every monster has its like big attack like anginaft has its big stomp for example or rathalos has like like a tail swipe into a fire breath or something like that even at the absolute maximum defensive value at the end of the game at the end of the tempered elder dragon like boss fights you will probably not survive a hit from one of those like the the big you know like narucate is like huge although there was a point where you said like

hey man if rathian breathes fire on you you're done and i was like i don't remember saying that i thought you thought you told me that like well fire breath you're done and i was like okay and then i took a hit and i was like oh i'm far from done just roll you know no okay no that's why you have to roll to get the fire off yeah but i mean see that clip by the way what i was trying to explain to you is there are times in which you get knocked down and then you start to stand up and you realize you have killed yourself because you can see the fire like coming up coming up and you're like oh i screwed up i don't have time to actually unless you've got a fucking badass buddy that runs over and knocks you out of the way at the last second did you see that i did not see that

it is awesome there is a really good tweet that um i assume it's intentional i hope it's intentional definitely okay it's a game system and it's super awesome because the timing is fucking immaculate are they stunned and they can't get out and it's it's a it's a whole thing so let me see if i can if i can pull this up real quick so you can see what i'm talking about but it's on uh my latest retweets and it's just this japanese clip and it's fucking great uh i'm not sure what they're fighting exactly but um there's this basically oh yeah giant fucker dude gets up he's stunned he can't move and then and then and then twitter fucks up anyway so the dude is all dizzy stars and then the video keeps lagging so it just doesn't awesome it just doesn't work

he's my imagination oh i can he knocks he knocks the stun gun yeah basically like buddy comes out at the last second i can i can tell you what that is this is crazy it's crazy how badly this is that actually works in perfectly to what i was talking about so that's teostra that is like third from the top right and what he is setting up to do is supernova which is kind it kind of literally the moment you want it's it's crazy stuttering in this video it's crazy how bad this is going similar to like vegeta's like self-explosion yeah majin buu okay that will kill you period every time you will die okay and especially if if he's like and to get knocked out of that is that's why when you're online walls you can set an auto message for when you are stunned like that

and the odds save me the automatic one is hit me oh yeah okay because yes otherwise that's it your palico will do that automatically in a lot of will they yes oh i've never seen that that's awesome that's really cool like i've had the palico do that to me as well but for other players to actually like see you notice it's happening and then knock your ass out of the way that's you have like one second to realize i love that mechanic because that's a that's a like because you can hit people while you're swinging in this game for sure right and like which can be good or awful yeah and but that's the lead that's something that you wouldn't get in like a uh let's say a co-op souls boss fight you know no that would be nightmarish right like you get a straight up like get the fuck out of the

way you know that s moments are now before i ask you about monster well i do want to recommend a show that i've been watching to you specifically because you like cringe you like embarrassing shit and you like eric andre yep you've done this offline but you can do it online too yes so uh at super ipatch wolf's recommendation i've been watching a show called nathan for you which is the creepy slow cold american on american under eric andre show and it is probably it is what is the meme that we all probably know but we don't know where it came from that it originates from this show i don't know oh really there's no like no i thought you knew and you wanted to see if you know i'm like there must be something i've never heard it because that's how the that's how these

things go and weird so it's i don't think it's well suited to memeography um it so whereas eric andre made me laugh a lot harder nathan for you has like kind of like it makes me feel gross like long after the fact yeah it stays with you so like it is in its basic premise it is nathan is a business guy with one of these kind of lifetime style shows who will go to your struggling small business and give you tips on how to how to get your business going but all every idea is awful many of them are probably not legal and they're all the most awkward things in the universe to actually work through so i'll give you a synopsis i'll use the same one is it i patch wool is this a television show

yes it is a tv show on comedy central okay got it and it is it is played like a lifetime like almost house flippers yes kind of thing that kind of thing yeah so i patch wolf used this episode in his example so why not i'll use it so local electronic store is struggling because best buy is dominating them in the prices nathan goes hey wait a second i have an idea we'll have a sale at this store for one dollar televisions then we'll go over to best buy and force them to price match our store buy up a bunch of cheap tv's from them and then sell them at a huge profit but how do we make sure that people don't buy the one dollar tv's when they're here well one we enforce a suit and tie dress code only two we seal it off in with a tiny two by

two foot door in order to get in and three the tv's are are hiding behind an alligator and it goes through him very awkwardly just oh well you can't come in because of the dress code so they actually get these act these they don't just propose these things they put them into action somehow convinces these poor business people to do it but that's not the awkward part the awkward part so that's like goofy tv show high chains yes where the magic for nathan for you comes in is part two of that which is going to best buy and arguing with people to try and buy the one dollar tv's getting upset and confused that they won't do it and then filing a class action lawsuit against best buy on behalf of the store owner without their knowledge then going on a fake date

with the woman to try and find to try and get video proof that they don't accept the fucking like guarantee and then explaining to her oh by the way i faked being a hot topic manager so that i could get you on camera saying what do you mean you don't want to go out with me and then like five minutes of him like begging her to go out with him it is it is awful it is the worst feeling in the world and it's every episode is like hi jinx to wait what are you doing to okay so there there's an episode at which they do the whole episode and they go okay so we've my producers tell me that we else we broke a ton of laws doing that episode so now we have to go on this long form journey through legal loopholes to make a film out of all the footage we shot so that we could

we could get away with the fraud that we conducted using these johnny depp impersonators and it's just like woolly that specific cringe that i know you love that is for you but is there an element that's real yes which part like all of it arguing well i mean they're like someone's an actor nathan is an actor that's it yes and that is it and this is all real people getting fucking hoodwigs feel it in my bones but then they're told later oh boy like you're on a show no they know they're on a show they are told hey you're on a show to help small struggling businesses but that's it and i and i guess the idea portrayed as real right but it's like once you once you're on the show and you know you're on the show then you just let bullshit happen

because you know you're on the show it doesn't seem like that it doesn't seem like that at all but i mean like clearly when the alligator is being wheeled out of the fucking truck well they actually they show the interviews you know what i mean nathan brings these people around because their businesses are desperate and this guy has a tv crew with him and he appears to be a business expert right and goes hey no hey listen i know a lot about more and but in this really awkward stilted awful manner and it's just so that's that's nathan for you let me give you the ultimate toy company can't sell this fucking awful toy ball because it's terrible nathan comes up with the idea hey listen what if we have an ad campaign that tells children that if you don't have this toy

that you're a baby and other kids will laugh at you because you fill your diapers toy company guy he hates it he's like that's awful we're not gonna do that he says i'm gonna run an experiment to show him how good this idea is so he gets a focus group of kids and then he goes shows them the toy and goes hey you like this they go no it's awful well what if i told you that if you don't have this toy that you're a baby and he shows them like a fucking awful poster of kids laughing at a kid in diapers and he goes do you want it now and one of the kid goes no it's like well are you a baby these are like five year olds yeah yeah yeah and they go no and they grab it he goes great now we can move on to the next test and he installs a fake santa in a store

in order to tell kids hey you need this because you don't want the other kids to laugh at you right and the kids are like almost in tears going to grab the thing and he takes that video and shows it to the guy he's like what are you doing don't do this this is evil okay that's much much more straightforward no no like yeah fucking with children this like they're everyone can enjoy that just yes this is this is this show is built for your perfect need for awkward cringe this is one of those 22 minute shows that takes an hour and a half to watch that's rough that's pretty rough okay and and there's seasons of this there are four seasons okay all right it's like the next it's like okay how do i watch comedy central oh next time i go to

the states i guess pushing the limitations of of like what you can do when someone signs a waiver a release well in fact all his release forms often contain like a release form he makes a lawyer sign contains the line hey if starbucks sues us you're completely liable 100 percent the lawyer says i didn't sign that he goes yeah look look it was hidden in your release form whoops evil evil shit you need to get on this willy because i know that i don't know if your soul desires that horrible feeling okay but here's the problem i was watching a show last night where i'm like i don't want to look i don't want to look because it was so cringy and i didn't want to see it and i literally buried my head in a pillow but yeah i guess it's just kind of like the main thing

is like at the end of the day as fucked as he is eric andre comes across as some kind of protagonist yeah do you understand what i mean yes whereas nathan nathan's does not sound like that at all this is the creepiest part because the the show it's like what you said about fucking uh god uh uh uh the superman movie uh man of steel yeah or the the camera says that superman is jesus yeah the camera and the show are all carefully crafted to make nathan look like the protagonist every single thing except for his actions okay like everything is earnest everything is honest everything up here is genuine and you really feel it but he just he's evil yeah but doesn't he is her evil okay okay the idea is he comes up with her evil wow like you're saying eric andre there is

no inherent maliciousness no behind him eric andre is chaotic good yeah but these are not malicious these are misunderstood do you ever remember that that that thing that got on big news called dumb starbucks down in the states i don't okay well that was a big thing for a while that was a fucking episode of this that nobody knew about to steal all of starbucks's ip under parody law wow wow no i didn't hear about that what a what a foolish plan it's like we can just make your cafe a starbucks but if we put dumb in front of it it's a parody so they can't sue us it's the worst okay it feels bad okay um yeah so i um i want to say i guess what is it like hr seven or eight i don't know here's what i did how did you

did you deal with zora uh yeah and um so here's so okay so in monster hunter um that mission where you go and you fight the giant volcano that's correct is cinematic the first one is is really bad and that's what i've done and i'm kind of like you're clearly unable to do anything in this no matter what you do there's there's two there's two fights there's the one that you did and then there's the rematch okay because it feels as if like the first time you do this like at best you're you're doing it perfectly for some maybe some special drops dude it's not even repeatable it is it is purely there's just nothing there yeah okay the second one it was it was as nothing as it felt the the second one is repeatable four drops the first one is not because it's literally to

open up the next area that you go to yeah okay so the first one's also really confusing because you're being introduced to many mechanics for the first time yes well for you the first time sure but even the i'm like cannons arrows ballista one shot binders we're on we're on wall maria now this is what we're doing okay and then after that and i'm like can i aim these cannons no they don't name yes well yeah so there you go so to aim the cannon you have to actually be to the side of the cannon and then you will have a prompt to push it from one side to the other like you know really anyway that's new that's a new sure but but that's that's exactly it right so i'm being so like all that's happening while the timer's ticking because you don't have time and the commander is screaming

at you and you're faster exactly right so you're the and then um what happens and then and then they drop the uh the fucking whatever the birds are posts yeah and they're like go use one of those things and i'm like yeah what things don't worry about it don't worry about it what things are you it's like a new thing is unlocked i'm like what they say oh those objects that i don't know what they are that are the hitching sprinkled around the map one of those i'm like okay cool right up to this and then the prompt appears got it you know and you're like it was very uh it could have been handled much better i i i felt very similarly to you in that mission it's it's a mess uh the the in monster hunter there is always one or two bosses in the in the whole list that is

their big set piece cinematic boss monster you know that thing and those nearly always are super super gigantic you have you deal with cannons and melissa and dragonators and all that shit they are near universally awful yeah like all like they put them in every time they're almost always trash the idea was cool but they just didn't do it cool so so the this one the second time you fight him it's probably the best one so far in the series just because the second version of that is much more understandable okay there's phase one where you slap it's back in phase two where you shoot it in the face okay but the nature of load up these cannons and fire these cannons 10 times in a row and then when he gets close shooting with balista

is super awful and boring yeah and they're like i even i even tried to swing on him when the hand was around yeah and that no you can only attack his magma core weak spots or fucking whatever like there was there was i was clipping through the body i mean yeah there was nothing happening no it's it's it was clearly unintended you know i was like oh you're the game is like you're not supposed to be standing here right now no but what if i want to but anyway um so beyond that though uh yeah i think that means you got to coral highlands yeah the last thing i did was i went down into the dank oh you went down to the rotten veil and i took out one of them rolling spike wall oh rhodobon yeah sleepy boy took one of him out and uh saw the armor set that he gives you

oh it's bulky ain't it whoo oh it's it's it's it's that's my next it's it's that armor is hyper popular like it is one of the most popular sets that i've seen for low-ranked people because it's the first one that you get that is like a thousand pounds and it's like it's like you're like a dreadnought yeah it turns you into a dreadnought so uh yeah that's my next wishlist but then also what's cool about that mission as well is you also immediately get if you kill them by the way because you don't have to you can just you run into these things and do an expedition they're they're all over the place and then i'm like oh you want me to go just check this out your mission is to just see this monster yeah just look at it yeah okay cool and then what just run away

fuck you so i killed the the great um nasty lizard and um what a nasty lizard yeah yeah yeah like can you just give me a color the poisonous black all the great heroes type thing yeah the guy who gives you the bloodborne armor exactly and then i saw that set and i'm like oh we're fucking going leather and goggles now yeah all right so that as those two sets are completely opposite from each other yeah but very very cool what is sleek and like goggled and like uh uh uh steam punkish not steam punkish but whatever it's got big big goggles something punk something punk and the other is dreadnought crazy i have a i have something for you uh the next time you go down to the rotten veil wolves go to the first camp and look out among thing you're gonna see a giant ass

fucking snake head like area four in the rotten veil is a giant snake mouth okay and the reason why the top layer of rotten veil coils around itself is that's the body is because that entire zone is the top of a giant snake skeleton that's amazing so that's called a dalamador and that used to be the event bot that used to be the zora magdaros of a different game that's so cool and like that that's why you use those there's grappling points where you're looking at basically its ribs well those are all the wedge beetles but you know what you know what i mean but they go up with the round parts you notice the arches you know on the on the on the big long road there's all these weird spikes on the side those are the the scales awesome coming off of it okay well anyway dalamador was

like the worst of all of them because he has eight carves and you have 60 seconds and you have to do a sprint not even you have you have to stand in a certain spot so you clip through a certain part of his body is a bit dude and then you have to run through his model blind to it to his tail in order to carve that to get him so carving used to be stand in the right part of the body no well because on the really really big ones they have different points to carve they have their back or their head or their midsection that's so oh my god it was it was a fucking it was a puzzle to figure out how you could i can imagine i can imagine because right now the fact that it's like while you're in a cut scene hit r1 and then mass circle and then you start carving right away like i'm

like yeah i'll just hold it down you'll carve faster hold circle yeah how cool because if you if you mash it you'll get the bend down carve bend down carve but if you hold it he'll just sit down and start carving one two three anyway so i'm having fun with that and i also went to a dragon ball fighters tournament played how'd it go stuff we played blaze move uh yeah exactly imagine they trick you blaze move plants are just tricking people i i i want a raffle for the first time ever at a tournament and it was oh yeah yeah it was a funko pop yeah so that's what's funko pop is shrunks oh the one that you like yeah oh shrunks there's nothing that funko pop does a bigger disservice than dragon ball because their eyes are like big and expressive it's it's like

it's amazing who what like somewhere i was reading that like it was an article i think that was written about about the company and about like the founding of them and how their whole marketing thing worked and how they basically just went everyone has a fandom everything has a fandom yeah and we've everything thus everything has a market yeah and if we just get into everything right that's a cool idea but we want to do this in an affordable manner and also make it so that exactly it's good it's all about price i so if you want to express that you like a thing but you don't want to spend any money on it then like but you want more than a sticker or a pin right then you got to go for something more tangible yeah i mean marketing wise it's it's a brilliant

idea it costs nothing to make so really nice one's called the nendoroids nendoroids i remember seeing like an article breaking it down of like like fans of overwatchers or whatever they could get this tracer nendoroid for x amount of dollars or they could get five overwatch funko pops yeah so the average person goes ooh more and that's it understand that's it understandable oh no it looks like shit no but i know but it's no but no but it's like but what i mean is is like one of the quality versus quantity thing right and if something like if you can't even get the five then you're like well and it's not even that i look better they do but they're much more posable come with shit yeah and whatever but like there's a whole twitter account which is nendoroids versus funko

pops exactly i'll show the exact same character i pimp them out on a regular basis and like i feel like i like if there were people that were like okay i this is what i can afford so i'm buying this funko pop but then i'm gonna fucking like rip its head off and mod it and make it not shit that would be like a decent rebuttal you know that would be a like a thing that you can do but otherwise possibly do to those things yeah a lot of sculpting and just i guess but why not just make your own from scratch at that point well just showing that she can it's most of the time it's usually just the head yeah it's usually just yeah the bodies there's not much to do but you know quality quantity right it's the word i'm glad i'm glad that we contacted that tournament to make sure that you

got that there you go for that rigged that's next level super rigged with tournaments you'd go to calling them up yeah rigging it so that you'd win yeah i got third place who you got third place what team you use i'm trying a brand new one because uh the team i was using has no assists oh you're all all people you just want to play and and the deal exactly so though the gohan 16 hit team as much fun as i have with that team because i like playing as those characters they don't help each other as much as they can there's no synergy really the synergy well the problem is is that like gohan is not gohan has a dragon punch that's amazing but the other characters jump out and they do short range attacks right and you can't you can't work with that you need variety

so when you make a team you want to think about like okay do you have a beam you know do you have someone that can jump out and throw a beam out no do you have someone that can jump out and do a long range lockdown like vegeta right because vegeta comes out and goes right and he does like ameterize you style thing and it's incredible wasn't it marvel what was it where it's like you can pick a character but then you can pick what special they actually do yes so every marvel game has choose the assist one one to three so it's like wolverine but you get you draw claw berserker barrage or um upclaw skullgirls also has that too skullgirls has same degree custom assists i forgot i forgot that's what i was actually where you jump in and do the input for whatever

you want yeah you just the best right um so too much i think so yeah so anyway but but but as it is you know like everyone and as a result now the thing that i'm um it's being like to make me go like ah is you're fighting against people and like the strongest people strongest players and what not are generally people that like you either have to have vegeta because that assist is so good and it just means like you have a solid two three seconds to walk up and hit two h and launch the guy yeah or you need um some other type of replacement beam you know uh or our kid boo jumps in and does like a big like like pentagram of what about a goku can i put a goku in there yeah there's three to choose from so i you know but i'm some of the kind of person that i'm like i have to really

like everybody involved on the team and i especially don't want to use the thing that everyone's relying on this is more or less the exact same thing in monster hunter with your characters look it's like no it's not enough that they're strong i want to like the way the team it comes together yeah which by the way uh i watched that video about the lance and holy fuck that's going to be my next oh yeah you watch oh you watch guys and hunters like holy shit that that weapon is incredible you move all over you so never stop so but yeah so the whole thing so i switched to the new team and um i'm still trying to figure it out but it's by replacing gohan with piccolo okay and putting piccolo second okay right so who's in front uh 16 okay and and

because 16 is my scariest character uh usually the momentum works out so that like if i'm playing like if i'm playing gohan i'm kind of like fishing for hits a little bit here and there seeing what i can do playing neutral as it were but with 16 i can just run a train on you yeah and if you don't guess right it's over piccolo's assist would work really well with that because it's just that floating ball it's the reality stone yeah right it's exactly reality so that floats out while i'm doing my tackle and if you block it then the ball makes it safe yeah you know or i can do like pop pop whatever so anyway i just like piccolo i do like piccolo gohan's dad is a pretty cool guy i do like piccolo a lot he's a cool character he never changes his clothes he doesn't care what's

going on he doesn't fucking do anything in all honesty with the the cape and the headband and all that shit like he's got one of the best designs why ever change he knows right he did the casual for what and i mean sure there's art of him with the hat the hat backwards and whatnot with the the driving yeah that's not mine no but like that that is one that i'm using say man i'm using say amen exactly but anyway so um yeah and i think i think it's working ish but he's weird because he's got that long range grapple thing yeah you know he's got to get over here and he doesn't have a proper like beam yeah so you've got to work around other characters using theirs on you and like pull them out of the air it's it's so weird it's fun because when i played the open beta

right before the game came out most of those characters had beams yeah and i remember going like man it's a ton of the cast has beams that's kind of boring and then once the main game came out and i was playing with more characters i'm like fuck i was just character had a fucking beam the beams are so useful honestly sayings are like it's almost like a class like showed us you know it's like okay sayings they get the beam sayings get the straightforward you know probably some kind of dp and then that's that some type of twirling kiki wish you know and you know what to expect but then there's the rest you know anyway um the search continues i don't know if i'm walking it there because there's always dlc we'll never lock it down yeah but but always be free and loose

yeah imagine that i lock it down dlc killing characters come out you're like nope yeah no i'm gonna try i locked it down earlier you know but like uh hit continues to be don't get a piccolo tattoo no i'm not going to commit to a piccolo tattoo uh the world the hit continues to be an enigma to everybody and they're like what is this character what is he doing he couldn't be more different than everyone on the cast and i'm like give me my akihiko he doesn't play like any he plays like he's from a different fucking game he plays like he's from persona he's he's a less cheap akihiko yeah he's a more fair version of that and some in a certain way is that because he's different or because the people he's playing against are like more equipped to deal with that

nonsense uh everyone's equipped with a ton of shit and akihiko can like with perfect reads be unstoppable yeah you know but perfect reads so um but down to like the parry the full screen rush yeah absolutely it's very clear ground control and like you you want to basically play a fighting from the air but even then there's options selects uh so anyway it's it's it's good it's fun i'm having a fun time with all these all these monsters and dragon balls hit a frieza hit looks like he might be no he's from a completely different universe but he's not yeah but there's universe pairs true he's from that paired universe yeah i think he's like he's like he's like he's hit a frieza i know you're like i like i said last i'm like i don't think he like his head is clearly not that

race hit a milkshake you know he's he's he's a he's a different kind of race okay is he from the ice what sucks is that the the strongest unstoppable g-red is a way worse design yeah it's true it's just a bug i mean nothing wearing night crawlers uniform well okay so topo his buddy the the big guy with the mustache he as he went on to keep fighting recently got a way better design once he took a shirt off okay and has a really cool like look to him so maybe once jiren actually has to try take his shirt off he just takes shirt off and he's got like 10 arms or something yeah okay we even knows because fuck jiren's they're dumb faces there are four minutes left in the tournament of power can anyone explain why jiren is so strong no it's it's different

though because he's jiren's eyes are all black like that it's like it it's a different feel when like because there's so many cutaways to characters faces in dragon ball so you're but he's just an x-files alien it's true you know you're a really ripped you need something right it out x-files fully he's like a he's like a sentai man you should love him yeah how he literally fights for peace and justice sure sure sure but in the same uniform i think i'm a design wise i was like yeah well his eyes are kind of like common right he's wearing like he's wearing like a sentai uniform okay no no no okay i thought i was talking about his head in that moment oh yeah he's a fucking alien i'm like what part of his head is like that but can't wait for dsc character

dispo the rabbit that rabbit fuck is on their team he's fast that's his gimmick kafla better be in there he's faster than frieza saying girl's better band yeah they might even be a pair that'd be interesting like 18 and 17 and then like they're they're alts or whatever he is into the form that'd be great that'd be a really smart that'd be a smart way to do it uh it's time for the news the news oh man you know what i said my fucking you know hey we're just talking about uh honestly heard of that stun shit you know you can change what your character says during all those automatic callouts no oh you can i changed it to i'll never football again

okay guess what there was a football guess what before the football oh there was a a shuffling because it's being pushed does a step down but there was a shuffling okay kaz here i oh no has stepped down oh no and i love the photo used of him in this game spot article no kimatsu article look at this it's a photo used to support it's a photo of two dead things no um kaz right is that a psp that is a vita vita vita uh kaz to step down and um he's replaced by yasb oh yasb is going to be the president of sony wow so it's our CEO rather hey good for you well it's weird because the phrasing is is very complicated and full of bullshit and here let me get the words out for you so yoshida the current director representative

corporate executive officer executive deputy president and chief financial officer of sony corporation has been appointed the director representative corporate executive officer president and chief executive officer of the company effective april first replacing the president and chief executive officer kaz hurray i don't know what does this mean that i can shit post at the head of sony on twitter yes good and he might answer you this is the really important thing he might actually answer you the one thing i read about this article is that like kaz was actually the guy that's like pushing entertainment in the sense that like he's like yeah sony pitchers we got to do our best making movies and like over the years they're like it

constantly loses money like our motion pitch like we're terrible sony pictures is like the biggest money loser of the whole fucking company isn't it i don't know if it actually is but i wouldn't be surprised and then like they're like hmm i wonder if with him down it's like where's the guy that's wcw only died because ted turner got gave up from pat no he got ousted from power during a merger and with every single executive was like fucking get rid of goddamn rustling it's terrible he's like nah okay wrestling right it's funny because i remember when uh kaz got promoted he got promoted explicitly because the playstation division that he had it was doing so well yeah it was one of the bigger money makers for the company and then you see okay he gets replaced by who somebody from the

playstation division that is doing so well that and it's like and the fact that like kaz if like he went to the movies instead of doubling down on the thing that was actually making money that he came from like that's goofy well you'd think they'd hand it over to someone from the medical equipment division or whatever that is or the life insurance division that's their mud they're more profitable branches but we don't talk about those i'm not sure if that's like yeah you got those are pretty much and only aren't entertainment that like the life insurance one for sure nobody's buying sony brand life insurance out here at least i didn't playstation life insurance you get a free maybe maybe or my credit card information will get started in xbox one in your casket with you

live in your world playing ours oh that's not bad yeah uh all the best to you mr kaz yeah farewell he left more gracefully than his predecessors but here's the thing is that like he's still working there he's just not the director can we get him back now that he's not the president can we get him back being a fucking you cluck the fucking sorry i wanted to go cluts and then yucking it up and it you said cluck clucking it up like he's a fucking chicken no can we get uh him yucking it up on fucking live streams again that 599 us dollar shit again god that was fucking embarrassing i miss ken kudoragi ken so fucking crazy though yeah i do i miss discipline and i remember you referenced it earlier i love it 15 or 16 and watching ken sell this crazy bullshit and be like

that's not true i like how's he lying like this i like i like the man that believes his own bullshit so much that he's like he's like i'm gonna parent everyone and force them to to like my product yeah it'd be terrible if there was a president like that you have no say in the matter i'm like are you serious ken there's gonna be a cell processor in your fridge is gonna make your games run better toy story like graphics holy shit ps2 that fridge shit was the craziest ever i love it i love it god bless the uk resistance wherever they are um so yeah there goes cas my cas long live but not really because you're still there yeah still working there that's weird goodbye i just moved two doors down in my actually no i didn't even i'm still in the same office oh yeah me and

yes we talked is like we're too lazy to actually pick up our shit i would if i was friends with a guy i'm like i don't want to fucking move my shit and if he's down like yeah he's got that nice corner office that you've i had your eye on forever if you have your eye on some friends corner office not like super good friend well it looks like it looks like shakeups in general though because house just left right so like it feels as if uh two major icons for sony or now yeah but i'm always i'm always unsure as to how much that actually changes thing in a company like well who knows right i mean look post a water nintendo i feel is clearly different well yes because that was like a guy pushing his fucking drive for like this is how the company's gonna be

and uh more like this is how the company is going to be you're right that's much better but uh yeah here we go so there's that that's much better um sony's like well then big multi conglomerate fucking thanks multinational talking about red dead redemption too oh god we talked about this yeah a little bit at some point the off camera the takeaway here was that like devolve a digital said we're just not gonna work during october hey everyone get your fucking games out of october rockstar's gonna beat your shit rockstar has kindly informed the industry of where to take its vacation yes it's this feels

like a dick move because this feels like overwatch having its public beta on the same weekend as battle born's release uh it's more it's not it's not that it's a dick move but it's shittier because of the fact that it's sliding into a new window yeah right so it was originally gonna be a spring release and the fact that now it's it's jumping down yeah means a little extra a bunch of people in the industry went yeah and a bunch of new people are going fuck i don't know if you've actually said it but yeah red dead two is gonna be coming out on october 26 completely screwing up many companies plans as they will not be able to compete fortunately i don't think too many people have even announced yeah release dates that far in advance yet now let me let me be

clear i'm not sitting here saying like oh man red dead it's the best game ever it's no one can compete no i'm saying rockstar games crush everything in their release windows they sell like fucking crazy yeah and anytime they release everything around them dies we were saying this a few days ago willy but like rockstar used to release like multiple games a year like just weird stuff but they also have years of nothing yeah well ever since then then they just started having years of nothing but when they release it it will sell until the next thing comes out yeah and then they're like well that's how we're gonna do yeah they it's like the mario kart fucking approach yeah make the game that everyone needs to have and it'll just sell forever aside from gta 4 and 5 the only other

rockstar thing i can even think of is uh la noir is there are there smaller releases there must be smaller releases maybe like like i mean what about like well i guess the online dta online is almost like a separate suite but you know that's own top gang masters every month it's doing its own thing um yeah when i was in a fucking uh well uh where the fuck baltimore not baltimore max mariland and magfest max pain three i'd count took a fucking uber and the fucking like 55 year old lady driving us is like telling us how she's blowing every night on gta online jeez that's the only game she plays a midnight club for it it's like man fuck bring back midnight club those games are awesome yeah they're not coming back shit

um i love those fucking dear all we're excited to announce that rdr2 we'll be releasing on october 26 we apologize for the delay we hope the game would be out sooner but we need a lecture a little extra time for polish we thank you for your patience and we'll you'll agree it'll been worth it check out the screenshots there's more info coming in the coming weeks we also are cowards for not naming the game red dead retribution with thanks rockstar games oh it's crazy how they put that in the thing there they at least they'd finally admitted it it's exactly what i said like at least they finally in 2003 2007 manhunt two then after that just one game every couple years who needs it after that yeah it's latoir and gta so here's my question for say your

like assassins creeds not gonna move right if it's even coming out this year that's just the example i think of because those games always dropping lightly at october early november like november 14th around right say you're below that right yeah you're not call of duty you're not assassins creed whatever but you're november right and you're going to go for november now red dead season is gonna last for like the entire month of november as well because it's the end of october and it's a big long game i'm sure no one's in and out of that so what do you do do you try and move it up which can be disastrous or do you push it back and miss the holiday no because you're moving it even september was so here's why moving it up is bad because um you have to remember

that media isn't media drops are not like the day of there's the ramp up and then and then the take over cycle and all right exactly so you move it up and you're drowned out in the noise of horse hoofs oh man you know beating on the on the horizon like you just can't yell loud enough about your game's release for a rock star trailer to not eclipse it and they're they're the way they do their trailers since red dead one has been amazing forget it but i fall for it every time you're not you're not gonna yell loud enough so it's like you drop it afterwards and hope for christmas fucking the red dead videos were like this is amazing moment of like this is how you do fucking gameplay trailers dipshit and then it works on max pain three and like you don't even like

that game i don't even like max pain three either but like at the time i was like holy shit then it worked again with la noir yeah uh i'm i'm so excited to see the over the coming year just watch as just games just start to slowly slide forward oh no we're delaying it for polish and adding more content until the fiscal quarter of march of 2019 or fucking whatever we know i mean it's been this way for years though it's like there's annual um uh what would you call them like there's drops that require space yeah on the calendar and certain games would ignore each other because they're both drops so you'd get shit like call of duty and assassin's creed coming out on the same fucking day in some cases not caring about each other really wow you guys

just don't give a shit yeah yeah and it's like no they're not competing but like even if you're not competing directly you're still competing for someone's wallet yeah you know what i mean like there's still a decision being made there so well there was one rock star game released in 2009 i didn't even know about beater raider beater raider i've heard of beater raider rock star leads and timbaland presents i've heard of beater raider i've heard of beater raider now is it all right well yeah but like yeah like the early aughts manhunt didn't they have table table tennis table table tennis was one that was like a wee launch game or and uh table tennis and then uh yeah uh midnight club smugglers run the warriors games like it was crazy they're just doing a lot of

stuff and then they're like wait we don't we can work less we just got to work harder they and then we won't need the bends we can blizzard basically yeah yeah even blizzard releases work but i but i but it's almost like blizzard is like the it's like what you know the companies that would aspire to be when you're not being forced to make a gay a call of duty every second year you're too big when you're not forced to make a call of duty every second year then you just become big enough to disappear and um i made the analogy last time but um well uh what's the actor's name again um daniel day louis it yeah yeah that's exactly daniel day louis your career your company yeah and then the ultimate even beyond that is you become so successful you don't even have to release

games anymore like valve it's true yeah yeah we can we can just work all day and not release anything everyone will love us you invented a platform you know yes making money off you're talking to the kid that invented velcro tell him what to do with his yeah where's your new shit make no i made velcro like what is he supposed to do with his day yeah he's gonna take flaming burning arrows shoot them into the sky and then everybody has to look up and like move to avoid getting impaled on a flaming that's my new thing that's how you waste time it's this is the replacement for velcro yes yep uh i would very much like a new half-life game please these things they take time oh my god i wouldn't be nearly as mad if not for that fucking kickstarter oh because you saw that

fucking prince of persia thing i posted right where it was a new prince of persia was going to come out but they turned it into ac chronicles yeah that's good it's the same developer and it looked better and i wrote like fuck how many times does this franchise need to die to make sure ac stays in the spotlight the answer and some guy i'm sure you didn't mean anything by it but some guy wrote just give it a little time i'm like how long is eight years to you so so matt here's the problem with ac is that ac is too similar to prince of persia and the brand doesn't matter anymore to them because they have a replacement brand for for for um for a big third part they're a big uh triple a thing absolutely agree for a 2d side scrolling thing that the fact that the fact that the example

you brought up happened at all means that that's exactly the case they go no why would we have a prince of persia game when we could have an assassin's creed game i know i know but after the fact who fucking cares about those ac games more people than care about prince of persia games if it was the prince of persia game the screenshots i would have stood out way more like oh more ac games the brand is more important than it's standard the brand is more important than itself it's honestly big like i'm trying to think of another example because i'm sure there's others out there but it's almost like a successor series in their heads no no i know it's not i understand all this and that the answer the answer is not it's the brand is more important than it sales

it's the brand is more important to sales than it's standing out is really okay well that's they feel that no matter what the assassin's creed brand is so much stronger than the prince of persia brand that even if the game looks like shit or is shit it will still sell better than a prince of persia game because of the name on it during my research there's a huge golf for the prince of persia zero like the uh nathan drake one sold like almost three million copies spare for a 360 game uh then the next game the forgotten sands which is like the confusing is that game is weird is this the movie game no uh that sold like 500 000 copies across all four skews so uh that is a massive golf and i understand not making a new game after that i i'm gonna i'm

gonna like summon the the pretty much the voice of of u b right now and basically say matt here you go you're on conference call if you can convince our shareholders yeah to do pop instead of a c then we can go green light it instead though the word instead instead of put our money towards pop instead of ass creed matt i because the money default belongs to ass creed i have really good news for you yeah uh you will get a new prince of persia game it's going to be the next assassin's creed game that takes place in persia and your character someone said that someone said that to me like that is by far more likely you know what i would even be like this is fine too you know like far cry blood dragon yep just release a dlc pack like oh yeah but it has to be called

prince of persia okay that that is a synergistic moment where i'm like because this does not make sense you're not spending a lot on this how about prince of assassins i was just thinking that the prince of assassins well you know that's how you know that's how assassins creed started absolutely the first game was called prince of persia assassins sure yeah but no but like just throw a throat no mix the gumbo up prince of assassin but but for real though like the the problem that like the even larger than that problem is that like i bet if you grabbed a businessman over at the ubisoft and said when are you guys gonna get a new assassin's creed game and he's gonna be we just put one out it's called origins what do you mean and you go no prince of persia

i would agree with you but every like i fucked that up and oh shit the last couple of months like this has come up especially i think i mentioned this christy teigen or whatever super model wrote like where the fuck is prince of persia and she's got nine million followers so then ubisoft came out of nowhere and said hey yeah it's still a valued brand but right now there's nothing in the works you know what's that it's currently remember the current um uh official response is it is a franchise that is on pause this is a this is a company that released a beyond good and evil two trailer oh god 10 years ago or whatever the fuck with no game in development and told people's in development and then followed it up like six years later with a new trailer and said it was in

development when it also again wasn't in development they were throwing ideas because it's a valued brand yeah the phrase valued brand but no plans means hold on spread your cheeks while i blow smoke up your fucking ass i hate that and now it's been made while the cancel button is being held down yeah we got jimmy he's just leaning on it with his elbow he's he's sleeping that's just not moving for any any like the time can we get the cancel brick and just hold it on top of the button so that it's always out down uh yeah what else so no convince the shareholders valued brand just means if they'll talk to me i'll do my best you know what a valued brand is system shock when that fucking legal company was holding on to it for like a decade wanted it

you know convincing shareholders is a it's a big job for big boys that's correct and uh if you're pretty good at it yeah you can you can you can you can convince them that microtransactions coming back to star wars battlefront won't be a shit show because there was a uh conference call that was i guess leaked or i don't know whatever you want to call not even linked but like put up online and you could hear as they're talking about how battlefront 2 is not doing great and yeah it's sold what 10 million copies it's sold not nine i think no it's sold eight instead of nine it didn't meet sales expectations and that they're not giving up on the idea of the microtransactions in fact they think that they can bring them back

with the right what was the word i actually don't think you can they were you to make much of a difference there would i forget the word that was used but it was like uh pretty much just you know the right framing yeah you know so sterling's obviously been covering this a lot because this like publisher nonsense is is bread and butter and like everything about these conference calls with the shareholders every single sentence is the slimyest lie possible so we had don't worry about the microtransaction nonsense that's not going to affect our bottom line meanwhile they would tell everyone that we need the microtransactions to make the games profitable this was then followed by this which is sales are down but don't worry the microtransactions will be back to save the

bottom line even though they don't affect the bottom line even though they are required to make the game it's like oh my fucking shut up it's it's a star wars game releasing around the time of a star wars movie how can you not make money off of nine million of these copies you stupid corporate fucks it's the most free money shit ever if you remember the tone that the investors at the nintendo meeting had where's my dividends now right demanding answers like children in that way and and obviously they invest in order to make money it makes sense but like the business you get into like you kind of need to know a little bit about how it works no you don't no no no clearly you don't you clearly you don't you can and you are doing so with that but if you don't then

it should be obvious why uh when you then make a decision that the that the um the industry does not like and they backlash against it like it shouldn't be so confusing as to why it didn't work so it's like there's like I almost you don't need to know anything but if you did a little bit of research I almost feel bad you'd know more and better right now because it's like the shareholders are screaming why aren't you gouging as hard as we can and then EA goes because all the government agencies in the world said they were going to make the thing we were doing illegal there's that and then the response comes back we don't care get the money from the children there's there's that but then you can also go look at this reddit thread look at those downvotes

there's there's the part where they show though that like uh um god what was the fucking term I'm gonna have to find it because it was really framing things in a way where it's like pretty much DLC still accounts for the majority of the income in that given quarter sure and it's still and microtransactions are still like such a huge trunk that you can't ignore them I hope when those microtransactions come back they are just as bad as they were before and they accidentally get them outlawed ah okay push to the extreme to uh to create because like I don't know what they're because those things have been turned off for so long now and that it's going to come back and it's like I have no idea what they could possibly do to that that the whole game is built on a like a pay to

win basis you know we don't we don't play all that many brand new like uh fucking mobile games that often oh no we don't uh and the ones that we do are weird uh I I was I was asking someone like hey what's a really good arcade race and they're like try this one on iOS and I'm like okay it's like I'll call asphalt something and it's by game loft and like like this is so prevalent in the game space where we don't play and like Star Wars is what it's trying to be now where I'm like I started out this game I looked up some screenshots wow this looks like a really cool arcade racer game has some neat boosting mechanics it's like burnout yeah it looks gorgeous too when you win a match when you win a race it'll say look you got this amount of xp but if you watch this 25 second ad

yes you'll get double the xp for that and I'm like that's standard no that's standard but it wasn't sure but then you get to the main menu the main page and just every single thing is buy a box buy this buy that buy the season pass buy a car box blah blah blah blah blah and I'm just like this is Star Wars is like you can't do this shit with Star Wars because it's such a valued brand that people have a certain expectation of you have to like make something brand new and put all your bullshit into it yeah like off the bat to make people go okay well this is what the deal is but if you start saying hey kids like buy this wookiee pack or whatever the fuck battlefront to because I still haven't played it and I refuse to um so like I don't know what's going on I don't

even know what he was trying I was trying to sell you crystals and the crystals give you buffs they were just unfair no no it's that you buy packs the packs give you cards and the cards are where you get every single powerful upgrade in the entire game but people that can't like afford it or like but it's not put any shit don't buy the window it's not buy to win it's it's explicit it's the most explicit buy to win it ever it's how many degrees of obfuscation from your cash dollars very few actually and that's what's crazy it was buy it get a power up done uh anyway so you know um that that continues so yeah I would like to echo Jim's sentiments of that EA's uh crocodile tears about how we need to do this kind of shit in order to make the game profitable it's like

you sold millions of a star wars game nine million of the conservative 10 million they projected and and it wasn't profitable it's like no the actual statement is it wasn't more profitable than avatar so our shareholders are mad yeah and I it's I'm annoyed for not finding that like there's a graphic that shows you game sales microtransaction sales and other and you're looking at what is effectively like almost like 25 25 50 you know um so if you look at their sales of the game being at that nine million which is a concern which is under the conservative 10 million uh and then you go all right so for whatever this chunk is that represents the amount that the game sold itself there is a much bigger twice as large chunk in terms of money

that we did not get because micro was not there and as time goes on and people stop playing it that number gets smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller so potential to capitalize on the on a huge star wars thing like is is overwhelmingly crushing because there's so much infinity dollars off of this were the overall retail sales and during the same amount of time were they higher for battlefront one did this actually yes less copies yes I think so yeah battle for a once hold like 13 and a half million it was also like the first one out coming back huge big thing star you know to me star was coming back in general like yeah and this time second second rodeo you know but uh yeah it's but but I think I think um you're looking at nine million

of the conservative 10 oh no is like and this is with all the bad press right cry you still have like that much in terms of people that just either like don't really pay attention to these things are crazy like in the exact same time period because this guy saw the saw its numbers it was like Mario Odyssey sold also nine million copies and let all that profit just goes straight to like imagine if this was EA's own fucking pro like imagine it was like Mirror's Edge or whatever and like just and now they have to deal with all this shit and like they probably don't mean make but but the problem in the mentality though is that if we look at this we're looking at this and thinking about it in terms of like like millions of sales and they're looking at it as in like

yes but the money difference right is just is huge so the same numbers right but like the the the the extras that garnish are the majority of your profit so we were supposed to sell 10 million of these and each of those 10 million was supposed to make approximately 22 extra dollars from DLC however DLC hasn't come out for it yet because we had to turn all that shit off because of the backlash so that's 22 times 10 million units minus the million that we so we just lost 300 million dollars because of this stupid shit you know reducing over time for the less people um for the number of active players decreasing yeah it'll get less as time goes on active players decrease people stop playing and they stop being engaged the engagement

number goes down the potential for that 22 dollar recoup yeah it's seen as a recoup maybe i'm naive but i is going down over time that people want to buy and then sell it and then make that is naive how dare you in the meantime however as as matt brought us onto the mobile train there's some incredible news coming out from the world of ios and android phones what now have you seen the trailer for tech and mobile i have not i have yeah tech and mobile you haven't seen this new character no all right tech and mobile is coming soon and alongside it rodeo the new american bad ass the big buff army bro is this straight up the anti-lucky chloe yes the big buff army bro is here a former football star and military action man let's go rodeo toughness type he's got the military

outfit he's got the football uniform he has head butts he's got the bro leather jacket and shades he's ready to go clubbing and he's got tough moves big bad punches and kicks he's unstoppable that's a really sick transition in this trailer that went from two stages oh look at that football man if you hate lucky chloe boy have we got a character for you the problem is that i unironically like this guy i know you do of course you do it is most because he's made for you man it's mostly because of the football thing military guys are literally in tecan but the football is like a fun goofy thing the throw in there here comes the chad yeah that's ridiculous that's that's awesome they literally did it bro they did it it's so weird that he's just in this he

must be coming to tecan seven uh i mean it might like if they bother it would have to be at the same time as noctis that's right rodeo that's the best i like i i don't even know like harada is unstoppable committed money and production and design and everything to this fucking bit because of that salty tweet yeah i love it i love everything about it and it makes me want to play tecan mobile it's like a fucking fighting game i assume to do with some sort of card collecting tapping bullshit and and and the thing yeah and the thing with this too is that like it's so um played it's played so straight yeah that if you were not aware you just think hey cool yeah exactly right and like the fact that they even have the like the little thing in the beginning where it's

like toughness type and like all those little character breakdown factoids that are i think that's like just general like that's how the game works but but i would say toughness type for like king sure okay okay but i just i just feel i feel like they're playing it so straight he has a full name though scroll up a bit because it's not it's not just rodeo like that's his like moniker but his name is like something no and then the article he has like his name is big mclarge huge yeah bow rodeo montana oh my god big bow bow montana yeah fucking chat he's over he's over now get ready for the next chat this is this is i love everything

about the fact that the joke is like you might not even detect it that's my favorite part it's almost like harata said that and then like you know at some point some designer or something exactly just said you know we can we actually do this something out of that i just throw in a we haven't had a new meathead guy oh for sure for sure and like and like he and harata basically like fucking like dust it off his love live shirt and look tilted his shades and disgust when was the last stare at the stare at the approval drawing yeah and signed off on it that's because that's how it works the last big bruiser type when was it like i don't think in tech seven has one oh and tech and second seven was like you know new girl uh guys i guess

i guess that's second six there's not seven six guys is brand new oh i'm thinking of the weird robot in tech and six the boss yeah that's a does just the guy that was the no no no guy guess is the tentacle yeah i know i know but it was replacing marduk kind of and he's not in the game and he's new to seven he's probably guy i guess anyway they turned guy fucking love bo montana bo roteo montana super cool rodeo and his voice even is just like all right i wish he just he could only say the word football or his own name i mean bo bo football yeah he's a muscle like it's almost weird that you're not staring at him from the back holding a gun running down a hallway yeah i want an alternate costume of him to be just a football with hands yeah and have

it like glasses and sunglasses have it animate like the Daytona usa car from fighting fighting making mess his voice is what our british friends do when they make friends of americans yes when they wanted when british people want to sound american and they go all right i'm speaking american here we go so basically it sounds like an announcer let's party like we get ready for the next battle yeah rodeo football i'm glad you brought this up because i thought you had seen this like a while ago and you're like eh oh right so i'm gonna send you this story i didn't so yeah god bless god bless her at a yeah keep trolling yeah super cool fly true what an asshole oh man he's so much better at it than it got he ever was it got you would just talk shit yeah but then

nothing we resolved how rata's getting stuff done speaking of assholes oh boy that's good willy that's really good he'll do it speaking of assholes there was a a trailer for a movie on at the football the movie is Han Solo's movie called solo and uh yeah there's there you get to see uh childish gambino hanging out as young lando that's the best part of the trailer young leasy doing what he does childish lando i couldn't landino it's child's a childish landino thank you thank you i was like almost almost there you go this story couldn't need to be told less but a story needed to be told in between seven and eight but this story i rather eight nine rather couldn't need to be told how did he get the millennium

falcon will never know rogue one this one like that is a minor detail that i could see being a movie and it involves no characters so yay this one but this involves characters i don't know pat i did clap when i saw it when darth fair show i saw it i clapped i clapped when i saw it we're met oh man somebody i think might have been the red ladder media guys but they point out in rogue one you know when he does the cool shot where he fucking he's in the dark with the fog and the lightsaber comes out and it's like oh shit it's like he turned off all his life support shit darth turns all his life support shit off on his chest so that it doesn't screw the scene up with the blinking lights so he's literally standing there in a foggy hallway not able to breathe or

move just so he can scare everybody with his lightsaber shut up so fucking shut up so fuck you the thing with this is that you know when you usually get a trailer for a star wars movie it happens a year before the star wars movie comes out this is happening four months before the movie you know why that is right as soon as because they reshot everything because they they kicked off the really cool awesome talented directors and then replaced them with ron howard that's correct you know you remember woolly you remember who was working on this originally uh no the creators of clone high yes lord miller's mustaches i remember and then that kick those talented this movie got like reshot to hell yeah like i think we're looking at the star wars

equivalent of suicide squad here in terms of editing i'd say even more like uh justice leak oh boy it'll probably turn out serviceable yeah i want it because there's so much money i wanted to be in land in childish landino yes i want it to be serviceable but have the movie have noticeably bizarre cuts and tonal shifts yeah right like is this a different movie yes it is yeah yeah yeah you'll uh you'll probably walk out of it going like that was fun yeah and that'll be that'll be the expression well that's that's all i'm looking forward to with the star wars where i go oh yeah that was cool they did the thing and the flight saver and and lord and miller then returned to working on the new season of clone high right no uh they're they're doing something they're

they're doing the miles morales movie oh okay so that's also cool woolly on the star wars tech did you see the new portman rap natalie portman natalie portman rap round to 12 years later round to it's amazing it was amber really yep sandberg appears thank god amadala shows up oh fuck okay you know the little interview segments were like natalie that yeah yeah yeah with parnes with parnes now it's whatever new s and l guy i'll just tell you this but he's like so um did you see the new star wars movies it's like no well a lot of people are saying what and then she just dressed up i was like yeah talk about the freak was big it's that's just that's the tip of the iceberg okay all right all right it's it's it's quite good my dick is scared of you 12 years since that

original video that's a long time that's fucked up i feel old you are old dude that's bad but that video is older it feels like when uh we're gonna there's gonna be a time in the next 10 years where we're talking to somebody about memes and they go oh did you were oh you were jokes you know you oh you mean there was a time before memes when things were just jokes wow grandpa well that's the thing with pop team epic is people like why it's not a meme show it's a comedy show they're jokes they're like why is everything memes it's just a it's just a show because we live in a world of gifts and memes the jokes need to be faster yeah way faster i should be able to they should be bite-sized 12 years of meme oh no no no no no no no um well here look

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if you live in the world that i do of like spaces between each letter aesthetic yeah yeah then you want to check out altered carbon on netflix thanks netflix thanks netflix thank you um moving along there was also a trailer for the other netflix thing the clover field paradox too late it's out so yeah we're just continuing that train jajabrams has brought us the proper prequel to the original movie and not ten clover field lane okay so let's talk about this clover field the original has a very secretive marketing campaign with a big air g had no name yes clover field lane ten clover field lane had an even secret or marketing campaign was announced to exist three months before it came out which included it being a different movie up until it being finished

production yeah this now releases its trailer and announcement of its own existence simultaneous during this release super bowl football well the next one have a trailer three months after the movie comes out and says by the way that movie that you saw that was actually clover no no the next one is jabrams and crew filming the movie around you yes uh so clover field is a bit like it reminds me of the um the the warriors games in that i'm like oh this is a franchise i didn't think it was i thought this was a one-off i thought we were running done here and then the warriors has only one movie but the games keep kept coming right because the person who owned the person who owned the rights to those games was like i'm getting my money's worth but the game was mostly a retelling

of the movie though but then there was the other one that was just a generic street brawling game and i'm not sure if you even had story i know what you're going i'm going for i'm going for like i thought we were one and done and then we got a continuation here all right so let me explain this to you the first one was a one and done straight up the only extra bonus shenanigans were the um the web the website stuff which was fairly in uh fairly broad yeah the second one was also a one and done that tried to make you think that it was not a one and done because of the name but in fact uses that expectation to be a different one and done with a different plot twist ending and then this one is actually related to the both of those and retroactively goes and connects them

so it's weird and the next one is frog fractions that's correct got it um apparently this one like i just saw it like uh someone say it's actually like an anthology movie where there's three separate stories one after the other i don't know if that's true i hadn't had time to watch i really wanted to watch it but as soon as the fucking game was over and that that got released i'm like i'm tired going to bed um so i don't know the trailer for this looks not at all like a monster movie you know the trailer for the cloverfield paradox there are it's distinctly more sci-fi seems to be way more exactly sci-fi and space light alien things happening and it's and it's apparently the reason why the cloverfield part one story happened i this movie had an originally different title

again it was called god particle yes that's a good name and with that name i can probably ballpark you the whole story but but but but but they had to put cloverfield in to tie it in well because clover's in it which is the the name of the fucking the the beastie the godzilla light dude i still think the best part of that first movie is when carla got bit by the fucking mosquito and then she goes behind the sheet and explodes and fucking explodes yeah carla sorry you got exploded that shit was nuts yeah that was crazy that was rough i didn't i didn't enjoy that i kind of wish this had gone differently than what they're doing what they're doing is still kind of interesting but i kind of wish we got like a sequel that was a sequel or was like a prequel i wish this

mythology was explained a little bit i'm not saying they're trying to yeah they're clearly trying to do something different from just cloverfield two but it's actually two different where i'm like okay because i saw cloverfield laying i was like okay and it that didn't give me anything that i would have much preferred an entire series of kaiju films yeah entirely from a cut found footage point i think a lot of people would have but i think that like the cloverfield folks want to go very different with their franchise here and just fine but like it's two different words they've killed another movie and then they tack on the title but that's what i was about to say is like if you're doing that though i'm that sucks because the other way around is better to me

right like say what we will about how awful prometheus was it's awful i it's it's let it let's not understate how bad that movie is better than isolation i covenant i still really like i like in respect the fact that it's called prometheus yeah sure you know sure i that's that's i like that okay so this being called the god particle and then the the no wait hold on you gotta well the the ten cloverfield laying is extra awful because that was actually legitimately a completely different film that was then changed to be that to be the different like in post like they didn't reshoot or edit the movie they literally just changed the title to make it part of it there's not a single thing in that film that has anything to do with cloverfield at all except for the implication caused by the

title there is it's nothing so it's unclear why they're doing this with the titles then and yet still because they're like hey if we put the title on we can make frances yeah i guess i guess so because the the the second movie it's them in a bunker with john goodman right and the original a name of the movie i forget what it was called but it was we're in a bunker and the guy says there's a disaster and we don't know if we believe him and that's it right and that was the whole movie and it had you know it had its twist ending that was its twist ending etc etc right the whole movie changes just because you call it ten cloverfield laying and imply it yeah because then the implication is that you're in the bunker hiding from the monster from cloverfield which you're not

which you're not because it's its own fucking movie it has nothing to do with it so anyway uh confusing the confluor the cloverfield paradox is in fact the franchise itself but uh i'd like to watch it maybe tonight you can watch it tonight because it's wall because it says watch now on every shoot whatever watch now um yeah everyone's going on about it's still cool to see everyone freaking out over like it's out now oh my god well i am a big fan of ads for things that you can go turn the super bowl off and watch this now it's just nintendo or whoever's saying that dlc is available as soon as this presentation ends that's true i'm a big fan of announce it and it's out that's why i love video card reviews unfortunately i got spoiled on this because i read an article

like a week ago that said they're trying to do they this might get bumped up considerably and suddenly be on netflix and i was like yeah okay whatever i didn't believe it there's always announce it and then it's not out for a long long long time yeah like we shed motherfucker nice donnie in himself on instagram put up a screenshot of himself playing wait shane fucking picture looks like someone did a bad photoshop to make it look like sleeping dogs but no that's just an actual movie made that just happens to look exactly like sleeping dogs so donnie in sleeping dogs is i don't care it's wassy donnie and kill some people yeah yeah that's fine do a flip kick somebody but i german suplex but it is cool that this um like almost let's say improvised franchise from dead to

rights right no true crime true crime excuse me this improv this improvised franchise of we've got the game we've got the engine we don't know what it is what should it be and then they put this like theme over it yeah of china town and it became sleeping dogs it's awesome that like isn't sleeping dogs dead now because of china town wars it's dead in the sense that they're not making a new game but they still own the ip's but it's it's alive in the sense there's donnie yen is there's some fucking dropped balls on that so i i i'm happy to see uh where they go at this because i like both of those things a lot did you see my conversation with pat country the nes punk about the unfortunate um headline for this on game spot the story what is it says star wars

actor star wars actor in talks to revive sleeping dogs movie this happens every now and then with with all sorts of shit this is the most painful whatever this is the worst one that's game spot by the way so this is obviously video game journals going you know what'll get people to click on this story if we say star wars actor right that's the intention and i like get wanting to people to click on your story but could you not have just said donnie yen to star of star wars a rose whatever that would have been a happy medium or or you could have done the much better thing of saying donnie yen i felt that that's it i felt that in my gut biome like i felt my that's the worst one ever oh that's the worst one oh the only thing i could think of that would be

worse is like rush hour star jackie chan to be no just rush hour star oh yeah yeah rush hour star no but pat the but the it's the reason why also is because that's what he is now but that's what 2018 but the whole point of donnie yet the name the whole point of him being in a star wars movie is that you don't you can just say donnie yen now you know what i mean yes that should have been enough yes but no but now you're just oh no because children the whole reason he got into star wars because he's so big that he would draw in a chinese audience no no because children and people that just that why would they know so no go to fantasia there's no reason for them to know when i was a kid i knew about jackie chan there's no reason for any of them

to know therefore star wars actor donnie yen you understand that said blade to god like exactly yeah that'd be an awesome because i'm like wow they remember that donnie yen wasn't played too that's sick but yeah he was he was he played snowman he got killed in like two seconds but he bit but it was kenshi it was yeah yeah gerald otoro though was the one that was like yeah i got to get donnie yen in there oh my god killed off in two seconds yeah it's also yeah fuck me that one so so so we didn't talk about the story there's a sleeping dogs movie and it's coming out it was supposed to come out it was supposed to be a thing like two or three years ago but now donnie yen says sometimes great things take a bit of time donnie yen is dogs is motion yeah you guys ready for

this sleeping dogs is in fact motion i really really hope that like i'm way shen motherfucker who are you incident better it better be the fucking stinger of the trailer no the only way that could that could happen is if our little bits in our sleeping dog video made the same ways that i'm a juggernaut bitch did which it did not unfortunately but that's the only way that would have gotten that that over but i think the game pushing that as a big line i think as it could be i'm way shen motherfucker who are you i i'm i'm thinking that could be the stinger i hope so well all of donnie yen it does suck that like it's not actually the real actor that is a martial arts guy right no it's um he's the guy that played yori in the fucking k o s

movie a will will something but but it never is it never is it could just be but like i'd rather have now show me uh what was his name johnny and the stone where is that the stone in this movie no promises bro yes no she was in the game hey hey donnie and gabe understand each other stop it sometimes great things take a bit of time that yeah gaben and donnie yen they understand fuck anyway um i hope this actually does come i hit that guy so hard i of course it's mine so now we play k o f 2000 yeah but it was also yeah it's coming like four years ago and it was supposed to be coming so like k o f 2000 on the log state they needed video game movies have the highest rate of not

act of being announced and not actually coming out they're just creating space from triad wars that's all they're doing it's fine dude did triad wars come out what was that it did it did what was it was that a card game pc online mmo was a moba it was a moba china town wars excuse me no china town works the gta game triad wars for the ds you're thinking of triad wars triad wars is the multiplayer so did you say china town wars yeah okay what he said try yeah yeah yeah triad wars yes yeah yeah it's um it was just a moba was it like yeah it was a moba it was a moba it's like the k o f moba where yori has the fucking ground stone and then and it has high stage sky flying looking shit and and it had kim dong hwan and jay hoon but no like andy bogart or

um daemon yeah whatever yeah so anyway uh do you like a dinosaur i looked woolly i love dinosaurs would you eat a dinosaur would you eat a dinosaur yeah i need a dinosaur in like a second would you eat a dinosaur yeah oh this is a drastic world fallen kingdom official trailer dropped during the super bowl yeah and it looks like they're just picking up where they left yeah we just made a billion dollars so remember how everything got fucked yeah everything got fucked well now let's get the good stuff though let's parachute those fucking animals out now we gotta now we gotta like get watch it get fucked while we get off the island so it's like minutes after the first movie it looks like it's taking place minutes after the following kingdom is like

yeah this is it getting like yeah and beyond the old bomb belief which is kind of unique are they using the same fucking shot of him making nice with the raptor in this movie also uh but i mean it's yes but it's not but yes but anyway man i think i saw angine in there yeah right um and then of course corporate corporate evil dinosaur so they're showing yeah an evil dinosaur that's wearing a business it's gonna be white and red and pink and it's gonna have like three tails more claws more awesome we say it's good are they literally showing off a second manufactured evil villain dinosaur they built an anginath is what is what's gonna happen there exactly the summer systems but but here's the question if we slow down this trailer and look at each

dinosaur carefully yes do they have the jp mark i don't think they probably do because it wouldn't be jp it'd be jw if anything but if it doesn't have the mark okay this jw because this is a drastic park mind you this is a drastic if it doesn't have the mark okay it's extinct so there there is a you're really dumb so you like you're just as dumb as me sometimes you'll never get to my level but you're super close you're like scraping the top of my head there there is like a very clear distinction in this new trailer of like going for like almost all dark interior shots like remember the Jurassic World trailer how was big and open yeah well like think we'll think of um jp jp2 right now that movie is way with darker it's nice nighttime the whole movie yeah they seem

to be trying to go for like the same thing well like this is the horror one in the trilogy it's the dark part yeah but there were clearly daytime moments but like a lot of this trailer was in i hope we see more people get viciously murdered so hard that they didn't deserve we're not that secretary in the first one the go fucking no the lawyer always deserves it well no no there was the there was the personal assistant or whatever the lady who's supposed to look over the kids in the first one yeah like like really really team combo like by five dinosaurs unnecessarily horribly killed i want and she was the equivalent of when you got to go you got to go right jp1 toilet yeah no yeah oh wait i thought you were talking about jp no jp1 had toilet man

and at the lawyer when you got to go you got to go and jp2 had the split in half amongst the two dinosaurs and then jp j world had the the lady that got picked up by the three you skip yeah i'm skipping three yeah that all that movie sucks what what kill i don't mean i think someone gets pulled apart by um the pterosaurs i watched it half asleep i don't remember i watched it by myself that movie so rip off a dino crisis i am not joking but dino crisis too specifically but yeah she gets she gets wall comboed and it's really rough because they juggle her all the way and then the blind one gets eaten by the big one and then the big one thrashes her i want more of that against people that don't deserve it it's so unnecessary it's crazy i still can't believe

she got it that hard for just she didn't do anything she wasn't even an evil character by like mildly like prudish just like it's not my job to look after your fucking kids yeah basically because it's not her job to look at no it really i still you're bringing but you're bringing up feelings again i'm still really confused by why that yeah i want like guy the ticket guy like the guy who just punches the tickets to just be walking along and then have like a 10 minute beatdown by like 10 boxing but like the way it was filmed like it was shy event announcer going perfect after she got wiped out it was you know like it was like it was really really gratuitous um anyway so yeah that might happen we'll see but Jurassic work fallen kingdom is um

a thing a thing can we get can we get a movie series that has the balls to just start adding more subtitles every time can we get the Jurassic worlds fallen kingdom Jurassic outcast dark dinosaurs too oh fuck yeah yeah i know perhaps i want to see a genetically engineered more accurate dinosaur in this one that has feathers and all the unfettered dinosaurs look at it and all like put all their differences aside and just kill it or or because science the one that they create is a feathered one yeah and then everyone's looking at it like so horrified not because it's scary but because it's an abomination and it's super uncool yeah and everyone gets really mad and then they just rip

it apart that's pretty that's exactly what i just said i know but then with extra garnishings okay and then also after they're done they then turn and feast on its body and with blood dripping from their mouths they turn to the scientist that said that the dinosaur should have feathers and it should coup and paw so you know what i actually want this to go because now the Jurassic park is like a dumb like because it was always a blockbuster series but now it's a dumb blockbuster series i want them to just go full on and have the new one like the last one had predator cloaking right like yeah i want this one to what was the what was the dumbest turning point of like okay do you remember land of the dead matt remembers land of the dead time stop

dinosaur gets time stop no no in land of the dead right left there was a zombie that retained enough of its memories that it had a machine gun sure okay i want a dinosaur that either breathes fire shoots lasers out of its eyes or just starts picking up pistols and shooting them randomly it starts the movie with four seconds and slowly improves as the battle goes on remember remember though it has to be grounded because the the the camouflage that the dinosaur has because oh there was gaps in its DNA second so we put in a lizard like an alien or some then whatever so it could be something that another animal can do yeah but cry grow its regrow its limb cross it with a bullet trip and then it claps like hulkin does a big fireball

big punch yeah it's blood is acid so if it sprays on you then it melts everything the universal soldier series the first one is called shut up you i'm oh i'm asking for subtitles you're asking for subtitles oh this is going somewhere different universal soldier universal soldier the return yes universal soldier the regeneration universal soldier day of reckoning yes that is the most generic subtitles compared to that there's i was hoping for a double um like a a second the back colon you know what i mean like a second break point i don't know if we've gotten that in films rambos the the closest we'll get to that nonsense yeah i think so first blood first blood part terminator is also pretty bad judgment day no no no but no but but the but the what you want

subtitle the subtitle subtitle i want the original title to disappear three parts titles when rambos the only one i can think of yeah because rambos just not rambos not a movie first blood is the series and then ramb and then it's first blood two rambos because we need to play rambos three because we need to play this game with with fucking uh marketing people running in circles because the thing that they made later is now more recognizable than the original thing yeah so they're fighting over what name to use because they want more people to recognize instead of calling it what it should be called you know what i've been the no one's gonna know what the new dark forces is so fucking get away from the ultimate would have been if instead of Assassin's Creed

being like a straight up spiritual successor if Assassin's Creed had in fact been a straight up spin-off game called Prince of Persia Assassin's Creed if that's the way it had gone i might have gone that and then and then the fight becomes extra horrible brotherhood yeah this alternate history makes me feel gross but it doesn't it doesn't so um i know that is awful yeah just awful and then there were a couple other things including uh i don't know where this one's gonna go but there's a new vr controller that got patented by sony is that a control stick is that a mic it's a lot of things going on right oh it's the new type of move that's what it is the new remove because the move itself was never made for vr invest it's a little bit clunky it's got retrofit

it's a little bit exactly right and so it looks like by focusing on an intended vr controller you could do a lot more hopefully uh so yeah this was kind of just though this is one of those like spotted um patent art uh submissions so you know until we it looks like it's got stick lines coming off of it yeah a little bit why they curvy well they're just they're just it's a stink controller so that it doesn't look like it's part of the design itself it's technical drawing yeah technical drawing concludes stink lines yeah anyway um okay when you see the side view it makes a lot more fucking sense yeah yeah yeah because it looks a little hand oh it's a fucking phaser it looks just like a phaser a little bit it's a little nunchuckish no phaser woolly from

star trek yeah yeah sure it's also a little nunchuckish though yeah so uh there's probably that going to be coming soon oh man it looks really stinky and that shows you shows you that they uh clearly still pushing vr even if it kills last time when they came over my house he was he looked around and went where is it there it is the speed playstation vr on my shelf tucked away nice and nice and neat um also oh god this oh man we get to uh we're coming back to this this is the anthem throw all your hands up is very very smart very very smart for this destructoid article it's a jz reference so BioWare's anthem has been delayed until 2019 this was actually in the shareholder conference thing that we mentioned earlier when talking about

battlefront in which they said to their investors and shareholders so it's going to be coming out fiscal yada yada in 2019 but it's not really a delay because we didn't actually give a concrete date see we didn't lie and shareholders look at that and go I guess technically um this there's all sorts of shit in this article which includes like BioWare looking at the Star Wars disaster and saying everyone at BioWare is doubling down on Anthem and it's gonna make or break the company which leads to okay so if BioWare puts out Anthem and Anthem is successful you're never gonna get any BioWare game you ever care about ever again or if BioWare puts out Anthem and Anthem is not successful they will become the next visceral games or EA Montreal or fucking whatever and get

dissolved again like EA does to all of its fucking companies this is what happens when you're riding off of Andromeda it's crazy it's like it's a hundred percent just you can't keep sliding like this article might as well tell me by the way you know those that BioWare company you liked you will never get a game you like out of them ever again well here's here's what this there's a narrative here in the greater whole that I'm trying to build towards because Anthem is being pushed to 19 and Anthem looks incredible yeah from what little we have actually seen there's a whole gameplay demo yeah but there was that one thing that one thing looked incredible yes it did look good so uh you know and yes a lot of the uh the articles and all and and

coverage is is definitely like putting this in a like this is to save the company light because because Andromeda was a huge huge failure wasn't even actual BioWare that was their IP run by EA Montreal which was a new studio that EA made to farm out mass effect games like BioWare has been making a tour and they made fucking Mass Effect 3 and what the what the fuck was the actual Dragon Age Inquisition I think was the last game they made it doesn't like all of those did well ish it doesn't look like EA sees it the same way of course not remember when BioWare was shit hot around Mass Effect 2 and EA renamed like five different studios variants of BioWare and then the very next year they unnamed all of them because of Mass Effect 3's

backlash like the way that this company has been handled to like even as far back as Dragon Age 2 everyone's been going like oh the EA influence on this company is gross and now we're at the point of like this isn't even a fucking RPG it's a fucking loot shooter yeah like so right this is literally says in this article if this flops BioWare is done that's that's what that's what I thought it was just you paraphrasing no no what it says all hands on deck so fortunately things look promising and taking more time means you can make it probably better so sure all things considered might be might be awesome and yeah they'll become the anthem company and then I like this everything in this is like okay stop caring well I know stop caring

well because we'll think about this do you did you care about BioWare prior to the 360 generation I came very late to the game right so if you did this says stop just stop because like and they might as well be a different company now and like win or lose either the company dissolves and like you're playing Kotor right now that's never gonna happen ever again unless someone else does it unless it's somebody else which would be Obsidian now because it has actually all the staff yeah but if telltale shut down oh well I'm just like I'd be like oh no there's no more narrative games wait well don't not just started doing it and then we're gonna see other companies eventually kind of you know and watch there be the Kickstarter for the spiritual successor from

the people that left the company to work on something that is actually like what the people wanted to work on over the years that we're in but over the years they weren't there was not enough members of the bioshock team probably because they yeah and they've wanted to do this for years but they couldn't because internally there was always pressure to do the other thing so you know that's not new that's just that's how the games industry has been for a long time oh no that's how games industry has been upon studio acquisition by large by mega large publishers yes which is what brings us to our next step of the story taking your ball and going home I told Willie about this a few days ago and he said fuck you know that's a lie that's crazy but you thought

I was making it up because it is crazy Microsoft is looking to just straight up buy electronic art so that's probably the best thing Microsoft can do because they seem to struggle putting out games yeah and or like you know competing yeah so Microsoft has the games and I'm not even talking about Microsoft games division Microsoft the company has a very very long history of not liking to compete getting slammed with anti-compete shit and then going hmm what if we just bought our way into competing what are you just so there is an there's a very very real like consideration here that if this rumor were true and if they started making those moves and whatnot well first of all the EA so large that there's no way it would be going uncontested there would be tons of problems

on a like individual this would also be a very long term of course these things take like five ten years and each company that EA owns would have its own say you know and whatnot but um the the idea that Microsoft would buy out a company like EA would then mean that like if we can't beat them just take the games away just and make them add in away from so here's the thing if you take EA away from PlayStation 4 you're taking more than you're taking sports you're taking hold on that's actually the most so the most important thing is that your internal gut reaction goes oh X-Bone wants to get the med and then the FIFA right because those are possible yep however I thought that and then I went wait a second and then I looked it up and the reason why EA has the

license from the NFL in particular is the NFL wanted to sell it to one company it was not the other way around it was the NFL back in the day said hey Sega hey EA fight it we're going to sell to one of you part of the contracts for FIFA and uh NFL are and it's why the Wii U and the fucking Wii always got these dog shit ports is that it has to release on every platform as part of the licensing arrangement right so it's like you cannot take an NFL game away from Sony or Nintendo it's kind of like Microsoft was ultimately smarter to not just put Minecraft on their own shit they publish Minecraft on every platform yeah because you act you make more money that way rather than if you just released it maybe on just one console so even if they did

buy EA those games assuming they kept the NFL license would ironically still come out on PlayStation PC and the switch but it would mean that that Xbox got a cut of Sony's football sales yeah or football sales okay so not everything would be affected by that no some things would it would shift the profit from one direction to the other so anything Respawn works on would suddenly be anything by our anthem for example yeah 100 let's take a look at the list and there's a lot these are companies you're looking at yeah like owned by EA right EA studios owning Bioware uh DICE uh EA every country in the world yes criterion if they made anything uh there's an EA Russia pop cap they just translate things in russian says of course the Sims Respawn uh

motive up yeah no motive motive made the single player for uh battlefront too okay okay uh ghost games that's criterion that's actually criterion okay what they actually own ghost games too yes yeah crazy yeah but they're also not a lot wait no oh so um it's huge it's it's a big serious companies and they and EA despite its issues does make a lot of money and I'll tell you what like if you want to force people's hand into buying an Xbox that don't have one that's one way to do it yes and it's not out of a oh shit that's awesome I gotta go play play that game on that system it's no no you're used to playing this game and now the only place to get it is here that's correct it's a negative and and you know the fun part is that to those people that are listening to this

podcast who I would put in the more savvy gameplay slash purchasing audience I'd like to think so this means almost nothing because it's like hey because like EA EA behaves badly and then people say boycott EA and it's like I'm already de facto boycotting EA because they don't put games that I want out anymore right here's the thing that I saw you're just not purchasing yeah it's not boycott I just yeah yeah yeah I saw Liam talking to someone on Twitter about this where they're like oh I was really excited for this game but then I saw it's published by EA that sucks I'm not gonna buy it but it's fee it's the really cool dark looking platformer that looks like you control the gods that you uh that you get powers from in Twilight Princess they're really cool designs and he's

like no buy that game if you want it so they'll know to maybe release games like that not buying it is literally what causes EA to do bullshit you don't like so and I agree with that so I hope that this deal goes through as fast as possible because and this is from a curiosity perspective I want to see how big of a company can Microsoft kill with its terrible first party management they have killed many many companies underneath well here's the fun thing is that looking at terrible got terrible really fast well what's interesting what's interesting about this list right now we see here is that it's very long a list of the current studios electronic arts owns immediately following it is the defunct list which is probably it's almost as long equally of

but but it also has like a bunch of like mythical studios on it like old frog mythic visceral westwood mythic so it's like axis it's it's kind of it's kind of poetic because EA is a visceral visceral EA is a company that both built and acquired many companies and through a very various circumstances corporate culture and dedication to more business like they have killed a bunch of profitable studios because they didn't fit their type of profitability and microsoft is the same so I would be very interested to see what microsoft would do to EA upon purchasing it and like I shut EA down see what happened to like have fucking microsoft do to EA what EA did to bullfrog or microsoft did to the fable studios like just yeah like or the fucking oh the guys making

i'm just does it not to me from dust remake just like tell EA to do it and then EA does it and they're like no we didn't want that haha jk as far as I know not not not in the not really um I don't think they're closed down but uh yeah they probably make garbage the idea to me is just like on a consumer level right on a consumer level at the very least it's like the the idea that like um again it's in you're right in that it's a long-term thing so it whatever the results of this were it would be the next generation yeah it wouldn't be the current one so you wouldn't be looking many wheels are in motion you wouldn't be looking at suddenly oh fuck you have to go buy a next bone it like you know instead of a ps4 or whatever it we were talking about later Scorpio and and ps5 right

so I'm excited for a hundred EA based scale bounds uh or just or just a presentation where it's like the xbox conference is the EA conference yeah they're one in the same and every single trailer says exclusive on it and they mean it because it's it's it's uh you're fighting its competition through denial as opposed to appeal can you just run and manage a bunch of game studios like Sony and Nintendo do is that that hard yeah your other competitors do it just fine because we don't know what makes games good but they do they've made good games when you get microsoft game studios has made many good games over the years yeah but the people making the decisions don't understand that part they understand the business when you get so big but they don't but they don't understand

the business end of it well yeah but they have they have degrees that certify that when you have studios to manage people's wound up looking like losers look at these losers because we have so we have such a wide losers you like get your own losers yeah get rid of these losers their last thing didn't profit a lot well we didn't really market it well they're losers looks like a loser to me looks like it's the mistinky losers over here about winners westwood yeah I mean the e the fucking microsoft games division has literally not made one dollar in its entire lifespan not a single red cent um yeah it's uh it's a very interesting way to play out the next generation of video games and the curveball I and the fact that again it would take the course of this like

length of time it's smart in a way because the the time where you can make this move and upset the least amount of people is when they're buying a new console anyway yeah yeah right when they're going to spend that money anyway then they get pushed into a fuck that's an amazing incentive as opposed to like mid-generation I've already bought it fuck you kind of anger I I I would be so I think this rumor's real but I would be astonished if Microsoft like larger corporate Microsoft actually got a deal they were happy with for the games division because like that games division has never made any money they poured so much money into it and the acquisition of EA to prop up or help out that game division that's big man they'll be paying that off for another

generation or two if it works out perfectly like that's such a big fucking acquisition that's crazy remember to register your EA account on internet explorer edge upon purchase for sick hot content downloads like sick hot content it's really funny disgusting vile content because we have we have EA Activision and Ubisoft of the evils right and they keep flipping around EA had that one good period in 2008 yeah yeah I was just thinking about it and Ubisoft's edge in dead space Ubisoft always has that period of like two months of a year where they say the stupidest fucking ever thing about piracy or some shit yeah and then Activision's just consistently evil the games business is not profitable the money business is profitable yeah you got to make more money and when you're in the

money business we look at what works and what doesn't work and what works has been proven we've seen it it's all the gross things that we hate but they work and they make money until therefore until they don't work you play this dance with those companies switching hands and doing dosido and then hot and then hot potatoing around the chairs until musical chairs happens and then we see what happens right all of that switcheroo is simply knowing what works and knowing it's profitable and courting it but not actually taking it to bed because if you do everyone hates you for too much too much but you gotta you gotta keep dancing though I have a rebuttal for this and this is the only time I'm ever gonna say good things about Nintendo's business acumen

Nintendo puts out a product and it sells like crazy and they make a shit zillion dollars but then they have to have a shit generation later yes they just have to make sure to have a good one and sell you some boxes but nobody looks at Nintendo and starts vomiting out of consumer disgust they go Nintendo's so fucking weird why are they like this but like hey make a product it's really good make a shit zillion dollars that's a really good way to go about your business like it it's we've been at this for a long time yes you know what I mean like there are known like this industry okay well there are known quantities here there are knowns and it is established how you get filthy fucking rich but you and you just have to like keep that like

evil fucking horribly profitable thing around you you know because you can never get rid of it because it's too good you know what's weird is that Nintendo's in that B sort of way we're like we're not so big that we constantly have to be making money to keep ourselves afloat and we're spending so much money but we're not so small that we're actually like this company that kind of just we just have to do well every so often which is not not a lot of companies can do like not a lot of developers are in that space anymore you're either indie or you're owned by EA it seems like right now Japan is a different thing Japan's always different Japan's always different but like North America and the world at large it's like yeah but but but of course but

like like we live in a world of Zelda DLC packs because they'd be insane not to they'd be insane and that's that's what i'm trying to get hey also the status quo where it suddenly becomes insane not to means you held out yeah but but also the way that but that's not the world we live in the way that Nintendo has done its DLC packs is hey here's a really good DLC pack you should buy it because it's good um and then they make a shit zillion dollars oh you mean oh you mean expansion packs yes yeah yes that thing that existed back since like 89 yeah you know it's just a Nintendo an expansion pack is a fine purchase has has resulted in their DLC is better because it's older it's that last generation ago DLC where it's like here's a DLC pack with a bunch of crap

it's moderately priced hey you want to hear some fucking extra bonus dumb shit about Microsoft have you guys even heard of Windows 10 s no do you even know what that is no that is a new operating system that has come out and has been killed by Microsoft by the time you have heard it is now dead Windows 10 s is the their chromebook fucking uh uh competitor it is a Windows 10 OS that's been stripped down and it only uses apps off the Windows app store so it's just the tablet mode basically just the tablet mode the metro OS can only run apps from the Windows store which let's all remember is the shittiest store ever that thing that i've spent hours getting my computer to suppress as hard as possible guess what now with the death of the Windows 10 s

operating system they've realized you know what the solution is to get people on the Windows store Windows 10 will soon be getting an update that will have the Windows 10 s mode available as one of the defaults you can choose for all Windows 10 installations i already have the metro desktop no well you have to boot into the version that only allows you to use the Windows app store that's nice and maybe it'll be the default on factory installations of certain things can i use the Microsoft edge you have to can i give edge a shot no yeah you can when you go to change your default browser away hey give edge a shot so if anybody's not super familiar with what will he say who you should be when you go to change your default browser in Windows 10 it literally goes

hey you you've barely even tried edge man you sure you don't want to you sure you want to switch i like you barely even really try we can see that like you've loaded it up the once to download chrome first grams free first grams free we really detect that your mouse goes crazy when you notice that you've accidentally opened up edge and you very quickly press the quit button you didn't even try it's like when you go to take the windows explorer edge button off your taskbar it was really like come on like like this is the most action i've seen in months it blows my mind after all these decades windows is the most popular because you can run anything on it and every fucking two or three years they go what have we locked it down like apple apple makes so much

money with their lockdown shit well everyone hates it and they won't buy it what the aww crap well it's like the youtube game um it's similar in the in the way where there's a time when you become the de facto platform and it's not profitable anymore because there's you're so big and out there that there's you're not making money to support how big you are and microsoft has been in that place for fucking infinity windows has always made all of its cash via enterprise because well but but that and that became that became a model eventually because at first it was just selling boxes of windows 95 and then selling boxes of windows 2000 and so on and so forth and then like hey how about your company pays us a hundred billion shit zillion dollars yeah and

then we provide windows for you forever yeah sir a hundred billion shit zillion is not a real monetary yeah it is now i i i don't know where i heard shit zillion dollars recently but i fucking love it no but uh you know so like at a certain point you just want to maintain your domination and it costs and it's a nation if you would yeah and and maintaining maintaining absolute control is more important than making a profit yeah so that's amazon's method of doing business yeah it's many many many many many large amazon makes no money but it owns the entire online retail space that's more important yep because eventually it will make money and it'll also own the entire online retail space the moment you allow anyone to like even stick their head up

any any youngling cracks it's it's it's little beak through the shell young jedi it's peaks its head up through the shell and you snuff it you snuff it out of existence because this is your space head off this is your air seriously though like i can see absolutely no downsides to anyone from microsoft buying ea because they deserve each other i guess so it's that corporate culture meshes like shit and more shit on a shit sandwich yeah that was a good yeah they'll have a good time on shit and puke there we go the campus they'll they'll everyone games by an ign merged how fucking dumb that was um it's like that ziff davis media no that's games no but i mean no but i'm saying like them and ziff zd net as a whole just every other website that they brought under their their

heel their their boot heel um yeah we've seen it we've seen it from everyone game spot bought giant bomb and then yes i do that was very recent that was like two years ago yeah it was yes anyway um maybe we shouldn't have fired that guy maybe we should take some emails hey i got some emails in here wait wait woolly where would you send an email to best friend cast at gmail.com that's crazy man that's super best friend cast at gmail.com please don't buy our email section microsoft we need it actually please buy our email section they probably overpay for it like crazy yeah maybe we don't know what this is and uh just i guess a reminder um that the podcast is available on many platforms how many platforms too many so many platforms um because

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left wow yeah so no that's uh that's i like if you go there it's actually on the um on our on the site that's that's up the the the the new 2017 site there's a the lists include like itunes all of them fancy but itunes google play store social media um ellipsin the rss feed directly podbean soundcloud spotify stitcher and more wow wow oh that shit's invaded my fucking mind so bad you know what else is going to invade your mind all right the next email yeah whatever it may be we got i better get a real mind invader on this one coming in from speaking well invasions yeah theodore wants to know hey guys uh pat brought up the company tensent which is apparently the hugest company and in giant bomb it appeared again in the rumors

uh that they're trying to buy valve that makes sense what is this company no one's buying you you're not familiar with tensent no no the oh they're not they're asking tensent is china's big china ea style game company that runs everything out in ea they run monster hunter online they run for all the fucking mobas they they they are they are china named after a very popular calypso song yeah that was for those who know okay that was for you should have read the room man the morlock sent five cent tensent dollar sent five cent tensent dollar uh dollar dollar it's okay man black people don't worry about it tensent like to buy things yeah why do you know and tensent tensent like their esports and their mmo's and buying valve would get them csgo and dota yes which would be

an astonishingly profitable acquisition valve is not going to sell no one buying so like part of that story with the the of uh of microsoft looking to buy ea was microsoft was also looking to buy uh valve and they got a comment from gabe and the comment was like what yeah the company is going to burn to the ground and disintegrate before somebody buys it yeah like they are that that company is 100 privately owned and they will never sell because they're all rich they don't care so good luck with that tensent it just makes me feel like there's a smaller child version of 50 cent running around one that wants to buy things 120th of his size and just dime dime dime piece uh let's see we got one coming in from chris says hey super best game shillers

um here's the question um cited that monhorn world is out and all this content's being released but i'm waiting to get it on pc uh have you ever waited to get a game that was going to come out on a different console wait yes or on pc that was already out or something else did you bite the bullet and get it on both the irony is that the only game i i did this for that i can remember is received for on the gamecube because i didn't have a gamecube and i waited till i bought a gamecube very very cheap like what it was they got i feel like it got down to like 99 dollars at one point and i got it and i picked up yeah there's 99 dollar gamecube i picked up all the reasonable games on it and just and win waker if i if i if i like the thing enough that i i want to i want to

play it quickly without switching inputs sometimes i'll do that that's the absolute like limit of disgusting behavior like i have it on the 360 or i have it on the xbox or i have it on the play station can't buy my inputs on the t on the on the pc right now can't be arsed um i guess i could not i could not afford another console but i just did wait to play re2 fully from like start to finish on the n64 because i played a bit of my friends i'll be like yeah i got awesome i can i can't play this on my own time and you keep telling me to go home so i can't stay here forever and play it so i just wait for re2 and then i bought that uh but other than that anytime i could afford it and if it was a game i really wanted i'd get the console as an adult who puts too much money on

games i'm past that point now if i if it come out and i want i get it uh oliver says read the news properly woolly it's not yosp just wanted to say it's not shuhei yoshida that will be replacing sony ceo kazu right it's kenny chiro yoshida uh i don't know a whole lot about this dude i know he's had an important role in the high executive ranks of sony and he was summoned chosen by kazu right to initially lead the company alongside others to yoshida take over his spot it's a different yoshida good job woolly now i can't is that a brand new email we all saw that name fuck you i don't read don't even try the news you all saw and looked at it i asked you if i could shit post at the new edisonia on twitter and you said yes that that's still you had to ask we all balls exposed don't

drag us down in your your balls are already out oh this muck feels great on my balls it's pretty warm actually i could go for some more um okay here let's try this one joe p says hey monster mash in the gave yard smash boys um five months into my first office job and i noticed one of the most underhanded tactics i've ever had the misfortune of coming across in every bathroom the toilet paper rolls would be crushed up into an oval shape apparently this is a cost saving ploy to uh ensure that you could never take more than a small section to use at the time and it would limit unnecessary bathroom time and toilet paper waste that's awful what it meant in reality was that you could only use one sheet at a time you need more than one what's the worst shady office

work dealing you've ever experienced or heard about to keep the working man down never stops never stopping joe p uh i always talk about wet naps because that became a statement that what that the fuck it became a statement uh at the company i was working at a while back ago like like when i was doing qa uh there was a point when me and uh the guy i was working with we're just sitting there and looking around and we're watching as each cost effective uh new plan can't rolled out and how disastrous it was because it was so desperate and that it was poorly thought out it would always lead to bigger problems than the one was every single time and the our favorite because it all culminated eventually after our buildup of like nope change this roll that out

got rid of this um just just little little quality of life things going away as opposed to coming in you know and um the one that we we got down to was wet naps because uh once upon a time a standard thing to do at the end of a day of test was to go around to every uh aisle and hand out wet naps for everyone to wipe their controllers keyboards and mice down and then your hands that's great and go home that seems very nice clean your clean your station and and head out sweaty and you would lie everything everything right and then at the same time you know you'd use and you could then whatever like the the the cleaning people would then pass by clean up the rest and everyone's fine uh there was also a place over at the front

of the office where there was a bucket of like wet naps you can go grab it anytime if you needed yeah if you sneezed on your shitter yeah that was eventually uh considered too too much of a cost and in trying to save everywhere they could uh it included not having wet naps oh it would save like 80 bucks a day on this shit if we just got on all wet naps we got rid of wet naps we stopped handing them out no more wet naps available for your pulling and no more uh cleaning at the end of the day and live in your own we literally watched people get more sick at the office over time and would see everyone missing how much money is that what's the project oh that much okay that's that much money you're not getting today because you have less test right that's that there's

that much money because you know like what you got 30 people working on it and three people miss 10 days right that's right a whole day gone and and certainly like and you were going to pay this person whatever they were at and and so on and so forth and it was like okay so the moment one person gets sick for one day the cost of your wet naps is immediately evaporating and it was like you fucking morons you don't understand it's like this is not something that you look at and go oh yeah no save that 80 bucks there it's it's always it's so stupid and shortsighted it's this corporate thing you look at and of course it wasn't limited to one person it happened everywhere you look at it from back to front instead of front to back you go hey

what are we spending money on this what can we cut and still do our jobs this and at no point someone asked hey wait why do we do that in the first place yeah and if your answer is oh so people don't get fucking sick and if you were lucky your quality assurance coordinator your qac would be sitting at the end of your row and you'd have his own bottle of squirty fucking hand wipe for you if you were lucky that he that he or she would bring in but for the most part the enforcing of that also of course when people come in and they never had that it doesn't become a whole thing hygiene goes down like you watch it happen and so like once we had that moment of calculation and saw that occur it then became a thing where we walk in see something else is gone see whatever you know

what I mean like oh the guy whose job it was to like handle the hardware and and like not have this tangled controller mess inside this closet over here he's he's sick oh you got rid of that no no you got rid of that person you got to go figure it out yourself now because that person left and and and you didn't fucking replace them hey man wet naps you know it just became the all catch all for oh everyone's lives are more miserable and the company's making less money as a result of your stupid incompetence hey man wet naps so that's the first with a bullet to me I know one that's not really it wasn't it was meant to get more money but wasn't really meant to save cause it wasn't like cheap idiots or whatever but there was two things a guy at one

of the testing places was working out was like a guy that's like I have these bold new ideas one of them went through and one of them did not so he goes for our clients I'm going to give them like the spiel where I'm like your room that you have your game being tested in is completely locked down there's gonna be a code on the door and only people that are hired on your project will be there there'll be no miscreants from other groups and that guy if he doesn't know anything about your game he's never gonna see it don't worry that they instituted they put in these stupid door codes with the big buttons and you'd forget it you'd whatever I need to actually talk to a guy in there about like a technical issue whatever it can't can't fucking fuck knock what I need to

start no no what do you want I need to talk to so-and-so all you can he's busy I'm like I need to talk to him on break like I was told not to let anyone else in except for him or him like bosses fine already so stupid right and this was like this is that room this is that room then there was like this negative sort of almost turf like behavior like get out of our room like this is our room we're on this special that's why we have it sealed off so that you plebs can't get in here this is our special project and you know whatever and it was like really standoffish and like when I started working there was just these doors had the fucking things frosted so you couldn't see in so you can even see if the motherfucker you wanted

to talk to was in the goddamn room in the first place I mean this is the one that was instituted tell you about the one that was not okay because I was like that's so standard from where you know like that just that became such a bog standard thing for security purposes that cold rooms and lockdowns and whatnot freeze projects were often contingent on no one else in the office knowing about them right I know you went through the same sort of thing yeah so it always became a thing where they just kind of went look use the instant messaging to talk to the person you need to talk to I wasn't allowed well then you only at the time I became a lead yeah but at the time I couldn't well that's a whole other yeah or like that's a whole other like I can't get through this level

or I don't know like the fucking command like though there's a guy that was working on it like a month ago well where is he oh he's in on that room he got moved to that project number right the one that did not get instituted this guy was like I'm gonna put in cameras and the cameras will show live feeds to our clients to always let them see how many people are working on the game so we never feel like that we grift them awesome we're gonna have 12 people on your project and then for the click of a button they could see it they could see how many people are given just to keep their eye on us this did not get instituted because it was gonna cost too much money to install all this shit and secondly the clients are like that's fucking creepy yeah this was just I don't want to do

that this is just a rumored reason where I just heard from one of the leads at the time we're like yeah like the main client who is pitching to which I believe was Lucas arts at the time they're like no we don't need that we trust you to do the work yeah yeah but like no but here's to make sure that you can change that would you would you like to see our whips yeah change that's that's that's the dumb we have such a display of whips and change for you that's the dumbest choose because they pitch that to the company but it has nothing to do with the company because the company expects the work to be done that's to fuck with the employees but I think to make sure that they don't take breaks that's what everyone thought too they're like oh no that's

the catch just see if I'm sleeping which I do a lot periodically will periodically will send you the client a text and it simply reply yes if we should stop beating our employees and don't reply if you approve um I've personally never worked in an office so I don't have any office stories I got one for you but okay that's why I have worked a retail job and retail has its own cost saving shenanigans so as I mentioned before I used to work minimum wage bagging at a grocery store for many years why because everything sucks and world is not fair but so used to be when you close the store guess what when you close the store stuff's got to be put away stuff's got to be cleaned up stuff's got to be moved around places got to be closed right this includes warding off

the cut the asshole customers that desperately need milk at 10 20 p.m when the store closes at 10 right it used to be that you would be scheduled to 10 30 right because I mean you're you're actually only going to get out at 10 30 and if you're coming in early say the place opens at seven you get scheduled at 6 30 because I mean you're coming in for for 6 30 and then you're getting all your shit ready and you're you're you're working to get the place ready at some point under new management after the old management got caught embezzling all the money from the head company as you do uh the the corporate manager and so the private manager came in and said that's dude why are you all right so hey pat you're doing the closing shift right like yeah you're

scheduled till 10 I go great I love finishing early 10 rolls around punch out what the fuck where are you going it's 10 we're done well no you have to close up but you're you're so the way they wanted it to work was that you would stay the extra until you were actually needed then punch out but because of the way that the punch cards work in this place you have to get on the minute signed from your boss or else it's not valid for your paycheck but because of the way kebek labor laws work if you punch out there's no fucking way you're doing a single minute of work yeah you cannot punch back yeah you are done yeah and you you're pretty much legally required to leave every night for like months every single employee the same fight with supervisors who didn't care

who just didn't care and the morning one's even worse because they say come in you start at seven you know what you have to do to open a grocery store at seven in the morning you got to do newspapers you got to do some cleanup you got to do you got to put the the mats out you got to do all this shit so you come in at seven and you start and somebody comes out goes why the hell the newspapers why is it done it and in some cases because you didn't get there early enough the newspapers would be stolen by the homeless people to get sold down the street it's like well i'm starting it's just just yeah just to save it's half an hour a night on three employees it's it's any any job that requires overtime where you don't want to acknowledge the overtime

and like that's why kebek has those laws yes and it's why no i punched you can't you're not even supposed to talk to me right and the other one that i have is my dad where he he was working at a factory this is his old guy from the old era and he works at a factory yeah and his job was essentially to make sure nothing exploded so he would check hey these bars are good this this machine is working fine uh this test went properly your your measurements are in order right that stuff to up and then the guy he was working with the guy who did his job on the second shift unfortunately became extremely deathly ill for many years and had to leave and was on sick leave so they said hey uh you should just when you're in just do his job too

well do i get paid twice a little you get paid like one point one times as much oh oh and don't don't work more hours just do both tasks yeah just do double the tasks oh yeah yeah yeah the task that is essentially safety checks yeah what is that no we're not going to pay you more over time than we would normally pay you we'll pay you the overtime that you normally accrue but we're and and every office has that oh no the oldest the oldest in the book is absolutely the uh the two man job is gone the one of the guys is left now you do both just do both and well do i get a race get a little raise yeah no um well you'll be working a lot more hours so you'll make more money you'll have more like authority people have to listen to you uh yeah no the oh my god dude yeah

it's it's 101 whenever overtime would happen and they're like where well where's the money for our meal yeah oh yeah there isn't any today well i guess i'm not working today because your life would depend on that meal so working in qa working in the trenches in particular had a um okay you need you need to specify that because people don't know that what the trenches the trenches is the qa nightmare yeah is the fucking just generally any job yeah i guess it is yeah but i mean in qa you're referring to the trenches it's you know you're in the fucking pit you know with your test kit and you're just you're doing the mindless activity all day hoping for something something hoping for the definition of insanity which is do this enough times maybe something

will be different all the 81st try maybe you'll enter a bug maybe you'll catch a bullet maybe you'll get fired god god willing um no so uh you learned the definition of nausea right especially working with the brits nausea and a us e right and it is it is the word it is a catchall word for like just a um an underlying level of unnecessary annoyingness to things uh and so much of the you know that's such a nausea why are you being a nausea that's like everything about the job contained nausea right so you're operating with that as a normal given and and the thing that's that's understood and i remember one day uh i got put on mobile where's working the phone games and as pre smartphone games i'm sure pre smartphone games for sure and this was now uh you uh because

that's hell because you're just on these different fucking handsets and and it was a day where they were piloting a new system oh god and the system was the one where upon locking your computer's test kit and taking your break the clock started and the little clock would show you how much break time you have left in the day and if you go to the bathroom you're deducting from that time and you see exactly or not deducting it's adding up rather and it's showing you how much time you've been away from your your your your kit holy shit that single thing one that single one factor will make anyone even the best employee you have go from having a mildly irritating but otherwise productive day to the most stressful annoyed high-strung they've ever been because that number

is there to tell you how much of a shit employee you're being and it's the definition of one of those little systems that they roll out that you can buy that pretty much only exists to torture the people that work for you you know and even if no one acts on it even if your your boss doesn't show up and go hey man you but you know or whatever it's just the number that's there to constantly scratch away at you and fuck you up it's like your spawn and your fucking life counter the number counter for spawns powers nine nine nine nine going down every day it's it was insane dude and like obviously they didn't roll that out in the greater screen to the rest of the company got to beta but because it's just it's like I can feel the articles being written about this thing

about how devastating it is to your mental state just like by lunch I was fucking done like I'm like I just don't you know you don't want to be there you don't want to deal with this because even if you get up for the 30 seconds to walk to get your your drink from the vending machine and walk back there's that number this psychological torture dude this has reminded me of three different awful things one is hey retail employees you see retail employee with a name tag guess what they hate that name tag sure that name tag exists so that a customer that has a fake problem can get them in trouble with their boss and that's the only reason so the customer who is lying and trying to steal from the store can go and say hey pat was a dick to me and then I'm like check the

cameras like no we don't have time to check the cameras just apologize no two that sounds like a really real story yes it is two is the grocery store I worked at had faulty uh freezers for the meat and the ice cream every fucking month they would just turn off and they would do that thing the grocery store freezers do where they they would turn off and that means all the ice that has built up in the machine just starts to leak out in infinity water oh yeah just infinity and you've been you were used to go to that store yeah yeah you would go in and it's just a swamp so what they would do is they would take a person from every department in the store and say you are mopping the floor the entire day instead of instead of calling a guy here's where it gets really nuts

instead of calling somebody that morning to come over and fix it they would have like five or six employees mop the entire day and blow their entire shift wasted so that they could wait until the not busy after dinner hour to call the plumber and save on the guy coming down and if it broke at night they would have the night crew mop all night and not do their job just so they could wait until the morning to call to call the plumber to come in so because the rate would be low god fucking forbid replace that's just smart that's just that's just good business I was there eight years those bridges broke every single month for the entire eight years I was there hundreds of shifts gone instead of buying new fucking ones that's what you call smart money that's

smart money hundreds and but the worst whatever you talk about the pilot we had something like that actually instituted you used to have punch cards just standard-ass old-fashioned punch card you see like yeah dating back to the 50s yeah push it in stamps the time yeah push it in stamps the time that's it too many people are taking five extra minutes on their 15 minute break so that they can actually eat food on their four hour and 59 minute shift so that we only have to give them the one break so we have implemented a new system the new system will log your time it's not gonna punch it into a card it's now logged into a computer that your supervisor can pull up at any time and in order to log your time you have to punch in your ID number which no one remembers

because we didn't have ID numbers prior to this and in addition to your ID number you have to verify it with your fucking fingerprint wow I thought retinal scan for sure with your fucking fingerprint biometrics there you go so there you go so this is minimum wage employee yeah you have your 15 minutes now biometrically register your fingerprint so that you're allowed to go on break now in addition this is a 15 minute break how long does a punch card take one second yeah how long do you have to wait behind somebody so that the line of people biomech oh it didn't work okay again okay it didn't work it okay so you would do perhaps more than five minutes and you count it on your thing it's like okay I have 15 minutes starting now

but it took you five minutes to do that so when you come back you get yelled at by your boss because you actually took 25 minute break because of the extra time you had to use on the fucking fingerprint reader the so they for minimum wage baggers and cashiers why wouldn't you put the money for the for the biometric fingerprint scanners into your freezers and just buy new freezers I don't get it biometric freezers fingerprint scanners must be way more expensive than two there's probably fucking ten billion dollars so you know what this you know what this you know what this led to this led to a situation hey the computer says you took 25 minutes on your break yeah what you write fire me yeah yeah right well we can't fire you because you've been here

for longer than six months and the union's really strong actually okay so I'm just gonna take however fucking long a break I want and just walk out of the store because I don't give a shit oh boy it led to that yeah with almost every single person in the staff and it's like you've created a new bigger problem by just oh my god but you know someone comes in and they're a consultant that has to find ways to save money save time yeah I I have a dream almost every week in which I wake up going man I gotta quit my fucking job I gotta call the store and just and then I get confused I had that was school where I still think I legit get confused and go oh I haven't worked at the store in like five years yeah and I've gone that with testing

too earlier I'm like yeah I'm really enjoying being a youtuber I really wish I could fucking quit my testing job and I think to myself I can I'm probably doing really well yeah yeah and I'm like but I just I'm just not I'm still testing for some reason yeah yeah yeah like no there's there's stories of the like like personal assistance waking up in the middle of the night going oh I gotta get I got guess what you spend most of your life doing it because it just programs it's into you in a like like trauma reflex kind of way yeah you know that was fun I remember walking by the store one day and then saying hey we need you get in here and you just like I guess I guess I got it and I went it's my day off one and it's boxing day two no and they're like we're gonna

talk about this on Monday I'm like motherfucker just casually it's my day off you don't get to do that why are you hanging around there because it was in the next shopping center it was the mall yeah just just just casually like like you happen to be going that direction yeah I just walked by and my boss saw me and said hey get in we need you no yeah okay what do you mean you look okay get in like okay for a second that's still pretty funny but for a second because I yeah you're here that's coming up for a second I thought you met recently you walked by and someone said that and you just had a fucking like flashback if that happened I would go crazy yeah like I thought you just paused and wait for us do you have a moment of do I have to do what he said I thought it would

be like it would go even further where you're half putting on the smock or whatever yeah and you're like wait no no and you throw it down on the floor I was back to the gnomes I was in that store recently buying paper towels and I like I thought like I wiped something off my jacket like dust from uh from a cab or something and I saw my hand was dirty and I went to walk in the back to wash my hands before realizing what the the fuck am I doing oh fuck it's not even the same layout they've completely rebuilt the whole store and oh my god yeah I haven't been there in years that's gonna be with you till the day you die motherfucker that's not going anywhere because I don't live anywhere near there anymore so like there's no reason to go in oh that's not

going anywhere man this is cool wow all right and the trenches and offices will kill you they will kill you dead but they build character mmm but you know they told but you know but you'll make minimum wages though so yeah you'll make minimum wage some people have noticed that they've already gotten bigger paychecks hey did you guys you might even get an extra shiny dollar oh that line I heard that too yeah a dollar we've all we've altered the way that the money goes out for this for minimum wage people I still remember right dude they're they're just like some people have already noticed there was there was the there was the the paycheck line yeah and then not not not this is not QA this is pre QA but I remember there's the paycheck line and then there was the line for complaints

about your check yeah yeah and literally one shrank and one grew and it was just get your check take a look it's wrong take two steps to the right go to the back of that one yeah where we both used to work very early on yeah I remember that always having issues with checks but unbelievable every every every other place I've been to it's like yeah maybe once a year you'll see like what what the yeah every no this was a verify with your eyeballs look at your own like phone then verify with your screaming voice yeah and then walk to the next line right right at the second table every single because because of the way that a grocery store works and the way that people come in for shifts oh you guys were working Monday to Friday usually right so it would be Friday or

Monday that would be the bad day right because of the way the grocery store works every single day every single day the the boss or supervisor would have to take an hour out of their shift yeah with with the employees that came in and go you didn't pay me for multiple days not like the 15 minutes here or there yeah you didn't pay me for Sunday you didn't and it became and it became discovered as to what it actually was what it actually was is if you got called in since that wasn't on your schedule it didn't count so so the person doing to ask for it to be changed wow wow so the yeah whoever did payroll was just so guess what happens yes yeah you get called yeah everyone had the fucking their phones ring a certain thing and it was don't you remember that

when I had a ringtone for work that was don't answer I don't but I went off around you a lot and it's like and you go what's that that's work off because don't don't even answer because if you don't answer you can't tell them that you can't come in right because if you do come in they're not going to put on your check and then you blow half an hour arguing with them to put on your check and then it gets rolled over to the next week yeah and god forbid you're like too tired to like sit and pull out your calculator and do your hours yeah that's what they hope they hope that you're like if you see the scrap it see they'll be like well they are either too stupid or too lazy to like complain about this missing which guess what I am so this is a frame trap I had no way

now I should point out to everyone who probably wonders yes almost everything we have described in these things especially the paycheck stuff is super against the law you are not allowed to do that but oh it's a mistake doesn't stop it happening it has the bureaucracy it's definitely not a systemic intentional thing that has gone on for a decade the resistance to screen break policy was it was a great one because when you work at when your job involves staring at a screen you're allowed five minutes an hour to just not stare at the screen so you stare at your shoes and that's law you're right as well or whatever and that includes like geez that's why you put bullshit on your little cubicle desk so you have something to look at whatever the fuck and I and like

when that was first like a thing that people brought up because the law was already there but just no one was using it until someone said hey guys did you know you can do this there's like oh shit really oh shit and then like the initial resistance was just like why aren't you working what do you think you're doing it's like I'm taking my screen break you're what no this is legally yeah I don't give a fuck like it was that it was that fortunate for you yeah yeah yeah and and and but but but here's the problem like okay this is not you with your contract all right this is not with you on job this is you with your contract you're not permanent and who knows what's gonna happen tomorrow you know right and it's like it's like I'm on my screen bank are you yeah

you're taking a break from your screen yeah where you're working where you should be working yeah okay look back at the wall where your picture and your name is on the schedule for the next couple days and just go okay I hated that wall because that wall also kind of enjoy your screen break depressing to look at that wall yeah it wasn't a good idea calendar and just your face with a dumb little smile lana hated that wall staring at you telling you fine she didn't like you either she's like she sees you over there and she's like you she sees you laughing or whatever because you're you're above her at that point she was like oh what's he doing over there it's having fun I can't tell and then she just hit the wall and she's just like oh my name oh I gotta go

in the next day or whatever she just always wished she was hanging out in that area yeah I don't know it's um it's some bullshit man all right but then she got to work on third strike so hey that's a pro don't make me cry how about that and DMC you and Liam sure grilled her for information she didn't have or care about can you do table hopper get out of my face nerds I gotta go test video games yeah what's coming up and out oh man all regular stuff is continuing but bully has been fully has been completed uh and and star wars you defeated the bullies another another couple months I think yes seriously there's a lot okay many star wars did you did you did you did you defeat your bully yes we did we told you about that we told you at length in person about how crazy

that got are you just not listening to us again no I just know but we're just microphone in front of us this time and we we might I think we might be starting something new this week I'm not sure it's gonna go up this week but yeah I'm not sure on the math on that yeah I think I got it working yay oh wait I was thinking of another thing you're thinking of a different thing yeah yeah our things yeah our thing will not be going up this okay yeah the other thing will be going up and we got a we got a three-man LP coming soon we do that's the thing I prefer yeah yeah we're gonna be well that that needs to wait at least uh oh yeah not that long okay yeah all right that doesn't have to wait long at all actually uh to be reported yeah in the meantime down a milieu what is done

yeah what's all what else is happening on your uh stream oh my stream okay I've been sick all week so I didn't stream any Monster Hunter I'm less sick this week so I will stream Monster Hunter I haven't picked any particular days I'll let you know a couple hours ahead of time at least I'll be like you go to my Twitter I'll be like hey I'm gonna do a straight and then I'm uh that'll do it where's that that's angriest uh Pat I think cool is it yeah it is it is how about you Matt you streamed this week it's uh no days set in stone because I just didn't want Saturday up the uh the what happened faux pas from last week is yeah my episode of what happened on my flop outside channel I was hoping to put that up like hours ago but it's not it's not yet you know what you should do

you shouldn't keep the episode completed and just sit on it forever what happened so you show what happened what happened is that the that the intro needs a little bit of audio tuning and uh some frame skipping issues happen it looked good to me but the very good artist uh Phil was like no man there's something bothering me you know artists they like their work to be all pretty and shit what happened to my show what happened I don't know what happened to it you took too long with what happened and now my candy is gone you know what that's what happened you know you know what that's you know what that's like that's when somebody was like hey we'll share this cake and you're like great and then they eat their piece of the cake and then you eat the whole cake and they're

like I'm you didn't tell me to stop you said we would share it and you at no point you said we're gonna split it fuck you said share yeah so I know I know what you're talking about what the fuck why did you say we would share it and you were just too slow to eat it we were taking turns consecutively but their time frame for sharing and you decided to stop and I decided to not stop so that's I mean that's what happened dandera comes out tomorrow dandera the the video you were looking at remember he had like a grappling hook you were like what the fuck yeah yeah yeah dandera for the switch that comes out tomorrow yes yes yes that's true that's true that's true and uh over on woolly versus we have more scrub guides coming your way is this for a dbc or in

general uh so we for more there is there is a how to safely dispose of your marvel put it in a fucking biohazard bag like a electronic disposal head down to your syringe drop off point and hand in your copy and they're like we have too many of these that we can't take off they'll put it in the blast chamber and then they'll rockend you a clean fresh copy of dbc um oh man some more scrub guides yeah so but but not not just dbc there's a arcade sticks 101 yeah uh and then there's going to uh be like how to get your offense started as well uh smartly jump in so that's going on combo jump in and do combo uh yeah i'm probably also going to be doing some commentary at lanny ts which is the uh tournament coming up next weekend where is it

at lanny ts the school here in montreal it's a large techno uh school it called the technology you know a science and whatnot whatever um and uh yeah there's a big um it's the biggest line and it's happening there and there's uh some fighting games happening there so you can catch me on we're doing some commentary on stream or just in person screen loading on stream yeah screen so stay tuned for some of that yeah and that's and then then with with that we did it again yes yeah we went in yeah yeah yep um we were starting a new podcast and we're announcing it that it's going up exactly after this podcast yeah and what's it what's that podcast it's the super best friendcast paradox

yes how does it fit in to the timeline it's a prequel podcast so we but does it have anything to do with the actual topics it's not a lot there's tenuous it's it's weird we're going to record the the the new podcast after this podcast but it's going to take place before this podcast and it has completely different people that's correct but maybe the people that see the name friendcast might get suckered in it'll use clips from this podcast but in the future that's good marketing that's good EA don't steal that shit um uh

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