Castle Super Beast - SBFC 245: Hello Kitty is not a Cat

Episode Date: May 8, 2018

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Okay, all right, so there we go. We should be back. Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and assume that your podcast full of chocolates. Well, you know, and it like the one thing is like, hey, I'm attempting to get these wireless mics going and what not, but like at the same time and they're fine. They do work, but the problem it seems that is that it's possible that power outage over the weekend might have fried our second of three boards. So hey, let's go behind seas. You remember in the LPs lately, we've had some Mike Shenanigans, oh, especially in Dead to Rights. Dead to Rights is really bad. Like, oh, can't hear it. Yeah. Can't, oh, there,

oh, was a shot of the colossus as well as that. That was totally different. Yeah, but though, but it was like, like we recorded like a one-off and then a session of something and then like for a couple episodes, there was some weirdness and it's like, oh, board's dying. Why? Because we use the shit out of these boards. Yeah, so we're really good. And then probably maybe because of a power outage, maybe because of just wear and tear. Maybe. The podcast one just decided to die about five seconds before we started today's podcast. So the power's gone down this building multiple times and during that windstorm or whatever, like a lot of

people like had no power. Yeah. So podcast, John's podcast. It's not our fault. No, man. And if it was, you weren't playing right. Oh, man. And if you were then you took, then you played without skill. And if you did, it's not fun to play that way. And if it is, then you only care about getting the podcast out on time. And if I, and if I don't, then it doesn't matter anyway. Dude. Hey, let's, let's just say Corey gaming's a great channel, but the newest episode of about salt and why salt matters is like above and beyond his usual stuff. That, that, that video was fantastic. I scrub words prayer is a plus. Well, that's now I'm happy that scrub Lord has been officially

officially like received and sanctioned because raw from Game Grumps just started selling a scrub Lord's pin. And like, what the fuck? That's copyright infringement. And then it would be if we had bothered to copy and then Max took it and ran with it. And he became the scrub Lord though. And I'm like, yo, this word, this word has legs, this word has legs. And so now the scrub Lord's prayer is out there. Corey gaming, doing God's fucking work. I had not. Do you have access to that? Say we're moon fighting game? Yeah. Have we played that yet? I don't think we have. We have. We have. We absolutely have. But it's getting a resurgence. Scrub Lord's original classic. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.

Maybe take another look at that. Oh, yeah. Fucking piece of shit. There's a scene being developed around that right now that is getting mad play. Like it's being pushed hard at the locals. Clay fighters coming back. No, that's that's just you. No, that's no, no, no. I was on Twitter and people that were not me were showing off crazy clay fighter 63 and a third sculptors cut exclusive combos. Well, that's not happening on the tournament floor, my friend. You don't know. You're not in every tournament. Not at everyone. You want to be. Where do they hold these clay fighter tournaments and basements? Yes. Well, whatever. Probably an alley. Well, here's the thing, right? If if if anime took over the bathroom and melty blood was forced into the

shower. Yeah. That means the only place left for clay fighters, the porta potty outside. Yeah. The outhouse. There's no outlets in there. That's even laptops, bro. Why even be in the porta potty? No, because that's where you belong yelled at you to go there. That's where you deserve to be. Don't play clay fighter outside on the grass. No, no, you have to find a porta potty and the clay fighter player doesn't even bat an eyelash. You go straight in there. Understand. That's where I usually play. That's where I play my best. Absolutely. What better acknowledgement of your understanding of where you where you are in life, right? Where you're where you are. What's the word I'm looking for? You're a lot. You're your law. What's your lot

in life, right? Your your stock, your station. Yes. Clay fighters players know their station, and that is in the porta potty, possibly about to be tilted over. So who's tilting it over the blood players? Project M players. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Can we can we project at this idea of all the project and players being in straight jackets, pushing a porta potty over with their shoulders? It'd be hard. Yeah. But you can do it. Shoulders shoulders strong. We're wave dashing this porta potty now. And like, and like, the question is, is do you do you do you jump out of the porta potty as the clay fighter player? Or do you just let the mess drizzle down over you as you continue my optimal environment? You can't drop the set.

You can't you can't drop that clay fighter combo. You can't drop the set, bro. You got a white, you got to hold in there, right? Yeah. Like you're you're you're fucking you got your grand game pressure going on and with Ichabod, correct clay in the corner, you're locking it down. And then so what a bunch of like distractions all over a bunch of like a collected diarrhea of human fecal matter, get in the way of a win. You deserve that one. You deserve that one. You know, this reminds me of I forget which jackass movie but you remember the porta potty bungee cord. I remember something along those lines that they strap a full porta potty and they throw stevo in there and they they hook it up to a bungee cord and they strap them in. Was he playing

clay fighter? No. Then why are we talking about it? Because it's so much worse than you would actually expect. Didn't they have a camera inside? Hell yeah, they did. Yeah. Like you think it's going to be bad. It's it's like 10 times as bad as you would think. Don't tip people over when they're in the porta potties, especially not when they're, you know, going to fall off cliffs. Unless they're playing a fighting game you don't like. Yeah, you've never you've never seen a pop off until you've seen it inside of a porta potty. Yeah, it's not a lot of room shoulder to shoulder with somebody intense. Is there even room in there for shoulder to shoulder? Yeah. With with liquid shit piss raining down on you. Dude, you've you've never seen a pop off. You know, for for

for new fighting for new podcast listeners. Today has been one of the ultimate like stop listening to this podcast we got this we started late then it's incomprehensible fighting game lingo and games that nobody knows about followed by just nonstop piss and shit all over you. That's the natural path, though. So if you made it this far, you're good. Fighting game talk. You make a fecal matter in your mouth. Yeah. If you made it this far and you haven't turned it off yet. That's the FGC. Well, according to according to certain certain eSports people, that's what the FGC is. There's some bullshit that went on this week. Oh, what's that? Yeah. I only caught like a wits. I only caught a wits. All I know is I'm scrolling down

Twitter. I go, huh, huh, huh. And then it's James Chen just suck my balls with like 1000 retweets. Yeah, I don't really I don't I don't you know, it's a long ass dumb thing and I and I didn't follow all of it. But like the the the depth that I care to go into was that you want to what you risked depth just enough to get the palm in there because I'm like it because it's looking at the little markers on the pool that say how deep it goes. And he's like, I'm going there. It's just so frustrating. It's just to and Richard Lewis, the guy that is involved with the E League just basically came out and there was this tweet contest Twitter conversation. And the gist of it was that more or less the FGC as a collective outside of pros are a bunch of

smelly weebs that get together and their tournaments are holding back the elite televised invitationals that we can have. And basically it's the idea that the pros with their sponsorships could be more esports and they could earn and they could if not for their association with these unwashed droves and and that you know the the idea that like I'm not going to dispute the unwashed wee part. Yeah, no, he's completely right. Five attorneys are fucking ghetto dirty shit. And the and the core of of what what set a lot of people off besides, you know, I mean the you smell that's a really core insult. Smelly weebs not withstanding cuts to my soul. The main thing was like also like if sponsors could get their players more guaranteed screen time

without the risk of their sponsored players, what was it getting getting outed by a fluke in pools? Then these then we could take these esports, we can make an esports kind of. I can see exactly why that would like yes. So the complete misunderstanding of the fucking fighting game community in looking at a sponsored player getting eliminated in pools as a fluke, that mentality shows you it just creates where everyone was starting to get along. Everyone was starting to get along, right? We're starting to come ahead. We were kind of watching things happen in a way where it's like, yeah, it's on TV. You know, at the end of the day, we're falling off to the side, but it happened. A top player in Overwatch and a top player in

Street Fighter five are both wearing a sponsored ass shirt that looks, you know what I mean, Echo Fox and and all these other teams coming together and, you know, names, whatever. But things like this just draw that line and show you like no, no. The problem is that when you, the person that's in charge, it's when someone of influence that's in charge of something like ELEAGUE has the viewpoint that, you know, it like they don't understand the part where before and after these major televised tournaments, those same pro players are in that unwashed wee pile. That's where they want to, right? They go back wash up to put the sponsorship on. They come from that pile where everywhere, like you crawl out, you cut your teeth by beating everyone. And

then they go back to that because that's the core of what the community is. Here's the thing. And they seem to think that there's this line of like skill born in a white room closed off from everybody. And then as soon as they exit that room, they put on the jersey and become a pro and they just walk on air above the community. See, what's interesting about this is that's like, I remember a long time ago, back before FGC got esports at all, there's a lot of talk about like MLG and, you know, Halo and Counter Strike. And it always seemed like, even in Korea, it's like, it was, Hey, do I get into esports? How fucked am I going to get by a man in a suit that's going to take me or my team for a ride and own our shit, right? And that was, that was like 10,

15 years ago. And the new FGC esports, there's a lot of like worry about those guys. They never left the MIBs. Yeah, the MIBs, right? And they have been quiet for a while. It seems this guy's, that's exactly what everyone is always afraid of. It's fucking business, man. There's coming in to do his business in our sports thing. There's a, yeah, they're like, again, there's a thing where you kind of, you start to scream a little bit when you hear things like they're missing out on an opportunity to earn, right? But it's like, a little bit like that. You're like, it's just, it's not that you're what you're saying. It's not, there's no problem with what you're saying, but it's just that type of language that makes us go like, because this combined with the whole

unwashed weebs and fluke type of mentality shows that you actually fundamentally don't understand the product you're trying to financially get involved in. I have what I think in my mind, what the fundamental misunderstanding is. And that is the biggest difference between esports and sports is not that it's electronic or non physical or whatever. The biggest part, particularly for fighting games is the most applicable, is that fighting games are open tournaments down to the day of. Yes. There is no goddamn real sports that lets a dude walking off the fucking street and say, I'm going to fight GSP pools. If a basketball game is going on, someone from the crowd just can't get onto the court. Of course. Would it make it a more exciting

game? Yes, absolutely. But that's it, right? Those are the rules. Exactly. And those are sponsored players that are on the court. And because that's the way that the NBA and the NFL and all these major leagues have run for a while, and that's the huge televised opportunity situations that you get from having a league, they look at it as, again, an upper untouchable echelon of player that comes from a completely different place. Like there's a combine that you go through. And then you know what I mean? It's this whole thing. And a lot of first person shooters and a lot of MOBAs have run that way for a while now. And fighting games always prides itself, and at least the FTC has prided itself on the idea that you come through and you go through the

bracket and you face anybody who wants a shot at it along the way. I can understand this guy's way of thinking because he looks at the way sports are running. He looks how fighting game things are won. And ideally, if you're trying to run a business, okay, your teams are individuals, maybe three guy teams, maybe whatever. But the fact that Evo is still a completely open fan run tournament, and it's the number one, even bigger than Capcom, that's absurd because that event should be A, smaller, and B, it should be the actual minor leagues that you farm players from to go to the sponsored events where only sponsored players are invited. And there's no big upsets and everybody gets a certain amount of matches, and it's maybe it's even run round

Robin so that everybody, because like look at football, right? Look at baseball, look at hockey. They sell, you say I want to see the Canadians, right? How many games as Canadians do I want to see? I want to see 100 games. Let's say, no, 50 games, how many games are there a year? 50, whatever? Sure. I buy my fucking tickets for my 50 games. Guess what? I get to see my 50 games. Say I want to see Daigo play, and Daigo has a bad year, and Daigo gets knocked out of every tournament in pools, and I never actually see Daigo on TV once. I really like the idea of I bought tickets to Daigo. Yeah, but these are my Daigo tickets. And the thing is, is that there is a place, and so there's a certain, so certain people want that business model, Matt, and there is a place for

Invitational's. There is a place for these like special events like Kimono Michi, and you know, the even E-League, and these things where it's like, okay, people that have proven themselves across the season or whatnot. I personally think that Capcom got seeding system plus Invitational. God's Garden? God's Garden, yeah. I think Invitational plus seeding with tournament wins is really good. There's a great place to have those, you know, but when you're looking at the existence of the open bracket as the enemy, because that's the thing that people happen to care the most about as opposed to the exclusives. The only reason it matters is that open bracket, you know, and people care more about those large events than the Invitational's, but this person seeing

that as a threat and as the thing holding everyone back is like, you simply don't understand it. Esports boss man is like, hates Evo, because it's the biggest, but it's not like all sponsored players and it's like all these on washweaves. It's like, make your own event, make fighting mania, and then have worked gimmicks and have ring girls, like, but you can't because it's already in Las Vegas in the biggest, like, possibility. You can't because you can't put the cart before the horse, right? Like, that's the ideal. It's just a bad idea. And if he made it right now, a bunch of people wouldn't go to it because it's not Evo. I need to interrupt you guys and let you let you know that E-League does exist. It did air things on ESPN. It did.

Injustice and, you know, I mean, like, this is, this is an existing thing. And it's fine. But it doesn't have a central thing to rally around. But it exists and it has its credibility, but it's like, it's fine as a separate Invitational event from the open brackets that are a part of the community. But no, there's a definitely other, there are other sports that like, well, there are the sports that sort of emulate this. And like, yeah, one that gets compared a lot is poker, you know, because there's games like that where like you walk in and if you win at poker, you're open. You're in an open bracket and you make your way through to the top, you know,

and the people that tend to win are they've eventually become known players. But it's because they came from the bottom all the way through each time. And yeah, we basically just have that same fundamental like core principle and value that's appreciated. So if you're looking at it from the point of view of earnings, all you want is those sponsored jerseys in front of a camera as much as possible. And so every time two unsponsored players are on stream, it's seen as a loss of earning opportunity. It is a opportunity cost is the specific word. And so like that, there's a certain point in time where you're just like, oh, it's like the, you know, it's likening, it reminds me of the loot box situation where it's like,

if the bottom line is profitability and nothing else, then absolutely you loot box and get people with gambling addiction issues to spend as much money as possible to make as much money as you can. But there's a level of like, I don't want to say integrity, but there's a core that goes beyond the profitability that the people participating in this thing tend to care about, and it's the reason why they're participating. And if that doesn't align with your monetary incentives, then you're just not compatible. It is really tough to explain to business money man that there are situations, it's, it's God, it's the same thing of companies are supposed to not, they're not supposed to create profit, they're supposed to create value,

right? And that distinction is nebulous and tough to explain, even to everybody, right? Because value is tough to measure, right? And that's what your stock price is supposed to be, right? So say you have two unsponsored players, you're not creating any money by watching, by having them be watched, right? But if one of those players is say, I don't know, flow, and he's talking shit to the six year old child that he's fighting and wrecking him and the child cries and runs away, that didn't create money, but it did create value to the event and the sport and eyeballs are going to tune in for that. Here's a really good example, but it's almost in reverse. People don't like it, but it's still a move that can work when

celebrities go to WWE and have a big dumb one, one pay per view match. That's a spot that should be taken by a wrestler who has earned it, not Jay Leno or Carl Malone or like, or, you know, Floyd Mayweather or whatever. So people hate that. And you'll see a smart just be like, well, I would have, he didn't get on the card because it was taken up by a celebrity, but a celebrity is an event where they mainstream media points at it and looks. So I do kind of understand like an eSports guy just being like, well, yeah, if a sponsor player is not there, his spot is being taken by someone that so I get it, but it's weird because when celebrities come in, it draws mainstream attention to the event. Yeah, outside eyeballs, otherwise. So it's

similar and dissimilar at the same time. I mean, for what it's worth, like Richard Lewis did leave after feeling pushed out, you know, but so like there's a point where it's like your values and the FGC values don't line up. And so he he left, you know, like he separated himself from that. And like, there's just an understanding that like, okay, on both ends, you're not wanted and his ideas are not compatible. So he's so what you're seeing is he hasn't changed his ideals, they're the same. But everyone's like, it's it's you have the fancy way or the cynical way you get to go. Did he get pushed out because this doesn't align with everyone else? Or did he get pushed out because he was fucking dumb enough to say them out loud? Yeah, whatever you want to take that

as one thing remains true. And one thing that is that is that is fucking standing today is that Mike Ross is the J Cole of the FGC. This motherfucker has been like everyone is just going like look at the profit. Look at the profit Mike from a couple from not too long ago, basically going nah, nah, though, esports, though, you don't understand. And every time something like this happens, everyone's going to go fuck, let's go read the scripture. I feel Mike Ross first fucking, you know, book three verse two. I feel like people who didn't expect the esports stuff to be grosser than it was on its surface to be were like naive. Businessmen going to business. Yeah, the book of Ross will now be book of Ross. That will now be

the the third the New Testament for us. It's just got an embossed picture of every once in a while when something goes down, you got to turn back to that AMA and scroll through and I guarantee you if you think about them enough, you'll come you'll find that answer. Mike Ross, should I sit in the corner and and hand slap esports? Yes. Should I always be holding back? Yes, back from esports. Yeah. Sometimes you'll need to press forward and punch, though. Do your sacraments, say your scrub lords prayer and and check out that Corey gaming video about salt. Dear God, please don't let me go. Oh, and two. Oh, and two is bad. Yeah. Yeah. That's that's the

one of you went around. Does that make you feel better? It made me feel better against I go, but it was it was what it was. Yeah. Yeah. You put value in whatever you got. And if you lose, if you don't win rounds and you put value in hits, though, because you got some good ones in hits, right? Hits or currency, basically, you won. Yo, I got the timer to run. We beat T. I got action killerings. There you go. I got double perfected. But yo, I ran that timer down and you didn't perfect me. So quite frankly, the moral victory goes here. We won. Yeah. That's it. Just love expectations are such that like you can manipulate them with clever words. Yeah. All right. So anyway, as far as weeks ago, I can't wait for it to get

super gross, man. Super gross. Yeah. Esports, though. Esports. Oh, well, I know, because at the end of the day, it's just like it just it's just a dumb Twitter shouting match. Yeah, maybe. And, uh, you know, who knows, maybe, maybe Richard Lewis will wake up one day in the middle of the night and the ghost of Marvel will be standing above it. You killed me, Richard. Okay. Is it the ghost of the logo or is it all fit like all 25 characters? You guys are both you're both unfamiliar. The ghost of Marvel is the man who approached Chris G on stage face to face with the controller and said play me. Remember that guy? That crazy looking motherfucker that everyone thought Montreal Street Fighter had sent as an assassin came off the street. Yeah. No, that is the ghost of Marvel.

Okay. And maybe I'm saying maybe he will be standing above the bed holding a pad out going, yo, we got to play your soul. Like that. Oh, shit. What was your week? What? Yeah. What did you do? Did you play Street Fighter five? No. Yeah. Yeah. I had I had a week. Um, I guess I'll start with like the so Friday. How was how was Friday for you guys? What's Friday? Friday got a lot of work done. Did you did you did you notice the fucking gust Gale wind attack? No, man. I was inside when it happened. I was I was feeling ill that day. And so so there was nothing short of a storm Eagle gust. Yes, that hit the city and basically combined from the all corners to give us I want I want I don't forget what number mile per hour winds. Kilometers an hour.

Yeah, I think and I think it got up to 100, right? I want you to stop by saying my building was destroyed. So that's grandma destruction speeds. It was crazy. It was fucked. And at some at some point, because you have to imagine there's no when you're on street level, at least there's buildings to kind of break it up a little bit on a rooftop, you got nothing. Well, also not just that, but I mean, like there are certain wind tunnels like at Water Street, like you know how windy it's normally that shit must have picked up to like 140 because because there's there's speed boost pads, where every time there's an overpass, the the winds like it all funnels in together, combines itself and boosts out. There's a couple streets in Montreal that were built wrong. It

creates it creates like it's beyond the wind tunnel. It is like the attack center. The wind is powerful enough. Let's help it along. So I want you to think of any time you see a a a like Death Star in a Gundam type show, right? Right? A death laser. And it has those like extra points of like concentration, those rings that it goes through to like, yeah, it's that. So you're on a roof, all that to say that my fucking fence on my roof just blew the fuck off, completely separated. And so here's the question. Yeah, this is a very important question. When you say blew off. Yeah, you're not saying it blew away. Right? It didn't fall off the roof. See if it blew far away from you, then I guess that stops being your problem. But but someone else is probably

so but if it blew off, I'm putting I'm putting like, you know, little chairs and furniture out there on my roof. So I'm hopefully nothing too valuable. Well, not yet. So like, we're being careful about like what it is and what's going up there because it's like, yeah, in a ridiculous scenario, where the wind carried this off the roof into the street, we might have a serious problem. Two years. I'm sorry, after you really quickly. You put your double may cry statue up there. Yeah, yeah, someone looks up one day and they see like, we had like two years ago, though, in the middle winter, there was like a windstorm that was bad enough that was shattering people's screen doors just for the pressure. Like, yeah, it gets fucking windy every now and then.

Yeah. And the thing is, I just bought one of those like umbrellas and para plui things. Parasol. Yeah. And so I was and I had to set it up, but I bought like 220 pounds of sand to hold it down. Yeah, because that's what's recommended. Sure. And so I imagine that would be fun. But anyway, that fence was just wooden and came right off the fucking planking and just landed one half on my side, one half on my neighbor's side. And did it hit the street? It did not. It landed in between our property. Okay, because that, yeah. But yeah, heavy wooden fence. It's bad. No, no, treat very bad. Unless it unless it blows so hard that it's two streets over, which not your problem. Yeah. Well, I mean, at least at this point, at this point,

there's a very nice extended view of the roof, I suppose, but a lack of privacy. Is it safe to be up there now with no fence? Yeah, it's got the kind of built in railings. It's okay. The outside stuff is fine. It's the it's more like the inside of our property back to back is where that kind of damage was done. So it's okay. It's no problem. It's still nice weather. So yeah, that shit happened. I've been watching Westworld and season two is back. I didn't even notice. Yeah, we're three episodes in. What? Oh, shit. Today's great. Yeah. Westworld's back and lots of interesting new things. I haven't watched the last night's episode. I watched the first two. Lots of new interesting things they're doing, opening up the story,

which is nice. I'm like, you just have to ignore and soldier on past those plot holes that we acknowledged in our last. Oh, yeah, just shut up. You got to just keep moving. Cause at the end of the day, there's some some silly stuff that you just have to basically go. Yeah, they TV needed this to occur. Otherwise the store, the problem would have been solved with competent people, but competent characters, competent characters, but even no competent people because really these characters that are like, you don't mean competent TV makers. No, no, no. I mean, I mean, well, yeah, a competent writer. Yeah. But there's little moments where like, for example, like, I want to guard just doesn't act like a guard or does dumb things. I hate that about a guard

specifically. Yeah. Cause your name is guard. Yeah. You have to take a really well used term one job. Yeah. Absolutely. Right. So, so like, you know, something as simple and as dumb as like, when somebody like this, and it's like, it's kind of, what was that noise? It's a trope, but it's, it's the, what was that noise exactly? Right? It's the, it's the thing where doesn't matter what that noise is, trip the alarm. Well, no, no, no. But like, I'm talking about, like it's already happening, right? Like deaths have occurred and we're, and we're walking up and we're, we're just like, imagine if you have a gun and you're pointing it at me and I'm pointing my gun at you and I'm a guard. Yeah. And instead of like firing, I'm walking up to you going,

put the gun down, put the gun down, and I keep doing that in that way. It's like, it is necessary for all fictional guards to walk towards people they're pointing guns at. So they may be clearly kung fu disarmed. Okay. Okay. It is the law. So anyway, um, yeah, there's, you have to just kind of put those things aside and ignore that stuff. You still, and, and, and, you know, it's still an interesting setting in world. So that's going and not much else to say until it's really hitting its stride, but, um, that's back. Yay. I, uh, also, you know, I think I'm, I'm wrapping up into the breach. I think I've unlocked everything and the only thing left is just achievements and stuff. Um, but I want, I haven't gone back and seen like what you guys, uh, seen the quick

look you guys don't worry about. Okay. All right. You, you'll miss nothing. Okay. Well, yeah, I think, I think I've more or less thumbs up, thumbs down. Oh my God. Huge thumbs down. Just absolute waste of time and money. Um, yeah, no, it was fucking, it was fucking, it's incredible. I, I, um, probably still going to tune in every once in a while. And if they report it to like phones or something else to my phone, yeah, I'm probably going to jump back in for that, but I've unlocked everything in it for now. Um, so into the breach, you thumbs up, and I've since then gone back to darkest dungeon and you just need that fucking randomized psychopathy shit. No, it's, I've explained it before, but it's the, it's, there's a slot for the rising thunder, quick

boot, quick run, random thing. It just, it just happens to be that these two games are of a similar genre. Exactly. And, and if I wanted, like the problem is this, if I want to boot up something, like when I come, when I go to do monster hunter, I know I'm committing to a bunch of time. Yeah, there's no quick ass, right? Nothing. When I'm popping in, uh, fighters, I'm committing to some time. Like, you know what I mean? You're committing to time with a lot of these things. I, and, uh, with, with those games, you can do a little bit while I'm listening to a podcast or something and then go back to doing other stuff. I made a joke earlier a bit, like street fighter five, when I booted that up again to get, uh, Falcon, whatever, I decided to do an experiment. Yeah.

Took like around eight minutes to get into the main menu. Oh, from not updating boot to not updating to two or three, uh, trying to log into the network network, then it has to download, then it has to download while it's on the main menu. And like after a certain point, you have to decide, is this worth going in? Have I gone over the edge of like, yes, I've been committed too much time to start, start this up and I eventually did it. But every time a character comes out, it's like, this happens sometimes with fighting games, but like even killer instinct, whenever I got a new character, I was just like, I have to reinstall it once more. It takes a while, but I'd rather have that long wait that I can, um,

assume I'll have. And every time I log into street fighter five, if a new character has been released or not, it seems like I just happen to always log in in a day where there's like a brand new massive patch and the little install file, that's hard to get. It's just a mess. So it, no, no, you're totally right. Is that it's annoying if you jump in occasionally because the occasional jump in is usually requires an update. And if you don't like, I have it set up so that it goes to as much automatically as possible. So like as soon as an update happens, I didn't prioritize it on the PS4 to always, yeah. Yeah. So you want to turn that on to save as much time, but there's always going to be a soft patch that comes in that, that's post boot, you know, um, the main problem

isn't even that the main problem is when I played SF five, like a bunch on AE's release, it's like, just takes just a little bit too long to get into matches. Yeah. Like you spend like an hour playing and you're like, man, I feel like it's honestly 50 50. It's, that's real. And, and you know what? Um, it's faster than it used to be much, much. It's way faster than it was when it first came out in vanilla, but it's still very slow compared to the older games that we used to play. Yeah. Alpha three gets you into the triumph or die, like by mashing the start button in what eight seconds, you know, like you could just burp, burp, burp, burp, burp, burp, and then you're in the first match. Like it's like those days are gone. Um, and like I'm specifically

referring to like finding matches with other people online in particular. Yeah. It's like, it takes too long. Yeah. That that's always going to be up in the air. Ironically, DB fighters with all its rage kit, quit shit. Like I find myself popping into matches a lot more quickly. Depends when a lot of, a lot of, you know, a lot of that is going on too. But, but um, uh, yeah, that is, you're talking about what? I thought you were trying to be what was I talking about and I just said darkest dungeon. Oh, oh, yeah. No, no, no. So the, yeah, I was going to say that's a real thing that's happening with fighting games. And frankly, I don't think that's going to go back. Yeah. As far as major things go, but like, I'm really looking forward to the street

fighter collection because it just popped that in. Yeah. That's always, that's always awesome. Who's ready for some physical. Uh, this week as well. Um, our boy was in town. Xavier Woods swung by for his job and, uh, shout outs to those amazing pictures of him fucking blowing, right? It like in the face is the ref and everyone and biggie and everyone's on the ground like, what are you doing? He's like, burp, burp, burp. It's hilarious. Um, anyway, but took a lump out of Sheamus there. It was great. It was great. Uh, he came, uh, yeah, he saw right after, right after a Smackdown, he was like, yo, I'm going to arcade MTL. And I was like, what? Okay. And just like, I just went down and we hung out for a bit. Um, played some sets. Uh,

dude was like, like just, I'm like, I'm like, this post fucking Smackdown event. So he's clearly like done the whole thing, but he's like, and he's, but he's like shoveling notches in his mouth and he's just like, all right, yo, wind jammers, let's go. We do it. Right. I got bopped thoroughly. Oh, I'd imagine. Um, we can then, uh, came back over. We played, uh, Super Street Fighter, bopped him and then I didn't play NBA Jam with him, but he played against, uh, some other dude that like challenged him. Yeah. That was the guy. He was dominating so hard that he's like, I'm going to press start and control both players. And he was switching between both of his team's players against this other guy. And it was just ugly. It was bad. So, uh, uh, that shit was hilarious.

That was a good time. Speaking of ugly, Xavier Woods timeline on Twitter has been really ugly for the last couple of days. What's up with it? Oh, it's just, it's like his, the anti cap, the worst take in the world. But he's always, it's been like that for so long. I know the people are shouting facts at him and he's like, no, he doesn't like Captain America. Captain America has a big shield. It's fine not to like him, but when you disregard facts or make them up, that's when things get a little crazy. It's fine. Uh, and, um, local man Salty Cap was right. And he, uh, uh, also gave me a recommend, which I, uh, did take, which was, uh, Florence. This game, it's a mobile game. Oh God. I mean, like go to Florence. Yes. Yeah,

you do. You need to go to Italy, bro. What the fuck are you doing? I can't overstate how good that stuff is. Florence. Uh, we, no, no, no. So there's a game called Florence on, um, iOS and Android. And it is effectively almost, it almost is like, um, playing through a graphic novel, but like you're kind of piecing together a little puzzle moments and it's, it's, um, it's, it's definitely like somewhere in between a game and like a cinematic graphic novel because, uh, it's not really challenging. It's just you're going through this narrative. Right. And, uh, it's really cool. It was a really, it was short and fun. And it's kind of like, um, you, you basically are playing, uh, you play as this girl that like you're going through your life

and then you meet somebody and then like you kind of just, you go through the life of being a couple and like, there's moments where like you're, okay, so it's not like, uh, like a fantasy story. No, no, it's, it's, it's fairly realistic. Right. And, and like, like, there's moments where like, you're piecing together puzzle pieces that equal a speech bubble and like sometimes, depending on the nature of what you're saying, there's a lot of pieces that you piece together or like sometimes they're more jagged and larger shapes and you can throw them in faster. If things are getting a little more heated, you know, it's, it's, it's, uh, it's got some really fun execution of ideas where the, the, the way you move through the story, um,

reflects what's happening. Because you mentioned this, I just, just popped in my head, you know, I'd really like, uh, Saga, the motion comic. Oh, that's a thing. No. Oh, I'm creating it right now. Oh, just really good voice acting and just, but that's just a panel. No, cause they've, I've, I've seen motion comics before. They're really good. You should probably clarify that. You mean you're just putting this out there because that sounds like you're going home and working on it. No, well, no, no, I just, I mean, like it's, it's popping in my head in terms of like, man, I wish that existed. The street fighter one, I really enjoyed the motion comic. So there's the street fighter one,

but then there's, there's the, then you have to remember there's like the, the watchman one. Okay. The watchman one where it's all voiced by one guy. It's hilarious. And it's super weird cause they couldn't even like, we don't, we understand you don't have voice actors, but just get two, just a man and a woman, you know, actors. Yeah. Specifically the line, she's like, Oh, sucking on your thumb is like licking a lightbulb. I'm like, yeah, it was not, it sounds like stamper doing one of his or me doing my, my Edith bunker. Like it's just weird. Edith bunker slash Jim Sterling slash all of it. Yeah. Well, that's, that's the British version.

It's weird. And then there's the, there's the Metal Gear ones, right? The Bondesine. Yeah, but they don't, they just got the voice actors. Don't forget the greatest motion comic series of all time. Dead space. Oh yeah. That was a thing. They were, they're the tried so hard. It was a Black Panther one too, right? Yeah. So, you know, I mean, it's fine, but it's not really a medium that, you know, I just think it'd be cool. Yeah. You know what I'd rather just an art book. Yeah. Just all their, all the sketches. Because SAG is another thing where I'm like, I don't need another, I don't need another version of it. Or like a lore section, just like glossary. A Rise of the Ogre for Saga.

Yeah. And I'll be good. Anyway, but so yeah. Maybe when it's all done. But yeah, Florence is the name of the game. And yeah, it was, it was a fun little trip. It was very nice. I enjoyed the art and I'd recommend for the, for the four bucks or so. What's the dollar to our ratio, man? Yeah. Well, you see the mini buys and the wailing that get included when you, yeah. Yeah. That's about it, really. Yeah. How about you? I, you said graphic novel. I watched Batman Ninja. He did watch that. I heard. Uh, still kind of reeling from everything. I'm having trouble guard getting a tone here. You know the, the anime, it's David production. Oh yeah. You know the anime Tengen, Tapa and

Gurren Lagan. I am aware. I'm not going to say it's like that, but it's like that. Because we try not to say that. We try not to dark souls. I'm a little confused about what that could possibly even fucking mean. But I heard it's very good. Things go over the top is what you're trying to say. Things go over the top is what I'm trying to say. All right. Very, very quickly. Um, and I won't go into the exact specifics on it, but if you've ever seen a trailer for it, that trailer showed about 5% of it and there's a million other characters and yeah, maybe. No, I know. It's just every time I, I don't know why, but I keep having to like lower it because I don't know something about, is Matt shrinking? Yes. Maybe anyway. I'm slouching, but um,

I watched it with, uh, with, uh, team Atelier Muse and, uh, it was just like, okay, yeah, that's fine. Oh, okay. They're here too in ancient Japan. Oh, okay. That's, oh, the art style has now changed to watercolors for no reason. Oh, okay. That's here. How is that being powered in the warring states and just the, the, it was it Hideyoshi? It was Hideyoshi. No, it wasn't. That son of a bitch. But, but the thing is that it's very difficult for when I see things like this where they kind of go, here's a few nuts things and then that's it. And then they kind of don't go like actually crazy with it. And then that's actually bad. Like, oh, I didn't like that because those two or three huge plotting consistencies where they were able to do this. But

this thing, maybe in the first half hour, it's an hour and a half. It's a movie just says, okay, no, not only will we do that, but one of you needs to watch it. Well, he at least needs to watch it and, and just, and I need to talk about it more. I will check this out because it's, it's, it's one of the more insane things. Did you hear about the localization process of this? Yes. I told you about it last year. You were the one. Okay. Do you want to go over that again? The localization process is such that the dub had 90% of the movie rewritten entirely, making them two completely different movies. Yeah. In terms of all dialogue, weird. All of it. And it is essentially know why I don't know why the fear of WB. I think it is likely to better fit the voice actors.

Perhaps because I'll say one thing about the voice actor was incredibly off. Like, it was not even remotely close to being lip synced correctly. Yeah. It was really off. But like, when you say, but like, how different are we talking content wise? Like, is it just tonally different? Or is it like completely different sentences? They were there because I didn't watch the Japanese version yet, but I actually want to just to see. But there are specific sequences where I'm like, that's confusing that they're really and like, when I mentioned a scene that's all in watercolors, it comes so out of the blue and you're so confused about what's going on. And I'm like, that has to have been part of it. Or the main reason why

they because of that scene, they have to go back and change everything else beforehand and everything else after. It's difficult to explain without saying what, but I can't even say what the scene is, because it was huge character twist kind of bit, whatever. It was still really entertaining, but I don't know if I was supposed to be entertained. You were supposed to be baffled. I don't know. Shame on you. It was a trip. Is there a recommend here? I'd say yes. Oh, dude, even if he ended that with like, I was bored, that would still be anime Batman from David production. You're gonna watch it. But I'm trying to get to the movie that somebody fails to describe accurately. Like, it's just like, this have I don't know why. And then it went, it's like, okay,

maybe I should just look at this. That would seems faster. Yeah. Yeah. But sometimes it's actually like, no, don't waste your time. Yeah. Like, you know, I do that with like, but even if it's bad, but over the top, when you say it's bad, I mean, I don't think we'd recommend only God forgives and that's a hard to describe movie. That's true. And I don't think we'd recommend. Well, personally, I wouldn't recommend God that fucking Lynch and Cage one. Wild at Heart. Oh, yeah. Are you do you know Wild at Heart? It's Nick Cage and David Lynch. David Lynch. Yeah. Okay, no. Old movie. Not good. Weird and not wild at heart. Yeah, I've heard of it, but never seen it. Yeah, there's Lynch movies that are worth it. And

there's Lynch movies that are not. Yeah, one is is in the solid no for me. I know it'd be very hard to describe everybody mad at me because I think blue velvet sucks. See, God, I forget which one I don't like. I don't like lost highway. It's actually, but I'd recommend Mulholland Drive. I'll totally recommend Mulholland Drive to anybody. It's weird. It's one of my, but yeah. Do it. Tell me David Lynch movies fucking weird. You're weird. You know, you'd be great out of my face if a David Lynch had a new funky mode. Yeah, he's just inserted into it. Because speaking of which, I played a lot of Tropical Freeze over over the weekend. It came on Friday. Hey, that game's great. It is great. Because the Wii U version was great. And this has better load times. It runs better.

It's those low times were like not great on the Wii U version. And Hitomi Tanaka is constantly asking me on my advice on how to stream it. And you're like, we'll translate this. Yeah. So slow beef comes at me. And he goes, you didn't tell me you fucking spoke Japanese. We could have like talked about shit. And I'm like, yeah, I've for a couple of years now, did I not mention it? And he's like, Oh, and I let it sit, marinate for like 25 minutes. And I'm like, yeah, I don't Google translate, dude. It's really strong nowadays. There you go. And he's like, Oh, language proficiency is now useless. Oh, but it's really crazy to like, let's just say it's anybody that we're like, Hey, cool, that'd be cool. Meet them one day. And it's like, Hey, you should

stream video games one day. Ha ha ha. Go about your day. The next day, they're they're posting their picture of their Algato and they're like, All right, so what do I do? So has has he has it has the long con finally worked? Are you in direct contact? Or is it is it through tweet replies? It's through tweet replies. And are they direct? They are direct. Okay, good. Okay, I will say that we're there. We're there. But now I now I'm scared and I'm running away. And there you are. What's the what's the what's the end game on this? Well, the actual end game is to like, at least get a video done. Oh, yeah. The video, the video. The end game is to plug an Algato into a Jacob titties and just and just see what happens. I need the direct. What is the footage turned into? No,

this isn't in 60. No, no, the end game would be to like play Mario Kart eight. And which she does regularly with fans. Yeah. But her friends list is full. So I can't. So yeah. But yeah, tropical freeze is really fun. I started up not with funky because if Willie doesn't know maybe at least funky is the super calm easy guy. He flies over the stage or whatever. Like spikes don't hurt him. He's he has no he he breathes underwater. He's evolved. Or you know, he has so funky could have solved all the problems all along. It's really nice that he has like exclusive animations like during boss fights, he appears in game and reacts to the bosses differently than everyone else does. And I was like, wow, that's actually a lot of work that

you didn't need to. And now there's also talks, the radical surfer parrot. That's correct. And he's amazing. It's just I everyone needs a funky version. Where's the funky cranky? He could have funky cranky be great. So so you so he could have like, again, to solve this destroyed K rule, if he was just motivated, has five hearts is funky, the Cody now Donkey Kong. Yes. Okay. Yes. Okay. In HP alone, he is okay. Right. Just not motivated. But I do want to what's what's really great about the funky mode thing is that right when you start says, do you want classic challenge? Or do you want funky mode? And you're like, I'll take funky mode. And it says, okay, now you can start with funky if you want, but you

can also just start with Donkey Kong or whoever you like. And you're like, Oh, so it's another chance to like, have the option to switch to funky, but you don't need to. Yeah, basically, never actually well, basically, there's classic challenges, the original game. And then there's funky mode, which you have the choice of playing a slightly easier version of the game with the other characters, yeah, or switching to funky and being like, Yeah, fuck this. Does he get his own music? Sorry. Does he get his own music? No. No, okay. I mean, he gets a little like, does he know the boombox and stuff? Yeah, I know, I like the boombox. He has his own new idol animations. But like, he has some funny stuff. But yeah, there's that. And then there is a show.

I watched it told Willie about it in a video. If I haven't talked about it on the podcast, yeah, I made a tweet about it. There is a Japanese game show, like a game show reality show called real love on Netflix. And the L of love is in parentheses for God knows what reason. They are on a resort in Okinawa, about 17 people, slightly more guys than girls. They have three days to fall in love. Yeah, that's how love work, right? Every at random intervals, the dark secret bell will ring. And they will take out an envelope with someone's name, then the host who's like a asshole who has little bits of green just randomly dyed in his hair and like, What are you doing, dude?

It looks really bad fucking temptation island, man. He then goes up to a random people and dates are happening at all times of the day in different parts of the resort. So I am scuba diving with this motherfucker, or I'm having a day with this girl. And then he'll go up to the thing and says reveal your dark secret. Oh, and they're like, Okay, I'm massive porn star. Oh, that girl will go shrieking away from him. Yeah. All right, here's your dark secret. And then someone will be looking up and they'll be like having the chopsticks go into their mouth and they're looking up at the host and he's coming towards them. He's like, Oh, God, oh, God. And they're like dark secret. And he's like, I'm

five million yen in debt. My favorite is dark secret. Oh, I'm a criminal. Spend a year in the pen for fraud. I love crying. I have no dream. That's my secret. That was it. Yeah. I'm a sex addict. I've had 150 partners. And that like in America, whatever, lightweight Japan, that's like what you fucked everyone. It was amazing. There are some things that like Japan, you need to catch up to the rest of the world with your attitude towards that being divorced. Because divorced person, everyone's like, get the fuck out of there. Because they know how to fail at marriage. Run away. You have how many kids. Yeah. So there's even more insensitive stuff. Look at that disgusting person. It's

sired a child. You got to you got to do it like the old Catholics and just buckle down no matter how awful it gets, right? Or kill your spouse. Well, Oh, my favorite. Okay. I don't think the Bible was like that. But I mean, sure. Hey, man, King Henry the eighth had a good idea. Anglican There's one guy was Catholic first. Yeah. Then you just go, I want to get divorced, make a new religion. I think what was no, what was it? It's Robin Williams had a bit about the Henry the eighth or Henry the eighth got tired of murdering his wives and just said, I'm the fucking Pope now. Can't stop me and invented divorce. Hold a whole lot of Anglicans in Grenada too. It's pretty funny. My favorite one. I totally about it is the one guy super

nervous. He's sweating and he looks completely normal. And he's like, I own over 100 anime figurines. And they show footage of the apartment. And I'm like, it's happening. I'm an otaku. And everyone's like, Yeah, that's fine. That's as long as you're not like a debt filled criminal, that's a porn star. I'm okay. But it was it was if there are certain things that yeah, might rub people the wrong way in with how Japan views them, but it was still an immensely entertaining show. It was like eight episodes long. It was it was a hoot. It's called real love. That is like, just as much gimmick as I want. Yeah, like a bell rings. I lack of ambition. Just just. Hey, you don't work. You don't know what you're going to do with

your life like get out of the country like when the bell rings, you have to pull off your breakaway pants and just start shitting. And your and your and your date has to watch it or else they lose a million dollars. Sure. Wow. Yeah, that's some dumb shit. It sure is. You've fallen down a deep fucking rabbit hole edition. But he's found the exact source of his needs and entertainment. I need like credibly awkward cringe. Yeah, like if you if that was that cringy, honestly, sound it sounds cringy. No, but it's like it's like between this and you know, Jersey Shore and all that like you're going right in for what you need, acknowledging it and being true to yourself. I'm giving my best life. Absolutely. I need to see no cloud here fear in the eyes of people

confronted with somewhat normal life situations. Essentially. Yeah. Oh, no. One person made a shitty music video. That was it. They're like, it's so embarrassing. Oh man, that person got lucky. Can you imagine you're the person who made the shitty music video and you're thinking there? It's like, whoa, I wonder if everybody's dark secret is as lame as mine. Oh, no, you've been divorced. Yeah. Once upon a time, I was like, oh, no, my Metal Gear fan film will get found out. And it never did. And then it's gotten like, is it actually just gone? It's actually not on the internet, but I'm pretty sure a trailer is out there. But like either way, it's like it's locked in Willy's memory palace. More importantly, real shit has gone on since then.

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they're high quality. Yeah, especially the past couple episodes of Hero Acca. Yeah. Hero Acca is a very bingeable. It's that show. That show is Naruto to the max. That's what I'll be doing. I saw people joking about how this new arc was going to be that people were going to say like, oh, the green Naruto shit's never going to stop now. Green. It is like identical. Oh, I expect a combination of the tune in exams and recess. Yeah, absolutely. I expect it to follow the formula to a tee. And in fact, following the formula and still being entertaining is what will have me applauding even more than if it were to deviate at this point. Because setting your expectations for something that does completely weird shit you've never seen,

you do that nice and early on. But with this case, now that I'm two seasons in, I'm like, no, no, you've been doing the formula, but just doing it fun and right. So I kind of want to continue to see that. Hey, look, the formula does work if you do it right. That's what it is. Yeah. That's really good. For games, I pretty much played Pillars 2 all weekend. I'd like to talk briefly about that. One, thanks Obsidian and versus evil for sending me early code. Very much appreciated. That game's really good. And it's really good in a lot of ways that the first one was not technically eat. So I've talked about this in the past that quality of life fixes. No, not even that like that. But not even that. Like technically,

these games come out. I've talked about this before with Divinity and Pillars and Tyranny and Shadowrun and all those types of RPGs, they come out one way and that's fucked up every single fucking time because those types of RPGs, same thing with an oblivion or a Skyrim or all those types, there's just too many variables. And they come out fucked up. Now, I remember you talking about Pillars 1 where like, it's like really good, but I'm going to wait another year for them to patch it up. So I played about 15, 16 hours with a pre-release build of the game that does have a couple of known issues. I ran into one minor character dialogue bug in the entire time. Other than that, smooth sailing, literally,

because it's a pirate game, load times are super fast, which the first game had really, really fucking bad load times no matter where you went or what SSD you had it on. Like just in general, like it is a such a smoother, easier to actually play experience. Things like being able to limit the frame rate to a certain thing and not having the game freak out is very appreciated. There's also the thing of like, boy, that big campaign, you can really see worth of money went on that because the game looks and sounds way better. They now have voice acting for every single character in the game for every piece of dialogue. So the first game did not have at all. And it makes a big difference. And I'm good at the first game have a had occasional voice. So the classic style

of voice acting would be that most of the lines during the critical path would be voiced. Okay, so like the big bad. And so persona like persona like yeah, except in these games, the critical path represents maybe 10% of the total game. Whereas in persona, critical, critical path is like 60 70% of the total game. Now everybody's voice acted every shopkeeper, every everything, like thumbs up, they have multi class system now, which is a lot of fun to mess with, but it's also very complicated. And I think I screwed all my characters up by not knowing what the fuck I was doing. Okay, looks good controls good the system I'm not going to go way into the system stuff. Other than they killed fancy and spellcasting, which is the per rest ability shit that wizards

have. You you're familiar and D&D at all. You memorize a spell and yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, that's called fancy and spellcasting. Yeah. Oh my god, I forgot about that. And it is my most hated mechanic in all games. You have to pick which ones you want that day, because it ends up in a situation where you never want to use your good spells, because then you'll have to go back to town and rest and rest. They junk that whole system. Now everything is per encounter. Oh, this is a good time for you to bathroom. Okay, be fully alone with this shit. That made everything is per campaign hard. Oh, totally man, which I guess was the goal. Well, because wizard spells were always so good. Yeah. So if you had the ability to just keep doing them,

then it'd be a problem. So they kind of equalize it a bit. And what they have now is everything you have is per encounter. And you can only use two or three depending on your level per spell level of encounter. And everybody like from a fighter to a paladin to a chanter to a wizard, they get instead of per rest abilities, they get per rest empowers, which is every couple levels, you get one empower per rest. And it essentially lets you pick one ability and make it twice as strong once. Okay. So you can either do that, or you can use it in a fight to regenerate more ability. So all I cast all my spells, I cast two level threes and one level two or whatever, right? Do empower. Okay, now I got all my spells back so you can keep going. And

it makes a lot more sense because it gives you more control because you get to go, this fight's really hard. I'll empower in general. But that's not going to leave me helpless in the next fight. If if need be, and if it's really bad, I can go back and rest. The settings way more interesting. I think I remember were these things that people like requested in forums beforehand kind of thing or there is a big argument, both for and against fancy and spell casting. And the way that it worked in pillars one was basically because the long load times and because the distances of the places that you would have to rest, you can only carry enough supplies to rest like two or three times in a sorry four times and dungeon, they balance that shit around. How many

times do you want to rest? How many times do you want to go back to town to use all your busted wizard or priest or druid shit? Now with the new game where load times are super fast, and you can rest much more easily, there's no way to actually keep that system working, because it would be really easy to game it. Okay, it would be really, really easy to go into a dungeon blow out everything on one group of guys, walk out, go to your boat, rest, go back in and just anything you had trouble with. And I personally, I fucking hate fancy and spell casting, I think it's the absolute worst, it's annoying, and it makes sense in pen and paper, like where, you know, there's a DM and they're messing with you, but in a game where you're hitting like 1020 encounters down the thing,

like in Baldur's Gate, it used to be the pre-buff ritual was that you would rest, then you would cast Protection from Evil, then you would cast Bless, then Prayer, then your invisibility spells, and Haste on everyone, then you'd go fight a fight, and then you'd rest, and then you would cast all those abilities again, and it was awful. So they took out pre-fight buffing in Pillars 1, and now they're taking out Vancey and shit in Pillars 2, which I think is a huge improvement personally. There's going to be some people who don't like it, they want to have their super busted wizard spells that they can only cast once a day. No thanks personally. And the biggest thing about Pillars 1 that I said was a downer was,

I think that's a fantastic game, it's one of my favorite, but as a Kickstarter game and as a, like, save our company game, it played it really safe. Like, it is overtly classic themed, it is, everything is normal, it is the big fantasy normal city, it is the quiet, like, European style villages, it's the big castle with the evil, you know. So what's not playing it safe? Right, what's not playing it safe is Pillars 2, where it's all pirates. Okay, okay, I see. It's all pirates and big troll, big blue dude natives with their society. So weird. Fake Italians in this weird makeshift city, yeah, weird, different. Like, interesting. Like, and it just pops, it's so much more interesting. And the stronghold or base

system they had in the last game sucked. And now that you, instead of that, you have a pirate ship. And honestly, it's really fascinating because you play like a choose your own adventure style, like text battle with ship to ship combat, where it gives you, hey, they're 400 meters away, what do you do? Do you turn, do you jive, do you, do you go ahead and then your ship changes and then you fire and then you look at your cannons that you have outfitted on your ship. And then, oh, what's the distances they're good at fire and then it'll do the dice roll and it, it's, everything about it just works and it was a lot of fun. How much time did you get in? I got about 15 hours in. I got shit all to show for it in terms of like progress. Like that was me going to the first

main city, like doing the little tutorial town, going to the first main city and visiting each district. Obviously, I'm a little biased considering I backed it for like 200 bucks and then obsidian gave me a code secret club. Well, it's funny because I have this bad habit of anybody that wants to sponsor me is for games that I've already bought. Right. So remember the ff 14 thing they want. Hey, do you, you guys like ff 14 like hell yeah, I do. And then this one is the kind of thing where they gave me the they gave me the early code and I punched it in a steam and steam said you already own this fuck off. And I went, oh, oh, shit. So I had to make a new steam account to use the preview code. No, it's great game. I'm gonna I'm gonna play tons more of it.

It is an improvement on the original in every single way. And there are two more things that I want to mention. If you didn't play the first game or you did play the first game and lost your save, which it happens, right? Like you guys ever lose your mass effect saves at any point and then have to use a save editor to fix that? No. Okay, well, I sure did because my 360 red rang. And I lost it. They have sidestepped that within the options menu. There is a hidden little button that says set your pillars of one of attorney one stats. And it is a seven point menu that goes the main game, all your companions, the expansion, these side quests, your mad libs recreate your safe and it is literally go to the main quest. What did you do here? Who's deal did you take? Who did? Okay,

then you go, Hey, companion one, which of these five endings did you get companion to which of these endings? That's great. That's great. That's great. Every single thing. And then you just create your fake imports. It's a lot of work to ask for people to do that when they have no save from a first game. But giving the option is really there is also the option of people who really didn't play the first game at all and don't know anything about it. When they load you in, they have six different states, which are you did everything right, all the way to you did everything wrong. And everything wrong has a big, big warning on it says, do not pick this if you are a new player. Because three of the party members that are in this game are from the last no, they'll

be dead. Okay, and unrecruitable. Okay, okay. Because they died or you didn't finish their quest or what have you. Nice. Yeah, super great. And last thing I want to thank a guy who watches my streams, his name is commander claw. He gave obsidian 500 bucks. And we have now finally found where Elmo is in the game. My wonderful, wonderful cat Elmo. He's in the game as a pet. Damn. Okay. That's cool. He is in the main city Nekotaka. He is at a trety's pet shop. I think in the serpent wood. Is it a sprite? It is a fully modeled cat. Wow. And if Elmo is in your party, he will make you move 25% faster in combat. And you will be less likely to be crit by enemies. So to anybody who's interested on picking up pillars to tomorrow, that's where you go find Elmo

and you can have a game with Elmo in it. That's some funny shit. That was one of the more popular backer rewards that people got. There are a shit ton of pets in the game 25% faster 25% faster. No downsides. No doubt. No, the pets have no downsides. And they and I found other pets. I didn't find Elmo one in my life. There's no like there's a game. You don't like losing inventory slot to like there's an inventory spot specifically for pets. Okay. And the weird thing is that I got a dog that gave me plus one to metaphysics and plus two to religion. That's a smart dog. It's a very smart dog. It's like a shaggy looking dog. All everybody, every pet in that game is somebody's backer reward that gives you some kind of buff. I imagine Benny would just be like

raw hype. What would that be? I don't know. What does hype convert into hype? Just extra ability cast per that's broken. That's super strong. That's too good. Like a little bit of strength, a little bit of speed, a little bit of, I don't know. I don't know. Benny gives you, no, Benny gives you extra resolve. Because you can stay cool and pressure because you're so hyped or some shit. I don't know. Zach makes you like escape battles easier. Makes you back down. Maybe. I guess. Zach was in cat lateral damage like a year ago. He didn't do anything though. Yeah. What was he as? Was he a playful character? He was a cat. No, but I can't remember what cat lateral damage was. Oh, it was like you swiped through. You swiped things. You just destroyed

things running through the house. So you can collect this picture and then you can be a cat that basically looks like him. But I mean, it's a white cat. Also, to anybody who follows my Twitter, I want to apologize because when I announced that shit about Elmo. You do this a lot. You have to apologize. I know. It's a sign of humility. I accidentally wrote it in such a way that scared people because the phrase Elmo has been found as the first line in your Twitter makes people think that you lost your cat. Yeah, you got to be careful with that. That was a good save that you made up this whole thing about Pillars of Eternity. I know, right? I called the devs. I got got Elmo in there right away just to save that shit just to not get in

trouble for losing the cat. Never stop hustling. That's that's a real good game. All right. Speaking of hustles, let's get into the news. Is the first hustle about the news? I mean, no. The first news can be interpreted as a hustle. Good. As long as you can interpret. It can be interpreted as a hustle. I'd say so. Can you interpret these hustles for me? I'm hustle blind. Hustle deaf, rather. I think Jamie Foxx is a bit of a hustler. What do you do now? Uh, this is exactly. This is some weird one. This is some weird shit because I was like, I don't see this as a fit. But I guess if someone likes your character enough and has enough like,

if you they have passion for your character, if someone has enough clout, then they can just fucking go for it. But Jamie Foxx apparently was offered the lead for spawn. So Tom McFarlane, which is Tom McFarlane's no longer imaginary. I've been writing it for 15 years screenplay that it is being made. The new live action spawn. Exactly. So Michael J. White to me was a pretty solid cast. Also still alive. Yes. Also still making action movies like not even a year. Not even close to being dead. But when you look at when you look at Al Simmons, I'm like, yeah, that's Michael J. White. That's a that's that makes sense to me. Jamie Foxx could become Al Simmons. He was pretty scummy and and like a mean guy and a baby driver. Yeah, that's true. That's true. But it

just it's not the first, you know, no dude that comes to mind for that. But if he loves spawn, I mean, honestly, yeah, I don't love honest. Like I feel like, honestly, who doesn't. I feel like spawn could be a Deadpool type situation where the casting was fine. It's the rest of it that had its problems. Yeah. And that if you got Michael J. White back and then just made a better film like Deadpool, like you could probably still be good. The whole thing for this spawn movie, if you if you remember, it's like it's supposed to be very low budget, very shot, very modestly, and be a lot of alleys and be low on special effects. It's more like a crime like seven and apparently he doesn't say much seven or, you know, fight club type of movie, but spawns in the

background doing shit doesn't spawn kill people with attacks made entirely out of he sure does. But I don't think that's what this is supposed to be. This is supposed to be a psychological like crime drama green fucking magic all up your ass for days. Like once his countdown, he's not going to get it. I'll you know what, I'll live without the countdown if the chains are cool. What do you know what chains weren't cool? The ones in the first spawns got many weapons, but like the three are his his green magic power, his chains. What's the name of his accent? So caliber answer now, I have no idea. Both your answers just shout something right close sherry wrath. The the same type of passion, but instead of being angry, you're hurt.

Oh, Agony Agony. Agony is always the name. Yeah. Um, yeah, that's that's that's fine. Does that mean spawn you invented the Agony crossbow? Yes. Did you see by the way, speaking of like weird casting, did you see that little that test screen of Tom Hiddleston as Thor instead of Loki? That's weird. He Tom Hiddleston. Let me see if I can find it. I don't like a screen like as a screen grab of him doing a screen test for Thor instead of Loki. And it's so weird. I don't like that. He could have possibly pulled it off, but he doesn't have the button to build for it. He's a scrawny slimy man. He isn't that scrawny and he's a hero guy and soldier guy and Kong Skull Island. He's so he had he had a screen test where he's like blonde and

he's doing this. I forgot how creepy Thor looked in the first movie. He's doing this whole thing where he's got the blonde wig on and he's like, I'm I don't think it's a man. Yeah, he screwed it up. We went over it, but just an image is probably. Yeah, exactly. Here we go. Blonde Tom Hiddleston as Thor, if you look that up, I could see him as like a prince, but Thor is basically like a gangster. Yeah, like a thing is that like if you imagine imagine his his his face as like, like he has a haughty godly kind of face, right? So he could pull it off as a her on high type of Thor character, but he definitely is a infinitely better fit for Loki. Yeah. And like in the screen test here where you see he's like, he's not super buff or anything.

Like it's like it's like they looked at Anthony Hopkins and they're like, man, you'd be a really good Loki. Yeah. And he's like, are you sure you don't mean Odin? You'd be an awesome Loki. And he's like, what the fuck's going on? So no, in the end, all's well that ends well. They made a good choice. But it is funny to know that he did a he did a audition. That's weird. Initially. I don't like that as Thor. Well, of course not. It's we're six movies later. Well, is it any weirder than Perry Mason is like in Ant-Man or J. Jonah Jameson is Commissioner Gordon or Human Torch is Captain America. It's all it's got the same type of weird. It's I feel much weirder about that one. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. So I mean, again, like Michael Michael.

Jamie Foxx. What's this quote? This big spawn quote. Spawn is one. Yeah. And Mike Tyson. Those are two roles I'd love to do. I'm aggressively pursuing them. I would much rather him attack aggressively. I would way rather see Mike Tyson movie with Jamie Foxx. Oh, he could do it easy. Oh man. Yeah. His voice is already high pitched. Yeah, man. It would be very easy for him to I don't want him to be spawned to but you don't I would do you do. I want to. Yeah. So he's he's a big enough name that he could just take that like he can just be like, no, this is my name. Like when Sam Jackson used to do that shit. So I want this. Okay. Yeah, we made a movie to cater to that Sam. Anyway, on to go. There's also this is fucking. Yeah, like I don't know where this

disc got dug up but dig it up motherfucker in superhero news as well. This is the craziest thing. A practical effects driven incredible Hulk film was canceled in the 90s. Wow. They were making a full on practical effects only incredible Hulk monster movie. And the guy who's talking about it was like one of the one of the people that was involved with this thing that it inflated to over a hundred million in production costs, which is crazy in the 90s for the 90s. That's unheard of Terminator two and that's it insane. So he worked this guy Steve Johnson. He worked on five separate Marvel projects and they're all yeah and they were all basically aimed at being practical effects movies. And they pretty much all got canceled. And this if you look up above

a bit that like it said he he did the practical effects in American werewolf in London nightmare on Elm Street problem little China the abyss poltergeist to yeah a lot of history here. So they were showing you how like they had these they're making gigantic mutants for the whole yeah because the story was basically that Banner was testing the the was testing on inmates and when the gamma radiation yeah and when the gamma radiation experiments like failed he basically turned these three guys into these bug mutant things and they turned him into the Hulk at the same time. But also there was a basement full of failed rejects that were also experimented on. So like there's all kinds of weirdos and creepies and it was a monster movie.

It was not a Hulk movie you know. Hulk versus the monsters basically. And you start seeing like some screenshots here of like the suits they were making. I don't even know how the fuck this shit was going to work like well because in the middle and then there's stilts and then the arms are being controlled by like there's there's robot exoskeletons underneath. And when you're looking at some of the screens you could you'll see that like they even have some footage of it of like this giant robot skeleton. That's so cool. It's a giant robot torso Hulk that would have been underneath that skin. Everyone's heard of bits of like oh Tim Burton was about to make a Superman movie with Nicholas Cage or there's all these like failed little things. I've never

heard about this until like we brought it up. Right. Yeah just crazy to me. And not to mention like there's been all kinds of things like that's crazy fantastic for shitty version leaking from beforehand. You know like there's all this stuff this never leaked until now. They had a nine foot basic Hulk machine and there was a super Hulk that was going to be what was it four times bigger than the actual Hulk that he had to fight in the movies. Now there should be a super Hulk. It's nuts. Red Hulk. Let's be real. It probably would have been like not great. It would have been amazing. It probably would have been stupid. Yeah. It would have been. But entertaining. It would have been worthwhile. And you can appreciate practical effects. But let's be real. It would

have been a dumb movie. Yeah. This is this is crazy that they had this fucking on the on the back burner and a hundred million in fucking the 90s. And then I just fucking cancel it. Yeah. The movies when they're making all these puppets and animatronics that movie studios just like yeah it's all canceled. Yeah. Pack it up. You've wasted your time. Like again it's just it would have been the dumbest. I wish we got a chance to see. But instead we got the huge success that was angry. Of course you got the yeah if you're getting the trade off that was just as stupid it had the Hulk dog. But but but then how do you transition the Hulk dog. But if this came out and it was a big success do you then have to transition into an MCU of all practical effects.

Yes. Maybe that'd be cool. So yeah that was a weird one. Fucking Hulk that if any worse should be crazy practical effects. It wouldn't it just wouldn't exist. It wouldn't exist. No man you could do it all practical. Yeah. Just be a real fucking pain in the ass. Just get a raccoon and put a stick up his ass. Start pumping it around. Just just draw a face on a tree and film it. Yeah. Just grab grab grab a fucking raccoon in a fucking tree. What are you guys doing. Just make it a public show. You can do it. Some puppets. Yeah. Fuck I want to see that movie now that movie that doesn't exist that I just invented my own head. There you go. Speaking of things that don't exist and that I made up in my own head and talking bullshit and weird whatever beyond good and

evil to pre alpha footage shows combat jet packs and ship maneuvers. Does this show the rich online infrastructure. This thing is really early. It continues to be really early. You mean the thing that when they announced that they're like we have a logo. But they're showing off some in game stuff now in particular the combat system the not the system so much as the combat animation the ship system in the jet pack and how you can basically jump in and out of your ship at any time. We're in a brave world that games like seven eight years after their announcement that can show off pre alpha footage and say listen we just started. So the footage is showing off that like yeah you can pretty much abandon ship jump out on foot and start fighting and then jump

back into your ship with your jet pack at any time. And that is super cool. But it makes me a little bit afraid of how open the game will be as a result because beyond good and evil I don't want to be like that open. Hey woolly. Yeah. What company makes this. I know. I know. So it's going to be that. It really strikes me that it's like Miquel on sale or whatever says I want to make a beyond good and evil too. Now here's what you can do. Make an Ubisoft game and then slap the name on it. This is going to map with 50 objectives. This is going to be a fortunately what we're bound for. Ubisoft game and their games are good. Assassin's Creed Origins great and I hear good things about Far Cry 5. It will be one of those in a super radical setting. Yeah. But it is not. You're

still going to have a man on good and evil. You're still going to have a million little markers to just visit and do like I hope that's not the case but it just seems like a good evil had more in common with Metal Gear and Zelda. And you know that beyond good and evil had like it did have a open map but it was a very small. It was a linear game. And I really kind of want this to be a linear game but I'm still very excited it exists. I am happy to see where it goes and I love the character designs. We could be like told whether this continues anything from the first game. Well I think that's going to be the reveal. Okay. Hopefully. That being said even if this game is called fucking whatever like this setting is really interesting. The very deliberate ignoring

of Yade and Paige. Yade. And Paige is like I think it's going to be a reveal that happens somewhere in the game. Hello. My mom used to be called Jade and she taught me about the weird space bugs. I will die now because I'm a hundred and that story is like five million years old and you don't need to care about it new main character. Yeah. It feels like there's a it's just you know there's an established thing for that like sequel where you brand new cast and then at some point oh fuck you know who that is with them slightly different haircut or whatever. Man you find tomb of Paige. Yeah you find the yeah I find the tomb or that or there are no not even a tomb it's just a skeleton that's in a garbage dump. Is it a prequel. It's a prequel.

No idea. Never mind. It doesn't matter. It's a prequel. It doesn't matter. So all that undo undo great. Don't worry about it. Live corrections. See now now it doesn't have to have anything to do with Beyond Good and Evil. Perfect. It fits what Ubisoft wanted even more. Yeah you can make one. Don't call fucking two then. Like I remember I remember when Beyond Good and Evil 2's trailer I think our reaction was like oh this game was cool and then the name comes up we're like what. At least all the God of War prequels didn't have the fucking shit balls to be like five. Fuck you it's not it's a prequel you shouldn't call them numerically. Side story. Yeah then call it God of War guidance then God of War guidance too. God of War 4 isn't even called

God of War 4 because it's a weird side story in the Norselands. It's not God of War 4 it's five. It's five. Is this ascension count. No. It's a big console entry. Yeah but it's a prequel. He sure is. He did the shit you wanted. I don't even know why we're arguing. Are we. I were not. Are we agreeing. So what else you got. It doesn't matter if there's a number or not. Yeah no in fact the number is inconsequential it shouldn't actually have just been called. It should have been called Ubisoft game. It's called Spacesoup. Spacesoup. Spubisoft. Spubisoft. Nailed it. I'm annoyed when a prequel is just called two. It's annoying. So speaking of prequels. I hate Metal Gear Solid 3 never mind I just

fucking corrected myself. Yeah but Metal Gear Solid 3 continues the story even though it's set in the past. You're technically. You get additional information. Anyway speaking of prequels it's not really news but I mean people were excited anyway to see Taki in Soul Calibur 6. That's the least news. Yeah I mean my queen's back but I knew she would be. Yep she's got that cool mask thing on. I hope she has a good secondary costume I like the blue ones where she didn't have the mask on. Well I mean it seems like at least in the art and when she's doing her specials in this like they added a detail where you can see Kanji glowing on her outfit. It's a nice little touch. Well that's her like over that's like her mode right. Well you see

if you look at the trailer like there's moments where she activates her magic and you see it appear right. Yeah. But it's only like for a second but it's a cool little touch. I feel like we're still in the part of the roster reveal process in which most if not all characters that get revealed are going to fall under the banner of no shit. Yeah after Geralt and Gro. Gro. I think we'll just have to hang out for a minute. Like you know like but like you know it would be even better if like they showed off characters from that era that are not no shit like Lizard Man. Lizard Man's a weird pick to put in your game. I find it weird that like if it's not anymore. Yeah he's been there since the fucking night. It's like saying Yoshi Mitsu is weird. Lizard Man

is not a weird pick. He's been there since the beginning. You know what speaking of can't wait to see new Yoshimitsu. I bet it's like that'll be cool. Yeah I find it weird that like we're still at the beginnings of the roster and we're like it's coming out this year. I'm like okay. I hope that roster isn't super small. The only question is is if this is going back to the past are they going to grab characters that only show up in later games or are they going to stick with the original roster. That's why Zassel Amel is there. That's why it would be really weird. Yeah. Yeah. Because he'd be a baby. I think they would only go up to three in my head. You know what they need to do. They need to do that time travel shit that the fucking Fire Emblem does where Patroclus

comes out and he's like mom you're alive. Speaking of time. Patroclus is the worst. Speaking of do you like Setsuka? Setsuka's pretty cool. Setsuka's all right. So. I don't mind Setsuka. Okay. That's characters not as moves. Oh I hate her moveset but I think she's decently cool. Okay. I want Hildi though but I'm not going to put her in there. Yeah she's next character now. Yeah maybe. I want Xeo. That's not it. Well now we're. That's not to be biac. Come on. Anyway. God I lost it. Oh yeah. Speaking of time travel bullshit. Yeah. Time travel for us. Yeah. They're fixing Chrono Trigger on iOS. Is that the story? No it's not. Cross tag battle is getting an open beta. What does this have to do with time travel? Because they're coming through

portals to fight each other. They are. They are. Sure. Probably. It's a crossover game. I didn't even think they had any explanation whatsoever. I thought it was just whatever. Look at all the anime. Well anyway they're coming through portals to fight each other in BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle and there's an open beta that is launching in two days from now. So May 9th to 14th in North America. Everyone at home can can play the game and get excited for the game that killed Marble. And an offline demo coming on May 14th and we can feel you can feel it for yourself and we can feel if it's improved or not. I have not played it. I'm going to download it just to feel. We didn't like it when we played it but that was like six months ago. Yeah I hope it's gotten a

lot better. I'm cautiously optimistic that it's it's it's shaking. Oh shit the beta will have 20 characters out the gate. That's pretty good. That's a lot. Yep. So you have the roster of BlazBlue including Ragnogen Noel Makoto Rachel Hazama Israel Tiger 13 new 13 and S. And then you've got you. Yosuke Chie Yukiko from P4A Hyde Lynn Wildstein Gordo from Undernight and then Ruby and Weiss from Ruby. Sure. Yeah. That's a lot of stuff. That roster is very stacked towards the BlazBlue side of things. And again there's a there's the online only at first from the 9th to the 14th and then after the 14th you can get offline. 9 to the 12th you mean. Excuse me. What are we today with the 8th? 9 to the 9th to the 14th. I was correct. This is okay. The debt. Oh man. From

May 9th to 14th you're going to have your open ban. Sorry I got confused because at the bottom it said May 9th to 12th for part of the beta. So this is a yeah is an opportunity to see what this game's all about for everyone else. Is everyone excited? That's a huge roster to drop on a test. Your CD tray is shoving its face into your face. Ignore that. Don't worry about that. Technical issues are not to be understood. How can I ignore that? We've got the also ArcSys related news that some Dragon Ball patches are dropping and they're nerfing and buffing a little bit. Not too too heavy but they're taking away a lot of the crazy shit in particular. They're making a Vegeta's assist. You're going to recover a little bit faster. They're going to make it better.

Yeah. Android 16 who has his hard knockdown on Dynamite Driver removed. Cell's getting a slight buff which is weird. Adult Gohan is getting his lightning legs. They're not going to be as plus anymore. He's getting nerfs. Yeah. He's really good too. He's incredible. Adult Gohan is maybe the best character. But they're not touching a lot of the cast in terms of like they're doing a lot of bug fixes but they're doing like very very minor buffs and nerfs. This is very... Don't nerf him. He's not black. This is very... How do I put this? This is a more hands-off approach than say Capcom does. Capcom does full rebalances. This is like tweak the bullshit. And the crazy thing is that like Bardock is not even on the change list and he's currently

fucking a god who Bardock is currently... Broly's there and I just always assume as soon as a new character comes in the first thing you do is... So guess what? If you take a look at Broly's change list you'll see that they're all fixes for bugs that exist. They're not changes. Right? Because there's tons of issues that occur that are unintended but they're not balanced changes. That's what I mean. That's what most new characters usually get. Are they saying that Bardock is perfect? Bardock is the perfect saying. His SL count is high enough. I'm booing this. Big booze. Speaking of Super Saiyans, Sonic Mania Adventures 2 is available. Go check it out. Fucking cool.

Tails shows up as he should in Part 2. As he does in everything. And well, Part 2. Does he get fucking trolled though? He was always there. Not in the first episode. Yeah he was. He was in every Sonic game. He didn't see that. What? What the fuck? There's this amazing montage where it says was he always there? Is he the Q in the background of Street Fighter 2? So it starts going through every Sonic box art of every version. The game gears, whatever. And you're watching this montage that's going really fast and you don't notice but every so often Tails is just wiggling his way. It's a really bad. Tails got trolled version of Tails. It's fucking funny video. What the hell? He was

always there. He must win. Anyway, Sonic Mania Adventures is fantastic. Little shorts that Sega's putting out from the guys that animated the guy that animated the Sonic Mania intro. And it's silent and it's fun. Go watch it. Whatever they can do to make you forget about forces. They're trying real hard and they're doing decent job. Sonic Mania Plus. Good shit. 10 minutes of footage of something called DX2 Shin Megami Tensei Liberation. That's Pokemon Go with the SMT. Is it a real world like walking around and collecting demons? Is that what it is? Yeah. Because I had no idea. It said it was just an RPG. And when I was looking up to figure out what exactly it was, they didn't mention anything about AR or real world location

tracking. So is it in fact a GPS based game? Are you sure about that? That's how it was described to me by some person. DX2 Shin Megami Tensei. Don't take that as gospel. I'm going to go back to what I looked up for it, which was the description according to the Wikia, where they simply described it as an iOS and Android RPG, where you explore dungeons. And yeah, it doesn't mention anything about weird. Huh? Doesn't mention anything about that. No, wait, hold on. The augmented reality mode is to be added shortly after the game's launch. There you go. That explains the mystery. Although if it's AR, that's not necessarily GPS gameplay. But in any case, it's getting like an English release, it seems. And it seems like... It seems cool. It seems, yeah. You can at

least see that in the battle system, they have the full demon archives it looks like. And they're doing their kind of like Pokemon stadium style, dramatic cuts of the models moving more than they usually do. So yeah, I don't know what to make of it. But I mean, we'll see, I guess. If it's just a touch based SMT game on the go, right? I haven't heard of it. Oh man, I saw Baphomet just now. That dude's cool. Yeah. It's 10 minutes of footage that just got put out. So I don't know. I'm more excited for that platinum game. But yeah, really? Was it World of Demons? World of Demons. You told me. And Zarina and Sylvie are coming to SNK. Really? SNK drug frenzy. What's weird is Zarina... You might forget who Sylvie is. That thing is Sylvie, as you recall.

Sylvie's that Freakazoid pop star. Yeah, I don't think anyone would forget that. I forgot what the name meant. Zarina's from Team South American Ninjas, right? Exactly. However, Zarina is dressed like Banderas. Because Banderas is the guy that's the ninja. And Zarina wasn't wearing that, but now they've got her in her ninja outfit. That's just for her dumb, fun costume. But it's actually the main costume they're showing off with her. No, no, but they draw them in their dumb costumes and they're normal. They did a lot of work. But everyone has their normal and everyone has their SNK drug frenzy costume. Please enjoy this fan art of all the fans lining up for Sylvie and Athena having no one. I like how even Andy is in line. And Jun Hoon. Jun Hoon is standing right

there. Oh, that's who I meant to say. No, Andy doesn't wear a purple shirt. Yeah, that's hilarious. Anyway, fucking go, go. It's a character not for us. Hell no, in a game not for us. Well, I mean, I remember Liam pointing out it's based on a real person. I think that said this before, that doesn't make it better. Your eyeball shit is creepy and I hate it. I'm sorry. It's really bad. She always smacks of a maximum impact character. Little bit. Also, idols are creepy. I would still take Ming Yang Bert over her, though. No, I don't know, though. I think I would. Sound effects and all. Zarina is cool. Zarina is cool. Yeah, it's just fucking whatever. Yeah, that's coming. What is this coming out anyway? September 7th. Okay, can't wait.

There was that weird stuff with the president of SNK apologizing for shitting on the PS4 version of this game. As I do, I'm kind of oversimplifying it. But basically, he was asked about the versions and he said something kind of disparaging the PS4 version. He was like, that version doesn't really matter or something like that. It's coming out on the Switch and PC or whatever it was. And then he apologized later, like, oh, there was a miscommunication that was translated poorly. I did not say it. Yeah, the miscommunication is I didn't expect the guy from Sony to call me up and go, what the fuck? I think there actually was a thing where someone said, hey, what's the deal with saying that? And he was like, yeah, I don't know.

Platform holders tend not to like that shit. It was very strange. Yeah, this America president apologizes to Sony for recent remarks. I never mind about SNK heroines tag team frenzy interview. Someone got an angry phone call me thinks as a destructoid. It's like, what happens here? He what did he say? Let's see. And the original article go up a bit. Yamashita spoke about the original plans to make the all gal fighter PS4 exclusive before switching focus Nintendo switch for the Western market. And a follow question Yamashita calling to that Sony doesn't care about small publishers like us. That's what he said. Oh, man.

That's switching to the Western market for the switch. Are they saying that the type of audience that this game is for has moved from Sony platforms such as the Vita to the switch perhaps switch the new home of creepy anime bullshit? Is it a move or is it not just an acquisition? I think I you know, how like I need to see the numbers. There's a constant need to understand how many people are holding what out there. But you need to also see what it what it looks like on a Venn diagram, right? How many people are holding dual consoles? How many people own a PS4 and a switch? How many people refuse to have their creepy bullshit unless they can take it with them on the go? Right. Remember the era of what we called we 60? Yes, I do. Right. It's like

that was mostly kickstarted because I only found this out recently. It's like fucking Microsoft started that they're like for the amount that you can buy a PS3, you can get a we or a 360. So we suggest that and they were completely right. They were like there was a mathematics in terms of game releases. It made sense for those first three, four years. Absolutely. So I'm curious to know what it looks like now in terms of do switch. Does the average switch owner also own a PS4 or are no, they own 100 anime figurines or is our PC releases like, you know, frequent and constant enough? And is it at such a point where you can where most of the switch owners just have steam instead? I mean, I'm not going to lie, at PAX East, the fucking Nintendo had this game

in their booth right there, two setups, like they're they're pushing it. But like, Sony would not push this. There's no reason not to. They fucking King of Fighters 14 was only on it. Yeah. And the PC too. But that was like a year later. Yeah, PC, like Willie, when you look at PC and console sales, that's hard to tell. Like, I think I think PC necess like necess necessitates necessarily competes with PS4 and Xbox One to a degree because it shares a lot of the library, but not the switch. It shares more of the library with the Xbox and the PS4. Yeah, that's what I was like. Oh, sorry. Yeah, I guess I just like the switch library doesn't overlap with the PC very much. It just for indies it does. Yeah, that's it. The indies are everywhere. Well, that again,

it's the question is like, you know, what's the what is the average person see as a better value, right? The investment in like having two of these consoles or the investment in just better computer in the long run. And then, you know, you just you just rock that. That's a tough one. I still haven't had an answer to that question, even from my position of moving everything. Like, I wouldn't be able to tell you what the best value for any given person is. I'd honestly say it's like everything but the Xbox. Yeah, there's nothing exclusive on it. Because I that matters. You know, I remember recently, I think it was I was on a podcast, we talked about like how surprised I was to find out like that a lot of people just don't have

PS4s and a lot of rather a lot of people that play games regularly just don't have PS4s and just forgo that. And instead, it's weird because there's so many fucking exclusives and just hang out for PC games. And like you hear it whenever like something like whenever a new Souls game comes out, whenever a new Souls game comes out or like Neo or Automata and things like that. And like a lot of people start being really vocal about like, damn it, where's the PC version. And it's not just because it's like, I want that particular version. It's because like, that's the only version they have. That's right. And I was like, whoa, really? I didn't know that was as large. Yeah, you're not going to get uncharted. Some people still. Bloodborne. Bloodborne.

Bloodborne's the one because it's it's nebulous. You have to actually do research on saying, yes, Sony owns this. It will never appear. Same thing for Shadows Die Twice, I bet. Yeah, it was shown at Sony's event, right? You think that's an exclusive? I think that's an exclusive. Because it was shown at their event. It's safe to assume. Safe to assume. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's not just the desire for mods. And you don't see PlayStation or Xbox players complaining about not having PC exclusives because many PC exclusives. There's not really that many others. There's actually tons and tons, but tons of them are garbage. And a bunch of them wouldn't control well at all because they kind of require a massive keyboard. Like one of the big shocking

things. I'm bringing up Pillars again. Pillars is getting a switch, a PS4 and Xbox port. I didn't know that. Yeah. And Pillars one already got a PS4 and Xbox port just a couple months ago with a completely redone control scheme. Like that kind of game, aside from Divinity maybe, like they don't come over that often. One of the worst kept things ever is just like every single website saying like Diablo 3 is coming to the switch. Oh, that's a bad secret to keep there. And that's like the most console consoleified anything ever. It's it's that game's gonna be great on the switch for real as long as it runs good. Yeah, pretty much. But there's no reason why you want to. Well, you because you can throw a ton of shit in that game at the character. So

I guess when it when it comes to like quote unquote PC exclusives, you're pretty much you're talking about like like bang out huge things like like league and stuff like that. I'm talking about all sorts of shit. You talk about league. You talk about Minecraft for a while, right? It took quite a while. It did. But then but eventually you talk about you talk about Counter Strike. You talk about PUBG for a while. You talk about fucking all those weird indie shits that are too small to even go to a console. What's what's another game that fucking all the MOBAs, all the competitive shooters, like eSports, card games, card games, snow stone on console. I mean, Undertale for a minute. Undertale for a hot minute. Yeah,

there's there's a ton of PC exclusives. And then it seems like after a while, the ones that like pop into your head, like Counter Strike is a weird thing. But then they have it was a global offensive. Didn't that come out on consoles? No, no one no one. And like no one's really marketing that fact. No one's marketing. Counter Strike is Counter Strike just no one's marketing their entire genres that are nearly entirely absent from the console space. Like, you know, anything that needs a fucking mouse. Well, even even that, like Civ Revolution showed that you don't need a mouse to play a good Civ game. But that's the last Civ game that ever showed up on consoles. Yeah, most games, I guess. Right. Guess what? Civilization? That's a

great fucking series. All four X is a great type of genre. RTS is a great type of genre. And they are doable on a console. But the people just console players, you know, the shrugs, big shrugs. So if you want to play an RTS, a competitive first person shooter, competitive MOBA, like all these things, yeah, get a laptop or something. If you are a PC player, though, you get to enjoy all sorts of stupid shit such as I'm not sure I'm just guessing it could be a million things. Titanite is unbreakable. Yeah. The JoJo mod for Dark Souls 3 that gives you a stand. Wait, that's a mod? This was not a video. This was a mod. People have been sending that to me all week and I haven't been clicking on it because I just thought it was a music video. Yeah, I thought so

too. And then the reason why, because I was like, yeah, okay, someone did some fun JoJo stuff, got it. And I was like, no, it's a mod for Dark Souls. Titan is unbreakable. And what it is is it lets you on an offline mode use stands and like they can only do so much with the art styles that just have random primary colors flashing because that's JoJo, right? Well, there's a little bit more than that. I know, I know. There's like, so what they essentially do is they let you take monsters and they become stands that you can send out that do certain attacks. And how I don't know, it's just elaborate modding. No, I mean, like, how do you physically do that? Well, there's people with boss play boss playable mode, like, no, I mean, I mean, what button do

you get? Oh, okay. Do I don't know, like, that's that's the part that I'm like, maybe it replaces your your weapon art. Yeah, no one's holding a weapon right now. Maybe it replaces your weapon art button. Yeah, he's empty fisted. But like, yeah, you basically like there's multiple monsters that are being used to stands here. It's pretty rad. That's super cool. Yeah. That's and it's available on there's a link to it in the podcast notes, but it's on Nexus mods. Dark Souls Titan Night is unbreakable. And it's just straight up like, use your fucking Dark Souls stands to go through part three. All right, that's cool. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's the thing is they're what it's not a music video. And that's where I went, okay, yeah, all right, you get I fucking applaud

that. Amazing. Because I for for the first couple of seconds, I was like, someone is online, and using the ring of invisibility and then taking it off, doing an attack, and then putting it back on or something. And it's like, no, no, no, no, no. That's wild, man. That is some red shit. Big wilds. Oh, you guys been looking at that Dark Souls remaster stuff? I heard there's some negative. It looks bad. I heard there's some negatives coming in. It looks why they had that beta or the network test. I mean, like one looks what looks bad about it. The lighting, they changed the lighting model but didn't update any of the textures. So a bunch of the armor sets that used to look all really cool and glossy now look like ps2 shit. Like the elite night set, you remember

that one will probably the coolest looking one of the game. It's the one on the box looks awful now, like it looks like shit. And the lighting also has some subtle changes that a lot of people don't like. Bonfires aren't as bright, colors aren't as saturated. It just generally looks worse than DS fix. How much worse? Wait till the part of this video where the character looks up and you'll you'll stare. There it is. No, back before. Okay, well, we're looking at a video that's Dark Souls remastered ps3 four versus ps3 comparison. Yeah. Like the lighting is super screwed up and looks really flat and has all these scratch marks on the on the helmet are prepared to die edition. The remaster one had nothing. Yeah, it's very dramatic. Yeah,

look at that. Oh, that is bad. And yeah, it's it's a bummer because this is the version of the game that'll actually have a bunch of quality of lifestyle and run at 60. You know what it reminds me of? That reminds me of those early Batman Arkham HD things before they delayed it and it looked like at like, it did look inferior. Yeah, like the colors are off in a lot of spots. Like it's it's you know when hyper fighting came out for the 360, and you touched it and you went this is wrong. And then they patched it and they made it better. Now you mean online or no, no, I mean like you would the hard kick sounds wrong and shit like that. Like here you just like there's the colors are off. Well, there's definitely they brought up the high end so that the deep blacks

no longer drop into nothing. They're not they now just they stop at graze. And looking at this overhead of fire link. That's bad. That looks like shit. It looks like it looks like yeah, it looks like your levels got squashed in it looks compressed so that you're yeah all your blacks become become graze at best. So like the thing is is like the original version of Dark Souls which is admittedly a fucked up port is no longer going to be sold once this version comes out. Right. So I would suggest if anybody has not picked up Dark Souls actually pick up that original version and use DS fix to play it because this remaster looks quite for the sky box in particular in this area we're looking at is all of it loses a lot of its like sun luster and yeah

it's not good. Who's in who's in charge of this again? I have no idea. I'll be quite honest. I have no idea who's I wonder if they don't need that I never heard of the switch version got delayed to like not even have a date so well the switch version might actually be the best version that's that's the switch version isn't new the switch version is just a port oh it's not remastered at all shit really I didn't know that yeah so that's we what that's so weird and that's happening at the same time yeah that is fucking weird okay hmm it's a completely different bonfire yeah yeah it's it's yeah go just go look up um Dark Souls remastered comparisons on google and you'll find a ton of information and you check out a bunch of these side by side it's a bummer because having

having a not fucked up version of this game would have been great yeah um deep blacks are definitely important and I and like when I look at like this particular screenshot we're looking at which is just the first dungeon uh with like oscar as the model it's not dark so do you think that initial setting though that you uh first when you're calibrating your tv do you think that well we'll find out what that network comes out right right because I'm wondering if that's just straight up so here's the person who's putting like the footage that they're showing you here it's like well I want you to blow that photo up as big as you can for yourself so yeah because I want you to I want you to think about the question that I'm gonna ask you yeah we're looking at uh

we're looking at this this does the image on the right which is the remasters lighting situation make it look like Dark Souls 2 because to me that flat lighting makes me think of the way Dark Souls 2 was lit you're right and it makes me think that the same mistakes you're totally you're totally right in the way that the lighting was calibrated or or made or on this monitor at least in front of us at this moment yeah um just the ability to even see uh some of these details on the side of and it's really weird because you can see that there is a shadow on the thing you're looking at uh the fog door all looks better much better remastered you know remastered fog door is one that they uh tore out of Dark Souls 3 it looks like

huh yeah it's yeah let me try to find a company name I'm I'm trying to recall a game that got delayed on a console that was coming out on all three I want to say maybe ps2 xbox game cube or yeah it would have to be that actually and everyone got delayed and then that one turned out to be like the best version of all like for some reason they decided to delay it oh this is a Rayman Rayman what uh legends right yeah were they delayed it by fucking eight months or some bullshit and the Wii U version was still the best version yeah that was it and people were pissed they had a goddamn right to be pissed that was nonsense uh Polish company called qlo c qloq qloq

not to say that any development team never heard of is not talented or can not be talented but it's like why do they go for like these weirdo like development house no one's heard of before dragons dogma dead rising injustice devil may cry jeez injustice two for what this this is not the pc wait did justice to even get a pc version because i'm just thinking of injustice one on on on some pc ports of localization darker is in street fighter cross-tech in zeno vs uh zestria dmc uh street fighter for cross-tech in wait which version of re4 was ultimate hd edition is that the really bad one no it's the good one that they they patched for weeks and weeks with open beta like support for it uh rhyme and god eater okay so they yeah they're they do pc ports they they are

i'm i looked it up they are a localization and port house and qa company so they do work for higher stuff for pc ports it looks like mainly oh that experience some of those wait shut up what they also did the pc port for dark souls prepared to die edition yeah which was really bad and but looks better than this one but after ds fix after ds fix well then then then yeah because the problem with ds dark souls one was that the textures were all super super high quality but you can see it because you can change the resolution uh hold on a second because these are these are grouped separately so we're looking at a list of there's uh porting projects there's localization projects yeah and then there's a qa so they did qa on dark souls

prepare to die edition but it's not scroll that's that's port man completed porting oh no they did qa oh yeah you're right that's what i'm saying i'm saying this list the first list here without dark souls is the port list the second list with dark souls is location or localization wasn't that dead rising hd thing really bad too yeah but they also did the dark arisen port for pc which is fantastic a plus so like very spotty same thing with dmc double main cry is a really good port and the all the capcom stuff on this are our a plus ports yeah i'm assuming that that location is is the polish translation here of localization yeah it's it's it's from a polish okay so these guys have done good work however however the visuals tell us how this this makes me sad this

makes me think that they were told to like polish up textures or something and that the the shit they made just wasn't up to snuff that's unfortunate that's very unfortunate you want the best version of dark souls one get get it now and ds fix it there's only one area that that breaks if you have the frame rate too high you know the ladder coming down from the bells walls yep uh the one right before the gargoyles if you slide down that ladder you could flip through the wall at 60 fps i remember but i remember we had to worry about that you can hop off it so it's fine i'm not singing judge it isn't it i had stuck in my fucking head real bad no uh yeah i guess not everyone can be blue point huh no not even blue point is blue point sometimes mr with the ps3 version of shadow

i guess but like uh in my head right now like that shit they did for a fucking shadow and that'll get like they yeah yeah yeah yeah no um you guys did a good work people are angry when they want the things ported but blue points busy like i think kanami would have well all the cool kanami would have loved to have given blue point zone of the enders but no they used uh what's their faces high voltage high voltage yeah that was an unforgettable port high voltage picking you up and what yeah poured you down uh didn't blue didn't blue point go back and fix some of the high voltages work i don't know because i remember the zone of the enders day g collection got a amazing patch like a year after came out uh blue point did uh they went back and they put

titan fall on the 360 wow which was really impressive uh back then i remember that that was weird i was like what the fuck yeah yeah yeah all right let's take some emails take some emails hey if you want to send email to us you could send it to super best friendcast gmail.com that's super best friendcast at gmail.com not any other version of those words no i have to stress this again you can't mix them around you can't put the email part of the beginning you can't put any other letter anywhere else no it's super best friend if you think of your email later when you haven't been listening to the podcast don't assume that you remember exact go back because listen to it because unfortunate souls with similar emails have are being very nice and sending along sometimes

messages about random things they're getting hey hey man but don't do that people please don't send the email to pizza butts at friends.net that's probably not even a real email that's my email i don't even want to say random fake versions of pizza but but it's not anything else come on i think i fucked that one up that's not a real email it's a real email but i mean it wasn't really i know but any version thereof of the words super best friends play friends cast all of those all of the above do not combine them how you'd like to and send an email there don't do that we won't get it and then we won't get to read your question poor pizza but will not won't have a fucking answer your question and your question might not get read like this one uh read the way

you said that made me think that you were gonna say like this one and then name the person and then not read their question yeah what a brain switch you know what you know what i will do that oh my god i will do that that's horrible you doesn't give a shit um i will absolutely do that that's terrible the reason why it even came to mind sometimes the ferocity of willy unsurmountable the reason why it even came to mind is because lunar divider you sent it to the wrong place you shouldn't have done that how do you even know that they sent it to the wrong place because because they sent it to the wrong place and a nice person forwarded the message oh no don't help that person don't do it lunar divider you need to get an answer lunar divider for this right um so yes we'll take one

from a good person yeah not an evil one a good person like ken the noun he says hey kath they're super beat francs in an episode of tms uh you guys mentioned the extra terrestrial alien counter from disney world uh yeah that's what i was talking about about it yeah that i told him i told him that he should check it out i hate to break it to you but the attraction retired in 2003 and was replaced with stitch's greatest escape it's pretty much the same thing but with stitch so i'm wondering if there's ever been any other times you wanted to try something out only to find out that you can't and know that whether it's because it no longer exists or for any other reason that sucks because i know one fuck that thing was a big ass crazy alien hunting

you down and stitch isn't is also an alien but it's not scary you're gonna hug you yeah um i always go on about um i always go on about the uh what was it i go on about the uh battle tech one right there was uh um moan vetuel which was here try that new battle tag game right yeah people talking about the new battle tag that's true made by airbrained and they're good but back in the day there was the virtual world here at plastase art and it was the mech simulator where you get into a cockpit like that shuts slides shut alongside a bunch of others and i don't let you out for two hours until you die or win and uh i didn't think uh i'd ever seen again until magfest when there was a whole bunch of them where someone bought all those machines and is trying to bring it back

wait sorry the question was like did you ever find a situation where you can't find it and then find it again or that is that just your ad you just can't you can't find it and has there ever been has there ever been times where you wanted to try something out but found out that you can't because it no longer exists all right um i have tried with hard copies i've tried downloading the gog version i cannot play dive by the sword again that sucks i got a hard copy my computer will take does the move maker still work because the maker was will load damn okay because no no because here's the thing the custom move maker for die by the sword was a separate exe you know that just booted into a window okay and it was not die by the sword not there so like as like if

you can run that maybe my computer can run a fucking 2000 year 2000 bible black game it won't load die by the sword yeah he's right what he tested that we know that his computer can run those things yes bible black anyway i want to play die by the sword no one will let me he plays it you fight like a cobalt like maybe if i get dos box and like actually do it yeah but the whole point of gog is that dos box is already kind of configured for you yeah you know do you know die by the sword i do not okay so get died by the sword is a game where you straight up make your own moves you have a sword and a shield you're you're a knight guy and you go into an animation editor it's basically dark souls and no i want to know you it's an animation editor and you

do the fucking cover uh and you straight up go in and maybe by treyhark you go in and you make your own moves it is and uh i want to find an example it was the game was also bleeding edge in like 98 yeah and you hack limbs and fight monsters and stuff you had like complete control over every swing and you're basically like thrown into like different styles of dungeons and obstacles and shit um the creator is really where i was impressed by this thing and uh well you're just getting like random footage here so yeah well anyway that's a shame well you guys find that oh woolly wants to watch hackers i don't okay i wanted to find die by the sword he does um go on i mentioned this uh after both of my trips but upon going to usj the first time i learned that

the biohazard real escape or biohazard the fucking attraction uh did did not allow you to just walk in you had to buy tickets and they had been sold out for like weeks saw that jojo escape room yeah it's going to be an anime expo is it yeah that's not the first time that's popped i don't think it's official and then when i went back to usj this year or last year rather i got there super super super early and got all my ducks in a row and biohazard was still on the goddamn pamphlet and then i got to the lady and the lady told me oh that shit doesn't exist anymore it got replaced with zombie forests some generic fucking shit why maybe they just ran out and you walk into zombie forest and it's all guys in umbrella fucking suits with the the umbrella patch

torn off and some other patch put on yeah they lost the god damn god damn piano track from the first movie lights and oh for the movie yeah you know the the the red queen yeah song is playing in the background i watched rise and evil the movie a few weeks ago and i'm like are you are you fucking serious with this man it's great i was capcom put out the first one as a test not enough people went i was just one of the greatest attractions ever they give you a fake gun and you shoot monsters yeah i was i was scared i was gonna miss uh sleep no more and um like uh the gun to minodiba but luckily those were there oh i really want to see scott pilgrim at fantasia i can't oh yeah those okay fantasia doesn't count because that's every year that i've tried really hard shut up annual

disappointment that is fantasia in terms of it's a dark sentence well because it's in them it's a great film fest but there's always a movie that you're just not going to get into that is the final of the finale it's a good thing we know the secret now though yeah sure um we got another one coming in from secret uh don't worry about it there's another one coming in from carl he says dear friend shaped barf cast i was catching up on podcast when i came across pat explaining the twitter logo is not in fact a bird it's a logo shaped like a bird i love this idea was that that was you that was me yeah that was me once again people can't tell our voices apart weird i'm woolly clearly and he's pat i'm like i as i'm reading that i'm like that i'm pretty sure anyway um

that's like uh uh uh uh at woolly wolves yo thanks for getting me on this terras house like white yeah i never get the thing i've never seen anyway it's don't care about you know what dude we're just random voices in someone's day sure why it doesn't matter um i don't know what i heard i was catching up on the friendcast and uh yeah but i love the idea um and i recently came across another example and yeah this is true i didn't know this in 2014 san rio said that hello kitty's not a cat but a cat shaped girl that's fucked up that's terrible news has caused an outroar and a debate that i don't care to look into but it starts to explain anthropomorphic animals having pet animals is mickey just a mouse shaped boy what do you think mickey is a mouse shaped boy though

why would why would goofy and uh that part is fucking weird i don't like that part goofy and Pluto what's the difference god there's more than that though there's like other stuff where it's like someone that owns a pet and it's just like that they're chained relative yeah slave yeah that's fucked up yeah hello kitty hello kitty is a cat shaped girl so was she mutated via like what no it just that's she's not a cat no she's a cat no she's not that wears a little dress and they stay they they announce san rio very explicitly announced this are you gonna tell me agretzuko is now fucking red panda shaped girl yes no yes no yes this is from this is i remember this four years ago this is fucked up i don't like this i'm i'm simply reminding you of something

that we already knew this is san rio's fault it's totally their fault but yeah yeah put them on the on the list next to robin hood and maneuver make she's not is it it's not people people could like it's not even really a furry at that point people could like sentient animal people we don't know frankly yeah we don't want to know i got bad news for you buddy pokey ui says dear good friend boys i've been playing final fantasy 14 that's a good game and for the first time recently and i absolutely love it i'm trying to play it the same way i played wow back in high school with lots of slow breaks between subscriptions that's smart that's a smarter way to play that game this uh type of game makes me love the adventure to level cap and being a scrub baby looking up at

the high level players and so on are there games that you regret playing too fast and wish you savored the flavor no never i feel that way about mario odyssey yeah i can see that from our way you did yeah oh no that's what pokey ui is saying yeah sometimes doing an lp will actually be worse than if you took your time with it yeah i find so i think so although some although other time other times it it it slows it goes slower than it does like as you would on your own it depends on what the game is i suppose yeah it depends on the game i only look back and see games that i should have binged harder because i got stuck in them and that caused me to stop hmm right but again maybe if i'd binged harder yeah but you don't usually ever like like remember

i remember people were like uh talking about like does pat ever pan up you know like do you ever stop and just look at the environment and yeah i do constantly when i'm not uh if there's not an invisible clock next to me right so um because will it be like can we look at that amazing thing that's there and it's like no go play with the crab let's go play with that crab let's see what it does well granted usually what would happen is that i would play the game again a second time and do more of that stuff in the case of a way out there's some fun stuff we missed yeah which which is a good reason to go back with somebody else that doesn't know right um and uh generally i'm i'm the type of person that likes to take my time and smell the roses for sure i would like to put

all the roses in a big bag and then put all the roses in my mouth at once that fell apart but no it didn't no it's faster it's more efficient to smell the roses in that manner but that's not the thing they are doing though when you say stop and smell the roses it's like you're taking a break from doing another activity so the roses have no bearing on the media being consumed now you're just a weirdo that ate roses yes i am your throat's all slit up good okay it was faster yeah now you're dead and you can't play the media can you think of any examples of that shit um i i'm i mostly keep coming back to lp's where i'm like oh man yeah i wish like whatever we did not not then we didn't i wish we didn't LP it but i'm just like oh i wish like you know

maybe i wasn't there for whatever so i can play it on my own but i'm trying to think of it one right now but uh i think i have i think i'd say danganronpa uh one and two i really blitzed through the yeah you hard to uh to catch up to play uh ultra despair girls don't worry man that was totally worth it and uh there was a lot of extra modes and stuff that uh i i didn't take the time to do in both of those games um that are they're totally extra but they were they were fun and they had little like hangouts you could do with the characters to learn more about them and such so yeah that comes to mind i can't think of anything right now okay um firefly says dear super best absolute lads i've been listening to pendulum lately which

is a band that made some fantastic german bass and edm music in the mid-2000s they had great music and they only got better and more fascinating with each album but suddenly in 2010 they disbanded and reformed as knife party which now continues to make a really generic forgettable trashy dubstep my question for you is this has there ever been someone or a group or a musical artist content creator game designer etc who's gone in a disappointing direction as time goes on even though it seems that's what they truly want to do all the best firefly current hot button topics not withstanding oh well i mean who do you mean there's there's us i mean we used to make we missed used to be cool well matt used to make cool super edited videos and then they

became this lp shit show and then now he does that cool stuff on his own channel yeah you're yeah yeah open your mouth let the words fall out north south east and yeah uh the uh i'm gonna say i'm gonna say most deaf uh became yasin bay at a point and just got really like and like he's so and that was more so like a spiritual thing for him which is super cool but as an artist uh he kind of fell off and it became kind of disappointing because i missed the old shit that he used to drop and uh his live show became unbearable because bearable wow it went from being like let's play some dope ass tracks and hip hop to uh i'm just gonna waste your time and like kind of just shout out random things for like a full hour i'm just not gonna really

perform i'm just gonna say some stuff and yeah yo who had a birthday in 1972 shout out shout out to everybody on a birthday in 1972 does it seem it's like it's what he wants to do though all right who had a birthday in 1973 anyone anyone yeah yeah shout out shout out to anyone who had a birthday in 1970 all right who's from 1974 shout out shout out to everyone who had a birthday in 1974 1975 in the house 1975 going once dude going twice so um it fucking works you're you say that with the confidence of you mimicking an actual nonsense part of the show did that actually occur it's fucking garbage that's exactly what he did when he came to Montreal that's real bad and that's real bad i i missed that even though a new black star album is coming uh i i'm i'm

holding on to hope but fuck man i tell you what sure did like those old mega man games and that Gears of War well Gears of War is mega man steered back on the path no but i'm talking to they're talking about the band they're talking about the people sure did like when unifune made games that i wanted to play sure liked when cliffy b made games that i wanted to play hmm i i have like two owners here really is that like i was thinking about this the other day just randomly i'm like konami used to be like one of the best they were right there with capcom absolutely like i just thought about the 16-bit era in general and i was just like holy shit and even though the like you know ps2 and gamecom and xbox were a little rough they still had some

like cool shit like metal gear was always there and now it's like absolutely just barren nothing they put out tons of smaller shit too like salt silent bombers a great fucking game stuff like that um and then i think i told you this about uh maybe a year ago willy it's like i used to be super into swollen members like i thought every album was awesome yeah i was right there young battleaxe battleaxe records records battleaxe battleaxe and then like a year ago they came out with an album and i'm like i think i told you i'm like it's fucking terrible swollen members with mocha only no mocha only here what no mocha unacceptable i did not order my coffee unacceptable and it was just like that child to forget what it was you kidding me but it was more generic

and like their rhymes are like weird almost before where they're talking about weird shit yeah you can't talk about all those dungeons and dragons shit you know you gotta sometimes talk about but talk about balance and shit like that it was just i listened to this new album like what the fuck is this this is not what i signed up for but if it's getting them more money i bet that's what they want to do you know man like when when yay eventually releases his shit like if he's if it's fucking if it's fire it's fire and it's gonna be hilarious to see the reaction to that but he released a track where he's just talking about scoopity poopity the other day it was like i was like oh my god i thought that was a joke but this beat is so sick though i really

like scoopity poopity poop i really like that quote i saw i think yesterday it says it says childish gambino is doing what conye thinks he's doing right right right right right because of the uh this is america track yeah yeah and i really used to like metallica before that fucking saint anger album yeah but they made good albums after did they yeah death magnetic is really good and then well death magnetic had problems but it was still good and then the other one um hardwired for self-destruct is awesome it's like one of my favorites it's too late it's literally not too late they killed napster you know who's never let me down who's that it's you're gonna say fucking muse no muses let you down that sucks that you hate muse um soldier on ahead don't get

distracted by this bullshit don't look how i tricked you well because like there's a real conversation to be had there like black holes and revelations is still the best album but the shit they've done on since is different but it's still pretty good um two mellows never let me down that's right did you did you fucking see he was like oh man people say i i messaged him a while ago when he said that the next two albums he wanted to make were uh what the fuck was i forget one but he said he wanted to do a silent hill album and i messaged him said what the fuck are you talking about tamilla you're crazy he's like yeah no don't worry about it and then on twitter he goes yeah people tell me i can't make a silent hill album and he posted like a minute of just a backbeat that

he made it's so good it's so good from silent hill yeah okay i wouldn't resonate but uh you don't have to i believe it go back and find it it's amazing uh agretsuko is too real says bradley it is uh after matt recommended it a couple weeks ago it got me and uh i got me and me who are both accountants i guess at whatever so after the first episode we found an amusing and relatable particularly since i've worked in american subsidiary of a japanese corporation with japanese employees oh yeah real raw after three episodes my wife had to stop watching because and i quote this show is reminding me too much of being at work yeah has a piece of media gotten too real for you in the past and you had to stop there was that first 10 seconds of binding a visik

that fucked me up because i was not ready for this you had no idea where the fuck i was about i had no idea where it was going and thankfully it was just back into a wacky random gameplay but boy the setup on that was like um yeah there was a little bit of that uh too real uh any this is a cliche and appears in many movies but anytime there's people that have to get picked for a thing like a sport yeah that's always a little yeah i'm gonna skip this part because i've done that that's happened to me like a zillion times yeah in the past so it's like one of the few things where i'm like i'll just i'll skip ahead or i'll just look at my phone or i won't pay attention because i've been i've been there a million times already and i don't particularly want to go again

that's that's a rough watch i am surprised with myself that i was able to finish watching watamote watamote like i'm not your fault i am not like that person but i can see just similarities of the it's not the actions it's the process right and the process going to these actions makes me start to get panicky and anxious because it's like wait am i doing that right now it's also what makes it hilarious oh yeah is because there is a direct line from this makes sense to what are you doing why would anyone do this it's and it's i it's similar to the moment that i had that like i think you killed curb your enthusiasm for me for like a year woolly where i talked about it on the podcast i said this show is crazy but the thing i don't get is

larry's always right he's right every time and everyone is so mean to him and you were just you just had this meltdown like what are you talking about larry's the wrongest person in the world and that's the point of the show and i was like wait is that the point of the show that larry's wrong he's looking up on google and he's like larry david says yes that is the point of the show and like a bold quote it's like it's like the you know the the stuff where it's like um it's like people that are fans of uh there's like you can be there's fans of like uh catcher and the riot and fight club but when you're too into it yeah it's because you i idolize the main character and and not because you you miss the point of the flaws yo holding call fields the baddest mother

you're an idiot yo we need to be like tyler dirton right it's like what if holding the whole point the fight club yeah like it's like the whole point is how fucked it is and you're not and it's like when you're not seeing the flaws you just see the badass like that's yeah there's that um yo kratos is the baddest motherfucker of all time i can't wait to grow up to be like kratos oh boy uh the uh yeah roman reigns is so strong he's so over that roman i love him i want to be the big dog rick and fucking morty pickle rick pickle rick bitch yeah rick and morty's right up there with that um that's the worst i was gonna say uh the genchikin uh first season when i was going through that got real as fuck but i but i enjoyed it as for that reason and i love it as much as i do genchikins

there because i was like oh my god i know all of you every single one of you were you still in the club space at the time or is it years later i forget if i was i think i want to say it was like two it might have been but i definitely still was talking to some of those folks yeah fair enough because i remembered recommending it yeah yeah yeah which is pretty meta to recommend genchikin while you're in the club space to the to the people that are there in the fucking thing yeah that got real um and uh let's take one more from uh all right drake says dear hide nights of old machinima hey man what up i was going through the old episodes uh machinima of matt and pat um and we can all agree that those connect games are terrible hell yeah i'm pretty sure the episode

is called connect go die had a connect ad built into the front of it i remember hard coded into the art machinima was shilling for the connect super hard around the time so you got the contract as of a connect ad uh playing followed by matt and pat shitting all over it in the connect go die video it was a game that would just like it was the worst one yeah can you think of any other meta moments that have occurred like oh man i just said one oh fucking uh i got a friend of mine who listens to the joe budden podcast oh the like hip hop yeah cool and he's always laughing his ass off about the joe budden ad reads okay and how they very similar to bill burr's podcast yeah yeah yeah where people don't understand what a podcast ad reads supposed to be and they just

start shitting all over it and as what is this is a fake thing like like what the what the fuck is this shit right yeah bill burr had like a half hour meltdown over one of his ads and read out the whole ad copy yeah it's like that's not how that fucking works bill oh boy you complain that they don't come back yeah yeah oh that's just mute plague it's playing on the stream it's playing on the podcast it's playing on a thing get ready for playing say something that you don't want to say but i love that man that's fun he's so bold bolder than me meta meta meta moments

that's i think that's uh is that a cat right no that's your chair i think that's probably the stand out because like there's no more like ads like it was hard coded into the video yeah you know it's it's super locked in there what's weirder about that the fact that it happened or the fact that like i had to submit that name as they said best friends play fighter within connect go die someone okay dad i like to i like to think that the person in charge of doing the video was the same person who cut that stuff together and what yeah this is pretty well anytime anytime i remember those days and i'm like i'm like it's so cringy and embarrassing that like the videos have to have the draw title you know like the thing that's like like the thing the thing that max

does the sentence that you're gonna the sentence in all caps that's going to be like click on this for this whatever hey man but but you gotta just put a big giant version of your head and all your thumbnails for the engage goku black blows you out but i stand by connect go die as a hilarious like connection of words together is that make it worth it scale pound secretly coming out and you click on the video no is test still dead yes arrow look here look look at this dude my circle my favorite one is when jeff puts up his thumbnail previews that he does and he's like hey who what and then sometimes occasionally he does the mockery ones we have arrows pointing to nothing yes yes like that's my favorite very important very very what you missed in infinity war and it has

an arrow pointing at an empty space is then oh secretly a scroll no he's from titan a different planet what's coming up what's coming out we got god wars coming out we got to give mirage sessions coming out we got way outs coming out in fact billy just sent us a message a little earlier says we we made many videos we were smart about it we made good videos oh no don't say that part okay we made videos yeah watch they're they're sufficient in in supply not necessarily in quality you can find those the super best where the fuck super what's our youtube channel super best friends super best friend yeah on youtube do that i'm bad with these names man it's okay yeah and what's up not much going on not much not much this week okay hey man what's going on

what's going on did you leave stream fucking gal gone to yesterday yes we did fuck what that that sent the big boy addition that had a please tell me that's what it's called no it's what i call it okay and it came with a giant cock sleeve shut up okay all right listen you need to stop you need to stop it was it was in the shape of i would say a condom it's supposed to be a pillow case but it's too small so i decided it must be what i already said yeah yeah so yeah we did that uh uh i took i took a look at tropical freeze uh don con that's coming out is it listed on the bullet the bullet points as on the back yeah does it define onona of any kind no no nothing all right you're hold on a second man yeah you son of a bitch he says the thing and you go no you

need to stop and then you just stop and then you fucking just bring it up again and interrupt me with it you creep back in with the creepy your shit hey welcome to the podcast you're like grandpa simpson walks in takes off the hat goes whoop but then walks back in and starts his own burlesque so i took a look at tropical freeze that'll be in on my side channel tonight and then i did that with the cox sleeve it did not it did not come with the banana slamma uh and then i mean willy took a look at a bug report uh for a special game willy worked on and that'll be up on uh later this week yeah how you like that yeah that'll be fine the cox sleeve game no their bugs and it doesn't take long to test it doesn't feature a cox sleeve but it does feature a burning blade oh man uh

i can't be and i'll be streaming uh maybe on wednesday or thursday haven't decided yet okay where's that at that's at matthew mcmaugham you gotta do the thing uh i streamed a bunch of pillars i'm not going to stream pillars anymore uh that game's hard to stream it's very long very very long but what i am going to do is hop on over to page's channel over at peach saliva tonight at 10 and we're gonna play uh donkey kang and see if she can jump over things i doubt she can't oh so i'm putting on my pillars archives over at pat stairs at i chopped them up cool i chopped them up for ad money meh uh is uh then i put a big creepy thumbnail of my head on him yeah that uh you that thing's creepy so i showed that to willy god bless whistle but

he wanted to leave it made him uncomfortable did i show you my big creepy head matt you did yeah your head um any any notable releases uh a game coming out this week that i'm looking forward to called trail blazers it was out at the pax east it's basically splatoon meets wipe out where you put down paint on the track and that paint uh is a boost pad for your teammates and it's it's blue versus orange that actually seems like a super good thing it's cool it's a cool game i hope it's good cope cope cope hope it's as good as jet moto is well it never was i mean i thought the didn't that pole sort you out i went i went back and i found out you you accused me of escalating the situation but what happened was is that i said i like jet moto and that was a tweet

you didn't go back and that person that was not what happened fuck off i saw that exact same one that's not how that you anyway you brought you brought your shit up for no reason why do you have hate jet moto so much connect the thing that jet moto go die the thing that we didn't talk about our mention had nothing to do i'm holding the torch out for jet moto yeah and and the vote extinguished that torch so yeah we beat we beat everyone this week all right oh and uh if you care pillar sue is out tomorrow almost in it he's a good cat what is that body so much ending sucked oh yeah so

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