Get Played - Scariest Gaming Moments

Episode Date: October 27, 2025

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this is a headgum podcast all right so I think like for the intro we should do something kind of Halloween oh yeah yeah I mean I just I was thinking like maybe we could do like we're I don't know trying to brainstorm like a scary game but it's like really all the ideas are really like not scary yeah yeah boring yeah or like or like maybe or like maybe maybe scary icons that haven't been in a game yet. Oh, that's good, yeah. Yeah, yeah, something like that.

Maybe Dougette is in it. Like, that could be like something like... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like Dougette's pitching like maybe somebody, like, there's somebody, like, there's somebody, um, like, that she's, like, maybe it's somebody she saw that she was scared in a movie of and wants a game, like, based on that. Yeah, or tries to pitch, like, a completely round character or something. Yeah, or like, or like, what if there's, like, a... Oh my god!

What the fuck? What the fuck? What the fuck? The fucking dogs just jumped through the glass of the studio. Holy shit. God! What the fuck? What the fuck?

That's fucking dogs just fucking jumps. Jesus fucking Christ. What the world? Where does fucking dogs come from? Oh my god. There's so much glass. Like the boy. Hey, hey, hey, a good boy.

Who's a good boy? Hey, oh, who's a good boy? Oh, my boy, don't do that. You're gonna get hurt doing that in the middle in the class. In the class, don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. What the fuck?

Don't do that. We drop our controllers in a panic and shit our fucking pants as we discuss our scariest video game moments this week on Get Slade. Welcome to Get Slade, your one-stop show for good games, bad games, and every game in between. It's time to get Slade. I'm your host, Death Cambling, along with my fellow host. That's me, Diger Wiger, alongside Mr. Games himself. Bat Apodracula Ah, ah, ah. Fuck, bat, apadracula is so good.

Can't really beat that one. Spooky names, so fun. Boogie names is fun. You know, a long tradition, of course, also, by the way, hello everyone. Yeah. Hello, everyone. And welcome back to the premiere video game podcast where this week we're talking about spooky games.

Spooky games, scary game, scary game moments. What were you saying? I was going to say, did spooky names? Did the Simpsons do that? Was that them first? Did the Simpsons invent or popularize scary names? I have to feel like the scary name pun predated the Simpsons. Yeah, it has to predate.

But the idea of making the entire, like, they certainly own like we're going to make all the credits, spooky names. Man, that was event television. Oh, Treyhouse of Horror? Yeah. Oh, yeah, as a kid. I was always, always amped up for the Trey House of War episodes. These days, it's usually, it's oftentimes the season premiere, which is wild.

I was going to save this for later in the podcast, but since we're on topic. Yeah. Since we're talking Simpsons. I got some big Simpsons news for you guys. Wow. You met Homer? I met Homer Simpson. Holy shit.

Is he cool? What was he like? He is a moron. Oh, I heard he's a bad dipper. Yeah, I mean, like him being dumb makes sense because you watch him on the show. He seems extremely dumb. Yeah. I'd say that's maybe like his number one attribute is he's like a very dumb guy.

Well, he has a crayon in his brain. He does. Well, that's the thing like that. And that's, that's, you know, that's later canon. But it does come out that that he was actually smart, which genetically makes sense why Lisa Simpson is so smart. That's right. But Homer has a crayon lodged into his.

brain which he snorted up through his nose as a kid which makes him dumb and he's a millennial now by the way yeah i guess he is a millennial i guess they've they've had to age him up to keep him at 36 god homer's homer's younger than me owns a home must be nice homer for a reason i guess no but i mean homer's younger than me in the sense of like being anchored in our current time oh yeah i mean oh i think like like like like homer in a new episode of the simpsons is older than i am currently i'm pretty sure i'm sorry is younger than i am currently i'm pretty sure if i said older i apologize I think George Scastanza is my age. Yeah, he's like 33 or something.

It sucks. It's really funny. Sorry, Heather. We wanted to do it. You have some Simpsons news. Art that I am about to show you is in-game graphics. If it's Bart and Marge fucking, I've seen it. For the confirmed next season of Fortnite. Let's go.

Wow, The Simpsons. That was great. That does look really cool. Fortnite next season is The Simpsons. The entire map is cell-shaded, and it is Springfield. Wow. That's very awesome. The nuclear power plant, the downtown, all of it is, all of it's...

Don't tell me the Quickie Mart's there. All of it's there. The Quickie Mart with a notably absent NPC. An unvoiced one. Yeah, he might just be hanging out. I just thought you guys would really get excited. That's awesome. I love it.

I might have to get back in there. Yeah. It being Springfield is very fun, and that being a complete overall. And me being the Terminator, like hunting Bart Simpson, this work is fucking great. Do you think if the season is fun enough and interesting enough for you, you would maybe toss an episode on just to see what the heck this whole thing's all about? I would toss on an episode for you.

Now, that's a friend. What's the rude cartoon these days? If people are like, if, like, you know, South Park when it debuted was a rude cartoon. Is there a cartoon that's like parents are like, oh, no, the kids should not be watching that. Well, I mean, first, kids don't watch cartoons anymore. Well, I meant like, like, it could be something on YouTube or whatever. It's classic, this is unk behavior if I had, if I had to identify it. Nick's being a real unk right now.

What, I'm acting like a childless man in his 40s? Like who's completely out of touch with everything? What do you want? Nick, you're sounding chopped, my guy? Chopped? That's what the kids are saying now. I'm one of them, so it's kind of like, it's kind of part of it. Like a basket with peach priest?

reserves and a baguette. Oh, no, it's getting worse. And I thought, he's not to chop. Six, seven, six, seven, six seven. Wait, what's six seven? What's six seven? Nobody has a satisfying answer for this. Nellie did try to explain six seven to me.

And I was just like, all right. Yeah, all right, cool. You know, I'm just not going to know what this is. It's gotten close to the point of me just wanted to actually taste concrete and just like see, instead of learning anything new. I do like being around. I will say this. I think it is actually good for you, for your brain as you age to be around young people in some

capacity. It helps keep you in touch. I think it helps keep you in touch. I also just how I think that energy is nice. I think it's good to feel like you're part of a community that's not like a generational divide. Yeah, yeah. Because that's, that is really, it's a really toxic thing that happened to us all in the 2010s that we've talked about and was obviously exacerbated by COVID is we all became so tribal and we all like receded into our own subgroups. And I like, it's just, I sympathize with things like OK Boomer. Not that I'm a boomer, but like I understand where that was coming from because boomers have been ruling the earth for all of our lifetimes and they're annoying as fuck.

But also there is an element of like the carping between generations, which I think you actually interact with people of different ages. You talk to older people. You talk to younger people. I don't know. I think it's good for your brain. I think it's good for everybody. I think OK Boomer also came from a place of like frustration where it was like no amount

of facts, no amount of like. deconstruction of truth, of like illustration of truth, would change or convince a single person's mind. And so eventually it was just like, okay, boomer, whatever. Like you couldn't, you couldn't bridge that gap north. But hopefully what you're saying is you can bridge that gap south. Yeah, I think so. And I also think like, I'm not going to get a discussion with an older person at the gym, you know, about tariffs or whatever the fuck. But like, I'll maybe talk to him about something else, you know what I mean? Like, it's like, and I think that's still helpful

to just be talking to different people. I guess it's sort of like, because, you know, a lot of these, a lot of these conversations often are happening around like dinner tables or something like that, right? It's going to be your immediate family you're going to have a conversation like that with versus like a stranger out in the street. Right.

Like I saw this old man, this old ass man yesterday with like an NRA hat and it like made me mad for a second. I was like, what am I going to fucking tell this guy that his hat sucks? Like, he's just old guy. He's going to shoot me. Like, what am I going to fuck? I'm not going to change his mind. He's going to throw his hat away after I say his hat sucks.

Right. I was going to leave him alone, just, like, be quiet. But, like, around the, you know, around the holiday dinner table when tension's already high, maybe that's when I pop off. I still, I still like the moment that the NRA defended trans people's right to own guns. Yeah. I was like, the worst part about, and I think I said this on the episode around when that happened, the worst part about engaging in the present moment is constant hypocrisy. Yeah, sure.

Like you say one thing and it's like, well, so do you think this? And usually it'll be like, no. And it'll be like, well, how do you justify that? And be like, fuck you. The NRA having the philosophical clarity to be like, no, give guns to trans people was so freeing and like effervescent to be like, okay. I mean, I guess that's just your position. Yeah. Like across the board is just give guns to people.

We have a core primary position that we follow and that that we prioritize. It's, you know, it reminds me, and I feel like this is like foregrounded less, but I mean, the ACLU used to be like, you know, defend like the clan and, you know, neo-Nazi marches and such as under freedom of speech, you know, absolutism sort of grounds. And it's like, you know, it's like in the era of a lot of those people just being in power, that's that's a more of a less of a thing to. cheer on but like again it's the same sort of thing you were talking about of like of like yes it's these are these are people with with established principles that they're following yeah yeah it's even in edge cases even even in a worst like the worst principal to have yeah at least it's philosophically consistent yeah yeah yeah loved it worst principal to have my principal at hughes middle school there it is get a disaster good man educators don't get me started actually i'm

really sorry because he was a good principal he was a good man the public servant I'm Sorry for saying. No, you're right. Same straight to camera. School sucks, dude. I shouldn't have said my actual middle school. I regret saying that because now people are going to associate it with that guy, and I didn't mean to do that.

They're going to go back in the archives and be like, who is this? Who was the first principal at this school? All right. I didn't go to middle school in 1908. He went to school. Everything was in black and white. Go outside of a kid. Learned bath on an abacus.

Linderide in a cuneiform tablet You were there when they invented two What the fuck? God, man, Jesus Christ Well, now I guess I know which grade comes after First I thought that was many One, I know, either one and then many

More Two, you say? What's next? Three, yes. I remember my dad talking about like if we had a different number of fingers on our hands then we wouldn't do base 10 we wouldn't do base 10 yeah it's like that's fucking crazy to think about oh that is interesting if we had like if we had like you

know like uh three fingers and a thumb which I think a lot you know certain there there's species that have that that sort of um distribution yeah just we'd be counting differently because that's how we learned to count and that's how we form the basis of mathematics that's fucking crazy that's why I still can't do with all my fingers that's why the metric system is bullshit it because they're just relying on their hands. Whereas the more complicated and evolved version of math is when it goes 12, 24. God, can you imagine if Trump was like, because, you know, like Carter was trying to usher in the metric system and also put solar panels on the White House.

And then Reagan comes in and is just like, rip out those solar panels, get rid of the metric system, fuck that shit. Like imagine if like Trump was like undoing the metric system. Carter trying to initiate us into the metric system gave rise to my favorite comedy sketch of all time, which is a Dan Aykroyd sketch called the Decabet. Yes, yeah. Oh, my God, it is so fucking funny. It is impossible to find, except on the best of Dan Aykroyd DVD. It's not online anywhere. S&L, if you're listening, put it online.

They're listening. It's about reducing the alphabet to 10 letters. it's so fucking good it's not like it's like not like the hardest laughs yeah yeah but it is perfectly written

just a good concept oh my god and you know and his absolute like dead serious like introducing the decabet like the way that

he'll like just like fire hose comedy out of them oh so good that rocks yeah uh our our producer

uh rich hell chen uh ranch I should have introduced earlier. Rochelle, are you still playing Fortnite at all? Yeah, I play Fortnite here and there. Would you have any familiarity? Were you ever watching The Simpsons at any point?

Episodes here and there, too. Here and there. But you're a little less jazzed about being able to control Ned Flanders and company. That sounds pretty cool. Hell yeah. What if they had all the, like, it's like all the characters. Like, not just like the main Simpsons.

It's like a bunch of characters. Everyone is here. The leak so far. have been pretty significant. Really? Yeah. But my ass running around as a capital city goofball.

Disco stew? I don't know what we mean. I would love for you to watch a handful of Simpsons and just to know which non-major character speaks to you as like a... I like the smoking sisters. I know the smoking sisters. Patty and Selma are good. They're pretty fun.

We like... What was a March? Marge, we like March. Those women. Don't like Homer. Don't care for Homer. And they're always, that's how you know that they're sisters because they're like, we like March. My exposure to The Simpsons is pipeline through the album, Simpsonsing the Blues.

Right. Okay, yeah. Which I owned without watching the show. Then the Simpsons video game. That was the beat him up. Yeah. Those are like my pipelines into the Simpsons. Part of the problem is there was never a fucking cereal.

And if you want Heather on board, you need a fucking cereal. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's interesting. There was so much Simpsons merchandise, but I guess not a, not a serial. The reason I brought up rude cartoon earlier just to put a ball on that that everyone's forgotten about is just because I think I've said this before. But it's so weird to think about that the Simpsons was a rude cartoon back in the 90s that people were like, like, oh, this is a bad kid should not be watching this. This thing that seems like the most innocuous thing in the world. most, this omnipresent piece of culture now.

Marge had to write a letter to the first lady. Yeah. And now could you imagine? George H.W. Bush, yeah. George H.W. Bush got mad at the Simpsons, like, mad at the Simpsons, like bash the Simpsons for having poor family value. We should have more families like the Walton's and less like the Simpsons. Yes.

Yeah. The Walton's a reference to a TV show that Esk made completely memory hold. Yeah. What is it? I think it was called the Walton. I think so. Oh, I thought it was Leave it to Beaver. Was it leave it to Beaver?

George H. George H. Bush got so upset about the Simpsons. He threw up. The president of Japan. That's true. Man, that's one of the funniest presidential things still. Just fucking puking on the Japanese prime minister.

The Waltons was the show, and it was on for nine seasons. What? Yeah, Western, I mean, this is the, you just kind of get the coded of, like, what a real family should be, like, a family in rural mountainous Western Virginia. That's okay, yeah. draft king's casino has your playbook for gaming action all season long play thousands of popular slots for a shot at jackpots over four hundred million has already been awarded new players get 500 spins on huff and more puff over ten days download the app use code get played and claim your spins after your first five dollar wager Get in the game with Draft King's Casino, home of the largest jackpot win in online. Casino, history. The Crown is yours.

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I just remember, so was playing Street Fighter 2, as a kid, my older brother, my awful older brother, Nate, his friend, his friend Robert, was describing Chun Lee's spinning bird kick when she flips upside down. Oh, no. And said, yeah, that's the move where she flips upside down and shows her Jerry Mathers. Now, I did not know what that was until I looked it up later. It must have been years later because there was no IMDB. Jerry Mathers was the actor who played the titular Beaver on Leave It to Beaver. So this was like a next level. This was like the kids bespoke invented slang term for vagina.

That's like it I feel on the show. It's a real Ned Flanders situation. And I'll be like, okay. By that we mean it's oakily dockley. I'm a man. All right, let's talk about some video games we've been playing lately. It's, what are you playing? What are you playing?

Hi, it's me the Resident Evil Merchant, and I'm here on Halloween week with a spooky name, and it's Resident Evil. Are you okay? Oh, man, I'm not good at the game. You're trying to call it a scary name for your name, the Resident Evil Four Mergen. Resident Evil Horror Merchant. Okay. I'm glad you got to the end of that.

Just kind of fixed horror on to... Horriffixed horror onto... Instead of four. Yeah. Oh, instead of four. Instead of four. I miss that. That is more clever than I give you credit for.

Thank you. I hurt myself. You hurt yourself. I hurt yourself and my head on that way. I'm okay. It's okay. I just don't play games like that. You're oozing.

Oh, that's... Yeah, that's unrelated. Okay. It's gray? I, okay, so. You know, pepper? Yeah, I'm familiar. Yeah, yeah.

The opposite of salt. Well, I was like, why can't you drink it? It's an interesting question. I mean, I would say probably because it's solid. It's like a powder. But like you can drink an electric light drinks. That's true. That's a good point.

You can put powder in drink and make it in a solid. So I ground pepper real fine, and I mixed it with. with water to make myself a peppery treat. Wow. That's the grain coming out of me now. It's not good for you. It's just like a pepper solvent. It's like a pepper, yeah, it's like a pepper solution.

Yeah, pepper juice. Yeah, pepper juice. Pepper juice. Pepper juice. It hurts. You know, there is something called Dr. Pepper. Is it possible that you were trying to regret that? Son of a bitch.

They already did it. You can drink Dr. Pepper. All right. So anyway. It's spooky week. Here I get played, and I want to know what you've been playing. So, Nick Wager, what are you playing? Resident Evil Merchant, thank you so much for Tee and me up here.

I want to talk about... Resident Evil Horror Merchant. I apologize. Thank you so much, Resident Evil Horror Merchant. That's me. I feel like it sounded like I said whore, not horror. Which is always a danger with horror. It's dicey territory.

It's really dicey. No comment, Resident Evil for her merchant? What's the difference? Oh, he thinks they're the same word. You know, we're not going to get into it. It's an antiquated term for sex worker. It's perhaps a little bit. Horror?

We can't get into this. We can't get into this. We can't. I should not have brought it up. I'm sweating. Horror. I'm nervous. All right.

Because she's scary? No, I'm not afraid of anyone in particular. In particular. Sex work is work. I'm not afraid of a. You sit and you're like, oh. I mean, that is true, but I'm not afraid in this instance. I guess I'm afraid of women in general, so I would, if it's a female sexual.

I don't know. I'll give you a long, I'll give you just a quick list of everyone I'm afraid of. Yeah. Women? Man. Everyone. All right. Okay.

I feel like if I went around the corner and there was just a titty there, I would get scared. You know, it's a alarming. Yeah. Yeah. A loose tit. Yeah. Like, especially when like a grass the ground, like, we go and in your way. You think it's like, wait.

God, you just generated such a horrific image out of nowhere. And it's going, and I quote, Wee, we, we, we. Something out of silent hill and get some body tit. Like, it's got like a, crawling in the floor. You know. It's got a locomotion of something that kind of rocks back and forward. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like a single-celled organism or selling. Perpelling itself forward. The way you said, like a snail. Locomotion sounded like loco motion, like it's crazy. and it does sound crazy. It is a little crazy to me. I'd be scared. If I went around the corner

and there's a booby on the ground and then it skittered away, I'd be, I'd really like I could get out of here. I'd be scared as fuck. I might shit my pants, honestly. Yeah, I might immediately shit my pants. Me too, brother. Hey, Matt and Weiger shit their pants

because they saw a boob. Aren't those guys married? Resident Evil Merchant. So the NBA season has started And speaking of which There's an insane gambling story right now That like just came out as a district court Have you seen anything about this?

Yeah, it's kind of fun It's fucking insane because it's like an active player Who you know he's in the league Wasn't playing right now Terry Rozier but like he's on a roster Was arrested for You know being a part of a Part of a

A ring that's doing sports gambling And then a head coach Chauncey Billups of the Portland Trailblazers who's in the NBA Hall of Fame or rather the basketball Hall of Fame it's more general than just the league itself also got arrested for being in

illegal poker games that are fixed he was in mob run poker games and apparently complicit in some way or working in some sort of scheme to rob the high rollers who are in attendance it's fucking crazy shit

the details of how they're fixed were so funny to me funny yeah like because they had like they had card counters they had like little cameras in it they had contact lenses that had like uh sort of like infer they were able to see infrared symbols on the back of cards and stuff like mission impossible gadgets like teenage kid spy stuff it's so funny it's so fucking way so that happened like the seat like we're in like week one i think that they're of the season and this just broke um and uh there's also like some players were who were like it had previously been some players who had some accusations or whatever were also

informants in it which is another thing it's it's got all these layers to it that's not what i want to talk about what i want to talk about but i i feel like i had to note this because i feel like if people aren't following the NBA at large they may not be aware of this and it's the kind of thing of like if you watch sports at all and i know no one i'm the only sporto here but i know we have some sports uh watchers and and some sports fans um some sport you know matt i shouldn't say that you're you're a hardcore l a dog You're a Dodgers fan. Your teams of the World Series, you're wearing a Dodgers hat right now. Of course you're a sport-o. But you know what? I didn't take any umbrage with you saying it. Because I, you know, I follow the team. I'm like, I'm there for the vibes. I'm there for the hang. I wouldn't say I'm like a big stats guy. You know what I root for the team and I have a great time. And I also love to see the haters mad. You know I love to see the haters mad. It's the best feeling. What is best in life to see the haters mad?

It fucking rips. It's so good. Because people hate. hate to see my boys win and they just hate it because I'll say it their teams are babies and you know this this and that about the salary cap there's things to get into about that but the guys are good Joe Hottani

maybe the best to ever play the fucking game he's very good at baseball he's so good at it handsome that's the sort of thing I'm just like man this guy is just like my superior just like a better man it's so crazy that he's like The best to ever do it. And also an angel that walks the earth.

Super, like super sweet. But also in gambling. That was not in. Don't worry about that. He was gambling on his own game. Maybe not him. It's just someone associated with him. It's kind of harder to, you don't really know what's going to happen in baseball.

You see how handsome this guy is? I do think if you are handsome, you get in trouble kind of like one time, it's okay. Yeah. It's okay. Because then you're just like a pretty boy. Yeah, it's kind of like, oh, they were just a little too pretty. They broke some rules a little bit. Yeah.

That's okay. When someone is like very, very beautiful and then they also have another skill, that's another thing that piss me. I mean, you see it up with actors and musicians a lot, obviously. But like, but like. Drew Carey tells his joke where he's like, where he's like talking about how there's paparazzi photo of Brad Pitt. Yeah.

And he's like, you know, you come up in the 90s, Brad Pitt's. everywhere, Brad Pitt's everywhere, and he's always the most handsome, sexiest man alive, whatever. His paparazzi photo comes out of him naked on a balcony in Spain. Yeah. And the guy's got a huge dick. And he's like, the fuck

is that? You also get that? You just get everything. God bless him. I think it should be a trade. I think you should get one or the other. You shouldn't get both. You only get so many d and ds stat points or at least you should

but that's unfortunately not how actual human beings are rolled yeah so sometimes people just have it all sometimes they just have it all and when they're funny too yeah god man handsome funny huge hog yeah who sounds like the guy right right here

oh god bless you what a thing to say Matt that's so nice everyone's talking about how good how good Nick's looking specifically recently no everyone's talking about that's really by the way somebody in the discord yeah thinks they saw it you in the neighborhood today, and I know that they did, but I didn't

confirm. In Silver Lake? Yeah, that's right. I mean, I guess it's fine for me to docks wear the headgum. It's public information. Yeah. I was just walking around. They saw you at Sweet Green. They weren't sure if it was you or not. Oh, so they saw me sadly eating a bad salad alone. And they said that your backpack was on Zift. That was a fucking nightmare. My backpack wasn't zipped all the way till I walked to the fucking coffee shop. I had like multiple conversations.

Tunes were talking about it. Let me just pull it up real quick. And so lucky nothing fell out of it. I'll just read what they said. Yeah. This is from GertBurst. What's up GertBurst? And they write, today I was working a shift at the sweet green and Silver Lake and a guy came in to get a salad. I was 80% sure he was Nick Weiger but didn't say anything because I'm at work.

It was super busy. And if I'm wrong, I'd feel like a fool. I'll probably never know for sure, but I hoped he enjoyed the salad. GertBurst, thank you for your service. And I did not mean to demean. the fine work by the people at Sweet Green. I more meant my choice of salad was like very like neutral, you know? Not exciting for you.

It was it was pure nutrition. Yes. I'm, I go to Sweet Green because I, you know, whatever. So you ordered the corn? Yeah. The big bowl of loose corn. I've been getting the barbecue chicken salad just to feel something recently.

You know what? That one is pretty fun. Yeah. We can't get into it. I mean, we look. We can do whatever we want. We can't get into it. But here's the thing.

That one is really good. Yeah. one's good. There's some good salad the sweet green. We're the captains of the ship and the ocean is ours. Also, Gerper didn't invent sweet green. He just works there. It's fine. Yeah, I know. I don't know. You know, I don't want to seem like I'm...

No. I just if I'm necessarily demeaning someone's work. No, not at all. No, no, no. But, yeah, the particular salad I got was not too fun, but it got the job. How many forks? Bowl of carrots, bowl of corn. Mix it up. This was like

a two and a half for the three forks. About how many you'd use to eat the salad? Okay. Can you heat up the sauce for me? The dressing, sir? Yes, can you heat it up? Okay, let's, we can't be getting hot salad onto this podcast. Motherfucker called it's sauce.

Oh, it is a thing. I'm sorry, my friend. No, it's all right. Got any of that salad sauce back there? He doesn't even know the words. The lore is merging. I will say, I should shout this out. I don't know, have we recorded episodes since New York Comic-Con.

Maybe we have. This might be the second one, because I think so, yeah. Craig Lee Thomas. But I mentioned this. A lot of Get Played listeners at New York Comic-Con where we're out there showing off our Do Boys comic. Lovely people, some of whom came out and weren't even necessarily, like, you know,

like Get Played was the reason they were there. Good. And that was just really nice. So thanks so much for everyone who came by and said such kind things. I love it. And sorry, Mitch, that you had to hear that. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

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Anyway, the NBA season has started. I'm having a lot of fun. I'm chill. I'm having a good time. We're chilling. Once again, I'm playing fantasy basketball for like the 15th time in a row. And once again, it sucks. I don't know why I do this every single year.

It's very fun to draft your team, but when you're actually playing fantasy basketball, it's just way less fun than fantasy football. So the fantasy football, which I don't know if anyone here ever plays fantasy football, but it's like, I'm in a league right now. So it's like you don't necessarily even need to follow the league all that closely, and the games are mostly one day a week. You know, you also got Mondays and Thursdays to worry about, but it's just like mostly you can just kind of anchor your efforts in one block a time. The NBA, there's games every single day. So you've got to constantly be looking at your roster. managing personnel, it's just so much more of a commitment, less so than fantasy baseball, which I played once and was completely lost. But fantasy basketball is just like, it's,

it's just so much work to do. And I also think it's just like less balanced than fantasy football, which is just like I think a better approximation of the value of an individual player. And I guess that's not fully fair, but ideally you want a good fantasy team to feel like a good like real team if that makes any sense like that's that seems like the ideal of fantasy sports right and i think you're more like to get that with fantasy football than fantasy basketball uh where fantasy basketball a lot of times it's about stacking cat like uh certain categories because the way these these leagues are set up is nine cat um so you mentioned you're not a stats guy yeah a nine cat meaning nine categories of statistics okay and so things it will be

individual things like points uh rebounds assist field goal percentage three point percentage, free throw percentage, turnovers, you know, it's just a roster of various things, a block steals, you know, and that might be all nine. And it's, and you get a certain number of points like a multiplier's applied to each of the categories. Yeah. So it just kind skews things where since you're trying to win, a lot of times, the most common one I've encountered is head-to-head nine cat. So basically you're up against another team, week you have nine categories of statistics and whoever has the highest cumulative total in each of those categories in those categories by a majority ends up winning so it's like

supreme court decisions you ideally just want you just want to win you just need to win five four and you win out right so it's good that those things are the same yeah but as such it is tilted towards you can get a you can like lean towards just trying to win the categories you need to win and then punt categories. So you could be like you know what, I'm just not going to even try for three pointers because I am just going to have a team that's all big men

and I'm just going to try to win rebounds field goal percentage, you know like like I'm just going to try to target certain categories to win and the other ones will be toss-ups and like a lot of times that's the best strategy but again it makes it feel like it's a little bit of an unbalanced build.

Also an inherent issue with this format is the timing of the fantasy play which happen in fantasy football as well. Fantasy basketball, the way the playoffs work, fantasy NBA, is they come towards the end of the regular season. But what happens with the NBA is towards the end of the regular season, a lot of players are resting because either they have secured their, like, hey, we're the Oklahoma City Thunder, we're the number one overall seed in the playoffs.

We don't need to even win a game anymore. So we're just going to play all our bench players and rest our best players so they're fresh for the postseason. And conversely, hey, we're the Portland Trailblazers, our coaches busy fixing poker games, and we are trying to lose because we want to get a high draft pick, so we are going to rest all of our best players and just play all of our young guys

and try to lose games so that we can ascend in the draft lottery. As such, if you have like a high-value player, like you have, for instance, Shea Gildes-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder and that team, and he's going to be resting for the back end, All of a sudden, your single best asset is removed from the rotation, and you have to play a completely different build in order to try to win the finale, even if you were in first place the whole way. So it's like, it's like things like that just kind of like make the whole experience just kind of suck. But I just have to take that with, that's the experience. You know, the journey is this sucks and it's frustrating.

We're mad that players are rested. The injury system is so like, you know, depending on what platform you're using. whether a player's injured or not is sometimes so you get such unclear information on that. You have to be minding your roster basically up until game start each day and if you're like fucking working or you're in school or whatever

you've got some other obligation. You're just not going to be able to do that. So yeah, it kind of just like ruins my life but I like being in the group chat with everyone in fantasy basketball. But yeah, that's what I've been playing. That is so fun. Just to speak on my this is my first time I'm playing fantasy football ever. I don't

follow the league. This is an off-stue. of the baseball team that I was on this year just like an excuse to sort of like keep up the season's over it's like fun to chat with some of those folks all those folks really but not everybody's participating I gotta say I'm in fourth place out of 10

Wow man wow I'm doing really really good to everyone else's surprise and my own but it's a lot of it's a lot of fun but it is very very stressful to manage because you have to remember you have a good window of time where you can make some changes is. Yes. And it is like always, that window sneaks up on me every single week, even though it's like the same amount of time every week. But it is, it's a lot of, it's a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun. And then some of the people that you draft, you just don't look into their personal lives or what they think and believe. And you just got to just be okay with who you get. Yeah.

Travis. Two sports in general. No, no, no, no, no, no, it's okay. He's, he's handsome and he's got a big hog. He's right. Sports in general, that's a big thing. You've got to just like, like, hey, I'm rooting for a bunch of millionaires. Some of them have really horrible politics or are bad people.

I'm rooting for concussed millionaires. But also the, like, like, even worse than them is that all these teams are owned by, like, you know, tech assholes or Petro State billionaire. like all these, like they're just all these fucking absolute huge pieces of shit who are making the most money off of your fandom but you just have to like absorb it

because it's like what I'm gonna do I'm not gonna watch sports like what I'm not gonna eat McDonald's because it's a bad company I'm gonna get fucking McDonald's man oh man that McDonald's sounds good yeah we should do it for dinner sometime

Heather wouldn't allow I know what McDonald's? Yeah we've had McDonald's for dinner have we had some different sauce We had well that wasn't dinner That was for content. That was just for fun. Yeah, it was just for fun.

That was extra food. Okay. Rich Hell, you ever get some Mickey D's? Yeah. I would say every couple months. Every couple months because Mark obviously isn't going to indulge, but that's like a little solo treat. Yeah, or if I'm with some friends who are trying to get it. What's your standard order?

I like the fish fillet. Okay. You have to call it, you have to call it the fish delight now. That's like the fish delight. God damn it. Bad Apple Dracula, what are you playing? I'm playing a couple things, of course. Wow.

I'm still, I don't want anyone to freak out, like, as if I've dropped Ghost of Yote. I'm freaking out. No, I don't want anybody to be scared. I'm going to get to it. No, I'm telling you right now, you don't have to do those things. It's okay. I'm going to get back to it. There's just some things that are currently, that are just new that I'm doing right now,

but I am getting back to it. And I'm still chipping away at it slowly, but I'm getting back to it. Yeah, okay. It's a game I intend to finish is what I'll say. Of course, yeah. Same with Silk Song. Yep.

I have not played Silk Song in a few days. Right. Okay. Wow. Because two things I've occupied my time. Ball Pit. Hell yeah. And.

And Pokemon Z.A. There is. This is what I want to spend the bulk of my time discussing real quick. Okay. Well, first, just to say about Ball Pit, it's unbelievable. Yeah, it's so fun. It's so fun. And you do sort of like, you have the option.

to turn on auto like shoot the balls but it's it like changes your rate of movement yes which I like I like that trade off yes but and I so I'm constantly auto shooting yeah sure because I'm just like I it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make it's fine to me um but when you have that on you do sort of feel like like a lizard yeah right full lizard just like like licking stuff like in like touching rocks and eating bugs what is ball pit ball pit is like vampire survivor it's actually i talked about it last week a little bit yeah okay okay okay it's like vampire survivors but it's also kind of like brick breaker right but it's also kind of like those games you see on tic-tok that aren't real games yep where it's just like a scroll of things coming

toward you great it's exactly that but real and good actually god i love those fucking ads where it was like they would show those and then the actual game is like nothing like that it's like an rts or something like that it's so crazy um but the game there's actual real strategy involved in like some of the characters i have three characters now i think in in ball pit and uh it's i will say my first couple of rounds i wasn't feeling it yeah i wasn't getting it i was just kind of like uh i don't know and then i sort of just like locked in there's like a base building element to it too which is really fun um not something i'm typically interested in, but I'm having fun

sort of figuring that out. Well, it being a component, and you know, this was the thing I got into last week, but it being a component of the larger gameplay, I think, is like the formula there. So I think it's just incredible, really, really fun. And so Pokemon Z-A.

Talked about this a little bit last week. The package that I wanted to be here last week arrived after we recorded. I open it up as soon as I get home, rip it open, like Christmas. morning like I'm the freaking Nintendo 64 kid yeah which is I did have this thought though maybe it's a little too sad uh-oh I like you keep trying to say that I'm the

Nintendo 64 kid well you are that's you in the video that's like how Forrest Gump was at all those other things that was you I feel like I used to be more excited about stuff oh oh boy a new game would come out or something no Matt no you're getting Closer to my age. I'm sorry. Do you know what I mean? Oh, yeah, we do. We do.

With movies or something, you'd be like, oh, I'd be so excited that a new movie's coming out. And then now I just kind of go see new movie and enjoy it and enjoy the time. Yeah. But I'm not like excited anymore. Oh, no. Oh, Matt. My back hurts. Oh, no.

I got to pay taxes. Oh, boy. Matt, no. I had to go to doctor yesterday, get a special inhaler. I have a seat, buddy. Let me get a cup of hot water. Too hot. It's weird because it feels to me

Like the moment it happens is also the moment When you have the greatest access And maybe those two things are related That is true because I can have any experience I want Kind of, you know, within reason of course But you get that podcast money Yeah, that's right All that fucking degenerate gambling ads we do

Fucking lining my pockets That was the thing I meant to mention I was talking about Sportos early I meant to mention that there's so much gambling integration into sports these days. Like it'll be like you'll be watching a baseball game and then like a fan dual line will come up on screen and encouraging you to like make a specific bat. And that being so so baked into sports media, it makes complete sense why and it being legalized everywhere that makes almost everywhere. That makes so much sense why there are now these fucking gambling scandals happening. Yeah.

And I would wager to guess more people are watching those things than listening to maybe. maybe any podcast. Right, for sure. So be mad there first, I think. But I used to be more excited about things. Like the idea of a new Pokemon game coming out would have been one of the moments of my year probably back in the day. You'd be like, imagine the balconies on those houses. Hold on a second.

Get his ass. So I open the package. I see what plush I get. I'm already kind of upset. Yep. I get Chikarita. Of course you do. But instead of pivoting and just changing what starter I wanted to pick,

I remembered from Legends Archaeus, the other Pokemon are available at some point. Yeah. I was like, I'm just going to hope that happens again and just honor my word and pick Chikarita. And Chikarita's been clutch, actually. I have them fully evolved, and it's great. My whole team is fully evolved.

They got a nice little roster there. some of the mechanics that were in Legends Archaeus have returned that I've liked like there's alpha Pokemon so there's like there's really big ones so I caught an alpha and they're aggressive on the in the overworld

so they'll actively pursue with red eyes and they're huge and they have a lot more HP too so they're harder to take down I caught an alpha I can't remember the name of it but it's the pre-form of Lucario who I think kind of just looks like a sonics game

It's like Riolu or something Yeah, Roloh, something like that So I caught a big one of those And he's like as big as you as a human character Yeah Which is really really funny So then when you evolve him to Lucario He's fucking massive

Wow And like for scale I found somebody in the world That had a Lucario like next to them And it was a regular one And it was like two times bigger than It was so funny shit so funny so he's he's on my team it's great could you find an alpha troubish I'm sure you could find an alpha troubish like the alpha from 28 years later is a huge hog yeah it's actually

coming out of the bottom of the screen of my switch too um the thing okay so the things that I was not feeling it at first again with this because I'm sort of remembering archieus as like a sort of to me like a near perfect experience I know people talked about like the frame rate and stuff like that. That's like that, at that point wasn't very important to me. Right. With this being on a Switch 2, it runs very smoothly. That's the thing about it that I don't think anybody can say it doesn't do.

It runs. It's smooth. Does it look good? Is it separate conversation? Because fidelity and, like, frame rate. Frame rate are different. Yeah. But it looks, I think what Nick called.

it a GameCube Sonic game, which is about the meanest thing you could save out any game, I think. It doesn't look too great. It doesn't look so bad to me. I just kind of wish they made a stronger choice. I wish that they, because like I liked the Archaeus look because it

had this sort of like, I don't know, kind of like, like Breath of the Wild look to me, kind of. Not fully, but it had that sort of aesthetic. And it was going for something because it was a period a period piece it was hundreds and years before anything we've ever played before

this is a contemporary day and they just abandoned that like just abandoned an art style so it's kind of just like more normal and it's like yeah I don't really I don't really like that it takes place in one city and so the thing about Archaeus that I liked

was that there was a hub sort of like town small town and then you would go into the wild areas and those would sort of unlock as you you would go and they were sort of some of them are bigger than others so you'd have you have a limited amount of time in each area i i much prefer that whereas this it's one sort of big city that looks the same in any direction it's a circular city that's built like a maze kind of right so like you can go in any direction and there's like different districts that'll pop up

on your screen and stuff but like it doesn't look that different than where you were before that building's flat that building's flat um and then everybody in the city is standing like perfectly still talking to a Pokemon. Jesus Christ. And like that sucks and but and the story is like whatever but the story in all these games are kind of just like whatever where they really improved I think is the

gameplay because it's an active battling system versus a what used to be a turn based battling system. Right. Where you have four moves as you always would but they're on cool downs. So you're like actively moving around the battlefield as, you know, your character that you've made.

By the way, it's a great dress-up game. Love that. There's some really cute clothes for the characters. Okay. The girls' clothes are much better than the boys' clothes. Okay. But it's a cute dress-up game. My dress-up Pokemon trainer.

I mean, here's the thing. You could wear, and the clothing options are not locked to a gender, which is incredible. Oh, love it. It fucking rocks. Yeah. And so you can do, you dress however you want. when you're battling, you can be running around and dodging stuff, but your Pokemon

can't dodge anything, but your attacks are on cool down, so if you sort of time your attacks, right, fights can be, you know, done pretty quickly, and they're just a little more interesting because it's just more active, but I wish you could like, there was a dodge mechanic for the Pokemon, so you're not taking damage or something like that.

It's kind of like a mixed bag, but I'm enjoying it, I'm enjoying the battle, so you start rank Z and you're working your way to become rank A, which is really, really fun. There is a weird part of the game where you're not hitting every letter. Some of them you're skipping

chunks. Which I'm kind of like, I kind of wanted to do the whole alphabet. You're kind of taking some of the game for me, but it would be too grinding to do that and stuff. But the thing that is really, really fun, which I think, Heather, you would really love is that there is an online ranked mode.

Wow. Where you can, you, you, it's like a player versus player four player matches where there's four trainers running around with Pokemon. You get three Pokemon per fight. Everybody is

capped at level 50. So if your Pokemon are under it, you're bumped up to 50. And you get depending on how many Pokemon you defeat, you get ranked. So like if you get like if you, you know, if you come in fourth place, you get negative points

but you still maybe get some overall. but if you get, you know, eight knockouts or whatever, you get first place and you get all these points and then your rank just continually will go up until you're ranked A, basically. And then there was an event to get a special item that I was able to get by getting to rank K and was like, this is the most fun I've had playing this game

is playing against other people. And one, getting my ass kicked at some points, but also just having a lot of fun because the matches then start pretty quickly. It's like, it's a pretty fun experience. I know people in the Discord are, like, pretty hot on it actually, like, just the game itself and are enjoying it. So I'm not trying to be like, the game. I don't, because I actually just don't think the game is bad.

I just think that some things need to change. Yeah. They just, it's a fine enough game. Should a trash can be more than three polygons? It's just like, it's, in some of the stuff, I'm just like, why couldn't they, I, I've said this before, but like, other Nintendo games and other games on the Switch work well within the limitations of what the system is. Do cyberpunk. Yeah, yeah. Like, there's no reason for, it's kind of no excuse.

It's just kind of laziness at this point, I think. But anyway, I've gone on for so long. That's what I, that's what I've been playing. I love it. Yeah. I love it. Heather, what do you've been playing? Ghost of Yotei, non-fucking stop.

Let's go, let's go, let's go. Here's what I've learned, guys. The game that I want is inside of Ghost of Yote. What does it take to get there? Custom difficulty settings. Ooh. You can, beyond the, you, You've got your easy, medium, hard, lethal settings.

There is a tab for custom difficulty. My problem with the lethal difficulty settings is that what I want is Bouchito Blade, the game. Yes. I want one hit kills in either direction. Just for our younger listeners, refresh everyone's mind on the PlayStation 1 game. Buccio Blade was a PlayStation 1 game where you use swords and any, anytime you hit somebody with a sword, it would like kill them or kill you. or, like, cut off your arm, which I loved and became fixated on for the rest of my life. Yeah.

So here's what I've done. In Ghost of Yote, I have set the enemy aggression to lethal. So they are constantly coming at me and they are constantly doing their best moves. They're not like, you know, being idiots. And they're coming at me simultaneously. Right. You know, it's not like one guy's choosing and then the next guy's choosing. I chose lethal

damage to me so I can only get hit at this point by any enemy once maybe twice like any enemy on the entire map the guys that come out of the grass if they managed to get me with a spear then that's it

I'm fucking dead my ass would be cooked I kept on screen notification for off-screen attacks. Because what I don't like about lethal, like if you're, imagine you're in a fight,

you have like visual awareness that you don't have when you're playing a video game. 100%. You have more than that, the field of you. So I kept on off-screen notifications

for incoming attacks because I was like, if I was this fucking samurai and there's a guy charging at me, I would hear his footsteps. I would have a sense of him coming. So I kept that on. Then I found a mask that increases my damage to other people and increases their damage to me,

which confirms any attack kills me in one hit, maybe two. Wow. Right? Generally, it's one. And generally, the enemies now take one to two hits also. Then I found an outfit that turns off, like, there's two kinds of parries, perfect parries, and regular parries. There's an outfit that turns off regular parries. Wow.

So now it's just perfect parries are your only option. Guys, I have not loved a game as much as I love this build of this game. I am, like, anywhere I see combat, I am fucking running at it as hard as I can. And I'm like, very often in every fucking battle I'm dying, like, Dark Soul style, like, I get fucking murked. guy comes at me from behind there's enemies now they can throw like Kunai at me

that shit kills me that's so funny so I have to like they scream before they do it so I also constantly have to be juggling like my defense to like deflect it I am I am having so much fun in this build

I love that they have given me that much control over it that the game is now extremely fast I don't have to wait for people to like come after me the boss battles suck right they suck

because like my first my first encounter with any of these fucking like dueling tree guys or whatever like they're going to kill me like four times before I'm like even close to figuring out their first move that I have to figure out

how to Perry and then after that I can usually get like a momentum going and like you know keep distance and and work it out. I've gotten a couple new weapons. Have I looked up shamisen lessons in Los Angeles? Absolutely, I have. Have I looked up how much it costs to buy Shamsen?

Yeah. Absolutely I have. Imagine if you're like a Shamasan instructor just like waiting by the phone for like years. And then all of a sudden this game comes out. I was like, holy fucking shit. Yeah, my calendar is full. Well, I'm like you walk. around because you can play it at any time

in the game and it'll often like either lead you to like bonuses but now I've unlocked things that'll lead me to fights and so I like fucking kill a village like I don't like and of course this tracks but also I really appreciate the sucker punch

storytelling and there's a lot of really nice turns in the story but I do wish I could skip through the basic NPC dialogue like if I can read it on the screen let me let me click through it because I liberate a farm. I really don't need to know what these guys were up to. I don't care. Like, all I want to do is walk in. And again, I love that the game is built so that when you walk into a place and you

kill a bunch of people and you haven't gone to the story that indicated you should go there, that they ask you, like more than once now, I've had somebody be like, thank you so much. You should talk to so and so about the guy. He'll be happy to know he's dead. And Atzu will go, who? And they'll be like, what? Wait. No, he's a farmer. He's like, he really, these people were harassing him. You have to go tell that guy. And I'm like, oh, okay. I didn't understand the spyglass mechanic. Oh, yeah. I didn't understand that you go to the highest place on the map and you just look around with the spyglass and it vibrates and then to like show you what you think something is. And when you open up your map afterwards, Atzu has drawn, like, shitty versions of those things all over

the map, which is awesome. Um, I fucking love this game. I love it. I do wish, I wish I could skip on PC dialogue. I think when I'll work on a script and when I get frustrated, I'll go to the television. I will find one group of people to kill. I'll kill all those people. Pause the game. Go back to writing the script. It is, it is so cleansing. is so playful, it is so fun, and it is challenging, but also one of my least favorite things in a video game is when something is super challenging

and the enemies have infinite hit points to swords. Like, that's not the game I want to play. Yeah. I made the game I want to play. Hell yeah. And I'm having a blast. That's rad. I mean, like, I've heard good things about the lethal difficulty,

but I love that it has enough things where you're able to tweak it to your liking. Yeah. you can have all of the lethal difficulty stuff you like and none of the like there's no reason for me not to be able to have off screen alerts for for attacks like if I'm like because otherwise it just becomes a game of and I also don't I don't need the regular parries right like grind it into me that every attack has a certain timing and I will then get to experience the joy and the rush and the catharsis and the adrenaline of recognizing each of those attacks and knowing exactly when I have to parry. Oh, it's so good, guys. I fucking love it. What you just described.

So you're playing, because I would never think to do this, like, but you're like, you're like writing, which I also do. And then you go, like you take a break from that to just play like a, like a, you know, like open world character action game. Yeah. Does this, is this a kind of thing you would do, Matt, when you're, when you're working on something? because like to me that's like

it's too much like it's too much game it's too much game in while I'm I have a work task like like like for me I'm just talking about for my own brain I'm like I'll play like a like a you know a maybe a quick puzzle game or something like that but like something where I've got to like

oh I got to remember where I am in the story and I got to you know like I don't know that seems like a big commitment I mean I only play the story sequences of the game like when I'm actually sitting down but like if there's like in the area I'm in there were like five farms that needed to be liberated, right?

They're automatically marked in red on your map. And that's all just all gameplay. And that's all gameplay. There's nothing else happening in those areas. There's not really any story progression. So I work on the script.

I write a page. Maybe I write two pages. I'm stuck on something. I get up. I pace for five seconds. And then I'm like, fuck, I'll just liberate a farm. Sit down on the couch.

Liberate the farm. Turn off the system. Go back to the computer. Have the adrenaline and keep writing. Like it's... Something's fucking awesome. It's, it's great.

It's great. It's great. I mean, it's really fucking. And it takes, what I don't like about Fortnite is that they, although they do,

they did add Blitz, right? So Blitz is like shorter, like bursts of gameplay. But my frustration with Fortnite was I couldn't get a momentum. Yeah. Because it takes 25 minutes

to do a zero build game, like from start to finish. So if I was writing and I get stuck and I go play Fortnite, I've lost bulls, I haven't built momentum at Fortnite and I've also lost the momentum of the script. But with Ghost of Yote

like I fucking get on the game, play the wolf song so that I know where the nearest Wolfden is. Wolfden is always pure combat. Go to the Wolf den. Wolf leads me to combat. I kill a bunch of people and then get back on my computer. Wow. It's so, it's perfect, man.

I don't want this game to ever end. I wanted to endlessly generate these battles. I can't wait for the online mode that's coming What? Like in the same way that There is a In the first game there was Ghost of Yote

Like maybe So it's like factions Kind of yeah Where you can team up with another We'll play You play with You play with me But you don't

I think you probably do it by yourself No no no no you don't It's not adverses You want to fight me No I think you'd like take down bad guys Like in bases like together and stuff PBM I think Okay okay okay

Okay, okay, that's fine. It's kind of interesting that said you can play with me and Heather said, no thanks actually. That's not what I said. No, it's fine. I just said I wanted to hang out and have some fun as excited as she was when she found out about her expression dropped.

I heard you throw up a little. Because you said, Hey, let's play. No, because you said that was also the moment you revealed that it wasn't PVP. It was Matt

And interesting She wants to kill me She wants to hurt me No God She wants to get in the game And hurt me In some way

You heard Right You heard Listener That wasn't me Matt You know that all I ever Want to do

Is play video games With my friends I'm just mad That we can't Kill other people Together Like a Fortnite Squad

You know what Now I understand Yeah But when you want to Play Fortnite with me Maybe we can, maybe we can, though.

Ned Flanders and shit. Here's the thing. I'm always looking to get back into Fortnite. Oh, that's the best. I'd love to team up. Guys, we have a topic and we're like an hour into the show.

I do, yeah, we're having, we're having fun, but I do want to tee up our, Rochelle, because, like, Rishel, you were playing something. Oh, yeah.

In an effort to, um, connect with my eight-year-old nephew, I started playing Minecraft. Oh! Wow. What do you think? I really love it.

Wow. It's really relaxing and, I just really like everything about it. That's awesome. That's great. I've also been watching a lot of Minecraft content, and I just watched a two-and-a-half-hour YouTube video. No, it was a movie starring Jack Black.

Can you imagine that movie was two and a half hours long? Length of Goodfellas. Ever since I was a little kid, I knew I wanted a Minecraft. Kind of how it starts. Yeah, honestly. It's this video where this guy did a social experiment where he made two islands and had 500 people on each island and then they can all talk to each other

and basically it's like the rise and fall of a civilization and it's probably the most incredible thing I've ever watched. Wow. Do you know what it's called? It is by a YouTuber named Ish. And these are like, you say these are real human players who are on each island? Got it.

It's called 1,000 players simulate civilization rich versus poor. Are they role playing or are they just sort of like, you know, just seeing what happens? People are kind of like role playing. Got it. Like, you know, leaders come to their eyes, different form, like little pockets of civilization. Yeah, yeah. Happen. And then war happens in it.

And it is the wildest thing I've ever seen. Wow. That's rad. All right. Let's talk about something a little spooky, some scary game moments. I think maybe the reason we took so long to get to this point is because we're actually all kind of a little bit scared. Yeah, my teeth are chattering. We're talking scary game moments, times we've legitimately been unmoored by something in a game.

something has happened and we have been spooked. My number one is my wife walking in on me playing Honey Pop 2 double date. No, I think we should talk with like some, I mean, like, I feel like the kind of thing we're talking about, and maybe what we should begin with is the Resident Evil Dog hallway jump. Because to me, that's like kind of the oar example of this sort of scary gaming moment. Like that was the first, I remember playing Resident Evil 1. I might have been watching my friend play Resident Evil One. I can't remember if I had the sticks or not.

But just that being like a holy shit thing. I've only seen that on video. I don't think I've played the moment personally myself. But it's obviously it's so iconic and for good reason because it's legitimately very scary. Well, the reason it works also is because of the way it's framed. Like the often in a game, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, terror won't be closer to the person playing the game than it is to the, uh, the player character.

Right. And in this moment, the player character walks all the way down the hallway and the dogs jump behind the player character closest to the player themselves, which I think is the reason it works. For sure. Like the, the, the, the, the, the, way that they were able to control the composition that moment. Like, yeah.

And it's, it, it's, you know, it's, you know, it. 100% that is so key to the Resident Evil experience for the early early Resonables. Typically in games prior to that, right, like in your Wolfenstein's, in your dooms when you're like fighting scary creatures, they appear in front of you. I know this sounds needlessly academic, but they appear on screen and the player character is a safeguard, like a fence in between. the action and you right yeah like if you're if you're playing doom the zombie is on the other side of

your gun which is on the other side of the screen which is in the other side of the player right but in this moment in resident evil the dogs are closer to you the play like i know that sounds stupid it doesn't sound stupid at all it's why it works yeah 100% well i mean just like with any sort of like i i personally do like to be scared a little bit it's a fun it's a fun feeling you know I don't want somebody

to scare me I saw you kind of getting I was getting ready to go You're gonna get ready to scare me Yeah Not not interested I don't want it I don't want that

You like being scared But you don't want someone to scare you I don't want somebody to scare me Like I like to I'll pop on a scary movie Get freaked out I watched a really fucked up

I watched Talk to me the other day Not talk to me The other one Yes Bring her home Bring her home yeah Don't watch it

They haven't seen it But I said I like talk to me I'm going to tell you right now, Nick. Yeah. I'd say wait. Just wait. Just wait for a little while. Okay.

I don't think it's the movie for you right now. But it, I loved it. It was great, but it was deeply upsetting. But the experience of playing a video game is active, and it's scarier to me than watching a movie. Because it's happening to you. It's not something you're observing. it's something that you're in control of completely and you are experiencing the scary thing

because it's just happening to you. So I get scared in many games. My earliest video game scare is not from a scary game. It is from a game that I actually love. And you guys are going to think it's kind of a crazy one. I'm ready. Marble Madness. No, it's, man, I just wish those marbles would be normal.

Somebody's got to get these marbles under fucking control. It's an epidemic. I could slip. Everyone's laughing. I could slip. It's true. You really could. I could break my neck.

Some loose marbles. I'd hate to see that. Man. It'd be kind of funny if I broke my ass on some marbles real quick. Whoa. Like that. Yeah, I mean, that'd be pretty funny. If you weren't seriously injured.

No. It's got like a big bruise on your butt or something like that. I bounce a little bit. Yeah, yeah. All right. I'm laughing. Maybe I fart on accident? Yeah.

Maybe when marble gets sucked up your butt. Now that airs escaped, there's a pathway for the marble. In... You spit it out. And then like a couple other things come out too, like a bug. And like a spoon or something. And it was like, wait, what? And I was like, I'm dumb and I ate a spoon earlier.

I ate a bug with a spoon and I ate the spoon. The fuck is happening. Anyway. We're all on one It's all us It's not just me No Not just Matt

From Pokemon red, blue and yellow I knew it In Lavender Town Lavender Town Lavender Town is where you can experience the ghost Pokemon for the first time And there's a tower

called Pokemon Tower Which is a tower That is basically A cemetery A burial ground for dead Pokemon Which up until that point Not something that ever crossed my mind

That they could die or killed because when they get knocked out you take them to the Pokemon center they get all better these Pokemon dead beyond repair their corpses they're corpses they're buried there

so one that's already scary to me as like a six or seven year old kid and then you need a special item that allows you to see the ghosts for what they are because when you encounter them on the in the you know as a random encounter they appear as

classic looking ghosts and to me that's scary. When you're a little kid I was like what the fuck there's when ghosts are in this fucking sheet ghost what's going on here? What the hell? And you need a special item to then see them and then you can see you know ghastly and haunt her and stuff and then the thing that you're actually there to defeat is a ghost Merowack who

is haunting the area and making everybody sort of a little upset but there's also this creepy lavender town music that's all You played that music during a scary music episode of the show. It haunts me to this day. It does. It's scary, scary stuff. It's rad. I mean, here's a thing.

It is cool that they put it in there. It's a game for kids and there's freaky dead ghosts in there. Yeah, dead ghost Pokemon. I don't know about that. Guys, I was worried when you talked about this topic because there's only two times I've ever been scared in a game. And the rest of the time, I'm very like. Like, oh, and I know to say that sounds, oh, the stuff is so fake, I don't care. Like, I'm not trying to be an edge lord, but like there's, there's legitimately only two big scares I've ever experienced in game.

One is Silent Hill, too. Yes. And it is the moment when I and my friend who were playing realized that the hallway we were in, we, there are moments where, you know, the walls turn different, like they corrode and they corrupt. and then you're like you're in what appears to be a totally different location and you are you're like oh fuck I'm in the hell the hell place again and you don't understand why when we realized that it was the exact same building but fucked up was deeply unsettling to the point of being scary like we were both like oh my god yeah oh my god oh my god it's the same place it's this same place total goosebumps total like yeah like creeped out like full fear wow the other was PT oh yes yeah is on my list yeah PT's on here too like PT is sort of unknowable like you it's scary because you don't know what is happening yes right and that disorientation and the lack of what seems to be exploitable patterns

and just the ultra-realism of that hallway makes you feel like you are somehow watching slash playing a movie and it is deeply unsettling when you encounter that weird lady. But that was it. And I really like sort of dug in and I was like, are there moments in Resident Evil games?

Are there moments in like VR games that I've been scared? And the truth is no. For Resident Evil 4, I wrote... I mean, that scares me. Yeah. With both Silent Hill 2, I think Silent Hill 2 to me is a good amount scarier than Resident Evil 4 to me because Leon as a character, you sort of, if you're following me on the

It's Happening to You thing, you sort of assume the role as Leon and Leon kicks fucking ass and he rocks. It's more, it's like an action horror game. So, like, yeah, I mean, like, there's scary stuff, but it's like less of, less about that versus Silent Hill, too, is like a legit, like, terrifying and unsettling. Yeah, and you play James Sunderland, who's a fucking loser. Yeah, and everybody who come across is like, ah, I don't feel good.

And you're like, stop. Like, there's a guy just puking in a toilet when you meet him, right? Yeah, that's right, Eddie. Yeah. Is that before or after he eats the pizza? I forget the sequencing. I think it might be before. Yeah.

Weirdly, though, I think I would call it. Rich Hell would know. Rich Hell has played it most recently. Yeah, I think it was, the pizza was after. I think it is after. Kind of a crazy move. I'd be eating like super something. I'd be eating like a banana or some saltines.

Yeah, me too. Some white rice, plain. But with Silent Hill, too, there's moments in that that are designed to be scarier than other moments. The whole thing is obviously very scary. When you first see Pyramar Head just waiting behind the bars. That's fucked up Fucking pyramid head is great

Yeah Like it's For me the moment is more like What is that? Yeah who why? Yeah Why? I have something from

Alan Wake 2 did Jump Scares I think Really really well Wake If too much Because there's some really Because sometimes it'll just be like Wake

Yeah Or it'll be like The whole screen Will be like Of a human face That's all like Fuck you Like it'll be like

It'll be really scary like that. It's fucked up. But there's a sequence where you play, when you're playing as, when you're playing as Saga, the detective, and you're in a nursing home. And nursing homes are kind of scary, I think, just in general, kind of.

But, like, it's, the vibes that are really, really bad. And you're, like, looking for a really spooky old lady who's, like, all demonized by the, I can't remember what it's called in the, by the darkness or whatever, in the game. And it's, that's, that's, That's a killer combination, by the way. Scary old lady.

Yeah. Man, some of the scariest stuff you can get. I was driving back from the gym today, and I legit had the thought there was a senior center. I was like, I wonder what the minimum age to move in there is. Could I get my ass in there at like 50 and just like have that be like, oh, they take my meals? I have people I have like friends to play board games with, you know? Honestly, having, and then you have a built-in community. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It seems fine. Like if you're treated nice, at least, I know sometimes it's not always the case, but I know sometimes a lot of these places are overworked. Yeah, I don't want to be one of those crooked homes. Yeah, you want to be one of the nice one. Yeah. It would, I bet you they'd take you.

Yeah. Be the fucking king of that place. Yeah, are you here to help? No, I'm here to, I'm living. My wife dropped me on. She said she might visit me sometimes. Anyway, she's off to her private yoga lesson. She's wearing makeup for some reason.

She said she didn't want to make Raul wait. It'd be so funny to trade you in for a Latin home. Oh, my God. She'd be so happy. What a fucking upgrade. Like Antonio Banderas in his fucking pride. Hey, Antonio Banderas now, honestly, he's still looking good. Yeah, he gets cuckolded and baby girl.

Yeah, that's right. But he's like, he's looking good. good as hell. He looks great. Yeah. Do you remember in the Telltale Walking Dead? There's a lot of scary. There's not that much scary stuff in it.

There's like, it's a horror experience. It's a very upsetting, uh, franchise. There's a, there's a family that you meet that seems like they're really, really nice. And then like they're very eager to help you out. Um, but then you learn that they're killing people and eating them. Yeah, they're cannibals. And it's fucking nasty and scary.

And it's specifically because of the rules of the walking dead, they are keeping people alive while they're so they're like they're they're drugged and they're being dismembered so that their meat is fresh and not zombified it's so scary fucking yeah that's fucking awful because that's not like jump out at you scary it's just more like ugh yeah what fuck yeah seriously you doing that shit seriously you're cannibal really you eat people what you ran out of chips you don't got chips you don't got chips chips no more. You're eating people now? Disgusting. You must have a stockpile

of chips somewhere. Get some chips. What are you doing? I guess you need some protein. So maybe you got to have a little bit of people. I would just be eating chips, I think. I was going to bring up something that is I think only, I don't know if anyone else has played Half Life 2. But it's an incredible game. But Half Life 2 has a sequence called Ravenholm, which is like, it's a sci-fi game

but this is the part where it's like straight up horror. The closest analog I can think of is kind of like Bill's Town in The Last of Us. You know what I mean? You get to that area and it's just kind of like this this community that has been completely ravaged. And it's kind of like in a sense kind of like self-contained. But there's all these like traps in it. There's all these like head crab zombies which are just like a very akin to the Cordyceb zombies is the same sort of thing

except they've got like an alien crab on their face. And it's just an absolute fucking nightmare. It is so fucking scary. I'm gonna play this thing. I think Half-Life 2 I would imagine if you played it for the first time today would hold up because it's got some elements that are like going to feel a little bit dated

but it is just like a really cool design and it is a Is Half-Live 2 the one that starts with Pickup the Cam? Yes. And I have played it. Yeah. A million years ago. Yeah.

Kirkle Placerm I'll just bring up a screenshot just so you can get the idea of the sense of of Ravenholm I mean like it is just this sort of like moody like dark sort of like you know ravaged village but

there's a there's one guy who's there who's there who's a father Grigori and he's the only person who's like not like you know, corrupted and can actually, you know, be something of an, of an NPC. But it's so cool. And the, yeah, it's just one of the things that's awesome about it is just it being a horror section inside of a game that is not a horror game.

It's just like a really cool tangent and it makes it really, really unexpected when it hits and really satisfying. So that's one that stands out to me. Yeah. Yeah. I'm surprised when I think back on The Last of Us, I certainly felt sad and I felt emotions, but I wasn't really scared in The Last of Us. I think the closest is the jump scare in Last of Us 2 when you meet the fast ones because there's like little fast clickers that like run on all fours. And there's like a moment where it like runs in front of you. I think it does the same thing as the dogs where it's closer to camera. than it is to Ellie. Yeah. And it's a really good jump scare.

But other than that, the game's not scary. Two things that got me in. Last of Us, yeah, Last of Us part one, I don't remember being particularly scary. There's sometimes what it's a little, but I like it's less of that experience. I guess maybe when you see the bloater for the first time and some of the kills are like kind of like horrifying.

But what about the damn rat king? The rat king and Last of Us part two is one thing. one thing that that that boss is like so such a fucking nightmare to look at and to to fight against and the other thing in last of us part two is there's a moment when you are crafting on a table and it's a scripted thing when an at when an enemy pulls you out and it's one of those things like oh i didn't realize this could possibly be interactive right um so that's another thing that i remember getting me with a little bit versions of that uh like on ticot where people bomb like set up proximity bombs behind ellie for the thing

And it kills the people that are off screen for the moment. Oh, wow. So you'll be building the gun and all of a sudden the whole screen will shake and explode. And then she'll like stop and like turn around and they're all dead. That's so funny. The sneaky ones, though, I don't like those in particular because that is I think my least favorite form of human locomotion. All for us? Just like.

Yeah. A little creeper. A little creeping sneakies? No, no, no. Like those little worm guys and 28 years later? worm guy yeah they're just like these these crawly little worm guys they eat worms I love it yeah I gotta watch it I haven't seen it I haven't seen it I just know about the hog and I know about now I know about these worm guys I saw the preview for the new one the new new

yeah yeah yeah yeah why not bone temple maybe I was hopping at the bone temple not no watch watch 28 years like it's a good movie you don't have to watch any other 28 movies to I'll pop it on this weekend yeah honestly I will why not I have another scary thing Okay. It's more of the vibe. It's not necessarily a singular moment. I feel like, and this happens in other games, but I feel like the Bioshock games really, really nailed this.

Hearing somebody from far away. Yeah, sure. Down a hallway who's just being like, oh, the experiments failed, but I told them it would be good or something. And it's like, oh, fuck. There's a freak over there. Like, I'm going, I'm going, this way. I thought you more met, like, someone going like, oh.

That too. It's a distant moan or something about, yeah. But, like, there'd be some people that are like, I can't remember what. the whole deal is in those games. Yeah. But there'd be people who are like half regular. They're like half fucked up by whatever the thing was.

And they're like, I'm crazy and I'm over here now. And it's like, oh, great. You're in the place I'm going. Right. I don't want to find you or see you. Yeah. I got to get over to being afraid of those games. I start every single one of them, get afraid, turn it off.

New one comes out. Understandable. Oh, maybe I like this one. Yeah. Oh, you're the big guy in this one. That's going to be easier for me because he's big. I'm not, let's do this. Too scary, don't do it.

Start the third one. There's racism in this one. Yeah. I'm not doing this. I'm out of here. It's got that and it's scary. Miss me with it. There's another moment in last, or in, sorry, Silent Hill 2,

where you're going down a stair, maybe this is in Silent Hill 1. You're going down a staircase and you hear a baby crying. Oh, yeah. reminded me of and you're just like oh man what what could this possibly be and you get all the way to the bottom and there's no baby there's no nothing no but the whole way there because it's a long walk you're conjuring for yourself what it could be and what they will subject you to and I like that ultimately they don't answer it with like you know a like a stroller monster or something Yeah, the baby's red.

Yeah, like, okay. But hearing something in the distance, that's what it reminded me of. It's like, I know it's like, it's just like my frame of reference or it's this Bioshock thing, but sometimes it'll just be like, you hear that. Well, the little radio in Silent Hill 2 is good for that. Yeah, yeah. You don't always necessarily see the two sets of legs skittering around or whatever. Man, that game has really got everything.

Sneaky. Legs on top. Yeah. Legs on bottom. Doom was mentioned and that this is making me think of Doom 3 because they also, you're in hell and there's babies crying. That's another thing that's really exciting. The baby and PT really fucked up.

And when we did the PT episode, didn't we learn that Lisa, the ghost, is like tied to your character? Yes. No, no, you can't see it. It's just there at all times. You just kind of feel the presence. And it's one of those things where it's just like, that almost feels like it's like it helped guide the design more so than it actually directly affects the player. But it's really a cool detail.

I don't know, he, like, Kajima did say that he wants to scan a ghost. Like, fully, like, honestly, it was like, I want to be the first one to scan a real ghost and put it in a game. I wouldn't be shocked if he's, like, got a ghost on a computer somewhere. I mean, like, what if that man on accident unleashes hell because of his desire to make an authentically scary game experience and somehow manages to the ring an actual ghost? in every copy of his game. It's frightening to think what he's capable of. Yeah. But I was going to ask,

Ranch, are you familiar with PT at all? I watched a playthrough of P.P. Wow. It's short enough of a playthrough. It's like the whole thing you can do in like 34 minutes or something. Yeah. I sent it to my mom.

And she was like, wait, is there more of this? I want to see more of it. I was like, no, you saw all of it. She loved it. She thought it was so scary and fucked up. She loved it. I mean that that thing ends with Norman Rita's. Yeah, she's like, oh, I'm just in this too, by the moment.

I had one that I thought of. There was a game we covered in her old format, Dokey Dokey Literature Club. Oh, yeah. But that game gets really unsettling. And in particular, there's a moment where there's a character Monica, where do you remember there's an interaction, it's kind of meta. You have to go into the file structure and manually delete the character file. and then you watch that character dematerialize within the game.

But like that's the thing you have to do to progress. But it's just like one of those things that's really, just the way it plays out is so unsettling. It's not like a jump scare, but it is like a thing that sits with me as like a horror moment in the game. Yeah, totally. I remember that being insane.

Yeah. Man, I can't believe that we played that. I know. It feels like that was 100 years ago. He probably was. Jesus Christ. Fuck. Uh-oh.

We've been doing this podcast too long. Oh, no. Not long enough. Ten more years. Ten more years. I'm not saying we're going to stop. We're going to stop it. It's just like it's one of those things.

It was just like you like, holy shit. A lot of time has passed since we launched this fucking thing. Yeah. But it's interesting to track the progress of time. We've had two PlayStation since we started. And hey. Playson four was out already at that point. Hey, two presidents.

Hey. Not by my count. Should have only been one. I was thinking about this. I can't believe that guy just destroyed. part of the White House It's so funny Tor it down and there's no

Like this part of it's going to be green I decided that this part of it's just going to be green We're going to paint it green No system of like It's construction takes years too by But also it's funny because it's like It's like no part of the I'm sure there's laws about it

But in no part of the Constitution Was anybody ever like You can't change your own house And the president's house is the White House house so it tracks that somebody who lives in that house would be like I want to change my house right right but it's wild to see just like that part is just gone i was thinking about this as a non-horror game but a scary moment to me near the end of metal gear solid two okay when is it the president right the colonel is telling you to like turn the play turn the game off right and turn the game

off. I hadn't experienced that before. I was my first, when the first time I ever even knew about that was when I played it for the first time. And I was just like, they can't tell me to do that. What does he do? Why does he know I'm playing the game? Stop! Fucking stop, dude. Just like

that sort of wall break. Yeah. You're just not expecting that type of thing in a game. Yeah. And obviously, Psycho Mantis before it, but in which probably was freaky for people when they played that even. But just weird, just Yeah, an unsettling vibe, to say the least.

There's obviously so many great games in the horror genre. I've not ever played, I watched my friend play Dead Space when it came out when it was new, and I, like, made him stop. Fuck this, actually, no. This is too scary. What I did think of was clock tower. This was a PlayStation 1 horror game.

But just what was scary about Clock Tower is there's this motherfucker Scissor Man who had big ass scissors. Let me tell you, big scissors, very scary concept that have not seen before or since. And also we had like a, like a Scissorman theme that would happen. And so, yeah, that was one scary antagonist. This guy thinks that Edward Pienous Hands

was the original movie. Yeah. And Edward Scissor Hands is the parody. Yep. My brother got me Edward Cesar, Edward Pino's Hands on DVD for my 18th birthday. The... Two things.

For a big scissor and also, I think maybe your favorite anime of all time, you should watch Kill La Kill. I've watched some Kill La Kill. I didn't, I did, like, I fell off of it, but I watched like the first few episodes of it. Okay. There's some scissor enemies in Silk Song, by the way. Okay. The other thing is Clock Tower reminds me of back in 1995. Oh, yeah.

That other weird horror game we played. Not scary, but evocative of Clock Tower. The title of the game is back in 1995, and it's a more contemporary design that's meant to evoke those sorts of 90s survival horror games. Twin Peaksie, sort of in its weirdness, sort of Allen Wake Light, kind of. God, the stuff, I mean, there's so much stuff in Allen Wake, too, that I'm surprised you haven't played the whole thing, because I think you would love it. I think Mary would love Allen Wake, too. Yeah, I would love to play Alan Wake 2 with Mary. She is drowning in work.

Yeah, of course. Drowning. Of course. Two successful people under one roof. How could they have time to play a great video game? How could they? I mean, I get to play five minutes of Ghost of Yote at a time. I downloaded the Silent Hill 2 remake for her and I to play and we just haven't gotten a chance to play it.

Yeah. Oh, man. I kind of want to replay it. Yeah. I really loved the remake. It's really, really, it's really, really good. But I was like, when am I going to... I can't elect to replay a game

when I have an active, an ever-growing backlog. One more time for this fucking thing. Yeah. No, what you mean? No. But it's, it's really, really great. That rocks. Do we do...

Does anybody have any other ones, or should we move on to a segment? No, let's do a segment. It's time for the question block. All right, these are all. from our discord discord.g slash get played here we go this one's from brown and groupon what's up brown and gupon groupon i don't understand it but i i like it matt have you messed with the new free-to-play skate at all or are you a tony hawks pro skater purist i have messed with it i have to and i have to report it's not it's not for me okay it's not great

it's too floaty. I feel like the important thing about what Tony Hawk gets right is that you do feel like you have weight on the skateboard. And that like that sort of matters. Whereas in this it kind of feels like it's floating in the sort of way that like

Fortnite's a little floaty. I mean there's like maybe not as much but like I feel like Smash Brothers? Maybe honestly sort of closer to Smash Brothers. You're sort of jumping and it kind of feels like You weren't really even on the ground. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. It wasn't really for me, but I'm happy for people that like it, or sorry that people, sorry that you don't.

I don't know. It's not, it's not my bag. So, yeah, if you like it, great. If you don't, sorry. People are pissed. People are so mad. This next one's from Hellblazing Scourge. Hi, Hellblazing.

What video game setting do you think would be the best to go trick-or-treating in? would you think about people? You got to think about people, the candy they would have, et cetera. So I kind of think the Stardue Valley world. I was thinking Stardue Valley, just like the vibes. I mean, they do have,

I forget the name of the roughly equivalent holiday they have, not the winter festival, but yeah. But yeah, there is something like, there is an event like that in Stardue Valley. But yeah, 100%, that's sort of, that's sort of wholesome, a small town sort of energy.

I'd like that a little bit. It kind of feels like you're going to get either like safe homemade candy or everyone's doing big ones. Kind of feels like everyone's doing big ones in Stardue Valley. Well, yeah, but then also just like someone will just give you like a whole bass or something

or just like a can of beer. Here's a ruby I found. That's a good answer. I think World of Pokemon would be great to trick or treat in because also the Pokemon themselves are conscious enough that they would also be giving you candy, for example. Yeah.

Like if somebody's got a side duck, it's going to have a little bag, and it's going to be like, sigh. And you're going to like get to take candy from the side duck. And also, Pokemon might dress up. That's true. So you get like a Pikachu that looks like a little lawyer or something. They're going to dress like a human job?

Yeah. I was thinking of like Pikachu dresses like Spider-Man. I got to pitch Grand Theft Auto 5 It's like Our Neighborhood Yeah Um

Pokemon would be good A lick a tongue Handing you a lollipop With its big tongue Oh god Come on man It's big lollipop though I mean yeah

I like the I like the You have me with big lollipop But just the other element I don't know Yeah It's binny cap too huh All right

Kingdom Hearts Would be a good Trick or treat Gummy Yeah Well you go to Halloween town. Yeah.

You can go, you can trick-or-treat any time you want. There you go. In Halloween town. Yeah. Man, I wish there was something like trick-or-treating.

I got to buy my own candy. You mean as an adult? Yeah. Give me something. You know, Halloween was at some point. And it's been interesting to watch Halloween kind of go global,

which it used to. But yeah, like, I think there's more Asian countries that celebrate Halloween these days. I don't know. It's kind of wild. But anyway, it used to be like more of a more of a kids holiday and then it became an adult holiday

and now it's like dressing up in horny costumes or whatever the fuck yeah um which i don't mind but they haven't had the trick or treating become an adult thing probably it's only a matter of matter of time with all the infantilization of i thought about you know i don't have the money to be able to do it but that it would be neat to have a treat for parents that you know kids come to your door and you give them candy, but you have some adult treat that you hand out. Yeah, little airplane bottle size liquor. Yeah, why not?

I'm sure that would get you. That's got to be a crime. Yeah, a little shot of fireball. Yeah. There's a clonopin. Yeah, here's a loose pill. I guess that's the problem is that you can't give anything to adults. Yeah, yeah. A little back rub. Yeah,

little back rub. Hey, here's some paid time off, the PTO. Yeah. Uh, man, honestly, I'd take it. Give me some. Uh, this next one's from Gator Sacks. Hi, Gator. Gator Sacks.

What's up? Wait, is that a reference? I don't know if it means what you're, what you're saying, but it doesn't make me think of Gator Sacks. Like, what do you mean? Like a ball sack. Is that not what it is? It's S-A-X, actually. Oh, I'm sorry.

Just hearing it aloud. I thought I was thinking it was like a Gator Ball Sack. I know that, like, plural. I know you don't want to be mixing the lores too much, but I know you're pretty familiar with Gator Sacks. Heather doesn't need to know anymore. Gator's sacks, like a saxophone. I used to play the saxophone. They talk about getting fricked by alligators

into sucking them off over on doughboys, which is supposedly a better show than this. It is. It's a wonderful show. God bless you, buddy. Gator Sacks writes, with the fallout and Five Nights at Freddy, with Fallout and Five Nights or Freddy's

both part of Halloween Horror Nights this year What other video games would you like to see Turned into a haunted house and maze? I have an answer and it might shock you I think Silent Hill 2 would be a fun maze It would be a amazing maze Imagine you go Because like some of these mazes are

A lot of them are in And I guess there's a divide In Like the states Whether they're called mazes Or they're called like haunted houses or they're called, like, haunted houses. Like, depending on where you are...

Wait, really? Yeah, some people call them mazes, some people call them... In the U.S. Yeah. There's some states where if you go to a haunted house, you're calling it a maze.

Yeah. Because I think of a maze is a maze. Yeah. Well, like, I guess mazes are sort of, like, designed to trick you and not be able to get you out. Yeah. These all have a path that you're sort of,

you're walking through a sort of like... You're walking through something. You're fundamentally... I guess I'm just thinking about my experience as a kid who would go into the public park and I guess it was not a physical haunted house it was more of a maze like structure that they'd like you know whatever constructed

yeah so yeah i i i do understand i call them i've always called it mazes i wonder where that what that divide is that'll be interesting that's like that i love i love seeing maps like that right right down the middle it's really crazy like where carls junior turns into hardies exactly wow it's the same divide um i think the how jacked a dude would have to be in order to play pyramid head would be scary in and of it It'd be really crazy, but also, like, okay, so these are, these often take place in, like, some of the now, uh, defunct, um, like, studio, uh, buildings. Right. And some of them are in parking lots, too.

Those ones, I'm sort of thinking could have different levels, not just on one floor. Oh, cool. So imagine you start on, like, a second level and you get to the room that has a cemetery in it and you have to go down. That's great. That's fucking. That sucks. That's so scary. Yeah, that is scary as far.

You got to keep just going down. That's pretty good. Pretty good. That'd be good. Sounds like me, man. He's scared. Oh, God. It's the body he made.

He wrote in DJ Callet for president. You looked like a sprite. And not the drink. I know everybody was thinking the drink. Yes, no. The drink. No. Some sort of woodland creature

Yeah Silent Hill 2 would make a good one I'm trying to think of like other I mean A control maze would be cool It's not necessarily a horror game It's got some scary stuff in it I would just like to see the construction of the bureau

Because the The vault construction for the fallout maze I thought was like the coolest part of the thing Just to see like what the inner workings of that Looked like was just really good set design You could do kind of anything like that But I'd like to see more video game stuff. How about Nintendo dogs?

Just a bunch of little puffs. Yeah, yeah. But it's like it's fucked up. And there's a big stylist coming in and trying to tap on you. Sketches your belly. It feels pretty good. Maybe scratches your butt a little bit.

Mikey wombat writes. Hi, Mikey. The Mikey wombat. For the release of Resident Evil 7, Capcom sold blood-scented candles for a 4D experience. What scented? candle would you release to go with a game of your choice?

Wow. I kind of want to smell like the bog water in Silk Song. Yeah, that's really interesting. Just like some like sort of mossy environment. I'm not a candle guy. Is anyone else it into candles? I am. What do you do candle-wise?

Happy birthday. Happy birthday candle. That's fun. An unscended votive candle. Rosary certainly. On a paper plate. No, yeah, I'll do like a nice, like usually like I'll buy like a one luxury candle a year and burn that very slowly over the course of the year and then get a little candle to lock the scent in. Also, there's a place here in Los Angeles called Cantrip Candles, which fucking rules.

It is a Dungeons and Dragons candle store, like an unlicensed. So you can go in and buy scents if you're a DM to evoke a room. So, like, you can burn a candle that smells like an old library. You can burn a candle that smells like a forest glade. You can burn a candle that smells like a dungeon. Wow. And kind of get, like, that 4D experience into your game. Cantrip candles on Hollywood Boulevard.

Love it. I like candles enough. My wife's more into them than I am. But I don't think I'm like, I'm not averse. I just said like I'm not as into it. There's like a whole candle subculture. I feel like I stumbled upon one time people reviewing three-wick candles onto YouTube. It was just fascinated that people had hours to say about, I mean, that's people listening to this too.

People can talk about this forever. But like, it's just interesting, three-wick candles, some of these videos hours long. Yeah, I buy it. Yeah. People love the shit out of candle Yeah What was the question? What scintic candle

Would you release to go with a game of your choice? A Kingdom Hearts candle would be pretty cool, I think. If you could somehow... Salted ice cream? Oh my God, Heather. Yes. That's great. It's not like salted ice cream.

That's so good. Yeah. No, I want... Fuck, I want it. I eat the candle. I think I maybe don't understand how like candles work like it doesn't have to be how do you mean like like like like like like like like yeah and then it burns down yeah no I'm I'm more meant like like when you're talking about

a scented candle do you mean something that smells like the totality of the IP or whatever you want oh okay so we have a little bit of leeway yeah like like you could if if I wanted say I'm you know I'm playing Ghost of Yote right now. And I want like, I'm like, oh, I'm in this bamboo forest area. And it would sure be nice to have the licensed official Ghost of Yote bamboo forest-scented candle that I can burn at this area and it will smell like I'm in the game. Sure, that would be great. That being said, what I want is cooking mama?

Yeah. The candle. Oh, cool. And I want it to smell like I am baking chocolate chip cookies while playing cooking Mama. that rocks I've been just been looking through my Steam library

which includes a lot of games that we got specifically for the podcast has been browsing through this and so my answer is I'll do a leisure suit

Larry candle Oh god damn it Smells like You know what it smells like Oh yeah I'm not even gonna say it I was about to say something crazy

I mean one of the games One of his games just has the word come In the title So like That's not what I was gonna say I would have said that this next one's from Crest Sphinx

We talked about it when we did the Leisure Suit Larry episode But my favorite detail Like one of my favorite details about that fucking game In the original build I think they updated it out of it Or I mean like whatever The original like the original release on Floppy Disc back in the day

The If Leisure Suit Larry's like his goal is to get killed Or I'm sorry to get his So in the original release on floppy disk back in the day his goal is to have sex within a certain time frame and if he doesn't and the time the time limit lapses

there's a cut scene of Luce Tud Larry killing himself he's so horny that the idea of not having sex within like a 24 hour span cause him to eat a gun I mean look been there brother hell yeah

This next one's from Crest Sphinx. What's up, Crest Sphinx? And they write, I remember why I picked this. I have a story. Yeah. Specifically for this prompt. Who would you not want to do improv in front of, fictional or real? I have a very specific story I wanted to bring real quick.

I one time was doing, I did a children's, like, improv show at the afternoon at a comedy club. Wow. While Gallagher had a loud meeting in the same room. like he was talking with this like show producer I remember that I recognized from the club that I worked at and they were having just like a meeting during this show for children

I think the calculation was who cares it's just a show for kids and we were doing bad we were doing a bad job because like the kids were not interested didn't understand improv didn't know what was going on or anything but I just remember just doing a bad job with Gallagher in the back just like talking that's so funny yeah wow i like i actually have a story about this too and it is video game related

so there was a time there there used to be a use to be show called cage match um where it would be like an improv that probably still is that still exists in some form it's a very common improv thing it's where it's just like two improv teams will go up against each other and the audience will vote who who's uh who did less bad um anyway they they would there would always be like a there would be themed ones like on occasion and so there's once a video game theme theme one, which Heather, I remember you did as Link in Link cosplay, and you were just emoting the whole time. But I had a Zengueif costume that I wrangled for that.

And then my sketch group later did a show, I think I've told the story on the podcast before, my sketch group later did a sketch group, a kiss from daddy later did a show where we did a whole Christmas review. And so it was like, we're all playing the same character for the entire. show and like you know mooky blake like was playing Santa or whatever and and Alan McLeod molasses boy was playing an elf anyway my bit that I did for that is that I was the guy who lived at the North Pole um I of course the the signature North Pole Santa's workshop character Zangeev I was in Zangeev cosplay the whole time by

coincidence I didn't know this in advance um Christopher guest was in the audience watching the show like a legit like kind of like guy who could take an improviser and like give them a life yeah like a acre here and I'm just just there committed to doing like my very fucking half-assed Russian accent and doing spin punches the whole time that's yeah a nightmare yeah I would not want to do an improv show at the Republican National Convention I can think of no room more hostile uh or upset at my by my presence on stage yeah um that would be my least that would be the room i wouldn't want to play um no absolutely that's a that's a great one um and finally res dog

millionaire writes as lovers of video game music i'd like to ask what's your audio set up when playing headphones stereo setup just rodogging with their tv speakers so i love this question I have a sound bar that I like. I don't remember. I think it's just like a, it's not, nothing fancy. It's just like a, it might be like a Samsung sound bar or something. And I like it a lot. But sometimes I'll toss on headphones if I want to become more immersed.

And for that I have, I have some AirPods maxes that I really like that I'll plug into the controller or whatever. But I also have those I have those dual sense ear plugs whatever they call I can't know what they're called um earbuds but I like those

quite a bit too actually it's always a matter of whether or not they're charged or not but I sometimes prefer a wired sort of headphone plugged into the controller now for for something like that for like Ghost of Yote or something

it's so satisfying to hear close. What's frustrating me about playing the PlayStation 5 with headphones on is so often there are sound accents that come out of the controller, especially in Ghost of Biotte. Like crackling a fish when you're cooking a fish or

the strum of your Shamasan when you're playing your instrument. That being said, I like to keep my gaming private so that I don't disturb the neighbors or my wife. And so I am often playing in the Pulse elites for for sound

but I'm not I got a Sonos sound bar for some gig that I did that is my sound setup typically in the past before I had a wife

I had a 5.1 system with the speakers all the way around the house Oh nice but you know I gave up a lot of a lot of that sort of audio enthusiast stuff in part because it's not very aesthetic, in part because it is not very often that we listen to something that

loud. Yeah. So, yeah, that's my setup. Weiger, what about you? Okay, so I was just looking it up, and it's not a particularly exciting answer, but I just wanted to look up my PC speakers. Yeah, it's a classic gramophone, hand-turned. No, I have G560 Logitech gaming speakers.

They're 2.1 gaming speakers, so they've just got a subwoofer. you know, and a couple of satellites. And they're good, they're quality speakers, and they're good for PC gaming. They put out enough, like, I didn't want to do a full surround setup. And I tried a sound bar, actually, before for PC. And for whatever reason, I just wasn't loving the, you know, I think it may be just based on where I was sitting.

It was just almost like, like, the way the stereo separation was working, wasn't quite clicking for me. You were like that guy in the chair getting knocked back by the sound. So that's what I'm rocking right now. And I usually do that. I do have some, if I'm playing with headphones, I just have some Sony headphones that I use for podcasting,

but I'll just toss them bad boys on if I'm playing on the PC. If I'm playing on the, the, the, my, my, my PS5 or my Switch to, I just have a Samsung soundbar with SubWher that I use, and I'm generally playing that. But then on the, you know, if I'm, if I'm playing a PlayStation game, very often I'm also using those pulse, that same headset, because it's just a really good

headset. And, you know, you live with other people, you live in an apartment. Yeah. Other people, I called my wife, other people. You live with a partner or you live with roommates, whoever you live with, it's like, it's, you just sometimes want to be courteous, especially of like repetitive like sounds like sword slashes and gunshots

or are you losing to the same Dark Souls boss 30 times in a row Isabel hates how Silk Song sounds because I'm dying to the same things over and over is right it sucks I do have to go back and say something yeah I've seen you at Jersey mics

you're a bit of a subwoofer pretty good I liked it and it's true I saw I can't argue with that I saw that I saw that occur to Matt and him being delighted that it was happening in his own head. And it makes me happy that he shared it with all of us. I had a sub this week, and it was heavenly. What did you get?

I got a mini Italian. I only get minis. Yeah. I'm never going above the minis enough. Yeah. I'm not trying to eat a whole ass sandwich. The mini might be sufficient. Minis get the Italian?

I get a regular, and I sometimes find myself eating just half. Yeah. But here's the thing. The half sandwich, if you get it Mike's way, it's getting a little soppy. It's going a little too moist in the fridge. Yeah, you don't necessarily want. It's not necessarily the best stout. No.

I'm a bit of a subwoofer too, I guess. I'm moving them down. Oh, and if I just have like a Switch 2 or my Switch on a plane or something like that, I'm just using AirPods Maxes. Yeah, yeah. Because they just, I have them anyway, and I'm trying to travel not particularly heavy. Yeah, I can't imagine carrying more stuff Right

Every time I get a new You know a switch or something Like oh great I got to get a new case for this And that's adding space to the bag and stuff And it's a you know I like the AirPods Pro Pro Pro Pro Pro 3s For Switch and for travel Yeah sure

It feels nice Yeah Get locked in Wait no I mean the little The inserts Oh the insert okay yeah The sound cancelling pros Pro 2s pro 3s

Yeah those are the earbuds that are sound canceling Okay cool I like them nice And that's a question block And that's this week's Get Played Our producer's Richel Chan Ranch Yard underscore underscore Sard

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