Get Played - The Ayn Thor Gets Played

Episode Date: May 11, 2026

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This is a headgum podcast. Oh, I'm sorry I'm late, Matt. I'm sorry I'm late. As you can see, I'm in full traction. Yeah, it's okay. What's going on? Are you okay? I, I fucked up.

I fucked up bad. You did? Yeah. So I love this little machine in the end door, right? Yeah, yeah. I love it. It is so good. And I can't wait to talk about it.

Yeah. But I was like, what if I could fold and a half? You thought what if you could fold it in half? What if you could fold and half? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, you know, it's... Which way? Well, I tried one way and it didn't work, so I tried the other way.

That definitely didn't work. So I was like, you know, it was nice about this little device is the screens are protected when it's asleep. I was like, my screens never protected. I'll go to stop you right there. So last night, when I go to bed... You don't have a screen? Last night, my eyes are my screen. My mouth is my headphones.

I'm so sorry. So I... Last night before I go to bed, I was like, you know what? I'm going to try to close up. So I folded. I heard a crunch and a pop. Oh, God. And I was like, oh, no, the hinges don't go that way.

Yeah. So I tried the other way. And I heard a pop and a tear and a juice. And a juice. I heard a juice. Anyway, my, my, my, my Mary brings me a, hospital. Yeah. And she they said

that I'm lucky to be alive. Yeah. I don't think you're supposed to bend all the way in half. Like you could like get close like touching your toes is about as close as as the closer you can get to bending fully in half. They do it in Cirque to Salae all the time. They're folding in half. I'm so sorry. They're folding in half willy-nilly. Yeah. What it turns out you need to be trained for that. Yeah. That's not usually the first time to do it. You can't just

see a handheld video game device would say that that's should be me. Yeah, yeah, you're not typically supposed to do that. I guess I've never tried it myself. They said I, yeah, I dislodged my stomach and it is now inside my rib cage from the force of me trying to close. You have to just be more careful. I can't, you know, Nick's not here this week. I have butterfied my, my pelvis. Jesus. So when I tried to fold the back way, you tried to go the other way. Well, I tried the first way. I tried the way. I tried the way I would think we would all try. You tried to do like,

like an evil dead creature or something. I tried the first wave, like, front. Front. Head to knees. Yeah. And that's why I heard the snap and a pop.

Yeah. Then I was like, oh, okay, that was my hinges. That's not going to work. So I tried the other way. You don't have hinges. That's how I heard the juice.

Yeah. I butterflyed my pelvis on that, on the reverse fold. Heather. The bones are in the wrong. The bones are in the wrong way. They're in the wrong places now. My stomach is under my rib cage.

I, I, in the, in the force of trying to fold, I collapsed my lower intestine and it's now at the tops of my legs. I think I know what you did wrong. What? You're focusing on folding. You picked two different ways that didn't work. Right. You need to fold in. I got fold in?

You got to fold. Hold on, man. I got it right now. I'll do it right now. Oh, God. Stop, stop, stop, stop, please. You were right, man. That's the way I fold.

We emulate yesteryear and visit the future of portable devices as we discuss the Ein Thor. This week I'd Get Played. Welcome to Get Played, your one-stop show for Good Games, Bad Game. and every game in between. It's time to get played. I'm your host, Heather Ann Campbell,

along with my fellow host, he's not here. Tiger Weiger. It's been a long day without you, my friend. It's been a long day till I see you again. He's fine. I don't even know that song.

Why do I know that? Because you know it in your heart. I'll just tell you. And this is, of course, Mr. Games, the franchise, the finisher, Matt Apodaca. Hello, everyone. Hello, everyone. And welcome back to the premiere video game podcast where this week we're really excited to talk to one another about something that Matt and I share in common. But what were you about to say?

Have you seen one, if not all of the Fast and Furious movies? I've seen the one where the guys did. dead. So you've seen the one with the, that's where the song is from. It is? Yeah, I mean, yeah. So like the, um, or did you see the one after it where he's not in it? Or you saw it where he's in it.

I saw the one where he says goodbye via CG. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they, uh, they have their one last sort of race. Yeah. Uh, down PCH, I think, or something. I go different ways. And that song is playing.

And I love those movies. I love those movies forever. I, I mean, I think, so I've seen that one. Yeah. I've seen the one where they drive through skyscrapers. That's the same one. Same one. Okay, I've seen a one where they go to space.

That one's different. Okay, I've seen that one. Yeah. I've seen the first one. You should watch all. They're varying degrees of good. Is the one where they drop out of like the B-52? Is that another one?

That is a different one as well. I've seen that one too. Maybe I have seen all of them. They're great. They're really, really fun. That moment in that movie where they're driving away and they play that song, I think I cried out loud. I did too.

I was like, I cried. I cried and I'm not a... I didn't even know the guy's name. Yeah, Paul Walker. I didn't know Paul Walker's name. Yeah. And I was like... As Vindee La Pauls and Pablo.

I feel like I'm gonna die. I'm so sad about this. Yeah, it's tough. It's saying it, it's a very sad thing to happen. Brothers saying goodbye. Don't even get me started. I only got brothers.

Friends like this, and then they got to say goodbye? Yeah. That's tough. It's tough stuff. That's really hard. Because friends is brothers. Brothers is friends.

That's right. Comrade. Yeah, that's right. Comrade is friends. Yeah, yeah. Like, if you ever have to say to somebody, I'll see you on the other side, brother. There's a tear coming out of your eye. Desmond from Lost? He's all lost, right?

Is that Hand? No, that's Charlie. Okay. That's not, Desmond? Desmond is... I've seen all of Lost. Okay. Desmond is the guy who's in the hatch, actually.

Oh. And he's like the hottest person that's ever lived. Desmond is the guy who does the record and injections. Okay. And he says, I'll see it in another life, brother. Oh, it's fucking good, man. And then he dies? Uh, at some point, I think he does.

But does he die after he says that line, or does the other person die? No, he says that. That's like a refrain that he hits people with pretty often. Well, if he says that right before he dies, that's killer. That's pretty good. Yeah, it is good. What would you hope, if you had the bravery and courage to articulate like a really noble exit line, what would you hope yours would be?

I'm not shitting. Like I'm not kidding. Brave. Like if you know you're going out and you have the wherewith. Because I know in real life, mine will just be, no, please no, let me die. Not like this.

But if you could like be awesome, what would you want to say? I always think about what Credo says, I think in Ragnarok. What the fuck? First off, spoilers, I guess he's going to die. No, he doesn't know. He doesn't know. He says this as a thing.

Oh, okay. Because Freya at some point says to him something about, because I think early on in the game, they read a death prophecy. Right. Right. And Freya says something about, like, because he's asking her about it and like what the implications of it would be. I've seen all that part of the game. And she's like, oh, but I sense that you eventually dying is not what you're concerned.

is and why is that? And he says, death can have me when it earns me. Oh, man. It's fucking tight. They're in the forest when he said that. I do remember that moment. It's fucking good.

It's like right before they get to like her wedding area or something and like free her from a curse. Yeah, they're about to fling the garter. Yeah, that's what they're going to fling the garter. I think the nastiest thing they do at weddings. What? The nastiest thing they do at weddings? Fling a garter?

I just think it's so like... That didn't happen at your wedding. It didn't happen at my wedding. Or mine. We stopped, because we were like, we're not doing any of the dumb shit that people do at weddings. No, no, no. It's whack. Crawling under the dress.

What? We all know what that looks like. I have not seen that. I've seen it where like guys are like, let me find it. And it's like, okay, you're simulating, eating out your wife in front of everybody. It's fucking gross. Wait, I think you've watched a video that is not about a wedding. I feel like I've been to weddings where they're like doing that.

It's a simulation. I think you're just watching a dude. Oh, oh, I can't find it. What? Do you guys know about this? I have seen this in person. So a guy goes under a dress and then he pretends to eat out his wife and he comes out. That's not what he's actually doing.

But like it's addition by subtraction. It's sort of like a or like a A to C kind of where you're sort of like, oh, he's under the dress. Is she squatting? She's on like a chair. So, oh, so she's on a chair and he goes under the chair? Under the chair to get the garter on the leg. to then fling it out at his homie. Why does he go under the chair?

Is it like a stool? No, I'm describing it wrong. Oh, regular chair. We're just never gonna understand each other on this. Is he face up, like holding her ass? No, no, no, no. He uses his teeth. Yeah, it's his teeth.

What? He's eating her... No, no, no, no, no. No. What's happening is she's on the chair. She's seated like this. She's seated like this. Dress.

is out. Puffed out. Maybe legs up. Legs up. But not like gynecologist. Not like in stirrups or something. So legs lifted. Legs maybe to lend a hand to assist in getting the garter.

Okay. But he's like crawling under there and he's like, let me find this dancer. Hold on. Does he come in from the front or the back? Like is he sliding? Yeah, he sort of does a Danny Zuko like under the T-bird. On one of those rolling boards. Well, now it's dead serious.

Yeah, no, no, no, no. Which way did he's coming from behind or in the front? I don't want to have to act it out. Don't act it out. He's like, so he would basically be like, uh... It's an audio medium. Oh, let me... Okay, yeah, so he would be like maybe get down on one knee kind of.

Oh, in front of her. In front of her. Okay. And then maybe put the dress over and be like, where is this damn thing? Like he's delivering a baby. Kind of. But the baby is the garter. And he's going to pull off.

the garter and then he comes back out from under the dress and he's like ta-da yeah I mean you got in his teeth and he flings it as home but he's got it in his teeth you might have it in his teeth the implication being he bit it off her leg I'm just saying that's what it seems like it's weird to do that in front of your family yeah I don't disrespect if you did it at your wedding you're nasty I don't I don't have any judgment for this tradition because all marital traditions are strange yeah dancing with your parent very very strange I did not dance at all at my wedding we didn't do it at mine we had live band carrier

No dancing. No. We went straight from the ceremony to a nice dinner because our ideal paradise was sitting down. Dinner is the most important part, actually. Yeah. Okay, well. Yeah. So this is the wedding.

How did we get here? I don't even remember. We were talking about Nick in some way. No. Nick is gone and you were like, oh, we did. See you a long time since. I've seen you, my friend. Fast and the Furious.

How did we get here? How did we get to a wedding and eating out your wife in front of your family? I don't remember. I think I have to go to the hospital. In addition to Rainsping over there, we have sitting in with us a new headgum freelancer, say hi, Sean. Hi, Sean. Sean was the one that gave us the, if you were listening,

and you were like, whose voice told us that it was the teeth. That was Sean. Yeah. I saw it once at a wedding and I'm gay now, so just put two and two together. And this is why I'm trying to stop it.

We can't keep going on like this. No, it's just a strange thing. It's strange. I don't like it. It was awful. Yeah. I think a conga line is the best we can do. I bet it's a lot of this too.

No, that's worse. Yeah. I bet it's a lot of, like, the family going, woo. Yeah. Like that fake like wooing, which is really grinds my gears. Yeah, because it's like sort of like everybody's in on it.

Like there's going to be fucking later and you're like signing off on it kind of. It's sick and it's nasty and nobody should do it anymore. Yeah, like it's okay to be like woo, but if I were to be like, like you're eating her out, then like I'm in trouble. Yeah, then everyone's kicking me out of the wedding saying I ruined it. That's on video, Heather. How could you do this? We didn't have a videographer either We didn't either

We were like This is for us Did my aunt Serptitiously hold up a phone During the ceremony Even though we told everybody not to Absolutely she didn't I was at your wedding

And I did not videotape it Because we had Jacob Weisaki Tell everybody Put their fucking phones away And everybody But my aunt listened Well And but you know what

Now I've a video With the ceremony I guess that's nice Yeah Weddings are very funny But you know what else is fun What? Video Games

Video Games are fun and our co-host Nick is out of town right now. He's doing a doughboy's live show. So he's not injured. He's not sick. He's just, you know... He's just in the worst place you could be Orange County. His

hierarchy of shows is that typically the other show has to take a little precedence once and a while because it is the boy that keeps the lights on unless we're going to Japan and then he'll say, fuck you. Yes, that's right. That is true. Yeah. I didn't delay a major part of the show till later.

Everybody's mad. So if you like our show better than doughboys, figure out how to get us back to Japan. Yeah, figure it out. Figure it out. Actually, there's a lot you could be doing a little more you can be doing. The listeners aren't really holding up there into the bargain here. I think that's not true. They're doing a great job, but from my understanding, podcasters are supposed to be really rich, and I'm not really there yet.

I try to get rich. Really there. I'm not in the neighborhood of there. I'm not there yet at all. So listeners, start making me rich. Yeah. Start making us rich. This is 1-800 get played.

That's right. Yeah. So you're actually, what you're doing now is that you're being charged per minute. Your donations are helping keep us. Make the shows that matter to you. Yes. And you know what? Today we're going to celebrate that by talking about an extremely optional niche device.

I think that the people who are. who listen to this show want us to talk about niche devices. I think so. Or they would have stopped listening to me talk about Sega years ago. Well, yeah. And this is, I mean, we'll get into it. By the way, the burn last week that you guys got on me about how I was, my family and my thing was all about, we were all secondary devices. So you're teasing a future burn, actually?

Oh, this episode comes out first. This comes out. This will be out before that. Then let's cut it. You sure? Yeah, I don't want to tease a burn in reverse. It's pretty good. Stung me so much I thought thinking about it all day

We could leave this part in so we will be like, can't wait to hear what this burn is. And then you can hear the burn on patreon.com, that's just a place. Look, they're trying to make us rich. Oh, wait, is it a get Patreon? Yeah, that was on the DLC. Oh, you're right. All right. We can keep all this in that.

We can't keep all this in that. We can't say what the burn was. Yeah, it was a great burn that made me go home and think about my entire life. I felt really smart for nailing it. It was nailed. It was nailed. I don't usually do stuff like that. I went home and I was like, you know,

I joke about, about like my status as like the other type. Yeah. Like the non-mainstream type. But until you illustrated it with that burn, I was like, oh, oh, my whole life has been the other type. Yeah. And it's never, it's never because I'm not, because I'm ironically chasing something that I think is of lesser quality.

It's not like I'm super into, you know, like really, really cheap wirefoo Hong Kong movies. No, sure, sure. You know? Like, I'm chasing something I think is actually good. Yes. Like, I like minidisc because I was like, oh, man, portability, fucking form factor. Yeah. The whole thing is like a great, it's a re-recordable CD package.

Yeah. Incredible device. Nobody fucking wants a fucking mini-disc player. I have a friend in my improv group that she would always come to us. We'd like, have you seen this show? Have you seen this show? It would always be some show we've never heard of. And then they ended up being popular shows like dairy girls and like things like that.

But she was the only person that was watching them. So for a while we would say that she had different TV than everyone. It just kind of seemed like you have different TV. We don't know what you're talking about. To the point now where she'll mention a show. And even if it is like super popular like severance or something, we're like, what are you talking about? That's crazy.

That's great. Fun to have little bits. Yeah. It's fun to have bits. It's fun to have bits. With your friends. Yeah. And we're going to maybe, hey, maybe we'll stumble upon a few today.

Maybe we'll come up with some new ones today. Without Nick here, I expect this to be a serious show. Yeah, I sort of behave more when Nick's not here. Because I don't have... Your brother. Yeah, I don't have my brother in arms. You don't have the comrade. Yeah.

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really talked about them yet and we usually by this point we'd be talking about maybe games we played in the recent present. Yeah. And we would get to that by asking a question that we ask every single week. And that question goes a little something like this. Well, if I could be in my Stephen Wright bag for a second, this question doesn't go a little something like this.

It goes exactly like this. Okay. What's the question? The question is, what are you playing? What are you playing? What are you playing? I ask me the Resident Evil Merchant. and you know if you've got an empty seat

I could stay for the rest of their show That's all right Yeah no we're good resident merchant You don't have to know I can do it I could stay I can interject Wisdoms and sound bites No you know what What are you guys talking about this week

We're talking we're gonna end up talking about The Einthor handheld Yeah it's a it's like a small Amulator device runs Android I can do it No it's okay No I could do it look Oh, give me one of them.

Give you one? Yeah, give me one. No, they're extremely hard to come by, my dear. My dear. It's been a long... I want you to know, I just learned how a wedding works. And I'm really excited to get your guard or belt if that's what you need me to do. I'm already married.

Don't intend to do it again. What about you? Heather, do you want me to wed you? No, I'm all right. Thank you so much. Resident Evil merchant. That's okay. That's okay.

I feel like I got to fill for time since Nick's not here. You actually don't have to do that. We're trying to. All right. How about this? We're trying to be good. What is your favorite TV dinner dessert? Oh, recently.

The little wedge. So in a TV dinner, the little, I feel like it's typically brownie you got cobbler oh it could be cobbler you've got brownie you've got apple pipe but it's deconstruct it's decons so it's like what just the skin in a pile it's apples and then crust but they're in the wrong order so it'll be like okay yeah yeah yeah yeah what's your favorite ritch what's your favorite brownie yeah i like the brownie the brownie is probably because i think it probably is the one if you're heating up a TV dinner heats up the best.

See, Nick's not the only one that needs to talk about food is I'm just demonstrating my availability for the role. He's not the only one that needs to do it. Yeah, no. Anybody can talk about food. Anybody can talk about food. I like the cherry cobbler. What was the thing I heard about?

No, we don't have time to get into it. What is it? What? I thought I heard something recently about R of K cutting off an animal's penis or something. It was a squirrel. A squirrel, right? He cut off the penis of a squirrel. But from my understanding, from what I've seen of squirrels, they're not just out.

Let me tell you. So he had to, like, will it out in some way. He would jacked it off. That guy needs to find the line. Yeah, you know what? I would say, to be polite, he's a little bit too strange. Yeah, he's, I agree. He's like a...

He needs to pick one. Yeah, I don't approve of any of that behavior. Yeah. And I share vocalization with that guy. Yeah, yeah. I wasn't going to go there because apparently that's off-li-its. What is? Making fun of his voice.

Is that off-limits? Depending on who you ask. If I say that I sound, you know, in the neighborhood of the guy. Yeah, that's fine for you to say. That's okay for me to say. It's not fine for me to say what I would say about it. I was there first. You were there first.

But maybe he also has Laplaga. You know what? I think if any living person has it, it might be him. It might be him. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you cut off a squirrel's penis. Who knows what comes next? It was actually a raccoon's penis.

A raccoon's penis. And he wanted to study them later. Study. He's like for sure. Doing a lot of heavy lifting. He's for sure. You know what's so crazy. What?

Like, just to think about, like, um. How do we know that about that man and he still is a job? He tells people this. He tells people. You know, like, how do I explain this? JFK. JFK, blown away, what else do we have to say? I just say, like, you take somebody like him, and was he like a perfect guy?

Probably not. He probably, if he had lived, he probably would have become like an annoying president in the way they all do. But he's this sort of like platonic ideal of like the Democratic Party. And he was like this. The lady, it might not be his way. That's okay. His greatest sin is that he was horny. Yeah, he's a horny dude.

And that his head wasn't very solid. Whoa. People are mad at him for it. I think people would have been so upset if he'd been shot and nothing happened. Dink. It's not funny. But you have him and then you have his other little family members and they get worse and worse as time goes on. Hold on.

Hold on. His first brother is an enormously powerful. Positive force for change. Yes, absolutely. He gets killed. He gets popped too. Yeah, he gets popped in the 60s because he is preaching that the poor need to be represented by government. So you got those two.

And you can't have that. You got those two. They get popped. Yeah. Then after that, they get a little bit worse. Then you have the one that gets in the plane crash, handsome. Yeah. And then they just kind of like keep going on and on and on.

And now we're at this one. And we're like, he's, he fucking sucks. They like snokes. They're like snokes. He's been replicated versions too many times. Yeah, absolutely. Maybe you'll hear a little bit more about Snoke in the coming weeks. Yeah, maybe.

I think you have a question to ask me. Yeah, how is this feeling? You like this banter? I want to go back to normal. All right. Well, then Matt, I got one question for you. What are you playing? Merch, thank you so much.

I'm playing. March out! I forgot that you now have a catchphrase. Merch out. is pretty good. Of like the sort of new like, because you know, not that it's the same every week, we always get something, we always get new information from the merch. Yeah, yeah.

But the fact that he kind of debuted a catchphrase, I think last week. Was it? I think it was. And then we didn't really comment on it. But now that we've heard it a second time, he kind of just added it in on his own. I kind of like it. I think it's all right. Yeah, he didn't have to ask us.

He also third personing his own name now. The merch. I mentioned last week that I'm playing Max Payne. I always stumble slightly when I'm about to say Max Payne because I'm very close to calling it Mad Max every single time. Okay. Because very much like Mad Max, this Max is pretty upset. He's actually pretty mad.

Great. So you could call him Mad Max also, but his name is Max Payne. Right. Do you think it's short from Maximilian or Maximum? I don't, I mean, maximum pain sounds like a kind of video gamey thing. Maximilian pain does not, you'd be like, there are Maximilian pain. Yeah, that sounds like he'd be like Laura Croft's landowner.

Yeah. So I'm playing that. And I mean, I'm playing, the thing about this device that we'll get into, the Ayn Thor is that I'm popping in and popping out. of a lot of stuff Oh, okay Right, so When you were gone the other day

I was talking about Playing Wario Ware touched On the DS Yep Which I described to Nick Maybe I'll get your opinion on this If you care to share it

I think it's a perfect video game actually It's an incredible game I think of Wariaware packages It's and it's just great. It's just, it's really, really fun. Is that the one, or is it, is it the first Warrior Ware

where you have to pick a nose? Yeah, this is the one that I described to Nick because I was like, you're, you see this and then, if you guys don't know, at Ranch and Sean, it's a DS game, so it utilizes the two screens. The second screen is a bottom, is a touchscreen on the DS typically,

but the game will be on both screens and you'll have to interact with the bottom screen to progress into the mini-game. And they're like, 10 second long mini games basically. And in one of them, like a snot, will drip from the top screen to the bottom, and it'll say snippet.

And so you have to cut it, and then when you cut it, some of it falls down, but then the rest of it goes back up with the nose, and that's how you beat that game. And what I like about this version, though, is that, I mean, these games in general, these Wariaware games,

is that they don't teach you, what you're supposed to do kind of. And so you kind of have to guess what the solution is. Yeah, it'll be like jump and you're on a bike and you're like, what the fuck? And then all of a sudden a log will roll across the screen and you'll be like, oh shit,

and you press a button and then it'll be like, good job. But like because you've played video games before, they're intuitive in some way. But the DS technology was so new that a lot of them, you're like, wait, what the fuck am I supposed? Oh, okay, okay. Like there's a plate spinning one that they'll have like two

you know, long sticks and plate spinning on top of them, and they'll start to wobble, and you have to figure out which one you have to tap on the screen to get it to spin a little bit, so then you can address the other one. It's such incredible game design that I'm just like, every game should be warrior. Like, I think it should be in the conversation with, like, Tetris. Like, I think it's, like, that good. It's a great, it is a great set of games. Yeah.

And it's also great that it is, like, Spinning plates isn't funny. No. But the context of telling you to do it on a video game is funny. Yeah. It's like, it's like it'll be stuff like fix the sofa. It'll be like stuff you would never think you have to do in a video game. And the sofa will start leaning and pillows will start sliding.

Yeah. And you'll like put them back in their place and they'll be like, good job. My favorite one of these, I haven't seen all of them yet. Because I'm like burning through them. They're so fun. Because I remember I had like a sick day when I was a kid with the DS. And that was like one of the games that I had. And I just like tore through warrior wear in like a day.

I felt like so sick. But I was like I just have to do something. Right. And like just ripped through all of it. Right, right. There's one where it'll be two sort of like muscle guys. And they'll have like a like a piece of gum or like some sort of like string in their mouth. Okay.

like sort of Lady in the Tramp style. And the prompt will say tickle. And they'll be standing there. And then one of them will raise their hairy armpit. And you've got to tickle it so then they like and then like let go of the thing that they're holding their mouth. And it snaps the other one in their face. They're so stupid. How are they coming up with this stuff?

Great. I wish that was my job. I could do that all day. Come up with warrior wares. Yeah. It feels like the, um, the eggs. sketch from, I think you should leave. That's what it feels.

That's perfect. That's a warrior wear game. Now you're looking at a nude egg. The hell? So I'm doing that and I'm playing, I've been playing a lot of deep rock galactic Survivor on by Ayn Thor actually, which is a Steam game. Okay, wow.

Which we can get into that later. That's a game I know Nick really likes two, but I hadn't played it since it released in 1.0. so there were some changes made to it. Okay. And that to me is like a game where like TV's on. I'm just doing that. Because it's like a, it's like vampire survivors,

but you're like mining for materials also. So you're like going around and they're killing a bunch of big alien bugs and stuff and you're just moving. And then you're upgrading weapons as you go along and it's so, so fun. Okay. And then you get experience points

and those are like populated on screen as like light blue like balls and then you get them and then you can upgrade the weapons and you're kind of just like well this is all video games need to be actually I don't need much else just movement and fun and I love it that's great and you can upgrade your movement speed

to pretty fast actually not fast enough probably probably not fast enough but from where you start to where you can end up you're zoom in I watched a speed run of Sonic Frontier's first boss. Yeah. And it just looks like a Dragon Ball anime.

It's like there's no, it's just pure kinetic energy and it was so beautiful. I should have recorded my speed run of putting it in and turning it off. Unbelievable. Unnecessary. Heather, what are you playing? My month of Pokemon continues. And I've hit a wall in the card game pocket. This last season just ended.

And I've hit Masterball the last four seasons, I think, three seasons. And this time I didn't get past Ultra 2, which is then I would have to progress through Ultra 3 and Ultra 4 in order to hit Masterball. I hit, like, I have all of the cards necessary to make all of the decks. I'm following leaderboards. I'm making decks that, you know, are the meta of the current season. And I could not break down through. it was either tremendously bad luck because it's also,

it's not that complicated a game to play. Like you know what your strategy is with any particular deck. Uh-huh. Fucking got killed. And so next season, because they also start you two levels below

where you began. So this season, I started at Ultra 3 and I lost my way to Ultra 2. Hmm. Like didn't even win enough to stay in Ultra 3. So next season,

I'm going to start below, ultra ball, which I haven't even seen for like five or six months now. And that's humiliating. It's humbling. Question for you. Yeah. Not to jump ahead. But because this is an Android device, the a ain't the work. I could play it on the... You could play it on there because it's in the Google Play Store. You thought about giving that a go. No, because I really like the fact that it's on my phone all the time. I know that you can play Slay the Spire 2 on this thing. Yes. Which is nuts. Yeah, really crazy. That's a game that Nick plays on a iPad. I've been thinking about getting Marvel Snap on there, but I can't do it. I can't.

You can do whatever you want. No. Magic the Gathering Arena? No. So I'm playing, you know, Pokemon in the card game pocket and losing, which is just real humbling. Got to get back, I got to get my brain around this next deck that just launched today. A new booster. Got to figure it out. I continue with Pocopia. I am now at level nine on Bleak Beach. I don't remember. remember where I was the last time I recorded. Matt, I'm beginning to worry that I'm, like, detrimentally addicted to Pocopia in the way that, like... I saw you Googling how to get the ditto eye surgery. I want it.

I want to look like ditto. So, Doc, what I'm looking for is I want them over here. I want them wide and small. Can you make them wide and small? So, but like, because you told us that you finished that you rolled credits and then you told us the story. Yeah. And I was like covering my eyes because I thought it was going to cry when you're telling it. It's incredible story.

So now in post game, you just have to. So there's 300 Pokemon to find. I've found about 165. Yeah. So I still have a substantial amount of the polodex to fill out. I've heard that if you finish the polka deck, something else happens. There's also rumblings of DLC.

I'm like, this game is going to fucking ruin me. Yeah. I don't. So when I used to play Fortnite, and notice I just said used to play. I used to play Fortnite. So I still play Fortnite, but Pocopoe is in the way. When I played Fortnite at like the height of Fortnite addiction,

if I played something else, I'd feel like I was wasting my time because I wasn't playing Fortnite. Yeah. Now, if I play anything but Pocopia, I'm like, well, this is a waste of time. Yeah. I understand. I don't need the story of this PSP game that I've never played because I should be building

buildings for the fucking Pokemon in Pocopia. And then also deeply inspiring, if you follow any of the Pocopia social media stuff, you're looking at people. There's somebody who's built a one-to-one recreation of Shinjuku, like skyscrapers. That makes me want to throw up. I love it. It's not for me.

There are people who've figured out how to make the water float. There are people who've made machines in it. Yeah. Like functional machines. There's somebody who's made an automated farm. So you just go up and you press a button and it automatically cycles through all of the food and brings it all to a central location so you can suck it all up.

It's like you'll see people who have created. like, you know, family marts and like restaurants and one-to-one recreations of their favorite bar. And it's like, man, I am only at the surface of what I can do with this game.

It's the same thing that was happening with Animal Crossing and in a large degree Tears of the Kingdom, too, where people were like building machines and stuff in that or like jets and whatever. I'm just like what about playing it normal.

I saw a meme that was, you know, how it feels to go back to animal crossing after Pocopia. Yeah. And it was just a plate of white rice and plain chicken. That's like, yeah, man. Because there are prefabs in Pocopia. Yeah. So if you want to go the Animal Crossing route, you could just play it as Animal Crossing.

Yeah. But you could also build whatever you want. wanted in your entire life. I have to get back in there. I'm going to try and build a block that's Amsterdam is my next goal. Okay. Like I want to build a canal and then I was like the buildings in Amsterdam are sort of blocky at the top.

So to look, I can make a very Amsterdam-esque strip of and see if I can build out like a canal street. The enormity of the game is staggering to me. Yeah. Because even if the game was just that one first area, I'd be like, hey, you know what? This is pretty good. Yeah.

This is nice. Yeah. But the fact- You haven't even opened up all the areas, have you? No, I think I've opened up two additional ones. Dude, there is a fucking area that is hypnotic. Yeah. That I don't want to spoil for you because when I got there, I was like, whoa, wow.

Is the Pokemon Hypno walking around? No, hypno is not walking around. I like him. The one that's walking around in the area is Tinketan. Is that? The little. The one with a hammer? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So that one is already there when you open up that area. And she's done some great work. You know what? I'll be the judge. Yeah. So I got to get back in there. I love seeing there. You showed us one yesterday, a screenshot of Charmander saying, I tripped.

And it made us all sad. It's great game. Great game. Sean, do you play any games? I do play video games, yes. Yeah, what kind of games do you play? I'm a big rogue-like person. Okay, yeah.

Or a deck builder, give me a deck builder. So I've been playing a lot of Slay the Spire 2 recently. Okay. On like Ascension 8 with most characters. Wow. It's been taken over my life in that regard. Nick's a huge Slate Aspire guy, but if he was here, he'd be, you'd have more interesting questions about it. Yeah, he'd have follow up.

Yeah. He's not. So I don't know what we're going to do. But my friends have also been getting back into Fortnite. And so I've been also kind of being forced back into Fortnite as well. Fortnite's a great game. It is, except I play it on the Switch 1 in my room that has really bad Wi-Fi. You're low-pink bastard.

So it's basically, it's truly like I'm playing like texturless. I'm shooting into white void most of the time. I'll shoot and then the person will be already on me. shotgun when they were like leagues away. So I'm playing on hard mode for sure. Wow. And I was not good to begin with. That's tough.

That's really tough. Ranch, have you gotten any further in your replaying of Hollow Night? I have not yet beat Coliseum 3. Okay. I'm about to delete it off of my Steam deck because I'm so pissed off. Yeah. So then I'll try a little bit of Coliseum 3, a couple tries, and then I'll get mad and go back to Tomodachi life.

I was going to say, has anything else progressed with Tomadachi life as far as your relationship with Gerard Way? I have finally been able to force us to be crushing on each other. Wow. He's not yet asked me to move in with him. That's tough. So I am waiting for that. And I'm also waiting to get married. Apparently, you can have babies.

Yes. I've seen this as well, too. Speaking of that, so on my island, it was kind of a slow burn. try to get my character the me that I made of me had a crush on my wife that was not

reciprocal right away it said I had that I was crushing and that Isabel saw me as a good friend which was brutal but then I added Hideo Kojima to my island

and that he also had a crush of my wife Oh no! Then Hideo and the me that I made of me became like best friends And so these two best friends, there's drama on my island. Wow.

These two best friends had a crush on the same girl. But guess who has a crush on little old Maddie? Uh, my wife. Hey. My wife's got a crush on me now. That's great. Pretty good. That's great.

So we'll see if it happens. Woof. Yeah. Lucky. Really funny game. Yeah. Really, really funny. I wasn't here for your record.

I did, you know, play the game for a bit. And, you know, I told you guys, I named my island, CIA Island. and I had everybody talking as if they were in a sci-op. And, you know, it would be like, do you want to talk about overthrowing governments? Yeah, I love to talk about overthrowing governments. What is your favorite part of overthrowing governments? It's like that all the time.

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It is got a 6,000 MHA battery and varying degrees of you know

game intensity based on your build. It looks like a DS or a 3DS and is the first serious

dual screen Android emulating device. Yes. And so it is because

extremely popular because it can emulate both 3DS with HD textures and regular DS with any sort of upgrade packs you want too. And to note, two things to know. One. We bought these. We're not doing like SpawnCon. What is Sponsored content? Like we're not like we're just talking about this as enthusiasts because we like it.

Well, it's, it is such a pervasive machine right now in this. moment, that it feels like we're talking about the release of a game system. Yes. Like it is the number one most popular emulating handheld right now. Yeah. The second thing I want to know is that since ordering mine, I ordered it back in February. Because I got nervous because they had posted that in the coming. waves that they would be increasing the price.

And since then, they've increased the price, I think, two more time. Yes. So there's been three price increases since I got mine due to the RAM and the RAM shortages. Right. Like people need to, you know, render boobs on Winona Ryder. Yeah, yeah. So they're like, oh, what if they were even bigger? What if I was, what if I looked like family guy? What if, oh, man, what if you took this anime girl, Grok, and you put her inside of a nude bikini?

Yeah, or what if I was on a movie set where they were filming a Dragon Ball Z live action movie with Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, the Rock, all these guys. And they were like happy to see me. What if that happened? You fucking loser? I think that there's... Bullying needs to come back, I think, unfortunately, in a significant way. I think there's probably creative applications of AI. It's just that right now it's in the toddler stages and everybody is still like clapping their hands because they fit the block inside of a block.

Yes. And it's like at some point somebody will build something with it. But until that happens, it can't even count. I think there needs to be... Like it literally can't count. Like a moratorium on idiots using technology until it's ready for everybody to use it. Because these are the people that are using it first, people who are uncreative and uninteresting. Well, it's also interesting, you know, as long as we're doing this sidebar, when the internet first dropped, the barrier of entry was that it was difficult to do.

Like to explain the language of HTTP, to build your own website involved. actual coding to get an old computer online with a modem and like to articulate that process to yourself was a was a high bar of entry like that was not something that my mom was like oh I want to do this yeah whereas with AI you can just see this little the little prompt and you can just say what if my butt was big and it can do do it. Yeah. And then it's done.

And now we're draining legs because now I have a big ass in a picture. I wish that it would become conscious so that it could be like, no. No, I'm not doing that. That's a whack. Get off, you corny weirdo. I have a family member in a family group chat that will take a photo that, you know, was put in the family group chat and then run it through. grok or some shit to make it like it's a video and we're dancing and it's always horrific and I'm always the first person in there to be like you're a loser like this sucks I hate it and everybody

laughed what's weird to me about the like constant like the the the drive to make it make pornography yeah is that there is literally infinity pornography now yeah like it's not like we live in a puritanical world where you can't go online and search for anything you could conceive of. Yeah. It's specifically they're like, no, I want, I want to see a girl. Like you could Google for the things

that they are trying to make. Yeah. And find it instantly. It's weird. I think there might be some element of, like a sort of new level of misogyny happening there, though where there might be like a like, you know,

I want it to look a little bit fake so that they're actually I'm not jacking off to a woman. Maybe. I'm now jacking off to this completely artificial being and I don't have to deal with the sex work aspect

of it at all. I do wish that that was like I wish that that went all the way so that these guys were like what I'm really jacking off to is photon. Like what I want is a specific pattern of light Yeah To get my dick hard

Yeah, it's so crazy Because I didn't think it's like I am now devaluing A human woman Yeah Out of this experience And I'm replacing her with a creation of my brain Because what's better than what I could come up with Me a man

You know what I mean? It's so whack So that's the reason that Ein Thor has gotten expensive Yeah And I think it's gone up by like I think almost $200 at this point. It went up the day after I bought mine because you've been talking it up for a while

and I'm looking at it and I keep texting the thread like should I get it? Should I get it? I don't need this. Maybe I do need this. And that's how I was before I got it. And then I was like, you know, it's probably going to get more expensive. Everything is getting more expensive on the tech front. I'll just buy one used on eBay. And lo and behold

got mine the next day. Yeah. FedExed. And it was the same, now the same price is a brand new one. Yeah. Which is also got a long line. Like if you, if you buy one now, it's got like a three month wait or something. Yeah, you'll get it in the late summer. But boy, oh boy, what a delight the device is.

Yes. And as with all emulators, the first game that you play on an emulator is set up the emulator. Yes, absolutely. And I should note that we both have them sitting next to us very patiently. Let's talk about our stylus. Okay. Because you'd said, oh, I like your stylus. I'm jealous of your stylus.

Yeah, I'm going to get yours, I think. So this is the official Nintendo Switch stylus. Yeah. It is kind of a heavy metal item. Yeah. Wait. Does this cap come off? You've got one that looks like a pen.

Mine has a couple of different things. You could swap out some of the heads, and then you can remove, you can unscrew part of it, and there's a separate, there's another tip as well. Holy shit. And then the other, like a Swiss Army knife. Yeah, and then the other one is a pan, actually. Wow.

The most useless part of it, I think. All right. Well, I like your stylist. I think you did a good job. I like yours, too. I like yours because it's a little bit smaller. Yeah, mine is, mine looks like Nintendo, you know, would make this. What I find really interesting about it, it has a slight protrusion.

Protrusion? on the end of it, which implies to me that you would slide it into something and it would lock. Yes. But what does Nintendo make that does that? Why is there a Switch that in theory, a Switch pen,

an official, not like Nintendo license, an official Nintendo Switch pen that has a divot in it that looks like it would lock it in place inside of a Switch. They're playing 4D chess. They're fucking with us.

I got this one, though, to match the aesthetic of mine. It's a white one. I have the white Ayn Thor. I thought it would just go a little bit better. I've thought about installing something on the lid of mine to hold my stylus in place. That is the issue is that because it doesn't have a built-in slot for it, you are going to be carrying around a few different things when you're bringing it places. But that so far is the only complaint I have about it.

You got the entire accessories kit. You got the case for it. Yeah, mine came with a sort of like plastic clear case that goes on it on the outside of the clamshell. And it has a hole for the vents, which is helpful. And then I also have a hard shell case for it that zips up. I don't have that with me. I have like a little. It also came with a bag and a lanyard.

So like I have like a little pull string bag that I put this, I put it in. in when I'm putting it in like a travel to go sort of situation. And you also got the white one, which looks very, very D.S. light. Yes. A very nice color way. And it also came with a grip to give it more of a controller. Do you have the grip with you?

I didn't bring the grip. That's too bad. Because it didn't fit in my, it didn't fit in my little purse. Whereas mine is the Famicom color way. Yes, it was very nice. Super Famicom color way. With rainbow colored buttons and a slightly gray. cassette futurism

aesthetic to the outside of the case. Yeah, your preferred computer color way. It is, it is. Look how similar. Yeah, that's really good. It's pretty good. I have a Macintosh phone case and the colors are in the same neighborhood. Yeah, it's indefinitely the same family. Get me this fucking beige gray

on every device in my life. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Headphones in beige gray. You want to work at Lumen. You want to work at the severance. No, Lumen is too gray. A two gray.

Lumen is gray and blue. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And I want beigeish gray and orange. I see, I see. Orange is the color way of the cassette futurism of my love. Well, maybe they'll have a, maybe they'll do it. Maybe they will.

Season three, give us beige. This thing, yeah, so as mentioned, there are two screens on it. Both are touch screens. Yep. And it can There's different ways To go about setting it up Which I think is fun because like it comes with a stock Android OS

That you can use out of the box Based not use out of the box But you could use it like that and be completely fine Yeah you could set it up essentially like an Android phone Yes Because it's also wireless You could download your emulators from the Google Play app store And you could run the machine like that

Or you can re-skin it. with a new front end, which is something that both Matt and I did, and I think a lot of the community has been doing. Yes. With the most popular front end being cocoon. Yeah. There are enormously helpful setup videos. I'm going to shout out, is it retro GameCore?

Retro GameCore. Has an incredible setup video. I've watched a lot of his videos. I don't know him, but I know him by first name, Russ. I've watched a lot of his setup videos. and I'll watch a lot of his videos when I'm getting excited about maybe getting one of these damn things.

He does great work. Yeah. And like this, the setup video for this is two hours long and he's going painstakingly through all the steps and like what you need to do. He's, he avoids the sort of more

gray areas of setting up a device like this. Yeah. But he, like he won't, this thing can emulate the switch. Yes. which for me is unnecessary. Because I have a Switch. Yeah.

I have a Switch too. And if I want to play Switch games, I can just play them on the Switch. Yeah. And I'll say I did set it up and I was like, you know what? Let me see what it's like to do my favorite Super Mario 3D World. And it doesn't feel as good for some reason. I think there is like a sort of a latency that you don't get on a Nintendo product. So I'm like, I'm going to probably just uninstall that stuff honestly because I'm like,

it's not even, I'm not even, I'm not, that's not what I'm here for. Right. Whereas with the older systems, you can actually create, you can run the emulators several frames ahead of your input so that you're in, so that any microscopic lag that might occur when playing the, older games has been eliminated by technically running the machine ahead of where you are actually playing. So Sonic, for me, always my first test case, Sonic feels exactly like Sonic on the on the device. Whereas I think there's still some lag on the switch version of Sonic 2. Wow. Like I think that there is a nearly imperceptible button lag because I'll play it on my CRT and then I'll play it on the switch.

And I'm like, it just doesn't quite feel exactly the same. Yeah. And on this feels exactly the same. The game I tested on it first, because I kind of knew that it could run anything. We both have the, the Max versions, I believe. Yeah, Max Pro or whatever. Yeah, that have the highest specs. Yeah.

So my understanding with that, I was like, well, this is going to basically run anything I want. It can run Steam games. Yes. Like legit Steam games. Yeah. And so I was like, okay, I want, because I have a bunch of things like this. Yes, you do. I mean, one, I have a bunch of DSs that are regular that I've modded.

I have the analog pocket, which I think is different enough. You can emulate stuff on it, but I think it has a different use case. Yep. I have a retroid pocket that is a handheld emulator device And I have two Anbernik devices that are also emulator devices What are the names of the little guys in Eldon Ring That sound like Ambrick but aren't Abernix? Oh

Because every time I hear Ambernik, I think Albinicks, right? I know what you're talking about. Are they little pots? No, they're like a guy with like an alien head and they just kind of shuffle around and don't do anything, they're in the area with the trumpet players. Or maybe they play the trumpet.

Albineric. There it is. Albinarek. Albinarek. Al-B-B-I-N-A-U-R-C. That's always what I think of when anybody says the other word. Eldon Ring? That's good shit.

Yeah. We haven't even talked about that they're making the movie. Yeah. Looks cool. Peter Serafenowitz is in the cast list. Do you think he's the loathsome dungator? I don't know what. He's too tall.

for that. He's too tall. He's fucking big. He's a big dude. He might be too tall. Nah, he's great. But anyway. So, what was I saying? You were testing it on, I guess, a resource intensive game. Well, because I was like, I got into these handheld

emulator ones, because, like, obviously, the Anbernik ones have a specific use case, too, where, like, they're designed to be, like, as, you know, Game Boy Advance SP or, a Game Boy Advanceer those are the ones that I have. Yeah.

But they could run up to like PS2 but like they don't have analog sticks so I'm like I'm not really trying to do that right on here. But the Retroid Pocket one did have analog sticks and I was like I want and that one that one was now that one's like two or three years old

or something now maybe maybe and they iterate on these things really really fast. Yes. And I was trying to run some games on it that just didn't really work. And even setting him up on my Steam deck, I was like, ah, it's kind of a little too much to set up on a Steam deck kind of.

The first game I played on this thing was Beautiful Joe for the GameCube. Oh, nice. Because I was like, that game has a specific rhythm, and I'll know if it's off immediately because it's just all punching and kicking, and it's fast. Right.

So I boot it up, and there's no issue with it at all. Yep. And then I'm just kind of like, locked into playing that for like an hour and it was kind of like this fucking rules. I love this game so much. Yep. One of my favorites from being a kid. And I had to get back

to it because that's the thing. I've been popping in and out of stuff because like now then that was like the first thing I set up because it was like kind of one of the easier there is a... I have not yet set up GameCube because I'm of course Sega forward. So the first thing I did was set up

every Sega system. Yes. Which also is sad because it has an end date. Like you can set up every Sega system Yeah, you were done long before me And it's like, well, that's all of them Yeah That's, they're done. Yeah. And then I set up The DS, I set up Super Nintendo. I set up

You know, like I set up the other systems But like my first priority is You know, I gotta set them all up I have to do it. I haven't set up any Sega On mine because I need That's insane to me I know, but because like I didn't grow up with Sega and the only Sega stuff that I've played is like has been ported or you know stuff

we've done on the show yeah so I'm gonna need the wrecks I'm gonna need like great what you're gonna have to tell me what what to do I also set a PSB it runs wonderful on it I didn't have that much PSP on mine because I didn't I didn't I had a PSP that I didn't play that much that I only played a couple of games on so I have those but I didn't like I didn't go too deep into the library I have a lot for The amount of space I have on here, it would seem like the one that I got was maybe overkill. Well, I also, so when we first got the machines,

I made the mistake of putting every Super Nintendo game, every Game Boy Advance game, every, like, every Genesis game. Like I put all the library, the entire libraries on the thing. And part of the setup is also scraping for artwork, scraping for titles, organizing your library. And about a week into it, I was like, this is stupid. I'm never going to play Ken Griffey 92. Right.

And every time I open the app in order to look through a Genesis library, I'm looking through a thousand baseball games. I'm never going to play. Right. So I cleaned the entire system out and then rebuilt a curated library. So I have about 500 games on the system right now. And that's curated. That's deeply curated.

Okay. That's like top 50 of each system. Okay. Yeah. Or 32X's entire library. Because yeah, I, I, because did you, um, did you install stuff straight onto the system or did you, like, do an SD card into a computer? I did SD into a computer. Okay.

I figured I had enough space, like on the device. So everything that I installed, I did natively. on the thing. And it took fucking forever. That's insane to me. It took a long time. No, I followed the Retro GameCorp guide, downloaded the file structure that he, that he offers. Because he's like, hey, why not make a library that you can then use on any device in the future?

And I was like, that's great. And I made my library on my home laptop and then installed it to this. And I was like, I don't need 15,000 games. on this machine, I'm never going to make my way through it. So then I cleaned it all out and rebuilt. And then I'm going to copy and save the curated library that's here back onto my computer at home. Okay, great. Because I also run, what is it, emulation station on my computer at home.

Yeah, I was going to do that. But I was like, I'm going to buy a fat, like, a, micro USB. what's called micro SD cards when it has a terabyte of space on it I was like I'll just do it like this but because of that mine is extremely curated like because I like spent the time

to be like well what games am I gonna play on here like what what are the games that I would want to emulate or like have available to me at any given time so like mine is like it's a smaller library than yours certainly but it has stuff on it that I'm like I'm gonna like I'm gonna play Kingdom Hearts too

on this thing for sure And like I will complete it. Like I'll play it at some point and all the way through on this device. I've only downloaded three PS2 games. The other thing that I'm doing in terms of curation is that I am leading with games that are either translated that have never been translated before. Yeah. So for example, my PSP lead game right now is a Gundam game that never came out in the West. All of the menus are translated.

All of the buttons are translated. The dialogue is an original Japanese. It's a third person fighting game. Whoa. So, like, not fighting, but, like, you are third personing a mech. You choose from a menu of mechs. And then you go out onto a field and you kill people. So I choose Char.

And you're fighting against other eras of Gundam. Okay. Which is really cool. But it's also playing the original 1970s theme song because I'm Char. Yeah, yeah. Feels great. Yeah, that's awesome. So I'm, I'm, most of my curated library is a lot of stuff I've never had the opportunity to play.

Or games that I love that I've had, like I've found undubbed copies of them. For example, Final Fantasy X, which I've talked about on previous weeks, or the world ends with you where the voice acting in the actual release is like, shut up. I hate this. Yeah. I don't want to talk to anybody. And then in the Japanese one, it's like, Uru Sai. It's just like, you know, clean, regular, normal talking. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

It's, yeah, so that's a lot of my library of stuff I haven't yet played ever. That's very interesting. Or Shenmu, undubbed. Mm-hmm. Yeah, let's fucking go. So, yeah, I have DS, 3DS, GameCube, PlaySt, to Game Boy Advance

and PlayStation and PlayStation and that's about it but then I have I installed an app called Game Native which is

I was able to then from there to log into my Steam account and download games natively from my Steam library and like

I was I did a little research and was like okay it's not like it's not as powerful as a Steam deck but

it can it can do it can do the types of games that I play on Steam that are like overkill where the Steam deck is a little bit overkill Right. Kind of like you know your your ball pits Or your Balatro or You know what I've been playing the

Deep Rock Galactic Survivor Well what makes it more attractive than the Steam deck to me Is just the form factor yes it's the size of a portable device The Steam deck when it came out we were like This is the largest thing I've ever held. Yeah, yeah. It is still an enormous machine. I could do a kickflip with it.

Yeah, you could ride it like a skateboard. Get ruined really quick. This feels like it's supposed to be a portable device. This feels like what the next DS would feel like. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like it feels very premium because that's another thing that this one has over the Anbernik devices or the retrohead pocket device that I have is that those feel like toys.

Right. still cheap. This feels extremely premium. It's dual OLED screens. Yes. So it's also very shiny. Yeah, very shiny. Now you talk to me about front ends and you said, what's going on with your front end? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, let me tell you

what I've got installed on mine. I have, on mine, I have Master System. Also, my games are, my systems are organized by release of system date. So I have Master System, Game Boy, Game Gear, Super Nintendo, Sega, Sega, CD, Sega 32X, Sega, Sega,

PlayStation Dreamcast PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance Nintendo DS and PSP Okay, and so do you have those Those are just tiles Like you could click on that tile and play the game Or those are folders? No, these are folders

Okay, so that's why yours is like that So inside my folder I have all of my The Top 50 Super Nintendo games I've been thinking about Sort of redoing mine Because I do like the idea of the folders But I have all of mine out

like a DS menu or a 3DS menu where I can click on any of the tiles on here and boot one and start playing the game. I think unfortunately my library is just too big to accommodate that. Yeah, for sure. But I also really like, so I'm running cocoonix as my front end on Cacoon.

Yeah. Which is a skin that you can then download from inside Cacoon, has this gorgeous museum-like display tiles for all of the games. So, for example, if you hover on Sega CD, it'll show up at the top, Sega CD art, the Sega CD logo, and then it'll say the Sega CD plays CD-based games and adds hardware functionality such as faster, central processing unit, and graphic enhancements like Sprite Scaling and Rotation.

It lists the era that it came out. So it's 1993, and then the main benefit of CD technology was greater storage. But if you click on PlayStation, it'll be like 1994. Like, it'll show a highlight game also. So for like the PlayStation, it's Castlevania Symphony of the Night. If you hover over Super Nintendo, it's Chrono Trigger in really gorgeous splash art. Yeah. It's, it looks like it's a real thing.

It looks real. Like that looks like it's a real device It doesn't look I'm showing it I'm showing it to our producers It looks like a real device Yeah I have I'm running with the theme Float UI OLED And it just kind of shows like if I'm hovering over a game

It shows the game like on the top screen In like a big in a big way So you can see what it is So you can effectively look at the top screen And then Not really pay attention to the bottom screen. That's gorgeous. Yeah.

Dragon Quest 9, Sentinels of the Starry Skies, undubbed. It's, what's really cool about it to me, though, too, is that, like, on a DS or a 3DS, even, you know, there is, it's, the screen is not the full size of the, of the machine. Like, it'll be, like, the screen is part of it, and then there will be, like, usually, like, a bezel of some kind, or, you know, it'll be built into something. holding the screen and the screens will be similar size. The top screen is the whole thing is screen. Yeah.

And if you install widescreen, like widescreen adaptive emulators on certain 3D games, it will also fill that top screen in a way that the original game was unfilled. So for example, if I'm playing Final Fantasy 12 undubbed, you can see the entire top screen will be widescreened because apparently there was a widescreen mod for that game. Wow. But if I don't like, if you don't want to force the games into a widescreen mode, you can also play them for three. The thing about mods in this thing is that like, that's sort of like where I tap out.

Oh, really? Because like I kind of want to just play the games. Like if there's any sort of like friction, I'll just try to find a way to play the game. But like setting up like, I know that you can set up like, show. shaders for or there's a um there's a um matt you didn't you didn't set up are your shaders i don't think i did no um matt the shaders looks so beautiful on a lot of them i was kind of like matt hold on man it looks good enough to me like i'm playing max pain on this thing and it looks fucking awesome matt um but the um on the 3DS one you can upscale them you can upscale the resolution

it kind of looks like what the Switch games look like which is kind of like polished but shitty and the 3DS kind of like makes the thing chug a little bit Matt look at how beautiful

no yeah that's really nice Matt look at that how far do you think you're going to get into Final Fantasy tactics advance was what you're showing would be on the screen this was of course the very first Game Boy advanced game that I downloaded it is also the game that when I

started up the system to show off the shader it was already in And because also there is a function on the device where you can save your state and auto load it when you close out a game. Yes. So instead of having to wait for a save point, you can just like, oh, the next time I pick this up, I'll be where I am. I'm never going to beat this fucking game, man. Well, it's funny because when I was installing Game Boy Advance stuff on it, you know, I just got that Game Boy Micro in Japan. Yeah.

And I'm kind of like, am I going to play Game Boy Advance things on this? Probably not, right? Like, I have the Everdrive cartridge. I have that. It's gorgeous. But I wish there was like a, I wish there was like a device. I'm inventing something. I'm in my inventor bag for a second, if you will.

I'm sort of like Wayne Zelensky in this way. Okay. I don't know who that is. From Honey, I Shrink the Kids. Except I'm not going to invent a shrinking machine and ruin my family's life. I'm not going to make the baby really big. There's a fucking TV show right now called miniature wife or something like that. I can't get into it.

And I was like, first off, how could you not call this, honey, I shrunk you? That's fucking perfect. Honey, I shrunk you. When I heard about this miniature wife shit, I was like, this is like one of those shows my friend watches. Like, what the fuck is that? Some quibby-ass show. There's probably, like, talented people that work on it. And there's talented people on the show.

Matthew McFadden, Elizabeth Banks? Yep. Good stuff. fake ass show. It doesn't seem real to me. Sorry. But maybe it's great. Maybe it's great.

What were you about to say? I'm inventing a device. Before you do. I'm in my Wayne Zelensky bag. Just add, just do this for me. I'll do the textures. Just do LCD shader for Game Boy or, or, NDS games.

And then do scan line, plain scan lines for the older games. And it'll tell me where to put it. What? It'll tell me like in the folders where to. Put what? Huh? Because I have to download like a patch or something. No, they're all there.

They're already in an emulator. They're already in there. I do it within the emulator. All you have to do is click on the shader. I'm thinking of this one, this resolution pack for Pokemon, um, Ultrasun. No, because Ultra Sun runs a little shittily. Like it runs fine, but there's like a thing you can add to it. That's the stuff that I'm talking about where I'm like, I'm not going to do all that.

Yeah, I'm not doing any of that. Yeah, that seems like a little too much. Or like adding cheats or something. I'm like, I can't, I'm not doing anything. Just add scam lines. I'll add scan lines. And add LCD shaders. I'll do it.

That's it. I'll do it. It's my promise. Don't, you don't need to, like, there's a lot of like CRT emulation stuff on this. Yeah. That'll like make the screen slightly rounded like you're looking at an old 1970. Don't do any of that shit. Yeah.

But you do need scam lines because, you know, as we talked about in last week's episode. Yeah. Like a CRT had built in features that would. soften the sprites. And if you're just looking at the raw sprite art, you're looking at the paints instead of the painting. Incredible. I want, my device doesn't make any sense.

I don't know why I'm even going to say it. What is the device? What is it? I want to be able to have like an emulator device like this, but then have like a Game Boy Advance cartridge with like Wi-Fi that then I could send my save on a device like this. to the cartridge so that I could put my save in progress on the cartridge and if I wanted to use like an actual device. Like if I wanted to put the cartridge in a Game Boy like the Game Boy Micro and continue my game from the emulator. I'm sure there must be a way to do it with the emulation technology.

I think you can do it. Yeah, because I haven't. I'm working with an SD card, but it kind of seems like it might be a little above my pay grade. I want to be able to just send it. Couldn't you use Everdrives that have SD card slots? Yeah, that's like what I have. And then you would save the game on your SD card and then put it in your Everdrive. I think so.

And then the save would already be on your Everdrive when you put the cart into your Game Boy Advance? Yeah, that's already, I think three too many steps. Okay, great. I want to be able to like click something. Okay. and have it like have like a light sort of like indicate that it got sent over.

For a human being who spent two hours setting up the device minimum up to like I took I took two weeks to set up my my wife was getting mad at how much time I was spending on this fucking thing. Also my wife my wife was like what are you playing and I'm like I'm still setting it up

and she was like what does that mean? And I was like I gotta set it all up first. I got told I was too addicted to the game. The game. Yeah, and I was like, baby, I'm not even playing. I'm just setting it up. And I would like come in when I'd be so proud when I troubleshot something, got it to work.

And I'd be like, hey, look, look, so these are, the voices in this. Yeah. Were originally, I could only play it in English and now I can play it. And she'd be like, that's great, baby. Yeah. And then she would like, the light would leave her eyes. and she would look back at her laptop to keep working. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, when I start saying stuff like that, my words have Medusa powers, and they turned my wife into a stone statue. By the way, I should say that all of the undubbed and translated ISOs for these games or the bin and Q files, all of that's all already done. Like, you don't have to apply any hacks or cheats.

You just get the undubbed or translated version. I don't think that we should say, say how to do that? No, no, no, no. On the show? Yeah. Just that you can do it. You can do it in the same way.

You could take coffee to your room. You could take coffee to your room. Yes. And that would be a great thing to do. Take coffee to my room? When I'm at home, I don't do that. What does that mean? You're already in technically your room.

Yeah, but your room, like your bedroom is like separate. Oh, you don't bring coffee to your bedroom? Neither do I. I don't typically, I'm not bringing any food in there. I don't like food in my bedroom. No. I like to close, my door is in close proximity to the kitchen.

I'm closing the door, so I'm not getting food stinking there. That being said, if my wife is having kind of a sleepy morning, I'll make her breakfast in bed. I'll come in with a tray. Yeah. I'll give her breakfast in bed.

She can eat in there. Yeah. But I don't like eating lying down. No. It's confusing my body. Yeah. It's also, I think, dangerous. But she's like, oh, thank you so much.

drink her tea and read a little book or something. Yeah, yeah. And I'll sit there all proud. Like, I'll be like, how's that croissant? She'd be like, that's a great. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Hey, do you want to see my LCD shader? And she'll be like, light leaves her eyes. Yeah, sure, baby. I think I'm going to go back to sleep, actually. Face down into a pancake. When I got my Macintosh, my original Mac finally online, which was like an enormous feat for me. When I finally got it online, I really, I really,

ran to get her and I'm like, I did it, I did it. I got my Macintosh online and she's like, what did you do? And I'm like, I got the weather. And she's like, that's great. I'm like, I got it though. It works. And she's like, I just went outside. That's great.

I went outside that you got the weather from your 1985 McIntosh. That's so funny. Our wives are very special. They put up with a lot, don't they? Yeah. I also have to talk about We talked about the feel of it I wish I brought the grip

Because the grip doesn't add that much It adds enough that it doesn't then fit in my bag Okay But it's the grip is comfy It's helpful? It feels good Okay It feels good to have it But even holding it just like this

It isn't too uncomfortable either It's big enough I like the form factor on it a lot I do wish that the the L1 and L2 buttons were a little bit wider because I find that the L1 and R1 button is too skinny. Yes.

I needed to be a little bit chunkier. I wish that they were the same size as the L2s. I've seen a common complaint about the device actually being that they don't like the movement of the L2 and R2 buttons. Because it's like it pulls down kind of and doesn't click in. But I've seen that there are caps

to put on it or something that then somehow simulates that feeling more or something. Okay. But I'm not into software or hardware modding this in any way because I think it's a otherwise like really perfect device.

The thing that I will say too is that I love the the buttons feel perfect. Yeah, the buttons are clicking. They feel like exactly clickier, squishy enough and it has I like that the

analog sticks are like inset instead of on top sticking out you know like I do think that it's cool that there's like they're in the they're in a hole yeah they're kind of just like down there

and I I don't know what I mean I guess the game that I'm playing on here the most right now is is Max Payne and that probably will be the first game I finish on it, which is very funny to me. You're showing me Knights into Dreams

as if to say, see, you could play it. But I, I'm going to say as kindly as I can, I'm good. Look at that art. That is great. I've got Magic Knight Ray Earth for the Sega Saturn and the splash page. It's just so beautiful. What is the name of the knight's guy?

Knights guy? Yeah. Is it, you, it's Naja. Naja is his last name. Yugi Naja? Yuki, I can't think of it. Yugi, not Naga. It's like, it's not like Yugi Naka?

Fucking God damn it. Hold on. The man who's in prison? Yeah, that's the guy. That's the guy who made knights. Oh, he made it. So he named him after himself, his first of many crimes. What?

No, I'm saying not who made him. What the character's name is? Knights. His name is Knights? What are you asking me? I'm asking the character in Knights into Dreams. The purple thing. What his name is?

Knights. His name is Knights? That sucks. One of my favorite parts of this is that on the PlayStation 1 and the original Saturn, I know this is all old hat for people who have been. emulating for a long time, but if you're new to it, there are corrective geometries that you can apply to these old games. So like, PlayStation 1 games had like very wiggly polygons. Like the characters would kind of like tremble while they were standing still because the

geometry of the polygons was just like slightly adjusting the entire time. And there is a smoothing that you can add. So you're not adding any polygons. It's just that they're locked in place. the way that they should be, makes old games look so good. I'm just, I'm very impressed by this. Because as somebody, like I said, who has had many of these devices and have wanted to basically do exactly this. Yeah. And haven't really been able to accomplish it, thus having multiple devices that do all of this. I kind of think this is the last one I'm going to need.

Yeah, I can't, I don't know what else I would need to do. Because I don't, like a switch is already handheld. Yes. I don't need to, I'm not going to need to emulate a switch in 20 years. Yeah. It's already handheld. A Sega Saturn, not handheld. Not handheld.

I still have my Saturn. I still have my CRT. Do I have a sort of a sadness about the idea that I would be maybe beating some of these games on an emulator instead of the actual hardware when I have the hardware and an optical drive emulator in it? Sure. But can I bring my Saturn to work? No. Can I play this at lunchtime? Absolutely.

Right. So as a, you know, a working adult, this is the machine that's best for me. And it folds up, like it's like it's, it's not small by any means, but it's not big either.

It is about as portable as you'd want something to be. And like, yeah, like I don't think I'll need to buy another one of these. I could watch Netflix on the, dumb thing. Okay, so this is actually something I forgot to even mention because it has the two

screens. You're probably, the listeners are probably like, what about games that only have one screen? You could use the bottom screen to do whatever the fuck you want, or you could turn it off. You can play tutorials of how to play the game that you're playing on your top screen simultaneously. Or you can watch SquidGamer some shit. You can do whatever. Who cares? You could do that. You could also like install apps. Yeah. Like I installed a PlayStation remote play app, not the one, like not the one that they put out.

I spent money on one that people are like, this one's like $6, but it's better than the one that PlayStation put up. So you're playing PS5 games on that thing? I could. I haven't done it yet, but I set it up and it worked fine. Wow. But like, I'm playing them remotely.

That's why I'm kind of like, this is kind of the only thing I need now, actually. Like if I'm going on a trip, which I am soon, this is coming with me. I'm in this really difficult place because the only game I actually want to play is Pocopia. Yeah. And it's the one thing I can't play on this device. And yeah, you couldn't emulate it on here if you wanted to. So I'm in a bind because I bring the switch to also.

I'm about to go on a trip. And I am going to bring a video game with me. And that game is going to be Pocopia. Yeah. But this thing is small enough where I'm kind of like, you could probably just put it in your bag, too. I could bring two systems that seems insane. But also this is. It's small enough.

30 systems. Yes, exactly. But I'm not going to. The thing is, when I go home tonight, I have this delicious device. It's all set up. Well, don't eat it. Looks tasty. No, you're not supposed to eat that.

It's ice cream sandwich sized. If I got an ice cream sandwich this big, I'd be like, let's fucking go. An ice cream sandwich the size of a normal sandwich? So I'm going to go home tonight And while I've Like I've talked about some of the games I've been playing like dipping into on this on this machine But the truth is that as long as Bocopia has its claws in me

I all I'm like I'm wasting my fucking time playing any game that isn't my guys I got to save my guys Yeah. Yeah They built a building They build buildings for you overnight Yeah So you have to see what they've done Because they're so proud

You have to come back the next day be like, what'd you do? And they're like, hey, it looks pretty good. That actually just filled me with such sadness because I'm like, my guys are probably bored. Because I haven't told them to do anything in a little while. You got to tell them to do stuff. Also, there's events. Pocopia has events. Right now there's a sable-eye event. We're sable-eyes in the game and he's doing like a treasure hunt. I like treasure. There's a lot of treasure in this game. I did boot it up the other night. How are we talking about this again? I can't stop thinking about it. Two new guys populated in the main area.

And two little bushes are shaking around. Who is it? I get Venet and I'm like, oh, great. Venonat's here. I love Venetat. Get the next one. Oh, now Venomoth is here. I got them both.

Oh, nice. One, two. That's great. I like also that some of the Pokemon only appear at night. Some only appear during the day. It's nice. It's great. It's like I'm really there.

Well, put it in my glasses. Don't let me look at anything else in the world. As the first thing you've said that has made me realize you do have a problem, actually. I don't want to go to work because I want to play Pocopia because it satisfies. I just want to bang on this drum all day. I've talked about this on the show before. It makes me feel like I've done something. So when I go to work, the reason I don't have guilt or shame at the end of the day is because I've accomplished something, right?

I have this like this thing in my brain that's, you know, toxic capitalism. Pocopia, when I play it and I build a little building, I've satisfied that guilt and shame of my day and I feel like I've accomplished something and then I'm free. I love it. I love it. If I could be paid as much money as I get paid to work to just play Pocopia, I would quit everything. I wish that life for you. I do too. Well, we love the Aint Thor. I feel like we've said everything we could say about it. Yep. Shall we do a segment? Oh, segment! It's time for the question block.

I don't want to do that anymore. I don't want to sing segment. You almost never do except today and last time. I don't want to do it. I don't like it. You don't have to. Nobody's making you do it. You decided to do it.

I don't want to do it. If you don't like it, you don't have to do it. I'm not going to do it anymore. You don't have to take coffee to your room. Great. Let's try a different way. Okay. So this is a segment?

Yeah. All right. See, I didn't do anything. I kind of thought you were going to do it again. Nope. It's time for the question block. But ding! See, I don't mind doing that.

Yeah, that's good. Yeah, I mean, that works. Also, I liked, I liked segment. I like, I like, I don't, I don't mind it. I think you're judging it because it's you. Well, there's also, there's also the other version, the old Sega, there's, because there's two Sega's, there's the Sega and then there's also Sega. That's pretty good.

Because you could do. Segment! Here's my impression of Sega. Don't you fucking dare. We are the only people on this show. I'm doing it. Silence. Fucking Jesus.

This first one is from Speedboat Jones. What's up, Speedboat Jones? Are they right? What is the most Chicago Pokemon? Now, I think I have an immediate answer for this. It might be rude. Okay, what is it? I think it's Snorlax.

I don't think it's Snorlax. I don't think it's GERder. Gertr's pretty good. Gertr is just like a fucking blue collar Pokemon doing the work. Can I tell you why I think it might be Snorlax? Sure. Picture the Superfans?

Yeah, it looks like Superfan. He kind of fits in right in there. You wouldn't bat an eye if Snorlax was also saying dub bears. Yep, yeah, yeah. I think maybe both of them are Chicago. They're kind of Chicago. Is there a...

Trubbish, ironically, is from France, apparently. Yeah. Because he's from the French Pokemon game where the Eiffel Tower was there. That's right. But in Pocopia, he talks like he's like, he's like, yo, you want to check out my bedroom, yo? And I'm like, whoa, that's how Trubbish talks.

Yeah, he moved. He's like the Timothy Shalabay version. What's your answer? Snorkeaulyx. My answer is Snorlax. I think I'm happy with both of those. Yeah. Is there an Italian beef Pokemon?

I don't think so. There should be. They should have more Italian Pokemon. Where it, yeah, they should, but I guess they don't want to step on Mario's. I guess that's true. Yeah, they can't really, that's the one region that they're not really trying to do it. Where is the soft serve Pokemon from, do you think? Because soft serve Pokemon is, is something vaguely European about it, wouldn't you say?

Yeah, he's like a gelato, maybe. Yeah. So maybe he's Italian. Maybe he's Italian, and then his family moved to Chicago. I don't think the ice cream moved to Chicago. Why are they all moving to Chicago? The question is, which is the most Chicago Pokemon? I was just having a tangent about ice cream Pokemon.

Uh-huh. What about Keys? What about Kepke? Where's Klofki from? That's from one of the DS ones, I think. No, I mean, like, where's he from? Like, if Snorlax is from Chicago and Gerders from Chicago. Okay.

And ice cream Pokemon's from Italy, then where's Klofki from? Keys is, they're from, like, like, Louisiana. But then they move to Chicago. What the fuck? This next one is from Vic Strong. Hi, Vic Strong. And Vic writes,

Do you make conscious decision to bounce off a game or does it just kind of happen? I think, oh, I have the answer for this. What's your answer? Well, they continue to say. Oh. If both, which one more frequently

and what are some common reasons? Okay. I would say more often than not for me it just kind of happened because I in the same way that like when I go to the movies and I usually enjoy myself

it's because I am sort of like filtering all my I'm curating my entire life so I'm not going to like go see a movie I don't think looks good I'm not going to start a video game that I think looks bad right you know what's for this show sometimes right

But for a video game to lose me kind of, it's not necessarily that I'm not enjoying it anymore. It's usually that something else that has my attention that's jingling its keys a little more in my face. Got my attention. You know, it's happened to you very recently. Yes. I mean, Pocopia is the game that took me away from God of War Ragnarok. which I was deep into a playthrough of. I was like, oh, finally I'm clearing this off.

God of War Ragnarok was because I fell off of Final Fantasy Rebirth again. And that was always because I'm like trying to fucking 100% each region. Yeah. Which is not the way to play that game. No. But I cannot leave these people in distress. Like if somebody asks Cloud, hey, can you go find me this part so I can build a windmill? Yeah.

I'm like, I got you. I can't. Cloud can't just be like, no. Yeah, my cloud can. Oh, okay. He was like, I don't got time for all your bullshit. But also, I just fell off of Fortnite because Pocopia is so good. Well, I feel like you'll get back into Fortnite.

I can't, I will. For sure, I will. But I can't believe that it's Pocopia that finally got me off. Because also, like, that just generally is not your type of game really at all. It's not my type of game at all. No combat. And also, I wasn't even looking forward to it. It was only when the reviews were like,

this is the best Pokemon game that ever came out, that I was like, Pocopia? Yeah. Fine, I'll try it. God, it's so good. This next one. Can we get the fuck out of here so I can go play that game? Yeah, let's do it.

This next one's from Mort. Hi, Mort. And Mort writes, if you had to fight one animal, what's the biggest animal you think you could take down in a fight? hand-to-hand combat no weapons alternate question same thing but for Pokemon maybe we answer the Pokemon

version because that's less likely I don't want to fight an animal I could take down any Pokemon they all have fucking moves and many of those moves like set you on fire or like drown you

I think there's a whole class of Pokemon that I could take down I could take down magic harp magic harp easy work catarpee any sort of like Caterpie can like paralyze you can't it? No. Well like a poison sting or something

but good luck doing that from under my fucking shoe. It's big. It's not small. You think catapy is big? Caterpies big. I'm gonna It's like the size of the table. All stone cold stun it. No problem. I am not taking.

That's the bottom line. The only one I'm taking on is fucking magic carp. I'm just kicking that fish. Evie? No way. Oh. You don't even want to know what I'd do. Evie has bite. I could throw it.

You can't say. It's huge. A drown Evie. Have you seen how big an actual Evie is? I'm only naming Gen 1 ones. That's what I have in my head right now. I don't think I could take down a drowsy. I don't think I could take down hypno.

Mr. Mime, no. They put me in a box. Magmar couldn't do. Electibus, no. Pikachu would fucking kill you. Squirtle would drown me. You can't take on anything except Magicarp and... I'd kill Evie so easily.

It would be like... It would be like RFK with a fucking raccoon. She'd cut off its dick? I'm going to study this later. I'm going to study it. You know, you know those things you get in music? museum gift shops, like those plastic, squishy things that are filled with water. Yeah.

I feel like you could do that to a Dratini. You know? I feel like you could pop a Dratini pretty easily. I just looked up on a Dratini. It's like a worm dragon. Yeah, yeah. You could pop a Dratini. I kind of feel like Cubone.

What? There's no way he comes armed, doesn't he? Or is Mara, the one that has the arm. No, he's got a little bone too. Yeah, he's got a bone. There's no fucking way. Otis is toast.

Otis is toast. Otis is fucking toast. But no, no, Otis is poison. There's no way. I know, but they're, I'm not getting up to any of these fucking Pokemon that can like paralyze me, poison me, electrocute me. There are plants in life that can poison me that I don't. And I'm not fucking kicking them with my shoe.

Yeah, I guess you're right. Diglet. Diglet? I fucking toss dynamite down the hole next. Jesus Christ I would I'd fucking demagnetized magnumite

I bet I could take a gimmiguel Yeah That's the treasure chest one And I feel like I could probably kick the shit out of a box What's the There's a horse one That's not Pony Taw? No that's not Pony Taw

That looks like a stuffed animal horse Kind of Rapidash? No Not a fire one It's like a brown horse I don't remember what it's called A brown horse. Yeah.

Giraffig? Just shoot it. You'd shoot the horse. Well, I have experience with it. I don't want to do this to any Pokemon. Yeah, I don't want to do it to anybody. I want to be their friend. This next one is from when the pony dies.

Hey, speaking of. Hey, okay. When the pony dies. For those playing the Switch 2, what's the percentage of time played handheld versus docked? Oh, man. I am truly 50-50 because I'm bringing it to work to play Pocopi on lunch. And then as soon as I get home, I want to see those boys on big screen.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It is far. So the Switch one, I played a lot more docked than handheld. But I didn't like the way it felt handheld. It felt wiggly or broken in some way. I was always afraid of the Joycons, like, even though they slid in or whatever. Yeah. The Switch 2 feels more solid.

to me. How about you? I would say I'm maybe like 60-40 handheld. Oh, wow. I play a lot of handheld because like I'll be playing next to my wife while watching something on TV or something. But like there are some games that I will only play handheld.

Like when I was playing Silk Song, I was mostly playing that game on handheld because it being big on the TV would stress me the fuck out. I felt like I was because I was holding it, I was more in control of what was going on. which is ridiculous

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