Get Played - Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream

Episode Date: April 27, 2026

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and how these beloved characters close out their final season. Watch Hax streaming exclusively on HBO Max and listen to The Hacks podcast. on HBO Max or wherever you get your podcasts. Matt, we're talking Tomodachi Life this week. I'm actually really tickled by this game. I know. It's a very silly time.

I'm having a nice time with it. I did it a little something. Well, what'd you do? You got that grin. You got the devilish grin. I, well, buddy, I made you in the game. What do you mean you made me in the game? I fabricated a me that looks like you.

And I named him, I named him Y, And so now you're in the game. And I gave, I also made a Heather. Heather gave you the nickname Tiger. So you go by Tiger in the game too. I guess I missed the text where you asked my permission to do this. Because I just feels like you just thought that was an acceptable thing to do is to use my name and likeness and try to recreate my personality, an AI version of it, which maybe is some comment you're trying to make on me, how I'm like an AI, which ha ha, Matt, never heard that one before. I just can't

I can't fucking believe what an invasion of my personal space and my privacy I thought we were friends We are and I'm actually I'm so sorry if I overstepped in some way I wasn't trying to make fun of you Or anything like that

I just thought it'd be funny To have people I like in the game And see what else they get up You know what they get up to Let me guess you gave my character A real big ass He's got the biggest ass of any me in the game You tried to install

Ahmad doing big in the ass because you're like, that's the only way you can represent Wiger. Got to get that big back door. He's got that wagon. I did give you something that I forgot to tell you. Yeah. I found Maracas and I gave you Maracca's. And so sometimes you're just walking around doing Maraca. Great.

So you got me doing cultural appropriation. Cool. That's a great look for me. It's going to help my career. How dare you? How dare you? I just, I thought it would be funny. People, you know, are making.

And I'm not crying or anything. I'm not scared that I'm being yelled at by a fellow adult and friend. I thought it would be funny to put my friends in there. I'm sorry, I fucked up. I fucked up and I'm sorry. Fuck. I'm going to delete the game. I'm going to delete the game.

I'm going to remove you from it. You know what right now? What I want you to do? You have your switch to do with you. I thought those crocodile tears would maybe get you to it. No, no. No, no, no. I'm calling it. I'm calling it and raising. You have your switch two right in front of you. Power on the game. I can watch it on the game. Okay. Here we go. You know what? I don't watch you in the game. Delete. Then fine. Delete my character. I want to watch you delete my character. Okay, here. I'm going to grab you. First of all, I'm going to pick you up. I'm going to drop you first. Don't do that. Add insult to injuries. I mean, fucking hate your little me. And then you know what? Here, delete, remove. Gone. Good, good. Wait, what's happening?

What's happening? Nick, where are you going? I deleted him for real. We waste hours, creating me's and making an AI voice-pronounced things as we discuss psych-geisty social sim Tomidachi life, living the dream this week on Get Played. Wow, it's Get Played, your one-stop show for good games, bad games, and every game in between.

It's time to get played. I'm your host, Tiger Weiger, along with my co-host, Mr. Games, Mattapodaka. Hello, everyone. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Get Played, as you may have inferred from her absence, given the usual intro. Heather is out this week.

Heather's out this week. She has diarrhea, so pray for her. Pray for her good luck with her diarrhea. Yeah, there was... We're hoping she pulls through and has less diarrhea. That text that I lied about before, a couple weeks ago, where I said that Shigura Miyamoto was running around,

holding his butt like he was about to shit himself. it was actually about Heather and you were covering for her because you're a good friend and now we can just say like you know it's the thing she's been dealing with I've had diarrhea

well I was gonna say not to blow up our spots we also have diarrhea Matt and I have diarrhea we're okay we're okay we're powering through it

but then see that makes us look like we're like oh we have diarrhea and Heather has diarrhea and she can't be here which I'm not trying to say no I think my diarrhea is less severe but I do have it Yeah, yeah.

No, I didn't mean to make it seem like, you know, we're tough guys that are powering through diarrhea. Certainly not, no. Every episode of any podcast is somebody's first. So this is a good chance this could be somebody. Someone watched a clip of like Chris Pratt and Charlie Day talking about the Mario movie. And then we're like, oh, let me check this thing out. The guys are immediately talking about diarrhea? What the fuck is this?

Look, we're just being silly with it. We're just being silly. Nobody has diarrhea. Nobody has diarrhea except someone does. Look, all I'm saying is. One of us has diarrhea. We're just talking to hell you who it is. Yeah.

It's me. Our producer, Michelle Chen, Ranch is here. Hi, Ranch, how you doing? I'm good. Ranch, we were talking before we started. And I never engaged with our social media because I don't need. I don't have room in my life for any of you psychopaths.

Yeah. My understanding is that there were some comments on a clip with our guest last week, Chavon, where Heather was talking about her Baldur's Gate experience, and people were really bickering in the comments. Yeah, people were bickering in the comments. I got in there as well. Just all in good fun, of course. There was, I think, I think people were misinterpreting.

Here's what I think happened. Yeah. And I know you said, toss this to tarant. This is what I think you happened for a second. And I'm sort of doing what the clip is accusing me of it. accusing us of in some ways. I think there are fans of a certain online community. I won't say what.

That are very protective of the people in that community. So I think there was another parisocial thing happening where they were protecting the honor of somebody that they know against somebody they don't necessarily. Kind of a milady sort of approach. It kind of gives that vibe. Okay, got it. But I'm just saying, I think if you're ever about to leave a comment on a social media post for a podcast, calm the fuck down.

And be normal for a second. Yeah, Chavon is our friend. Yeah. Just having fun. And Chavon is our friend to the point where if something was amiss, she'd be like, hey, knock it off. Like, but. She may have said, she may have told Matt to cut the shit earlier before we. are recording.

He's not shy about that. Was I being a stinker? Yes. Did she tell me to stop? Yes. Ranch, you have to, are you, do have control that accounts? Does Matt Magic counts? Who does this?

We both have it. You both have it. But you have to sometimes get up and get in the comments and deal with some of this. Oh yeah. I mean, if anyone comes for you guys, I'm ready to fucking throw down. That's nice. Ranch is our strongest soldier. Absolutely.

Powering through diarrhea. I did, I did hear. I was told that there was some sort of, because I don't remember exactly what the context of this, but Waltersgate discussion was, but it's a game I know well. It played through multiple times. But I guess there was something about what,

whether a section of the game was the under dark or the shadow realm. And that was a little bit of a debate. Yes. I said it was the under dark, but some people were saying like, he's wrong. It was the shadow realm.

It may have been ambiguous about what part of the game we're discussing. Either way, I'm just going to say, my position now is that they're the same. The under dark is the shadow. Realm. Yeah, the Underdark is the Shadow Realm and Baldur's Gate 3 actually, it's actually really easy too. It's actually really easy and I've never played it. And I've never played it. But I know that it's easy and I know that the Under Dark is the same as the Shadow Realm. Yeah, and there's actually not that much to do it. There's not much to do. It's pretty limited

in scope. As is my understanding, again, I've never played it. Yeah. No, no, no. Should I make this a clip? No. We can't stand. I can't stand going viral. Yeah, that's just what the clip needs to. She's like, actually, we removed the women. Look, we got it right this time. Just me and Matt, settling the score. I had a situation earlier today.

You had a situation? I left my phone an Uber. Y'all ever done that? Absolute fucking nightmare. That seems almost... I don't know how to start. wraps up. Don't spoil it yet. That seems impossible to overcome to me. An unsolvable problem. Because you use the phone to get the Uber. Yes. Yeah. Uber go away. Keep phone. No more phone.

Yeah. Thankfully, and this is the other thing. Then I'm like, well, I'll log into my Uber account on my laptop. Two factor. So it was a whole ordeal. I did find a way to contact support and then you can file a thing where that you could say that this ride has a, you know, I was on this ride and that's where I left my phone. I also, the thing that actually was my salvation was not the Uber support, but find my iPhone. I was able to, I guess if you mark lost phone in your I cloud, you can then go and like put a little message that pops up. I don't know. I just, I had never done this so I didn't know how to do it because I usually don't lose my phone like a fucking idiot like I did today. So I just put. I just put like, hey, here's my email, email if, email if phone found.

And then the driver was kind enough to email that address. I used Heather's phone, who was with. Yeah. And I used Heather's phone to call this guy and then arranged a drop off. But it was the whole thing of like, like, I'll be here at this time. I was like, all right. All right. I guess it's 1989 again.

That's so crazy. I mean, I understand the need for two factors and stuff like that. but like there are so many now because like if this I guess I'm thinking of like an older time where like it just this the time that I'm thinking of

this wouldn't have happened it just wouldn't have happened none of this would have existed right but like I just the other day I had to call my vet because uh your cat kicked the dog off the table

my cat did have diarrhea and I'm calling my vet because I mean why did I go down this train. I had to collect a sample and bring it back so they could see if anything was wrong with his diarrhea. Because your cat had too much lasagna. And so... He had too much lasagna. We were learning that he's actually lactose intolerant. Got it. So it's one of his favorite foods, but you just can't do it anymore. Yeah. And this is another thing that I was trying to call in on.

I was calling in from a crate that was on its way to Abu Dhabi. Oh, you get crated? I got crated. Oh, man. But I'm calling because they close at six. It's $5.50. I live about, I mean, I live close to it, so I was on my way over there on foot because I was like, it's close enough I could get there faster than in a car because of the time it wasn't trafficking stuff like that. I'm on the phone. They have an AI assistant for the fucking, um, for the small veterinary practice. Yes. And I'm like, I understand the need for this kind of because it's like they can't be taking calls all day and there's like people there helping with things happening at the store. But usually you can't. bypass stuff like that by like saying like I want to speak to like representative whatever. This fucking this is different. This fucking Emily is her name.

I'll put her on blast. She's not real. The AI assistant is like I am the representative. Before I contact the front desk, why don't we see if I could help you? Oh boy. That's rough. I'm just like they're about to close. I'm carrying a hot

tube of diarrhea. Right. Like, I just want to make sure that somebody's there so I can hand this off and I'll have to walk back home with it. You know what I mean? This puppy's scorching my palm. I'm going like, hot hot potato with this thing. But I just, like, can't get somebody on the phone. So I just hope somebody gets over there. And I get there as they're closing the door.

And I'm just like, I got it. They're like right on time. And they took it from me and it was fine. But I guess I'm just like, there used to be a time where like you could get things done in an easy way, an easier way without technology that's supposed to fucking hell. Right, right. And it just requires a little bit more planning. Yeah, and now there's just like unnecessary roadblocks for like, like, you should be able to like do something, type in a code or something that's like I don't have the two factor.

Here's a code that's my code. Right. That works. Well, I found out. So there is a way like I found out. So now I know that you can link other accounts to it and that can be another way, another method of two factors. So I see. Yeah, it's going to, it's whatever, it's fine.

but yes. You got it back? I got my fucking phone right here. You didn't try to, oh. Oh yeah, I forgot. You handed it to me. No, he handed it to me. The man was lovely.

Yeah. And it was, you know, an expensive mistake because besides the pain in the ass, I'm trying to deal with this while I'm working in the office, it's also, I'm like, I felt, I'll be, I tip the guy 50 bucks because I was like, this was a huge pain in the ass for you. I'm sorry. Because he's not being, like, he's not like. No, it's not a fair for him. Yeah, right?

Exactly. Of course, that's very nice That you did that But yeah, then I'm just like Well, I spent 50 bucks Because I fucking left Our Uber's already so fucking expensive Right?

Everything's so expensive I had that It's just a fine I've assessed myself basically Imagine Imagine the phone was in the Waymo You'd never have it back Could you get it out of a Waymo?

You must be able to log in some other way But I wonder Who knows Why don't you leave it in a Waymo and see I'll do that I'll definitely do that

I was in a Waymo that was behind another Waymo. You ever had that experience yet? Oh, yeah. It's like, and they're kind of like coordinated. They're like, hey, man. What's up? I can't wait until they're ubiquitous. Can't wait until they're everywhere.

Yeah, they just started going on the freeway, you said, right? Yeah, I've been on the freeway. Is it scary on the freeway? No, man, it's a dream. Oh, man, he loves it. I love it. Got his feet up. You picking tunes on the damn thing?

Yeah, we'll go go put it up, mess with a Spotify playlist. Yeah. I put on some jazz funk or something. Ooh. You dancing back there? Yeah, I'm having a party. I'm by myself. I can do anything back there.

You're like doing the cabbage batch like this? The Charleston? It's back. It'll be interesting to see like, because, you know, as the, it's the same way that people think of like Mozart and Bach and a, Beethoven is contemporaries, but they live centuries apart. It's like, because you're just sort of like, oh, yeah, these classical composers, they was like, well, yeah, they all were kind of in different eras. But I think the, there will be like a future when they're like trying to represent the 20th century.

And it will be like a movie set in the 1980s, but someone will be like doing the Charleston. Because it's like, oh, yeah, he's been doing an old-timey dance. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. A completely invented reality. Somebody in like black and white will be like, I have Riz. Yeah. No.

This guy in World War II is doing the running man. What the fuck is up with that? He has an iPad. And he just said, this is the old one. We're just describing like an AI generated movie. It sounds pretty good, honestly. I'd watch it. that I'd look

Heather's not here Heather's not here I feel like Wait were you saying Were you going somewhere with that Or did you finish I finished I guess my my broader point

Was that you used to be able to just get things done Without like a technological roadblock Right everything's so annoying Yeah everything's so like I Don't even get me sorry I ordered from an app food the other day Yeah Got the food

Some of the food was not good Like it was like it tasted yucky Yeah And we were just kind of like, what the fuck happened here? And I, like, am in the app chatting with the thing. I got distracted, put it down. They closed the chat on me. Right.

Because I'm- Matt, are you still there? Yeah. And then now I'm just like, I keep remembering now. I got to fucking do that. Yeah. But you got to start from scratch. I got to start from scratch. I would hope that they would just see my complaint that I was like, my first thing I typed.

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Yeah, they're usually just already in position when we got... I guess I was kind of hoping that I would will them into walking into the studio with my intro, but I guess they're just not going to show up. Well... We're going to have to... to talk about this. This is fucking unacceptable. I'm checking the group text.

Trapped in a T.J. Max dumpster. I guess that's a fair excuse. Follow up text. Don't come looking for me. Okay. Well. I like it here. Godspeed Resident Evil Merchant. Matt Apodaka. What are you playing? I'll tell you what I'm playing.

Well, I feel like we're going to talk about this in the next couple weeks. Yeah. So I'm just going to say my I'm Thor came and I'm very excited about it. Einthor, please explain to people what the Nianthor is. It is an Android-based handheld. That is, it's a dual-screen situation. So you can, like, play DS and 3DS games on it,

but you can also play all sorts of games. You can have some light steam games on there, you know, your balatro's, your stuff that I'm playing on Steam anyway, you know. Nothing too intense. Like, I don't think it could run Claire Obscure Expedition 33 or something like that. but you can download your Steam library there. You can also, you know, you have access to whatever games are on the Google Play Store. So that's a possibility too.

But you can install all these like emulators and stuff like that and they all run really well. But I feel like in the coming weeks we'll like do like a deeper dive into it. So I don't want to say too too much about it. But I have. I mean, I will say it seems like a really sleek piece of hardware. Yes. I've seen some of the photos and footage that you and had. who also has one of these do dads,

because of course you both do. You're both early adopters. It seems like there's a lot of tinkering involved. A lot of tinkering, which... And that's the thing, like, oh, I got to spend a bunch of time configuring this thing. It's like, I do...

There's a side of me that does really genuinely enjoy that, but there's another side of me that's like, I have time to play video games these days. Yeah, I mean, I did, like, while I was setting it up, my wife was like, so what game were you playing? I was like, oh, no, no, no, no. I'm in menus

I'm in folders here I'm in the weeds because you have to set up a file directory for your ROMs and things like that but I think that stuff is like when you have the time to do it is more than half the fun

setting something up but I'll tell you what I've been playing on it real quick been playing an old favorite of mine NBA Street Volume 2 Wow let's go just doing some pickup Because I'm not a big basketball guy.

I don't watch basketball, don't follow it. I like the vibe of it. It seems like something I'd like to participate in. Not playing it, but, you know, the culture of enjoying it. Hop on board. It's a very fun league to follow. I love that orange ball. Orange ball is great.

I like the squeak of the sneakers on the ground. You've seen the WNBA ball? What color is it? It's orange and white. It's great. They got a different one? They got a different one, yeah. It looks a little different.

You ever see the old ABA ball that was back in the 70s? No. That was my very, it was a red, white, and blue ball. That's pretty awesome. Well, that's, I see that. I'm thinking of the Globetrotters? Yeah, it is very Globetrotters coded as well.

But I mean, yeah, I agree. The orange ball is good. Real quick, Globetrotters tangent. Yeah. I had an opportunity to see the Harlem Globetrotters when I was a kid, and I got the flu and I couldn't go. But my brothers still got to go with my. uncle and they I was like like just go I'm like so sick I'm thinking they're gonna go

they're not gonna have that much fun because I'm not there yeah they came back it was like the best day of their fucking lives did you ever ultimately see the globe totters I've never gone oh Matt I mean next time they're the the globe charters are in town we should go because I will say I as a kid me and my brother got to go see the Harlem Globetrotters and it was the best show I've ever seen it was so entertaining I can't I I would love to go. I want to see that. I want to see Monster Jam.

I want to see all this stuff that I didn't get to see when I was a kid. I might go to Disney on Ice. How fun is that? I won't, but hey, maybe. Globetrotters are great. I would love to see it.

I'm playing that. Do we need to give context for the Harlem Globetterters? People know what the Globetterters. They were a funny basketball team. They're a comedy basketball team. They always play the Washington Generals. They're a touring team,

and they do a bunch of like trick shots and like they have skits basically where they'll bring a ladder on the court or pull down a referee's pants or throw a bucket in someone's face but instead of water it has confetti and they used to like be on TV shows they used to go on as themselves

they go on as themselves and I think they were at a Harlem Global Chargers cartoon at a certain point they're great they might have interacted with Scooby-Doo at one point so that my context for them was seeing them in other things when we're like wait those guys are funny as fuck

I want to go see that I forget they're in Scooby-Doo yeah But I never got to Yeah, I never got to see it You missed out I got it look because like Are they still doing it? Yeah, they're still doing it

It's different guys I would assume There's a lot of turnover But like every time Like I feel like I go I go to a good amount of live basketball And Oftentimes sometimes at the arena Every so often it'll be like

Oh the globe charters are coming to town Every time I was like fuck I should go see the globe charters And I never make time for it But next time I'm gonna pay attention I want to see. I would like to go. That would be my very first

live basketball game. It's a blast. Ranch, you ever seen the Globe Charters? I'm not. Wow. Group outing. You can come too, Ranch. Yeah, you can come.

Heather, we'll get her a ticket anyway. Heather will want to see the Globetter's. Heather's going to want to see it. Look, all four of us, we'd be having a fucking blast. They might throw us the ball. They might let us do one. It's one of those things you see

like, because ostensibly me being someone who's in comedy. And then you see something like this is like, what they're doing is so much harder because they have to do feats of athleticism, but also they have to make kids and old people laugh and everyone in between. Like that's so,

it's so much easier to have your, your audience of, your core audience of irony poison to online people that you can kind of cater to with inside jokes versus like, hey, I've got to appeal to everybody. Yeah, yeah. And you know what everybody likes? Seeing a referee's pants pulled down.

That's fucking so funny. Well, that's why, I mean, we talk about this, I think, a lot off pod, but like the, like, I think Jackass is the funniest thing. It's so funny. And it's funnier than anybody will ever be. And it's like guys getting fucking spanked on their butt. Makes a dumb guy laugh. Makes a smart guy laugh. It's so, I mean, it's more than that.

It's also like people like stapling their nutsacks to their legs and shit. Yeah, sure. But it's like, it's fucking funny. But I'm playing NBA Street Volume 2. I forgot just through osmosis, like as a kid, you pick up so many. Like, like, I know who Alan Iverson is because he was, like, objectively very famous when I was a kid. AI, the answer. Yes.

The only good AI? Yeah. Maybe. I don't know. I don't know what he's been up to. He's not canceled. He's not canceled. Okay.

The only good AI. But, you know, obviously you have Shaq. You have Kobe. You have, like, like, that's, like, the roster of players from that time that I was like, oh, like, I just, like, remember all these guys. Like, it's, it's, obviously, Shaq. is like still very famous. But I've been enjoying that.

It just plays so great. It's like such a funny, fun game. You're doing little trick shots and stuff like that. It's three on three street hoops. And it's fast. You can just pick up and like play a game for like under 10 minutes and like you're just like shooting buckets and it's a lot of fun.

It's, it's interesting because it's like very, very NBA jam, but it's also got like a Tony Hawks pro skater element of like you're doing tricks and a big part of what you're, you're not just going for points in the basket sense, you're also going for points in the like multiplier sense of like, I'm going to do this crossover dribble, you know,

I'll do this spin move, et cetera, and then I'll finish with a tomahawk dunk, and that combination will get me a bonus. So I'm doing that and I'm playing. Also, just real quick, because we both spend a lot of time of the NBA Street franchise. And I am someone who does love basketball,

and usually I'd play like more. more Sims, although they don't really play sports games at all anymore, that was one of the action arcadey sports games that, like, NFL Blitz of the year is like, man, they just kind of nailed the feel of this. And they made two of them and then it just went away. I think they did do a third one, but it's less, I think it was less popular. I'm a misremembering it. Well, I mean, if like, I'm part of the core audience and I don't remember the third one, that's, I'm part of the problem. I remember that the GameCube port for three had Mario in it. Okay. Yeah, which is cool. It was also part of a brand that's defunct that you and I both like.

EA Sports Big. It's EA Sports Big. I don't know how they landed on it, but it's so funny. You know that thing people say? Like, you won't know that I won the lottery, but there will be signs. When EA Sports Big comes back, that's how you'll know. That's what I'm putting all my money in immediately. we're bringing back EA Sports

big. Not really clear what it means, but I just like it. Yeah, it's just big. And like the big gets really big on the screen and it's really fun. I'm doing that and to test out the both screens are touch screens by the way

so you can be touching with the... That's cool. A stylus on both screens. I've been playing Wariaware touched for the DS. Good game. Now look. Well hang on. Good game. I think it might be a perfect video game. I think it's so fun and so funny and so intuitive.

It really teaches you, like, I don't know. It expects you to sort of figure stuff out in a short time limit, but you can almost always figure out what they want you to do, and it's just constant movement. Because it's moving to the next mini-game so quickly that you don't even have time to even think about like the prompt of the last one which was like

snippet and it's a fucking snot bubble falling out of somebody's nose and it wants you to cut it I guess so that it goes back up their nose like that's just not how anything works is very very funny game those are two things I'm playing on that

I'm hoping to get back to Resident Evil 7 biohazard because I keep now getting I've been getting TikToks fed about it, and every clip of it I see is very, very scary, and I want, I'm in the mood to get a little bit scared. Yeah.

That's what I'm playing. Nick, what are you playing? I just, just real quick, on NBA Street, and I was buried in my, in Wikipedia for a second, because I was trying to get some context on, there was, yes, you were of course correct that there was NBA Street v3, which I did not play. There's also NBA Street Home Court,

which I do not remember. That was the PS3 Xbox 360 version that kind of came and went. And I don't know how much it was like the gameplay resembled the original, but it seems to have been fairly well received by at least by critics. And then also in development,

and I miss this, but coming 2026, NBA the run. So it's not the, oh, wow. It's not the EA sports big, you know, NBA Street exact thing, but I think it is a similar sort of concept. spiritual sequel. Spiritual sequel and you kind of see there,

we see it, we got like Anthony Edwards and Luca and Lamello, all just kind of in there, in more in street, ball and car car. Okay, I can get into that. Yeah. I mean.

Cooper flag on the cover. Wow. I think if I didn't get into three, it was because, you know, I was a teenager and I was basically, if I wanted a new game, I had to wait.

Right. And I probably got NBA Street volume two after playing it at my uncle's house, like as a, um, PlayStation greatest hits, which was their budget, or, you know, their reduced price brand, which they don't do anymore. No, they used to have, it was the green stripe, I think, for PS1 and then the red stripe for PS2.

Yeah, those red stripe boxes, I remember. Yeah. Very well. But that's what I've been playing. Nick, what have you been playing? Matt, thank you so much for asking for the second time. And this time I will reply that I've been playing Vampire Crawlers. Ooh.

Now, Vampire Crawlers is this roguelight dungeon crawler deck builder that plays at hyperspeed. It is the same developer world and aesthetic as vampire survivors, which is the trailblazing microgenre creating auto shooter. And from Ponkel. From Ponkel. So that game really got, vampire survivors really got its hooks in me right away. and playing vampire crawlers, it's so fun immediately that they got mad. I was like, they did it again.

They fucking do it again, but it's not the same gameplay. It's instead, you know, it's played in first person, and it's tile movement, like an old school 90s PC RPG, tile movement in first person, or like a fantasy star

would have those first person dungeons, grid-based movement, and then you would get to, when you get to a square, you know, you can turn 90 degrees or you can, and sidestep or what have you, certain squares, you will see enemies in the future, in the distance.

When you get in the same squares, then, the same tile as them, combat automatically ensues without any sort of like big like battle starting animations. It just like gets right into it. And that just sort of speaks to like at every opportunity, it's just accelerating. It's just making, it's just taking out all of the dead space that would normally be, in one of one of these dungeon crawler RPGs. Then you get into combat, and combat itself is you're basically of a manna pool

of how many decks you can play, of course, or how many cards you can play in your deck, rather, in a certain hand. And then you have a, each card, of course, has a different mana cost. So some are zero cost,

summer, summer, you know, whatever. I don't know if it's fun of fucking mana works. Things cost different amounts. We understand this concept. And mana is not health. Manna is not health.

It's different. You do have health. You do have health. Which I'll get to. Anyway, so you're going through these, and these battles are effectively kind of playing themselves. Like, it's like, it's like you are making more decisions than you are in vampire survivors, but still ultimately it's like I'm, I've got three mana.

I've got a zero cost card, a one cost card, and a two cost card. Well, I'm going to play out my hand. Maybe the order in which I play the cards is somewhat determinative for whatever reason. Maybe I want to play this one that gives a boost to all damage before I, play the thing that throws the Santa Water or, I love that it's called Santa Water. I love that they didn't change it. It's so good. Santa Water,

maybe top five video game inventions. What do you like better, Santa Water or King Bible? They're both good. King Bible is really good. King Bible's really good. I guess I like Santa Water a little bit more because King Bible, I know there's the King James Bible. Yeah.

So that's already similar. There's nothing like Santa Water. Yeah, Santa Water is like kind of like what the fuck is going on here. I love it. Drink it instead of burping. You say, ho, ho. I guess because it's an Italian developer.

Santa, how you say saints maybe. Oh, maybe. It's supposed to be like saint water and maybe holy water is called saint water. I don't know what it is. Yeah, of course that's what it does. However it comes about, whatever the etymology of it, I love that it's called Santa Water. I love that they're sticking to their guys. It's great.

Yeah. I love it. Because also, I mean, I know it is probably, you're right. It is probably saint. But, and I've said this before on the show, I think Santa is really funny. Santa is really funny. Just as an idea, Santa is hilarious.

I agree. Do you like Santa Ranch? Eh. Hmm. Kind of a meh on Santa. Sounds like somebody grew up on the naughty list. If you saw Santa right now, wouldn't you think that was funny if you just walked by?

I guess it'd be funny. Santa, when they like about Santa. guy. It's like seeing an Elvis impersonator on the Vegas strip or something like that is that if you ever see a Santa like in the wild, everyone's like, it's fucking Santa. They're so excited to see Santa. Yeah, he's like Austin Powers to be. Or there's a guy and, you know, he passed away, but there was that guy who used to walk around Hollywood just in Jesus cosplay all the time. And like everyone was so excited to see Jesus. That guy was great. Yeah, I would see him everywhere. Yeah. Oh, Ranch loves Jesus, but hate Santa.

I'm starting to figure out what the problem is. So, this rapid pace of battles, you're navigating these, it's weird to even call them mazes because it's just sort of, you're deciding which tiles you're going to go to and that eventually you can descend to a different level.

Some tiles have treasure chests, which have a similar sort of, you know, opening sort of flare animation effect as you get in vampire survivors and some sort of bonus inside. Other ones have like shit you can dig up. It's whatever.

It's, it's, it's really well-paced. It's really compelling. It's easy to get through a run. I don't mean in terms of completing a run, but just like in terms of duration. Like what you're saying about NBA Street volume two of those all being like eight-minute matches and eight-minute games. It's the same sort of thing. And then there's also a town hub, which is a little bit distinct from what's in vampire survivors where it's all through the UI. There's actually town hub that you can upgrade and unlock things as you play.

progress and you know it's that that's just a fun like aspect of the the metagame I just can't do this right now it's just this thing would take over my life so easily yeah it's like I snorted a line and I'm like I could keep snorting lines and then that could just be my could just be a cocaine guy yeah guy who does cocaine because that's what would happen to me I have that addictive personality yeah I'm playing this I love it it's such a cool design I'm so impressed by it I'm so glad I bought it just even just to support these developers who do not need my support. This game is a sensation already. It's overwhelming positive in the

Steam store with a whole bunch of sales. But it's fucking it's just too much. Yeah. And I've got that and I got Slay the Spire 2 and then I've got like, this is this year for games already. It's like I haven't played Pragmata. I want to play Pragmata. Yeah. I haven't gone around to Resident Evil. I want to

play fucking the new Resident Evil. So I can't I can't do vampire crawlers. No. But I love vampire crawlers. Yeah, if you got to Resident Evil, I feel like you take it down in a weekend. I feel like it's short enough where you're like, and you know how to play those games. Like, that's like, you know what you're doing. Play it on easy.

I think everybody should just play games on easy. What do we doing? You can play games on easy. I do all my games on easy. It's fine to play games on easy. There's a story mode exists for a reason. Who am I trying to impress? Who are you trying to impress?

You guys, the listener? I gestured to the camera like they're live. No, I'm not doing it. I'm doing it for me. Yeah. That's my stuff. Right. But I haven't bought it because I'm worried that I'm going to, it's going to take over my life as well.

We represent different ends of the gaming spectrum here. You're playing games on easy. Heather is not only playing games on maximum difficulty, she is trying to customize or mod the difficulty so that she can add more handicaps for herself. If all games were on easy mode, Heather would stop playing video games. Rochelle, are you playing anything notably recently other than Tomodachi Life? I actually re-downloaded Hollow Night. Wow.

The first one. Whoa. Because my roommate blasted through it and then beat a part that I never was able to beat and spent two weeks on. So I re-downloaded to try to beat it and Coliseum 3 specifically. Okay.

Wow. And I still haven't beat it. it. Wow. I never fucked with any of that stuff because I was just like, just get me, get me to credits, baby. I'm just trying to get through it, but there's all this optional stuff. I've been sort of thinking about Hornet and I've been missing her and I kind of... From Silk Song. From Silk Song. And I kind of want to go back and because I never finished it. And I was saying that it was like maybe one of the best video games ever made. You are also, but then again, we've established you're a guy who sometimes, the challenge of a video game is not what necessarily keeps you playing. Yeah. Unlike some. people and so maybe a game is challenging as Silk Song you're kind of like yeah I get it but I do I want to dedicate how much this much of my life to trying to beat this one challenge I think I I I would have to relearn how to play right but I think I would like to get back in there because I'd like I'd like that monkey off my back I think yeah it's very satisfying yeah to finish a really difficult game or a game that you you played and then return to and like I

finally finish this like what I do with super super meat boy would kind of checks both boxes or with a Sekiro because, you know, beating Sekiro was like very satisfying. And you did do it. I did beat Sekiro. Yeah.

Yeah, you did. But I've never played Balderskate 3. No, no, no, no. It's basically not even a real game, I think. It's a game for, I think, babies. But, um, uh, ranch, so you're, do you think,

have you made tangible progress, do you think, like, do you think you're improving in, uh, in this Coliseum? Um, I'm considerably worse now than I was back then. So now I'm working back up to be where I was before.

Got it, got it. Because I also kind of had to re-learn how to play. Yeah. And I did also read-down with Silk Song because I was like, okay, I'll get back into it and was immediately too overwhelmed to play it. That game is like, oh, you thought,

oh, you thought Hollow Night was hard? Guess what? Very good sound effects. were not added in post. Matt is doing these with his mouth. I know you're probably listening to this and being like, okay, so they open up the sound effects library. They forked over the cost of licensing some explosions and gunshots.

But no, Matt is creating all those from whole cloth. I ran out of, I ran out. You're doing great. I only did like five. I liked them. I was getting scared. You thought it was happening. I was going to duck for cover.

Yeah, you will love vampire crawlers. I'm gonna get it. It's a very, very effortlessly playable game. I wonder how it runs on the Ayn Thor. I'll have to test it out. I would imagine it probably can handle it. Yeah, I mean, look, it's definitely trying to do that retro. I guess it's maybe even more of like an eight-bit aesthetic of vampire survivors.

It's definitely that, but just like in first person mode. And it feels like the sort of thing. that is not too taxing in the hardware unless it's doing something I guess one thing that happens with vampire survivors is just because they're generating so many enemies and there's so many effects on screen even though the graphics are

fairly simple it can be a bit of a resource hog so I you know there is a lot happening in this game so maybe at some point it would overload it but I would run fine. I don't know if I know if I'm going to I'll check it out in our report back wow

but Silk Song or I'm sorry, not Silk Song, Hollow Night you're enjoying. Yeah, oh, yes. Yes, I'm just currently mad at it right now. Damn. I wish you luck in that. Yeah, me too.

Godspeed. And God have mercy on you? Yeah, may God have mercy on your soul. Boy, I wish I knew what he was saying. speak. Animal Crossing. Why do most of us want to learn a new language? It's probably not about memorizing grammar tables or topping a leaderboard. It's because we want to speak it out in the real world with real owls, a real little sheep, and the real little ducks that come to our town. Babel gets you there fast. Learning a language with Babel is all about small steps, big wins,

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I don't think it's just one team, but Nintendo EPD develops a lot of their huge franchises. Published by Nintendo. It is a follow up to the DS games. Tomodachi Collection and Tomodachi Life. One of these, I think Tomodachi Collection was Japan exclusive, but Tomodachi Life did come out in North America. Do either of you ever mess with these? I did not, no, but I thought about getting into it before this one came out, and

then I was like... Blight on your eye and Thor. Honestly, maybe I could. But like the, I thought, well, if I'm going to get into it, might as well just wait for the new one. And then it wasn't really on my radar until a listener tagged us on Blue Sky and Instagram, their handle, I hope they don't mind being doxed in this way, is that guy there. It's up that guy there.

They go by Jay Dizzle, it looks like. And they made us in Tomodachi Life, and they did a really good job rendering us. They did do a good job. They're good. So you use Me's in this game, if you're unfamiliar with it. So the Nintendo Mees have been created of each of us. Matt looks very cool, and Matt looks like Matt to me. Yeah.

Heather looks kind of like a librarian and then I look like a guy who's been banned from the hentai section You look great Everybody looks great It is like

One of those things where You're making people And like I've made I mean we'll get into it I've been making a lot of people It's hard not to be to get it really into making people because the me, like

creator is so extensible and customizable. There's so much you can do. I definitely had some points while playing this where I was like, Weiger, the perfect is the enemy of the good. You just got to get this person on your island. Yes. And someone did, well,

this is speaking, because everyone's making everything. Yeah. Someone made Varong. And there's a good Verong online. Oh, hell yes. Yeah. I made, so far made, two, three, four, five, six, I made eight people from my island and I'm gonna just list them off now.

I made my wife, Isabel, I made Weiger, I made Heather, I made Rochelle, I made my two in-laws because I thought I'd make my wife laugh

and it did. I made my mom and I made Hideo Kojima. What a crew. I feel like I did a pretty good job with him. That's a good, Jima, yeah.

Check this out, Randall. Not bad. Oh my God, it really looks like... I made him pretty good. Yeah. But this game,

I was not prepared for how funny it is. It's funny. It sets up very similar to Animal Crossing New Horizons. Even some of the UI is very similar. The UI is very similar. And then also, you know,

again, the same thing. You have an island where populated by various characters. The difference is that you don't don't have a controllable player avatar. All the me's are autonomous based on prescribed personality traits and things that they develop over the course of the game, over the course of gameplay. Also, you level up individual me's in addition to leveling up your island. So that that unlocks more and more things. And I don't know. It's such as, it's so simple, but I'm like, man,

this is a really fun social sim. It really is because like there's also, like a relationships aspect too. So like you're making people and like the early part of the game. I think I got my island to level, uh, like 11 in the last couple days. I've been doing, I've been doing it. Yeah, you've been doing it. Like, it's a real, it's really easy to turn into a time sync. Yes. I wish I'd had more time with it. Because there are like, there aren't a ton of tasks to do, but things will pop up. So like you'll start making people and the more people you make the more your town upgrades, right? So then you're able to get like a clothing store

And then there's like a home renovation store And then there's like a A custom Like a place where you can make like custom art and things like our food And stuff like that So the town opens up as you're adding people And then as you're upgrading You get the ability to add more people

Now I can just make people as much as I want Which I heard that you can make up to 70 people for 70 people per island Yeah per island Which will I make that many? Who knows? You could do it. I could do it.

It is funny to see if you can do it. Because, like, I was, like, trying to base off all my creations off of photos. So, like, when I was making Hideo, I was like, okay, he has, like, a very specific hair cut and head shape and stuff like that. Let me do it. And then I was like, I kind of just, like, I kind of, like, did what he does. Yeah. I scanned him. I put him in the game.

But you can improve the relationships of the people on the island. Well, hang, I'm sorry. I have to I have to pause for a second. Keep this in the show. Yeah. Where the fuck that these tiny grapes come from? Have this always been part of it?

Okay, so here's the thing. Tiny kind of Skya, the Wire Queen, overseas, I believe it's her job or her job in part to oversee kind of the art direction of the set here at Headgum. There have always been grapes. and at a certain point very large grapes got added

now there are tiny grapes all these artificial grapes there's like let's just one two three four five six seven bunches of grapes just on the just as part of the main table right now what are they for the freaking Dionysus podcast very smart pole

hey they you know you've been reading books I read a book wow look at you and there's another grape like a little grape thing over the side table I don't know. She's fucking grape crazy. I like grapes just as much as anybody else. I like them. I'd say a fair amount. But the grapes situation, it's gotten a little out of hand. We call Anya the wire queen. I think she also needs to be called the grape ape. Yeah, she's the grape ape for sure. I'm sorry, you're the grape babe. Sorry, Anya you're the grape babe. I don't know what you want me to do. You keep adding grapes. And they're getting, I thought once they were big. Yeah. That was kind of it. Yeah, that's the end boys. Like, okay, we've heightened this bit to the point where we have. big grapes. Very good.

We're on our Jack Shepherd shit now and we're going back. We're making them small. What's going on? I'm turning into Sebastian Manascarca. You can't fucking do that. The grapes are already big. Now you got small grapes in here. You can't fucking do that.

I saw this thing he was doing. You see his bit about like laying out like milk and cookies for Santa. Yeah. He'd be like, hey, you think Santa's actually gonna want a glass of red wine. And how about some lasagna? It's like, man, this is so good.

I love this. He might be the Harlem Globetrotters of convenience. There's like, here's the, I would never, like, I'm not being like, you know, it sounds like a making fun. I can almost guarantee you if I bought a ticket to one of his arena shows, I would laugh my fucking ass off.

We'd laugh our asses off the whole time. Yeah. like screaming. It'd be so fun. I would go to that too. I would absolutely go to that. But the grapes are out of control and they really distract me. I feel like I have to This is what I'm talking about. Matt is holding up the

small grapes. These tiny grapes and this won't be the clip. I was doing it for posterity. Posterity? These grapes are too small. They're too small. They're cartoonously small. What's this? There's another set. I just realized there's another A second tiny grapes has hit the chat. On top of the other green one.

They're on top of the normal grapes. Sorry for interrupting. No, no, no. Please. Very additive. What I want you to do, Ranch, is when you're scrubbing back through the footage, at the very least,

get a screenshot of me holding these. Send them to Anya and say, Matt's fucking furious. Those small grapes, they're like the size for our listeners. They're like, they like could be earrings. Like if you want to have that sort of look, you could pull it off.

So they're really downscaled, and I don't know what they're doing here. If I was in the Garden of Eden, all I'm saying is, these wouldn't do the job. Also, Anya's not been here in months. Where did these come from? Did she ship them out here? No, these are new. These feel new. I'm sorry, ranch.

These are new. Anyway, grape tangent over. You know, when Heather's not here, we kind of have to like, create stuff to do, you know what I mean, like to kind of like mix it up a little bit. What you're talking about? We always got stuff to talk about.

I know, but I feel like I'm like floundering here. I was like, let me go on this great thing. Then we get Sebastian in the mix. You're doing great. You can't fucking do that. He doesn't curse either, doesn't he? No, you don't think so.

Clean comic. What the fuck's wrong with these fucking fuck grapes? So you can, you can improve the relationships with people and like when you're making, when you're making the me's, there's a menu

that's like, does this real life me have a family member on the island that's like in their real life family and you can like select the relationship, their relationship, which is very helpful because these mes fall in love. They do fall in love. And you want to make sure they're courting appropriately. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can't have like my father-in-law falling in love with me or something.

You can't do that. No, we can't have things like that. No, you can't do it. But, so you can make all those appropriate. I did pick, look, it would have been really easy to let me have, let me play the field in the Tomodachi life. I made my wife, I selected my wife as my partner. That's a good wife guy. What am I going to do, not do that?

Yeah. And right now, it's not a dating sim. In the game, I have an unrequited crush on my wife. Because, like, so it'll show like a diagram of, like, when it's two people talking and they'll have, like, two arrows going back and forth, and they'll say what their relationship. are to each other. Right now it says really likes and it says crush also from me pointing to my wife. And then from my wife pointing to me it says good

friends. It's a nightmare. But you can do that. You can do like... Those are your vows, right? Those are... Matt is my good friend. That's my good friend and he'll always be my good friend.

But you can do... So you can introduce... You can introduce everybody to everyone at a certain point, but I feel like the more people you start making it's sort of harder to keep track of who knows who and what way and stuff like that. But there might be opportunities for people to be able to organically meet on their own too. I don't know if it's necessarily like that, but you can drag people to meet people and stuff like that.

That part of it's really fun and they're all. And it's kind of like, I'm just using a recent game for comparison, but like in the way that the, you know, all the social stuff as you're popular, population grows, it's kind of like how immunogenic's you're trying to do the cat breeding and it's like very easy to lose track. What do you have? What do you have a full house of cats? You're just like, I like, ah, who the fuck is what? Like it's it's it's um it does get a little bit overwhelming. I do think though the more people you introduced to each other the more opportunities for um like dynamic little events right can occur because I stumbled upon because I made all of us and I introduced you so you all know each other and me and And my wife's not in the game, so I'm playing the field. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did select your dating preferences to everyone.

I love it. Hopefully me and your father-in-law in happiness. I paired him with my mother-in-law. Nice try. But the more people that know each other, they can have, like, little meetings in groups. Like, so there's a, there's, I, the most frustrating part of this game, actually, is that you can't share the images from the switch. Like, you can screenshot all day and record video.

video all day, but there's, you can't send the clips or anything anywhere. You have to have been playing in like a capture card or something to even get them. It's such a, it's just such a Nintendo thing. There's always some frustrations with this fucking company that makes these games that are so compelling. And in this case, organically viral and something that, where people want to share what they're doing. Like it's designed for that and then to have barriers to that. When basically every other platform, it's just like built in. So these are all, uh, photos I took on my phone of my TV. And this is a group of me, Heather, my wife,

Weiger, and Rochelle all just like sitting on the ground talking with each other. And it says it's a meeting of the soft serve ice cream society. Pretty good idea. I'm just kind of like hanging out. Yeah, first of all, I'm the fucking chairman of this damn thing. We'll hold elections. But like you can see stuff like that. And then there's like, oh, Ranch, you had a dream in my game where you had a bunch of cakes falling on you for some reason.

I gave you a piece of cake. And then later that night you had a dream of cake and where you're being bombarded with cake. And it says, throw a cake on me, then do it again and again. That's the dream. That is the dream. Do you like cake, ranch? We talked about this, I'm sure. What's your favorite cake?

Carrot cake. Of course. It's kind of the best one. We don't have time for this. it's kind of the best one. I like birthday cake. Yeah. Probably after carrot cake, right?

Carrot cake is not my favorite, but I like carrot cake. I respect all cakes. All cakes are good. All cakes are good. I thought you're going to say all cakes matter. It's like we can't go there. No, because some of them, some of them, some of them don't.

But like you can, like, you can just monitor all like the, it sort of on its own makes funny. situations and I do think that like the game is funnier when you add people you know into the game because like there's a world where you can um auto generate me's to fill out their thing which is what Heather did and it feels like that that's like your and you know I understand why people will do that and maybe you're just not interested in character creation but does feel like you're kind of shortchanging yourself of one of the the joys of this game yes and so like because in your opportunities where like one of your me's will be like oh I want to be friends I want to

friends with Heather will be like I want to be friends with Matt and what should I go talk to him with and there's like a list of things you can talk about or you can type something in and you have two opportunities to type something you can type it the one way and hope it spells it right or you could press on this like pair of lips next to the word and then spell it out phonetically and try to get it to say it like word perfect right which the one good thing about this thing is that from what I understand there's not a there's not a there's not a language language filter. It doesn't seem to have any content filters. Yeah, so you can just make it say like fucked up stuff. Right. Or like nasty stuff or like kind of like horny stuff. I haven't tried any like slurs. I would imagine those are gated, but who knows? Yeah. Uh, yeah. No, it's, we'll find out. We'll find out. Yeah, yeah. I have this, uh, clip that I'll play in a second. Uh, just kidding. But Heather asked what she should talk to me about to become friends. This is Heather in the game. Yeah, they're in the game. And I wrote, I typed in Hideo-Ko-Ko-Gima.

Because I'm like, oh, it's going to be funny. And then they had a conversation about Hideo-Kajima, and I was like, this is funny. Yeah, that's good stuff. And then you guys, you two became good friends because you guys were some of the earlier people on my island. Wow. So then you guys moved into a house together to be closer friends. That would never happen. It would never happen.

But when you have Mies move into a house, you can name the house. So you guys are get played in the house. Wow, very cool. So the house is called Get Played and you guys live there. And the house is nice. We touched on this in the Japan episode a little bit, but you and me and Heather traveling together and going to like restaurants together

and shopping together and everything, people were definitely trying to identify exactly what the dynamic was between us. And we landed on, I think, a lot of people's head canon was Heather and I were married and you were our son. Yes, absolutely. That seemed to be like what made everybody

the most comfortable. And then this other screenshot that I have here is Heather being very excited saying, Tiger got really excited when we talked about Vrah. So, like, you can make all these, like, little funny moments for yourself. And I'm just, like, kind of, like, laughing, playing the game, which is not typical, it's not a typical gaming experience, really. There's so many opportunities to laugh. There are moments where you're like, oh, you guys were having a conversation, you two.

and made each other sad. And Heather went and sat on her own by the beach looking miserable as hell. So funny. But I'd imagine that like there is humor with the, you know, auto-generated me's as well. Yeah. Because you can make them say whatever you want.

Here's a question. Because so part of the setup, first off, I will say the initial setup, there's some things that stress me out because there will be like, this cannot be changed later. Yeah. And it was just things like,

what units do you want to use or whatever. But still, I was like, Jesus fucking Christ. Yeah, you're committed to this. I'm pot committed to this for, I guess, for life. But one of the things you get to do is decide what the people on the island are going to call you, because you, the player, are presence in the game and you have a hand that you can, you know, choose the skin tone of that represents your hand. Yeah.

And I always messed that up. For me, it's a little tricky. I never have a problem. You got, yeah, you're going. option one I go with the one because like I got some pigment

yeah there is like a you never want to pick the one that's like too much because it doesn't seem right right but then the one I end up picking is always like

I should have probably got there's never one right in the middle kind of where I need a little bit more I'm also trying to be outside a little bit more so maybe I could earn the hey get a little sun got to get my vitamin D up thanks doc

man, I've been that vitamin D hole at myself. My wife called me a freaking Indorian the other day. Roasted my ass. It was really funny. I was like, I'll show you. I've been walking like three miles every single day. I get a lot of sun and I still end up with a vitamin D deficiency. And so I just take supplements.

Yeah, they gave me one. Isn't that, isn't Mother Nature amazing? Isn't that like that we have evolved to turn sunlight into nutrients? Yes. What the fuck is that? What is that? Look, we could,

we could, we could be here all day. I, I, I'm constantly fascinated at the dumbest shit alive. Like, of like, just like,

I think I told you guys this when I was watching the pit with my wife who's in a hospital every single day at work. It's the one show we watch where I pause it and ask her questions.

Yeah. Because I'm just like, okay, okay, hang out, hang out. They're like open somebody's fucking chest cavity. They're moving organs around.

I pause and I go, where's all the blood? I expected it to be wetter in there. Right. It's dry. Yeah, because the blood's in like veins and arteries, right? The blood's in veins and arteries. It's not just loose. You're not just a bag of blood.

I thought there at least be some kind of goo in there or something. I don't know if it's bone dry. I think there's maybe some goo. There's something, but I thought there'd be some sloshing around. They're wet, but they're not, like, there's no liquid. Right, right. So I was... It's like a moist sort of thing.

She's always teaching me stuff about how the human body works. It's fascinating. There's a pit episode where a guy is a permaboner, right? Did you see that one? I saw that. How is it? It's fucking crazy. Can you spoil it for me?

How do they resolve his permaboner? They like, fucking jack him off. I was watching, I think I was watching a different show. It's a 3D episode. Yeah. No, I think they like put a needle in his dick, like into like a vein or something. And they like, uh... People care for that.

like took some blood out basically. Well, props that actor for staying hard for an entire episode. It was, it was crazy because you'd never see an erect dick on regular television. Yeah, I know, yeah. But it was like, those hogs are always flaccid. It was not one,

it was also not one of the crazier things in this season. I think, maybe in the first, I can't remember it was the first season and a second season, but like an old lady was like fucking backed up and they like stick a finger in her ass, and then she like shits all over the place. And it like blasts shit on a guy. Jesus.

It's such a good show. Do they not have a better solve than just like putting a finger up there? That's the thing. I'm thinking of all this stuff like, you know, we're talking about like, oh, you need vitamin D here. You can go outside

or you can take like a pill and like then be on it. There's some things that they're like, there was something they did in the show where they like, it's such a thin margin of error. some guy was like misaligned in his spine basically from his neck and he was in like such severe pain that like the options were to either do like a very risky surgery that would take

hours and hours or they could immediately solve his issue by snapping him back in the place but the margin of error was so high that like if it was done incorrectly he would be paralyzed forever and they do it and it works and it's just like that just works that's fucking crazy that's so crazy. Doctors, you guys are great. And we love doctors. Yeah.

Some of them. Some of them. Not that fucking Fauci. Just kidding. I'm just kidding. Wrench, you seen any pit? I haven't seen any of it. Yeah, me neither.

Everyone who watches it says it's great. And I know I can just watch it. And then where I work, I work on the Warner Brothers lot in Burbank. They shoot the pit. And so sometimes you'll just see like Noah Wiley walking around. It's crazy. Man, he's handsome. He's a very handsome man. That's crazy. Age like fine wine. Yeah, he's great. And I like that he's kind of salty. Like, they'll always any opportunity be like, George Clooney said that he likes the pit.

That's so cool. He was like, ah, who cares? He hasn't talked to me in like 14 years. Like, he's like, it's nice that he's, I'm cool enough now for him to talk about me. And I'm like, that's so, he's so fucking mad. It's so funny. He rocks. I love. them. But maybe I'll put Dr. Robbie in the... You can put celebrities. It encourages you to like have fun and like make people you know or like famous people and put them in the game. Which I will get to my island in one second, but I do want to ask you because one of the things they, where I was going with this earlier, one of the things they ask you in the initial setup is what you want the people on the island to call you. Oh yeah. I chose Tiger, which I'm just like,

hey, I'm that, yeah, call me Tiger and whatever. Fine. What did you choose? I chose Big Dog. You chose Big Dog, very good. Ranch, what did you choose? I chose my God. You said it's that screen cap, and I just laughed out loud. It's so good. Because, like, yeah, there are choices like that, and you're sort of like, I guess, I think you, you, well, I don't know if you can change that one. I know you can change the name of your island, which I was just like, I don't know what to call my island.

I'm just going to call it Apodaca Island. That's just like what it is. had to type in phonetically, like how to pronounce my last name correctly. What was the first attempt? Apodaca. Apodaca, sure. Yeah. And I assume you had no problems.

But I did, like, I did that. And then I landed on Big Dog. Nobody calls me that. Yeah. I just kind of thought it'd be funny to have them call me Big Dog. It's fun to be the Big Dog. And it does make me laugh every time. Yeah.

I think, I think we, this added to your roster. of nicknames. I don't know if you guys got to call me big dog. I wouldn't, but I wouldn't say no. Mr. Games, the franchise, the finisher. Yeah. Wait, there's the Xbox Kid. We sort of scrubbed that one. Xbox Kid, there's not enough room

in the... That one's defunct. That one's defunct. And now replaced... The artist formerly known as the Xbox kid is kind of good. Artists formerly known as the Xbox Kid. And now the Big Dog. Or just Big Dog. Because you know what? I'm thinking of the shirts. And I know the shirts kind of went the wrong way. Yeah.

But I'm kind of bringing a... I'm trying to steer the ship. Yeah, the shirts kind of went like anti-woke in a certain point. It was just like, oh, man, I thought the fun of these were they were just stupid. Yeah, I thought they were just supposed to be silly. Yeah. But now with me being a big dog, I'm taking it back. Yeah, you're taking it back.

You're not being like big dogs only have two different restrooms. Yeah, big dogs get a cold beer from their wife when they get home. I'm checking with a big dog company. fuck are those dogs up too they're being crazy but I picked big dog I picked yeah Apodaca Island like I said and then it's just like

then it becomes a matter of like you know I find this game the most recent comparison being Pocopia of this type of thing and Pocopia to me even though I'm a big Pokemon

fan I know Heather's put way more time into Pocopia because it scratched an itch for her that not that it didn't for me but I just was like not there's too much other things going on gaming wise I want to get back to it I find Pocopia is so much more stressful

because there's always a guy being like hey excuse me real quick can you give me like a toy or some shit and it's like yeah yeah yeah but like when somebody has an issue in Tomidachi life they're like I'm hungry and then just give them food

and like that's funny Nick pulled up a big dog. I regret to inform you that there's just a straight up big dog Blue Lives Matter shirt. Jesus Christ. The big dog is a cop and it says, born to protect. I got to wipe my island. I got to call me something else. I'm taking it back.

No, you're taking it back. You're a different guy of big dog. It's a different kind of guy. I'm not saying stuff like that. They have a whole section just called patriotic, which is just all their freedom is the greater good. Look, they saw where the money was going. Land of the Free World. home with a big hey yeah

if anything freedom isn't free they also have it and Matt this one this one I think is good Doggers Doggers is pretty good it's the Dodgers logo with the big dog and it says doggers a lot of fun

I'm having a blast playing it I do think that like I want to make more people I know that I'll be able to make an apartment building the terraforming stuff on the island is always the thing that stresses me out because like you'll get you'll get like a notification from one of your me's and it'll be like hey I have an idea maybe we can like add some trees here or something right and that will cost money so they'll like show you where the trees could go and then you just pay the fee to add the trees and that takes

so much of the stress out of it for me at least because I'm just like oh you you pick that's totally fine. But then adding buildings, you know, you have, you start with a limited space and you can add to the island and make the island bigger. That's when I start to get a little like, can somebody just do this? I don't want to, I don't want to make it

bad. I don't want to put, I don't want to have an ugly road. You know what I mean? Yeah, right. I don't want to fuck this up. I want it to be nice. You're, you're worried about aesthetics, which understandably. I'm worried about aesthetics because I'm just like, right now I'm just trying to buy clothes that my little would wear. Right. Some of my me's are wearing default clothes. I got you

like a purple sweatshirt and right now currently the shortest shorts that were available which are cargo shorts which are not particularly short. I also made you a little taller than everybody else. Okay. I'll take it. Um, ranch is in the default clothing because I haven't I haven't found the ranch fit yet. Which is like a pattern sweater. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I haven't got that yet. Um, they don't sell my chemical romance stuff. That I'm aware of. They have real world items in the game, which is very funny.

Yeah, in a lot of games there would be branded tie-ins, but I don't know if I'd see... I wonder how much of that Nintendo would be doing. Maybe I can make one. Maybe with the custom one. Maybe I can make a shirt that says MCR on it or something. Which I will do for ranch. So I didn't just get as much time with the

game as you did, and I did not grow my island's population did not swell as large as yours. But when I was trying to decide, what direction to go. And I do wish Heather was here because I did this partly for her. I decided to pay tribute

to the OG private island. No, you didn't. I made Little St. James. No. That what you called your island? First inhabited a little St. James, of course, was Jeffrey. Oh, God.

And I did find myself at a certain point looking at photos of Jeffrey Epstein and then, like, how tall is he? Yeah. From your camera rule, right? Me and him and Malcolm Gladwell. I tell you, I saw Malcolm Gladwell in person, like, not long ago. Wow.

Like, within the last, the list was out. Yeah. And it was public knowledge he was in it. And I was with my old coworkers, walked by him. Saw him type it away about some dumb shit. The French fries used to be this way. And they did stop doing it 10,000 hours ago. Shut the fuck up.

He's crafting a new pseudoscientific. Yes. Theory just pulled completely out of his ass. I walked past him, clocked him immediately. As soon as he turned to corner, I was like, guys, that was Malcolm Gladwell. He's fucking on the Epstein list.

My coworkers couldn't have been less interested. I was like, isn't it crazy? I was like, he's in big trouble. He's like, at tartine. Right. It's just like out. People are just out. You can just do anything now.

You can just do anything. It's so, nobody was bothered by it. but I thought it was funny to see him because he also looks like such a fucking loser Yeah He's kind of got those vibes Anyway, I made Jeffrey I made Jeffrey and once Jeffrey was

suitably leveled up You get to add a second In your islands I get out a second But so of course I added Galane And I will say I think my Galane likeness came out better The Jeffrey Epstein out likeness was a little tricky But you didn't take photos or anything of it

I did use reference Wait hold on let's see what I have on my phone because I did take some photos. I was also drunk. That's another lawyer. You were going to do that anyway. I got home from work late. I got drunk and I was playing more of the

more of a Tomodachi life. Did you have a cocktail or a wine? A little from column A, little from column B. Oh my dog. I love it. Let's see. Did I take... Oh yeah, I just have this one.

Welcome to Little St. James Island. With the Jeffrey? With the Jeffrey waving. And so now everybody on your island. Oh, yeah. And then this other one I screen cap, Little St. James Island. Whoa, cool name.

Thanks, Nintendo. Little Santa James. So you did that. Did you add anybody else? So I have those two. And then as it's going, as like those are the natural one too. You got to have them.

That's the Batman Robin of a little St. James. Then I keep going and it's like, who's the next move? I went with Bill Gates. That's an interesting one. Not the bill I would have gone with. But Gates got a lot of reps in with Epstein. Yeah, he did.

Gates was... And he got a lot more than reps. Gates was spending so much time with Epstein that his wife left him. His wife divorced him and said in the divorce that it was because of his association with Epstein. That seems like he's doing some bad stuff. It's so far the only consequence. He like he lost his... He got divorced and then like one harvour.

professor got fired. Everyone else is just like a senator. And like, and then who else is in trouble? Prince Andrew. Oh, yeah, that's it. He's not one of ours.

He's not American. Yeah, yeah, we can't. Americans play by different rules as we know. Yeah, that's for sure. I should have made Prince Andrew. That's who I should have made. That would have been the natural third pick.

You have time. I have time. No, well, I Bill Gates and then I went with David Copperfield, who's recently been more like a long time creep who had his own private island. Yeah. Where he's doing some bad stuff. here, you're free.

But then had an association with Epstein. Yeah. That has continued. The one thing I will say is that the moment that gave me, and I wish I had screencap this, but the moment that that made me audibly like react was Epstein and Galane bonding because they are both ambitious and know what they want. Oh, my God. the one thing about this island

this is sort of like if it can be done right is because you just gotta do it let's do a little St. James right that's my approach I'm reclaiming it the same way you're reclaiming Big Dog on this on this island in the game adults cannot date kids

yeah and that's a good rule that's you know what it's maybe the most important rule I would say perhaps that should be a law perhaps it should be illegal to date I think it should. Yeah, yeah. But, like, it makes a good point to say that.

Yeah. But I also, I got this item. I was able to get an item. And it was called the Kid-O-Matic. And it's like, you could turn any character you've made into a kid. Yeah, pretty fun. Maybe I'll be Balady, Jeffrey at some point. See how he likes it.

See how he, he'll have a taste of his own medicine. That's really, really funny. Yeah, I will say, I would, like, that's the, I have boundaries for this, this very, this exercise is a very poor taste. I'm not going to put any kids on this island. I'm just going to put all the celebrities, all the celebrity friends. I'm not going to put any kids on mine because it's like,

I don't know any kids. Yeah. So like if there's like, I only know adults and like I'm thinking of who else is going to be funny to put it out, I'll probably do my brothers next. And then, uh,

you know, any famous, maybe I'll just then start doing famous people. I have my nieces and nephews. They're teenagers now. And I feel like it's, it's, you know,

We all remember being kids, and it's just like the age of which things are, like, if they were younger, I'd be like, oh, they'd think it was cool. Now they might be like, oh, what's our uncle doing putting us in this game this week? So, I don't know. Yeah, I put my in-laws in it, and my wife immediately sent a picture of both of them to them, and they thought it was so funny. It is funny. They're like, what are we doing in there? It's a very good bit. Ranch, you made an island. We already talked about how your residents call you, my God. What are the other details of your island? I'm in there, and I've so far made seven of my closest friends. Wow.

I have a couple more to go, plus Gerard Way. And it has turned into basically a bachelor situation where everyone has a crush on Gerard Way. Oh, my God. Wow. It's just what's going to happen. Yeah, and I tried to nudge my character to, you know, befriend Gerard. Right. Hoping that would be the couple that starts.

Yeah, for sure. To Mark's dismay. And I approached Gerard, and immediately upon meeting him, he said, sorry to interrupt Ranch, but can we pick this up tomorrow? Oh, man. I don't even want to talk to you today. That's rough. And then the rest of the day, he's like, following him.

He's trailing Mark around. He's following Mark around and wants to be friends with Mark. Oh, boy. Look, when Mark's around, you're going to want to be friends with Mark. That's just how it's going to go. That's at least my experience. Every time I around Mark, I'm like, this is my fucking guy. He wants a, Gerard Roy.

Way wants a new bag. Mark makes bags. They're very cool. Yeah, they're very cool. What's the website? Mrs.mark.com? Mrs.mark.com. This is Mark.com.

Wow. There is the whole thing of, I think this part, and it's like the Sims is the same sort of thing. Yeah. Like, like the, the part of the fun of it is you want certain things to happen. You're trying to engineer certain things to happen.

And they don't always, sometimes they do, but sometimes they don't. And it's kind of fun when things go a little bit awry. Yes. I'm interested in seeing how. But I didn't think about building my own harem. That's an interesting.

Yeah. I didn't think about that either. Yeah, where everyone's just like. Everyone's trying to date me. Yeah. That sounds great. That is really funny.

Well, when you make you, when I made my first me. Yeah, I don't know if I'm going to add myself to Lil Saint James. You pray. Yeah. I think that just puts me on the file so now. The one addendum to the actual list.

What's that guy doing there? Yeah, I thought I'd add myself. That's a funny kind of guy, a guy who wants to be important so bad that he's trying to get himself in the Epstein files. It's like Steve Renazizi's new move. No, I was on it. I went there. No, you didn't, dude. Why do you keep saying this shit?

A plane again? Another plane lie. I can't trust anything this guy says about planes. Oh great, now he works for air traffic control. I am going to for sure keep playing this game because I'm having a blast with it. I want to see how far it goes. I want to make more people. I want to see my friends getting in there, getting the mix.

Because here's, I mean, this is like the fun thing about like real life. when you have like a like a big event or something like a birthday party or like a wedding or like anything where there's like multiple groups of people converging that you know separately and they're interacting with each other

in a different way it's kind of like it's kind of interesting to watch who's talking to who who's talking with who like oh my grandpa's talking with you or something it's weird it's funny I chop it up with your grandpa

I mean here's the thing he'll talk to you for the rest of your life bring it on love it. Because he also has stories that he'll just tell you again. But he's great. This was years ago, but at one of my brothers' close friends'

weddings and his family are family friends with ours. So my old family was there. Their old family, of course, was there. So there was like the rehearsal dinner. One of the people who was at the rehearsal dinner was the groom's grandfather. And afterwards, or the next day, Nate's like, yeah, after the rehearsal dinner, me and his grandpa went out. We got drunk. It was fucking great.

And I do think my brother's like fucking with me or whatever. At the wedding, my groom's grandpa comes up to me. He's like, your brother's a hell of a guy. They just like partied like all night together. That's so fucking funny. My brother just locked in with his grandpa. Yeah, I was hanging out with grandpa. I was hanging out with grandpa.

Not even his grandpa. No. Nobody, because nobody drinks like somebody else's grandpa. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm loving it. I think the game is really funny and fun.

And I do wish that like, it is kind of crazy that it's a Switch 1 game, actually. It's weird that there isn't like a Switch 2 enhanced version. I don't think there is. No. I mean, and it probably runs better on Switch 2. Rant you are playing on Switch 1.

and the and the I didn't let you vocalize but yes you are I'm playing it on your switch one well I wasn't trying to get that out of you I don't need it

but yeah it's it's very like it's not super resource intensive obviously and it's using MES but so it's not like this doesn't have this like you know MES date back to the Ds four generations ago

yeah I mean so they've been around forever they're really simple by design, I do kind of, I will kind of say if there's something that doesn't keep me playing this game, it's just being on the Switch 2. Yeah.

Which I just like, I find rare occasion to power this sum bitch on. And I like, also like, this is the kind of thing where I'm like, wouldn't I rather just be playing Star Dew Valley on my PC? You know what I mean? If I'm looking for some sort of casual social sim game, wouldn't I rather just kind of be doing that? because it's kind of like PC game energy, you know what I mean?

Yeah, and to that point, though, too, the game, as far as I can tell, has, like, a lot less going on than something like a Star-Due value. Star Do you can really sink your teeth into. This, I'm just like, how can I make myself laugh in this second? Then I guess maybe I should just say, like, the Sims with mods or something. Sure, sure, sure. You know what I mean? It's a similar sort of, like, the semi-passive experience, you are making decisions,

but the characters have their own lives, their own agency. Like, that's funny thing. But honestly, the game is, like, cute and fun. It's got funny stuff that happens in it. And some of that can be a result of your actions, but some of that is just, like, organically sort of happens. And I love those moments in game. So it's a really impressive design.

I already mentioned the customizability of the meat creator, but then also just, like, how many different options there are in terms of like, you know, any situation where you can pick a word. Yes. Or like you have so many options and then also a lot of times you can add your own, as you were saying. And then personality attributes, things like that. It's not just like shy, happy, sad, withdrawn.

Like it's not just like, it's like there's a whole bunch of options, a raft of options that you can make people really feel distinct from each other. You didn't make yourself so you don't have an answer for this. But when I made myself, I like picked what I thought. Because you get like a personality, like, chart, and there's two ends of each spectrum. And so I tried to answer as honestly as I could, like, what I thought were I slotted in. In my result? Outgoing charmer?

I'd say that that's you. Hey, I'll take it. Ranch, I call Matt an outgoing charmer. 100%. Who, me? You're always out there chopping it up. Big smile on your face. It's interesting that kind of you vote to say.

fishing for it, but I find myself sometimes, maybe as I get older, going in too, where I'm just like, I don't have it today. I don't got it, I'm not trying to chop it up. I'm trying to chop it down. Yeah. I'm trying to go home. No, I know that feeling. Ooh. Sometimes you're just like, I'll talk an Uber driver's ear off, and then there are other times

I'd be like, I wish I was in a Waymo right now. So I just had my thoughts to myself. But it was funny to see, and so far my island is full of other little psychos just like me but it'll be interesting to make I wonder if I should make an enemy like somebody I don't like and put them on the island and make it so that nobody's friends with them

but you can also add little lingo things like when you become friends you can add like a nickname that these two me's will call each other right and so like for me and my wife I put like what we call each other which I won't say Not that it's bad, but it's just private for me. Yeah, right? Things are just for me.

Yeah. But I know it. I'm just going to lie. Yeah. Yeah. I know it and it's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And before anybody guesses, it's not fuckbot.

That's not what my wife calls me. But you put that stuff in and then like you see those characters calling each other that. And it's like, it's just like, I don't know, it's sweet too. Like it is like a nice little cozy little thing. And I was not ever going to play it until. the listener made us and I was like, I got to check this thing out. It seems, it seems awesome. I'm glad we covered it.

I'm glad I spent some time with it. And I'm interested in messing around with it some more. Before we wrap this up, I just want to say, I just want to throw in some details that Heather gave us about her island. I'm reading Heather's text. I named my island, CIA Island and had the Mies referred to me as director of projects. Here's a quote. Oh, I can totally see that. You're speaking of the podium after overthrowing governments to victory.

Impressive. A lot of this, I think, comes from that the Stroke set that was just showing at Coachella that was just projecting all the CIA assassinations and clues over the years. Link sounded really interested in overthrowing governments when we talk. There's actually Link is in there talking to whoever this is. Their favorite celebrity is Alan W. Dulles, who was director of the CIA from 1953 to 1961, head of the Warren Commission investigating the death of JFK. My plan is to see if I can get them to plan a coup or 9-11. So there is something for everybody in this game. You can kind of just do whatever. And I'm just really looking forward to keep playing and see what else unfolds. What other little silly little interactions I can crack with my twisted little mind.

You're like fucking jigsaw. I'm like jigsaw. You know what? Maybe I'll make jigsaw. Can you make a, that would be a, feels like a fun game if you could make your own jigsaws. You could make your own saws? Like jigsaw was in it, but then you could make sauce. Like make little like saw scenarios for that?

Yeah, I'm like, I'm putting three guys in here and I'm going to put a chain around each of their dicks. And they kind of either. They got to pull off one of their dicks because the key is inside of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The locks will break if they get hard, so they have to either jack each other off or cut their dicks off. I was like, I guess we'll just do the first one. Because we're going to get hard. Guys, I got a segment.

And the segment is... Oh, no. What's going on? What's the issue? You seem like something's awry? We're going to do the segment. I'm going to find what I'm looking for. I forgot to dig up a file for this,

because I can't remember if we did this segment pre or in the ranch era. Okay. And you can leave all this in. The segment is called What's Their Age Again? I sang a song I have the file somewhere I'll see what I can do You'll find the file

You'll sing the song And then we'll come up right here I had sang it already I wasn't going to try to sing it again live Oh you were you saying it I was too embarrassed to sing it laugh Okay sorry sorry But the songs

It's a parody And we don't really do stuff like that No we don't really do stuff like that It's a parody of what's my age again Blank 1882 But it's specifically about This game, this segment what's their age again.

If I remember correctly, it was in the episode we did about Super Mario RPG with Django Gold. That's the debut of it, and I did it on Zoom to a stranger. I can't remember if Ranch was here for that. That does not ring about it. I don't think that predates to Rochelle.

I ought to find the file. My life's ruined. It's a good song. But maybe, so here's what's going to happen. You're either going to hear the song, or I didn't do it and then Ranch in Post. If I don't find a song, you can put booing in right now. You ever think about if you were in a saw, how you do?

Because a lot of movies, I'd be like, okay, I'd be dead immediately. But when the saw is like, I feel like I crush a saw. Well, the punishments are often not actually escapable. They are like, cut your own fucking leg off. Yeah, but I mean, I'm like, I'll fine, I'll cut my own fucking leg off. But they usually bleed out and die. They're not like, okay, I did it. Now you're free.

I would give myself a tourniquet. I was in Boy Scouts. Okay, okay. Cut off the circulation. I was like, I'm losing this leg anyway. I'm not going to bleed out too. Not to reference another podcast. This is very producer Ben of you.

No, this is the thing I'm most producer been about is when I saw as I'm like, I can do the saw. Which, by the way, I watched a simple plan over the weekend because I went and saw the new Bob Odenkirk movie Normal

at the Vista. Took my family of the Vista. Wow. Their first time there, we all had a blast. There was a Q&A with Bob. Everybody was happy. And everybody was like,

this was a great LA day, we love it. And I was like, I felt like a million bucks. They showed a preview for, you know, they show old previews there at this movie theater. They show the trailer for a simple plan. All four of us sort of all look over at each other and goes, that looks fucking good. That looks awesome. Sam Ramey film, but Simple Plan, it's great. Yeah, it's really good.

So that night, Isabel and I put it on and we're just losing our shit. We're like, this movie's fucking awesome. It's really, really good. And then that night, I listened to the Blank Check episode where they talked. about it with Kevin Smith and it's I think look you want to listen to a good podcast that's a great episode of a podcast yeah go check it out uh Kevin's got approximately 1,000 stories and they're all great but it is the origin of Ben thinking he can get out of any such like he can get out of he would do that situation well yeah he's like if this happened to me I would do it right is basically

what he says and it's very very funny it's a good bit uh but if you also haven't seen that movie it's fucking incredible it's really good it's basically like found money gone wrong yes and it's It's just, it develops in every, is the most satisfying possible way. An all-time Paxton performance and an all-time Billy Bob performance too. Everybody's fucking great in it. Anyway. Now it's time to say the age to me. Are they 19?

Are they 23? Is it canon? Is it just a thought? The matcher research probably not. Can our contestants guess their age? What's their age again? What's their age again? What's their age again?

I'm going to name some guys, some video game characters. And you're going to, Ranch, you can play this too, because I designed the game with you in mind. Because I picked characters you would know. Wow. And you have to tell me how old do you think they are. And whoever gets closest, not Price is Right Rules, we'll get a point. Got it. How old is Leon S. Kennedy in, I don't actually, now I'm thinking about it, I don't think you play this one, Ranch.

but I think you can still get this. How old is Leon S. Kennedy in Resident Evil 4? How old is he? I'm going to say 37 years old. I'm going to say 37 years old. Ranch, what about you? I have played this. Okay, yes, you have.

I'm going to say 33. Ranch is closest. Wow. He's just a young pup. He's 27 in Resident Evil. He's that young. See, because I read some, because he's in Resident Evil, Requiem.

Yes, and he's 51. So that was kind of trying to do the math backwards from that. Yeah. But I guess, yeah, that points to Ranch. He's 51 in Resident Evil 9, which also takes place in the future a little bit. Oh, okay. So it's not contemporary, but like... I was off either way.

You're off. Ranch gets the point. Wow. How old is James Sunderland from Silent Hill 2? And for the sake of the game, we're talking, we are talking about... We're going to talk about the original. I went too old last time. We're talking about Silent Hill 2, the original, like not the remake.

Not the remake. Got it. It's true for both, but we're talking about that. I went too old last time. I'm going to err on too young this time. I'm going to say 24. Okay. I'm going to say 35.

Nick's going to take this one. Wow. He's 29. He did all that. He's 29 and he did all that. Yeah, right? What the hell? He's crazy.

So it's a tie game. It could be a. one's game at this point. How old is Alan Wake in Alan Wake 2? These are all kind of the same kind of guy. Yeah, right. There's the same kind of guy, the same sort of survival horror sort of genre. Hmm. Boy, it's a good question. He reads, I'm just, I'm just going to go with my gut. He reads as 40. I don't think he's going to be that old because it's a video game. So I'm going to say he's 34.

I'm going to say 37. Ranch is going to take this one. He's about 48 or 49 years old. They ageed him appropriately. They age him appropriately. Yeah. Because in the first one he's in his 30s

and then after the time gap or you know between one and two. And for how long he's in the realm that he's in or whatever he's 48 or 40. He definitely reads as a middle-aged guy.

So there you go. Yeah. Hey, how about that? We represent all ages in video games. That's fun. And hey, you know what? He looks pretty good. Looks great.

He's got cool hair, cool beard. He's wearing cool clothes. Personality's bad. All those shadows going, wake. Wake. Are just horny. He's looking good. Yeah, they're like shouting him and they're like, oh man, wait.

The cat calling him. Yeah. How old is Ada, Wong in Resident Evil 4. Who, boy. How old is Ada Wong? You weren't here when we did the Segment Dreamcast, where we cast Gemma Chan as...

Pretty good. ...a Wong. I think we all got a little crazy for a second. We're all sort of banging our heads with mallets. I think it's possible. Ada Wong hottest character? Very, very. a very, very fetching video game character.

Definitely up there with Amy Rose from Sonic the Hedgehog. And pregnant Sonic. Pregna Sonic. I'm going to say 23. You're going to say 23. Ranch, what about you? She was reading older in their dynamic, so I want to say 30. I think I've got to give Ranch two points for getting it right on the dot.

Wow. Well done. Ranch is two points. So that means you, that means you have four. points. Nick has one. Wow. Wow. I didn't have to give her more points. No, I think it's fun. If you get it on the dot, that's a new rule. New rule. I'm not going to do it. Never mind. How old is Claire Redfield in Resident Evil 2? Who boy, 31. Nick says 31. 25. Ranch is going to take it. 19. She's 19 years old. At the time of the game in

in game it's 1998 they somehow have it that she was born in 1979 19 years old wow how about that we love it

and finally ranch is the winner but here's the last one yeah fine ranch one how old are Mary Kate and Ashley and Mary Kate and Ashley

Sweet 16 license to drive boy I'm gonna guess 16 okay interesting ranch 16 15.

The answer is 16. I can go out the door with two points. I'll take it. Well done, Ranch. That's this week's get played. Our producers of Michelle Chen, Ranch, twitch.tv.tv slash yard underscore underscore Sard. What are you streaming these days?

Still on Resident Evil Requiem. Wow. We're on the spider part. Okay. So I'm not touching it. Yeah, yeah. My friend Joanna's going to come in and do it for me. Okay, great.

Speaking to Joanna, plug your podcast. Oh, you can listen to Defiles' Podcast. Wherever you get your podcast, we talk about ghosts. A lot of fun. Our music is by Ben Prunty, Ben Prunty Music.com, our artist by Duck Brigade Design, Duck Brigade.com, kinshipgoods.com for merch. And a bonus episode every Wednesday in our Patreon, get play, DLC. Matt, what are we doing this week?

This week, we're doing another retro rewind. Heather will be back. Nick, you will not be there for this. But it is, we watched a... an actually insane video. It's a Sega Dreamcast summer internal video. So it's from the summer of 1999. Wow.

An internal video from Sega that then was released online for some reason. And we had a time watching it. It is crazy. I'm bummed I missed out on that one. I'll watch the video. Patreon.com slash get played.

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