JAR Media Posdact - 2022 WRAP UP - JARCast Episode 306

Episode Date: January 2, 2023

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Good afternoon, morning, evening or night, ladies and gentlemen. This is JAR Media 2022, WAPT. On this episode, we are going to have a look at the major political events on the year and give our final opinions on it and the effect it's going to have on our future well-being. We're also going to be having a look at the latest Elon Musk drama. I'm going to be deciding what's going on there

so boys it's been one hell of a year baby a bit tired good afternoon morning evening or night ladies and gentlemen it is the end of 2020 and as tradition goes the end of call of duty black off what's happening

I can't swear anymore either. This is all to be edited out. Good afternoon, morning, evening, all night. Ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to this episode of the Jiam Media Podcast. Episode 30.6. Well, we've gone back. Well, not 30.6, but like 30, space six. You know, 30, six.

Hmm. You know? Good afternoon, more evening on ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to... Good afternoon, morning, evening or night, ladies and gentlemen, I'm working with this episode at the JAR Media Podcast. I've been thinking about that a lot, like, I want to be more animated in my body when I communicate.

Right. That's something you should do anyway. I don't do it. I feel like I'm such a passive person. I feel like it would be kind of a fun juxtaposition to be, like, really animated with my body, but, like, keep the vocals and stuff. How would you go about, like, being more animated? It's kind of like a reprogramming kind of thing, you know?

No, you just... You're to kind of build it up, you know? You're going away somewhere over the next three months, where body language is kind of like normal there when you speak. You're going away for three months? Really? Um, so you need to just observe people. Body language is normal there?

Yeah. Europe, Italy, Spain, Portugal You're very emotive with your body when you talk They reveal their bodies You have stripped naked This is just fucking argue Well I don't know if you guys said it But this is episode 306

It's either year end or year beginning Depending on your perspective We're recording at year end but I think it'll be going up New Year. Yeah, we'll be going up the beginning of the year. The beginning of fresh year.

On the second. 202.3. Hmm. I'm your host, Alex, joined by Jim and James. I want to thank the JAR Media Patreon's that make the audio version possible and get their names right out in the first or second week of every month.

It will be next episode, seeing as we're still in December as we are recording this right now. Yeah, so that's another year for the books James what If one thing One thing defined your

22 what was it Anything What comes to your mind Warhammer 40K Hmm Okay Jim It's just generally straight up

What are you Jim Um 2022 Probably the ocean Hmm So someone else Has been watching Avatar A few times then

Mm-mm no i've just seen the ocean many more times this year and monkeys true yeah i was jealous of you seeing those monkeys gotta be real mine is uh probably just utter political disarray that's probably my yeah that's quite yeah no that that's a really good one actually like the cost of living misery yeah yeah yeah just um the UK again yeah just um the UK again into chaos but not the good kind of chaos well no we've just dragged the whole country down yeah to our level that's three independently we've finally done it we've sandbagged the country yeah we crashed the economy um I mean normally what we do is like

kind of wrap up the year with some of our favorite artistic expressions no but it's not just artistic expressions it's also the how old year's been for ourselves and, you know, what were our strengths and how we're going to go into 20-20-3? There's more to us than just our interests. Personally, I'm very glad this year is over because one of the worst years ever, personally, for me. You're saying that when we came out of 2020 and 21? Yeah, well, they were also awful.

Then why was this year awful comparison to them? like where's this accusation coming from um i guess just sort of just reaching like a personal low point um like such a low point where like some serious work needed to be done to get out of that low point you know do you feel yourself coming out of this low point

i think so yeah yeah but it's been rough since like june so Yeah, I mean, this is the nice thing about a new year's, even though, like, technically, just another day. Yeah, and like, there is no, like, we're stepping through some portal, some, like, we're not coming out of the Avengers Endgame portal, yeah, we're not launching out the Puss and Boots portal, or the Mario portal, or the Spider-Verse portal, into some new round.

realm it's just like maybe that's what defined 2022 is portals yeah well that might define 2023 true you can't say it yeah but it feels like the way the brain works like categorizing stuff it's like fresh beginning you know just the chance the time you give yourself to be like I'm gonna change this one little bit a new leaf a new page yeah You know? Like the page of a Game of Thrones book Why did you bring out Game of Thrones, man?

You're just making me sad again. Yeah, so I was... I'm the only one who's like prepared like a list. Well, no, but I consumed so much media and I remember all of it in intricate details that I don't need a list. So, I mean... I reckon we should just start with movies.

What do you reckon? Okay. What do you reckon? So I feel like there'll be a little. lot of crossover to be honest yeah let me let me start yeah let's start with the movies um just little warning there might be little spoilers here and there for stuff we bring up um so just keep that in mind and um if we mention a title of something just skip ahead or something i'll have time codes or whatever for when they're appropriate but i want to start with uh everything everywhere all at

once my movie of the year um just like a movie that connected with me in a way that that almost did bring me out of a slump itself where it was like it was the exact right kind of story and message that i needed to hear at that time to really i don't know get a lot of sort of emotional fulfillment from um i love a short round um and having like a character that's all all about like killing it killing with kindness as a character personified um yeah just i've seen it what four or five times um every now and again like when i'm in the bath or doing a poop or whatever i've got it on i chin so i just chuck it on watch my favorite scenes or whatever i really love everything about it um i can't remember how much we've really talked about it on sure i don't we haven't

really done anything any deep discussion on it or whatever yeah i don't think we have all three of us of seeing it. It was kind of like a big deal movie purely in the fact you watched it and you were like, guys, you have to come over and watch this. Yeah, it was one where I insisted.

You were that passionate about it. Yeah, I didn't want you guys to miss this one. Yeah, and it is like really special. And it feels like particularly designed to resonate. with like our generation at least yeah i get what you mean because it is kind of like chaotic and it's it's kind of recognizable in terms of like you can see like the the DNA of like the matrix in there and all this like multiverse type stuff another kind of portal sci-fi yeah yeah universe jumping

concept and the title does explain like kind of the the thrust of the movie it is all over the place it's everything it's everywhere it is like a chaotic premise but like that is what makes it so like energetic and fun and unpredictable um what did you think of it james like i wasn't sure what you were going to think of it i liked it just because it had heart and it had character yeah heart's a good way to put it when it has that it doesn't matter any of the other qualities of it like instantly catch catches you on that yeah that's what it got me and i like and I felt like and I giggled had some good moments and I liked it

yeah it's something about that tone being able to balance it's one of the things I love most about absurdist comedy combined with drama that actually is effective that is something rare because like you don't see like SpongeBob

I don't know it's kind of sad in the SpongeBob movie where he gets let dried it's not the same it's a different thing but usually as a rule you don't really associate those two things You know what I'm saying? Because it is totally absurd, it's silly, it's wacky, it's goofy, it has dumb comedy in it. But something about the like character drama is really genuine and human and has a lot of heart, like you said.

Yeah, like Metal Gear Solid, too. Yeah, great action as well. Like some of my favorite action scenes of the year. It is fantastic, yeah. Yeah, so excellent and creative and like... The soundtrack as well. Mm-hmm. It's like

They could have just released the soundtrack as an album And I would have liked it You know The music is that resonant Yeah I've listened to a lot Of the best tracks I mean like the empathy fight Yeah the music that's playing

Towards the beginning Where she's in the laundromat And it's all like just perfectly synced And it's just the blocking's so good And it's just so energetic and fun And I love it so much Yeah that was a special movie for me especially with like the villain being like nihilism basically yeah

being a metaphor for that that kind of hopelessness um it was like yeah after COVID and after the last few years of like just misery it just seemed yeah just the exact right message that needed to bow the fresh air yeah um it's funny observing like because it's got such like universal appeal slash acclaim um it started turning into like a oh really like this prove it yeah

when people hear that they like go in with the challenge kind of really this is the movie everyone yeah saying this about

but whatever it's too good man that was definitely a standout for me my favorite that I've seen there's still a few big ones I've yet to like check out

but I'd be surprised because it's almost like it was made for me you know just everything I would want, even though I could never really imagine this kind of, how you'd even really write or especially edit something like this together and make it actually

work. So yeah, absolutely amazing. The Batman. That's what I was going to bring up. We've talked about it on JAR, but I've not watched it outside of the first viewing I had of it, but I love that. I like that movie a hell of a lot when I watched it. Have you seen it again, Jim?

Have you seen it the once? I saw it twice at the cinema. Did you? Yeah, because I was jazzed on this movie. It's, um... It has, like, problems. Yeah. Mostly in, like, the plot department.

There's some bits that... And the pacing. It's really long. Yeah. Yeah, it's, like, silly long. But I'm... That doesn't bother me. I can see it bothering, like, a lot of people.

but I'm just happy to sit and just like absorb Batman into my eyes um yeah it's it's like it reminded me of why I love Batman to begin with yeah same that that kind of opening scene where it's just like establishing Gotham um it shows that uh alleyway with the music and it's all just this like implied story is really cool I love that kind of stuff Yeah, but also the arc Batman has, which was, like, the movie starts with, like, what Batman is to people currently. And the arc of the movie is, like, Batman becoming what he was from, like, the animated series. Yeah.

And I think that's a really awesome take on it. And when the movie starts transitioning into, like, that message becomes clear, that's when I, like, truly felt. I'm not sure I understand. That's when I, like, truly fell in love with it. It was also cool how they kind of reinvented him visually, like, cinematically, I mean, like, um, his costume, the vehicles he drives. It's kind of like, kind of year one inspired, isn't it? Um, kind of early Batman.

Yeah. I really like Robert Pattinson. Yeah, he's probably the biggest shocker from the movie. Because it's like... Jerking. I'd already turned on on him as an actor, like, from the twilight days. It was like he's the twilight guy. Did you not see LSD in a bottle movie?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that was the first one I watched, what was like, oh, he's, like, really good. No, he's a really good character. And then he's in, like, the lighthouse and stuff. So I'd already liked him again. Like, but then he was cast as band. man that was like I don't know he seems a bit like young and like just he he he has like kid vibes yeah I get what you mean he's like Y a yeah but that really works for

Batman mm-hmm because he is a kid really yeah and I like that he's kind of a bit like like he's kind of his early days like like when he's escaping and from the LAPD or whatever And Like his suit's like really like basic And he like glides and like smacks into a lamp or whatever Yeah, he like hits into a bus or something Yeah

Yeah And um On the flip side though to everything everywhere The soundtrack isn't very good Yeah It's a bit grating It's more like kind of repetitive That's the issue

Yeah It doesn't like use the theme sparingly to make it a moment it just puts it in everywhere every scene yeah yeah it's kind of an overuse thing but I do like it though

yeah like it's a good theme but it's just like oversaturated no I totally get what you mean yeah I enjoyed that hopefully I'd like to see like just a cool trilogy where they'd pick like the right villains

they keep like a consistent like Batman has a good eye over the three of them there's some something good going on it's like it's got like notes of the Nolan thing where it's taking itself really seriously and it's like grounded and it doesn't have them all it doesn't have like Clayface and kill a crock and the which it should it one that that's what the third one should be kill a crook do you think so bring out bring out the killer crock yeah Dave Batista killer crock I wonder if they're going to do um like Court of Owls for the sequel.

Hmm. Because I feel like you are kind of limited with the grounded thing because so many of the villains are dumb as hell. Like really, well not dumb, like, you know what I mean? Like silly. Yeah. Like Mr. Freeze, people say they want to see Mr. Freeze next, but I'm thinking like, how do you actually do that in a grounded way?

Because like the penguin, the Colin Farrell Penguin is like there's nothing really, it's not like Danny DeVito like raised by penguins or the bottle pushed in his head from the Arkham Games or something it's not like yeah he's just a mob guy gangster yeah yeah yeah yeah I feel

like that that ultra goofy shit could be done in like a Justice League ask Batman yeah like one that would join the Justice League but but then there's also like certain characters they can't really revisit because of like the Nola movie

or, I don't know. The Scarecrow would be a really cool one, but he's kind of probably been used in Batman Begins. You don't want to tread. But then Jerker's in it, I guess, as well. Yeah, Jerker's used in, like, every Batman movie. Yeah. I don't know.

I'd enjoy that. That was a good cinema experience. Yeah, super fun. Shout out Nope. Yeah. Nope might actually be my movie of the year. Really? Yeah, it really stunned me.

Have you seen it how many times twice? Twice, maybe even three times? Really, I've only seen it the once, so... Yeah, it's a movie that... Like, after I watched it for that first time, you're just constantly thinking about it. Mm. And, um, I was kind of disappointed by Jordan Peel's second movie.

Us. Yeah, I'm the same boat. It was, it was fine. it was it felt like a step down yeah like get out was really good and then it was a step down but nope is like easily the best of the three to me yeah it feels like it's saying the most it's the most like visually stunning yeah lots some of that like imagery some of the visuals are like yeah not only are they memorable but they're like really frightening yeah yeah i um i can't get the image out of my head whenever i'm vacuuming now

like with a vacuum cleaner and I like suck up a spider I can't remove that thought from like some of the imagery in this movie and it's just one short scene in the film but that stuff has stuck with me it's like

tattooed into my brain yeah yeah like because I've always been fascinated with the idea of like UFOs and aliens and this kind of thing but it can be goofy as hell

it can be silly as they kind of mock it in the movie itself with the like big kids dressing up as the big wide-eyed aliens or whatever um that you'd expect to see um but yeah the way they take it's just like that

it's like such a simple but like ingenious uh kind of spin on something we've kind of seen like expected um yeah and it works on like every level like it's an entertaining movie full stop

like you don't need to read into it for it to enjoy it yeah but then there's a lot to read into and then there's like a layer and a layer and a layer yeah yeah yeah and all the like theories and yeah yeah just all the like exploitation themes the yeah the way cinema itself is like commented on it's documenting things and yeah yeah it's a big it was a big win that one for me um really like the main character too yeah he's such a kind of understated actor, but it really works when he's castorite. The Northman. Shout out the Northman.

It wasn't a commercial success, but like a proper, like, myth. Like, put to the screen. Yeah, I don't think you can put it into words better than that. like it is just like the a myth it yeah it looks sounds gives you that like yeah it's based on the man that inspired hamlet like the story of hamlet um but yeah just like the the look of it the just that aga's style like it really yeah i'm glad to see it on that kind of the scale like a I've never, I wasn't really expecting to see that from him considering like the bottle movie Lighthouse thing. The witch is like really low budget.

So Northman was like, even though it was like a flop or whatever. Yeah, I'm glad you got to see it. Yeah. But you can't take it away now. Yeah. We at least got that as like a nice reward and it's like we're constantly complain. Like we watched like a montage of all these like trailers of movies that are coming out and sort of like cocaine bear and in. all these sequels and Marvel movies and superhero movies and shit like this is the kind of thing you want to support and see as much as possible um yeah really good uh quick shout out to the gialmail dotoro pinocchio that kind of recently came out i've always been a big stop motion fan um and like recently biased aside like i haven't seen stop motion this

like smooth like it's it's really impressive I thought it was like beautiful and all the character designs and that he turns the Pinocchio story which is like kind of a it's really strange and kind of like and then he does a show and then there's like a donkey place and an amusement park and then there's like there's nothing that really binds it but he he kind of turns it into a myth and makes it so like the whole he's not alive so every time pinocchio like dies in the movie he's kind of taken to this realm where there's this kind of like god character that keeps bringing him back because he's not a real boy and it's like has this whole mythos and all the like creatures and stuff it's really cool it's a really interesting take yeah yeah no it's

definitely worth of watch um and because one of the best and worst movies of the year was both Pinocchio movies Yeah I was just I'll bring that up in a bit I had a whole list of like I don't know what it was about this year in particular

but I feel like I absorbed a lot less stuff than normal but the things I did were like I really went deep into like a smaller group of things as opposed to like a broad

thing but I do have a list of like I just named it shout out to shit so I'll do that at the end after we've done the good stuff I want to shout out men as well I'm the only one here that's seen it so I won't stay long on it just a

disturbing horror movie I know it's like controversial a lot of people don't like it but I found it really creepy I'm a big fan of Annihilation ex machina I find like fertility god

like ancient creepy stuff like that just a weird disturbing idea to me like myth type stuff like that just really gets under my skin has like a insane ending

that I'll never forget if you're like unique weird A24 horror check that one out because like yeah I really like his other movies it's one of those kind of marmite movies

but if it connects with you it will like really connect with you um Banshees of Inershearing came out on Disney Plus It was like a week ago or so and I checked that out Amazing The Did you ever see in Bruges

Yeah Really good movie Yeah So it's that kind of cast Um On this like Little Island In Ireland Um

And it's kind of a cool It's almost like whiplash in a way where it's the idea of like how far do you push your art yeah for greatness yeah and like what does that actually mean um like the idea of time and like what what message are you going to leave behind and what you're going to sacrifice for it uh but yeah the kind of quaint setting the uh the humor as well kind of just like in bruges it's a similar tone three billboards was a similar kind of thing too yeah really good um yeah just a great original drama with really good characters really good writing and i love um i love when there's like

a conflict that's in the background of a movie like there's a civil war happening on an island in the background and it's like part of the story um but doesn't directly affect the main characters yeah I find that like a cool like a setting yeah yeah um those are the main ones I wanted to shout out for now unless you guys had any uh top gun mm we all saw top gun and you guys did the jar video without we don't need to say much but it's just like I was like flawed I can't say I'd ever had any interest in like yeah plane stuff. Planes are cool.

They've always been cool, but if... When I heard Top Gun 2 exist, I was like... Well, yeah, when I was... I had like a really cynical... When I was seeing the trailers, I was like, oh, here's another one of these sequels. Decades and decades later, cashing on an IP, everyone kind of knows.

But yeah, it kind of ain't my words on that one. Yeah, Tom Cruise is, like, dedicated to actually, like, giving you an experience. showing you stuff you can't see. Yeah, with like real stakes and like... Yeah, but like what... Tangible action. Yeah.

And although like, I'm... The film is full of like effects and stuff, I'm sure, but it's just real enough where it's... Yeah. I just like there's... I loved the simplicity of just like, start the movie, set and it's basically a mission impossible like you set an impossible mission the whole movie is training for the impossible mission and then the last like 40 minutes or whatever is just the mission um i'm one of those people that has the take of like i didn't need any of that romance stuff like to me it would be perfect if it was just like

the training action like to me there wasn't really that much added from having the old jennifer connelly yeah i know why it's in there it's like a hollywood big blockbuster movie or whatever but that's the only thing that weighs it down for me um because yeah especially that all the flying scenes are they're genuinely incredible like yeah i was really like blown away by those yeah and just the the the way they give you the like sense of direction and where stuff is in the scene it's like yeah and even though it does have the simplicity and they set up the goals it still manages to be surprising and kind of go directions you weren't anticipating it to go um

like that whole even through the training like with the bird scene the bird strike and stuff that's a really great scene um yeah that was a that was definitely a surprise for sure but the only reason i didn't know it down was just because of the there's there's like an intense corniness to it yeah it's which is good when it works but when it doesn't it like kind of annoys me um i think i've seen that one twice now uh Yeah, real surprise, because I watched the first Top Gun like after and it's like the same for me. This fuck this sucks. I can't I can't stand this fucking film. Yeah, so that's a real one, but like the sequel is just infinitely better. Yeah, than the original. Any other movie ones to throw out there? I think all the other movie ones that I have are like in the shout out to shit. So I'll bring that out.

in a bit um okay let's move on the tv on um i've only got a small selection here but aren't in the shout out to shit bit man and or is the whole thing good start to finish it's no joke probably the best star was thing they have done since the disney acquirement yeah okay i guess it you like rogue one right yeah um it's kind of like the same team that fixed up rogue one um but just the approach like it's actually got like like character writing that is almost too good to be in a star wars movie where it's almost like this is almost like misplaced because we're so used to like the schlock like yeah like the the obi one show like that's kind of what we've come to expect like it's there's so much like shit in it then it's like I wish that scene

wasn't in it I wish that dumb thing didn't just happen oh that's a baffling choice why'd you do that so for every cool thing there's like something garbage to match it yeah but this it's just like consistently good um maybe the first couple episodes a bit kind of slow where it's kind of finding its legs but like once you figure out where it's going and what it's doing and what it's building towards it has this awesome structure where it's like everything three episodes is kind of like a mini arc that all like feed into each other

and it like builds to set pieces and there's this there's this one episode about halfway through called The I which I actually just rewatched the other day because it's like such a good episode whereas it's a it's a heist basically that's my weakness

I love like heists and like getting teams together and pulling off like these impossible kind of tasks and then it somehow avoids just the tip of typical star was pitfalls that doesn't it doesn't just shove in references all the time like they just ruin it like rogue one even did it where it's got like the i don't like you guys just on this planet for like the whole film comes to a screeching hole just to show they're there like it it doesn't do that shit it's got like a consistent tone it's got cool new characters i

it's it's it's the best approach where like no one cared about this character and or which is perfect because you have this open book basically a blank book that you can fill in and he's a cool character and it's yeah a genuine surprise because out of all the shit they announced on the docket based on stuff that was the one that was almost like no one's going to give a about that that's just going to be late

but really surprising yeah there's some great action it's got the production like you'd expect and imagine In saying that though The Obi-1 show felt more like a TV Yeah Like it felt like a TV show

At some points where Andor doesn't really have that issue So I would Yeah I would recommend that if you're like If you're like jaded as fucking Star Wars Which I was right before Andor But it kind of reminding me a bit like

Oh yeah that like There was something about There was like an initial spark That like was really cool about this And it's like finding a way to revisit that um and i think it's only gonna have two seasons so it should if it's good the same kind of writing quality as the first season it could wind up being like a like a like a really cool just like yeah so i definitely recommend watching that if uh any of that kind of sounds

interesting stellon scars guard is this really cool new character he's this like um he sells uh he sells antiques he's like an antique dealer but that's like his front because he's actually like a building the rebellion like in the background but the empire's eyes are like everywhere and the empire is actually like scary they're actually like an oppressive force they're very rarely they're effective yeah yeah yeah yeah really recommend that

yeah kind of mentioned House of the Dragon on a previous cast yeah and the kind of depression that came with revisiting Game of Thrones and that I got to the last season um again i watched a few episodes of it but just stop because it like it's so it's even worse than i remember uh because i went back and listened to like the the sardonna cast i did like around the time it just ended and i was way more i was being way more like uh like easy on it um

then i remember feeling quite i was kind of like okay with it at the time but i was so swept up in like there is one good episode like i my recommendation would be to just stop the episode before the whole like night king episode where they like attack um when they attack winterfield yeah when they attack winterfield the episode where all the characters you love are just like sitting around talking yeah like prepare that that's that's a good episode there's some like good dialogue and some good character moments there but it's just a absolute fuss so it took a lot to kind of get into house of the dragon I guess but it's cool it's got you especially with the way

like the season ends it's got like a real this is cool like I really I think dragons are cool creatures I always found them kind of cool and the only time I've ever really felt the the kind of scale or true potential of what you could do with those kind of creatures is the the Bilbo Smalg scene but the first bit of it before it turns into the silly

like dwarves fighting with this big like gold thing just look at that conversation Bilbo has with Smog and it's like all about the scale and it's the conversation that that's like cool but

the dragon stuff towards the end especially is like yeah this is like cool and scary and the design of all the dragons are cool and just the typical stuff you'd expect all the like political stuff, the incest

the all this kind of stuff. Lots of silly wigs, but you know so hopefully that like gets better as it goes along. Yeah, yeah. And my only other TV show

I really want to shout out right now is Peacemaker. Oh, you watched it? Yeah. Well, just because I've got, I've had the scar now TV whatever

which has HBO House of the Dragon and yeah all the HBO stuff and peacemakers one of those

um to rewatch the uh the suicide squad James Gunn movie yeah that character does a sad

yeah it's really good um and the show is good too uh yeah I've heard it I just yeah I just

never give a fuck about John Sina like I'd I don't really like him I thought he was trashing everything until Suicide Squad It's like the perfect casting for him And just there's like kind of style

Like James Gunn's writing where it's like A little bit juvenile But he's able to like Just characterise everyone just enough And get like the little sensitive moments in For like the silly shit It's like a good tone Um

I don't know if you ever saw Super From him It was reminding me of super Is that James Gunn? Yeah Um With Dwight from Yeah, yeah, Dwight and a...

Yeah, that's a good movie. Elliot Page. Yeah, it felt very much like that. Like, kind of really edgy and... Yeah. Kind of gruesome and... Yeah. Because Super was like a whole, like...

That was like a commentary on superhero stuff. Yeah. Like before, that was like a big... I can't remember if that was before, like, kick-ass and stuff like that. I want to say it was. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't. enjoy it. It's got James Gunn's humor can be like quite hit or miss sometimes. Like it can go like a little bit too far. Yeah. But I think I like it more than I don't. Yeah, it's pretty good. The only TV show I can think of that I watched was cyberpunk. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. Edge runners. Yeah. EG runners. Yeah. Edge runners is really good. It is really good. It's like it's just full, like, edge runners. Yeah. Edge runners. Yeah. Edg runners is really good. It's like, it's just full, like.

anime like trigger it's just trigger yeah like overly dramatic way yeah i forgot to know that down actually because i can i was like trying to it's like really difficult to actually remember a bunch of the stuff like yeah it's easy with uh like movies because i just log it all on letterboxed or um even Spotify or whatever you can kind of track the album it's a bit easier but yeah stuff like that yeah i'd completely forgotten about the yeah it dries was a shout yeah it was fantastic and it got me back into the video game it gave me the it got me into the game

yeah for like five minutes eh yeah it's it made me realize like this because the universe is based on like this dice rolling like d and d type game

the board game yeah but that universe that was created for that is actually like super cool and super versatile and that's the thing i like this yeah yeah the central hook's like really good and spin edge eyes i really like that yeah um and it's just like got at least one sick bit per episode yeah i like all the like action animation and yeah and it's like classic over the top like overly characterful characters

yeah well if we're done with TV yeah I think it's game time which again I've only got a small selection myself yeah I got like three because I was lucky I like went on

my on my Xbox true achievement stats um because that's where I played Eldon Ring Well, I played it on PC and Xbox Series X or whatever But Alderman Ring is definitely

Probably the piece of content I've sunk the most pure time into In 2022 And yeah, that's definitely like a The big game standout for me Yeah And it is like an event It will go down, in gamer history

and I don't know what else can be said about it now yeah it is one of those if you haven't played it you've heard about it you know yeah you can't really avoid it and I love like what it's done for like YouTube content and just to like anyone who's making like open world games now

are going to have to like really pay attention to not be like clown like they're gonna actually have to make like video games because it was because it was going up against horizon uh what was it called forbidden west yes or something which i did i did buy and play for a bit um yeah i mean it's just like i mean it's night and day it the best thing about eldenbring is the message it sends to everyone else every other one every other dev team making games or more so the public Yeah, gameplay is king. It's got no nonsense. There's no battle past bullshit. There's no silliness. And it's, it's like, it's been the talk of 2022 since it came out.

And it's like, God of War came out and it's like people, it wasn't like the Red Dead versus God of War won. You know, it was like, which one is it going to be? Everyone was just like, seldom ring. Yeah. Yeah, as much as I like Ragnarok, like, it's no competition. in my mind um yeah i think i've i've finished elden ring four times yeah i did three times on series x and once on pc yeah on steam yeah amazing game and actually convinced me to go back and play dark souls one to completion which i'm glad i can finally say i've done yeah um and a big chunk of Dark Souls 3 as well. Why you give me that face?

Yikes. What? What's yikers? Yikes, bro. Well, you can't say that and then not say. What? You know, I'm yikes over. No, I literally don't. Oh, yeah, we'll get to that.

Yeah, seeing as you mentioned, God of War, I don't want to say, like, how good it is. because I finished it a few weeks back just yeah it's just everything improved basically from the first game yeah I definitely want to play it but because the first one's on PC I feel like I can be pretty comfortable

in assuming that the sequel will come you'd hope so right in two years yeah yeah and I can wait yeah just again with that because I kind of mainlined the the main quest i know for a fact i'm missing a bunch of like awesome storytelling um yeah because apparently all the like side quests and stuff are like really excellent um i just wasn't in that kind of mood i just want to because it's the thing when like a game of that uh popularity comes

out if you don't experience the story for yourself youtube thumbnails will ruin it uh yeah i've already had some things like spoiler yeah yeah like just spoilers just everywhere i had like major stuff like spoiled on twitter and stuff like i just you know it's really annoying um yeah but yeah really good story really good characters surprisingly good writing um mechanically really fun the stuff they add and kind of change it's like it's like just enough like i wouldn't really want another one of these i think the decision to make it a two-part thing perfect it's all you need yeah Yeah, cool scale. Really like the main character.

It's got its issues. It's got its problems. Some of the Etreas stuff I didn't really like, but overall, like, really positive, really good. I didn't note down the witch queen, simply because I spent so much time with it. And in the vacuum of Destiny 2, It's the best content they've released for it, probably.

As far as a campaign is concerned. What about including Destiny 1? I mean, probably, yeah. It's definitely the best campaign they've ever made, for sure. It felt almost, not quite, almost like an old bungee thing, where it's like... Well, you kind of do have the capacity to, like, just make, like, a campaign again. So they're almost getting to, like, Halo 1.

they're almost that yeah no it's just the skinner box and just oh so manipulative the whole designer like yeah because I'm still like on like the destiny subreddit and shit like I'll see the posts and stuff and it's just like you see people like saying like man like I'm just getting tired of doing all these challenges and things the comments just like bro you need to take just take a break just stop playing that's an option like that's the like I was so addicted to Destiny 1 and I was that person that was like tuning in like at the reset every week and like doing all the checklist shit but I've done that checklist shit in games for so long now that just doesn't it does nothing for me like it's fried my brain like my dopamine release is just like gone with that like it yeah especially because it's like actually impossible to like if you if you actually wanted to get like everything in the game and like collect everything and do everything it would be like I don't know how the fuck you would even do it. at this point you know so i guess that's they've got that like core audience of people who are

like in and they're always in and they do everything and they're waiting for every little time they're all in like yeah yeah like i used to be because i know exactly what that was like um but there's just there's just too much of going on um for me to ever care about it in that way i think ever again especially with how bad like the monetization and like the store is and they release this like on on epic games they released the 20th anniversary like bungee pack you get it for free if you download a destiny 2 on epic games you just got it for free uh but you can only it's like a 20 quid like pack thing which i refused to buy because it seemed just so like just not worth it um i played that a bit and it just i was just my main take i was just i'm glad i didn't

I didn't buy this man I don't know why this can just been like a in the season pass or something but yeah I'm very curious about where that game goes because I feel like the live service thing is getting I don't know more competitive and tough and tired yeah yeah speaking of life services modern warfare too baby to re I didn't want to bring up one author too. I can't not. I didn't want to because I can't. If I buy cards, it is

all. It's nothing, it is it is everything. I'm my, I, card has completely ruined my life. So since I got that first wonderful warfare too, it's just been downhill from that and I am hooked in again. I said on this very show, I'm not buying card, I'm not

going to do it. No, refuse to. Here I am. That's why I said the whole time. Yeah, yeah. But I want to say that it's also not a good game And it doesn't deserve to be praised Because there's so many problems of it No, but you've been saying this the whole time It's not true No, but it is

No, no, no, no, no, but it is There's so many problems with ground war The fact that there's just sniper method Why is it all you play then? Because Battlefield is so bad It's the only, it's like Battlefield gives me this much dopamine Ground War gives me that Because Battlefield's so bad

I don't get any from it Why don't you play Battlefield one then? I've got to have that small amount of dopamine. Are you saying that because you prefer Battlefield? Yeah, no, Battlefield does ground more better than God. There's a very specific thing. But I mean, you're not even playing like the cod thing. That's only one game mode, though.

No, but that's the thing with this cod. It's like... There's a lot of actual content. There's the campaign, which is like... You know, it's got some fun gameplay going on. The difficulties are fucked. They did. That's just a terrible.

That's normal. Um, but then there's like the normal multi, which has a decent amount of gamers, then there's ground war, then there's invasion, which is ground war with like AI as well. Then there's DMZ, which is tied in with war zone and there's different, like, just from release, there's like a bunch of different content. Like, but even in just war zone, you can do like squads of one, squads of two, squads of three, squads of four. And like, no other battle real has that. and that's just the Cobb Battle Real and then there's co-op in the game as well there's all this stuff and then there's like

a million things to level up and all these unlockable's and then you buy the battle pass and you're unlocking even more shit there's a reason there is a reason that like the Fortnite has no chance against Cod because there's not

those unlockable systems there's not you don't go in the game and have all this variety it's just Fortnite and you know skins but Cod has so much going for it that even if you hate it and you hate it so much you buy it and then there's always some good

there's all some muggins. But like the gameplay for me, because I did this exact thing with Titanfall 2 as well like I work out what guns I like and what guns I don't like and then I start at my least favourite guns and just play multiplayer and level every gun up from worse

to best. See I have the total inverse approach. I'd be like that thing sucks, I'm never going to use that. Maybe you can't... No, but they've kind of forced you, though. They forced you. So this is kind of a... They're...

No, in Mono Fair, too, if you want to play the game, because if you want to unlock a certain site, you have to... You have to level up a certain gun. To a certain level. So if you want to get... If you want to get a fully good gun set up, and you better to get...

Yeah, you've got to level up everything. But they've done it in such a way where guns level up way faster now. Yeah, no. So what? that like a design thing to try and get you to use the sandbox instead of just using yeah yeah because cod has a problem of just people use meta people just pick the best guns and that's it but now there's like you got to use the shit there's at least incentive to use other

stuff but it's it's giving me like discoveries like weapons i thought i'd never like i end up having like the most fun with and then i use the gun i expect i'm going to love and it's trash that's cool i've sank a lot of time into cod yeah and i will complain about it, but... But the gameplay... The moment to moment gameplay... It's Cod. It's solid.

There's a reason why it's the best-selling game ever. There's a reason why it sells the same amount every year, and it's just... Everyone only cares about Cod. God of War is great. They're not going to be talking about it in two months time, but they're still going to be talking about Cod. You know, it's constant. That's kind of the thing where it's like, as Sony, they invest like, two, three hundred

million in making a god of war Ragnarok which they can sell one time maybe it's got a special edition and then it ends whereas with something like it's just never ending cash with that fucking franchise like it's so addictive which makes it unbelievable though that they're doing

every two years a cod is coming out of it's not going to be annual anymore but that's because they can afford to do that with how much just because I'm going to buy at least like six battle passes I've already bought the first one The battle passes are so Easy man There's like 30 days left

I've finished it They're like designed to be easier Than other battle passes As well It's like a map Yeah and you can choose What you unlock At what weight you want to

Yeah so if you want to go straight For like The guns Yeah you can just do that Get back your currency As far as possible Because I personally I don't like battle passes

I think they're like No they're trash They're really bad I don't find them like addictive Like I feel like it's much worse

than just being having some kind of choice in the matter. But I think this COS system is not perfect, but battle past should not be just like, this is what you unlock at these levels. You should just be, you get coins and you choose what you unlock, because then you're getting the most on the battle pass

so that even if you don't complete it, you're still getting the content you want from it. That's how battle partially should be in cause of these taking a step to be different, to do different. But even then, just the whole phomowness of it. Yeah, like they expire, like you, yeah, you've got to like grind and shit

yeah I just can't be dealing with it after a certain point and someone else here also loves God Mr I don't like cod I just find it all disgusting and all this military stuff Alex Alex literally we started playing war zone and Alex was the only reason we started doing well

is because Alex will jump in say nothing double kill people with only fists and we're just like what the fuck you're doing well what are you doing and you just don't say anything and you're just like here as you like get triple kill with only your fists. I guess it's why it's such a success

again and again. You could hand it to a freshly born human child and that you'd get a fucking kill streak probably. Have you any more games to play? Because I've got a few more. I've only got one more to shout out, which is

Apex. Yeah. Because I did sink a lot of time in 2020. I did as well. It was my second most play game of the year. It was really so my most played game that you really but he's dead at the moment yeah yeah the latest character the new map it didn't really resonate yeah what's what we were saying with destiny it's the live service thing where they go they're like oh it's shit at the moment oh okay it's good oh shit yeah the thing again like cod i can always rely on with apex is the game feel though

no that's that's what got me in it's like it feels like the skill ceiling is like something like I want to get like better I want to get rid of this because it feels so good yeah it's actually like cool and with the momentum mechanics with yeah and I understand the sandbox and it's like yeah yeah I'm much better at like cod I'm way better at apex than I am cod really

I would like to mention for games Total War War Warhammer 3 You played that a lot, haven't you? I did Because I got into the Total War franchise Like last year And having recently got more into Warhammer in general I played a lot of it

And it is just like a properly good Game if you want to sink like months into On this one save where you're like hard difficulty Like I tried a bunch of different characters And having a great fun with it it's just the main problem with it is that to get the best experience you've got when one and all the DLC

two in all the DLC and three in all the DLC so it's like if you want the best actual so you can play one and two within three yeah wow which is that is so good because it's like it's continuing all the content you've bought but it's like for the widest thing you do have to drop in drop like a 78

surely that's tens of tens of tens of hours of like potential content yes you can you can only play that game and that's it for a year easy because it's like every character there's like three different or four different characters per faction and they all play differently but yeah great game it's like sieve it has that sieve hook where it's like oh the next turn uh the next turn and then it's like two in the morning or like

the next turn it's got that sieve hook and i haven't played sieve this year at all i've not touched sieve this year at all which is i have have recently yeah but then i'd also like to but also understand that it's not the best and that's Dark Tide and I actually mention Vermintheid on that as well

but Dark Tide the new Leffa Dead Warhammer game the core is there the core is a diamond but it's in the worth they need to fix it they need to just it's not even so much about fixing

it's just like broadening their horizons yeah it's just adding I mean, there are problems with it, yeah. The net code and everything can be pretty bad. But the call, it doesn't want, it runs atrociously. But the gameplay is awesome. Fucking amazing. It's amazing.

Yeah, the atmosphere is spot on. The soundtrack is the greatest soundtrack of the year, no doubt. Nothing comes close. It just needs to be better. And I, when, like, I played the most of it in the beta stage, and I had such a fun time. It does what it does so well. needs a bit of perfection. It's just the same story with so many AAA games where it's like, well, just

wait a year. They're not triple A though. It's a 30 pound game. Yeah, it's not full price. It's not full price. So like, I'd say it's kind of a AAA like franchise though. Yes. You'd expect more. Yeah. No, I know you don't. You don't expect good games from Warhammer. Really?

Yeah, most, the majority of Warhammer games are crap. Yeah, so there's like six million. Yeah. And there's like, there's Mechanicus. I know nothing about Wallham. That, that's, like, Bo, there's one hand is the good Warhammer games that's how bad they are so this coming out being a bit shit

is like a warhammer game a bit shit we've vermontide exact same story apart from I think that was full price and worse right had the whole pack thing it did I suppose this one's got the store issues the store is only cosmetic though I'm sick of that though man

no I know I know but you still unlock cosmetics like just by playing the game but I do understand they need to make money so it's not bad but the entire progression of Vermintyde

when it came out was packs yeah like that was it still is yeah but you just can't buy them anymore or however it works

but we we bought Verminthide like last year where we played it for like a few days and we kind of left it it wasn't the best at that time

when we played it but we came back to this year with a vengeance because we like sunk completely in and like but picking up vermontide now actually a really

really good experience super fun super super responsive and like the systems in it really easy to understand and like jump into it's like it's as casual or as like hardcore as you want it to

yeah and the dopamine releases from it like so almost natural because it's like the dopamine's coming from that difficulty and the jumping up difficulties where you're like chaotic and I would honestly recommend it if anyone who needs like a really good co-op just fun game.

Yeah. And the setting's wacky as fuck is Warhammer. It's very fun as hell. And that has probably been the highlight of the year as playing, getting back into Vermont. I want to shout out as well because technically it was a 2020 release

Marvel's Spider-Man on PC. True. Have you played that a lot? Yeah, I played the whole game and all the DLCs. The DLCs aren't very good. but yeah that was kind of the vibe I got because like

I remember when those were coming out I was like half tempted yeah because the main game holy guacamole that like it's amazing start to finish the the main story is like I love what they do with Dohaq

yeah and like all the other villains in the game and then it goes into the DLC and it's like was that issue where like yeah you got to You've got to save enough for, like, true sequels, but you've got to do, like, just enough to make it interesting. But, yeah. Yeah, and they don't do anything fresh with the gameplay, really.

And whenever they try to, it just kind of falls on its face. Yeah. And the new face, speaking of face, is new face. Oh, yeah, that is weird, isn't it? It's quite weird. I much preferred the original face. Yeah, yeah. It just, like, woke better to me.

Really strange decision I don't like I don't like that that's like a thing you can just do patch out like It's almost like gaslighting in a way It's like no I remember That's not what it was

And it's like every single thing It'll be like a photo frame Like in the corner of a scene There's a picture of Peter His face has changed And it's like Yeah this is Peter right This is the guy I remember

It's like no he Because it's the same voice performance Isn't it It's like all the same Yeah There must have been some, like, technical reason why they had to do that. I have no idea, but, like, his new face, it looks, like, less animated.

Like, it doesn't emote quite as much. Yeah. Because he had, like, the big white eyes originally, and it was quite expressive. Yeah, and he was really expressive. He had a super expressive face, but now it's, like, I don't know. Yeah, because I think it was this year I played Miles, Miles Morales. Yeah. Which, yeah, it's nowhere near as good as Spider-Man.

It feels more like a filler type thing. But I hope they do more Miles because I really like that character. Yeah, I really like Miles. Yeah, Marvel's Spider-Man is a masterpiece. Unless you count the D.L.C. It's weird how more content can actually make something worse. No indie games, I'm just realizing that we haven't mentioned a single indie game. Yeah.

Eldring ruined it for, like, I've spent so much time in Eldonbring, I'm just like... It obliterated everything else. And then Mono Morfair 2 comes out and it's like, well... Yeah, I actually hate to think how much time I've spent in Eldron Ring. It's probably hundreds of hours. Like, just on Xbox, on that tracker thing, it said, I think... I think it was 180 hours or something. On Eldon Ring?

Yeah. Getting every achievement, 100% thing, yeah. I'm quite curious about, like, penitent. Um and Have you seen anything about that Um It's like an ode to the

The old Zelda games We are like a little fox thing Um That looks quite good Do you not know what I'm talking about The one that's out Yeah yeah It's been out for a while

Oh okay Um I think there's on game pass I can't remember Yeah We might have to start Speedfiring this shit boys That's just

I don't know what it is it just feels like the onslaught of content like it's just impossible to keep up with you know yeah it is and and when i prioritize like from soft and then they drop eldenbring and it's like well the biggest one yet like it's a huge map like okay so i'm gonna play that for three months and then like with work and stuff that gets extended to like six months and then and then like you finally get around to starting something else because like i I bought Hitman 3. Oh, yeah, yeah.

I haven't even done the first level. Because when you buy Hitman 3, if you own Hitman 2 and 1, it combines it into one package. So I started again from Hitman 1 and played through all of Hitman 1, got into Hitman 2, and then Modern Warfare 3 came out, or Alderman came out, and I was like, well, yeah. And it goes that.

Because I guess Hitman's technically indie now. because yeah square in just let it go I don't know how that work but yeah that's because a lot of the games

I was excited for including the indie stuff just wound up like in the review roundups just didn't sound like they were that good like I was quite excited for Clisto Protocol

yeah that seems a bit kind of I watched the skill up review where he's talking about like the combat's like the same thing every time and like you just like hold dodge and stuff it's all like melee base or something i don't know it doesn't seem that good and that other game that looked like um like alien um we're like in this weird goo gunge world and everything's like come and bullet school oh yeah scorn yeah um i

thought that looked interesting but it just didn't seem to yeah really come together yeah it was it's more like an art installation than a game you know yeah like a concept yeah it was just like we have all this concept are let's make it 3D and you are able to move around it and like yeah obscure puzzles and stuff yeah and then it's just like disgusting I like hate that game really it's it's gross every that's what we drew me to it I was like this is yeah yeah because I was really drawn to it I was watching like law videos and all this stuff this game I'd never even heard of yeah

but it it's just that type of shit that makes you feel sick it's horrible that's what I'm looking for from media um yeah that's kind of most of the games for me um

yeah I really love playing Datsource one before you get on to music I've not watched any I've barely watched any movies or anything but I feel like I have to because this content is so vast it surpasses everything and that's Lutino9's YouTube channel and that's Warhammer videos we're talking an hour and a half of

law videos yeah one at one and a half hour long just on one subject and there's hundreds of them so that's why I've not watched anything because I'm deep in in just law videos yeah like this is the year of law videos I've never been sucked in by any universe's law as much as well that's

becoming a thing for me now is like it's not just like the movie or the game it is the Eldon Ring law It is the clone war's law It is all the door I love going in as deep as humanly possible Like yeah

Like I don't even really care that much about avatar But I was like trying to find law It's become like this thing now where I'm like And I was searching for it just the other day And it's like man there's like a real lack of like avatar law Like what's going on Where's the avatar where's the Vati video of like avatar law I guess it's just James Cameron

no no because when i went to go see it a second time like i downloaded because i got youtube premium whatever downloaded the like one avatar law video and i was like listening to it on the drive to like get right in the mood and everything um i don't know i'm just like a law freak you know generally if something doesn't have law i can't get i can't what's the point cod has law God has so much law now Because it's all over laughing It's a heaps of law now Law

Like Fortnite has law Yeah Everything needs law Yeah No because that's what like When I was like watching Game of Thrones again I was like always on the like Game of Thrones Wiki like going into the law

I love that stuff Yeah And like we've got to war Ragnarok It was like going down the Not just the law of the game But the actual Norse mythology Because that's part of the fun It's like how they spin

The actual like Norse kind of myths Yeah It's always like a cool Cool way to delve deeper How do you guys want to approach music Because We can probably quick fight this shit But look

Yeah I just prepared a few things That kind of defined my 22 as far as music's concerned Well we've also talked about I was qualified whacked. We talked to a rap, but it didn't, my rap didn't have a lot of this stuff in it. So I don't know, a lot of this you'll probably have, Jim, to be honest.

I mentioned on that last cast that Underworld was definitely my like band of the year. But I didn't actually specifically mention, because I don't know if we, we prefaced it earlier that these wrap-ups, don't necessarily have to be content that was released in 2022. It's just things that define our personal 2022s. So, yeah, Underworld released Juanaita 2022, just a single. Really good. But I'd like delved into their whole discography. I'll just read off a couple of my shoutouts.

Yeah, 100 days off. That whole album is amazing. shoutouts being two months off which you mentioned before trim and a solar system just that like 90s early 2000s

what the back what was that I'm scrolling through my Spotify sorry oh okay yeah yeah I went through that whole discography so another standout was the album

Barking shoutouts being moon in water always loved a film and bird one um yeah if you like these like really long kind of droning sounds bad but like kind of repetitive I find it like like a vibe yeah I find it like motivational

like I like driving to underworld I like exercising to underworld I like doing things while having this these beats these electronic sounds are motivating me um another one was uh i mentioned it on a previous cast but going to see tv girl in bristol i didn't realize they were like this big tic talk thing they're like really going crazy on tic that's like a whole thing now like music artists that like india like just boosted by ticot and they become like huge stars whatever thanks to it um but yeah i've been obsessed with this it's an old album

and French exit the songs The Getaway and Birds Don't sing stood out in particular to me Fear of the Dawn Jack White Awesome Really solid

Really strong album My standouts were Heidi Ho Taking me back And Heidi her See I thought you didn't like that song No I was just listening to it the other day

I was like yeah this is It rocks Yeah yeah it does rock but my favorite from that album is I don't know how you say it Osophobia Esophobia? Yeah It just means a phobia of the sun

I think right That's what it means It's like a two part It's like a reprise or something Really awesome Mr Moral The Big Steppers Amazing

Love United in Grief Mother I sober Auntie Diaries Yeah the production on Auntie Diaries like as soon as it starts Like I start getting like the goose bumps on my back It's like oh my god this is like really really powerful Yeah

It's got a lot of A lot of power that album Thematically and Yeah if you I was I think we're talking about the other day When we're driving home from Christmas Ravenholm from Christmas Yeah, but it just feels like

There's always something interesting going on in that album Yeah, production-wise, lyrically, like it's... And it really felt like the one where It's raw, man It's like Kendrick being raw, being vulnerable Yeah There was none of the like showboating and sort of Because yeah, we're saying like it doesn't have like that

that like humble kind of yeah that one that's going to get a billion plays type thing another shout out though one of the guys from stranger things make releases music I don't like give I don't really care about stranger things but this music's kind of up my alley

Who is it though? Oh see cool what the fuck is his character called He's is it the guy that's new in the latest season? No no he's He's been, he's in it the whole time. He's one of the, like, core cast members. He's got the big hair, like, kind of like a mullet. With the funny teeth?

No, no, no. He's not one of the kids. He's, like, the older guy who has the relationship with the sister character. Which one? The Coke one or the... Not the Coke one. The baseball bat one. The baseball bat one.

Yeah. I can't remember the... He makes music. Yeah. Um, he's in, um, he's in, he's in, he's in, he's in, uh, free guy. Yeah, yeah. It's an album called, uh, Decide by DJO. Um, yeah, it's just kind of surprised by like, how good it was. Okay. A couple of shout out. I like the tracks, fool and on and on. On and on is about like, uh, algorithms. Um, and how dicted they are and stuff. I like that. How they wrote stranger things. And my final shout out is I mentioned King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard semi recently

and the album did come out in 2021 but Butterfly 3,000 is like connecting with me I got in with this track, Interior People it's just I never usually use my like Discover weekly thing but just this one time, this one moment I just happened to go on it

And it was like, oh. Because I've had a few tracks of theirs before, but it was never, you know, like, go down and listen to Gizzard. But I feel like... But then you did. But they are machines. And they released four albums in 2022. Jesus. So, it's quite intimidating.

And it's, like, all, like, different sounds, different kind of genres. So I feel like I need, like, a Gizzard expert to kind of guide me through it in a way. Yeah, like a bibliotech sort of thing. Yeah. I want to shout out for me this year. I mean, it was one of my most played bands was Low Raw. And the lead singer of Low Raw passed this year. And with the type of music that they've always made, and with him passing, especially with the latest album that came out last year,

it's been strangely like resonant emotionally like this this indie band that I discovered through death stranding and then just became like obsessed with for a bit and then yeah yeah I keep thinking about that game I want to think about jumping in you should you should before that's another one about like a gamer

like big gaps as Kajima games like I've never really I think you're saying he's cring that he hasn't done it like a solid face we'll talk about law MGS has the law

man well yeah no it's more the commentary side that I really like from yeah I don't know maybe one day okay so he's a genius baby

this is the year but I've probably found my actual music taste, like my style, I guess. But one of the main artists who discover is a Parki Ha'i Jin, discovered her music. And the album before I dies is from 2021, especially just great. It's like perfect chill music. Samurai, play cyberpunk and samurai is literally going to be my top artist for next year, 100%.

Every day, I'm listening to it like 10 times. samurai is just amazing obviously it's by what fused the Norwegian not Norwegian like Swedish punk band and then KMFDM which I was wearing a shirt their merch last episode Industrial man I love it

I can't get over it and I've seen them live next year so I'm super super hyped about that but they've been probably the reoccurant artist of the last few months and they've got too many good albums and songs to list any of them

I only said because I just prepared a bunch of it earlier I'm not just scrolling through if we want to round this out then I've got I got this section shout out to shit because I'd like to start off with Elderming my criticism of that game is 100% 100% valid because I was playing as like 30 FPS

and you guys don't want to play no no listen No, stop, stop, stop. You refuse to play Bloodbom because it's a 30 frames a second. So my criticism. That's because there's no other way to play it. But there's no other way for me to play Odin Wing.

Yeah, there is. You just don't buy wheels for one month. Ooh. Hey. To be fair, I've not bought any wheels in any recent times. Yeah, that's because your car is locked away in the witch's cabin. All right, let's go through the shit.

Rings of Power is going to start this off. What are you thinking, Amazon? Did they poo it? They put it. They didn't just poo it. They diarrhea shit explosioned it. Really? You have the Lord of the Rings IP and you shit out.

I don't want to be throwing JJ Abrams under the bus again. Oh, was it a JJ? Apparently, J.J. Abrams is the one who recommended these showrunners, these random-ass showrunners who have no experience. Go on their IMDB. Go on IMDB. Look up rings of power. Go on the showrunners, the writers. There's nothing. And it's like, what are you doing? What the fuck you? Why? Why would you take this? Because it's not, it's not like the books alone, that is a big thing in and of itself, you know? If the Peter Jackson movies weren't there, that would already be a big deal to have Lord of the Rings. There's a lot of responsibility that comes with that. But then on top of it, you have three of the most beloved movies of all time. You're playing in that universe, and you are trying to impose this feeling that you are, like, part of that. You sit in the same echelon as those movies.

And as far as, like, the money and the production value and everything, they put into it, it's clear they wanted it to be that. They faked it, they f*** it hard. Why does anyone listen to J.J. Abrams? I guess, I guess he makes money. When? Lost. Lost.

Lost, was it, yeah. He directed, well, I don't know if he created, he at least, he directed the first episode or two or something, and then just bounced. It's like, here's the mystery box. Bye, you solve it. Yeah. And then he did the same as Star Wars. And then he did the Star Trek movies, which were, like, dumb and fun. And the Star Trek fans were like, this is, what are you doing? Like, you're dumbing, you're Star Wars.

Yeah, you're turning in Star Trek. Yeah, and then he, and then he, and then he, so yeah, I don't, I don't, I, no, no, no, no, no, that's it. He's trying to fuck everyone's nostalgia. Star Wars, yeah. And that's what he's done the whole time, like Super 8. It's just like 80s. Yeah, I. love 80s E.T.

Mm-hmm. Awesome. This is my one. Yeah, the more time that passes, the more I just don't get on with his kind of style and output. But as far as rings of power is concerned,

like the way it ends and they're like spoilers, rings of power, but they're like teasing Gandalf. At the end, like, Gandalf's going to be. They're like really, like, clawing. It's really bad. I was holding out I was thinking

they invest all this money they're like this is going to be five six seasons ten seasons if we're you know like it's like such cart before the horse yeah oh got it

I could never imagine imagine watching that shit again no one's thinking about this no one who have only heard complaints yeah just like a a desperate sad attempt

at their own Lord of the sorry not Lord of the Rings Game of Thrones just kind of gone catastrophically wrong it sets a bad person and I feel like

it's one of these things where it's not like I think it's actually like just the whole show is just ruined like I don't know what you could actually do to like follow up and kind of like fix it you know it's not like Parks and Rec season one

like you know there's not room to improve this it's just this it's almost worrying because you know Lord of Rings is you know as you say it's this huge thing

where there's a lot of respect there and law and law but what's their new show 40K with lots of respect and lots of law but then Henry Cavill

was direct like the executive producers so that's like that's where you want if HBO was making it you could be a bit more confident if it's Amazon on on Netflix. Yeah, it's a coin flip.

Yeah. Or like, what would happen if it was like Netflix is it would like get one season, it would be amazing. No one would watch it though and it would be cancelled or something. Yeah. Yeah, it would be one of those. On similar lines, the Halo TV show. What the fuck you doing? Showtime.

Ugh. Like... We've gone into Halo, we don't need to drag that out. For how much, like, this franchise used to mean to me, it's actually like, it's just what are you thinking and what are you doing? It's just so obvious that the people in charge of it don't, they don't give a shit. It's like, let's try and formulate it to make moo-moo money. And it's not like, oh, this thing we love.

Yeah. Let's like make it and be passionate about what we're doing. Yeah. and you can just tell you like you lick halo infinite and it's like sand you know there's no vibrant flavor it's just like it's honest it's pathetic the state of that franchise and like just the state of that IP because like you you do go back and you watch those like interviews and the the special features on the Lord of the Ring stuff and like Peter Jackson he's like talking with such like passion about the book and like it's like so excited and they're so excited. to just be like trying their hardest to make something that like they want like nobody else has done it so we're gonna

do it and it's not they're not doing that it's just like less just like the source material like it matters like adapting it is good but like this stuff like it's like the pillars that hold it up you need to stay true to that stuff otherwise what is the point?

But it's also just like why why is the sonic stuff like the Sonic movies are able to like do the things that the fans want but it's like yeah it's so basic it's just like these certain little tick boxes that like just deliver them

and that's all you all you need instead of like just totally embarrassing yourself and just bringing down a franchise even more like it that's like I showed James like a bit of it it's like it's actual shot it's like beyond shit

it's hilarious total trash But it's going to second season and the majority of people I know think it's great. Really? If you're not a Halo fan, it's amazing. Which is...

It's so wrong. We kind of alluded to it earlier but the Robert Zemeckos, Pinocchio. Yeah, that's like a masterpiece in shite. Yeah, it's kind of like paralyzingly shit. Yeah. It's like, he, like, did castaway, right?

He did castaway, Forrest Gump. Uh, Back to the Future trilogy. Yes, like, what? And then you can't even, like, take on Pinocchio. Yeah. What it's like, everything, everything I was saying about that Guillermo one where it's like, you take this spot. Yeah, you spin it in a way and you make it your own thing, where this would just felt like,

exactly like that bullshit Lion King movie or these all these remakes It's actually like I hate the Lion King I hate the jungle book Like the remake ones I hate all of those But this one is like

This one it almost feels like They're embarrassed of Yeah and they were They like snuck it on Because they were like New Pinocchio with Tom Hanks is in it Tom Hanks

it's out now yeah yeah and it's like oh I started watching it and the second who was it

it was the guy from inception Joseph Gordon Levitt Joseph Gordon Levitt playing the little locust thing Jiminy cricket

and he's just like scary yeah he's terrifying he's frightening yeah yeah the kind of like the textures on him are like this real bug thing but the cgii is awful and then like

then the the the the guy who makes pinocchio picks up pinocchio and stuff and pinocchio is like vibrating in his hands because it's not like this is they didn't like track it properly it's like embarrassing yeah you just got to stop you got you have to stop doing this because the people making it don't care it's just a remake why would they care and who's going to be thinking about this movie ever again no one you know maybe in um tom hanks's nightmares

but yeah you and mcgregor is the voice of the cricket in the um geomo one is it and he's like a cool character yeah yeah he's got way more personality he's likable yeah it's just it's just shocking some of the this shit like uh shout out to jerusalem world dominion that was on my own as well pure shit awful for incredibly awful because i haven't seen any of the other Jurassic worlds either have you not that was your first one and i saw this one it was like why they why they're like

giant bugs the plot is about locusts giant locusts that accidentally released giant locusts that the wheat so the whole planet it's like that's not Jurassic Park Jurassic Park is you go to a park or Jurassic World or whatever you go to a park and dinosaurs yeah which at the very least the first Jurassic World was that it was kind of

like around that era of Force Awakens where it's just like the same movies again kind of but like modernized a bit with like modern effects the one in the middle that Colin Trevereaux who was actually supposed to direct episode 9 originally um wow didn't direct he didn't direct the middle one which is like this really weird

half horror movie thing isn't it half like disaster movie as well there's like a volcano going on yeah and there's like a sad scene with the yeah the vegetarian dinosaur gets like destroyed with sad music um yeah that that was that was probably the worst cinema experience of the year was dominion like I was like bored out of my fucking mind yeah and it's like I don't understand

what they're going for yeah it's like if you're just impossible part yeah there's like a motorbike extended scene where there's like a velocirapt of running next to a motorbike for like 20 minutes

yeah it's like Jesus Christ this sucks but like what are they trying to do are they trying to do that are they trying to just rip off the originals it's something it felt like

there are a lot of movies that I watch something like a Banshees of Inashirin or Northman any of these where it's like this is like

stunning and impressive to me in a way it's like I feel like I could not do this Jurassic World Dominion I could confidently say I could easily

do a bad job you know it's the type of thing that where like when you're a kid and you're like playing Star Wars

as a kid in the play area at school it's like the same story it's like if you're playing Jurassic Park this is the shit a 10 year old I come up with but it's the nostalgia thing man

that that's what really gets me they tried to force awakens it you know they bring back Laura Duh and they bring back Sam Neal and it's just like sad got nothing to do that yeah that was miserable

similarly light year miserable yeah trash film didn't even finish you like really um to infinity

again just like like why just leave it alone Toy Story 4 was dog shit and half yeah yeah why do they have to poo on the poo yeah

they're so far deep they're pooing on poo. Yeah. That's like maybe one of the most generic movies ever, that Light Year movie. It's like so, so uninventive, so fucking boring.

So just like, like it just goes nowhere. There's nothing about it. Again, it feels like a kid who's really into Buzz Light Year being like, let's play Buzz Light Year in the playground. But I'd rather watch that than that fucking film. yeah i'd rather pretend to be buzz like you right now i'm running around for an hour and a half yeah i have to watch an hour and a half for that trash it was yeah really boring um yeah that

a lot of like awful disney content actually like the rescue rangers was was fucking abysmal uh just taking the the meta like self-awareness to like just that you know like oh my god just give it just stop stop it you have to stop doing this um Thor Love and Thunder watch that in Disney Plus a few months ago I was I was like I was big on Tyke with T-Tube man I was big I love boy uh you know the vampire one mm-hmm these are like great movies like cute and people yeah hunt for the world of people these are like fun cute movies And even Thor Ragnarok, you know It's got its issues

Like the villain sucks And that side of it is sucks But it's fine It's like an okay movie But this This was This was I was commenting earlier

How like bad A lot of Marvel movies look And how like Green screeny Just studio space They always look They look like so fake and bad But this one was like

Really bad this list that an early action scene with the guardians of the galaxy and it's like it's like shocking really is it's it's it's awful like it like that is it just james gunn who can deal with these characters i suppose they were fine in like the avengers but it just felt like this is wrong and like this tonal thing where uh they bring that character jane back yeah um and she She has cancer, like a really serious, like, sad thing. Mm-hmm. But it's, like, balanced against this, like, absurdist comedy that, like, really doesn't

take itself seriously at all, and it's all, everything's just a joke, and it's just the all impre of comedy all the time. Yeah. It's like, nothing matters. Yeah, they pushed it just too far. Yeah, just the wrong combo of characters, like, the wrong story, just everything about it, like, just was not working. um just ultra generic ultra forgettable yeah marvel like was really bad actually like for the

part uh she hulk as well yeah everything everything they've done in this past year trash yeah you like dr strange though right that was all right yeah i like dr strange it was okay but it's not it's just like fine it's all fine yeah There's nothing that's like... It's fun and silly. It's like a Sam Ramey funny. Yeah, that was the enjoyment I got. It was just Sam Ramey directing a Marvel movie.

He's kind of funny. Yeah. That isn't, you know, an MCU movie, not just Marvel. I guess my final... Actually, now I've got two more. That horror movie Smile. I saw it on Halloween. Oh, wow.

Oh, yeah, you did, yeah. Yeah. I don't know, I'm, like, really picky with, like, certain horror movies. It was, there's, like, a scene in the movie where they're trying to make smiling, like, as really as scary and intense as possible. There's, like, a scene where, uh, they're in, like, a hospital or something, and the camera, like, pans over to, um, you know, like, in hospitals, they have, like, the faces sometimes of, like, there's, there's the happy face. There's the sad face. There's the like, which one are you feeling? Yeah, yeah.

Which do you point in the camera like goes over to the smile. As if to be like, you know, the smiles, the scary bit. It's just like so stupid, so silly. Um, yeah, yeah, the smile is literally like, we're designed to not be scared of a smile. Well, I get the idea of like trying to make, trying to make something that's supposed to be like a positive good thing. into something that's scary but like so many creepy pastas they have the whatever character

or whatever has a big smile dog yeah but that's like an exaggerated to a point you know if it's just like a picture of someone smiling it's not very scary yeah well like if there's someone smiling of like dead eyes that is kind of creepy you know like it could be creepy yeah you know

but it's like just the typical like just jump scares around every corner like the stupid story and as soon as it starts getting interesting like it ends just garbage man just absolute shite um huge success though i think because it had it had like a huge marketing campaign like people in baseball stadiums like paid to like stand in the crowd and smile so they could be on the big screen or whatever you know um yeah just stupid uh and finally uncharted Jesus Christ

man I hate that movie and I've not even seen I don't like Mark Wahlberg I can't with Mark Wahlberg I can't

he sucks he sucks he sucks on his own right but then casting him as Sully I'm watching him

on the screen and he's supposed to be Sully yeah who's such such a distinct kind of character yeah

and just nothing not a single thing about him was like that character even in like the after credits tees where they give him a mustache and stuff it's just like nah fuck you this shit sucks venom director this this sucks yeah and even tom holland like it's just wrong it's not it's not yeah yeah he's not nathan drake and adapting like the the set pieces in the uncharted games only really work to me because they're in a video game they're kind of taking like the indiana jones

action scenes and taking it to that next level it's like so over the top so silly yeah yeah and you can believe it because it's a video game a video game and you're controlling it and that's what makes it different

to those Indiana Jones movies and makes a fun so when you're in like the final action scene and it's like helicopters or planes or something like carrying carrying boats

pirate ships carrying pirate ships and like swinging them around and it's like the most like it's one of me like fast and furious level of just like this is so fucking stupid this is so dumb and you clearly don't care about any of this and it's so just like just using like little bits of imagery and stuff that you know from like the games like there is the plane scene where like falls out play but but they they take it to the next level of stupid because it's not

they can't just do what happened in the game it has to be like even dumber even more extreme But I know that's one, like, some people, like, it made loads of money, and there's going to be, like, old franchise of these, like, awful films now, but... Tom Holland was chatting bare shit, though, before it came out. Yeah, he was. He basically said he hated being in it. Yeah, he was basically saying that, like, he doesn't really understand, like, who Nathan Drake is, or, like, what...

Are you saying Tom Holland isn't a gamer? Well, he was saying it, like... Yeah, it was all about, like, my shirt off of my glistening muscles. Yeah, it was all about looking cool. nothing to do with actual Garbo, Garbe, man Yeah I'll never watch it

Yeah, please don't It's made enough money Yeah, that was painful to sit through That's the majority of stuff I wanted to kind of bring up And shout out there Yeah, awful year

Yeah, terrible year The worst year of my life Hmm Yeah The best year of my life So is it So is a challenge Trying to come up with like a good way to end these, you know

Um We're all here Just it's here That's all you need to say We're all here We're all here We're not dead yet We're here and we're not dead yet

That's what James said We are all here and we're not dead. I got a piss, bro. Go piss, then. You've been recording for an hour and 45 minutes. Yeah, these ones are always long, man. Well, I hope you enjoyed.

Let us know your picks of things from the year, if it was good or bad or whatever. Let me know why I'm wrong about things. We'll see you on the next episode. Happy New Year! Thank you.