JAR Media Posdact - 2025 (prt 2)

Episode Date: December 29, 2025

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Hello, everybody. What's that? Christmas is over. I guess it is. But it's still January. No, it's December. No, it's still December. Oh, my God.

I'm kind of cooked. I'm Alex joined by Jim. Why? And this is, I don't know. I don't know how to... I guess got to do the rigmarole again. It's a separate week. It is.

though this is recorded in one massive chunk for the holidays. It's so confusing for us, guys. So good afternoon, morning, evening or night. Welcome to Brocast, um... Nine. This is... Oh my God. Season nine. Oh, my God.

Episode four. Season six. Now, is this episode eight part two or episode nine? Let's go 8.75. 8.75. Okay. That clears up for everybody. just quickly let me get through the rigmar roll shout out to the jar media patrons that make the audio version of the show possible get the raw unfiltered mp3 over on patreon ad-free

you can chuck it on any podcast service of your choice with the link on there patron names on your first or second week of each month um so get those in i guess for next time as of this going up we're recording out for time right now it's kind of like a capsule it's kind of like a time capsule from the the hit video game spider man miles morass uh jafter hours another perk on there which is a supplementary show each week this episode i guess won't have a jafter hours attached it'll be the only one um just as we need a little break just for this one week um so we can enjoy our crimbo and we're already

bulk recording for like it's going to be like four or five hours so it's just just time you know but check out the after hours uh playlist in the meantime there's all sorts on there trying to read squid with sewer slide my tic-tok likes the neo-robot you know um the family guy lost pilot pays these chance scary sonic scary sonic there's everything going on on there so check that out oggy's chance and the jimedia group chat as well. It's a group chat. You know what that is. And for those just tuning in, this is the second part of our kind of wrap-up of 2025. We already did events and memes and films. But we got a few things left to do. We still got music to do. We got TV to do and we got

music and games to do. Did I just say one of those? Probably. As I say, yeah, I'm going to sound more and more unhinged as it gets later the more wine that goes inside of my body and uh some sort of red wine supernova is it oh brer you know how to speak to my soul um so you wanted to start of tv i don't have that much on tv i have one it's the only thing that um i've got no like wrapped type thing to like look at oh yeah i listened to that i watched that there's no like film thing um but there are a couple things i wanted to shout out um but you start with yours because i've been i dominated like the last part because of the movie discussion um well i'm i'm about to not dominate because uh like the only new show i watched from my memory is uh

dare devil born again um but not the season that came out this year or is it the seat i don't know i thought you were confusing me earlier when i said oh you saw dead devil is season two out I don't know, because I'm not been up to date on any of the Marvel streaming shit. Yeah, I mean, maybe it didn't come out this year, maybe it came out last year. No, it's 25. Yeah, no, it was this year. I watched it this year. Is season two out? No.

It's not? Okay. Wait. Why did I think it was? It's coming March, 26, season two. Okay. My bad. It sucked.

Really? Because I've kept mentioning that like I'm too scared to watch it and people have been like, no, it's not as good as Netflix ones, but it's still worth it if you like Daredevil. And I do, I love that. I love Daredevil. It is worth it then. Really? There's, um, so like half of it was made by like one team. That's right.

And then the other half was made by like the original. And so every now and again, yeah, it. flips from being just dog shit to like there'll be a scene that's like just plucked straight that but what level of dog shit we're talking like obi one are we talking fucking um what was it called secret invasion that's one i did watch and that's like the worst one yeah i never watched that fucking shit that was where i stopped i was like nah i didn't watch like hawkeye or captain america i watched captain america i can't remember the last one i saw dare devil um it's at its worst it is like obi one tier right okay um but at its best it's like so

spoiler alert um but everyone knows the punishers in it and the scene where they like meet up again is like it's like they those two get it you know they get what like they understand the assignment like their rapport and shit is fucking perfect phenomenal like it it just gives you that little taste of oh yeah that's why I fucking love this show yeah and then it goes back to some like donkey dick shit um very briefly

I think he's gonna be in it more next season because I have no I have no idea what the overarching plot even is um I see at first um I was like, oh, what are they doing here? In an interesting way. Yeah, and then very shortly after, I was like, what are we doing here?

Is it better or worse than like the Elektra shit? Because I'm not into that as much. I mean, it's worse than season two. Really? It's way worse than season two. Because season two had all the blind guy. That was fucking awesome. or was that season one

it's been so yeah i can't remember um but yeah when it's bad it's and some of the action is like they do like like i'm i'm not like um i'm not like a film expert by any means but like i know that when you're filming like an action scene you shouldn't like cut across

oh the 180 rule yeah yeah yeah and it was like really it's jarring some of the action is like abysmal for a show that like the dare devil season one two and three it was like showing off yes you know the the camera work and stunts yeah like next level like you didn't get better in a TV show that was part of the appeal of daredevil and to go from that

because I went straight from Daredevil season three because I'd never seen it and I was like on this hype I was like yeah fuck me this is one of the seasons of a TV show is the best season it's fucking amazing yeah season three is ridiculously good and then I get into born again which um kind of just undercuts a bunch of the shit that happens in season three annoying yeah really annoying um just so they can like kind of bring it back to like the last um the salad days of right of what their devil should be and I mean I'd already had um Kingpin

revealed to me in the fucking In Hawkeye When he's wearing like Look up Kingpin Hawkeye Check out the fix He's wearing like a holiday

Like Max Payne 3 shirt Oh he is And like a funny hat He's just just like MaxPain Yeah And it's like What the fuck are we doing here Bubba

Yeah What are we doing here Disney Bubba Um And then, like, they pretend like he gets killed in, um... Who kingpin? Yeah, in Hawkeye. Um, he gets, like, hit by a car or some shit, like, and gets blasted through a wall.

So he's just, like, got superpowers or some shit. Um... And he alludes to, like, uh, in Daredevil Born Again to, like, his, his protégé character from Hawkeye. who's like the villain of hawkai and it's like we don't need to be doing all this man it's continuity is just too much yeah and it's super like unfocused that like the show doesn't know what it's doing really until like the last two episodes you're talking about hawkai daredevil right now dead devil born again yeah that's annoying yeah um yeah it's just kind of floating around um

i'm gonna have to catch up though hearing that jesska jones was coming in yeah yeah true that's like I want jar shit Yeah, they're doing it for us Yeah, for sure But that's what bugs me though It's like, whatever Have a shitty fucking

Daredevil show Or No, sorry Hawkeye or What the fuck else have they done? Secret Invasion, like whatever Mm-hmm You can't be doing that

With Daredevil man, you can't No You gotta treat him with the respect Yeah, put respect on his name This is Daredevil they carried I mean They undid the

Ben Affleck movie They did it And they made him like sick Yeah They brought him from possibly like The cringiest In that like spandex Red

Just utter cring Um I made him Like one of my favourite superheroes You know The you know The

The like faith stuff like that that just feels like gone kind of like that's some of the best stuff in season three and um he's got this like new girlfriend character who's like one of the worst written characters in a TV show ever she's like

really is the blonde lady not in anymore and pigsy um briefly briefly um they were like the three of them was kind of like yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so you can see why me going from season three into born again i mean at least

watch the first episode um because in season three there's like a whole last episode that doesn't have daredevil in it it's just like the blonde woman right she gets like a whole yeah that's right it's like her backstory yeah and it's like a good episode it's not like it's really good it's where like ruins like the whole flow yeah yeah um but no this this new like girlfriend character she's like a psychologist um no um she's like a therapist um and the shit they do with her character is just Like, what? Like, she's a fucking idiot. Like, is she played by someone notable?

I don't think so. Is it Heather Glenn? The character. I don't know. Okay. She's not noteworthy. She's only notable for how, like, bad she is. Right.

Yeah, maybe I will. It's just every time someone describes it to me, it's just not that convincing. It's always like, well. If you have to. too. Yeah, I mean, I I like where it ends.

Like, if we're, if the next season is going to be like thought through from the beginning. Yeah. With those like original creators and where we're at now in the story. I can never,

I can't forgive this season because it's like bad. it is bad right um but we could get a great season two okay with jessica jones showing up as well like it fool me once you know exactly fool me twice i won't go forward again um honestly the main show i want to shout out is common side effects um an animated show kind of about like big farmer. Oh, okay. It's about a, what a, mycologist, which is a mushroom expert,

who stumbles across a, basically a MacGuffin mushroom that can, like, cure any ailment. Okay, that's fine. And he's trying to figure out out, yeah, basically. And he's basically trying to figure out, like, what to do with that in America. Right. while um Mike judge of like Beavis and Butthead plays this like big farmer CEO dude who like catches wind of this mushroom and he like obviously wants it yeah um for his healthcare company and it's like quirky and weird and has these like that sounds cool these fun character designs where

they they've got like these tiny faces on these big fucking heads right and the humor's like really weird and I loved it I've seen it twice Oh. How long is it? It's 20 minute episodes. There are like 10 episodes or something. That sounds cool. You can...

I do have a second show to shout out. What? Smiling Friends. Shit, yeah. I haven't seen every episode. I forgot to know that down. Another animated, um... Yeah.

Um... I can't really need much help, but it's, um... I think it's the best season. Um... How many seasons have there been now? Three. Three. Right. Yeah, it's the hardest I've laughed at their shit.

And I, like, I've liked pretty much all of these guys for a long time. Yeah. Like, the psychic... Yeah. Particularly sick animation. His shit has resonated with me. Yeah. You know, I went back to his channel and was like, man, these videos just, like, don't get the love that they deserve.

Yeah. These, smash and grab is, like... Do-d-do-do-do-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d. That might be the... best video on YouTube. First I smash it up. Then I grab it up. That's why we do-d-da-do-do-do-do-do-d-d-d. I also love it from like a creativity level as far as they actually care about animation. So every episode has like different mediums and like shots where they like flex like these high frame like big show-off shots and stuff. It's really cool. And it's never not funny when they just

randomly do some like rotoscoping yeah i mean that one of the funniest smiling friends jokes of all time is it's the first episode i think where he's like why are you here man you're so old go home to your family dude yeah it's really fucking funny and it just like takes you off guard yeah i i'm glad they've got their like official um flowers you serve brick and more to you yeah yeah Rick and Morty yeah Rick and Morty

can go suck a fatty Rick and Morty Rick and Morty's been done for a long time that whole it's all about Mr Boss for me yes

well sick animation yeah he's so funny he's yeah he's got his line delivery yeah that you'll randomly

just like emphasize something or um he dips into like a southern accent yeah yeah but also his like normal voice where he's kind of like childish but kind of yeah condescending but not yeah it's weird yeah oh i thought you knew that was a the inside of my asshole yeah that's crazy man

i love the they're like uh when the inspector comes and he's like we're fucked no that's brilliant and i think like it avoids the rick and morty problem because it is these 10 minute little bursts it doesn't try to have any continuity at all it's not like they're yeah it's more like simpsons there's obviously that inspiration like um yeah they're always doing that has it only ever been in it yeah he's in it a bunch okay um yeah what do i want to shout out. Dexter resurrection. Oh shit.

Like, Dexter has always been an important part of my life. But they did it. They actually, I don't know how the fuck they did it. But they did it. All these years later, and it's like fire. It's funny and like weird and corny. Yeah. And Jessica Jones is in it.

Oh, shit. Yeah. Like the, it's such a stupid idea. The like secret. underground society of serial killers brought together by fucking Peter Dinklage. But they chose the right actors and they have

the right story. Yeah. I've heard the ending is very good though. Is it kind of gated? It's kind of gated. He basically just like looks in the camera and is like, I'm back with the fucker. Okay, maybe I've got to watch it. Do you need to watch the like previous shits?

No. You don't? No. Good. okay i reckon what's it on no i don't know you could like you go straight from season four to this new one yeah yeah even though like there wouldn't make sense in some ways because i'll be like you can fill in the gaps yeah because fucking season like five six and seven don't make sense let's finish uh yeah so that was a surprise whereas um I've got just shit on here that, like, I didn't even like, why do I even write this down? I watched the, like, It Show, It Welcome to Derry. Oh.

Where it's like the clown's backstory. Yeah, even though you got that in the movies from memory. I never saw the second one. It feels very much like, we're HBO, we need our stranger things. Right. And we own this IP. Are all the kids in it again? No, because it goes.

It goes back in time. It goes to the 60s, I think. Oh, okay. When's the original based? 80s. Right. Yeah. Because Stranger thinks it's inspired by it. Yeah.

I think the... And like the Goonies and shit. Yeah, yeah. Just a weighty shit. I think that's where it came from is they wanted to make like an It thing, but they couldn't make it. So like, we'll just do our own for Netflix type thing. It was a very similar kind of like base level stories, like a kid that's kidnapped by some ghoul of a worldly creature focus on the kids

and the loser group super similar but it's fucking awful really it's genuinely like and I'm super out of sync because people online are like whoa they're doing it they're actually doing it

and it's like then what like being the fucking cringier like it looks awful really it looks horrendous I can't believe how bad it looks for an HBO like tent whole show like that yeah um that's normally something you can rely on even if like the

writing yeah because i saw like a clip from the last of us show um yeah it's got some good production about it yeah it looks fucking amazing yeah yeah that's not the issue with that show yeah um so yeah that was a weird one um alien earth as well just like ugh i've got like a fucking half an hour video talking about that stupid show um alien earth Alien Earth Yeah Is this xenomorph on Earth Kind of

But mostly not Mostly on an island I don't know They don't know what to do with alien Islands are on earth No but it's like Oh my God There's a fucking xenomorph in New York

No actually they're on this like Isolated island detached From all of you matters Um Peacemaker Season 2 was good You watched the first season I watched the first season this year. It's very good.

It's funny. I had a flat ending, but had some good moments to it. Yeah, because people were really disappointed by the ending. And before it came out, James Gunn was tweeting constantly about how crazy the ending is. And he was like, it might be my favorite thing I've ever done. I don't know why he said that. yeah like like how can because normally like he's he's with it like yeah oh so yeah I don't know but I haven't seen season two so I should be able to watch it now it wasn't like Game of Thrones

ending bad or anything it was yeah yeah like this kind of needed a bit more rejigging it felt like he put it together while making Superman and Superman was the priority right that's what it felt like yeah which literally was the case right yes um but in that case it's like you've got a dividend the shit up a bit more we need some people you can yeah trust to yeah um i guess um quite a lot is riding on supergirl yeah true but yeah i love vigilante that character yeah i feel like um it's actually funny he's really funny he's how you do like a daredevil type character Deadpool yeah sorry

Deadpool and not just have him be shit or like too cringy yeah because he's not cringy or when he is cringy it's like you're laughing at him you know yeah he's

he's not with it where I get Deadpool's almost like you're in on the joke with me right all the time yeah yeah there's not like a separation because of that meta element I guess yeah it's yeah I don't know

because you never really see Deadpool as like a character no in the films anyway he's like this he's just like Ryan Reynolds just mugging yeah

it's so true whereas vigilante is like like you don't want to know this guy I feel like that's the vibe you should have with Deadpool he's like a crazy murderer man you know he's like a scary monster and like vigilante is

is scary but you're safe because you're like watching him through a screen yeah that's true actually they that could make debball work way better if the people around him were more like like who the fuck you talking to man and like treating it you're kind of crazy and scary like yeah he should be scary i feel like but you can't be if he's round reynolds he's got to be likeable and the family man yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah he's got to have a fucking jelly ring up his butt or whatever and that he pulls out and i've said to marry oh i'm funny anal man fuck you anal man

um so do you want to do musical games next um let's do music okay so i figured the best way to do this would be to go through the the playlist on spotify that have like the plays for songs that's how i'm going to do it anyway because mine is just fucking bizarre because it's like all the playlists i play and shit like that um so i think a good place to start this actually is I have a song that I think is the best song of the year. You're wrong. Why? Because I've got a better one.

I think the best song of the year is the birds don't sing. Oh shit. I think that's the best song of the year. Really? Yeah. Wow. That shocks me. Is that your most played song?

It's not my most played. Okay. But if I have to choose like, the best song I've heard in 2025 it is that one um

because I what's the album called again um it's clips um yeah what I can't remember the name I should I should fucking know

I'm really bad with song names and album specifically um it is called let God sort them out yeah because I thought

like I listened to that album and I don't know I didn't really gel with me outside of that song you went first um which I would I would say I maybe like half listened to it properly that song

and was like I was drawn in by that chorus of the birds and it's saying they'd screech in pain it's like there's something memorable and yeah striking about that there's something going on

there as a like a visual yeah and a metaphor yeah of course but when you do the research when you make an effort to like listen through the poetry of it um it's it's ridiculous um and kind of like emotionally vulnerable and honest in a way i just didn't expect in the way that's communicated through the song with like the backing vocals towards the end being like... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Doesn't this almost kind of like ruin it?

Now you know this. It's like what he's saying in the backing vocals. I think Faroe is saying that bit, singing that bit. Which I just saw was like a really bold like creative swing.

Yeah. I mean, album of the year. Easily. Like, I don't even know any other albums came out this year because this is the anyone I've been listening to you like my my Spotify has been dominated by this album um and it just

doesn't seem to get old like normally I'd move on by now but like I can't it's so fucking good um yeah you get like a a mix of of like everything that rap can be it's it's so cool with fucking amazing features like Ferrell producing Ferrell producing and I remember seeing shortly after the album came out because they did like a

listening party which is worth keeps fucking happening yeah a listening party that they're like talking through a bunch of the songs so the three of them um and there's a clip from that of feral saying like these are like the cleanest beats you could

eat off these beats because like i've polished and polished and polished and polished these like we have polished this album um and it's yeah it's so true yeah and it's so true yeah and even just on bursden it's saying it's kind of got like this it's pretty strip-backed as far as like the production of it but the way it like crescendos yeah compliments like their storytelling they're telling like a perspective and the swapping between the brothers and like right as the kind of verbal narrative hits like a point then the like production like yeah yeah builds up and it really like fucking hammers at home for the chorus yeah yeah yeah it makes it quite emotional it is but also but the vibe of of clips more so is the braggadocious

the um yeah and i think that's why that one spoke to me so much yeah um you're talking about something like real yeah um so most of the rest of the album is uh it's it it's also colored by like almost fear and like anxiety around living that lifestyle like I'm not going to be able to remember I love that bass in the cupboard line

in that song yeah that's that's fantastic but um yeah one of the songs I think it's in glorious bastards um the the chorus is like you've not seen what I've seen like you don't go where I go and so they're talking about like the the dark shit like but then there's also my favorite song of the year ace trumpets which is just like the

the most fucking hype song I think ever created it's the the rhyming scheme is so fucking impressive and fun and the fact that like that malice hasn't been doing this for ages like he took a big hiatus and he comes back and he just writes the fucking coolest the coolest verse of the past like 10 years damn like it's so fucking sick um and all of it is like badass and like heavy and he doesn't like swear once it's just like pure fucking like linguistic ability it's it's so fucking cool and it's like a two-minute song you know it's like beat starts they're in they're out the end like end like end end's fucking fucking fire on all cylinders yeah so i i i never actually talked about um you saw it live i yeah i saw

them live i went to um london and just to cement how much i love this album um it's the best show i've been to like the the energy that they they conjured in that room um and considering they're like older guys as well. Yeah. Yeah, I never knew that. Yeah, you wouldn't know it either. Like, they look younger than me, to be fair.

But their stage presence, they're I don't know how you do it. I don't know how you move around and, like, rap and you're remembering all of these different lyrics, like, they, like, you can tell they've been doing this for a long time and... Just prose, make it look easy.

Yeah, it's second nature to them. And, um... Rehearsing and rehearsing and rehearsing and rehearsing and rehearsing and... Must be ingrained in you when you've, like, worked on an album that long and written. Yeah, I'm sure. Performing it again and again. Yeah, yeah. That's very cool.

Yeah, it's, uh... Yeah, I'm smitten with that album. It's, uh... Now, all of my best live music things, things, um, shows have been like... there's one because I don't do the whole like breaking down like weeping thing that like some fans do you know when they see and they like can't even hack it type is that a thing that people do oh yeah yeah but for all my favorite shows there's like an instance where like a tea is brought to my eye from yeah yeah from something just like oh wow um I had that with

then in summer uh-huh opening on that that piano um we i guess summer for for my moment of that the clips concert was when they play buds don't sing because they yeah they did their set went off obviously where like crowd goes crazy it's like encore encore encore encore they came back um and they stood behind them were these projections of like images and their mom and dad were projected onto oh shit the back wall and they stood like with their backs to us so they're looking at their mom and dad and then like the birds don't sing birds don't birds don't with the piano boom boom boom boom and they start and yeah and like everyone's like rapping along and singing like yeah yeah that's amazing yeah magical moment um i don't really have like an album i do i do this every

year for this music part i feel like it's my weakest one as far as like range anyway because i listen to music in a quite strange way i feel yeah um because my like my top played song with 75 listens is assumptions slowed down version sam gelatry um that is a balter of a fucking song bum i'm actually i'm like all into him now because of that meme yeah yeah i'm like properly because i like this kind of like electronic stuff and it's good electronic music yeah he's really good at it we should go see him live yeah i really want to um we should we should he dropped an album like i think it was last month the end of last month or something it's got some great tracks on it um did one with uh toro y moi who i've followed in love for a long time yeah just i don't

know just stars aligned for that one for me for sam sam and i um and the dance Yeah, so I went back and listened to a bunch of shit from before, and it's like, yeah, it's like made for me. Yeah, it really is. Do you have the, like, playlist up? Yeah. Should we, like, just swap then? Okay. Are we going through the lot?

I was going through, like, yeah, buy listens type thing. From least to most, or most to least? Well, we could do it that way, because I started with most. It probably makes more sense the other way, doesn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But we can like, because a lot of mine are kind of collected, like it'll be an artist in a row. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, just batch them. Okay.

So I don't know how to pronounce this person's first name, I'll be honest. But suff Jan, suff Jan, suffjan, Suffian, Suffian, Suffer Stevens. No, no, Billy, not right now. um so he's he's like a a poetic um he did the song on um the ice skater ton i tonia oh yes yeah yeah him um he did the song for um call me yeah yes yes yes um which some great stuff watching that movie introduced me to him as an artist um and his his music's beautiful yeah um it's like almost kind of simple um but really like uh flowy melodies like you can quite elegant yeah yeah you can sing along to these songs but he's he's not someone i i struggle to listen to

to people who's like voices are too good yeah do you know what i mean like not not to be disrespectful because obviously like i love his music but like he doesn't have the the uh like an impressive voice you know it's not about that yeah it's the david ban thing yeah i feel like sometimes when your voice is like the flaws are imperfections can yeah but but if if your voice is like really impressive then your your mind is there and it's not on like if you're writing it doesn't feel like an instrument in the same way yeah it's like above it it's yeah and what they're saying no longer matters so much it's just that they can hit like a you're like flexing that you can do it yeah right so it's it's not about whereas his the way he uses the english language is super

interesting um so the my first three um our fourth of july which is actually like a big on ticot is it yeah um i found out after the fact um abraham and all the trees of the field will clap their hands so a bunch of these i i tend to listen to music like i'll just put on an album and go through it so they're going to be collected right right whereas i don't really listen that way yeah um but yeah and a few of his songs are dotted throughout my playlist but yeah so i i got like a bunch of these fucking um like lo-fi beats from where we're recording jar and shit and like kind of editing like i'll have just stuff playing so i'll skip those over um but with 17 listens i've got never ender

by Justice and Tame and Parlor. Uh-huh. I've heard you listening to that a lot. I fucking love that song. And I somehow didn't know it has this awesome music video, which is like this ode. It's like, they are just spiritual success of Duff Punk.

Really? That's their whole vibe, yeah. It works for me. It feels like they're their own thing. Maybe the last time Tame and Pala released something I was like properly into you

Mm hmm Was it early in the year they released it It came out last year I think And I feel like a dickhead for not going And seeing it live because I I watched one of their live shows the other day And they do like

They like remix songs together And splice them together Like Dalf Punk would do when they play live And it looks really fucking cool Yeah it does sound cool So I should have gone to that But there'll be another chance I'm sure.

Yeah. Daffo. What you got? I got sticky by Tyler the creator. Yeah. That's one of the big ones of the year, right? It was, yeah. Although, weirdly, um...

This album just hasn't resonated with me the same. As, uh... Yeah. Specifically, call me if you get lost. Um... Yeah. That...

That's like an all-timer album. for me that I think the year that came out that was like the equivalent to the what the clips album is for me this year yeah because I bumped that album I was listening over and over and over and yeah and every now and again I do put that album on and it's fucking it's really good whereas like I appreciate that he's gone to a more vulnerable space yeah with Chromacopia but it It just doesn't hit the same for me.

I don't know. Neither of his two albums for me have have hit like, call me if you get lost. Interesting. Because I don't know if it's partially. Tyler was crazy about Kendrick's latest album. Gene Hanks.

Sorry, not Kendrick's like, the one before. With Auntie Diaries. Oh yes, yes. Mr. Morales. yeah mr morel so i i feel like um as a direct response to mr morale and that like honesty and um yeah because a lot of kendry fans are weird about that album yeah some of the narrative i see online about it is like what yeah like he fell off because the sales were down or whatever but like that that album is such a stupid dumb way of seeing it it really is because it i think mr morrow and g and x are probably

my favorite Kendrick albums. Really? They're the ones that have hit the hardest for me. Yeah, I and I feel like

Chromacopia is heavily inspired by Mr. Morale being that like he saw that you can do that. Yeah. And I've, I don't know,

to me it just feels um less impactful. Hmm. Yeah. I guess because I've put this on to it, like the, if he's trying to mimic something, which did it first, I don't know. I feel like he's remarkably consistent, though. He is.

He's kept to, like, a schedule as well. Like, every two years, at least you're going to get an album. And he doesn't seem to release, like, trash. No. It's not, like, unpredictable. yeah and um also his oh we'll get to that later but yeah i'm not saying the album's bad by any means it's just not as good as what's

come before i yeah um these are random ones uprising by muse huh um i i listen to that 19 times for such a fucking embarrassing reason I saw a fucking meme of it was like a virtual set

with like a bunch of like IPs like Sonic the hedgehog and fucking a transformer and like all of it and Homer Simpson was on stage singing uprising by the muse yeah I'm pretty sure you showed me

and it was like mapped over the lead singer's voice and it was hitting the notes and I was like I forgot about this this is actually kind of like a good sick song

and there was like a period where I really loved Mews I remember when it came out and I was just I guess just bathing in the nostalgia of it I do get a bit

annoyed by the lyrics being so like it's platagy I've joked about it before the like if you put running or revolution yeah yeah

then but I don't know it's it does kind of get your blood pumping yeah for sure um i'm going to skip the 16 lessons on please don't stop low raw um i've talked about

those low raw albums enough and i'm going to jump to um from the album samurai by lupa fiasco um palaces and mumble rap this I latched onto this album purely

by coincidence I was listening to G&X and playing Helldivers and did it also rack yeah I didn't I didn't do the like repeat shuffle thing

or I don't shuffle but I didn't do the repeat thing so it just starts the album again so it chose a random album I can work sometimes. Yeah, the song, um, samurai. Yeah, I like that song. I started playing.

And I was like, man, this is fucking cool. Like, with the album cover as well, where he's like a samurai with the glave thing, it's fucking cool. Um, so I listened to the whole album and I was like, what the fuck? Um, I've listened to a little bit more of Lupe Fiasco and like, he, he's, uh, he's, uh, he's, uh, he's, he's really fucking cool got that stuff yeah he can he can write for sure um yeah listen to samurai good shit i've got 19 listens of reptilia by the strokes um i like the strokes that's just the one that i go to i think yeah yeah i'm not gonna have like deep shit to say about

all of these you know yeah yeah yeah yeah me too rotation yeah for sure and when I get back to like

repeating artists then I just yeah yeah just gloss over but this isn't a repeat artist I got into like Prince

this year yeah yeah yeah so that album um will probably be dotted through here but Prince Temptation

17 lessons what a fucking great album like it's really really good um post uh purple rain um yeah prince was a blind spot for me yeah he was for me um i heard paisley park and i latched onto it because of the dog paisley um and then i listened through the rest of the album and like everyone knows raspberry beret um but then you find like weird and crazier songs like

around the world in a day and um and temptation like the he he he had the source you know he was cooking yeah um I'm pretty sure he died from a fentanyl overdose oh shit yeah that's a bummer yeah depressing but yeah absolute fucking legend listen to that album the album's called around the world in a day nice I got uh 20 listens of I Am Dust by Gary Newman. I need to listen to more Gary Newman because I do like that kind of production. But the reason I targeted this song

is that it was after seeing 9-inch nails. I was just like Googling what are some like songs that sound like 9-inch nails but aren't because I've like heard everything they've made. Yeah, yeah. And I want more. And it does sound like a 9-inch nails song made by Gary Newman, which is quite weird.

but it's a good our song I associate him with more like almost like Mario Galaxy-esque music yeah 80scent is that valid but also like

weird yeah and floaty and like maybe that's just his head on that album cover that is a funny album it is really funny he's got some great songs on it though yeah so another

Suffent Stevens 17 listens Eugene I've said all I need to say Yeah I need to add some more of his stuff I just forget Yeah I've got 20 listens of crocodile by Underworld I think that might be my only underworld on there

They're constantly in the rotation so one of their songs is going to come up for sure Yeah for sure I don't know if I have any underworld but I need to add more of their stuff for sure But my next Another 17 lessons is Squabble Up by Kendrick

Nice Again, like I said, G&X That might be the Album that's resonated for me the most From Kendrick, but You know how into The Kendrick Drake beef I was I think it might be in my top

really what G and X X X X really yeah okay that surprises me but it's like a time and a place thing like G and X by itself would be like yeah this is cool but G&X

after the Drake Hendrick beef like to do this like yeah I'm the fucking guy then is just like I also just think it, like, it's more broadly listenable

than chucking on Mr. Morrell as much as I love it. Yeah, definitely. Definitely. And for Kendrick to do that, it's like the last, the last disc track is the whole, this whole album.

He's like, yeah, I can make fucking hits. And, like, they're going to be talked about more. They're going to be listened more than all your shit. Like, he literally has, there's nothing left. prove yeah nothing yeah he's done it all whereas where's where's Drake is like trying to imitate this like this this is the type of rap that it like it's it just is like hit after

hit after hit like he was cooking apart from the song G and X that song fucking sucks yeah it's weird that it sounds like a Unomile song which is kind of funny again like to be on that album something I this album has proven with Kendrick is that he can goof and gaff he will like he will make jokes he will sound funny um that's true i think that's what makes it a bit more listenable in that way is it's been more lighthearted and kind of yeah it's it's super lighthearted i i think it's um it is squabble up isn't it where he's like got the fuck out my face yeah he sounds so silly like in the best way possible yeah yeah like to its strength yeah i just love the idea of writing a

like a song about your pen yeah that's the thing as well like even on the album that's like Bop Central he has like a love song to his pan it's like

yeah that blew my mind when I first listened to that song yeah I got like shivers and stuff yeah uh huh so fucking good um that's not even what we were talking about uh I got 20 lessons of places to be by uh oh shit Yeah, that's a goodie. By Fred again.

Yeah, how yeah. And Anderson Pack. And Anderson Pack, yeah. And then I found out the fucking Nick Fuentes uses this song. What? Like, um, you know when people are going to start their stream, it plays like a song. Right.

Like, it plays that song. Really? Yeah. I don't know how like, that works. Yeah. Fred again, can you fucking sort that out, please? If anything. Apparently the album's like really.

bad yeah i i had that i like that song a lot yeah i've i've got a big soft spot for anderson pack the um love his voice and it's drumming yeah he's he's it yeah he's got the source um so my next song another 17 listens uh shame on the devil by vince staples um this album again was like first half of the year I was listening to Lupe Fiasco or Vince Staples

yeah um dark times it's a really fucking good album there's shame on the devil isn't one of the like goaded ones but there's a few more that will pop up later

um that is so so fucking good like I'm a I'm a obsessed with these songs. This might be the one I'm most proud to have on here. I have 20 listens of 4533 by LCD sound system. The song's like nearly an hour long.

Yeah, it's like 45 minutes long. 46 minutes. I fucking love it. I fucking love this song. It's like an episode of like a TV show. it's like a song. Well, isn't, that's like long enough to be a movie, right? I think it might be right on the border, yeah.

That's funny. It's feature length. I'm pretty sure this song was in this wrap-up last year as well, so I won't linger on it. I fucking love it. 17 listens again, once in a long, long while by Low Raw. Yeah. Beautiful. I got Millennium by Robbie Williams.

I've got Robbie Williams coming up scene. That's a man response. Yeah, yeah. Is Millennium the, like, kid one? It's not the kid version, but I do like... But it is the kids. That's the one the kids sings in the film. There is a kid version of it.

Not the opening one, though. Come and hold my hand. Yeah, what's that one called? That's not that one. That's a different one. What's Millennium? That's probably in here. You know Millennium.

I'm sure I do, but I can't think of, like, the tune right now. If I press play, it will play it in. Oh, God. I suppose I can do that, actually, because it won't come up on the recording. Oh, shit, yeah. I forgot this was him. Yeah. Yeah.

It's a really fucking good song. Yeah. And especially, like, being alive during the millennium. Like, this song was fucking everywhere. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, some nostalgia there

Um, I've got Let's Go Crazy by Prince From Purple Rain Belter Yeah Absolute Um I got 22 listens of

Infortrator By 9-inch Nails From uh Tron Ares It's just what I'm looking for From my instrumentals, you know Just goes hard Can imagine driving late night to this?

Did 30 seconds to Mars contribute on the sound drive? I hope not. My next one is Gone Fishing by Low Roll. Yeah, a good song. We could talk about that album

closer towards the end. Yeah. But yeah. I got 22 listens of Where Do We Go From Here by by Charles Bradley. Yeah. I had a bit of like a Charles Bradley

thing going through some of his albums really fucking good you know even though he did the big mouth like opening I'm not holding that against him because the song existed before it was picked for that show yeah exactly incredible voice the most soulful voice I've ever sound it sounds like from a different time like yeah yeah when when you look at when the album came out I was like yeah it's like 2015 or something so oh this sounds like it came out in the 70s.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. No, it is truly timeless. And I feel like to get something like that released then, you know, like you got the horns. You got the real drum kit. It's authentic. You pulled out the stops. Um, but my next one is don't be so serious by Low Raw.

That's a obligatory, cheeky de astrandy, you know. Um, I got 22 listeners. of drums of death by F.K.A. Twigs. Okay. I need to listen to more of her stuff because I like what I hear her. Yeah. Like weird and electronic and strange.

Did we see her live? Was she the one that was... I don't think so. But Fords in Bristol. No, at Womad. There was someone... Oh no, that was... Oh, no, that was... Oh, fuck. Who was that? It wasn't her,

but it was another... female pop star that I like I can't remember her name I've got my Robbie Williams pool at 18 listens she's the one yeah bum bum bum bum

bum bum bum yeah that was a good part in the movie too yeah really good yeah that movie changed Robbie Williams for me that's why he's popping up

in both of us to be fair bombed hard too that film yeah um no thing on me by curtis mayfield cocaine song yeah yeah yeah yeah we'll see your next uh mom an M by Tyler the creator that's from

not chromocopia but the following album with the funny red trousers yeah the uh funny red trousers yeah I mean it's a funny album cover um And it's, it's more Tyler being his like, goofier self.

Yeah, yeah. And I just think Mom and Em has some of the most interesting, like, production that he's done. And I wish he'd taken that same, and, like, stretched it out further, you know? Because I feel like there's places he could have gone with this song. Because it's a song that's kind of like a. it leads into the following song but the following song goes like in a different direction I yeah

I feel like you could milk mom and him yeah I found that in I mentioned the Sam Gallantree thing on his latest album there's a song that I feel really strongly it's like it builds up for the whole song then has this payoff

right at the end but it needed to do it again and needed to repeat it one more time because otherwise it's like you're left wanting more in a way that's like damn it no I'm like unsatisfied yeah yeah yeah so my next is 23 listeners of Von Dutch

Charlie XEX baby the most like obvious one you could pick but I don't give a vote that's cool that's cool um my next two both 18 listens, whacked out murals by Kendrick and reincarnated by Kendri. Reincarnated is crazy.

If you haven't heard reincarnated, listen to that song. That's so fucking good. Again, on the album that's like banger after banger, to drop like a banger of this caliber is like, okay. My next one, speaking of Hendrick, is Heart Part 6. 24 listens. Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah.

Yeah. That's like classic. Classic West Coast. Yeah. Rap. I just got the storytelling. Yeah. Yeah, stunning.

Another 18 listen with Low Raw's Half Asleep. Um, another underworld here, 24 listens of beautiful burnout. No, I'm sorry, bang. Um, I've got a 19 listen on Suff Jan Stevens to be alone with you. This one in particular, I do really resonate with. I love that song. Yeah. I've got 25 listens of Dracula, my Damon Barlow.

You crazy fucking bastard. It's a bad album, straight up. Yeah, I haven't even bothered. Just a badass album. Not badass. Bad dash ass. My next one is Raspberry Beret, 19 listens.

Prince, obviously. Same album. Classic. This is a dorky-ass one I've got. I've got 25 listens of Noctis from the Mars Express soundtrack. Nice. That's cool.

I'm the biggest fan of that. movie in the world i don't give a fuck in the world how do you know it's like three people have seen it we're two of them yeah uh my next song is estella by le raw nice 19 lessons um i got 25 listens of saliva by victor von and mf doom nice yeah how yeah i love a bit of MF Dame. I've got Sweet Life by Frank Ocean. 19 lessons again. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, this album is fucking good. That Frank Ocean, though, orange. I've got two songs off, no, one song off that album in this list. Oh, okay. Yeah.

Yeah, because I... I feel like I, I listened to it a while ago and was like, eh. Yeah. And then, yeah, connected with me this year as well. for some reason. Yeah, there was,

I, I, I don't think it was one of the most listened to people in the world this year. I don't know how the fuck he does,

he's done it. And he hasn't released anything in forever. He's released like two albums ever. Oh. So, and everyone loves him. I don't know what the fuck he did,

like how, like what deal with the devil he made. What blood magic's being used. Yeah. Crazy shit. But, um, yeah, I,

this album blew my mind this year. This is a funny one. 25 listens of Peter Gabriel's big time. Nice. That's a fun one. I fucking love the lyrics. It's so like angry. Yeah.

Pressed off. Yeah, but it sounds like that. Sounds preppy. 80s, late 80s. Like, hey. I love when he's just talking about like, you know, when I'm famous enough, I'm going to go to the big church. I'm going to have the big house. Everything's going to be big.

Yeah. It's all like excess and like just out of whack. Yeah. gonna make it big time yeah yeah snarky super snarky there's like a really yeah i've been stretching my mouth to let those big words come right out i love that yeah i i love when um like a competent writer is able to use like a simple word like big in such like an effective way um but my my next two a couple more candrix TV off and Luther

the two yeah the two very popular ones 19 lessons each yeah it was cooking I got 26 listens of the young father's song

Pals see if you recognise this from it's from the very end of 28 years later where the Jimmy show up and start talking to the main character and it like builds up and goes into the credits

and it's like a really cool song I dig that a lot yeah they've got a really cool sound yeah and it's it acted as a springboard for me to start listening to more young fathers of stuff that's not just from that film that should also be on this list

at certain points also the name young fathers I feel like just design for you see I'm gonna start skipping songs now and like landing on more notable ones so my next one is

a song I'm actually or have like learned a version of on the piano by Duke Ellington Nice 20 lessons C jam blues Fuck yeah Speaking of big mouth

Yeah It's the Duke himself Fucking Ghost Duke Duke teaching me piano But Just the simple, I mean, the, the, the complex, simple rhythms of Duke Ellington are just, like, doing so much with, like, not that much. Yeah.

You know? Genius, genius level. Yeah, incredible. Yeah. I have, um, this is quite random. 27 listens of The Lovers by 9-inch Nails Um Just a random one I guess

Yeah Yeah See a lot of mine Artist-wise start to repeat Where um Because I don't listen album It's more like random and scatterin Yeah

What I find confusing though is that it's not more like leveled out Hmm But I guess I save a few songs so they get like a few more listened. So there's more like Lupe Fiasco, LoR Pie Eyes Blues by Duke Ellington.

Nice. That's actually just a fucking goody, like that's actually just a fucking goody like, you know, pie eyes. I got another FKA twig song. 27 listens of

childlike things that also has northwest in it. Um Um Really good song there Really good song there Let me find my next interesting one

Okay the song Samurai 28 listens Lupé Fiasco That's I got 29 listens of Samurai Damn, okay Yeah

Yeah awesome Awesome production awesome lyrics I love the concept for the album do you know the concept I think you described it to me yeah so I love a good concept album though

so Amy Winehouse described herself as a samurai with a pen because she became so capable at writing lyrics to songs and that obviously resonated with Lupe Fiasco so he wrote a concept album

from the perspective of Amy Winehouse, but as a battle rapper instead of a jazz singer. Yeah. And this is what you get up with. Very cool idea. Yeah, it's really fun. It's, yeah, such a good album. And that's a 2024 album, I think.

Just looking at it. Did you mention the Vince Staples thing earlier? Yeah, Dark Times. Because I've got, how the fuck do you say it this? A tufei. A tufei. Yeah, I've, I got 27 listens of that. This is one of the songs that.

from that album is like this is a perfect song to me like it has i looked up the um producer for this song because i think the production is so good on that beat it's like so like just pulls you in i could just listen to the beat without anything yeah yeah let alone the lyricism but on top of it um but his flow as well yeah yeah no you're right it is uh yeah there's like he he goes everywhere i'd want an artist to go yeah you know I fucking love whatever that is in the background, though, that... I don't even know how you describe. It's almost like a pulsing.

The higher pitch thing, the... Whoa, well, wow, wow, wow, wow, that thing. Whatever, whatever you call it. I don't have the vocabulary to even describe it. But it has, it's a pet peeve of mine of certain songs when they have, um, ambulances or cop cars, like, in it. When you're driving. Yeah, I listen to it a lot more driving, and I start getting.

and like fuck where is that come yeah yeah yeah for sure um from the same from samurai the album um number one headband that's like the best song on the album really it's really i've been it's really fucking good 31 lessons on that um yeah and the one before that for me is is pop life by prince again the same album but that one in particular um pop life is like my favorite song from that um i got 27 listens of curious feet tore at emoy this is from sam gellitreys new album that's cool that they teamed up yeah that makes sense yeah i've been following him forever yeah um so it's nice when the two people you like come together yeah I got a shout out, Hey Now by Kendrick Lamar.

Best song of the album, IMA. Really? Yep. Okay. I got 28 listens of Belong to You off the latest cut copy album. Again, another band I've just been following for a long time. An Aussie band. I haven't released anything in a while.

And I thought this was like a nice new song from them, co-labbing with this woman, Kate Bollinger. um yeah i know this song i want to see them live one day yeah for sure for sure I don't know if they make their way over to the UK um

my next I'm just gonna list off like specific songs from this album because I rents the fuck out of this album we're talking like 40 45 listens um our green yes um

yeah tired of being alone is that the album or the song there was that particular Al Green album yeah I'm trying to find Gets next to you

Al Green gets next to you is the album he's wearing the coolest coat um specifically I I mean every song from this album is good um

but God is standing by just hits for what ever reason um speaks to you yeah and his voice is so

next level like stunning um yeah amazing um I got some weird ones

coming up yeah I got cold heart penile remix with do a leper okay with the Elton John one yeah

yeah Elton John do a leaper penau I hate the music video it's got like the worst music video i've ever seen um it's it's animated which for me is normally like uh i want plus yeah um but it's just fucking hideous yeah to look at so damn at 52 lessons suffol and stephen's visions of gideon from um call me by your name oh nice

yeah that's a stunning song um yeah i got um 29 listens of my old ways from uh it's called debbeat it's the only song i listened to off the outside of Dracula i think from the latest tame and pilot

oh okay it's the opening song it's the only one that felt like this could be the opening song on like a good album um right yeah but it just doesn't doesn't do it. Yeah, shame. So the song that got me into that Frank Ocean album, Orange, was lost.

That song's crazy. I got lost on here. I got 30 listens of that. It's crazy. So I got 52 lessons of that. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, again, we've got a theme here.

I feel of like minimalism or simplicity? like done really well there's something about that when yeah yeah not not doing too much yeah I don't know just makes it hit harder um this is my only instance of talking heads on here is surprising double groove unfinished outtake off remaining light um for some reason there's unfinished I'm just obsessed yeah yeah yeah I do associate this song with you um um I just think it's I don't It's just weird and different. All these weird, like, vocals layered on top of each other, with this Brian Eno as, like, beat in the background.

I love it. Even though it's unfinished. It's fun. It's very boppy. So I want to talk about the La Rora album. Yes. So I know you've listened to it off until the, into my flight to Canada.

yeah yeah way to get off to a like fun holiday yeah because i almost like didn't want to say goodbye type thing because i knew that's what the experience was going to be yeah it's like a black starish type i know my fate uh here's what that sounds like as an album um and it sounds how that concept sounds yeah um it's very melancholy it is melancholy because there is like like, weirdly, for sure, and almost, um, less depressing than a bunch of his other music. I get what you mean because that acceptance gives it less kind of openness, I guess. Yeah. And like the, the song, because I've, I've waited until, um, I got to this point, um, in my lessons, House in the Woods. Yes.

So the, the last song on the album. And I think it might be one of the best songs. Well, it is the best song ever made, IMO. Really? He does this thing throughout the album where, like, at the end of every song, he starts to play House in the Woods. It would be, it's like the piano, like, bum, bum. Yeah, I love when albums do that, when they, like,

or play other songs or do stuff like that. Yeah. And the way it feels is like he's playing this on the piano at the end of every song because like he knows the end. He knows his coming be hasn't like accepted it quite. Yeah. And then the last song House in the Woods is like that like fine, finishing that that he's been like starting at the end of every other song.

Yeah, yeah. And it's it's so fucking beautiful. and like it the metaphor with like how he's describing this house in the woods with the album cover after like the journey he's taking you on with other songs that like

there was one that like it just feels like a panic attack um yeah I think it's gone fishing I mentioned earlier um and yeah it like we were talking about anxiety before i can't remember for the previous episode or it was it was it was the meme section um but like this is how you make a song about anxiety like you make it feel fucking anxious you know like there's there's depressing yeah and there's

there's no um like dissonance there like you're it's it's like empathy to the max um and yeah i i think this album is just immaculate. I know I'm already, like, a shell for La Roar, but... Yeah. And normally... It's like made for you. Yeah. Yeah.

And it did feel that way, like, um... Almost, like, too much at points, where it's like... But that's what that's what it's all about. It's trying to find those artists out there that speak to you in your experience. Yeah, and it's, it's like, um... it's like farming empathy yeah they're like speaking into your soul almost you know yeah yeah but i feel i feel that way about shit that doesn't even have lyrics yeah for sure um but i i do always find context adds a lot to um a piece of art oh definitely yeah um

you know you can like you were talking about earlier the um in the previous episode the films like that one that you need the little next to the painting description oh yeah yeah you know and like they're there for a reason a lot of the time like because you can look at it and like interpret one thing but then you read it and it's like then you notice oh that makes that makes sense yeah yeah yeah yeah and it informs all this stuff um Yeah, the context is very important. For sure. And so the context with this album is like...

Yeah, perfectly melancholy. Yeah. And just how it goes, I think, is the song you saved from the album. Yeah, that was the only one I saved. The only one is I feel like I would revisit outside of an album, re-listen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it does, like, sort of. chronically capture that like the it is what it is like yes like that feeling of just like

well what the fuck am i supposed to even do yeah what can you do you have that's that's how it goes yeah uh-huh yeah um tonally inverse to that conversation we just had about low roar i got 31 listens of Corey Wang Live at Madison Square Wong sorry Live at Madison Square Garden by Volf Peck

I had a few Volf Peck shows sorry songs saved but Adam showed me this when I was in Canada the Madison Square Garden version of this

and it's like the most joyous celebration of music yeah but the live version specifically. If you go and listen to the versions that aren't live, it doesn't have the stuff in the same way. It's like completely different. And it was like, this show was in 2019 right before COVID. And it was like, there was, they captured this like optimism and joy in this performance. And they didn't even know what was about to hit. Yeah. Yeah. Something like really weird

about that and really powerful about that. Um, and kind of sad in a weird way. Yeah, yeah. Um, but, I'd recommend watching that on YouTube. It's the whole, like, set is incredible. It's fucking incredible. Yeah, yeah, it blew my mind. Yeah, I need to listen through the whole thing, for sure. Yeah, speaking of, like, context being an important part of it. Yeah.

I feel like that is the, like, the split in the timeline. Yeah, yeah. So, like, the rest of all of mine, for the record, God is standing by. by Al Green, the one I mentioned earlier, is 56 lessons. Nice. Yeah, I've been bumping that a fair amount. My most listened to song was the one I mentioned earlier by clips, because Ace Trampets are 96 listens.

I don't have anything that high. Really? My highest was assumptions was 75. Really? Yeah. Because you had a lot more like time on Spotify than, I did um but it's still a lot of instrumentals though yeah yeah um and then like mt b t t f so mike tyston blow to the face uh 68 lessons bears don't sing 66 listens chains and whips

63 lessons all things considered 60 listens um yeah so be it um slightly less with 47 but top-weighted clips you know like this I got the little like Spotify message

from them you know yeah whereas I got Sam yeah say his last name gillotry

he's Scottish um yeah 31 listens of the song New Wave this is one of his when did this come out 2022 um

but again with the production just earworming catch you love it he does know how to make a tune yeah someone that makes you want to tap your toe you know

shake your booty yeah put on a blue shirt and start wiggling you can't blame him there's a reason he chose Sam you know yeah for that

fum bum bum bum how could you not you need to see that song like it would be nuts yeah

That would be crazy. He brings that bottom G and please a guy. Oh, man. Fum, bum, bum, bum, they're all doing the dance. Yeah, could you imagine. Swinging their feet. Oh, my God.

Like, the whole crowd is like, fung, thong, boom, yeah, whatever. Perfect sink. Yeah. Oh, finally.

But yeah, that covers my music of the year. Oh, you're done? Yeah. Because I got a few more I can just, like, shoot through. Yeah. I got the happy dictator feet spot.

okay yeah off the new guerrillas it's the new album out yet no no it's not till next year okay um but this song really speaks to me i have a soft spot for like cults or characters main characters in a song that are that sound like insane or like they're losing their mind yeah um in this case it being like a dictator who's saying that like there is no bad news anymore and right you know like everyone's happy and it's like this fake like bliss thing

yeah that is cool um yeah I love that kind of like framing of it and like sparks are like weird and interesting yeah um it sounds almost like choral

like a um yeah like a church choir yeah exactly um i find using kind of like gospel sounds to be super powerful yeah that's why i like talking as i think partially too yeah like just presents a lot of um when he wasn't an evil monster but kanya's music yeah well yeah on the line there's a song of jesus king that has what i'm talking about he's he means it sincerely but i hear it in like a this is quite creepy it's the same like

thing just the same vibe but uh well like the war the world start over again dude yeah yeah i find that to be like a really interesting like narrative framing for like a story or a song or something yeah someone who's like doesn't have a grip on me elsey anymore um or they've like warped reality to suit them yeah yeah yeah like psychosis songs you could call it almost 33 lessons Lisons of Gloria That's in there Sam in there again

Start Up a Ruma 38 listens This is off the new album I got the young father's song I Saw Which I think is awesome Yeah I've got this song It's yeah 38 listens

I saw young fathers I watched like a version of them doing it live which i thought was very cool i think it was like glastonbury because it's like three lead singer slash performers i also like that as like um people swapping off vocals yeah i love i really love that it's one of the things that really drew me to like run the jewels yeah was it's one of the reasons i love um the song hay now from the kandrick album yeah because he's got that guy dodie on we're some clips too as well with the brothers yeah that yeah that's cool um it just gives like a song like a range that it wouldn't have otherwise it's like everyone's

bringing their own like performance or voice to it and it just gives it such a different yeah because like the guys in young fathers is like the guy who's like he's like the hype man almost he's like screaming it and it's like then there's like more gentle like sounds going on from the singers and then they all kind of like harmonized together at the end and like chant together it's really cool um and feels like cinematic it seems it does it's a good pick i think yeah they knew what they're doing with definitely i don't think they're doing the next movie unfortunately they know which is a shame um well hopefully they'll get someone like um uh uh at shearing no i was thinking i don't they're gonna

but it's not you oh imagine dragons imagine dragons how could i forget that the song i saw by young fathers like the last like 30 seconds of them chanting like brush your teeth wash your face brush your teeth wash your face run away and they're like chanting that and it's like just interesting and weird like yeah it's it has that kind of culty feel yeah uh yeah I'm starting to figure out maybe that's what I'm into you're yearning for the cult just find one I just got to make my own I guess um 38 listens of resumes this is like in meme culture now yeah it is

I'm cringy for this song yeah it is good it just makes me think of the end of Blade Runner 2049 really because that's its own song that song's the way sadder

like I've got that song you're talking about yeah because that song is from the original Blade Runner yeah yeah but like tears in rain song yeah but like not literally it's like the same vibe like lying in the sense yeah like in the snow on some steps you know yeah so this is a bit more positive than the like kind of sad yeah but it doesn't have i mean like not that movie we're in context like the visual of lying on steps in snow like look yeah it's like would you call it like a relic of the vapor wave

era. I think that's why I can't fully like enjoy it. Whereas I kind of like that aesthetic, but I also I find Vaporwave just kind of cringe. No, I love it. I feel like it was it's my cringe genre that I love.

I don't know if it is cringe. I like it with the whole aesthetic being it's like jumping off the idea of vapor wear from the 80s as like a concept Um What sounds like Vaporware

What is Vaporware? Like software that's like being Presented as something that's real But it's not real Like it never was real Um It was vapour They were just trying to sell something

Um Imagine like a A game That's being shown off But it never actually exists Oh right Vaporware Like every three demo

Yeah basically Because it is like a It's a nostalgia thing based off 80s synth John Carpenter shit And like jerking that off With the you know The purple and the The pinks and the blues

Yeah yeah yeah yeah You know They're like grid Yeah and the grid And the pyramids Yeah Yeah I don't

I don't know. It reminds me of like early YouTube and, um, the best period of it. Um, it's definitely watched witness. But it's stuck around in a way that a lot of vaporware shit hasn't. Yes, for sure. People like rap over this. They slow it down. They speed it up.

They use it in memes. Grammy superstar family with a new joke. I actually, I think it's a perfect song. 39 listens of I Wish by Stevie Wonder. Nice. Great album. songs in the key of life like

I gotta get a copy of that on a vinyl um 40 listens guns and smoke hey hey oh yeah fitty

50s apparently this album sucks as well I've thought it was fine but this album stood out to me sorry this song yeah

it's mostly just because of the beat I think yeah I love Fiddy's Phiddy's verse on this Um, I'm surprised you didn't have This song I had 40 listens of punk rocker Really? Yeah

Teddy Bears and Iggy Pop Yeah Yeah, I listen to this a bunch Yeah, I'm surprised I didn't But my most played Kendrick song Is Dodger Blue Wow I don't think that one was on mine at all

Um But yeah, a fucking great song two minute song again with that like production that like slaps you around the face yeah the wobbly bass yeah it's yeah it's a song I could almost see be like longer yeah I would happily have more of the

I can have another go round of the chorus yeah awesome stuff yeah it's great 43 listens of as alive as I as you need me to be from the uh Tron Aries soundtrack nice They released it way before the movie, and it's just a ninsong.

Oh my God. The next one. 45 lessons of Double life. Ferrell Williams, baby. Yeah, let's go. I didn't think that film even came out this year. Did it know?

I don't think, did it? This was before. I saw it this year. Maybe it was. That's a 2025 film I watched this year. What's that this year? No, it was 24. 2024.

It fucking so. for the record because really an illumination film that fucking sucks um no

but I'm I'm glad this song is on here because um sometimes like on the clips album like God sort them out like

you're getting this bady like like grew fucking vibe some of the guru energy but when you've got like malice

rapping over it it changes it entirely but yeah when it It's just Pharrell that's got something else going on. Yeah, you've got to give Farrell his flowers, man. That's what I, when, like, a musician can, like, shit out a song for a film and it's like... It's kind of goes to it.

Amazing. Like, the dumbest shit ever. I feel that way about this one and the one from, um, with Trey Parker as well. Really? It's just like, why are you just going so hard for these awful films? Yeah, yeah. um 48 listens of flying waters

rain from the ground rain from the ground um this is from Expedition 33 okay cool um it was I went into a fight

this song started playing and I wasn't fully sold on the game until um this exact does it get to like a bit there's a bit right it reaches a bit and i was like you were waiting for this moment yeah you're waiting for this exact moment because now now i have to finish this game because you've

got me i think it's right when it starts doing this shit and you're in like you're in like a battle against like a boss yeah yeah like hold up yeah mixing the like the like classic RPG music then with this like this one's funny 48 listens of hot together by the point of sisters. This is pure just TTIA hype. After that trailer came up, I just listened to this song for like a couple

days. Yeah. Like just on repeat. Yeah. And I was like, I think around the time I was like talking to mum and I was like, do you know the pointer sisters? And she's like, that's the name I haven't heard in a long time. That's the Brian Cranston like

turns to Malcolm in the middle and then. Yeah. so that's funny um yeah I'm hyped for that um so there's like a lot of like synth in here the epilogue Venice

by Daniel Blumberg for the Brutelist uh-huh again with the like Was the Brutalist last year 2024 it was yeah um best and worst film of 2024 both inspired by

Ein Rand yeah yeah yeah isn't that weird isn't that weird it's weird how um how influential yeah and like yeah yeah that she like came up we had a super interesting einrand conversation on sard because i recommended the the fountain head yeah yeah yeah the other books um awful film but uh got to have that in there awesome soundtrack it's 52 listens of duo of duo also by Sam I was calling it we're on a first name basis

um illegal by pink pantheris really I like her do you I dig her as far as like the like pop women are like holding up the UK as far as music like yeah that's true the fuck else is that that's true that's true um she's sampling underworld bring an underworld to people

who would like would never have heard of them or indulge in their shit before I'm down with that It's one of the biggest songs of the year. Mean Girls featuring Julian Casablanca's off the Brat remix album. It's like the least popular song on the remix album, for some reason. I guess the crossover of like strokes fans

and... Yeah, that can't be like a large... Yeah, crossover. But it's excellent. I love his voice and that, like, effect that was put on it. Yeah. Is he still beefing with Anthony Fantine?

I don't know. No, probably. That was a weird one. 58 lessons of the song, Mars Express, from Mars Express. I'm scared to ever watch that film again. Why? It's really fucking sad. It's sad, but it's cool.

It's very cool. It's what, like, dystopian sci-fi should be and feel. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And French, baby. I'm a French abu now, Paisley. It's called French. Frankfowl? I'm not gonna say that.

Oh, Frankaphael, please. 58 listens of the song, Ecstasy, but the instrumental version. It's in The Last First Part 2. Really? The game. It's in the scene, you know, where they're like dancing in the barn or whatever. Oh, okay.

It's playing in the background. Oh, right. And I'd forgotten that, but in re-watching the TV show where they do the same scene and play the same music. I was like, is this like off the score? Because I really like this banjo in particular. There's a really cool banjo in it. We've got to shout out the soundtrack to that game you fucking hate with the spaceships.

Out of wilds. You just got to have that in there, right? Put something in my way. 60 listens of number three by AFX Twin. x-twin i love i fucking love in um dark times the vince staples album there's a song where he mentions ophx twin he's like so ridiculously influential um but i think this song number three as far as like we're talking about sadness and like atmosphere yeah is this the lying on the stairs in the snow in blade runner yeah this is more like that vibe to me where it's like

existential this is more accurate to like the actual context of the film yeah number three oh please i love atmosphere i hate atmosphere i love that like you're in the best mood right you put on a song yeah it like it changes the trajectory of your entire day yeah like that's powerful right there yeah yeah um with that with no we're not a single word spoken um um I have a Frank Ocean song next that's not actually off the orange one the other one pink and white 67 listens

okay yeah yeah this is the most popular Frank Ocean song right yeah I'm definitely an a normy Frank Ocean enjoyer but again with that simplicity yeah you can't deny the hook of it is just like

in 2016 nearly a decade later this could this could come out like today and yeah it would be just as popular as yeah yeah uh my last one is 71 listens of eaten eraser by princess goes this is um michael see hall's band no way so it's dexter dexter is he does the chorus um okay what he sings he sings yeah um

but they they played they played this song at the end of one of the resurrection episodes in the credits and I was like this song fire and then I just like soundhound it or whatever yeah and see that is this him singing right now no okay um for the record

for those listening I've been playing the songs through the headphones so we could um yeah so we know where we're at when we're describing them a little bit, but this is the last one. I'll just, yeah, that's him there. Because he did a bunch of, like, David Bowie, like, stage performances. He, like, it works. It's cool.

I dig it. Hell yeah. Let's go Dexter. Yeah, he's just Dex. Come on, man. You know how to get to my heart, Dex. So I think that's music. Do you want a little break before we cap this off?

I could do with a wee-wee. Yeah. Yeah. Jim's getting a fart. Are you ready for gaming, man? We got profiled as gamers today. We did get profiled as gamers. Jim was getting a key cut.

And just randomly the guy was like, you guys gamers? Yeah. I can smell a couple of gamers coming into my story. I'm like, I don't know, I was kind of just throwing off because it's quite unusual for like people in the UK, especially when you're like buying things to like want to talk to you. Yeah. You look like a couple of gamers if I ever saw. Yeah. He like hasn't locks the building.

And he was like, he wanted to get there. He wanted to talk about gaming so bad. He was like, yeah, you and your Lara Croft backpack. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was just wearing like a plain black backpack. Yeah, yeah. I was like, oh, oh, uh, there's a new one of those. Yeah, yeah.

Well, he was, he's straight up said, are you guys gamers? Yeah. Like, did somebody say gamer? How did you know? Yeah. And then, yeah, he was talking about like gooning to Lana Croft. Yeah, push up for Dora. So I was like, finally they brought Lara Croft back and she's back to wearing her nice short shorts.

and her little tank top her big fucking Mahatma Gandhi's hanging out she looks kind of like a combo of like original Lara Croft with the like ones where she looks

does she have triangle I wish you know the ones where she got like murdered it's like brutal death yeah why were they doing that yeah there was like one really

angry animator who like work yeah um yeah so And then he was talking about, what was he talking about, like, water, dry water cooling? Yeah.

He was like, obsessing. And he's like, you've got to look up dry water. Yeah, yeah. I dry water cool everything nowadays. Yeah. He said he did it to his Xbox. He said he did it to everything. He like took his phone apart.

He lifted his shirt up and I'm like, I'm dry water cool. Yeah. I dry water cool my granddad. Yeah. Yeah. And he's like, he thought. you were like a PlayStation player and he was like yeah I'm more of a PC gamer than you

and like you put me in the shit and he was he was like that we fucking 900 pounds you fucking playstation me and knob yeah it was like being on the playground during Xbox 360 and yeah yeah yeah yeah I forgot about I thought we moved on so how do you want to do games

because we both got our steam breakdowns yeah I think you have a lot more games than me I've been a bad gamer this year um Should we start with like, because we've got the percentage breakdowns, right? Of like what our steam time was spent on. Yeah. I want to start here.

Should we start with lowest and go up? Or do you want to just go where your heart takes you? No, lowest up makes sense. Because like some of them I will breeze. Yeah, right past. And I think you have a few more than me. So you start with your low. What's your lowest on Steam?

Um, my lowest on steam at the moment is uh, Red Dead Tea. Okay. Well, that's just because... Did you even play it much late? Bleeding into January, probably. Um... No, it was... Because I, uh, I downloaded a bunch of mods on the, the rock star one.

Um, so, I was playing with, like, whenever you die, you lose all your money and, like, you, you, you just have wailing. less money. I was making it more like currency actually... You're metagaming it. You're like adding it. Yeah. Well I was trying to make it so like... A new challenge. Yeah, but you... also more realistic almost. Like

and like consequences for messing up so then you have to like slow down everything you do. Hmm. That's a cool idea. It's more like it's especially cringy to say knowing the um the red dead

like online audience but i was somewhat role-playing one i'd say yes i'm a gamer yes i'm a role-playing gta what do you have to say about yes i roll-play monday to saturday on red dead online yes i have a cowboy wife um but yeah i i then red dead two was cheap on steam and there was like an update to red dead's on uh just full stop so like the i think the mods stopped working so i'll do it uh did you see they did that at fallout four really like they released some new patch like all these years later and it broke every mod yeah and their mods like there are mods you can pay for yeah yeah so fuck evith has the but yeah i mean what can you say about red dead at this point um my bottom is less than one percent king of bones

little indie game um yeah it's in early access it's like a couple quid and it's a dino fighting simulator um okay you can like even

you can just watch AI dinosaurs fight okay is that what you do with your evening most evenings I'm just like right who's gonna win yeah is it gonna be like four dynonikis versus one yeah yeah

Yeah, all it needs is betting And then I don't need Yeah, that's it You know That's good Yeah Why hasn't that been a thing before Give it time

Yeah, I'll be there It'll be there For Dino fans only Yeah Um So My next one is Dark Souls 2

Yeah, when did you play that this year? You like I feel like You open your window And scream I hate Dark Souls 2 to the world every day. So why are you going on it and playing it?

Um, because every now and again, I get this crazy idea. I'm like, maybe it's not as bad as I remember. Well, I'm like,

Thanos, I'm like, maybe I treated you too much. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and then I get a couple minutes in, and I'm like,

no, this fucking sucks. Um, then I go, like, I'll ask a question. about a specific part and then you recall like the worst gameplay experience

yeah yeah yeah that's funny like actually zero fun um I do you wouldn't know what it what it probably genuinely was um I have like a

figure of like the Ferram set oh yeah um and that arm is fucking really cool with like the fur over the shoulders and every now and again I look at that and I'm like, right, I want to

like craft a build around like wearing that armour and using like a cool sword. Is that armor in Dark Souls 30? Yes. It is. I use it in Night Rain as well. Oh yeah, you do.

I didn't, only just connected for me. Yeah, and it's you got to get pretty far in the game to get that armor and I never make it the right. Yeah, yeah. um less than one percent uh dreamworks all star cart racing pick this up in a deal um it's shrek on it yeah of course yeah cool it's good it's good as

fuck it's fucking good by the way too all of these are less than one percent that i've been reading and they're going to continue to be um including dying light one was that for the like deals were you refreshing yourself or something it's just a great game people love dying like man it's really fucking good it's really fucking good

like it's really fucking good too good considering what their previous game was I mean I think um Dead Island I think Dead Island I think Dead Island's kind of fucking goated

Dead Island One is better than Dark Souls 2 I wouldn't say that about Riptide But Dead Island 1 is better than Dark Souls 2 I would sooner play Dead Island 1 Than Dark Souls 2 Genuinely But you love Dead Island 1

So Yeah because it's a fucking great ass game Oh this is it Last time I'm sent Out of Wilds I really try bro I just they didn't.

Okay, I kind of tried. How long did you play? A couple hours. I played enough to see the hook and understand what it was and be like, I can appreciate that. It's cool. You know? Really cool. I just don't want to play it.

Sue me, what are you going to do? What are you going to do? I think you're fucking dumb dumb. Sure. I am. It's probably your lower register IQ that limits. It's probably something like that, yeah. I got Destiny to play, man. Yeah.

Blasters in Destiny is more like my style. Okay, my next one is Hitman 3. What percent? Less than one. All of these, until I say otherwise, all of these are less than one. um yeah I've only got one less than one what the

one more um less than one percent yeah hunt down the Freeman I played a few levels I at least wanted to get to my own shit in it so you played that more than

out to us if this the order is you got me yeah I did I did I did I did have to use no

clip though um really okay yeah in which one in outer worlds oh yeah only in outer worlds yeah no i know clip through i wanted to at least get to like president keem star in the whole the aliens have invaded the funniest moment in my life yeah so that i went round that corner and literally fell to my knees scream laughing when i when i first saw that clip on twitter when it first was like what the keem style one the keemstar because i just know like that's how it looked like yeah yeah that's the polished version of it i don't think anything would be that funny again to me yeah that was like the peak yeah nothing could be that funny oh my god um so that was a nice trip down memory lane

Getting to Nick was it? Was that a hype moment? It actually was. Really? Yeah. Because in no clip you're like, fine around. And I'm like, yeah, get on my way, dude. So good.

So fucking classic. Like, great game. My next one. My next one is Injustice 2. Oh. I bought, um, I bought it for like 2 pound 30 or something in it. You're a joker main. I'm not a joke.

Joker man have you seen Joker in that game the cringiest fucking Joker he's the second cringiest Joker of him man what is it about injustice doesn't it have like a notoriously cringy comic or something it's got

yeah and like a cringy movie oh I might have seen that it's like edgy as fuck no I did what I've watched that I just forgot yeah yeah like Robin like gets upset and accidentally kills Nightwing

He, like, throws a fucking brick at him or something. Doesn't, like, Superman kill someone? Superman kills Joker. That's right. Yeah, he kills the joke. He punches him through his stomach. That's right. So, this is what, like, started the, the Superman being evil thing.

Injustice. Injustice did it first. And then, like, the boys, like, I guess, what about Invincible? The comic, I guess, existed. Invincible wins. When did Invincible come out? Like the comic? Yeah, when?

That must have been... I guess... More so in, like, pop culture. Like popularising it. Yeah, because, like, the boys' comic came out ages ago as well, didn't it? Yeah, I'm trying to find an exact date. Some people reckon that injustice is the reason, like, Zach Snyder's Superman is so cringe.

It is quite similar. Yeah. And, like, with him going evil and, like, killing Batman in his dream or whatever that's right yeah it's really similar yeah so invincible is 2003 to 2018 so it kind of gets the kudos for that yeah definitely popularized that idea but like they're fun fighting games um always like like watching them like i like watching fighting games like more than playing them usually yeah yeah yeah yeah i get that there's a lot of like um

with with their style of fighting game there's a lot of like learning whereas smash bros like has the universal combos and stuff easy to pick up and play yeah yeah the inputs are always the same for all the characters yeah doesn't have combos really the different combos for each character like that's what put me off yeah yeah so it kind of forces you to like pick a character you resonate with more um i get the appeal of that though I remember watching you like play Was it in Justice One? Yeah

Online I like watching you play Yeah It's a green lantern Yeah Because you could like catch people Midair and slam Yeah

Yeah And all the finishes and stuff are cool Yeah That's funny They're yeah It's super edgy Yeah Like Batman fucking blasting people

I'm trying to make Aquaman cool With the like Shut Yeah Yeah Yeah Um This one isn't less than 1%

It's exactly 1% With my Steam game time Holo Night Which is another one Which I feel like outer worlds I'm done with I'm not gonna finish it Yeah I'm

I think I saw a thing about Silk Song I think it was the Naky Jakey video Yeah Like the The rumbacks are too much I'd finish Hollow Night if not for the runbacks I'm over that

I think because of the from slop where like you do that enough you've experienced that right then you get to Eldermring yeah and it's like elder ring's like we're done with that shit now yeah so I'm used to that and then going back to Hollow Night

with also like I've played so many Metroidvanias like I love the art direction and the character design and like the the mood of it and everything yeah i just the music the music's fucking amazing yeah i yeah i know if i got if i got into it seven years ago yeah i know what you mean i would have but i i just don't i just don't want to right now there are moments um that are incredible in um like when you get like a a game-changing ability and then you use that ability in the right spot and it takes you to this whole new area. Yes, it's fucking amazing.

But yeah, I can't, I fault you more for Outer Wilds. Okay. Then I do. Because you know what really convinced me that, like, I just don't need this strife in my life right now. Yeah. It's on the flight to Canada, the dude next to me was playing Silk Song on his switch. and like watching him like was he getting cooked

he was he was like miserable he was like so angry and like so distressed and like I kept watching him doing the same part like for like two hours of the fucking flight like the same bit and I was just like it was stressing me out I was getting second second hand

was he like visibly angry yes and like every time he died it was a whole like I love it. That's fucking awesome that he could express himself like that on a flight because I'm always like embarrassed when I whip the switch out of.

Yeah, yeah. Where I'm just taking a sly little look. Like, I mean, props, man. Like, that's discipline right there. Yeah, on a flight, you kind of choice. He could load it up any other shits, you know? But he was like dedicated to that. Yeah, hell yeah.

And I was like, it reminded me of times where I have done that in game. and I'm glad I did that in games but I'm not looking for that right now yeah I'm looking for something else yeah no that's that's that's valid um I would never say it's a bad game though don't get me wrong do you know something crazy what my next one's half-life tea did you put that on steam deck or yeah yeah it's it I mean it's half life tea steam deck's perfect for just chucking a game on and just fucking with it for like half an hour or something. Yeah, I love that. All locking

in. All locking in, yeah. Yeah, I did that for a couple games coming up. Yeah. On the deck. Yeah, yeah. Is it me? Yeah. At 1%. And this gives some context of the time of 1%

Is Dark Souls 3? Yes. So all that time we spent playing Darth's 3 is 1% of my game time. The thing is... We got pretty far. How far did we get? We were doing the Cathedral of the Deep, right? No, we finished the Cathedral of the We finished it.

We were Have we done the whole swamp? Yeah, we did the Farran. Yeah, we did a good chunk. By the way, with my PC being broken, I might have lost that save. Oh shit, yeah. Same.

Yeah, be prepared. It might be, yeah, true. We might have to just leave it for a year and go back to it when it's more fresh. yeah so I reckon some of this is going to be skewed by like just leaving hell divers on when I'm on the ship

leaving like right yeah that night rain on too yeah I do the same thing in the hub leaving Eldon ring on just like sat at a bonfire idol shit um yeah or just paused like on the main menu whatever um so it's not the most accurate but these are all games I've played this year.

My next one is Divinity Original Sin 2. You hope to have the new one? I think it'll be fucking great, yeah. But I will probably never play it. It's probably going to be incredible. Yeah. Yeah, and I want to play Bouldersgate, but it's like, it's almost too intimidating.

Like I know I will have to commit to that game. But I just, I feel the same way, but I also know that it would be the most rewarding because I love fucking with and just playing games the most obtuse way possible and let me play it in the craziest way possible. And it all like have banter with you.

Yeah. You know? No, because I had that experience with Disco Elysium. Right, yeah. Like just spending hours, just fucking around with like, what are the limitations of this? What's it? What have they taken to account?

And I feel like it's just like that but on a scale beyond. Right. That's a game I need to finish. Like, you've earned GamerCred there. True. Where you lost it for... It's one of the best games I've ever played, probably.

Yeah, yeah. I need to replay it. Yeah, I need to, like, get through it. Is it you or me? I think it's... No, I just did Divinity. Yeah, divinity. So 3% of my game times on Destiny 2.

Ah, cringe. I'm okay with that, because that's like playing a little bit of the expansion that came out in summer that I didn't finish. And then the latest one that I feel. finished and made a little video on um so that like adds up that like neutralizes it for me okay okay i'll forgive you uh resident evil too really when did you play that i'm always playing it i always just jump on do a little bit get too scared go off it that's because that's

probably a top 10 game for me it's fucking amazing it's it's probably the best horror game i've ever played. I mean, yeah, a good choice. What even comes close? Genuinely. Like, what is the next? Nah. Or, um, Dead Space 1 or 2.

RET2? I mean, it's hard to argue. It is tied to design. For me, it's just pure, like, I'm just a suck of a space sci-pho. Yeah, vibes-wise. Vibes, yeah. Like, the vibes are immaculate in R-E-2 there as well.

Yeah, that's the thing. And when Mr. X gets involved, with the music, and he even fucking gets like, it's one of the things that the Resident Evil movies always fuck up on is you have to have the facility. Yeah. You have to have the facility and like the experiment's gone wrong shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You have to get to the facility at one part. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, the like craziest fucking like, they had this, they built this in the subway. it's like this is like bigger than the city down here it's a whole new realm yeah it's an immaculate game yeah yeah and leon oh man i fucking love that guy i have you seen leon's in the new one yeah yeah i watched it i watched the entire game wards really i watched someone reacting to the game

wards to make it watchable who was it uh asma gold you heard of him adem ross as well i watched Half of it, Asim Gold, half of it, Adam Ross. Yeah, nice. Half of it, Drake. What's up, shot? Doubtz and shot. Yeah, what there? These are still all less than 1% by the way.

You got way more than me. My next one is 8% of my game time. God damn. Was Red Day Redemption 1? Nice. 8%? Nice. Yeah, it didn't even finish it. I didn't even finish it.

I just got, like, distracted. How was it playing it again? awesome i just knew that like i had a fork in the road where it's like this is gonna be it like this is gonna be my life now yeah yeah yeah i know you mean uh um my next one's fallout new vegas wow still one percent less yeah yeah again it's all less than one percent until i say otherwise okay because i've only got five left so maybe you should go through your Oh okay um fall out full out new Vegas um i'd play it more but whenever i boot it up on the steam deck i get like

i tried opening it on steam deck uh-huh i couldn't get the controls to work oh really see i was playing it for a bit um but like you get like a 45 minute allowance and then it crashes so you like you gotta be efficient hope you saved yeah yeah exactly and then it just becomes too much work like it's re-fuck it just like oblivion

remake it don't even do that just do that no just just just make it run like give me the ability

to play it and then I will like I'll pay I'll pay you the privilege to do nothing just make it the bare minimum

at the gathering thing I was at last weekend I met Fallen New Vegas fan in the world uh yeah yeah

we're talking about video games and it went straight to new Vegas and I knew I was in trouble yeah because you hadn't yeah how did you skirt around that I'm I played disco Elysium by the way like yeah I even started the outer wilds you know yeah I've played the outer worlds for two hours yeah I just accidentally found the ending I'm that good My next game Metal Gear Solid 5 That's a good

That's a good Steam deck Yeah The little Like Xbox 1 Yeah Um That era

Like It looks fucking great Yeah I don't know how I don't know how They look great at the time Yeah Yeah

I've got a lot of love For that game A lot of love I feel like time's Actually been quite Kind to that game Yeah outside of like the shit they couldn't you know fit in it couldn't finish it well there is a theory that um

it was intentionally like unfinished like that's part of the phantom pain is that like right i never know with kajima though because people give him like a ridiculous amount of like rope yeah yeah they do they they assume literally everything is intentional yeah um where it's probably probably a bit of both but like he has said since like since leaving conami he has said like it's the game i wanted to make like it it was released like as intended sure so then yeah it is kind of like with the title of the game that's quite cool yeah if there's i mean if it's still satisfied i haven't played it so i don't know yeah there's there's stuff that's that feels like like abrupt

but it's really Metal Gear Solid 2 that I'm the most interested in because of the prophetic element of it yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah predicted well there'll be some more Metal Gear coming up soon

again shall I keep going until I reach something that's more than less than 1st so just get it up to five get it up to five okay um Spider-Man Miles Moran

Alice. Cringy A.F. game. Awful story. Yeah, it's trash. Why don't they know what to do with Miles? I don't know. Yeah, he's not... You know what it feels like to me? They made Spider-Man, like, one.

They made Spider-Man, PS-4. And then the movie comes out. Spider-verse. Spider-verse comes out. And they're like, oh, shit, let's capitalize. Like, we've set up Miles. Let's fucking capitalize. because they try to do

kind of the same vibe with like the music and stuff like there's the montage when he makes his suit and it's like prowler's in there yeah yeah and it's like this the prowler sucks I hate that version of prowler yeah he does like he looks super

fucking lame yeah they've got a problem with that universe with like their outfits the DLC boss from the first game that I didn't play whatever the fuck that creature was oh shit I was actually okay with that Because that's kind of like comic book, scary.

What is he called again? I need to like refresh. He's got, he's got like a hammerhead? He's got like a plate in his head. Yeah, he looks like a mech dude. Yeah, yeah. He like, that's crazy. Yeah, he like cuts his own head off and puts it on a robot.

It's fucking nuts. But that part of the DLC is actually good. that's like one of the better boss fights in spider man one really but they did add these like machine gun enemies that are fucking shit um anyway yeah spider man miles moralis um there's something off about it there's something off about um the cut scenes the story like it's it's like rushed though like so many times it would be like like three characters just like stood facing each other and it's like really awkward and weird yeah it doesn't have a hook either no um because they did miles dirty and spyman too as well yeah they did real dirty

yeah it's a shame but like the uh the bridge part is fucking cool yeah that shit's crazy i mean i enjoyed like playing it the act of playing it was pretty fun yeah the gameplay is great game plays They just didn't have, like, the writing or the... Yeah, like, I remember nothing about the story. I remember the prowler fight, that's it. I remember the, like, last boss fight. Because I played it on, like, the hardest difficulty. It's fucking annoying.

And she's, like, they make it so obvious that she's the villain. Like, the whole game, um, they're, like, it feels like they're setting up a relationship. Like, to them. be revealed as the villain and like you see that coming but then the game knows that you see it coming so it it just immediately like reveals that the villain is the friend trying to get too clever with it yeah but it's like why why even try to do the trope like to begin with like just start just set up just do something else yeah or set up the relationship like from the get go yeah you know like with that going on this yeah I don't know my next one which is another game

with a bunch of problems um Batman Arkham Origins oh god that's that's been a lot of time yeah um the early game fucking sucks it's really bad and like traversing the map fucking i remember it weirdly well because they did that achievement where you can't die or something is there one there's something like that I did all the achievements in it for some reason you were just doing that on everything back then

but yeah I enjoy I like Roger Craig Smith I like what he does with Batman Yeah Sonic Batman Yeah Sonic Batman yeah I feel like it's

It's hurt by the fact that the Arkham trilogy exists as well Oh for sure the thing is If they didn't exist It would be like More positively favoured Probably

But they do exist So it doesn't exist The thing is That's like the Dark Souls 2 argument Where it's like Well Dark Souls 2 Only looks bad Compared to

To 1 and 3 It's like Well No It just kind of stinks Like Like It has been a very long time

But I can't remember What years Yeah But I mean like Imagine if If I'll I was getting quite Ubisofty. Yes, that's a big problem in it.

The towers and shit. Yeah. I guess you're right in the sense, like, if this was the first Batman game to be released. Yeah, that's what I mean. Because it has like the Rose Gallery, like the Bane stuff, the whole Joker. Yeah, the combat is like... Yeah. Fun.

They just make it too easy. Yeah, they make it too easy. The Deathstroke fight is pretty fun, to be fair. It's too easy, but, like, it's, it's a spectacle, and it's cool. Yeah. The only thing I find, like, it's kind of my issue with, like, Halo 3 ODSD as well. Um, is, like, that you're, you're, you're contextually changing, like, the, the story and, like, where, what this character is. Right.

So this is, like, a year two Batman or something. Yeah. And he's more capable than Arkham City. yeah that is true you know yeah and it's like it's boring it's like you could make a big part of the game being like traversing the map is harder yeah you know like maybe he hasn't got like the gliding tech shit yet yeah you got like that's the creative issue I guess of like you're making a game coming after but mechanically but it could be totally like yeah I get what the mechanics could be different like yeah the focus could be taken away from

combat and put into traversal yeah you know but for like an iterative game made that way with yeah yeah and with it being like a different studio like it's it's like this concept and even this story deserves more i want to see like a the batman game you know where it's like that era of batman yeah yeah you know and he's more restricted i was thinking um this is like a random tangent and it kind of makes sense because like dying light games on my list, but the guys you make Dying Light should make a Batman game. Because like the parkour shit, the combat, the like melee combat. You just add like gliding.

In Dying Light 2, there is gliding. You feel straight up like Batman. Really? Running around. Yeah. And there's like a grappling hook in the game. Like all the systems are there, like give it to them. That's interesting.

That would be awesome, like an early days Batman game. I'm thinking of that. Like they could do Archimbing. year one. That'd be cool. Yeah. Yeah, that would be fucking sick. I'll tell you what.

I said a suicide squad. That would have been cool. Yeah. I don't fucking trust that studio now. I wanted them to do Batman Beyond. Yeah, there's rumors. There's rumors. Anyway, anyway, Nax, Melga solid one.

Still less than 1%. That's a good Steam deck game. Obviously, PlayStation 1. It's like a classic game but it's hard to

play it is it's hard to like push yourself through I've done the grey fox fight I mean I don't know how gamers were gaming back then you know like shit was fucking tough like for no reason

shit was really hard they had no other choice you know you can just like Google like easy answers like Nintendo had that whole like phone thing where you could like call up and talk to an expert that could like give you advice on your games when you're stuck really yeah I didn't know well yeah but obviously they're like charged for it all right that's hilarious uh next game still less than 1% once I get to 5% I'll hand it back over to you uh Metro Exodus I finally actually finished Metro Exodus like at the start of the year yeah yeah um it is really good it is good um

I do find the desert bit a bit of a slog um aren't they like Ukrainian or something yeah yeah they were um they were working through like

pre war obviously but there was like the civil war going on funded by Russia um so they were like working through like constant power cuts and shit and they

they made a great fucking game um always liked how it looked yeah all the metro games are really good Um, and they have that bit of jank and they have, they have a spike from, um, Cowboy Bebop. He's like the one American character in the game. Um, everyone else is like Russian. Um, he was in like everything for a time. He doesn't, he's not as often anymore. He's in Star Wars. But it's, like, I don't know how they did it. Um, it's really heartfelt. And like the, the story is good.

really yeah like it's not overly complex or anything but like you you like the characters um it's it yeah it's just like cute i don't know I always thought a little bit scary it's scary as well

um yeah next game Batman Arkham night which I actually finished on Steam deck like last week like i've finished the like main story again any updated thoughts um yeah i don't like the story of harkham night yeah the story's like straight up bad it's really annoying because like

the vibes are fucking great yeah yeah and there are moments that are great all all of the joker stuff is yes like as a send-off for those two actors as well yeah yeah awesome Awesome shit. But the twist. The twist fucking sucks. Yeah. It's just like they didn't need to pretend this whole time. Yeah, they did the J.J. Abrams thing.

It's like, we're not putting Khan in the Star Trek movie. It's definitely not. And then it was. Yeah. Okay, you fucking asshole. Yeah. It's not like a nice surprise. No.

You just lied. Um, yeah, stupid. Okay. So that was my last less than 1%. The next one is 1%. You'll never guess what. Halo Infinite. Don't be fucking stupid.

Outer Wilds. Oh, is it? Yeah. So you played it a bunch on SteamDuck. It's really good on Steam Dirk. Dark Souls 1 and 3. Both 1%. Yeah.

I'm more into Dark Souls than the Switch at the moment. So I had like a play-through going. true um and i can use that on the tv um yeah i go to games which are three at two percent um i finished the dlc finally oh the second dealc um which i had never done before um and to be honest i'm surprised people glaze the second dlc as much as they do what was that one called again. Blood and wine.

Yeah. It's got to lay the new map as like the one to play. Hearts of Stone is the one to play. Really? Hearts of Stone is

the best Witcher content ever made. Oh, okay. It's fucking amazing. There's Blood and Wine the one where they made it look kind of like saturated and... Yeah, it's more like

South of France vibes. Right. Because like the rest of the game is like shithole England. It's like Wiltshire no it's it's it's more like um I guess I assumed it was set more in like um Europe I guess um yeah I mean it's it's like Polish I guess um but because of the fantasy vibes like everyone's all the like commoners speak with

like Wiltscher accents and stuff right yeah um right rich richer some sort of witcher or something Yeah It'll sound like the BFG Yeah At 3% Spider-Man 2 Which

I feel like I've talked about a bunch on Joe Yeah Pretty disappointing again Um And then at 4% Spider-Man remastered Um The superior Spider-Man game

The best It's really fucking good Like I don't know what happened that Spider-Man that game came out and it's fucking amazing like

and the cut scenes like have the source yeah you know they it's got heart man it's got hard like they the cut scenes look good

they're not like awkward yeah every now and again they're a little bit awkward the section in Spider-Man 2 where you go to the theme park is like

the most bizarre yeah their lack of chemistry when they're supposed to be like three New Yorkers like yeah yeah and they're like

No, White Light put it best. He said, um, it's like a bunch of employees, like, having a conversation around their boss. Yeah, it's like co-worker shit. Yeah. That's hilarious. Yeah, it's really awkward, but, um, Spider-Man remastered is fucking great. Um, apart from his fucking creepy face. They hate that they, they can make it an option, yeah.

Like, why, why do they do... This, this shouldn't be a thing that we, like, accept in Standardoze. We shouldn't have characters just, like, change people. no you know it's weird it's really weird it's really weird yeah you build up like this this affection for like a character and then suddenly he he's just turned into tom holland he looks like chinese tom holland yeah he's fucking weird teamie tom holland um my next game at 5% and after this one i'll hand back off to you dying light the beast that's a new one you picked up right

yes I doubt I fucking love dying light games yeah it's funny yeah I fucking love him and it's Roger Craig Smith again back in the back in the seat I love him

it's a really really good game got some creatures in there you do have some crue have you seen like the animations when like I've seen not single footage when you go beast mode and like you're tearing apart these months It's crazy.

Oh, you are like a monster yourself. It's dying light the beast. You're like, you've got like, so the plot is, because like dying light two is based like, like 15 years or something after the outbreak. So it's like post-apocalypse. So dying like the beast is based after dying light two.

This whole time, the main character after dying like one has been like in a science experiment. Oh, beasting out. Yeah, they're like trying to make that. ultimate beast and so you're like the plot of the game is like you're you're just going beast mode right do you like break out or something yeah you break out at the beginning that's like the intro to the game and then the whole game is like I want

to kill I want to kill the fucking guy who did this to me how do I become the beast and the woman's like sounds like prototype yeah I mean so then you have to lately being remade are they prototype is fucking goated though to be I love that first game. It's so funny. There's a whole ultimate destruction re-skinned. Yeah, and you're sneaking around and you like hug people from behind it and then just absorb them. Yeah. Well, like you're in a like a huge bombastic fight.

You explode a group of like 100 people and let your health is like. You grab some poor like old lady to the street. Just absorb it into your very being to your health back up. No, when it turns into like you get attacked by those like big wolf creatures and then like you're running away. Yeah, you see the old lady throw on the ground, stomp on her head, and then all the tendrils come out of you and, like, grab her. It's, like, so needlessly, comically over-the-top violent that it, like, stops being violent.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so funny. But then, like, you can use the skin of the last person that you... That's right. So, it'd be, like, a granny, like, run... Such a crazy idea. It's so cool. But in, like, dying, like, the beast, you turn into a fucking beast,

and you're, like, ripping these monsters apart, and then like after you've killed them he gets a syringe out and like takes out their blood and just injects it into himself to get like the beast fucking juice it's like metal and fucking cool I love it and it's still got the drop kick which is fun as fuck

and the parkour like rocks um there's no game like it there's nothing else that does that type of shit and it's it got rid of a bunch of the um wait if you're getting um what is it fucking good I always call it Brink but it's not

Brink had parkour Pre-brink Mirror's Edge Yeah It was directly inspired by Mirageage Really? Yeah Yeah

Because it was Tech Clan's Like Tech Clan's crazy idea Was to Like after Dead Island Because they wanted to make

Like a more serious game But their producer at the time Like didn't want them to that's why there's like the weird tone it's like fuck shit it's like a comedy yeah and Sam B is like bugging out everyone's got these eyes like nobody has

eyelids it's fucking really weird and like there's there's like two cut scenes in in Dead Island that like just don't work I mean it's notoriously broken yeah it's hilarious it's probably still got like broken achievements it's kind of like

it's like um it's like war of the worlds like as a game it's so good and you drive it again and they've brought the cars back and down like the beast from like dead island

so they're bringing like they're bringing over all this DNA and I wonder if they're gonna go like big with the next game like have like you got like road trip type shit I think oh and like the scavenging like systems um

yeah I love that survival shit yeah and like rummaging through like bins and stuff to get items so you got to crafty shit yeah I love it I love it love it good ass game yeah

back to you 8% red dead 2 and this is only because of January wow only because of January you must have been playing a lot in January I was playing a lot of Red Dead online

because I just like decided I'll just try and get some of the Steam achievements so Red Dead Online because I did that all on my Xbox I think before right and there's no like cross save or anything so yeah yeah yeah red dead online character who's like trapped on xbox is like level 150 or something wow um but he's just stuck on there forever

it's a it's quite a chill experience i think red dead online it's like i did the mod so i was in my own lobby right yeah it's like yeah i'm fine with interacting with other players but it was like hackers yeah they just spawn t and t everywhere so you just die yeah this is not fun um I don't get people that do that. No, I saw a clip of someone doing that sort of shit in Eldham Ring, um, PVP. And, like, just, like, just, like, freezing you in place and then, like, doing, like, emotes and shit

and, like, sliding around. It's like... No, because there were some funny hackers and read that on, like, like, people that, like, they mod it so they're, like, tiny. Yeah. It's, like, running out. They're, like, a bird.

Yeah, something like that where it's, like, not fucking with your experience is funny. Um, but it's when people, like yeah they're like invincible or just explode you yeah just lame it's super lame um my next one is death stranding 7% 7% nice yeah the death stranding again good steam deck um really yeah it runs well um looks good yeah because i've got that in the back because it was on the PS4 like yeah oh true yeah i i have a lot of love for death stranding it's the game that keeps on giving.

I love just like hopping on oh I could do a few like deliveries and then you can like start a delivery maybe get halfway and be like turn it off like go to bed in the game

and then like turn it off and go on something else like I love that sort of shit I got 9% Hades 2 a game I've recently got back into the last few weeks just an excellent game um

iterating on Hades 1 and like and just improving in every single place really yeah it's shit man well maybe not like the story or the characters um

but from like a gameplay perspective yeah yeah yeah um yeah that's cool I do love the um story and characters of the first game yeah very attached to sycophis from that game yeah really liked him yeah yeah yeah um my next

one is dying light two so i've got every dying light game on all the whole yeah dying light two is the worst one for sure um choice shit seemed a bit extra yeah so the the law with that is crazy they had um like a writer from um new vegas yeah that's right um and then he was accused of like sexual misconduct yeah which turned out to be totally fake but he dropped out entirely after that that's awful yeah um like i guess he didn't want to like return after that um yeah the dice kind of castes that's yeah but apparently they were going through writers like crazy anyway like dev health um and it was and the like producers kept wanting to like or the the higher

ups at tackland wanted to their vision kept changing so they seemed like way too big and ambitious for it yeah they didn't have they yeah they were they were constantly shifting like the goalposts um so to be fair that like the game now like it's fun the systems like the game feels good the parkour's great um it looks kind of funky or at least on my system for whatever reason um but i still played through the whole game the story is like maybe the like shittest story i've ever like funny at points it's like because sometimes it's like trying you can tell it's like trying to do like a last of us type type shit like it's trying to be like hard heartfelt and like having these real moments but like the like the the actors like obviously like

they've never met um they're probably like recorded on different days and shit yeah with like like different mics like and like like one of them is like European and doesn't like fully understand English type shit like it it's funny at points kind of awesome yeah like I like I there were moments where I was like straight up just giggling like having a cheeky little giggle is it Troy Baker it's not I thought it was I got pulled up for it on on jar when I

oh okay it's not um it's someone doing doing his best Troy Baker impression yeah but he always sounds like he's like about to nut um is he doing that anime thing where they always go like kind of um and yeah there's like a few

moments where like the direction was just wrong like the director's given him the wrong like what do you mean like the blocking is wrong

well no more like his delivery or like characters delivery will be like like he's saying it like he doesn't understand what he's saying well no more like he's saying

it with like anger or something when it's like, you shouldn't be angry. Yeah. But weirdly fucking the woman from daredevil's in it. Oh, shit. The blonde woman. No, the Rosario Dawson. Yeah.

Oh. She's like a main character. Okay. Yeah. That's fucking weird. Destiny. Really? Yeah, she was like Cora Ray for like most of it, right?

Oh, what the, the, the, the, The Warlock. The Warlock one. That's Rosario Dawson. Not anymore, but it was for a time. I'm pretty sure. Because remember they had, like, everyone was, like, a celebrity.

Right. But, like, that's not... I feel like she's got kind of a big personality, but the Warlock character's, like, boring as fuck. Yeah, weird casting. Yeah. But, yeah, like... Again, dying, like, kind of...

of charmed me as well and like it's got kind of like a twist ending um which is handled like so poorly um but like I get what they were going for and I did I did like enjoy the main character he's um really yeah even with his like interesting vocal tendencies um yeah I guess just the amount of time I spent with him you kind of inherently like like gain a warmth for that character right yeah and like the for example there's like a side quest where there's this like little girl who's like there are these baddies near her and they're like trying to get her and she's like help me like they're trying to get me yeah um and it's kind of framed like like you're like a superhero again like with the batman thing like you're going in and saving this kid um but then like

you jump in and like drop kick a guy into the wall and he like his head fucking explodes and then you you're like cutting their legs off and shit and like it's just brutal like you can like do a finisher where you like snap their fucking neck and then there's just all this like tonal like funny much it's very funny and like

the gameplay is fucking insanely good yeah that's what it needs to be yeah you can't deny that it's what matters yeah um so my next one's

19% club obscure expedition 33 baby nice nice nice um what else is there to say like it won every game award award

whatever that means um I think it is cool that the game awards is like voter yeah it's like actually the community and yeah

it deserves it for you know the the collection of people people like just poaching random people off like reddit to like do the score and like and write it and shit like that but it's just some random dude off sound cloud really like did the score and yeah and it's like some ex-ubisoft people and it's like a small team yeah um and just a huge success and like it takes like seeing as you haven't played it there are things that they do in it that are just like that's a fucking cool idea that you did that and like and like like no big studio would risk doing shit like that they wouldn't do that um it's cool the battle system as well is very cool it's almost like a rhythm game type thing yeah um and it's really satisfying when you learn like the pattern of a boss or an enemy so you can start i don't know it's just really cleverly designed really well put together um i like the characters i like the world a lot

the music obviously it's just fire you're fucking fire I think it had to get game of the year like it's I feel like even I mean like I'm the the proof

in the pudding like as someone who didn't even play it the amount of like content and stuff that I ended up seeing of it like just shows how immediately ingrained in like gamer yeah and now it's of course because it's won all the game award awards it's like

it's kind of like everything everywhere all at once where it's like yeah yeah oh you're like good well no you're actually shit um but no yeah it's like what babies first RPG is it yeah frpg yeah fuck off so all right well that's good isn't it like getting people into that genre then yeah to play all the fuck shit ones like he's bump in

final fantasy he's they needed to be shown um my next one 11% eldom ring

yeah I don't have Eldam ring on mine not in that form anyway yeah I mean I've

I got nothing more to say about Elderm ring there's nothing to say yeah um

My penultimate one, 23% of my gamer time. Helldivers too. Really? Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. Okay.

I played a lot of Hell divers. Fell for it. I haven't played it in a while, though. I haven't played it in a while, though, in quite a few months. Even though there's that, there was that big update. Adding ODS and shit. Never played that. Yeah, in the underground, like, caves and stuff.

That's all been added. Yeah. the cool thing with helldivers is that it feels like if you leave it for like six months like you've got a new game yeah by the time you get back to it

and all this stuff to unlock because I was getting to the point where I'd like almost unlocked every single thing um yeah awesome fucking game we've we did a whole video about it

that you can go and check out if you're a Patreon over at patreon. Dot patreon. And even the the gameplay with Logan. Remember him? Yeah, Logan.

Yeah. That's the untouchable thing with that game. It feels like a 360 year again. Yes. People on mic, people. The community aspect. It's got a great community. You just got to be mindful of the odd

random European fascist. Ironically playing fucking helldivers. It's like Yeah They didn't really get it Yeah My penultimate

At 22% Is Eldham Ring Night Rain Mm That's my one Obviously Yeah Well my one

Is held At 30% Okay Because my night reign Is 27% Interesting Um Yeah

I mean Made it hell of a lot That's the game That's the game that for us kind of replaced holdovers and I typically am a sucker

for fantasy shit so to have like I'm also obviously a sucker for all things Eldon Ring from soft so to have like a procedurally generated like you're rewarded

for just like playing like the moment to moment the combat like the whole it's not about exploration it's not about like yeah the usual from soft

you have like a 40 minute chunk of Eldermring yeah and I can play that 40 minute chunk over and over again for like five hours and not be bored yeah because the bosses are all really good

all the different characters are fun to fuck around with the challenge is like I think in the base game the like the like new thing might be a bit too hard um

not in like it's busted type of way but yeah the depth yeah the depth system is is pretty like it just seems a little bit over tuned I don't know but at the same time that's kind of the point I guess um

I haven't played the DLC yet no um which we will have to get around to when my PC is fixed um but yeah I love I love it I love how each character

plays so differently even though like they're not that different like you could you have all the movesets and shit from just base game out of me

yeah like you have access to all of it but obviously the scaling's change and the abilities I was quite worried before the game came out make it too easy or trivialize it or something yeah Or it would be like two, uh, hero shootery, like that type of, um, but it's, it's not like that.

Um, it's scaled just right. And then like, you then get rewarded if your team has like a certain setup, you can like have builds that complement each other. Yeah. It's more like gameplay styles. Yeah. More so. Yeah, but also depending on what you find on your run, you're going to,

to change like within that style you're going to like lean towards one thing maybe like you're going to lean more strengthy because of a weapon you found or blah blah blah like yeah it's a fucking great game yeah they I would say they just need like a couple tweaks to make it like it's prime um I feel like they could have like new maps and shit new yeah for sure new weapons especially and stuff like that yeah so much of elder marine could still i just don't understand like what they're how they're looking at the games is super popular like what their long term support of it looks like it's just this one dc or if they've got other things planned and they're going to tweak it or just going to like leave it and maybe do like a night rain too

or something at some point or because yeah i don't know because i like the idea of the like rejigging reuse of the elder ring shit and like mixing it yeah yeah yeah just put a randomizer on it and just press random the the the recontextualization of like so much of the game it's it's like the what's he called the the guy with all the barbed wire on him in what in night rain and he's in elder ring bass game he's got like the sword that he can like make float in front of him oh the red eyes the boss thing yeah yeah yeah like that That in base, Eldon Ring, like, isn't really a guy of note. But then converted into Night Rain, he's, like, the villain of the game.

Yeah. He's, like, harder than, like, the end boss a lot of the time. Yeah. Yeah, I love the recontextualization of, like, the giants throwing the pots and... Yeah, the... But also the... Because everyone hates it. What's fun about it is going back to...

Eldon Ring and it makes you better at Eldon Ring because you're you've been more exposed to those enemies and then going back to Night Rain you're better because you've been playing Eldon Ring bass but those recontextualizations like just freshen everything up a bit and you can see like the presets that they use in base Alderm Ring. Yeah yeah so that then traversal like becomes easier in base Alderm Ring. But then the traversal you have in night rain changes the way you see these, like, areas from... Yeah, yeah, because you're just more capable. Yeah, you can, like, move faster, you can jump higher.

They need more skins, though. They need more skins. Get more Dark Souls shit in there as well. Just all of it. Like, yeah. Yeah, for sure. Like, all of it. Yeah, blood-borne.

Fuck it. it's a whole like that's that would be the fucking dream game like the demon so like the the different characters you can choose it's like demon souls guy dark souls guy blood born guy um dark souls three guy elder marine guy sacaro like all of them yeah yeah like the owl or something yeah cool that would be yeah and just have straight up fucking saccaro in there like it'll be so cool and like hopefully the the success of it has opened their eyes to like, oh, yeah, yeah. I can do more of this.

Yeah. We're crazy with this. And I think it's funny that, um, years ago, you sent me a meme that was like, this is just leaked from FromSoft and it was like, artorious, um, yeah, um, Knight Saler and Onion Knight, like, diving into, they were diving into the Dark Souls 1, like, map. Yeah. it was yeah it's like kind of who would have thought like it they have borrowed from like battle royals no doubt with the shrinking zone um

and it fucking works it's crazy damn bro yeah um 20 25 dude now are there any other 2025 things of note or any predictions you want to round this off with because we're we're approaching i don't know how long that first part went like two and a half hours I have no idea this one's like even longer so we're approaching like six hours straight well which is pretty hardcore I think that's the longest we've ever recorded I think it might be yeah well which is pretty cool G G G G yeah yeah predictions for next year things are gonna get fucking crazy and they're gonna get crazier that's what yeah yeah things are gonna

get crazier and I think we're gonna start just calling earth China yeah so let us know your moments of 2025, your favourite games, movies, whatever. Yeah, your favourite province of China. Yeah, they must work by provinces or whatever. So, it's a large landmass, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, near Russia. Not to China to go around, luckily.

Yeah, thank fuck. So I guess we'll see you in the new year. In the Chinese New Year, I guess. Yeah.