JAR Media Posdact - A Race of Immortal Beings - JARCast #229

Episode Date: May 31, 2021

https://www.patreon.com/jarmedia Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/jar-media-store Twitter: https://twitter.com/FourFunnies   Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 03:48 Housekeeping 16:24 The Jarturnals 23:26 J... J Abrams Lerns About A Couple Things 28:03 Alex's Thoughts on Mass Effect 3 32:33 Mid Break 33:09 Bread vs Pasta 36:32 What is Hobgoblin? 38:30 Model Misconseptions 40:12 Breaking Bad & Spinoffs 42:16 The Portal Games 45:47 Vinland Saga 48:03 Le Mon 66' 55:37 Grand Strategy Games 1:02:32 Why Does Alex Hate Good Games 1:04:24 Mass Effect New Fans 1:05:12 Car Stickers/Vinyls 1:08:40 Dogecoin Future

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Starting point is 00:00:00 MOYAWILEEN SULLILEEN SULLILEEN SULLIV. Good afternoon, morning, evening on night. Ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to JARCast episode 229. I'm your host, Alex, joined as always, by, you know, no silly names, James. Hello! And Jim. Good afternoon, morning, evening or night, and welcome to Jim. Jim.
Starting point is 00:00:48 Jim. Before we go too deep into this show, let me shout out the JAR Media Patreon, who make the audio version possible, and the patron reading names at the start of each month. So next episode. um this is it guys episode number two of live we're back baby you're back it's um we are finding our way again through the the realms of live video you're getting our lives in a crazy long an accidentally crazy long jar cast we're like let's not time it or anything let's just try and get back into the the swing of things the groove because we mentioned it it's weird
Starting point is 00:01:25 to be in the same room recording again it is weird it's weird to see other human beings I forget how much I profusely sweat It is very warm here as well Because we were barefoot last episode And I mean It's going into the start of summer now So it's just going to get warmer and warm Yeah
Starting point is 00:01:44 Yeah and with you know the light sources The foam The sound dead things Yeah it's just It's a sauna And it just gets a bit unbearable when it's hot So if the little tosy's come out again That's why
Starting point is 00:01:58 The stinky sweaty We were just saying before starting, if you could smell, like, the smeller vision from the Futurama. If we're on the smeller vision, we would be the stinkiest podcast on... Especially last episode, Paisley, licking that air air and breathing. Oh, my God, yeah, she stank. That was bad. I was so disappointed editing last episode because I was like, yeah, we're coming back. It's the first, like, everyone's on their best form.
Starting point is 00:02:24 Paisley comes into the background. Five, ten minutes straight, she's just licking that same place. gobbin. It's vile. It was making me like gag while I was editing it. Because I was getting so annoyed at myself in the episode because she was right next to me. But because this mic is so big, it was blocking my view. So I couldn't see her. Otherwise, I would have immediately stopped her, but she was there doing it. Could you hear it? In the podcast, could you hear her gobbin? I don't think so. Maybe those of headphones in the background might have been able to pick it out.
Starting point is 00:02:53 You could smell it, though. God damn. No, just the two dogs together, they are fucking stanky. no they say like a dog's mouth is cleaner than humans that must be one of those BS yeah that's got to be bullshit
Starting point is 00:03:06 because they lick their asshole and then pants and it smells of shit it smells worse than shit it smells of dog asshole they're breathing them shit they're just pewing it out every
Starting point is 00:03:14 right us on iTunes just want to throw that out there helps out the show nearly a million downloads on the that is a fucking huge number that is a big number That's crazy.
Starting point is 00:03:28 Yeah, thank you guys. Yeah, we're... Well, let's just drop this. We've got some juicy, juicy vits on the horizon. So keep on the horizon zero dawn. Yep, the horizon zero dawn. There won't be a PlayStation podcast or anything. It's not even like a joke.
Starting point is 00:03:47 Let's do some housekeeping. We address some comments from the last episode. Buy Me is going to start us off. The boys are sat on the floor. and forgot which number it was, the jar cast is back, baby. Yeah. It's just funny.
Starting point is 00:04:03 Are we going to tell the chair thing? Are we just going to leave that just up in the air? What chair thing? What chair thing are you on about, Alex? The reason we're on the floor, last episode or whatever. Yeah, we might, we might. We need to build back up. We're starting from the bottom to get.
Starting point is 00:04:20 So we can get here. Yeah, to a true experience. A true jar experience after the COVID. We have to... Got to start on the bottom. been our goal. We want to be like the man evolving, but as a podcast. Tommy
Starting point is 00:04:34 Please has one. On one hand, I'd like to congratulate James for achieving heaven. You'll get it eventually. On the other hand, I urge Alex and Jim to read slash watch berserk. There are lots of comments about this because it's been recommended a lot of times actually, and they said
Starting point is 00:04:51 the best thing to be to directly go to the manga. But if you prefer to start with the anime, I suggest we're going for the The Direction's script, voice acting music and presentation, especially if you like that 90s anime aesthetic, compensate for the somewhat rudimentary animation. Seriously, Berserk is one of my favorite works of fiction. Blan Scape also says the original Berserk manga is definitely a way to go, just for the raw energy. And I do round off this berserk thing with this one from DeJoker Baby. If you guys want to get into Berserk, then you've just got to read the manga.
Starting point is 00:05:23 This seems to be the suggestion mostly. because I have a feeling that a lot of the adaptations are not going to be to Alex's thing and they cut a bunch of the stuff that I think was compelling in the manga while adding in some shitty dialogue now I know it may seem long but it's a manga there's usually not that much reading
Starting point is 00:05:40 besides some short dialogue and a paragraph once in a while that's true actually because of course it's... It's just there's a lot of the manga it's not short I've got nothing against reading it I read a bunch of attack on Titan after I watched the first season and there was nothing else
Starting point is 00:05:56 else to go of. The only thing for me is getting into the state of reading. It's so much more casual, I would say, to watch something. Yeah, yeah, it's so much easier to, when you're sat in front of a TV or in front of your PC. Well, the last kind of book like that, like a graphic novel type thing I went through, was the boys. When season two of that came out, I just want to see how it contrasted. and it is quite a fun way of reading once you have issues and issues
Starting point is 00:06:28 already out. I don't know if I could do it month by month. Like I used to read The Walking Dead month by month. It's a bad way of ingesting stories because you just forget. A month's a long time. I suppose they're quite short, so you're just supposed to reread them again and again,
Starting point is 00:06:42 but I'm not patient enough for that. Do you read on screens or do you read, do you prefer like paperback? I prefer paperback, but I usually end up reading on screens just because I don't want, want issues and issues stacked up yeah i don't know the problem with DVDs everywhere and yeah yeah it's already a space i would love to have like a bookshelf because i think aesthetically
Starting point is 00:07:05 they're really nice i do get a few bookshelves i've got i've got one in my womb and it's it's i like it's a nice look and just when there's a series you know you like you've well you like then it's nice to collect them gradually and have like the whole collection like i've done but i would always read online because yeah that's the thing i found with books i know this might be about take is that when you read it I think it looks dirty not dirty but it looks like it's got the pages and everything and on the bookshelf it just doesn't look as that's what people want though because that when you have the like kindle it's replicating that paper page what do you mean by dirty I don't mean dirty one word like it's been wed so
Starting point is 00:07:41 like the the spine has been like creased yeah and I prefer a book like when when you've read through it you know then it's like had your touch I know you know I can't beat the physicality of a book. Yeah, but also in the same time, like I'm saying, when you're sat in front of your TV or PC, if you have books on that screen, you're more likely to read it because you're already in that space of engaging with media on that thing. I've always done it through just my phone, because it's quite convenient on my phone. I don't know how people can do that.
Starting point is 00:08:15 I hate reading. Full novels off their phone. Yeah. Or even, I find it annoying to read an article. Like, I remember going through this big-ass article. school on my phone and it's just the most frustrating thing and you're like zooming in on all the the words yeah writing and shit yeah but i would say the berserk manga is definitely worth looking at because the heart is so fucking good if you do want a good book though um i would say
Starting point is 00:08:39 any dr zeus just fantastic can't even argue that or if you want a good book the recovery version recovery version very cool has a question regarding that there was a comment we talked about last episode where we were talking about video games using the medium best to tell the story and there are a few things I wanted to say
Starting point is 00:09:04 or reference that I just couldn't get out of my head or whatever and these comments helped remind me as to what I was trying to think of as for the which games use the fact they are a game to tell their story best question my mind instantly goes to Neum replicant as it's a story that completely requires the medium of video games to work so those got a few shoutouts the near games yeah i've heard they're found of those
Starting point is 00:09:29 type of games but it has to be a video game for it to communicate its story um see rambo has one i actually have played not all of i think hellblade senua's sacrifice utilizes the medium very well to tell its story yeah i've only played a couple hours of that but i can agree from what I've played. Very unique. It had those vibes. You have to play it with like headphones too, if you want to have the proper experience. It's one of those.
Starting point is 00:09:58 Yeah, I think that's most of those. No, there was one more, Undertale. I didn't screenshot the comment. No, I did, sorry. Chili Jelly said, I understand that none of the boys have played it to my knowledge, but I was kind of jarring for me to not hear Undertale mentioned at all during the games and stories discussion. I think that was the one I was trying to think of
Starting point is 00:10:18 that I wanted to shout out but because I haven't played it, it wasn't there in my head because it's all I've ever heard about it is how clever and you replay it get different some different experience from it. Yeah, that's the case of I'm sure it's been said to death but like the fan base sort of ruining something
Starting point is 00:10:36 Well what sounds good about it to me is it sounds like one of those kind of Pokemon-ish RPGs but you can go through non-violently and using... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is a cool idea. It's more about the writing.
Starting point is 00:10:50 No, I still think that game is incredible because it was just, it was Toby Fox. It's one, he just did everything. And the soundtrack of it is really good. The game's obviously really good, and it's just like... The only thing that's put me off is I've heard this, like,
Starting point is 00:11:02 really insanely difficult parts, which, um... Yeah, isn't it sort of like a... The combat is like bullet hell... Yeah, there's like bullet hell sections or something. Yeah. Which to me is a huge put-off. Maybe in the comments,
Starting point is 00:11:14 people can let me know. know how accurate that would be to the actual experience or not? Yeah. I'm just checking something so I don't... Let's end on this then for the housekeeping segment. Sort of going back to the social media topic we're talking about. Atomic catacombs is going to start us off. On the topic of Twitter, showing other people's likes, etc.
Starting point is 00:11:35 You can actually turn that off. At the top of your timeline, there's a little star icon. Click on that, then select C latest tweets. And your timeline will go back to chronological order. I don't know why they default the setting to other people's likes bullshit but this is in a way to combat that
Starting point is 00:11:52 I hope it helps that is a great help yeah I didn't know that too why didn't I know that I'm gonna say I'm not gonna click because they don't want you to know about it clearly yeah no I'm definitely gonna use it recently I followed this account
Starting point is 00:12:06 called abandoned places and it's just like pictures of just like abandoned places but all their likes are like people fighting and shit like really yeah and it's like perfect cop or something where like
Starting point is 00:12:20 someone's on the road and there happens to be a police car and they do something illegal and like it's this like agro shit that's all over social media stuff to get you riled up you like we you see so much fighting and shit yeah now and I just followed this account to look at like old
Starting point is 00:12:37 castles and then I see you can't avoid the conflict yeah yeah so I I like seeing what people like because sometimes something will just fuck me up so funny that you've liked and I'm just like, I need to see that. That's so funny. Frog S. I was going to finish this segment.
Starting point is 00:12:55 On the social media talk, maybe you guys can't do this because of JAR, IHE or another reason. But I deleted Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and Instagram from my phone at the start of the year and it's been nothing but beneficial. I talk to all my friends through Discord or Messenger and the only social media sites I use anymore are Twitch and YouTube. My mood is generally improved and more productive. and my thoughts no longer get caught up in dumb internet bullshit all the time like they used to. If you don't use social media for work, I'd absolutely recommend breaking off from all those websites. Yeah, I definitely have considered it. Or maybe even just going, like...
Starting point is 00:13:30 A few people are recommended to me to delete my Twitter, but... It's too much of an important resource. It's how everyone communicates. Your I.E, you mean? Yeah. Yeah, I don't see how you can. can, like, be on YouTube and not have a Twitter. It is quite vital, especially with how the YouTube algorithm works now.
Starting point is 00:13:50 Yeah. I think it mainly depends, like, I know a lot of people have a lot with their algorithm. It's always the same, very bad stuff, especially Instagram and, like, all the dangerous stuff that comes from that. But it's just, like, for me, social media has never been like that, because it's all passion for me. It's all the stuff I follow passionately, so it's like I don't get any of the issues because it's like I'm just seeing up things I would. really, really like. And for me, that is actually quite fine. But the reason I get rid of it is because how addictive it is, you're just constantly
Starting point is 00:14:20 up, wake up, scroll for your Twitter, scroll for your Instagram. I'm definitely addicted. Yeah, me too. I don't know if I'm in a position where I can unaddict myself while still making YouTube shit. I don't know how that's really possible. Yeah, yeah. It's because they're so intertwined. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:35 I don't really see YouTube as a social media. It is. You can exist on YouTube and not totally be able. obsessed with Instagram and Twitter Yeah, yeah, yeah It's easy to fall into that though Yeah
Starting point is 00:14:48 I don't know To me it's more of It's more like a equivalent to Netflix or something The way I use it Where I'm looking for Content Paisley
Starting point is 00:15:02 Dude, you can't be in here If you're gonna do this every episode We're fucking disappointed in you Just sits there grooming herself Really loudly in the background I don't think people realize For 15 minutes She has sloppy noises
Starting point is 00:15:15 He is a sloppy dog who just slops She's got such big jowls Yeah I'm sick of it I can't Max never did that But then you've got Argy who just like starts Pulling his nails or pulling balls And he's just like... He might be cute
Starting point is 00:15:33 But he's still Irritating When he's sloppy Also on the No let me just finish this If you have got a problem with Instagram You can get this app called Block site on your phone and you can block all the apps off
Starting point is 00:15:47 that you use during your work hours or block access to them completely. It's a good way if you generally want to cut back because you kind of need it sometimes so you're just being able to just move it from block when you need to talk to someone and then blocking it and whatnot can just help. Yeah, the only thing with that for me
Starting point is 00:16:03 is that I just know that because the temptation is still there. I would need someone else to be in control of the block. it's also very useful if you're struggling with a certain kind of addiction to a certain kind of thing because you can block all of it and that will help you Let's do some topics
Starting point is 00:16:23 Let's do it There are a couple of note That I wanted to bring up at the very least Let's start with this one though Because it's very jar Um The Eternals, a race of immortal beings We finally know what they love
Starting point is 00:16:40 look like in the flesh that it's not like fan art deviant art brushets anymore we've got the real deal we got that wasn't a fan made video we got oscar winning directors bringing together the whole crew of game of thrones for angelina joly's in there pornies in there every one of note is in this movie all the cg all the animators in the world are working on this movie doing all the visual effects it's going to be huge it's got like 11 million plus views in like two minutes or whatever the water tech is unmatched and that was probably my biggest takeaway was like you know what at the very least marvel is pushing the boundaries with their obscene budgets to such a degree that they're like at the cutting edge of visual effects and we're just seeing silly scale from um
Starting point is 00:17:30 from them but aside from that I don't know um the one the one of the one of the one of the one thing I took from what's happening from the trailer is what what what's the villain what's the danger of these movies because there's just a flying spaceship where the Eternals are on it I don't get why that's it that's they've only showed off the characters at the Eternals it seem more like kind of a mood piece like yeah this is the setting this is what everyone looks like but we're not going to give away anything that happens but from the the premise anyway of them being immortal beings I'm concerned yeah um Characters like Superman, who are always, they're not, he's not immortal, but he's the closest thing to it.
Starting point is 00:18:11 You see how they struggle with characters like that. Like, Captain Marvel is, that type of character is tough, unless they're the villain in something like invincible, whatever, then it works way better, but. And you've got eight of them, eight, is there eight a town, or seven? Oh, dude, you know better than me. But, I mean, it looks like a new one. To be honest, visually it looked a bit more. A bit more unique and varied compared to some of the previous Marvel affair
Starting point is 00:18:40 But when you have that final scene Where they're like Hey, maybe I should lead the Avengers guys What do you think? Yeah, was that the guy from From Dr. Strange Giving them slop in a bowl? Well, he was doing all the hands shit
Starting point is 00:18:56 So, right? No, the, not him, the one that's like feeding them at the table. No, it can't be. He's a different person. Are you sure? Yeah. We're going to have to ask Marvel fans
Starting point is 00:19:06 five about that one yeah the thing is that this trailer because there's so many characters in the Eternals like there's more characters in the Eternals than in the original adventure true that's another thing no character gets given enough time and honestly no joke Kumao is the biggest
Starting point is 00:19:24 draw to this film for me yeah the only reason I will watch it and I haven't even seen fucking Man in Black International I don't know the source of Kuma yeah because even having the half of the Game of Thrones cast in it seems
Starting point is 00:19:38 like a... Yeah, if anything that's more of... That was like a trend from a few years ago. Yeah, yeah, it makes me less interested and like seeing John Snow pop up and stuff. Mm-hmm. That's all...
Starting point is 00:19:50 The only reason they're showing you this is because, oh, Game of Thrones. Well, yeah, it's showing all the faces of all the biggest actors. Yeah, yeah. So... But I mean, I don't know, seeing those actors now after the end of Game of Thrones,
Starting point is 00:20:02 it is kind of sour. People are comparing it to, like, this is like the new Guardians of the Galaxy in terms of it's like a character a set of characters no one knows about and it's their it's their their moment no no no no no no no those two those quirkiness with when you when you look at Guardians of the Galaxy in all the cast and all the trailers it has that quirky vibe yeah it's got guy it has it's because of james gun though like is is is what's the name chloe zal is she the james gun for what we need for Eternals, whatever.
Starting point is 00:20:38 I mean, I... The thing is, I don't want... I don't want just Guardians of the Galaxy again. You know, they feel like a... I'm more excited, but I've always... Have you guys heard of Moon Knight? He's a Marvel character, and I've always heard about how
Starting point is 00:20:52 awesome he is. Moon Knight? He's like, yeah. Is that like a shovel night character? No, he's like... I don't actually know his powers or anything, but I've always like, through the Great Fire and just heard about how awesome Moon Knight is. You know, you can be... has been cast as Moon Night.
Starting point is 00:21:07 Really? In the MCU, yeah. Whatever that means. So... I like Oscar Isaac. He's like, guys, is telling me to be excited, so I'm feeling it.
Starting point is 00:21:16 I'm surprised. I'm surprised Oscar Isaac would do anything with Disney now. Because he seemed quite sad. No, he actually got out pretty unscathed out of everyone in those styles of movies. Yeah, yeah, he's definitely the most unscathed.
Starting point is 00:21:29 Yeah. But still, like, you look at the interviews with him post... Yeah, it's just like, the last one. It's a paycheck, whatever. Yeah. Yeah, can't really blame him Yeah
Starting point is 00:21:38 You got the vibe So yeah, we'll definitely be checking out The Eternals when that Yeah, we will be saying Eventually comes out Honestly, I can't say I have all that much hope Yeah, my, I'm leaning towards Not much hope
Starting point is 00:21:52 Hmm I don't know I don't know Nothing in the trailer was like Whoa Apart from the water I still, to be honest Everything
Starting point is 00:22:04 um post endgame has still just been like i could have been fine without this really one of the only one idea kind of petered out um the one i like having is spider man yeah the spider man one and dr strange seems way more interesting than a black widow prequel and uh and whatever this eternal thing is but do not do prequels like how how can you show in the marvel universe something more interesting now than what they've shown then what they've already stopped Yeah, unless it's post-Thano's ship, because you can actually do stuff with that. Well, there are rumours of them, like, planning to bring him back or something. Thanos?
Starting point is 00:22:44 No, but that's what's going to happen if it's true comic shit. It's just going to be, like, cycles of, like, oh, it's been like 10 years. Now Iron Man is back, or, you know, whatever. Honestly, I do see Iron Man going back, like, within the neck... What's more likely, Captain America coming back or Iron Man? Iron Man. Who's coming back? You reckon?
Starting point is 00:23:03 I think it's like just a hundred. I would say, give it, within four years, Iron Man's are going to be back? Four years? Four years. Since when it came out two years ago? Yeah. Six years from then. He's coming back.
Starting point is 00:23:17 We were white about doge coin. I was right about the game stock. The game stock stocks. I can bite about this. Well, speaking of doge coin, um, J.J. Abrams has caught a bit of flak the last few days for this interview. Did you guys see this? No. I saw the quote.
Starting point is 00:23:34 I think it was a Collider interview. The headline being J.J. Abrams acknowledges it probably would have been better if they had approached the Star Wars sequel trilogy with a plan. So it's this really awkward interview where J.J. is asked a bunch of questions by this collider guy and he politically avoids every question, but kind of in the way he answers it, does kind of imply some things, aka there was no plan. They had no fucking clue what they were doing. That was more than implied, wasn't it? He straight up said. He says, yeah, he says it in a way without, like, condemning the productions he was a part of. Because, I mean, he is in a very complicated situation.
Starting point is 00:24:17 Yeah, he's also just the, like, shill director. And he's being professional about it. You can't, like, blame him for not being outweigh about it. Well, I don't know. I've, yeah, I'm not sure which. Because I respect what's the Finn actor called again? Yeah, fuck. Boyega, John Boyega.
Starting point is 00:24:40 He came out against it and was saying about this is bullshit the way this went down. I think everyone respected that, being real, being honest. Yeah. Whereas this is more, yeah, I kind of got my standing in Hollywood or whatever. You know, I don't want to ruin anything. No, JJ Abrams just doesn't have a voice to me. He never says anything. even with his art.
Starting point is 00:25:04 Yeah, they're good references to Spielberg. Yeah, but that's it. Yeah. And his whole theory, I saw quite a good take that was, um, it could have worked if, because Ryan Johnson answered all of the mystery boxes. Mm-hmm. And then they just ditched the answers. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:26 And changed everything. Yeah, for different answers. If you'd have ran with the Ryan Johnson shit. there would have been more of like a through line. Yeah, there's, there's no excuse for episode nine. No, I stand by that. There's no, there's no excuse for it being as bad as it is. It's the worst, Star Wars movie.
Starting point is 00:25:44 Yeah. But do you think, do you think this is interesting how it's kind of bored down into the blame falling on two main people, Ryan Johnson and Kathleen Kennedy? Those are the two people that have caught, I'd say, the majority of the rage. JJ, it's getting bigger and bigger. But he started off being like the hero with episode seven. So, and then when episode eight came out, everyone loved JJ still and hated Ryan. And now it seems to be more like people are actually understanding that the...
Starting point is 00:26:13 The system and the foundation. Disney is the true problem that they even allow this ball to start rolling. I guess it's just nice to have basically, if we really... It was already basically confirmed, but it's just more evidence for the pile and... this whole situation, you know? Yeah, I think Ryan Johnson has also earned some creed back from Knives Out.
Starting point is 00:26:39 Yeah. Yeah. Because everyone loves that film. Great fucking film. Yeah, it's awesome. Yeah. Yeah, that's what he needs to be doing. Can I give you this and you won't pluck it? No, he will pluck it. I'm sorry, he totally distracted me from the conversation. Yeah, potato this tennis ball and put it behind
Starting point is 00:26:55 next to the Hobbit or on there, yeah, that's fine. Bad boy. But I think that's, yeah, that's probably a good way of, like, rounding off this whole arc. This whole Star Wars sequel trilogy shit. I can't believe they even got him into an interview. Yeah, that really surprises me. Why would he agree to that? Yeah, now.
Starting point is 00:27:18 It's not even relevant anymore. Everybody's forgotten. Nobody cares. Yeah. It's all about bad. He actually kind of like Star Wars, given his recent performance. The Mandalorian saved Star Wars, hands down. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:29 And then the, the, for God. Gaming, Fallen Order saved it as well with that. The expanded media ironically is what's saving it Yeah, just like what happened.
Starting point is 00:27:38 After they scrap all of the It's just a repeat of what happened with the prequels. Yeah. The expanded stuff was awesome. Yeah. Anyway. I missed the prequals.
Starting point is 00:27:51 So, we've only got a few more minutes here before the end of this first segment. Unless you guys have anything to throw out. I did want to say continuing on this MassFet thing
Starting point is 00:28:05 I am on 3 now not going to go deep into it or anything because I think the plan is to try and do as good as they say it's on each one because I just have so many thoughts on this trilogy Yeah this whole this this this legendary edition has shown It's giving us a lot of to think about the series
Starting point is 00:28:20 Yeah and finishing 2 I have a bunch more thoughts on that game And going into 3 3 is definitely the worst one really doubt in my mind worse than one yeah way worse than one um
Starting point is 00:28:35 it without going into too much detail it was the first one where when I was playing and getting to a point it's the first time you go to the citadel and you meet fucking diane Allers uh Jessica Chobot
Starting point is 00:28:48 it is the most distracting because I've been in this universe all through MassFote 1 all through MassFite 2 so into never breaking anything it all seems so cohesive what the fuck is Jessica Chobot doing in this game it genuinely is like such a
Starting point is 00:29:06 mind-blowing decision I cannot believe that that character is a mass fit through it might seem like a big thing to get hung up on but I was saying to you guys like once I did the section where you first introduced to Jessica Chobot in that game I like went to the home screen of my Xbox
Starting point is 00:29:20 and there she fucking was the real Jessica Chowbox I think she like has some like Microsoft Xbox thing so her fucking face was there and it was like you're in the video game I was just playing but you're like a what is happening and like it's just part of the law of that game it is incredibly lame she's not playing a character either it's like her it's her face it looks like her what a really fucking creepy version of yeah she's like the monic in mass fiction but she's like not doing a voice or anything either
Starting point is 00:29:51 it's just her it sounds like she's hosting an episode of a like an igon show or something isn't there a romance option for us aren't i think so And she's like a journalist in the game as well A lot of weird shit like that In Masset through What would you feel if the new Mass Effect came out The new one? And she's the main character
Starting point is 00:30:11 You just go to the Citadel again And she's there and they actually put her in the new one Would it just be like that's it Nassafect is dead Yeah But I was so like pulled out of the experience I stopped playing for a couple days Because it's like
Starting point is 00:30:24 Because it all started rushing back to me Like oh yeah a lot of weird shit of MassFet 3 like the from Ashes thing with that DLC with the Prothian character and just the decision of having that guy be
Starting point is 00:30:40 DLC impacts the design of the entire game so you're missing out on a bunch of stuff that could have been integrated into the game more more conversation trees more options more cutscenes but because it's some throwaway DLC bullshit it just feels like an add-on
Starting point is 00:30:54 whereas that feels like it should be such a crucial part of the story dory. Yeah. Because that's shit that could change the actual story of the game given they were actually attacked. And three just feels like that. It feels so, like, linear compared to the previous two, even more than two, and two is linear.
Starting point is 00:31:10 I don't know whose decision it was to release it when it was released. Was it EA? It's crazy rushed. Yeah, because why would you, you have this, like, you start off with this really ambitious game, like, too ambitious. You can't make it what you want it to be, so you make it something else. like in the time that you have you get that out
Starting point is 00:31:31 and then how many years was it what three years three years? Yeah three years till Mass Effect 2 Was MassFit 1 2007 Yeah same year as Hey so yeah Then three years to 2010 Then two years for MassFit 3
Starting point is 00:31:45 Yeah why would you give yourself Less time to make The most ambitious one More ambitious than the first one That you couldn't even make And I think considering that Considering the restrictions in the context it is a good game.
Starting point is 00:31:59 Yeah. And there's plenty of really good shit in there and lots of payoffs. I don't like having to consider that, though. Yeah, that is what's lame about it. But I think the conversation actually gets a lot more complicated than that, and we can't talk about it more without just delving in, which we're not going to do here because, I mean, yeah, it gets to a point. It just dominates.
Starting point is 00:32:21 We're going to do videos on every game and just go through and talk about it. Yeah, just so it's off my mind. Yeah. Yeah, we'll see after these messages. B. Um, hello, this is me, Argi. You do realize that there are Mibo shirts available, right? Take a look at the really cute shirts.
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Starting point is 00:33:09 The real Ron has got our first one. Oh no. We already answered this. It was an Eternals question. My mistake. Absolutely bonkers, mate. It was actually going to start off. This is the debate that might end the friendship between the Jal boys. What is better? Bread or pasta? No, there's no fucking comparison. it. They're completely different things for completely different times. No, there's not. They both fill the same gap
Starting point is 00:33:33 in a meal. Both carbohydrates. Yeah. Okay. The scientifically they do, but for me they do not. What's more versatile? Versatility. Bread. Bread. Bread. It might be bread.
Starting point is 00:33:47 It's bread. How? Every type of sandwich. It's a different experience. A muffin. Yeah, but every type of pasta. Every different type of bread. Mm. You can't make a bread... Well, you can't put bread and salad.
Starting point is 00:34:00 Bread pudding? Bread pudding, yeah. Eggie bread. Eggie bread. Yeah, egg bread's good as far. I would say I did make spaghetti the other day and because there was too... What are people who aren't us called eggy bread? French toast.
Starting point is 00:34:11 Is it French toast, though? No, it's not. I don't think it is. French toast might be something different. It's something different. No, but isn't French toast something different in America? No, I'm pretty sure French toast is French toast. But I made spaghetti the other day and the sauce was so liquidy at the bottom.
Starting point is 00:34:26 I got bread. to soak up the juices at the bottom. Nah, that's wrong. You don't want fucking watery sauce, bro. No, it is French toast. We just don't put vanilla and like sweet shit. Right. Oh.
Starting point is 00:34:39 Wait, I swear they were different. I don't want sweet eggy bread, though. I don't want eggy bread at all. Sorry, yeah, that is the clarification. Wait, so you don't even like egg bread. Eggie bread is savoury, French toast is sweet. So it is the same shit, basically. Right.
Starting point is 00:34:52 I really hate eggy bird. So, no, but I still think pasta is better. If I had to live without bread or without pasta, I would live without bread. I would live without bread. Really? Yes, because I fucking love bread. You can never have a burger, one of those, like, a chicken fillet or anything. But pasta is just a, like, bread is like you make something with bread, pasta's a fucking meal.
Starting point is 00:35:18 Bread's like this kind of, when you get up the morning, you're going to have a sandwich, you know? Sandwiches are awesome, though. Sandwiches, sandwiches, burgers, anything like that. But pasta is a core. part of my diet. Yeah, pasta's incredible. Like, four out of seven days a week, I'll have pasta for dinner. I think they've nailed us here. I actually, like, I can't make a
Starting point is 00:35:35 decision. I fuck enough bread. Because I value, like, an awesome burger and an awesome pasta meal. Yeah. And they scratch different inches for me. Also, also, like, whole meal bread is nicer than whole meal pasta. I hate that, like, brown
Starting point is 00:35:51 whole meal pasta. Shit sucks. And I feel like I experience a greater a variety of bread. I'm getting something different. You know, the different shapes, they're cool or whatever. Does bread count as pizza as well?
Starting point is 00:36:05 Yeah. Yes. Yeah, there's too much good food. I'm sorry, bread wins. It's really, I actually can't decide. If I have to live with that one of them, then I'd rather not live at all.
Starting point is 00:36:20 Yeah, maybe that's the true answer. But then you also won't get breaded chicken. It's a KFC chicken. Some of it's breaded. The fillets. Nah, past is too crucial to the way... Bread, bread would win. Snoo's 7-1-271 says,
Starting point is 00:36:39 What is Hobgoblin? I live in America and I found a Hobgoblin t-shirt that said, What's the matter, Lagerboy, afraid you might taste something? And it was this bizarre creature. Ever since I've been fascinated with Hobgoblin, I asked this because I saw you guys drinking at once. Hobgoblin is an ale. it's a bitter
Starting point is 00:36:57 do Americans not drink ale then they drink IPAs it became IPAs became really popular in America Is that what white claw Is that the Opa Or is that like I don't know I've never had white claw
Starting point is 00:37:10 I don't know I've never had white claw Is like a can isn't it Yeah it's like It's like an energy drink alcohol thing I think I'm not sure Yeah It's just the like the go to meme
Starting point is 00:37:22 For people who don't can't drink alcohol They just drink white claw Yeah yeah Yeah. I was going to Google it, but... IPAs can often be quite sweet, though, aren't they? The hobgoblins are not like that. I find IPAs tend to be more citrusy. That's what I mean, sorry.
Starting point is 00:37:37 Yeah, citrusy. Yeah, sort of grapefruity. Even orange ones. I don't think passion fruit is citrusy, but... I had like a tangeriney one, which was nice. Yeah. A couple weeks back. But yeah, so now.
Starting point is 00:37:53 I don't know what else to add to that. That's just what it is. We just drink lots of ale here, I guess. Yeah, it is extremely British. It's just more of like, it's a heavy drink. It seems more wintry, like. Yeah, it is heavy. Um, I don't think it's, it's the kind of thing where, for me personally,
Starting point is 00:38:15 if I'm at a pub, maybe I'll start off on an ale and then move to lager. Yeah. Or even spirits. Lager's just lighter and fresher. Yeah. More of a summer drink. Hunter the Stick has one. I'd gotten into scale modelling and discovered something I loved. And I never would have known if it wasn't for Rubin and James, say thank you.
Starting point is 00:38:40 James' excuses are invalid. James has some misconceptions about time to do. I give my models a few hours at a time and have a makeshift table of five foot by two foot, which isn't a lot of space and it's mounted to the wall like a shelf. See, this sounds fucking easy. easy bro the supplies aren't expensive you don't need an airbrush for a one-time thing just paint glue and brushes that's all and now for my question why are you letting some of the best kits gain dust well have you started one of them already and haven't
Starting point is 00:39:08 said anything about them don't say a fucking word um to me um that shit kind of seems like adult like you know it is it is when you have to start getting your paints out and have a special table attached to the wall okay so So what this guy was on about, I get, I get, when you've got a proper setup, it's, it's quite easy to, like, trip away out. I live with my parents. They are the most, like, fucking, if I, if I had a setup, a permanent setup, they would move everything. They would clean it. With pain and...
Starting point is 00:39:40 I lose parts. It's not that I don't have the time. I have the time. I don't have a setup that makes me, so I can just... You don't have the space. Yes. And it's just, I can't do it in my room. My parents would be funny about paints.
Starting point is 00:39:53 It's like, I'm not... When I have a set up... my own house I can do that stuff but with my parents it's like I save myself a lot of stress by not doing it yeah I'm not a fucking dork so I'll never do any of that lame that shit
Starting point is 00:40:07 I'll just play Mass Effect OPEX Legends all day Young Molesh as well What do you guys' thoughts on Breaking Bad in the spin-offs I personally love this series but I'm afraid the movie might be a disappointment also didn't know there was a show about Saul until recently thoughts
Starting point is 00:40:23 Breaking Bad Incredible Betakal Soul Incredible I really liked The El Camino El Camino El Camino is good
Starting point is 00:40:32 Yeah It's It was Nice It was nice to get Jesse's story Kind of wrap up Because
Starting point is 00:40:42 The focus is more On Walt In the show And Jesse's kind of Like a strand So you get Some kind of Conclusion to that
Starting point is 00:40:49 I suppose Um But it's I understand exactly where it's coming from because I remember that fear after watching Breaking Bad and hearing about this prequel shit and so many prequels are bad and Saul as a prequel. Yeah, it was like, how often is this shit good, but then it's Vince Gilligan and he puts in the time. Because it was Saul as well, I was really expecting the show to just be like a comedy. Yeah, I thought the same thing. It was going to rely on the comedy and the comedy's definitely in there, but it's more like it is in Breaking Bad, where it's kind of dark comedy. Yeah, I've, I've, the last time I watched Breaking Back, because I've seen it like three times at this point. It is a surprisingly funny show.
Starting point is 00:41:30 It's essential how dark it is, because it's like really dark. He's like killing people a few episodes in. Do you know, sir, I've not finished, I've only finished the first season, but it's, I, my family have never watched it, and I've always been like, you know, you should have watched this, this is really good,
Starting point is 00:41:47 I've seen the first season. And it's a way, their perception is, it's going to be really depressing because of the, just the subject of Walter getting cancer and they instantly put that off and it's like
Starting point is 00:41:57 That's interesting That's completely false It's like there's more to it than just water has cancer Normally that's like The hook is because he's like He's got nothing to lose Yeah
Starting point is 00:42:06 So watching him break bad It's like kind of the The whole point And the fun of it But They just don't get it Flawful freak has one for us What do you gooners think
Starting point is 00:42:17 About the Portal games I finished both of them last week And I love them Glados has just such an interesting character and playing with the physics to solve puzzles was so much fun. Thoughts?
Starting point is 00:42:28 Portal 1 is a masterpiece. They both are. Portal 2 is a really good game. You don't think it's masterful? I don't... It's not on the same level as portal 1. Really? I think the writing is...
Starting point is 00:42:42 I think the writing's amazing in Port 2. Yeah, I agree. But I wish their original plan I'm not sure I know what their original plan was So originally Glados wasn't going to be in the game
Starting point is 00:42:58 And J.K. Simmons was going to be His character, he was going to be the equivalent But they did They did play tests And everyone was like Where's Gladys? I hate this Really? Yeah, I think they might have even been testing
Starting point is 00:43:14 With like different puzzles Like it's not just portals Like you have different mechanics and shit I might be getting mixed up there but yeah i think if they could have actually made the game they originally set out to it could have been more interesting do you not think the story that came from that that was still kind of cool like waking up gladys and weatley in that weird power thing that goes on with them yeah but it is also they what's it called when you like backtrack
Starting point is 00:43:43 retcon retcon um the whole song at the end of portal one's still alive at the start of portal two she's dead like you have to wake her back up it's like there are loads of little nitpicky things but it does sort of affect um i just think the the actual dialogue is so well written and the lines and the voice acting itself Stephen merchant was like a great because jk k simmons is still in the game and he has some of the best lines in the game yeah yeah the lemonade but they also force in the uh the like glados backstory which is I'm totally down with her having a backstory, but that story element isn't utilised. She has like two lines as a human.
Starting point is 00:44:30 It's kind of weird. Did you do the co-op stuff? Yeah, the co-op stuff is really, really fucking good. That's probably the masterpiece part of Portal 2. Getting that design to work with two people. Yeah, and it's just so much fun when you're communicating with someone like... Yeah. Yeah, I played through all the co-op.
Starting point is 00:44:51 when it came out and I played through the story mode a few years ago now so they're not up-to-date thoughts Bernie means but I remember really really liking it yeah it I might I might look back on it slightly harsher because I'm way more familiar with Portal 2 for some reason I was just obsessed with Valve games and the universes they build so when Portal 2 came out I played it like over and over and over again I love that it. Well, yeah. I always remember that that era specifically because it was when PSM went down
Starting point is 00:45:27 for a month. Port 2 came out. Oh, really? I remember that. Yeah, that's, wasn't it to do with hackings or something? Yes. That's when I left PlayStation was when that started. Right, yeah. Yeah, no one had their like credit card information on it after that point because I was scared. It's a bit different
Starting point is 00:45:43 story now. The Goad has one that you might appreciate James. Since you guys mentioned Berserk, I figured I had a duty to bring up Vindlan Saga to your attention. Have you heard of this, James? Yeah. It's adapted from a classic Sinen manga. Am I saying that right?
Starting point is 00:46:02 Sinen. Sangen, yeah. Manga that is renowned as one of the big Sinen series alongside Berserk and Kingdom, which has absolutely awful anime adaptations, with Berserk's adaptations being somewhat tolerable, but paling in comparison to the original manga. But Vinland Saga stands out because the animation is actually pretty good. It's clear the animator has really had a passion for the source material.
Starting point is 00:46:21 as they preserve all the pacing, story beats deep and complex themes, and incredibly fleshed-out characters of the manga. Do you say manga or manga? Manga. A brief synopsis of Vinland Saga is pretty much the story of Vikings invading Europe and the gradual transformation of a young, innocent Viking boy, Thorfin, as he grows to become brutally violent and bitter, the very antithesis of everything his father wanted him to be. What makes it stand out is the incredible attention to detail. Half the characters are real people that existed during the time period in the aligned. into their real history almost perfectly. Everything feels so visceral and real that shows you all the raping, murder, pillaging and all sorts of terrible things that the Vikings did
Starting point is 00:46:59 and it doesn't romanticize it at all. It just shows you everything for what it is. It's a fascinatingly deep and grounded world that you can just lose yourself in. And because of the realistic setting has an even more powerful impact since everything you're seeing is something that happened or could have happened in real life history.
Starting point is 00:47:15 I cannot recommend it enough. An 11 out of 10 anime that more people need to see. That's Vinland Saga. Yeah, so here's the thing. I have this thing called The List, and it's things I want to watch. I don't watch anything on this list, because I never find the time. Yeah, it's like an IMDB watch list, or whatever. Yeah, it's less like, I've wanted to watch Ford versus Ferrari, or Limon's 66,
Starting point is 00:47:37 where people who actually know what Limon's is, Americans. Yeah. Really good movie, but yeah, that was one of the movies I wanted to watch. I watched that yesterday, and Vinland Saga's been on the list forever. It came out quite recently. I've just seen mixed things about it Is it quite a long one? I've not heard of this before so
Starting point is 00:47:56 It's a normal length anime series But it's on the list I will watch it eventually when I finish Jojo Did you want to talk about Limon Quickly because we all watched that yesterday Yeah yesterday we decided to watch Le Mans 66
Starting point is 00:48:12 It's about the Ford versus Ferrari era Of Le Mans he's got Matt Damon in and Christian Bell It's 2019 I think Yeah it's quite recent James Mangold The director of Logan directed it
Starting point is 00:48:26 Really good movie I've really really enjoyed it Yeah I enjoyed the story As someone who like just knows nothing about cars Like it was all new to me Yeah I It's because the easiest thing to compare this to Would be Wash
Starting point is 00:48:38 You know Yeah You know the cinematation of a racing moment But I think Was kind of It was very entry level It didn't go into the details Of all the technical stuff
Starting point is 00:48:47 as much, but this had like that information, the technical information that I would appreciate because I'm a car person. Because you were definitely picking up on shit that went way of my head. Like that Christian Bale character seemed like he was written for you. Like all the shit he was saying, all his comments were like... Yeah, he sounded
Starting point is 00:49:03 like he was a guest on Top Gear or something. Yeah, he's like always quipping about, like, and making fun of people's car choices and he's like a proper gear-ed car guy. Yeah, and that movie had that vibe and I thought, there's a lot CG in it because you can't have a movie with that
Starting point is 00:49:19 like ear with like it's set like 1960 pretty much but they they did have real shots you can see the real shots when they're like moving between the cars because they are obviously they're driving on that track and then the rest is yeah I thought the visual effects largely were pretty good actually yeah I thought so as well
Starting point is 00:49:35 especially with how much of it is in the movie yeah it's it's not a short movie because like rush is like hour and 40 it's quite short this is this is quite chunky I think I actually prefer rush personally because I think I just get more emotional connection out of that movie
Starting point is 00:49:51 Yeah that movie just with the soundtrack by hands The soundtrack's really good in that movie too You get so emotionally connected I could have done with like 15 minutes Maybe being shade off of Lamont I agree I think I actually preferred Lamont to Rush Yeah like James said
Starting point is 00:50:11 I find the sort of nitty gritty business side the scum fuckery though although I didn't like the sort of bad guy he was a bit too evil and I found it distracting that John Bernthal was even cast as the role he was in yeah he wasn't in it enough it didn't seem like he was cast because he was the right guy for the job it just seemed like yeah because it was him because it's him it's always distracting when you have someone like of that kind of calibre playing such a small part yeah yeah I I just think uh Christian bail he's like too good of an actor at this point yeah his performance was so fucking believable
Starting point is 00:50:49 his manner like he just changes into someone else yeah he does that thing that only the best actors do where they they just become they genuinely just become someone else and they yeah but you see that kind of body language like reflected in the people you've seen in real life like yeah no he's playing a British character from like a northern region of Britain and he
Starting point is 00:51:14 you don't He sounds exactly like David Thuleus He's the guy He's the werewolf from Harry Potter He's like a He's got that exact accent Yeah and the same sort of
Starting point is 00:51:28 Way of moving Yeah yeah Mannerisms and everything And his performance definitely Brought the movie up for me So I like What's his face?
Starting point is 00:51:39 Thor Hemsworth Yeah I feel like I'm always shitting on him in charge Yeah, yeah But I like him But I don't think he's like a masterful actor See, it was in Rush
Starting point is 00:51:50 I remember the other guy more The antagonist Yeah, definitely I'm the guy from Civil War Yeah Yeah, he's a really good actor But Yeah
Starting point is 00:51:59 Maybe I need to see the movie again But also I don't find F1 cars very interesting Whereas the 60s sports cars Are fucking awesome Yeah, they were And the, there's the imagery of all the cars
Starting point is 00:52:12 is really, like I was just saying constantly like that fucking shot is so sexy because it's just like, and they're perfectly angled, it's like, it's just a, such good cinematography. He's got a good style too. There was some, he's clearly got a flare,
Starting point is 00:52:27 the director, he knows what he's doing. It seemed quite well storyboarded. I never felt overwhelmed by like the action and, yeah, like I know, I haven't seen all of Logan, but I could tell with the way like some of the shots when he's testing the car, the way it pans and it's like going on the one of it is. Yeah, because Logan, there's like,
Starting point is 00:52:42 like a um there's kind of a car chase scene and in that movie that's the point that probably has the worst visual effects um the most obvious yeah he's like bashing through a yeah yeah yeah and you can see sort of hints of that but because it is all like real was based on real shit like the reference like i was just thinking about this like in in forza for example the models are like so insane you can probably if you get at like the right angle within these engines if you're just capturing it from the right with the right lighting everything it looks real no i'm saying like if people are gonna if movie company is gonna make car racing movies they really should be contacting game companies because it'll be cheaper than having a season
Starting point is 00:53:23 well that's how that's what they're doing with like mandolorean like they're using i think it's unreal yeah yeah just rendering these environment it makes so much sense you fucking willie i don't know what they're barking at but but yeah i enjoyed my time with it I mean Yeah, I did as well I don't know why but I like Matt Damon as well He's quite a good movie star
Starting point is 00:53:47 He's Yeah He's got like a sympathetic thing going on Yeah He's a little bit ugly too And I can relate to that I think Do you know
Starting point is 00:53:57 I mean he's not ugly But he's sort of oafish I don't mean to be mean To the guy No I know he'd mean like sort of You know like Joe Rogan He's got that
Starting point is 00:54:08 Yeah primitive thing but I think that movie Damon and Bail just they carry that movie It's so well It's worth seen for their acting alone They're both very good in it There's one scene that I think
Starting point is 00:54:24 I'd prefer just cut out the film When his wife is like driving him And being like ridiculous Yeah that was a bit of much Yeah and they didn't set up That she didn't want him to go back to racing She's the one that encouraged him to stay racing And then she's suddenly like
Starting point is 00:54:39 right I'm killing us the thing with the sun didn't really connect with me either I thought that worked yeah there was enough stuff early on where he's like taking him to all the races and they have the feud like the main reason the bad guy doesn't like
Starting point is 00:54:57 Christian Bell because he's being a country son yeah his son wanted to like touch this car yeah the conflict was good yeah just it boiling down to these companies that just like hate each other and they're just throwing money around yeah I almost wish there was more of that
Starting point is 00:55:15 as the movie progressed more John Bonthal interaction with yeah because you get to a point where that part just stops being relevant for ages and then John Berthal comes back in and he he keeps cropping up and sort of smiling to the good guys like yeah I'm actually on your side I may be a seat waiting for him
Starting point is 00:55:31 to like pull the Punisher look yeah he just brutalized yes good film Volt Tech a US one do the jar boys play grand strategy games I think it's been mentioned that James has played Civilization but if you played anything else in the genre I asked because it seems the games from Paradox Interactive
Starting point is 00:55:49 are only getting more and more popular recently Who's Paradox Interactive? They make civilization Oh really? Yeah um They're getting popular because they're the most fucking addictive thing Just game you can play is fuck This week this week alone It's just like we'll play some apex till 9 o'clock
Starting point is 00:56:05 Oh let's play some Siv Fucking almost 1 in the morning on a weekday we're just like Jim we should stop playing now I need to go to bed okay one more turn yeah yeah James will say
Starting point is 00:56:16 okay one more turn and then we go like 30 30 turns later it's just like oh you can save now yeah no last time it had to end with me like stopping you
Starting point is 00:56:27 it always takes one of us to be like nah I'm done I need to stop now because it's the way the game is it's just like you are competing against your friends
Starting point is 00:56:36 but also not yeah you don't know where they are. You can't see their cities. You can only gather intelligence from what they tell you. And we just lied to each other constantly. So it's just like, I'll finally find Jim and I'll see these little stats. It's just like, fuck, Jamie's got fucking 1,000 gold and 70 signs. And I've got 13. And I'm like, fuck, I need to catch up. And it's just like, I'm trying to build stuff. I'm trying to build stuff and build my cities. Yeah. And it's a game where every time you play, you've learned a bit more about how to play. Yeah, you're like
Starting point is 00:57:07 breaking down the systems, figuring out what way you want to go. We'll play a match and we'll get quite far into it and then because you've learnt more or because the way it's turned out, it's just like, let's start another match. So you repeat the process every fucking day. I've played like almost a few hundred
Starting point is 00:57:23 hours on it on Epic Store alone. Yeah, I'm getting up there as well. It is just genuinely one of the most satisfying experiences. It's so good. If you, let's say people get bored. If you're bored on a weekend, just play Siv. Because then it'll be 10 o'clock and you're like, fuck.
Starting point is 00:57:39 Where's it gone? And we've been trying to bully you into buying it was so fucking long. Get it, Alex. It's my, it's my mental thing where I have to disconnect PC and video games. It is on console, though. It'll be a miserable time. Yeah, I don't know if playing it on console, there's any fucking point. You need to be like, ding, ding, ding, ding everywhere.
Starting point is 00:58:02 But also it's the only game James plays with a mouse and keyboard. Yeah. Because I don't have to be quick, I can just be like... All you have to do is you sit there with a bag of popcorn one hand on the mouth, leaning back. That's it. That's it, yeah. I was just seen popcorn the last time we were playing, just like...
Starting point is 00:58:19 I've got popcorn in my mouth. And I'm someone that was really never into this sort of game. But it hooks you. It's like Steve-er-and-he put it through his mouth, it fucking grabs. Yeah, yeah. You ain't going. And you're in with the sharks. But no, I haven't played any other games of the genre
Starting point is 00:58:38 No, I did recommend that we should probably get humankind Which was like trying to compete with civilisation But they've delayed that till August I think Because it looks like a It looks like a good beat sieve From what I've seen But I think everyone should try sieve Because it just gets your game, your mind going
Starting point is 00:58:58 Even if you're not someone that normally plays video games Just try sive It's because it's a genre like I'm so not used to it requires no reflexes or anything. No, you can take your time as long as you want you can properly figure out. And there's the tutorial mode, really
Starting point is 00:59:13 good, because it's how I had to get into the game. And it always explain things to you. And can't forget, Sean Bean is one of the voice actors for it. Yeah, always forget that. That is a genuine, like, it's a huge draw. Like, every time you discover something new, he'll be like, dogs,
Starting point is 00:59:29 can't live without them. That is the exact type of voice. you don't mind hearing. Yeah, no, I went back to Civ 5, and I started a new one, and I got the same thing, the voice added it. It wasn't Sean Bean, I was just like, man, I don't give a fuck. But when Sean Bean says it, it's like, oh, it is tempting, but I just really don't want to play on PC.
Starting point is 00:59:51 Vaux, very, very, you need to. Come on, you have to try it. It was free on the Epic Game Store. That's how I got. I didn't even pay for it. Like, I've spent a few hundred dollars on the... Yeah, fuck that. Fuck the epic game store.
Starting point is 01:00:04 But I got it for free, so I can't complain. And the DLC is quite good as well. Mm. Besides the stupid Bobburning encampments, when they get these stupid fucking units, idiots. Do you find it lame, though, how it's just Fortnite, all that Fortnite money,
Starting point is 01:00:20 they just bought their way into that market? No, but then, aren't they losing every money, money every day from this? They're, like, spending so much money on that, that free game thing. It was, it was, like, in 2K, like, 20 today, like this shit, this month. A game this year
Starting point is 01:00:35 I mean I guess consumers are winning Because they're getting free games out of it But it's yeah It's split in it when When the next like fad happens And Epic starts losing big money And nobody's using Their launcher and everyone's gone back to Steam
Starting point is 01:00:52 Which already are Who actually uses any other thing The only time I've ever gone on Epic Is for those three games I think I think Wasn't Borderlands 3 or some shit Yeah probably
Starting point is 01:01:03 too, I think. The thing is, they've all given up. EA play, is this a fucking Steam thing now. Yeah, Steam is just gradually absorbing everything. Like it always has been. It's just not changing. It's just getting better. Yeah, and I think Epic has
Starting point is 01:01:19 motivated other studios to join Steam. So, I mean, in that way, it is good. Yeah. They are the necessary evil to make gaming better for everyone else. Potentially. Um, Bumper Munch says, this question is for Alex.
Starting point is 01:01:35 It seems like he aren't too fond of playing specific types of open world games like Breath of the Wild or Phantom Pain. The types that are extremely open-ended and really encourage player experimentation. Is this true? And if so, what is your reasoning? Cheers, Ming, dings. I wouldn't say I'm specifically put off by those kind of games, but I'm specifically put off those two games for hyper-specific reasons.
Starting point is 01:02:01 Or the same hyper-specific reasons. Um, actually I'd say they're different Oh really? With Phantom Payne it's because The It's like a weird jumping on point It feels like for me to start getting into Metal Gear there Honestly you can play that game Without even thinking of Metal Gear in any capacity
Starting point is 01:02:24 Yeah I've heard that too I don't know what it is I'm just not interested in that game I never I never finished it I got sick of it quite quickly. I just didn't. It doesn't have enough, like, robots or aliens. It's got other crazy shit, but...
Starting point is 01:02:40 Like, whales and stuff. It's definitely past its golden age. Yeah. Going back to it now might feel a bit... And I would much prefer to play Breath of the Wild over, Phantom Pain? I think that will always age. And...
Starting point is 01:02:54 Like, 20 years, I think that game will still be... I would play Breath of the Wild tomorrow if I could play it in, like, 4K is 60. Yeah. I don't know if it's like elitist or whatever to say at this point, but like, I don't like playing it. Um, like I played it on my switch for a few hours. But I mean, I've kind of had my fill of open world games full stop and I know they like really went in with the freedom stuff. But I just, I just don't care.
Starting point is 01:03:24 Yeah. Breath of the Wild is a different type of open world. Yeah. It's just not the same thing. But it. with Breath of the Wild I'd say play it handheld in that
Starting point is 01:03:36 in my mind I can justify it being 30 frames and like looking a bit worse like when you're on a plane or something you can just like get sucked into an actual open world that is different yeah I don't know what it is I've never really gone in on Zelda honestly
Starting point is 01:03:54 yeah well this one was definitely the one for me I don't think I would have really liked and I did watch Ruben play it for like hours and fucking hours I saw so much of the game you saw so much of both yeah
Starting point is 01:04:08 they were yeah true they were just the games that yeah that Witcher 3 as well I saw a hell of a lot of one of the other games
Starting point is 01:04:15 I it's in my like you didn't play Witcher 3 yeah it was because of that Torterra is my starter says I know we've been talking
Starting point is 01:04:28 a lot about Mass Effect but I got around to picking up legendary edition a couple days ago. Thanks to all the great things you guys had to say about the series. It's my first time playing through the series and I absolutely adore it. I've been growing more and more bored of video games the time has gone on but Mass Effect brought back everything I loved about video games in the first place. Great story, world building characters and of course gameplay. Thanks for the great recommendation. See this this is but I'm glad you got to
Starting point is 01:04:52 experience it. Yeah this is what I was hoping to hear from if it's someone who's never played it and they're still able to get into it. They'll get that love. Because it's been there's been a reminder of that for me too. Just like, yeah. Things can be nice. Let's do a couple more quick ones then. Mild and Wild 420 has one for James. Mr. James. What is your opinion on car stickers slash vials? I'm not sure how popular they are in Britain but in the US it's pretty common to see things like if you want to ride my ass at least pull my hair or something like that plastered on the back windows of people's cars. Do you have any said sticker? that other boys can answer too.
Starting point is 01:05:33 I was telling you guys I saw a van parked in Tesco that had the umbrella logo on it, but it also had like a bunch of like skeleton hands and zombie arms and it was like, this vehicle's a zombie killer, a machine. See, I don't like, I don't like the sticker
Starting point is 01:05:48 example he gave. Like that's, it's quengy. Like when it's like if you want to why you've got to pay with ass, it's just like no, you're a cucky boy you stuck a stick on your car. Like, no. cringe. What's that one? There's that car around here that's like, fuck.
Starting point is 01:06:04 I get fucked by the government. What was it? I get fucked by the... I don't need sex. I get fucked by the government. That's the one I've seen around here. I understand the appeal with stickers because it's like, it's your crew, you know? Like, think of old Japan. They'd have stickers of their crew and that'll be their club. That's their street team.
Starting point is 01:06:25 I get that and why some people want to be part of this group and, you know, that's like a community. That's cool. But I don't put stickers on my car because if you see a car with loads of stickers on it look sporty, you know that person's probably been a bit of a cunt in a car like street racing, doing dangerous things. It gets you attention from the police.
Starting point is 01:06:44 And if you put stickers in certain places, it's illegal. But I don't do any of them because I think if you're going to sticker, do it like go all in, like a race car. Have it properly done out professionally, so then it looks good. Just sticking loads of stickers on every panel of your car looks a bit ridiculous.
Starting point is 01:07:00 Unless it's of Chucky Unless it's a Chucky theme No but that thing They've gone in They've actually gone in all the way And they've made the whole car Like this chucking in our town That has customized
Starting point is 01:07:13 I'm pretty sure someone Found it on Reddit Or not found it on Reddit But found it And put it on Reddit Someone from our town Took a picture of it And put it on Reddit
Starting point is 01:07:22 That's what I'm trying to say What is the brand again Is it Is it a Cruiser It's the Chrysor The Quisor The worst car Breaking Bad
Starting point is 01:07:32 It's humiliating The one that I think Michael Scott From the office drives one as well They are the ugliest car ever made They're fucking disgusting Yeah they're horrible So putting Chuckie all over it makes it way better
Starting point is 01:07:46 Yeah I would see that It's embracing like Yeah It's fucking ugly Yeah But then you think of the Joker van In the town as well
Starting point is 01:07:53 Like he just stuck He fledger on the side I found out there's more than just the van He's got a caravan as well that has um the you know that classical piece of art with the two like angels yeah yeah yeah it's that but with um
Starting point is 01:08:07 walking phoenix and heathletcher touching on like the bag on the side of like a hamburger van that fucking huge it's the funniest shit it's like if he's gonna do that do the whole car like the truckie car because then it kind of work and not just I mean he kind of has
Starting point is 01:08:25 but not on the van the van the van is just he fledger's face I think there is something on the side I hate you gotta look out for it man it's crazy we live in a fucking weird town we live in a society clearly
Starting point is 01:08:38 let's end on this one from your royal flyness hello jar I was rewatching the modern epic of our time jarcast 196 the normal episode not five minutes in you lads mentioned doge coin and Alex says
Starting point is 01:08:52 make sure you all invest in your doge coin it's going to be the next big thing remember that this episode was release December 2019. It feels like last year because of corn time. Thoughts? Can I just say?
Starting point is 01:09:05 If you listen to me about GameStop, if you invested in Dogecoin, you'd be fucking rich. Why aren't you listening to us? If we listen to ourselves, we'd be fucking rich. I fucking hate the world
Starting point is 01:09:16 we live in, man. Why? Maybe it is weird the amount of things we've just been like we said before. Is it also like Mort is becoming Yeah, Mort's like a big Twitter meme? Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 01:09:27 Yeah, we've got some weird power we are influencing the meme economic stratosphere we are the we are the bottom of the iceberg the bottom of the iceberg yeah I watched a hidden experience video about the halo iceberg where he goes through all the tears of like obscure halo shit
Starting point is 01:09:51 it's pretty funny yeah I watched a Dark Souls lore video that was like it was rating whether they were believable because like in Dark Souls you never know if it's real or not it's like believable it's like actual historians
Starting point is 01:10:06 going into Dark Souls and like getting evidence for things there was this um do you remember in Halo 3 there's that weird Easter egg but there's that like shirtless guy in underwear like bouncing and there was this weird like rumour that it was like some dead guy or some shit
Starting point is 01:10:20 yeah it was supposed to be a dead one of the deaths like a dead guy yeah but that's just like not true at all no like at like some guy who had died. That was like the rumor or something. No, it's the developer. It's the dev.
Starting point is 01:10:35 No, the rumor was that it was some dead guy, but it was just the developer. Like, it wasn't anything crazy. It was just one of those weird, remember that era, it was just like everyone was lying and all the weird playground rumors and shit.
Starting point is 01:10:50 And my dad works at Bungee bullshit. Whose dad didn't work at Bungee, to be honest? Mind it. Every other person on Xbox Live. But I think that's it, guys. Shall I leave us with a quote? Yep, take us away, boy. See you on the next one.
Starting point is 01:11:07 See you on the next one. Our quote today is Corinthians 1031. Oh no, sorry, this is Corinthians 922. The saga of the Eternals, a race of immortal beings who lived on earth. There was a comment specifically the last episode that was like, I hate that duck. Which makes me want to leave it the even more. No, it's perfect.
Starting point is 01:11:42 It adds so much to the wall of normal kind of things. Normal? Yeah, the normal wall. Okay, okay, it's not entirely normal. That is the first one.

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