JAR Media Posdact - Alex Finally Got a BBL - JARCast Episode 285

Episode Date: August 1, 2022

https://www.patreon.com/jarmedia Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/jar-media-store Twitter: https://twitter.com/FourFunnies Timecodes 00:00 Intro 02:41 Sorry we dont make content :,( 04:30 (Anti) social media bad??? 11:41 Boat game + ubisoft discussion 14:54 Elden Ring 28:56 Warhammererer james loves it! 37:07 New Vegas lol 47:21 Does Jamie Have tattoo 48:34 Will we stream? 53:02 Unions in the uk 54:35 Will James make his car anime 56:22 Adjusting to career change 59:09 Bye Bye (Argy)

Good afternoon, morning, evening or night Ladies and gentlemen Good afternoon, morning, evening or night Ladies and gentlemen Good afternoon, morning evening or night, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon, morning evening all night, ladies and gentlemen Good afternoon, morning, evening or night, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, Gentlemen. This is episode 285. It's a bit of an odd one today because we've got some really...

It's not odd, it's even. It is an actual even episode. One of the really uncommon episodes where there's only two of us here. And we apologize. We apologize. Alex has, is currently in a state where he is unable to do the episode. He's quite literally in a opium hole. He is off his face on opiates. He just can't function, so he's not actually going to be here today. Yeah. This is completely...

That is genuinely... Yeah, no, this is... He's had an operation on Tuesday. He's going to obviously talk about it when he's back, but at the moment he's in recovery. And because of, like, the severity of the operation, he's on some pretty crazy... so he's just not functioning

so this might be a bit of an odd episode today because we just haven't had the prep time um that Alex usually has it might be a bit of a shorter one but we will try and we're we're still putting it out there we're still

doing our best you know yeah like when we're faced with dire con circumstances we come through we're like the blazing angel from above We're like a Valkyreary ascending into riding the Pegasus up towards Valhalla, you know. Yeah, we are the, I'm the Pegasus and you're the Valhalla. You're the horse I'm riding.

Yeah, the winged. Horse I'm riding. Before we go any further into this professional podcast, I just want to say a huge, enormous, James, what's another word that means big? Dong. Dong, thank you to the patrons over at patreon.com who make the audio versions of the show possible and...

They do help support the show and this is something I've wanted to mention for a while. It has been quite a long time since we lasted an extra video, you know, movie videos, car videos, whatever it is. It's been a long time since you've done them and there is an actual reason for that. um because you've changed career recently so your schedule has a lot more conflicting with

yeah so the days you would be able to record are now like super busy so we haven't really been able to do any extra videos as of like Alex has been working on a big IHE video so that explains if there's an absence and there's no extra videos going on to Patreon and whatnot but there's going to be changes coming up in the future that will allow a lot more consistent extra videos which is I'm quite I'm excited about but I want to be open about that that we are just very busy boys at the moment

Yeah Yeah and the thing with jar To me is that What it's always been It's like Chill out time Really It's like fun

You don't want to push content Just for the sake of pushing content Because then it's losing jar Yeah In that Yeah And I I have been busy as hell

Yeah I ain't gonna live like a lot of hours in the office sort of thing we've all been on a grind so finding the extra time outside of just personal stuff that's the thing and we can specifically thank one individual

for getting us into this sort of mindset a grind set if you will and that is one um Jamie no no just just just beep that when I say that name we just need to bleep that we don't need to mention him

anymore because oh my god the um the no this this bleeds into something I can actually talk about I just deleted Twitter and Instagram right yes you did

I say just I did this a few days ago you did this a few days ago but didn't actually tell me you did I didn't tell anyone you on these apps to try and organize stuff of you but you wouldn't apply because you deleted them so I was like oh well oh Jamie's just ignoring me then so it's like okay yeah well

because oh no this ties back into the long conversation we had a few episodes ago where we talked about phone yeah like social media addiction yeah

and the thing is the main reason I deleted it was the the stuff the way these algorithms work because they

they figure out one thing about you. Yes, it's that character you have in the cloud or whatever that is... Yeah, well, it might not even be accurate, but if you engage with one thing, it's like a point towards that demographic, that

gloopy section of interests. Yes. So I started getting a lot of like, I feel like it's a common thing for everyone on Instagram is like exercise stuff. Jim Watt.

um yeah body dysmorph your yeah yeah yeah basically and i i assume that has some some stuff to do with like i've bought protein powder and stuff before in protein bars like yeah it all gets put into the online profile that is me but then it it just gets more extreme and then more extreme and then it's like it's just like straight up sexist shit Like, it starts off at innocent, like, oh, if you want to grow a bigger forearm, do this exercise. Yeah, that's... And then after an hour scrolling, you're at, like, just hating on women or, like, hating immigrants or hate... It's like...

It's the pipeline form that masculinity, gym, because it does go that way. And they push it the way... The algorithm... I don't even know how to explain it, but it just wants to lead you there. Well, that's the thing. And I was going to benefit them leading you there. Because it always is showing you new stuff. Like, that's the idea, like, we were talking about it before.

It's trying to constantly entertain you. Yeah. The inevitability is that you're going to see more and more, like, extreme views. Because it's constantly showing you more and more. And what's the stuff that gets, like, the most interesting? interaction it's going to be the shocking yeah the controversial stuff because it's engagement yeah an engagement is money yeah so no matter what you watch it can be something simple as cast stuff at some point it's going to have to bleed you down a controversial line because that's engagement

so into instagram is all about engagement yeah making a tweet there is a bit of a hot take about how elder ring is in new Vegas is just going to get engagement and that's all social media cares about. So yeah, I deleted them. How have you felt since you deleted them? It's weirdly similar to like quitting smoking. Really? Yeah.

Because it's like the habit part. It's like I've sat down with lunch. Get my phone out my pocket. My thumbs are doing this shit. I'm not even thinking about it. And they go to it on my phone where? Instagram and Twitter what my thumbs just take me there and then they're gone because your body wants that dopamine yeah it's just like yeah and it's like used to that that habit and so then

my brain's like oh now what like you got to reprogram yourself to like do different shit but do you not think that if you're getting rid of the high dopamine stuff on Instagram Twitter you know YouTube shorts that type of content is replacing it of just like a 15 minute video any different yes i believe so because when you're scrolling through tic-tock instagram reels youtube shorts blah blah blah it's all this quick like quick fire content yeah stuff that you don't have to focus on for more than five seconds hmm whereas watching an hour and a half eldenbring law video you're having to really focus and even re-watch certain

sections of it and actually engage you know? Because the thing with like my phone use I always think it's what I do when I'm bored so when I've got a time where there's nothing I'm going towards that when it's those moments where I should just kind of be like mindful

if I've got like two minutes why should I just spend those two minutes squalling for garbage when I can just like breathe and just think yeah so it's like if I was trying to get away from I'd want to just remove phony stuff completely to then just be chill in that time

instead of having to get some simulations from it. Yeah, yeah. No, that's actually a really good point because like, this is what I've been doing as well now that I don't have Twitter and Instagram. Like, I will just put my phone down and eat. That's the most important. I think if you want to get away from Twitter, Instagram,

that type of fast content, You just need to just kind of walk away from the phone in general. Because we have phone addiction. We can talk about social media and TikTok and Instagram, but like the constant stuff phones give in general without that is still so unnatural. Yeah. And it's something that I know is a problem for me.

Because it's like I don't spend time chilling or relaxing or just not doing anything. Always got to do something. And that's, I think, it's a worst thing for men. health is not doing not just taking time yeah was it's like a medium thing because i i was saying a couple episodes ago about how like too much free time is detrimental yeah but i think it's more filling that free time with with stuff non-stop when when it comes to like trying to sleep and existing in your own head like you you need to be able to do that you need to have a relationship with yourself.

Yeah. You know? And I think that's more important than the fast content. We're just being funneled. Yeah. But I don't know, we're all just ships at sea learning how to float. Do you know what I mean?

Yeah. On ships that float, have you seen this bloody fucking Ubisoft game? I've seen nothing about it. It's been in like development since like Assassin's Creed Black Flag. Yeah. Because it's just a game based on the ship combat and will not for that game It's like a pirate thing, right?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's fucked, it's so fucked Because Ubisoft seems to be like one of the worst Because we know every game company is like awful But Ubisoft seems to be just the worst Because the games they're making are not even good All the IPs they own are not good No one respects them anymore No, the IPs

And the IPs that people do respect Ubisoft just like No, we'll just like, no, we'll just, put your character in um fortnight sprint a cell you know they have no respect for the cell and people actually like that

but this whole ship game looks shit and it's gonna flop do you think so it's gonna flop bad yeah it's weird because there was an era

where Ubisoft I felt like they were they were finding a new niche that was going in a direction I quite liked when Rainbow 6 was having its heyday and it was like the best era

and then that for honour came out they release a new character for that game really yeah like an Egyptian like warrior but it's like I played that game when it came out and like really fun fun combat system like fun multiplayer the skill ceiling might have been a bit too high for me

but cool idea like really niche specific thing yeah a difference something there's news for the industry A total fresh, like, idea for a combat system, awesome. And then, I guess, Frona didn't do very well, so then they're like, fuck it, let's just make destiny, but Assassin's Creed. That's it. Because Rainbow 6 was a niche, a really, really specific niche in my first-person shooters. Having a five-by-five. Yeah, you have one life.

Less than D to have game mode that is character-based. It's like, but not being, not following the Counter-Strike. of just being a deathmatch. Yeah, yeah. Normal. It was a really specific niche, but they fucked it by trying to monetize that niche. Yeah, too much as possible. And there's so many different micro transactions in it that it just kind of fizzled out.

And I don't even know how it is at the moment, actually. Yeah, I've got no idea. I think it's still surviving, just not. Yeah, it's got a hardcore fan base. But, I mean, because of stuff like that, and even when they do release a good game, they end up like fucking it I don't give a shit by this pirate game no and that that ship sailed

a long time ago everyone wanted that like when black flag came out yeah the 360 early Xbox yeah yeah so why did it take them like 10 years because the internal development is Ubisoft is fucked yeah

is there any games you're all hyped about the moment where because obviously we used to talk often about the games we're consuming the movies we're consuming music. We haven't really done that recently. I feel that's a nice little catch-up on how, what the things are doing in our own time.

In terms of things I'm looking forward to, Eldon Ring has kind of gooned video games. No, I think that's the thing, because right now, Alex is only playing Eldon Ring. He might be opiated out of his face, but he's just Eldon Wing in the entire time. Yeah. It's arguably the best way to play out of Eldon Ring.

Just absolutely smashed on opiates. Just smashed on something, you know. But yeah, I'm still, I've started, I've finished Eldon Ring. You finished it, you fucking. I've not talked about Alderm Ring since finishing it. Um, what, like, because we've talked about it a fair bit, but having finished it and experienced the, the world and the conclusion of the story, I guess, what are your thoughts on it? Because I know that you said to me that you think it's not a Souls game that is,

replayable. Yeah, it's definitely Because it's too big. Yeah, it's not as replayable as Dark Souls 1 Sekaro, which a lot of people would disagree about

because Sekaro doesn't have like the build variety and stuff. But Sekiro, when you know what you're doing, you bomb through that game, get it done in five hours. And that satireing in itself as in being able to speed won it and mastered the gameplay loop.

Yeah, and it's got such like a a skill ladder whereas Eldon Ring it's like some I feel like there's not on if an attack is a question in Sekaro there is an answer yeah

in Eldon Ring and like Dark Souls and stuff it's just like you you give your answer and it might work or might not you know so But, yeah, Eldon Ring has problems, much more towards the end.

Kind of similar to Dark Souls 1 in that regard. Difficulty spike or just like design? Yeah, it feels like a difficulty spike due to the, like, design. The design gets weaker in the last area of the map you unlock. It just isn't as good as the rest of the game. story wise really cool yeah

it's kind of becoming my favorite well from what I've played of it because we I have spent like a whole I put like 26 hours 27 hours into it because we played a fair bit I never did any of it solo

but I played enough of the games I know it and the world hot take I don't I don't get the Souls gameplay I would say it's clunky but I know

know it's like by design to be weighted to be like a skill thing is by having it waited. I just don't, I feel it for my experience with that game in the builds I've done it felt clunky and was unsatisfying at times. But I understand that's the, my, how

I was playing it in my build that made me feel a bit like these hits aren't hitting why. And I could probably spend more time and get better the system. But I can never get hooked to the gameplay. But at the same time I did get hooked to the leveling in the world and the enemies and the design of the whole game.

Cool. Loved it. That's my take on Elderming, but I know it's like a... Yeah, it's a weird thing, because when you're in it, it's like the best Souls game. Yeah. When you're in that first play-through. Afterwards, I mean, the game ends on a very low note.

The final boss is trash. Like, the worst. From Soft Final Boss What makes a good FromSoft Final Boss? Because I've seen the fight Where it's like the first phase

Where he's like a The first phase is cool Yeah The second phase that ruins it But like a good Have you seen the Dark Souls 3 one? No It's just like a duel

Like if it ended where You fight the guy that you do And then he has a second phase And you fight him again that would be cool yeah but the thing you fight is just like frustrating

and it's like attacks that layer on top of each other and it feels like again if it's doing these attacks that you just can't respond to yeah you have to just dodge and then attack the weakness which isn't burning you're just like you can't reliably count on it

on like dodging a certain attack and it working yeah sometimes you will just get fucked and die like immediately and the the damage

numbers towards the end of the game gets really silly as well because like my my vigour was um 60 pretty high really high that's like the soft cap and I was still being killed by shit in like two hits

yeah that just sounds unsatisfying because that takes away from build variety to me. Yeah. Because that means every build needs to have that much figure, you know?

Yeah. Which, I don't know. Would you say, because obviously I've seen that boss, the, I forget her name, but the, let me solo one V Hunt won her?

Yeah, yeah. Would you say she would be a better final boss than the final boss of the game? Because I've seen, having watched gameplay of that boss fight, it's like,

you have to learn her and there's ways to beat her by learning, but it's like a challenge still. So would she be a better? to find a boss for that game instead of having a bullshit high damage silly attacks boss

she feels fairer so in a way yes but also she's like silly hard you know and I because of my build like I discovered that I basically chose the worst build in the game

being like a big big heavy saw shield and incantations, the heavy sword being the bad bit. Because it's like these are bosses, the speed of saccharobosses, like doing these flurried nuts attacks. That's, I, because my build when we played, I was doing a two-handed sword. And that I think I was starting to get frustrated

because there were so many times when I couldn't actually do anything because they're so fast. And there's so much weight to the sort. that being that type of build but you can't do things quickly like dragons yeah how can you quickly have fun fighting a dragon

where you're spending so much time just running to get to a position and they just dodge and you don't hit yeah I thought that was quite frustrating it is frustrating because like I don't think great swords have been have functioned how they really

should since Dark Souls 1 I always use them because I think they're really cool. Yeah. Everyone just wants to be guts. Everyone just wants to be... It's just a bad ass thing. Run around with a big ass sword,

like, crushing shit. But the thing is, you can get, like, the fast weapons, which are twice the speed, like, you can roll way faster, all this,

and the difference in damage is marginal. Yeah, I mean, think of DPS. DPS is what kill his boss is. Doing one hit with that, that spinning move with the heavy sword.

Yeah, does a large amount. damage you're gonna you might hit it once yeah that like there are some mechanics to try and even it out but it just doesn't work like no faster hard-hitting weapons are just going to be better and I think that's a shame because it's like you want to build what you want to do but if you if that build is so it's making the game so much more difficult it's a it's a you have to learn the game before we even start playing it to have fun and I think that's really off-putting

Uh, yeah, they're definitely off-putting games, all of them. But, yeah, I, I'm, I'm definitely not as negative about Eldham Ring as a bunch of people are. You're saying that apparently it's like, there's a, the pensions kind of swung, and the Eldring was considered really good at launch, and then as time when non, people start to realize that it's like not as good as Dark Souls 3 or 1. The amount of video essays and stuff, I've seen that are like, basically after. Joseph Anderson uploaded his Eldon Ring video I started seeing loads of other ones and people starting to to be really negative on it and I really don't see it you know yeah it's you objectively in my opinion if you stand back and look at the game it's like how the fuck did they even make this yes

It's so obscenely huge. It's huge but detailed to like a disgusting degree because I've been watching like countless law videos and stuff and like researching it myself on the on the wiki and like reading descriptions. The law is so cool and it's all backed up by like the world. Yeah. And where you find shit in the world and how that links into the story. it's nuts it's unbelievable what they've accomplished yeah it's actually crazy in the fact

that my PC was able to just run it a decent frame rate and I've got an old I've gotten older PC it's massively impressive for a game that usually are considered quite buggy well the thing like I saw this cringy video the other day that was like

comparing these three games to Eldon Ring and it was like Horizon Forbidden West Red Dead 2 and I think it was Assassin's Creed I think Valhalla The one based in England England Norway

The one in England is the Viking is coming to England Right Maybe There's a Viking one yeah And it was like Wow look at this shit Look at England Look at

Beautiful graphics Yeah Yeah, and then they showed like a puddle in Eldon Ring. But Eldon Ring looks like a fever dream. Yeah. Like in a good way, you know, it's like... No, it's saying a bad way. You think it's ugly?

No, it's in like if it... No, I don't mean it's ugly. It's a beautiful game, but it's like... Eldering reminds me of when I had that horrible flu back last year. that fucking destroyed me for a week it's kind of like that because it's miserable it's fucking horrible

and that's like the appeal of Dark Souls is this it's fucking shit that's the whole thing that's why people like it it's like you hate you ate it

but you love it and it just feels like you in a horrible dream but you kind of like it it's a bit wrong to like it Eldon ring out of all of the from soft games

is the nicest it's like if I had to live in any of these worlds it will be elderly because I could probably just find like a little hill somewhere little hut and just like yeah whereas dark souls it's like no you're just going to be fucking even by dogs

no I think the game is very beautiful and I wish that I had a PC they could actually run on anything above me low yeah all in all it is a masterpiece in my tier list your tier list probably be beneath

Dark Souls 1 and Sakura So it's got like Number 3 third spot It's not bad It's surprising that Sechro is like High that high up Yeah it shocks me

Because I saw when I When Sechro first came out It was like it was such a deviation from The Dark Souls formula Yeah That I was like no this doesn't seem like it could catch on So it's nice to see that it is actually like prized and valued among

the sales community. I don't think it tends to be as much. Bloodborne is normally number one. Yeah, that's the thing. You are not blood born. It's good. I think, but I don't know how you can put number one a game

that can't be played at 60. Yeah. It seems to be the one thing that's like stopping that game from actually being good. Good. It is a good game. It would be interesting because obviously Alex is in the the dark soul was goon hole

that once he's gone back and played one three let's see how he views it because when he finishes elderly wings he'll have to come back to this topic once he's not fucked out of his face on opium yeah we will do and we'll see what um

what he says and with that said we'll see you after these bye bear bear Buy bear bear I do declare Buy bear bear Bear Bear Bear shirts and mug available now

Check the description below Welcome back to the second half of the show Where we head over to Weddip and answer a few questions But before that Because we were just speaking about The Eldon Ring goon law hole I've also been in a bit of

A goon hole And that's the Warhammer 40K goon hole. Oh dear. Yes, but this mainly ties in because there's the upcoming Shark Tank Warhammer Dark Tide that is a

basically a survival hoard game just like Vermin Tide just set in a 40K world. Got delayed to November Oh really? Also I think it's a Microsoft store exclusive now Yeah, it's on the Microsoft Windows. Wait so it's not

to be on Steam. Possibly. I need to confirm that but it's just because I've been in the goon hole and that I find that that world to be one of the most fascinating because obviously like Elder Wing was world was created over a span of a few years for the game. But you know Warhammer's been going on for like 30 years and the law is constantly being added to. It's just like this constant machine that if you want to get in you got like you got to start somewhere. Yeah. And I find that whole world. Would it be possible for you to go back to the beginning? No.

And catch up. No, not really. It's all like tape. It's tabletop is what it started. Like War. Yeah, yeah. So you've got all the adaptions and the novels and then the codexes which changes the book. It's crazy. But then they also fix old law. Because apparently there was some

guy who worked there who had a favourable faction so you'd make them opi in the law. Like fuck up the law and then everyone hated it. So then they knew people that to fix that person's like bias but really fascinating it's like a really cool world and mainly because it kind of ties into the Warhammer fantasy world and that's getting a big big update soon on Warhammer 3 so I'm really hard about that but I've been in a warhammer goon hole and it's been amazing and I'm actually thinking about buying some of the

table top stuff like to color them possibly though I've got I've obviously my shaky hands it would just be like you need to you need to be like you need to be like you need to be like like, mega ripped. Yeah, no, Henry Cavill. Yeah. What was he doing in lockdown? Painting Warhammer. Yeah, and building a PC.

Yeah. Like, because some of the designs of them is just cool. It's just like cool mecks, cool tanks and stuff. I like that. And I do have my favorite faction. So I might indulge a bit and buy some Warhammer stuff. Do you think I would be into it? No.

Why? It's hard to say, because I think you're more of like a fantasy. kind of... But there is like the fantasy... There is, that's like, yeah, there's the fantasy and there's 40K, and the 40K is the space marine, super advanced. Yeah. Are they the same universe?

No. They're different universes that at some point were like kind of teeter to be joined, but they share some, a few things. It's like, it's one thing you want to look into if you fancy playing Dark Tide because then you understand a bit the basics, and it might make the game more understandable. but there's specific law videos coming out in relation to that game

to set up that game but I'm hype for that game because I think Vermintheid was a Vermintheid's really fun it's a fun game had its issues especially of like progression and character builds I think the whole weapon system being basically loot boxes

it kind of killed some of that but with Dark Tide it's like you create your character because it's like this the high the city the big high city is getting fucked up by like a virus and they need prisoners off-world prisoners to come sort out

because they've got nobody else so you create your own character and you create your build from that kind of interesting yeah so I'm kind of very intrigued so with it being delayed it's a bit disappointing but with Warhammer

three immortal empires coming out at least I can get my fix until a dark tide comes up would I like Warhammer the LTS? Possibly not well it depends I know that you've obviously played Siv but with

the RTS Warhammer it's huge because now what Immortal Empires is it's joining the maps and the campaigns of free games

so every faction every leader every army is now joined into this huge map that everyone's fighting so imagine the biggest sieve game

and times that by like 510 huge and it's all warring yeah it's all right it's all like put in your formations

of units and then doing charges and then been doing tactical stuff on that instead of just unit auto kills numbers it's a you've got to you've actually got to work out build chariot armies or

archers and do that stuff it can be quite simple especially if you're playing on like an easy difficulty you can't just go like heavy archers and then just fight and fortify that it took you quite a long time to like I'm still learning that's the thing it's like that kind of game but

when you've got like stacks are like the best units and you can just destroy. It's really fun, it's like that, having a huge dragons and whatnot. But the main thing about War I'm a fantasy is the unit diversity is insane. Like armies of just like old Egyptian, so they're all skeletons and stuff. And then you've got pirates and vampire pirates. And you've got ogres, orcs, dwarfs, elves. Generally, just really cool variety.

Yes, I think that's such a nice appeal because you can, because obviously each army is so different, you have to have different tactics and different units. Otherwise, if you don't learn them, they'll fucking. you up. It's a really good variety and it's just like if you want a game where you will sink like 300 hours into one save. It's like SIV. It's that kind of

that kind of game. But I've talked about it briefly before but I just want to mention that I'm looking to the tabletop because I think you should do it. That'll be cool. Yeah. I just I like the thing of having like memorabilia like on the shelves. It's like like Alex

and Lego is like a nice thing to have. So think about it. I just need... Honestly, I just need more stuff to throw money up. Cars are clearly not enough, bro. Yeah. Yeah. How much were the last wheels you bought?

Hey, here, here. Too much. I bought two wheels and they were close to a grand. That's two. I need fucking four of them work. This year alone, I've spent probably close to 4 to 5K on wheels alone. That is more expensive than the car the wheels are going on. Yeah, it's more expensive than my car.

Yeah. And this is wheels. and I've I haven't got matching sets that fit so I'm literally wanting gold on the front black on the wheel. So the wheels don't even match. It's just like

but don't honestly it's a meme in the car community if it's like it's a meme of like oh don't if you if you're about your kid getting into drugs just make them a car guy because they just won't have money I generally can't buy drugs

I am so like money-inducive of cars never do it. Yeah, they are actually drugs. It's just dopamine non-stop. No. But yeah, don't... If you care about money and having money, don't get into cars. You just don't have any... any time, ever. Smoking's probably cheaper on a monthly basis.

Don't tell people to smoke. No, I'm not saying, I'm not telling the smoke, but... Actually, you know, smoking is more expensive. Stop smoking and buy Nissan's. Life advice. Buy cars. No, that's actually good life advice. Yeah, I did it for you.

Jamie, stop smoking by Seleika. Boom, you got... You did it. But yeah, went that aside. Let's gonna just gonna quickly head over to the... John Media Reddit, so we can... The suggestions, Fred, where you can leave your comment that could get answered by someone.

If you leave a really good comment, Alex won't answer it because it's too good. He only likes replying to ones that he can have fun with. I mean, I like that. We like being real. We like not having fun. Yeah, we like... you like being miserable, hence probably like Eldermain.

And New Vegas. Bro, I could talk about New Vegas all day. Just the other week, actually. Now we're going on to this subject. Just the other week, I was thinking back to the DLC of New Vegas. Because obviously, you played, you started the main game. But the best of New Vegas is not the main game. It's the DLCs being Dead Money and Old World Blues.

Because one super story focused Old World, Dead Money, atmosphere, just a lovely slice of just story world and then Old World Blues is just like fun. They're so... Dead Money might be one of my favorite media ever.

Because, and I think this is entirely because of how I experienced it. Because my first play-through of New Vegas was the ultimate edition with all the DLC. Right, yeah. So I was just like, oh, let's do the DLC. Dead Money is actually quite

hard d orc because you start you lose all your gear and you just got kind of start in this area like the enemy is quite difficult and i was on a pretty hard difficulty level six so severely under level for the you know i just did the dlc and got fucked yeah and i was doing this at like two in the morning so it was like spooky yeah really difficult there's something magical when when you are younger playing video games and doing shit a bit wrong yeah and just doing it your way. Yeah. It makes more unique memories because it's like other people would have done it the right way. But my fucked up way of doing it made it better for me. Yeah. And it makes it a story in itself. Yeah. You know. Playing dead money while underlevels scared the shit out of me.

She was like, oh, I'm going to want through this abandoned ghost village, but I can't see, get seen because I'll get instigled. Yeah. While I was like a kid generally scared. Yeah. Yeah. Dead money. Play dead money on the hardest supercality severely under level and it's a great time But don't get New Vegas because it sucks Yeah don't play New Vegas because Saying you like New Vegas is a wed flag Really? Explain

I like New Vegas, bro That's all we need to say No because it's like the meme of when you start talking to someone about New Vegas they just won't fucking stop talking about New Vegas Any opportunity is like New Vegas? Yeah Well I feel like saying you like

Dark Souls is a red flag Yeah no that's the thing That's what I'm saying Elder Wing is just dark New Vegas Yeah If you just start If you mention either of them To a fan it's just like

Yeah you just start going Yeah you don't stop You can't catch yourself Yeah So okay in this way What is If Fallout 4 is like the The worst fallout

What is the Fallout 4 in the Souls? Dark Souls 2. It's Dark Souls 2. Dark Souls 2 is trash. I don't get it though. I've said it, like, it's bad. The thing is, people don't say it's good.

Because people clearly say any Fallout 4 is good. Fallout 4 is so... Fallout 4 is worse than Fallout 3. Fallout 4 is one of the worst RPGs ever. No, though, come on. not worse than Fallout 3. No, no. The thing is, is the gameplay in Fallout 4 is no difference to Fallout 3,

but it's actually worse because VATS doesn't work. VATS is useless, and the gunplay is the same. The gunplay is better. It's not. It genuinely isn't. It just looks nicer, so you think it's better. No, it's, it, like, makes more sense. It's like Assassin's Creed, like, Black Flag to Unity.

Unity's shit, but it looks a bit better, but it's not better, it just looks better. So it's shit. But Unity does have better combat than Black Flag. It does. I'm not even going to love it. Black Flag is terrible, but the boat shit is awesome. I was actually really disappointed with Black Flag when it came up

because you could only have the two default weapons. You couldn't change your arsenal, and I found that like a backward step for Assassin's Grid. That's right, isn't it? You had to like use dual swords. Tom walks, is it? No, the dual sword, yeah. Yeah, it was the swords. Hmm.

Yeah, I thought that was a step backwards. Yeah. Because they were kind of going with something pretty good up until that way. Yeah, they always had like a bit of variety and shit and it was cool, but... Okay, back to Fallout 4. Yeah, the best Fallout game.

It's not the best Fallout game. It's the shittest Fallout game because the bolts on the wrong fucking side. I've said this so much. So much. You can't play a first-person shooter and the bolts on the fucking left. I don't, bro, this must be like a

autism thing because I don't know why but it's like, it feels me of such fucking rage I can't play that game because it's like the best weapon in fallout is always that gun like consistently the best Yeah, about action rifle You get it early on and it is just old reliable

Mm-hmm When you're getting it early on and it's the wrong fucking I can't It fucking hurts me so much But like it It doesn't make sense but it doesn't make sense but then they also have to animate it and it's like you're

just highlighting why it's on the wrong side yeah it's clunky it's like the animation looks fucked yeah and it's like when you're aiming at guys in the distance on the roof whatever the waders and it's like you shoot one and it's just like it's like your hands going into your screen and it shouldn't it should just be like a quick well yeah and like why would you have it so you're pulling towards your face And then the shell is coming out in front of, like... What was the actual design choice? You're making a first-person shooter.

Surely someone in the design team knows something about guns. We're talking about America. Someone, one of them must have a little bit of experience and can just say, why are you doing this? This is stupid. So why did it end up in the final product? Why did it ship like that? Black Ops 3 or 4 had a gun like this as well

Was it like one of those big Craver Like heavy bat like Yeah And it was just like a straight pull That but again For it kind of would work in Cod Because it's a fast-paced game So it's not gonna

Yeah It's dumb but I guess it's probably better suit to Cod than it's full But it's just like a weird thing You never used to see it No Why are they doing this now It's like, are they so devoid of, uh, because fallout is obviously based in a universe that's like different to ours.

They're stuck in like the 1950s or whatever. The hunting one for the New Vegas and Fallout Free was white. So why they suddenly just not being fallout four? Yeah, I'm not justifying it, but I'm saying like, just because the universe is different, why, like, why would this thing change? Yeah, it wouldn't. When they've established in the previous games that it is the same as our...

I generally think it was like a trailer thing. It's like, oh, look, we've just shot this in the trailer, look all this animation. Because Fallout's never had super... Super good animations. They were quite sloppy. They were pretty bad, to be honest. But they worked. Yeah, I mean...

But they were obviously trying to show Fallout Forward is massively improved, smooth Fallout experience. So they needed this silly little animation that was on screen in their trailer. but it just make the game worse. It is the fallout four problem. Yeah. If that game didn't have that, I think I would have probably finished it.

I've tried that game eight, nine times. I get to the point of having that main weapon and trying to explore deeper, and it's just like, no. It's like a poison band Dark Souls. It's like every time I shoot it, it slowly increases into it's like, that's it wage quit, deleted.

And then like two weeks later, I'd go back and do the same thing. Last time I played Fallout 4, I was playing it on PC, on my current PC. Yep. And I reached the city. Oh yeah, the main, yeah. And, you know, the super mutants that just run at you with a nuke?

Yeah. And blow up. I get to the city, one of them started running towards me. Suddenly, tanks to like two FPS. legit it's like a slideshow but then once it did that like all the resolution would go totally fucked like obviously I could barely play because it was one FPS and then getting off the game was a challenge because like you pause it and it stays like it but ever since I reached

that point in that save like I I had to load saves before getting to the city then it'll be fine but if I was at the city 1 FPS and then you'd go into the city and leave 1 FPS for the rest of the game This is really poorly optimized On your specific combination of like software Hardware

Yeah it's just a crap game Which is a shame because I've heard 4L4 actually had good DLCs I played one of them and it was pretty shit Far Harbor Yeah I think it was the new Coca-Cola world one That was like oh they've actually added a bunch of

of stuff that's actually good. Like, options that were actually character-driven. Yeah, I think I played that one a bit. I've heard that that's, like, the one that kind of improved a few things. But then it's, like, too late. I'd already given up on that game by then. Maybe you could say the same about New Vegas. And if you do, I tell you're wrong.

So we do, like, three questions then. Okay, no, there is actually one that is for you, specifically for you. Give me a sec, let me find it. Does Jamie have tattoos on both of his wrists? They're like three little wings in a row. By seven... You have you.

You've actually got your first tattoo. You popped your tattoo... Cherry. Yeah. Yes, I do. They're from Star Wars. Yes, isn't it Leia? No, it's Chewbacca.

It's an Easter egg that most people don't know, but under Chewbacca's fur, if he were to be shaven, he'd have these little chains to represent his time when he was captured and forced to mine in Cacheke.

I didn't know that Lord George Lucas must have written that in like, um... Yeah, he wrote it in like 1990. Yeah, when he was thinking of the prequels he was like, um, yeah, I think Chewbac needs to give Chewbacca some extra fucking flesh. He needs to be lit. Chewbacca wasn't lit enough, so we need to add some lit.

Yeah, he needs an additional litness. So, yeah, that's Jamie's tattoo, Star Wars reference, quite cool. Ngha. Ngha. Gop. Gop. Oh no, this is one from Net Newt. Hey, Mingers, I've recently discovered a love for watching Twitch recently

and was wondering why we haven't seen many live gooning sessions from you guys. Understood if it is too much. much overhead as I can imagine a schedule like that would be more intense. Thanks for the last and game on. This is something we've actually discussed before. Yeah. We discuss it like every time we play video games. We do because we game together and we have had a setup before we've basically

gamed in the same one. It's like the perfect Twitch set up. And every time, it's something I'd love to do, but when you try to be funny knowing you've got an audience watching, it can kind of take away. the charm and the actual natural chemistry you can have it's like you're trying to be funny you're trying to create little laughs and conversations and you're not going to get those conversations because you're trying to like last time when we're playing apex we played apex at one in the morning just you know drinking having fun really good great just funny exciting

good game good game moments yeah but that would not happen if we were twitching yeah and i don't Twitch to know like what people even I mean when I say I don't watch enough Twitch I don't watch Twitch Yeah I and I would say I watch Twitch but I wouldn't say I watch Twitch Because it's not Twitch content

I watch Alexei Noriaro He's just doing like he's walking out of A car show in Japan That's not Twitch content That's like super nichey That's not sitting on your computer watching the next episode of Simpsons With 15 million people watching you

Like, I don't understand Twitch meta. Yeah, I don't. I think Twitch has kind of be a little bit silly. And I don't think it's... I'd be, like, happy to do it every now and again, sort of thing. But the thing, my worry is that, especially if you're drinking, because I think a lot, with a lot of gaming, especially Twitching, people drink. Alcohol's super common in that sphere.

I don't know what I'm going to say. I would just be worried that I might slip out and say something that's a bit oopsie Yeah Because I'm just trying to use now Now more that like It's that thing where you're thinking so much

About because Ordinarily you're playing a video game You're not thinking about what you're saying You're just whatever You're just doing Whereas You're on Twitch You're thinking about everything you say

Before you say it right? and because you're doing that you're putting in your head the things not to say so then when you drink Freudian slip your brain is saying don't say this this and this

and it's like oh I just said this this and this out loud yeah and there's obviously really obvious situations thinking about not saying it like obviously the infamous poodipai yeah like it's not worth the whisk

it wouldn't surprise me if it was a case like that where his brain was like, don't say this word like you're streaming to like a million people. Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it, don't say it, don't say it, instant reaction, say it. Obviously, I'm not going to say it, I'm not saying that word ever. Don't use it, even in gaming.

But it's like when you're streaming with probably alcohol, I don't want to take that whisk. Jam says just the worst shit off game. No, I don't. I'm like the most gentle, like, most gentle person ever. I never say anything... In a problematic way? No.

I'm not problematic. Honestly, the problem... The problematic people are people who hate everything. He really just went and said it... He's out hit no bit honestly, bro. He's the only one that's actually been cancelled. He said that everyone should be a feminist and got cancelled, my God, yeah. That was the cringiest shit.

Oh my God. I can't believe he said that. Can you imagine? Yeah, imagine wanting to be a feminist. Can you imagine wanting to be an SJW? Yeah, social justice, wankers. Weigh. Alex, please cut this out on editing. So we've got a question here from Blindscape.

Question for Beast and James. Are either the members of or in an industry that gives you... Okay, that's one question. It was a saying about unions. because at the moment, at the moment in the UK, there's a lot of stuff about unions. A lot of people are striking because with the cost of living crisis,

a lot of people are now struggling because there's a lot of industries, but they're just underpaying. So striking, well, weigh, a few other things, and I'm obviously completely in support of that. Pay people a fucking living wage. No, no, there's no, there's no, you can't say anything about that, just fucking do it.

Actually, no, pay them better than a living wage. Yeah. Pay them double living wage. Pay them three living away. Just take away from the Tory party and pay the people actually won the fucking country. Yeah, like me. Yeah, me and Jamie. Fund all of the Tory money to me and Jamie.

Yeah, I want a 200k apartment renovation. Is that all you're going to do with your Tory money, right? Come on, aim bigger. They're paying for us, bro. We can have more. And maybe a couple trips on my private jet. Yes, yes, now we're thinking, now we're getting into the duty part. It's a Tesco.

No, I'm going to get some like, um, kangaroo meat flown exclusively over from Australia. Oh, wow. In a Vulcan bomber, so it needs like 15 refueling stops on the way. So it's going to cross like millions. Now, just honestly, just send me live kangaroos. Um, this is a quick one for me, which is, um, Will James turn his prized lull into an attachica? and that's by the only dick pisser yes

I want so we've talked briefly about Attasha before and obviously Atasha is the art of basically rapping your kana fucking an anime girl Oh yeah And I wouldn't do an anime girl That's the thing I do something different

But having a big character of some kind Homer Simpson They are like genuine Homer Simpson is a genuine choice for people but no I'm thinking about it I just there's you want kind of many builds of cars and you want many cars

of different things and I don't think my current car is the Attasha car but it probably could be what character would you do oh that's a secret I know Walter white maybe the Saku drive van car

just a Saku drive on the side I had a question But I forgot it He he They're written down, bro I'm trying to find it Hey guys So what's your thoughts on like Alex

Um Faker Yeah He fakes He fakes getting hurt all the time So then he can be like Oh doctor I really need some opium Doctor I fell down the stairs

Because my dog chipped me up Can I have some Cocaine, please. Coding, please. He owns a little pig now, though. He doesn't own a little pig. He does. Does he?

I don't know. So you've got a question here from Booth Pie 3-944. Who? Booth Pie 3-9-44. Go on, say it one more. Booth-Py-9-44. Hey, gyr-lads, I've been listening since that episode Alex did by himself. and I've got to say, you guys always biting up my Mondays.

Thank you very much. That's sounding really sarcastic. I've recently had to change my job. I'm going from a retail worker to a full-time auto mechanic. Do you guys have any advice on how to handle such a shift in career? Have you guys ever had a shift changing your line of work too? Love you guys and thanks for the fun times. I think we, especially me, have had loads of experience in that line

because I've bounced around a lot. I've bounced around a bit as well. And you've had a career change recently as well, as we both have this year. Yeah. And it's like, at this point to me, it really doesn't phase me. It's a thing where like once you know that, because the thing that happens with jobs is for the first, depending on the job, the first week or the first month or the first couple months or the first couple weeks will be like, you learning the new stuff

and it can feel quite a lot it's overwhelming because it's a big change but also quite exciting because it's like it feels like fresh every day but then you are always going to get into that thing where it's like you've got it now you've figured it out and then it's just routine I think one of the big things is

especially the career change is knowing yourself is knowing what you're capable of and that Yeah. Especially if career changes, you should never be intimidated to try a career change. I have and it's worked out really well. And it's just because I was like, no, James, I've got this. I can do this. And it's worked out really well.

But you need to know that when you first get any change in career, they're not going to expect you 100%. That they know most employers are not going to know it might take a little bit for you to just fully adapt. Not everyone is going to have instant adapt and be 100%. and it's just knowing that you need to be willing to learn and willing to have her changes and improve and as long as you're willing to do that and acknowledge that you'll smash any career change that you need to

yeah yeah just don't walk in there acting like you know everything yeah you know you got to ground yourself and go in there to learn and be better that's yeah that's the best way to approach it and it will work out and trust me on that fan. I'm like experienced on it, man. Okay, should we talk about Augie?

Or is that our not ours to tell? People are getting angry. They're actually doxing me. My dress is here where I work. They're getting angry at me. What do you do? No, fuck him. Yeah, Aggie's dead.

Augie! Augie! Yeah, where is he? He's dead. You'd hear him barking. Yeah, if he was here, he'd bark. And he'd be doing his... He's dead and Jesus killed him. Yeah. Honestly,

they never found that guy from Goodfellers' his body. That's all I'm saying. And I'm talking about the character in Goodfellas. He's based on the real character. The real person who disappeared because he kind of was a twat. And the mafia were like, nah, we're going to whack you.

We whacked Argy off. Mommy makes me mash my m'em's. Mommy makes me mash my m'em's. Mommy me mash my M'em'em. Mommy makes me mashed my M in end. Mommy makes me mash my M in m's.