JAR Media Posdact - Gamers. Always. WIN.

Episode Date: November 3, 2025

https://www.patreon.com/jarmedia Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 19:43 Housekeeping 25:00 Gamers Always Win. 32:59 Mid Break 33:59 Question Segment: Halo Campaign Evolved 44:11 The Throwaway JARling #BroCastS6E1

So if we say, it has to be beeped. I'll take it out, yeah. Thiel. I'll call him like that guy or something. Yeah, the one. The one. Worst Halloween ever, man. Worst Halloween ever.

So my experience with Halloween was I was sat on the circle line. in uh in london that been delayed for like half an hour um and i get on the circle line and who's he's fucking sat just across the way they're like a joker with like fake tattoos like ha ha ha and shit and like he looked like he was trying to be all that you know trying to be hot and stuff and um the only way i survive getting into london every time is like i get a four pack of kronenberg and just like slam him on the yeah and people watch yeah yeah yeah and um there's like another story to mention about it but um

uh yeah i i just i was like four cans in at this point so i'm like i'm cut um and i just keep like finding myself like staring at him oh you don't want to look someone in the eyes in london bad idea no but it's the joker i so i'm feeling like batman i'm it's what he wants yeah no but he's like it's halloween obviously and i'm staring at him with this face like

you know you know when now i'm hank knows that walt to White's Heisenberg. Yeah. The way he looks at him. I'm looking like that on the train, just glaring at this guy. And if he ever, like, locked eyes with me,

like, he'd be like, that's the real joke. Yeah, yeah. I start laughing. People are just pissed off. Joker people. Joker costume people. But it's like, dude,

why, like, you're doing the Joker. You're dancing with cringe already. Why do the fake? tattoos. Why do the like Jared Letto? He was a Jared Letto fan. Yeah, but like then, oh. Yeah, people are just like pissed off in London.

Yeah, and the, well, I'm one of them the second I can get there. Yeah, it's infectious. But the time before that I went, um, I was like on my way to Paddington on the train. Um, and I'm again, drinking my cans of beer.

Mm-hmm. Um, and early on, this guy was like sat near me and he was like, he was bald he was um like growing a little bit of a gut um watching something on his phone and like kind of like falling asleep every now and then i i hear like a and he's he's pumping beers he's doing the same thing on the same journey just like just there and then we we eventually get to paddington you know i've been watching like eldon ring videos while drinking beers on the way

um we get there um i stand up and i'm like waiting in line right by this guy who's now rolling like a fuck and um he like taps me on the arm and then passes me one of his cans he doesn't want and i yeah and i take it and he he's just like nodding he just nods at me yeah and i'm like is this me from the future where because like he was just me but like 35 years old uh-huh that's crazy and and then um i was like i had this massive smile on my face and i'm like you know what maybe london ain't so bad and then he like fist bumps me and shit And I was like, hell yeah. Hell yeah.

Why had, um... Unite, you know. Because we were both having, like, our own sitcom experience in different parts of London on Halloween night, right? Yeah, it was like GTA 5, like, switching between the characters. Yeah, I was in, like, the central part, like, by Charing Cross. And there were people dressed up in scary costumes, like, just jump-scaring random people. That's a fucking asshole thing, too.

And I feel, like, dangerous as fuck. So, like, someone jumps scares someone in front of me, who then I have to move out of the way from, which then makes me bump into another guy behind me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who was, like, then thought I was, like, trying to attack him or something. Oh, for fuck. And then he kept going like, oh, like, what the? And then he walked in front of me faster, then, like, stopped and was like, how do you like it? How do you like it?

It's like, what the fuck, man? I just like ignore it I feel like that's the best strategy because I feel like they're just drunk and want to just Yeah they want it to get like bigger They want to clash Yeah

So that was like a Like right as you arrive That happens Yeah It's like setting up London fucking sucks Yeah fuck that town man I hate that fucking city

It's shit man Worst city on the planet No that's worse But it's the shitter city in the country yeah i just don't like it it's got like some hidden gems i guess but holy fuck like just being there

it's it's it's genuinely like soul um like it's soul sucking it because there is like a default programming in the UK where it's like yeah i'm i'm in london

I've succeeded the end yeah yeah like you haven't succeeded until you've like made it there made it to london yeah but it just feels like a mass delusion. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, no, the only way to get there is to be, like, a bad person. You have to be so ridiculously rich.

Everything is so expensive there. It's crazy. Yeah. No, to be there and be, like, and to own something. You have to be a bad person. I believe that. Oh, um, oh, Andrew. The, uh, the artist formerly known as Prince Andrew,

now just Andrew. Have you seen his middle name? No. Search, um, search it. Cause it like, it's, oh man. Oh, Mountbatten. Mountbatten, Mountbatten, Windsor. Okay.

And they're saying, he's saying he didn't do anything dastedly with Epstein. Like, read your name. Is that, oh, that's not like a Battenberg. You don't eat, you don't eat a Mountbatten. They suck. Mount Battenberg fucking, are they the like four, Squares. All right.

It's just like a raw family's factoid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And every time I'm like going into London, um, like I'm looking at the, the like skyscrapers and stuff. And like, jaded,

immediately jaded. Yeah. Immediately jaded. Uh-huh. Yeah. It's like, well, I can just go chill out with a, with a drink.

It's like a 17-pound cocktail. Yeah. I'll have an old fashion, please. That'll be, uh, 55 pounds. Yeah. Okay, well, no, I'll just have a beer. Okay, that's, uh, 15 pounds then. But, huh?

Yeah. It's cooked. It's genuinely so cooked. It's like, who's that city for? I don't know. Who the fuck is it actually for? I don't know. I'm sure there are some Londoners listening who can inform us.

Yeah, well. I'd be very surprised if, if anyone who's listening right now, owns somewhere in london yeah oh yeah um this i just i don't know it's got such a weird energy because i kind of like visiting there for like a day but then i've i've got to like recharge yeah it's like what it was weighing me down well or like the bank account is just so empty yeah you're suddenly like you just find yourself in the streets with all the rest of the the homeless people and it's just like spare change you start selling big issue because like you just yeah you have no other option so it's our

capital yeah i hate it i hate i hate that city and it makes me hate this country capital l yeah it is capital l i tell yeah nice that was that was cool the way you did that nice no worries yeah no worries so yeah there are plenty of things that made it an awful Halloween yeah not just that it was spent in london I guess. Yeah. Um Yeah.

Yeah, like what's the order of things? I guess we should probably start with like an intro. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So good, us, new morning, evening or night, ladies and gentlemen. It's been a crazy few days. I'm Alex, joined by Jim. I think so, yeah.

Yeah. And before we get too deep into the show, let me shout out the job. your patrons over at the Patreon to make the show an audio version possible. You get the raw, unfiltered MP3 ad free every goddamn week.

We're on kind of a call-off period after the last month because I don't even yeah. Yeah, let's not even, yeah. We're, you know, ever-changing. Experimental in sorts.

Yeah, experimental, but Kind of like, Tame Impala, we never want to be doing the same thing always, you know. So the last month was kind of like Tame Impala's new album that everyone loves. Last month was Currents. This month is going to be the new one. Oh, no, okay. Yeah. Right.

So we're going to be a bit like Dracula. Yeah, like Halloween. Yeah. Be babadoo like Dracula. Yeah. But going back to the patron perks. Yeah. You get your names right out in the first or second week of each month.

I'm going to assume that's going to be next episode. Because of just how busy things have been around here. Last but not least, I should know there's two more things. After Hours on Patreon, the supplementary after show. It's been just constantly on fire. Outside of the last month, which had some goodies, we read Smile Dogg.jpg.jepag. Did you get the message I sent you earlier?

I just haven't been looking at me. Where's your phone? My phone. Is it not nearby? It's in my pocket. Yeah, can you just whip that out? Just whip it out quick. If you sent me smile dog, I'm going to, like,

why would you pass on that crime to me? Now I'm going to see it and I have dreams. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's crazy. Do you want to track out that video click as well? It's not loud. It's just Halo videos. Oh my god

Did you just naturally get that in your algorithm? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's most of what I get. Like that exact type of thing. A what? The reincarnation? What, that dog? Did you not see the caption? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Bro is someone's reincarnated grandpa. but i didn't even read that oh i thought that's why you sent it no what the fact that's what i meant about the algorithm thing what the fuck that's fucking creepy you seriously didn't i did i genuinely didn't i was watching shit on the train back so like i've only got back today from london what the fuck that's crazy jesus okay um i guess we can touch on that in a moment um although it seems like whatever i said the perks yeah outside of one there was the jar media group chat which um i'll shout out on housekeeping shortly but i don't know

do you want to put a pause on that and just continue where we were just go through the worst day ever yeah yeah so i don't know where where do you start um I guess the grandpa thing. Yeah. Well, I mean, the day, like, started awful, right? Like, the morning was nice. Yeah, like, moving stuff around. Yeah.

Paisy and Agi got, went to the groomers and got a trim. That was funny. Yeah, and I, like, popped into the groomers and saw Argi, like, on the table getting trimmed, and that was, like, really funny. And he, like, I've never seen it. He's like, let me out. Let me out. Come on, let's go, let's go.

Because he's just freaking. and his eyes are like bulging out of his head come on let's go let's go and then I was like yeah see you later see you like a boy and then just walk off and like we drive away and you see him in like

the rear view mirror of the car and he's like huh yeah no hold up where are you going that's my that's my ride so yeah that all that was funny but then like you you had like plans for like a

Halloween party in London and stuff yeah so i was on i was like on the tube traveling yeah i to the heart uh-huh um and then i'm doing stuff with our parents um and then my mom rushes off because because granddad he's been in a bad way for a while let's be real um yeah he's been on a steady decline like he is for like a decade to be frank yeah because um to type back to like jar stuff he's he was the owner of Max. He's the reason we have Max for that period of time.

I told the whole anecdote I must be a multiple years ago now of the whole like funeral they went to. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, because like not the healthiest lifestyle. No, I still live to like

a ripe old age. 86. That's way above like your average. That's some, yeah, incredible really. But yeah, long story short, he passed on that day when you were you still traveling into London for the party I hadn't looked at my phone for at least half an hour I think after you sent the messages yeah I hadn't

I just I think I transit not looking yeah and I sent the messages and you must have been like out of a 4G zone yeah it didn't it didn't like get delivered for ages and then you received it. Yeah, I was just going to, moving to the overground or something and then got notifications and saw the text you sent me. I was like, oh no. For obvious reasons, but also just like, I'm in a social situation now. Well, ideally, I just felt like I probably, I can't put on like a performance face or

whatever like I wanted to leave but um yeah had all these like plans that have been in motion for like ages I was dressed like Dexter Morgan and it was just like crazy yeah and obviously like it's Halloween yeah it's Halloween it was Halloween day um so I think that's kind of a base day to like it's memorable yeah yeah do you think he was like waiting he's he was like a Halloween fan the whole time it's like maybe made it happen yeah I've done it how he felt about scary things actually that's true i he told lots of scary stories so war stories yeah he loved the war story um but yeah the the like the like it it it kind of felt like the like a movie uh you know um but like what yeah i just didn't know what to do it's like

Well, I'm in, like, the middle of London. Yeah. I, like, called up our mum to, like, check on her or whatever. Yeah, and when she talked to me, she was, like, already driving there. So, like, I couldn't, like, comfort her because it's her dad. Yeah, and it's kind of, like, what do you do? And me and my dad, me and our dad, were, like, building a wardrobe. So it was, like, I guess we'll just keep building the wardrobe.

You just have this feeling like you need to do something more, even if there isn't necessarily anything to do. It's weird. Yeah, it's very strange. It's a new one for me, so. So yeah, I then proceeded to drink too much and just, yeah, I can't remember much after that point. Literally, like, like that. From what I'm told, um, yeah. Straight up, blackout.

Yeah, I don't like it. It's only happened to me like a couple of the times. Yeah, I've had it twice. I think it sucks. Wouldn't recommend. No, it's really not fun. It's incredibly anxiety-inducing. The next day, it wouldn't let you...

And you got to, like, piece together what's happened. No clue what's happened. Yeah. And you're being told stories about things you've said. and things you've done and it's like I don't what I did that I didn't yeah yeah saying that

Nick's the first time I ever blacked out was at like the staff party of one of my first jobs and I had to work the following day and I was very ill obviously from it yeah and I just remember like everyone being like oh look who it is

and I'm like what did I do? Yeah yeah everyone knows apart from you what you did and that's like the yeah I remember vom like I I'd blacked out and then come back like my soul came back to my body yeah yeah and uh yeah that was crazy so then I was out of the picture blacked out someone else broke their ankle because there was like

a step that like was invisible so I wasn't even present for that but that happened and just kept going you know yeah Halloween curse just spreading throughout the night see I actually had quite a nice evening yeah I just went and had like nachos um and like burrito my partner made

oh yeah yeah yeah that does sound good it was lovely it was lovely yeah a couple beers listen to some um Al green that was it a couple beers couple cheers couple spooks yeah so all things considered

my evening went quite a bit better than yours yeah yeah so I'm still reeling a little bit second day hangover I don't think it's quite that far I think it's more just I don't know just being tired tired yeah yeah yeah no that makes sense because also when you sleep when you're that drunk it's like fake sleep yeah doesn't refresh doesn't energize one bit no it's nasty it's nasty so um let's do

some housekeeping there when we kind of round up some of the stuff from the last week. I'm going to grab this one from the JAR Media Group Chat from Cynthia Ditchburn. The smile dog dot reading might be one of the best Jaffter hours episodes in decades for all the decades jaffer hours has been going. Can we expect more epic creepy pasta readings on the horizon? Maybe an SCP article and a dot EXE or two? Perhaps even a reading of the Christmas character. for next month bear bear i'm way down for um have you read like sCP no i've read a few there's some really good ones um i think it's quite creative and interesting yeah yeah yeah no i'd be way down

for that that's a cool idea yeah it's a good idea but i think next if we do do one um it won't be this week but uh sonic dot e xe okay i like the sound of that right it has to be done yeah yeah um Perfect What? Beat that. I've got to fucking beat that shit now, man. Oh, it's a somber feeling When that month is over

Yeah, that's what we're in mourning Yeah I can't actually read that one Because People are mentioning that guy Oh shit And we had an agreement Before we started recording

About what to do about that guy Well can you read it And just like Kind of in a roundabout way Or do we just need to like move on Um Just move past six We can't be hanging about it

You know Well Nackyl Nain-0 said Not tuned in since July What the fuck is happening That's normal Um Yeah there's nothing that crazy

About it Um Blakity Boop said I love that the Jalcast is so weird after all these years, damn near 10 years since it's been made and it continues to be so stupid. What do you mean? Do you know what I think is more stupid than like, um, the Jarkust?

What? You know that, like, guy who interviews, like, people? Like, what? The guy, the British guy. What's his name? Um, he's got, like, kind of a buzz cut. Benson Boone? No.

He's a singer. He's like a British, like, kind of work set, grind set type guy. Diary of a CEO? No, not that guy. The one with, like, a buzz cut and, like, stably... Oh, I know who you mean. That guy. He's quite handsome.

I think I know. His podcast is stupider than Jarkast. Why? Because he'll get some, like... I need to know, like, who you mean exactly. Yeah. but he'll have some some quote from like um like a like a meme that's a pit bull with boxing gloves on and yeah a rip pit bull and it's like a quote from that that he reads and it's like yeah that's proper like

was it the one that went on about how he had a conversation with AI that made him like a new realisation about his life I don't know I don't watch his podcast I watched one of them that he did with that other British guy who does the philosophy

is it this guy Alex O'Connor no not that guy that's a doctor that's um everyone turned on him all of a sudden he was the one who had the AI thing I was saying about

oh really? Yeah he's like um he's doctor Dr. Alex or something. He looks like a proper meatloaf. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't know.

He's a war character. Yeah, he does. He totally does. He's Dom's fucking mum. I don't know. I don't know how you find him. Yeah, I don't know. But yeah, he worked to like a nightclub.

He like owned a bunch of nightclubs. And like all of his shit is like, well uh weak men make a weak society and then and then you need strong men it's like is he the one that had nick wences on recently i think he may have no that's um that's that fucking scammer guy the right wing scammer guy which one he's also like a business he's like a ryan or something yeah yeah oh my god i do i feel like that's a rabbit hole to even start going down that shit yeah the real cancel culture is going to cancel us the real cancel culture being um right wingers

love cancel culture way more than it yeah way fucking more yeah i need to catch up on south park speaking of um but like i've only got one kind of low-key topic yeah um that i just thought was kind of interesting um is this the one no this is going to be like it's not definitely not there um here it is yeah this pew research that has been done right poo research yeah p o o research center i mean p w pew pew pew pew teens and video games today 85% of US teens say they play video games How about 4 and 10 do so daily

Hell yeah Isn't that like crazy It feels like It feels like everyone wearing Thanos t-shirts That same energy, you know It's like what the fuck Yeah If you're a little bit older

Everyone's the joker now Everyone loves the Joker Yeah I saw a meme like Where everyone was sharing their local Joker guy's Joker band Because there's everywhere just has them I guess

So it's like a thread of every Every local area's Joker van That rocks Um Because there's a pretty pretty epic one around here It's like a huge van Yeah yeah And even the

There was the Chucky Mobile Yeah which um Which has been re-designed Joker themed Is it? One side it's Harley One side it's this joker nice well once there was one that was like heath um jarrid yeah that's the big van yeah yeah yeah

yeah that's all the different yeah actually had Jared's a joker on it yeah um that is crazy yeah 80% but in like to what capacity you know fortnight fortnight and like FIFA and stuff yeah yeah it would include all of that yeah so like do you know what i mean there's like being a gamer and then there's like being normal yeah uh-huh but now being a gamer is being normal yeah but you're not a gamer if you play fita not no you're not you're not you're not a gamer if you like exclusively play pha but what have you exclusive exclusively play eldom ring you're a gamer right it's all about the gamer crud do you know what i mean uh yeah you need like more gamer it's it's it's it's

find out of that one game like a FIFA but you need to be like jumping around a little bit yeah yeah you need to dip dip dab into like other bits yeah you know like it's like uh like you're not into movies if you just watch like i don't know the odd romcom you know yeah or like you're not like a cenophile if if you watch BBC news do you know what I mean I do know what you mean. You're not, um, you're not, uh, uh, you're not a, um, a boxer if you like get into just random street fights. Do you know what I mean? So what is like the, what is the list of gamer crowd games where like you, you instantly get respect?

You instantly become a gamer. You instantly reek. Wait, you finished. Yeah. Really? Um, I feel like. most Zelda games you reckon

even the like DS train train builder no not them whatever that is most like non portable console if it's the switch portable console then that's a big gaming blind spot for me

I've never played I've played just a bit of yeah yeah but it's not that or nothing you know um Eldon ring like Dark Souls any from game I feel like Secker is a big one Sacro, out of all the From games, probably gets you the most game-acred at IMO.

That and the original Dark Souls 1? Yes. Yeah. Agreed. Uh-huh. What else is an important game-a-cred game? Like, portal? Yeah, Half-Life Portal.

Anything Valve, really. Not Counter-Strike. Not Cod, not Battlefield. You've got to put some hours into Minecraft. yeah you know yeah no no no because if you like if you're a kid and you play Minecraft a bit like that doesn't you're not like a you don't have the B.O. yeah do you know what I mean? I feel like there is a level where it's like they did that in Minecraft yeah if yeah yeah for sure I guess it's about your feats within

yeah yeah yeah that gets you the cred um they really did the one block challenge in my yeah yeah for sure um disco elizium disco elizium's a biggie that would that yeah outer wilds out of wilds yeah um outer worlds is negative game credd outer worlds

you like that i thought you liked it you actually played it a little bit more than me i tried man it's fucking dog shit oh that's quite strong is it it's awful it's a terrible game really yeah i wonder if the second one's is dog shit i don't i don't know i would not recommend you're in angry mood today i'm just being real if we talk about something i like i'll sing it's praises i i love eldenring i'm like way back into eldenring i can't get myself away from eldom ring i finally got the last um like achievement in night rain in night rain yeah it's just naring we were on a crazy run on night rain recently it was awesome we were clapping no because i'm

it's like my fixation at the moment is like watching how to best play wilder like videos yeah yeah yeah how to how to master recluse have you master recluse I'm trying to yeah yeah yeah it's quite an addictive thing it is um yeah it's good ass game yeah I feel like we covered most uh biashok yeah that is a gamer cred game Gamer-ass game. Uncharted 2, probably. Nah. Uncharted 2 is too, like, that's like,

oh yeah, I'm really into film. I went to The Avengers. You know? I feel like gamers like it more than that. I don't know. I feel like people would disagree with you on that one. Okay, like, gamer credit. They're wrong.

They're stupid. I know what is the real gamer credts? I don't know. Uncharted was like important. um to push the like what can be done cinematically but like they're not very fun yeah I'm not the uncharted guy

no um the last of us games are way better way better both of them yeah I found them more compelling but um they're more gamey um um yeah I think the Arkham games

as well they can't they get your gamer crowd more so than spider-man yeah i don't know i feel like there's someone has probably almost definitely compiled a list with numbers and statistics and all of it already yeah you know if they put together the like what games awoke list remember going through that that was good yeah that was good should we just start doing the same thing again yeah just find like the most watch videos and just make them again well we can um get until that in the question segment right after these messages actually sort of thing epic yeah buy bear bear buy bear i do declare buy bear bear bear bear shirts and mug available now check the description below yeah

Oh, no, no. Welcome to the second half of the cast, where we go to the suggestion thread over on subreddit. Go over there and leave a suggestion for future episodes. Suggest something. We need it. We need you. If you got this far comment, we'll miss you a little guy. do you want me to do that again yeah do it two more times we'll we'll miss miss you you little little guy guy what a way to do that ah um so yeah you said about like remaking if we should

just remake us again and again um like just normal episode yeah yeah normal episode evolved we could call it. Yeah. Because like, Bilbo Smashings can get us going here. Halo Campaign Evolve Thoughts lads.

Have you seen anything to do with it outside of the thing I showed you? No. I don't care. Whatever. It's like... If I want to play Halo 1, I'm going to go play Halo 1.

I wanted to know your opinion on Sprint, if you have any. Do you know how controversial sprinting is in Halo, still to this day? Really? yeah yeah it's like everyone's like a radical and i'm that's what i'm a radical one is sprint and halo yeah yeah how it shouldn't be there it really shouldn't it's like when will you learn you know when will they yeah because there's this i was watching like a halo YouTuber watching

the reveal of the gameplay and he's like starry-eyed and then he gets to him sprinting yeah and there's like look on his face he doesn't have to say anything yeah he just goes he just like at the sprinting yeah and they like go out of their way to show it yeah and he's got that gummy bear ass run yeah

why can they not animate he should be like cartoonish he's fucking striding if he's gonna be sprinting he's like nine feet tall or something taller he's like 10 feet tall yeah I don't it's so fucking stupid man and like I don't care

Like, your Halo 1 was Halo Infinite. Yeah. Like, that's as good as you can do. I, like, I've got no faith at this point. If I want to play Halo 1, I'll play the one that the people who cared about it made before they also stop being good at what they do. Because this isn't a Capcom situation. No.

You don't have, like, confidence in them. No. Anyone who's been paying attention, been there in the trenches, should know. this point well yeah think about like how capcom brought back resi they disappeared they disappeared for years and then suddenly they drop this like totally different thing resident evil seven but it's like the dna's there it is what it is you know it's that slow pace it's that like modernizing yeah see the the thing to me is is like is like vibes based gaming right it's like what is this game like trying to make you feel like you're doing

moment to moment and like it's like motion in halo yeah a non-stop motion yeah yeah so you're like ducking behind things and hiding you're more just like always moving yeah and that's what's fun about it and it's like the the they always talked about like the three things where it's like you come melee while throwing a grenade and you can't throw a grenade while you're meleying yeah it's the triangle yeah um so like like use that as your basis but like you throw sprint in the mix that's like suddenly it becomes a square and shit starts falling apart you know and especially now if they're going to be copying like level design from a game that is fundamentally designed to be played differently yeah like it affects gameplay but it also affects because i really like you know the

atmosphere and the yeah yeah shit like that which they can't get right it's a different vibe when you're sprinting through a hallway uh-huh um for sure i don't know that that is that is something i feel like that's a great point like the remakes of doom i feel like they knew what they were like from a dna level and built up exactly instead of just whatever i was thinking of doom as well that it totally exactly and like they prove that it can be done and be really successful and um

well loved I haven't played the like the third one but of the newest yeah I've not but like after Doom Eternal I'm like yeah I've got faith in that they were both really good um

I didn't really like the first Doom I found it boring but the second one like hooked me some really memorable like levels um I don't think I think I got far enough in it. I found the, like, first few levels of slog, so I gave up. And then I loved my playthrough of Doom Eternal.

Awesome game. Yeah, that was a good one. Really good. But, yeah, I don't care. I couldn't... I wouldn't pre-order it. I'm enjoying, like, the content about it, because I think they're getting more pushback than they were expecting.

Well, and MAGA adopting it is wonderful. Oh, my God, yeah. Fuck, but I should have brought that up earlier. of sending you the memes I was taking screenshots on Twitter sending them to you and I thought maybe you'd think they're like fake

well one would hope but like at this point it's just like the things they're likening to the fucking flood is crazy oh my God and like the original creator of the fucking game I don't know shit

it's like it's yeah It's so fucking... It's so sad. Like, you either, you either die a hero. Well, you live long enough, right? And gringy, like, AI edits of, like, Trump in Master Chief Armour. Yeah. Like, what the fuck?

And all of these brain-dead, like, readings of, like, what Halo's about, um, by warping it into this idea where it's, like, a... He's, like, a Jesus thing. They always do that. And that because he's called John, like a biblical name. Right. There's the arc. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like, but the, like, the conclusions they reach to, like, what the story is about. Like, especially if they've, I just don't think that they've played it, really. I think they'll, like, plug it into AI and ask, like, how's, what's the? Yeah, yeah. No, but also their media literacy is that if, if the vibes are right, they can just, um, apply whatever belief they want onto it. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah.

So, yeah, everything's just crazy. I don't know. And I just don't even know what's real. I was tricked by like this really bad. I don't even know if it was like AI. I think it was like just a shitty Photoshop. And I was like just completely tricked by it. And it's like, I guess my filtering capacity is just like, it just can't even take it.

It's down. You're a boomer now. Yeah, straight up. What was it? What was the Photoshop? What was it of? It was, um... Something I'm not gonna fucking bring out.

Okay. Was it to do with Halo? I'll tell you after. It was nothing to do with Halo. Okay. Yeah. So any other final thoughts on Halo? I don't care.

I'm gonna play good shit. Yeah, because I don't know. I feel like they've just spent so much the cachet. Yeah. Well, like, it's like, look, we're remaking Halo again again. Yeah. Like, don't look at the fire behind us.

Yeah, they're trying to hide it. We're called Halo Studios now. Now we know how to make Halo. Yeah. Make, like, Microsoft should be just leaving that IP. Uh-huh. Let us, like... It's not some visionary person.

Yeah, but also give us a chance to miss it. Like, from the get-go, we've just been fed, like... You know, we had a three-course meal with Halo 1 to 3. It's like, hmm, yummy. And then it's like, oh, there's another little snack, ODST. Oh, there's, like, a few days go by. Oh, like, there's quite a nice meal being Halo Reach. And then time goes...

Like the cherry on top is die. And, um, like, you'll take a few days go by. And, um, like, you'll take a few days go by. taken into this beautiful restaurant and it's like look at this come take a seat it's going to be wonderful dining experience plate put down in front of you just poo there's peel on a plate well i don't really want to eat this microsoft okay um hang on you like choosing your class don't you yeah look we have all different types of poo we've got the bristol poo plop chart use the plop chart and order your next one no i don't want this give me a different thing okay

No, you're going to go... E-sports, correct? Yes, we... It's like super E-sports. Like, there's no classes. It's just full-on sweat. It's like, yeah, but it's still a piece of poo. It's like a sweaty poo.

Okay, we're going to go proper back to the roots. Here's this. What do you think? It's just poo again, Microsoft. Don't want it. Crappling's fun, but it just pews on everything. Yeah, yeah. P just ends up everywhere.

It just sprays poo everywhere. Yeah. Yeah, it's fun to spray things with pee, but like, you've got to clean it up at some point. Like, I don't care. You know? James, James was right the whole time. Yeah. It's so real.

He was like, it's dead. It's dead. He was saying it like 10 years ago. Yeah, it was. I mean, it's true. But I'll still comment on it and pay attention to it. Yeah, it's fun to talk about. it's in our like um like if that came up in your bingo fucking jar topics yeah yeah um

i hope you don't have the the guy on there you know see there's a few of the guy but i'm kind of just talking around it there is like quite a long one i don't know if you want to like wind down with okay from the throwaway jarling with an update oh shit that's been like months now yeah so and there's there's quite a a lot that's happened it looks like Okay. Tone-wise, where are we at? It's just real. I can't.

Okay. Right. So, let's read this one from Throwaway Jarling. See how long this goes. Sorry about how long this is. A lot has happened since I had the time to write, and I've been extremely busy lately. So I'm just now catching up on the past month of episodes.

You don't need to apologize. I moved a second time. I did not fully understand the situation I was moving into the first time, and you were right. It did teach me more than if I just stayed where I was. It was just not working out. I moved far away from them to get somewhere with a lower cost of living and to live somewhere where I could commute without owning a car.

I don't know if we should give us some context as to like where this is, right? Could you like catch us up? So this is a person who lived in a very quote unquote traditional house, right? Yeah. um was like homeschooled and stuff in america somewhere in america um so like zero qualifications um just no like worldly experience gets the opportunity to move in with some friends um met online um and took the plunge uh moved away to a far away place hours and hours and hours away right It's like a nine hour journey or something

And last we heard, last I remember They'd done it And it's a struggle They're there So now we've just found out They've moved away from this house as well Yeah So my friends who helped me move out

Turned out to be pretty undependable Some out of being too busy Some out of being too lazy My roommates were I'm reliable to support me Due to having Severe mental health problems he was wearing on me pretty hard

it was seriously unstable small things could cause them to fall into a depression they also argued with each other a lot and it was hard to be around the house was extremely dirty and it was the only one giving a consistent effort to keep it livable it was a three bedroom house

and one of the two of them was moving from the big bedroom into the small one so I could have the bigger one a nice gesture but it would have preferred that not to happen I don't really need the big one and it prevented me from properly moving into the house for over a month

her belongings was spilling out of both bedrooms and the house was so messy and dirty it was actively stressful just to be there she definitely has some type of hoarding disorder my other roommate was trying to help clean and get rid of things to make room for me to probably move in and she'd get mad at him for trying to throw away actual garbage such of years of drunk mail several broken computers broken furniture bags of hair torn up clothing or an entire space um oh spare oven sorry that she had for some reason

they'd show me pictures of the house before I moved in and it looked way cleaner than when I got there I'm not exactly sure how that happened I was stuck in a fugue state of being kind of homeless and sleeping in other people's houses because there was no way I was sleeping on that dirty old couch while I waited and even if I'd been willing to put up with it the couch was being used for storage so just placing all the stuff

would have made the hoarding problem in the rest of the house even worse it was extremely fatiguing To my mental health, and to be honest, if I understood what situation I'd be moving into, I would have said no to that whole plan. It's a little bit of a twist for the negative there. Yeah, that's sad. The friend who promised to help me learn to drive and take me places before he got my license turned out to be too lazy to actually do it.

He'd be getting ready for like three hours and then act like doing me a massive favor over the smallest things and get mad at me for not appreciating it enough or something. He said he was waiting to get a job and delaying his own life to help me out, kind of holding it over my head. but I moved away from him a month ago now and he's still not been applying to jobs. That's just the type of person he is, I guess.

I should not have let him make me feel bad because in hindsight it was kind of obvious that none of it was actually my fault. In the second place I'd moved to, I'd gotten an ID and started my first job. I work in a customer service at the store in town and it isn't as bad as I thought it would be. I get paid, I think a little one reasonably low,

especially after taxes, but it is what it is. Seeing how much money taxes took off my first paycheck was genuinely shocking. I haven't been in contact a lot with those friends who help me move. I do not hate them or have ill will towards them, but after the situation they brought me into, I'm also not the most inclined to talk to them a lot either. I do have other friends, but they're in vastly different time zones to me,

for example, the UK, so it's hard to find time to hang out and have been kind of lonely ever since moving. I'm not depressed or anything, but I've been missing my social life online from before I had major responsibilities like work, taking up my time. When combined with commuting on a bike, my work takes up nine hours a day. But then I feel too tired to do much after. I guess I'm just adjusting to the real world. A bonus of being overworked back at home instead of at a real job was that I was able to call my friends on the phone all day. At work is hard to find the time to even check messages and I've

just been starting to lose contact with some people. I'll figure it all out. I'm just in the process of learning how to balance everything. My parents have barely made an effort to talk to me. the few times they did was because somehow my mum moved, sorry, somehow my mum found out about me getting vaccinated and got angry. So I have not even told them that I moved a second time and they don't know where I live. A couple more paragraphs. I'm also looking to find a new roommate. I think I might be starting to befriend some of my co-workers, but I can tell, I cannot tell if they find me annoying or not because I find it really hard to read people. It bothers me when people online make it seem quirky and fun and silly, um, because honestly it only makes

my life harder. I think maybe it makes me a more unique or interesting person, but that's hard to say for sure. I've been having trouble with sensory overload on the job because of how many sounds are happening, people are talking at the same time. Um, another thing is that in America workers right, so not as good as in the UK. My break is like 15 minutes on an eight-hour shift and I barely have enough time to eat before getting back to work. I know this message probably feels a lot more negative than the last few but I'm just telling the events of my life. I'm figuring out how to make everything work. I've been trying to get back into writing music and use some of the money from my job to buy a new guitar so that I can record again. I'm also starting on writing

a post-apocalyptic book and trying to read a bit more often since my schedule has been lining up with friends, hasn't been lining up as often. Overall, I'm okay just learning how to make everything in my life work together. I'm glad that I always had the podcast to come back to and I'm excited to hear what that guy has to say in these episodes i have missed um jar forever bear bear bear man um how does that wash over you um i'm not hugely surprised um like it's like a harsh lesson to learn yeah it's it's a big shame but um like it's it's like you you've you got to figure out over a long period of time like how much you can actually depend on someone you know um yeah i think that's a general and then you can like you can still be wrong um and like shit

can still happen but uh i i think when you have the dissonance of having never been with a person physically in the same space as a test and also just living with friends as well yeah that's going to be tough um yeah that that let alone um having never met these people you know it is one thing to like have online relationships and stuff i think i think the like the the biggest good thing i hear in that is uh the making friends at work yeah and having like because especially now where in the in the current state of the world you do have to work a lot and you're going to spend a lot of time with these people but something i think i've learned being someone who is probably like neurodivergent um the thing that people respond to

the most um when you're having those feelings of like does this person like actually just like the unfounded belief that like everyone just hates you for no reason yeah yeah and like like you're just annoying everybody i think most people respond to you you if you're excited to see them they're going to be more excited to see you if you're happy to see someone they're going to be happy to see you you know you're like yeah what you're putting it out yeah yeah and like like the the unspoken thing of like they they can see in you that you are valuing them like you like their presence and that's like validating so and like you can't put it on other people all the time to validate you you need to validate that yeah yeah uh-huh you know

give a little take a little yeah so when it when it comes to like making friends at work you know just uh yeah don't expect too much from people as well you know yeah yeah that's tough one to learn um but you're going forward there like moving again you've like done like getting the job like working there's progress um yeah no i'm just kind of like suffering from the whiplash of um this episode after the last yeah i know it's like i think um the month of him um about a guy sent the we've got some readjusting to do the the universe was

pushed so far in one way that it's had to like slingshot back it's kind of punished us in a way yeah you know everything went to shit the second hand yeah the last day man

oh yeah well thanks for listening yeah rest and peace pops rest and peace Yeah.