JAR Media Posdact - Smosh Love Us? - JARCAST Episode 163

Episode Date: April 22, 2019

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Good afternoon, morning, evening or night. Cheat the camera a little more, Alex. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the JARCAST. Get it nice, get it out of nice and far. We're joined by the full squad today, and I'd like to say thank you to the Patrions over at Patreon. Thank you for putting a show. How are we doing this fine, beautiful afternoon?

Pretty swagger. It's beautiful, and it is an afternoon. I'm about a swag, pretty hard. I've done an afternoon cast in a while. Okay, Max. Okay. Because my shirt looks like one from Mac's. For those who can't see, Ruben's wearing, a nice floor shirt.

Like Max Payne? From Max Payne? Three. Three. Does he only wear floor shirts in three? Yes. Yes. I'm not familiar with the others, so I can't.

No, he knows of the other jacket. And that's why your opinions don't matter. Okay. Um, so something has happened, Jarmedia-related. Speaking of shirts. Speaking of fucking shirts. Thank you, Jim. um we've finally we've finally gone and done it we've uh we've released our media shirts

merchandise and you know mugs and whatnot the keen eye you've already seen it well yeah we've been we've actually had the designs like done for over a year i've i've posted i've worn the shirt the argy shirt i've earned the first generation it's not quite over it yeah because i never taken one many many months then i remember taking stealing the original argi shirt which we're going to use the videos i just took it over me and i've worn it multiple times on the cast i've posted pictures of it on Twitter. But yeah. So now we finally launched it.

The great Bebo shirt. Yep, I'm wearing the Bebo shirt at the moment. If you want to look at the shirts, they're over at Teespring, which has like a cool YouTube integration feature. So if you are watching on YouTube, you just scroll down. As long as you don't have an ad block on.

Don't you mean T's Pring? T-Springles? T-s-nuts? I'll just say the URL in case those listening want to see. I'll do my best to put it. It should be in the description as well and in the description of the audio version too if you want to have a little look.

The site is tispring.com slash stores slash jar dash media dash store. And it's all there for you. You got shirts. There's a JAR shirt. Currently Ruben's one is selling the best. Of the only, there's only two. No, three.

J.A.N. I'm currently only two shirts have sold. Of the Reber one, yeah. So far the most. So far the most. So far of any of the JAR. Of course we're going to take it very personally, whoever's winning and losing. I currently am wearing the J shirt.

Our very friendship hangs in the balance. Hang on. I just want to point out that James is wearing a very creased, non-real, boot-wreck version of the official J-shirts. When we started first in designing these, we used a different site, and we had the prototypes printed, and this is one of the prototype ones. But the newer shirts are so much better quality. No, they are.

They are 10 times better. Jim is wearing one of the new ones, and so am I currently. Friendship ended with Old Place, My new best friend is T-Spring. T-Springle, T-D-Spring. The original Argy Shirt I've won before is the original phototype Argy Shirt. Yeah, keen-eyed listeners, and I guess they'd have to be watching us.

Watching us. I've spotted you wearing that shirt now and again. And they've asked her about it. They have asked. I would love to have done like a Sandy shirt, but obviously I don't own the rights to Sandy from SpongeBob, so I can't do that. I might be able to draw something and maybe

make it look as shit as the original. one won't quite be the same but I'll think about it yeah it was it was I felt like kind of a douche earlier when I was walking Argy while wearing my shirt that had Argy on it which was pretty I know that is a dick move no joke the original prototype shirt I have is my favorite shirt I love that shirt I wear it all the time which is ironic because you hate Argy I know but I love the shirt I go to the shops and I'll wear it speaking of a mill he was up here oh he's bugged off He's bugged off But yeah

We have a couple other topics One I was supposed to bring up Last episode or the one before Um Smosh has like an intimate relationship with Jha Whether they like it or not First episode was called Smosh Hates Us Came up again recently

With Smosh Ian talking about Still hates us Still hates us Yeah still hates us Because of the video on the movie But recently The other half of Smosh Anthony

Out of the half. Yeah, the former, yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah. Anthony from Smosh. Out of nowhere just left a comment on the search for the worst episode on the Smosh movie saying, this is actually so accurate, it hurts. Or his exact words. Which, when I first saw someone posted it on my Reddit, a screenshot of the comment,

I thought, oh, that must be like a joke or something. So I asked, that's a funny Photoshop or something. It can't be real. And they're like, no, it's real. So I went and searched on my comments, and they, There it was. It was like, whoa, what a polar, like, opposite opinion and reaction to the other half of Smosh. Yeah.

So I thought that was neat. Worth bringing up. And I posted a screenshot on Twitter, and Anthony liked the fucking tweet. What a good guy, to be honest. Taking it on the chin. Yeah. I don't even know what's doing anymore. He stepped away from it all, I guess, for our reason.

and uh yeah yeah maybe he sees everything a little more without well he was silent that whole time wasn't he like he never he never got involved or whatever when talking about the movie maybe it has i don't like intimately follow smosh and the things they do so yeah i thought that was neat i like it reminds me of when i did the video on the amazing bulk and the director of the movie sent me a message saying it's weird i was just looking at the bulk head Yeah, the bust.

It's nice, yeah, when they don't take it so seriously. I mean, like, as a YouTuber movie, it's literally called the Smosh movie. Yeah, it's going to be kind of a third. Yeah, it's cool to be proud of it and be like, no one can take away the fact that you've made a movie, you know, and I'm sure some Smosh fans enjoyed it and whatnot, and they did have it, you know,

it was a professional production, whether you like it or not. You know, it was like a famous director involved and stuff like that, which either makes it better or worse depending on your perspective but yeah shout out to Anthony from Smosh but Ian still hates us yeah so specifically

what's the title of this one then smosh half loves us retroactively go back and change the title of that video to Smosh bracket just Ian hates us well he specifically hates me because he's confused you with me right yeah

it's my claim fame does he specifically hate you he doesn't know I exist oh he doesn't know any of us exist besides Alex yeah yeah do you think there's any chance at all that he would have gone on the first charcast no no no none no no how many videos do you think have smosh in the title on YouTube I don't know because how many videos is he commented on saying they're like wah this movie actually epic he commented on Alex's video no he didn't he tweeted at me oh that was the original thing, remember? Yeah. He treated at you, yeah. Tweeted at you.

Pretty, pretty bad of you that you didn't give him a free pass just because he's a YouTube. Smearing a YouTube channel. Pretty poor form smearing another YouTuber. Enjoy the hits though, bro. As he goes and makes another Zelda parody. Or Pokemon parody. Jim, what's in your mug? Well, I didn't bring it up here.

Do that thing that they do in movies where they like pretend to drink. Pizzes me off every time TV show movies or anything. they pretend to drink something and it's always so fucking obvious yeah there's like no residue on their lips they're not smacking the correctly the best the best productions don't pretend there it is i've said it speaking of we just watched a clip from aquaman and i watched the whole behind the scenes thing and there's a shot in the movie where he like downs an entire pint at a bar and he had to do the take like countless times so he had to do it over and over again just downing this entire it wouldn't have been beer obviously yeah but like even so imagine the bloat of like having six or seven entire pints of apple juice Jesus Christ And speaking of Aquaman And all the things we've been enjoying recently

Just watching James fake drink You've got a fake drink for the whole cast now Yeah what have we been enjoying lately We haven't done this topic in a while Yeah Go on James Apex legends Ah ha ha ha ha! Okay

I haven't watched anything You got a pretty good win earlier while we're waiting for the other fellas to show up. Mm-hmm. Yellow fella and, uh, smeller, fella. I've, I've been meaning to watch a few things. But I haven't. I haven't got one to it yet.

Is that the only thing then? Is that it? You don't have been listening to anything in particular? I don't know. Hmm, okay, okay. Rubin, I know you have some things. Uh, I went out on a limb. It was the Xbox, happy Easter Xbox.

Sale. Oh, yeah. I bought, I bought, I bought 40 pounds. all right, Assassin's Creed Odyssey with Assassin's Creed 3 remastered bundled and the expansion through Odyssey I was like that's a pretty good deal I was made aware of it by Andrew

who's been on the cast before of course yeah I was like well I mean Andrew's usually feeling he's enjoying this maybe it's all right and I'm just the Greek ancient Greece thing is always interesting and I played origins I got that on PC when that came out because I was really curious about that

this is totally different but I you know there were some things about it I didn't like like the map was too big and traversal was too slow, but they seem to have sort that out, and the map is still big, but reversal is much faster. You have a horse that just goes obscenely fast, so it's like, well, fuck it, I can just get everywhere I want really quickly. So the game is

working a lot better. They've got, the RPG elements are quite fleshed out now. How does it look on the Xbox 1X? Builds and all that now. It looks quite good. It's on Xbox 1X. Yeah, it does look quite good, considering it, because it's like... It's pretty vast, from my understanding.

Because I look at it at the same way I do, like, the Witcher 3, with its you know, it's a big RPG and there are lots and lots of NPCs that you will talk to and have dialogue and things. So I'm like, well, I'll try and treat this at the same sort of fairness I would something like The Witcher 3, which is doing a similar thing. That's not

to say that it's as good as the Witcher 3. They're actually quite different. They're both open world RPGs, but they are quite different of what they're because, you know, one is Ubisoft being. One's dog shit. Because one is Ubisoft trying to like sell micro-transactions and bullshit like that because they have to.

because it's just what they do now and the other is CD Project Red which is a special case anything they do is like a special case that was a discussion at the time wasn't it when the game came out I was having a look at that store today because you can get

permanent XP boost yeah you can like pay can you yeah to get a boost because they give you 200 helix points which is enough to get 2,000 gold in that game which isn't much does that ruin it at all for you having like this weird store

in there as well it's one you have to you go and press start and then you press the D pad to go into it's up

in the top right and you hardly even see it so it hasn't really been pissing me off at all um no the game seems far more more fulfilling to just play I'd be curious when you're like 20 hours in

if you get sick of the leveling or not that's what I'm not sure about at the moment because it's still it's still fairly early but I'm approaching it but I'm leveling up a fairly good sort of pace and yeah I suppose they hope that you'll keep playing it based on the exploration of ancient Greece and that that aesthetic great setting to be sure but I mean they've all had

great settings yeah not to be a downer but I don't think there's anything anyone could ever say that would make me want to play that game it was not that game for me it's just I'm done with the franchise as a whole no I mean that game as well like I I don't like how many of those time sinks there are and that one is a serious time sink and the thing is with the Witcher, I know for a fact like all the side quests, deep story, that intertwine with one another in ways

that you wouldn't even notice. This game does not have that. Yeah. It's more like the writing and the voice acting like and stuff. I've heard the voice acting is pretty bad. Some of it's okay. Some of it isn't. What's the protagonist like in terms of her? Playing as the male one. I think lots of people prefer the female one to him.

Apparently she's much better. But I was that was basically why I played as him. Because everything I'd seen in the game was with her and I was like, well it plus him then fuck it yeah see something else um and he's he can be quite funny but it feels it has that um that thing where it feels like the sort of voice director wasn't really directing them some of the people in places like there was just like they just say it and send it because yeah it would have been so much dialogue to record it must have been yeah it just feels a bit rushed a bit like the actor didn't really know what they what their what their motivation was

oh right i'll just say it then um so that that was a that was a that was a thing with it. But so far, there have been some interesting story moments. It has piqued my interest, the story of it. I'd like

the Spartans and shit. That's kind of a bit... That's definitely an Assassin's Creed problem, though, stories. They've never been good. See, I'm... How, like, linked with the other games is it? I don't... Because the Assassins haven't been introduced

yet. Right. Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm yet to... That's a good thing in my books. Yeah, that's a good thing so far. Yeah. What about like Obstirgo and all that? The only mention of Obstirgo, oh, when the game starts, you play as King Leonidas and, you know, in the 300 Spartans,

and then I don't know what that is, I don't know why that's there, because that hasn't been explained yet, and then it comes out to these two characters that they have now that are like in the future and the present doing their thing, and then the character she gets on the table, and then you're in the animus or whatever. You're playing Odyssey properly, And that's it. That's it. There's been nothing since then.

I don't think they even force you anymore. They just don't bother because they know people don't want to. They just gave them. They trapped themselves. No mentions of assassins. The only mention of Obstirgo, other than that bit at the very start, was when I went in the store, you can get like a thing that makes your ship look a bit abstergo-y. Okay.

That's it. So that's a good thing. Definitely. They've cut the Obsturgo stuff out because they're actually making Obstero-O-Live company, so they're just like... Ubisoft is Obsturgo. It's weird because in the very beginning of it, when, you know, she gets in her, like, makeshipped animus thing and her hacker friend who's doing stuff,

is like, ugh, and something comes up that it made me think of watchdogs. They're, like, trying to tie everything together a bit. Cinematic universe? Yeah, in that same way. What would it be? Ubisoft, the Ooku. Ooku.

But it's not cinematic. Ogu. Ogu, yeah. The Oobo. The Ubisoft gaming universe. It's pretty foolish It made me think of watchdogs Just with that

Because it's just a bit Yeah I don't know They're trying to make the Wasn't that like an Instagram On watch dogs Where you could go and find You can find Ubisoft

Because Jim and I found it And we were Because Jim and I playing watch dogs So we used to go around And sizzolift everywhere And so we sizzlefted up to it That game was awesome And you can throw a middle finger

Like emot So we did that in Scream No really Because it's really funny Oh funny Funny Hidgy Gamer Fucking gaming We're sticking it to the man

While also playing The game That they have sold to us for an extortionate price. Yeah. Jim? It's funny there. I briefly want to say that Reuben and I have been playing Dark Souls 2.

Right. That game is trash. Yeah. Damn. You've been playing that game for last like four years. You always play that game. No, we play Dark Souls 3. Yeah, Dark Souls 3 is the one we play.

Because that one is solid. It's good. I thought Dark Souls 2 is supposed to be the good one. No. It's the highest rated one, weirdly enough. Yeah, it is. Ridiculous. My theory with that is that, do you?

Do you remember the, with Dark Souls 1, the release on PC, um, Total Biscuit, yeah, said some bad stuff, rightly so, because it was a shite port. Yeah. And people through, people got pissy, got so angry. I remember that. And I reckon, like, games journalists were like, I mean, this kind of seems like Dark Souls. I'll just say it's really good, so we don't get loads of hate.

Mm-hmm. Because playing it now, it's like, how does anyone think this is, like a 90 what the fuck it is. It did also come at that time when, uh, games were just given eights or higher. So what year did it? Dark Souls 2 come out? 2012. 2012.

2013. Wait, yeah. The thing is, didn't Dark Souls 1 come out the same year of Skyron? Yeah, 2011. I... 2012 or 2013? Might be 13? Because I know Scholar came out in 14.

13 sounds right then. Yeah. I'll find out for sure right now. It's missing that magic, isn't it? Complaints with the game. 2014? Really? Yeah.

The scholar came out in 2015 then, I guess. Unless it was like six months later or something. That is fucking whoa. But the game looks worse than the first one. Yeah, the game does... The game feels worse than the first one. Monster designs aren't as good. The animations are worse than the first one.

The enemy design worse than the first one. And the, like, the respecting the player thing has come up recently because of Sequeira. and uh dark source two does not respect anyone no it doesn't how in what way the game design is just horrible

and it's not even like difficult the thing is the game has so much shit in it that makes it easier but it doesn't tell you like um everyone that's played the game knows that ADP is a stat the game doesn't tell you that it is

vital to succeeding in that game because when I first played through it means it was ADP mean adaptability or some shit what it correlates to it is invincibility frames one rolling it increases your invincibility frames

one rolling so at the start you have like five invincibility frames which is nothing yeah and it just it doesn't tell you that in the upgrade menu the only reason I know now is because I've been on the internet but it's just like there's so many design choices like that

on top of like the eight directional movement that's in the game that just feels horrible. It's very stiff moving around in that game. Yeah, and like, like I said, it looks like trash. You're playing on PC, right? Yeah, I'm playing it on PC.

Like, maxed out everything and it looks like trash. But, yeah. But the thing is, at the same time, I don't hate it, I don't dislike it. It's just not on 90. No, it's a, Rubin and I keep saying to one another, it's a five out of ten. Mm-hmm, really. Like, it's completely mediocre. If that was Dark Souls 1, Dark Souls would not be what it is today.

From Software would not be where they are today. And the thing is, I watched a video on it yesterday. I didn't get all my opinions from there. I was already talking to you about how much... I don't like Dark Souls 2. But so many of the developers that worked on Dark Souls 1, just gone from... From... Like, the people that worked on Dark Souls 1...

From from? From from And it shows It honestly shows I don't know if they were rushed or what But I mean The dip in quality From from the first game to the second

Is mind blowing We didn't have the same director did they so No But not only that They like didn't have the same lead coda or something Right And the art director Gone

Well did they come back for that so sweet Yeah Were they doing Bloodbourne or something Yeah Is that why Yeah and Bloodbourne deserves all the critical praise that it got. Yeah, because that game is very good.

And then what they made... Secido after. They made Dark Souls 3 after. Of course. Using all the assets from Bloodborn. And then Made Dox... And then Securo. Which is the other game I've been playing recently.

Good? Incredible. Might be my favourite from Softwink. Rank your souls born heroes. It's really tricky and I don't think it's possible. I mean, Dark Souls 2 would be at the bottom. They can't be... I think it's still...

still just soulsborn honestly Seciro Securo is the most different by far and it's the best one it's so

it's just like streamlined there's not like loads of shit and what there's a lot of menus and statistics no that's the thing like there's there's skill trees instead

right like with specific moves or like um abilities that are just passive so you just get it and always have it so it's not like there's no stat thing like strength and vitality and endurance i haven't played it yet and honestly honestly i think that's a really good thing because i like the idea they have done a game like it i don't it doesn't mean i want dark souls if there's no to change but i like but i mean like it it just feels like everything in secureo is balanced in a much better way because in dark souls you've always been able to like grind and shit and then

it can either become way too easy or be way too difficult if you avoid stuff. Something that, you know, I'm glad about is that they've set themselves up with Saccharo to do another one because it can be Sakura, Shadows die thrice. They can at least do one more. But

everybody's been saying good shit about this game apart from the whole difficulty thing. But it's well-earned. Well, damn straight, dog. I might get hold of it soon. Maybe. I don't know. And you're playing that on PC, obviously. Yeah, it's really fun.

fucking hard. Jim, I swap seats. Why? Because you can sit here. Okay. Okay, hand dog. Okay, I don't know why they're doing that, but okay. I've been watching a lot of superhero movies for my video. I gotta go to the toilet, sorry everyone. That's fine. I should have gone at the start. I'm like a three-year-old on a car journey. Oh my God. Oh, my God. Right, I did actually have an idea because while we're a recording this now, this will be the last episode before... Before Wobin goes home, basically. Back to one. Also, more that, in terms of superhero movies, there's a pretty big superhero movie coming out next week. I didn't know that Ackermann 2 was coming out. To be honest.

Ackermann 2 would be more exciting, but we have Avengers Endgame. But we're going to go see the day it's out here on the Thursday. Funny enough, you actually got, you dragged me to it. That's horse shit. You beg to go. I booked two seats and then you're like, yeah, I can go. I was like, oh, okay. That's three then.

So I went. I took a day off work for the first time since I... For a three hour long Marvel movie. Yeah. I'm gonna piss late eight times. I'm not... I found Spider-Man into the Spider-verse hard to sit through. I mean, that was agony.

That was when I was Grandpa Simpson on the fucking in the car, and my bladder exploded. You know, you know, it's the thing, though. I'm losing, like, a lot of money from my other months. one day off so it's like could you have you have one day off I mean

no because then that's a week we've missed almost half of it so fuck then you get holiday pay yeah then you don't lose anything

I've used it all what anyway yeah it's irrelevant point is um and none of us have seen the spoilers

that have leaked for the movie so anything we say is pure like conjecture I was just curious to like I'm curious to talk about what we think is going to happen and then compare it next episode

um what's going to happen I think what's going to happen is obviously the original cast you know Iron Man Something's going to happen to the original cast But I'm not convinced they're all just going to die No I think Iron Man is going to die for sure I think Cap cap cap and Iron Man are going to die I'm not convinced Captain America is going to die

I foresee because there's like this whole time travel thing I could foresee him sort of being sent back because he's come from that time. Yeah. And getting his Peggy. Yeah. And have a nice like storybook ending with Peggy or something. But the Hulk? Anything of what's going to happen to the Hulk?

He's got to go. But it almost seems like a waste to get rid of him. He barely used him. He's having problems with being Hulk. That's what Infinity was that's true, yeah. So I'm pretty sure that this is like that. Yeah, what if he just if Hulk fights Thanos and Hulk dies, but Bruce Banner stays

you know like he's wanted to get rid of it for so long that he tried killing himself and everything that's actually a pretty good idea yeah it's like a finality to it or something without him dying though like the Hulk dies but he doesn't yeah in like a metaphorical way

yeah if they could explain it somehow yeah there's like a black widow side movie show coming out so I don't think yeah so chances are she'll be fine Captain Marvel is obviously gonna stay She's not a vision. Yeah, her movie made a billion dollars. There's no way.

I mean, obviously, all the characters that died are coming back. But do you think Gomorra is coming back? Was that her name? Gimori and God. It is Gimorra, right? The green girl. Blue, green, yeah. Do you think her and Loki are coming back?

Loki's got to come back. Really? I don't want Loki. Wouldn't that be a third time he's died? Yeah. And Gimorra should stay there as well. Who do you think? Yeah, Gormor needs to definitely stay dead.

I don't know, Captain America. No, but when's Volume 3 based? What? When's what based? Guardian Galaxy Volume 3? Well, it's always based after the previous one, isn't it? So they haven't confirmed, I guess, what the cast is with that movie yet. Yeah, that's the thing.

They, they just, we... I guess they could replace Gamora with the robot one. But what if she dies in the movie? I don't think she will. Really? Yeah. What if... What if she, like, swapped her place for Gomorrah or something?

Like a complete her arc or something? Then I'd feel... Cheated. Yeah. Because I don't give a shit about robot one. No one's... I'd kind of be okay with that, though. No one's ever really gone.

Yeah. Because it's like... Everyone comes back and nobody dies. That's that... Then that character has had, like, a redemption arc, though, hasn't it? Because she starts off as like an antagonist. And then the second one, she kind of learns to, like, it's a system. loans to like her sister and then

she could sacrifice herself or something it's just it was a powerful moment in yeah because that's how we got when he just launches her off a fucking bridge or whatever yeah and that would be kind of redundant if it's just like Zoe Saldon is like

kind of a big draw you know like a box office drawer I don't know if they'd just get rid of her like that yeah yeah Do you think Thanos will die? No.

Yeah. How's Thanos going to die then? Do I know? Mm-mm-bem-bem. Do you think they'll... They'll have Thor land, like, in his head or something. Because remember he has a comment and says something like, You should obey him for the head.

And then he clicks. Yeah. You could do some full circle thing, whatever, where it goes back to that moment. No. Yeah. I know what's going to have. happen. Okay, tell me. Scrual Girl is going to come back and beat Thanos. As

is said in the comics. Squirrel Girl. I'm pretty sure that is in the comics. That actually happens. Squirrel Girl beat Thanos once or something. I didn't know that. And that was the time when Fanonish was riding ahead. You didn't know about Squirrel Girl? I didn't know about Squirrel Girl. Squirrel Girl's going to get a fucking movie at some point. If Aquaman can get a fucking film, Scroo Goal.

We'll definitely get one. Ackerman got one. Because he's Aquar Man. Squirrel Man would get one. School boy. No, but these female superhero movies, they're all the rage now. Wonder Woman is huge Captain Marvel And if Thanos actually gets killed by school Girl, that's setting up her movie

Yeah I'm just curious if like There's gonna be anything interesting about Marvel After this movie now Yeah I only like Spider Man really Out of whoever's left I care about Spider-Man

But I mean I like Doctor Strange When he's interacting with the other characters But I thought his movie I feel like that about a lot of the cast To be honest Yeah The thing is once Iron Man and Captain America go

those two are like They're like the backbone Yeah they're the ones keeping me watching I don't mind Black Panther I don't like Black Panther He's not like he doesn't have that special source Like the film, I don't like the film Mm-hmm

Yeah I think that's the I didn't even know why I like Captain America Because his first movies The second one of the words Marvel movies I've ever seen The second one though in Civil War Yeah they're very good

I guess that's why Yeah that's definitely why He's got a go. But Captain America's going to get pegged by Peggy. Iron Man's going to be pegged by Peggy. And we'll back after these messages. Thanos is going to get pegged by Skorogall. What are you?

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Here we are. the Jam major podcast. Second half, everybody. You are joined by our guest, special guest, Jamie. No, you what? Everyone's just a special guest to James. Like, he's the only consistent thing in his mind. Everyone else is just a guest.

Jamie. Nice hat. It's a nice hat. He looks like I'm Indiana James' dad. Remember that? Sean Codderow. In the last crusade. Is that an impression?

Bob, blah, blah. Anyway, this is the part of the show. We answer questions from Reddit. Everyone's favorite place. If you want to leave your own questions, head over to the JAR Media Reddit, and there's a thread. Just go in there, leave a question,

and James, we'll answer it. Just James. No one else. We can't speak. This is a James segment. Yeah, this is a James Media podcast. The top rated question is one that's going to make us all look like

dumb-dums. Okay. From Bevo Dibby-Dibbidi-Doso who says, to any of you read, what is your favorite book? Oh, I actually have a favorite book. shoot the great Gatsby

shit book well staying on Ruben's theme of like kind of books you study at school or whatever animal farms are a good book I've read that a few times well group think much

yeah sorry guys for being part of group think normie book club so my thing is I haven't read books I just read things what does that what does that fucking use history what's the thing dude what's the thing a comic manga no it's not come on what manga have you read you

read attack on Titan with me like years ago yeah you read it together yeah but at the same time all right and we're like talking about well that pub was so crazy remember that that bit where they talked about politics for oh it's crazy it becomes like a western I remember oh so I love it yeah there's like no action going on at some point and horses I think you remember did you get to that point but there's like a saloon and this character like comes in and these like dual-wielding pistols or some crazy shit and I was just like that's when I stopped reading I was like fuck this man um my favorite book is mr happy mr. nice you know the happy the mr. mr. yeah yeah I was Mr. Grumpy yeah

do a Lego instruction manuals count. I was actually going to say my favorite books to Sonic Hero's manual. Do you remember when I used to call the Lego instruction manuals? Lego construction manuals? Yes, I remember that. No? Yeah.

Just like how I call I get mixed up with what is the ground and what is the floor. Yeah, but that's like fucking whatever. And engineers and ODSTs in Halo Wars specifically. That was just where like two connections in my

brain were just completely wrong. They were just the wrong way around and I couldn't do anything about it. Yes, you could. Could have died. Yeah. That would have been dramatic. Well, hang on. Someone replied saying, I asked them this once.

Jamie said he'd recently read The Android's Dream and the rest were illiterate. That wasn't Jim. That was me who was reading that. I'm not illiterate. I just don't read books. That's the other than I was about science. Yeah, that was ages ago. That's when I was reading, you know, that's what was. Blade Runner's based on. Yeah, yeah.

Alex likes weeding, um, fan fictions of Blade Runner. Not true. What's the last thing you read? Um, I was just reading some stuff on... Oh, be honest. What? Just say. This is a judge-free zone.

This, like, just missing Ruben out, so Rubin can judge. None of us are qualified as barristers, judges, list as any of it, so this is a judge free zone, we're not. I think that's actually true, yeah. I was just reading stuff about German politics. That's what I was reading about that. Okay. Do you miss magazines? No. No, no, no, no. I do read car magazines.

I missed, I kind of miss magazines. I used to get Nintendo magazine. Yeah, I got them in the Nintendo magazine. I was exciting on my own. my O&M would arrive? Because I had a subscription to it. You had a subscription to Eminem? O&M.

No official Nintendo magazine. Oh my God, YouTube both had subscriptions to him and me and Jim would just like. I think I changed my... Because me and James are straight ballers. When I became, when I evolved from being a baby Nintendo gamer to a hardcore Xbox Halo 3 gamer, I changed my subscription to the Xbox one for a little bit. Oh, that's so... How did you afford that?

that's your parents um I just stole it yeah I don't think I did steal it like I have a memory of the things I did steal but so I've noticed that one doesn't I think I actually just probably begged for it and they're like okay he's reading words I guess whatever

of like baby games Dork Baby game words Railo 3 ODST review Dork alert Gamer Poo on face says quick You have to choose one country to get destroyed

or else the whole world gets destroyed Anyone gonna do it? Luxembourg. Okay, I'll take the hit, boys. I'll take it, I'll do it. Where then? Madagascar. Fuck me, man.

James Wye. That is fucked up, yeah. All those rare animals that live there? All those rare, like, primates? I'm gonna say, uh, Germany. Okay. They've fucked up enough in the past, so I mean. I'm going to say...

Tough luck. What about North Korea? Oh, yeah. Get rid of North Korea? Yeah. Nah, Germany. What about South Korea just to be, like, weird? Leave North Korea alive.

They eat dogs, so South Korea is... Okay. That is a thing, right? Like, they torture... Yeah, they've... They're dog palms. Yeah, they torture dogs. And it's like all the girls who found about BTS...

You know that the BTS members are going home and eating dog. You're puppy. No, it's not like... If you're from Korea, you eat dog and you love it. It's like... It is a thing. thing that is there. I'm just looking at Google Maps,

thinking about what countries are, you know, which one? Ruben doesn't know. Bosnia? No, because if you were to destroy Bosnia, you probably might accidentally

destroy another country because they're like weird. My actual one would be that one where the Pope is. Not because that's where... Yeah, because it's tiny. That's why I said Luxembourg. Wait, Madagascar.

Is that a country? Yeah, it's like the smallest country in the world. Of course. yeah maybe Luxemoke isn't a country man so confused it is a country it is a tiny little country yeah there it is okay I mean it goes home borders yeah my answer is better because the Pope gets wiped out as well sorry I'm not a hater Alex Scott 1811 says if Ruben is here how is uni going I'm doing my GCSEs in a few weeks but I'll eventually reach university I'm considering

taking film studies slash production and I was wondering if there is any advice you would give on the course cheers twerker okay Let me have a think for a sec Well, university's going on all right I can only talk specifically about my experience At my university because Lots of film courses with production are different I'm not going to talk better for ages

Otherwise it would just be like a boring 10 minute Do a lecture I'm already falling asleep Did you've enjoyed year two way more than one Yeah I was well say yeah because the first year was pretty Poor in terms of what we were studying I had very little interest in anything that was going on. Lots of other things.

I wasn't really attending much in first year. It seemed very vague from the way you describe it to me. Like you went like specialising? No. Because it was teaching such basics. And I just did not enjoy it at all. I know they have to do it. It's necessary.

But I wasn't enjoying it. And second year has been a good time. So maybe when you get there, you might have a similar thing. You may think, wow, this first year, this is crap. But just ask about what is going on in second year. And if you like what that's, saying and then you know they'll probably be all right I mean obviously depends where you go I can

only speak about my university um hmm let me think any other tips or tricks I don't know I'd have to think about it for longer get slosed you have for Alex

gets loosed there's yeah that's Jim's advice I mean I've said lots of times that I will do a video just where I will prepare some things to actually say about university and film specifically because people step into film courses expecting one thing

maybe not getting it or you know don't really know what they're going to get from it yeah that'd be a good way to do it but here's for example you know it's a film course but I'm probably going to writing my dissertation about video games that I've managed to just about worm my

worm it into my own sort of interests yeah um yeah just about I suppose productions like a vague term you can do like well you know I always enjoyed writing about film when it was when I could incorporate sociology into it or

psychology or something yeah about it that wasn't to me complete and total pretentious horseshit oh yeah talk about like film students film students well that yeah well they like the vibe some of them are knobs some of them aren't even the ones that aren't can be knobs um i think that's a good way to just say people in general people in general i mean yeah that's the thing but you just on a film course you mean lots of people who think they are very definitely right i think a film course as well you get people that are much more passionate which can be way more like they can be they're quite outgoing because there are films true yeah whereas like if someone's doing like business it's like man i fucking love business but

yeah yeah so i it's not the same I know some characters. Yeah. Got on. Shout them out right now. Just shame them. Just, you know,

you get all the stereotypes. You get all the stereotypes. There are people that, uh, dislike Christopher Nolan films just because they're Christopher Nolan films. Nothing else. And you get people that...

They're film Twitter personified. Yeah, they're just filmed Twitter personified. I fucking hate film Twitter. So gatekeeper. God, it pisses me up. And like letterboxed is pretty,

pretty cringe, pretty gatekeeper. any anything any film community is like that for some reason yeah they can't just be like oh look people have a passion for film in their own right yeah no you can't enjoy your little niche like you have to um and rich kid europeans stuff like that as well they're everywhere everywhere yeah that's true yeah i remember before before matt joined a cult and you mentioned a you know a rich student people and some some people who just think they are much better than they are what they do on my course.

Some people who are very, very good at what they do. And they produce, or they make films that are totally incoherent, don't have any meaning. And they would say, well, you just don't understand it. And I said, no, there's nothing here. Oh, they must watch Evangelion. Damn. I think I searched up the how to say Evangelion.

How did you say then? Evangelion. But despite it all, film students are interesting, you know, they're interesting. I'm quite like that I've met all these I know of a lot of these people just interesting Yeah funny little anecdotes for you Okay let's go

None of them I can't go into anything specifically Because they all know about this channel Like most of them Most of the people on my course Know about me And this channel And one day might look at it And then that'd be that

Rubin, why are you talking shit about me On your podcast? What's your problem? Anyway Maybell Full Hard says stranger or not who was the strangest person

you've ever come across and the weirdest thing they've said to you Slalix Really? Yeah I actually had a stranger danger encounter The other day What happened? An old woman Like said something

To me from across the road And I look What And then they start to come to like Towards me across the road So I stop and stand still It's day And I've assessed like

This person poses no three no threat at all. It's the daytime. This is fine. And, uh, I went to the doctors because my legs won't stop moving when I try, when I'm, when I want to sleep. All right. And the doctor wouldn't give me anything for it. And then just like looking at me, it expects me to say something like, I, I just said, I don't really know what's going on here. Are you in distress? Do I need to call someone? My husband died. It just walked away. Yeah, and it just walked away. I've had that happen to me before.

Where I was walking Max and Max triggered like the memory of this old lady Because she had a gold retriever and she just told me her entire life story They just wanted someone to listen to them. Yeah, that was all that was with me. I was like this person who's wanted someone to listen to them Yeah, and that's what I did Oh I got nothing. I've got nothing. I've just met Alex You met some characters probably in bartending though. Yeah, but I mean when there's so many they're not weird

There we not get any that's just like Well there was the dude that was That said he The thing is He said so many lies That I don't know what the truth was That's interesting He was from Manchester

Allegedly And he had drank A lot That I do know for a fact Do you not have an accent That you could distinguish His main character He was so drunk

He could have been from literally anywhere But um It's actually Puerto Rican Yeah That's it No, he said he'd been stabbed, like, multiple times. He said that his mum stabbed him. He said that he'd been shot multiple times.

And he's been in all these fights and stuff. So he watched John Wick, like an hour before me. Yeah. He's the one dude where we actually had to stop serving him because he was so drunk. Really? Just kept talking about. He always wondered about that. But who's cool is it to stop selling?

It'd be the bar supervisor. Well, as any of us, really? If someone is very vividly, if someone is very visible. visibly drunk it's like the law to stop serving them what if they get all like you know drunk people angry though get the manager we yeah like yeah I mean it's it's stupid for them to get angry you're the only supply a drink yeah yeah get the double barrel shotgun that you keep under the bar get the winchester that you keep on the no I have one where it was another when I was walking argue argue is very clearly like a

short dog. Obviously, a Corgi. He's a very recognizable. Very recognizable features. But this old guy, he looked at him and went, oh, that's a Rottweiler, in it? No. No, he actually did.

You're bullshit. No, I was with Tabby. You can ask her. Yeah. A guy really mistook your little short dog for a Wottweiler. Yeah. No, he said it in his really thick, will chat. A Rottweiler is like a big dog, though, isn't it?

Yeah, they're huge. Yeah, they're massive. How the fuck. I didn't miss here in my it was like such a strange moment and I was just like yep and they just walked off

Why did you say yeah because like keeps a conversation short if you say no then you might get into further dialogue branch yeah if I wanted to like correct him and then like mass effect

it wouldn't just be the ones that forward you'd also have the investigative ones to go through as well and I oh no no it's more like fallout yeah

We can end it I love Fallout 4 That's an Alsation, isn't it? Dog meat or whatever No, it's a German Shepherd You fucking idiot It's the same breed I saw a huge Alessian

Operates a bunch of dogs Yesterday when I was walking here I saw this fucking enormous Alsatian freak me out Was it cute? Was it white? No Poised it then They are really nice Got back problems though

Brown and black You know There's a few I know a pretty big Alasasian I don't see the key to walk around a lot. They're gorgeous dogs, but I just think of modern warfare too. You know?

No one, like, if someone starts breaking into your house and then they see an Alsatian in there. Yeah, God damn. I'm out. They can move fast as well, man. You can't run. You have to just stand and fight this Alsatian. And you ain't going to win.

A dog that big is going to fucking... If a dog is actually... They have, like, knives for teeth. Mm-hmm. And they just go... tear through you. They're quick as well. Not every dog is just going to have the, it's going to want to just attack people like that.

You've got a train, it's to risk it. You're already going to be on edge. If you're breaking into a house, you have to assume that the dog in there is going to go for you. Yeah, they will. If there's even a 1% chance that Superman is going to kill everyone. Samoyed? Samoyed. How is that? Samoyed. Samoyed. I've never heard of that before. Well, they're really bad guard dogs.

I was reading about. Samoyed. Yeah, because they just kind of like smile and bark at things, but they won't attack it. But even barking is like a deterrent because making noise waking owners up you know drawing attention just buying a friendly and affable disposition makes

some poor guard dogs are bred to fight bears that's funny Merink has something for us hello again jar here's an update from the American visiting London I appreciate you guys giving me recommendations and I took your advice and made plans to take a day trip to

Stonehillhenge and Wiltshire as of when I'm typing this April 15th I'll be in England in a week so If anyone in the Jarmie is in London the week of April 22nd and sees the most American-looking girl, it's probably me. Game on. How does someone look American, is my question. Yeah, also in London. It's going to be a lot of people.

So, yeah. It's full of serious anyway. Not to, like, wrapping American flag around yourself. Like, I'm American. With like a eagle on your arm. You've got a stuffed eagle. You've got one daughter to hire. I'm American.

James, I'm surprised you even touching. that bird I thought you hated that it's a whole word opening skit I only like it because of how much James hates it just remember doing it that across the sofa well for the long time viewers we're playing with the crow anyone you can't see we're playing with the crow that was in a opening it's shade on my face yeah that's funny as fuck man it mayonnaise it was mayonnaise can I have my bird back Anyway, James, what are you doing? Playing my bird.

Why? Because I'm a fan of apex lesions. Why? Because I'm... What do you mean why? Why? Because it's a bird. No, why, though.

Why? Why? Why? I'm asking you why. I'm asking you why. No, but I started so you have to answer why. Okay. But why?

Okay. There's someone ask you to... I tried, okay? That's all I can say to that one. Someone left an idea saying from... What was his name? Daita Beetz. Ask James what he's doing and keep asking why until he says, reasons or I'm James.

And it didn't work. I don't say that anymore. You say reasons all the time. You say that now, and I don't say I'm James anymore. Yeah, you do. When do I said... You always say that you're James. Okay, I said it like...

Last time we were playing Apex. Oh damn, we're going to have to bring the mood down for this one. Rebuffed chaff says, I have a small story about how JAR helped me with depression. A few months ago I was in a really bad place due to a few things that happened in my life that I won't delve into here. I was so demotivated to do anything and there was a period of three weeks where I was bedridden

because I didn't see the point in doing anything. Then one day my friends streamed the JAR cast to my TV. It was like nothing I'd ever seen before and it was so, fucking shit that I had to get out, I'd better turn it off, so thank you. That's fucking brilliant. Was that a true story with a fake out ending, or was it a totally fake story? That's the question. That was the whole thing, so.

I demand answers. Thanks chaff for that one. How much truth is there to that story? It doesn't... You don't need to know? I need to know. I do need to know. Sometimes, Reuben, the answer is not worth knowing.

Sponge boy, ahoy, says, hey, jar. That's the best now I've heard in a while. It sounds like something you would do. I'm currently in the middle of revising for my GCSEs, which are coming up in less than three weeks. Safe to say, I'm pretty stressed and just wanted to ask this question. What? Oh, shit, yeah.

Yeah, man. Do you ever failed a GCSC or A level? And if so, has it ever affected you when I'm, applying for jobs or trying to get into further education. Oh, second question. I've been a listener since the very first jarcast and I'm genuinely quite interested to hear what you have to say. Okay, okay. I failed religious studies.

So did I. So did I. I. I failed A level philosophy and ethics or religion. Oh, A level. Is it a D is a FAL at GCS? No, it's a P. D is a P. At GCSC.C? Yeah. I got a U. No, well, the thing is I think D's are both passes, but no one really cares about them unless it's a C or higher.

But it is a pass. But I mean, like, GCS Cs don't get you into a job, like, unless it's like you must have maths and English GCS level grade C. They want it as a C, but technically a D is a pass. They don't care. At the end of day, after 10 years, GCSEs don't matter. They don't care by your GCSEs past. It depends what you want to do, surely.

Well, yeah, I mean... It's perfect experience. GCSEs are how you get to A level, and then A levels are how you get into uni. Or into, like, an apprenticeship or something. Yeah, yeah. but um how do we all do it Jesus is a fucking piss easy

well they're different now I believe yeah really they're different now yeah I've walked through yeah I did no revision I played dead space one I did I did no revision I stayed up to past like 11 at night

the night before the exams watching the shield the last few of the shield because I was like god damn this shit good and then I got an A star on the exam the next day it's insulting

I never did that well I didn't do any revision In fact I did like the opposite I was so I rejected education To such an extent that when I was in lessons I may as well have not been in lessons No that's what I was like in A level But in GCSC like

I pick everything up in the lessons And then a couple days before each exam I'd be like shit I got to revise And then I do a little bit So you did some revision Yeah sort of I didn't do any I actually didn't do anything for GCC

Yeah I did I did a little bit of math because the teacher and my mum were like communicating about it so I was sort of forced to do it By the way this isn't like it saying you should do the same thing as us I'm just saying what we did Obviously revising and doing well

is the best thing to do What about you James? Did you revise? Did you just play Call of Duty? No, because we've gone over before about how my school fucked me up just completely Yeah true And obviously you didn't even like

Have exams or that many you know Because the school put me in the lowest sets because they're fucking stupid. No, but I revised because I literally did, we, we did two years off of English work all to see. So I could get a C in my exam, my teacher didn't mark any of it. So I did two years off of work in like two days, or like two weeks. What did you get though? A day, because you didn't mark my work. So even if I got a C on my exam, they've only got to see because my teacher didn't mark it.

Oh, no. And I didn't do science because my teacher were like, you're smart, go to the bottom set of all the people who, Stupid. You used to be in the same set as gym, aren't you? Yeah, you started off in the same set as me, and then in the space of like two years went down to the bottom I literally did nothing wrong. I like school is weird, but I mean, I I failed almost everything Failed D I got I maxed out maths though I fucking aced maths every exam for maths like two years running and they kept me in the same set could have got a probably B C because it would have been too much work because I remember they

linked to English and maths for some reason in the way they'd like do the blocking. Yeah. So if you're bad at English, the highest set you could be in maths was still a low set. No, but in my set for maths, you could do the two papers. We had the dual papers. By they didn't let me do the higher paper.

Even though I was a-ing other paper. Yeah, you were getting like the hundreds on the lower grade papers, but they wouldn't let you do that. Yeah, it's just completely stupid. Yeah, that's bullshit dog. And then I went to college and did like stupidly, horrendously difficult mass

and fucking got a distinction start. So fuck you. Yeah. A level? You didn't go to sick form, sir. I didn't do well in. That's what is, that is the exam that I started after watching

the shield. Some great episodes of the shield the night before. My science lessons were just dominated by me not. But the thing is, I missed, there was like a year where I didn't do anything in it at all. And so then the next year I was expected to know all this shit and I just didn't.

I was like, well, I'm fucked, and that was that. Because I just hadn't engaged. I just hadn't engaged in all of year 10. Right. I was probably like depressed or something looking back on it, but just didn't do anything. Yeah, I wonder if... When I came to year 11, it was like, no idea, missed it all of year 10 because I just wasn't here. I wonder if I was depressed at A level, because I didn't do anything at all.

I couldn't, like, get up in the morning. I literally could not find the motivation to get out of bed. Jamie, do something. That's a key. Maybe do something, nah, can't make me. There were days where I would just stay in bed all day. Really? Yeah.

Like, I wouldn't go to school and I would just lie in bed and be like, if I get up, then, like, then I could have gotten up. Right, yeah. But if I stay in bed, like, it's just this weird shit in my head. But, um, I, up until GCSC, I was always told, like, you're good at science. You like science. Yeah. You should do science. And then I got to A level and I was like,

wait, I don't care. I mean, like, I find some of it interesting, but it's like, why am I doing this? The academic science, yeah. It's just like, education at that point to me just felt pointless. I mean, it's not. I didn't do anything in year 12 either. Honestly, I wish I'd gone and done an apprenticeship at that age.

Really? Just something where I was working, and at least then I would have been, like, building up to making a bit of money. Yeah, I would have been making money. You would have made money qualifications to get into a job, do more. I didn't do, I didn't, I didn't expose myself to the hell at A levels. I went to a practical college and did actual like shit and did incredibly well. Maxed out. I retook year 12 because I did so badly in my first attempt at year 12 like with doing these subjects. It was like a terrible

decision and then did okay the next time I did it. But yeah. I did really badly in year 12 and then in year 13 had to retake two exams, one of which I have managed to do worse on than like did in the year before despite actually revising for it i just didn't have a thing down for english literature i didn't really know what was wanted from me so i could know i had to be exams i was just like a shot in the dark um and it's not even like i'm a bad writer i just didn't really know what they wanted from me but yeah i had to redo an exam and make sure i did well in the those year exams in my grade ended up being late i got an a star being a d it's pretty good well the only a level I technically failed was biology

and I hated that A level with a passion because what I liked about physics and chemistry is that they had elements of like maths working out a problem but with biology it was just like what is this what does it do what is just like remembering facts

and that shit is so fucking boring what do you mean facts is a great so facts and logic no it's facts without logic Yeah, that was a good question Hopefully it will help some people We've all had a range of different experiences Well, we've got 30 seconds

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