Painkiller Already - PKN 418

Episode Date: August 23, 2022

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He's got to go back. PKN 418. Is it an okay topic? Yeah, I don't care. Yeah, I got that dog, but he bit girlfriend's dog, and he's been aggressive, so he's got to go back. He's just a big boy. Do you have a picture?

Is there anywhere we could see him? I don't want you to get hurt. No, he's not fucking with me. I've got to get the door shut. Can I see your the door shut can i see kyle come show us your rabid uh what do they call it the outdoor cat i'm looking oh feral a feral your feral dog i want to know what i did was um i went down to the animal shelter and they had this uh what looked like a um a palmski uh on their site if you don't know it's a pomeranian

and a husky mix and sometimes picture please and sometimes that turns into this real cute motherfucker that's short with a husky face and but but the way like dog genetics work sometimes you get like you get you get mixed bags jesus christ yeah i can tell he's aggressive that's not even well like when you see like one of those like like full size like like the idea is it's like a mini husky that ain't what i have though and when i got there i was like you're not a mini husky you're you're a fucking alaskan malamute motherfucker you're supposed to be in the iditarod or some shit what are you doing here in georgia and uh she opened the cage for me they have a ton of dogs and she opened the cages of maybe six dogs and only two of them even came out of the cage and were interested in me. Like most of them came out and they wanted to see what she was up to.

But the one but Toby, he looks just like that, except he's not as dark on the top. But his head looks like that. He's got that flat forehead thing going on. He's not scary or anything. It's just that when he's around other dogs, he's like, hey, this is my spot. And he'll growl at them and stuff. And I just can't have that. He's territorial.

I can't have a territorial dog because my girlfriend has this ancient little Pomeranian. And if this big dog nipsips it to correct it i'm afraid he's just gonna fucking kill it right um some other dog like grabbed the pomeranian the other day and i had to dive over a goddamn couch and like get this little dog out of the other dog's mouth and of course i'm the one that gets hurt because i'm the one sticking my hand in a dog's mouth that has saved the little fucker oh but uh this dog that i got like like he's not he's a he's just a big dopey motherfucker. But they told me that he was an escape artist.

He had been there five times. This is his fifth time being at the shelter. And he he keeps escaping from the same owner. And every time they've come and get him, but not this time, apparently. So I was like, all right, big boy, if you can come and like stick in the program, you can come with me. And he hasn't stuck with the program. And I want to take him back. No, it seems like he's –

There's two issues with him. Well, there's three. He's going to the vet tomorrow, by the way. I'm getting him all fixed up because he's got an ear infection that they weren't treating appropriately. That's no big deal. But here's the kicker, the thing that KyleMD – DVMD?

Is that a doctor of veterinary medicine? DVMD, I'm the only one out of this dog's multiple vet inspections. I've got a whole list of his health report. It's pages. I'm the one who realizes that the hardware they put into his leg when he broke it is exposed to the sunlight sunlight that I can see a stainless steel bar in this dog's ankle.

Jesus. You just see it? You can see it. It's shining. No one else sees this. That's crazy. That's so fucked up. Why does your dog have refrigerator magnets on his leg? It would stay!

Don't imagine that I can see through thin skin. Why does your dog have refrigerator magnets on his leg? It would stick! 100%. Don't imagine that I can see through thin skin. There is a stainless steel little bar. Dog's anatomy is a little weird, but let's just say it's going from what would be your... Dog's knees kind of go backwards in the back. If you imagine a dog's back leg. Imagine that backwards knee

where it goes up further to get more like hip bone. I think it's like an ankle up the chain a little bit. And their feet are toes. Anyway. Well, he broke that. And there's a bar in there. And I can see the goddamn bar. So we're going to get the vet.

Check that out, too. And we're going to get him groomed up and looking real good. And I'm not taking him back to where he came from because they're a fucking kill shelter. So now I have a laundry list of Alaskan malamute and husky rescue shelters so i'm gonna get him fixed up spiffy all of his like medical shit and then we're gonna stop start like finding somewhere for him to go that will like take care of him but don't he'll have a happy home but it ain't gonna be here i was talking to somebody and I told them that you were getting a dog and they're like, Kyle's getting a dog. Like, is that smart? And I'm like, yeah,

yeah. You want to be Kyle's dog. Kyle, Kyle comes from a dog family. Kyle's dad is good at keeping dogs. Kyle has always had dogs and Kyle, this isn't Kyle's first dog. Kyle's dog is going to get love and attention you work from home you know like you you know like this is a lucky dog this person was a hundred percent oh yeah we hang out all fucking day oh yeah like me and the dog or he's my shadow i go somewhere he goes somewhere that dog watches me take shits that dog uh that dog fucking like we go outside he's coming he's coming with me do you watch him take his shits yeah me. Do you watch him take his shits? Yeah, that's only fair.

I watch him take his shits a lot more than I do. And eat a lot less. It's weird. I want you to look at the photo you sent us of the dog again. Because it's a very cute dog. But when I showed the dog to my wife, she was like, oh, oh, he's so cute. But does that dog have down syndrome? That's exactly.

I immediately thought that. And I was like, it looks like the dog has down syndrome. And then I pulled up the picture of the tiger with down syndrome. And I'm like, yes, that dog has down syndrome. How do you know this? 100%. Because there was. Yeah.

The dog has down syndrome. You can show the picture. I don't care. I put it in PKA everyone so people can see there's nothing wrong with my dog he's got a propeller hat zach do you see it in the whatsapp i know it might take a minute to get it on the screen yeah no he's um um i don't know if the dog is Down syndrome. See, when I saw that cute little face,

I thought that's what the Pomskies look like because their face gets little, like a Pomeranian's got that little fucking face. And I think that's part of... But he looks like a Malamute, and everybody sees him and is like, oh, he looks like a big baby. That's Kyle's dog for now.

Oh, hi. My name is Tobin. He doesn't know his name. He doesn't know his name. I just saw that dog smash two beer bottles together in the pool. I read it. This dog does not have Down syndrome. His hair stands on end.

It definitely has Down syndrome, first of all. That much is a fact and also does his hair stand on end when he walks by the toaster this little metal foot but i am gonna get a dog i just gotta i gotta get toby here like down the road here's the dog i'm gonna get um i'm sending it yeah i've already if you groom up this dog currently you could flip it this dog is a high class little profit so i'm gonna as soon as i can get uh toby here like somewhere safe and sound i'm gonna buy this guy um he is oh that's a that is a classy dog i love that dog he's a he's a uh golden doodle

so half golden retriever half poodle is he a rescue or a no he is not a rescue he's a breeder dog yeah i won't judge it he's gonna be well behaved yeah jack the angry dog who people, you don't know how good Kyle is with dogs. Kyle is a dog guy. Dogs love Kyle. Kyle loves dogs. That's what's up. Jack didn't like Kyle. Jack didn't like me.

He needed more time. That's how I felt about me and Dax. There were moments where I could win him over, but it didn't stick. See, some dogs have had like if dogs have had trauma like like a trauma in their life that's a hard thing to get over because their brain is like our brains are made to take those traumas and turn them into skills you know some dogs are assholes let me interrupt you because i think dac was scared is what i was getting i think he had some kind of trauma and so he he would sit there and let you love him up because he felt safe in that moment.

And he would do that for me every now and then. But if the pieces on the board were to shift around, someone's standing by the door. He's over by here. He just woke up. Now I'm standing and I'm six feet tall and he's a fucking dog. Now, oh, it's a total different scenario. Now he's like, the fuck is going on? He's skittish, staying near the walls.

No good. Jack was skittish.ish now we got jack as a puppy puppy like when we got jack he was too young for us to take home like that's how young he was so we had to wait a couple weeks for him to be old enough and they were like all right this is what you do you take this dog you put him in a a kennel to socialize him so that he's friendly with other dogs. And we weren't even going anywhere. He would just do day camp at the kennel so that he got lots of interaction. And then we would have to walk him and he was aggressive and mean. He liked the family, but anyone outside the family hated. And we brought in a dog trainer and he came here and sort of trained us to train the dog and give us coaching on this. And we'd walk his whole life.

He never liked anyone outside the family. He was mean and aggressive and it was kind of nice because there was a time at youtube where fans were like hazing us and you know threatening us and stuff so it was neat to have an asshole dog in the house and look but yeah i mean that that it it may not just be him being a grouch it's him doing his job, right? There you go. If you can get inside his head, he's not like... Some dogs, if they're in pain, they'll get real defensive and grouchy. I think this dog, that might be some of his issue.

He's got a fucking earache. When I've got an earache, I am not sociable. Don't fucking talk to me. Leave me the fuck alone. I'll bite you too. Your audio waves are hurting my ear yeah but some dogs are like this is my home fucking base are you coming near my people are you coming near my now you must die to the death he was an asshole but he was my asshole and i appreciated him for that yeah um but he like i can't stress enough how we did everything we knew to do to make

him a happy social dog. Cause that's how every dog we've had is. And he wasn't that guy. So I, sometimes I think dogs are just too like, yeah, they just have their own personality. I have a friend with six kids,

right? And he has some kids who've never gotten let there. His daughter had a, her GPA was 5.6. I was like, how did you GPAs go, go that high? 5.6. She's going to loop her back around 5.6. I was like, how did GPAs go that high? 5.6? I didn't know that.

She's going to loop her back around to an F. Apparently, at that school, if you got an A in an advanced placement class, it was a 6 or an A-plus or something like that. And her grades are just so good. He has other kids. I don't want to air all this dirty laundry, but didn't have as easy a path

they don't they don't have double digit gpas the rest of them and uh all smart kids but not all of them trouble free and uh he'll tell me like you know what like they just turn out the way they turn out they were all raised in the same environment you know their mom and i loved them all the same. Some of them, you know, they walk on water. Some of them, they can't even swim. That's just what's up. I think dogs can be like that.

That Kevin Samuels guy is opening my eyes about so much. I'm so sorry he's dead. Like if anybody's listening to this and you're a black guy or maybe a black girl, although I don't think I've ever seen a black female fan of ours um i like i feel like he's like like here white guy is sending it to hey there's a guy i could teach you a lot but like as i'm watching what i'm thinking is if i were a black man i would really want this i would really want access for this this is some it's not applicable to all men it's so applicable to all men like i want to get that like make that clear it's 99 applicable to everyone

but then he'll be like he'll often ask the people who are asking for dating advice now are you looking to date outside your race and once they say no then he goes to the black people data he's like okay you want a black man well now the percentages change a little bit so you're looking for the are you looking for black millionaires you're playing this game on hard mode yep let me get my decimal marker out to show you how much percentage of men you're looking for it's uh it's real cool stuff and then he turns to me can i can i interrupt this is important then he turns the mirror on the girl and says all, you're looking for a top 0.03% guy. Are you? Let's look at you. Do you meet this criteria, that criteria? How hot are you? How obedient are you? How this are you? You got to be pretty

perfect to get that guy you're dreaming of. I bet that most of them don't cut it, right? None of them? It depends what they want. He'll ask these ladies in particular. They'll call in and he'll be like, well, what do you want? Well, I want a man who will do it. Oh, okay. You want a husband? Do you want children?

And once they say yes to all these things, he's like, okay, so what you want is a stepdaddy who makes $3 million a year. She's like, wait, what? No, I want a husband who will do this. this no you want a stepdaddy that makes three million dollars a year because each of those child children cost this much and the blah blah he'll like he's like why and they're like he goes math ma'am math here we go and he'll start like adding up child care and like some of these so he goes the financial route a lot with like breaking down like you want the top 0.1 percent of men well this is your competition in that game and by the way this is how much

money they make. What it boils down to is he talks about your sexual marketplace value as a man versus a woman and how the ladies will be like well I want this, this and that. He's like okay, that man that you want

you just describe the man that you want what does he want? And none of them know. None of them know. He's like, you don't know what that man wants. Do you know any men like that that make three or $400,000 a year? Well, my dad and my uncle. No, no, no. Do you know any? Do you know any outside your family? No. What kind of jobs do they have? I don't know, like a doctor or a lawyer. What kind? Where would you go to find him? None of them know the answers to those questions. And moreover, the main thing that he always boils down to, he'll say that your socioeconomic status, ma'am, single woman who's like working and has a degree is irrelevant to the type of man you're looking for he actually sees it as a negative the fact that you have all those that that master's degree and you are going

to be working all these hours at the hospital is a huge negative to this guy who's making half a million dollars a year because that's what you've said you said you want a guy making half a million and they're like but i went to school they're like that sucks that was a mistake that's what my mama told me your mama should have taught you better. His favorite, like, all right, well, buy a dog and die alone. Whenever they don't like what he's saying. Okay, ma'am, buy a dog, die alone. And then he plays a little soundboard that goes, woof, woof.

So this is what I, this guy and Andrew Tate are kind of two peas in a pod. Andrew Tate, if you don't know, got banned everywhere. Oh, really? You didn't know? He got banned by Meta, which means Facebook and Instagram. I don't think they're alike at all. Okay, let's circle back to that. He just recently got banned from YouTube, which I think is Andrew Tate's bread and butter.

That's where he really gets his message across. Now he's a TikToker at best? I'm not sure. He's been on twitter youtube and tiktok and i'm confident about what i said zach said twitter youtube and tiktok and i know he was banned from meta which is facebook and instagram um they're like at all so he's all over the place so that's interesting because they also talk about the sexual market value of a woman and where they fall on it with like a real reality check they would agree on what constitutes a woman's sexual market value and uh um it's well i think men would agree on what it's about what men want from women and he's not saying

anecdotally what do you want what do you want he's not saying anecdotally, what do you want? What do you want? He's saying like, these men want this. In particular, what the alpha. Yeah. You'll find one who doesn't, but by and large, this is what they want. That's, that's sort of his blanket. Or I would argue similar to that. This is what the men you're looking at want, right? Cause there's a, there's a broke guy with no job who thinks that this woman who's an attorney

is the bee's knees, right? She's exactly what, but she wants a guy who's higher in status. She still wants, I think it's, it's a hypergamy. Do I have the word right? Hypergamy. I'm not familiar with that word. Okay. It means dating up and it's usually like women dating better men. Um, and, uh, um, what they're looking for is hypergamy. So when you're already an attorney yourself, you're in a pretty rare class of people who are better than you. You need a doctor or a really successful businessman if you're an attorney and you're trying to date up. So what I think is interesting is if you talk about what constitutes a woman's sexual market value, right? And they usually calculate like age, some attitude stuff, how pretty you are. Um, uh, are you childless? That's part of it. It's mean, it's mean to say, Hey, you know, you're 34 now. Your sexual market value isn't

what it was at 24. Geriatric pregnancy begins at 35 as he likes to tell women. what it was at 24. Geriatric pregnancy begins at 35, as he likes to tell women. Wow. But if you tell a guy, hey, six inches, six foot, six digits, it's like, I don't know. Those are the breaks. Better add some more digits because you can't

fix the other two. Yeah, if you're short, you just got to have a bunch of money. This Kevin Samuels guy, when I see Andrew Tate, or when I've seen him, I guess I won't be seeing him anymore. His thing was like, this is the way things are, everyone. Listen up. This is the way things are.

You need to understand. It's a new wave, a new revolution. And Kevin Samuels is like, black people, we're messing up. We are the least married people on the planet. Only one in four black women will ever be married. We are not going to be able to go forward in the future like this. Like his thing is like, hey, our culture is suffering because of this monogamy, this marriage thing, this nuclear family thing.

We need to get back to that. And I think the most controversial thing that he says is he feels like if you're one of these quote-unquote high-value men, when you go outside the marriage for sex, that is not cheating. That is exercising options. But if she were to do so, that would be cheating. Andrew Tate says that too. And he's like, I expect you to be loyal to me, but I get to play around. And as an alpha male, as a highly desirable male, that's just the rules that society plays by. You can deal with it or not. If you don that go get a beta mail that's how the sopranos do it that's how the sopranos do it

tried and true yeah the mob knows the business okay 10 episodes that backfired together that's what they're all about yeah i uh i i find it very interesting not so much on the side of the we're just touched on but but like just the um um a lot of the it's not often like confrontational between him and his caller because these women are like hey i would like to marry you is what they're saying they're like hey how do i get a high value man you say you're a high value man i agree how do i get one like you i bet you've got friends he's like i got a facebook do I get a high-value man? You say you're a high-value man. I agree. How do I get one like you? I bet you've got friends. He's like, I got a Facebook group. A young lady wanted to meet one of these kind of men.

She was in it. She was married. Three weeks later, she was married. Uh-oh, Toby's angry. Never mind. Threat neutralized. Yeah. They got him.

You just hear the mailman please please um no i just found it really interesting and i watched that video today it's two hours long and it's called stuff your daddy should have taught you or something like that two hours yeah and it's for men though this one's for all for men and and um he's going through like facial i'm gonna quiet the dog in just a moment but he's going through everything from facial care to like exfoliating and cleaning your ass and everything. Oh, OK. I thought it was going to be pump up talk on like, you know. Oh, no.

It's always pumped. See, when he talks to the men, he's like, you're lazy motherfuckers. He's like, those women got to jump through all those. We've heard maybe hard on them. Well, let me tell what y'all got do work you gotta work if you're not working 60 hours a week that you're getting paid for then you're not working and he'll be like oh your pride won't let you go to circle k it won't let you go to a dollar store you get you get a job at the dollar store and the dollar general now you're making four i don't know he added it up forty seven

thousand dollars a year now you can get out your don't know, he added it up, $47,000 a year. Now you can get out of your mama's house. And he lays out this plan for not being a piece of shit. His whole thing is if you're going to be a man, you've got to work. Nobody's going to come in and swoop in and be like, oh, you're special and look after you. That seems like great advice. I subbed to Kevin Samuels, but less of his content has been pushed to me than Andrew Tate. But Andrew Tate says similar stuff. And when he talks to guys, he's like, Hey, you know, you have to do

these things. If you want to be, what's the number I'm making it up. Like 20% of people get 80% of the girls on Twitter, right? Maybe it's 10 and 90. I don't care. But if you want to be one of that elite group that all the girls are looking for, this is how you have to prep yourself. Don't be fat, be strong, be a high earner. You're like, get that shit done. Like Andrew Tate over here. And, uh, and then all the girls will want you. And then he says, if you're a girl, you need a low body count. You need, uh, you know, youth, you need to be pretty, you need to be skinny, you need to be fit. You need to be pretty. You need to be skinny. You need to be fit. And somehow when you say it to the guys, it's like, yeah, yeah, go make that money. Go get fit.

Say it to the girls. It's like, you're such a dick. You're a misogynist. How dare you give these women. He definitely goes too far. It can seem hateful sometimes. I feel like there's a little bit of, I don't know. You've always had it.

You're comeuppance. It's like, he's delivering some comeuppance to women when he's like explaining the way things are like he takes. And, and that's part of the entertainment side of it, I guess, or maybe that's just personality.

I don't know. But with the Kevin guy, I get more of a sense of like, again, that black people, we got to fix this thing we got going on. Okay. It's more about that than fellas.

Let's let's, I'm going to tell you how to get the pussy like it's not about game it's he's more yeah it's more about he's playing though it's more about marriage almost be alone and get a dog wolf wolf like there's a little come up and it's happening here too oh well i mean he's like well so there's this wake up call idea where where he's like talking to these women and they're when you hear them talk you realize that if somebody doesn't tell them, then they're never they're not going to know because the scenario that repeats itself over and over and over is that you say, do you have any high value or any high value men currently vetting you to be their wife?

They'll say, yes, I know. I got options. I know two different guys that are high value. Oh, yeah. Have they got down on one knee and proposed to you? Nope. Have they talked about it? Nope. And it's always, man, I never said that you couldn't fuck a high value man.

I never said you couldn't meet one. You can meet a bunch of them. That's the problem. It kind of goes down that line that like, it's real easy to meet them. It's real hard to get that guy to propose to you. And they'll often talk about body types, right? Because he'll always say you should be a size four.

You should weigh 130 pounds. You're 5'10". You should weigh, you know. And they'll be like, ah, but there's women getting bigger boobs and bigger butts all the time. Yeah, those are play things. That's for fun. They don't want to marry that. They don't want to marry that.

Again, if you came here and asked me, how can I get laid? How can I fuck an NBA player? Yeah, I'd send you to go get some bigger boobs and a bigger butt, but you came here looking for a man to love you and have children rear for the rest of your life. Maybe don't be a blow-up doll. I don't know.

I'm still wrestling with the idea that when you tell tell a guy you need to get your shit in order in this way you need to make so much money that four people can live off you comfortably comfortably you need to be this good looking you need to do this you need to do that and if you do there'll be women knocking on your door and it's like yeah i guess that is the plan where do i get my advanced degree and then if you tell a girl, you need to get this fit. You need to wear this dress size. You need to get this together and that together. And also you need to reverse time maybe. I don't know. And it's like,

well, that's just mean. He'll offer my time machine all the time. Does he? What can I do? Go back in time. And when he starts calling their stepkids crumb snatchers and he'll let me get that he'll lay out that and he'll lay out this scenario a lot and she's like got a seven-year-old daughter he's like all right you're gonna marry barry barry barry's the master plumber right. He makes eighty two thousand dollars a year. Barry is going to marry you and he's going to raise that little girl. Seven years or seven years go by and she's 14 and she's tired of Barry's shit.

Maybe she's not. Who knows? But one day you come home and she says, Barry touched me. What are you going to do? What are you going to do now? You got a kid with Barry. Fuck that kid. Fuck Barry. You care about your daughter. Yeah, I care about my daughter. Yeah, exactly. Why is Barry going to take this huge risk that someday your daughter will blackmail him? It happens every day.

I swear. She wouldn't do that. How do you know? Andrew Tate does this. He just does it a little different. He says, you marry this girl. They get happy. 80% of divorces are initiated by women turns out 75 but let's just go with it he's like so you marry him and there's a three-quarter chance that you know they're gonna drop your ass and the math is wrong but and and take all your cash and like why are these high value guys gonna take that risk and then that's, it sounds like a real similar playbook.

Yeah. I see a lot of the stuff from Andrew Tate, like, you know, like, like you don't, he talks about countries and like, like,

like living in Romania and like all sorts of like street fights. And there's just so much like anger. And this guy is real low key about it and less confrontational. Their confrontations happen, for sure. But... He just feels a little bit smoother and Tate feels a little bit more... I don't know. They're completely different.

My guy's dead and he was 52. And this guy's young. I wonder how... It's all for Target. I wonder how... Professional fighter. He was a world champion kickboxer and now he's retired but clearly working out all the time and i think on the t um but that's neither

here nor there kevin was yeah he's here he passed kevin was yeah um what was i gonna say anyway yeah it's they both have this hey shape up make yourself more marketable message and uh the women are like hey that's you're an asshole for saying that and the guys are like yeah i know and it's a different thing dude you were talking about the dog bite that happened i'm at this place a retail worker she's limping around and it's like, Hey, you know, we're limp buddies, right? Like, like what happened to you, dude? I didn't know the risk. So she has indoor outdoor cats, two of them. And as she's letting them in or out of the house, a feral cat is attacking one of her cats. So she breaks it up and the feral cat bites her on the top of her foot.

Somehow, you know, it gets a little, it gets its two little vampire fangs in the top of her foot. And she's like, oh, that sucks. And it looks almost like a snake bite.

Like it's not real bad or anything. So, uh, she wipes the blood off and continues on her day works a five hour shift. By the end of that shift, she can barely walk. She is wiped out. She's feeling ill. She's a mess.

She gets herself to urgent care. And they're like, you have a bacterial infection. At this point, the pharmacies are closed. So she goes home pretty much untreated. In the morning, she'll pick up her prescription and take antibiotics. They told her, all right, you hurt right here right now. If you hurt here, and I don't know where that is, like just above your ankle, this is spreading. You have a big problem and you need to go to the hospital.

And that happened. But instead, she used her own judgment and said, well, I'm not on antibiotics yet. Once I get on antibiotics, it'll fight that and it'll push it back down. Apparently, that's not the move. And while there's some mistakes being made along the way here, I didn't at least I didn't consider them wildly stupid. Like, you know, I said I could handle rattlesnake venom like a cat. Mind over resistance to it for years. You know, like, and the idea like, all right, it's not feeling better, but I'm,

I'm, uh, my antibiotics are starting now. So I'm about to turn this ship around. They did give you specific advice, but I can see where her head was and it didn't seem super stupid to me. Anyway, she's on antibiotics and a few hours later gets herself to the ER. They admit her. She's in the hospital for two weeks because of this cat bite on the top of her foot.

She nearly loses like the calf down. They are fighting to keep this foot from this fucking cat bite, which to me, I didn't realize was such a big problem and she's like she was black she was like there shouldn't be so many kinds of pain there are all kinds of pain i had throbbing pain i had sharp pain i had dull pain i had tingly pain i had numbness pain i had he's like why do i have such a complex reaction to pain going on there i suppose that's about all the kinds of pain there is.

So I really felt for her. She didn't say all the words, but it sounded like she was like, you know, I could have dealt with one or two of these pains, but this concoffiny symphony of pains that blasted her was just, and I was like, this is personal,

but let me ask this like i've been in spots where the pain even if it's like a six out of ten just being so relentless and never going away i was like does it fuck with your head like were you like emotionally down and she's like yeah yeah i needed someone i could beat on and there was no one there it's like this oh it would have brought her a cat. My cats were nowhere to be seen. She said

without shame, her favorite way to deal with being down is to hurt somebody else and pull them down. I'm going to get you a pillow or something. That person needs to calm down a little bit. Maybe someone sent that cat to bite her it's like i was doing some some helping she was i told her i was like i don't

mean to drop this on you but i'm breaking up with you right now because she sounded like the worst girlfriend ever and uh anyway uh yeah so when i saw, she was limping around and on the mend. But a cat bite. And I put her in the hospital. And Mitch, everything's outpatient now. Everything's outpatient. Your baby's outpatient. All your procedures are outpatient.

I had my ACL replaced in an outpatient procedure. I can't recall the last time I stayed overnight. And I'm a bit of a hospital guy. Everything's outpatient now. But they kept her for two weeks. That shit must have been a big deal. You're the kind of guy that would notice a hospital adding phone chargers to the bedside table. You'd be like, you know, these USBs, they make your broken ankles a breeze.

I remember two broken legs ago, so not this most recent one. I was in the hospital, and I was in Reno, Nevada, something like that. Anyway, my phone was my lifeline. Like I really needed it. And they were wheeling me into surgery. And I asked the nurses, I was like, can you charge my phone for me? It's an Apple. Like I know it's kind of like someone out there, maybe one of you guys in the little huddle back there has an iPhone charger.

And the nurse didn't have an iPhone, but she was like, you know, I'll give it a go. And it just was really good care to me. I felt not all of nursing is administering medicine and observing symptoms and stuff like that. Like there's a little bit of affections, the wrong word, you know, charging an iPhone. But yeah, right. Like a little bit of affection is the wrong word, charging an iPhone. Side manner? Yeah, right? A little bit of nurturing aspect. She helped me in a way that wasn't medical.

And I think I look back on that as much as I do the medical care. It was really nice. Who's that? Is that the adorable little Pomeranian right there on your lap? Yeah, I'm a little fat. Oh, that dog is adorable. Yeah. I love little dogs.

So cute. Get another one just like that. Don't get anything that could harm that little angel. Yeah, I was looking at two Pomeranians. Hold it a little higher. When you have two Pomeranians, it's called a tuft. But I think three Pomeranians is called a tuft. Get a tuft. Get a tuft of Pomeranians. called a tuft. Get a tuft.

Get a tuft of Pomeranians. And that made a whole poof ball. How much does he or she weigh? Eight pounds. Eight pounds? That's so cute. I want one now. Yeah, she likes me a lot because I take care of her.

Yeah, you protect her from that special fiend in the other room. Yeah, it's my fucking plot of retard clacking around with his metal ankle i oh i uh it's a gaming thing i hardly ever bring up gaming things but did either of you guys ever play Elden Ring? No, but I'm addicted to the subreddit. You played Elden Ring, Kyle? Oh, yeah. I played.

So going into it, let me say I was stoked. I was so excited. I wanted to really, really, really like it because the world is so cool. Is this recent? It's an oldish game. Yeah, it's just a couple days ago that I put it on my Xbox and I started playing it.

And the first thing I noticed, and I'm going into this with anticipating greatness. I'm so excited. And so first thing I noticed, I'm like, oh, the NPCs, they kind of just sit there. They don't really have an internal kind of,

they don't have like a busybody feel like the people in Fallout or Skyrim. They're just kind of, it's a guy who's there and he says one thing. And when you come back, he won't ever be in the village square. He'll be there in that chair. So there's not as much immersion there. The first thing that really drove me off that I tried to ignore is the menu itself is so badly designed. In order to pull up your inventory, in order to pull up your equipment and everything. So I'll use Skyrim as an example. 12 years ago,

Skyrim came out. You want to pull up your skills, B and left and right on your you know control pad one button you want to look at your skill points up and b one button you want to look at your items left and b one button i'm counting two in all of these but carry on but it's one button and just a slight twitch of the left uh joystick and that's what it is it's just boom boom boom you know how easy skyrim is in this game and it obviously pauses the game for you so that you can do all your shit. In this game, you hit start. The ugliest block menu and on Earth shows up and the left joystick no longer works. That's disabled when you pause.

Is the game paused? No, the game's still going. You have to move your hand down to the square like bulbous one. That's how you maneuver. And it takes multiple clicks multiple layers to get where you need to go it's not intuitive it's not easy to track uh i also did not like i thought there was a problem with my tv when i went into a cave so the way you play these games is the very beginning of the game you go out there there's an npc you

don't realize they're all going to be just as boring as him and you hit y to talk to him and he's like oh hello uh ashen one are you woken from the slumber come here to find the missing keys or whatever the fuck in the between lands and then he stops talking i'm like oh okay and then i hit y again he's like oh still here curious where you want to go, eh? And he's like, and then like, that's about it. And I'm like, Y one more time. And he's like, follow the light over the yonder. And it's like, what the fuck are you talking?

And so I then check because I imagine I've just started a quest, right? Now, what happens when you start a quest in games? You get a log in your quest log so you can track it because otherwise you're going to talk to 1,500 people and have a bunch of quests that you don't remember starting. Now, the solution to this in Skyrim and Fallout, those antiquated, archaic games, is they have this novel feature called a waypoint,

and you can put a waypoint on things recently discovered. Now, they decided this was meaningless, and so over time playing, I only got a few hours in, a waypoint on things recently discovered. Now, they decided this was meaningless. And so, over time playing, I only got a few hours in, I was like, oh, I talked to that merchant who was selling shit. I need to go back to him and spend some of my stuff to get a crafting kit or whatever the fuck. So, you

open your map. They don't track key NPCs. They don't track merchants. They don't track most shits. They don't track merchants. They don't track most shit. But worry not, Woody. The solution to this, I shit you not, this is the solution to it.

They want your ass, who's playing a game for fun, to manually add and label waypoints for merchants for your own use. That is so tedious. I'm not doing that. As soon as I saw that, I'm like, okay, well tedious i'm not doing that like i as soon as i saw that i'm like okay well i'm not doing this absolutely not this game from three or four months ago no i i just played it oh well i i just played it for the first time and i saw the combat and how cool that is and i haven't even harped on the worst like the most frustrating part in that when you start a game that's about fundamentally creating a character to improve their combat skills.

Initially, the first thing you want to do is fucking fight. The last thing you want to do is start a game. And the first thing you do after being pumped up as this combat warrior is the first enemy you see is a tree sentinel sitting on a horse. And he runs towards you. Is he a tree sentinel sitting on a horse and he runs towards you and he's rewriting a horse he's a guy this is a giant knight sitting on a horse his like body is like brock lesnar compared to like uh joe pesci like like a giant man and he's on the horse and he's got more range than god with this fucking lance he has and he if he sees you he rides over and he kills you and he said it says you died and then you go and you spawn back and then you go oh well you're supposed to sneak by

a lot of enemies in this combat based game and so you have to the first enemy you see you have to sneak past now what do i think someone who's played a lot of skyrim i go okay i bet there's caves i bet there's stuff around here that i need to explore to level up in order to beat him. That's what I have to do. So I talk to the guy who sends me on that light path trail, and I play it like I play Skyrim. I'm like, I'm not going to the objective. I'm exploring. I'm running around.

I find a cave. The cave, this is where the problem with the visuals happen. I go into the cave, and quickly I'm like, something's wrong with my TV. Like there's clearly something wrong because everything's, it's a third player game, third person. And so my guy starts going into the blackness and then it's,

it's solid black. There's no HUD. There's no tunnel in front of me. There's no guy. And so I go, fuck. So I hit start that pops up. So it's not my TV.

I turned brightness. I literally thought your TV was broken. I thought it was pitch black. It looked like the TV turned off. And I went in there. I turned the brightness up all the way. Now it's just all gray instead of all black. And so I keep moving forward, wondering if I'm walking into a wall, if I'm even going right.

I swear to God, I hold it forward for like six seconds, which doesn't sound like a long time, but that's a long time to just hold the joystick forward. And I'm about to stop. And then I see in all the blackness, all the grayness, I see a tiny patch of barely dark green and it's moving like I'm moving towards it. I'm like, oh, I am moving. I go towards it. Collect cave moss. I collect the cave moss, which is a mistake. Now I'm back in blackness.

And so then I keep going. It opens up in like the one light area, which is like six wolves, six unbelievably difficult to kill wolves in the beginning of a game. Like they're not Skyrim wolves. They fuck you up. So they weren't that hard.

I wiped through all the wolves first try. I loot everything. The loot is not like Skyrim or Fallout where you like pull up a list of things in there and you get to pick and choose. It just tells you like, this person who's wearing a full set of armor had leaves in their belt

and you can have the leaves. And it's like, oh, well, that's how immersive. And then you go, you continue down the cave. And I guess the way it shows bosses is there's like green mist in a doorway and it says traverse through the mist. And so I thought, oh, that guy, you know, that mini boss that fucked me up with the horse. I probably have to beat this boss and then go back to him or do something else.

I walk through the door to this random cave boss and a goblin five times my size wielding a scythe leaps across the arena and like beheads me in one swoop one now what that means is i respawn back at the top of the cave and i have to go all the way back down through the darkness the wolves respawned immediately and so i have to kill all the wolves again go all the way down to the beginning of the boss chamber collect my runes shamefully and then leave back through the pitch black tunnels getting lost and like trying to find you didn't use your lessons learned from the boss to try again i had well i wasn't about to go in because there was i'm telling you woody there's no world i had a chance there's no world like when it was like oh don't use your shield you need to B-roll. It's like, I can't B-roll more than once in a row in my little outfit,

and this guy's cutting off heads 30 yards away. I did not have fun. I was unbelievably disappointed. The lack of waypoints is tremendously lazy. The difficulty scanning or leveling is not fun. It's not fun. This game came out, and I haven't played it but kyle played it and a few guys from discord kit played it these people are gamers right like if you take any you let's pretend

kyle's never played super mario brothers the platformer he's gonna jump on and be better than most of the people you know right he's a gamer he's been gaming for decades none of them are good at elden rings all these people who who like can really game who can who could get shit right we're like elden rings is too hard like fuck elden ring here's what i think it's supposed to be i think when you do when you're you're not supposed to ever go and face a boss and just shit on it the first time, the second time, or even the 10th time.

I think that they want you to spend so much time memorizing him and actually learning how to fight him. Um, and the fact that they've, they've said, no, we don't allow cheesing in our game. That,

that shit you do that works in Skyrim where you crouch in the bush and you hurt him real bad and then run away till he's not aggroed. That won't cut it here. You're going to fight. Oh, you want to run away until he's not aggroed, that won't cut it here. You're going to fight. Oh, you want to run away? He's faster. When you pick a fight, you've picked a goddamn fight. And you're going to lose it if you don't know what you're doing.

He's faster than you and he has more range than you. You need to be much smarter. You need to learn like, oh, what is he? He has much more HP than you. Like, 14 times more HP. And the range, the HP, the much more HP than you. Like, 14 times more HP. And the range, the HP, the speed. Oh, you

just have to learn his tells. And the tells aren't like, oh, prepare to do your thing. You see me now, right? I'm whoosh. No, it's not like that. You have a frame to observe what he's about to do and do your, you know, dodge counter. Which is, like, I get it, but also, like do your you know dodge counter which is like i get it

but also like when you look online and it's like tips to beat this boss they're like so the way to beat bosses in this game is you need to study their movements and know what the next ones are and it's like that's interesting i have a job like like i i'm not doing that for you so that i want to play skyrim and fall i want it to be more about the adventure and like discovering new areas, looting, working on my character, building up the stats and then combat being there too. But I don't want it to just be bouncing around with this.

This is for people who like Dark Souls. If you don't like the Souls games, then you're not going to like this because this is not a Bethesda. I've never played any of those. I haven't either, but Wings has. And like, I remember like watching him one time,

and it just seemed like this tedious, meticulous thing that you've got to power your way through, and it would be frustrating and frustrating and frustrating, and that's just not my game. Tedious is such a perfect word for it. Elden Ring is difficult because it wants to be difficult, because it wants you to feel great when you finally do get anything at

all accomplished are you guys familiar with oh with let me say if you want to play it you got to watch a starter video though because like right from the start it's like dude run three minutes over here and grab the map all right you got it run five minutes over here and grab the horn of absolution got it all right now it's like you get those like six items that are all like in that starting area and now you can kind of play. You can do that. Are you familiar with the legend of Let Me Solo Her? Mm-mm.

Not either of you? No. All right. So this is going to be like 75%, right? I guess when you face bosses, you can summon a person or two to help you beat the boss. And there's a boss named Melania. Melania? Again, 80%, right right and she looks incredibly difficult

she's faster she flies once you beat her she reincarnates and becomes this flying super boss and uh you know of course you're on the ground with your fucking sword and she has her like i don't know scythe and wings and fireballs and she's fast and this guy said he spent 30 tries trying to beat this woman and he never got more than 15 off her first health which is to say seven percent of her total health and uh he's like fuck it i'm gonna summon someone for help let me solo her shows up and this is i like it too let me solo her shows up and this is i like it let me solo her shows up with two katanas a thong and a pot on his head and the guy's like i had my doubts but you know let a guy live his dream so he stands back and let me solo her beats melania without taking one hit

point of damage she never gets a lick in on him and everyone is like the no way and uh then like this guy this is his thing he sits around waiting for people to summon him to beat melania that's how he enjoys elden ring and he always shows up in a thong with two katanas and a pot on his head. I'm watching it, yeah. And he plays her perfectly. And he became a legend in the Elden Ring subreddit, where he did an ask, I'll let me solo her, ask me anything. That's really cool.

Yeah. It's like you say like you memorize these tells and you only have like one frame to see it and he just responds perfectly all the time he's yeah he knows what's up um and there's something about his outfit that helps like of course you can't take any damage but i guess if you have a pot and no armor you like get some speed bonus or hit point hit bonus or something it's called targe strength if you do a google image search on let me solo her i wonder if you see this guy yeah that's not the game man that's not the game yeah oh dude i'm sorry to cut you off but i'm really excited i went to the elden ring subreddit today and this legend

they're 3d printing models of him you know with the pot on his head and the underwear and the katanas the people are drawing fan art of this guy let me solo her is is a legend it can god you know you're cool when you're drawing fan art of another man. Look at this guy. Let me solo her. That's the guy. That's the second version after she reincarnates and becomes this

flying thing. That's Melania. That's not a pot. You can put a tree in that thing. That's a planter. That's a planter. It's as wide as the man's shoulders. It's a cauldron. They call it a pot on the subreddit. That's what I'm going by.

But yeah, that's the legend of Let Me Solo Her. And he's apparently a savant at the game. Well, I'll let him keep his throne. I guarantee he's a savant at more than just the game. That guy's got all sorts of intricacies. I don't know. I couldn't get in that game. It's not what I consider to be fun.

I like that. I really like co-op, and I like it if the game should be about us working together to do a thing, and that thing should preferably really upset someone else that's why rust and tarkov are so fun when when it's four in the morning and our alarms go off across the greater united across the planet four alarms go off at 4 a.m eastern standard time and like four dudes wake up grab coffee and like we all go to our computers and our mission is to go fuck up some dutch assholes that we met last night it's like they're going down and then like it's not one of those things i bet i bet everybody has this

growing up where you think you make plans with another kid and you're like oh yeah tommy's coming over today we're gonna play checkers that's a bad example but just pretend and and then pretend. And then Tommy doesn't show up because Tommy didn't value playing checkers with you. But to you, checkers was the whole day. You're like, we were going to play checkers. And Tommy was like, what now? Like, that's what it's like. I don't know. I can't get into the Elden Ring game.

I need a game where people get hurt. I need a game where people are upset after it's over. And more than i'm gonna be the person that's upset gives you that it gives you that but it's also a little tedious escaping like the the key to success if you watch the best players play is they're cautious they check every corner and they have this map knowledge like all right you know i'm 14 minutes into this raid this is about the time that someone in that spawn might be here they have an understanding of typical map flows that you don't think you know like what this guy runs around saying you know cheeky sucker all

the time through dorms how could he do that well he knows he knows that at this point there's someone going to be there or not going to be there by the percentages and and can do shit you can't yeah um it you just so much checking so much careful and the when the one moment you just start running like a fool through an area where someone might see you they pop you dead you die real fast in the game that's uh and rust is even better now rust has made the spray uh easier now for for all the guns okay it's it's way way way easier like i can do it now anybody can do it now we spent hours in those simulators like like like memorizing a stupid mouse pattern uh and now it's just like pull down down! Got him! Has it lowered the skill ceiling?

Yeah. So, you used to have some friends that could use the AK well. Apparently, the AK in the hands of an expert is top-notch gun. In the hands of a regular person, not the one for you.

We would be like, everybody who's new is like, I want an AK! It's like, man, no you don't. You're going to be unarmed. Because you're going to pull the trigger and you might we would be like everybody who's new is like i want an ak and it's like man no you don't you're gonna be unarmed because you're gonna pull the trigger and you're gonna be like wait what the fuck because it draws squiggles around your enemy when you shoot yeah but in it but an expert knows how to compensate for that have your experts become less valuable now that they leveled the playing field i would imagine imagine that because the playing field leveled across the board that they're equally as valuable. But no, they have to be less valuable because the ceiling's lower.

There's more people who can do what they can do, I would imagine, at this point. Because they are good and they spend so much time, they will be the best. It's not literally pull down. There's some manipulation, so they will be better at it. But I think the deal is that you can be okay at it and get kills now and that's that's a big part of it and it's not just the ak you know the mp5 was always very very very strong but its pattern i think is more difficult than the ak it's got this like quick zigzag you've got to draw and i you watch a player keep the thing perfectly stable and you watch his hand

doing this zigzaggy nonsense and it's like dude you did that while you were running like the characters you know he's like there's so much going on like he's not thinking about what he's doing it's this programmed response where he he he knows how to do it but but he couldn't explain it does rust have a cheater problem oh yeah every game have a cheater problem? Oh, yeah. Every game has a cheater problem. Any game, every game has a cheater problem. The ones that have the option for people to earn, to do real money transactions, have the worst cheater problems, of course,

because that's driving the development of new cheats. It's driving the need for them. Does Tarkov have real money transactions? I feel like it doesn't, yet I know that on eBay or wherever it is, it does. So I don't know. I don't know exactly how it works now

because I don't cheat, but I know that there's some bullshit item called an awl. You do carpentry, you know, a wooden awl. Oh, yeah. It's just a hole-poking device. Yeah.

So you need one. They're a little rare. And I was like, Larry, can you just drop me a wooden awl next, right? Yeah. They're 3 a hole-poking device. Yeah. So you need one. They're a little rare. And I was like, Larry, can you just drop me a wooden awl next raid? Yeah. They're 3,000 rubles or whatever. And it's like, when you drop it on the ground, it deletes. Really? Yeah. So, like,

I'm certainly glad I wasn't trying to... It's not possible it just, like, phased into the ground or anything. No, they delete. A lot of things delete now when you drop them. Oh, okay. Although I haven't, like, tested that a ton but but we've had people who are like hey wanting quest items essentially like hey could you drop this or that because we have flea market the item doesn't need to be found in raid so we can absolutely get it but apparently dropping it makes it delete or dissolve or not pick up a bull or maybe you can't drop it i don't know what the case is you know

what i'm talking about like maybe i've i tried to drop you something and there's a dead body there and it's like literally impossible to pick up because it's under the body yeah yeah yeah it's not like that happened no no it's just i think they've been trying to combat the rmt for a long time but the cheating is the worst it's ever been i think this time around um i i've seen a few people do interviews with the cheaters and have them explain like how cheating works why it's profitable and why they do it. And it's like. They're not it's not some kid out there who's bad at video games and wants to be good at making cheats. OK, there's like a businessman out there who has a passion for gaming. That's you might not believe that you're like, he's a cheater. He makes cheats. He must hate games and gamers.

No, he plays every day. He loves it. He's been gaming for the last two decades. But he also loves making cheats for Tarkov because it's really fun for him to be able to laser people in the head across the map and earn an income doing it. Some people enjoy games in different ways, right? I can't think of a game that I

didn't enjoy the way that developers had in mind. But people play Tarkov and they're like, I like to play it as a pacifist. What? It's a shooter. Yeah, I know I can't do all the quests, but you know, I like to go in there and gather items and play. Rust is like that. Rust has so many role players in it. And there's even servers. I like a role player who will go into a regular server. He's Johnny Appleseed. That's what he's decided to do. A lot of people will say that they're Snoop Dogg or something,

and they'll start growing weed because there's cannabis plants in the game to make hemp, you know, hemp rope. And it's a commodity. And for a while, it's like, that's all they're doing. Like, we'd be playing the game, and then some guy would be like, can I just be y'all's weed salesman? I'll build a dispensary next door. And it's like, that's all they're doing. We'd be playing the game, and then some guy would be like, can I just be y'all's weed salesman? I'll build a dispensary next door. And it's like, sure.

And you'd look over there, and there's just smoke coming out of that place. He's got sprinkler systems, and lights are coming on, on timers and stuff, like growing hydroponic weed over there. What happens if he gets raided? People can destroy his stuff, right? Yeah, they break in, they take all his weed. But just like a real drug dealer, he's just like, well, shit, time to

patch this up and grow some more. That happened in Minecraft. I've compared Rust to this factions gameplay mode we had in Minecraft. Dude, it's so similar. It's almost exactly the same game mode exactly the same sort of like the alarms ring at 4 a.m it's useful to have people around the planet you know i my players were often young so it's like well shit i'm at school right now i need

an australian to guard the base you know overnight while i'm going to school during the day and um same sort of thing you grow, they even called it weed, but it was sugar cane in Minecraft. It wasn't the most profitable thing, but you could turn a profit on it. People didn't raid you so much because

you don't get as much from that raid. I'm bad at the PvP. In Rust? Yeah uh it's often like scary when i'm getting in a gunfight because i'm trying to do something else most of the time like like i play rust for the purpose of getting upset at people who are in the game with me and then like going and getting them like i want and by that i mean offline raiding them always offline all the time um i don't want to online anybody for taylor's benefit i don't want to walk up to

your house and be like yo come out let's do this shit and then start shooting rockets at the door no that would be so hard what if they killed me and take my rockets i want to wait the reason i that my boys are in australia and the nether Netherlands is because I want to wait until you're asleep in your real world bed. And then I want to wake up with my boys from the other side of the planet who are, you know, it's noon there. They're ready to cause some problems.

For all those fuckers in Japan sleeping. I want to break in, find you asleep in your bed and do weird shit to you. And leave a note on your body. That's a normal part of gaming. That's the key. That's what we all want. Elden Ring doesn't let you do that at all. Play Fallout.

Play Fallout. That's fun. Fallout? Yeah, I'm going to play Fallout. Fallout 4. I've never played Fallout 4. It's a brand new one every year. They make so many mods for Fallout. It's like Fallout Miami, Fallout London. You can go to whole other worlds. Before bed like uh before bed tonight i'm gonna you know turn on

fallout 4 play a little bit of that what it's my it's not a great one but it's a good one it's the only one i have yeah uh don't bother with charisma i like to do intelligence builds so that you're getting you're ranking up faster and um everything's viable in that game though um especially on console i bet you've got like access to some ready drop mods you can just click download and make that game better no that'll be fun yeah i'm looking for came out seven years ago yeah 2015 but on pc like they they don't just add like a new gun they'll be like they'll turn fallout 4 into fallout miami and like just just make it i don't

know how you do that but it's a brand new game that they oh so it's not is it bethesda coming out with a new game you're talking about it's modders yeah the modding oh that's the other thing we could do um and all three of us could do it someday if we even wanted to that you were talking about skyrim you can play skyrim together it's it the mod is called skyrim together i would i don't remember how many people you can bring with you is the one they're porting to i want The mod is called Skyrim Together. I would not do that for sure. I don't remember how many people you can bring with you. Skyrim is the one they're porting to everyone. I want to play it on a pregnancy test or something stupid. Perfect.

I mean, I saw a meme of the guy who got Skyrim to play on his keyboard, like the small window. The little window on your keyboard. He just had the camera looking there, and then you see the fuzz become the guy sitting in the back of the part as you're going there to the oh man yeah i would play skyrim together for sure i love skyrim it's so much fun it's it's not that elden ring is bad at all it looks like it's cool game it's just i guess i went into it thinking it was going to be more open world like discovery

adventure it's not for people like us yeah like my thing like i'm too shitty of a gamer passionate people are about it so it must be a good game so i just it's not my taste you know you can say i've got bad taste if you want but that does not fit within it i'm not i'm not good enough at gaming and i'm not willing to put it i the the the uh the juice isn't worth the squeeze you know like like how how much time would i have to spend to like be able to kill the first boss if i get done and i'd be like i'm i've wasted so much it wasn't even fun it wasn't even fun the best time if you're playing games it's wasted time most of the time anyway you know enriching yourself like i mean but tell me like when

you played skyrim the best part of skyrim like if you're playing a mage for example is like nearer the end game like 60 of the way through when you've got all your badass spells but you still have a bunch of like big quest lines to do like that's when it's fun like i like walking into the crypt with all the jogger and being like oh in no world do they have a prayer. Like, mass cast paralysis. You're all paralyzed. Get fucked. Stuff like that is fun. Seeing all your magic come to fruition. Yeah, Elden, that's not the game for me.

Yeah. But I'm hoping that, again, Dark Tide comes out this fall. I know it's been delayed a couple times, but I think it's still supposed to be, like, September. I'm looking forward to that. That'll be a bunch of fun. Yeah. Want to wrap up?

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