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P-KN 619, Taylor has a home emergency,
following me evidence is something.
I don't know the details, but he can't make it.
What's up, Kyle?
How's it going?
Good.
So I've been watching Peanut Play Sand.
What's the second half of that game's name?
Do you have in front of you?
I think you just look it up.
It's, uh, I don't.
Sand Raiders of Sophie?
What am I looking at?
Yeah, that's it.
That's the one.
Yeah.
It vibes like a game that takes place on.
the ocean. You should see like the little walker that the way it travels and goes over the dunes
and stuff. It's as if it was wavy waters, rough seas. And you and your friends build the ship.
So there are things about ship design that are better than others as a motor called the reactor.
It's smart to put them in the middle. So the enemy can't shoot it from, you know, as soon as they see it.
It has, you know, four legs as you can see. That's those reactors are top center. That's not the
that I've seen wildly successful.
They're easy to hit.
You want to put them sort of in the middle of the ship and have your storage compartments
protecting it so you have to shoot through those to the others.
There are big cannons.
I don't see any on that ship,
but cannons like a pirate ship would have.
And there's different levels of them, you know,
gray, green, blue, whatever.
And you and your friends, you can play in one, three, or six-man teams.
And it's, it's simultaneously,
a blast and I'm about
cooked watching Peanut Play It. He
gets together with
five professional gamers
and after the fight they don't even
have to repair their ship anymore. They are
so dominant and
all of them are very good and they've
kind of discovered the meta before anyone
else did and
there's hardly any drama.
Summit, they still
use the first blueprint he ever made and his
ship is utterly garbage. So they
still win all the time. But at least they
to repair their ship afterwards.
But I just see you and your buddies.
I bet you you'd like sand and you'd have a good time figuring it out.
It's a PVPVE extraction shooter that takes place in an alternate history 1910.
Players are the desolate post-apocalyptic deserts of the fallen planet Sophie.
And you have the core mechanic is the building and piloting of customized giant walking mech fortresses
called tramplers.
They serve as your base, transport, and primary weapon.
You squat up with friends or play solo to scavenge ruins for rare loot,
fight supernatural AI enemies, and battle rival players and extract before losing your gear.
Okay.
That's about right.
When your ship is up and running, you can respond.
So that's cool.
Once you destroy the enemy ship, the people are alive, but they can't respond anymore.
And it kind of leads to my favorite moment in watching it where, you know, the three of us or the six of us jump off our ships and we get involved in like hand to hand combat, which can be either pistols, rifles, or fists, which the fists are kind of competitive, actually.
They hit a little faster than pistols, which like take a second to sort of work the action.
But obviously there's no range attack.
And then once you do that, you steal all the things off the enemy ship, put them on yours.
and go to the next one.
Usually you fight three enemies at a time.
The people I watch are very good,
so the AI is barely an inconvenience,
but the people are a little more fun.
And then, of course, there's that element
that's hard to admit
where it's just more fun to hurt people.
Like, your loss is my gain.
Yeah, that exists.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, that's a huge motivator for games for me
that someone else is.
If I'm winning that they're losing,
like I like,
that. I don't want us all to have a good time and just PVEE. I want you to die and lose your
things and me to have your things. I hear you, but I enjoyed Eldon Ring a lot and no one suffered
from that. You know, I just killed A, you know, bots and stuff. But yeah, that's incredibly
challenging though and requires like hundreds of hours to perfect like all those paris and
dodges, which I think is like the real game is the practice, you know, and the triumph,
finally getting that guy. Like, that must be huge.
Might be the game I have the most time in in my whole life.
I have over 2,000 hours in it just a little.
Call of Duty, I played a lot too.
So if you combine all the Cods, that might be my most played.
But after that, or even in front of that, would be Eldon Ring.
Yeah, it's got to be.
You played so much of that.
I'm surprised you're not playing a different soul's like.
But how's the Rainbow Six going?
Have you gotten any better at that?
That, I think Rainbow Six is the hardest.
game on earth to learn. It is very tricky. I used to say it was escape from Tarkoff, which is also
tough. Would it kill them to put like a tarp on the ground that marks the extraction point or something?
Like, that'd be really nice. So Tarkov has a lot of things to learn, but they're usually not
like gameplay elements you're learning. Sure, there's a million and one kinds of ammo and you have
to know how they sort of stack rank and whether you're aiming for the legs or the chest or the head.
But that's like a web page you need to read.
Sure.
It's difficult to keep track of the current market value of all the items you're looting off of people and shelves.
But that's not the same as the lines of sight in Rainbow Six, which are endless.
It's not the same as, like, Tarkov has the same thing where you sort of know the flow and where people are expected to be.
I'm having a hard time wrapping my arms around that in Rainbow Six.
I suck.
I'm trying so hard.
There's skill-based matchmaking, even in quick match and unranked.
So as soon as I pop off and think I'm getting the hang of it, they knock me back down.
They knock me back down and hurt my feelings.
Like, they call it mental.
That's the thing now.
The mental on this team is good.
It's when you can take a loss and just shrug it off and still be the best you.
Rainbow 6 works your mental like the gym works your muscles.
You just, the best players in the,
the world have like 1.3 KDs and shit like that.
Like there's always someone out there who can kill you.
It looks so that the time to kill it so fast.
And I've seen, I'm obviously watching the best players in the world play when I do watch it.
They're just like locking on the heads and killing people in an instant.
And I'm like, I just saw a glimmer of that person and the game's over.
And oh, the next round has started.
It's so fast.
They kill them so fast.
I've never dipped my toe on it.
I don't even own the game.
I've always found it very intimidating to,
like watching people play that game and knowing that there's,
there's not just one map.
If there was one map,
that would be,
or even if you could just play one map over and over,
which is what I,
when I'm starting people off new on Tarkov,
I'm like,
we're going to play,
we're going to do some missions on other maps,
but mostly we're going to play customs,
or we're going to play this map or that map.
you know, just to get a map under our belt.
So that when things do go to shit, we can go back to old friendly customs and you'll know just what to do.
You can do a scab run on customs.
I had a custom scab run where I kind of knew the pattern and the, what are the little storage is underground?
Like the scab boxes?
I don't think they're called that.
Yeah, yeah.
You forgot too good.
That makes me feel better.
Those little secret hidden like depot pots that are hidden on.
Yeah, they look like buried oil drums or something.
You pop the lid off and you get the things inside.
I had a hidden stashes.
I think they were hidden stashes.
I had a route where I could hit like nine of them pretty efficiently.
And depending on where I spawned, I would hit different ones.
And I knew exactly these were my money runs.
My other money run, this is before the new scab aggression system came in,
I'd go to factory, kill like three scabs and leave.
And it didn't make you rich.
I'd probably make like 40,000 rubles, 60,000.
rubles on a better one, but I could do it in like two and a half minutes.
And that's a pretty like 60,000 rubles isn't a huge hit.
Like a million rubles is a huge hit.
Maybe it was closer to 100.
And 10 times that would be better.
But normal runs aren't two minutes.
In two minutes, I could make a lot of money.
And I was, I was really consistent at it.
But now you can't shoot scabs as a scabve.
Yeah, factory is good for that regardless, you know, just to get just junk weapons and
back.
Like early on, you'll run out of bags.
You won't have any backpacks.
And you're having to use a sling bag with like six or eight like slots in it, which is just gruesome.
And it's like, man, let's go to factory and see if we'd find a pilgrim.
I need some space.
Rainbow is an old game now.
So I imagine it wasn't as hard to wrap your arms around it 10 years ago.
I think it's an 11-year-old game.
But now there are 30 or 40 maps.
I don't even know.
And there's about 80 heroes.
And a smart player, not me, but a smart one, plays this thing like rock paper scissors, like,
ooh, Kyle's rocking a thermite.
I need to rock this counter to the hero that I saw Kyle run in the previous one.
I'm just like, well, I fucking seem to kill what I point at with this guy.
So let's go.
As deep as I get.
But this like rock paper scissors, how we're going to counter what we saw you do in the previous match.
you know, I think your bomb site's going to be here.
So these are good things that would help me take it.
There's so much to know.
And I'm just, sometimes it's hard to get in the building.
Like you basically climb in through the windows.
And some guy, you can punch about half the walls and make a hole just big enough to see through and shoot a guy through that hole.
So people punch a hole in the wall, stare at the window.
I die.
Never even saw what killed me.
There's a kill cam in this game like Codhead.
very informative.
Like every death is a learning opportunity,
but I need about 4 million more deaths
before I get my arms around this thing.
And it is just,
sometimes I pop off and I'm like,
I'm getting the hang of this.
You know, I've had matches.
I've had matches where I got three commendations
for valor and two friend requests.
Oh, I can retire.
Yeah, I'm kind of him.
And then the game's like, oh, you think you're him?
Well, we're knocking you up one in the skill-based matchmaking
and yeah i've never wanted to dip my toes in that just because of all the things you just listed
like that huge barrier to entry where like my first game of battlefield i was like all right
this is i just need to learn how to fly a helicopter and i'll know everything there is to know about
battlefield you know it's not it's not that deep um but but all those spots and the way people
hold those angles and it's not as if you could you're like all right i'm gonna play this hero with
the hammer and he's going to knock this hole and I'm going to throw this through that hole.
And I can just do that every single round and then sit here and wait. Like, that's what you do for
the first 30 seconds of the batch. After, after nothing happens for 30 seconds, now you're supposed to
fall back to like your B position or something like that. And what if the bomb gets planted?
Now I'm completely in the wind. I have no idea what route to take or, and the whole time I should
have been keeping up with like how many of my teammates are alive and stuff. Like, that could easily
fly past me. The game's 5B5, but it's effectively 5B6 because the defense has the clock on their
side. That's another way that you can win. The clock is your teammate. And this balance between
like when I make a reckless push because you're got to start losing and when I don't is something
I'm not getting a good hang of. Where to expect people as I do my pushes. I am just getting humbled
again and again and again. And I get on the ground floor of a game. I'm, I'm very,
I'm very intimidated by a game that's been out for years and years and years, like CS and like Rainbow, where those guys know what's up.
Like our decade of cod experience isn't that big of an advantage when a new cod comes out.
You know, some, like I said, some battle the player, some CS player could just come over and do just fine in Cold Duty because it's point click.
But those games have a lot to learn.
Just so much to learn.
Karcov's different but similar in the same way.
there's like you said there's just it has a lot to learn there's layers but like let's say you're
playing woods right i mean you know where like dickhead rock is and where sterman tends to spawn and
there aren't like 10,000 lines of sight to pick up i in you always have like a map on your second
monitor when you play tarcoff and with that you can kind of get around in rainbow
I literally can't walk through the maze sometimes.
I'm like a rat starving to death looking for cheese.
I'm just fucked.
I go into private lobby.
I have a list of maps.
I have a map train.
Fortress, 45 minutes learning.
Casino one hour plus.
Oregon, one hour plus.
Coastline 30 minutes so far.
Layer one hour plus.
This is the amount of time I've spent just walking in circles around maps,
trying to memorize how to get from one part of the map to the other.
efficiently.
And like your footsteps are so loud that you kind of want to slow walk if you're expecting that someone's listening for you.
So you can't walk around lost.
The three minutes will expire.
And it's just, I have 100 hours in this game and I feel like I started this morning.
I shot some.
When you attack in this game, the first minute you have a little like remote control car and you're doing that to discover where the bomb site is, maybe what kind of defense.
is the enemy's putting up and stuff.
Well, there's a defensive character
who can take that drone
and make it your own.
I'm on defense.
I see a drone and I shoot it.
And my teammate is like,
you motherfucker,
you must be fucking kidding me.
And I come back on comms
and I'm like,
I'm new,
I was wrong,
and I'm very sorry.
What else can you say?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I thought it was an RCXD and it was going to blow me up.
He ended up commending me for Valor at the end.
I guess that was the reply he was looking for.
But like, I mean,
oh, it's all defense and a drone was coming at me.
What do I know?
Yeah.
So, yeah, that game.
It's,
and I feel like my recall was better when I was young.
and just learning maps like repetition, repetition, repetition,
you know, some guys learn things the first time you tell him.
I'm more of a third time guy.
And that is not great for a game with this much to learn.
I learned by doing.
Like if I want to sit down and try to study a schematic,
my ADD would bore me out of that so fast that I'd be having a daydream.
And while my eyes were looking at the map,
my mind would be some eighth grade memory or something like that.
But if so I just have to run through it.
like over and over and over
like running through these things
until it, until it sticks
and I just know it.
Like those Tarkov maps, my God, like,
huge.
I know those things.
Like I've done it so many,
I don't know how many hours I've got
1,500 or 2,000 or something like that.
Like, I don't know how much of that is AFK,
but I know the maps of Tarkov pretty fucking well.
Woods is still a bit of a mystery sometimes
because they added the addition
and I don't like playing it.
And then streets of Tarkov.
I don't think you've played since they added that at least not a lot.
I played a little with you actually, but I didn't know it.
Oh, yeah.
Streets is, it's a city.
It's like a real deal city.
And you can move sort of through, it's just like, you know, you could go in the front entrance of a copy shop and then go out the back act at exit and be in some weird alley somewhere and you're just lost.
And then there's like verticality.
There are buildings with, I don't know, five, six, seven stories where you're going in stairwells and all the halls.
and all the hallways and all the sight lines,
it is a very intimidating map to play.
And you've got to play a lot of it now
for like early missions on streets.
And on the other one,
whose name I can't recall.
It's kind of the,
your first missions aren't on customs anymore.
They're on,
is it Lighthouse?
Is it Shoreline?
Is it?
No, it's one of the new maps.
It's also sort of a city.
It's in this city.
Lighthouse is newish.
It's that,
It's that I think when we played together, we played like two games,
and the first game was on the map I'm talking about,
and the second game was on customs.
Anyway.
I don't remember it.
Those maps are really big.
To walk from one side of the map to the other in Rainbow,
it shouldn't take more than 40 seconds.
But in Tarkoff, like the long way across the bigger maps,
you think it's like 18 minutes, something like that?
maybe you walk for sure if you sprint the whole time and you've got a decent character
I usually felt like as long as I had 10 minutes to go I could get to extract almost any
extract as long as I didn't get in a gunfight on the on the way if you're just sprinting full
out and you've got decent cardio and you're not caring too much but still it's a long long way
and if you don't know where to go if you just had the general area if you don't know where to
it's panic inducing when you've got a lot of gear on you and you've done the
thing. You've killed three players, 10, 15 scabs, and you've got the, you've been thrown
away mid-level gear to put the crim de la crem in your bag. Your backpack's full of fucking
diamond rings and gold watches and shit. You have to lay down every few minutes to rest.
And then when you stand up, half of your rest gets undone because your character is so exhausted.
Yeah. Yeah. That's, I love the stem and jet that they, they put an item in the game that
let you carry a bunch of stems. So you got a stem pack that takes up one.
lot and there's like, I think they nerfed it from nine to six stems, but still, that's a lot of
stems that you can carry.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Tarkoff is fun, a lot to learn, but I think Rainbow is a tougher learning experience because it
all happens in every, whenever you learn something, it usually involves dying.
Whereas in Tarkoff, you didn't learn something.
It's like, yeah, the flea market price isn't what I thought it would be.
Oh, what do you know?
Nuts and bolts are cheap now.
They even were expensive at the start of the rate and the price is crashing.
but so much to know in Tarkoff
but the in game knowing
it's just not as intense
well nobody's fighting straight up
everybody's shooting at you from like
the
my ad blocks flashed on my screen
scared me
there's so much it's so punishing
and like there could be somebody in the floor above you
shooting through the fucking their floor
your roof at a weird angle
and it's like how did I
oh
Oh.
Yeah.
That guy heard my footsteps through this sticky sea floor on his ceiling,
which is my feet,
and then he exploded it and I died and didn't understand what happened until the kill camp.
That's pretty awesome.
Yeah, it's awesome when you do it.
It's unfair when it happens to you.
I think I still say you should get into Rust.
That's the one where like, it's just as deep.
There's like just hating, just the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the.
equations for rating are so fun because it takes X amount of resources to make Y explosive
and Y explosive does A damage to B surfaces.
And then and so like when you're blowing something up efficiently, there's a whole,
there's a website that does it all for you.
You punch in what you want to do and it tells you the, all right, fire two rockets and
then shoot 10 explosive ammo bullets at it.
The most efficient way to break that.
I get it.
But sometimes you're just big dick in it.
You're just like everybody's got a rocket launcher and you're just raining rockets down on it.
That game.
I watch a lot of rust.
And my favorite interactions are like, you know, you're wasting your time, Kyle.
You're poor.
Your rockets cost more than our loot.
And it's like, I do this for the glory.
I don't give a fuck about your loot.
And it's like, oh, well, now what am I going to do?
Just Santos over here.
We play for blood.
We're not here for gunpowder.
We're here for you.
We want your sleeping bags.
Wait, your goal is my unhappiness.
Now what am I going to do?
Yeah.
There's been plenty of times when that's why we're rating somebody.
It's like, they're too close.
They're too close to us.
This is our area.
This is our valley or our mountaintop.
They got to go.
Like, no matter what, we cannot.
Like, it's better to do it now than risk them offline rating us tonight or
risk them being like getting
AKs before us and maybe they're better than us
at that. Let's kill them right now at
flame throwers and Molotov cocktails and
shit. You can't
dig in that game, can you? Yeah.
You can dig?
You can. To hide
stashes, you dig.
So you can, there's an item called a
hidden stash. And when it's
hidden, it's legit hidden. Just like
in real life, if you were to bury a
satchel in the ground, there's no trace
of it. So you have to remember where
you buried this thing exactly.
That's great.
So the way you'll do it is like you'll put it on the corner of something or right next to
that rock or something like that.
Sometimes people will have external sleeping bags, which which act as spawn points outside
their base.
And by like the left corner by the head part of it for the pillows or whatever, there's
a hidden stash there with like an MP5 and 90 bullets and a hazmat suit.
So if shit goes real bad in your base and you're getting raided, you can spawn outside.
go in this hole, get geared up, and you've got a perfect flank.
You're right behind the enemy.
They don't expect you to come.
That's the extent of the...
I think they also added maybe...
Maybe there's like a treasure hunting thing.
They added recently with metal detectors,
but that's like real new stuff, I think.
I'm just wondering, like,
if someone dug out an underground base
that didn't look so impressive from the surface,
I know there's like caves and stuff
that, like, you can make your base...
Yeah, but like it...
It'd be interesting if up top it looked like you had a one by one and then it's this pretty impressive system of reinforced walls and digging out.
You can't tell what's in there with a cave base.
Like you can't tell if it's one wall between you and the loot or if it's 30.
Like I've seen people sort of make like a zigzag Z pattern of walls down a long like tunnel-like corridor.
And I have fond memories of me and Midi up at four in the morning like crafting more explosives because we only made it halfway.
down their tunnel of horror.
And they're all asleep, of course.
Like, we're offline raiding them.
I don't like living in a cave, though.
Like, it's depressing.
You don't see the sun.
It's just dark all the time.
There's no windows to look out of.
And it's kind of fun to defend an online raid.
Like, when they're coming at you,
and you've got a base that's built to be to defend.
Like, it's got a lot of peaks and a lot of, like,
little holes in the floor that you can, like,
shoot through and stuff.
Like, defending a raid is, for a lot of people,
the most fun thing in the whole game.
Yeah, I think I try to get my arms around Rainbow to be competent.
In unranked and ranked modes is only about half as many maps.
So I've been focused on unranked.
I haven't subjected my skills to ranked players who part of me wants to play rank
where everyone's trying as hard as I am.
Like when someone quits out, I'm like, you don't understand.
Unranked is the pinnacle of my effort to
For you, it's a joke, but I'm trying to win here.
But when you go to rank, everyone's trying to win.
And the lowest rank is copper.
I'm like, I'm happy to be a copper.
I don't want to play good players.
But I still don't want to like, I read somewhere that you shouldn't play ranked until you like comfortably know every map.
You're never wondering where to go.
And I'm like, all right.
So that's my goal.
Right.
I would settle for navigating, right?
To be aware that like, oh, people commonly punch a hole in this wall that's near this window and look at it from the other room as a way to camp it.
That's a lot to learn.
I don't need to get to that level everywhere all the time.
But when you find the bomb site, you see it's a yellow diamond with the letters A and B in it, the two bomb sites.
You almost have wallhacks.
You can see where it is from wherever you are.
Like, oh, that's upstairs second floor.
I want to be able to walk to the bomb site
and know that I'm making a right turn
in every decision point.
If I can do that all the time,
I'll go to ranked.
But at this point, I like walk to it
and I'm like, dead end room.
Why are most of these rooms dead at it?
Like they're spectating you get lost.
Oh, yes.
There was a guy that was like, my teammates suck.
And I'm like, I'm new.
He goes, I'm not talking about you.
You're obviously new.
I'm like, thanks, kind of.
I watched you get lost for five minutes early.
I'm not ragging on you.
Good luck.
Really,
really,
good luck.
You have our sympathies.
Can you tie shoes?
I was on safety half that round.
I know.
I've been pretty good at my last few games.
I was pretty good at Marathon.
I played it a lot.
I was pretty good at Arc Raiders.
The players in that got better,
but it got to be where I didn't lose
1B1s very often I had to bump into
a 1B2 or something, even those
I'd get sometimes.
So I've been competent at my games for a while.
Before that, I was playing Night Rain and
Eldon Ring, and these are games I've
hundreds and thousands of hours in.
Only the past three weeks or so
have I just been
garbage at my game
and it's a lot to learn.
Yeah, that one doesn't appeal to me honestly
because of that, like learning
all those spots and just
every time.
I see somebody die from that guy who's shooting through a hole in the wall. I'm just, fuck you,
man. Fuck you. Why is this the game? Why are we knocking holes in walls? You said that before and I was
like, actually, I'm top fragger, like more often than you'd think. Yeah, well, that changed. The game stopped
giving me those opponents. You know, now. Everybody ran around and nobody knocked holes in the walls or
used gadgets. I'd be okay at this. Well, once I knew where the maps were, wherever the thing was.
Yeah, yeah. There's somebody better. There's always someone so much better.
Yeah, that one doesn't appeal to me. Nothing really appeals to me, though, right now.
You would love sand. You would love sand. I'm looking at it. It looks okay. And your friends would get in that game that the ship building, the blueprints, the way that you fight, the coordination. I haven't played it. But I can tell by the way they talk to each other and assign roles that driving the ship is fairly different.
difficult. And it takes some comms like, Kyle, you're driving. We need to have this gunfight
arranged so that our strong side with more cannons faces the enemy the whole time. So we had to
catch the enemy and then turn at the right time and there's something to that. But for a well-coordinated
team, it's, they can clean up. It looks a, it looks a little like C of Thieves.
It's compared a lot to that. And I'm watching someone.
play right now.
On Twitch?
Or like highlights?
I pulled up a YouTube video from some random guy.
Just watching how the respawn works and how the ones are.
I know when you assemble your friends and you're in it, you have like a common goal, it's a good time.
And that's what this game would be.
Yeah.
That's what I was telling Zach before we started.
We're talking about games.
And I was like I really like when there's like four of us with varied classes and we're fighting hordes of enemies.
I like I'm really like Merman Tide and Dark Tide.
and Leffordead style games, like whatever you call that.
I like that a lot.
And I like the progression.
I like, oh, I got the diamond sword.
Like it's when you, and then everybody's like, bro, you got the power sword?
Yeah, it's actually a rare antiquity mastercrafted power sword.
I don't know if you notice the medallion here on the hill.
Oh, wow.
It takes like a thousand hours to get that.
If you're good.
if you could.
Give me $2,000.
I could pay for it.
It was $190.00.
I like games like that.
And then RTS is always appealing to me because
I feel like you're really rewarded with the amount of time that you put in.
Like if you put 100 hours into an RTS and you learn how to get pretty good at it,
when I play people in the Discord and like Warhammer
I'm just back you cur it's not even close like I'll just pull the shit out of him I
would play all day and lose once or something like that and it's like I was goofing around that
round you know that right I I had a spider army you saw that right it was all spiders it was just
funsy so I I'm really looking forward to the Warhammer RTSs that are coming up this fall
and then at some point next year I guess and then GTA
I'm going to play the shit out of GTA.
I like single player
RPGs. I like, I have a lot
of fond memories of Vice City. That was probably
the first game that I ever played that was
like, I spent
a lot of time playing one game.
Before that, it was a lot of games that I would
rent a lot of games and I owned a handful,
but once I beat them once
or once I played them until the rental period
was over, I was like, I don't really want to play that again.
Like Spiro? Like, who cares?
Like, Crash Bandicoot?
Eh. But then I played Grand Theft Auto
Vice City and I was I liked that even as a kid I loved that 80s vibe and I like like the music and the
cars and the Miami like environment I hadn't seen Scarface yet so I didn't even have that reference
but it is you're playing Scarface the game basically in Vice City and I loved how violent it was and in my
memory the graphics are like realistic hyper realistic I watched a grand theft auto vice city clip
recently on some YouTube video like the greatest grand theft autos of all times like dude it's only been
I saw that footage and I was like, man, this doesn't look great.
This doesn't look great.
The new one looks a little better.
You know what I really look for?
I look for things that push things.
If I see that, it's huge to me.
So for example, if you step on tall grass and then it leans over and pushes another
tuft of grass like but less.
Okay.
I love that.
That is a really big deal to me.
But if you just clip through all the ground and like walking has nothing to do with the surface, that looks terrible to me.
That's the thing that I want to see changed a lot.
I like cover systems.
Not like gears where you like take cover and there's a cover.
But like I like the foliage to conceal, to provide concealment.
That's one of those things I like in Tarkov.
Like, man, you can lay down in a field in Tarkov and they'll never see you.
It's just like real life.
Like if I'm in a push, they can't see me.
But the audio system is good enough that if you miss me,
I'm looking in your general direction.
Yeah.
You're somewhere over there.
Yeah.
Even if they do have good foliage like you're describing
where one blade of grass pushes the other,
I often turn the settings down low enough to get rid of that.
Like in Rust, I do that.
I turn my, whatever, load or whatever the setting is.
I turn that all the way down so that I, like,
most of the bushes don't even appear on my game.
Like they're not even there.
Yeah.
I'll do that for competitive advantage.
Like you said, in Marathon, I actually spent a lot of time just solo,
looking at every setting, taking screenshots before and after I changed it,
and deciding which things were so minor that I couldn't even see the difference.
And then, you know, getting like 10, 15 more frames per second.
In Rainbow, I just watched a professional Rainbow player show me his settings and copy them all the way through.
Turns up, people turn.
people turn shadows on high because that's a way to spot someone when they're before their body's visible.
They want the best shadows possible.
But everything else is pretty much turned down low.
Yeah, I think I turned shadows off maybe in some games to see people in those dark corners maybe, I think.
I think in Tarkov I have shadows off.
But in, I goof with my like visual settings so much for like nighttime Tarkov.
the screen is full of magentas and greens and stuff like that.
But I can see you like if you played it straight up and you did what the game suggests
and you moved the slider all the way to like, I don't know, the third.
So the one thing is not visible.
Yeah.
You're blind at night in Tarkoff.
They make it like the most pitch black night ever.
I played it a while ago back when you could use Invidia filters.
I know you did too.
I like that.
It's not cheating.
It's just any things that I can see that other players can't.
I did the same in Marathon.
I had invidia settings on those filters that let me see in the dark when it dropped that nighttime mode.
But in Rainbow, I have an equalizer.
I'm sitting here looking at it.
I keep you out.
And I turned down all the HVAC hums and stuff like that.
And all I hear are footsteps in that game.
I was sometimes for call duty to be able to turn down all the ambient noise,
all the wind and the birds and any horse shit like that.
the random like creeks and groans of a building like I don't want any of that I just want
footsteps yeah I I downloaded a program that let me visualize the different frequencies of
sound waves and I looked at where they peaked when people walked and then I raised those parts
of the equalizers and lowered the other parts and tested it against bots and you know listening to
them walk and like I I spent hours getting by equalized that's part of the fun
That is part of the game to me.
Like getting on, getting on, I added extra monitors when I got serious about Tarkov.
It's like, all right, I want Discord over here, and I want the map over here, and I need my ammo chart up there.
I'm just surrounded by information about this game that I'm saying, my girlfriend comes and watches me play.
And she's like, this is too much.
This is too much.
How do you even know if, I was like, there's, there's only 14 different 12-gauge shotgun shells.
And she's like, why do you know which ones are good?
And I was like, well, I just know.
And also I have this huge chart right here if I ever confused.
Oftentimes like AK-47, what is that ammo?
7362 by 39.
Thank you.
That's what I was looking for.
So I would know like two of those that were good, 556.
I know two or three of those that were good.
And I didn't know all 18 ammo.
I just knew the three I wanted.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Like there's weird like maybe 9 by 21 pistol rounds and like TakaRev rounds.
and 20 gauge rounds.
Like, I don't know any of that shit.
Let me, I guess I kind of do.
You have to look it up.
Yeah, I got to look it up if I want to know.
But all the common ammo is like the, the, the, the, the, the, the, and like, 760 by
39 and 54 and stuff.
I know that.
That's all memorized.
And a lot of it's in real life.
So, like, knowing guns and knowing ammo from real life is, is super helpful in that
game.
It's definitely why so many people who are, like, gun guys are attracted to it.
Yeah, it has the best.
Well, it has the most in-depth gun building system ever.
I almost said best, but it can be a bit of a detriment.
Like, I like this scope and I like this rifle, but this scope doesn't go on this rifle.
Oh, well, have you put this mount on it?
And it's like, well, the mount doesn't go on it either.
Oh, well, you have to put the adapter on, then the mount, then the scope.
And I'm like, oh, it's the wrong kind of hard.
I'm okay with like, you know, enemies spotting me from a distance, but like just managing my stash and knowing how to assemble it.
You need a PhD in Tarkovity to assemble your gun before you go in.
And that's, to me, is the wrong kind of hard.
I don't know that it's the best.
It's the most in depth.
I like it.
And that's one of the reasons it's got such a cool environment of YouTubers because you need that guy who's making that video about how to put X scopes.
on why gun is like, I know you want to put
the ACog on the AK. I'm going to
show you how today. It's like
it shouldn't be a video for this. It's just
go on.
But I just like,
put it on there. There's been so many times where I'm sitting
there like angry and people are waiting on me and they're like,
what are you doing? I'm trying to put the scope
on the fucking gun and it won't fucking go on the gun
and I already bought the scope and the scope
cost more than the gun and it's going on
there one way or another.
And like by the time, they're like, the thermal
scope is a good example. If you're putting the
the Reap IR on a gun
and you have to have that little D-Lock thing
or whatever it's called
and early on
you're not high enough level to buy that
like you'll find the scope
in game and you have a quarter million dollar scope
you want to put it on your quarter million dollar gun
and they're like $350,000 for the little thing
that marries the two.
Dapter between because it's rare.
Yeah.
The game is so much to know.
Yeah. Yeah.
I hope they make another game.
I hope they
You know they are right
Yeah
I know they're saying they're going to
You're right
You know
There's a trailer out for it
So
I may have seen the trailer
Maybe not
I think yeah
What are they calling it?
I don't know
I forget there's a
The community came up with something clever
Like spaced car
Or space tarve I don't know
But I'm interested
I'm currently
Regulatory order
Okay there's a pet name for it
That the community is called
It was catchy
It was catchy I'll tell you if I hear it
If I come across it
But I'm down for something that's not milsim
You know maybe you call Tarkoff Milsom
Sim or not I'm not sure
Because it's kind of
It's pretty close
Militious Sim almost
But every game looks like that to me now
It doesn't have to look exactly like that
But I would say
Call of Duty battlefield, Arm of 3,
Escape from Tarkov, on and on and on.
You're all going for the same aesthetic, realistic.
Yes.
And then Marathon.
I love the aesthetic.
It grew on me.
I know it wasn't your cup of tea.
But it was different.
It was very different.
And I was thrilled to have different.
And I'd like to try different again.
I don't know what that is.
It could be space cowboys.
I don't give a hoot.
Just make it not Millsim.
Yeah.
The sand game is something called diesel punk.
Oh.
I've never.
heard that term before but it instantly fits yeah yeah yeah I've never heard that one
either but it does yeah I don't know I'm probably not gonna play that but but I will I
will watch more videos of it to see if it I don't know piques my interest we were
talking about the boys fish got his testosterone today he's he's he's starting
TRT he's so pumped he's like I got it he sent me a picture of four vials
yeah good good I
I'm glad he's getting that fixed up for himself.
I always love when somebody gets on it because I'm like,
you're going to love this.
Just wait.
You're going to love this.
And six weeks from now,
you're going to be a super version of you.
You're literally going to be the best you've ever been.
It's good stuff.
I'm always excited for people when they get on.
Yeah, yeah.
And I don't want to like,
I'm censoring myself about,
because it's medical related.
But anytime someone goes,
and gets themselves taken care of and looking after themselves.
Like, I'm happy for them.
Because young people, well, I guess me too.
We just let shit slide.
It goes bad.
Like, do as I say, not as I do because I waited on that,
on different issues here and there.
Yeah, I procrastinate too much as well.
Yeah, you should probably do things on a schedule so that it's just,
it just gets done.
Speaking of, is your teeth scheduled for stuff?
Or, like, what's the next step?
I need to go back.
It's pretty much healed.
Now, it is healed now.
I'm going to like tongue it and it doesn't hurt.
So it's time for some more work.
Yeah.
I just need to call him and get it going.
Oh, they're going to do the other side now, right?
Is that the next step?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because if people miss this, Kyle had some messed up teeth,
but they only wanted to fix one side so that he could chew on the other.
And now that that side seems ready to go,
time to go wreck the good, the bad side out of it.
Now that I've done it once, I'm really not looking forward to the other side.
That's why I wanted to do it all one go.
So there wouldn't be this period of like, oh, this is really going to suck.
You powered through it as well as anyone I've ever seen.
Colin did really well too, my son.
It's the day of it sucks.
The day of is like, like getting it done isn't that bad.
There's a few moments of like, oh, this will be over soon.
But the hour, like right, as I walked out of that place and I was spitting like so much blood
and saliva out, the sticky gooey shit I was spitting out, and then just coming home and just laying in bed and just so much pain, waiting on that pain to stop.
But after that was over, it really was like no big deal.
It was just like, let's eat it. Let's eat applesauce for three days and we'll be good.
I have a question.
I don't think it's too personal.
When you came home, you had discovered that your girlfriend had like made up your room and made it like the place to recover.
What did she do?
I don't know, she'd like change the sheets and put the nice, like, expensive sheets on and made the bed and, like, peeled back my side.
And she had dark, she'd drawn the shades.
And she had put the, uh, the, like, uh, glowy blue lights on in the room and, like, turned the TV on to my thunder.
I sleep to thunderstorms on YouTube.
Uh-huh.
I watched this video that's like 10 hours of violent thunderstorms when I go to bed.
The thunderstorms are already on.
And there's like, you know, there's a glass of like ice water next to the bed.
Like, like, she'd got it ready for me.
she knew I was going to be feeling like shit.
That stuff is absolutely heartwarming to me.
Like that.
Oh, she's tremendous.
Yeah.
When we were doing the hangout Sunday, she's like, you're going to love what I've done when you get out of there.
And I had no idea.
But she had like completely like professionally cleaned the kitchen and like gotten all my like,
I do all the cooking.
I won't.
Not that she's not willing, but like I'm just better at it.
And I'm kind of a, I remember one time I made everything.
And she's like, I'll make them.
mashed potatoes and she immediately ruined them. And I'm like, well, that's terrible. I'm like,
these are terrible. Why'd you do that? You did everything right until the end. And then you've added
like granulated garlic powder in there. That's disgusting. He ruined dinner.
I was the worst me. During our hangout, my wife was cleaning our kitchen. And I,
I step into it. The oven is spotless. She has really poured like a ton of effort into making the like
cooking part shine like new again.
Same.
Yeah.
But there are, I'm like, but there's a cardboard box on the floor.
There's like windex on the counter.
There's a dirty rag.
Like, you did the hardest part and left the low hanging fruit all over the place.
Like, I can see how much work that was.
But why did you like pluck the low hanging fruit?
That was not well received criticism.
She rearranged the cupboard that has like all the like dry goods in it, which was a mess.
Like it was all unorganized.
You couldn't find things.
And when something wouldn't fit, I'd just go to that top shelf and kind of like like things into the back corner of it.
Like all like like soup cans and stuff.
She organized all that.
So that's tremendous.
I was super grateful for that.
She's wonderful.
Oh, that's cool.
I'm a big fan of her.
That's super.
That's super.
I'm sure you'll be married soon.
No need for that.
No need for that.
I don't have any plans to go anywhere else, though, as I tell her, I'm like, I don't want any contracts or anything, but I'm pretty, pretty set on you. You're pretty chill. I don't think I'm going anywhere. And I've been with her for four years, I think four years, something like that, living together for four years.
I had a coworker and friend. His girl didn't seem to be on the same page as yours. She wanted to get married. And he was adamant against marriage in the same way that you are. And she's like, you know,
basically had an ultimatum where he had to marry her or loser.
And he's like, well, I'm not going to marry you, but like, she's like, why are you throwing
this away? He's like, I'm not throwing it away. Just stay.
She's like, no, but you won't put a ring on my finger. He's like, well, I'll buy your range.
Don't leave. You know, all that I didn't even think of that. Just buy her, like, oh, I'll buy you a ring.
You didn't say that. I'll even like say some vowels. You want, you, you want to go talk to a priest. I'll say some
vows in front of him. I'll step on that
fucking champagne flute like the
Jews do or whatever.
We do a chair dance, but
like I don't want to get the fucking government
involved with this whole thing.
I need to see that you haven't crossed your fingers
while you do these valves.
Yeah. I don't want a fucking marriage
license. I don't want it.
Like maybe we decide we hate each other. Maybe
things go completely
ass up a year from now.
I don't want to have to go get a lawyer
to leave. I want to be able
And I'm not going to leave for some bullshit reason, but if like, you know, you get fat, I'm gone.
Obviously.
Yeah.
If you get fat or sick, then I'm out of here, you know?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hair turns gray.
There's lots of valid reasons to leave.
I can pack a bag and half an hour and be out of here.
I'm gone.
I wonder what the common law marriage laws are in Georgia.
I have no idea.
That might be something to chat GPT at some point.
See what your exposure is.
Yeah, I, I, I, or maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe you're upside.
I don't know.
Maybe you get some cash out of this.
I'm not sure.
Oh, she needs to keep me living the quality of life that I've come to expect.
All right, right, right?
Relationship.
Common law.
Are you chat GPT?
I got your mind spit a little bit.
Yeah, yeah.
Georgia abolished common law marriage, uh, 97.
okay okay yeah I'm way out of date but in Pennsylvania they were like kind of hardcore back in the day
six 10 years or something you date someone and unbeknownst to you you've been married for some bit
sometime fuck all that fuck all that have you have you watched a minute of the world cup
I've seen some box scores on ESPN.com that's as close as I've come yeah same same I just I just don't care
I wish I did because it's fun to see how pumped everybody else gets.
I remember the first time I knew that there was a World Cup was when I was 19.
I didn't know it existed before then.
I don't think I was aware of soccer until high school or something like that as a sport that existed even.
I remember going to the bar.
I went to the bar with all my international co-workers and of course they're just like,
it's work hours.
We're supposed to be at work and they're like, let's have lunch at a,
Buffalo Wild Wards.
I'm like, oh, we don't usually do that.
We usually just, okay.
And they're just drinking.
They're like, fuck work.
Fogarious playing Czech, Czechoslovakia.
We got to, this is a big deal.
And I'm just sitting there like drinking a beer in the middle of the day, watching this
nonsense.
I was watching a rainbow player and the World Cup was playing at the same time.
I didn't realize he was Finnish.
I think that's what he is.
Anyway, he's new so much about soccer and over time.
And he had strong opinion.
Onions on players and such.
I'm like, I don't know what you're talking about.
Can you talk more about fucking which character count is thermite?
I don't know.
Yeah.
I'm all about my UFC.
That's all I care about.
We've got it's Connor McGregor fight coming up.
I'm pumped for it.
Is it July 11th?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
So not this weekend, but the next one after that.
He looks good.
McGregor looks good.
He really does.
Like, they're going to get there a fight.
We're going to see.
I'll know how the fight is going to, like,
go in the first two and a half minutes.
I agree.
You know he looked really good?
It's surprised me because he sold Michael Chandler.
He looked amazing.
From the neck down,
yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah.
From the neck down,
that guy looks 23.
Like,
yeah.
He's like the archetype for an MMA fighter.
You're like,
all right,
well,
give me Michael Chandler's body.
And nothing else.
None of his skills,
none of his mindset.
none of his work ethic. I don't want any of that shit.
I'll take that from Demetrius Johnson and John Jones or somebody.
Like I don't want any part of his shit because he's always been middle of the road.
I think he's out of the rankings finally.
They've got the AI ranking system now.
They don't use the media.
It shifted some things around, but it wasn't as dramatic a deal as you might have thought it might be.
I've never been that thrilled about fighters who build their resume based on impressive losses.
Like, you know what?
John Jones was king of the world.
and Anthony Gustafsson, Gustafin, Gustafin,
like he really hung in there before he lost.
And man, he gave Daniel Cormier a hard time.
And when he lost to him and this guy's got a string of impressive losses.
I'm like, uh, fuck that.
Sometimes, yes, sometimes, no.
Like, when Max Holloway lost three, I think, fights to Volcanovsky.
And Max was my guy back during that time, I was like,
I hate this fucking Australian mission.
I hate him.
He's pretty likable.
It turned out, but it's like, yeah, Max Holloway cannot beat Alexander Volcanovsky.
He is too goddamn good.
He almost beat Islam.
I'm a big Volcanovsky fan.
His social media is really funny, and I love that he's always ready to go.
He's not a weight bully.
He probably's walking around at 156 or something like that.
He can get to $1.45 any time he wants.
So, like, when the White House card was about to happen, maybe a week out,
he uploads a video of him in front of the White House, like a selfie video.
And he's like, to let you know, I'm ready.
I love that.
I love that.
Chale Sunnam was that too.
I admire the guys who stay in shape year-round.
I also can see how it might not be the formula for everybody.
John Jones, one of the best careers ever.
And he fell wildly out of shape between fights.
Patty Pimlet famously falls wildly out of shape.
But like, I look at Shaquille O'Neal, and they're like, man, if he worked out as hard as Kobe did,
if he worked out as hard as Kobe did, his knees would have lasted 18 months.
Like, you can't work out that hard for some people.
Yes.
I mean, okay, I'm not saying there was no room for improvement.
Only that, like, it takes a certain kind of archetype to work out as hard as Kobe did.
And Shaq wasn't that guy.
He's a guy who needed to, like, not put too many miles on the Lamborghini.
Well, you're right.
I mean, there was definitely, maybe he's not the perfect example, but.
Rumble Johnson, like, that guy couldn't be ready all the time.
That guy was cutting from 230 to 170.
What the heck?
Right?
Like, Rumble went up the heavyweight and beat Rolovsky later in his career.
Like, that's how big he was.
He was so big.
He missed 170 a lot, but he did make it.
When he would make it, you've never seen a black man be that pale.
It's like, it's like, why is he pale?
Connor at 145.
I don't think Connor ever missed weight in his life.
But at 145, he looked like he could die.
Like, his face looked like a bare skull almost.
Gone.
It's so bony.
And like you could see like the shape of his orbitals.
And you could almost see his teeth like in printing behind like his cheeks.
He was so hollowed out.
And then he'd come in there and smoke people.
Yes.
There aren't too many fights where he looked good past the first round and a half.
There was one.
He beat Nate Diaz in a five-round decision.
He was still running from Nate a lot.
Like, you know, like, maybe pointing at him and shit.
Like, he's a fast Twitch guy, which is one of the, like, he better get Holloway out of
their quick.
Hollow he's a five-round guy.
Yeah, I still like my bet, but I was sure strict him with lose and I was sure,
that
Strickland and Ilya
Like getting those wrong
Says nothing about your
MMA prognostication
Because that's what everyone
Believe was going to happen
No one saw what was really going to happen
It just went the other way
Yeah
I think Islam did have a bad weight cut
But that's part of
Like he's choosing to fight in that weight division
He was a little chubby
Like I've been skinnier than him over 50
Yeah right
Like over 50 years old
I've had lower body fat than that guy did on fight night.
Bro, like, again, maybe if he gets really skinny, he loses his energy or something,
he needs food to train well.
I'm not sure, but it feels like discipline.
It's discipline.
I 100% think it's discipline.
And like, that's one of those things that I, like, I've done this before.
Like, this is not one of those like professional athlete moments where I don't know where I'm talking about.
It's like, dude, you're eating too much.
You're eating too many carbs.
You're eating way too much fat.
there's a lot of fat in your diet.
I can tell you're eating.
How many egg yolks you eat in a day, you motherfucker?
You don't need that much of omega-3.
Like, you're doing something wrong.
Because I see how hard he works out in the workouts that we see.
They look tremendously difficult and intensive.
Like two a days and three a days.
I've seen him in Dubai jumping rope in the darkness at 3 a.m.
Like saying all sorts of like affirmations.
His coach is like, how strong are you?
Too strong!
You know?
Like, how fast are you?
Super fast.
And he's just like,
who,
foo,
foo,
who,
jumping that rope
crazy fast.
And I remember seeing that
like five years ago
and being so scared
that he was coming.
This guy means business.
I'm the opposite of that
in Rainbow Six.
How good are you?
I'm dog shit
and I apologize
to my teammates in advance.
Yeah,
I like when people
are like all or nothing like that.
And they've just
cut everything else
in life free
and they focused on that
one thing to perfect and they're obsessive about it guys like Armstrong um what's his name the
cyclist uh they got Lance Armstrong Lance Armstrong he's that guy like like like anything like that
or Jordan or Kobe when I hear those Jordan stories and those Kobe stories it's like I'm always
really impressed by that mindset that like when Kobe blew his Achilles and he walked off and he
hang up he blew his Achilles then he shot the free throws and
made them. Then he walked off.
He was, he's talked about that in interviews and he was like trying to figure out ways that
he could still be effective on one leg. Yeah. He's like, bro, no, no, that's not how Achilles
damage works. Yeah. Yeah. And then they'll like, they'll always show some other guy like getting
wheeled off the court with like the same injury or something like that. And they're like,
Kobe would let nobody wheel him off. No. Dude, the mama mentality thing was extreme. I'm not sure
it was ideal.
He has a lot of teammates that didn't like him who could have been lifted.
Like, you know, Magic Johnson would grow his teammates and make them better and teach him.
LeBron somewhere in between, right?
He also does this like demoralized.
How fucking stupid can you be like body language in real games?
And, you know, it's like, bro, if you're going to lead your team, like there's, that's not it.
That's not it.
but I think a lot of times he was like, I'm done with that guy, you know,
that guy's getting gone.
Like he's going to manage,
but getting people traded away and stuff because they're not showing up for practice on time
or not showing up for his version of on time or they're not,
you know,
doing what he thinks they need to do for him to pass them the ball.
See, Kobe's teammates interviewed.
Like, yeah, yeah,
one time I threw it out of bounds and Kobe didn't talk to me for 14 months.
I'm like, what?
You know, like, how can you have a teammate?
You just iced out like that for over a year.
The fuck.
Like, I don't think that's good leadership.
Yeah, I don't think it is either.
I don't think it's ideal.
I think you'd be better off if you were, I don't know,
more of a more of a team leader than,
it seems like the coach should be the guy who's like,
icing people out and correcting people for not showing it for practice
or not doing what they need to be doing for preparation and such.
Probably shouldn't be your player, your star player.
Speaking of that, I saw LeBron's moving on.
He's leaving the Lakers.
And right now, the analytics say the most likely place is going to Sacramento.
And behind that is Cleveland.
And behind that's the heat.
Sacramento?
I think you might be thinking of Golden State.
I am thinking of Golden State.
Yeah.
Other fucking California basketball team.
Oh, no, there's at least three.
I'd have to think about it.
You have the LA Lakers, the Sacramento Kings, and the Golden State Warriors.
There's probably one I'm missing.
But yeah, he's going to Golden State.
Most likely he's going to play with Steph Curry.
And the Internet's already calling them the Golden Girls because they're all old as fuck.
But Lakers, Kings, Clippers, and Golden State.
Oh, I left out the Clippers.
Yeah, yeah, in my thing.
Oh, my God, there's four fucking basketball teams.
In California, yeah.
I guess that's the sport they actually watch.
I don't know.
How many football teams do they have?
The Rams,
the Niners, the Raiders,
moved.
That's all I could think.
Chargers?
Fucking chargers.
Yeah, there's three.
There's at least three.
For all you know, we missed one.
I'm not sure.
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised.
It's a lot of fucking teams.
Yeah.
That'll be interesting.
I really don't dislike him.
I think it's impressive that he's
the most impressive thing about his career to me is that
is how good he is at 40 and 41 or whatever
like that's where that too
I mean like when I look at all of Jordan's
most iconic shots and you know
almost foul lined
LeBron does that shit on the regular
it's not even interesting to watch how athletic he was
LeBron would go down the court in like fewer steps
than everybody else it was like six strides
and he crossed the court.
It was something ridiculous like that.
He's just a bigger, stronger,
perhaps the absolute archetype of like the perfect NBA body, you know.
But yeah, I like, I like LeBron,
but to see this like reunion of a bunch of old guys on a team,
I just know they're all going to be in street clothes cheering on their team at some point this year.
There you go.
That's what's coming.
Although, like, both of those guys seem to be pretty durable.
Like they're not out for like huge amounts of time, right?
Like it seems like LeBron has taken such good care of his body.
There's that everyone knows the thing about him spending a million dollars a year or two million dollars a year just on his body's upkeep.
I bet he's on all sorts of like spun plasma and stem cells and all sorts of.
And the good stuff for sure.
I'm looking for something.
Yeah, he's on the TRT or something.
He's so pumped up.
He's got to be right.
Let's see.
How many games did he play last year?
It was 41.
He played 60.
So he missed 22 games.
The two years before that, it was like 12 or less.
And then he missed 30, miss 30.
Am I looking at the wrong stat?
It seems like too many.
Does G not stand for games?
What else could it be?
But anyway, yeah, and he got an 82 one.
Yeah, definitely that's what I'm looking at.
Miss 30, miss 30, miss 30, miss almost 40, 20.
So he's pretty durable more so than my.
especially at his age,
but I think all these guys
are going to be in street clothes a lot.
It'll be 42.
It'd be fun to see them,
see those,
I don't know,
I like the idea of like those two superstars
on the same team, though.
They'll sell a ton of jerseys.
Yeah.
Watch.
Yeah.
And I like that they're trying
for Steph Curry's last years
and LeBron James's last years.
Like,
I think LeBron James has taken a huge pay cut
to get on this team and make it work.
And I like that.
You know,
he's a billionaire.
What does he need to get,
the team's cap space.
He's cheap.
He's like crazy cheap.
He only wears like sponsored stuff.
Like he doesn't pay for Spotify premium.
That's crazy.
I've heard stuff like that.
I need to look at what car he drives because I bet like,
you know how I'm so cheap.
I don't buy Spotify.
Of course my house is worth $100 million and my car is worth $4 million.
And like are you that cheap?
I want to know.
He doesn't drive this.
car. He owns a massive multi-million dollar collection of exotic sports cars, ultra-luxury sedans,
and custom classics. He also, he most notably has been seen chauffeured and his custom-built
Mercedes Maybach S-680, but he owns a wide variety of impressive personal vehicles.
And then there's a list of like eventadors and spiders and phantoms.
Right. I bet he has more than one home when they each have staff.
Like, tell me how cheap. Okay, you don't have spot.
Spotify Premium. If that's even true, you must not want it because you buy stuff.
Yeah, I can't imagine listening to a commercial on Spotify when I own $50 million for the cars.
Right, right.
That's an odd choice.
Yeah.
Well, we should probably wrap it up. We've got a hangout to do in 15.
We do. All right. PKN 619.
