The Snark Tank - #360: The Act Man Joins Us!

Episode Date: September 27, 2025

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Restrictions apply. See website for full terms and conditions. Sit back Hello everybody Hi Welcome to Star Tank podcast It's me Your host Chris

It's him Derek Sweeney is gone He's being I don't know Ravaged in Costa Rica He's getting his appendix He's gonna come back

Looking thin But wrong Right If you've played Farquai 3 If you played Farquai 3 Like you kind of Have an idea What's going on with them

Right now So Yeah yeah He was on the plane With Voss actually But we're joined by a very special guest our buddy over here

the act man look at him his his Luigi heads happened yeah look at us with the Luigi house we came prepared but somebody didn't so yeah someone didn't get the memo

yeah exactly right you know what's disappointing about this is like we did a stream over on sacred for the what is it the state of play today and everybody was wearing sunglasses and I had I had some to contribute

and so we all just did the stream even sunglasses like a bunch of assholes. Oh good. And now it's happening again. Yeah. But with Luigi hats and I was like I was underprepared. I did not expect to require the Luigi hat. Well, Mario would have sufficed or Wario.

Anything. More like a Wallaweji kind of guy, though. Let's be real. Well, I wish I was that tall. That would be nice. Don't we all? Unfortunately. Yeah.

But yeah, man. I don't even know. Like there's a. So obviously we're all gamer nerds here. and it's been, I don't know, man, I don't know how you feel about it, because we haven't really talked, really in a hot minute,

but like, I feel like this year's kind of, this year's kind of crazy. I mean, the last couple years, honestly, have been kind of like wildly good, in my opinion,

like as far as like, just kind of sleeper out of nowhere hits. Like, obviously, Eldon Ring was the big one that kind of kicked everything off. But like, this year, like,

I just heard, I just saw Hades too. What is it? Oh, yeah. Has like, is like getting like, 10, and perfect scores.

I'm like, what the fuck is going on? Yeah, and then Silk Song finally comes out in Expedition 33. I played a bit of Expedition 33. Yeah, I think this year's been pretty cracked.

Also, like, I'm still big into Hell Divers, too, and the new updates they came out with for that. Like, it sometimes makes it feel like a brand new game, you know? So in this world,

I think, I don't know how often you guys stick with a game because, like, I do gaming videos. I kind of have to, keep moving on to the next thing, next thing. Right.

But I always make time for hell divers, too. I haven't played in a while. I really loved it. When it first came out, I was on it every fucking day for hours. You were doing your part. I was doing my part. I was doing my part. I loved it, dude.

Even at the time, I was like, this is like an ODSD game. This is sick. Yeah. And then they had the Halo collab. Did you check it out then? I didn't because there was so much. Dude, I have to play. Take that hat off. Take that hat off.

You can't even... Listen, I did buy it. I haven't played it yet, but I did buy it by the pass. So I did my part. You made a donation. The Hell Divers Super Pack. Yeah, exactly. To the Super Pack.

Okay. The Freedom Pack. But it's, yeah, I don't know. Like, I feel like that game came out of nowhere too. I remember when that game was first shown I thought I was like this is going to suck. Really? Yeah, because like the trailers they showed for it were just like, I don't know, they were trying too hard it felt like.

And then whenever they showed it before it came out, it was always running at like 27 frames per second. Like they showcased it in like a completely fucked away. Yeah. Like it's very clear that they had no idea that that game was going to be as big as it was because they were too busy trying to make Concord or whatever. Yeah, dude, looking at the games that have come out

This year, it is pretty cracked. Donkey Kong Bonanza. Yeah. I still have not played that one. Mario Kart World. Do you have a Switch to? Have you? Yeah, Nintendo sent me one.

Oh, wow. Really? Damn. Nice. Well, through like my agency, they were like, yeah, can you just post it? They said, what was it? What was the phrase? One, they used some weird terminology.

I've never heard from a sponsor before, but it was, it was like. Chill? Yeah, it was very. very chill. Basically, they just wanted like a tweet, a post or like a short. And, uh, you know, all these people were posting like, I got the switch to. Hell yeah. And then my picture was like me holding a N64 box with the switch two box like slightly in the like far in the background. I was like, I just got the new Nintendo console. And they were fine with that? Yeah, pretty much. That's crazy. That's crazy. Yeah. I feel like there was a time on YouTube where like I like pretty well, early on is

relative, I guess, because early on would be fucking, I don't even know, like, smosh lip syncing to Pokemon, but like early on, I guess, in like this new era or whatever, where like, I remember sponsors would, they would have like an ad read or they would have like a copy.

And it used to be like, you could kind of do whatever. And then I remember at a certain point it started getting really specific. Like, like, I remember Raycon, at a certain point they were like, don't, don't mention Ray J anymore, please. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or like, they would be like, don't mention Kim Kardashian don't mention this or whatever. And I'm like, okay. I had to rework a few. I had to rework a few because of that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I just, I don't know. I haven't kept up with it really. Because a lot of it, a lot of our stuff is fan funded now. But it's just like, I just remember it getting a lot less fun. Yeah. To do them. Because there were, there were so much more guardrails on everything. And they were like, I remember for dollar shave. Like I remember I asked them like one of the earliest ones that I did. I was so happy with it. It was like, can I threaten to use these as a weapon and like,

attack my roommate with him. And they were like, yeah, sure. Yeah. Those are the best ones. And I feel like no shot would that be like, if I ask that like now or something for a similar company, I feel like they would be like, let's keep it. Let's keep it a little bit more relaxed. Yeah.

The thing that annoyed me about all that stuff is they're concerned, you know, right? They want as many impressions for their product as possible, which doesn't always translate to sales. I think clever tactics is a way, It's more of like there are people that are going to support just because like, oh, this was really dope. And I saw it even when I would, because I'm one of the rare people that actually played. It was my first gotcha game, Ray Shadow Legends was, I was like one of the only people that I was like, all right, what the fuck is this about? I love term-based RPGs.

I love dark fantasy. And then I actually was like, everything outside of the predatory gotcha shit is actually pretty cool. and I was getting advertisements from them but actually playing the game and then after a while they were like well we want you to do very specific stuff and blah about this and that and I was like hey I guarantee you

since I'm actually playing this fucking game I can get people in this game and they'll stay so the retention will be there but they were like well no we want to just they basically it didn't work and then after a while they kind of like moved on to people that had like way larger that don't play the game at all like you

all collabing with Mr. not Mr. Bees, a ninja and shit like that. But point being that one of my favorite ad reads would be, I'll listen to the Comtown podcast. And it was a disaster every time they would read it. But they got like the green light because people started actually listening to the entire ads.

It's, yeah, they don't, they don't know what works. They're stupid. Like a lot of companies, like I remember like there was a famous norm, like Norm McDonald used to have a podcast and he did these like ads.

from this like grill grate that would go over your grill they were called the man grate and he just shat all over it and they loved it like the audience loved it they would actually like i guarantee you that that that ad sold way more mangrates than whatever like like an authentic like some company would ask me is like can you say exactly what the percentage of money they're saving is like they don't care about that shit man nobody just people just don't want to be fed stuff in like a boring like detached sort of way where it's like whatever creator they're watching feels like they're they're not being genuine or honest

and if you're putting effort into like ad reads and stuff people can feel that they can kind of feel the authenticity I always fight for that whenever I do like sponsorships and stuff and most of them are are pretty cool yeah good yeah yeah it's dude maybe it's turned around a little bit because I remember getting like weirdly strict I think I don't think it's I think it's I think I think it's, I technically think it's worse because I still see there's the, you got to put it a few minutes usually now. A minute after, because I would always put mine in the front and just get out of the way, right? Get out of the way. This is this. What's up? And now I feel like it's getting so bad that YouTube implemented a jump ahead button. It's now intuitive. That's right. Yeah. That's like devastating for advertisers, which I don't give a shit personally, but. It's actually a pretty great tool. I was like, oh, this is fucking sweet.

Well, it's got to be, viewership has to be in the hands of the viewer, right? Yeah. And so, like, there are times when I would put like time stamps and I would mark the sponsorship and the ad read. And I would do that. And sometimes sponsors would be like, hey, can you take that out?

It makes it too easy to skip it. I've had people do that to me too. But I would keep it like that for about like 12 hours because, you know, oh, I post a video. I got the sponsor. sponsor done. I'm all good. I can fuck off and do real life stuff. So I would kind of, I would just kind of like wait until a good chunk of my audience could watch. And, and then I would, yeah, I'd get rid of it because, you know, they asked me to. Right.

Yeah. Yeah, man. I definitely, the, you have you been, I don't know if you guys been paying attention to you, I've been paying attention to YouTube a lot more because I, I, I was interested in experimenting and getting back into it. Because, you know, since we do the podcast, that's, that's my job. I abandoned YouTube essentially, but I'm now doing some stuff. One thing in particular, I don't know if you guys noticed this, but there are a bunch of, we talked about this on the podcast before. There's a bunch of channels just popping up and it's on the political side where it's just a first name, last name, and they have a profile that looks like a LinkedIn avatar.

And they're getting a stupid amount of views. And I'm very curious, like, why is this happening? and if it is purely algorithmically, like, responsible. So I started my own where, like, it's like Rick Blackman and I'm wearing a button up in a tie. And I just, I just posted like a couple videos on it. And I'm experimenting right now, but I'm starting to see these weird shifts that are happening. And then a plethora of history channels that are just AI, but a lot of people are too stupid to notice. So the voice sounds real.

And it's fucking crazy, man. The AI shit is so egregious. I can't even, I don't even know what the hell I was. I think I was like trying to look up. Oh my, I was, it was, because I was playing through Metal Gear Solid Delta again. I was like trying to beat it with like no, what is it? No kills or something. There's like some, a non-lethal playthrough of MGS Delta basically.

A pacifist. Yeah, pacifist run of Metal Gear, which sounds insane. But, because you could just tranquilize people and like they'll fall into the, they'll fall into like a river. and clearly drown and it just like it doesn't count. Yeah. I love it. You only shot the tranquilizer. Everything after that was nature taking its course.

Right. Yeah, that's God and gravity. Yep. Yep. There's nothing. That's not you. It's not you. You could also shoot the explosive barrels and it also doesn't count.

Oh, really? Really? Yeah, I found that out kind of recently. It was just like, oh my God. But I was looking up because I was trying to find those fucking collectibles because they're like, they're unreasonably hidden in that game. And I'm just like, I'm not going to, I'm not looking for these. normally. Like you can't, you can't make me do this. And so I looked up like some

tutorial video or whatever. I was like, oh, okay, here it is. And it's just clearly an AI. It's clearly an AI thing. Which is still the tutorial from someone who actually wrote it and repurposed it. It's crazy you put that up. I just, uh, I posted a video on my second channel like yesterday. I just titled it. AIS finally saved gaming because Microsoft announced like Microsoft Gaming Copilot. And in this article, they posted, it was basically just like, instead of looking up a guide online

of someone who's showing you how to get past this or how to fix this glitch or how to get this achievement, it's like, hey, hey, Siri, can you show me my achievements? And it's like, but dog, you can already just look at your achievements.

Just press like three buttons, man. Yeah. It's like too many buttons, man. It's like everything they talked about in this like, what the gaming co-pilot can do for you. It's either like summarizing someone else's work or providing a solution for something that you can just do way easier, like manually.

Anything to avoid interacting with the thing that you bought, I guess. Yeah. Or other people. I mean, what's the alternative? Oh, you would go to some gaming website and you would read someone's article and generate like a click for them on there. you would generate traffic there or you would God forbid you watch

some guy who does like funny playthroughs or guides or something right and maybe you leave a like on his video no no no just cut out the middle man it's all robots now yeah it's it dude it's great what gave it away is because the guy kept talking about cojima oh yeah yeah I just remember being like oh my god

this is fucking AI dude no one in the no one in the world would say co jim are you kidding I just experienced that last night glazer exactly that's exactly what I was thinking dude last night I just experienced that but it was it was MMA it was an MMA channel it was like it's supposed to be some his MMA history channel and like oh this

this video about the this movie about the smash the machine the rock the rock playing is playing them and it's coming out pretty soon so people are making videos about that and I was like oh a documentary about dude I want to watch it and then it sounds like a real

fucking person right very breathy and shit, but then every single name was pronounced weird. And I was like, what the fuck is this? And I saw the channel's only been around for like three months. And I'm like, fucking hell, dude. They got you. They got me. I was like, this is crazy.

And I supported this bitch by watching like a good amount, like 10 minutes or something of it until I was like, okay, I can forgive like one or two names me, but it was fucking every name that was like not English, which is, you know, like, I was like, okay. Most. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was just like, fuck this, man. It's rough, dude. I don't even know how you navigate AI stuff

because it's just like, I never thought in a million years I would miss, like, the dude. Hello, hello, I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of Smart Talks with IBM. I recently spoke with IBM's new director of research, Jake Mbata. We discussed his vision for the future of quantum computing. At IBM research, what we always do is answer

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Yeah, it's why I came to IBM. I wanted the experience, the culture of building hard things that others have not done before. where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology? There will come a point when it will mature. Right? Yeah. My cell phone is a mature technology at this point. How far are we from that point with Quantum?

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And it's like a fucking horrible webcam pointed at the TV. And it's some guy with like a vaguely Indian accent, but not quite. And he's like really poorly explaining it. I never thought in a million years I would miss that in comparison to this. It's like top 10 Kojima game. Oh, no. Number 10. Metal gear.

Well, I think, I think people enjoy impersonation. Yeah, right? Because it's more, it's more relatable. But not the type of imperfections where it's like Cogima, where it's like you can't, you can't really understand the reason why that would be messed up on. Whereas if it's like, if it's like some 360P like shitty pre-elgato gameplay

tutorial or like Gears of War tips and tricks or something, and it's just the worst fucking quality, you can barely tell what you're looking at. Like, you get the sense someone made that. And for a time, it was more useful. And now it's, it's uses like looking back and being like, oh, man, those were different times. Yeah. Yeah.

Back when people were, well, back when the majority of the internet wasn't robots, I guess. Because that's, I'm pretty sure that's the case now. Like, I'm almost, in fact, I'm almost 100% certain that like, I'm pretty sure over 50% of internet users are just completely. Wasn't it like 80% on Twitter now or bots? Something like that. I believe it. Yeah. Dude, my message request.

are ridiculous. Like, especially every second there's like a new like tons. It's almost like climbing the fucking ladder in MGS3 where it's just like how much longer could this possibly go on? How long is this song?

Have you guys been getting any of the the, the, it's women like they're obviously they're bots, but they're actually acting. There have some human characteristics like spelling errors and shit. I don't know if you've experienced that.

Because I turned my inbox off because of all of the bots and shit I was getting and all the Korean language and weird shit I was getting. I was like, all right, this is enough. Because every once in a while I was like, oh, there might be a listener of viewer that sends something interesting because that would happen. Yeah, I used to check it for that. Yeah. And so that would happen.

No, perfect. And like, yeah, so it's fucked. But now if they have a checkmark, which these bots are getting these checkmarks, so you can, you can message anybody, even if it's turned off. So I've been getting a handful every once in a while. They'll say something like, oh, remember me type of a thing. And then they'll use like a spelling error and there'll be like a correction with the asterisk and shit. So it seems really personable and real.

And I was like, dude, lonely men are fucked. Oh, yeah. Fucked. So I just checked mine. Yeah. And the funny thing is because of my name is the act man. Yeah. They'll think my first name is the.

Yeah. So the You into Asian girls. Is it okay if I message you? The? I think we have that on the Sarkang Twitter page. I think like if you check the messages on there. Probably.

I haven't checked the DMs on there. That'd be pretty good. Hey, really respect what you're doing. Are you open to paid collabs? Oh yeah. I love those. I love those emails.

The one where it was just like, we love your content. about insert like vague thing here that you talked about. We just love what you're doing. Yeah, I know. It's very interesting. Right. Like, because I mean, we talked about a little bit before we were recording,

but we all kind of been around a long time. Relative to YouTube years. I don't know if you guys watched Tearsu. Yeah. Every now and again. He posted a video on like this new channel Zer 2. And it was like,

I think the title was something like the average YouTube career is nine years. And that got me thinking about like my own mortality and like how how interests change and shift and how you kind of like adapt or die. And sometimes it's like, oh, but these old fundamentals that I had that worked for so long, well, I can't abandon those or, you know, I got to I got to stick with what works. but it's just kind of interesting having to think about oh how do I actually do have to try and adapt I can't get so full myself that I'm like oh no I got this game figured out yeah you can't rest on your laurels especially if you want to do the same

if you want to keep the same kind of thing going you know like it's we've and when did you when did your channel start so I I made the channel in like 2013 but I posted my first video in 2015 but then I took like a I was like working so I was I was in college and I was doing like video production editing classes and I was just kind of feeling it out before I really started putting stuff out there it wasn't until 2016 where I made like a solid push I think

I remember getting like a little over a thousand subs in two months and I was like oh my God I made it and then I checked my check my analytics after I got my my channel monetized and the first day, guess how much money I made the first day I was monetized. Oh, man. I'm trying to remember. I would say $3.

Okay, we got $3, Chris. No, because they don't, they wouldn't pay you unless you made over 100. So like I feel like I don't know, no, no, no, not the paycheck. The how much the channel made. Just the first day it was monetized. I don't know. I wouldn't even be able to. No, I'm just, I know serious.

Six. Six cents. All right. And I was like, this is actually going to, like it was the tiniest little bit, but the potential was there. The potential was there.

Yeah. Yeah. That was me in like 20, I think 13 before I was even posting really. I was just posting frequently. It was a bunch of garbage. But like I saw like I had like $6 or something. I was like,

ooh, I can't get that $6 until it gets to $100 or whatever because I think that's what it used to be like AdSense. I think I don't know if it's still. I imagine it's still the same. But, but yeah, dude, like I, I, that's so funny because if you, if you started really pushing in 2015, I for sure saw like your earliest stuff. Like at 20, 2016, I had like, like if I checked my videos, I'm pretty sure the very first video I did was June 2015. And then I wouldn't start like really posting.

I mean, I posted like some Halo five funny clip shit like just trying it out. And what's the, I'm, I'm certain. the first thing I saw of yours was you eviscerating Halo 5, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, yeah, that was fairly certain. There was a few of those videos and then I think I kind of, I remember I tapped the well dry, sort of.

Not because I was like, oh, this is what's getting views and all that, but it was like... You said all you had to say. I said all I had to say, and then I was thinking to myself, I was like, dude, I don't want to just be the guy who complains about Halo channel, right?

Yeah, yeah. I feel like there's so many other creators that get started as guy who complains about things and then that becomes their whole stick and they never like break out of that. Their issue is a lot of people at that point, I feel like people don't understand

what happens where like I think if you make a career out of like complaining about things or just however you want to put it, you're going to find things to complain about everywhere. Yeah. Because you have to.

You have to. Because you have to. There's like a financial like imperative that like I have to find something. And I remember when I started feeling that way. The sort of gimmick that channels like Angry Joe or Angry Video Game Nerd or I hate everything or your movie sucks. Like this is this is besides those types of where the creative focus is on this I hate something. But it's it's much more than just that.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm talking about like the day, like the daily, like the thing to me was like where people would like on a daily basis, they would have like five videos about new things to complain about. I'm like I don't, I don't even understand. I don't have that many opinions about anything. You know what I mean? Like how are you how are you finding a way? Because I have a lot of opinions, but they could be a tweet. You know what I mean? They don't need to be like 10 minute and one second videos. Right. You know what I mean? Dude, the way that I circumvented that was I started Twitter trash series, but it was fun, though, because there's never a shortage of people saying dumb shit. And it was just making fun of that. But it wasn't in the way of, I need, oh, this is popular. How can I shit on it? Because I just, I never wanted to do that personally.

And I remember seeing the, there was the communities that I was kind of rolling with that were just bitching about things that were actually annoying. And then people who were just grifting. And I started to see them converge. And that was when I was like, I'm fucking out of here. It converged and coalesced. Yeah, dude. The great convergence we call it. It was fucking trash.

I remember the biggest thing for me was there was two big things. The first beat was people complaining about Batwoman on CW. And I was like, bro, I don't, who the fuck? Like, no one watches CW shows like all these grown ass man. I'm like, we don't watch. I don't, this isn't for me. This is for fucking 12 year olds. There's a, uh, the CW.

had like supernatural. It had on... I actually don't know what's... Caucasian white. I don't know, dude. Oh, hell yeah. It was just like for, but yeah, if you ever watch any of the OCW shows, I mean, hey, more power to you.

But like, as an older male, none of those shows appealed to me. Like, Arrow was on there for a little bit. And I was like, oh, this is kind of cool. But then it's settled into being, it's like, oh, love triangles and relationship shit that I was like, it's like a drama.

and they stop choreographing really as much as it's like I know what this is. Wait, I need to ask this. What happened? Because I don't, I, but. Hello, hello, I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Smart Talks with IBM. I recently sat down with IBM's chairman and CEO, Arvin Krishna. And I asked him, how can companies use AI to its fullest potential to create smarter business? My one advice to that, pick areas you can scale.

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Oh, no. So there's an episode. Is it from? It's from Flash. It's from the Flash. So have you, dude, have you seen the episode of,

or the clip from the episode of the Flash where, um, Gorilla Grodd goes back in time to kill Barack Obama in college? It doesn't even sound real. Whatever words, whatever sentence just came out of your mouth. I don't know. You're just fucking with me.

I swear to God. Is it something you can. screen share or? I mean, I can, I can send you. I'll send you the link. I'll send it to you on Discord. Dude, it is, it is fucking great. Like, that was a real, like that's, that entire network was just kind of nonsense.

It was wacky. It was wacky in general. And that's why it was young adult. It was young adult TV for like teenagers. 100%. And to find all of those people that, you know, that are even around my age, I'm 37. So back then, right, early 30s or whatever the fuck. people complaining about Batwoman.

I was like, nigga, you're not going to watch one second of this. Why are you complaining about it? I know you're not going to watch it. And I feel like most people, when you watch or play something that you really just don't like, like you just like,

that's the end of it. 100%. This wasn't for me. I'm moving on. But there's a whole. There's like rage bait farms, you know? The rage bait is,

is what, like, because I even empathize with people finding something that they watch that they hate so much that they want to talk about an extent. Oh, yeah, yeah. But to have that, Oh, dude, exactly. I can't even begin.

But. Yes, exactly. But to have one of those every week, man. Yeah. That's the thing to me. It's like, I don't know, man. That seems like a miserable. Yeah.

It seems like a miserable existence. It's got to be. It's got to be. That's why a lot of those people are, a lot of them are falling off. And, you know, interesting enough that we're talking to you right now, I think the catalyst for the downfall, was legitimately that Andy Pants gaming guy.

Like he was the, it was too inauthentic to where people were like, all right, dude, this is, like enough is enough. I got to know something about that. I sent you the clip,

by the way, of guerrilla grott. You can't forget about that. The name of this video is insane because it's not even a lie. What was it saying? It's Gorilla Grad versus Barocco, but it's not clickbait or a shit pose.

It sounds awesome. Fan favorite. Flash TV series. Dude, it's fucking insane. What were you saying? But no, so that Andy Pants Gaming guy, is that a real guy? I still don't know what to make of that. No, he's not real,

right? No, well. So here's the thing. Me and a couple other guys, we did some investigative research. Now, I haven't planned to do like a big exposed video, but it like ballooned in scope and it was one of those things where it's like,

oh, I've done a bunch of work on it. I'll get back to it. I got to focus on something else. I need to get something on the main channel. Then I never really got back to it. Things kind of... I wouldn't know anything about that. Right. Yeah, yeah, exactly. But like, my goal was to basically expose him as, you know, the fraud that he was and that he

didn't really believe any of the shit that he was saying. Here's all the evidence, right? Because, you know, he was like shitting on me for being a corporate chill. But if you go to his Xbox channel, legit, like, 200 community posts on his, on his channel, praising Starfield every single day a new community post and when I brought this up in the debate went back to his channel all deleted

all gone all deleted I didn't know that no yeah no there's so much more but I think it was like I thought this guy was satirical at first or that he was like being a parrachet or a parody because you know he's that's what I thought he was saying I was

a gay woke communist who's being paid off by the satan pedophiles that run Activision and it was just like it's too perfect it's yeah um but the thing is like no he what was interesting about him is he had older channels where he actually posted like real videos that were pretty decent a bit uh lacking personality and charm but just kind of like your your standard run-of-the-mill video essays that were that were decent and he tried skits and we found his old Facebook pages. And, you know, we found, we basically mapped out his like content, uh, metamorphosis

over time. And I think he just got so fed up with not being successful. He was like, well, what's, what's the easiest way to, to gain an audience? I'll just say everything's gay and woke and in, yeah, yeah, literally. But, uh, yeah, I think that that debate was just like, it's one thing if you're, if you, if you, have a legitimate criticism of someone. But like, like,

there's enough about me to criticize that you don't have to make up a bunch of random bullshit. At least that's, that's how I feel. And I still, I still feel that, uh, I still believe the idea that we should all be able to hate each other and

coexist on here. Right? Cause we're all entertainers at the end of the day. Like, why you got to take shit so seriously? Sure. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, that, because I remember like when I first saw him, I was just like, this can't be real, dude. Like it's just like, because it's so perfectly, like the formula is like on, but it's exactly what I would do. Yeah.

Like if I just didn't care. We actually did. We went. Did you? We, a couple months ago, maybe it was a year ago at this point. We made like kind of grifting channels, like fake ones. Just to see. And I posted a video.

I can't remember what the fucking video was about that I posted. I don't think it was Concord. It was something like that. It was around the, uh, um, when the, um, when the, um, when the veil guard came out because I remember that's when I when I oh it was Vail Guard that's right it was yeah it was the Vail Guard it was talking about the canary and how they made him woke and gay and I got with no completely new channel completely like no SEO or nothing 20,000 views in like a day or something you know it's like that's so

funny I deleted it like a couple months I think I deleted it like two months yeah because I wasn't gonna keep up with it like it's insane yeah it's just like man yeah but it's insane that it worked I did have a pretty funny video idea where it would be like, it'd be like a satirical top 10 woke games, woke games list or top 10 anti-woke games or something like that. Sure, yeah. But the idea would be to just like take games and then rename them and then come up with a premise for them.

So like, like, um, galo, gender-reveillance. evolved. All I have right now are titles. Liberal Watch 2. There we go. Leftists may cry. Okay. I thought it was going to be leftist for dead.

That's pretty good. Batman Progressive Asylum. Let's go. So stupid. Yeah, right. Metal Dick Solid for Cucks of the Patriots. All right. There we go.

Nice. The Epstein Scrolls for Oblivion. Ooh, I'd play that. I'd play that. I'd play that, dude. Yo, that is, the Epstein Scrolls. And then instead of the dead space remake, it'd be the Safe Space Remake. Ooh, okay.

Safe space is good. Yeah, yeah. And the whole premise of the Safe Space remake, of course, is you play as Isaac Clark, a non-binary engineer who's trying to find a gender neutral bathroom amidst the USG Ishimura, which is. which is filled with white supremacists and you know

yeah which is which is cultural appropriation of course you see where I can go with this video concept you can just fucking yeah I love I love that idea because it's just because those are all absolutely real things that people have said

like that's what's like I'm sure safe space is what someone has called 100% like a million percent and then instead of day of sex, we have gayest sex, gender divided. Gayest sex. I like that.

That's good. Gayus sex. Have you played the original day as X? No, I haven't. I, I've used some of the soundtracks as background music and videos because I don't know how you guys do background music and videos, but there's like,

you have like your handful of songs where you're like, okay, if I don't know what to put here, these tracks will work no matter what is being said. And there's some of those in day of sex. but dude yeah this has a great i only started i played it for the first time like i think a couple months ago and i fucking loved it the first one i couldn't believe i couldn't yeah the first one i couldn't it has that like that really cool old school RPG charm that like knights the old republic has or fallout one and two where it's like a hundred percent the game doesn't really hold your hand

and there's there's some hidden bullshit or you can maybe fuck up your save file somehow in like irreparable ways by just choosing the wrong thing. Yeah. If I was in a different mood on the day that I played it, like if I had played it even like maybe a day earlier or a day later, there's a pretty good chance I might have even not liked it at all. But I was, for some reason, I played it and I was open to it. I didn't really know how to play the game until like three missions in and then it clicked.

But it's just like, it's a good ass fucking video game. Yeah. And there's the, uh, the UNATCO theme. If you listen to that, you listen to the UNATCO theme, it's so good. Yeah. No, it's good. I think I wanted, I think the idea that I would have almost about like that video is like I wonder if there's a way to make it so like you could read because it is so. Hello, hello. I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Smart Talks with IBM. I recently sat down with IBM's chairman and CEO Arvin Krishna. And I asked him, how can companies use AI to its fullest potential to create smarter business? one advice to them. Pick areas you can scale. Don't pick the shiny little toys on the side. For example. If anybody has more than 10% of what they had for customer service 10 years ago,

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is so nebulous at this point that like I almost wonder if you could take certain games that like... Yes. Like if you could make Dead Space sound like a, like a broie like, you know what I mean? Like the exact opposite of like, oh, there's no gender neutral. I feel like you could you could spin it either way, right?

Either way. Yeah. Safe space remake, but you're the one chud who's fighting off all these deformed. trans people, right? Right. They are literally trans people technically. They have transformed.

Yeah, yeah. Or you could be the lone trans person or whatever non-binary trying to find the bathroom, right? So you could spin it whichever way. Epstein scrolls, right? That's a hard one to spin. No, but I feel like there's a way, right?

You become part of the Thieves Guild as you try to track down the Epstein scrolls to expose Uriel Septim. Uriel Septim is absolutely on those logs. Like the second you beat him for the first time and he's got, he clearly looks like a demon. I'll never forget, like, that zoom in the first time I played Oblivion a long-ass timing.

It made me put the game down for 20 years. What? I'd never played through the original, Oblivion. I couldn't do it. When did you play it? I played it like maybe 2006 at like my cousin's house. And he, he just got it and he was like,

check this out. And he handed me the controller because he wanted to show it to me. And I did that first section. It zoomed in on fucking Emperor Uriel's face. And he looks so fuck. And you're like, nope. That I was like, I can't.

That's crazy. I can't do this, man. I don't know. I don't know if I can do it. That's a crazy opinion. I mean, granted, yeah, even back then it kind of looked. bed like but you go outside i remember i have this just vivid memory of going to a buddy's house in my neighborhood uh when i was growing up he was a year older and he got the 360 before anyone

else and i remember seeing oblivion for the first time because i played morwin more wind more wins even more scuffed oh sure and and then you see oblivion and it's like what there's like there's like there's like a marker where you're telling you where you're supposed to go you know just run around like a dip ship and the graphics. Oh, I remember looking at Oblivion for the first time being like, this is, this is. Oh, comparatively. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You guys ever have that moment? Like, I had another moment like that in Halo 2. There's like, just that moment where you, your brain is like, I got to remember this. This is this. I'm seeing something really cool.

There's this exact shot in Halo 2 in the first mission when, when Arbiter is being led out of the chamber. truth is saying the weight of your hair seat will stay your feet. And there's this one shot where he's walking down away and he's flanked by two brutes. And I just remember thinking, that looks like a movie. That looks like a movie, dude.

Yeah. No, I think, man, I'm sure the big one, the first time that I remember being shocked by what I was seeing and like, I can't believe this is a video game was fight night in 2005. Like that first fight night was like, I can't believe how real this fucking looks.

Not familiar. Did you at least play the Libyan Remaster though? I played it. I liked it a lot actually but I didn't I didn't get far into it because dude You saw him again and you're like nope

Nope, nope, not good. No, he looks way better now. Oh yeah. Yeah, well in fairness, I do want to give I do want to give some context. I think like back back in that time specifically

that and to be fair this is true of me still to this day. I am I'm really fixated on games that control well and like like the the game feel of something matters more to me than like story or really anything like everything else is a nice bonus but I can I can cozy up with like a two D side scroller with no story at all and really love it like that's that's fine but like when I at the time that I played oblivion I had already played like so many other first person games that felt so good in comparison it was the same way I felt about Mass Effect 1 when I first played it in 2006 as well where I was just like this is not or not 2006 maybe like Evan I can't let me 277. You played when it came out?

I don't remember that. I played it when I played a little bit of it when it came out and I was like this. I just played Gears of War, dude. This feels like dog ass. Sure. And it ran it like, and it ran it like 20 frames per second. I was like,

I can't do it, man. So like there were a lot of RPGs. I didn't get into RPGs until probably. I think Fable 2 was maybe the first time that it like scratched that I realized. Something was there that I liked. But then Skyrim was like. the thing that kind of popped it open for me. And then I went back and played all those other things.

What about the first fable? I didn't play the first fable until after Fable 2 because I didn't have, you know, I didn't really, I didn't know what the fuck it was. Yeah, you were PlayStation guy growing up. Yeah, yeah, I think so primarily. Like PS, PS1, PS2 for the, for Buda Kai and, you know, Tenkaiichi and all that stuff. Like I was all over that machine.

Okay. You still had race back then. Okay. I'll let it slide. but no i just couldn't get into rcgs until until later like it clicked with me a lot later no my brother such a huge absolute nerd so i i got lucky that he's just like three years older to me so he almost forced me to play whatever he was fucking playing and i'm glad he did that because then it like okay he had crono he had like chrono trigger and i was like oh this is actually

really cool he even this one game vagrant story that i was like i don't know this guy looks gay, I don't care. But then when I started playing it, I was fascinated. And then when I got a, when I finally played Fallout 3 and like the VAT system, I was like, dude, this is like fucking vagrant story. It was like so, it felt so good like that like somebody had like an idea where you can just hear target these points and shit. And I was like, this is, I'm so fascinated with that shit. And that's how I like, anything that's like that, I immediately gravitate towards it and even if it's shit I'll still kind of like

you know I'll give it a try and fast forwarding all the way to Expedition 33 it's like oh cool we got like some sort of deep RPG with some term based shit I'm glad that a lot of people like that man because I it's one of my favorite genres

of like just anything that's remotely close to that any RPG that is like action oriented or not just entirely like Turn-based games can be fun, but I feel like you need something else, right? Whether it's like Fire Emblem where, yes, it's turn-based, but there is like some math, some chance, some bit of strategy.

And I love the whole like positioning and like you control an army sort of thing. Sure, yeah. And like Paper Mario, The Thousand-Year Door is one of my personal favorites. So like the idea of RPG, but with action commands, button prompts and stuff like that. That's why a lot of my buddies were. recommending Expedition 33 because they were like, it's kind of like paper Mario. I was like, shut the fuck up. I got to see it.

It's, have you ever played a, do you know, a sea of stars? I feel like I've heard of it, but I don't think I'm familiar. Somewhat recent, it's in the last like three. It's somewhat similar where there's like real time elements to this turn base comment. I'm like, this is, I was never into turn base at all.

I always like wrote that shit off. And to be fair, like I still kind of do. Like, I'm just like, I want to play the game. I don't like the feeling of like, in turnbase games it always feels like I'm telling a cool character to do something cool versus I'm the cool character doing a cool thing

literally Pokemon yeah there's like a separation there for me that I'm just like I can't quite get over it but Expedition 33 with that like the pairing and shit is like this is exactly oh yeah pairing and dodging this is so fucking good a lot more engaging I get it yeah I guess the way that I always thought of like

turn base was more of uh well I get you know it's cliche to say but like chess and that was my like Like it was just way, like, because when I played chess, when I played back in the day, I'm like, this is kind of fucking boring versus now spicing it up with characters and interesting stuff. And really just feeling, getting a little rush of like a little hit of dopamine when I'm mapping out my attacks in advance of like, okay, so here's the situation. Yeah. I need to do this to maximize the outcome and then seeing it play out.

And there's like certain, some games have prompts. Like they'll be like to have like a timer in the corner. and the timer will stop when the match is over essentially. And if you haven't executed the move yet, and you execute the move, and a few series play out still, but the timer has stopped, you already know you finished.

Like, you're like, fuck yeah. Everything where there being like some type of effect that like does like a poison damage or something that like kills them eventually or something, like mapping it out. And it's just, it's so satisfactory to have that domino effect.

And it's stuff like that, the payoff of those. things. But yeah, that is that is the right way to think about it probably. Oh yeah. I can't I can't break out of that. I'm just feeling like you guys ever play a divinity original sin too? No, I've been told to play that a bunch. I haven't played it. So, so I didn't, I never beat Baldur's Gate 3. I didn't I probably put less than like 15, 20 hours into it because I think it just reminded me that I prefer divinity original sin too more. But that whole like dominant effect and mapping it out what you're talking about. Oh my God, that game is, that game is so good,

because you can, you can basically, like, combine elements. Like, if there's, you know, part of the map is wet and, like, an enemy is standing on it, you can call down like a thunderstorm and shock the water. And if you run, you know, if you move past the water, you take damage. And it's, like, it's turned based, but you can map things out and your characters get multiple actions, right? If there's like oil barrels, you can throw fireballs over there and explode, and it just blast all over the place. But some enemies regain health from fire. Hello, hello.

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I would 100% recommend that to anybody who's like an RPG fan. And it's also, one last thing I'll say about it, it is one of the only games I've ever played that has a second person type narrative to it. Oh, what do you mean? So like your character, while there's conversations between you and other characters and your companions, whatnot, the narrator is second person. So whenever he's describing like what your character is doing, there's an element of imagination to it. It's like you walk into this cave and discover, you know, you smell death and decay. And then there's like there might be some weird mesquite.

lady. I remember this vivid part of the game where you walk into this cave and there's all these dead black roses and some like she's like she might be hot and she's like trying to seduce you and if you let her it's like she sticks her tongue in your mouth and you as you feel bugs like flying down your throat stinging you and then once the battle starts you take like

you take like poison damage or something So shit like that's really cool. That is crazy. You're the first person I've talked to like me where I put about 20 hours into Baltimore to Gate 3. And I liked it. I didn't have a bad time with it, but I just, I didn't continue for whatever reason. I don't know why.

And I know by the way that it was unequivocally the game of the year that year. Like I understood, as I was playing, I was like, oh, I understand why this is, why this would be the game. There's a certain kind of pressure to a game like that where there's so many different options and so much chance. And you feel like you feel like you don't want to miss something or you don't want to fuck it up. And that pressure of like, oh, God, what if I make the wrong decision or I don't want to look up a guide or this is so complex and there's so much going on? It can kind of turn you off a bit. Even though like I know someday I'm going to go back and play it.

But yeah. what do you think what do you think the game of the year is this year if you had to guess I know there's still time there's still a lot we're only in September which actually is you know it's it's deeper in the year than typical but like I mean there's still stuff

coming out feels like every goddamn week as far as what I've played I mean isn't it probably going to be a toss-up between Silk Song and Expedition 33 because it can't be nice

rain. It can't be night rain. It's not going to It's not going to be night rain. It should not be that. Dude, I couldn't believe that shit when they tried to pull. A shadow to pull. Yeah, shadow of the earth trail. I was like, you, you can't. That is that to be was so egregious. I couldn't believe that it didn't. It didn't

win anything. It didn't win anything. It was a complete waste of a slot. Totally. Not that it was like bad. Obviously it's good. But like when did we start doing this? Yeah, anything's redefined. We were saying right. Like anything that you need another game to play it like you need the base game to actually play it it's not it's not a it's not a stand alone content right like i would

yeah that i could excuse something like that let's say oh um uh what was that fucking that came from a far cry three uh blood dragon or whatever oh blood dragon yeah like something like that i'll make okay it's kind of its own thing but this i thought that's just fucking silly because i like like you can't even just go out and play it you have to buy the fucking game first and then buy that shit. I'm like, it's kind of crazy. I mean, also, like, I watched that that Xbox showcase a few months ago in the Outer Worlds 2.

That shit looked really good to me. I don't know if you guys saw that or what you think of it about it, but it kind of gave me, kind of gave me Cotor 2 vibes in the sense of, it's like an old school RPG and there's all these different, like, or fallout in some ways where like the, that's one thing I love.

when your investments in a skill or an attribute pay off beyond just like making your character stronger. It's like new dialogue options open up and, you know, or like if you're a complete dumbass and fallout. So it looks like they got that going on, which that might sneak in. But as far as like what I think will get game of the year, probably Expedition 33. and then I think they'll probably do like Silk Song Best Indy game probably. Yeah. That would be my guess too. Like Expedition 3,

I don't know if you finished it yet. No, I haven't. I'm maybe like seven or eight hours into it. I need to need to be checked. It's not that long of a game really. Like it's, it's very respectful of your time, I think, which is, which was also something that I thought was so nice. Just to be able to sit down and like get comfortable

with an RPG and have it not be like my entire goddamn life. Yeah, like 100 hours. Dude. Yeah. The best thing about that, right, is that you can become extremely O.P. Without turning over every stone, right? Because a lot of times in RPG, you kind of have to grind pretty hard to get to that level. You don't. You can stay at a chance.

Yeah. So I was like, I love that. I love that I spent almost, I think I was like 40 hours or something. And I was doing retarded levels of damage. It's fucking stupid. Also one of those RPGs. which is also like Mario like Paper Mario

I don't know if you guys have ever played it the second one the thousand years ago Yeah they they have like this action command Where if you're if you're really really good with timing You can completely nullify the damage from most enemy attacks And Expedition 33 has that as well So if you There are some enemies I tried fighting

And they were like 30 levels higher than me And I lasted like five or six turns Just because I got so good at Dodge parrying and all that. But of course, then eventually they one-shot me. So I like the idea of also being able to fight harder challenges earlier than you're supposed to or intended to. But just based on your skill alone, you can fight through. That's one of my favorite things to do actually in games.

Sometimes I'll waste way too much time. The only, this is sad, the only really fun thing that I remember doing in the Veil Guard, because somebody bought it for me to review it. Otherwise, I wasn't going to fucking play it. There was a, like, you're in like the world between worlds where all these mirrors aren't shit. And there was like these guys that these big guys in their thrones that you can fuck with. And I wasn't supposed to fight him yet, clearly.

And I think I fought him for like 30 minutes almost. But I actually beat it. But normally the fight would last like probably three minutes, three to four minutes. if you were at the level you should be at, but I love doing, I love wasting my time like that. Let me see if I can actually beat this guy right now. And that was fun.

The limits and, uh, and doing what the game discourages you from doing, but still allows you if you're good enough. Yeah. Yeah. Silk Song, I don't know how to feel about quite yet.

I haven't played that either. I was, I was planning on maybe, maybe streaming a little bit of it. It's, it's very good. But like these runbacks, man.

The runbacks. to the boss the bosses that you die at man like I don't know it's what do you want I should get good but I don't know I don't know if I have the patience to get good like I'm not like if I was 12 oh my god if I was 12 I would have been all over

it I feel like I was spoiled by what was it Cuphead where like all the the boss gotlet type shit you just kind of there had a couple of levels but then you would just show up at the boss most like most of the content was just here's the boss fuck it up if you lose you

you're right there. And I felt spoiled to where, oh, man, I got to go back to the boss. I got to do all this bullshit again. Yeah. I was like, damn. It's, it's, it's rough. I'm sure. I get that I get what it does for the game, but it actually like it actively kind of like, I don't know. It impedes it for me a little bit. Just because like I like to, I like, I don't mind dying in a boss fight over and over again. You know what I mean? Like, that's fine. It'll be frustrating, but like, it's not hard to walk back to the boss.

It's just kind of time consuming. So I kind of feel like, I don't know if I'm, I don't know if my time is necessarily being respected here. You know, that's it. I'm not seeing new, I'm not seeing anything new from the game in the time that I'm walking back to it. So I'm like, this really is just kind of a waste of time. I get the, I get the, you know, the punishment aspect of it. But like, I don't know. That is, I'm not that into it. That is an interesting point because like I had a, another video.

I had, like a shadow of the urge tree review plant and I had it recorded and like half edited still have another video I got to go back to but oh yeah didn't you not like it I feel like I remember I felt like it was very disappointing it was very disappointing

the levels were incredibly boring and easy the vast majority of content in the expansion was already recycled you know like you go to this fucking sunken city and it's the same giant crabs from Dark Souls 3 it's like come on man you know like like make a new crab

Make a new crab. But adorable though. Yeah. But one of the things I noticed was Shadow of the Earth Tree, it's all about the bosses. Like most of the levels are pretty, although visually stunning, they don't really play like anything in particular. So it's like there's a weird balance between something like Demon Souls, where it's like the checkpoints are few and far between.

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or coming up with just how do different accelerators go together. It's our DNA to answer the question of what is the future. Isn't it a perfect problem for IBM because you kind of need to have a legacy of building stuff? Yes. Building actual physical machines. Yeah, it's why I came to IBM. I wanted the experience, the culture of building, hard things that others have not done before.

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Where Shadow of the Urtree, it's like, okay, I'm just running through this area to get to the next boss. And then the boss is all that is like predominantly the interesting content. So it'll be interesting. That's kind of. Yeah, it'll be interesting to play Silk Song and see kind of like what the balance of that is and how much. runbacks end up bothering me. Yeah, I mean, I guess it's,

it's a preference thing, I guess, but like I also feel like, that was one of the things that I felt about Shadow the Earth Tree too where I was like, I thought this was, this is good,

but like I'm not wowed by any of these environments in the same way that I was in base Eldon Ring. Yeah, yeah. Where it just feels like everywhere I went in base Eldon Ring, I was like,

I just couldn't believe what I was looking at. And I just, I couldn't believe that there was more here. Yeah. And it played well, right? Whereas Shadow the Earth Street, I remember, there's this, there's this one, like, uh, path towards like a church.

And it's just all wolves from fucking basic starting limb grave, right? It's just all wolves and then like one of those tall smelter demon things. And I'm just like, why are there, why am I fighting basic limb grave wolves in a brand new expansion? Why are, why are these wolves get, make a new wolf, make a new crab, you know? I mean, I love the idea. I've, I've, what, what criticism, that's actually been my main criticism of, from software in general is like the recycling of their content. Even though like it's good, it's like really, especially like in the, you know, Dark Souls to Eldon Ring where I'm like, all right, this is, this is too.

Even though like I said, I had fun, it's just also, I always like to point out that if other companies were doing this for other games, people would be saying some stuff. So there's a little bit of a, like a, you give, there's, I wouldn't say favoritism. That's not the word I'm looking for, but you'll, you'll give people slack. Like, if you really enjoy their product, right? You'll give them like, I really enjoy what they're giving me. So they're doing certain things that I normally would maybe have a problem with. Like, say if it was you be soft, people, like, they would never hear the end of it. They would never.

If they made an Assassin's Creed night rain where they just recycled a bunch of old shit and put it in a Oh my God. It would be insane. I remember the reaction to, do you guys remember the reaction to, um, when God of War Ragnarok had their, uh,

I, I can't remember if it was like a big gameplay reveal or if it was just like a teaser trailer that just showed some gameplay or whatever. But they, they had, uh, an animation of Cratos with the boat. Like pulling,

pulling the boat back in. And they were like, I can't believe they reused the same fucking Cretos boat animation. Unplayable. I was looking forward to the new boat animation, man. These are last generation boat physics. What are we doing? They fill off so hard.

I think from software, it was up until Shadow of the Urtree where I was like, okay, you get a pass on the recycling of like content or enemies. Base Eldon Ring did it a little too much where it's like there's almost no completely unique bosses like MoG, you know, you can fight them twice. You can fight basically every boss except the Eldon Lord, Serpentine, Rattagon, and millennia.

But Shadow of the Earth Tree took it to a next level. Actually, I ended up running the numbers, and it was like, it was like 75% of the bosses were either recycled, repeated. or reused because there's like eight ulcerated tree spirits in shadow of the earth tree,

you know, those giant fucking wood tree. And it's like, bro, you already recycled that eight times in the base game. Like, make a new tree spirit.

Make a new tree spirit. Yeah, exactly. Game of the year is what I'm here. Well, but like night rain, even though that's like recycling in a good way

were, I think it was 40 bucks, so it's not brand new, like, 60, 70 $70 price tag. And also the concept is actually really, really cool. And it's a ton of fun with buddies. And I still wish there was more to it. But Nightroom was kind of interesting because I don't know about you guys, but I've gotten to a certain point over the years where, like, I'm very picky with the games I invest time in.

If I don't like something or if I feel like, I'm not going to like this. I kind of, I dip out pretty early. Night rain the first couple of matches, I was like, I'm not really, the first boss was Morgat,

Margett. You know, why is the first boss, Margett? Come on, I don't know if I'm feeling this. But it was a strange outlier because the more I played it,

the more I actually ended up having fun with it, which games where I start playing them, and I'm like, uh, usually they, I have less and less fun playing them. Yeah. I heard good things about night ring.

I was just, I think by the time Nighterang came out, I had already put like so many. I put like nearly 200 hours in Eldon ring and I was just like, I can't. I'm good. There's no more rings to Eldon. Yeah,

there's like, I think I'm good on FromSoft games for the next like probably four years before I'm ready to jump back into that shit again because I'm so satiated. I don't like putting that much time into a single experience. You know what I mean? I'm having an issue with, I'm having an issue with playing game. Even like the reason why I haven't tried Silk Song is my time right now.

I'm very busy with other projects right now. And if I, I don't, I don't get to play video games as much as I used to. And I don't want to. I was thinking about when I was, in like 2012, I was working and riding my bike back and forth and going to the gym. My day was completely booked, but I still somehow remember beating Mass Effect 3. and then beating all the the DLCs, like when the Citadel part one and two came out and I was thinking, how the fuck did I do that?

Because where the hell's my time gone? Because I'm trying to beat stuff now, and it's just not happening. Like when I started playing the remastered oblivion or the, you know, whatever. And I got pretty far, but at a certain point, I was like, fuck, I got to put this down

because I'm not finishing it in time. And then there's a bunch of other shit keeps coming out. And I don't know how I'm going to. It's a game that you never really finish. I guess so. Oh, good. I mean, I guess a lot of people did that with Skyron. Well, you did that with Skyron.

Did you, Chris? No, I think I beat Skyrim when I, yeah. I mean, it took me a while, but like. Well, beating the main campaign or the main. That's what I mean. It's not beating the game, right? You still got to do Majes Guild, Thees Guild, Dark Brotherhood. Dark Brotherhood.

And Oblivion, I wanted, I want to play more of Oblivion, but God damn, does that game run like hot, ass. You need to upgrade your specs, bro. No, man, fuck that. Unreal Engine 5 is a mess. Like, I can't believe, like, I think the game has like a memory leak. Same thing that's happening with

Borderlands right now. Oh, that's always lovely. It's wonderful. What's frustrating about is that like these are good games too. Like, Borderlands 4 is actually like unreasonably good. Like, it plays really well. Wouldn't the CEO say some shit recently of like,

like, don't like, he said like the don't like it, don't buy it, or, Yeah, you might just have to upgrade your... Instructions. Like, if you need help on how to better optimize your PC, listen, our game is well optimized. It's probably your fucking fault. If every single one of you is having fucking problems running this game,

it's your fault not ours, even though this is not happening with many, many other games. It must be. Essentially... It's so insane. It's just like horrible PR because this is like something that your homie would tell you. And you'd be like, yeah, whatever, right? you would kind of brush it off

it's your homie. But it's like to see, like somebody like this, it's like you can't, bro, you have to learn how to speak. And so like if someone, you're the CEO,

man. He's like, come on. Do you can't, I can tell Chris, hey, maybe you should upgrade your hardware. And he's like,

nah, and then Chris can reply. Like, no, I think I'm good. I think just the game fucking optimization sucks dick. But like, the CEO saying that to you is like,

bro, what the fuck? This shouldn't even be a conversation right now with you. Like, I can't believe they allow him to speak. I can't believe they haven't muscled him. Like, he always does this. He always goes on Twitter and says some crazy.

I think it like, because I think Randy, he said something, even just a couple months ago before they announced the price or something. I can't remember what the fuck it was. But like there was speculation about like borderlines being like $80 or something. And he just talked about like real fans would buy it. Oh, yeah. Right. And I remember and I remember being like, I remember reading his statements in context and being like,

look, I know what you're trying to say, but you should not say this on Twitter, dude. You shouldn't be saying this at all. I get what you're saying. Probably shouldn't be posting on Twitter at all, to be honest. No, truthfully, yes. You should always avoid Twitter as much as possible. But like, I just remember being like, why would you write that?

Because I can be mega charitable and understand, like, what he's saying is like, listen, if you are a big Borderlands fan and you're into this series, you are going to pay $80 because that's just like, Like that's the standard. That's going to be the price of something that like, I would pay, I paid fucking. I don't even want to think about how much I paid for like the legendary for like Halo Reach or whatever. You know, like I pay out. That's worth it.

No, but I'm saying it's like I pay out the ass for shit that I like. Yeah. Like I would pay. Hello, hello. I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of Smart Talks with IBM. I recently spoke with IBM's new director of research, Jake Mbata. We discussed his vision for the future of quantum computing. At IBM research, what we always do is answer what is the future of computing,

whether it's coming up with new algorithms, coming up with better AI, coming up with quantum, or coming up with just how do different accelerators go together. It's our DNA to answer the question of what is the future. Isn't it a perfect problem for IBM because you kind of need to have a legacy of building stuff? Yes. Building actual physical machines. Yeah, it's why I came to IBM. I wanted the experience, the culture of building hard things that others have not done before.

Where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology? There will come a point when it will mature. Right? Yeah. My cell phone is a mature technology at this point. How far are we from that point with Conton? By 2029, we'll build the first fault-tolerant quantum computer. That is one that can run a very, very large.

large problem. To learn how IBM is building the future of computing, visit IBM.com slash quantum. Hey, it's Ryan Sechrest for Albertsons and Safeway. Ready to save, it's time for cyber deals. Put a spring in your step with fresh savings that brighten the season. These exclusive week-long digital offers on your favorite products are only available when you shop online.

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of like a game that I cared about. You know what I mean? That was just like I pay like I can think of a couple games or I would pay $150 for that. But like if you say that shit on Twitter, you must understand how that's going to look. Especially because you're a CEO. I don't know if you heard.

That's not necessarily the most popular thing to be right now. Yeah, and we're in this new era of cancel culture, so it's... Right, so just like, stop. Yeah, yeah. Like, just shut the fuck up. Clearly your game is, but... I want you, I want you to... I want you guys to guess how many times Borderlines has crashed for me.

Borderlands before. I would just take a fucking guess. Can I ask how many hours do you have? Yeah. Yeah, let me check real quick. I think I have about, um, I have 25 hours in it. 25. I'd say, uh, 35.

35 crashes. That's generous. That's a lot of crashes. What about you? I'm going to say it's crashed. I'm going to say it's crashed 10 times. 27 times. Oh, my God.

I was close. That's crazy. That is one crash. That is so many crashes. It's insane. Dude, that's like playing on, what was a, more than one per hour. You play or whatever. You ever fucking US off has throw launcher?

Oh, boy. brother. It's still when I try to play the fucking shadows, like, it's still crashed. I was like, what the fuck, man? You guys haven't figured this out yet? Like, it was still crashing for me. I, I tried to play fucking Splinter Cell Blacklist

recently because I was like, it was in my because I love Splinter Cell and I haven't and they're never going to do anything. They're never going to make another one again. So I'm like, fuck it. And it was sitting in my Steam library. I was like, oh, cool. I tried to launch it and it like had this, I think they, I think they severed you play or whatever from it.

So now it just runs normally. but it that game runs for approximately three minutes before it falls apart it is insane unmotted New Vegas might have you beat there that is yeah

I tried I tried dude I want to tell how many times people have told me like man you gotta play New Vegas you gotta you would love New Vegas and I believe listen I believe them

I just wish the game would let me do it yeah I have yet to make it through the YouTube community comes in handy because they have perfected the mod guide tutorial. I remember I watched a like a 10, 15 minute video. Pretty easy to get. It tells you all the fixes,

makes a game better than it, you know, was or is. And for the most part, completely fixes the crash issue. And brother, let me tell you, that game, for the most part, is crazy, though. To say for the most part, not. Yeah, you got to play new. I want to play it because I do love Fallout.

I think the vibe of it is just perfect. I do think the beginning of New Vegas is kind of like, I don't know. I don't really feel like I'm playing Fallout really. I feel like I'm playing like something else. It doesn't have the fallout vibe for me until you get into Vegas, I guess, proper. I like cities, like crumbled cities. I don't like, I don't know. I'm just like kind of like a plain field, you know, I don't know.

There's like a vibe. There's a bunch of like crumbling cities or play. No, I know, but I'm saying early on in the game, it kind of feels like, I don't know. I really dig Fallout 3 from a vibe perspective and just like I think it nails it. Although the story is like whatever. I'm more interested in what's happening in New Vegas. It just doesn't. You'll warm up to New Vegas.

The longer you play it, trust me. The fact is you'll see the light. You'll see the light. I 100%. Well, I believe that. I don't know if he'll play it. Only because you have it. It's not.

How is it out of principle? I feel like he doesn't want to install the mods out of principle because it's like this. I do hate I do hate the idea that I have to fix your fucking game. But it bothers the hell out of me. Like, at a core level. Like, that's like,

that's like, it's like going to subway. They throw the ingredients at you. You know? I'm just like, how dare you? I'm sure all of these together if in a perfect sandwich is great. But what have you done to me that this is your excuse?

I've heard that it runs pretty well on Steam deck, so I think I might just, like, kind of do that. I mean, you can, you can roll the dice play, play it on desktop too. You may run into those crashing problems, which are a huge pain in the ass, but. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I'll try and find it.

I'm sure there's ways to do it. And I like it. I'm like, I love fallout, but like, man. Yeah, dude, I mean, that game just, that game just is not, I remember when that game first came out, and it was like, I'll never forget because I was like, oh, should I get this? And then I looked up a review and it had the guy in the beginning,

the doctor that finds you. And he's like, he's leaning in the chair and he's looking at you. And his head was rotating like this. Oh my God, really? And yeah, it was like, it was like, it was like, it was bugged from the start. And everybody was like, uh, it's good, but like, it's broken as fuck. And I remember being like, okay, I guess I'll,

I guess I'll wait. And then they never fixed it. So it's kind of nuts to me that they haven't fixed it. I guess maybe they're. It made it in like 11 months or something. Same as Cotor 2, or maybe 14 months. Like they,

they jerry rigged that shit together. Dude, isn't it crazy that we used to get games that quick? And like really good and really good games too. Okay. So I have this other video idea. I made some notes on, but working title is,

what happened to Star Wars games? All right. Now, Star Wars Episode 3, Lego Star Wars, Battlefront 2, Republic Commando. Those four games came out the same year. That is nuts. 2005, we had a first person squad-based co-op shooter with a FPS multiplayer. You had Battlefront 2, which was absolutely massive on Xbox Live. You had the episode 3 dueling game, which was like a fighting star.

Wars game, not something you play for too long, kind of like something you would have rented at Blockbuster, beat it over the weekend, and then, you know, done some battles with your buddies. And then, of course, Lego Star Wars was just, that was like one of the first really big, big Lego games that popped

off, at least from my memory. So, yeah, I remember that being a huge, I remember that being a huge, I never got that into the Lego games because they were a little bit, I think around the time that those games were out and popping, like I just kind of felt like, you're in that age, where you're just like, that's for kids.

Yeah, I'm too cool for that. Or whatever. Yeah, I'm too cool. You're going to watch Family Guy in South Park. Right, I'm going to watch Family Guy and my portable DVD player. Oh, yeah, yeah. But, uh, fucking the, that new Lego Batman game looks actually really fun.

Like they had like the, what is it, the entire saga or whatever? They got, they got Bain in there. Oh, yeah. I love what they're doing with all the Lego stuff, but. It is cool, but it is insane. Like, I look back at like that era as being like,

specifically like maybe like 2000 to 20 maybe 11 is even too late but like the 2000s primarily of just like man that was like the perfect like wait to wait and receive era you know what I mean where it's just like there would be just enough time between game releases where you'd be like oh I'm excited for the next one you know and then by the time you're excited for the next one you've heard about it and it's out you know three year devs cycles kind of thing. Like the fact that all the uncharted games came out in like that span of time is insane. Like what is it? 2007

to 2011? Or some crazy fucking thing like that? Just like that is insane. For three uncharted games or the entire Gears trilogy in one generation. Yeah. Like we used to be, that is fucking bewildering to me. You go from Gears 1 to Gears 2,

which is like, oh, that jump is nuts. But like all of that in two, three years. What the fuck are we doing? I remember beating Halo 2 and then thinking, you know, you got that amazing cliffhanger ending, which at the time, you're like, oh, I can't fucking wait till the next game comes out. I'm sold. And then you replay Halo 2 like every month or whatever. And you just, you just marinate and that, where's it going to go? Where's it going to go? And I remember, I remember, uh, this was like really super early YouTube. And they had that, uh, that starry night

ad, you know, when it's, yeah, it's out in the, in the forest. And even, that like whatever it was like 360p or seven like maybe 720p it was it was like 2006 and i remember seeing that and being like you know and you had a year to just like marinate on uh on halo 3 so i think you're absolutely right it's like uh and then you had kind of all these like uh side games like shit that that big game developers or publishers wouldn't make nowadays because they want to throw like a hundred million dollars into it but you know like the og xbox was perfect for that it's like uh blood wake here's here's a fucking boat game shoot each other on boats or like jet set radio future i don't know just skate around in this anime cell shaded land fuck off yeah you know there's always

something cool in between those like really big titles and now for the most it kind of feels like you have the really big titles and then there's like indie games it's like there's no like middle of, there's nothing in between. There's no middle market. It's weird because like the middle market kind of did come back for a little while there. Like we got stuff like biomutant and like. I feel like Helldangers 2 and maybe even Expedition 33 are both kind of middle market. You could you could make the argument.

Yeah. Just that they both look super good. They could they could fool you into thinking, oh, this is AAA. Yeah. And by the way, those games though, but even that, like those games took, I mean, Hell Divers too was... Hello, hello, I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of Smart Talks with IBM. I recently spoke with IBM's new director of research, Jake Mbeta.

We discussed his vision for the future of quantum computing. At IBM research, what we always do is answer what is the future of computing. Whether it's coming up with new algorithms, coming up with better AI, coming up with quantum, or coming up with just how do different accelerators go together. It's our DNA to answer the question of what is the future. Isn't it a perfect problem for IBM because you kind of need to have a legacy of building stuff? Yes. Building actual physical machines.

Yeah, it's why I came to IBM. I wanted the experience, the culture of building hard things that others have not done before. Where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology? There will come a point. when it will mature, right? Yeah. My cell phone is a mature technology at this point. How far are we from that point with quantum?

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Like the trailer, the trailer for Helldivers 2 leaked many, many years before it came out and it was not the same game. Really? Yeah, there was like, we did a whole show about it

and it was just like, when's this coming out? And then we waited and then it was completely different by the time we saw it. And it's like, so even those games that are considered like kind of like more double A or whatever

or like less, less polish more emphasis on just like fun or just like an interesting idea. Like those games like, even those games take fucking forever now. It used to be, it used to be like, like pandemic.

Do you remember Pandemic? Yeah, yeah. Dude, like, they were just on a fucking, like, here's, here's destroy all humans, here's mercenaries, here's battlefront, here's Lord of the Rings conquest, here's fucking, here's the savage war. It was just jump, fucking ridiculous. And it was all just fun, just really cool. Like, enough that, like, this is an interesting idea and games aren't so expensive to make right now that it's actually worth doing this. Whereas now it's like if you have a risky idea like that, let's pitch it and see if we can maybe make it a game mode in Fortnite.

Well, also the business model changed, right? With the advent of like live service, it's no longer, oh, we're just coasting off of sales and good reviews and all of this. So it was like- Engagement now. Yeah, it's all engagement and like getting people to open their wall to make consistent purchases, which like, of course, games like Hell Divers too, where the max amount of super credits you can purchase at one time is only 20 bucks, right? They do a really good jib.

Really good jib. Really good job of that. Great jirb. But yeah, it's like back in the day, it was like, okay, we just got to come up with a really fucking cool cover and maybe a game trailer and we'll do interviews with

a game informer or whatever and try to promote this and just make a cool game. And, now I feel like there's too many cooks in the kitchen, too many hands, trying to grab a piece. Yeah, and it just costs too much, man. Like $400 million for Concord is ridiculous. Where does that money go?

That's the thing that I want to know. It goes to the show. You remember they had the Concord episode of that weird TV show. Did you see that? There was like a show called Secret Level on a... Oh, right. I saw that earlier this year. That's right.

Dude, they thought Concord was going to be so unstopably huge. They thought that that was going to be so, they saw Star Child or whatever that fucking weird character was in Concord. They were like, this is going to be the next fucking baby fucking Yoda. This is going to be broken. The thing about Concord is that like the character designs could have worked. It's the art style. They went like super realistic. like but if it was a little more cartoony exaggerated you probably

get away with some of that stuff i i played a fair bit of it i bought it when it came out just because i was like i was so curious i was like what is this going on the bini pigs i i bought it well first of well i wanted to buy it for the show because i was just like this is just interesting uh because i knew the game was going to fucking fall apart uh and part of that was kind of interesting because you got to there is something that i will say about concord that i really liked although it was nothing it was a complete byproduct

of its absolute fucking failure was that when you were playing Concord this is a PVP kind of you know is a competitive PVP first person shooter and you're playing it with other people and I remember the best experience that I had was it was like man

this is so nice because nobody gives a shit about this game that no one's like no one's like no one's like like no one's trying no one's trying and everybody's just kind of chill about it and I was like man I haven't felt this like

since like maybe like the 360 era where like people were just genuine except for out of maybe Years of War I was fucking sweaty. Fuck. But you know most games back then were just like hey you just played it and it just kind of didn't really matter. You didn't really care. And that was like a weirdly

nice thing. Yeah. Although I'm sure they were furious that nobody cared about. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. But uh, actually the company that developed it is a not too far from my hometown, so it's a little, little,

uh, it's awkward. Yeah. You run into them every now and again? You're like, rough. Rough, man.

Yeah. Well, it's got to suck to be on that side of game development and like, put your heart into something and then just, you were just on the wrong, wrong track. The toxic positivity of it too, just like,

because you know that there were people, you know that there were people there who were just like, guys. Like, this ain't it. because it played well. Like I remember playing, I was like,

this plays really, this is perfectly adequate. Like, there's nothing really wrong with it. It's just ugly and I don't like to be here. I don't like to spend time looking at these characters. I don't like to, I don't like any of the way that,

I don't like the vibe of this entire thing, but it plays well. And you know they knew. You know that there were people there who like either had more pole than others who just weren't listening. La la la la la la, la, la, la, la. I can't hear you. Yeah.

And it's just like, well, You know, I recently watched some of those old Halo Vidox and behind the scenes. If you want a really cool look into game development, the Halo C.E. Commentary track, or it's like Marty, Jason Jones, and Joe Staten, and they're all just riffing on the game. Yeah. But what's so interesting about this one in particular, it might have been after Halo 2 came out before Halo 3, maybe after Halo 3 and they went back to it. But as you listen to these three guys talk,

it's like they're constantly making fun of each other about like all these little imperfections that, and not even someone like me who's played it a hundred times would ever catch on to, right? There's like, there was some part of it where Joe's like, oh yeah, and if you look in this corner right here, you can see part of the skyboxes cut off. And I'm like, what are you talking about?

I can't even see that. Right. But it was such a, a such a like perfectionist mindset that they had. It was almost like part of the reason the Halo games were so fucking good was that internal competition between devs to outdo each other, but also the understanding that they're all

on a team and when it really matters, they would genuinely compliment each other. There's like, yeah, there's some moment. They would rip into each other. I remember like there was something like, um, it's like, oh, that's a great animation there. Like, you're something like, you're something like completely like completely yeah yeah sarcasm i love it's so interesting man just to look those are great vidox in general just those are the most honest virox that i've ever seen exactly right like it's crazy about in in the halo three one and they're doing the uh

halo two documentary or no that that was the halo two legendary collection basically all of the vydoc is like yeah this game's a fucking disaster it's it's uh man we're rushing towards the finish line we had to cut all this shit and you don't get that that nowadays, right? You compare that to some like Black Op 7 thing where it's like we're making the most incredible call of duty experience to date. You're not going to believe your fucking eyes

or ears when you play this and it's missing that. Every day I wake up and I walk into Activision and I come and I can't believe how good it is. The way that like that slide looks perfect and you go to the Kayla day, you go to the Halo 2 Virok and there's literally there's a shot that lives rent free

in my fucking head of I think it's um i think it's joe staten and he's just in the dark and he's sitting in front of like a like a monitor in like a kind of an empty room the lights are all down but like the the lights coming in and he's just like he's just like defeated he's just completely like he's like he slept at that desk like overnight probably and he's just like this is hell i'm like everybody's fucking miserable like we don't know what we're going to do everything's this is falling apart it's hysterical because you would never see that i still to this day. That was what got me into

like paying attention to this industry. It was genuinely that Vydok and I thought that there would be more of them but there's straight up none. The closest maybe is the god of war one raising raising Cratos. Yeah.

But that was all but that was all retrospective. That was all like after the game had done well like this was like during. Yeah. Yeah. Like this was technically marketing material for the game. It's like guys look how much everything sucked. Yeah, I think they had some shit maybe. It might even been within the original God of War game,

like when David Jaffe was like a part of that shit. And I think that's like the closest thing I can think of back in the day with a similar vibe where it just, it felt different. It felt it felt inclusive. And it's like, oh, I get to see all the sausages made. And like it felt authentic. And now like you were saying, well, David, David Jaffe is a very authentic.

Yeah, I Do you know anything about David Jaffe Actman? Do you know? Nothing recently, but I've seen some shit over the years. Yeah. Yeah.

We've done, we've done, we've done, I've done some shows with him. And he is so fucking funny. He's, like, for,

for modern tastes. Oh, yeah, he's definitely like not. He's like, he runs you a Cliffy B kind of where it's just like those, those, like,

they're, they're crazy. But I honestly can respect that to a certain degree. Like, oh, like just, you know, uh,

Because we don't really, there's no real vibe of old bungee anymore. Like that sort of bro, not like Activision Blizzard, how they described their culture as like a toxic bro thing. But just like the idea of like we're all in this together, but I'm not going to, I'm not going to fucking let you slack off. Hello, hello. I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of Smart Talks with IBM. I recently spoke with IBM's new director of research, Jake Gembetta. We discussed his vision for the future of quantum computing. At IBM research, what we always do is answer what is the future of computing, whether it's coming up with new algorithms, coming up with better AI,

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And we're going to tell you honestly, like, oh, yeah, you know, shit, development for this fucking sucked. Yeah, that authenticity, it feels like a, different era before social media really took off. And this whole idea of like perfect appearances and everything has to look nice, shiny, sleek and clean. And you can't say anything offensive because then you'll, I mean, we were even talking about Randy Pitchford right earlier.

It's like even, even we to a certain extent are kind of in some ways looking for perfectionism in people. Yeah. I mean, well, yeah, I guess on that front, to be fair to them, they are letting Randy be Randy. Yeah. That is a good like they're not, that is a good point. They're not musling him, I guess. That's a good counterbalance, right? Um, I do feel to me it's like, even though I, like what you're saying, that makes sense. I also

think certain roles like say the CEO, I think the people like under them, the quote unquote grunts, I guess, that's where it's like, hey, we're, you're just like the consumers. We're, we're in this, you know, I'm not some rich piece of shit. I'm fucking just just working on this thing. And I think those where we want to see the authenticity, I really don't want to see a CEO shoot from the hip. I really don't. Yeah. I kind of know what you mean. Yeah, that is fair. It's just kind of like interesting to to think about how perceptions change and like even, even on YouTube or just like with the advent of social media, how that ended up affecting game development. Because before it was like, oh, if you're pissed off at a game, what do you do? You leave a negative rating on game facts or some shit or or what you? you complain on some

forum that a thousand people go on and you know now it's like look at us we're all a bunch of assholes and we make you know we attract like millions of viewers shitting on this thing and and then you know

but what do we really know about game development at the end of the day so I don't know what that was clear really yeah that was that was so clear to me when the Craig thing happened Craig the Craig um what is it the

Oh, oh, yeah, the brute, brute. Yeah, there's the screenshot of the brute getting meleeed and he just had no expression on his face. And people were like, games fucked. I remember being like, oh, no, man. That did look really, really bad, though, especially after like five years after that much time. After that much time, I agree, but it's just like, man, this is, but this is exactly why things take so long now is because, like, if a game isn't like pixel perfect where every frame of it, Dude, is like, looks like a fucking movie.

It'll get torn a son. Dude, the alpha footage of GTA 6. Oh, dude, yeah. People were, I couldn't believe that shit. Like, that was, and there, dude, there were people in the industry, quote unquote, like, well, you know, whatever, the content industry, whatever you want to call it. Like, like, genuine people with audiences with, like, opinions that people for some reason respect being like, I can't believe this early, this alpha footage of Grant that thought it looks this bad. Unbelievable. It's like they haven't even finished it yet. It's like you don't know what anything is.

Authentically. Like you're fuck. I hit get out. I can't believe that those people exist. Side note. Did you guys see that Halo documentary that like leaked recently? Oh, I did. I did watch that. Do you see that there? No, I didn't see it. Are you big in all that? I'm not as big as y'all. Uh, but I just, I was, I was like a Battlestar Galactica.

I just, I win a different route, but I still appreciate Halo very much so. I always talk about Reach being my favorite. That was my favorite installment, but cool. So they had like, they had like this documentary. It was on a guy's website and it was made in like 2017 or something. The description for it was used as a, as a pitch for Halo Infinite. But when you watch the Vydoc, right, if you're like me and Chris and you're super fucking nerdy about, you know, all the lore, at least behind the studio stuff,

you're like, oh, that person, that person's no longer there. That person was fired. That person's no longer there. And like to see how they ended up talking about what we knew would become infinite was very, very interesting and enlightening in a sense of, it was like a time capsule that that sprung up. And it was something we were never meant to see.

It made it super interesting. It was like, yeah. Yeah, it was like they were, it's so fucking weird. because like I remember they said stuff in that documentary where I remember I publicly said something about it about like the direction that they were going in and Jason Shrier like Jason Shrier who's like by the way a very well respected person like in the games industry like he covers a lot of shit he leaks a lot of shit he breaks a lot of news and does a lot of exposés

I think he did he did the big one on um I think it was him who did the big one on a anthem when BioAir did the right right did Anthem did Anthem. Yeah, he's done a lot of great stuff. No, he has, but like, he responded to me. He was like, there's no, or he's like, that's not true. And I'm like, okay. And it's all in that fucking, it's all in that fucking

documentary. I'm like, okay. Circle back. I'm not going to circle back. Yeah. I tried to find it. I tried to find the tweet. I wanted to like to spam the link out of him. I was like, hey, but I couldn't fucking find it. He blocked me. Yeah, the whole like hero shooter Halo Infinite thing. It was like,

yeah. But the thing is, they had some cool cool stuff. Like there was this, I recorded a video that was like a reaction to this documentary and I was going to post it before these people who like owned it started being like, hey, you can't post this. And I was like, okay, well, I'm just not going to post the video then. But they had, they had this concept art that just, it said, it spoke to me. And, and which is kind of rare considering like three, four, three and their interpretation of

Halo more often than not misses the mark. But this concept art, you probably saw it, Chris. It was like, Master Chief is in some forerner part of this new ring. And he's like held in a chamber. And it's this group of Marines fighting off sentinels. And the first mission, the idea was that you were going to play as a Marine, rescue the master chief. Your character as the Marine would die, you know, unlocking him from this chamber.

Then you would swap perspectives into the Master Chief. and then see this Marine die and then boom, there's a start of the adventure. It was this concept art that was just... That would be fucking cool. Sounds cool. What could have been? Yeah. What could have been?

Geez. Imagine if they imagine if Halo Infinite had levels. That would be so crazy. Imagine if you could replay levels. Dude, you know, a fucking broke my heart, dude, uh, looking at people unearthed the, the concept art for, uh, Dragon Age 4. And that shit fucking, like it made me want to cry about like the ideas that they were normally going for before

they were like oh let's turn this in the live service and then they fucking reversed that at the last second blah blah blah but like just even things that didn't make sense like your character that you play as like rook you're like who the fuck is this person and they were actually supposed to be important they're supposed to be like your right hand to the inquisitor they actually had like they did they had connections they had it was meaningful there was going to be more people involved from the older games. There's going to be payoffs. And you're just like, yeah, but here's the thing.

Derek, fuck you. Yeah. Yeah. Essentially. Essentially, I'm, do you know how, do I feel so wounded that every once in while I feel like, I'm, I feel like a little delusional. Like maybe if I just play it one more time, there will be, I swear. That's the saddest feeling of the world, man.

Do, wait. Maybe I'm missing something. Maybe. maybe you don't get better this time. Waiting 10 years, dude, for like something. Like legitimately, not like, like, Dranth of Fata, you know, oh, there's going to be a million years. So you just got, you just, you're content with like,

I know it's going to take forever. Legitimately waiting for Dragon Age to come out for this long and be like, fucking hurry up, dude. Hurry up. Like, let's go. You know, it's one of my favorite franchises. And then. An Inquisition was game of the year.

I mean. And a tough, in a rough year. Yeah. Yeah. It was a rough year to be fair. But it was. I went back and play Inquisition in preparation. And I, well, first of all, the funny thing is I, since my, they have the Dragon Age keep that's supposed to link all the games together.

Mine's not working for whatever reason. And so I forgot how many things were actually supposed to be in my version of Inquisition. So when I did a review of the Vildgaard, I made some mistakes because I forgot about certain people that made returns or not or whatever. But that being said, I thoroughly enjoyed playing the game more than that. than I remembered because I had a fun time playing Inquisition when it first came out. And I was like, oh, that was cool. Like, this is pretty, you know, like it's not origins, but it's this is serviceable. And some of the things that they did, I thought they did some stuff well, but you can see how they were still trying to do more life servicey type shit with that game

too, where with its, uh, it's, uh, it's maps and like the, uh, it was pretty obvious with the way that the maps. And here's the power points so you can finally progress. And there were certain things that I'm like, okay, this could have been, you can feel it. This could have been, this could have been much worse, but they kind of backed off too. When you replay it, was it better than you remembered the first time? Is that what you're saying? So what I'm saying is I was actually, it was, well, okay, this is actually unfair because I was, it was better, but I think it was better because I, I didn't, I used a couple of trainers

for something specific. And it was for the traveling. And I remember the traveling in the first game really pissed me off because the maps were so big. And I felt very slow. So I'd always be like a warrior because they had this charging fucking, um, when you're active skills, it was like a charge. And then, you know, you just wait for it to fucking the cool down. And then you do it.

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So that's also a big deception. And my second run through a Dragon, Balders Gate 3, for example, I did the same thing. I sped up the speed so I can get from point A to point B way faster. That thing is sacred to me. I got to tell you. You go in and you just mangles. This guy watches YouTube videos at two times speed.

I do not. I do not. I don't do that. The people that do that, I'm like, why are you even watching it? Because I'm watching a video to, and to be fair,

the first time I'm playing a game, I don't do shit like that. But it's when I'm replaying some stuff and I understand how long it's going to take me to get from pointing to point B, where I'm like, all right, bro. I just,

I wish I had a fast travel, but the game's fast travel is terrible in Inquisition. comparatively to a lot of more modern games. You know what you don't like and you know the shortcuts to make it better on your own. But like I guess story wise when I was thinking about a lot of the things, there's still quite a bit of dialogue and Inquisition that I really enjoyed. I enjoyed the characters because I was comparing it especially to Veilguard. And like even like just I was thinking about the party and I was like,

I actually, there was only one character I didn't like and it was some chick named Sarah. And she's just really fucking annoying. but besides that like Freddy Prince Jr., the Iron Bowl, like I fucking awesome character even the side characters like it brought it up again

because there was a fucking trans dude in Inquisition good character crim like I was thinking about all this I was like you know what this is actually better than I really remember but I think being spoiled

especially just a couple of years after Mass Effect 3 regardless of what people were saying about Mass Effect 3 because I know the ending pissed everybody off but before that it's still solid ass fucking game and then the

Citadel DLCs was fun basically just BioWare having such a high standard I expected a little bit more out of I guess Inquisition at the time but now I guess there being a little bit of a drought and going back I was like this is still

pretty fucking good actually It is it's it is crazy They have been speaking of generational runs Byware man Dude they had one Jade Empire, Knights of the Old Republic.

They had both. Yeah. They have a generational run in every direction. Basically. Like every, every, going from,

look, man, look, going from Andromeda to Anthem to Vailgard is rough. That's a rough. It's a rough trilogy,

man. That's a rough three game run. Whatever is the opposite of a three-peat. That's the, that's what that is. 100%. That's like three 0 and 16 seasons in a row. It feels like it, dude.

Yeah, people like to talk about that, like that way about Bungy. And I totally get it because they lost a lot of people, especially like, and that company's been run so poorly forever. But like, I don't know, dude. That's like, that is next level. By where might be the biggest fall I think I've ever seen. Yeah. I feel like Blizzard. I feel like Blizzard's definitely.

because, like, dude, the Warcraft 3 reforged, like, it should be illegal to release a remake that then ruins the previous game. It, like, ruins your previous purchase, right? Because the whole, like, client that they had and the way custom games and matchmaking worked in the original Warcraft 3, they replaced it.

No. Oh, really? And fucked up 12 bad. Oh, so that's like what Overwatch. That's like an, Overwatch 2. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Except Overwatch 2 was at least free. This wasn't.

Oh my God. That's bad. Bro, I can. That, yeah, I think until Diablo Immortal, that was the lowest reviewed game of all time. Oh, my God, Diablo Immortal. Yeah. Oh, is that the, that's the gotcha game?

You guys have, you guys don't have phones, right? Yeah, yeah. Bro, Blizzard owns like two of the lowest rated video games of all time. Oh, man, I forgot about that. I saw people leave, um, because, uh, I, I, I knew nothing about the gasha genre until Raid.

And I started to learn about all this stuff. And people that were making Raid Shadow Legends content left to go make Diablo because these people are rich. They're fucking ultra whale crackens. And I saw a guy spend like $100,000 just to max out someone like immediately. And I'm like, can I have some? Like what the, brother? That's what is happening? The game is $100,000 worth of fun.

What game offers that much fun? Nothing, I can tell you, now that I, the raid economy, I know like all about it and shit, because I was going to make a video actually about like, oh, all these years later,

because everybody remembers when it first came out and people like, were absolutely destroying it. But I was like, I want to make a video. Yeah, yeah. And I was like, I want to make a video talking about,

okay, all these years later and the economy. And it's like, guys, there is an underground gacha genre thing that you don't understand that funds these people, they make millions of dollars a month,

the company player. That's why they make so much money a month, but when people are like, this game sucks dick, and I'm like, I understand how you feel, but these people that play these games don't give a shit,

and they prompt them up so lucrative. It's so lucrative, and it bled into, say, the sports industry, particularly NBA 2K. And I want to talk about this because it's useless. I loved basketball.

basketball games back in the day. But now it's essentially, it's fucked. You have to, if you want to play your game, first you buy the game, so $70. And if you want to max out your character to be in the 90s to actually compete with anyone, do any type of PVP, you're easily paying another 50 to $70. It's just sports betting at that point. It's not a video game. It's like half video game, half sports betting. It's fucking shit. And, and they also do a bunch of predatory things to where I can't even enjoy, because me, I would, I bought like one of the newer ones that was like 2K19. And I would just put on mods and shit and then I don't have to buy anything, but

they turn the fucking servers off. And they attach some offline modes, like the most important things, too online. Like, oh, I just want to play through the story and fuck around and play a season. And then like, they're like, oh, that's classic. I like when, I like when, it's a paperweight. I like what.

I like when single player. With a story. Hey, it's a dude. Well, I got it to, I'll let you go to a second, Chris. They're, they turned it into an RPG for a minute, like at a certain point they put it they put it storylines and there's growth and there's like dude love interest and shit and

choices and I was like I bought NBA persona I bought NBA 2K19 and I was like yo dog this is actually kind of good I was like this is fun like I'm doing I'm cheating my ass off when I'm doing PVE like you know running up the score it's like fucking 300 or like two or something and I'm doing all this dumb shit and I was having a blast and then they're like oh these people are having too much fun

turn off the fucking servers so they can't go back to these games. And I was like, stop killing games. Bro. It's fucked. And that whole thing was crazy too. That whole fucking.

That was a crazy. Pirate software. What the fuck was that? I don't understand what that was. I don't know. Why was he? That was a man who cannot admit that he has ever been wrong. And that is a curse.

I would not wish on my worst enemies because, man, you got to bottle up some serious demons to continue to operate like that. Right. yeah well he's a well in fairness he was the first second generation blizzard employee I can't believe he said that

that's just crazy it's a crazy especially when the company culture has been rotted out and you're bragging about your time as an employee there at the shell

just like shell of a man company and and apparently it's always been like pretty rotten too like that's kind of the crazy thing too it's like what does that even right like everyone like hearing about like bungee and how like they've just like always had like no

direction the entire time it's like damn i mean to me like that shows that bungee's like a mess of a company but it also shows like it to me that's also like mega impressive to me that they managed to make like some of the best shit ever with like no direction old school bungee was like organized chaos like i said like all the developers were in constant competition with each other and you know jason jones was like yeah we are the we are the jaded crowd so like they knew what they liked and even though sometimes they like had scope creep or got like were way too over ambitious like at the end of the day they always pulled together as a team and made the best fucking video game they could they could so yeah well let's uh let's wrap up

with some questions and get the hell out of here you guys are a ton of fun to talk to yeah man i like having yeah this is good you could always have me on Yeah, we should. I like that. I play Sweeney. Yeah, we should, yeah, we just fire them. Let him live in, uh, let him live in Costa Rica. Yeah, I'm the new Sweeney. I like it.

I like it. Perfect. Will we get canceled for that? I think we need, no, I think we need, we need, we need Sweeney. No, we don't need two. We don't need two of us. He gives us, he gives us. That's crazy.

All right. Hey, it's Philip Roded. And you can too. If you go to Patreon to Coms, I says, hey, you handsome gamers. have you have you have have either of you guys ever cut school or work for a video game i asked because i asked for three days off for halo infinite left school early and left school early to get gta five have a good one my beautiful bashful beefy boy uh technically yes uh for the for the for the when the first mass effect uh this this the the the citadel dLC dropped and uh because

they had a part one and part two and it when it dropped in this was like the real ending, I guess. They were like, this is when you have some shore leave and then this is when you're going to, I was just like, I'm fucking on board because obviously I was one of the people that was pretty upset about the ending and how it went. Even with the expansion, it still felt a little

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So I, of course I called that. I was like, if I'm fucking, I'm just going to chill, download it, and just fucking just have a great time. And it was, that was, sadly, that was a fond memory. You know what I'm saying? It's very mundane, but it was fond. I don't have an ex. I mean, I got a couple, the only time I, like, called out of work or something,

uh, that's, that wasn't like a good reason. Like, it was, it was Halo 5 had, um, had just come out maybe a day or two before.

And I had, I had, like a morning shift. It might have been a weekend. But then my mom woke me up, like right before my shift and told me my grandpa had died and i was like oh i was like half half awake i was like oh fuck and then i just kind of was like in my head like on autopilot and i was uh i put on my work uniform i went in i was washing dishes and all that and i i was like after an hour and a half

two hours i was like i can't be here i got to go home and i told my boss and then and i went home and i and i just, I remember, even though at the end of the day, like, I didn't like Halo 5's campaign, it was the perfect, it was the exact thing I needed at the time to like take my mind off of what was happening, you know, in my family life. So there was that. But a fun story is like, not that I blew off school or something, uh, or called out sick, but there was one weekend where my buddy Chris had gotten Halo 3 because I think it came out. you know, pretty early into the, in the 2007 school year. And, uh, first month. Yeah, we, we like had a sleepover at his house. And, you know, I had

homework or whatever to do, uh, slept over Saturday, played at Halo 3 all night Saturday, woke up, played it for like 10 hours on Sunday, you know, for like ate breakfast or whatever. I remember we ate a whole thing of Oreos. And, you know, I had to go home at like six or six, 7 p.m. and I started walking home felt like complete dog shit because I had the worst diet that day and I just remember walking home being like, oh man, so glad I didn't do my homework. Dude, that's, that's, you know, it's bad when as a kid, you're aware of how bad your diet was. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? Because like when you're a kid, you can, I feel like even

like deep into your 20s, you can kind of eat whatever and it doesn't feel like much. Yeah. but like as a kid to be like I've got acid reflux yeah no I felt like a stomach ache I was like I feel like shit so tired yeah yeah I think the the there's two for me where like I think uh it was like my first year I think of college or maybe my second year the beginning of my second year where Halo 4 came out and it was like just brand new and it was the day that came out it was Tuesday. It was election day. I remember that. I remember because they came out on the same day. We all went to school

and me and my friends would go into the lounge before we would go. It was college. We would go into the lounge. We would like kind of get our coffee or whatever and we just sit and chat before our day started. And we drove to school sat in that lounge and we're like,

do you guys just want to go home and play Hala? And then we did. We just let, it was a complete waste of everybody's time. end money technically because it's fucking college. We're paying to go. Really stupid. But then the other one was Skyrim.

Was when Skyrim came out. I didn't jump on Skyrim immediately. I didn't really, again, I didn't play Elder Scrolls oblivion. I didn't really know what it was. I wasn't really know those games at the time. But 11, 11, 11 came around. And that was the first year of college. A magical day.

And I mean, yeah, I'll never forget it. I'll never forget that. But I remember going in and fucking nobody. was there. No way. Like there was like it was I think genuinely I'm exaggerating out there were people there but like nobody that I knew was in school

there were some professors I had that had cancelled the day that I didn't see and I was like well what I'm going home and I didn't even like I didn't even have Skyrim to play but I knew my friends were playing Skyers so I just went over their house and I watched them play

I was like what the fuck is this? Like I don't know what I'm seeing like is this cool like I don't get it's cool And they were like, guys, you don't, you don't understand, man. It's amazing. And I was like, all right. And then a couple weeks went by and people wouldn't shut the fuck up about it. And so I was like, okay, let me, I have to know now.

I don't know what the hell I'm seeing. Yeah. I had a similar experience like that. So I got Skyrim and I immediately was like, I was hooked. Yeah, you had to be part of the social group, dude. Yeah. Well, I just had to know, I was more frustrated that I didn't get, that I didn't get it. You know, because I was just like, what the fuck is this?

Yeah, we bullied people that didn't play Skyrim in school. because that was that was high school I was like yeah if you didn't play Skyrim it was like what the fuck what? You play video games? What are you talking about? Yeah.

But no, I was hooked on it pretty immediately. Like it's it's kind of crazy how quickly. But like that was the that was a funny moment for me because I was like damn I went home because of a video game and I didn't even own it or play it or care.

So it sticks out to me. Yeah. It's like just a weird, just a weird point in time. Mixed fruit. wrote in, he says, hey, snark crew and act man. Here's a simple, he says here's a simple but gay question.

It's not a gay question. Oh, boy. Something gay about this question. He says, what's your favorite video game weapon? For me, it's the Patriot from MGS3. Because of the dumb reasoning, because of the stupid reasoning for it having unlimited ammo being the inside mechanism is shaped like an infinity symbol.

That is hilarious. I love that that is the official reason for why that... So dumb. It's like a Mobius strip or something. But, um, favorite video game weapon is like, I mean, I can give you like a,

like ones that come to mind. I'm sure there's other ones. But that Halo 2 energy sword is next level. Yeah. Yeah. Like the energy sword and Halo 2 is like unreasonably good because it's just, it's completely broken. It's not fair at all.

You can sort cancel with it. The sword canceling that, that you could grapple. It also had like a quick, close range attack that you could spam and then a long range lunge. And then it also had infinite ammo and multi-price. Blair and you could also, you could pull it out super fast and then immediately slice something. It felt so good.

My favorite, my favorite thing, and I only learned how to do it recently, like in the last couple months, because I was curious. And I was just like, I just realized I'd never done this. But if you were holding like a long range weapon, like a sniper rifle or something, and aimed in and the reticle was red. Oh, yeah. And if you press, there was like something where it's like, if you just press the buttons in the right way, you could do the source.

Lunge from as far away as the the gun would let you shoot basically. So you could like, so you would see somebody like flying towards you with a sword from like across the app and you'd be completely fucked and helpless. Dude, they used to do these really old like tutorial videos. They'd throw on some death metal song and it'd be like Halo 2 glitches and jump tricks. It'd be like,

brr-br-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d- And it would always be like let the bodies get the floor or something. Yeah. And, and, but they were doing that. And I used to think that was so cool because like back in the day, you know, you didn't have all these videos of people like going into games and being like, oh, yeah, let's use console commands and break into this. No, if you wanted to break out of the maps, you had to like find glitches that were in the game. That was one of them. And that was super cool. But favorite, favorite weapon. I mean, energy sword was one that came to my mind. Gravity hammer is also pretty pretty fucking awesome. Just the whole, the whole physics behind it. I would also say the auto shotgun in Left for Dead 2 is just that one's just feels really any gun in Left for Dead 2 feels great yeah Leffordead 2 is special or Leffordead in general like it's so crazy

that Back for Blood missed the mark as much as it did because on paper I just don't know I don't know how they fucked it up You don't want, like, cards? You don't want a card game in your zombie shooter? Zombie survival shooter? I can't even express to you how much I don't. I don't even, I don't even, I don't even, I'm not, I'm not even, cards are like the one.

It was like, I'm not, I'm not in the magic. I'm not in the, I never got into heart stone. Like, I just, I don't, I collected Pokemon cards for the collecting aspect of it when I was a kid. And then I got all 150 put in a binder and then never bothered again. Because the second they came out with another, like, here's another 150. I'm like, you're going to keep doing this. the rest of my life. I'm not going to do you. You, you, you did your due diligence. I did. You, you promised me that I could collect them all and then you reneged on your promise by adding more.

Fuck you. I don't respect. I don't respect any, any more generations. Although, Tony about this day. A quick piss. No, go ahead. Okay. I shall return. Yeah, do it. See, see, if I was, if I were him, I would have just peed all over myself. Yeah, I usually like, it's all over my own. Peeing in my mouth. I saw a chimp do it once and I was like, dude, that's actually really convenient. That is fucking. Are you serious? I was like, I mean, I mean, I did literally see a chimp doing that but that's what i was asking that is yeah i was like that's that's that's hilarious it was actually kind of funny because it's like like if i saw a human being doing i'd be like oh i'm very disturbed but uh the chimp was like i was like the chimp was like it was having

a fucking blast oh i was like that's funny i mean i wonder what he thinks of that like i wonder if he's aware of how, like, how absurd that is. I don't know. I wonder. Oh, but, oh, what is it? Weapons. Weapons. Yeah. Very easy, very easy. Blades of chaos, this by default,

because I just, that's just my, it's my jam. And then another obvious one, I guess, would be the, uh, the, the Lancer. Because, fuck it. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. What are we talking about? I, that's, should have been

dumb, that very clearly saw this stupid locust and then it's such a fucking unseason

damn! I'm going to this stupid locust oh man that hello hello

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$700. I think. So like, I really should have just bought it because it was, the Lancer is fucking awesome. Would have been a smart investment. Absolutely.

Hey, what if I could, I could have used that thing. Oh my God. Okay, one other favorite weapon that I thought of while I was peeing

the Wonder Waffle in Black Ops 1 in World of War. What's the Wonder Waffle? You guys never played Cod, Cod zombies? I played it, but I was never a

Leffered dead kind of zombies guy. It's like, it's like a German a wonder weapon because like the Nazis in like late into world war two had this like wonder weapon program it was like oh these tools are going to save the war for us and the wonder it's the wonder vaughful oh yeah the vandal i i do know this we always called it the wonder waffle because we just imagined an l at the end it was just like a a super weapon they had three shots and

But if you shot it, it would chain react and automatically kill every zombie, like within range up to like 15 or 20. It was awesome. Yeah, it sounds cool. Oh, also, shout out to the Wabajibajan. Wabajax, good one. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's a good one. Wababajax, Wabajax pretty up there, in my opinion.

This is such a ridiculous idea. What is this? We'll do two more and then we'll wrap things up. But feral, sentient penis barking at Bryce Dallas Howard rode in. All right. These are the kind of people. These are the kind of names that we've inspired. You've got a great community.

I love it. I love it. It's, don't ever. Can you save the name one more time? Sure, absolutely. Farrell, feral sentient penis barking at Bryce Dallas Howard wrote in. He said, hey, acting male. If you and the Snark Boys had a superhero team-up team and went against the group of your

own super villains like quantum TV. Who would they be? And what would the teams be? I don't know what the teams would be called. But I, man, supervillains, I don't even know.

I feel like most of the people who hated me back in the day are kind of gone. Or, uh, just, yeah, like no bullshit's gone. Uh, coach red pill is literally dead.

He got killed in a Ukrainian prison. That, yes. That's actually legitimately. I don't even know who that is, but that's, dude. So he was some,

You're lucky. He was some Manosphere guy. He was some Manosphere guy. He just, he gave like, it was the type of guy like, um, I don't know. How would you describe it?

It was, yeah. So, yeah, he was like, so coach Redby. So he was basically coaching young men on how to be masculine, essentially and how to bag a,

a woman. This guy looked like a fuck. He looked like gone. He looked like, like just a, like, you know, Gonzo from fucking the,

the, the, the Muppets. Like he had this like, he's just the last person you would expect to be giving out advice because you look at the guy and you're like like not what?

I remember I remember when Lacey Green and I were dating he made this weird video kind of like going in like really diving deep into our relationship from like a really weird angle like he had like multiple cameras set up so like it would switch from one angle to that was like

so unneed completely unnecessary but it was weird and then he ended up I don't know going to Russia or Ukraine or something and they just arrested him and literally killed. He was in Ukraine, and then he wouldn't shut the, like, during the war, and he wouldn't shut up about, like, he was basically a propagandist for Russia. And then they, yeah, in Ukraine, like, during wartime.

And it's like, and so they bagged them. That's a real, that's a real story. That's a bold career choice. Yeah, it is a, it is a smart guy. He was a very smart guy. What was the question? What would our team name be? Oh, the way of the team?

Yeah, I don't know. I'm not, I'm more thinking about like what would be, Quantum TV is a great one. Quantum TV would be there. Of course, Andy Pants, gaming, yeah. Yeah. Who else?

Have you beeped with anybody else? I mean, anyone like notable? I feel like Actman is pretty well behaved. It's really on Twitter when, when some nice where I'm just like, I just want to say some shit. Like, Twitter's kind of my outlet for,

shit that I feel like I can't say. And sometimes I ruffle people's feathers, as you do. But a lot of times I also like, we'll reach out to some of my biggest haters. They might be other content creators or just random people and I'll talk to them. And a lot

of times people that I've beefed with we talk and then we become friends after that. In some ways, it kind of feel like Goku. Not to be like, what's the word? You recruit people. Not to be so full of myself, but the idea of like, oh, you meet, oh, who the fuck's this?

Oh, what you get? Like, can you talk shit too? Oh, okay. I respect it, you know, and then kind of, yeah, become friends. I mean, maybe the Hilvers baby face guy, but that was like. Oh, that's right. But like the Starfield video I did was more than just about him. It was like a whole Starfield hot takes thing.

And there was a lot of hot takes going on around that time. but that was also like that wasn't that wasn't personal though it was just kind of like random throwaway internet beef whereas like the quantum and antipan stuff was a lot more a lot more personal right that was a lot more like the quantum i remember we talked uh we talked about at our life yeah yeah yeah there was the one life show we did that was the topic that we chose because there's around that time fucking that was those were fun times those were fun times uh that reminds me that guy review tech USA beefed with them too with quantum TV and that that guy was fun in his own his own right uh review tech USA everybody it feels like everybody was being

quantum TV was so weirdly like he was so weirdly like he was in like every comment section he was like he was like his own hall monitor you know yeah yeah yeah right that is wild too because i you know I just don't understand that you got to dedicate a lot of time to do that. How do you have time to to function as an adult and do it. It perplexes me, man. Yeah, honestly, like maybe a couple of years ago, I had this idea that I thought would have been pretty funny because I'm not really someone that holds grudges for too long. I don't, I don't really hate anybody. There's things that I hate and maybe there's people I think sometimes, oh, fuck that guy.

Yeah. But I don't really hold on to hate or anything like that. get over stuff rather quickly. And I thought it would have been funny if Quantum and I started a podcast together. Like, I would have been like, like, who cares about the beef?

Like, let's just, like, let's hang out and talk about video games and I'm not trying to expose you or nothing. But let's just like, let's fucking do it. Like,

because why not? That would be, that would be funny. Hey, I don't remember what, what the fucking, what was, how did he become infamous?

Infamous? What did he? I don't remember what happened. He copyright striked. So, okay, this story kind of ties in with a previous video I did, which was on console fanboys or cringe. At the time, there was, you know, Xbox and PS4, Series X and PS5. There was a lot of, like, really gay shit on Twitter being posted. And I was making fun of a bunch of those guys.

And mischief was one of the people who was also making fun of, like, console fanboys. So I found, I met a bunch of, like, much smaller YouTubers that I became friends with in the console. Yeah. Because they tried to expose me for like, you know, saying slurs ages ago. And then these other content creators have my back. And so, yeah, I was like, I was like friends with mischief. And then mischief did a video on Quantum TV.

Mischief had like 2,000 subs or something. Yeah. And then Quantum TV copyright struck him. But because I, like me and Mischief had been. part of this little small little community of content creators that all knew each other. It was like he told us about it and was like asking for advice and stuff. And that's how I picked up on it. And, you know, from there you see the Eldon Ring hot takes video or, or, you see his

Eldon Ring reviews and you're like, oh, this is gold. Oh, this is. That's right. The Eldon Ring. It was, he was like, he was like saying it was too hard or something. I can't remember. It was something like that, right? He had the, what was it?

He had the worst opinions. It was like a game that's not forever. one is a game that shouldn't be made. Right. That's it. That's it. That's so crazy. I remember that now. You can see, yeah, you see you guys understand like, in the content perspective, you hear

that, you're like, oh boy. It's got to be for everyone. That's crazy. That's such a crazy thing. It's good. It's good stuff. Yeah. Then he, then he podcast, copy, copyright strike me, and then, like, it just kind of kept going back and forth

and then escalating, and then he called my mom, and I was, he called your, that's right. Holy fuck, man. The other thing was a... Didn't you Photoshop him in front of like a hot dog or something? Oh, yeah, yeah. It was, uh, yeah, it was the... Hello, hello, I'm Malcolm Gladwell,

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See website for full terms and conditions. Cucumber, because he had some comments about, like, Rich, you suck on cucumbers in a very provocative way. And then I just had some shitty edit words. Like I had a still image of qualm going like, making a cat face and I put a cute. I edited a cucumber there. And so there was, yeah, because the video was taken down for like nudity and sexual content.

That's crazy. Yeah. And so I was like, what could it have been that? That's what I remember specifically. Was that like the nudity strike. I was like, but that was to hide the real reason they took it down.

And the real reason was I had used YouTube. videos about community guidelines and it included footage of, I think two of the vice presidents at YouTube. And so they were not happy that they were in the video. And they ended up taking those videos actually off of their community guidelines pages. That's crazy. Yeah. That's,

it's insane. A podcast with you and Quantum would be. It would go. It would go hard. I think it would have been like, maybe not now because I think that most people kind of like, I mean, that's, that's ancient now. I think he's like, like, I don't know if he's incarcerated or something. I remember something.

No. I swear I had something happened with that. I think he had some trouble with the law and like he split from his wife, I think. And no, he's doing his thing on TikTok. It's like, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, he's living his own life. I think he learned his lesson about copyright striking people for criticizing him.

He doesn't do that anymore, at least to my knowledge. Yeah, so. That would have been funny, though. That would have been funny. I don't, I'm kind of. the same way where it's like I forget like if it's usually people have to genuinely remind me that I hate them you know what I mean like I've had people uh like I think the most recent one that I can remember was uh and this is by the way still a while ago this is maybe like 2022 or 23 maybe even

a little maybe a little earlier was Francesca when Francesca Ramsey from MTV MTV decoded brought me back up randomly I think it was around the time that I was doing his like apology tour or whatever and she like brought me up and I was like I didn't what I haven't thought about you in years yeah yeah yeah you still I live like free over there yeah dude it's wild traumatized her because I genuinely

I genuinely I genuinely I did I made like two three videos maybe about her max although one of them was back Chris you know what it is back she thought she thought that oh she I'm convinced she thought I was either of that's that's or like

or vice versa I think or something like that like because I'm the same person because he because she insists that I have made a video about her but I'm like I I am a hundred percent sure that's not true I don't know that was in his wheelhouse like I would have I would have remembered that and no that did not happen so like it was a whole bunch of weird shit about that but she brought me up again and some like uh rant online about like how like I would never forgive idubs or whatever and that goes to you Chris and I'm like what the I haven't yeah see it sucks to hold grudges because that shit

eats you from the inside. It's like, why hold on to that? Like, why care so much? I genuinely just forget after like a couple months. Like, there's only one person where I feel like I've thought about it where, yeah, I probably wouldn't fuck with that person in any capacity. But that's like one out of like, genuinely probably thousands of people I've interacted with at this point. So it's like, I don't know. I can't even imagine. Yeah. Sitting on. And then, and then speaking about it randomly, like completely fucking unprovoked. I'm doing my own fucking thing. This is what happens when the,

when the questions bring up quantum TV. We go down the rabbit hole of all our, like, biggest beefs and controversies and all that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can well behave, though, Derek. You don't really have any. I, my, yeah, my thing was like the, the worst I ever got fucked with was by, like,

actual white supremacists, you know, they were just like, oh, get my email address, my business email, and they signed me up for a neo-Nazi website. so I got a notification. Hey, welcome new member. And I'm like, oh, what the fuck? Or some guy that was a grifter. Welcome brother. It was literally shit like that. I was like, I had to. It was funny because whoever moderates that website, they were very nice because I explained to them. Hey, I actually didn't sign up for this. Like, oh, no, no, worry. We'll take you off. And I was like, oh, what a fucking nice Nazi.

Like, very understanding, you know. You actually believed all that shit. And you were looking for a group to join. But there was, there was one guy that I actually missed him. beefing with us. His name is Tarik Nishid. And he's the conspiracy. That guy. He's gone. I saw his name. I saw his name recently come up for something. I didn't look too deeply because it was just like whatever, but I think he's

he's still, I think he's probably does like streams or something. But yeah, he was the, like the, we call him like the, the, the black supremacist, right? Like he would, but he would just make up shit. Like he would say like black people invented everything. Like, oh, the, the, the, the, there was, a black person was the first one to show a Japanese person how to use a sword and basically they're responsible for like the samurai and I'm like that's

fucking that is that is so wild but it was so entertaining it was so entertaining like him talking about stuff like that I'm used to have his own like meme format didn't he where he was like post like oh yeah he did yeah yeah I forgot I forgot I forgot what the meme was with that image I remember saying a lot it was like hating someone for the pettiest reason impossible or something like that. That was him. I remember he called me Steve Reagan and I still

like when he made that video about about me and like a bunch of us but like his audio was peaking the entire high. It is it's one of my favorite moments of me and one of my friends of the time. She was a YouTuber named Casarra vera. We just reacted to it and it's one of my favorite videos because he's yeah, he's going in on like he was like it was me him like it was this guy named Buntie King. This is our our. Indian Canadian friend or Canadian Indian I should say and ever a while like he just can differentiate he's brown so he must be like a terrorist or something and he just starts like singing crazy shit like they'll steal your camel and I was like bro this is crazy he said I remember

I've never heard that one before that's oh my it's a great one dude that is I remember that is that is good you said it you said it and I was immediately like it's like I don't even it's like hearing a song I haven't heard like since 2007 and like I can smell the fall air. Yeah, yeah. Like that's what just happened when you said that. It was like, oh my God, I remember that line hitting me like a ton of rites.

It was so funny. He went pretty hard on me talking about my ears like, because they hold my ears and you know, some people call him gauges, right? And he was like, what do you call those? And he's reading the chat and he was like, gaudges? And he's like, and he's those fucking gaudges

and he's like, be putting dicks in his ears since he was going he was going it's a it's a anyone that hasn't like seen that shit um i think i can i'll unearth it i'll find it because it's it's a great fucking rant it's funny that is a generational hater right there that is generational hating and he he was next oh you know i grew up on the 360 i can i can respect that to a certain degree just the vitriol and the bile that can come out of one's mouth speaking of 360 it

It actually was a 360 moment when I realized that he was, I went to us, so just a local black owned bookstore. This was when I was 13, seventh grade. And I saw a book called The Art of Macing. And I was like, that's hilarious. And I tried to get my aunt to buy it for me.

And she's like, no, like this is stupid. And turns out that was Tariq Nishit. No way. Yeah. And so when I looked up his books and I was like, I can't fucking believe this is the guy. Like I couldn't fucking believe it. So he's been in my life for a long time.

Been alive for a long time, man. All right. Well, on that, no. Let's, uh, what are we at? 2.17. Yeah, let's wrap it up. Oh, that's go the fuck out of you. We can do like rapid fire questions, quick answers if you want.

Uh, they're all pretty. I feel like a lot of people have similar ones that we got to a lot of them. And a lot of them are HALA related. I don't want to spend the whole time talking about HALA. You know what I mean? I do. A lot of them, a lot of them are like, like, Colin Moriarty said, he says, hey guys, especially Actman, I have a question for Mr. Mann.

How does it feel knowing that you're a gay, woke comment? There's a lot of that. Oh, well, that's, you know, well, we were talking about, you know, like putting together the top 10 woke video games, leftists may cry, woke divers two, Batman Shud Night. I'm very comfortable in my own skin. I will be taking a dick in the ass later tonight. You guys are welcome to join me.

It's great stuff. Love it. Not only do I like taking dicks in the ass, but I also feel like the government should own the means of production. Yeah, yeah. I think there should be no profit motive in anything at all. Unless it's homosexual related. Right.

Right, right. Unless it's something gay. Yeah. We think we could all agree. Thanks for the question. We could all agree. Yeah, yeah. Thank you so much, Colin.

Great question. But yeah, so here's the thing. So we, at the end of these, what we normally do is we read the audience names. Now, sometimes this goes on. We have a guess so we'll be a little bit better about it. But these names are absolute cancer. The whole point is people pay $25 and up, and they change their name to whatever, and I have to read it. Hell yeah. Go for it. Yeah. If you're down to stick around. So like, yeah, so remember patreon.com slash to snartank, snark tank. Shop for merch. That's where you can get that shirt of, uh...

Hello, hello. I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of Smart Talks with IBM. I recently spoke with IBM's new director of research, Jake Mbata. We discussed his vision for the future of quantum computing. At IBM research, what we always do is answer what is the future of computing, whether it's coming up with new algorithms, coming up with better AI, coming up with quantum, or coming up with just how do different accelerators go together. It's our DNA to answer the question of what is the future. Isn't it a perfect problem for IBM because you kind of need to have a legacy of building stuff? Yes. Building actual physical machines.

Yeah, it's why I came to IBM. I wanted the experience, the culture of building hard things that others have not done before. Where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology? There will come a point when it will mature. Right? Yeah. My cell phone is a mature technology at this point. How far are we from that point with Conton?

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I got, I still don't have one, actually. I should just get it. I don't know what the fuck I'm waiting for. It's my shit. But, uh, so we're going to read our $25 on a patrons now. Uh, so remember you can join up over there. Make me for read your horrible name. Uh, uh, but yeah, count me.

Oh, yeah, there's no, Kings. I mean, he's not, he's not, oh, just means he's not here to count me now. I guess I'll do it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, we're going to have you count. count them down. Oh yeah. Okay. Actually, I count three, two, one. Three, two, one. Anal footcake.

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no secret straight vegeta uses gaelic gun wait give that man an award give that man an award this is uh that's the that's the dumbest one I've read in a while

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track of him. Yeah. Yeah. And we know him in real life and have been to his home. I am going to. the other with a mortar. Call that pussy the matrix because I'm this bitch and I can't get out. What the hell does that? Some of these are schizophrenic,

genuinely. Like, he can't get out of that pussy, man. Oh, that's so stupid. Come on. It doesn't take rocket scientist. Come on. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon. Yeah, there you.

Yeah, there you. Switch, Switch Sweeney and Derek again for the troll, LL, two rats in a trench coat, Sam Porter bitches, eight uranium and busted on his face, melted through the bone, spider pointing eight guns at you from the Potemobile, berserker, black man

backshotting Broly, reckless rhino, the sloker two, why so derpy, Randy Pitchford comes in his own ears. Jesus Christ. That's a good one. That's a good one. It's also very relevant. It is, yeah, it's timely. That's one thing I can say about that.

These are all very timely. my Chris Hansen Tomagocchi needs to hit your vape Charlie Kirk more like Shirley in the dirt that's not crazy That's crazy old man spaghetti nuts domo nation The Bulletin killed Mr. Guns I'm very friendly I promise Derek not chauvin his innocent hashtag free him Round-eyed Asian moving into his own place after 26 years Congratulations dude

Kingston in the Powerpuff girls writers room be like what if instead of rowdy rough boys oh a bunch of inwards yeah of course yeah that is that is Sweeney's sense of humor it is just putting the N word in um Sweenne please show off your sneaker collection

is there even one good reason consider of genuinely brandy hudsell Ben Shapiro crashing out after finding out his sister got breast reductions dude that was a real like thing that happened where a bunch of people because she put out a video saying she's getting surgery

like on her breast for some reason but immediately people thought it was a breast reduction and like the internet was on fire for a minute I remember that I didn't even know about that yeah that was a fun moment that was fun blonde blue-eyed German man campaigning to make Pokemon 2D again

gay eagles be taking penis I don't even know what that means what? What? Can take a cock with my anus My Dick be longer than a silk song run back. That's pretty good. Paracles. Ow, my neck.

Thugzilla come regained his 54 baby momas. None of this makes sense. GTA4 swing set glitch. Classic stuff. Yes, sir. The GtA4 swing set glitch is like some genuine old school good shit. Funnling Sweens cut into the American Heritage Foundation, bum strokers, dicula.

Nice. Whoa, that was weird. Saw Derek sleeping on the train, so I touched him. I hope not. Fanassia's Greek out of the herb. The real Kanye here, big meaty stinks. Canola Joe reloaded. I have no dick and I must cream.

That's pretty good. Gay actor Rosebud Delicious. Jesus is Canon in Dragon Ball Z. Is he? Do they say Jesus in Dragon Ball? I think that might be true. He probably appears in like the background shot of some episode or something.

They're always throwing weird. ass character designs in Dragon Ball I could believe that in like one of the early dubs like one of the first like maybe the ocean dub like something crazy happens and somebody does say Jesus Christ. Yeah. Which would imply that Christianity at the very least

exists in Dragon Ball which is a huge thing to contend with. Could Jesus be Goku though? Uh oh. Is that is TBD allegory? To be determined. Sorry I can't. I had a burrito. Kingston's nephew, he makes visits uncomfortable.

Heath, get back from the fields. What did I miss? Gids, you should all dress up as an Oreo cookie. No. Why don't Why don't plankton run into the crusty crab with a gun and blow everyone's shit smooth off? It's a good question. Had that foily get Charlie's great.

Predators are Jamaican coded. Kingston is becoming genuinely irritating to listen to you. please fire him now done it's done we've got the new lineup yeah we got the new lineup uh shot shout up uncle charlie sweeney is the tritagonist live action snart tank swine played by pierz morgan and derrick his destiny uh yeah no thanks if i had to do a podcast with peers morgan and destiny i would simply not just a podcast sounds like a lovely time yeah yeah that's honestly that jesus christ you look like you could use a fucking lamp uh what's that mean hispanic at the disco cardboard pie.

That's pretty good. I like that. That was my Twitter name for a while. I was. Yeah, long, long time ago. I came I came in his gay ass so hard that I made M.Preg real your next boys. Department of Horror. Hey, Google. What's the space movie from 1992? Do not Google that.

Games bond octobussy. Ramirez, defend the burghatown. I love it. Slur maxing. Every time I'm in the sheets, I hear gluck, gluck, glug, glug. dig down needs him come amazing you guys suck if you don't

if you don't even put some in the back you're not hungry enough big boss goon devil the man without coming they protect the land they have sex with men look up fast inus and behold trust me hominid anime's studio made axel the harrim ball and meme I don't know what any of that means notices bulges

uwu what's this I can't believe that that's still so wild my shoes starting to sound like Candace Owen Smitchie the kid honking the Ben Boy Clown's Balls. Had Charlie Kirk is my name and Patreon change it to a jumble of letters. Adam ruins everything versus Sheldon Cooper. I have relapsed and I'm now back on the teat.

Jesus. Hamster and a sock is now plus five after extensive use. Chris Ragon in his Phil Ox era, be like we only care about killing when we see it in 4K. What's Phil Ox? I don't know what that is. I don't know. Who the fuck is that?

Yeah, I don't know. Your reference is lost on Asari. you, since Sweeney's the mascot of the group, when are we getting the Sweeney plushy in the shop? How much do we want to dehumanize? Dude, we make it like that mugshot, that mugshot, we make it look like that.

Oh my God, there was a mugshot that was going viral, dude. Of just this guy who looked like Sweeney, but like a D. Yeah. Like in the, how do we find that? I have it printed out somewhere. still. That's right. Oh, wait. I can find it on our Instagram real fast. I'm going to put it up to the fucking camera, dude. Oh yeah. Put up to the camera. Actman's got to see it. It's crazy. When strategy of revenge two coming out? Craig the Canadian. Last page. Number 133.

Actman commits random acts of violence. Damn, they change their name pretty quick. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I told them you were coming on maybe like two hours before we started. Oh, wow. because our questions get ridiculous. There's so many. It's your boy, Shawnee D. Come shot gaming. I'm so mad we couldn't get that. That's a good one.

Backchots gaming is another one that I think. At Brock, is this true? What happened to the freedom of speech, not freedom of consequences, fellas? It was me, Barry. I'm the one who unwiped your ass

just as you pulled your pants up. Is that reverse flash? Oh, right, right, right, right. Yeah, yeah. Because he, yeah, I don't know anything about DC. I'm only like barely. kind of.

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Shouting, uh... What is this? Shouting the N-word as loud as you can or whispering, we should form a, union in an Amazon warehouse. Hold on. Let me see if I can get this to Wow. Oh, it's like it's not focused. Come on focus a little better. It's crick. It's horrifying.

What is that? What is that supposed to be? Let me see if I, so that's a mugshot from some guy. That's a mugshot from some guy who's like arrested. It's like a concept. It's like a really heinous shit. Oh my. But it looks like, but it looks like somebody trying to draw Sween in like the most unflattering way possible.

You lined it up really good with his shoulders too. Holy shit. It isn't That screenshot Particularly is fucking Let me show you what somebody did As a sketch Somebody sketched it

Like Oh my God That's It turned into the war chief For the horror Yeah Straight up Fun fact

The Rapture did happen And nobody went I heard the Rizler Was the only one That I should have through Those are the reports That I've been here No

Why'd you say No Why'd you say That Fumbled a 63 Transgirls Should I kill myself? No, but you fumbled.

You're always fumbling. Like, I can't help you. I can't help you. False security. Charlie Kirk is a moderate because her husband is a cristofascist by comparison. Maybe, you guys are so fucking insensitive. It's crazy. Maybe Charlie Kirk was just hyper autistic and his special interest was getting shot in the correct.

That's fucking crazy. You guys got to relax with the shit. Oh, man. You really abuse this, this. perk you guys. Gay House Be Like I will guess on Star Tank. Obie won't you blow me. Jackson Vernon so they gave them call him slipping Jimmy. Kremlin to Gremlin. Hey player, don't

drop the chips and get me some ammo. Chris is in the top five wiggers of all time. Jason Horhees. That's so dumb. That's so stupid. I like it. Lincoln Park Faint tune.

All right. What's Fainty? How does Fing going on at? That fucking strings. Bain. Fing. Anyway, he says, after that, he says, I need dick deep inside my whole, don't pull your cock from me. Have you seen it? I don't know.

I don't know what line that's from. I haven't heard faint in a while. That's the chorus. Yeah. You good, Derek? You're roboting a line. Oh, am I? Am I still?

You sound crazy. Help me. Now you're better. Whatever. We're going to get through it. we got maybe like two minutes left wage slay 583 I love the way

it barbecues love the way you like the gas Pupini Bros presents Crash Course Cybertron history Rises always gone Oh shit Well Went too hard on a robot juice Oh well

Donkdoxin the colon swinging slasher Mason the metalhead I think you can't do you're fine Sang Gadiou active a karaoke You sang Gadiou active a karaoke karaoke Why is my internet that fucked up, boy.

Derek, are you still here? Dom, the internet's out. I don't know what to do, Marcus. Marcus, we needed the GPS to find Maria. Damn, my shit's fucked. Dom, you need to fix it now. Before the giant worm gets here. You guys are such a little bitches for jumping on the show on head

as committed wrong thing bandwagon. We never said that at all. We were reading the names. This is what's funny is that. People will read the names. People understand that they can change the name into whatever they want and I have to say it. And then they'll get to that part of the show and then they'll get mad about the things that I say. And then they'll address it in the names.

Wow. That's awesome. That's hilarious. Your First Amendment rights right there. That's awesome. I appreciate the $25, but you're crazy. Can we make a story with our names? Lesbian, lesbian cunt, Charlie Merck.

The J.K. and J.K. Rowling is short for gigantic con. John Strickland, Merck's 1889. What's your sign? Slippery when wet, dumb bitch. The first stretch of key, David presents Pitbull featuring Kesha. The way Derek mispronounces posthumously hurts. LeBron would have survived. That's crazy. Pre-Raz Blake 896.

I got Lockjaw doing, I got Lockjaw doing graveyard shifts at the Dickstucking Factory. And all I got was Lockjaw, as previously mentioned. That's incredible. Doing a gorilla spin after sex, it's pretty good. Kingston merging with the sand trout to become gay. I don't know what that means. Zudu bragged about crypto scamming. That cancer patient out of his treatment money is 100 times worse than Charlie Kirk.

Of course, probably. I mean, crypto scamming a cancer patient is pretty wild. Das Goopy, Percules. Chomo the clown, please help. I can't seem to get any bookings. Can you give me any advice? Young Colin doing nothing but playing Mega Man 2 for a whole week straight. You back?

I am back. What happened? I don't know. It freaked out, but my internet's fine. It was like, oh, reestablishing your connection. And I'm like, my connection is, there's nothing wrong with it. Everything works perfectly fun. So I just refreshed and I'm good.

We're on the last couple. We're on the last couple now. So I think, I think Memphis was Charlie Kirk. I don't know what that means. Turning point, turning pale USA, Jesus. If this was the last, that's why. That's a wild one. That's clever, though, to be fair.

That is pretty, that's not bad. Oh, my God. If this is the last page, why is there over an hour left? Too blurry, two bigfoot. but you fucking you fucking fucking you bloody classic video love that video sorry Miss Jackson badly brave

who is who is New York Nick Ethereum needs help lowering his weapon in Halo 3 Pragerian hunter Nefram and rounding out our list as always the king of haphazard thank you all for your support give props to act man go check this stuff out oh thank you thank you

sounds like you guys got a incredible audience out here I mean what a great sense of humor you guys all have. Oh, yeah, it's wonderful. Pretty good. I'm being serious, by the way. I'm not, I'm not giving you guys shit or nothing. No, that was great. Let's put it this way. When Chris had a little controversy, you know, after Charlie Kirk thing, and he just said, yeah, I tweeted thoughts and prayers and it's it. Yeah. And the result of that was, you know,

when people were trying to get him fired from his other podcast, they, they got, there was more support. Oh, I think I saw something like that. Yeah, it was like, it's, that's another thing.

It's like, man, it's one thing to, to hate what someone says, but to just be like, all right, now time to get, time to make their life worse

in real life. The thing that's, the thing is crazy is that like, I don't even say shit that's as crazy as people who are elected. You know, there are people who are elected

who are saying crazy or shit. So like, why the fuck, why are you taking me more seriously than the people you, you put, in charge of like fixing everything. He just found the cause of autism.

You know what I mean? Like they just found that out. Finally. Tylenol. I knew it made a lot of sense though because like I got a quite a bit of Tylenol and my my, uh, you know,

my excedrin essentially, my migraine relief. And every time I was like, dude, I really want to get on a train right now. Like every time I pop one, I was just like, trains are so fucking cool and I couldn't figure out the correlation.

But it makes perfect sense now. Yeah, I just got really into Sonic whenever I would take it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I was really sick a couple months back and I was taking, I was taking these Tylenols. And then all of a sudden I woke up and there was like 12 Lego Star Wars sets in my house. Yeah.

Incredible. It's a sad thing. You take a Tylenol and you know exactly how many marbles are in the jar. That's a really tragic day. I could never guess right. Thanks for coming. I appreciate you doing this on short notice. Of course.

because I think I only reached out to you like a day or two ago. Yeah, yeah. But I knew it was going to be fun. Yeah, but yeah, we appreciate you. So go check out Ackman's stuff. You know where to find him. And Patreon.com slash to snarktank. Shop, all that jazz.

We'll see you next time. Sween will not be here again. We'll find somebody else to rope into this hell. Until then, catch you next time. Bye-bye. Peace. Asian slash Middle Eastern. Now you,

motherfucker will strap up a bomb or some shit. You know, because some of them are bounding, but you're a pussy, though. You don't want to be white supremacists. You're a pussy. Um, Bundy, you ain't gonna do shit with all the tough talk.

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