Video Gamers Podcast - [Bonus Round] Would You Rather: Gaming Edition - Gaming Podcast

Episode Date: November 11, 2024

Gaming hosts Josh and Ryan are back with a highly requested Would You Rather bonus round! We’re tackling the tough gaming questions, choices and hilarious situations only gamers could answer! From video games to real life decisions, this is one video game packed episode you don’t want to miss! Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Ol’ Jake and Disratory Thanks to Legendary Supporter: UnhingedFury Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/videogamerspod Join our Gaming Discord: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod  Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU12YOMnAQwqFZEdfXv9c3Q   Visit us on the web: https://videogamerspod.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. We've got a super fun episode for you as we're bringing back a fan favorite. This is a gaming would-you-rather episode where we ask all sorts of tough questions gamers will know and love. But first, some introductions are in order. I am your host, Josh. And joining me, would you rather have a big nose but be muscular or be bad at pickleball but have great hair? It's Ryan. Oh, man. Oh, just going right at me right away. Is that what we're doing? As a fellow big nosed person, I feel like I could make that joke and I don't have hair. So anybody with hair has nice hair. Friendly fire, bro. Friendly fire. What people don't get is like,

since we're, you know, we're a podcast and they don't know what you look like, Ryan, uh, both of those things are true. So there's a reason we're on an audio platform so yeah yeah absolutely we smell real good as far as our ability to smell yes you know we just go for volume moved through these mass airflow ryan the people have asked we have done these episodes in the past, but it's been a long time, man. But I love these. It's the stupid things that gamers talk about, the dumb questions we ask each other, the things that we think about sometimes. I think I could take this guy in a fight. I wonder if I could live a day in that world without dying. I mean, let's be honest. We all think about these stupid things. And so these would you

rathers kind of bring some of those questions to the front and then we get to answer them. Now, you and I have each prepared a list of would you rather questions. And I have not shared my list with you. You have not shared your list with me. So I have no idea what to expect from you on this. I do know that on my list, I have a couple non-gaming related questions just to mix it up some, but I think the majority of those are gaming related also. And we'll, even if I answer, even if I ask the question, I'll still answer my own question as well. Cause I'm sure people want to hear from both of us on that. Cool. Yeah, absolutely.

So we're going to get into that here in just a second. But Ryan? Oh, what do we got? We've got a little bit of a celebration, buddy. We had a new supporter of the show sign up, Ryan. His name is Brandon Fiericano. Brandon, thank you for supporting the show. You're going the extra mile to help bring this podcast to the world. And the world thanks you.

Yeah. And Ryan and I too. And us too. Us too. Thank you. Thank you. For sure. And then Ryan, another thing that we absolutely love is not only people supporting the show,

but also people leaving us reviews and letting us know how we're doing. We absolutely love these reviews. And I have to give credit here because this review kept getting deleted for some reason. And they actually reached out and said, hey, did you guys get my review? And I was like, yeah, I saw it. And then it wasn't there. And I was like, well, that's really weird. I was going to read it on the show. So not only did they leave us a review, but they emailed it in just to be sure that we could actually read it to people as well. It's one of our competitors on a gaming pod at Apple. They're just taking off reviews.

No, this is a good review. And this one comes in from Monkey Brett, and it's titled Best Gaming Podcast. And it says, when I first found the Video Gamers Podcast, I was low in hopes of finding a good gaming podcast. Every podcast I had tried either had the host cussing every minute, focusing on all the controversy or just talking about inappropriate things.

When I listened to Josh and Ryan, they are a breath of fresh air. Josh and Ryan are just two normal gamer dads. They are funny. And even though they are not professionals, they give great input on games. Josh made me want to try out Overwatch 2, and Ryan got me interested in Diablo. I love hearing their funny gaming stories and about their kids. Their Discord was really welcoming, and I hope to be a part of it for a long time. I also hope to actually game with you guys as well. You guys are awesome, and I hope you keep this podcast going sincerely.

Monkey Brett, P.S., what are your guys' opinions on 2017 Star Wars Battlefront 2 and Skull the Hero Slayer? Ooh. First of all, quality review. Yes. Thank you, Monkey Brett, for leaving the review and going the extra mile to make sure we got the review as well. I keep trying, guys. Guys, I just want to tell you how awesome you are. Well, thank you.

Yeah. Who doesn't love hearing that people are enjoying something? Right. Battlefront 2, it was okay. I mean, I love Star Wars. It just felt kind of simple, and I'd rather just play Battlefield if I'm going to play a game like that. Skull the Hero Slayer, never heard of it in my life actually looked up a video for it uh doesn't look bad you know pixel art games aren't my like they don't instantly draw my attention but the game did look good so graphics yes for our opinions graphics that's my opinion i'm not gonna laugh

it's not i didn't hide it man i didn't know what it was either um so it's always it does it's one thing that always does surprise me you think especially with doing this as long as we have now we think we'd have an eye on on everything that's out and been out and that's coming out and they're still all of our listeners and our fans and stuff in the discord they always hit us up with games that we have no clue what they're talking about. And it just shows how much there is out there. I love it. I mean, one of the reasons that we do this podcast is so that we can find games that we think are really good and then put them in front of people.

And say, hey, here's a game. We always talk about it. We break it down. We're not here to tell you that you should listen to our opinion or take our opinion as law or something like that. We've never been about that. It's more just we played this game. Here's what this game is about. Here's what we think about the game. You decide whether it's for you or not. And so what I love is that people do that with us. And so people will say, hey, I've been playing this game. I mean, we have found some incredible games through our community that people have suggested that we have played and gone

like, dude, never would have checked this out if somebody hadn't recommended it to us. So absolutely love that. Listen, if you love chatting video games, if you have a recommendation for us or other gamers, hop into our Discord server. The link is in the episode description. Just like Monkey Brett confirmed, we've been saying this for a long time. It is the best community of gamers that I have ever known. Legitimately, it is family-friendly. So if you're younger, you're completely welcome there. There's no inappropriate content or anything like that. It's just gamers being gamers gamers talking about stuff. There's no warring. There's no putting people down, you know, or any of that stuff. So don't be afraid to join it.

It's over 700 people at this point, which is awesome. And it's fantastic. So, I mean, don't take our word for it. Monkey Brett just joined and it was in his review. And come on down. Yeah. All right, Ryan. Let's do it. I think on down. Yeah. All right, Ryan. Let's do it.

I think that's it for the housekeeping stuff, man. You ready to get into some would you rathers? I'm ready, brother. Let's do it. Some of these I am very, very curious to hear your answer on. So I'll tell you what. I'll start it off, man. Let's just kick this one off here. Ryan, would you rather, in real life,

try to survive a level of Mario? Okay. Okay. So, I mean, heights, platforming, jumping over gaps, you know, Goombas and stuff like that. Eating mushrooms. Or a level of Halo. Now, Halo, you are equipped with your guns

and your grenades. Okay. So which one would you rather try to survive? And in this, am I Mario and I'm Master Chief? No, you're Ryan. I'm just Ryan. Okay. You're just Ryan.

Oh, man. Because otherwise, I'll just be Master master chief that you just dominates the level right no no no it's not that easy buddy this is you trying to make it through either a level of Mario or a level on Halo I'm thinking I'm gonna as much as I would enjoy probably running around in the world of Halo I think I'm gonna go Mario because of... I just got these weird little Goombas coming after me. It's not guys and aliens shooting at me with rifles and plasma rifles

and cannons and all these things. I think I could do enough to survive in Mario. Now, what if you get the armor? You get the armor in Halo, you just don't get the superpowers. You are not Master Chief, but you get the equipment. And a recharge shield? Yeah, you get the armor in Halo. You just don't get the superpowers. You are not Master Chief, but you get the equipment. And a recharge shield?

Yeah. You get the armor, the shield. You get the guns and grenades. If I die, I don't care. But it's only your skills. That's fine. If I die, I don't care. Let me go get in the world.

I just want to wear that armor. I'll do Halo then. Yeah. For sure. You do want to get shot at. Yeah. I would intentionally jump out to just have myself recharge my shield just hear that sound yeah

i am terrified of heights uh i cannot be near the ledge of something that's up high so a level of mario would destroy me like i would never have the courage to jump like even a three foot gap if it was like a fall underneath you know and so by nature i'm taking on the aliens i'm i'm doing the the you know the shooting and the rolling and all that stuff to try to make it through one of those levels as crazy and as adrenaline pumping as that would be i know my limits and my limits are a three foot gap with a fall underneath so hey at least you know it yeah all right what you got ryan okay you can only play games from this type so only ever play pc games or only ever play console games so that means no ports so if it ever it came on console it's only console so that means no god of war you don't

know anything like that this was such an easy answer until you went complicated it right so no so no pc ports so anything from console it's got to be on console. Or PC releases. I'm still going to stay with PC. Yeah. It's nothing... You and I don't have any... I mean, we love consoles, to be honest.

Oh, for sure. I just... It is kind of my gaming MO. When I am gaming, I love consoles. And don't get me wrong, if I got a game to play on a console and sit on the couch, I got nothing against that at all. But I feel like a lot of the newer games are simultaneously releasing. I mean, we've seen Xbox and PlayStation talk about, hey, we're going to release on PC as well. So looking forward to the future as well that's my jam i love mouse and keyboard

yeah it just feels so much better to have in my hands and as much as i like a game that plays well with the controller i'm sticking with the pc for for gaming oh nice okay so i figured the uh the no ports would would throw a little kink in there for a little bit for you it would crush me when it's like i can't play red dead i can't play god of war i can't play grand theft auto like yeah i'll just be the dude that's like standing outside the window just staring in with sad music playing is like they're laughing and you know having a jolly time playing all these new games but yeah there's just something about pc gaming that resonates with me for sure no i feel you so i'm gonna i'm gonna go a little different i'm going console as much as i love pc and um that's 90 of what i play on is primarily pc i just i love all those types of games i'm a big single player guy and i even play controller on pretty much

everything on my computer anyways so it wouldn't matter to me you know to do that so i'm gonna go console i feel like console's the more popular answer you know just because chilling on your couch controller is very comfortable for a lot of people um and they're so powerful nowadays like you know it's true pretty hefty system so yeah that's a dang it that's a tough one, man. All right, Ryan, there is a million-dollar prize on the line. Would you rather have to compete for it in a racing game or a fighting game to try to bring the prize home? Oh, man. I'm going to go racing. I love fighting games, but I am wildly impatient, and I am not one to set up moves and have the timing and the patience to wait.

I just want to go in like Hulk and just smash everything. Hulk smash. So racing games, I'm a big Gran Turismo guy. I love just going as fast as you can on Grand Theft Auto, like, and trying to dodge stuff. And so, yeah, I'm going to have to go racing. That's more my style. So I vastly prefer fighting games over racing games. I've probably only played a handful of racing games, to be honest.

Like, I like them. It's just not something I ever go like, ooh, let me get in. And part of it is that the evolution of the SimRacer, I like arcade racers. Oh, yeah. I want that Nitro Boost that flying through traffic at 1,000 miles an hour, going over jumps, barrel roll

in my car, that kind of stuff. I don't like the SimRacer where it's like, oh, no, you went around this corner at 45 miles an hour, so now you just slid out and did a donut or something. And I'm like, ah where it's like oh no you went around this corner at 45 miles an hour so now you just slid out and you know did a donut or something and i'm like that's so stupid i just want to go fast i want to go fast that said i think that there's a bigger gap in between like if i was going into a tournament i have a feeling like i would naturally have a better chance at a racer than i would a fighting game just because like these dudes that are in this tournament, they know every button combo.

They know every finisher. I'm probably just getting juggled in the air for 60 seconds straight until I'm dead. At least in a racer, there's like that chance that everybody crashes. And then I just blow through it like days of thunder. Yeah. You know what? I'm like, yeah. You can drive through it

i know it i know it in my heart yeah you see those those fighting guys they roll up with their own game pads and they got oh yeah i don't want to go against those guys no no yeah the dude that might have his own racing wheel fine like but that doesn't mean you're gonna win it doesn't mean somebody won't crash into you randomly or something like that yeah exactly i feel like i got a better choice chance on that one nice that was a good one let's see here speaking of mario a few ago would you rather explore Mushroom Kingdom with Mario or explore Hyrule with Link? Ooh. Explore?

Okay. Mario's annoying. Link makes weird sounds. Huh? Link cooks dinner. Mario only eats mushrooms uh mushroom kingdom seems kind of trippy but hyrule seems kind of beautiful and i'm going hyrule man give me link give me link i think that the adventure in hyrule will be better than the adventure in the mushroom kingdom yeah and honestly mario would just annoy me i think like like legitimately i don't view mario as a

cool guy that i want to hang out with mario is the guy that i'm like oh my gosh did i really get stuck with mario right now oh it's mario i mean am i wrong no that's pretty spot on i i would agree i'm gonna go link nobody wants to hang out with mario man i get he may be the most iconic video game character ever but nobody is going like dude if only i could hang out with mario for a day you can pick one character to hang out with nobody's picking mario yeah exactly i pick wario i'd i'd party up with Wario for sure. I would pick Wario too! Sorry, Mario. Wario's a much better time than you are.

Yeah. Are you with me on this? Are you picking Link and Hyrule? Yeah, I'm going Link and Hyrule. Hyrule's just a cool kingdom, man. Yeah, for sure. It's definitely dangerous and there's a lot of crazy stuff, but yeah, I'm going Hyrule. Okay, dude. Let's... A bokoblin? Does that scare you? No. Yeah, exactly. Even the enemies in Hyrule. Okay, dude. A bokoblin, does that scare you?

No. Yeah, exactly. Even the enemies in Hyrule aren't really that scary. A piranha plant? Now that's scary, dude. A chain chomp? Yep. Dude, what the heck is that giant thing with teeth at the end of that chain? Oh my gosh!

It's coming right at me! It's coming right for me! Why is that giant bullet coming this way? It's 400 times the size of a normal bullet. Exactly. I'll take the weird looking goofy bokoblin or whatever the other stuff is in Zelda than I would Mario. Mario enemies are terrifying. All right, Ryan.

2025 is quickly approaching. Yes. Rockstar Games has announced the release of grand theft auto 6 and in a surprise announcement the release of red dead redemption 3 oh you can only play one ryan would you rather play grand theft auto 6 or would you rather play red dead 3 so this is what's scary about this with me because if it took them however many years for Grand Theft Auto and for Red Dead and then within a couple years or a few years

they're already back out with another Red Dead I'd be very concerned on the quality of the game. But I'm going Red Dead, man. There's just nothing like guns and cowboys and horses and trains and all that stuff. That's my go-to always, for sure.

Over Grand Theft Auto 6. Yep, 100%. I'm with you. I am actually with you, dude. Believe it or not. I know I like to pick on Red Dead occasionally and talk about its subpar gameplay, but dude, Red Dead. Get out of here. I love Grand Theft Auto 2, but, I mean, if I had them side by side,

I want that world of Red Dead 3 more than I want the world of Grand Theft Auto. Okay. Sweet. Yeah. Okay. So, let's see here. This is one that I was actually thinking about you

when I came up with it. Oh, boy. So, with your standard you when I came up with it. So, uh, with, with your, with your standard on how you like to play games. So for one full year, you can only play one game. You have to pick it.

And it's one option. I picked the other option, Ryan. Okay. The other option is every game you play, you only get five hours of play time and you have to move on to a new game i'll pick that one hands down yeah hands five hours that's not even enough five hours is plenty you know how many games i've played for four hours and then just ditch because something else came

out you're just gonna get into the meat of any story and then just get your your timing and everything on the multiplayer and then boom you got to move to something else. Nope. That's fine. That is fine. That's crazy, dude. That's crazy to me. This is where you and I are so different, because I will take the five-hour sampler of 15 different games

over the let me get super involved in this one game and 100% it, and then play it again to try the other path or the other story aspect nope give me give me that sample man that's wild i legit i i by choice i pretty much only played destiny and destiny 2 for like four straight years i didn't buy any games for years uh maybe a sprinkle here and there but yeah i just i'm very uh i'm very impulsive and addictive so like when i get hooked on something and i like it i just keep doing it i'm like that's what i want i like this i will say that is the one like caveat is i'm fine bouncing between games but when i find a game where my brain goes like yo this is what we've been looking for. And it's rare. Like, honestly,

as much as we cover games and like, I like a lot of the games we play, it is a rare thing when my brain gets absolutely enthralled with a game and having to put it down. If I found one of those would be the worst, but then I just wait till the year is over and then go back to it. There you go. All right, Ryan, we're going to get to some more of these, but let's take a quick break and then we'll come back with some more. Would you rathers?

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one is easy, but would you rather lose to a boss fight 25 times or fail an escort quest 5 times? Everybody hates escort quests. So can you imagine having to rerun that quest five times? But I know how much you hate banging your head against the wall

against a hard boss fight too. And 25 times of trying to beat that boss. I know for you, sounds like a nightmare. That's a lot of times. I will say I did do that in God of War with the Valkyries, you know, on Mega Difficulty or whatever, just trying to get my sequences timed and my initial attacks and then my dodges and then know the next wave that's coming and stuff.

So I'm going to, as much as I don't like bashing my head against the wall against the boss, I'm going to go with the boss because I hate escort quests. I hate them. Every gamer in the world hates escort quests? And they keep putting them in games. Why do you do this to us? Yeah, why? There is not a single person that wants these in their games.

And yet devs are like, you know what this game needs? Let's give them an escort quest. It's like, oh, oh man i'm picking the boss fight i'll fight a boss 50 times man i have no issues just trying to overcome that challenge yeah the other thing is when you're doing the boss fight even if it's 50 times there's that payoff at the end where you finally beat him and you're like yeah oh yeah escort quest you're just like oh my gosh thank goodness that's over that was terrible oh yeah you're just you're just like oh my gosh thank goodness that's over that was terrible oh yeah you're just you're just like i want this stage to be done with now you know you got to enjoy it to do it 50 times

with you know with the boss i mean even just recently um the hype level of finishing that boss you're trying uh like i said uh a couple episodes ago i'm playing hogwarts legacy again with my son we bought it for the ps5 and he was at the last level where you're fighting the main boss and it's a you know big mega boss character and in the beginning he's starting he's like dad i'm not gonna be able to do this you're gonna have to do it and i'm like no you got this bro you can do this and it took him like a day and a half of just messing around and trying to do it and learn the sequence and then he got it last night and i was watching and i was hyping him up the whole time and he's like yeah he jumped

up started jumping around the room and i'm like yeah i high-fived and so it's doing that accomplishment of beating that boss like you don't do that with an escort mission you celebrate because it's over like you said yeah yeah it's it's one of those i i would definitely go with the with the boss nice nice all right what you got next all right so let's do um let's see here oh so this is a maybe a painful one for you okay would you rather never have played or experienced god of war 2018 oh man both are just wipes you can never you never played them i oh my gosh dude this is you're you're mean for this one i know i am going to say i i will give up God of War. As crazy as that is, I'm going to explain this one a little bit.

I have a feeling like I know why. Because God of War is one of my favorite games ever. Yes. And EverQuest would not hold up in a million years. And I am the first to say, and I've said this many times on this show, that I was way, way overly addicted to EverQuest, like to unhealthy limits on that. As were a lot of people.

Oh, yeah, dude. But in my 40 plus years of gaming, there are maybe a handful, if even that, of games that gave me that feeling. And I don't know that any game ever has given me that sense of wonder and advancement and progression and stuff that EverQuest had. And so playing that for the first time was this magic that is indescribable in a lot of ways. I think people that played World of Warcraft and really, really got into that when it launched probably can sympathize in that regard but there is there's nothing that like has come close to that magic of realizing the scale of the world in every quest the fact that you're relying on these people the community the raids the advancement the progression the the the quest that would take you four months to complete but then you did it and you had whatever you know

epic piece of gear you wanted so that's just not something i can like give up out of my memory man as much as it came with bad things too like that's honestly like my wife probably hearing me say this she's like you better not pick every quest but it's like it definitely had some bad points too but like from a gaming standpoint that's the one that like lives in my head is like this this was the pinnacle of gaming like for a while. For sure. I figured as much, I figured that's what you would do because of the, the experience of it.

I'm going to turn it around on you then. Okay. We'll mention, I know you, you, you played a lot of world of Warcraft, but I feel like you have this inner love for destiny, maybe a little bit more.

So would you give up destiny and all memory of it? Or would you give up red dead redemption too? it, or would you give up Red Dead Redemption 2 because you say that's the greatest game ever made? Oh, man. It's tough, right? Yeah, because it's not just... Because it's not saying which game is better. It's saying what in your memory,

when you think about your memory of these games, which gives you the better memory? Yeah, that's... Man, because we i mean i still me and this group of friends we still have quotes from just random occurrences or encounters um when we were playing or raiding on destiny it was something we did religiously every tuesday night and we would knock out all our characters then we wouldn't strike so there was so much consistency like i I said, over years.

And camaraderie. And camaraderie, for sure. Yeah. It's like you're meeting and hanging out with your friends. It's just virtually. Every day, almost every day or every day, if you're getting crazy like we were. Gosh, that's hard. But you know how I am about Red Dead.

I'm going to wipe Destiny. Really? I am. I am. As much as that would pain me and I think it might have to do with... I will never question your love for Red Dead again, Ryan. It may have to do also with the way

Destiny finished off and it took a big downward slump for me That makes sense. but yeah, I just... It's in my opinion it's the red dead is the greatest game ever made so i just i couldn't i couldn't knock that out all right that's fair i mean you back it up right there there we go all righty uh it's my turn right yep okay so let's do no wait no no you asked that one oh I just asked it back to you. That's right. Okay. This one's annoying.

Would you rather have to unplug every cable from your computer, so mouse, keyboard, whatever is plugged into your computer case, every time you turn it off, or have your console need to perform an update every time you turn it on? Oh, man. Oh, that's not good those are both horrible i'm looking at you nintendo switch number one every time it's like oh i got a new game oh this console requires an update yep uh well that would require me turning my computer off though

right uh wait you don't turn your computer off what does it need to turn off for man oh my gosh ryan how are you going to get the rgb effect if you turn your computer off what does it need to turn off for man oh my gosh ryan how are you going to get the rgb effect if you turn your computer off duh oh man um i'm gonna go uh i'm gonna go update because because i don't have to really do anything i can just turn it on i know yeah you you just can turn it on and then go get like your drink and your snacks and get ready to play and then come down and then hopefully the update's done. But yeah, if I have to... And the way I have my PC set up, I have all my cable management and everything ran with my ADHD brain. So it would be in a nightmare.

I'm picking that one too. I think I could do the cables faster, but having to do that every single time... Like you said, you can just turn your console on. I'm going to go make a sandwich or something while it updates and then come back. So I agree. I think I could do the computer faster, but the console, I can do other stuff while it updates. Exactly.

But every single time, every single time you want to play a game, it's like this requires an update. Well, I mean, we're used to that with Call of Duty. That's true. You know, update requires restart. Update requires restart. Update requires restart. Shaders populating. Here's one for you, bud.

Oh, no. All right. You know what? I'm asking. I got one directly for you after this. I'm going to ask because I can see the way you're looking at me. One game you can play. Elite Dangerous or Forspoken.

Oh, my gosh gosh I hate you I love it and uh I had it pulled up a second ago let me pull it up here Josh for those of you who don't know on our leaderboard that we have for all of our deep dives Josh has forspoken as a 1.8

and elite dangerous as I think a 1 yeah as a 1.8 and Elite Dangerous as I think a 1. Yeah, as a 1. Oh my gosh. Would I rather be bored to tears or frustrated nonstop? I think I'm just going to go bored to tears because being frustrated all the time would just make my family hate me. It's frustrating. You know what I mean?

Just me coming out from playing Forspoken, be like, get away from me. Where it's like, if I'm playing Elite Dangerous, I'm just like, at least I can nap while I'm, you know,

playing that game. So I guess I'll, this is terrible, man. I guess I'm picking Elite Dangerous, but I can't, but that's only for my family sanity. It's not a better game.

Like, you know what I mean? Like I, I probably rather play Forspoken, but that You know what I mean? I'd probably rather play Forspoken, but that game would just... I think I'd lose my mind. All right. All right, Ryan. This is for

your making me pick and yell at managers. I got one for you. All right, lay it on me. Bring on that one. All right, Ryan. Would you rather have to cook corndogs every night for dinner or work as a barista and have to smell coffee all day oh man eat it sucker that's that's real bad for those that don't know ryan hates the smell of coffee and we literally in our last episode said, what's the most disgusting thing in the world?

And Ryan picked the smell of corn dogs. Okay. I'd say I'd explain myself, but there's really no explanation. It's just what it is. Oh, gosh. And so with the corn dogs, I'm making corn dogs just at my house or something or what? At your house every night for dinner. But the other one is you work.

Hold on. You have to eat them? You don't have to eat them, but you got to smell them. You said the smell of them is. Yeah. or something or what at your house every night for dinner but the other one is you work hold on you don't have to eat them but you gotta smell them you said the smell of them yeah oh yeah right yeah um oh and i can't like plug my nose nope or'd pick the coffee shop. Now you have to deal with the, like, I want a mocha grande, double whip, foam, latte, soy milk, blah, blah, blah. I'm pretty sure you only put one pump of syrup in this. You got to deal with that. I would be fired within an hour. You got an hour, man.

This is part of the job, Ryan. They're going to get the worst employee of their life if i'm unfireable that's fine with me i'll make a i'll make a game of it this is how much ryan hates corn dogs man what did corn dogs ever do to you right why did corn dogs hurt you oh my goodness all right sweet all right so let's now i'm gonna be thinking about corn dogs yeah welcome um let's do uh you can join leon kennedy and fight the undead and resident evil or become an agent in the division division oh so a little less spooky but so i have leon as my teammate that can protect me but also more spooky or be in the division but everybody is basically trying to kill you in the

division dude i'm going division believe it or not. I think I could survive that urban... I'm a wily guy. You are too. I feel like we're pretty crafty, handy dudes. And they got little towns too. Yeah. I think we could survive in the division. And plus, finding gear and stuff would be pretty cool. Just being like, dude, check out this

grenade launcher I just found. Sick, bro. Look at this machine gun. I don't think I want to go up against dudes whose heads explode and then alien virus things pop out of them and start wiggling around. Yeah. No, thank you. I think I'd rather go up against my fellow man than my fellow aliens. Oops.

Did I say that out loud? Uh-oh. Whoops. I'm the same. Yeah. I'm going division as well. Okay. All right, Ryan. out i'm the same yeah i'm going i'm going division as well okay all right ryan you just lost your fifth match in a row and rage has taken over you have to break something would you rather smash your controller into the ground or karate chop your keyboard into oblivion well i have a um an elite controller so it's pretty pricey so i don't know

if it was that keyboard though too right my keyboard is not too fancy actually it's an old one i've had for a while yeah it's it's all right my keyboard's way more expensive than my controller i was wondering if this was just gonna come down to like dollar amount. I feel like I've honestly, I don't know about anyone else. I've never broken anything from gaming. Like I've never smashed a controller or done anything like that. I don't understand that kind of rage trigger or whatever that people get set off by. But I would say it'd probably be more satisfying to karate chop my keyboard. One, because the price, but then just smashing it and keys flying everywhere.

It's going to let the rage out, man. You just, and then it all explodes. I feel like the controller would do some damage to other stuff, too. Like if I threw it at the wall, then I got a hole in the wall now. I just said smashing into the ground. Oh, okay. I guess, yeah. I don't – like so this is the dumb thing right here,

and I want everybody that's listening right now to just – like think about the motion, right? Just slamming your karate chop in your keyboard, and like you said, keys go flying off, and the desk kind of shakes. Like that sounds good. But then that overhand like smash into the ground and a controller just fits in your hand so good you're gonna launch that out of that thing just smashing it into the ground sounds so satisfying right now so it's like my brain's

actually going like which one sounds better yeah and i think i want to smash that controller man that overhead just smashing to the ground watch it bounce parts fly off you know i i think i'm going controller smash man i think you might have converted me really i think i think the actual like the velocity that you could yes whiz the controller down at the ground like just with that full overhand motion i think you could get some speed on that bad boy and it's just gonna explode there's also you're not gonna hurt yourself like chucking a controller unless like a piece of shrapnel bounces back and hits you but like i don't know how bad it would hurt that's true like karate chop these keys man that's true yeah i did and i have a i would probably use my right hand and i have a boxer's fracture that healed all weird.

And so I think I'd mess up my hand even worse. Yeah. All right. So we're both going controller? Yep. Going controller. Sweet. All right.

Good choice. Converted me. All right. For this one, I'm going to go non-gaming. Would you rather always feel hungry or always feel thirsty? Oh, man. Oh, I don't handle either one of these well. Like, legitimately, I don't handle hunger well at all. Like, I've done, like, diets and, like, stuff like that.

And I just don't... I'm one of those people that I don't like being hungry, man. Like, I know a lot of people are like, ah, it's no big deal. And I'm like, dude, to me, it's the worst sand of the world being thirsty that dry parched feeling where you just i'm gonna i'm gonna say i'd rather be hungry and that is a tough choice but dude i like actual thirst yeah is way worse like if you were truly thirsty man like that is like i'll drink mud water you know

or something because it's like i don't want that so and you'll get over being hungry right like eventually you just kind of be like whatever yeah people yeah people do that all the time they like intentionally fast and stuff like you know what if i was always hungry i think i'd just be skinnier too there let's see right so then i'd be fit yeah all right that was easy i'm picking always be hungry i'm doing the same man i could not i i religiously have water with me like always i always have a cup or two by my bed stand before and then when i wake up i gotta chug water i drink like over a gallon a day i mean i work outside so i gotta have water yeah I can't stand being thirsty.

So yeah, give me the hunger. I drink a lot of, I actually don't drink anything but water. I don't drink soda. I don't drink juice. I do have coffee in the morning, but I mean, 99% of my liquid intake is actually just ice water. Yeah. And so I don't think I could give that up. Yeah.

To sit there and be, oh, no. All right, Ryan, I got a fun one for you. You are a supervillain and you have to face off against a famous protagonist. Would you rather have a showdown with Arthur Morgan or Joel from The Last of Us? Oh, man. They're coming for you. You're the bad guy, Ryan, and they're coming. They're coming for you you're the bad guy ryan and they're coming they're coming to take you down man it's their it's their quest it's their goal and one of them rounds the corner

which one would you rather have a showdown rather fight see it's like do you want to meet like your favorite celebrity or do you want to meet the one that you think you'd have a better chance beating uh i i'm gonna go i'm gonna go joel because i gotta prove uh my worth to santar and from our discord that was talking a lot of smack that doesn't believe this is gonna come up paul had to come to my defense and and uh defend me because because santar didn't think that i could beat joel and he said like no chance. So I'm going Joel because I'm going to whoop him and prove my worth and that

I can kick his butt. Okay. I think I'd rather go up against Arthur Morgan just because I think he's older and less fit. No, Joel was, I think Arthur was only like 35. Really? Yeah, I know. He's, well, it's in the 1800s. He seems old. I mean, he seems old. Yeah. You know? I mean, I know he's well it's in the 1800s old i mean he seems old yeah you know and i don't i

mean i know he can throw a punch but it's like i feel like arthur is just more out of shape yeah i would agree he's drinking all the time he's on the road he's you know i i don't know i just feel like arthur would be the easier guy to like get winded and try to beat yeah arthur was 36 well he's an old 36 yeah i think you need to take better care of yourself late 40s or 50s right yeah but i feel like joel's more like hardened than arthur morgan yeah well you should see surviving through an apocalypse i would hope so what's arthur got to survive through the old west beautiful starry skies whiskey and planes yeah yeah yeah yeah joel i'm going up against arthur

you just sealed the deal all right all right ryan we got time for maybe two more one or two more each so pick pick pick some of your best okay um oh this is one i've actually been i i heard it a while back and i've been wanting to ask you and I kept forgetting. And then this is, I guess, the perfect setting. So this is another kind of fun one. Would you rather be guaranteed a million bucks? Here, here you go. Here's a million dollars. Yes.

Or, or a coin flip to get zero or one billion? I'll take the million easy. What? I've always, I have always said, dude, I'm not a gambler. And I know you are. So I know your gambling brain is instantly reeling. What's a million going to do these days, man? Dude, give me the guaranteed money 10 out of 10 times.

And I get it, right? Because it's that FOMO of I could have had a billion dollars. But you know what I do have? A million dollars, Ryan. I have a million dollars guaranteed. I'll take that 10 out of 10 times over the chance of having way more, but then ending up with nothing. Whatever.

I'll pass by you in my yacht. I'm the guy that would legitimately cash out at $100,000 on who wants to be a millionaire. Oh, yeah. Where it's like, you can risk the $100,000 and go for a million or you can take i'm like give me the hundo yep i'm done we're good i'm good yeah you know how much a hundred thousand dollars would help me out man or the deal or no deal deal howie deal sir i wish i had a quarter in front of me ryan just so i could flip it so you could make your dumb bet and see if you're gonna be be broke or a billionaire. Oh, man. Here. I don't have a quarter, but I have my wallet. You can flip.

Okay. I have my wallet. We'll flip it. Okay. License side up. That's heads. That's tails. I'm going to go license side up.

You're calling license side up for nothing or a billion dollars. Nothing or a billion. Here we go. Oh, I'm broke. Yeah, you're broke. You should have taken the million. That's why you don't do it right. Dang it.

Also, what people couldn't see is how disappointed you looked over your stupid imaginary thing. It was because it actually did like the slow-mo movie bounce, and it trickled along, and then it flipped over. I love that there was nothing on the line, but just because you lost the flip, you look so disappointed. Listen, I love to gamble, okay? Oh, man. Oh, that was funny, dude. That was good. Oh, man.

We're going to have to make this show video at some point, man. Oh, my goodness. All right, Ryan. I got a terrible one for you i don't know what some of these are so bad would you rather have every cut scene in a game be non-skippable or have to watch the opening intro to a game every time you boot it up oh uh i would rather have the cut scenes be non-skippable really yeah i always watch all the cut scenes okay yeah always yeah i'm a big i love i

love cut scenes that's why i love uh all the metal gear solid games i'd always watch all the cut scenes and just kick back and enjoy them uh i went through diablo i'll still go through and just watch the cinematics from time to time i'm a good cinema big yeah there you go blizzard used to be pretty good with stuff i i actually watch all the cut scenes of a game if it's my first playthrough because it's like, what's the point of skipping all this stuff? Now, I will say if it's a game like Throne and Liberty,

which I played recently as an MMO, I just skipped everything because I'm like, dude, this story ain't going to matter. And in my brain, not being able to skip those would be terrible. But one of my pet peeves as a gamer is I'm loading up a game and it's like nvidia cry engine uh yay you know and it's all these stupid splash screens and then it's like

beware photo sensitivity if you have epilepsy don't be playing video games and oh yeah this game's rated this and and it's like every now and then you come across the game that won't let you skip that stuff. And I just am like, dude, come on, man. Like every time I want to play this, every time I got to watch all these stupid splash screens and intros. And I don't know why that bugs me so much. So that's what that reminds me of. The family guy. Have you seen that scene where the movie starts and it just kept being like those um studio things that they the splash screens that they do and you keep thinking oh look at this how

oh and then it like would show the motion picture thing and then another one and it did like six in a row that's what it reminded me of that's hilarious yeah i'm gonna pick the uh unskippable i want to be able to skip the intro to a game i want to get into that game i'll make it to where i can't skip cut scenes as well so all right ryan um what else let's do one more each here so pick your uh pick your best one you got left let's see here actually no you'll do two i started we'll give you two i'll do one more okay that's good because then i get this one that i wanted to to because i was genuinely curious about this one so all right you love animals you love the ocean you famously uh were a dolphin trainer for a period of time all the way to florida commercial fishing boats commercial fishing boats the northeast coast horrible stories in both situations oh yeah uh so would you rather explore the depths of the ocean or we have the technology to explore deep

space oh i want to go to space yeah as much as i love the ocean dude like i'm not scared i know like there's a lot of people that are like dude i won't go swimming in the ocean because it's like i can't see what's in the water and all that. That doesn't really bother me. I love the ocean, but there is something about just wanting to go to space and being able to float around in zero gravity and stuff. Oh, yeah. I get that it's probably boring as anything because it's huge and there's really not anything out there that you're going to be entertained by or anything. But dude, give me the chance to go to space and I'll take it in a heartbeat.

For sure. Yeah. I'm the same way. But I know your know your love of of the ocean and now if it's just hey you can you know you're going on vacation or something like yeah i freaking love the ocean dude there's something about it that just clicks with my brain same all right ryan uh okay so this is my last one here uh i gotta know this this because these are the important questions, Ryan. Oh, here we go. Would you rather be ugly or would you rather be stinky?

I think I'd rather be stinky. Really? Yeah, I think I'd rather be... Now, you're stinky to everybody. That's fine. I'm already stinky and ugly. So my poor wife has to deal with protein farts all the time. Oh, man.

I think I'd rather. I can't. The idea of being stinky to everybody around me is like I can't fathom that. You know what I mean? Like just I'm walking through the store and somebody's like, what is that? Like, I think I'd rather just be ugly because somebody. Deal with it. I'm beautiful, baby.

Deal with it. Somebody out there is going to have blurry vision, you know? Okay, you think, no, Brad Pitt walks by and he stinks. You think you're going to be like. Dude, if he stinks, like, and I'm talking stinky. I ain't talking like a barely a whiff of BO. I'm talking like fart stinky all the time. Like convention neckbeard BO?

Yes. You think even with Brad Pitt, if he's that stinky, you think people are going to get over that? They'd be like, dude, I can't. Absolutely. They would say, oh my God, I saw Brad Pitt today. He was so beautiful. Can you believe it? They're not going to say, he smelled so bad. I really don't like him anymore. Put this in reality, Ryan. You're on a date. You're meeting somebody. You walk in. Don't tell my wife. Beautiful, beautiful lady. Yes. You get to the table to sit down to have dinner, and the smell just hits you, man. And you were like, oh my goodness, this woman has been eating blue cheese and rotten meat for the last week, and it is just oozing out of her. Boom. Done. All bets are off. I can let loose

all I want now. We're both going to stick together. Okay, there is some benefit to that. There's a benefit. She can't give me a hard time. Oh, man. Oh, why'd you fart again? Well, have you smelled yourself, honey? Okay, but then you walk in and maybe she's not so pleasant to look at, but she smells like a beautiful rose. And you're like, wow, you smell good.

Nah, she can be stinky. Really? I will say, though, you have those where you're like, wow, you smell good. Nah, she can be stinky. Really? I will say, though, you have those where you're just walking by at a store or something, and then you just catch a whiff of somebody's something, like a really good perfume or something, and you're just like, whoa. And you look around like,

who was that? That smells really good. That is nice when you catch those, but yeah, I can... That kind of releases the stress of me having to try to not be stinky. All right. I mean, that is a fair point. All right, Ryan. Last one.

Wrap us up. What you got? Well, in coinciding with the stinky thing, we're going to do another crazy one because we're done with video games. So would you rather wear the same socks for a month? No. Or the same underwear for a week? I'll wear the same underwear.

I'll wear the same underwear. Easy, easy. I'll tell you what, dude. Everybody's got their weird quirks, right? And I'm about to share one of mine. Okay. I think we're the same. My socks need to be right.

Like the seam can't be like bunched up against my pinky toe or my big toe or any of that. It can't be too far forward. It can't be too far back. The seam has to go right across my toes, and I need to not be able to feel it. When I was a kid, I took this to another level to where I would wear my socks inside out because I felt like they were better that way than the other way. So I don't know what it is, but I'm very like particular about like what are on my feet and how it feels. And, you know, I have, I have done the thing where like, I've actually worn socks for like

two days and the bottom of the sock starts like sticking to my foot and it gets flat. It's not, and it gets flat and kind of mushed down and that bugs me to no end i i can't i can't deal with it man and so i will wear stinky drawers that smell like farts and butt crack for a week before i will deal with my socks not feeling right man that's so funny that's uh i'm i'm with you i've always been uh my wife makes fun of me because of how I'm with – I'm very particular. I only buy these Puma athletic socks in women's that are like a medium or large in women's. Because they fit right. They fit tighter than –

They kind of fit tight, but they don't move around. Yeah. I wear an 11 in men's shoes, but the 10 to 12 socks are too loose. So I get the women's like smaller size size and then they fit perfect on my feet. Unfortunately, usually the other half of the pack is pink and then the other ones are black. So I'll keep the black. And now my daughter's old enough to where she's got bigger feet so she can wear the pink ones. So I don't have to have those anymore. But I'm the same way with the socks, dude. I would definitely do the socks. Yeah. Now, for the record, I do wash my drawers.

But if I had to choose, I can't. It would bug me to no end, man. Yeah. That's so funny. Well, we're answering the important questions that people want to know. Yeah. You know, they get a glimpse into how crazy and weird we are, too. But hey, that's us, man.

There's like four people still listening right now. Yeah. All right. Listen, that is it for this episode. We hope you enjoyed this nonsensical. Would you rather gaming edition? We love this kind of stuff as gamers. We hope you love it too.

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I hope you've been playing. I know you have, cause I saw you in there, but we're going to be covering dragon age veil guard, man. I can't wait to do that episode. I know, uh,

I've got a lot to say about that game. Uh, I know you have been hinting that you have some opinions on it as well. So make sure you come back for that one. And until next time, happy gaming. See ya! Bye.