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

Episode Date: November 21, 2025

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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. 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, huh? 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 to me. 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. Both of those things are true. There's a reason we're on an audio platform. 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 schnazzes. 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, you know, like, I mean, I think I could take this guy in a fight. I wonder if I could live a day in that world without dying. Like, I mean, let's be honest. We all think about these stupid things.

And so these would you rather 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 uh 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 because i'm sure people want to hear from both of us on

that so yeah absolutely yeah um so We're going to get into that here in just a second. But Ryan, what do we got? We 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 they 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 like a gaming pod of Apple. They're just like 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 listen 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 too 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, right? 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 it?

something, you know. Battlefront two, I, 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. It 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, not for our opinions? Graphics. That's my opinion. I don't hide it, man. I didn't know what it was either. 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 there's 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, you know, 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. You know, and so what I love is that people do that with us. And so people will say, hey, I've been playing.

in this game, you know, 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. Like legitimately. It is family friendly. So, you know, if you're younger, you're, you're completely welcome there. There's no, you know, inappropriate content or anything like that. It's just gamers being 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, 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. 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 Mar

Okay. Okay. So, I mean, heights, platforming, jumping over gaps, you know, gumbas and stuff like that. Eat mushrooms. Or, or a level of Halo. Now, Halo, you are equipped with your guns and your grenades. Okay. You know, so which one would you rather try to survive? And in this, am I, am I Mario and I'm Master Chief? No, you're Ryan. I'm just Ryan. Okay. You're just Ryan. oh man um because otherwise i'll just be master chief that dude just dominates the levels 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 uh i just got these weird little gumbas coming after me that's

not guys and aliens shooting at me with rifles and plasma rifles and cannons and all these things. So 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. Like you were not

master chief, but you get the equipment. And like a recharge shield? Yeah, yeah. You get the armor, their shield. You get the guns and grenades. If I die, I don't care. But it's only your skills. Yeah. 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.

I cannot be near the ledge of something that's up high. So a level of Mario would destroy me. 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 doing 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. 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 know, know anything like that. Dude, this was such an easy answer until you went and complicated it, right? So no PC ports.

So anything from console, it's got to be. be on console and then or PC releases. I'm still going to stay with PC. Yeah. It's nothing like you and I don't have any. I mean, we love consoles to be honest. But I, I just, it is kind of my gaming like M.O. You know, like 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, like 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, like, looking forward to the future as well, that's my jam. I love mouse and keyboard too. 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 gaming. Oh, nice. Okay.

So I figured the no ports 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, I'll just be the dude that's like standing outside the window, just staring in with sad music playing as 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 going to, I'm going to, I'm going console. As much as I love PC and 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, I'm going to 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. And they're so powerful nowadays, like, you know, it's a 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, 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, I absolutely, I'm a big Grant Turismo guy. I love just going as fast as you can on Grand Theft Auto like in 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, oh, let me get in. And part of it is that the evolution of the sim racer, I like arcade racers. Oh, yeah. You know, I want that nitro boost that, you know, flying through traffic at a thousand miles an hour, going over jumps, you know, barrel roll in my car, that kind of stuff. I don't like the sim racer 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, oh, it'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. You know what? I'm like, Yeah. You can drive through it.

I know it. I know it in my heart. Woo! I'm through it, Harry. Yeah, you see those fighting guys, they roll up with their own game pads and they got their own custom stuff. No. No, thank you.

The dude that might have his own racing wheel, fine. Like, but that doesn't mean you're going to 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 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? Oh, explore? Okay. Mario's annoying.

Link makes weird sounds. Link cooks dinner Mario only eats mushrooms Mushroom Kingdom seems kind of trippy but Hyrule seems kind of beautiful and all 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 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 would agree. I'm going to go link to. 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 could pick one character to hang out with. Nobody's picking Mario. Yeah, exactly. I pick Wario. I'd go party up with Wario, for sure. Sorry, Mario, Wario's a much better time than you are. Yeah.

Are you with me on this? Are you picking Lincoln, Highroll? I'm going Lincoln, Hyrule. I'm going Lincoln, Hyrole. Hyrule is 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, I'm going Hyrule.

Okay, dude. Let's, a bocoblin, 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 yeah dude what the heck is that giant thing with teeth at the end of that chain oh my gosh it's coming right for me why is that giant bullet like coming this way it's 400 times the size of a normal bullet exactly i'll take the weird looking goofy bocoblin or whatever the other stuff is in in Zelda then i would mario mario maria enemies are terrifying all right Ryan 2025 is quickly approaching

yes rock star games has announced the release of Grand Theft Auto 6 and in a surprise announcement the release of Red Dead Redemption 3 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 i just there's there's just nothing like guns and cowboys and horses and trains and all that stuff i just that's that's my go to always for sure over grand theft Auto 6 100% 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 it subpart gameplay but dude red dead out of here I'd love grand theft auto too but I mean if I 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 yeah okay so let's see here um This is one that I was actually thinking about you when I came up with it. Oh, boy. So 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 game. I pick the other option. I pick 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. Five hours? That's not even enough to get into anything. And 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 going to get into the meat of any story and then just get your timing and everything on the multiplayer and then boom, you've got to move to something else. Nope. That's fine. That is fine. That's crazy, dude.

That's crazy. 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 percent 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 by choice i pretty much only played destiny and destiny two 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 rather's. Hack the holidays with the PC holiday insiders report. Try this PC porquetta. Crackling,

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this is a little bit more geared for you because my answer on this one is easy. But would you rather lose to a boss fight 25 times or fail an escort quest five times. Everybody hates escort quest. 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 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 time and my initial attacks and then my dodges and then know the next wave that's coming and stuff. So I'm going to, 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 quest. And they keep putting it in the games. Why do you do this to us? Yeah, why? There is not a single person that wants these in their games.

And yet Dems are like, you know what this game needs? Let's give them an escort quest. It's like, 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. 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 them and you're like, 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 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 a couple episodes ago i'm playing hoggworth's 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 going to be able to do this you're going to 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 it's it's one of those I would definitely go with the with the boss Nice nice All right, what you got next All right so let's do

Let's see here Ooh so this is a Maybe a painful one for you Okay Would you rather Never have played or experienced EverQuest Ooh

Or never Played or experienced or experienced God of War, 2018. Oh, man. Both are just wiped. You can never, you never played them. I, oh my gosh, dude.

This is, you're mean for this one. I know. I am going to say, I will give up God of War. As crazy as that is, I'm going to, I'm going to explain this one a little bit. I have a feeling like I know why. 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 in the show, that I was way, way overly addicted to EverQuest, like to unhealthy limits on that. So it's like, 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 like wonder and advancement and progression and stuff that ever quest had and so playing that for the first time was this magic that is undescribable in a lot of ways i think people that played world of warcraft and really really got into that like 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 ever quest the fact that you're relying on

on these people, the community, the raids, the advancement, the progression, 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 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 gonna 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 because you say that's the greatest game ever made oh man it's tough right yeah because it's not saying which game is better it's saying like what in your memory like when you think about your memory of these games

which gives you like 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 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 characters, then we were on strike. So there was so much consistency, like I said, over years. And camaraderie. And camaraderie, for sure. Yeah. Like, like, it's just you. It's like you're meeting and hanging out with your friends. It's just virtually, you know, every day, you know, almost every day or every day, you know, if you're getting crazy like we were. Um, gosh, that's hard. But, but, but you know how I am about Red Dead. Um, I'm, I'm, I'm going to, 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 it. I will never question your love for Red Dead again,

Ryan. It may have to do also with the way kind of destiny kind of finished off and it kind of 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. It's my turn, right? Yep. Okay. So let's do. No, wait, no, no, you asked that one. 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 cable, 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. Yeah. Well, that would require me turning my computer off, though, right? 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? Duh. Oh, man. I'm going to go, uh, I'm going to go update because I don't have to really do anything. I just turn it on. I know. I was, yeah, I'm going to. Yeah. I'm going to go. I'm going to go update. I know. I Yeah, 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 like it would be in a nightmare. I'm picking that one too. Yeah. Like the cable, I think I could do the cables faster. Yeah. 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 can 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.

Shaders, populating. Here's one for you, bud. Oh, 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, I hate you. I love it. And 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 forespoken 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? Like just me coming out from playing for Spock and be like, get away from me. Where it's like if I'm playing a lead 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'd probably rather play for Spoken, but that game would just, I think I'd lose my mind. All right. All right. This is for, this is for your, uh, making me pick and, and yell at it. No, no, no, no. I got, I got, I got one for you. All right. Would you rather have to cook corn dogs every night for dinner? Oh. or work as a barista and have to smell coffee all day oh man 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. I 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. Oh, yeah. Right. Yeah. Um, and I can't like plug my nose. Nope. Or work at a coffee shop. Oh, man. Um. I'd pick the coffee shop. Now you have to deal with the like I want a mocha grande double whip foam latteed soy milk blah blah blah blah and then it's like I'm pretty sure you only put one pump of syrup in this. Oh God. You got to deal with that.

I would be fired within an hour. You got now, man. This is part of the job, Ryan. They're going to get the worst employee of their life if I'm unfairable. That's fine with me. I'll make a game of it. This is how much Ryan hates corn dogs, man. What did corn dogs ever do to you, Ryan?

Why did corn dogs hurt you? Oh my goodness. All right. Sweet. All right. So let's do, now I'm going to be thinking about corn dogs. Yeah. You're welcome.

Let's do, you can join Leon Kennedy and fight the undead and resident evil or become an agent in the division. ooh 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 you not i i think i could survive like that urban you know i'm a wily guy you are too like i feel like we're pretty crafty like handy dudes And they got little towns too with... Yeah, I think we could survive in the division. And plus, finding gear and stuff would be pretty cool.

You know, like, just being like, dude, check out this grenade launcher I just found. Sick, bro. Look, this machine gun. I don't think I want to go up against dudes whose heads explode and then, like, alien virus things pop out of them and start wiggling around. And, yeah, I think I'd rather go up against my fellow man than my fellow aliens. Oops, did I say that out loud? 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 an elite controller,

so it's pretty pricey. So I don't know if I was that keyboard, though, too, right? My keyboard's not too fancy, actually. It's an old one I've had for a while. Yeah, it's all right. My keyboard's way more expensive than my controller. I was wondering if this is just going to come down to like dollar amount. I feel like I've honestly, I don't know about anyone else.

I have never broken anything from gaming. Like, I've never smashed your controller or done anything like that. I don't understand that kind of rage trigger or whatever that people get set off by it. but I would say it probably would be more satisfying to karate chop my keyboard. One, because of 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. Well, I just said smashing into the ground. Oh, okay. I guess, yeah. I mean, I don't, like, so this is the dumb thing right here. and I want everybody that's listening right now to just, you know, just like think about the motion, right? Just slamming your karate chopping 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 hands so good.

Oh, you're going to launch that sucker. You can just chuck the heck out of that thing. And just being like, 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 think I'm going controller smash, man. I think you might have converted me. Really? I think the actual, like the velocity that you could 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 going to explode. There's also, you're not going to hurt yourself like chuck in 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 I have a I would probably use my right hand and I have a boxer's fracture that you know healed all weird and so like I think I'd mess up my hand even worse yeah all right so we're both going controller yep gone controller sweet converted me all right for this one I'm going to go, uh, 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, I know a lot of people like, ah, that's no big deal. And I'm like,

dude, to me, it's the worst. It's the end of the world. But being thirsty, that dry parched feeling where you just... I'm gonna say I'd rather be hungry. And that is a tough choice. But dude, like actual thirst is way worse. Like if you were truly thirsty, man, like that is like, I'll drink mudwater, you know,

or something because it's like, I don't want that. So, and you get over being hungry, right? Like, eventually you just kind of be like, whatever. Yeah, people do that all the time. They like intentionally fast and stuff. Plus, you know what? If I was always hungry, I think I'd just be skinnier too. See, right?

So then I'd be fit. Yeah. All right, that was easy. I'm picking them always be hungry then. I'm doing the same, man. I could not. I religiously have water with me like always. I always have a cup or two by my bedstand before.

And then when I wake up, I got to chug water. I drink like over a gallon a day. I mean, I work outside, so I got to have water. 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 super villain 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? I'm, oh man. 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? Would I 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. I'm going to go, I'm going to go Joel because I got to prove my worth to Santar from our discord that was talking a lot of smack that doesn't believe. I was wondering, this was going to come up. Paul had to come to my defense and defend me 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 more. 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. 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 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 and i think uh joel was like 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 yeah what's arthur got to survive through the old west beautiful starry skies

whiskey and brothels yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah joel i'm going up against arthur you just sealed the deal all right all right right ryan we got time for maybe two more one or two more one or two more more each so pick pick pick pick some of your best okay um oh this is one i've actually been i heard it a while back and i've been one to ask you and i kept forgetting and then this is the i guess the perfect setting so this is another uh 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. I've always, I have always said, I dude, I'm not a gambler. And I know you are. So I know your gambling brain is instantly reeling, dude. 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 like, it's that fomo of I could have had a billion dollars. Yeah. 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 like having way more. But then, and, up with nothing. Whatever. I'll pass by you in my yacht. I'm the guy that would like legitimately cash out at like $100,000 on who wants to be a

millionaire. Oh, yeah. You know, 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 out.

Yeah. You know how much $100,000 would help me out, man? Or the deal or no deal. Deal, Howie. Deal. 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 going to be broke or a billionaire. Oh, man.

Here, I don't, I don't have a quarter, but I have my wallet. You can flip. Okay, I'm my wallet. We'll flip it. Okay. License side up. And that's heads. That's tails. I'm going to 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. See, you should have taken the million. That's why you don't do it. Dang it.

Also, what people couldn't see is how disappointed you looked over your stupid imaginary thing. It was because it actually, it did like the slow-mo, like, movie bounce and it like trickled along and then it flipped over. 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. 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 cutscene in a game be non-skippable or have to watch the opening intro to a game every time you booted up? Oh, I would rather have the cutscenes be non-skippable. Really? Yeah, I always watch all the cutscenes.

Okay. Yeah, always. Yeah, I'm a big, I love cutscenes. That's why I love all the Metal Gear Solicit. games. I'd always watch all the cutscenes and just kick back and enjoy them. I went through Diablo. I'll still go through and just watch the cinematics from time to time. I mean, they're good cinematics. Yeah, there you go. Blizzard used to be pretty good with stuff. I actually watch all the cutscenes if a game, if it's my first play through, because it's like, what's the point of skipping all this

stuff? Now, I will say if it's like a game like Throne in 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 like 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, EA, you know, and it's all these stupid splash screens. And then it's like, beware, photosensitivity. If you have epilepsy, don't be playing video games. And oh, yeah, this game's rated this. 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. And 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. That reminds me of the family guy. Have you seen that scene where the movie starts? And then it just kept being like those studio things that they, the splash screens that they do. And he keep thinking, oh, look at this. Oh, and then it like would show the motion picture thing. And it did like six in a row.

That's what I reminded me of. That's hilarious. Yeah, I'm going to pick the. 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 cutscenes 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. Hmm. 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

the ocean. You famously were a dolphin trainer for a period of time. Yeah, we're done commercial fishing boats. Commercial fishing boats. The northeast coast. Horrible stories in both situations. Oh, yeah. That's pretty bad. 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 like just wanting to go to space and being able to like float around and 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 like entertained by or anything. But dude, give me the, 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, I know your love of the ocean and animals and stuff.

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. Okay, so this is my last one here. I got to know this because this, 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, I'd rather be. 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 like The idea of being stinky To like everybody around me

Is like I can't I can't fathom that You know what I mean Like just I'm walking through the store and somebody's like, ugh, what is that? Like,

I think I'd rather just be ugly because somebody... I'm beautiful, baby. Deal with it. Somebody out there's going to have blurry vision, you know? Okay. Do you think...

No, you... Brad Pitt walks by and he stinks. You think you're going to be like... And I'm talking stinky. I ain't talking like a barely a whiff of B.O. I'm talking like fart stinky all the time. Like convention neckbeard B.O. Yes.

Like, you think even with Brad Pitt, if he's that stinky, you think people are going to like 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? Then I'm going to say,

he smelled so bad. I just, I really don't like him anymore. Put this in reality, Ryan. You're, you're on a date. Okay. You're meeting somebody. You walk in. Don't tell my way. 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, 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. Why'd you fart again? Well, have you smelled yourself, honey? Okay, but then you walk in and maybe, you know, maybe she's not so pleasant to look at, but she smells like a beautiful rose. And you're like, wow, you smell good. No, she can be stinky.

Really? I will say, though, you have you ever, you know, you have those where you're just walking by at a store or something and then you just like catch a whiff of somebody's something, like a really good perfume or something and you're like, whoa. And you look around like, who was that? That smells really good. Yeah.

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? were the same socks for a month or the same underwear for a week. I'll wear the same underwear. For a week? Easy. I'll tell you what, dude. Everybody's got their weird quirks. Yeah. Right? And I'm about to share one of mine. Okay. My socks. 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, like 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 like 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 done the thing where like I've actually worn socks for like two days and the bottom of the socks starts like sticking to my foot. And it gets flat. It's not like, flat and kind of mush down and that bugs me to no end i 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 like 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 my wife makes fun of me because of how i'm with i'm very particular i only buy these uh puma athletic socks in women's that are like a medium or large in women. Because they fit right, right? Like they kind of fit tight, but they don't move around. Yeah, I wear 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 and then they fit perfect on my feet. Unfortunately, usually the other half of the pack is like 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, the 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.

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