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Speaker 0 Yo, yo.

Speaker 1 Hey, man, how you doing? All right, all right.

Speaker 1 Do you have my arm hurts, and I'm being really brave. Yeah, why is that?

Speaker 1 I got my flu and COVID shot yesterday. Oh,

Speaker 1 and my arm hurts like a motherfucker. Like, so brave.
Like, I'm walking around like hanging it loose.

Speaker 1 Like I'm not swinging it. I'm dead arming it as much as I possibly can.

Speaker 1 My arm hurts from like the football carry and seated feed position that I've been. Really? Yeah.
You're a big tough guy. I figured that would have just like.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but sometimes, like, okay, so sometimes she takes a while. And so I'm like holding her up for like a long time.

Speaker 1 And my arm is like, okay, yeah, you're you're, you know you've been flexing with support and good back and neck support add more leaning into it like

Speaker 1 getting it like a real lazy position where you put your stomach we got we got pillows and cushions and stuff all you know set up so that like the the the feeding area is uh you know comfortable because yeah at first you're like yeah sure this is this is no problem but then after a while especially you know the sleepy late night feeds where babies kind of like

Speaker 1 taking extra time with it means that arm is getting extra sore. So,

Speaker 1 um,

Speaker 1 she's, she's flexing now. She's holding her head up on tummy time and like

Speaker 1 doing this. Oh, that's a good one.
And doing the whole, like, barrel roll, you know,

Speaker 1 and it's like...

Speaker 1 A minute ago, you were dying trying to pick your forehead off the surface. And now you're like holding it up, doing full-all

Speaker 1 rolls no it's it's crazy i remember i remember like one of the scariest moments i had as a new dad was when little man was like tiny little baby like your tiny baby is and he rolled over and i'm like yeah but then he like went bonk

Speaker 1 because he rolled his head was up and then he rolled over in such a way that his head bonked i'm like oh no oh no you gotta be a doctor and then he was fine he's like it's not a big deal babies babies are soft they're fine it's so funny though like because you could just like you could just see how instinct works and it's so unfair because there's some shit that like we as human beings cannot stop the programming.

Speaker 1 And one of them is when you put a baby's head to your body or to a surface that's kind of like skin, they just start looking for milk and they can't help it. And it's like, even if

Speaker 1 even if she's not hungry, even if she's not interested, even if it's like dead asleep, there's just this like instinctual like,

Speaker 1 food?

Speaker 1 They're rooting and it's like it's not it's not what she wants when she's trying to go to sleep and as dad as dad you have to be like you have to be careful because i spent like an enormous amount of time with my shirt off when my dude was like what under one years old and this led to

Speaker 1 mishap confusions this meant this this led to yeah confusions yeah which i like the important thing is to not scream like a little baby and go ah

Speaker 1 just like, just know, okay, no, that's not, no, you, it's, it's a friendly fire here. Yeah, I've just

Speaker 1 no, I've been doing the, the, the pry, the rotate, so that's like, no, no, no, like your head is facing outward now. Stop that.
You know, just fight that instinct.

Speaker 1 It's, it's, it's, it's deeply, deeply embedded in there. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Um.

Speaker 1 Oh, my little dude had a new milestone today, which is great. So almost every time Paige takes a shower, she drops something in in the shower, like a shampoo bottle or something.

Speaker 1 And it always makes like, you know, when you drop something in the shower, it's like a million times louder than any noise that's ever been in your house. Yep.

Speaker 1 So we heard that, and he looks up where the shower is. He goes, Are you okay, mommy?

Speaker 1 And I'm like, oh, that's so sweet. And when she got out of the shower, I was like, is mommy okay? Did mommy fall down?

Speaker 1 She's like, no, it's fine. It's fine.
I'm like, oh,

Speaker 1 that's so pro-social.

Speaker 1 Oh, this is good stuff. So when it comes to loud noises,

Speaker 1 Punch Bomb is, but Punch Bomb is just jumpy. She's just a jumpy person in general.
Oh, like me. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Jumpy as hell. It's like, I'm like, everything is sneaking up on you no matter how slow it approaches and no matter how far in advance it telegraphs that it's coming.
It's just that, you know,

Speaker 1 I am approaching from down the road and then I get there.

Speaker 1 Right. So if I'm in the shower, Paige and I have been trying this over like a decade plus.
There's no way to interact with me in the shower without scaring me. Yeah.
There's no way. Exactly.

Speaker 1 If you call my phone or text me or knock on the door or, hey, like, nope, I'm jumping right into the ceiling.

Speaker 1 So, um,

Speaker 1 ah, Windows noises. Ignore that.
Anyway. Don't worry.
I didn't hear that at all. Not even me.
Um, so baby has inherited mom's jumpiness and is

Speaker 1 definitely just, it's weird because there are times where, because we've been pretty loud and out, you know with noises and stuff that she's been able to sleep through but um

Speaker 1 there's been just things that startle her like sneezes 100 of the time are gonna get a startle just

Speaker 1 what was that what's going on a cough things like that um

Speaker 1 and but like sometimes it's as random as like a stair creaking

Speaker 1 you know just like anything and and then like and if i kind of lead in with a sneeze if i go that's you it's fine but the the sudden plosive one is is just a little,

Speaker 1 and I'm just noticing things that are like, she's kind of a jumpy, she's kind of a bit jumpy, you know? And I'm like, that's all mom.

Speaker 1 Time. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, I thought you were going to say that. She's got to loud up your house also.
Okay. I don't have to get out the chainsaw and hockey mask and just start like desensitizing.

Speaker 1 So like Paige and I just drop shit just constantly.

Speaker 1 Just all the time. We're clumsy.
So like at a certain point, he just like, oh no, it fell down. You know, like no startle, just like, oh no, it fell down.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It's, it's just, it's just, it's funny, too, because it's, it's full-on emoji cartoonish reactions.
So she'll be sitting there in the bouncer, just chilling, and then like

Speaker 1 noise, whatever, fridge, beep, and then red panda, like.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like, both hands go flying up, eyes are open, like, what is happening? Is the world ending?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 so um anyway that's going on that's good stuff man that's like that's like good good chest feeling just like oh baby stuff

Speaker 1 uh okay do you have any guesses do you have any any darts to throw as to the price of steam machines oh absolutely i do are we getting out of here under a thousand dollars canadian this this week is going to be all over the place if we're starting here but that's that's fine.

Speaker 1 I'm good for it. Okay, so Steve, we're doing CAD? Are we doing

Speaker 1 CAD?

Speaker 1 I do not think we are getting out a live under $1,000 Canadian. Okay, I do not think it's happening.
I'm going to just do this USD just for our audience. Sure.
The Xbox Series X

Speaker 1 in CAD.

Speaker 1 Whatever.

Speaker 1 In USD. What is that? In USD.
The Xbox Series S,

Speaker 1 that's the Canadian.

Speaker 1 What is it? 600 bucks. What's the PS5

Speaker 1 right now?

Speaker 1 PS5 is like what?

Speaker 1 $5 something?

Speaker 1 $5 something.

Speaker 1 Okay. So this thing's a full-on PC.

Speaker 1 People are calling it underpowered, but like it is. It is a PC and it has its own operating system.
I am expecting

Speaker 1 $7.99 USD.

Speaker 1 $800.

Speaker 1 $799 USD, which would be,

Speaker 1 what would that be? That'd be $1.4, so that'd be $1.40. $12.

Speaker 1 $800.

Speaker 1 I'm expecting $1,100 CAD.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Call it $12.

Speaker 1 Because it's an entry-level PC more than it's a console.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So the original steam controller msrp was 50 bucks us

Speaker 1 um

Speaker 1 i have haptic touchpads no no no certainly not um

Speaker 1 and again it it felt immensely cheaper than the the the steam deck uh quality parts that were that we get off of this new one um yeah man i think that's that's gonna be that's gonna be a fucking that's gonna be a stretch um i i think it's not a stretch for the people that are going to buy it and obviously that's always the case but you have to remember this isn't the this is in the world that exists in which microsoft has come out and said the next xbox is going to be a premium ultra powerful of course

Speaker 1 and it's like that thing is going to cost twelve hundred dollars the thing is is that it's what what's going to be tricky i think for people is you can pony up the you can kind of get to the point where you're like i will buy this as if i'm replacing my pc right but you're not unfortunately like it is a gaming device it's a gaming machine it's not for you know what i mean like i'm sure you can sideload things but it's it's but it is like a steam deck in the sense that it's primarily a gaming device and like the stuff that like you can i'm browsing i'm sure and everything and all that but i i feel like just like if it would be easier to be like, I'll just get this instead of getting new PC parts or upgrading whatever my laptop that I've had for a minute or whatever the case is.

Speaker 1 But now, because it's kind of like a side-specific thing,

Speaker 1 I think that's going to be a bit harder.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 I've run Windows on Steam Deck

Speaker 1 and the Proton on Steam Deck. And

Speaker 1 the reason running Steam Deck Windows is not super great is because it's a weird piece of kit, right? It's a weird thing.

Speaker 1 This will be able to function

Speaker 1 as a reasonable personal computer for normal tasks, right? But you're right,

Speaker 1 it is a

Speaker 1 primarily gaming device. Yeah, it works here.
And this is the big part. This is the part where the price stuff factors in versus like an Xbox or a PlayStation.

Speaker 1 Anybody who regularly plays games, whether or not they regularly play games on PC or not,

Speaker 1 has a big motherfucking Steam library. Like, everybody has a big Steam library.

Speaker 1 Now, what you consider to be a big Steam library can run the difference between, oh, I don't know, like 50 indie games that I picked up on sale to what you and I's fucking Steam library looks like where I'm crushing it at like 1600 or whatever the fuck, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, it has the largest library of anything that will ever exist.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 it has no monthly or yearly cost for online services,

Speaker 1 which knocks a significant amount of the brain. Like the way PS5 and Nintendo and Xbox have

Speaker 1 presented their consoles with paying for online is like financing a fucking car because you're doing your 50% down payment on your PS5. But if you plan on playing that online for six years,

Speaker 1 you're going to pay a PS5's worth of online fees over the course of that time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, the nice thing about something Steam-related is that unlike consoles with attachment rates and such, here it's all baked in because it's an existing library that you already have. Um,

Speaker 1 I'm, I'm curious for, to see if, like, because I'm, you know, if you can sign, if you can load Windows up on your Steam Deck and you can load it up on your Steam Machine and such,

Speaker 1 is it going to be like, you know,

Speaker 1 is it going to be like quote-unquote conditional like Windows? Or is it going to be like, everything's pretty much straightforward? There's no issues, you know, no driver problems.

Speaker 1 No, like, is it going to be any, are there going to, would there be any issues with getting it to the nitty-gritty when you start installing things and using it regularly beyond anything besides simple, you know, service-level use?

Speaker 1 I mean, there will probably be some issues, but I got to be honest, Wooly, I use Windows 11, and I have fucking issues with that OS ring. Of course,

Speaker 1 of course.

Speaker 1 By default, this is true.

Speaker 1 And more importantly than that,

Speaker 1 in terms of like a dedicated, like PC space or whatever,

Speaker 1 the Xbox...

Speaker 1 All the Xbox PC things that have come out,

Speaker 1 primarily handhelds, have all been just bloated with so much fucking dog shit that they fail to function on core values. Like, I would like to play Halo on the Xbox handheld.

Speaker 1 Oh, hold on, let me uninstall Teams.

Speaker 1 Like, absurdity. Right.

Speaker 1 Ultimately, I think if,

Speaker 1 yeah, I mean, if you know, it like things people aren't going to need like for the most part, your desktop usage is for a lot of people, if it can do what your iPad's doing, then you're more or less fine here.

Speaker 1 What I am curious to see is

Speaker 1 this is a Steam confidence test here, but it's like, is there there actually still appetite for VR?

Speaker 1 Is this really something that the market

Speaker 1 is curious about after all this time?

Speaker 1 So there's a lot going on with the Steam frame, it's called. There is probably some appetite for VR

Speaker 1 that is conditional. And I mean highly,

Speaker 1 highly conditional. And every attempt at VR has taken the shot at removing one of those conditions.
The last condition to remove will be affordability.

Speaker 1 That will be dead last to improve on because VR headsets are super expensive, right?

Speaker 1 But like the number, like, let's roll down the list.

Speaker 1 Wires.

Speaker 1 Wires.

Speaker 1 Space.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Migraine creation.

Speaker 1 Wait.

Speaker 1 Wait,

Speaker 1 free and open store. Like the quest

Speaker 1 and making you do all that Facebook shit killed, not the Quest, the

Speaker 1 Oculus.

Speaker 1 Fuck that thing. Headphones

Speaker 1 external

Speaker 1 or versus needing to plug in separate headphones and then storage as well was a big one because the original VR headsets that needed you to still plug it into the PC or an external place to get your games running was dog shit compared to just having it internal to the thing.

Speaker 1 So the closer we

Speaker 1 sorry, after you, after you. No, no, I was just going to say that, that like, um, I have no doubt in my mind that the, the, the,

Speaker 1 people can,

Speaker 1 the, the hypothetical, perfect, super light goggles that you just pull on over your head that look almost like swimming goggles or like biker goggles that are just like, bam, VR right here, easy.

Speaker 1 Weighs nothing and it fits in your pocket. 10 years away still.
That will sell.

Speaker 1 I have no doubt in my mind that that will sell, you know, with, with tons of storage baked in and it's all right there running on the goggles. That would be

Speaker 1 that's the product that everyone is hoping for or so. But like we still have these steps in the meantime.
And this one seems like it's scratching on, it's checking off more of the boxes.

Speaker 1 Hey, listen, it's wireless right off the fucking bat. That's a, that's one of, I almost tripped and ripped my fucking computer out of the wall fucking playing with a wired VR headset.

Speaker 1 But I have to assume that, you know, they looked at it. They crunched the numbers on these things.
They don't, they don't just release a product like without any data.

Speaker 1 And I'm sure there's a thought here where it's like, okay, if this is not widely adopted by casual audiences or the mass market, but like specialists mainly enthusiasts, and it kind of stays in the same percentage of the pie that the previous VR releases did, then they'd consider that like, okay, that's worth supporting for a little bit and we're okay with holding that slice of pie, you know?

Speaker 1 But I just don't think it's going to become the trend that VR, when it first was popping up, it was kind of coming out as if it were like the brand new third. That's the next big thing.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 there's a lot of things about the Steam frame that

Speaker 1 help

Speaker 1 its adoption. And this is obviously going to be the best, biggest shot at this kind of thing.
First of all, have you ever bought a Steam Deck? And I don't mean like, do you have one?

Speaker 1 I mean, did you go through the process of buying a Steam Deck? No, I met someone on the street.

Speaker 1 It can take a while to buy a bullet. I handed them an envelope.

Speaker 1 It can take a while to buy a Steam Deck.

Speaker 1 And the reason why that is, is because they make a fairly limited amount of them because they want to make sure they don't overproduce and have stocks sitting around.

Speaker 1 I have a sneaking suspicion they will do that with the Steam Machine and the Steam frame, in which they will make a relatively limited amount and not lose a bunch of money on it.

Speaker 1 So that they actually sell all the fucking units that they want to fucking sell. So right off the bat,

Speaker 1 you don't have the worry of like a PlayStation situation where they're like,

Speaker 1 the Horizon Call of the Mountain VR bundle.

Speaker 1 We got a million of them in fucking stores, and they are crowding up so much retail space that they're getting thrown in the garbage.

Speaker 1 Right?

Speaker 1 And on top of that,

Speaker 1 it's a dumb headset in that, like, it is a piece of hardware that attaches to your computer.

Speaker 1 And you can obviously set it up with Steam, but you could also set it up with the Epic store or the Facebook Oculus store or whatever.

Speaker 1 It's no longer walled gardening you into fucking whatever,

Speaker 1 which is like a massive, massive fucking problem with all the other ones. All the other ones want you to live on their store, and it's like,

Speaker 1 there aren't enough fucking VR games for us to be cutting these up into little storefronts, guys.

Speaker 1 Also, I want to use the Steam store almost exclusively. Also, there were some games that were like, or just run this on your phone and get some cardboard and stick it in front of your face.

Speaker 1 And that'll be VR too.

Speaker 1 The other thing is that one of the big things they're pushing with this is that it will also run games locally. Yes.
There will be some VR games that will just run off the headset

Speaker 1 without a computer. Yeah.
Which is very impressive. Well, that's what that's.
So that's what the last Oculus did as well, right? Like, that was

Speaker 1 the

Speaker 1 okay. How many

Speaker 1 I have

Speaker 1 a PSVR and then I got an Oculus 2, I think.

Speaker 1 But yeah, the one that had it internal. And like it couldn't run everything, it wouldn't run everything off the headset, but it could run some things.

Speaker 1 You know, other things that were more powerful, other older games or stuff that just wasn't optimized for the headsets processor, still had to, you still have to plug that into Steam.

Speaker 1 And it also will run it through Steam VR. It's a lot of other ass PC games as if if you are looking at a fake television.

Speaker 1 Right, right, right. Which means for my use case, I will be able to slap that bad boy on and play fucking vampire survivors with no fear of dopamine dysregulation for those around me.

Speaker 1 No, just all of the horror of that going straight to your brain even faster combined with motion.

Speaker 1 In a port in my neck,

Speaker 1 I would do it.

Speaker 1 And so I'm curious because

Speaker 1 the

Speaker 1 whatchamacallit?

Speaker 1 I feel like Half-Life Alex has been a big sort of killer app to use the term. It's the one.
Right.

Speaker 1 For a long time now when it comes to talking about the Steam games or VR games. But

Speaker 1 is there anything

Speaker 1 like

Speaker 1 that?

Speaker 1 It's coming alongside this hardware that is like a, you got to get this to specifically play this thing now.

Speaker 1 Supposedly,

Speaker 1 okay. That's all I have for you.

Speaker 1 I just looking at the announcement, didn't see anything announced as like a like, by the way, even if you're not interested in any of this shit, here's a particular game you must play, and this is the only way to play it.

Speaker 1 Supposedly,

Speaker 1 and this isn't like I

Speaker 1 have more information for you after the end of the podcast. Sure, sure, sure.
I don't know. That's all I got.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Listen, because a nice way to cut past all of the skepticism I'm describing is to just drop a big old heaping plate of FOMO in front of people.

Speaker 1 You know, one of the other things we forgot to mention, and this I didn't, I didn't know this was a thing that they do. Maybe it's not.

Speaker 1 The other thing that makes a massive difference to me with this VR headset is there is no setup process.

Speaker 1 There are no cameras to drill drill into your walls. Oh, there's no

Speaker 1 sync process to the doodads that you hide around. Oh, it doesn't do a box.
It doesn't draw. So the Oculus 2

Speaker 1 simplified a lot of that. Okay, so I'm not sure if you got to try out like the in-between.

Speaker 1 Okay, so because, yeah, like the old PSVR and Oculus 1 stuff is all that bullshit you're describing. Wires and doodads and absolute nonsense.

Speaker 1 And we did a couple of videos back on best best friends with that right when i got the oculus 2 and tried it out um a lot of that was simplified by that point so yeah one headphones built into the thing that

Speaker 1 smooths it out again some stuff runs off the headset some stuff runs off the computer etc um and it would look around the room it would use the cameras around the outside of it to just kind of be like are you sitting or are you standing and if you are sitting draw a box invisible around where you are and then that'll be your limited play area or so.

Speaker 1 And it did the little transparent view so you could kind of see the pass-through or whatever.

Speaker 1 If you don't even have to do that now, it just automatically knows you. You literally put it on is the setup.

Speaker 1 And you can plug in a dongle into your computer.

Speaker 1 But I just, I don't know, but like that's all really cool smoothing over of stuff that like some people might have that made the process more complicated before.

Speaker 1 But in terms of just like, yeah, getting someone to be like, yeah, I'm going to go grab this and get it as a, you know,

Speaker 1 a reason to

Speaker 1 communicate with anybody outside of a game or to, you know, get into all the shit where they're trying to push like metaverse garbage back then as well. Like, I don't know that

Speaker 1 it was like Google Earth while quarantine was up was a really cool thing. It was super cool.
That was really cool.

Speaker 1 It was actually super, super, super cool. It was great.
That was a great time. And that was a time, you know, and that time has passed.

Speaker 1 So what I got to see what the killer app is going to be to get people moving on this, you know? The killer app is probably probably still Half-Life Alex.

Speaker 1 Hmm.

Speaker 1 Not thief. Legacy of Shadow.
And then the killer app after that,

Speaker 1 if I had to shoot a gun to the air and proclaim my

Speaker 1 fucking shot, I would say watch them add like VR support to like Deadlock.

Speaker 1 Something existing.

Speaker 1 Or Dota.

Speaker 1 Just fucking VR Dota. Let's go.
Like fucking vampire survivors just got fucking VR support. Have you seen what that shit looks like? It's a nightmare.
That seems like madness.

Speaker 1 No, you know what it, you know what it looks like?

Speaker 1 It's the background of the stage is like the infinite horizon, and then the vampire survivor's level is at like an incline in front of you, like a board game.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 oh, that seems horrible. That seems crazy.
It kind of looks horrible. I'll say that.
That seems bad.

Speaker 1 That That seems like nightmarish. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 No, but I'm. No one was asking for this.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 I'm talking like we announce officially here

Speaker 1 fucking Grand Theft Auto Vice City VR, where

Speaker 1 you exclusively, you can walk around in

Speaker 1 complete VR first person.

Speaker 1 If they want to really

Speaker 1 just mass adoption, make half-life 3 and point a gun to its head

Speaker 1 force everyone to do that

Speaker 1 um oh my god first person fucking vampire survivors dude um

Speaker 1 this this trailer is a nightmare that is so garish okay

Speaker 1 Why you're not supposed to look at these shit sprites this close

Speaker 1 Incredible. It's horrible.
I think it's great.

Speaker 1 Okay, Look up Vampire Survivors, but it's virtual reality

Speaker 1 to see what we're talking about here.

Speaker 1 Absolute seizure-inducing machine. People are just really pushing the epilepsy warning to the fucking limit on this one.

Speaker 1 Speaking of pushing epilepsy limits to the

Speaker 1 warning to the limit, rather,

Speaker 1 you see the new fucking Devil May Cry 5 Pachinko?

Speaker 1 I have not.

Speaker 1 It's just constant destruction. Dude,

Speaker 1 okay.

Speaker 1 So, following up off of the hot DMC4 Pachinko that brought us amazing trailers of Nero and Virgil doing their shit together and pull the lever and eye-searing

Speaker 1 devil trigger explosions and shit.

Speaker 1 The DMC5 Pachinko trailer is like it's trying to hurt you. I don't know how.
Let me see it.

Speaker 1 Let me

Speaker 1 to see if I can find this.

Speaker 1 I'm not finding the trailer. I'm finding like edits.

Speaker 1 Okay, okay. Let me see.
I think I got it here.

Speaker 1 It's so just.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think this is it.

Speaker 1 So here, bounce around this for a minute. All right, give me a second.

Speaker 1 Let's see what I got. You can look up DMC5 New Pachinko Machine Trailer, Japanese Gambling Machine.
I'm actually going to just put the whole link into

Speaker 1 the live chat. I just did.
I did. I did.
Oh, you did it at all? Yeah.

Speaker 1 And you got all these brand new renders of Nero V, Dante. It looks all cool and shit.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And like.
It's crazy.

Speaker 1 You know, and then just every time something pops off,

Speaker 1 like, never mind the sounds and whatnot. It is, it is, if you ever, again, if you ever walk into a Pachinko parlor, it's the most painful, the most abused your senses have ever been.
And like,

Speaker 1 yeah, this trailer in particular, it's like, it's like, this is not good.

Speaker 1 This is bad.

Speaker 1 Okay, there's, let me see if I can find. This is not good.

Speaker 1 Like, head to.

Speaker 1 I want to say. It's like the visual equivalent of like the old Mortal Kombat cabinets.

Speaker 1 Okay, so go to like two minutes, 19 seconds and just

Speaker 1 let your eyes run.

Speaker 1 You have the specific moment that you're like, yeah, this is

Speaker 1 just go to 220 and just let your eyes run from there, you know? Oh, man.

Speaker 1 Come on. Dante Jack

Speaker 1 inverted flash. Jack.
Holy shit. Dante Jack, jackpot, jack game.
That's too much. Pachinko.

Speaker 1 You can't. That's too too much.
Let's stylish.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 yeah.

Speaker 1 They got to get the juices flowing at the end of the trailer. They got to get the little silver balls in your brain.
They got to get all that noise going and all the addiction.

Speaker 1 If you've managed to resist two minutes in.

Speaker 1 Is that like pachinko machines aren't like trying to addict you? They're trying to lure you away from the other pachinko machine you're addicted to. Yes.

Speaker 1 And if you're, and if you're sitting, like, if you're sitting on the Shinkansen, looking at your phone, watching a trailer for a new Pachinko machine, like you're already, your soul is done.

Speaker 1 You're already cooked. It's too late, you know? But like getting two minutes in and being like, nah, I don't know.
And then they have to crank the volume up and seizure blast you even harder.

Speaker 1 It just reminds me, like, we had these guidelines for Nintendo GitQA that were like, you cannot flash colors this fast between opposites of each other this far across on the color spectrum. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 It literally said you cannot oscillate between two, and it has to be a slow fade, or it needs to be colors that are closer together, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, because they were afraid of the Porygon episode after that happened.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so what happened was that Capcom has those guidelines and then they sent them to the pachinko machine along with the Devil Man Cry license.

Speaker 1 And they said, do everything this guide says not to do. Strobe lights are awesome, actually.

Speaker 1 Here's the secret techniques in order to fry the pachinko brains. Oh, man.

Speaker 1 Anyway.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, and then alongside all that is, again, you can go enjoy unique, high-quality renders of these characters doing things that they didn't do in the game because, fuck you, Capcom can go put the effort out for this, and I guess it's worth it.

Speaker 1 Anyway, Steam shit, though.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Hopefully. I think this is going to do just fine for its intended audience.
I think so. Like, I am definitely going to get one.

Speaker 1 Oh, you know, KZ actually brought up a really, really dead-on use case for this that I had not considered, which is they prefer using a capture card to stream because it's a million times easier.

Speaker 1 And this allows them to capture cards stream literally everything on Steam from like an easy to use box. Hmm.
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 So one use case that I

Speaker 1 like can see for this immediately, and yeah, others are in agreement, this solves a really nice problem, which is tournaments not having standardized hardware for PC games. Yeah.
Right.

Speaker 1 Because as it's become more and more common to run

Speaker 1 fighting game tournaments on PC and like fighting games on PC has become more viable now, the problem is getting the same setup, you know, in a, in a place, in a venue where you have multiple.

Speaker 1 And this makes it way simple to have locked hardware. You know exactly what's in it.
So performance is not a problem, right?

Speaker 1 It makes it really good for just like large block purchases and standardized hardware.

Speaker 1 I love that.

Speaker 1 But yeah, I could see, you know, I could definitely see myself grabbing one of these.

Speaker 1 You know, I'll see like the controller for navigation purposes, yes. I'm actually way more interested in the controller than either of these two devices.

Speaker 1 So it's going to take a lot to move me off of the

Speaker 1 PS5 controller right now. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But for navigation purposes, let's see what's up. You know, it's absolutely not going to move me off a PS5 controller for regular-ass controller games.

Speaker 1 But if I want to play a fucking turn-based mouse game on my fucking ass, then yeah, no, it's definitely going to supersede Couch Mouse. I fucking hate using Couch Mouse.
Couch mouse is horseshit.

Speaker 1 It's a very,

Speaker 1 it's a problem most people do not have. We are in a use, an odd use case.
However, it fucking sucks.

Speaker 1 Some mice I have are better on

Speaker 1 like lap than others are, you know.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the razor works great. No problem there.

Speaker 1 Anyway, so yeah, Steam Hardware, they announced a bunch of this stuff.

Speaker 1 No dates. 2026, early next year.
Yeah, that's not a real date.

Speaker 1 That's like, I mean, when I see the word committal.

Speaker 1 That to me says Q1,

Speaker 1 you know. Yes, probably.
Q126 is

Speaker 1 how you take that.

Speaker 1 And then you got the little nunchucks with the VR headset, which, you know, sure.

Speaker 1 The Oculus ones were fine too. I got used to those.

Speaker 1 I would rather fucking

Speaker 1 I would rather buy this thing over any Xbox ever. I don't care what they offer.

Speaker 1 If only, if only

Speaker 1 so Steam Deck has actually lasted. What's that? But Pat.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you're right. It is an Xbox.

Speaker 1 Hey, you should buy an Xbox. Yeah,

Speaker 1 I'm buying a Steam machine. That's an Xbox, right?

Speaker 1 This, too, is an Xbox.

Speaker 1 Yeah, okay, thank you.

Speaker 1 If only for the emulation support, yeah, sure.

Speaker 1 Um, but like, also, like, dude, you'll be able to run good old games fucking shit on this thing. Let's see how fucking Fight Cade runs on this bitch.

Speaker 1 Like, can I have a console with my Steam controller and I can play Eye of the Beholder 2, please? Because if the answer is yes, then that thing's the best console that's ever been made.

Speaker 1 See, but that's and that's the other thing, too. So, I'm like, okay, I know some emulators got their shit going clean.

Speaker 1 Um, and this, so so much so that they were in legal trouble for advertising advertising them on official steel. A little too much.

Speaker 1 But I don't know that all of those emulators got their shit together. And

Speaker 1 I would hope so.

Speaker 1 It'd be nice.

Speaker 1 In any case, though,

Speaker 1 that aside, how's your week? It's been pretty good.

Speaker 1 I have been digging off-camera into Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 a lot now that the final patch is out. And there's like a couple of bugs to go, but like it's done.
That game is finished.

Speaker 1 Man, that game's incredible. Oh my god, it's my favorite boring game I've ever played.

Speaker 1 This has the best wandering through the countryside vibes ever.

Speaker 1 Every single mechanic is way more in-depth than it needs to be.

Speaker 1 Like, do I really need a first-person alchemy brewing mini-game where I have to boil things for the right amount of time and grind them and distill them? No. But it's fucking awesome.

Speaker 1 Only, only note, it's not a complaint, but it is a note.

Speaker 1 I have been massively thrown off by that game's experience curve. So, Kingdom Come Deliverance 1, you started out as a level 1 dirt peasant, a dirt farming shit peasant who can't read.

Speaker 1 And it took you like,

Speaker 1 I want to say, like, almost nearly the entirety of the game to get up to like level

Speaker 1 15 out of 20, 16 out of 20. And skills would go from 1 to 20, right?

Speaker 1 Skills in KCD 2 go from like, they go from, you start at 5 and then go to 30.

Speaker 1 I,

Speaker 1 my, the lessons I learned from playing KCD 1 have paid off too well to KCD2. So in KCD1, you run into a guy who teaches you how to sword fight.
And he's like, this is how you fucking do it.

Speaker 1 And I remember you said it was like a ridiculous, it takes, it takes a while and like not everyone can fight and and you're dog shit at it. You're terrible.

Speaker 1 So I ended up going through all the lessons and doing like practice stuff for like two hours. Right.
And then I left it going like,

Speaker 1 okay, I could beat one bandit, right?

Speaker 1 So I ended up finding a

Speaker 1 archery range in KCD2.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, oh, my archery is shit. It's like level six.
It's fucking terrible. It's just above the baseline.

Speaker 1 So, you know, I'll spend some money and I'll spend like an hour doing, doing archery here and practicing and trying to win the archery thing.

Speaker 1 I'm at like level 18 now on archery. Like, I would have been level like

Speaker 1 eight

Speaker 1 in KCD one. Like, the experience curve is like three times as fast.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Um,

Speaker 1 like, it's is they

Speaker 1 really wanted you to just like dip your toe into all the different activities and be able to complete it.

Speaker 1 I was going to say, is this, is this like part of like the sequel refining its systems and kind of being like, let's be more of a game about it yeah okay yeah um and as a result like i i'm not even done the first of two maps i've gotten pretty tough

Speaker 1 now now you have spoken with great affection about the dirt poor simulator that was the first game and how it is robust and how it tries to deny you the ability to do cool things. That's right.

Speaker 1 So is that now

Speaker 1 here?

Speaker 1 Is the ability to do cool things as welcome? Oh, absolutely. But the other thing is that, like, you spent an entire 100-hour plus RPG being a dirt peasant.

Speaker 1 And then they Metroid you to like kick you down to a notch, but they don't kick you all the way down. And it's like,

Speaker 1 you start the game with like literally no money and no clothes.

Speaker 1 And they just say, fucking figure it out. So the

Speaker 1 homeless, vagrant, shitface, idiot simulator is still like the first couple of hours of the game.

Speaker 1 But then they're like, okay, you want to go horseback riding and fucking fight bandits and craft things and be able to use your speech checks correctly and whatnot. You're not a murder hobo.

Speaker 1 You're just a hobo. Oh, no, I'm still a murder hobo.
Absolutely. But you got to earn the title of murder.
Listen, Wooly,

Speaker 1 in 15th century Bohemia, if I'm at the side of the road and there's nobody around, nobody is ever going to see me kill this guy.

Speaker 1 Sure, they're there's no law in the old times when no one is looking at you.

Speaker 1 But the question is: Is the person you're robbing, do they have as equal a shot of stabbing you and winning the fight versus you fighting them, right? Not anymore, they don't.

Speaker 1 Okay, and you said this took place like seconds after the first game, right? On the just right over there,

Speaker 1 they walk into the second game, I believe you described it. It might as well be like you could do a camera cut from the final cutscene of the first game to the first cutscene of this one.

Speaker 1 Like it might as well be the same scene, just cut between the two things.

Speaker 1 But then you suffer a catastrophic injury, which gives you the excuse of like, oh, no, you lost all your stats.

Speaker 1 And then Henry even has a dialogue when you run into like a sword trainer and he's like, yo, I knew

Speaker 1 I knew I used to know how to fight, but ever since I took a really bad fall, I'm kind of lacking confidence.

Speaker 1 Which is the animation of Samus falling over and everything falling out of her?

Speaker 1 Or was that

Speaker 1 an animation or was that just an old channel joke?

Speaker 1 I forget if it was actually from something we watched or if we were just making that gag, but like Samus just trips over a fucking rock and goes,

Speaker 1 and all of her powers go

Speaker 1 all over the ground. It's a new grounds joke or something? Okay.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. Something like that.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's fucking. I always think of that, you know.
I'm having a great time playing what I believe to be essentially be the Elder Scrolls Oblivion 3

Speaker 1 in KCD 2. Yeah, no.
The first game felt like a sequel to Oblivion, and then the second game feels like a second sequel to Oblivion.

Speaker 1 It's excellent. It is top to bottom, excellent.
Now that it is done,

Speaker 1 and almost all of the bugs are quashed and the game runs really well and it is just ready ready to to play ad nauseum in the future

Speaker 1 unlike my recent experiences with games getting patched i don't know if you even saw the one that happened this week woolly

Speaker 1 did you see that one

Speaker 1 So the last one I heard about was Hades 2?

Speaker 1 No, the last one you heard about was Tormented Souls 2, where they patched a soft lock into the game at the exact moment that I was playing it.

Speaker 1 So what? But I sent you the QA notes last.

Speaker 1 Right, right. Okay, so

Speaker 1 what now?

Speaker 1 Silent Hill F. Oh,

Speaker 1 yes, yes. To include a skip button for the game's endgame combat gauntlet, which is the worst part of the whole game.
Casual difficulty and a skip. Yeah, yeah, I saw that.

Speaker 1 Which now calls into question that whole thing about like it's supposed to be exhausting, you know?

Speaker 1 Here's the best part, and most people are never going to know this. There is a few lines of unique dialogue in that gauntlet per playthrough.
That now no one is ever going to see.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 they took to heart the complaints that this part of the game is such a dead end miserable slog

Speaker 1 that they would rather offer, yeah, fuck it, just skip it and miss out on a couple unique lines of dialogue and story things.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 this is funny because from the outside, I'm like, if somebody has a point in making some, if someone wants to make something annoying on purpose, I'm okay with that, but you better nail the landing.

Speaker 1 You know, you better stick it. That's the like if you decide to make a part of your game deliberately annoying, not fun, not challenging, just like a pain in the ass,

Speaker 1 I feel like if you have a point to make, you better fucking make it.

Speaker 1 There's also a couple of areas in the game that like locked you into like combat arenas that they have also like opened up so that you can actually just run past enemies.

Speaker 1 And it's like

Speaker 1 these are like complaints number one and two of that game.

Speaker 1 Like,

Speaker 1 crazy. Absolutely nuts.
I am ready to, I am, I am now ready to crash out. Okay.
Like, this has been like every single month I have been like,

Speaker 1 I have been like fucked on by God with this nonsense in a way that is like becoming like legitimately unbelievable.

Speaker 1 The Hades one makes me super mad. Like, super mad.
I've seen clips of some of the stuff that I missed.

Speaker 1 Oh, man. Yeah, they should have just delayed that fucking game.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 there's no real safe way to solve this problem because the patches are always around the corner.

Speaker 1 I guess if you start playing immediately after a patch drops, that's the safest you'll be from another patch coming along and ruining things.

Speaker 1 but we live in this incredibly stupid reality in which okay there is a new game coming out okay

Speaker 1 there's a new game coming out it is highly anticipated i'm really excited do i

Speaker 1 quash my desire to play it quickly and wait until it's cleaned up and patched and has new features and is the best version of the game I'm gonna be it's gonna be

Speaker 1 or

Speaker 1 do i play it as fast as possible so that i beat it and cement my joy with it before scandals about the dev team come out and i feel bad for buying it in the first place

Speaker 1 before the ai articles start dropping yeah right like

Speaker 1 this is a the true the true conundrum and now the true test begins yeah uh that is do i like like let me like do i buy the new asset let's assume ubisoft isn't like the evilest company ever do i buy the new assassin's creed on launch when it's easily the most fucked up version of the game or do i wait until later in this podcast where the news breaks that the saudis have bought ubisoft well they did just announce that they are uh not releasing their quarterly numbers and that all trading is halted yeah bought by somebody but so we're you know let's see what's the mystery.

Speaker 1 What's going to happen?

Speaker 1 Which do I do?

Speaker 1 You know, and I guess it just depends on, like, it depends on how, on the specific thing, you know,

Speaker 1 how, my, my metric would be: how easy would it be if you got fucked over by a patch later, how easy would it be to catch up on the missed content that you're missing on, for example, if it's a story-related thing?

Speaker 1 For Hades 2, I have to beat 16 runs. Yeah.
So 18 runs. Sorry, 14 runs.

Speaker 1 So basically, how much can YouTube solve the problem that the patch brings? Right? Because it's just a shit reality we live in.

Speaker 1 But if YouTube can solve a part of this problem, then I guess we just got to accept that. Right.

Speaker 1 There's a, you know,

Speaker 1 we

Speaker 1 beat Cyberpunk and,

Speaker 1 you know, put that out there.

Speaker 1 And then going back to see some of the extra endings, going back to see some of the extra choices and missions or whatever, just pulled up some YouTube missions and dialogue and got those choices and saw it and went, okay, cool.

Speaker 1 I got it. Yeah.
And this is, this is the world we live in now. So I think I'm insane.
I never, ever, ever, ever do that.

Speaker 1 You don't pull up, you don't ever do that. Yeah.
Because that's not the ending that I got. No, but I, when the world is interesting to me, I, I like getting multiple angles of it.

Speaker 1 You know, I like, I like, I like seeing the full scope

Speaker 1 to a degree.

Speaker 1 It's not always there for me. It depends on whether I give a fuck, right?

Speaker 1 There's stuff that I just didn't care that that much about like i didn't go hard into um i think like there's like aldocado specific endings or things but anyway but like um

Speaker 1 if i care and there's stuff that i do care about i'm like oh i want to see both sides of this so um for example the dlc um has multiple endings and they're all really interesting yeah you know every single way that um

Speaker 1 uh Phantom Liberty plays out is worth seeing because of not just how drastically different they are from each other but because they're all quality but i if if something is gonna like not deliver that much or not that be that big of a deal of oh on its multiple blendings then yeah who cares um i say yeah i say beat beat the news story to the punch right get in early get in fast um

Speaker 1 close your heart to it allow yourself to enjoy but not care too too much put a put a cap on your on your heart on your your love so like you know a really good example of this is Unizuma 11 just put out a game that was in Devev for many, many, many, many years.

Speaker 1 And I saw it recommended to me on Steam. And I went, wow, that is really crazy looking.
That looks like a super cool soccer RPG. I'll add it to my wish list and I'll buy it on sale.

Speaker 1 Because by the time it's on sale, maybe it'll be the best version. And then like, literally the next day, I'm scrolling past social media where people are showing off like developer

Speaker 1 presentations where they're like, look how easy it was to render the crowd with AI and Inazuma 11. I'm like, oh, cool.
That was my moment.

Speaker 1 That moment when I wish listed it instead of

Speaker 1 that was the moment

Speaker 1 when I could have played it and enjoyed it, but now I am cursed with knowledge. It's a race.

Speaker 1 Yeah, every single time, you know.

Speaker 1 And I mean, yeah, we'll get into a handful handful of shit this week. And

Speaker 1 I'm becoming like, I'm watching people argue about this stuff all fucking day. And it's the discussion we had last week.
It's like, I don't want to ever tell anybody what to do with their dollars.

Speaker 1 That's their decision. I also don't want to tell anybody what to do with their opinions.
That's also their opinion.

Speaker 1 But like, you can't fight the power every day, especially when you don't know you're not fighting the power or not.

Speaker 1 Like, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No.
And, like, I'm pretty sure we're in the AI process right now of their devs who are using Photoshop tools or fill tabs or

Speaker 1 tools that were provided to them by their managers that don't know that it is

Speaker 1 a million percent all the way through to the end.

Speaker 1 But this is the thing, right? And because the and you have to understand, too, it's like asbestos.

Speaker 1 There is so much, like, in terms of like stories and shit relating to this, there's so much of it every week that's just not worth discussing that it's like you have to pick and choose the choice morsels.

Speaker 1 Because who gives a fuck if Call of Duty Black Ops 7 is littered with AAR art swap? Because it is. So, yeah, you pay your 70 bucks and you get your full.

Speaker 1 No one cares about that one because that one's like, that is

Speaker 1 terrible. It's dog shit.
It's dog shit. And you're seeing big old fucking zombie dude and what, I don't know what's going on, whatever nonsense.

Speaker 1 But like, they're putting in Ghibli fucking stolen things,

Speaker 1 banners in the game or what, whatever, okay? Yeah, that's happening, right? That's a constant thing. That's just going to be the stream of news every single week now, right? Hey, guess what?

Speaker 1 They announced a new Horizon MMO straight for mobile that's extensively using AI for its assets and so on. Yeah, okay, cool, whatever.
Apparently so. NC Soft.

Speaker 1 NC Soft is flexing on how hard they're using AI for Horizon Steel Frontier. Like Waifu Doll, character creator, which makes all that curve

Speaker 1 stupid. Okay, but that's not, that's the thing is, like, when we kind of choose the morsels, you have to pick the choice ones, right?

Speaker 1 And so to me, I look past all that to the gem of the week, which is the smallest penis energy I have ever seen. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 The tiniest.

Speaker 1 The tiniest little Jod is the Krafton CEO.

Speaker 1 Who,

Speaker 1 allegedly, according to a pre-trial brief from lawyers for Subnautica 2,

Speaker 1 is that he asked ChatGPT to help him find a way to not pay out the contractual bonuses they were owed because he wanted to avoid the professional embarrassment of being seen as a pushover.

Speaker 1 He's literally asking if he can find a way to not pay the things that he has to pay because

Speaker 1 he's not going to be seen as a tough CEO man. And ChatGPT said, nah, you have to pay them though.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 he failed even there.

Speaker 1 Microscopic penis.

Speaker 1 I follow a corporate lawyer. I've mentioned him in the past where he's like, every time somebody comes to tell me they found a new way to make money, I tell them it's against the law.

Speaker 1 And I recently re-found and refollowed his channel.

Speaker 1 And he says, I'm a lawyer. I'm not worried about AI.
Do you think AI can cite real case law incorrectly to a judge? Nuh-uh. That takes a human being.

Speaker 1 But also, he goes into detail, and this case is a really good example: of like, hey, you know what the best part of talking to your lawyer is?

Speaker 1 It's not that they're a legal expert, is that you're legally protected by any stupid, shady questions you ask them. Yes, exactly.

Speaker 1 You are not protected from your fucking prompt history where you go, hey, is this against the law? Hey, did I already did this? How do I avoid getting caught by the police?

Speaker 1 Can you find a way to fuck over these people and have me not get in trouble for it, please? Like straight up.

Speaker 1 And this is, of course, right after the announcement of the Krafton being an AI first company, which is offering its volume. So it means that this dumbass is an AI first moron.
And

Speaker 1 it's giving employees voluntary resignation options if they want, because anyone whose job is going to get replaced, they're like, yeah, so basically fire yourself.

Speaker 1 Quit before we fire you. You're offering like 36 months of severance.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, listen, if I was working at a company that this fucking lawsuit was happening and the CEO's like, this is a fucking AI, and you offered me a three-year severance package, fucking goodbye.

Speaker 1 Of course. But this is the thing now.
It's like that already, this like the headline of offering voluntary resignation as people get replaced with AI, like that came from a prompt, I'm sure.

Speaker 1 I bet you every single thing this dude does with his day is ask ChatGPT what to do so that he can remain a big tough CEO man that everyone has confidence in and the board won't get mad at.

Speaker 1 We saw a CBS covering AI psychosis.

Speaker 1 They're interviewing a guy down in Ontario who was like, yeah, the AI told me that I had this math equation that was going to solve everything and bring down the structures of power.

Speaker 1 And he says he looks back at all of his old text messages and emails. And he's like, oh, yeah, I was in full ass, full-blown psychosis.
And this is national news

Speaker 1 here in Canada. I always appreciate when somebody could look back on it when they're out of it and just be like, holy shit.
Yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 But CBS, CTV, my mistake. That's stupid.
But

Speaker 1 it truly is just like, I'm like,

Speaker 1 I need to see these stories.

Speaker 1 I need to see the stories of the embarrassed, afraid, tiny PP

Speaker 1 man

Speaker 1 and his chat GPT prompts that this entire class is just like a bunch of vibes-based idiots who just want a robot to do their job for them.

Speaker 1 Like, the irony, of course, the job that is single, that is, like, universally the most easy to automate with the plagiarism machine isn't art or programming. It's decision-making.

Speaker 1 It's the CEO.

Speaker 1 It's the C-suite, right? Because at the very least,

Speaker 1 AI would base its decisions on something

Speaker 1 instead of nothing.

Speaker 1 Instead of nothing. God, if there was forced disclosure across the board on these things and people could just see and know.

Speaker 1 Like, I know it's all inevitable, but it would just be so nice to just kind of have all of this.

Speaker 1 Whatever. It's going to play out the way it plays out regardless.

Speaker 1 We're already rolling down the hill on it.

Speaker 1 But it's just, it's always the same shit.

Speaker 1 It's always the same shit where it's like the most, yeah, the most disposable, the most replaceable people are the ones who stick around, submit their position, and have zero confidence in what's going on and are clearly looking around and panicking.

Speaker 1 Did you know that almost every annoyance and problem you deal with in your entire life is caused by some form of middle manager trying to justify their job?

Speaker 1 Almost every single one of them. Every single one of them.
Oh, man. It's, yeah.

Speaker 1 I love this little panicked, like, fucking Oz

Speaker 1 man pulling the levers behind the scenes in the C-suite. People really terrified.

Speaker 1 His begging diary to the robot.

Speaker 1 Just, oh, like, how do I look? How do I look tough in front of the board today, guys? They might as well have wiretapped his, like, prayers to Mammon.

Speaker 1 Right? Like,

Speaker 1 or his fucking porn hub searches. I mean, it's just

Speaker 1 or ball. It's

Speaker 1 golden bull i keep in my office how do i avoid paying the bonuses

Speaker 1 uh

Speaker 1 yeah um

Speaker 1 and and again and i do appreciate the detail that is like by the way that the prompt told him he has to pay them and we're using this in court now thank you you fucking idiot Yeah, apparently the prompts got deleted according to the brief, and I think that they're definitely not deleted enough.

Speaker 1 It's what I think.

Speaker 1 And the the thing is, too, is you have to imagine that, of course, this fear is not baseless because there probably are a bunch of board members that look at him and are calling him a pushover if he pays out the money that he owes.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 you're going to pay the people the money they're owed? Wow, what a fucking, what a bitch. What a little fucking bitch you are.

Speaker 1 Damn, that's embarrassing, bro. I can't believe you're actually paying people what what you owe them.

Speaker 1 This is like legit. Why did we even promote you?

Speaker 1 Way more embarrassing. But, like, this whole conversation makes me think about, like, I went to a baby shower a year and a half ago.
And then, hey, what do you do? Oh, I play a lot of video games.

Speaker 1 And then mom of a baby there said, oh, my God, my husband's way into video games. You guys should chat.
So, sure enough,

Speaker 1 they pair the dads who play games together and chat. Oh, hey, man, what are you playing? He's like, oh, man, I'm really into World of Warcraft, but I'm playing Hogwarts Legacy right now, too.

Speaker 1 And like, I had the choice to be a massive freak weirdo at a baby shower and decide, I'm not going to take it. I'm going to fight the power.
Or I'm going to go, oh, what class do you play in WoW?

Speaker 1 And have a pleasant conversation

Speaker 1 as all the children play. Like, what, like, what do you want from me? Yeah, yeah.
Hey, that game's got cool black people hair in it. That's dope.
How about that?

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 It's yes. Hey, guess what? The world is not online.
You know?

Speaker 1 Like, what am I supposed to say? You know, the people who developed that game got caught stealing breast milk from

Speaker 1 the other boys on their way to bringing them to a rape room. And he'd be like,

Speaker 1 man,

Speaker 1 I play enhancement shaming.

Speaker 1 Sir, this is a baby shower.

Speaker 1 Like, what the fuck? Like,

Speaker 1 that wouldn't even, like, affect anything other than making it wildly uncomfortable. Yep.

Speaker 1 Rip room, you say. Yep.
So no Bill Cosby photo in it.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 Hufflepuff? I will go home. Paige, page,

Speaker 1 Hufflepuff? Yeah. Yeah.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's. Anyway, whatever.
I, I, um.

Speaker 1 That is that is very much the case. And yeah, no, of course, you know, I'm having the in-law and

Speaker 1 parent discussions about, you know, oh, yeah, AI stuff. And is, is it, are you using it in your business? And is it, what,

Speaker 1 and it's just like, okay, like, you're hearing this, like, I'm talking to this generation that is like, there is a very clear,

Speaker 1 oh, well, this can be useful in these ways, but I don't want everyone to get fired, but it sure is nice that this convenience is already here type of thing.

Speaker 1 And it's like, yeah, that's that's basically how this works: you don't give people a chance to opt in, you just force them into it.

Speaker 1 That's how, yeah, I mean, my Windows figured this out like fucking 20 years ago, you know? Yeah, and yeah, and before you know it, this is just the norm. It's here.

Speaker 1 Google is not actually like Googling for search results, it's act, it's just waiting for the fucking Gemini prompt to summarize whatever question you had, you know.

Speaker 1 In any case, in any case, Woolly, it's the future, it's gonna be everywhere. Why Why are you fucking making a stink? It's the future.

Speaker 1 I hate this doomerist fucking perspective. I hate it.
It's so annoying.

Speaker 1 I don't think I've been told about even a single concept that is totally the future and I can't do anything to stop it that has not failed within like two years.

Speaker 1 3D TVs, man. You're going to have to buy a 3D TV eventually.
You might as well just buy one now when they're brand new and you can enjoy the 3D TVs for many years to come.

Speaker 1 I think,

Speaker 1 so I think I've said this before, but like, I think we're heading for exactly what you're describing, where it's like, it's this big hype-inflated whatever shit, garbage, et cetera.

Speaker 1 But like, it pops and it's the diarrhea is everywhere, but then everyone just starts living in the diarrhea. Yeah.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Like, it's like, yeah, it failed and everyone went broke and lost their jobs and whatever, but we're still here. So we're just going to fucking roll it around hedgehog style.
You know?

Speaker 1 Well, the main thing with the AI stuff is that it's like it costs a lot of money to keep those data centers running. Like, it costs an astronomical amount of money to keep it rolling.

Speaker 1 So, even if it does continue to exist in a form, which it absolutely will,

Speaker 1 it'll be a highly limited form just because of the desire and the actual capacity for it, right? So, like, here's a really good example: have you ever seen the chart of chat GPT use over the year?

Speaker 1 No, do you know when chat GPT use falls dramatically after exams?

Speaker 1 Yeah, summer starts.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 if you have a cost-limited fucking thing because you have limited capacity, you have to increase the price to like, how much do you want to spend to use the plagiarism machine for your essays? That

Speaker 1 universities are doing absolutely everything they can to catch you, including, I saw this, this was crazy. You must screen share

Speaker 1 your

Speaker 1 desktop and have a webcam on you as you write your entire essay yeah yeah yeah yeah

Speaker 1 okay

Speaker 1 some people can get around that but not most

Speaker 1 I did something like that for my driving course. There was a like, we got to see you on the camera, we got to look and make sure.

Speaker 1 And now and you could also get like, if you want to track eyeball fucking data where the person's looking, there's that information too.

Speaker 1 You know, if they wanted to go all the way in on like, where are you looking?

Speaker 1 Because if if your eyes are not on the screen and they're going to like a phone down here, that could be data as well, you know?

Speaker 1 Um,

Speaker 1 in any case, uh, I think that, yeah, this will, it'll pop and then it'll continue to be shit, and then this podcast will just continue to be exhausting and annoying.

Speaker 1 And, and I, all I can hope is that amongst all the stories that are like nonsense every week, there will be one kind of like this one, you know? You know what the next one's going to be?

Speaker 1 It's going to be the fucking Elon brain chip in like three or four years. And we're going to read a fucking news story that's like they got the chimpanzee death rate down to 50%.

Speaker 1 Wow. Think of it.
Soon it'll be the future.

Speaker 1 I.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that chip shit. Anyway.
That's a that's a whole other cat. That putting the hardware into the flesh.

Speaker 1 I think the current death rate is 100%.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 I don't think so.

Speaker 1 But like,

Speaker 1 for all the bionic arm wishing that I have and stuff, it is interesting that it's kind of like, wait, we're not even,

Speaker 1 we're going straight, straight into the fucking brain, are we? Because like, there's a cool...

Speaker 1 There's a cool company that does like designer prosthetics that are getting like better and better.

Speaker 1 And they have like prosthetics for kids that are like, you know, designed after their favorite stuff and everything.

Speaker 1 And recently I saw one where it was like a hand that straight up can detach and still grab, and you can basically rocket punch from a distance and do all that cool shit.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, that's fucking sick as hell. I love that.
That's great.

Speaker 1 We need we need like that. And we need that being

Speaker 1 more of a push, please.

Speaker 1 As opposed to, well, anyway, yeah, as opposed to

Speaker 1 chimp death rate and

Speaker 1 plug your brain into your test line.

Speaker 1 A really fantastic article a while back that was a neuroscientist just crashing out super hard. Like, do you know how the amount it takes like years of red tape to get like chimp subjects? Right.

Speaker 1 And you have to, you have to work within like the most stringent ethical and professional concerns possible. And meanwhile, he turns on the news and he's like, Elon's just jamming chips into

Speaker 1 chimps and chips into chimps. And then they beat their brains in in the enclosure the next day.
And it's like, it's like the most obvious thing of like, wow, they just skipped every step.

Speaker 1 They just skipped every step. And that can be you, too, in just a few short years.

Speaker 1 What if, in order to rob you, someone had to knock you out and tear a piece of machinery out of your brain.

Speaker 1 Instead of you just handing their wallet, what if they had to perform amateur back alley brain surgery to get your digital wallet? Like, all right, yeah,

Speaker 1 like

Speaker 1 we just

Speaker 1 anyway, yeah,

Speaker 1 we, we, a double Zeke, Zeke Hile happened, and we all just pretended it didn't happen, and we're just moving along. Like, it's just like, yeah, no, it's just like, all right, we're just gonna

Speaker 1 just, just, yeah, it's all,

Speaker 1 we don't, no, we don't, just, that's, that was nothing. Moving on.

Speaker 1 Anyway.

Speaker 1 Um,

Speaker 1 I, uh,

Speaker 1 fucking

Speaker 1 planet Earth is weird. Um, that was pressing.
Come back. Hello, wow, wow.
You want to do a sync?

Speaker 1 No, it's fine. Um,

Speaker 1 but I'm so glad that Microsoft's doing 20 to 30 percent of its code with AI. Microsoft, Windows has gotten so much more stable recently

Speaker 1 uh but before

Speaker 1 dock it was there any other weak stuff that uh um that comes to mind uh let's see i played a lot of kcd too i played peak with you and the yapping gang yes peak is great it's pretty simple it's really simple and it's really great

Speaker 1 um

Speaker 1 and yeah it definitely feels as well like

Speaker 1 difficult enough resource-wise that you got to keep at it, you know, and then you got to recognize everything when you see it so that when you're all doing a run, you know exactly what resources to grab.

Speaker 1 You know, you know not to shoot the rescue hook at a complete horizontal angle. And then not aim it in the correct direction for sure.

Speaker 1 And you also know how to split up and come back together and reconverge, etc.

Speaker 1 You know, getting coordinated probably helps with that game.

Speaker 1 But it truly is a wonderful thing to understand that, like, the simple concept of proxy chat and the fun of the goofiness that it causes is enough to make entire games based off of.

Speaker 1 There is an entire genre of games that live and die based on excellent proxy chat. And I'm going to be playing another one this week.
I'm playing Lethal Company Wednesday night with the team yappers.

Speaker 1 Okay, there you go.

Speaker 1 And like, like, like, Wooly,

Speaker 1 me and Reggie were like chit-chatting, and we heard you tutorializing yourself like by climbing a tree to get a coconut. And you were so fucking far away.

Speaker 1 Somebody in the chat said this has, or you read a comment, was like, this has massive dad in the garage as you walk by their house energy.

Speaker 1 Like it's just hilarious.

Speaker 1 Or just built on the idea of like somebody falling off a cliff and then hearing their voice go,

Speaker 1 yeah, it just,

Speaker 1 that's it. That's the whole, that's the whole bit.
Or the times that you fall off and you just, oh, and you're swearing or cursing as you, oh,

Speaker 1 but then the ghost doesn't rejoin the group, so then they come back later

Speaker 1 where you're like, wait, what? Like that. Yeah, it's a really fun concept.
Good bit.

Speaker 1 I think way more games should have proximity chat. I remember the first game that I ever played that had proxy chat was Halo 3.

Speaker 1 And let me tell you, Halo 3's proxy chat,

Speaker 1 let me use my words really carefully, Offered up a,

Speaker 1 as of the time,

Speaker 1 genuine new experience from the Halo community.

Speaker 1 Because being able to hear your teammates or the other team within proximity definitely created a wide variety of highly unique experiences.

Speaker 1 The very concept of chat in first-person shooters changed video games forever.

Speaker 1 For the worse. And this is my question.
Much worse.

Speaker 1 This is my question, right? Considering that we now know that, like, people are very clear that they're like, no, I buy this game to be toxic after I get off of work.

Speaker 1 Like, that's the whole point is I want to yell at eight-year-olds.

Speaker 1 That's all I'm trying to do in life right now, right?

Speaker 1 Like,

Speaker 1 if this feature from day one just never became a thing, just never existed in all of these FPSs, they just continued being silent video games, and then we eventually got a ping system of some kind, and it just wasn't there.

Speaker 1 Like,

Speaker 1 so

Speaker 1 I see this as like the, the, the genre would not have exploded as pop as big as it would have. It would have been big, but not as big.
It would have been like a net negative on the, like, uh,

Speaker 1 capital, you know, on the money that it would have gained. But would we be living in the flying car future? We would.
We would. We would.
Would we not be on the speed line? There's a laser line.

Speaker 1 There's a straight line from like voice chat and Unreal Tournament to the

Speaker 1 shit that we live in today.

Speaker 1 Straight up. Fucking multi-layered floating skyscraper world, you know?

Speaker 1 Do you have any deadlock news today, by the way?

Speaker 1 No. Okay, so deadlock, because we're talking about toxic players, deadlock had

Speaker 1 a never-beforeseen result over the past couple of days, where there is a player who is so toxic

Speaker 1 and had so many reports that when they queued

Speaker 1 the fucking integer ran over and it crashed the entire game's back end

Speaker 1 because the system was never designed for what happens if somebody has so many reports on their account that the integer rolls over.

Speaker 1 One player, one person was so toxic, he killed Deadlock for a day.

Speaker 1 He broke the system. That's kind of amazing.
That's that's kind of legendary, actually. Yeah,

Speaker 1 just glowing purple. Wow.

Speaker 1 A one-man DDoS. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 So is it just that like reports

Speaker 1 add something? What's supposed to happen is as you get reported, your priority goes down. And if you get enough reports, you get banned either temporarily or forever.

Speaker 1 But for whatever reason, that part didn't work. So the reports just kept stacking up and up and up and up and up and up and up.

Speaker 1 Fucking stink meter has logged in. Yeah, that's pretty good.

Speaker 1 Anyway, okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so I mean, yeah, for me, week was just pretty much playing peak. That was it as well.
So not much there.

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Speaker 1 quick break or are you good yeah let's do a quick break i'll feed this dog all right let's do it hey hold on let's get the video are you hungry

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Speaker 1 What is

Speaker 1 Operation Infinite?

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 to those of you who aren't aware, if you watch my stream every night, somebody brought up Halo and I started complaining about it. And I started complaining about it so much

Speaker 1 that I sent Willie a text message live and I said, Put the Halo Infinite bullshit on the docket. And I guess you said, Okay.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 There's the final DLC has been announced for Halo Infinite, and it's called Operation Infinite. That's right.
Halo Infinite, the game that will last forever,

Speaker 1 is now done.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 I mean, like, that is literally always a lie, right? There is no such thing as an infinite platform.

Speaker 1 There is no

Speaker 1 money-making business will ever do that ever and actually mean it.

Speaker 1 And if they did, when they made it, the person who said that got fired and replaced with somebody who says, fuck that, put an end date on it. Disney Infinity

Speaker 1 ended.

Speaker 1 Things that are called it.

Speaker 1 Okay, there's two parts to this. One of which, things that are called infinite

Speaker 1 should have to live forever.

Speaker 1 It's the rule. And two,

Speaker 1 and two, the other thing is that

Speaker 1 I just wanted an excuse

Speaker 1 to bring up the fact that this is the biggest ball drop I have ever seen from a multiplayer game in my life.

Speaker 1 This is the biggest layup that they decided to just stomp into the dirt and then poke the ball with a knife and deflate it. If you remember,

Speaker 1 if you remember, this game launched and we did it. We covered an article where they're like, we don't know if we can add Team Deathmatch because of the back-end way that we built the servers.

Speaker 1 It might take six months to a year to add Team Deathmatch.

Speaker 1 So, based on this and other titles, then I guess the word infinite means about four years?

Speaker 1 It means about four years.

Speaker 1 About four years. Yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 That's a lifetime, really.

Speaker 1 The other thing is a detail I don't know if we ever brought up, but all the Battle Pass rewards that they had, they were all this weird gray, and it turns out because they were all untextured. Wow.

Speaker 1 All the little doodads you would add onto your Spartan were all just untextured gray box items.

Speaker 1 Well, they are committed to supporting Halo Infinite on the road ahead,

Speaker 1 says the article,

Speaker 1 even though Off Parish Infinite is the last major content update currently planned.

Speaker 1 Is this I

Speaker 1 like

Speaker 1 I

Speaker 1 just shat on the number watchers out there, but I am curious.

Speaker 1 The number watchers?

Speaker 1 The concurrent player list people, right?

Speaker 1 But like,

Speaker 1 I

Speaker 1 like you bringing this up. Hey, you know what's a really big number, Woolly? You know what's the biggest number ever?

Speaker 1 Infinity!

Speaker 1 Mugen.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm just, you bringing this up was a moment of me going, this exists and has content coming out and is still a thing, you know? So

Speaker 1 I, it's used to me.

Speaker 1 I mean.

Speaker 1 So, okay, it was just, you just, you were looking for a,

Speaker 1 I just wanted to. You just wanted a little dunk.
A little dunk. dunk.
Okay, okay. That's fine.
I mean, if you'd like a layup, I can ask you about the

Speaker 1 Equilibrium Destiny 2

Speaker 1 DLC.

Speaker 1 I don't know what that is.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. Well, there's something coming to Destiny 2 called Equilibrium.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 you can take a look over here. No, not that.

Speaker 1 Let's see. Oh, that's just the pachinko thing again.

Speaker 1 This thing,

Speaker 1 let's see here.

Speaker 1 We've got a trailer here called,

Speaker 1 yeah, Destiny to

Speaker 1 Dungeon Trailer Equilibrium. Sure.

Speaker 1 Now, without sound, it's not going to be as pointed, but

Speaker 1 it appears to start with pod racing. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then it goes into Rogue One sound effects running on a... Oh, this is the Star Wars shoot, isn't it? Running Running on a Star Destroyer.
And then they're going through the Death Star.

Speaker 1 Lightsabers, and then they pull out the lightsabers, and then they do the actual Republic Commando light guns and shit.

Speaker 1 And I'm looking at it, and I'm like,

Speaker 1 like, that, because of the way Destiny characters look, you're also just like, there's Revan.

Speaker 1 And I'm like... Yeah, no, hunters just look like Revan all the time.

Speaker 1 Is this allowed?

Speaker 1 Yeah, it is allowed. And so here's what's happening.
There was a really interesting thread that came up onto the best friend subreddit a little while ago.

Speaker 1 And it was basically like changes that let you know the game is cooked.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 Destiny 2 has started to do those things, one of which is they put like a taken king, like

Speaker 1 cosmetic in the shop that they put on the last day of Destiny 1 is now being sold because it's the single most desired thing ever.

Speaker 1 If you have a Persona 5 collaboration with your game, the game is cooked.

Speaker 1 And supposedly,

Speaker 1 Destiny players have reacted poorly to the Star Wars stuff because it's like wildly out of fucking place and looks like shit and also makes the game feel cooked.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 1 Because it feels super cooked. Because as soon as you see that, that's a sign that it's over.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That looks terrible, man. That doesn't fit at all.

Speaker 1 I just.

Speaker 1 So, like, is this official, but not official? Yeah, it's official. That's.

Speaker 1 That's off their website. That is, that is.

Speaker 1 But I mean, like, is... No, but like, is Star Wars the name attached anywhere here in any way legally?

Speaker 1 No, well, they had they had a collaboration where you could like buy Darth Vader armor and shield. Okay, so they did officially work together.

Speaker 1 Okay, okay. Because once upon a time, I remember when Smash Brothers was like, we can't let the lightsaber noise sound like a lightsaber when Yoshi swings it, so we need to change it.

Speaker 1 Do you have the other Destiny news that happened this week? No.

Speaker 1 So you remember a little while ago we covered that a gentleman sued Bungie saying that they plagiarized

Speaker 1 his independent work about the Red War and the nature of the Red Legion and all these characters that existed in Destiny 2.

Speaker 1 And you're not putting it together until I tell you that, remember how we made fun of them because the discovery went through and they're like, show us the cutscenes in question.

Speaker 1 And Bungie provided YouTube videos from other YouTube channels of the cutscenes in question because they've deleted that con that shit out of the game.

Speaker 1 And the judge told them,

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 No. Show me your own materials that you used and you made.

Speaker 1 Don't use my name is Vife's fucking YouTube video. This is bullshit.
Vaguely, vaguely. Okay, so

Speaker 1 they have settled that case for an unknown amount with that gentleman, despite the fact that everywhere I look, people seem to be in agreement that that is a frivolous nonsense lawsuit because Bungie A doesn't have a legal department anymore,

Speaker 1 B doesn't have any of the proof they would need, and C

Speaker 1 just got caught with a massive plagiarism scandal.

Speaker 1 They have agreed to settle out of court.

Speaker 1 Now, this is assuredly a frivolous ass

Speaker 1 bullshit lawsuit, but they're acting so sketch and burning their own shit in the trash count back so much

Speaker 1 that all they can do is settle.

Speaker 1 So essentially, a settlement is a loss here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 No, so when you're looking at the big steel legal wall in front of you, but then you can peek over at the other game and the fire that's currently going on and see that there's absolutely nothing happening.

Speaker 1 I imagine you can blow and push a little bit and find out that like what you're currently fighting is cardboard because again, what legal team?

Speaker 1 Yeah, they fired all their lawyers.

Speaker 1 Which I think the assumption was that Sony, since Sony owns them, would have had to provide legal counsel or whatever.

Speaker 1 And if that's the case, then I'm sure someone from Sony said, settle this fucking shit and stop.

Speaker 1 Stop. Stop.

Speaker 1 It must be pretty sick to be in the middle of legal nonsense and then just see a second case pop up unrelated to your house. Highly similar to your case, though.

Speaker 1 And just go, Your Honor, fucking

Speaker 1 like, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 that's a good one.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, Bungie's doing great. Bungie's just doing super.

Speaker 1 Good, good, good.

Speaker 1 Aside from all that, people have been asking, what's Yoko Taro up to?

Speaker 1 Getting his games canceled. And Yoko Taro's like, I often get told stuff like, why aren't you making a new sequel to Nier? Yoko Taro isn't doing anything.

Speaker 1 But that's because recently a lot lot of projects I was involved with got discontinued midway through development. I've actually been working on some stuff.

Speaker 1 It's just that it never ended up seeing the light of day. I got paid for it, so personally I have no issues with that.

Speaker 1 But people seem to think that I haven't been doing anything just because none of my work is getting released.

Speaker 1 I love this dude so much.

Speaker 1 I love it. He's so great.

Speaker 1 Like, y'all, I'm getting paid out here, but they keep canceling my shit. What do you want me to do? You know

Speaker 1 fuck bro we need to keep it a buck baby sequel so that we can put more money into concord

Speaker 1 okay

Speaker 1 pay me

Speaker 1 we need to cut money from your new game because we need to pay more lawyers to shut down fans that are running into concord

Speaker 1 The fans are running their own Concorde servers and we have to shut them down. So now we have to spend more money on Concord.

Speaker 1 It's crazy. It's crazy, man.

Speaker 1 Oh, fuck. Now we got to play whack-a-mole with Concorde fan fucking servers.

Speaker 1 Oh, the gift that keeps on giving. That's, yeah, if you're plagued by that shit forever, that's kind of awesome, actually.

Speaker 1 People in dark alleys and secret bunkers try to get a game of Concorde off while the Sony cops are chasing you.

Speaker 1 Damn. I feel like they want people to forget that it existed because it's just this, it's just this big embarrassing black mark, right? Like,

Speaker 1 you can't cut the cord, Sony. You can't cut the cord.

Speaker 1 Playing that shit in the back of a van. Let's go.

Speaker 1 I want to see like a Concorde tier list pop up months from now. I want to know that somewhere out there, they discovered fucking crumpet dashing.
You know what I mean? Like, I want tech.

Speaker 1 I want discoveries happening. And Sony being like, how?

Speaker 1 Why?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 No, you should have done this before.

Speaker 1 What, the week that game was alive?

Speaker 1 Was it two weeks? I can't even remember.

Speaker 1 I want to say it was days. I want to say it was like a matter of, you don't use two weeks.
I think it was a number of days or so in between seven and 14 that's so fucking funny oh man that's brutal um

Speaker 1 okay

Speaker 1 uh beyond that only other things were

Speaker 1 um

Speaker 1 first live-action Zelda shots and the little weird leaked footage from the set, which looked so ridiculously fake leaked. It's crazy.
It really looked fake leaked, but no, that was really...

Speaker 1 Me and Paige watched watched that, and we were watching it, and I was like, I don't know. And my wife just was,

Speaker 1 why,

Speaker 1 why is her hair fucking brown?

Speaker 1 But, but wait, but you, you don't think like shaky cam, but it's still really, really high quality, and then pad over to Zoom or influencer guy going, we're watching them filming the Zelda movie, guys, and it looks like it's promotional material is not actually just fucking promotional material.

Speaker 1 I have become intimately familiar with, for reasons that I will not mention, of the lengths people will go to sneak onto the Fallout set

Speaker 1 and take photos of shit that's going on. Yeah, no, yeah,

Speaker 1 you'd be fucking amazed.

Speaker 1 So, look, the problem with the Zelda movie is that, well, besides the fact that I obviously don't think it needs to happen or so, and I'm not convinced that live action is the right way to do this anyways.

Speaker 1 It doesn't necessarily mean that like everything has to be an illumination project, but when you see the screenshots they put out, you're kind of like, okay, I've seen cosplayers doing this way, way better.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 this is your, you've got your costumes and your set and your locations, but like

Speaker 1 it's, it's just, it's all going to be in script and how this translates, right?

Speaker 1 Because again, the look of a of these characters in costume and stuff, once upon a time, it would have been already like, oh my God, I can't believe we're seeing them.

Speaker 1 But we're past that point. We've seen tons of people doing the most accurate, insane jobs ever with these characters.

Speaker 1 So it just has to be in how good of a thing, how good of a script it is, how compelling it is. Here's a couple of things that they should have done for the Zelda movie, and they didn't do.

Speaker 1 The first of which would be not make a Zelda movie. They failed at that.
Correct, yeah.

Speaker 1 The second of which is they should have cast a pretty lady as Link and just never mentioned it. There's that.

Speaker 1 Link should not be allowed to talk.

Speaker 1 They're going to fail that for sure.

Speaker 1 You know, Cloud and Remake kind of tells me that you can take you can take a silent pro tag and make that link should only be able to communicate

Speaker 1 that's it you can you can you can kind of extrapolate a bit of a character you can you can extrapolate the type of person he is from the faces yeah the type of person that he is is a person that doesn't know how to use human speech um

Speaker 1 but

Speaker 1 but uh uh ultimately and i mean you know from from the looks of the the shot to and whatnot i'm i'm imagining zelda is going to be like proper titular and and you know main focus there.

Speaker 1 Hey, I have a question. Do you think they're going to speak with fucking American accents?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 No, I don't think so.

Speaker 1 But anyway.

Speaker 1 Okay, sorry. I don't mean literal silent protagonist.
I mean protagonist that doesn't have a

Speaker 1 word.

Speaker 1 I mean protagonist that

Speaker 1 is something that a lot of people insert and interpret in their own way and has multiple interpretations over time versus like somebody who's like fucking Kiryu, who you know who Kiryu is.

Speaker 1 He's a distinct personality versus somebody like Cloud who is a person, but there's a lot of self-insert RPG

Speaker 1 filling in going on and a lot of people interpret it. He's given like a dozen different things where he talked.

Speaker 1 He is for sure. Yeah.
And like some of the fear of adapting him into remake was going to be like, how do you bring everybody's memories of their version of cloud?

Speaker 1 How do you, how do you consolidate that into something that works?

Speaker 1 Yeah, and they did. They did it.
They made it work, I think. So that's what I mean.
I don't mean literal silent protagonists. So there have been many different versions of Link.

Speaker 1 There have been two different versions of Link. The one that's in every single game that cannot speak because he hit his head or some shit.

Speaker 1 And the guy from the cartoon from the 80s who goes, Excuse me, me, Princess.

Speaker 1 And is like constantly trying to fondle Zelda. So if they're brave,

Speaker 1 they'll go with one of those. They're not brave.

Speaker 1 They are not brave.

Speaker 1 But yeah,

Speaker 1 I don't know that this,

Speaker 1 besides the fact that, okay, it doesn't need to exist, but it's existing because the jump to films

Speaker 1 can be incredibly lucrative. And obviously it paid off with Mario.
And if you can jump and start making cash in a different medium,

Speaker 1 holy shit, why not, right? And hey, look, Arcane and da-da-da-da, and all these other things are working out.

Speaker 1 We just saw the Galaxy movie trailer, and yeah, they've established Mario. Show more,

Speaker 1 show more cameos. Here comes Daisy.
Shit looks fine. Like, there you go.
You know what to do now, right?

Speaker 1 They've set up Mario to be a like five-movie franchise.

Speaker 1 You know what? Somebody in chat pointed out they could have CDI link.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 acceptable.

Speaker 1 I just, uh yeah, I think with live action, you just run this risk of looking like a really elaborate YouTube cosplay movie, you know?

Speaker 1 Um, and it's yes, you do, it's difficult to overcome that no matter how high quality movie, you know what movie looked like that despite being CG?

Speaker 1 Warcraft.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah,

Speaker 1 Warcraft was like half CG

Speaker 1 and it totally looked like that. It was fucking weird.

Speaker 1 I, uh, it's a bad movie. It's not good.

Speaker 1 I, I, I, I, yeah, I just, like, that, that look of the elaborate fan film, you know, is

Speaker 1 it's, it's so hard to escape for this type of shit. Um,

Speaker 1 we'll see, you know, it could work if it's got a really fucking great script and everything play pans out. But,

Speaker 1 yeah, just looking at those screenshots, I'm kind of like, all right, sure. And of course, like, that shit is like,

Speaker 1 again, Nintendo getting into the fucking film game and being able to be like, okay, let's get every one of these things made and let's get every Smash Brothers original character with their own movie set up and stuff.

Speaker 1 That's a insanely lucrative avenue for them to go down.

Speaker 1 I can't wait for the Zelda movie to get a fan cut that that removes every single line of Link's dialogue.

Speaker 1 And people who go, well, you couldn't do a movie like that, watch that cut and go, damn it, that is better.

Speaker 1 That is better when you remove every single word that Link says.

Speaker 1 So I'm thinking that they have no balls. They play the coward's way for every single aspect, but then you do one Hail Mary, like you cast Danny DeVito as Tingle.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then you just, you let that, you just, you let that carry you meme-wise. You know, you just you put out one shot of him in a super tight tingle outfit,

Speaker 1 bulge and all.

Speaker 1 Is he just Dano DeVitoing?

Speaker 1 He's just Danny. It's just Danny, but he's in a tingle outfit.
And you leave the stains.

Speaker 1 That's a good movie. That's good movie.

Speaker 1 And you just commit to one element of the film like that. And the rest is played super serious, perfect for the fans, etc.
You know?

Speaker 1 Cololempa.

Speaker 1 Colump.

Speaker 1 Yeah. See those Metroid previews?

Speaker 1 Just the extended gameplay look. Yeah,

Speaker 1 where Samus has a fucking sidekick now.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 1 Oh, you didn't see this, dude? Shit, I think I missed that, actually. Oh, yeah, dude.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 I think I saw a meme of it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, for Miles McKenzie, the Federation soldier, joining Samus on part of her adventure. So that when she walks by a save point, he goes, Samus, look behind you.
Are you sure you don't need that?

Speaker 1 And when she solves a puzzle, he tells her, Good job. Oh, god damn it.
This is the joke from years ago.

Speaker 1 From fucking years ago, when I said there's going to be,

Speaker 1 if a Metroid movie ever happened, they'd have to put a little sidekick robot

Speaker 1 that's like either wise cracking or just naive. And Samus is going to have to be all like stern with them because you got to have the stern, tough character play off of somebody.

Speaker 1 You can't have it be just silent and moody the whole time. You know, you need some levity.
So they're going to stick something in there.

Speaker 1 And now they did.

Speaker 1 There's been a back and forth on this. Some folks are, maybe he's just for the tutorial.
Maybe he's just for the tutorial.

Speaker 1 And much like my opinion on Zelda, Zelda, but more extreme, I don't think I should hear a single human voice speaking any recognizable human language in a Metroid game ever.

Speaker 1 Counterpoint. Metroid dread

Speaker 1 speaks fucking Chozo. Counterpoint,

Speaker 1 warning, warning, and danger, danger.

Speaker 1 Well, that's fine. Please escape, you know?

Speaker 1 The last Metroid is in captivity. The galaxy is at peace.
These are all lines that we can absolutely go with.

Speaker 1 That's all good shit.

Speaker 1 However, by the way, before people are already saying, what about Metroid Prime 3? I don't like that game.

Speaker 1 I think 2 is the best one. I think 1 is the best one.
I think you're fine and valid to think that.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to.

Speaker 1 You're so valid to think that.

Speaker 1 There are parts of two that are amazing until they're not and i i you're you are right and you are correct two was on the pathway to being better than one to me until it stopped yeah um but i will say that three was neither of those

Speaker 1 so that's that's how i feel about it um

Speaker 1 but and and as a whole unfortunately um prime you know is beneath the original series it's just it's a different thing i it's cool. But

Speaker 1 yeah, either way, for this, I'm like, I expected a, a dumb fucking Enzo sidekick a long time ago for Samus. So the fact that we held out this long is I'm like, you know what? Fine.
They resisted.

Speaker 1 They resisted. They gave us another two games without it before they eventually did.

Speaker 1 She had, like, Samus has like AI sidekicks that are just like robots talking to her, you know,

Speaker 1 with personalities adapted from people, but

Speaker 1 not quite a little like, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. No, I think.
Where are we going?

Speaker 1 I think we should not let

Speaker 1 remove voice acting from Nintendo games. It's the only game

Speaker 1 series I think, no, let's go back.

Speaker 1 I mean, why limited to Nintendo?

Speaker 1 There's a lot of things that just don't need voice action.

Speaker 1 I tell you what, when my boy starts playing games, I'm going to go into the options and turn most of that shit all the way fucking down. So he has to learn how to read.

Speaker 1 I mean, we were just talking about fucking

Speaker 1 what the shit is it even called? Ark Raiders and all that bullshit. Like, oh, I would just drop some lines.

Speaker 1 Sure,

Speaker 1 and you know what? If you need to, you can just get the full-on

Speaker 1 that always works. I'm still fine with the banjo fucking grunts.
I'll take those today. Zelda can do it.
Zelda pulls it off.

Speaker 1 You're watching dead serious characters have dead serious conversations, and they're going,

Speaker 1 no, I take it back. I'm reversing my stance completely 100%.

Speaker 1 I want every Zelda game to have full labyrinthine metal gear level voice acting, but Link just keeps talking like,

Speaker 1 like he does in the Warriors games. That's my favorite way that Link talks, which is everyone talks to him and he just goes, ah!

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 look, I think Toby Fox solved this problem a long time ago. And I think we don't even need voice acting anymore, really.

Speaker 1 Like, if you're not going to hire people to actually do the fucking thing, especially. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know.

Speaker 1 Anyway, it's fine. Except for the project you're working on, person listening to this project.
That project definitely needs needs you.

Speaker 1 Yes, by all means. And you're doing a good job.

Speaker 1 But, like, I'm also fine with barks, you know? I think barks do a good job of, like I said, like, you're, you know, you see Gaddon and you go and you go, I suppose I coveted that win.

Speaker 1 You read that, but you just hear him go, hmm.

Speaker 1 You know, and you're like, ah, yes, that's the sound that this big, like, Gaddon dude makes. Like, that, that, that, it puts it in your brain.
You can, you can, you can do the rest, you know?

Speaker 1 That's fine.

Speaker 1 Did you know, Woolly, that many people can't do that because they're fucking stupid?

Speaker 1 Hold on, is this your music thing again?

Speaker 1 No, no, I'm just saying, like, did you know that there's like a huge amount of people out there that can barely read and they can't internalize any detail about a character from a bark or text because they're fucking stupid?

Speaker 1 It's true.

Speaker 1 Chat GPT, what should I have for dinner? You should have... Nope, nope, not finishing that sentence.
No, like, I'm just like,

Speaker 1 if anybody has to, if anyone has a hard time imagining what Sans Undertale sounds like,

Speaker 1 what something's wrong with you. Like, you should be able to get everything you need to.

Speaker 1 Like, that's all you need.

Speaker 1 Like, you can turn that single noise into an entire voice. You should be able to.

Speaker 1 I refuse to believe that Sans Undertale was not designed to sound exactly like Moist Critical.

Speaker 1 Patrick Starr?

Speaker 1 Sure.

Speaker 1 All right. Yeah, yeah, talking kind of like it's just, yes, it's all of that.
You should be able to do that. You know?

Speaker 1 And same thing for

Speaker 1 fucking Papyrus and Skeletoring and so on. Like, it just, you should be able to hear the sound, you know, when Toriel makes a little motherly, like,

Speaker 1 you know, you're like, oh, you know what's crazy that sounds like what's absolutely nuts, even though we're like 40, 45 years out,

Speaker 1 everyone's skeleton sounds like skeletor. Yes, because it's the best skeleton that ever did it.

Speaker 1 They nailed it the first time. Super high pitch.

Speaker 1 They nailed it the first time, and there never needs to be another skeleton voice because when you see a teethy scary villain that has bones sticking out it sounds like this

Speaker 1 yeah everyone just immediately goes to the exact that's the voice of skeleton that's is it perfect in one shot nailed it flawlessly the first time you know fucking amazing job key man killed it

Speaker 1 um

Speaker 1 all right can you imagine being the voice actor for skeletor and just being like I have defined what every skeleton will ever sound like for forever of history? And I'm not going to get a dime for it.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, too bad. When Skull Mageddon shows up in Double Dragon Neon, you just do your best Skeletor impression and no one will be mad.

Speaker 1 All right, let's take some emails. Oh, wait.
Before we do, before we do, Wooly,

Speaker 1 I actually missed a segue earlier. What's going on? I just completely missed one.
Like, you know what game should be called Infinite?

Speaker 1 Fucking Guild Wars is coming back again. Get the fuck out of here.
Shut this up. Morning.

Speaker 1 Wait. Guild Wars Reforged was announced, and they're bringing back Guild Wars 1 with controller support.
A new product? Yeah, in two weeks.

Speaker 1 Guild Wars 1 is going to come out with controller support and Steam Deck support. Arena net still exists yes

Speaker 1 my constant constant whining and bitching about why can't i play kuild wars one and two with a controller wow is making some progress

Speaker 1 wow okay

Speaker 1 um

Speaker 1 i am psyched for that shout outs to the the the balls to have a non-monthly subscription model for an MMO.

Speaker 1 Oh, they've got the incredibly ballsy.

Speaker 1 They've got this new monetization system. It's called Buy to Play.

Speaker 1 It's still funny all these years later.

Speaker 1 Definitely the most distinct thing. And then secondly, is all their art.
All that distinct Guild Wars 2 ass,

Speaker 1 shiny-ass characters.

Speaker 1 Like,

Speaker 1 what are the first early examples of like that style of fantasy that I can think of?

Speaker 1 And young take him stuff.

Speaker 1 Oh, you know, somebody just pointed out we didn't talk about the 2xko patch notes at all. Oh, shit.
That is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay. Yes.

Speaker 1 We got a bunch of information about that as well. True.
That patch is out right now.

Speaker 1 Yeah, haven't had a chance to pop on and check, but

Speaker 1 you want the very quick Quillify.

Speaker 1 I did read and I did read the philosophy as well that uh Pat Flip put out and uh there is once again as I for the same reasons that I appreciated everything Rising Thunder did with their patch notes here They're looking at so that one the transparency level is exhaustingly transparent, right?

Speaker 1 So they're going through every single decision and explaining why every single decision when they put out the philosophy of why they're patching and how they're patching and changing shit They want it to be so that anyone who would complain about not getting it will get exhausted halfway through the explanation and go, fine, I trust you, God.

Speaker 1 You know,

Speaker 1 you get through a long paragraph and then it goes, with that being said, let's get into how we look at each of these characters.

Speaker 1 And then with that being said, let's get into how we look at the meta in the ranked system.

Speaker 1 And it just goes until you have too much.

Speaker 1 I saw a Sadium talking about this, and he says, so I'm not familiar with Pat the Flip, but he says it's made by Pat the Flip, so you know it's going to be like 4,000 fucking words.

Speaker 1 Pat the Flip is apparently quite verbose. And after reading that fucking enormous amount of shit, yeah, no, he is a verbose guy.
He talks, he types. Guilty Gear Exerd's strongest warrior.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So the long and short of it is they took TimeWinder out back and shot it in the kneecaps.

Speaker 1 So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, now, okay,

Speaker 1 more so than anything. Like, so yeah, okay, TimeWinder is there, and we'll see how that feels to fight against, right?

Speaker 1 But the, like, how punishable it is has gone up, and it's active, how active it is has been decreased.

Speaker 1 Um, it's still an obnoxious thing that comes out on screen, but the thing that they pointed out that I was like, shit, that's super true is you start moving towards it because you assume it's going to be gone by then and it's not

Speaker 1 and you're like but according to my fighting game brain this move should be done by now there's a feeling for lingering things that it just exceeded and you move into something after you've been staring at it for a second assuming it's gone and it's not so i took something different from that which was um

Speaker 1 very important to me, which is in I love that they explained everything. They're like, basically, this is a paraphrase.

Speaker 1 They have nerfed TimeWinder as hard as they possibly can without breaking Echo's combo rotes fundamentally. Right.

Speaker 1 Like, they pushed it to the absolute minimum strength that would keep the character functioning as is.

Speaker 1 The other thing is, my time, my time, right, his really good forward assist because they're basically this, yeah, because they're like best in class on both assists, on point, and on support is ridiculous, but that is now not just a

Speaker 1 gapless full screen pressure assist. There's a gap in between,

Speaker 1 and yeah, you can't just go one into the other without taking a risk.

Speaker 1 And then, of course,

Speaker 1 the Yasuo stuff, you know, like I appreciate

Speaker 1 one of the big changes they mentioned that is extremely reasonable is when you block his

Speaker 1 air

Speaker 1 H, his air down H, right? The spin.

Speaker 1 Like,

Speaker 1 okay, for anyone who doesn't know, right, Yaso has a move where he jumps in on you, right?

Speaker 1 And then most fighting games, when someone does a jump in, then you assume they're going to land and they land and they can either press another button to hit you, and you can block that normally.

Speaker 1 They can go low, so then you might have to crouch if they try to land and then do a low, or they can go for a throw, for example, right?

Speaker 1 In some cases, the character might have like a double jump or something, in which case you have to stay blocking high.

Speaker 1 So he does this thing where he does the spin after he jumps in at you, and then you have to go, ah, fuck, okay, I guessed correctly, and he spun upwards, and you're like, ha ha, I

Speaker 1 guessed right,

Speaker 1 right? I have called out your shenanigan. Let me now punish you by doing my anti-air move.
And then he's like, bitch, I ain't done.

Speaker 1 And after you blocked his upwards thing, he can then attack again he can come back down on top of you and his attack will beat your anti-air exactly he can either cross you up or just come back down and before you get a chance and it's like but i guessed correctly three times now and i lost like it's insane so the answer is to then do nothing and then he gets to you get to guess tired guess he you guess correctly you block it and then he comes back down and it's still his turn to do more to you and the thing of the the whole scary is he gonna going to go low, high, do nothing, cross me up, et cetera.

Speaker 1 You're just right back to where you were. So you get nothing for being right, and you lose the world for being wrong.
Nonsense. It's complete garbage.

Speaker 1 So they made it so that now when you block his like second jump upward spin slash, you get to punish him. He can't act afterwards.

Speaker 1 It was such an obnoxious thing to be like, oh shit, you guessed right? Okay, guess again. Ah, shit.
You guessed right a second time. Damn, that's pretty good.
Okay, I still win. You know?

Speaker 1 And yeah,

Speaker 1 then, you know, Blitz got some buffs.

Speaker 1 Buff Steam, buff his. Not enough, but hey, there's something.
We'll see. Braum, nothing for now.

Speaker 1 They're just kind of, yeah, they're taking a hammer to the top. And Timo

Speaker 1 is

Speaker 1 escaped with little changes. So I say Ari is the one who truly escaped, and we knew that was coming.
Those things are coming on the next one. And I know what you're thinking.
Oh, man, the next patch?

Speaker 1 We have no idea what that could be. Five weeks.
No, we do. Five weeks.
Yep. Which is pretty soon.
That is unprecedented.

Speaker 1 We're going to be doing five-week balance patches. Five weeks is really soon.
It sure is.

Speaker 1 It sure is.

Speaker 1 If they're going to... If they're going to like

Speaker 1 not, it sounds like they're willing to like soft touch and not kneecap with these.

Speaker 1 So that's a bit more, that's okay, but you don't want to run into like, oh, every month it's a different game. The NRS problem, right? Yes.
NRS was legit, like too much, too sudden, in addition to

Speaker 1 every other problem. But, um, but yeah, that's, that's, that's quite a bit.
And then, of course, um,

Speaker 1 the idea, but there is a good feeling that you're like, hey, um,

Speaker 1 they straight up explained that even no matter how it feels, matchup-wise, the largest discrepancy that they look at is three percentage points above or below. So matchups are

Speaker 1 53% to 47% is the largest discrepancy that they're willing to accept before they look at tweaking something. But they still factor in, listen, does the game feel massively fucked up still?

Speaker 1 Yes, which it absolutely can when, again, I've been blocking for a year. When do I get my turn? You know,

Speaker 1 I think a five-week patch cycle is more than exciting. I think it's super interesting

Speaker 1 because I'm seeing threads on that shitty subreddit about oh, this is over patching. That's why the T-Mode changes aren't here.

Speaker 1 I'm like, the only difference is that the T-Mode changes would come along these ones 10 weeks from now.

Speaker 1 That's it.

Speaker 1 It is better than the other version of this, this, which is patches only drop when new characters come out. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because then you have to deal with a rank state of the fucking game for a really long time.

Speaker 1 And here's the thing, what else, and here's another really important thing too. This is big, because it's 2xki specific.

Speaker 1 The larger your roster is, the longer you can space it. But the smaller your roster, the quicker you need to fix these problems.
Because the exhaustion of the fucking

Speaker 1 Four Heavenly Kings, you feel it brutally on a roster of 9-10 compared to a roster of 20 or 30.

Speaker 1 It also means that there's like a really, really funny set of interactions with paid characters that's going to happen with this.

Speaker 1 January 20th, they're going to release a new character. That character will be purchasable with money, but not credits for three weeks.

Speaker 1 Two weeks after free-to-play players get a hold of them, they're going to get balanced differently.

Speaker 1 This means that the likelihood that new characters come out and are just fucking godlike

Speaker 1 is really high.

Speaker 1 If you want to play the godlike version of the character, you got to get in and get in early.

Speaker 1 So it sounds like the game plan internally is for Marlon Pie to offer up a fucking golden god baby and then Yohosi takes that baby and fucking shoots it

Speaker 1 like that's what it's the game plan is to be like shoot that god baby in the kneecaps and keep it keep its godhood status but immediately just cripple that shit and then see what happens you know it also means that if you have a character like warwick you can probably who's not godlike he's just he's fine you can hope that after you get a hold of him after after a couple of weeks, they will push down the top tiers that are ruining your new character's day.

Speaker 1 So, like, Blitz is a really good example. Blitz's, like, bad projectile destroying ability meant he was a terrible matchup for the best characters in the game.

Speaker 1 Like, it's brutal.

Speaker 1 I'm curious to see, you know, like, like, whether the like, because again, other fighting games have had the, it's expected that when the DLC comes, this will be the meta, you know? Absolutely.

Speaker 1 In fact, like Fakum Ram was like the first one that wasn't that for

Speaker 1 in Tekken's case for a long time, you know? And again, there's a financial incentive to do so, but

Speaker 1 I think

Speaker 1 it's going to be more the identity of the main person cooking the character, right?

Speaker 1 I would prefer faster patches, even with all the problems or possible corruption it could handle i would take that over the era of

Speaker 1 well sagat's just the best character in the game for multiple years

Speaker 1 or here comes yun those days

Speaker 1 those days are gone or whatever you know yes no and you're trying to get this a free game you're trying to get people to keep playing like you you the feel is everything it is everything they have to convince a buddy to jump online like you you can't have

Speaker 1 this small roster feel like you're only fighting the same four. Because for the patch, you're not good enough at 2xKO.
The roster felt like instead of 11, it was four.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And my favorite thing from these patch notes is a term that I really like and want to start using, which is

Speaker 1 victory-oriented players.

Speaker 1 Right? Oh, yeah. If you are a victory-oriented player, I'm a victory-oriented player.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 You're a player that cares about winning. You care, you know, that's what you're focused on.
Then you're automatically going to switch to Timo and someone and one of the guys. Timo Mari is the new.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Whoever didn't get shot, you know, whoever is, whoever's untouched in the ecosystem because we took spiders away. So now

Speaker 1 the second in command comes up. You know, like

Speaker 1 whatever the case is, if you're victory-oriented, then you're just going to to move along with what the meta dictates. And I can say that as much as I'd love to

Speaker 1 pretend, I am not a victory-oriented player.

Speaker 1 I'm a character-oriented player. I think I think I win, and I think they're bad when I lose.

Speaker 1 If I win a lot, then it's a good game and it's really well balanced. And if I lose a lot, then you need to nerf Sagat and Yun and Yasuo.

Speaker 1 I like having fun more

Speaker 1 but how i win can be like dog shit lame or busted awesome so i've described how win like losing akihiko versus um naoto

Speaker 1 to me is almost as fun as hammer loops with crusader in dnf duel and too bad you're in jail go to church son now let me let me let me ask you a question you know what have been let me ask you a question

Speaker 1 you know what would have been more fun than losing akihiko versus nauto winning it winning akihiko versus now to

Speaker 1 yeah

Speaker 1 yeah

Speaker 1 yeah yeah

Speaker 1 no it it is it is it is legitimately like if the the the the thought behind it is ultimately just like am i playing something where at the end of this it feels like i lost or i feel like the fucking game robbed me because if i feel like the game robbed me, fuck this.

Speaker 1 Right? So, like for me, I play Timo and I play Blitzkrank. One got minor nerfs, one got minor buffs.
I came out with like net zero on changes, right?

Speaker 1 And so, if I come out net zero, but I see the Echo Yasmo team get kneecapped, I'm like, good, yes, yes, good. I don't like them.
I don't want to play those characters, so they should be bad, actually.

Speaker 1 Um, the one other circumstance in which I can describe

Speaker 1 losing being fun is when I'm doing a first to 100 with Chairithi,

Speaker 1 and I know that this is

Speaker 1 a wall, but as I watch

Speaker 1 the life bar get a little bit more close, as I see the progress, and it, you know, each time I'm like, I can see a little bit more.

Speaker 1 I can like, it's an exam that just keeps going until eventually you're like, okay,

Speaker 1 we're in there, we got one, it's real now, you know.

Speaker 1 Um,

Speaker 1 those ridiculous sessions that I don't have time for in life anymore, but like those were the fucking grind days of like you, you nothing teaches you faster, you know, throwing you into

Speaker 1 the lion's deck.

Speaker 1 What's going on?

Speaker 1 Uh, who is this?

Speaker 1 Uh,

Speaker 1 the cinematic short director of Marathon, Alberto Mielgo, has a statement to make

Speaker 1 about the way people got mad at Marathon. He says, in regards to whether or not his cinematics used AI,

Speaker 1 I understand you like to stir up controversy. So here you go.
The whistleblower, the truth seeker. This is my account.
So here's how I actually feel. You're wrong and misinformed.
No assets.

Speaker 1 As in, no assets were AI used in the marathon short, right? Like the CG thing, right?

Speaker 1 As far as I know, Bungie accidentally used a texture, mostly typos and fonts, all lost in a wonderfully massive creative pipeline. All this ass, it was genuinely a mistake.

Speaker 1 Blown out of proportion by people like you and the hungry sphincter press.

Speaker 1 We didn't listen to your pseudo-whistle. None of the text or fonts have ever reached our team.
The Bungie team is fantastic, and the work they did before us was fucking outstanding.

Speaker 1 I loved working with them.

Speaker 1 So, this is his explanation: the hungry 73s, AI in the CG short.

Speaker 1 And he goes on to say that all you fucking pussies have fucking blowing us all out of proportion. It was just a couple text files.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 yeah.

Speaker 1 Now,

Speaker 1 were those those words by any chance also stolen from Anti-Real? Those are poorly formatted and badly capitalized, so they definitely look legitimate.

Speaker 1 Okay, okay, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good. I'm not owned.
I'm not owned. I'm not owned.

Speaker 1 Totally not owned.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 I really, every time a piece of...

Speaker 1 Every time a piece of marathon news comes out, they should

Speaker 1 bring a microphone over to Anti-Real, the artist, and go, hey, how do you feel about this? And just

Speaker 1 get the reaction of the actual artist of Marathon and

Speaker 1 see what they feel.

Speaker 1 Bro,

Speaker 1 see what she thinks about it.

Speaker 1 We're in a new world in which everyone's talking constantly, and there's a new type of response, which is, oh, they're definitely guilty. Like, that level of

Speaker 1 naysaying. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, this is,

Speaker 1 oh, he definitely, they definitely used AI.

Speaker 1 This is when you, you know, if you ever catch, if you ever hear like calls where like scammers are on the phone and you catch them in the act and then they get righteously angry at you because your money is mine and I deserve it, how dare you?

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 Or like thieves getting caught and getting super mad at being caught and being called out for it because how dare you, how dare you stop what's rightfully mine like yeah totally that is that is you're seeing the thieves rage right there um the slow transformation into a corncob

Speaker 1 do not redeem do not redeem

Speaker 1 that's what it is hungry sphincter press do not redeem

Speaker 1 i told you not to redeem

Speaker 1 wow

Speaker 1 wow, you have no lawyers. Shut the fuck up.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 I think this is a separate company that worked with Bungie.

Speaker 1 Right? They still should shut the fuck up, though.

Speaker 1 No, no, don't, no, don't, no, don't shut the fuck up. Keep talking.
If somebody accuses you of intellectual theft and you're like, no, I didn't, would your first

Speaker 1 reaction be, those other guys who stole? Not a big deal, though.

Speaker 1 It's not a deal. Whatever.

Speaker 1 I mean, well, okay. We, you, like, they obviously were going to get

Speaker 1 very used to the absolute batchet defense that is, Your Honor, eh?

Speaker 1 You know, just,

Speaker 1 Your Honor, what's the big deal?

Speaker 1 Everybody's doing it. It's everywhere.
It's fine.

Speaker 1 And so on and so forth.

Speaker 1 Oh, that was the A. That was the AI Raiders guy last week.
Arc Raiders. Where he put out an interview.
He's like, you should just assume that every single company

Speaker 1 you're looking at. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And everybody came out to be like, hey, how about you shut the fuck up? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, there absolutely will at some point be a lawsuit from a prompt user artist

Speaker 1 at a game suing another for stealing their prompt.

Speaker 1 Because we've already started seeing...

Speaker 1 We've already started seeing prompt wars, right, as prompters are getting mad at others for like catching on to what their prompts are and stealing some of their words. So, um, you know,

Speaker 1 it just you speedrun right to the most absurd result there of like, oh, yes, you're my methods of stealing. How dare you steal my stealing methods? I'm going to sue you for that.

Speaker 1 I think that's already happening.

Speaker 1 I mean, they're not

Speaker 1 as far as I know legally, but like

Speaker 1 casually,

Speaker 1 it's a fight that's happening because sacred prompts are a thing, and people who have really good ones are like, oh, yeah, we go to that guy.

Speaker 1 That guy's page is really sick because he's got the best prompts. I have a prompt.
You want to hear my prompt?

Speaker 1 Steal this. Go fuck yourself.

Speaker 1 Hungry Sphincter. How about that as a prompt? Oh, so good.

Speaker 1 So good. good.

Speaker 1 What a strong visual word. That's so

Speaker 1 powerful.

Speaker 1 Animated by Gendi Tartakovsky.

Speaker 1 Also, the only piece of news we didn't cover today is really funny because Dad Asena helped us again to make the game awards like a winner's sheet that we're all going to fill out.

Speaker 1 And Expedition 33 was nominated for every fucking category. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 and then the Mega Bonk guy removed his game from consideration from the indie thing because he's like, I've made other games. My game is not a debut, indie.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I nominations. I don't, I'm like, I guess it's news, but,

Speaker 1 you know, I'm waiting for the Sifu as Fighting Game of the Year style

Speaker 1 announcements. How about the Fighting Game category this year?

Speaker 1 2x KO. What about the Fighting Game category is this year? Mortal Kombat.

Speaker 1 Mortal Kombat Collection. Yeah.
Capcom Collection. Capcom Collection.
2xKO. And

Speaker 1 what was the other one? Fucking...

Speaker 1 Just.

Speaker 1 What was the other one? I can't even remember. It doesn't matter.
Like,

Speaker 1 why would they ever pay? There was a reason. There was a reason.
Okay. VF5 Revo.
Fatal Fury? And Fatal Fury. So, like, the only one that's a real game there is Fatal Fury.

Speaker 1 I don't want Fatal Fury to win, but like all of them are re-releases and 2XKO is not out.

Speaker 1 That should not be allowed.

Speaker 1 I'm going to say, as of like, everyone can get on it on the Riot launcher, it's out. I'm going to say that's out.
Well, so what's going to happen is that

Speaker 1 SNK is going to lose to an early access fighting game again

Speaker 1 second or third year in a row. Yes, but we also, as seen by the fact that there's two fucking collections in there that have problems, like they just look at fucking Wikipedia and go, what came out?

Speaker 1 And then they just throw that on the list. Like, it's not real.
It's just, it's nothing.

Speaker 1 You know, so yeah. Anyways, anyways.

Speaker 1 Now let's read an email.

Speaker 1 Wooly, where should you send an email? Castlesuperbeastmail at gmail.com. That's castlesuperbeastmail at gmail.com.

Speaker 1 All right. So let's see here.
We got one from Hank, Dare Pooley, and Watt.

Speaker 1 Recently, I've watched Red Letter Media, and they were talking about how the grabber from the Black Phone movies was a horror icon industry plant that didn't really hate with audiences.

Speaker 1 I have no idea what that is. Let me see real quick.
The grabber.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. That's a.
Oh, that thing's stupid.

Speaker 1 Grabber from the black phone. Okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
All right. That's.
That's an industry plant. That's incredibly lame.
Got it.

Speaker 1 It got me thinking, what video game characters do you think were clearly failed industry plants?

Speaker 1 I think they wanted Aloy to blow the fuck up.

Speaker 1 I think they wanted Aloy to become

Speaker 1 the next Lara Croft. Okay,

Speaker 1 like Aloy.

Speaker 1 Industry plants. Industry plants is a really particular term because

Speaker 1 it has to be a part of, it has to be created by a vehicle with quintuple a behind it right bro somebody i have one

Speaker 1 yeah

Speaker 1 okay for me the ultimate industry plant video game shit is fucking rabids Rabbids the rabbids are not that is pure plant they were never a goofy cute thing that anyone gave a fuck about but they forced it in there they hung out with Mario They kept showing back up Nobody wanted them around.

Speaker 1 Nobody got into it. Nobody thought, hey, look, it's like little fucking cutesy.
They're not fucking serve bots. They're fucking absolute Oobie plants.
Okay, and they

Speaker 1 have one for you again. Now, you can't look at the chat.
That's cheating. Okay.
Okay. I want you to tell me who Aiden Pierce is.

Speaker 1 Aiden Pierce.

Speaker 1 Aiden Pierce. Is that

Speaker 1 the protagonist of prototype 2? No, that's uh that's uh that I don't know the protagonist of prototype 2. You're thinking of Alex Mercer from Prototype 1?

Speaker 1 Oh, no, no, no, no, but I was thinking of the younger cool

Speaker 1 boomer Zoomer one. I'm gonna tell you a hint, okay? Aiden Pierce has an iconic hat.

Speaker 1 Oh, God. Oh, fuck.

Speaker 1 Damn it. This is

Speaker 1 this is ringing a bell.

Speaker 1 We've made fun of this character before.

Speaker 1 Oh, God. Okay, not prototype.

Speaker 1 What's the other?

Speaker 1 Infamous? No. No, that's Cole McGrath.

Speaker 1 Oh, oh, Sleeping Dogs. No, not Sleeping Dogs.
No,

Speaker 1 Watch Dogs. Watch Dogs.
Watch Dogs.

Speaker 1 Aiden Pierce, the hacker man with his icon baseball. Watchdogs and got it.
Yes, got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There we go. There we go.
There we go.

Speaker 1 go push that guy like he was a thing and he was like the fucking most nothing dude that ever existed that's a plant that's a plant that's a plant yep yep yep that's that's a hard they wanted that dude to be someone like i still say rabids because they wanted marketable plushies of that from day one and pre-made them they made rabid toys and had them taking over the booth at the first announcement for rabids ever and were like selling them and pushing them and like force the merch bro that that that like mario and rabbids strategy game is apparently absolutely amazing except for the fact that every time i see half of the playable cast i want to throw up little fucking barbaric

Speaker 1 fucking thing bearded ugly yeah no

Speaker 1 no motion whatsoever and they just forced it

Speaker 1 Industry plant is a very particular feeling, you know, it has to just, it has to be hello, fellow kids, fellow youths.

Speaker 1 It has to be a massive company pushing some shit to make it feel organic and cute and or legit in a way that everybody can see right through it.

Speaker 1 And when the budget for all of its marketing and merch and so on is pre-planned, you know?

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Can we just put Concord on there? I mean, the whole Concord. Did they even try?

Speaker 1 Yeah, they made a game called Concord.

Speaker 1 That whole game is planted.

Speaker 1 You know what that game is?

Speaker 1 A product of toxic positivity? No, that game is the homer.

Speaker 1 Instead of asking customers what you want, you're telling them what they want. That's why we're getting killed by the Japanese.

Speaker 1 The specific quote.

Speaker 1 All All right.

Speaker 1 We got one coming in from Matt. Hey, Lords and Lords of Castle Superbeast.
I got a short one

Speaker 1 open-ended for you fellas here today. What is the most prominent example you have of looking at a game and thinking, gosh, I wish that were something different?

Speaker 1 For me, it's got to be Zenless Zone Zero. That if that were a real video game and not a mobile game or gacha thing, it would easily be the single greatest action game of the last six years.

Speaker 1 That is a really good answer. That's that's so me holy.
If Zedlis were real, that would be unbelievable as a franchise.

Speaker 1 Every game that Sega's put out that has the word shining on it since 1994.

Speaker 1 I'm going to reach into

Speaker 1 a little more obscure, but Megaton Musashi is a fucking, that would have been a cool mecha super robot homage game that if it were not a gacha thing, if it were real, that would have been great.

Speaker 1 The aforementioned Mario and Rabid strategy RPG just being a Mario strategy RPG. RPG.

Speaker 1 Sure.

Speaker 1 Everything to do with Dead Space 3's multiplayer and gun shit. I just wish it was a fucking regular fucking Dead Space game, please.
Persona 5X, sure.

Speaker 1 Both new Desidia games.

Speaker 1 Whatever that near thing was.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, whatever that was. Whatever that near thing was, it would have been great to see more near content in a real thing

Speaker 1 and not a fake thing.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Megaton Musashi, which I played on the channel,

Speaker 1 they tried to rip and they ripped the gacha out, but it's still so filled with tons of currencies and micro.

Speaker 1 adjustments to things and little bits and scraps and pieces that you can't truly enjoy the game like a normal game because you can't ever fully pull the gacha out so yes they tried but it still is a really annoying thing to play because the the ghost of the gacha feeling is still there same thing for mega man cross dive uh where i would have loved to have a cool mega man game with a ton of playable mega man characters and and uh costumes and shit all over the place and yes they pull it out and make it a quote-unquote real game but then you go play it and it's full of all these annoying super limited thing currencies like guys you know what i'm talking about it sucks you know um every dragon age game except for the first one

Speaker 1 um

Speaker 1 okay okay

Speaker 1 every single one

Speaker 1 yeah um if if the word gacha is making you upset because it i'm not specifically referring to getting pulls and and percentage chances of gambling things, then don't listen to the word gacha.

Speaker 1 But if you play a game that has small, like a ton of currencies and exchanging of collectible little micromanaging percentages on things of parts of your character.

Speaker 1 Like, it's just not, it doesn't feel like a normal game would go into that level. It's just an annoying level of like, anyway, it's all still there.

Speaker 1 It's, and it's not fun when it gets into that amount.

Speaker 1 One from the past, Nozgoth.

Speaker 1 Oh, boy. Oh, boy.
Damn, Legacy of Cade. That might be my favorite because that was like literally, give me anything but this,

Speaker 1 including nothing.

Speaker 1 And I got that nothing. You did get nothing.
Damn it. Yeah.
Yeah. You could almost say Legacy of Kate is

Speaker 1 in a healthy state by not getting further tarnished over time.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Nidhogg 2. God damn.
What's that?

Speaker 1 What a fucking shit. Did it ever come out? That franchise was indie game royalty.

Speaker 1 With one release. It was like in one shot.

Speaker 1 Incredible.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you're allowed.
You can do whatever you want. You can do whatever you want, man.
You can do whatever you want. You're going to tell me that that's not AI.

Speaker 1 Oh, boy. Anyways.

Speaker 1 You know what?

Speaker 1 I'll take a very special play out of this out of way off into the distance. I'm going to say Anthem.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 I remember the very first trailer for Anthem. I was sitting there going, wow, that's not real.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 It's just not real at all.

Speaker 1 I would love a cool custom Iron Man simulator. Yes.
I would love a game where I can customize my power suit and do whatever I want. That would be great.

Speaker 1 You notice we've moved away from fake gameplay and gone back to just straight-up CG trailers with no gameplay at all. Oh, sure.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 No, go watch the MMO Horizon thing and watch as she just runs through a fucking CG environment and jumps onto the thing, takes it down, and hitches onto a bird and just goes into it. Yeah, we've just,

Speaker 1 we've gone all the way back around. 100%.
Ruby Soft and EA like went too far with that.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 the obnoxiousness of the camera going whoop

Speaker 1 behind the shoulder. Oh, you know what? We should mention something.
That Horizon Steel Warrior, or whatever the fuck that's called,

Speaker 1 it is now very clear why Sony is so mad at Tencent for making a Horizon ripoff because they already contracted out a

Speaker 1 different Horizon rip-off.

Speaker 1 And C-Soft was working on it already. Yes, we were doing this ourselves.
How dare you?

Speaker 1 And also, that Horizon rip-off. I was watching that with Paige, and she's like, why does it look so much like Monster Hunter? And I'm like, because they're stealing all of the moves.

Speaker 1 Oh, there's a charge slash.

Speaker 1 I saw it. Yeah, I saw the charge blade.
It was there.

Speaker 1 Damn, man.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you got to wonder if, like, just the moment that project got green lit elsewhere in China, they're just like and go

Speaker 1 Also, can I point out how fucking weird the game industry is now that there's a new horizon game that you can play on multiple platforms that are not your PlayStation 5?

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 you can play it on the on your PC and on your phone and on your GabeCube, but you can't play it on your PS5

Speaker 1 built specifically for mobile. Um, bro, I mean, that is a a super exciting phrase to hear.
It's a very exciting phrase to hear. Aren't you excited?

Speaker 1 I mean, look, we just made fun of Master Chief on PlayStation a minute ago.

Speaker 1 I will continue to do that. So Sony, Sony characters not being on Sony is,

Speaker 1 you know, par for the course.

Speaker 1 All right, and let's take one over here from Mia.

Speaker 1 who says, hey guys, Willie, you mentioned the E meme two weeks ago, and and I wanted to give some context.

Speaker 1 You might not get anywhere else, since there were only about a dozen people who knew the original meme.

Speaker 1 TLDR, it was an inside joke from a Discord channel where we would only send E, and 99.9% of everyone who shared it did not know that. So this is titled, I created the original E-meme.

Speaker 1 Any statements like, this is what the future of memes looks like, or it's genius, it's a genius piece of satire, are just retroactive explanations so people can pretend they weren't on the same, they weren't on some 6'7 meaningless bullshit.

Speaker 1 Please note I have no evidence of my claims because I fell out of that group and I didn't have screenshots. It was seven years ago.
But for the historical context,

Speaker 1 the person is describing how

Speaker 1 they were in the Discord that invented the original E-beam. Okay,

Speaker 1 I take issue with this. I will defend Gen Alpha and the Zoomers for for a second.

Speaker 1 You cannot possibly fucking sit there and say that the E-meme has a genesis unlike that mindless shit from the 6-7 with the kids because it was just us all sitting around saying the word E.

Speaker 1 Obviously, that's

Speaker 1 fucking stupid. It's all stupid.

Speaker 1 Means are dumb. I love them.

Speaker 1 And I mean, that's the thing, as I specifically pointed out that, like, 6-7 came from a Philly rapper, Skrilla, in a song, but that got lost instantly. And

Speaker 1 it's just this, you know, and that's all it becomes.

Speaker 1 Kojima was right, and that's all it needs to be. We are a couple years out.
I may be three, four years out.

Speaker 1 You're maybe five, six years out of being able to just attack our children's psyche with their own memes. Sure.
Sure.

Speaker 1 Like,

Speaker 1 now the question

Speaker 1 galron 6'7 and then he just vomits on the fucking ground well the question is is does telling somebody where it like if you tell somebody where 6'7 comes from does that make them more upset do they get mad because they're like shut the fuck up i don't want to know that's not the point no i think they'd be like whatever one man and then they would tick tock dance at you

Speaker 1 i mean

Speaker 1 TikTok.

Speaker 1 You say that like Vine didn't just get reintroduced, you know? I mean, it did, but it's getting reintroduced to partner with an AI company to steal everybody's videos.

Speaker 1 Oh, but it says AI is not allowed on it. Yeah, because they need training data for their partnered AI company to feed into the machine.
Get the fuck out of here. No shot.
Wait, hold on.

Speaker 1 They announced specifically that AI content is not allowed on the platform. Yes, because AI content doesn't make for good training data for AI generation.

Speaker 1 No shot.

Speaker 1 Oh my God.

Speaker 1 Word?

Speaker 1 Wooly, you can't use AI on the platform.

Speaker 1 It's for us to take

Speaker 1 power.

Speaker 1 It's fucked, bro.

Speaker 1 It's all fucked. Oh, my God.
That's one of those bits where I scrolled past it and I saw that bullet point that said no AI allowed. I know what? And you're like, yeah.
I was like, okay, good shit.

Speaker 1 Good shit. Well done.
Moving on, you know? And I was just a little like, all right, you know, hopefully that catches on.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 Wow. It's over.
We can't have nice things. It's fucking done.

Speaker 1 Until the plagiarism robot runs out of investment capital, we cannot have nice things.

Speaker 1 Okay. Until video cards become cheap to buy again, which they will a lot in a couple of years,

Speaker 1 we cannot have nice things. So, in the meantime,

Speaker 1 E,

Speaker 1 yes, E, yes, six, seven

Speaker 1 six seven