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that sucks so bad welcome to the show everybody where jesse and i inadvertently give each other earworms and then hate each other deep in our hearts yikes

last week the episode the podcast this lovely show that we do Was one day early.

And the reason...

This one right here.

Was one day early.

This one right here oh okay

except it would have been on thursday of last week so not necessarily this show i think that's why i was confused yeah as close as we could have got to one yeah we're just trying to help people out yeah but you mean this show though the geek gender show this one right here okay

yeah

last week went to boston

Went to go see the Witcher show, which I explained.

I didn't really need to do because turns out they're doing a national tour here in the U.S.

But I only found that after getting tickets to Boston.

Went to Boston.

And by the way, the show was lovely.

It was the entire time I was thinking, God, I should play Witcher again.

Oh, my God.

It was great.

That's the song that the music is like so intrinsically tied in.

Oh, it was dream, you know?

Whoever the guy who was on the drums was going hard.

Every song was like 89% more percussion than it should have been.

And it was great.

I was like, yeah, let's go.

Anyway, while walking to the venue, which was at Emerson College, which is is very, very cool, there's a park outside.

And that park, it's sort of like the ass end of Boston Common, which, by the way, you and I have been to, and it might be the greatest thing I've ever done.

Shout out to the best clip I'll ever have that once again proves I was an effective teacher.

That is a lovely memory for me as well.

And I wasn't even really involved.

It made me feel good.

But that same area, they have a like a stage setup.

And I guess, I don't know, students or musicians or I don't know who can show up and sing and do concerts, right?

So it's like 7:30.

The concert I'm going to starts at 8.

I'm walking down, and there is a performer doing Rolling in the Deep is playing.

Now,

I loved me some Adele Rolling in the Deep.

Think it's great.

I didn't realize how much of an earworm that song is.

Yeah.

Because no matter what, I'm being blasted with Witcher music.

And when it ended, I was like,

I'm not even lyricing.

I'm like, roll it in the

point where people are like, you got to stop, dude.

You keep doing it.

And every time, every time there'd be a long conversation in my head, it'd be like,

like, I'm just,

I must say, Adele, you got me.

Earworms, when they get in there, they get in there.

I am, even right now, I'm thinking, my lovely,

I just got to stop.

It's a problem for me.

What it is, is I have to listen to the song and then I'm free.

But I also don't want to spend the time to go like, all right, black-eyed peas and

like I just don't care that much.

Yeah, I feel you.

But, you know, I may have to.

I think we've talked about this a little bit before before when we were talking about playlists forever ago, an eternity ago, and we were discussing how we do playlists.

But do you, when there's a song that you enjoy listening to, not a song that's just become an earworm, but when there's a song that you're like, man, I love this song, do you put it on repeat and just listen to it over and over and over again?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

This is the problem with,

I realize that if anyone's around, I can't do this because I feel like a crazy person.

But when I'm obsessed with the song, I will play it until I never want to hear it again.

Yeah.

And that happens often where I'll play it like four days back to, like, sometimes there was one song, I can't remember what it was for life of me,

but I put it on Spotify, repeat one time.

So it's repeat the same song, and I took a shower.

It was the same song, and I'm in there singing along, but like, we'll do it again.

Like, that happens frequently.

Now, I must stress, I need to find the lady who's like, that's normal.

You know what I mean?

Because you can imagine being in another room and hearing some insane person sing the same song.

Oh, you're saying

if you were to commit potentially multiple years of your life with the same person, I'm talking like, yeah, marriage.

Yeah, you need to know that there will be no judgment on the other side.

Zero judgment.

Yes.

Because I think it's weird.

And if you did it i'd be like

that's stupid that's weird why you do i don't think that i'm weird but it's because i already do it although you do it so

yeah

that's the same like i i i need to find someone who would accept that i still think it's weird even though i'm doing it is there a difference if It's with the understanding that the other person probably won't be into the same song at the same time as you and so you put it on repeat, but like with headphones on.

I would never do that.

I would blast it as loud as humanly possible.

That's cat.

And sing at the top of my voice.

That's why you're a cat.

Yeah.

I wouldn't care.

I would, I would say, like, it's my house.

Blasts music, puts on repeat.

Yep.

That's how I do it.

You got to have a good time.

I'll be shaking my hind hands.

Eventually, she'll love this song because it's a banger.

It's a red flag if she doesn't like it, to be honest.

It happens with a frequency that is uh jarring i every once in a while i'll hear a song and i'll be like oh yo this is so honestly i know what it is every song that has an incredible baseline

is a song that i it gets in here yeah and i just want to blast it over and over and over again because something about like a good baseline makes me want to just do shit yeah and so i'm like let's go love it big fan all the time

yeah there's there are two different types of songs i think for me that i get really into and one of them is wow this makes me want to be productive or like this makes me want to like move and like do something yes yeah and and the other one is

i want to just do nothing and enjoy this song over and over and over again

and they're very different vibes of song, I feel like.

I think I'm kind of with you on this in that I have that bass music that makes me like i'm gonna do something i'm gonna clean my apartment i'm gonna like right but then there's the other type of song i like which is the best way i can sum it up is there's two types of music i love okay intense let's go we're doing something music and

it's nighttime the windows are down i'm driving in a car music that's it

I'm fine with like other music and I think it's great and I love music in general and I don't really have a problem with any type of like I'm not gonna be the guy who's like, country sucks.

There are some country songs I love, right?

Like, 100%.

I love all music.

I'm a big fan, but for some reason, my go-to's are-well, that's a lie.

My go-to's are intense, let's go, we got something to do, music, nighttime, windows down, driving through the city, music, and 1990s rap.

Of course,

yeah,

you have to feed the kid that's still in there, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Somewhere deep in here, actually, and and early

2000s rap.

But after a while, it kind of fades off, and I no longer know all the lyrics.

But there is a time

where I could just start rattling off songs.

Yeah, there are specific songs from my childhood that when they come, or like my teen years specifically, that when they come on.

I get pumped by the fact that I know I can do every lyric.

Like

put on some evanescence or a Lincoln Park song.

Like, I'm going to be so excited.

And I probably won't seek that music out on my own anymore.

But if it comes on,

delight.

I was in the car the other day, and Boys to Men came on.

And I was like, Oh my God.

I was doing the whole thing in the car loudly, just like,

I can't, you know, I can't help it.

Big fan of that period.

It's when I was like, you know, that 13-year-old, very like, this is going to stick with you the rest of your life.

This is the music that's in your head.

Yeah.

Were you ever really into Weird Al?

Definitely.

There was a, the last time I was like

into Weird Al, I think the last album I bought was

the Jurassic Park one.

hmm which would have been I don't know what year that was but a while ago the 90s right and then I kind of fell off but every once in a while I'd show back up for like when I did the Star Wars bit or white and nerdy like every once in a while there'd be a song I'd be like he still got it but I never bought an album after that it wasn't like this is my jam you know there are some songs Where if you asked me what the song is actually called or how it actually goes, I can't recall it because I listened to the weird owl version so long for like so many times the the biggest hitter for me is pretty fly for a rabbi it took a very long time for me to remember what the actual song was called or about

i uh yeah i love that it's even chaps people are saying amish paradise

is another great one yeah yeah weird owl's brilliant but with that said, like, there's definitely a time in my life when I was much younger where it was, this is my jam.

And I think the comedy hit me at the right spot because also, for the most part, he was doing songs.

I had no clue what those songs were.

Yeah.

Right?

Like the originals?

Yeah, like 100%.

He was parodying stuff.

I didn't even know what the parody was.

Yes, like, obviously, Michael Jackson, whatever, or Madonna, that's very obvious.

But there are many ones or ones where,

you know, it was uh an original song and it was like polka and whatever it's like for some reason it just hit right and every once my dad would chime in and be like I knew his grandfather or something and he'd be like he used to play polka at a bar like okay

cool sure

but yeah it was like a very specific I don't know what age I would have been when that came out I would say 12

It's very obvious when my musical tastes changed.

It's when I got a CD player because my first CD out the gate was the Nirvana with the naked baby on the cover.

That one.

The first CD I had.

So, like, incredibly different musical tastes than what I had as a younger kid.

And I got that at 13.

So, my very first CD.

Are you ready?

Uh-oh.

My very first CD, my parents got me a Walkman and

a Disc Man, you mean?

A Disc Man.

And they got me the Sailor Moon album.

I blasted that shit over and over and over again, partially because it was my very first CD and I had no other options.

It was great.

I will say this to you.

This is a double story just to show you how much of a giant nerd I am.

While I say my musical taste changed, I vividly remember buying the CD for the video game Shadows of the Empire because it had new Star Wars music, the first new Star Wars music in years.

And two, on this story, when I was

this, I had to have been 16 at least.

I was following my dad in a car.

So he was in front of me in another car, and I was behind him in another car.

Okay.

And I was trying to change out the CD to the Star Wars Shadows of the Empire CD.

And as I was doing it, I wasn't paying attention.

A cop pulled me over.

I got pulled over for Shadows of the Empire.

Was it still playing when you rolled the window down?

Because that would be a good idea.

The embarrassment would have been too much.

The cop rolls up and it's like

just Star Wars music, like, hello, officer.

Had I done something wrong?

Yeah.

I believe you need my license and registration.

I certainly wasn't trying to smuggle anything on the castle run.

He's like, sir, are you high?

I just wanted to let you know your rear brake light is out.

Thank you, officer.

Will you be alerting the Imperial authorities?

Shut up.

Yikes.

He's like, I don't think this person should be able to drive, maybe.

I really slipped through the cracks.

Yep.

With that said, though,

Shadows of the Empire is great and continues to to be great and never will not be great.

So

facts.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think my second CD was Aqua.

So you

can see the sort of

things that shaped me as a person.

Yep.

I will say

there's two CDs that stick with me.

One is I listened to it so much I broke it was the second Real Big Fish album, Why Do They Rock So Hard?

I love that album.

It rocked hard.

And then, and this is true, a girl in high school who had a crush on me, but I didn't register at all, by the way.

Did not, she lent me her snow Informer CD.

Again, Informer, you know what's about

that song?

She lent me that CD

and I forgot to give it back to her.

So in the yearbook at the end, we graduated, she wrote like, you know, enjoy the CD, literally laid it all out and like she had a crush and I was like

why did nobody inform me of this I just thought you were a nice person

that is the thing that happened that happened to me so much I literally you have to spell it out for me I was gonna say that's like a I don't want to say a meme but like people talk about that all the time specifically from like a like a male perspective right the idea of like we sat on the couch and we made out and we went to see a movie but like do you think she likes me though

Oh, no, I don't even have, like, actually, I was about to say I didn't have that, but I did.

In college, there was this girl who would always play with my knee, and I thought she was just being friendly.

Like, she would like start rubbing on my knee, and I'd be like, Look at her, she's so sweet.

Not a clue, dude.

Not a clue.

It's just, I'm oblivious.

Again, you need to spell it out and be like, Yo,

let me see that junk.

And I'll be like, oh, that's what you mean?

Like, yeah, yeah.

It was crazy.

And it wasn't until it always happens too, where it isn't right away, it's years later where someone will say something.

I'll never forget when I was in college, a friend of mine from back home in high school was like, yo, you're aware that this girl liked you, right?

And I was like, what?

First off,

the writer side of me, the comedy writer side of me is so angry with myself because she was my dad's boss's daughter.

That's hilarious.

That would have been an amazing relationship.

That could have been.

Oh, I see.

It could have been.

That's hilarious.

That's like pure sitcom cold.

Missed out on it entirely.

I was like, come on.

You fool.

What a fool.

And then in college, it happened, like after college, people from college would be like, you know,

I had a cross shot you.

I'm like, why did you say nothing?

It's like, well, I gave you signs.

I'm like, you gave me no signs.

There was, I was trying to be respectable and nice.

I thought you were just a dramatic theater kid.

I didn't know that was like, I'm dropping signals

in fairness to you

Theater kids are horny as hell.

They do all kinds of weird shit with each other and are like no, but like that was just like for funsies

Yes, absolutely like yeah, there was band kids too

No joke.

There was a girl like I went over to her dorm because we had to go to class together She comes out of her dorm showers with like a dude And it's like, hold on, I get dressed.

Then later is like, you know, I had a crush on you.

I'm like, first off, whoa, what?

I got no signs from that.

I thought you were dating this guy.

I was being like real respectful.

I'm not going to, I'm not the dude who's like, I'm going to hurt some other guy.

So I get like, that's not who I am.

I thought we were chill.

She's like, no, I was just waiting for you to make a move.

I was like, what do you mean?

What do you, what, what do you,

I can't, I can't, I just can't do it.

I'm not, I will never be the guy who's like, yo, I know you're dating some other guy.

F that guy.

I say we hurt him.

Like, I wouldn't want to do that to anyone.

That's like a dick move.

I'm not that man.

You need the content.

You need the information, right?

Yeah.

Can I tell, I've told this story before, but I don't think on geek enders.

Can I tell a

theater kid sexploitation story that has nothing to do with me?

Baby, you know you can.

Okay, so my favorite musical of all time is called The Mystery of Edwin Drude.

And.

Hold on.

What is that?

The Mystery of Edwin Drude?

Never heard of it.

Oh my gosh.

So it is.

Is it going to be something lame like R-Town?

No.

It is the book that Charles Dickens was writing when he died.

And it was never finished.

And so

somebody at some point was like,

we should turn this into a choose your own adventure musical.

What?

So.

The first half of the play is the book as written, basically, like the general story points, right?

It's about

a character named Drude, who everybody loves, and he dies.

An investigator shows up to try and solve the mystery, and, you know, all of the normal, like, murder mystery archetypes are there.

At the halfway point, all of the people in the audience are given a sheet

and they write down who they think the murderer is, who they think the secret investigator is, who they think the secret lovers are, who they think the bad guy is, right?

Like all, all this stuff.

And then it gets tallied backstage.

And all of the main actors learn like 16 different versions of every song, depending on what the audience has chosen.

So depending on what the audience wants, they will play that out as like, yep.

You got it.

That's who the investigator is.

That's who the, you know, et cetera, et cetera.

It's very fun.

It's super goofy.

I would love to go see Mystery of Edwin Druid with you sometime because it's so, so fun.

What about the

like weird experience?

Like, you and I saw

a

Christmas musical retelling of Die Hard, where the narrator was the cop as a snowman.

I love that kind of stuff.

It's so much fun.

I forgot.

I forgot that we went to that together.

That's so fun.

Yes.

So the first time that I was exposed to the Mystery of Edwin Druid was in college.

We were doing the show, The Mystery of Edwin Druid.

And I was part of the chorus.

I was not one of the main parts.

And then I was also part of props and set design.

So I was helping build stuff that was being used in the show.

And

there's a part.

Where someone, one of the main characters is in like a laudanum-induced fever dream about the woman that he loves.

And we decided, you might be able to see where this is going.

We decided that

because he's supposed to be in his room, he drinks some laudanum and he lays back on the bed and he has this like weird dream, right?

So we were like, oh, the bed should lift up.

So as he's like entering the weird dream,

he'll like rise up like this and the bed will lift.

How very Jesus of him.

So

I

don't even remember how many times we had to fix that bed

because people kept sneaking in and breaking it.

Brother

not only fixed the bed, but also had to figure out what to do with like the sheets and things that were on the bed.

Oh my God, it was a nightmare.

And it didn't.

Theater kids.

Theater kids are a mess.

A mess.

um like uh the the closest thing this is absolutely true and i think every nerd can follow along with this

theater the the messiness of theater kids is the exact same messiness of your dnd campaign group like if you do one where you all get together and you show up at someone's like the amount of stories I know of people falling in love over D and D and like ruining other relationships and stuff is too damn high.

And it's because of that, like, I'm a character, but I'm also a person and I love you.

Yeah.

Crazy.

Yeah.

You let

real life and this like

other life that you're sort of trapped in a bubble for it for long periods of time or so frequently.

You let those two bleed way too much.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I see everyone saying G-T-A-R-P.

Same vibe.

I mean, that's just, that's just role playing.

It's the role playing.

I I mean, I think that's the same thing with, you know, you'll see on sets and movies where a couple that's a couple in a movie suddenly is dating.

Yeah.

And it never really works out, but they're suddenly just in love.

And it's because we were in love on set, you know, you get in the character and then it bleeds over into your real life and suddenly you're like, I love you.

Like, oh, okay.

Cool.

I was going to, a few days ago, I was going to tweet a thing that I knew people were going to take too seriously and be like, Todd or what?

I was going to tweet and be like, guys, what does it mean if he wants to stay all night, stay up all night pretending to be a cop instead of coming to bed?

Because Sam is doing GTARP.

And I knew people were going to be like, Dodger.

The best solution.

For that is for you to become a criminal and have him chase you around the streets.

To join GTARP.

Yeah, and become a criminal and go specifically to where he's at, crash a few cars, and then when he arrests you, be like, can we go to bed now?

The number of times that I get a text that's like, hey, I'm really sorry.

I'm locked into a GTA court case.

And I'm like, go to bed, dude.

What are you talking about?

It's not real.

This is killing me.

What do you mean?

It's real to me.

Someone's got to be a bad person.

I'm stuck in court.

I'm sorry.

I'll go to bed soon.

the the implications of that is like not only

is there judge and prosecutors and defendants and defense attorneys and cops like

the levels of that are too much

yeah

and then what happens if you're convicted you go to gtarp jail and then what yeah you do you go and now you're like i'm in a jail gang i had to get tattoos and swear my allegiance you know you go you go

You go to jail for a certain number of in-game hours

or

real-time hours, depending on what you did.

I don't even know.

It's too much.

It's just too much.

I understand now why they make a billion dollars on that game.

Yeah.

Because some people are so committed to it.

They're like, this is life.

Oh, cool.

All right.

Yeah, I guess currently the conversation about with like the new GTA coming out, right?

Is

that there's worry

that

the ability to make and create RP servers is going to be controlled too much by Rockstar.

Rockstar, right?

Is who makes GTA RP?

Or GTA.

That I guess they have some financial control over making RP servers now.

And so...

they might

you know be able to make it less accessible

i don't know.

That'd be interesting.

Yeah, I want

I feel like it's in their interest as a company to want more control.

So they'll definitely probably try to, but also,

never mind, never mind.

I was about to say, but also, wouldn't they want people?

No, they're the ones who are like, we could charge $100 for our game and you'd still buy it.

It's like, what?

They don't care.

I was about to say, maybe they care about what people think.

No, they don't care.

They're like, we'll shovel it in your mouth and you'll eat it anyway.

So

it's weird to me

because there are so many examples to look at of

modding communities keeping games alive for a really long time or just like allowing mods to just kind of like exist or

doing like what Animal Crossing and Baldur's Gate 3 and other games have done and been like, we're not really in control of the mods, but we will make it so that mods mods intersect with our game easier right like we'll we'll create a better bridge to allow you to use the mods that you want to use like like

clearly that's the way to go

to get goodwill from the players

100 it is um

absolutely the right strategy every single game that has said f it mod away go nuts do whatever you want has been hyper successful for a long time post-launch.

It's just the way it is.

I will even say,

yo, shout out to the Cyberpunk modders.

They let you do whatever you want.

And

right now,

one of the biggest, this is real and I don't care.

I love it.

Thank you, everyone.

One of the biggest mods is literally the have sex with my character in the game.

Of course.

Of course.

I just want to say.

Thanks, everyone.

It's as creepy for you as it is for me.

I bet.

It's first person.

I see myself.

I'm like, is that what people see?

Oh, my God.

It's terrifying.

To the people who are like, Animal Crossing doesn't have mods.

Sorry, I should have clarified.

I meant that like they encourage and created something inside of the game to allow people to

clothing.

Clothing specifically, people can design whatever clothes they want.

The system is built in there for you to just, for free, share your clothing designs with one another.

Yeah, you can make your own wacky, you know, t-shirts or whatever.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Also, what's super interesting is you can see when they cut down.

Like one of my favorite examples of just let people have mods.

When they re-released Warcraft, what was it, like Warcraft 3 reloaded or whatever the hell they called that thing, reforged.

They scrapped all the fun.

Like, look, Warcraft 3 was good, but all the bonus mods and all the cool stuff you could do and all the,

things that spawned Dota and all these other games, they were like, whoa.

Whoa.

We don't.

We would rather you not create your own stuff and flood art.

Like, I just don't like that.

That upsets me tremendously.

Yeah.

Let people create and have fun and mess with your stuff.

Like, that's the, that's, again, that's what keeps your game going.

Yeah, Minecraft.

Minecraft stayed relevant for years and years and years into the point where Microsoft bought it because people kept modding the hell out of it.

And they came with like so many cool stuff.

Sure, a lot of those mods are insane, but like that's the fun of it.

Let people have fun.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I agree.

That's me.

Remember Sims 1, guys?

Remember?

You could just download somebody's hair mesh that they made.

and just plop it in there and just

have that.

It was just, it was just free.

Literally, for Monster Prom, we made it so like you can input your own OC.

I love it.

Like, here, throw your own animation in.

You can date them.

We don't care.

Like, that's go nuts.

That's so much fun.

I love when people just let you enjoy the thing they created.

One of my first big obsessions in gaming was when TIE Fighter, the CD-ROM TIE Fighter game, was a thing.

They straight up let you fool mod the game to the point where back when it was like

early internet, I was on forums with groups and we were creating stories for each other.

You would go in, you could edit dialogue, you could edit the encounters, you could edit what ships would show up and you'd make your own little Star Wars story.

And I was like, that's the coolest thing I've ever done.

Yeah.

It definitely inspires many people.

I know that a lot of people are like, you know, GTA RP or whatever, all these different things that exist where you're allowed to go in and create your own stories.

That leads to future game developers and future people wanting to tell stories and writers.

Yeah, it's a creative exercise.

And we need so much more of that, I think.

So

I hate when people are like, no mods.

You can't do anything to our game.

It's designed.

It's like,

all right.

Cool.

It's on the same tree as like fanfic writers becoming popular novelists, right?

Like they got inspired by something, a piece of media, something that they loved enough that they were like, I want to write something that has these characters or that's set in this world.

And it activated something for them.

Like, wait, I actually love writing.

It's the same sort of thing, right?

You play a game, you get so into it, and you're like, I wish there was a, I wish that you could do this in the game.

And you learn how to make the mod.

And then that's a step away from just being able to start.

developing something, right?

Yeah, yeah.

I'm a, I understand if your game is console exclusive, you're not gonna be out there modding stuff, fine, whatever.

It's no one expects that, but if you're on PC and you have access to like people having the coding because it's on their computer, I say eff it, let them go nuts, let them have fun.

I agree.

Like, so what if your character suddenly is like a sexy lady with big boobs?

People wanted that, and now they're going to download the mod and your game.

You're making money.

What do you, what's the problem?

Like, but it's not the character.

That's not Grim Dank, the Dark Master.

That's Boobarella, the boob slayer.

Like, yeah, but now people want to play Boobarella.

So, like, hype that up and get people to buy your game.

Yeah.

You can be Sailor Moon and Slay the Spire, guys.

It's a wonderful time to be alive.

Just let people do it.

Yeah.

Boobarella.

I like Boobarella.

Yeah, I like her.

What is she doing?

Grim Dank and Boobarella suck.

That's what I came up with.

Yikes.

I like them.

Speaking of games.

Yes.

Last night, so I said this before when we talked about it, but

even though I definitely will get a switch to at some point, I don't have a desire right now to.

It's just not.

The first game I actively want doesn't come out till the end of the year, so like I just don't care right now.

Yeah.

However,

everyone and their brother over here has definitely got a switch too, and they're all hype as hell about it.

And everyone's losing their mind.

And so last night I lived vicariously through Crendor because

he was streaming the new Mario Kart.

And I just wrote down, I wrote down some notes because I watched for maybe two, two and a half hours.

And it looked, first off, it looked so much fun.

And it's definitely one of those things that I would love to play.

But I know that if I bought it, I played exactly one day and then it would sit there for the rest of eternity.

Yeah.

Like, I just know myself with those types of games.

Unless, of course, it's F-Zero.

If they brought back F-Zero, I'd play that every single day for the rest of my life.

I love F-Zero.

We said that before.

We'll say it again.

Bring F-Zero back, dude.

Hell yes.

But it's, you know, I watched him play and it looked very, very cute.

And everyone playing seemed to be having it.

He was playing online with a bunch of people watching.

And there was one guy who kept beating the crap out of him.

So he made him his rival and he kept trying to just to beat him.

And it was so much fun to watch.

But I wrote down some notes and I love this because I don't know exactly if these are new things or I just haven't played the last few Mario Karts.

I don't know.

But I guess because this is an open world one and you can kind of go to different areas.

When you play online, everyone selects maps and then it does kind of like a lotto of all the selected maps that you would get.

And then there's arrows and it's like, okay, where you were at this one and now you're going to this one.

And the way it works, I thought was brilliant is so one of the races he did was this ice cream mountain thing.

And so, you're like, you go up like an ice cream cone, and you know, it's that kind of thing.

But the next race they chose was a Wario ship graveyard.

I don't know what that's about, but um,

what it did is the race starts for the Wario ship graveyard, starts

at the end of the ice cream map.

Oh,

and then you race.

So the first lap is getting to the Wario map.

And then you suddenly start the Wario map on the second lap.

And I was like, that's very creative.

And I love that.

Very cool.

Yeah.

The past ones have not been like that.

And then when he, uh,

after that one, he selected another map.

And what he did,

it like in order to get from one map to the other, he basically had to drive through what looked like the LA River.

And I thought that was really interesting.

And so he's, and I love that concept of everything is, it's from one zone to the next and you're moving along in sort of forza-like.

This is the one that is supposed to be open, open world, right?

Yes, yeah, yeah.

So I guess, yeah, that makes sense.

I didn't see him play the normal game.

I just saw him play the online stuff.

But the online stuff look like that little bit alone.

I was like, that's very creative.

There wasn't, like, I don't know that there was free roam in the online version because what would happen is after the race series would end, the three races would end.

Yeah.

It would, if you lost, it would go, nice try, which is really funny.

And then you had a few minutes while people were like, when he was waiting for people to join, where you could drive around the last map you were at.

And so that was kind of open world-ish.

But I don't know if it's the same thing as the normal single player version or the local version.

And so I just watched him play online.

I thought that was great.

Character wise, it was crazy.

I wrote down these notes.

I don't think I recognized any character at all.

Crendor was playing a bee and a cow.

I saw Waluigi in a sombrero, I think, but most of the time it was a shark driving a car or some other animal.

I think I don't know what Mario Kart is.

That's really funny.

What is this game?

I never saw anybody play it, so I can't

really say.

Yeah, I wrote down the note I question anyone who picks Mario if you have all these other choices to choose from it seems very unhinged

do you have like a if if you're in a multiplayer Mario game do you have a Mario character that you always go for I don't it's been a while since I've Mario carted in a in a series or like Mario Party or like any of those yeah I was always the Koopa Troopa Because it was always him or Toad, but then I stuck with the Koopa Troopa just because I liked him.

I don't know if he's in the game still at all.

I know they have dry bones a bunch now, but I don't know.

Dry bones is in a lot of stuff now.

Yeah.

Yeah, but I don't know what equates to Koopa Trupa, but that used to be my guy back in the day.

I would always play him, and then they've kind of phased him out and included every Koopa kid and Bowser Jr.

and then, and you know, and now there's Cal, B, Shark.

They have the fish.

At one point, you can literally just be whatever the hell those red fish guys are called, driving a cart.

I'm like, how does that work?

How does that even work?

So

I am

always king boo.

Love that.

Unless someone takes king boo, then I'm toad.

Yeah.

Ever since somebody pointed out that I frequently sound like Toad and even made a video comparing the sounds I make and actual Toad, I feel a kinship.

So

yep.

I get it.

I think no matter what, my biggest desire in Mario Kart is control.

That sounds crazy.

But like, you know, controlling the car.

I'm not about speed.

I'm not about like the weight of the, like, I just need, when I want to turn, I want it to turn.

And I don't want it to be like, I'm skidding or I'm sliding into the turn.

I'm drifting.

Like, no, no, no, no, no.

When I turn, I want to turn because that's how I want to play.

I don't want to spend all my time pressing the brake so I can drift.

Like, it's just not how I like to play that game.

And I may never be out in front by a lot, but I can win that way.

And so I always try to go for those characters.

But it was very funny watching Crendor try new things.

Like at one point, he had his cow on a motorcycle that was too small for the cow.

And I was like, oh my God, that looks like how I would look on a bike.

Like, just

guys, I can do this.

It was very funny to watch.

When he played as the penguin from Mario 64, and

when the penguin backs up, sometimes it gives you like a like, oh, I'm backing up, but sometimes it gives you a

like a look,

like a shady look, like, I'm backing up, and I don't want to touch you.

You better not bump into me.

That's really funny.

Very cute.

Yeah.

I'm excited to see it.

Yeah, I definitely loved watching it.

That's for sure.

And also, it's Crendor.

So every time he got hit with a shell, the noises he make were one of the funniest.

He'd like, yo, blah, blah, blah.

Like, he'd just make gibberish noises.

It was great.

Good times.

Trender loves a

yes, yes, he loves those.

Yeah, yeah.

And so, and then he'd always, you know, he'd want to like, uh, at one point, I don't remember what he said, but people in chat are like, you're fighting with chat.

And he's like, this is Mario Kart.

There are no limits.

It's like, oh, okay.

You step into the pit.

You better be ready.

It made me laugh and I had a good time.

So, yeah, again, one of those things that if I went to a party and someone had it, I'd definitely play it.

But it's not a Jesse needs to purchase this kind of game.

Oh, my God.

Same,

but Sam, Sam felt very differently.

Everybody's been like, oh, my gosh, are you getting a Switch 2?

And I was like, no, I'm probably not going to have a reason to play it for a long time.

I'm not really thinking about it.

Smash cut like an hour later to Sam, like, I secured us a Switch 2.

It'll be here in two days.

And I was like, oh, okay.

Never mind.

Apparently,

we will have a Switch too.

Yeah, I think I learned that lesson with this last console generation in that I play on my PlayStation 5 a bunch, but on my Switch, I every like six months find something to play.

And my Xbox, I don't play anything on it because I literally get all the games on PC.

So why the hell do I need to load up the Xbox?

Yeah.

I haven't touched the Xbox in so long.

I'm like, you know what?

From now on, I'm not going to be one of those that got to get a console for my job and justify it that like I can write it off because my business is video games.

I'm like, I'm just not going to get it until I need it because, honest to God, I just can't do that again.

I just have stuff sitting around and I'm like, I hate this.

I tried to justify it, and I simply can't at this point.

Honestly, the original Switch, I only play when I'm playing with my kid, when we're playing something together.

And I never played a whole lot on the Switch, unless, like, I got invited to play Mario Kart or Mario Party or something like that, you know.

So, yeah, I mean, we talked about the Switch 2 a few times, and I think we were both on the same page of like, well, neither of us are like super big Nintendo heads, so it's like not a big priority to get it right away, you know?

Um, like, there will be games I want to play, but they're they when they made the announcement, it was like coming December 2025.

I was like, all right, well, in December 2025, I will get on that.

But right now, I'm not going to buy it and then have it just sit there.

Seems silly.

Yeah, I would say in our house,

probably like 90% or more of the games that are played are on PC.

And then,

you know, maybe 5% is on the PlayStation.

I don't think either of us use the Xbox for anything.

There's, I mean, Xbox as a console makes no sense to me unless you are a strict console player.

Unless you are.

Because every Xbox.

You don't have a PC.

Yeah.

Yeah, you can get on PC and most of them are shooters or whatever.

And I'll be damned if I'm going to learn to shoot with a controller.

I can't do it.

I never have been able to do it.

The fact that

console games have to have like a, it...

auto-targets the head feature just goes to show you how complicated it is to shoot on those.

Those of you who have trained on them and you're awesome console shooters and you can use the controller, you're my hero.

You're very good.

Bless you.

Alex Fossiani is one of those guys.

I'll never forget.

We went to some event where Destiny was there.

And it was myself, Kristen, and Alex.

And we were playing Destiny on a team versus a whole other team.

And everyone had to use controllers.

Fossiani went 32 and one.

He dominated.

Everyone else had like two kills.

It was hilarious.

People on the other team were yelling at him.

Just yelling at him.

It was hilarious.

I love that.

So

that's all I'm saying.

Some people are just built,

man.

Yeah, if you can do it, bless.

But I need the precision of a mouse and keyboard.

I have to have it.

I am not enough of a shooter boy to

be precise.

with anything I do.

It's entirely because of Counter-Strike.

Back in the early 2000s, Counter-Strike online, being a little bastard and hiding on the other side of that ramp on dust and sniping people, or switching off with my friend and we cover each other.

So someone would sit there and cover the behind.

We were bastards, and I loved every moment of that.

All I'm saying is that's how I grew up, and it was by shooting guys on a mouse and keyboard instead of with a controller.

Indeed, it is what it is.

Well, beyond Switch stuff,

what have you been playing?

Well, man, this is rough.

It's tough to say

because this week is Game Fest.

Right.

Literally, after we're done today at 2 p.m.

Pacific time, the actual Game Fest show starts and then tomorrow's Play Days downtown, which I'll be at both.

Well, technically, it's three days, but I'm only going two because it's like, I got stuff to do Monday.

But

we're going to get a bunch of cool stuff.

I have no idea what it's going to be.

But with that said, this entire week, I went to various studios and saw different things.

And I can't talk about any of it.

Like, a great example is I can say I went to Blumhouse, which, by the way, was amazing as like a fan of the movies.

Getting to go to the studio and see stuff and getting to play a game on a screen that I'm sure movies are previewed on.

Because the seats, it was great.

The seats are like movie theater recliner seats.

There's people in the room.

They hand me a controller.

I'm playing a game on a giant movie theater screen.

That's how it's fun.

Just so much fun.

But I can't talk about the game at all.

Like, I just can't say a damn thing for a few days.

Yeah, there's a bunch of things they're doing now, which I think is interesting, where I guess because technology, I will be invited to check out games on Discord, and then they'll send me a copy of the game to play while they're on Discord watching me play it.

And they'll walk me through stuff and talk me through it.

And then it's one of those things where it's like, after four days, this game will will delete.

I'm like, yo, like Mission Impossible?

And that's pretty much what's going on.

And so they're doing that a lot now.

If it's a company that's overseas and they can't make it to LA for play days,

so I'm seeing that stuff and that, seeing a lot of those games.

And then

I don't know if we can get to it yet, but

my brain just died.

NextFest

is coming.

Next fest.

I have no idea.

Yeah, I don't know if it's started yet or not.

So I can't.

Literally.

Okay, good.

Because I have a bunch of games games that have been sent to me which i think everyone when next fest starts will be able to play but they send it to me earlier under the assumption i'm going to take time to play them now which i have no time i'll play it when next fest starts but you know they send you early copies like you're gonna play the demo early cool i don't have time to but you know so on my desktop i have i guess this is the year of scary games i have like

13 demos for horror games and I'm like, oh boy, well, we'll have to do a whole day of that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So pretty excited about NextFest.

But yeah, a lot of it is

a lot of it is stuff that I can't talk about yet, sadly.

I'm trying to think of if I got a chance to play anything.

Yeah, the thing, I mean, the thing I got to play for real was, like, I haven't even gotten to play the end of Expedition 33.

I'm like this close to the end and I had to stop to go.

travel and now I'm back and I'm in it.

And I'm like, guys, I want to finish it.

I promise you I will.

I just literally don't have the time.

Like, I don't even, they introduced the new Final Fantasy open world grindy area for 14.

I've done exactly two hours of that since it came out a week ago.

So that's where I'm at.

I streamed Magic the Gathering card openings, pack openings.

Yeah.

Card openings would be rough.

I got a lot of amazing cars.

People were like, dude.

The car is worth a lot of money.

And I was like, I don't know that, but okay, I'll put it in a plastic case because like, thanks for the info.

Yeah, that was a lot of fun, but again, I even had to cut that short in order to then drive to Blumhouse.

So, like,

you know, I'm kind of all over the place this week.

So, I haven't really had time to actually play video games.

But, like I said, I watched Crendor play two hours of Mario Kart, and that felt pretty good.

Yeah,

yeah,

I promised that I would out myself here.

Yeah.

So, I talked about House of Ashes once before, I think.

Yes.

Summer and I started playing House of Ashes, and we got everybody killed.

We as a team, not just me.

Shifty guy.

But I was about to say, I don't believe that, but okay.

Yeah.

And I was explaining last time that we got to the point where there would be a scene and it would fade to black.

And clearly they were, it was meant to go to a different group of people, but there was no one left.

And so it would just come back to the same people.

And so we were like, okay, let's restart.

So we restarted on a different night, but everything was going wrong.

We had to start late because my kid could not sleep.

There were like issues with the dogs.

It was a whole thing.

So we were like, all right, well, we barely got in, but at least we've started and no one's dead yet.

We restarted and no one's dead yet.

So then.

We got together again and said, all right, we're going to finish it tonight.

And it wouldn't load.

The save that we had, every time we loaded into it, I would load in, but Summer couldn't.

So, and no matter what we did, we couldn't get the game to load for Summer.

It would only load for me, and the audio would load for Summer, but not the actual, like, playable game.

So, we were like, okay,

on Friday, today,

on Friday,

Summer said, I'll get up early and we will play this game

and we'll make it work.

So, we did scene selection.

We went back a full scene and we were able to get it to load.

And we've done amazing.

We've done really, really well.

We've been crushing it.

It's been awesome.

We're like an hour away from the end.

And are you?

I think so.

And

whenever

my

like alert pops up on Twitch that says, hey, an ad's about to run,

I've been pausing so that the ad can run, but nobody misses out on what's happening in the game.

Okay.

Right.

So there's this, there's a part, and I'm not going to describe it because I don't want to spoil it, but there's a part of the game where it's really unclear what the other person is doing.

So

I,

all that I was being asked to do is look around.

That's all that I was doing.

Summer wasn't saying anything.

So I was like, I think we're both just looking around right now.

The ad thing pops up.

I pause and Summer freaks out and is like, I am in the middle of one of those heartbeat QTEs.

And I was like, no.

So for anybody who hasn't played these games before, there's a type of QTE where you are trying to be silent

and you have to go bum bum bum bum with the button along with your heartbeat

to like keep your composure and keep your breathing quiet, right?

And I was like, maybe when we unpause, it'll be fine.

And someone was like, maybe it'll be fine, but maybe I'll die.

It's like, okay, maybe it'll be fine though.

I unpause, immediately dies.

There was no wiggle room whatsoever.

It was literally the heartbeat was like about to happen and it got fumbled.

And a thing killed the character that Summer was playing.

And I was like, fuck.

So we decided that didn't count.

So we're going to restart it part of that chapter and do the rest of the game.

Because that wasn't Summer's fault.

And I felt very bad.

And I got that character killed.

Yeah, I'm going to say, it definitely wasn't Summer's fault.

It was entirely your fault.

That was me.

That was me.

I did that.

I misunderstood the situation.

Look,

I can't ever complain to anyone about reloads or whatever.

Because when I played Baldur's Gate 3 on my,

you know, like first time I'm going to get my best story version, I reloaded so much.

I was like, I don't even, that the very first boss fight when you're trying to get the sword from the guy was like, I'm not

getting this sword.

And I reloaded like 12 times.

And that's how I started the playthrough.

So I'll never be able to say, like,

you reloaded.

I can't do it.

It's hypercritical.

But I will say this.

Yeah.

It was my fault.

So we're going to restart that chapter.

But if anybody dies from here on out and it's not because of ads or somebody pausing, then they're dead.

They're dead for real.

So,

Yeah.

Yeah.

Apparently there's an hour left of that game.

Maybe.

We'll see.

I will say,

without spoiling it, you will think the game's over and then the game will be like there's more game.

Okay.

Although, I guess that depends on how many people are alive.

That's also true.

Yeah.

So far.

You had everyone still alive.

Everybody alive, I think, that you can,

that doesn't have like a scripted.

I don't know.

It's hard to tell.

We had everyone alive at the end, and it led to like

a thing.

And I don't know if that thing happens all the time or not.

Like, I just don't know because we never played it after that.

Like a final long thing.

Yeah, okay.

Okay, interesting.

Okay, okay.

To the point where I was worried.

I was like, guys,

are we screwed?

It was rough.

It was a thing, all right.

Okay, interesting.

Yeah,

that's where we're at with House of Ashes.

Summer was like, I want you to know that I love you, but I am not restarting this fucking game again.

So this is it.

This is my last shot at finishing this stupid game.

But other than that, I finally played Fantasy Life, which is very cute.

Have you started?

Have you played any of that yet at all?

Have I started or played any of it?

No.

So there's a game called Fantasy Life Eye.

My real life is a fantasy.

There's a game called Fantasy Life Eye: The Girl Who Steals Time.

And a bunch of people who really enjoy

cute, cozy RPGs and like, you know, like farmy type games and things like that have said that it is insanely addictive.

And the concept of it is, it's an isekai.

So you're like, you're part of a team of archaeologists and you stumbled onto this island.

And of course, the

leader of the archaeologist group is like, We're the first ones to ever discover this island.

We should name it.

And I was like, Are we sure there's no one on this island?

Are we sure?

Anyways, we get transported to like another world of this island.

And the game essentially is just like you're in a fantasy world and you have a bunch of options of professions that you can learn.

It's kind of like playing Final Fantasy XIV.

I kept thinking that while I was playing, because there's like gatherer classes, there's hunter and combat classes, and then there's like crafting classes, basically.

So you can,

you know, learn how to chop wood, you can learn how to mine for materials,

you can learn how to go fishing, and then, but you can also learn how to cook and how to, you know, make XYZ thing.

You can be different.

Is a single player?

Yes.

I think you can co-op it.

Wait a sec.

You might be able to co-op it.

So you could play with friends and each of you like take on different things and probably make it go faster?

Maybe.

Interesting.

It has online co-op.

Okay.

Oh, I think

I remember this now.

There's online co-op, but you can't do story quests while in co-op.

So you can't like do the story together.

You can just play together and like get materials and stuff, I think.

That's like a,

it's one of those limiting factors.

Like, I guess there's like net code and things you have to think about, but it reminds me of like, why for Elden Ring, why even include multiplayer if it's going to be like, well, you can only do it sometimes.

And every time you enter a new era, you have to bring the person back.

And it's like,

why even include them?

It's such a pain in the ass.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But it's really cute.

It's really cute.

It's very satisfying to play.

All of the NPCs, like every character that you meet, again, kind of like in 14, every class, every profession that you can get into has its own NPCs with its own storyline going on.

Right.

If you want to just like speed through the beginning of each profession, so you can't just spam and like take on every single profession.

You take it on and then you have to reach kind of like you start at level zero, let's say.

You have to get to level one of that profession before you can go back and be like, I I also want to learn how to do this.

So, if you don't really give a shit about like the individual stories of each profession, the game does say, Do you want to skip the first quest and just like be level one and then take another profession?

Are you just trying to like collect all of the professions basically?

And I kept thinking, Oh, that's nice.

I could just like grab all of them and not have to do like the starting, you know, tutorial quest.

But then I felt bad because the NPCs are all so cute.

I was like, But then I i won't know who my main npcs are for this profession

i need to know who they are

so sometimes i worry about you

but it's really cute i was watching kiwo play it and kiwo was like this is one of those games where you get to a certain point in it and you're like why is there so much to do in this game Like it's one of those games where it feels really simple and then

it feels like there's just more and more and more that you can do you know sure which can be a blessing or a curse i mean that's the sign of like a really good encompassing rpg is there's a lot to do and you know a lot of the time sometimes depending on what kind of player you are you're like it's not stuff i want to do but you know if you're role playing and you're immersing yourself in that kind of world

then yeah you want to have wacky little things to get caught up in especially if you're a sucker for like cute which is what this game is.

It's hyper cute.

It's very cute.

Yeah.

Another game that I played in early access, I played the demo.

I played it in early access and then said, okay, I'm done with it until it like actually comes out

is Trash Goblin.

Yes.

Trash Goblin is very cute.

Again, the concept of Trash Goblin is you're a little goblin who lives on the bottom floor of a antique shop and you're given little bags of detritus and weird shit.

And you have a mini game, which is most of what the game is.

So I don't know if mini game is the right word for it, but you basically like pick away everything that isn't the item.

It reveals what the item is, and then you decide what to do with it.

So as the game progresses, it goes from like, oh, you found a bottle.

And then someone shows up at the window and goes, I would like to buy a bottle.

Do you have one?

And you go, as a matter of fact, I do.

Here's the bottle.

And you take your gold, right?

It expands to to become like, I really want a jug, but it has to have all of the pieces.

And you go, oh, okay.

So I need the body of the jug and I need the handle of the jug and I need the top of the jug.

Have I found all of those three pieces?

And then you need to put them all together and make sure that it's clean.

You know, like it, it gives you more and more to do.

So when I was playing it in early access, we had talked about how

The game has the potential to get repetitive.

It felt like the day-night cycle wasn't really necessary.

And I was curious whether or not they were going to expand on what you can do in the game.

Sure.

So

they have.

Generally, it's the same as before, but there's a lot more going on now.

So first off, the character who like runs the antique shop, Eamon.

Aimon has like a whole story going on.

Like they are really into just finding weird antiques to put in the shop, but clearly don't have a good gauge on like whether or not shit is, I don't know, haunted.

Right.

So they bring like suspicious shit into the shop all the time and it has repercussions, but sometimes you're not sure what the repercussions are right away.

They cleaned up the quest system where there are when it was in early access, there were clearly like human stranger and then characters that actually had names and stories and would keep coming back and like building on their story.

So, named characters you can now dismiss.

So, if they show up and say, I really need this thing, you can say, Cool, I'll call you when it's ready.

And they go into a quest list.

So much better because before they would just sit there,

they'd just sit there and wait for you to be done.

And you'd be like, Well, I don't want to tell them to leave because I have no way to know when they're going to come back or get them back here, you know?

Is it ready?

Is it ready yet?

Is it ready yet?

Please, I get it.

I get it.

This is another game.

This is another game where the NPCs are so good.

They all have so much personality.

They're so funny.

Very, very cute.

And then I think the biggest thing, which I actually have not experienced yet because it hasn't worked out, but the biggest thing is you can leave the shop.

So eventually there is a market in town with, there's there's like a circus going on.

And Eamon is like, I need you to go to the circus and find one of these, one of these weird suspicious things that I brought in has a bunch of runes and I can't read them.

So can you next time there's a market day, can you go and find someone at the circus who can read runes?

Because I'm pretty sure somebody there will be able to.

Okay.

And you're given the day-night cycle finally comes into effect kind of because you have a little calendar and each day it'll show whether or not it's a market day.

And you can make the choice of like, do I want to go to the market bring some of the stuff I've made and meet some other characters so it's definitely expanded on what the game was in early access I've been pleasantly surprised I think the way that the the world feels more fleshed out and it feels like the the gameplay is a bit tighter and easier to interact with.

Yeah, I think it's really good.

And you can like decorate your little bed and your little hovel and stuff and it's cute.

This is, this is why early access is a a double-edged sword, because this is one of those things where if you had picked up the game in early access, yes, you're helping fund the game's development and you're giving the devs time to like get to this point.

But at the same time, your first initial experience, unless you're really charmed by the game, is not the final version and things will change.

And if you don't like it, you're leaving before it has a chance to actually get you.

And I think that's, you know, based on what you told me before and what you tell me now, it seems like they added so much more to this game to make it actually a fleshed out complete game.

And

which is what you want.

Okay.

Yeah.

I'm like, okay, I'll check this out now.

Before,

you talked to it and I was talking to me about it.

And I was like, all right.

You know?

It was like, all right, that sounds cute.

I don't know if it's a Jesse game, but now I'm like, okay, there's something here.

There could be, this could be fun.

It's what I was hoping its final iteration would be.

Cool.

Very, you know, yeah.

The only other game I think that I would want to talk about is Deck of Haunts, which is a game that I talked about during a Nextfest because I played the demo for it.

Yes.

Is it Deck of Many Haunts?

I think it's just Deck of Haunts.

Deck of Haunts?

Deck of Haunts.

No,

right.

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

So Deck of Haunts is the game where you are playing as a haunted house, and the deck represents during the day, the deck is rooms.

and add-ons to the house and during the night the deck is things to do to trespassers so essentially you're one of those creepy haunted houses that has like a living aspect to it you're some sort of monster house you're a monster house yeah so there is a room in the house that has a giant heart in it and your goal you have two goals your goals as the haunted house are to kill and absorb the life essence of humans to sustain yourself and to keep people from reaching the heart.

If they get to your heart room, you take damage.

So, at the start of the game, I'm sure that there are ways to expand on this.

Maybe, I don't know.

I haven't gotten to a point where I've been able to yet.

But at the start of the game, you have eight health as the house.

So, eight people can go into the room and see the heart before you die.

But

basically,

what happens is

more and more and more people show up into the house.

You can decide, depending on how you've built your deck and what starter deck you have, you can decide if you want to attack them physically or mentally.

The benefit of attacking them mentally is there are actually a lot of benefits to attacking them mentally, the more that I thought about it.

You can attack them mentally and they will essentially like lose any desire to

continue.

They behave as though dead, aside aside from two things.

First being that after you've attacked someone mentally, you can continue to attack them physically and get double the life essence from them, basically.

And the other thing is, if a human sees the body of another human, they will try to escape the house.

And the more people that escape the house, the stronger the humans will be that show up because basically investigators will start showing up, cops will start showing up, like people who have more tools to use against you so there are cards like lock the doors of this room right say there's two people in a room and you kill one of them the other one's like oh my god i get i gotta get out of here right but you don't think that you can kill them in time

you can use a card to lock the doors and then they're trapped in there for a turn and you have a little more time to kill that other person before they can leave but If they're a cop, they've shown up with a gun and they can just shoot the locks and leave.

You know, it's it's things like that.

There are rooms that have very specific aspects to how they work, but it'll come with the caveat of as long as it's not investigated.

So paranormal investigators will show up sometimes.

And if they go into one of your rooms that has like a hyper-specific use, they will investigate it.

and basically take away its power.

Interesting.

Okay.

All right.

So is there anything like does it get more intense after that?

Or is it just paranormal investigators and cops?

Like, is it eventually the military shows up and priests are there?

Priests, priests is as far as I've gotten.

So the boss rounds are basically like raids.

So like the first section of a playthrough, you have to live through, oh my gosh, what was it?

17 days?

I think something like that.

But

like one person shows up and then two people show up and then a few people show up.

The people have their own aspects, like I was saying.

So even normies might have like a weird aspect where like they'll just come in through windows, right?

Like you don't know which room they're going to show up in at the start.

They don't just come in through the front door, right?

There's just stuff like that.

So more and more and more people show up.

And eventually it's like, okay, people keep disappearing when they come to this house.

So the cops are involved now.

So your first boss is a bunch of cops show up and you're like, fuck.

So you have to deal with all of the cops.

The second boss is a bunch of priests show up.

And the priests are really good at keeping each other and other humans alive because they provide like mental fortitude, basically.

Gotcha.

Right.

Through the power of Christ.

By the power of Christ.

Yeah.

It's stuff like that.

So I honestly think like the most fun part of this game isn't killing people.

Although

I named everybody after my friends, and so that, that was really fun.

Like, Crendor showed up, and he had like a hearty sort of aspect to him where it was like, it's really hard to kill this guy.

He can only take so much damage at a time because he's built like a brick shithouse.

And I was like, classic Crendor, you know,

the gym really putting in work for him.

Anyways.

I actually really like the day cycle a lot because you can move the rooms around, you can add on new rooms, you can make rooms bigger, you can make rooms smaller and you can try to turn the house into kind of a maze if you have enough of like the the currency built up from killing people you know right yeah i for the record i just want to say uh on the last cox in crendor i learned that crendor hurt his knee while walking so

Everything you just said to me sounds like nonsense.

He's so buff.

So buff.

He's so tough, that guy.

He's such a thick man, Crendor.

Oh, buddy.

Oh, no

my dad dislocated his rib while laughing so sometimes

sometimes life i sprained my ankle while sleeping yeah

i woke up and was like what happened

look it yeah everyone's gonna get there all you all you young 20 somethings good luck assholes you're gonna start falling apart and i'll be there to watch Yeah, can't wait.

But yeah, I think those are for the most part.

I finally finished Proverbs.

I don't know if you remember me talking about Proverbs, that like Minesweeper build a

painting.

I was actually having a conversation with

a game dev about game, like

game creation and the process of doing it.

And I brought, I don't want to spoil it, but when you and I were brainstorming games,

we were talking about what kind of game we would love to make and you said, I want to make a Minesweeper game.

And I think about that.

I think about that all the time because I literally was talking about it with somebody.

I was talking about it with somebody else just the other day.

I want to make a Minesweeper game so bad.

Yeah.

The idea we had, and I don't want to spoil it, I love because it captures what I'm interested in as well.

Yeah.

And so, you know, Minesweeper plus something that Jesse likes.

Yeah.

You can piece it together internet.

You'll figure it out.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Maybe one day.

Maybe one day.

I've fingers crossed.

By the way hey did you see any of the uh

stuff from the uh playstation state of play on this past week i did not i heard there was a cool marvel thing

yes but i don't know anything about it let's let's deep dive shall we yeah let's go for it so first off it started with a uh oh my god what is that game called lumines

the uh the the kind of Tetris music blow your mind game i can't remember what that thing's called right now but absolutely got me.

I couldn't figure out what the hell the game was going to be.

And then I was like, oh, we're bringing this franchise back.

All right, let's go.

So that was very cool.

By the way, in chat, I saw it was such a good fest.

Here's the thing.

When I said I really enjoyed,

I was like, man, I really enjoyed that stream.

That was really cool.

I got so many comments like, it was trash.

It was garbage.

And that's how I know just gamers have different likes because the things they announced, I was like.

We were like really hype about them.

Yeah,

so we got that, and then immediately after, we got new Pragmata, a brand new trailer for that game that actually showed us more information.

Basically, it looks like I think I called it Bioshock 3000 because you're a dude with a little girl, and she's like, Come on, let's go!

And she like mind controls things or

it looked wild.

I am

not going like

I don't, I don't like the fact that, like, they made

this little, like, I don't know how to describe this.

She looks like Megan.

She has, like, a Megan, this little girl has, like, a Megan quality to her.

Yeah.

And I'm already like.

Yes.

It seems, I can't tell if the game is horror-based or not.

It seems like you're fighting AI, which I'm always here for.

But it also

has like a,

there's something, I can't tell if it's going to be a scary game or not.

Very excited to see what it is, but also worried because I know the internet's gonna have some thoughts on this little girl robot that I don't, I'm not gonna be cool with.

Like, I mean, guys were like, if she was only hotter, I'm gonna be like,

what?

You just know what's gonna happen.

Yeah, I'm already bracing for the weird version of the internet to like chime in.

Like, okay, cool, dudes.

So that's a thing.

And then, and again, looked cool visually,

very nice looking.

I was like, all right, this game could be super fun.

Again, it has kind of like a bio-shocky,

but not vibe.

I don't know how to register this game,

but excited for it because it looks new and weird.

In fact, that was my takeaway with the entire state of play, which is like, thank God people are trying new things.

Everything we got, except for like a remaster, which honestly I'm here for, everything we got was kind of like, we're going to do something weird and strange.

Even AAA companies were taking chances and they showed off a lot of indie games that had, well, indie-ish,

heavily funded, not AAA games, and those looked amazing.

And I was like, good.

Even if they suck, they're trying to do something different.

And I'm absolutely here for it because I'm so sick and tired of the corporate executives at the top being like,

but we're spending so much money.

And if we don't know it's going to be good, then why should we try something new?

And I hate it.

And it's like,

I hate you.

So.

Very, very interesting in that.

Then, hey, hey, nerds.

Hey, old nerds.

Hey, you old farts.

Hey.

Final Fantasy Tactics Remaster.

Here we go.

The very first Final Fantasy I ever played.

Final Fantasy Tactics Remember.

Yeah.

It's brilliant.

I think the way they did this is fantastic, where not only are they releasing a version that has updated changes and like a turn order on the side and voice acting and all sorts of stuff, they're also just including the old version too.

So if you don't want any of that, but you just want to look better, here you go.

Big fan.

Huge.

Love that.

Love it.

The minute Creative Business Unit 3 appeared, I was like, well, it's not Final Fantasy 13 or 14, and it's not Final Fantasy 9.

It's like the minute it showed up, I was like, what tactics, baby?

I was so excited.

Brilliant, brilliant stuff.

Can't wait to play that.

Also, the Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection.

Honestly, while watching the trailer, yes, for those who said, is Ben star in that?

Yeah, Ben's...

Ben's definitely in it.

He tweeted out a thing that was like, here's my character.

So, you know, keep up, kids.

We should get him on the show.

We probably could.

Ben.

The man's in town right now.

Yeah, I'm going to go.

I'm going to go.

I'm going to probably harass him on Monday, but that's not Geek Ender's Day.

So

anyway, the Mortal Kombat collection, the trailer was awesome.

I was super hyped for it.

But the thing that got me in the trailer wasn't the games.

It was the trailer was kind of put together like a documentary about the history of Mortal Kombat.

And now I want a Mortal Kombat documentary.

Is there not one?

I don't know.

I want like,

here's the, the way, I'm sure there are many YouTube videos about the origins of Mortal Kombat, but I mean like an official, we talk to everyone, we have the behind the scenes of like all the actors, and they show some of that.

But I thought it was going to be a documentary about Mortal Kombat, but it is actually the games.

Now, they may have a thing on

when you buy the collection, it may come with it, maybe

but i don't i don't know but when i saw the footage i was like man i really just want a mortal kombat thing like yeah we met with old midway devs and sat down to have a conversation like that'd be so much fun that would be cool but um you know we'll see what happens there we got neo three

the demo is available right now if you want to check it out and play it very excited for that that looks really cool and then because i'm a sucker for it new astro bot is coming and they're re-releasing the Astrobot DualSense controller.

And my fingers crossed, when I first saw the DualSense controller, I said, yeah, all right, it's okay.

It's just an Astrobot controller and has his eyes on that big ass button in the middle.

But like, it's whatever.

It's just a controller.

If they were to release one where the eyes in the middle like moved and shit, oh, it'd be an instant purchase.

There is no price they could ask.

I would buy it.

I'd be like that asshole who's like, I don't care how much Grand Theft Auto is.

It's going to be $200.

I buy it.

That's how I feel about this controller.

I would buy this controller.

He loves Astrobot.

If it moved, I'd be like, I don't care.

I want that.

I must own it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I love it.

I love Astrobot.

I can't help what I am.

Also, we got the first look at First Light, the new 007 James Bond game that I guess is the James Bond origin story.

Looks cool.

Pretty excited about that.

We'll see if it's any good.

But like, I'm down for,

just like I was for Indiana Jones.

I'm down for Bond and playing a game version of Bond.

It looks very fun.

Yeah, James Bond by the guys who did Hitman.

Like,

sure, Bond looks like an American dude for some reason.

Like, he has very American features, but I don't care.

Yeah, it doesn't bother me at all.

Half the other characters, you know, if you're expecting them to look like Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig, whoever, he's not.

It's Bond, like book Bond, but updated Bond.

It'll be fine.

It'll be all right.

And then we got the new Arc System Works Marvel game.

That was the last thing they showed, and they went all out for that.

And it, the minute I saw it, I was like, I'm so hyped to watch this at Evo.

I just can't wait.

This will be so cool.

It looks awesome.

I think they only showed like six or seven characters, but they did show hints of other characters because there was literally a

dinosaur.

At one point, there was a a Triceratops who showed up, and I was like, Who the hell is that?

Couldn't tell you.

I know that in the background of one of the levels, there was a giant Shuma hanging on a building with his big eye and tentacles.

I was like, Yo, is that Shuma?

And everyone chat was like, No.

I went back and I watched it.

It was Shuma, dude.

I don't care what anyone says.

They were like, That just could be a plant tendril.

I was like, No, that's Shuma.

So, can I tell you that right after the state of play, the first three things that i saw about the marvel game were all cuck memes what with marvel making out with arc systems oh and then capcom was in the background sitting in the chair

i was like what the happened during the state of play man

yep anyways honestly

i thought it was new marvel versus capcom at first but like it was not it was arc and they were like yo we're gonna make a fire game all of the um character designs looked amazing and This was the first time obviously storm was there and she looks as hot as ever But of course all the other ones were like just like the coolest looking dude designs I've never been like a wow great Captain America design They nailed Captain America.

He looks cool as hell Yeah, Iron Man's like a Gundam for some damn reason as he should be that sounds great Yeah, everything looked really cool.

Spider-Man's kind of all over the place, but he had the same Spider-Man look as the Sony game.

And yeah, Miss Marvel was the only other character that I think

the only other woman that was in there.

I don't know.

But

I was kind of surprised.

Like, all right, hell yeah.

Everything looked very cool.

Excited to play.

All right, hold on.

Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Miss Marvel, Star Lord, Storm, Ghost Rider, Storm.

You said Storm twice.

Or did I?

Come on, guys.

Lock in.

So much Storm.

So much.

Storm so nice.

Yes, it was said.

Dr.

Doom was the other one.

Yeah.

And the best part was

they even included Dr.

Doom with his, like, the robots and the button.

I was like, you know what you're doing.

I love this.

So very excited.

Love that preview.

Can't wait for more of that.

And then

we got more in the way of

Romeo is a dead man, which, Dodger, I'm just going to say, take the time, go watch the trailer.

It is insane.

It's so insane.

The intro is,

it looks, I don't even know how to describe it.

It looks like

a game made 20 years ago.

And it's a skinny game.

And it looks like it's like what I thought it was going to look.

Yes.

But wait, keep watching.

Because then he's like, hey, who's out in the front porch?

He goes out there.

He's like, I'm dying.

And he's like, you are going to die in a few minutes.

So let me stab this thing in your eye and your your head's going to swell up.

And then it becomes a totally different game.

The minute it started, I was like, what the shit is this game?

There's only one man who can make this game.

I was like, this has to be a pseudo game.

It has to be a pseudo game.

There's no one else on earth.

And then it was.

I was like, well, of course it is.

There's no one else who will ever possibly do something like this.

And it's.

I love that.

I love that about it.

I love how I immediately was like, yep, I know exactly who this is.

And frankly, shout out to all the devs that fall into that range, right?

Like,

you know, if you're going to get a deadly premonition style game or like a weird, you know, in this case,

Romeo, Dead Man, whatever this Romeo is a dead man game, or you're going to get like a weird Death Stranding game.

Like, there are very clearly some Japanese devs that are just like,

We know we're the weird one.

We're going to do our weird thing, and that's what we do.

That's what people want from us.

So we'll just go weird.

Go big.

Go Go weird.

Yep.

And I even, even Yokotaro, I like love that idea of people just saying, screw it.

We're going to make our thing.

And I'm obsessed with that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Cause there's a creative aspect to it.

And yes, sometimes the games suck.

They just do.

But they take a chance and they do something creative.

And I'm obsessed with that.

It is truly like a creative process.

So blessed.

This game looks insane.

And I am absolutely going to try it out.

And again, some of the pseudo games are bad, like just straight up bad, but they're never not compelling.

You're like, what the hell am I doing right now?

Yeah.

Sometimes a game, you just keep playing it out of pure confusion.

You know?

Yeah.

Then we got Bloodstained.

The next Bloodstained game is coming out in 2026.

Oh shit.

At first, I thought it was Castlevania, but nope, Bloodstained, and it is.

I mean, the first Bloodstained is very Castlevania looking.

Yeah.

Yeah, it is awesome.

Can't wait for that.

And then the big one, I think, for me, the one that got me

hype as hell, was we got a deep look at Silent Hill F.

And I must stress that game, it's Silent Hill.

So one of the things in the most recent episode, this is Sham's plug of Tell Me About, I sit down with Aster Roboto and we talk Silent Hill, right?

Because I've only ever played, aside from, you know, PT and PT.

Yeah, and the demo for the other Silent Hill they made recently, I've only ever played two,

and I've played two more times than I can count, right?

And what's weird is

I, like, don't really know much about the rest of Silent Hill.

So we sat down to talk, and I learned Silent Hill 1 and 3 are connected and not even related to Silent Hill 2 at all.

Like, in no way.

They are just not, like, they're just it's just not they're totally different vibes and one of the things that we talked about which i think is so apt with this trailer is that silent hill as the franchise goes on gets made more and more in the west and it kind of loses the jank japanese aspects of it where like the names are kind of um

like you know like uh

Chance Dravis.

Yeah.

Clancy Javis, you know, like that kind of stuff.

And it's not there anymore.

And it slowly fades away.

So the fact that this new one is Japanese dev team, the writer, the lead writer is like a visual novel guy, I think.

Hell yeah.

Everything about it seems super crazy, but it takes place in the 1960s in Japan and is terrifying.

Like genuinely, you're not going to get guns.

That's not happening.

Right.

And it's schoolgirls, and all the schoolgirls are like like weird doll things.

They come at you with knives.

It was, I several times while watching it said, this looks awful.

And I meant that in the best way.

Right.

Affectionate.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I was like, this is terrible.

I hate this so much only because it looked awesome, like so grotesque and terrible.

And I, after it was done, I was like, dear SGS, we must play this immediately.

Just so cool looking.

I have no idea what the story's going to be.

I don't know if it'll even connect to the other games.

I have no idea how it would connect because it's Silent Hill, but not.

Sure.

Do we know when it's coming out?

Do we have any idea?

Yikes.

Great question.

Hold on.

Video Game Chronicle.

Help me out.

September 2025.

Yeah.

If you want to get creeped out, go watch the trailer.

It is supremely Silent Hill F is the name of this Silent Hill thing.

Yes.

written by

Ryukishi07,

a writer best known for their Japanese visual novels focusing on murder, mystery, psychological, and supernatural horror.

While his story is completely standalone from the rest of Silent Hill series, he says there will be Easter eggs for fans to spot.

Shout out to Video Game Chronicle once again coming in strong for me.

Perfect.

Yep.

So that is...

Very cool.

And there was a lot of other things included as well.

Just to go another Seamus plug.

I did a reaction.

It's on the YouTube channel right now.

Enjoy.

Go watch.

And then I reacted to the Witcher 4 Unreal event they had.

That was very cool.

It made me so excited for Witcher 4.

However, don't get too excited.

That game is years away.

Yeah, that's the thing with a game like that is like, yeah, it looks gorgeous.

Can't wait to play it in a few years.

I'm always reminded of the time I came on co-optional podcast and said, man, at E3, I got to play Witcher 3 and do this Witcher 3 thing.

And man, that was so cool.

And that was like alpha footage and it didn't come out for another few years.

And I was like, it could have been ready right then.

No, no, it was, no.

So, yeah, it'll be a while.

But that looked very cool as well.

So that's there.

But yeah, that's what we got this week.

And we're going to get more this weekend, I'm sure.

Literally hours from now, we'll get.

So they did a ghost of Yotai thing, and it was literally a teaser for like, watch on Friday.

Yeah.

We'll get more for sure.

I will make an effort

because the Cozy Games show, I think, is happening today at some point.

I will make an effort to watch one or two

showcase things before

next geek ender so that I can

talk about.

You're going to show up next week and be like, here's all the shit.

And I'll be like, that sounds really nice.

I already have notes of things I've already played to bring up next week.

I'm like, I'm ready.

Oh my God.

Because you can talk about it.

There's stuff to talk about.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There's a lot of stuff coming that's really cool.

So we will see.

We will see.

Y'all.

Is there any other like news type stuff that we wanted to talk about?

Well, I guess there is.

Yes.

Some fun news.

Like I said, obviously Game Fest starts later this week and Play Day starts this weekend.

So like I just said, we'll talk.

Next week about all the things I see and the things Dodger finds.

And because, you know, there'll be so many different games shown off and I'm sure we'll resonate with different ones.

So that will be fun.

fun uh on this topic we saw all sorts of announcements for state of play and things that are happening but you'll notice no ubisoft forward for the first time since they started doing them after the fall of e3 they will not be hosting an event this year mostly because ubisoft can't seem to do anything right these days and uh many of their games allegedly are delayed and uh their big assassin's creed release is behind them along with this thing with 10 cent they're doing now so far cry rainbow six and ac AC from going forward is going to be part of like a Tencent Ubisoft alliance or something.

So, really, they're kind of all over the place right now.

Again,

like everything recently, I absolutely blame the people at the top.

And I don't think the devs have much to say about any of it.

They just do their job.

It's definitely the executives, the corpos, if you will, at the top that just like at EA, a thing came out this week at EA that I'm going to say it's an like

an apophric.

What did I just apoff?

apophyrical

apocryphal

thank you apocryphal couldn't print like couldn't get it out uh tail but it's been passed around a bunch this week that when talking about dragon age in the production of dragon age and all those games and and bioworks games the ea executives were like yeah just shovel some slop to the nerds the geeks will buy them

So they weren't really concerned about, and this was years and years.

They were like, people will buy Dragon Age games.

That's just what they'll do.

Or they'll buy, you know, Mass Effect.

It doesn't have to be great.

Just get it done, which is

sounds accurate.

But again, we don't, you know, that's all behind the scenes talk.

We don't really know.

So we'll just say it sounds like it could be real.

But that also just says, you know, a lot about what we already know about the top brass at EA, which is, again, we got to stop hiring, you know, business guys to run creative industries.

It just doesn't make any sense.

I don't get it.

Yeah.

Also,

this week, like I said, I went to Blumhouse and that's very cool.

But

we got word that they are now in the process of making a horror film based on the game Phasmophobia, which

honestly, of all the things,

since the game's kind of whatever you make it, I imagine the movie will literally just be four people go into a haunted house and stuff goes apeshit, you know?

Like, it doesn't have to be a lot.

Because

every

game of Phasmophobia is loosely based on Phasmophobia.

So it isn't like, you know what I mean?

It's going to give you whatever you want.

So we'll get something from them in the future.

And Blumhouse is great at making horror movies.

They are killing it so far.

So more of that in the future.

Again, we saw the, I mentioned this, the Witcher 4 preview running at 60 FBS

with ray tracing on a PS5.

It looked amazing, but I must stress, it's not a real game.

It is literally just a tech demo.

There's parts where they're like, it's weird because it's still had the same vibe as E3, where it's like, we're going to play the game.

Are you ready?

Here's the controller.

But then as they're playing the game, it like zooms in on a horse's muscle movements.

You're like, that's not the game.

Yeah.

Like, you, you know, a weird vibe.

But with that said, it was gorgeous.

And I'm hype for everything coming with that.

Siri looked awesome.

Shout out to that clown who was.

I said Siri looked awesome in my phone.

Was like, huh?

Yes.

You need me?

Yeah, shout out to the dude who was like, they changed Siri and she looks like a man.

Like, good job, clown.

Live your life.

Well, also talking CDP.

They said they're going to try, like, they've tried to do things other than RPGs, like the Gwent card game and the Witcher Moba game they had for a little bit.

It didn't land.

And so now they're like, screw it.

We're doing what we're good at, RPGs.

We cannot do so many things we would love to do.

We are tempted to do so.

We tried, didn't work out.

We have to focus on what we are good at and really put 100% in, said Martin Ivinsky.

And it sounds so simple, he explained.

When you're growing, it's hard because there's all the temptations, you know, like people are doing stuff online.

It seems so cool.

You want to be a part of that, that kind of thing.

And he's like, yeah, we spread ourselves too thin and, you know, we didn't deliver.

So

we're going to get back on that.

If you want to see more of that, they literally talk about it in the answer podcast episode 18 adam butowski's on there as well hung out with him at the concert super cool dude joint ceo of the company and yeah they're they're gonna focus i assume on the next cyberpunk and the next witcher game so

i'm excited for that that's

both for me they're both big endeavors so it makes sense to focus on them

yeah i think they're very very good at making games but they're absolutely right being spread too thin doesn't help anyone and so that's, I think, everyone has that.

If you're in any creative thing, you think to yourself, I could do that.

I could do that too.

Oh my God, I could do that too.

And you just want to create, and it can screw you.

So, like, I get it.

Speaking of sticking to one thing, Dynasty Warriors, one of my favorite games, one of the best franchises of all time.

I don't care what anyone says.

Still can't be seen as a success in the West for selling over a million copies, according to producer Tomohiko Sho, who produced Origins.

I believe that the Dynasty Warriors series series is not yet in a position to be called a success in the West, Sho said.

On the contrary, I believe that there are still some great potential in the series to gain many fans in the future.

With our latest title, Dinosa Warriors Origins, we're able to attract new fans in addition to those who have been playing since PlayStation 2.

The Western market's very important, and I believe that if there is a next title, we will gain even more new fans.

As someone who's been there since PlayStation 2, it's super interesting to see what they deem as a success.

It's always strangely about costs, right?

Like Monster Prom.

If this new Monster Prom game sold a million copies, we would be overwhelmed and so blown away and excited.

Yeah.

Like

Alan Wake 2, I think they announced it sold 1.5 million and they were like, we did it.

It always is interesting to me what people consider a success, but it's always about money spent.

Yes.

It's kind of like when people spend a lot of money on a game and they say, well, how much entertainment did I get out of the game?

Right.

Like, how much time did I spend on the game?

Was it worth that money?

Yep.

Yeah.

So, and it's always, it's always interesting because you know they're dumping tons in and

you would think someone would say, if you're going to have all those business bros be in charge, surely someone would say, hey, dude, I assume that's how they talk.

Hey, dude.

I feel like we should try to determine how many people will actually buy this game before it releases.

So that way we can spend the proper amount of money on it rather than dumping 250 million into it.

You know what I mean?

Like, I just,

I don't know.

And then, last story is very sweet.

And I think a lot of people saw it this week.

And I may have a connection to it, which is interesting.

But

a grandma who played Final Fantasy XI for 21 years recently passed away.

And her account and all the characters went viral last week.

I started watching the video of all the characters on the screen, and I realized that it was on the Asura server, which is where I used to play.

Oh, and what's crazier is I think I played with her.

Now, I don't know if we were in the same guild or if we just happened to play together, but the names of the characters I recognized and was like, it just like hit me in a weird space because I had, she had a bunch of little Taru Taros and I had a Tarotaro Dragoon.

And even though no one ever invited me to do anything cool because Tarotara Dragoons were trash,

I still loved that little guy.

And I don't care what anyone says, he was cute.

And so,

yeah, I i saw that story and was like oh my god so uh

it's just weird what comes around every so often but um

that was uh it was a it was a fun time like that was before that was so long ago it was before i even considered like

internet entertainment as a thing you know what i mean yeah yeah

So that was like a different a different time.

It was the first MMO I ever played was Final Fantasy 11 because I'm a Final Fantasy nerd.

Right.

But before that, it really was like your options were EverQuest.

EverQuest.

Or like a few other, but like EverQuest looked so jank to me.

I'd watch my friend Mike play and be like, dude, I don't know what's happening.

I loved EverQuest, but it was a nightmare.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, but that's sad.

Very sweet.

Also, very sweet.

Yeah.

It was nice to see everyone show up and be like, wow.

That's that's amazing.

Like they went through and the video showed all the different characters and stuff.

And I was like, this is, it's very sad, but also like a flashback flashback to a much younger time and i was like damn the connection for someone to play for 21 years like

that has to be strong in a way that's a big game you know yeah like when you see people who are really into wow and they have all these characters like those will be stories we'll see in the future like this this grandma played wow for 35 years and it'll be it'll be a thing for sure

So I thought that was very sweet.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, even though, oh man, this is sad.

I don't want to end on a sad note there's i was just thinking about the the the older woman who did the another turtle made it to the water she passed away oh

she's my favorite voice actor in the entire in the entire wow expansion yeah so sweetheart so sad yeah

uh what a weird way to end anyway that's the news

What the hell?

Rest in peace.

Rest in peace to the legendary grandmas.

Yeah, shout out to grandmas.

You're killing it.

Shout out to grandmas.

Keep doing it.

Well,

I think you kind of gave us an idea of what you're doing this next week, but is there anything you'd like to add on to that?

Just going to showcases, going to game expos, playing stuff, meeting people.

That's all I'm doing.

Schmoozing and running around.

Schmoozing and cruising.

Yep, yeah.

Most of it requires me going downtown.

Here's my advice once again to everyone who is going to Play Days, if you're in the industry, you're going to get tickets.

Jeff Keely's going to give you drink tickets and food tickets.

You're going to get two, one for each day.

Let me tell you the advice.

It's the best advice you'll ever get.

They're food trucks.

And yeah, those food trucks are fine, whatever.

But at the far end, there's a pizza window.

And if you give them a ticket, they'll give you a full ass pizza.

Don't eat there.

Save it for the end of the day.

Go get a full ass pizza.

Go home with that pizza.

Just walk, take that pizza home.

You'll be eating it all night.

Enjoy.

From me to you.

Don't be a sucker.

don't be a sucker sucker don't be a sucker you can get like your baby salad for a ticket or

a large pizza save your money

there it is the hack the life hack i got you well next week is dext fest so i'm gonna be going hard on demos I'm gonna be playing a bunch of demos.

We typically, on our Discord, we have a little forum inside of the Discord.

That'll be a thread where people can link to games that they would like to see us cover during NextFest.

So, if you'd like to contribute to that, or if people post a game that you're interested in and you want to be like, I second this, this game looks really cool, you know, etc.

It's cool.

My mods set it up.

Shout out to my mods.

It's a really cool system.

It's made it really nice to figure out what to download and play throughout the week.

So, we'll be doing that.

Hopefully, finishing House of Asses because I can't anymore.

I can't anymore.

That game has taken so

many twists and turns, man.

There have been so many twists and turns.

Cinemax 2 a.m.

version.

The house of asses.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's been good.

Other than that, just doing my thing.

Hell yeah.

Thanks so much for watching, everybody.

If

this is like your first time watching Geek Enders and you're like, I liked this.

I would like to watch more of these.

Guess what?

You can watch all of them on youtube.com/slash jessecox.

You can also listen to us on the podcasty things.

However, audio only might be missing some goofs.

Just keep that in mind.

We do visual gags often.

Keep it in mind.

We're so visual.

We're entertainers.

Actors, man.

We can't be confined by the auditory means.

So if you're listening and you're like, wow, they haven't said anything in a full 10 seconds.

What's going on there?

We were probably mugging at each other.

You know, you just have to use your imagination a bit more.

With that said, we do go through the extra step of editing out any long silences just because of that.

So if you're listening and you don't hear any silences,

that's production value.

We shrink it down so that it sounds like we're just having a conversation and not acting out stupidity.

That's good.

That's really good.

That's

value.

It's almost like I'm a professional at this and really want all the stuff I put out to be good.

I know.

And not just crap I threw on the internet.

I'm not sure.

I'm impressed by you.

That's good.

That's good.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Hey, have a fantastic weekend and week, everybody.

We will be back next Friday, maybe with a guest.

What?

Maybe with a guest?

That's crazy.

I guess you'll have to show up on Friday to find out.

So long, everyone.

Take care.

Bye-bye.

Bye.

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