60: The Geekenders: Jesse's Shameless Promotion Finally Pays Off

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Welcome to the show, gang.

Bump it on boom boom bed.

Oh, everybody.

I guess that bit's done.

All right.

Well,

everybody.

Welcome to the show.

Hey.

Welcome, everyone.

Congratulations.

Another week has gone by.

We're delighted to have you.

We have not Crendor today.

Yeah.

For our guests.

Dude.

It's my first guest appearance of the year.

Feeling.

How often were you on the show last year?

Because honestly, it seems like too much.

Three times, right?

I think it was three times, including episode number one.

So that kind of counts as like one and a half.

I think thrice.

Yeah.

Which, honestly, I think quarterly Crendor is like really.

Quarterly Crendor.

It's really the amount.

It's a good goal to hit.

I think.

Yeah.

Why do I feel like for some reason quarterly crendor is still spelled with a C?

Like quarterly just is it with a C for some reason.

And everyone's like, what?

But you know what?

That's the case.

It was four times.

It was four, which it was quarterly crendor.

I'm telling you, it's the right amount.

Absolutely.

It's every time you need to pay your estimated taxes, I appear.

There he is.

To be like, hey, buddy.

Reminder.

That's the taxi you're going to be.

This is your reminder to pay your taxes.

You paid your quarterlies.

Do it.

Yep.

I don't want that.

If I'm being totally honest with you, I don't want that.

I don't even know.

I'd rather have my Dodger coffee mug.

I'd like to

slowly create a situation where every time I see you, I think about taxes.

Yeah.

What do you think about?

When I see you.

Yeah.

One of the first things I think about is how soon until somebody goes, it's Dodger with a beard.

Because

that happens pretty much every time.

Yeah.

Wait, what?

Jesse, do you not remember?

Do you not recall the TGS slash co-optional podcast, Goof, where Krender showed up with a wig?

This man is aware of the woman.

I mean, I recall it, but I guess the fact that that is lived with you so long is shocking.

It's because every quarterly, apparently every time he's on this show

yeah somebody goes i wonder if crendor will wear a wig today or oh i'm excited for dodger with a beard

and because

listen it wouldn't be with me anymore if it wasn't still with them dude it's because i think it was such a such an odd prominent thing of the early 2000s internet It's like, you know, it was a different time.

The internet was booming.

The Wild West.

Dodger was queen of the internet.

And I had to replicate that in some way.

It was literally over a decade ago.

Yeah.

It was, I started, YouTube popped up the other day and it was like, congratulations on your 16 years.

And I was like, holy shit.

And then you jumped into the sea and put rocks in your pockets.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think Twitch is like a 12 years.

I don't know.

It's just, I get it.

Once you, it's like birthdays.

Once you hit old, when you're older, you're just like, man, how old am I?

Sure.

Who am I anymore?

It's just, and then everyone, literally everybody's like, I started watching you when I was like a small child.

And now I'm like a fully grown adult and I have a family.

And I'm just like, that's cool, man.

Where am I?

Here in the future, dude.

Turned out not to be nearly as cool as you thought it was going to be.

Yeah.

It's crazy.

We all go here and have flying cars cars and robot body parts.

Yeah, exactly.

I was going to say, we were talking about this just a few geekenders ago,

but we were promised that by this year, women would be having more sex with robots than with humans.

Zero robot sex.

And honestly,

I think it's a zero.

There is just definitely someone out there who's like, I programmed my perfect mate.

Yeah.

Yeah, we've had some news articles pop up.

You're like, damn, there's some robot sex going on, but it's definitely not as much as people thought.

We thought it'd be like the, where he's like, there's a chicken in every house and a pot in every stick.

That old presidential quote, the Roosevelt.

Right, a pot in every stick.

Right.

Like, there's a sex robot in every house.

Yeah.

A chicken in every pot.

So we thought it'd be.

It's not.

Yeah, no chickens, no sex robots.

Really?

What a letdown.

Although, I wonder if it's CES, because I seem to recall this year at CES, they had some guys like, this is a first generation love robot.

And it was as creepy as you would think.

But I definitely know somewhere someone's working on it, which is good.

But I don't know that

I said this before.

I don't know if it was on this show or just on a stream, but I will stand by this statement.

I'll wait for Generation 2.

I don't want to get on that ground floor of sex robots.

Generation 1 sounds like it's going to have an air and

break your dick off.

you don't want to be that grand with that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Or that guy that got gen one.

That was

a mistake.

You know what sucks?

Is

the thing is I'll never get a sex robot because I'll have the exact same thought process as an eye, like an iWatch, an Apple watch, where I'm like, well, every year they just keep making them better.

So why get because next year it'll be a better model?

And I keep doing that every year.

And to this day, no watch.

I just, I'm like, well, I might as well wait.

There's just going to be a better, I don't want the one that looks like kind of fleshy human.

I want like the real human.

I got to wait.

I got to wait.

Well, the next one is the, it has the I5 upgrade.

You know, you didn't.

The literal eyes.

That would be my problem.

Literal eyes.

Five eyes.

It's crazy.

Why you wanted that?

I don't know, but there they have it.

Speaking of time, did you know that the TGS Blood Bowl League happened

in two weeks, 12 years ago?

This asshole, Dodger, I must stress this to you.

Don't go look at his stream.

It is heartbreaking.

Last night he was streaming Blood Bowl, and he was like, yo, remember when we did the TGS Blood Bowl League?

And I was like, oh, I remember.

I hated that.

And he went back and he listened to our introductions.

Holy crap.

Holy crap.

It's something.

Like everybody, well, Jesse just sounds the same, but he's just like, I am the Woodoffs and I'm Winnow.

But you got a little more, you got a little more pep in your step, I think.

Yes, I talked like this, and I was very excited to be there because the internet was in its infancy of making me sweet, sweet cash.

Yeah,

on the other hand, was like, Greetings, I am Grendel.

Hello, everybody.

I'm Grendor, and here will be my Blood Bull team named the Lizard Man.

It was like that, and then uh, I never remember Little Skittles,

dude.

Little Skittles, Michael Jordan of Blood Bull,

uh, Bamazon team.

I said that yours kind of sounded like you're reading an essay in front of the class.

Like you wrote it out and you were like, hello, everybody.

The Bamazons are here and they are ready to fight.

I will be partaking in Blood Bull TGS and they have cut off one boob, but these are some good Bamazons.

That was the best part is you got him because you were like, interesting.

I think you said something along the lines of like, except these Amazons have both of their boobs.

Yeah.

And Credinor was like, what?

Yeah, I was so confused.

I was like, wait, what?

I didn't know the lore.

Yeah.

Now he does.

You taught him something last night.

I guess so.

And then TV was just like, chaos dwarves.

I'm a chaos dwarf and I'm going to shit on everyone.

Little did he know.

I'd have my Kenor training sessions.

I was ready.

I was going to say, you and Sam still do Blood Bowl stuff.

Like, not often, but...

Oh, I do it pretty often.

I do a weekly Blood Bowl match because I have my own league that is run by my mods and not me.

And so I just show up.

They're like, Crendo, your match is this week.

Schedule it.

And I'm like, oh, yeah, okay.

And I schedule it.

And then we just have a big viewer league.

And then we asked Sam if he wanted to play.

And he was like, oh, no.

And then he didn't.

And then we asked some other people.

But listen, I don't care.

I just like playing Blood Bowl once a week.

And so it's a good time still.

I played

so much Blood Bowl.

And once a week is about a good amount of Blood Bowl for the week.

It really, it's no more than that.

Jesse just.

Dude, I hate Blood Bowl so much that last night I felt bad for the guy.

Crendor is playing some dude, probably a fan.

And he brutally murders his best player.

If I was that fan.

Oh, I understand.

Okay.

That's why I don't like the game.

If I was that fan, I would be like, I hate Crendor.

I hate this game.

His best player?

His.

So now he just doesn't have a good player anymore.

I would be like, nah, dude, this game's trash.

I hate this.

I hate you.

First off, okay, it's the playoffs.

All right.

Kendor is like every 50 SPP super rat.

And if I didn't kill him or like take him out, I'm just going to lose.

And then the season's over.

Like, I tried to foul him twice.

Didn't do anything.

Then I just happened to kill him.

Too bad.

That's the game.

Then I stood.

Oh, I hate it.

Going back, I remember the first time we played Blood Bowl in that TGS Blood Bowling.

Jesse was losing so badly.

He just went quiet.

And whenever Jesse goes quiet, I'm like, he's, he's off the deep end.

Oh, yeah.

And I'm just like, oh, no.

I think we both

have known Jesse long enough to know when it's gone from.

I'm fake mad to like, I'm actually going to lose my mind now.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Fake mad's just like, are you gobbly kidding me, goobly gobbly?

And then real mads just quiet and then like, you fucking shit in my ass.

That's because I don't want to say the things that I want to say.

Yeah.

I'm like, no, I totally get that.

They're my friends.

I love them to death.

I'm going to.

That's when like the Irish blood boils up and I want to fight in the street.

And I'm like,

nope, just gonna.

I'm just gonna sit here.

That's still, I mean, that's just

because

I also partake in real-life physical Warhammer.

All right.

Okay.

In fact, I got a game later at night.

I'm really proud of you.

Thank you.

And the last couple times we've played, it's been like very one-sided.

And so we played 2v2s at my friend's house.

And it's like, sometimes we have good matches and everyone's like, oh, that was a good game.

And sometimes we're like, oh, you just didn't roll well there.

And sometimes people just roll terribly.

And so like one of my friends, he's like super strategic he's like one per top one percent in dota he's like super war hammer but he still kind of like likes to have fun and play goofy armies but when he plays goofy armies he does it as like when you play league and you like play the worst champion to kind of like handicap yourself down to a everyone's worst

totally i know what that's like yeah yeah and so He played and he just kept rolling so badly.

And he's like, statistically, this like isn't even, this is even bad luck.

This is like terrible luck.

And he's just like rolling.

And I'm like, then everyone else is rolling so good.

I'm like, oh yeah, I saved it.

Saved it.

Saved it.

Oh, yeah.

I saved it.

Okay.

You're dead.

All right.

I'm going to shoot your guy.

Oh, he's dead.

My rats just shot you.

And he's just like, I'm not even having fun.

I'm not even.

It's like, I just, there hits a point sometimes in those dice games where you're just like, yeah, it's bad.

And I kind of appreciate when the other person is like, to be honest, I'm tilting so hard right now.

Like, I'm not having fun.

This sucks right now.

Yeah, it's, but then, like, my my other friend.

He'll just be like, this army sucks.

Like he won't blame the game.

He'll just be like, yeah, this army sucks.

And we're like, this is like the top army in the game right now.

He's like, yeah, they're just too swingy.

They suck.

I feel like there's, there's a difference.

So hanging out with friends, doing it, like, you know, playing Warhammer, for example, and just being around friends and doing it in like some guy's basement, I feel like that's a different level of getting angry than

entertainment anger.

Does that make sense?

Like, when I'm on a great example, is I played Indiana Jones, by the way, love that game.

Great Circle is phenomenal.

except for the jungle level can literally lick my scroat.

It sucks.

I hate it so much.

And what sucked about it is the entire time I'm saying, like, I love this game.

I'm honest here.

I'm like, I love this game.

I'm having so much fun.

I hate this part.

And I had to keep saying it.

People eventually in chat were, because I was watching back the video yesterday and people in chat were like, um.

Why do you keep saying you like this game so much?

I was like, because I'm trying to convince myself I do.

I don't want to shout and yell because this bit sucks so much.

Yes.

Like

everything about that level drove me crazy.

I was like, I believe at one point I said, I want to find the dev who made this level and street fight them.

I want to fight them to the death.

I hate this level so much.

But then the minute the level was done, I was like, oh, thank God.

I'm so happy to be back in the game.

It's like that one.

And it sucks because I don't want to be.

like angry on stream because i'm here to like entertain not be a piece of shit but sometimes these games oh they frustrate me in ways that i did not expect and like make me so mad i'm like why did you design it this way what fool would do this that was uh yeah that was me with lies of p i kept being like this game is so great i love this game so much it's like dark souls but with a story i'm having a great time And I was saying it so much more when I was fighting a boss that I did not enjoy fighting.

I was like, I, so many of these boss fights, I'm like, I could do this fight forever.

Like the mechanics are really fun.

I'm okay with it taking a really long time.

And then there were a couple of bosses where I was like, I will do anything.

I will pay any amount of money.

I will cheese the shit out of this fight to not have to do it anymore.

Like, I,

what a great game.

I'm having so much fun.

You know, like, I completely understand what you, because you're right.

Like, there's a part of you that almost gets more stressed out because you're like, i don't want people to watch me be

like legitimately upset because it's not fun for me and it stops being fun for them too right unless unless yeah unless you're a piece of

yeah

we know we know you're watching you little nasty bull i mean listen half the piece of half the twitch streams nowadays that's all they do is just drama farm like no kidding me bro dude bro are you kidding me

reddit is just the live stream fails, is not even fails.

It's just like dudes, clearly content farming.

And it's like, brother, how many

people like that come to my stream?

Like, Crendra, you're not in OnlyFangs.

I'm like, I'm too old for that shit.

I'm not going in there.

God, it feels like every week there's something going on with the OnlyFangs stuff.

I don't think I realized how many people were involved or how big of streamers were involved with it because Sam was just like, yeah, I'm just like doing this wow thing

called OnlyFangs.

And I was like, cool, have fun, babe, love you.

And it feels like every single week, somebody's like, oh my God, have you heard the OnlyFangs drama?

And I'm like, I,

no.

Yeah.

It's like, they're like, whoa, Krendor, you know, OnlyFang?

Every time I play my hardcore character, I'm like a 52 shaman.

I'm just solo grinding.

And I'm just like, yep, my goal is I hit 60.

I jump on Thunderbolt.

And then that's it.

I return to the Earth, mother.

Perfect.

And so I'm just, they're like, where are you?

You're just doing it.

I'm like, I'm just chilling, man.

Grinding.

Having fun.

It is fascinating to me to see all the drama unfold on

the internet.

Because I'm not watching it.

I'm not looking at it.

I'm just looking at reactions.

And all it screams to me is: one, definitely too old for that.

Two, big high school vibes.

Three, I'm convinced that there is just some

thing

when it comes to streaming where people refuse to admit they're wrong to their audience.

If they screw up, if they do anything, they will be like, no, they're the problem, dude.

It wasn't me, dude.

And I don't know if it's like a joke to like they're playing the joke and like they're you know hamming it up or if it's real, but whatever the case may be, it's 100% people yelling at each other because no one wants to take blame for how truly terrible they are in video games in your life.

I would say there's a little of both in there.

Yeah, some people truly do think other people are like the worst, and then some that are just playing it up.

I mean, that's the what's the thing where people play games, they think they're better than they are.

Is that the Dunning-Krueger?

I mean, yeah, I mean, that's life.

That's stupid people.

Stupid people don't know they're stupid.

That's like, that's the goof.

Yeah.

But it's kind of that, especially in games.

I mean, listen, all right.

Let's say we're playing a game called, I don't know, Heroes of the Storm.

All right.

And let's say

as many people do.

Let's say,

let's say there's some people.

playing a very popular game, goes of the storm.

We'll say

a certain person on the team named Jesse C.

All right,

that's two options.

Let's call him Jaycox.

Right, right, right, right, right, right.

We're playing, and he starts yelling at everybody like, where's my team?

Where's my team?

Where's everybody on the team?

And yet, I'm bot lane, shoving in with Asmodan, power grinding in that lane, doing unbelievable work.

And yet it is my fault that you died in the mid lane.

Uh, because you weren't going to help me, dude.

I mean, obviously,

yeah, again, let me stress: there's a reason why I would not join OnlyFans and it's that because I know that, first off, I don't want to be a healer.

F that noise, that's definitely a road to stress.

Two, I don't want to be anything important where you have to like mitigate damage.

No, I'm out of that.

That would be stressed.

And three, I'm only a tank, so all that's left for me is like uh

nothing, not playing is the answer.

So, that's what I've chosen.

Like, that's why I don't.

I'm not sure mode, bro.

Hardcore mode, stress town USA.

No, thank you.

I saw Sam rank in league.

There's new season.

He's like, new league, getting the gold.

I'm going to do it with JP.

And I was like, I could do my placements, right?

Like, I can try it out.

You know, it's been a while.

And I went 0-5.

And it wasn't just like, oh man, shucks.

I sure am bad 0-5.

Like,

I.

Like, soul-crushing 0-5.

Like, I went, there was like two games where I played Heimerdinger, and I was like, you know what?

I just did pretty mediocre.

I didn't play up to the standard of the other players in the game.

I deserve to lose that one.

All right.

You know what it is.

It is what it is.

Then there was one where I was like, all right, me and this guy bot lane.

I went fiddlesticks.

I was like, this will be good.

Me and Jin.

All right.

We did well.

And I was like, this is going great.

We're like five and two down here.

We're winning lane.

And I look, you just look over and it's just like one and seven mid lane, one in nine top and i'm just like

what's going on and then they start fighting each other like your lane came to mine and they're like no you're the idiot and i'm just like

get me out and then the the next game i'm like all right i'm gonna go trundle jungle that's how i got to play it all right i can i can trundle jungle so i'm like rolling i'm like four and one i'm helping bot lane out I'm going down.

I'm ganking.

I'm like, all right, there we go, guys.

Like Jinx volleyball down by.

And they're, they're like two and one.

And I'm like, we got this.

I leave for like five minutes.

I come back.

They have died.

I swear to god, they're like two and 12.

Volleybear doesn't stop running into the lane.

And he's like, Jinx does not follow me.

Jinx is dumb.

Jinx is the stupidest person I've ever met.

And they're just like, volleybear, stop fucking running into the lane, you dumbass.

And I was like, I

think I'm too old.

It's an I was just like, I felt my jaw clenching.

I was like, my TMJ is firing up.

I'm like, I felt like an athlete trying to play like my my, my late 30s.

I'm like, dude, my hamstrings giving out.

Like, I can't do it.

This is, this is genuinely how I feel about.

So you're talking about not ARAM or like playing against boss.

You're talking about competitive level

where it's, it's, people are very invested in what they're doing because this determines.

where they place and how they start and what the and it's very important same thing can be said for hardcore mode.

In, you know, for example, wow, with OnlyFanks.

These, it's, this is my character.

If I die or something happens, I lose that.

I have to start over.

The investment's so high that you can't help but get a little attached and a little angry and a little,

I don't want any of that.

Like, that's too much.

It, it has the same, again, I want to go back to like the high school vibe of high school's all there is.

It's the most important thing.

And whatever happens here, it affects you for like you

that stuff

nah

i can't i can't do it when we were talking about marvel rivals and how i was saying that like i don't play competitive in any game ever but i have i have like played a bit of solo competitive in marvel rivals and how funny it was that when you're in bronze three

there will still be a dude who's like why aren't the healers healing me and another guy like stop running in by yourself We need to group up, right?

Like, people just getting so angry with each other.

And finally, someone eventually will be like, guys, it's bronze three.

Yeah.

Like,

stop fucking fighting.

Who gives a shit?

Like,

it's like that in all the ranks.

Like, you can go down or bottom.

You can go down to like Wood League and there's some guy like, where's my team?

And it's like, dude, what are you doing?

You're like in the middle of nowhere, like

pushed out all the way.

Like a lot of times people just get mad because they died and they're like, I died, I'm mad now.

And they have no like thought process behind it of like, did I push out too far?

Did I ward?

Did I do these things?

Like, am I playing the game correctly?

And at least in league terminology.

And here's the thing: even with all that said, where I'm just like, I can't do this, there's still that part of me where I'm like, but what if I played one today?

You know,

it's still there.

Honestly, that's that dopamine, dude.

Yep.

You know, I still don't really have a desire to play against real people in that game.

And I'm delighted about that.

Either I love A-Ram.

That's very fun.

But if I'm like, I just really want to be a little guy with turrets, I can just fight against bots.

And it's satisfying.

And it's fine.

And I don't have to sit there thinking like, I hope I'm playing correctly so people don't hate me, you know?

No, I can't stand that.

I hate playing bots.

If I'm going to play bots, I'm just going to go do something else.

Damn.

But you've been playing League forever.

And I'm

a baby.

Even like 12 years ago or whatever, like playing League, I still didn't want to play bots.

Like even when people play like power defense things, like we're playing the AI and it's like a thing.

And I'm just like,

when do we like, when do we get the dopamine hit, man?

Like when, when are we up in that?

Do you feel like it's not as satisfying unless you're destroying another living person?

Yeah, there's the element.

There's the, and I think that's why I appreciate Sam because Sam's got that too.

Yeah.

Like he's got that drive where he's like, I just want to, I just want to beat someone else and then type GG in the chat when you know they're tilting.

Just be like, good game, guys.

Yeah, it's always the winning team that's like, good game, everyone.

You're like, okay.

It takes a real, a real personality to be like, good game after you've just gotten absolutely destroyed.

I say GG.

My favorite is the guy who just, the guy who just writes BG at the end is my favorite.

Because that guy you know, he don't give a shit.

He's like, that's me.

Bad game, actually.

The amount of times I've written BG is like, it's got to be in the thousands.

Well, there you go.

And you know what?

It usually was.

I think my favorite person in chat is.

The person who, because you can like message your team or you can message everybody in the match, right?

The person who will go into the chat to talk to everybody and will complain about people on their team.

Like, it's not me, guys.

Okay.

Like, our team's doing really bad.

And it's because of this fucking guy.

I'm actually a really good player.

It's like, who are you trying to impress right now?

We're all failing.

Yeah, you shouted at me.

Just take the L.

Move on to the next match, dude.

Why are you typing?

You seeing this guy over here?

Everybody in the game?

You guys seeing him?

It's pretty bad, huh?

I'm really good with Groot, actually.

If somebody's fucking healing me, which they're not.

Dude, which should settle down?

Here's the thing.

I got the ranked in Marvel rivals, but like, I don't really care as much because I'm just kind of like running around, just playing whatever.

So, like, I can play ranked in that game and not care.

But I'm still just kind of like, ah, that game sucked, whatever, move on.

But I think I just play it more casually.

But I do main squirrel girl.

Because it's just junk riot.

Junk riot, yeah.

Yeah.

And it's usually the easiest because it just kills everyone.

You just sit there going like,

squirrel stampede.

Goodunk, gadunk, gadunk, ga-dunk.

And that's it.

That's the gameplay.

Ever since her rework, the number of times I die to those fucking squirrels, the second I hear it, I feel anxiety.

Like, no.

So it's the same vibe as when playing junkwrite and you hear that.

And then you're like, where's it going?

Either I can kill those fucking squirrels or I can leave as quickly as possible.

Those are my only options.

You have to, then you just pick which tool you want.

Like sometimes they're squishy and annoying.

Then I just go Wolverine and I literally like roll my head on the keyboard and just go like,

that's fun.

And then other times I go Hanzo, right?

You go Hawkeye and you just

for the headshots.

And that's really my lineup.

Is that, do you just have all your audio set to ga dunk, ga-dunk for all characters?

That's the true audio if you go listen.

It's just your voice.

Yeah.

Good dunk, good dunk, good dunk.

I also like Venom.

Venom's a fun tank too.

You just swing and then you slam.

Yeah, no.

He goes like, he doesn't even punch, dude.

He goes.

That's the new hit dance.

The good dunk.

I will say, the one, this is weird to me, but the one PvP

I actually enjoy.

Also, I think it's because I decided that I didn't want to actually be in combat.

I just wanted to zip around the map and look like I was doing stuff, which is working well so far.

Even though Final Fantasy 14, not known for its PvP, I've been doing the PvP a lot lately, mostly for this reason.

I can't stress because it is so random.

The PvP, like the daily PvP you can do is team V team V team.

And because there's three teams, the randomness of what happens and which team wins.

It's so hectic.

Yeah.

There is, yeah, I can't be mad if we lose because it's clearly the other teams, like...

One team's doing one thing, one team's doing another.

If we're winning for a minute, both teams gang up on us.

Yeah.

It feels weirdly balanced and i'm like

even though i'm not huge on the pvp in this game this one thing feels like i can't be mad at myself or the team so all i do is i i play a dancer in pvp that gives me three dashes and i can constantly get out of the way so i'm not dying and i'm like i'm helping by living

I'm alive.

So

honestly,

it's not the best in the world.

I wouldn't recommend it for like hardcore PvPers.

But if you're trying to be like a lazy boy like me,

it's pretty great.

I love it a lot.

I haven't done PvP-14 in a long time, but yeah, I totally know what you mean.

Like, it feels like whether you're doing well or not,

nobody is taking the time to check

who's doing okay.

You're just sitting there.

You're doing as well as you can, and then you get kicked out and you load back in.

Even the best, if you're like amazing, you'll still get absolutely got.

Because when 30 people on the other team just target you and unload on you, you're dead.

There's nothing you can do.

And you're like, well, all right, I'll try again.

You can't get mad at it.

And I'm totally here for it.

I absolutely understand people hate it because it's chaos, pure chaos.

But for some reason, pure chaos for me is better than like,

well,

I suck at this game.

You know, I don't want that realization that I'm bad.

I want to live

knowing that, you know, really it's out of my hands.

And maybe I suck, but what if I don't?

Who knows?

The thing is, like, never know.

I don't care if I suck at a game, but I want to beat people at my level.

It's like if I, if I'm.

I think that counts as caring.

Well, I do, I do, too.

I mean, I do care.

I care about beating people.

He's backtracking already.

Okay, I care about beating.

Try again, start over.

Like, when I got, when I ranked up in league, I was like, I know I'm a plat player, so I can get the plat.

And I got there.

So I like proved it to myself.

And that was like the last time I hardcore ranked because I was like, I did did it.

And I never have to do it again.

Cause I was like, I'm not better than this.

Platform, that's my Mount Everest.

I'm going no higher.

And so like anything below that, I was like, that's fine.

But when I play, I'm like, I want to play against people of my skill level and then be better than them and be like, hey, there we go.

I did it.

That's all I do.

I understand that.

Yeah.

I understand the feeling of like getting to a point in a game, whether it's against people or not, and realizing like, this is about where I'm at.

This is, I know how to do this and if i can excel here

i'll feel good about myself yeah yeah

i think honestly everyone likes to win yeah right and you like the feeling of winning especially against other people because it feels like you accomplish something i i get it I don't like to lose so much that I would rather not engage.

Like losing angers me in a way that I like

if I genuinely I know Krendor has like his goofy version of loss where he's like I hope someone spits in your Denny's grand slam like that kind of thing That's not me.

Mine is like I will find you on the streets and I will make sure you never breathe again.

Like that's how mad I get and I don't want to be that mad because that sucks.

I hate that.

But

it boils up and I'm like, I will hurt you.

Yeah, like no.

Did you play sports as a kid?

Yes.

Yeah.

Were you like that back then?

Like, would you play like basketball with the fifth graders and be like, oh, no, no, no, no,

no, no, I would never.

I remember, man, I don't remember what it was.

It might have been football.

We're just loss after loss after loss.

And it was like, my team sucks.

I hate everyone.

Like, clearly, it's not the team.

Like, that's,

you know, and I was like, I don't want to be a part of this.

I don't want to do this.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I, it's, I like winning, but I hate losing more.

So I'd rather not play, if that makes any any sense.

Like, I don't want to get to that space because I absolutely hate the way it makes me feel.

Because it's not,

they aren't affected by it.

Like, the person who beat me isn't affected by my anger.

Like, it's all internalized rage.

And I'm like, no one has caused this.

It's all me.

I'm the reason I'm mad, but I just want to like swing at the world.

And it's like, nah, dude, I can't be that way.

That sucks because it's just, you know, I'm the problem.

It's not the game game or the other players.

It's me.

And it's like, no, I'd rather not play.

I'm all right.

You guys have your fun.

Me, high, I'm the problem.

Yeah.

I was reading something about like

the moments when kids get like really, really upset and feel like more or less competitive.

And sometimes it has to do with like if you

feel like you're doing really well at something and then you're suddenly not doing well because you're still like developing your personality and like who you are, it feels really scary to suddenly have like this thing that you thought you were good at to be challenged with like, maybe you're not as good at that thing.

Right.

So kids that are really sporty will get more upset about losing than kids that aren't because it's become part of their identity of like, I'm really good at sports.

Right.

And potentially like as you get older, if you find yourself reacting that way consistently, there's like, it's like, there's a little you that's like, no, but I was having having fun and now I'm not having fun and I'm upset, you know?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And potentially this is a reaction that you had when you were, when you were young and, and it just still surfaces sometimes and that sucks, you know?

That's good to learn probably because then otherwise you just constantly think you're the best at everything.

Yeah.

It's not, it's not like, it happens to everybody, right?

Every kid has to like, come up against these walls of like, wait, right?

Art kids, kids that love to draw, suddenly being like, but now I hate everything that I draw, right?

And getting really upset every time they draw.

Like it just, it happens to all kids.

Well, it happens even in like professional sports.

Like athletes will go, like, I was the best in like grade school.

Then I was the best in high school.

Then I was the best in college.

Then they get to like the pros and they're like, oh, I'm not the best anymore.

Like we're losing.

And all of a sudden it's like, oh,

what?

Yeah.

So it's, it can happen to anybody.

Yeah.

I mean, honestly, it comes one of the most interesting things is watching people who are naturally talented and they coast on natural talent rather than like naturally talented plus lots of practice and so when they get to naturally talented meets person who practiced a lot and if they lose watching that's heartbreaking because they like crumble it's rough so thank god i have no natural talent

That's good.

Otherwise,

that's kind of the fun of dice and RNG, though, is because you can get mad at the dice.

It's like, oh, my RNG is so terrible.

You get more mad at the dice.

But the problem is, is I wouldn't get mad.

Like, I know me enough, going back to Blood Bowl, watching you roll dice and killing that character.

I wouldn't be mad at the dice.

I'd be mad at you for having the audacity to kill my character.

I'd be like, why did you kill him?

You could have done anything.

You killed it.

What kind of friend are you?

Oh, I would have been furious.

And I would have been like, that's Blood Bowl, dude.

Sucks the sucks.

Yeah.

And when you would have said that, I would have been like, disconnect, log off.

Don't talk to Crendor for

listening to the podcast.

That's fair.

Can I bring up something really awesome?

And by awesome, I mean, did you know that I'm famous?

Are you aware of this?

How famous are you?

Yeah.

The most

week,

actually for the last two weeks, wait, I've been getting

so many messages.

Like

a ludicrous number of messages

via TikTok,

Insta,

both Twitter and Blue Sky, YouTube.

The last video I uploaded sometime last week, all the comments are the same thing.

Everyone's asking about my iPad and they're all like, dude, you didn't even thank the iPad guy.

I'm like, I don't know what the hell's going.

I have no clue what's happening.

Couldn't tell you.

I was like, this is so weird.

What happened?

And everyone's like, oh, you're famous now.

I'm like, what?

What's going on?

Apparently, dude on TikTok with like a couple million followers did one of those like, I'm a guy on the street.

Do you want money or what's in the mystery box to a guy who Looks like he could be my son.

Shout out shout out to my adopted son and this guy I Guess while they're doing the whole like, do you want this?

This is what was weird about it.

It was like so Jesse coded where he gave him the iPad.

And every time,

you know, Jesse Jr.

would talk, he'd be like, good boy.

Good boy.

And I was like, what the hell is going on?

And obviously the bit was he was trying to make it awkward.

Like that was the goof, right?

But in the video, my dude looks directly to the camera.

And I remember last year sometime, I said, when I was in London, a bunch of guys on the street were like, hey, man.

And I said, Jesse, youtube.com slash Jesse Cox.

This guy did the same thing.

Yeah.

He looks to camp, turns the camera, goes, youtube.com slash Jesse Cox.

And everyone, I assume, because again, he's Jesse Jr., he looks, they just assume that was me.

And they're like, is this guy advertising his own YouTube page?

And so all the comments.

Now are either people being like, oh, this is him, or people being like, it's not even remotely him.

And I can't can't look at comments on anything right now because I'm flooded.

Still flooded.

I went last night to TikTok.

I had 106 messages.

All of them were either random girls, probably bots going hi, which delete, or dudes being like, yo, you want to collab?

Delete.

Or people being like, you're even thanking for the iPad, bitch.

And I was like,

cool.

So I want to let everyone know, being famous, pretty awesome.

Let's see.

Everything is cracked up to be.

Glad you made it.

Shout out to Jesse Jr.

Thanks for plugging

Sweet Jessup's YouTube channel.

Thank you, King.

Yeah, yeah.

I was like, this is perfect.

I can't believe this exists.

All I'm saying is, we need more of this.

I need more of you out there.

Like, go wait in the street for someone to interview you.

And when they do.

Youtube.com slash JesseCox.

Get it done.

We can do this.

I can't.

Like, this is the first, you don't understand.

This is the first time one of my goofs has paid off.

I said last, like, summer, if you get stopped on the street, do this.

And someone did.

I'm so proud.

This must be what being a parent is like.

I'm so proud of him.

I just want to, like, I don't even know this dude.

I want to send him a hug.

My favorite part of that video is he starts to walk away and then he's like, do you want the iPad back?

Like, he's still at near the end of the video.

He's like, I still can't tell if you're actually giving me this thing because this has been so deeply awkward.

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's so.

It's

one of those things where they really try to make it awkward, but it, like, to me, it feels like such a forced, awkward thing that it's not even like creative.

It's just like, here's this awkward phase.

I'm going to keep saying, like, sometimes there's like, they get really creative with it.

Like, I don't know.

Maybe I'm just being

a bitter old person, person but i just whenever i see all these bits on tick tock it's just maybe because i was also part of the one i don't know if i i talked about take the sock right oh yeah yeah take the sock did i not maybe that was just cox and crendor i was in the grocery store

i was in the grocery store all right

and this kid runs up like 10 years old oh

remember now right now yep i remember i remember the sock yeah i'll finish it for all the people at home that didn't know yeah

please do

he's like take the sock take the sock i was like what are you saying but then he was like take the shot and i was like i don't know what you're saying he's like you don't know and then he just ran off and i was like did i just get pranked my own tick tock like what's going on and then i brought up on cox and credendor and somebody in the comments was like i've located the tick tock and they found it and it was this guy who would go he would go around and just be like hey nice to meet you what's your name and they'd be like my name's jason and he'd be like take the shot take the shot And then they'd be like,

and like act like they were going to get shot and then run away.

And then it would play the laugh track of like,

and that was it.

And so that kid clearly saw this TikTok and was like, I got to try this.

And so tried it and picked the worst possible person for it.

And I was just like, dude, I don't know what you're talking about.

And he just ran away.

Like, it all backfired.

His envision crumbled of what was going to happen.

His envision?

Listen, I'm normally asleep right now.

It crumbled so hard.

And he just ran away.

And that was it.

I didn't see him.

I thought he could have been like some sort of goblin ghoul.

A goblin ghoul.

That guy's got some good TikToks.

That's my favorite TikTok.

Shout out to that man.

Yeah, I got a TikTok from him.

It like popped up.

He's this old man.

He's like, a goblin ghoul.

And he's like, you can buy my shirt.

It is the red robin bird ran away from home and is now not at the red robin or something like that he's like he's so genuinely sweet i don't know that man's name but my favorite thing is he goes for halloween is like i do not believe in a ghost a goblin ghoul the only thing i believe is in myself and i was like oh

he's so precious

that was great What a cute

sweetest.

I think I just don't like mainstream TikTok stuff because it's just, it all just really does feel very brain rotty.

A little like too much.

Like it's fake, bro.

You know what I mean?

Like it's just fake and everything just feels so

I don't know.

I don't know what it is.

I was talking about this today because I actually deleted a bunch of stuff off of my phone because I was like,

I'm spending so much time watching other people living their lives.

Like it's depressing me.

So I deleted TikTok.

Instagram, like all that shit.

Sure.

Which has been nice, but there there is like a weird thing where you get convinced that there's no other way to find these people.

Like there's nowhere else that you can find the content on this one specific app when most people, not everybody, but most people are cross-posting everything

everywhere.

You know, like if somebody's posting recipes and you're like, oh, but how am I going to find their recipes if I delete TikTok?

Well, they probably

have a blog where they post them or they probably put the exact same video on YouTube on like anything.

You know, you can, you can still find the stuff that you like.

I was, I was having this conversation the other day about Twitter X and how people are leaving for very obvious reasons and people were like really upset.

And I was having a conversation with a friend who was like, I don't know, man, I feel like I'm just going to keep the account open

just because there's a lot of friends I have on there that I don't have contacts with anywhere else and i want to yeah and the entire time i was just like uh-huh uh-huh question

if they're your friend only on x are they your are they a friend like does or is just someone you followed one time and you're afraid to lose them as a connection rather than they're actually your friend this is reminding me of there's a tom holland quote where he was interviewed and he they were asking him about like you know like how do you how do you feel when people post like negative negative things about you or something?

And he said something along the lines of, for me, if I've done something and a friend wants to like call me out on it or talk to me about it, they can call me.

And if they don't have my number to call me, then I don't care about their opinion.

And I was like, damn, you know what?

So true.

Yeah.

And it's crazy.

It's a good way to live.

Yeah, you think about like, oh man, I met this person at an event and they were so cool.

And I love following them online.

But, like, that's the extent of your relationship.

It isn't your besties in calling each other.

Every single person I know that is my friend, I have in my phone.

And if I get a number that is a random number, it ain't one of my friends.

So, I'm like, that's spam.

I don't even like it's not everyone.

I'm not big on everyday, like, gotta go on social media and check stuff.

But when I see things, I'm like, oh, yeah, I love that, love that.

It's one of those things where you realize after a while, I think I followed 400 people

because, like,

I don't know.

I thought if I follow them, they'll follow me back.

Like, that's not friendship.

That's that's insane.

But that's kind of where we're at, and people are afraid of losing that.

And I get it.

I get it because then it feels like, oh man, I'll never talk to them again.

But if they're your friend, you could find a way.

Message them, text them, like say, hey, I'm going to leave this site.

Here's my Discord or here's my phone if you want to chat.

And if they don't want to chat with you, they won't chat with you.

And that's chill.

Move on.

Yeah.

No, that's.

I don't know.

I feel like, yeah, if you like somebody enough, you're going to have them on multiple platforms.

Or especially Discord is probably the main one.

It's just like, add me on Discord.

It's just like Skype used to be and like all those.

I was running into an issue because I'm

like deleting my Facebook and stuff.

And I was like, oh, that means that I won't be able to use Messenger.

And it's the only way I talk to my sister.

And I was like,

surely I can figure out another way to talk to my sister than Facebook Messenger, right?

Like,

we can move past this.

Yeah, it's

weird because your brain does do that.

It's like, this is my way of doing this thing.

Now I have to do this and it's like a branch off of like

FOMO, right?

Of like, oh, but if I don't have this thing, how am I going to do X, Y, and Z?

You just like come up with reasons, even though it's not, you don't need them, you know?

Right.

Yeah, it's

your brain tricks you because it's like, oh, this famous celebrity or whatever follows me on this thing.

If I leave that thing, I lose that.

Like, brah, that's, that's in your head.

That person clicked follow and has never once looked at anything you've ever, like, they don't care.

I like the contrast in Dodger being like, yeah, my family's on this app.

Then Jesse's like, these celebrities following you.

I'm telling you, that's what most people, that's where their headspace is.

This person who I really look up to, or this person that's a celebrity or whatever, follows me on this thing.

And it's like, that's cool.

It makes you feel good, but it's not real.

It's just a thing on a website that says like, this dude thinks he did a cool thing that one time, which is great for your ego, but like, it's not a real thing.

Especially now if they follow like 20 billion people already.

Yes.

Yeah.

This is reminding me of, did you guys ever see the articles or videos about the couple on Snapchat that broke up like years ago, but they continued to message each other every day on Snapchat because they didn't want to lose their streak.

I didn't.

That's pretty funny.

And I was like, what?

And they wound up getting interviewed because they were like, yeah, well, we still, we're not friends anymore, but we're both so committed to the streak on Snapchat that we still message each other every single day years after the breakup.

And I was like, no.

There's messaging.

I'm like, God, I hate you.

Yeah, I hate you too.

Like, what do you message?

What do you say?

Like, you just got your heart broken and you're like, but I don't want to lose my streak, dude.

Like, what do you mean?

Here's the thing.

Back and forth in like a rivalry battle.

Like, hey, I'm seeing someone better than you.

And they're like, yeah, you think so.

I'm seeing someone better than you.

All right.

Talk to you tomorrow.

Here's the thing.

I've been there though.

And

so on Twitter, I don't know, maybe two years ago, this dude would message me every single day and say, fuck you.

Every single day.

And finally, he stopped.

And I waited a few days and then messaged him and said, are you okay?

I was literally worried because this guy was every day.

He hated me so much and then he stopped messaging me and I was like, you good, dude?

What happened to that guy?

Yeah.

I mean, was he okay?

Did he message back?

He never messaged me back.

I don't know what happened to that guy.

He vanished.

I guess I probably crossed the line.

He was like, you messaged me?

How dare you?

Disgusting.

I don't know.

I don't know what happened to that guy.

But boy, he hated me.

He hated me a lot.

He would tell me terrible things about me.

And then he was just like gone one day.

And I was like, well, I hope he found whatever made him happy.

Found someone else to hate.

Probably.

All this to say, there are multiple ways that social media is put together to affect your psychology in a variety of lovely ways.

Yep.

You just need to know what to look for.

Yes.

He's got a, going back to what I mentioned earlier, I think what I hate most about TikTok is when there's things that are fake.

They're like clearly fake and people think that they're real.

I see what you mean.

I was about to be like, what are you talking about?

Because you love to send shit that is like the weirdest scripted thing in the world.

But I see what you mean.

I see what you mean.

Yeah.

Like

breakups and things like that.

It's like how

when I used to watch like adult swim stuff, like Tim and Eric, like it was like weird.

It was like awkward.

They would do weird shit, but you're like, you know that they're they're in on the goof.

This is just like a big thing.

But it's almost like when it happens on TikTok and they just go up to like people in reality.

They're just living their lives and this like weird thing happens.

And then people already like assume that the person they're interviewing is either number one, a stranger and it's just very awkward.

And the person's just like, dude, I just want to go home and like do something.

Or number two, they're just a paid person where they're like, excuse me, do you know about this?

And they're just like, wow, I don't know about that.

Is that what I'm supposed to say?

oh yeah i don't know but like it's all just scripted and i just and then people are like i can't believe oh my it's like

there's those tick tocks right where there's like these couples and they'll just be like what's in your phone and yeah they're like what are you doing what's on your phone and they're like yo i'm not doing and it's like number one how are they filming this interaction right like where's the camera i think jesse always said that like where's the camera like why is it why is their camera doing a wide shot if it's a guy on the slide?

Why is there a third camera all of a sudden?

Yeah.

You can always tell by the camera, like, where is it?

Is it set up in a perfect area, right?

And the amount of times you see this type of thing, and people are like, I can't believe she said that.

I'm like, it's not real.

Fake.

It drives me insane.

The moment I realized TikTok, this is a few years ago, but the moment I realized it's all bullshit, is I remember watching a video.

It was clearly designed to be rage bait where it was this guy doing like

lie detector tests on people and it was all relationship stuff and this girl was like, you know, just like, I'm not seeing him.

I don't like that kind of stuff.

And the guy's like, oh, how dare you betray my trust.

And I was like, well, that was an interesting video.

Clicked on their page because no one ever does that.

Clicked on their page, went to go see all the videos.

Same six people, just in different roles every time.

Yeah.

And I was like, brother,

this is jank.

So all of it's fake?

Yeah, all of it's fake.

Because the idea is you're not going to their page.

You're scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.

And so you don't take the time to register that it's fake.

Instead, you just get mad.

Like, all women are trash.

See, this supports my ideas.

And that sucks.

That sucks.

People don't turn that part of their brain on.

They're like, scroll.

Scroll.

Are you saying that people consume media that just favors their biases?

That is exactly what I'm saying.

You're quite sure.

That's insane.

I would never have guessed that.

I wonder if I could find that.

There's an article where somebody was talking about how it was a woman who got really into F1 and was saying that, like, the more

racing content that they consumed, the more they started getting

weird misogynist videos suggested to them.

And she was like, what's the robot doing?

What is it doing?

And she wrote this article about how, like,

you know, it's, it's just evidence that

we need to be aware of like the ages that are on these sorts of apps because it's so easy for kids to get radicalized because they watch one video where they're like, ha ha, yeah,

girlfriends are stinky, right?

And then, and then they wind up like seeing all sorts of weird shit, right?

Yeah, but she was like, I can't believe I was, I just wanted to watch racing videos, you know?

But here we are, I guess.

Yeah, this is, this, that happened to Davis when we were doing a new canon book club for Star Wars.

And we had watched, oh boy, whatever that second movie is.

I can't remember it at all now.

Not Rise of Skywalker, but the other one.

Last Jedi, yeah, that one.

Uh-huh.

Boy, I blocked all those out of my mind.

Star Wars Man, everybody?

Yeah.

Blocked them all out of my mind.

But when that movie came out, he hated Last Jedi.

And I remember that episode because it was a four-hour episode of Alex and Davis talking in circles around it.

And I was just like, you're saying the same things.

And they just could not agree.

Alex loved it.

Davis hated it.

But Davis hated it so much that he went like to go watch people online who hated it just to like back up his feelings about it.

But he came to us a few days later and was like, I made a mistake.

I went online and I was watching people talk about like how bad of a movie it was.

And I was agreeing with them.

But every single one by the end of it was, look at these women.

Like they put a black guy in it.

And he was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, what?

He's like, that's not why I hate it.

Like, what's, he's like, whoa.

And I love that he had that moment of clarity of like, oh, no.

What?

Why

agree?

What?

With

these people?

Yeah.

And that sucks because I have that moment too sometimes where there's a video game that'll come out and I'll be like, no, that game sucks.

And everyone will be like, see, Jesse agrees.

It's the women that are the problem.

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

That game just technically sucks.

It's a bad game.

I had no problem with the main character being like a woman.

Like, that's not like, oh, it sucks that that's where we have to be.

Where it's like, no, I don't agree with that.

Everything's just extremism.

It's like, are you this side or this side?

It's like, I don't want to be on a side.

I just want to have this one opinion about this small minute detail.

Yeah.

I thought Concorde, I was like, I got so much feedback.

I made a Concorde short that was like, I can't believe they're making this.

looks like terrible right the reasons weren't because i was like look at these like characters of color and weird woke characters yeah no no no no i just thought another 5v5 pvp looter shooter thing like f that noise that sucks i never want those again and people are like he gets us i'm like

no

no no no no no we are not on the same page we may be on the the same side at the moment but it's not that i think you're right i think you're way off the mark But yeah,

that's what it is.

That's a question.

It's weird.

I got a question for Dodger.

For me,

because this was brought up last month during our live show when we did Cox and Crendor live, but we also had Mathis Davis and Alex here.

Okay.

All right.

For Chaluminati.

And Alex.

I'm scared now that Jesse's sad.

I don't know what's about to happen.

No.

Alex brought up

he wants to make a commune

for 20.

All right.

Let me finish this.

So it's 2013.

All right.

It's always 2013.

Would you live on his commune where it's 2013 always?

Have we talked about this already, or did I just listen to a Cox and Crendor?

I'm positive we've talked about this.

I haven't even been on the show since this happened, so I don't think you did.

It is.

Crendor does show up quarterly.

He keeps bringing it up.

I've talked about it so many times.

Did you bring it up, Jesse?

I don't think don't know

though i feel like jesse brought it up

there you go you did bring it up yeah okay well

never mind wait what did you say don't you listen to the god because because jesse

i remember this now

because jesse went on a rant about how insane it was No, you tried to poke holes in it by being like, could I get away with this?

Could I get away with this?

And we reached the point where we were like, all right.

alex just kept being like dude it's 2013 could you do drugs in 2013 illegally no

could you kill people in 2013 no but then jesse just kept just kept prying in i'm sorry he can't say could you do drugs in 2013 i'm like okay weed guy could you do weed legally in 2013 no so you're it you're telling me you'd illegally do like you're breaking your own rules i was trying to get to the bottom of his clear cult the man was making a cult and he was trying to play it off like it weren't a cult, but it was a cult.

Yeah, but you don't have to join his cult as like a I worship Alex Fosciani thing.

It's like you just go there to live in 2013.

It's the dude, it's the same thing.

If I say I'm living on the compound, I might as well say I'm in the cult.

It's the same situation.

If I say I don't like that video game and there's a bunch of wackadoos who are like, I don't like the video game either, I'm labeled as part of their team, even though they're being racist as shit.

No, no, no, no, no.

Don't drag me down that hole.

That's not where I want to be.

I'm not getting brought into a cult.

There's nothing crazy.

We're drinking cool and we're all dead.

Nope.

To be fair,

neither of you are people that I would look at and say, I bet they'd enjoy a communal living experience.

That's very true.

So I don't think you're the target audience.

But I did like 2013.

It was a good.

2013 was pretty good.

It was a year.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I can't exactly place where I was or what was happening.

We had the TGS Blood Bowl League.

That was fun.

Yeah.

2013.

2013 was great.

That was a great year.

You were doing the...

That everybody on the commune could be playing Blood Bowl every single day forever.

All right, I'm out.

Never mind.

You are already out.

I'm reporting them to the police immediately.

I'm getting the government to come get you guys.

I'm not falling for that.

And co-optional lounge, I bring myself.

Actually, that might have been 2014.

I don't know if that would consider that the best part of 2013.

It was a good part, though.

It was a good part.

All I'm saying is, I get where he's coming from.

I get what he's trying to do.

I think you're the one trying to make it more crazy than it is because you're relating it to all these crazy cults.

But Alex is just a dude.

He just wants to live in 2013 and get high.

I'm pretty sure every cult starts as just a dude who wants to live in a certain time and get high.

I'm almost positive that's how they all start.

They also want to control people and have power over something.

At first, it's like, man, we're just a group of like-minded individuals, man.

And then, I am the new Jesus.

I know, I'm not falling for that.

I don't want Alex to be like, I am your Messiah.

Like, no.

Out of all the cults in my life, I can't imagine Alex.

turncoating one day and being like actually why it would be so heartbreaking yeah i don't want to be part of that

Where he shows up wearing like a button-up shirt that somehow matches the short shorts he's wearing, and he's got like a

joint in one hand.

And he's like,

Oh, bow before me, you new Messiah.

Also,

bring those ladies.

I'm like, this isn't you, Alex.

He's like, Alex is dead.

They call me Mephistophanes now.

It's funny because this is what you would do.

This is what Alex would do.

You're just projecting.

How dare you call me out so accurately?

Dude, there's times where I listen to this show.

I'll just like randomly turn on geek enders.

And then Jesse will go on one of his rants.

And then Dodger will just be like, that's pretty cool, bud.

And I'm like, cool.

Like, I just want to, I want to like shout into the thing.

Like, I need to, I need to calm this guy down.

I need to set him straight.

It was like the,

the, I don't even remember what it was.

There was weeks ago.

I went on some rant on Cox and Krendorks.

I was like, you said this thing on GeekEnders and you were wrong.

We had like a 20-minute segment on it.

I wasn't wrong.

I wasn't wrong.

You just wanted more information.

I was very right.

He wasn't.

Jesse and I were talking the other day about how we are absolutely the sort of friends that just sort of like let each other keep going

with a with a joke or with like a complaint.

We're just like, let's see how long this goes for.

Like we're both just very down to be like, yeah, let's keep that.

Strangely in weird ways.

For example, I will rant on something I have no general knowledge about, but I will rant on it.

And Dodge will be like, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

My version is Dodge will be like, I'm going to sing a song and I'm making up lyrics.

And I'll be like,

just trying to keep you going and see how far you can take it.

Not nearly the same.

I'm making a fool of myself.

You get like to go,

I also just like to play devil's advocate.

I think I enjoy more chaos than I do.

I've always said you were the devil, so that checks out.

Yeah.

I mean, listen, I enjoy,

me and Dodger have numerous songs that have gone viral on the internet.

Like the bitch you crazy.

Bitch you crazy.

That is a classic.

Yeah, that's a classic.

But sometimes just, it's just something with Jesse because Jesse likes going on his ranks where he's just, like I said, he knows nothing about what he's talking about and I know nothing about

I also don't know anything about he's talking about but I like just stopping you and being like what are you talking about and then prying and trying to like get more information out of you and then all you do is entrench me further in my opinion and you ask me questions and I'm like I know I'm right

I don't need to know all the answers to know that I'm right

but yeah but there's only a point you hit where then you're just like, I don't even know.

And then I'm like, well, if you don't know, then why do you say you know?

And you're like,

here's the thing.

Here's the thing.

Here's the thing.

I want everyone to understand this.

When I say, I don't even know, what I mean is, I very much know, but I'm saying this because I don't want people to come after me.

Two, when you say something that I'm not interested in and I say, interesting, what I mean is, great job talking.

I'm done with this conversation.

It has nothing to do with me thinking it's interesting.

I'm being polite in my own way when I say these things.

It's because I'm trying to pre-prevent any drama because frankly, I just don't care.

But you do care.

Otherwise, you wouldn't do that.

Interesting.

This is what I mean.

Oh my gosh.

Both of you today have said, I don't care, and then given an example of caring.

That's because everybody does that.

A lot of people that will always just be like, I don't even care.

And then they do care.

It's just, it happens with different things.

Sometimes you don't realize.

You feel like you don't care,

but then when it's called out, like, but this behavior implies that you are more invested in that thing than you think you are.

Sometimes you need a friend to point that out, you know?

Because if you really didn't care, you would just move on and not bring it up again.

Neutrality is not caring.

Yeah.

Being upset about it at all is caring still, right?

Yeah.

Exactly.

I don't know.

Sometimes I think what we mean to say is, I feel like I shouldn't care about this thing.

Yeah.

I feel like it's silly for me to care about this thing.

However, I do a little bit.

I mean, yes, I'm with you on this, but also, have you ever tried to fill two hours of a podcast?

Just putting it out there.

I have.

Maybe, maybe when I say don't care, I really mean it, but like, we got 45 minutes left, so I'm working.

All right, you know, so

y'all, y'all try to do that.

I'm just saying it's difficult to fill the space with me.

No, I'm just saying.

That's unbelievable.

You gotta work.

We're working over here.

This is, it's like when someone says, you guys try too hard.

Like, bitch, yeah, I do.

I'm working.

It's my job.

I'm going to try as hard as I can.

These are our sidewalks, dude.

Yeah.

That's my secret.

I'm not trying.

Maybe you're trying a little too hard.

I think I try to not try.

I see through you.

You try to not try.

Exactly.

But there's an art to it.

It's like how,

it's like how non-content is truly the art of trying while not trying my life is trying while not trying

because if you try too hard you're gonna burn yourself out but if you don't try enough

you're gonna fail miserably and just sit around doing nothing so you have to try to not try and when you hit that that perfect balance right that's where you've achieved nirvana i feel like i climbed to the top of a mountain And you were sitting up there and I was like, tell me your great wisdom, O Krendor.

And you just went, you must try to try.

For only in the balance of not trying will the try come.

I'm like, what the hell?

Dude, I just climbed a mountain.

What are you talking about?

Listen, this guy has also told me, like, sometimes when I'm just doing too much, I just think, what would Krendor do?

And then I just

don't use my kindness against me, okay?

Come on now.

That's kindness that I gave you, and now you're throwing it back in my face.

You can't do that.

That's illegal.

I'm just trying to help you out here by bringing you down from your mountain.

Work mountain.

All right.

Cox mountain.

Cox Corp, if you will.

This man used to have four calendars.

I think through the power of my help, he's down to one.

This is, you know what?

On the internet, when the dude bro podcasts talk about how people turn your kindness back on you, so never be kind.

This, I get it now.

You know what?

You're, you're.

This is it.

You're slowly turning me.

You're really converting me to some sort of extremism right now.

This is, okay.

Don't be kind is the lesson I learned.

Zero empathy.

Now I get it.

I get it.

All right.

I'm going to go pick fights with people online now.

Don't be kind or somebody's going to repeat your kindness on a podcast and you're going to be like, yeah, just like really come at you for being so nice.

I feel like Jesse doesn't have enough people that aren't nice to him in life.

Are you kidding me?

No.

I just got off a week of people yelling at me for not thanking a dude for an iPad.

You kidding me.

That's just random internet people.

I'm talking about like 12 people.

You think he needs to have meaner friends?

Is that what you're saying?

Not like meaner friends.

I just mean people in his life that are just set him straight.

Right?

So it's just like.

Set him straight how?

With his insanity.

With this.

All right.

We got like, right now, it's literally just like me and his parents.

I think that's it.

My parents are solid roasters.

They're very good at it.

They nail it.

But they do it from love.

Crendor, you do it to fill 45 minutes of a podcast.

Listen, I'm working.

You know what?

You're not wrong.

I'm here for it.

I appreciate this.

You're doing great.

What I'm talking about is like, if I didn't bring up the calendars and just berate you for having numerous calendars, I think I made your life better.

I'm coming at it from a friendly way.

I'm picking that up.

I'm picking that up from you.

The friendly way in which you're, yeah, yeah, you're really doing it, bud.

Yeah.

I'm doing it.

Because so many people, they're always like,

they show up around Jesse.

They're like, it's the Jesse Cox, the funny, goofy guy.

I got to be funny and goofy with him.

Sometimes you don't.

Sometimes you got to be like, sometimes you got to be like, sexy.

It's cool.

Yeah.

What's the opposite of funny goofy?

Sexy.

Is it?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I would almost lump said more in with funny goofy.

You'd lump.

Whoa, that says a lot about you.

You'd lump in funny goofy with sexy?

No, I wouldn't like completely.

I'm just saying it's leaning more towards that on the scale.

Nate, time out.

Grendor, don't you see what's happening?

Dodger's sitting there doing the Dodger thing of letting us rant.

We're falling for it.

We're falling into her trap.

all right dodger where is that turn the two of us against each other look at her with her smug smile and her stupid cat ears she turned us against each other i've been talking occasionally

she care she's a sick lord

where would you put sexy on the scale of funny goofy to not funny goofy yeah dodger where would you put sexy hold on

I'm trying to figure out, in Jesse's mind, is it sexy, goofy?

No.

And

okay.

Right.

No, it's.

So we're missing

the

sexy

dick.

Yes.

Yeah.

I think

if you, it's the sexy sort of depends because you could say that that sexy is still like a

fun sort of vibe.

Yeah.

There's a little bit of like, are you a fun, is it fun, flirty, sexy?

And what's going to matter?

I'm gonna say, I don't want angry, sexy.

I want like

exactly.

So, it's leading more towards the funny, goofy side slightly.

Krendor, she keeps telling us again.

We gotta stop this.

She's using us.

She's farming content on us now, dude.

We gotta stop this.

No, no, no, no.

I'm just being the you on the New Canon podcast and letting you guys say the exact same thing, basically.

First off,

how

dare

second off?

You still didn't answer our question.

I did answer.

You literally swerved it, turned it back on us.

You're like a kung fu master.

I asked

water.

Hold the fuck on.

I asked clarifying questions.

We agreed that on the other side of fun, goofy, nice time is like dour, sad, maybe mean time, right?

And then I said sexy could be like more subdued or it could be fun.

And you said the sexy is going to be fun.

And I said, great.

So then we're agreeing.

Hold on.

Hold on.

So we're agreeing that sexy is closer to goofy than it is to dour sad mad time.

So I agree with both of you.

And then you're going to be able to do it.

And this is a conversation around you.

You took no damage.

You waterbunded it.

I watched it flow around you and you he's not listening i answered the question i find it very interesting as she walked she water bended around

i can't believe it because

there's a spectrum you got goofy funny right

and you've got

angry maid

sexy is on the spectrum Let's say it's in the middle, like Jesse said.

But sometimes, okay, you know what?

I'll give Jesse the benefit of the doubt.

He can probably sway slightly

one way or the other.

All right.

I would say that most of the time it's going to sway slightly more towards the goofy, kind of flirty, whatever side.

That doesn't mean that sometimes it is getting like, you know, to the other side.

People are going a little 50 shades of gray over there.

All right.

That's all it is.

And that's all it is.

Is that understandable?

Any questions?

I'm afraid

because this conversation might continue.

I don't see what's confusing.

Oh, my God.

Jesse, would you like to pivot into news?

I would love to pivot into news.

Yes.

Yesterday was the big developer

podcast with

this guy over the weekend.

We really do.

It's too much.

It's just too much.

I'm happy for you.

I will laugh the entire time.

Yesterday was the developer direct from Xbox.

It was exactly four games.

And

the four games, I cannot wait to see what the internet thinks of them.

Ninja Gaiden 4 is coming.

They just released Ninja Gaiden 2 Black yesterday.

If you want to go back and play that classic game.

But Ninja Gaiden 4 is coming.

Platinum Games is involved with the Team Ninja, and it looks pretty badass.

So we'll see.

I'm down for dismembering various samurai and monsters.

That's always fun.

Also, we got Doom the Dark Ages, which

two things.

One.

Three things.

One, looks like Hexen.

I like Hexen, so I'm here for that.

Two, sliders.

Good God.

Instead of doing difficulty settings, everyone needs to do this now.

I'm here for this.

They have a bunch of sliders, and the sliders are not just difficulty, but like game speed and all sorts of stuff.

Love that.

Big fan of that.

Need more of that in games where you can change little tiny things.

Love that.

Three, the entire time

I was thinking, it's not Mick Gordon.

Not Mick G.

Just don't care.

Like, that sucks because I want to love dark ages, but the entire entire time I was like, it's not McG, dude.

Like, that's.

Like, McDonald's.

No.

McGuinness.

The guy who made all the music for Doom.

The music, like, that doom music, when you think doom, it's like in your brain.

He's gone.

They did him wrong.

They did him bad.

And honestly, not a fan of that.

So I'm thinking about that the entire time.

Would you order the McGordon at McDonald's?

Yes.

What would be on it?

I don't know.

I don't know him enough.

Me either.

Jesse, what would be on the Mick Gordon?

Chainsaws.

Delicious.

Yeah.

The noise that chainsaws make when you rub them against speakers.

That kind of shit.

Yeah, pure metal.

Then we got South of Midnight, which is a game that

honestly looks very cool, but I know the internet is going to destroy it.

And here's the reason why.

They went for an aesthetic.

First off,

racism but also they went for an aesthetic that is like stop motion animation so it looks kind of like but all the characters basically when you see footage it doesn't look like stop motion it looks like it's running at 15 fps

which visually i can when that game comes out they're gonna be so many dudes online posting how shit the game is look at this look at this scene it's terrible looking but it look like the characters move like like this and it's i'm telling you it's i the entire time i was like yo this game looks great

however it's going to be just destroyed online so that's a whole thing and then the game that i'm really excited about the one that i really want very badly expedition 33 we got more information about that game

old school turn-based rpg with sort of like a mario rpg mechanics when it comes to combat looks

dope looks so cool we finally understand what the plot is so i guess expedition 33 isn't, it's like the 33rd Expedition.

What it is, is every year, whatever the mystery behind the thing is,

that it like last year was 34.

And what it is, is that everyone over 34 vanished.

And so it went to 33.

And so everyone who was 34 vanished.

And so it's like ticking down to younger and younger and younger.

And I think that's very interesting.

I don't know what that means.

So big fan of like

oh, yeah, no, we're all dead.

We would have been gone a long time ago.

Yeah,

but uh, very interesting, very interesting in that concept.

So, pretty, pretty cool.

It seems very old school JRPG.

Uh, also,

hey, for everyone out there who gave me grief about loving Astrobots so much, it just won another Game of the Year award at the New York Game Awards.

And, hey, how many game awards are there?

So many game awards.

A lot, apparently.

Yes.

But I just, I'm going to put this out there as a

little period at the end of my Astrobot's Amazing.

Good old Reggie Fizeme said, so I have to admit it, Astrobot almost outdid Nintendo at its own game.

So if Reggie's going to say that it's a good game, y'all got to cut me some slack on the internet because that game is great.

If you haven't played it, Crendor, play Astrobot.

It's so much fun.

Dude, I've been on my variety gaming kick ever since my league stuff.

I'm like, dude, dude, I just

want to play more variety.

And so, but I've been playing like Crendor variety games, which, funnily enough, half the games I get, Dodger has played.

Because it'll show up on the Steam and be like, Dodger played this.

Yeah.

So

I played Tiny Glade.

That was a nice one.

Justin?

She loves that game.

Very good.

Love that.

That was a good game.

I played Rocket Rats.

Phenomenal game.

Love that.

Crendor got me on that.

Love that.

It was great.

Yep.

Rocket Rats.

It's vampire survivors, but with rats in space.

Yeah.

It's great.

Fantastic.

In fact, the dev came into my stream and gifted 10 subs, and he was like, thank you for promoting Rocket Rats.

And I was like, dude, I love Rocket Rats.

It looks cute.

Speaking of

like indie games and fun stuff, I literally have never played this.

I played it yesterday as sort of like a sponsored thing for the future, like the second game coming out.

I didn't know this game existed.

Journey of of the Savage Planet.

Did not know that game existed.

Imagine, you know, all the trappings of you're on a planet, you scan things, you drill for stuff, you kill monsters, but

wrapped in like pure comedy goodness.

Holy crap, is that game funny?

I,

all the videos in it are hilarious.

Like a great example is one of them, because it's the future.

One of them is an ad for a mall.

You know, like Sea Monkeys?

It's that, but it's, you create miniature people and they only live in a mall and you get to like do Black Friday sales and shit.

I was laughing the entire time.

It is so funny and well done.

I had no clue.

That was crazy.

I had not a clue that game was existed, but that was fun.

I have no idea what the sequel will be like, but that was that was fun.

Hey, here's another one that I think is very interesting.

Speaking of

sequels or follow-up games, not a sequel in this case.

Celeste devs, extremely okay games, Earthblade 2, or sorry, Earthblade has been canceled.

Oh, no.

I guess originally it was announced in 2021.

Basically, it's like internal struggle.

I guess there was a falling out between the lead devs over the Celeste IP, rights?

And

yeah, I don't...

I guess also there was talk about how the game didn't meet their expectations.

And maybe that has a lot to do with it too.

But yeah, I guess it's gone.

The game does not exist anymore.

They're not working on it anymore.

It's done.

Oh, that's so sad.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's that sucks.

But I mean, you know, if your internal team can't get on the same page, then.

Yeah, if you're just spinning your wheels.

Cut your losses.

And yeah, I get it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That sucks.

Then one of the craziest things in the world.

Oh, by the way, I just want to say for the record,

there was a lot of talk.

I saw this.

This is a very, like, it doesn't give a lot of details, but I saw this headline and I thought it was interesting that US PS5 sales are outpacing

PS4 while Xbox Series lags behind Xbox One,

which I think is less interesting about like, obviously PS5 is going to do better because it's the new console, but the Xbox One, everyone was trying to make it like, oh, so you know what?

I think it's because Xbox is literally selling Xbox as it's an anything machine and no one's buying the console.

Because the console literally, you can play the Xbox games anywhere.

So why would you buy a console?

I don't know if it's that shocking to me, but everyone was like, see, Xbox is trash.

I was like, I don't know.

They're just doing something totally different.

Yeah, I agree.

I mean, I think for either one, like PlayStation and Xbox, people just use it as like a media machine.

Like half the time, I use my PlayStations just to play Blu-rays.

But

the games that come out for PlayStation, I have the sense of like the only way I'm going to be able to play these games is if I

have the PlayStation.

It's like the Switch.

Yeah, whereas most games that are coming out for Xbox, you're like, I'll be able to play that on PC,

probably.

There doesn't feel the same sense of urgency to like have a system doesn't really exist.

Literally yesterday during the developer direct, all four of the games, or technically five, all the games they showed, I wasn't like, man, I got to break out the Xbox.

I was like, I'll get a game because they all come out Game Pass day one.

I was like, oh, I'll just load it up on my PC day one.

Like, that's,

you know, there's no reason to have an Xbox.

you can literally also just plug your Xbox controller into your PC.

So there is no reason to so yeah, I get why you would buy it if you don't have a PC, but like there's not a need for an Xbox.

So I was just like, I read that article and was like, well, yeah, of course no one's buying an Xbox because you can play Xbox games on like literally TVs have an Xbox app in them.

Right.

Like you don't even need like you don't even need to have one.

So yeah, Xbox gotta be like their lowest point right now.

Like people used to buy Xboxes like dude Halo and dude like all these games and now it's just like you can play every game on the Xbox anywhere else.

But like Switch like Switch, it's like, oh, the specs are terrible on the Switch, but like how else am I gonna play all my favorite Nintendo games?

Like that's that's that which by the way Switch 2

I'm ready, dude.

Are you excited?

I'm still holding out hope that Animal Crossing is going to be a main launch title.

All right.

I'm holding so much.

I'm so happy for you.

As a person who is not even remotely excited for Switch 2 until I see like a real game that I'm excited for, I love that Mario Kart got you.

Bless you.

Your innocence is joyful.

Well,

I don't know who like Mario Kart that much.

It's just

going to buy it just to buy it?

No, I just know that I'm going to play numerous Switch games.

I've already played more Switch games

for other console games.

I don't doubt I'll get a Switch 2, which should have been called Super Switch.

I don't know why we're not doing that.

I agree.

I think it should have been called Super Switch.

Super Switch is amazing.

But I would, it feels like a wait situation.

Like, Nintendo only really puts out their first-party titles every so often.

And I don't know if Mario Kart's going to be the one to get me to jump on the train to a Switch 2 immediately.

It's got to be something.

Like, if they suddenly said, Here's Star Fox.

I would show up for that.

Well, everybody's got their game.

Yeah,

that's your game.

Yeah.

Oh, absolutely.

Which is why it's interesting that, you know, there's no real games yet for Switch 2, but people are very excited.

And it's like, I get it.

I get it.

I guess I've just been burned so many times buying, like, got to get that PlayStation Xbox day one.

And it's like, there's three games to choose from and two of them are trash.

And you're like, cool.

Yeah.

All right.

They haven't had a new Mario Kart since the Wii U days.

Like the current Mario Kart

on the Wii U.

Yeah.

Oh, no, I get it.

I'm not going to say don't buy it.

I'm saying personally for me, I'm going to wait until it's something that I want to play because there's no reason.

Just like everyone sign up, PlayStation Pro, I'm like,

unless there's a game that really requires me to have a pro, I'm fine.

I don't need to buy that.

Yeah.

This one Animal Crossing.

It's been five years.

We need another one.

My kid would go feral for a new Animal Crossing.

She's at the age for it.

It's one of the best-selling games on the Nintendo Switch.

Like, one of the best-selling games on the side.

Real talk.

It really did.

It really did.

I have my large Poppy.

Oh, my God.

Of course, you do.

Very cute.

Toaster Woman got it for me for my birthday one year.

Poppy was my main villager.

So she, it would be her camo frog.

And the rest

at all.

Yeah.

Then the rest.

Yeah.

So I'm hoping that that's why they haven't had any Animal Crossing updates lately because they've been working so hard on the Switch to Animal Crossing.

It's going to come out with the system or shortly thereafter.

And it's going to be fantastic.

And everyone's going to have a great time.

And Nintendo will update it frequently.

Yep.

Yep.

Speaking of next-gen stuff,

we got stuff about

the next Final Fantasy VII game.

My favorite little tidbit of it, besides like some, we really think we're going to nail the ending, that kind of stuff, which I'll see it.

I'll believe it when I see it.

Right.

The best thing was, is it won't just be a PlayStation exclusive, which I'm here for.

Love that.

Very smart.

But the funniest part was, is it wasn't PS5.

It's like it won't be a PS6 exclusive.

So already we're talking the future.

Right.

So we'll see when we get a PS6.

But now they're talking about that.

I'm like, there is even less reason to buy a PS5 Pro.

Like, why?

Like, if they're already talking about, like, well, when PS6 comes out, just wait.

Yeah.

So that's, that's a whole thing.

And then,

speaking of Final Fantasy, my favorite news of the week, maybe the best news of the week.

Some might say the greatest news we've ever heard.

Yes.

In incredibly super surreal news.

And I invite you all to go look this up online.

Watch it.

You'll be like, what?

Pharrell Williams and Louis Vuitton held a fashion show showing off his new collection.

And the opening like strut down the runway.

All the models are walking to one wing angel from Final Fantasy VII.

And it is

insane looking.

It's awesome.

It's so crazy.

I don't know what the vibe is.

I don't know why they decided to do that, but it's just like,

like models walking.

It's crazy.

That's amazing.

I have to see that.

Big fan of that.

Roll the clip.

Yeah, roll the clip.

And yeah, that is it for the news this week.

Amazing.

Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.

I hope you've all had a fantastic week.

Crendor, you want to tell everyone what you're up to this week?

Oh, man.

I am going to be playing more of my random variety gaming.

Because

I've just been going on the internet and being like, what games do I like?

Or which games do I like?

And it's usually like pixely-y strategy games.

Some of the other ones I played that Dodger played, Stacklands.

That was pretty neat.

Thronefall.

Thronefall was cool.

I played Brutal Orchestra.

That was a pretty fun one.

Sheepy, a short adventure.

Yep, Sheepy's really neat.

That was a good one.

So, yeah, a lot of those.

So I'll probably playing more of those.

On the old Twitch TV, Crendor.

I got my wow stuff on youtube.com slash crendor.

More pointless top tens.

Pumping them just did pointless top top 10 birds and quillbores.

Fantastic.

Good stuff.

Civ 7 is going to be coming out soon.

I'm sure Jesse will invite me to play.

It's going to be really fun.

We got to play Civ 6 together to warm up.

Dude, people just keep being like, Jesse doesn't want to play with you because you take forever on your early turns and then you nuke everybody.

And I was like, I'll tell you what.

That's true.

If you want, I will hyper take every turn.

All right.

I'm just going to be like, you know what?

I'll do it.

Here's the thing.

Every time I take turns early, right?

And I go slow, then we get to like the mid-game and I'm like, all right, let's go.

And then Jesse's like, what am I going to research?

Am I going to research?

That's because

I have to counter you.

Because you're like, I've got all nukes.

All my ships have nukes.

I'm like, what are you doing, you warlord?

And you're like, nothing.

I'm just putting ships off your coast for no reason.

And I'm like,

what?

Listen, if you don't even make nukes, I won't make nukes.

I don't mind.

I can play other various styles of the game.

Look, I'll be real.

The only reason why I want to play with you again is so I can nuke the shit out of all your cities.

I just need that closure.

I need to be able to drop megatons on you and be like, yeah, it feels good.

Donate.

Yeah.

Let's attack you with barbarians.

Easy.

Okay.

And then you can go listen to Cox and Crendor, youtube.com slash cox and crendor podcast.

If you like.

Hearing us rant run episode like 450 something.

I don't know.

And then Dodger Coffee.

Yeah,

got my mug.

I got Dodger Coffee there.

It's good stuff.

Midnight Sloth, a delicious roast.

You get the combo.

You get the Midnight Sloth Dark Roast along with the Dodger roast.

Great deal.

Fantastic.

It's like Black Friday in January.

Just really worth checking out.

Jessu, what have you got going on?

Oh, man.

A brand new show is in the works.

I'll tease it a little bit.

Ooh.

It is

called Tell Me About, and it's me interviewing people that know things that I don't know.

For example, our first two episodes are about Hololive, and I'm just saying maybe that's going to lead to someone being on this show.

What?

And then another one, previous guest, Necrit, is going to be on to talk about Arcane and League of Legends and how it all connects in the future of that game.

And more more importantly uh what they're doing with that and then

another previous guest a very amazonian amy and i are talking about magic the gathering so that's going to come out as there's a bunch we're working on they're really really informative i was like

you know these are going to be fun to watch you know how i know it's good when the editors in the office actually like it

Usually they're like, oh, this crap Jesse makes us work on.

This time they're like, wow, that was really cool.

So I know it's good.

Nice.

There you go.

Yeah, it's coming down the pipeline.

Personally, I've just been playing a lot of PoE2 and I suck at it.

I'm not good.

I really don't think I'm good at that game.

I just need someone to come along and write a guide for me on how to make the best build.

That's really all I want this year.

We're going to look those up.

Yeah, I feel like I need to get, you know, like, who's who's the dude playing for Elon?

Can I get him to play for me?

Because I feel like that would help.

Right.

That they're going to be able to do that.

And then for some reason,

for some reason, Crendor got me downloading Total World Warhammer 3 again because I told him the wrong information on Cox and Crendor.

I told him, like, you got to play this one class, or like this one unit, guys.

They're awesome.

And I was totally wrong.

And then I just started playing again.

And now I'm like, why am I doing this?

Why am I, I'm 80 hours into a campaign that I'm just not winning.

So that's what I've been doing.

Just suffering for my art.

Sure.

Um, well,

uh, I am still trying to finish up the Root Trees Are Dead, like secondary game Root Tree Mania.

Uh, it hit me with a one-two punch when I thought I was almost done with it, and then was like, here's a huge difficulty spike right at the end, enjoy.

Um,

so I closed it immediately because I got overwhelmed.

Uh, but we'll try to tackle that next week.

And then, uh, the follow-up game to Ender Lilies, Ender Magnolia came out and has extremely positive reviews.

And I loved the first game.

So I'm going to hop into that, do some Metroidvania-ing.

Is it only on PC right now?

I don't know.

I actually have no idea.

I just snacked it on Steam.

I'm going to look that up.

Oh, my God.

I forgot to mention

Cat and Onion.

Phenomenal game.

You play as a cat.

You go into an onion.

Right.

It is maybe one of the most Crendor games games you'll ever play.

It's only like 45 minutes long.

Okay.

A phenomenal experience.

Check it out.

You also find numerous cats, real cats, in the game as he explores a cat who's trying to make pancakes with a swirl.

That's the game.

The fat

onion.

Cat and onion.

Check it out.

Check it out, chat.

Check it out.

Yeah, thank you all so much for watching.

If you enjoyed this episode, it will not be here after this.

It will be banished to the void.

But all of the previous geek enders, including this one, will always be on youtube.com slash jessecox.

And we're on all the podcasty things.

So if you want to do audio only and miss all of the visual goofs,

feel free.

I'm sorry.

And remember

how often we do shit, though.

Remember.

Remember.

If we have a consistent, for some time, 100,000?

Views on those videos, Dodger and I will make a Christmas album this year.

If we hit 200,000 consecutively for a long period of time, I will get a Dodger mushroom tattoo.

It's up to you.

Do you want to defile my body with Dodger's weird mushroom person?

It's up to you.

Rewatching works.

You can out there.

I figure it out, guys.

Yeah.

Why haven't you gotten any Cox and Krendor tattoos if we hit 200,000?

Anyway, guys, thanks so much for watching.

That's the end of the show.

Bye, everybody.

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