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Yo, it's the weekend.

Yeah, it's time to geek out.

Let it begin.

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Without a doubt

hello everybody and welcome to geekenders

hi

another tuber edition why did i fight outros

jesse you take over i can't be trusted

No, you're doing great.

Keep it up.

You're doing so well.

This is a repeat.

Guest,

the lovely Somersault coming back, our first Vtuber on the show.

I got to ruin it, so I'll be the last.

Last time you were a cat.

Yeah, because I was.

By gods, it was different, too.

Yeah.

I was in the middle of getting my new model.

And then you just got your new model.

Yeah.

It was a little bit before debut.

Summer was like, bro, we can do stuff and match now.

We'll have matching.

For those of you who don't know, Summer and I, both of our models were made by the same lovely person, Roxo.

Shout out to Roxo.

We love Roxoa.

He's the best dad.

Yeah, did both of our models.

So we were like, oh my gosh, do a Geekenders and we'll match.

And Jesse, Jesse decided to be the human amongst Muppets today.

I've been happy with my model for some time.

So I don't need to, you know, I'm working.

I'm working on improving the model, obviously.

obviously, but like, you know,

it's a very good one, yeah.

Hold on, you're right, yes, there's always room for improvement.

One second,

okay, holding

there.

It is.

Oh, my God, the 2.0.

Wow.

I like this.

I like this new outfit debut.

I was just going to say.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh,

this is a good DLC.

For audio listeners, he just put on an eye patch, bunny ears, and he has a pipe in his hand and a pipe.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Man, when's your outfit debut, Jess?

This is great.

Right now.

Right now.

Wow.

I'm so honored.

Jessica's new model outfit debut.

We're seeing it live.

My name is Wacky von vonbion and i'm uh i'm uh i'm a bunny pirate uh count

and i my backstory is that i was a rabbit but then a count willed all this to me

and so

i spent my his money traveling the world but then i fought pirates and they took my eye oh

I love that.

That's good.

That's really good.

I like the little

Thank you.

Yeah.

I'm a 12th level Corsair.

Oh.

Yeah.

I specced into dual-wielding pistols,

and I have

20 charisma.

Do you have steady aim as a bonus action?

Nah, I'm a rabbit.

I put all my points into charisma and fucking.

Oh, dang.

Because I'm a rabbit.

yeah, that's what rappers do.

That is an easy joke.

I was when I was in God Forrest, I played a rabbit person, and literally anytime there was an opportunity for me to kiss somebody, I was like, bye.

Just bye.

It's an easy joke.

It's funny.

Yeah, because that's what rappers do.

Yep, because that's look, make makes one-dimensional rabbit

will kiss everybody.

Didn't she have like a million siblings too?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I got, that's part of

my story yes

your siblings or the yeah

oh i mean not at the same time

but you know yeah that's sure that's mom and dad were crazy yeah my my dad reginald fun beyond and my mom louise fun beyond they had a one million kids Wow

we're all named roughly the same thing.

It's true.

You know,

I love that.

I mean, I guess, you know, if you were going to have a million kids, eventually you'd run out of names or you'd just get sick of naming,

right?

I'm happy I wasn't named one of the,

you know, Jesse IV.

That sucks.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

You know what I'm saying?

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Well, it's an honor to have two VTubers on the show today.

Thank you.

I guess three if you include me.

All right.

Yeah.

It's It's good.

It's good vibes here today.

Yep.

Nope.

Well, summer.

Triggle it.

Here, toggle it, toggle it, toggle outfits.

No, it's okay.

You can toggle back to your last outfit.

Toggle outfits.

People like the classics, you know?

It's new and fun, but people still like the classics.

Yeah.

I can't believe we're getting a strip show, too.

I know, God.

It's a good show today.

Yeah.

For audio listeners, Jesse's now taking off the eye patch bunny ears.

Oh, he's shy.

Oh, he's shy, Jesse, now.

Oh, my God.

Oh, he's shy, flirtatious, Jesse now.

Hello.

Welcome back.

You know what?

Don't do that.

Don't mash your eyes with an ill f ill-fitting everything.

Don't do that, kids.

Yeah, does that not feel good?

Nope.

Can't say it didn't.

Oh, my goodness.

Why?

Well, Summer, I kind of know what you've been up to because I've spent like every day with you.

But hey, how's life?

What have you been up to, man?

Oh, I don't know.

I've been silk songing.

I've been playing Cobblemon.

Yeah.

I've done a lot of time.

Hold on.

Time out.

Time out.

Time out.

What do you mean by you've been spending every day with Summer?

Because we've been playing Cobblemon together every day.

Is that why you ignore me?

Oh, you don't answer my messages?

What?

What?

What do you mean?

Is that why when I message message you and i'm like hey dudes do you want to play a game you don't respond ever did i send it at any time

yeah it's because there's no evidence that that's not true

what are you what are you gonna do leak our dms i bet you

can't though put the dms out in the public

I could fake that real quick.

God damn it.

He's right.

You're free to join us, Jesse.

I just don't think you'll have a good time.

no i'm all right okay bro

cobblemon is very fun though i don't want what is cobblemon sorry to interrupt i wanted i was going for the goof and i all right what is the what is what is cobblemon it's minecraft do you want to pitch it that's a it's minecraft plus pokemon

god what was

what was it called the version of it that i played before

Pokécraft something?

No, it wasn't Pal World.

There's a

Pixelmon.

That's what it was.

I was on a Pixelmon server before.

So far, I definitely prefer Cobblemon.

I know there's probably an aspect to that that

there's so many mods involved.

So it's hard to tell what is just the extra mods that were put on there.

But

I think the models are better.

Is this the thing?

Is this the thing that everyone all week, or I guess in last week too, was like, yo, I'm setting up the VTube server.

We're going to make the

mons and we're going to hunt.

Is this one of those things where like everyone's coming and being a part of a thing?

Are you two like, no, we're our own separate cool thing.

We're on we're on the same one with everybody else.

It is, it's a server hosted by the lovely siren.

She's a VTuber and TLDR, she got a lot of streamers all together.

Some of us are trainers.

Some of us are gym leaders that we go in, we challenge the gym and stuff like that.

But it's like RP Cobblemon.

So everybody has like their own little rp going on as well me and dodger got an rv next to spawn and we're making ekins oil yeah it's great it's fun i love dealing drugs to pokemon trainers it's great first one's free first one's free first one's always free we guarantee a happy customer

yeah summer asked Summer asked if we could have an RV.

So we'd have an RV.

I'm not disappointed.

I'm trying to figure out the logistics of the two of you breaking bad in a Cobblemon game.

My Minecraft skin.

I got a special Minecraft skin that

Summer literally has a cooking outfit.

Yeah, we're just doing that while we're catching Pokemon.

Yeah,

we make shiny potions.

Guaranteed to make your Pokemon shiny.

It's definitely not Ekinsoil.

Wing.

It's not Ekanzoil.

It's not.

Yeah, Cobomon's been so fun because I don't

super enjoy Minecraft.

I play a lot more of it now because my kid enjoys it and wants us to play together.

And I haven't gotten really into a Pokemon game in a long time because I've realized that I just don't enjoy like the creature capture aspect of games very much anymore.

But Kabamon is so fun, I think, because there's a mid-ground that I get to do, which is you can buy a Pokédex.

and just scan Pokemon.

You can collect them, but in a book.

I don't have to fight anything.

I don't have to capture anything.

I could just walk around and scan them.

And it's so fun.

It's so fun.

Dodger has been pissing me off, though.

No, I'm going to go into it.

I'm bringing that drama to this now.

Okay.

You fucking legendary magnet.

Oh my God.

So you can run into legendary Pokemon on the server and all of that.

Dodger just casually finds like two a day.

They're like just walking around.

She'll just run into one.

And everybody else is like,

How?

How are you?

That's

because God doesn't want it.

It's because I most deserve finding that.

Yeah, are you

come to you?

Four or five now,

four, right?

Because we ran into the two Moltres and then they are

plus then the shiny.

You also found a random shiny.

I did find a shiny randomly.

Ridiculous.

What is that little sloth guy called?

Slack off.

Slack off.

Slack off.

Slack off.

I got a pink slack off.

Yeah, I was talking with Arix, friend of the show, Arix Eniki, and he was like,

man, I can't find legendaries at all, and I'm actively looking for them.

And I was like, oh, well, which, what one are you looking for specifically?

And he goes, I'm not looking.

Well, I just want to find any of them because I'm trying to sell them.

And I was like, that's why they don't come to you, Alex.

All I'm saying is your heart isn't pure, is that you and Alex could make a great little store together.

You find them, he sells them.

It could be a good little bargain for you both.

They'd catch wind.

They'd be like, though your heart is pure, your intentions are not.

Right.

And they would not appear to you.

I've seen one Pokemon movie.

I know.

So fair.

I understand how it works.

Was it the sad one with the muse?

No, it was Detective Pikachu.

Oh, that's a great one.

I love Detective Pikachu, and ironically, I love it.

That was great.

That was very fun.

I love Pokemon.

I know.

He collects cards, has binders and binders of cards, loves, loves, loves them.

I love.

I'm not about all of that

bullshit card investing, though.

I like to collect this for the art and because the shiny makes my brain happy.

But I also like the games because I grew up with that.

I love it.

Yeah.

So Summer

cardboard addict.

Summer knows so much more about Pokemon than I ever will.

So we're a good team up because I'll be like, what the fuck is that?

And Summer just at a glance immediately knows what it is.

Even though there are what, 700?

Over 700 Pokemon now?

4,000.

Barfs.

I thought it was less than a thousand.

With the newest gen, it's uh over a thousand now.

Barfs.

It's too many.

It's too many.

That's a lot.

So including regional variants in like paradox Pokemon, though.

What is a paradox Pokemon?

It's a thing from the newest game.

It's like

prehistoric versions of the Pokemon and then also future versions of them.

So like, what does what?

Yeah, so they're like robot versions and also like dinosaur versions of things.

What what is the di hold on timeout what

you know like when people are like oh that's a caveman and they just stick a bone in his head like in his hair what is like what's the what is the what is it that is it just like oh yeah that's togepi but there's a bone here i'll give you an example of one pokemon that has both paradox forms so there's there's dawn fan right

He is, I'll put it in our Discord chat.

Hold on.

Okay, an elephant man, an elephant armadillo man.

Yes, his past paradox form is called Great Tusk.

Does he look like a woolly mammoth?

See, this makes sense to me.

Yeah, so his paradox form in the past is called Great Tusk, and his future form is called Iron Treads, I believe.

That's the one you got.

Yeah.

You have iron treads.

This is making sense now.

Is it a tank?

What is the...

I don't see.

All I see is one image.

You let me down.

i have no other images hey i'm getting them i'm getting i thought you're prepared for this we invited you on the podcast to talk about pokemon

drama

you said i have every i have every card

i've been collecting since 1926

i'll do that there's oh okay so this guy is like he's got his yeah okay So he's got spikes.

So he's kind of like a,

oh my God, what is that damn dinosaur called oh what is it called an ankylosaurus what is that called oh yeah

ankylosaurus isn't it i think i don't remember it has like like has big spiky back yeah yeah yeah has that vibe but also tusks giant woolly mammoth style tusks and he's got furry legs okay sure sure that's its past form and then the other version of paradox because if you got scarlet it was you got past pokemon if you got violet you got future pokemon so this is the same guy, but in the future now.

Oh, and he looks like Drodeka.

All of the future ones are very like robot-y.

Yeah, it looks like he could roll up on some Jedi and not do any damage.

Yes, yes, exactly.

And I asked,

is there, I'm assuming there is.

How concrete and understandable is the lore for why Pokemon are becoming robots in the future?

Um,

so I, so I'm not as familiar with the lore for Scarlet and Violet because I just like the Pokemon, but that game was ass.

Okay, okay, okay.

It's like time warp bullshit kind of thing,

but they're still

not robots meant to look like Pokemon.

No, they are Pokemon, but it's just like they're so the games are set place in the quote-unquote present,

but there's a little time stuff happening for plot reasons.

So in each respective game, Pokemon are coming back either from the past or the future.

Okay.

Yeah, it's

why would Dialga do this?

Anyways.

I'm not sure why I know this information.

I tried to look it up, but I have no idea what.

So what I know in my brain for reasons I can't define is that

Arceus, Arceus, whatever the hell his name is, is God

in Pokemon.

Why do I know this information?

Because he's God.

But more importantly, is he God of everything or just the Pokemon?

So

he...

That one

is depending on which media you consume, if it's of Pokemon or everything.

What?

What does that mean?

Well, because the manga has...

The manga's way darker, by the way.

It has like Pokemon straight up dying and shit in it.

It depends on which media you, I guess, take it from.

If you take it, the

game lore, it's everything.

If you take the manga lore, I think it's just Pokemon.

If you take the movie lore, I think it's something different too.

But

TLDR is Arceus made everything.

Then he had like the big three, which is Dialga, who's in charge of time, Halkia, who's the one.

And then the other one's space, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, I know that for some reason.

And then Giratina, who's like anti-matter and stuff like that.

And then there's the three little tiny cutie pies.

Yeah.

As Alfuxy, and Mesprite.

They're emotions.

Yeah.

And then that's, they govern everything.

And the bad guys in one of the games, I can't remember which one, were like, we must capture them.

Because then we can control God.

And I was like, well, that now.

Now you're in Indiana Jones territory where these guys are going to end up dead.

Terribly dead.

I'm taking all Gen 4, which makes me so happy because that's my favorite gen.

I don't know anything about that.

The last time I played any Pokemon was Silver Gold.

That was 25 years ago.

So I literally don't know why I know this information, but I do.

Someone,

since you love speedruns, did you think you learned it from GDQ?

It might have been GDQ.

It might have been, but I don't remember the last time I watched a Pokemon speed run at GDQ, but it might have been.

Yeah, I learn a lot from people having to stall for time while they destroy a game.

It's great.

Yeah, I learned more about Donkey Kong than I ever thought I would.

Yeah,

shout out to GDQ.

That's cool.

So, so everyone's kind of hanging out and,

you know, RPing and being stupid together online.

And it's, was it like

a thing you did all week?

Yeah, kind of.

Yeah.

Me waking up at 5 a.m.

to play with Dodger.

Hey, Dodger, you ready to catch Pokemon?

Bro, every single day, Summer's like, I'm awake.

I'm going to come play.

It just sounds exhausted the whole time we're playing.

I haven't gone to bed yet, but I won't play game with my mom hitting so bad.

Now I know why you don't answer my messages, Dodger, because Summer's a better friend.

Like, just a significantly more accommodating friend.

I would never.

You couldn't get me up at 5 a.m.

to go do that shit.

No.

Listen, I say I always ruin my own sleep schedules, so I will always ruin them however it needs to be done to hang out with friends.

No, I'm all right.

I'll be like, they'll be there later in the day.

You don't need me.

Yeah, but it's cool.

They've got,

you know, they've got the whole like, there's gym leaders.

Sam's a gym leader there's gym leaders that people can fight and then the elite four i think are

the elite four fights are gonna start this weekend

yeah but um

but summer was like bro guess what they're doing a pokemon snap competition

i'm so excited because that's that's my

i was like i just get to run around and take screen grabs of Pokemon I like.

Perfect.

You got to make them really cute, though.

You got to, You got to angle it right.

You got to get the Pokemon posed.

You got to

line it up perfect.

I got to get the sunshine on them just right.

Yeah.

Make sure the right shaders are on.

It has to look beautiful.

Man.

Jesse, there's so much I could teach you about Pokemon.

I believe it.

I bet that is true.

There is so much I don't know about Pokemon.

Me holds up my giant binder cards.

This is a lie.

I did one time while going to bed stumble upon an ASMR video where a French woman was

saying Pokemon names in English and in French.

And I realized the French names are significantly better.

Significantly better.

They make more sense.

All across the board, make more sense.

And I was like, yo, we make more sense.

How?

Oh my God.

Like, just name-wise, translationally, we have a lot of things like,

like, you know, Charizard and all the different, like, that name, right?

When you think of Charizard, you're like, all right, Char, because like fire.

Probably get that.

Char lizard.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like, but the French, because they're using more French, you know, vocabulary.

It just, the flow of it sounds better.

And in my brain, I'm like, oh, I get that immediately.

I know what that's supposed to be.

Right?

And I don't know, I don't know how I'd have to go find this woman's video to give you a great example, but like

the entire time I was like, yeah, no, I get that.

No, I understand that.

Like, don't that make so that's such a better version than what we have.

Yeah.

What percentage of this reaction do you think is French pretty?

Um, not really.

I could give or take French, but for some reason,

the

way, again, it's kind of like it just sounded like, oh, yeah, no, that is

that flowed a little bit better.

And I don't know why I couldn't give you any.

Like, I'm not like, man, French is like half of French is just a beautiful language, but like, also, I don't know what the hell anyone's saying.

So, but this, I was like, oh, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I will say, Pokémon has been getting better with their pun names over the year.

This last gen particular,

we got Fido, Dushbun, Fido is very mouse hold

By God, it's great.

Mouse hold and tandemouse and all those are so cute.

Okay, here's a great example.

Again, this is entirely

just

things that I want.

Bulbazar, number one, off the top.

We have Bulbasar.

It's a sar plus bulb.

Balbazaur, yeah?

Right.

But in French, it's barbazar, as in a bizarre-looking plant.

I love that.

I don't care what anyone says.

I love that.

But then we have Ivysaur and Venusaur, right?

But they have

Her Bazaar and Florazar.

So

they stick with the plant and they stick with the Bazaar across the board.

Frankly, I like it.

I like it better than Venusaur.

I like it better than Ivysaur.

I think it's better.

I just think it's better.

And that's all.

And that's me.

And that's me.

Chris Ted Talk Jim.

Yeah, they have like

Beadrill.

This is great.

Beadrill, their version is a play on D'Artagnan.

Come on now.

That's fun.

And frankly, I love it.

And I don't give a shit.

I love it.

Maybe you should watch the Pokemon anime in French to fall asleep.

Maybe I should.

Don't do that.

If you see a Goldine, put it away.

They also change what the Pokemon say.

And there's one particular clip I know of what the French Goldeen says.

What?

She goes, pussy, pussy?

Pussy pussy?

I know that clip too.

I saw that the other day.

Pussy, pussy.

Pussy?

I will never.

Oh my God.

I don't know what I thought you were going to say, but it wasn't pussy.

I mean, I wouldn't expect it either.

Here's another reason:

Zubat.

Zubat sucks.

Always sucked.

Nosferapti.

Come on, that's just better.

Okay, that's great.

I really like that.

That's better.

That's pretty great.

And Golbat is Nos Ferralto.

Come on.

They're just better.

They're just

more fun.

I'm sorry.

They're more fun.

I'm sorry.

I agree.

You've swayed me.

You've swayed me.

Look,

Psyduck

is PsychoQuack, and that fucking rules.

PsychoQuack is great.

Yeah, that's great.

I love it.

That's my spirit animal in Pokemon form.

Psychoquash.

It's my little guy.

He's got migraine all the time.

It's me.

Yeah.

My god.

He just needs a little Advil, man.

Yeah, there's Ponyta's Ponyta, but Rapidash is

Galapa.

I like Galapa.

I like Galapa.

Yeah.

Obviously,

Slowpoke, Slowbro.

Their version I don't like.

I don't know what Ramalos even means.

So I, yeah, that's trash.

But many of them are quite good.

And I like them a lot.

And I think they're fun.

You are correct.

I agree with you.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

You have correct opinions

about some things.

Pushy.

Pussy.

Pussy pussy.

Pussy.

I can't wait for the demonetization on this one.

A pussy.

And you're almost done with Silk Song, right?

Spoiler free.

Spoiler free.

Almost done.

I think the next time I play it, I should be done.

Because I was talking with my husband last night, and I was just like, I'm out of quests.

I'm out of side content.

I'm out of side content.

The only thing I can do now is the main quest.

Can I ask a question?

And this is just

the game

is

great.

However.

What's the deal with the side quests?

Like the fetch quests.

They're like quests where they're like, hey, go find this thing.

Go over here.

Go do this.

I don't remember that from the first game at all.

Is that new?

Am I crazy?

The first game did have it.

It's just we actually have a tracker now for it.

It was less structured in the first game.

You might have

things that you could find or get and bring to a person if you remembered that they had said, like, ah, I want this thing.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But this time they're like, no, you can do that.

Here's the list.

Now there's like a crack out of your menu.

Yeah.

I must stress, I think having the list is what's throwing me off

because

not having the list, I can forget about things and live my life.

Having the list, I'm like,

I must do this.

I don't want to do this, but the list says I have to do this, and I guess I have to do this.

You never have to do any of them, you can always just either not check the bulletin boards or reject the quest.

But I like the rewards, they're usually worth it.

You never, you don't have to.

No, you have to.

You have to.

You have to, or my favorite bug named Little Guy5000 will be dead when I approach him next.

You don't want to lose little guy 5000.

Yeah, you don't want QDiePie 9000 to die.

You don't want that.

Yeah.

You don't want that.

You don't want that.

It's like, what if I don't do this quest and I show up again and they're dead?

I have to take it now.

Is there a lot of

like

order of operations stuff in this game?

Because it feels like...

I know Dodger mentioned a thing a few weeks back i haven't seen that at all and i feel like um

if you go to certain places at

certain times things change and i'm watching people like on videos online do stuff i'm like that wasn't even an option for me which is stressing me out as a player who wants to see everything i'm like

but i don't know how to get that

drive me crazy there's definitely like

if you go to an area that you definitely shouldn't have gone there, but you managed to get there early and you get a certain item and then you go back to where you're supposed to be, like, an NPC will definitely like

address it or say something.

So, say I go, I'm, I'm able to like

pogo off of an enemy's head up to an area where I would need a wall climb or something like that way before I get that.

And I'm able to the game is still made so that if you get up there, they're still going to reward you because you thought to do it.

So whatever's up there, you could find something.

And then if you go back to your NPCs along the regular route or progressing with whatever stories that are, you're currently doing, there are some NPCs that'll be like, how'd you get that?

When did you, what do you mean you've been there already?

Because I've had an NPC

mention a place that we weren't supposed to have been able to get to at that point.

And Hornet was like, oh, yeah, blah, blah, blah.

And they're like, oh, so you know the place.

And it's just like completely different dialogue that they'll have sometimes.

That's neat.

That's, if anything, I'm learning

that I'm not good at the game.

And if anyone wants to come over to my house and just get me the platinum trophy, that would be.

No, I remember because Summer started playing before me.

And I remember we had a conversation early on where Summer was like, there's stuff happening in your game that didn't happen in mine.

Or like, I was doing a fight.

I was like slamming my head against the wall in a fight.

And before my mods could delete it, I saw somebody in chat be like, ah, this fight was so much easier for me because I had so-and-so helping me.

And I was like, there's a way to have someone help you with that.

I think I know exactly which fight you're talking about, too.

Yeah.

So there's a bunch of stuff like that.

And I think when we talked about it before, Jesse, I was saying that I don't, I don't want to look up what makes which things happen because I don't want to spoil myself by accident on thing that I haven't seen.

But I am curious why like X big thing happened in my game, but didn't happen in someone else's, you know?

Yeah, I would love some sort of breakdown on why things happen the way.

I mean, obviously, I think Summer's correct in that it's, you know, where you go at certain times, whatever.

But like, if I could have some sort of don't do this right away.

Because in my mind, the way I play games is the story says go right.

I'm going left.

And I'll do the left content, then I'll go to the story.

But I'm clearly shooting myself in the foot going left instead of just following the story.

And it's clear that I'm missing things.

And admittedly, I am not far in the game.

I have like an hour a night to play.

But like,

yikes, I want to experience everything.

And I'm like,

it's going to make me have to play through it again.

I don't know if I have the patience to play through it again.

I keep dying the fights.

And I'm just, I don't even, I'm not good at this.

So what I'm saying is, come over to to my house, beat the game for me.

Thanks.

I would say if you wanted to experience the most possible, continue taking quests.

So what the game also doesn't tell you is, because there's like, this isn't spoilers, there's multiple like big settlements throughout the game where like a bunch of NPCs will congregate.

If you go back to past ones, when you progress in the game, they'll still have new quests and stuff.

The game doesn't tell you that.

So so, like, you have your starting town and then you have your middle town.

And if, like, just staying in the middle town, you'll only get certain amounts of quests.

But then it's like, oh, if you go back to the beginning town, they're still gonna have more quests for you to progress other story things and other lore bits and stuff like that.

It doesn't

really tell you to backtrack like that, but it's a Metroid Vadia.

You gotta be backtracking all the time.

So, even those towns,

yeah, it does reward you for backtracking

pretty much all the time.

So

I always

have been telling people to like, yeah, when I would always mainline quests before I started doing main story stuff, and I would always go back to every settlement to recheck, like, hey, there's no new quests here, right?

That's been my key to like seeing as much as possible, I guess, so far, but also getting rewarded for it because you do get some good stuff.

You get some really good and useful things from those quests, especially like if you complete four quests here, it unlocks the secret fifth quest that you wouldn't have been able to do if you didn't do those four other ones and stuff like that.

Gotcha.

So I always say, yeah, just do your quests.

If they happen, they happen, you can always check back at what you need for them.

Do your damn quest, Joe.

Just do your quests.

Just do your quest.

Just do your quests.

It's also nice.

Like, I remember when I was playing Lies of P, Oily Timmy.

When I was playing Lies of P and I got pissed enough, it was nice to just be like, okay, I don't want to do this anymore.

What quests do I still have?

Or what haven't I completed yet?

What can I go like take care of?

It is nice to just have like a list.

I am grateful for the list in that because.

When I get pissed about something, I'd be like, okay, what do I still need to do for this dumb little quest here?

the really good parts about that too is i was stuck on one boss for so long i'm not gonna say which boss of course uh but i went and did some quests just because i could not like i was tired of ramming my head against a wall at this one boss so i was like okay i'm just gonna go do some quests well i did like two or three quests and one of the quests actually

gave me a charm that made the fight so much easier and made me think about the fight that i was messing up like in a completely different way.

It made me think about the fight totally different.

And I put that shit on, beat the boss in like two tries after that.

And it's like, the game really does reward you for those things.

It's, it's not going to like some quests, it might be like, here, take some rosaries, but other quests, like, they really do pay off.

I'm excited to keep going.

I'm just like,

I don't know if the time I have, this might be a game I play for the next year.

That's how little I feel like I'm progressing.

I like exploring.

I like checking out stuff, but yeah, I don't know if an hour a night is going to do it.

I'm like,

but

it's a very good game, but it's just, it's hard.

Like, it is a hard game.

All right, Jesse, I'm not done with it yet, and I have 107 hours.

I believe that.

Yeah.

I believe that.

I'm going to have to stream it in order to beat it, but the problem is is I don't.

I don't want to stream it.

It is a game I know

that looking at chat would infuriate me because I'm not.

I know I'm not good at it.

I'm not a great platform person.

But if you give me enough time, I will 100% a thing.

Like I'll get there.

It's becoming one of those things where I'm like, damn, I kind of regret streaming this.

But then I'm like, well, I streamed Hollow Knight.

And

this has also been the only game that I've wanted to really, really play over the past month so it's like it would be a shame if i wasn't streaming it but there are times when i look over at chat and i see that one message have you tried going around that enemy on the way to the boss have you have you tried jumping this way i'm just like oh oh

i'd get so salty

oh i'd be like

Yeah, I would be a salty son of a bitch.

And I know me.

Dodger know, I would be like,

I would say words that shouldn't ever be said like i would combine words together to be insulting i would be furious yeah i'm all right i'm

this is um this is backtracking a bit but when we were playing cobblemon summer summer was about to kill a guy while trying to

while trying to make a breeding box and like

result levels they were climbing so bad and someone in my chat was like hey you should tell Summer to do this.

And I was like, I'm not going to fucking do that.

I'm not going to tell Summer a goddamn thing.

There is not a single word coming out of my mouth.

I'm just going to

say, I know, my friend, if I say anything to my friend right now, they are going to crash out.

And I was already like mid-crash out at that point.

I was trying to build this enclosure.

And for some reason, they just kept spawning on the other side of the wall.

And you can't push the Pokemon, you can't move them, and so I was like, I have to wait here for them to walk into this damn box that I made, or else I have to rebuild everything, and I don't want to do that.

And it was, it was making me crash out because they would walk everywhere except for the one spot I needed them to.

Yeah, I think, and I don't know if this is for everyone in the case of like a solid salty crash out, but like

when I'm streaming, I want to have fun.

And when I'm not having fun and I get angry, I get upset with myself because I understand fundamentally the idea of like, it's just a game.

And if I beat it, awesome.

Congratulations to me.

Or I'm like struggling with a thing and like, that's life, man.

Like, I get it.

But in the moment, the like

deep,

drunken

Irish part of me comes out and is like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna fight the world right now.

I'm gonna start bashing heads.

And I don't care who you are.

I'm gonna start swinging wildly on everyone.

I don't give a shit.

Like, do not, like, do not have me play a video game while drinking.

I will be in, I will be the worst.

And that is proven.

There is a stream out there where I was very drunk playing a game that I was losing.

And I believe at one point,

I called Sam Strippen a bitch for not helping me.

And the look on his face, he was like nah like what he's like

amazing never forget that i was like go there bitch help me and he was like no no

see yeah i've just embraced this as part of my brand that's my name my twitch name and my user is is a pun

but I've also just accepted the salt.

I've just accepted that I'm salty.

If somebody comes in my chat and they try to give me the worst advice humanly possible, you either bet that I'm going to be salty back at you or you're just getting an instant ban and I'm going to laugh at you.

I literally, the last time I was salty was playing Civ 7, and I hated it so much that I literally yelled at Crendor while playing with him.

And I had to message him after the fact and be like, I'm so sorry.

I don't know what, I don't know what just happened.

Like, dude, that's the worst feeling when you, when later you're like, God, I should apologize.

I messaged.

I'm like, he's like, it's fine.

I'm like, it is not fine.

I feel terrible.

I just like, I can't.

I know who I am.

That's why I don't do PvP games.

Because, like,

be it friend or foe, I'm yelling at someone and I don't want to be that way.

Yeah, I don't like being like that.

So, yeah.

Yeah, that's fair.

I've, I've reached the point where if I'm, if I'm really tilting while playing something, and I see people and I, the logical part of my brain is like, they're, none of this is malicious.

They're just trying to help.

I will be like, don't talk to me.

Just don't, just stop talking.

Like, I'm not going to yell at you, but I need you to just stop talking.

No, but

once it's done and I'm past it, I'll be like, okay, now you can talk to me again.

That's the thing is when you're on the other side, you're like, oh, wow.

All right.

I either beat it or I did something else or whatever.

The intensity goes away and you realize like, I made a fool of myself.

Yeah.

God, I was so

i was crashing hard man i had like a sleep on the couch moment with my partner because he was sadly one of those people that when i was doing like a really stupid run back for a boss in silk song i have to you there's like this enemy that you pretty much have to encounter on the way to the walkback and my so is just like have you tried avoiding him

And I just, I looked at him dead ass.

I looked at him dead ass and I said, you want to see me try to avoid him and then i tried to avoid him and i couldn't he said no you got to do it this way i banned him i demoded him and i banned him i said you can come back in an hour when i'm less salty

when i'm done with this yeah and it's so very obvious dude just trying to help like that's that's yeah obviously i get it like i'm trying to give you a solution but um in those moments You don't want a solution.

You want like

just to beat it.

You're like, I don't want to, I don't want other options.

I just want to beat it.

And I just want to move on with my life.

But it's like, your words do not help me.

You're not me.

I'm me.

And I'm failing right now.

So how dare you?

Yeah, it sucks.

But like,

it happens.

I mean, that's the same thing with

like when I do any sort of game and people in chat see a thing that I don't see.

When you're in the moment,

you aren't focused on like the peripheral.

You're like in and so sometimes i'll go back and i'll watch a vod or something and be like oh my god it's so obvious am i blind what was i what the hell

it happens so often me and dodger there's a mini man

like i was gonna say bro summer was watching me play silk song because summer's way ahead of me and was like

do you have a thing you must have this thing unlocked can i tell you what it is and i was just like dude i'm so mentally like done.

Like, don't tell me about it now.

Just tell me about it next time.

And so the next day, someone was like, I went back through your VOD to see if you have this thing.

And you do, why aren't you using it?

And it turned out that there's an NPC that I have just been walking by over and over and over again.

Cause I was like, I don't have that NPC anywhere right now.

Like, I literally watched you walk by them like four times.

I was like, no, I'm so glad that you didn't notice that.

Well, it was so funny because I was like, you want the good news or the bad news?

The good news is she's there.

The bad news is you have looked in every part of that game screen that she wasn't.

You have just knocked me up.

It's like, thank God I read that after a good night's sleep because otherwise I'd have crafted out real bad.

Yes, I know.

Yeah.

Literally.

I've been there.

Yesterday, for the first time, I played Megabonk, right?

Which, you know, that game.

Yeah, fun addiction.

And I had the exact, so one of the parts of that, you know, we talked about it last week, but one of the parts that is you have to find the boss's like gate.

And there was one, I unlocked good old skateboard boy.

And

yeah,

it was amazing.

And I had him to the point where he was flinging, like, I'm going to say 20 bones.

Just the map was filled.

I was unstoppable.

I was an ungodly killing machine.

It was great.

Couldn't find that portal to save my life.

Couldn't do it.

And I got more and more salty as time was.

And chat's like, try over there.

Go northeast.

Go to the.

And I was doing it and I still wasn't finding it.

I was getting more and more pissed because I was like, this is the best build I've ever had.

This could go all the way.

I'm winning.

Nope.

Couldn't find the portal.

By the time I found it, I was already on like 35 seconds of ghosts attacking me.

And I was like, God damn you.

Fuck this.

I was so mad.

Yeah.

I, um,

it happens.

Sometimes it happens.

And chat was absolutely trying to help me.

They weren't doing anything malicious.

They were like, try this way and this way.

And I was like, I've been there.

Yeah.

Also, for those at home, when I say that I banned my significant other, by the way, he knew what he was doing.

He, we've been together so long.

He knows when my salt levels are going up like that.

He did that shit on purpose.

So it's not like a, I hate you.

I'm banning you.

God, it's a, yeah, I know you're trying to push my buttons, you little shit.

If you can't ban your lover,

who can you?

Yeah, then who can you ban?

This is also a really funny segue into, again,

it's a small world after all.

What?

I think, I don't think we talked about it on the last time I was here.

Well, my, so you know, the clip of YouTube.

Oh, you did tell us about this.

Yeah.

I don't know if we talked about it the last time I was here or not, though.

I think we talked about it.

I think we did, but you can say it again.

Yeah, it's, again, just it's a small world.

The clip of you rage quitting into Dodger stream because of the LCS.

I thought you were going to talk about the ride, small world.

No, no, no.

I don't know what I thought was about to happen here.

No, Eric, I'll get into that.

Anyway, I was on the ride, small world.

Yeah, but that clip, that clip on YouTube of that like little edited together that's my that's my husband who made that

what yeah

i saw you when you made it into a short he was like oh just he tagged me in a thing and i was like oh cute

It's a small world.

It is a small world.

I thought you were going to talk about the ride, small world, and how if you ever go on that ride,

take two seconds and look at the sun.

It is

scary.

Yeah, it is.

What?

It's

bad.

Small world.

Everyone's focused on the little tiny kids and how weird that is.

But up above is this giant, hypnotic, psychotic-looking sun.

Its eyes do like a like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

And

its mouth is like,

small world.

It's terrifying.

If you ever have the chance to go on small world, first off, why would you do that?

But like if you look it up, you're like, what the shit?

It is, it looks like it's gonna,

it's like a worse version of the sun from Mario that comes down and tries to kill you.

It is terrifying.

I'm sure you could Google it.

I'm sure the rest of the world understands how terrifying it is.

The sun, it's weird.

Oh, God.

Jesse, have you

any experience with the Wii game from way back in the day called Epic Mickey?

Yes.

Oh my God.

That was

a boss version.

It has a boss version of it's a small world, like the corrupted version.

And that shit is terrifying.

It's so scary.

It doesn't need to be corrupted.

You can go to the real one at Disneyland and see how absolutely insane it is.

And you'd be like, no, this is corrupted.

It's

nightmare, nightmare, nightmare.

Ignore all the like how weird it is that you have all these little kids saying, like, that's strange.

But, like,

look at the background.

Look above you.

Look at the rest.

You'll be like, this is

some like dark, demonic, dark soul shit.

This is, it's terrifying in there.

It is unpleasant.

Love it.

Yeah, it's, yes, yes, it's a ride to contain an SCP for sure.

Yeah.

It's my favorite Disney horror ride.

I love it.

I survived.

It's a small world.

That's a shirt that I need.

So yeah, Bonk was fun.

Everything everyone said about it.

Dodger, you were totally right.

It is entirely, exactly the kind of game I love.

Vampire Survived Me and then 3D'd it.

And at one point,

I was a monkey who could jump and hang on walls.

And all I did was play the soundtrack from, oh my god, what the hell is that cartoon with the guy with the huge nose?

The Wild Thornberries.

Oh.

And it was, and I had, and I play it because it has that, like, here, monkey boy.

It has that song on the soundtrack.

So I played that, and it was like, aye, aye, aye, as I was jumping around.

It's like, talking about that, big monkey man.

And I was like, it was great.

I loved that.

I had so much fun.

Big, big fan.

Yeah.

So good stuff.

Yeah, love the bonk.

Yeah.

Oh, I could have played the DK rap.

Son of a bitch.

You're right.

Next time.

Next time.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Good stuff.

Good stuff.

I can understand why people love it.

Have you played Clover Pit yet, Josie?

How do you, what is Clover Pit?

Do you want me to shell it?

Sure.

Yeah, go for it.

It is the love child of Balatro.

Oh, God.

Buckshot roulette, but a slot.

You write to slot machine.

I saw this and I realized that the randomness of it would piss me off, so I didn't play it.

So you get to skew with the randomness.

They have like an odd.

Same as buckshot roulette, but like, it's still random.

I'd be like.

No.

I don't.

Look, there's a reason I don't gamble.

Every time I go gambling, every time I lose, not there is no Jesse Cox one.

It's, I lose every time

because I'm always like, well, it's only 500 to one.

That's pretty good odds.

Every time I lose, I will, my parents will be like, let's go to the casino.

I'm like, all right.

I will bring money.

They'll bring money.

I'll lose all my money.

And my mom will be like, I'm up $200.

Here you go.

I'm like, don't give me that.

Don't give me that.

And I'll lose it immediately.

Don't give me that.

And she'll be like what happened to the money I gave you I'm like I lost it mom

she's like well why'd you lose it and then she'll be like I got a hundred more dollars I'm like how do you keep making money and she's like I play the penny slots and I'm like how and I'll watch her she does like the lowest bet setting the lowest everything and she she sits for like five hours yeah low and slow man low and slow

and I'm like yeah but if I but then what how'd I lose my money she's like I don't know what you're doing where's your father Meanwhile, my dad will have wandered off and gotten completely lost.

And my mom will be like, find your father.

And I'll wander to the casino because I got nothing else to do.

I won't find my dad.

And then as we're leaving, he'll just show up.

That's, that's every casino adventure I've ever been on.

Yeah, no, I don't know.

As it should be, one does always win.

The one time I was up was playing craps during Evo many years ago and three dudes, there was like an old lady rolling and her husband was there and they were making us tons of money and I was like, yes.

And then three drunk dudes showed up and they started betting against the table and they started winning because we started losing.

And I never

understood

what it would take to kill a person.

Sure.

But in that moment, I was like, if this was the Wild West, I would have shot these guys right then.

Like,

they were actively taking money from everyone on the table.

And I was like,

I hate these people.

And they did like the whole like, yo, yo, dude, yo.

And I was like,

the old lady and her husband left.

Everyone started leaving the table and they were so happy.

And I was like, nah, if this was, if we were in a saloon in like 1874, you three would be dead right now.

Like everyone in this room would have killed you.

Yeah.

No, not a.

That's why I don't gamble.

It makes me, I can't do it.

I can't do it.

It makes me a worse person.

It really does.

It, I understand.

Yeah.

It really

Can't do it.

But the game looks neat.

Like, mechanically, it looks very cool.

Is it like a horror game?

I mean, it's like,

you know, it's like you're in a weird saw trap and jigsaws on the other side.

Like, gamble.

Go on.

Go gambling.

Come on.

Go gamble.

And if you don't make the amount of money I want you to make, then you die.

Go gamble.

You get like roguelike modifiers uh every round and then you buy items that do different things and stuff like that there's something crazy like a hundred and what 160 different items in the game that you can unlock something like that um yeah and so eventually you can on the on the walls actually summer's the one who pointed this out to me on the walls it shows like your percentage chance to get each of the different um types of icons so you can see how your items are working yeah so you can see how the items and the boons are affecting it in real time.

I think they do the same thing for the

oh my gosh, what is it called?

The other modifier that's like the pattern, the pattern modifier is on the opposite wall as well.

Yeah.

So you see how much each of your patterns.

So it updates real time with based on what modifiers you have.

If you look over, it will change for you.

That's an answer.

Yeah.

So if you're like, okay, I'm going to focus on fruit because fruit already has the highest percentage chance to show up.

It's worth the least amount but if i like put everything if i focus fruit i can make them worth more and uh they're already showing up a lot right so you might like try to only grab items that are going to affect lemons or cherries or just fruit in general or whatever gotcha um because there's so many items you can i guess just like with bellatro really there's so many different things that you can get to really customize exactly what it is you want out of the game so that the randomness slowly goes away in some and you know to some extent yeah never completely but items combo with each other and different boons combo with items so and so

you know what's fascinating about this is it's like a video game 101 kind of i know dodger you and i had a conversation years ago about like video game creation and how if you're making an indie game, take two things you like, combine them together, make that game.

Yeah.

this feels like we're creating a not connected, but sort of a casino video game universe where you have like Bellatro, which is like, it's this game, but we made it weird.

And then you also have like Buckshot Roulette.

It's like, it's this thing, but we made it like extra creepy and weird.

And now you have a slot machine version of that, except it's like,

I'm waiting for the, you know, there's going to be a craps one.

There's going to be like a, uh,

like, uh, is there like an evil mahjong thing that exists?

Like, there's got to be

all the casino games, and they're just going to make creepy versions.

And honestly, kind of here for it.

That's fun.

That's how I feel while gambling.

I would love for somebody to make a good Mahjong game that actually explains Mahjong well.

I feel like I've downloaded so many Mahjong games hoping to understand how Mahjong works.

And I've never, I've never tried one that's explained Mahjong very well to me.

That's because it's um

I don't.

I don't even know how I would describe it to people.

It's not a game that I think is meant to be understood.

Like, I think it's one of those, like, if you know, you know, and if you don't, you're not welcome.

Like, I don't know.

Oh, no.

Bye, Summer.

Summer was like,

I love Mahjong.

Summer was like, I love Mahjong.

Fuck you, Jesse.

I love it

i love it how could you say that no that's we that's what we heard about you that's it's your favorite it's my favorite

i tried to learn in final fantasy 14 and that was a show

yeah and then i got i think mahjong soul is the name of it and i and that didn't teach very well either i thought

I don't know.

Maybe, maybe I'm just the sort of person that needs to sit at a table with an old lady and have her aggressively teach me mahjong, you know?

I think my only experience is like in tabletop sim, but even then it was like,

I need somebody to verbally tell me.

And it's like, I could have always looked up a YouTube video, but then again, brain small.

Sure.

It doesn't help that so many of us grew up with Mahjong just being a match game.

Yes.

Then finding out that it's not that.

Yeah.

We were lied to.

Our computers.

We were lied to.

computers in the late 90s lied to us yeah yeah yeah yeah

what's up with that

it's not no it's not

no it's not chat no it's not the mahjong that comes loaded in on your computer is a match game it is not actually mahjong it uses mahjong esque tiles but that's not how mahjong is actually played it's like a a very different game

Yeah.

I will never understand, maybe.

I don't know.

I definitely would love to.

I feel like, I think I could get away with it.

Going to like an old folks' home and learning like Bridge and Mahjong and all like the old folks games.

Like, I bet they would tolerate me enough to teach me.

I think I can handle it.

I'd bring them, I'd bring them outside food.

And they'd be like, Jesse's here.

He brought donuts.

And I'd be be like, they're prisoners.

I brought you krispy creams.

Oh, yeah.

No, I wouldn't go to one of the nice nursing homes.

Those, that's no, I go to one of the ones that are like, oh, thank God.

Oh, they've been feeding us juice boxes and dates all week.

And I'd be like, don't worry.

I brought doughnuts.

Yeah.

Oh, everyone.

Look, Jesse's back and he brought bagel bites.

Oh, my God.

I'd be like,

I'd be like, pizza in the morning, pizza in the evening, pizza at supper.

They'd be like, oh, pizza's on a bagel.

You can have pizza anytime.

She's back with the pizza bites.

I was so happy.

Oh, boy.

You came.

Oh, my goodness.

We saved you a seat and bridge.

A lot of them would think I was her grandson.

And I'd be like, that's right, Nana.

That's right.

Teach me myself.

That's right.

Yeah.

Yeah, honey.

You need to play this card.

I also have no idea how bridge works.

Side note.

Yes.

Neither do I.

So, you know, yeah.

There's a whole slew of games I do not understand.

There's a whole slew of old time.

The game in Road to Empress.

How does that game work?

Go?

I know how Go works.

No, no, not that one.

Oh, or Othello.

That's also Go.

I'm pretty sure it's the same thing.

No, the game that the girls play, that the sirens play.

Not go.

The other one.

What?

I have no idea how to describe it to you.

Yes, the game that everyone in chat said was Batgammon.

Everyone in chat said it was Batgammon.

I was like, that does not look like Batgammon to me.

Yes, the one where they have the piece, and they keep moving them around.

The giant pieces.

Yeah.

Yes.

I was like, I don't know what this is.

Yes, I'm with you completely.

It was so confusing.

But everyone in chat was like, no, it's like Batgammon.

I was like, is it?

Is it?

Yeah.

Yeah.

ah backgammon another game that i totally know how to play i used to have that as a kid otherwise i would not know at all how to play it yeah there's a few games that i think i was given by my mom and dad because they knew how to play them and they expected me to like pick it up but

like risk is not a game you think a kid would ever truly understand but that's the one game i'm like oh i know how to play risk i could do that my

parents taught me a really obscure one called hand and foot that's like the okay only big card game that i or

yeah it's like a multi-deck kind of game that's the one that i oh how does it work is it easy to explain or no uh it's kind of like laying out your cards

you and you have a partner and you across the team like you need to lay out seven of a kind of a card and you need to empty your hand and then you pick up your foot which is your secondary deck and you need to kind of do the same thing

I was like, huh?

Yeah, whichever team has like the most

piles of cards stacked up, I guess.

These are different points.

It's been a long time since I've played.

Oh, my God.

It's kind of funny to me that when you think about like old games,

there are so many that people just don't play anymore because they're clearly designed to waste your time as a kid because you had nothing else to do.

Right?

Like, it is, it is so very obvious.

Like, at a a certain point, if you go back far enough, kids are running around playing like hoop stick.

Like get the hoop to move while you hold it with the stick.

Like that's, it's clearly just time wastes for kids.

And then more advanced versions of that came along.

But like, when you think about it, like, there's a reason we don't play those things anymore because they were boring as hell.

And now

we play another version of we don't want to, you know, be bored, which is interesting.

I'm sure there's some sort of book that exists that I could read about it.

That I'm like, but there's probably a YouTube video called, like, We Don't Even Use These Anymore.

I mean, you literally just gave an example.

You just literally just gave an example.

You're like, Oh, there's probably a book about it, but I could just watch a YouTube video about it.

Yeah,

that's that's literally it.

That's literally it, Jesse.

iPad kid, Jesse.

Yikes.

Yeah, I don't know.

It's sometimes I do stuff with my kid and she gets bored of it quick.

And I can't tell if it's because it's not fun or because she's just a kid and wants to move on to a different thing, you know?

Sure.

Do you have an example of getting bored?

I taught her how to play crazy eights.

Oh, no.

If I was a kid, I'd be bored immediately.

No, she's right.

We played two rounds of it.

And then she was like, all right, next.

Yeah.

Next game.

First round.

First round was to learn.

Second round was for you.

No,

no third round.

Second round, she was like, mom seems to like this, so I'll play another round for her.

No, she was enjoying it, but I think, I think she's got that Sam-flavored competitive thing.

So if she's not winning, she's like, actually, fuck this game.

Next.

I feel like with a kid, it's always a balancing game of like,

is this thing I want to show my child better or on par with Minecraft on their iPad?

Will they want to do X thing as much as when I could just go play Minecraft on my iPad?

I don't know, because like, it's so, um,

My kid's a homebody.

I don't know where she got that from.

She just

wondered all the time.

But we found that a good way to like

have all of us go somewhere new to eat or whatever is to say, and we'll bring a card game or something with us.

She really likes the feel of like sitting at a table and playing a game together, the three of us.

So we've been trying to like try lots of different versions of that because like, you know,

in the variable balancing act of what's going to be fun to a seven-year-old part of it is definitely like

what kind of social activity are they craving

and for her she really likes I think because Sam and I are so ships in the night she really likes activities that are like all three of us so even though a game like crazy eights is not as fun as minecraft

there it was

still fun because it was the three of us playing and she could maybe win.

But

after the second round and being like well i'm not winning and i get how the game works i'm good next next game you know

bring uno out to dinner that's how you started fighting the restaurant yeah

oh yeah we've done uno

do y'all remember a time this might be a like a old man jesse thing but there was a time at restaurants where you could go and they would have like a separate side arcade

do you think ancient Yeah, they don't really.

That's what I'm saying.

This is like definitely mid-90s stuff.

But like, they would,

they would, so I remember going to places like the Ground Round in Dayton, Ohio.

And it was, you would go there and you'd order with your parents and then you'd get up and walk away from the table.

Go do pinball.

Go play a game.

Like Golden Axe.

or the Ninja Turtles, Turtles, and Time or whatever.

Like you go play a game and you just play.

And then your mom or dad would come get you and and be like, food's here.

And be like, okay.

And you'd go back, you sit down and eat.

That ruled.

That was great.

Love that.

Big fan.

Doesn't exist anymore.

You know what we've seen an equivalent of?

I don't see arcades in restaurants anymore, but we've been to two different, and this might sound weird.

We've been to two different restaurants where there's like a weird,

do you guys know what soft play is?

If I said soft play,

girl, you nasty.

So soft play is like, if you were to say I'm taking my kid to soft play, it would be like

the blow-up house, right?

One of those places where, yeah, everything's soft.

It's all like crash mats and things.

So it's like

that.

So it's like a corner of the restaurant that's just all like soft things to like tumble on.

With just a bunch of kids over there just like running around doing somersaults and shit and then eventually coming coming back to eat food.

And I was like, I mean, I guess that's helpful if your kid is like bouncing off the walls, right?

Yeah, especially if it's like in you know, you go out to eat and your kid

you want them to sit there and be a mini adult.

Yeah, yeah, it's like they're kids, and so being able to wear them the hell out is pretty solid.

That's not a bad idea, yeah,

but I'd love an arcade.

I thought that was a good time, it was always there's still still pizza places

yeah yeah

yeah

about how it was like a very 90s thing i have such a vivid memory of being with my mom at one of those and she loved galga like she still loves galga we have our own like galga arcade machine And I have such a vivid memory of going to dinner with her and her putting off coming to the table to eating because she was about to get the record on the machine.

She was about to get the high score on the machine.

So she put off coming when our food was there for like an extra 10 minutes because she was like, I need the high score.

I need the high score.

That is that like, yeah, that's Bragg and rights.

That's

why I know where I get it from.

I get it from my mom now.

Yeah.

Oh, that's, those were, those were,

it was a, a different vibe.

It was very clear, like, it's very clearly designed to get your kid to like, you know, be busy, but

stuck with me.

I like, you know, I like the idea of not having to sit there and wait for stuff, especially if you're there with your parents and it's like,

so what you guys are going to talk about?

Work now or

parent stuff?

Cool.

Through this, I've found that there's, there's some people who their entire library of content online is like games that fit in your bag or in your pocket.

Like, I want to bring a game to a restaurant or to a bar or whatever.

Here's a good game for that.

So, I've been looking at a lot of those lists because I'm like, oh, maybe I should like stack up on

little games.

The problem is, a lot of them are kind of like light strategy games.

So, I have to teach, try to teach my seven-year-old

how strategy games work.

Well, although she understands Katan, so I feel like she could learn.

I'm not saying that

you're leaving your child behind, but

the Rizzler was already famous at seven.

So

step it up.

Oh, you're so right.

God.

You are.

That kid is falling behind.

What am I going to do?

Does the Rizzler have more views than your pregnancy announcement clip?

Because that's technically her being famous.

Yes.

100% yes.

Rizzler has more everything than all three of us combined.

The Rizzler is on another stratosphere and nine years old currently.

Nine years old.

Y'all, we've failed.

That kid, bless his sweetheart.

I hope only success for that sweet, sweet boy.

Ah, he was seven.

Right, take it in.

Take it in.

Started at seven.

I feel like I've

failed everyone I've known and loved.

Yep.

And you you should because again, he came home and said, Dad, I want to make a video for the internet.

And the dad's like, okay.

And this, and he literally went

and did like a rip.

And that was it.

Next thing you know, millionaire.

We're doing it wrong.

Completely wrong.

No, this is guys, we've come full circle.

This is the legendary hunt conversation all over again.

Okay.

He he didn't make a video.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He just wanted to make a video where he vogued at the camera and it took off, you know?

Yeah.

He did it with a pure heart.

And honestly, having researched the Rizzler, I feel like there's still a pure heart there.

I was worried.

I was worried it was all cynical and a cash grab, but he's still just a kid and I can respect him.

And I like that because just a kid being goofy.

Some of the people around him, I'm a little concerned because they seem like they're in that sort of like, he's famous, we can be famous too kind of vibe.

It's the Maker Studio vibe.

A lot of, I'm like,

gotcha.

However, The Riz,

I still mess with the Riz.

I like Rizzler.

He's great.

Every video I see, I'm like,

man.

I still mess with the Riz.

I love The Riz.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That kid's cool.

Can I talk about, well, first off, real quick.

Yes.

Even though I don't need to talk about it, I must remind everyone, Final Fantasy Tactics.

The new version came out this week.

It's great.

The Evalise Chronicles has voice acting, and the voice acting is like superb.

And

it's Fine Fantasy Tactics.

So it is still going to kick your ass.

So there you go.

But I love it.

And it's one of the best games ever made.

So I don't even need to talk about it.

It feels like it did way back when, except there's quality of life things.

The UI is awesome.

And it's really easy to follow now.

So

tactics rules, go buy it.

But also, yesterday, we saw the release of of Ghost of Yote.

Yeah.

That game is gorgeous.

Like,

stunningly so.

I sometimes I forget how powerful the PlayStation can be if it wants to be.

And so, like, there's moments while playing where I was like, holy shit.

That's...

A great example is...

You can get on your horse, ride out into a field.

You're riding through the flowers.

The flowers are behind you.

And then you can see other horses, wild horses, ride up alongside them.

And suddenly, now you're in a like a herd of horses roaming through this open plain.

And it's beautiful.

And you're like, this is unnecessary.

This is one of the craziest.

It's absolutely stunning.

They very clearly are going for like, here's a shot.

Here's a shot.

Like,

it's stunning.

But gameplay-wise, first off, I want to say

we have worked, and friend of the pod Erica Ishii um yes

just

in my mind I have like an Erica voice of what I think Erica constantly sounds like yeah yeah but this game

it is I'm like oh no Erica can act like this game like the voice is

like

badass is I don't even know if that's the right word but it's like um

it's along the lines like, I don't know how to describe it.

Just

the, it's like a Western.

Yote is like a Western in that the main character, Atsu, is literally on a revenge story that is,

I'm going to kill all these people and I'm going to then die.

Like, that's my life.

That's what I'm doing.

I am out for pure revenge.

And I am going to murder, like, the best way to describe it.

I'll just start from the beginning.

Atsu is this young girl who lives on this beautiful countryside northern Japan

sort of,

I don't want to say a state, but like little

farm.

Her dad is a very famous

sword crafter, swordsmith.

And

one day,

some baddies show up, the Yote Six.

and they brutally murder everyone.

And she manages to live and swears, I'm going to kill every last one of these guys.

And that's the setup for the game.

It is

a Western through and through to the point where there's scenes where like you go to an inn and there's bad guys drinking and like harassing the ladies and stuff.

And then

she'll walk in, stand at the door, and you'll hear like, you know, in a Western's like,

right?

And then everyone turns to face the door and it's raining and she's standing there with like a sword over the shoulder, and she's looking at them, and she got the hat down, and it like literally starts playing borderline western music.

You're just

almost exactly like that, yes,

yes,

it is awesome, yes, and Eastern, if you will, and then you just brutally murder everyone, and it rocks.

I love every minute of it.

Gameplay-wise, it it is

difficult, but you can also just crank it down to story mode and one-shot guys, and it looks awesome.

You feel like a badass.

You can, because combat-wise, you can do standoffs where you know, like the infamous, like two guys facing each other, and you're waiting to strike.

And it's like, wait for the moment, wait for the moment.

And you have to hold down triangle and then let go.

The minute he comes at you, you let go, and you go like a

and they go, like, oh, they fall apart.

It's amazing.

Or you can do the normal combat of like dodge rolling and parrying and stuff.

But there's also

other wacky things to do.

Like, you can learn to play music.

You can paint.

And the painting, yo, this game does so many great things with this controller.

I keep forgetting how cool this control is.

When you paint, you're literally swiping up here.

And cool.

Doodling.

Yeah.

And that's pretty amazing.

They also do some really crazy things where a great example is

those of you who never played Ghost of Tsushima, the wind is still there.

They're using like mechanically, it is still very much like you're following the wind to go to places.

A bird might show up and lead you somewhere.

It's that combat wise, like, okay, I get it.

But then they do things.

A great example is you find a old sword master.

And he's like, I can teach you the way of the two swords.

And you're like, yo?

Okay.

yo.

But while you're training with him, it does the really epic thing of giving you a flashback to who this guy is, but more importantly, how he relates to your family.

And then, more importantly, more backstory for Atsu.

And you can learn about this character who,

when she's young, absolutely has Erica's voice.

And then when she's older, she's like,

I've come here to end you.

And you're like, fuck,

it's awesome.

And so during those flashbacks, you learn story.

But like in between that, you're doing training montages.

And the first one is he's throwing coals at you and you have to slice the coals, but you're too slow to slice the coals.

So when you're doing that, you're trying to like time it, time the slice.

And you can get some and some he just throws too fast.

You're like, son of a bitch.

And he's like, all right, you better sleep.

We'll try again tomorrow.

And then the next day, you have to slice through the bamboo, like the row of bamboo to do the whole like, you know, cool samurai sword thing, the katana thing.

And the way they do it, because you're using your left hand is amazing.

So when you have to slice things in the game when it comes to like those mini-games, it'll give you like, oh, press, you know, triangle, circle, X, or press, you know, but it gets more difficult the more you line up, right?

So if you do three, it'd be three buttons.

If you do four, it's four buttons.

If you do seven, it's seven buttons.

You have to press them all really quickly.

But when you do it with your because you're learning your left hand, they say your left hand is weak.

It is only on the left side of the controller now

so and so you have to now use only the left side of the

yes and so when you start it's like all right you're pressing you know left three and like certain you have to do like

basically a street fighter combo but only using this side of the controller that's so neat and it's really really hard and at and so when you first do it you it's like oh my god this is impossible and i feel like it's probably an achievement if you get it it right.

But I got it to the most possible, but I simply could not do it.

And that, you know, you have to press it within the time limit and you have to press the right buttons and you could mess up or whatever.

And eventually the guy's like, all right, that's enough for today.

You get another story scene.

It's very cool.

You come back the next day.

Suddenly, it's not using L3 anymore, but it's using these buttons up here.

Next day.

It's not using any of these or L3.

It's just these buttons.

And you're literally just doing a street fighter combo because you're getting better and it becomes easier.

And I was like, that is awesome game design like that is really well done that is cool as i loved that moment i was like yes i feel like i am getting better even though it's just making it easier the fact that it is easier is because i've been training on top of this mountain with this dude the entire time

Now, I don't know how any of this translates.

Everyone in chat's like, I'll wait for PC.

I don't know how any of the controller features translate to PC.

I'll be honest with you.

But like, my goodness, I'm enjoying it tremendously.

The hunt for these guys, the fights are epic.

And the fact that it's like, they're six men, they killed my family.

I'm going to travel around and murder them is all I need.

That's the only plot I need in this game.

You meet other people and you like get involved in their shit.

There's a really great subplot about

the native people.

Because I don't really ever think about this, but like, I guess maybe outside of Japan, I don't know.

But the native peoples who were on the islands first.

Yeah.

There's a whole plot line about them.

And I was like, oh, this is fascinating.

But it is very Western.

Like, you're meeting the native.

Same thing, like, if you watch a Western, you, like, go out and you see, you know, a cowboy meet a native tribe.

Same vibe.

It's, I don't know why they chose to go the direction of like, we're going to make it feel like a Western, but it does.

It absolutely feels like a Western, except you have a katana and you're awesome.

You can change your outfit.

You can change, there's weapon skins and there's outfit skins and there's different color variations and you can hunt them down immediately.

Like from moment one, the very, one of the very first things closest to my starting point was like, what's that?

Oh, it says I can find a

hat here?

Sure, let's go get a new hat.

And I found a new hat.

Perfect.

I was, I am really pleasantly surprised.

With that all said, I think the reason why I'm pleasantly surprised is because I'm playing it on like baby mode.

And I'm cruising through it and enjoying it tremendously rather than bashing my head against boss fights.

Like some of the boss fights, I know will be hard.

I know they'll be hard.

But because I have it where I'm like, we're playing big boy sword mode.

So you're going to get stabbed and you're going to die instead of like, I stab you eight times and you keep fighting.

And I'm like, no, no, no.

We're, we're going to do some stuff here.

I love it.

I'm having a great time.

I cannot stress it enough.

It's like a very good game.

It sounds so awesome.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You said

they made it seem like a Western.

Is it?

Am I mistaken?

Or is that whole thing where like pirates, cowboys, and samurai were all around at the same time kind of thing?

There is there.

Yeah, it's one of those, it's one of those like weird facts.

Like during the 1800s, there was a period where everyone was kind of like, it's like, I think it's like a six-month, like, but like, you know, there was a time when all of them existed at the same time.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I guess it could make sense why they leaned into like the western if that was like still the same time period, I guess.

But like just the feel of it like how you describe it it's oh i crave like the standoff sounds so cinematic just even the way that you described it oh i want to see a they're gorgeous yeah like um you press you can be anywhere and if a guy like is

you might find it like a random ronin because you are being hunted while you're hunting the yote six which again That's such a Western vibe.

That's like an old Western movie trope.

Like the Yotai Six.

Well, you're hunting them.

They're hunting you by putting up bounty signs for you.

And so Ronin will come track you down.

And you have to like battle them.

And they'll randomly, if you go to a camp and you like camp out, a guy might just show up and be like, I've been looking for you.

And then you have to just like get ready to fight.

And they give you that moment of the two of you facing each other.

And then it's like press triangle.

And you have to hold it down.

I learned the hard way that if you let go early, you'll attack and they'll kill you instantly.

Right.

So I'm like, okay, you have to hold it down and wait for the moment right as they're about to attack.

And then you unleash and they just it die cinematically as hell and it's like this is cool as I I loved it.

I was uh very I'm very pleased I'm playing with the English VO.

I wonder if it's like an even cooler experience to do the Japanese VO, obviously, but like I'm enjoying it a lot and uh

I discovered that while they give you a lot of hat options, the coolest option is you get a lot of hats that like cover your face completely.

They'll like come down.

Nothing is cooler than walking into an inn and all the bad guys being like well well well what are you doing here and it's like ah you know your face and you're like under yeah holy crap the entire time i was playing i was like this rocks this is cool as i it feels awesome to play again i'm playing on what is conceivably like the easiest mode to play on

But I love the power fantasy and I'm here for it.

It is great.

I don't feel like I'm like, oh, this is going to be so hard.

I'm like, everyone should fear me.

I'm coming for the six and I'm going to take everyone out who's in my way.

Like that, again, the plot is literally six guys need to die.

And when they're dead, I can finally die and join my family.

That's the plot.

And I was like, this rules.

Someone said it's Samurai Kill Bill, which sounds okay.

Yeah.

I love that.

So just going to give that a shout out.

Absolutely a ton of fun.

If I could hold up my hands right now, I'd be going cinema.

Cinema.

Aliens.

Cinema.

Yeah.

Cinema.

Aliens.

Oh, and I discovered that while you may think you're cool, you're not cool enough to fight a bear.

I'm aiming at easy mode, but a bear will murder you.

I came across a bear cave and was like, oh, yeah.

Let me pull out my sword and kill this bear.

And the bear was like, no.

I was like, oh,

I actually have to play now.

Okay, yeah, sure.

So this bear,

he fights different.

Bear beat, bear beat Katana, I learned.

Yeah.

Really quickly, speaking of Friends of the Pod, I played in the playtest, which is still ongoing and they're still accepting playtesters if anybody is interested.

But I

did the alpha of Fading Echo, which two of the main voice actors of that are Sam Bayart, who has been on, and Jasmine, that bronze girl, who has also been on and is a good friend of ours.

They're all right.

That game is very fun.

It's one of those games where

you

are able to sort of like shift your body in different ways to solve puzzles.

You're playing as a character named One, who is Sam Bayart's character, and you and your mother are at a location to like deal with these sort of weird creatures, and you basically get phase shifted into another reality,

and your latent powers activate

in which you can become sort of like a weird blob and take on,

yeah, it's it's strange, but it's really fun.

Famous X-Men power.

My latent powers activated.

I became a blob.

Yeah, you become this little, you become this little like liquid person and you can sort of like absorb the qualities of some of the bad guys and stuff.

So you solve puzzles by like changing like what sort of liquid you are, you know, like bouncy liquid or, yeah, it's cool.

It's fun.

Yeah.

It's very fun.

And they are still accepting play testers.

If anybody wants to try out the like very beginning of the game and give them feedback.

But yeah, Summer, is there anything else that you wanted to talk about before we go into news?

No,

give me your dice.

I guess

I've made my own dice recently.

Yeah.

Happy birthday.

Have you started drawing on them yet?

I have not,

sadly, because they're not in my hands yet.

But we had to do a limited drop because they sold out within 24 hours.

That's awesome.

Which is amazing.

Congrats.

But

we're working on sending out the first shimmer right now, and I get to do a rerun of the dice soon.

So I'm excited about that and excited to make more dice because we've talked,

could be, could be doing some more stuff with them because the first one was so successful and I'm excited.

And I will chew on ones and then send you both one that I've chewed on.

It'll have a big bite mark in it.

No, not so much.

So cool.

So thank you so much.

I'll make sure it's nice and sloppery when I pack it up.

For you two.

Awesome.

Thanks.

Thanks so much.

For my best DD friends that we've been playing DD together for like four years now.

Thanks so much.

Thanks so much.

Oh, you shouldn't have.

Yep, yep, thanks.

Thank you.

Well, Jesse, what's the news situation, man?

Well, let me tell you, first off, one of my favorite actors on planet Earth, my favorite character actor ever, Mr.

Walton Goggins, is,

as you know, the ghoul from Fallout, the TV show.

Well, apparently,

they got the man, I assume, with money, to be in Fallout 76 in a new update as his character.

So, what we know is that man's still living.

I don't know timetable-wise, when the TV show takes place, but canonically, I think that man's still alive and going to make it through the entire TV show.

Bless his sweet soul.

That's really cool.

uh more of him and everything please i've been following him since the days of the shield he is great.

And

I met him in person.

He's actually a really good guy.

So I'm going to keep kissing his butt.

Then,

I don't even know.

I don't even know where to start here.

It's all downhill.

You know what?

I'm going to start.

I'm going to start with this.

I'm going to start positively.

That crazy Digimon game that everyone saw during the summer that came out today.

uh the one that looks absolutely insane uh time stranger i believe it's called that came out today the amazon game, King of Meat, that crazy one where you make maps and challenge your friends to play those maps, that comes out next week, as well as more Battlefield.

Battlefield 6 is October 10th.

Same day, Little Nightmares 3 comes out.

Oh, yes.

And

just because it should be made clear, on the same day,

the other game that isn't Little Nightmares, but's made by the Little Nightmares 1 and 2 team, is coming out in demo form that day as well.

So you're going to get two Little Nightmares-ish games at the same time.

Very, very interested in that.

I feel like I'll play both.

But yeah, Little Nightmares 3, I believe, is a different dev team.

Now, the fun news.

And by fun, I mean.

Okay, okay.

Ready.

All right.

I don't know where you want to start here.

Let's start with the least offensive.

Ubisoft

and its 10 cent-backed subsidiary called Vantage Studios is now going to attempt to start pumping out games.

What those games are, I couldn't tell you, but I don't expect them to be not filled with microtransactions.

So that's a whole thing.

The UB's continuing to baffle the mind, but no more so than EA, which has officially decided, screw it.

We are going all in on,

by the way, I don't know what happened here,

but

EA EA bought for 55 million by investors, including PIF, which is the,

I believe, the Saudi

something fund,

Affinity Partners, and Silverlake has bought them.

And what's crazy is they bought them an all-cash transaction.

What does that even look like?

So that's, they like flat out went in, and the consortium will acquire 100% of the company.

EA stockholders will receive $210 per share in cash.

And EA, essentially, as we know it, I assume, nothing will change because EA is filled with quick cash grabs and weird games that are all about making money off of people buying microtransactions, which I don't think anything will change.

So

yeah.

Yeah, that sucks.

But hey, man, it's so cool when private equity buys up everything that exists.

And then

the real nail in the coffin of like greed wins when it comes to games.

Xbox.

Yep.

Game Pass increased by 50%.

So now you'll be paying 30 bucks a month.

If you want to use things for Game Pass Ultimate.

So, um, yeah,

Game Pass Ultimate is 30 bucks, premium is 15, and essential is 10.

Yeah, it's one of those things I think is ridiculous and absolutely a

it seems like

two V tubers

trying to sell you Ekins oil

and giving you the first one for free, that kind of like, yeah, no, we'll make it cheap.

We'll give you a bajillion games.

We'll make it the literal best, I said for years, the best deal in gaming.

We will make it the best deal.

And then they were like, oh, now we have a bunch of people playing it, jack the price price up.

It is straight.

It's the Netflix policy.

It's every streamer policy of like, we'll sell it cheap.

We'll get people addicted to it.

And then we'll jack the price up.

And we hope many people won't leave.

It is, there's honestly,

I'm out on the Xbox right now.

That sucks.

That's so dumb.

Yeah, that's what I do.

That does suck.

I, yeah.

I would say it was the best deal.

I can't, I can't even, like, that's so dumb.

Not a fan of the way AAA games are going.

I'm not saying this week, I definitely, for no reason, tweeted out that you should support indie games, but there may have been a reason.

Like, just,

yeah, I, uh, I don't, I don't subscribe to any of those services anymore.

I don't, uh, I'm, I'm on, like, one streaming service.

I'm just done.

I'm done with the whole scam of them being like, yeah, we'll produce one good show every so often, but like, stay subscribed, or we'll give you one good game every so often.

Stay subscribed.

Like, I'm out.

I'd rather just buy the thing.

I'm out.

So, uh,

yeah, that sucks.

It sucks the way that the AAA game company is going.

And honestly, all big media is going.

And frankly, I'm over it.

Support indies across the board, please, and thank you.

Agreed.

Agreed.

And that's the news.

Oh, we ended on a downer.

No.

Quick, submerger, say something cute or fun.

Um,

I like my friends a lot.

You should come watch them stream more often.

You can find them at twitch.tv slash jessecox and twitch.tv slash dex bonus.

They make me happy and they're a lot of fun.

And while that news might have sucked,

I can guarantee you that these two lovely people that I'm talking to right now can definitely make your day brighter and give you a smile.

Did they give me a smile?

Oh, yep, there he goes.

Yep, he's doing it.

Outfit change.

Oh, here we go.

Favorite outfit DLC is back.

God, I love 2.0.

This 2.0 model is really growing on me.

It's so good.

Alrighty.

Amazing.

Well, you should check out my two friends, twitch.tv slash SummerSault.

Summer's been going real hard on Silk Song and playing Kabblemon.

I guess you haven't really been streaming Koblemon though, have you?

A little bit.

I mainly play with it in the morning and I don't want to wake up my Discord with the 5 a.m.

stream thing.

Shocking.

And also Jessup.

Jessup makes all kinds of cool shows on YouTube as well as streaming.

You can watch some tell me abouts.

You can watch some Too Old for This.

You can watch some Scary Game Squad.

There's lots of stuff.

Lots of good stuff out there in the Jesse sphere, including all of the VODs for geek enders.

If

you were one of the people who was like, Oh my gosh, a geek enders with summer, and you didn't realize we already did a geek enders with summer, bro.

I was the first YouTuber.

Yeah, you can find that on youtube.com/slash jessecotts.

They're also all on the podcasty sites.

So, um,

yeah, there's so many

because for the audio listeners, that is

every time you like make yourself big and stare at the screen.

Yeah, I'm so, I'm sorry, audio listeners.

Just so you know, Summer was doing all kinds of bits.

I'm a visual comedy person.

I'm sorry.

You're not missing anything.

If you're listening to the audio, you're missing nothing.

Especially right now.

There's nothing going on.

Nothing going on.

Don't

gotta remind the viewers, I love my friend Jesse Cox, who likes to laugh at me when I cry in D ⁇ D.

That's That's my favorite part of my week.

It's how I handle emotions.

I still will not forgive you for being like, I was very entertained by summer crying for an hour.

It was fun.

It was fun.

Got to get an artist where we can get it from.

That's true.

True.

One day.

Yeah, we're all also in a DD game that one day will be released.

Yep.

We're almost done.

Almost done.

Go watch these two gremlins.

Go watch them be gremlins together in like fucking Pokemon or whatever.

Yeah, come watch us in fucking Pokemon.

It's good.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hey, thanks for watching.

Have an amazing weekend and an amazing week next week.

And we will see you the following Friday.

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