99: Is Dispatch A Good Game?

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Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, you know what time it is.

Speaker 1 It's time for the geek in this podcast. Mega Rand, Jesse, and Dodger.
What up? Let's go. Yo, it's the weekend.
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Yo, it's the weekend. Yeah, it's time to geek out.
Let it be kids. Go on, scream and shout.
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Speaker 1 Hello, everybody, and welcome to Geekenders. It is November the 21st.
We're coming up on Thanksgiving in the Americas.

Speaker 1 That's true, and I'm excited. Bring on the bird, they say.

Speaker 1 Bring on the bird, as all Americans say around this. As Americans say.

Speaker 1 That's right. That's right.

Speaker 1 Sit at the table. Bring on the bird.
Bring on the bird. Oh, no.

Speaker 1 My camera scooched each time I did that.

Speaker 1 You'll never know where it was.

Speaker 1 It's lost. I guess this is where it is now, I guess.
Yeah. Yeah.
Well, that's fine. It has like kind of a Dutch angle on it.
That's pretty good. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know,

Speaker 1 the other thing I love is the second that I started slamming on my desk, the reception with you got infinitely worse suddenly. So clearly, I should never touch anything.
You really shouldn't.

Speaker 1 I don't know what you've done. I don't know.
I've never done this.

Speaker 1 I don't know. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. Remember during when the intro was running and you were like, I'm worried about you, but in a fun way, like, I don't know what you're going to get up to next.

Speaker 1 And then I immediately broke everything.

Speaker 1 I'm regretting saying all of that.

Speaker 1 Oh, my goodness. How are you, buddy? Oh, lovely, lovely.
Excited to be here this fine Friday morning. Indeed.
Yeah, everything's good over here. A lot of,

Speaker 1 like,

Speaker 1 stuff

Speaker 1 happened this week in the world of the internet. We got the game awards announced.
And that was fun. Right.
I discovered Scrandle. That was fun.

Speaker 1 Life is good.

Speaker 1 Why do I know what Scrandle? I've heard of Scrandle. What is Scrandle? It's where you pick between two crappy foods the British eat.
Or sometimes America and sometimes Hungary or Italy.

Speaker 1 Right. Yes.

Speaker 1 It's all stuff that are

Speaker 1 at

Speaker 1 the

Speaker 1 ballparks and the pitches and the things. I've been told that I should play this.
You shouldn't.

Speaker 1 It is truly one of the things of the internet. It infuriates me to no end because sometimes people look because it includes the prices and what you get.

Speaker 1 Sometimes they look. Sometimes they clearly don't.
And they choose choices that are the stupidest of the two. And it makes you mad.

Speaker 1 And sometimes Hungry shows a piece of bread with onions on it for 85 cents and that wins every time. And you're like, what are we doing, people?

Speaker 1 Why are we, you don't even have to eat that. You could save the 85 cents.
Right. All I'm saying is, it's just,

Speaker 1 I don't, I don't understand. There was one where you got five pints, five pints with it, and they chose the other one.
I was like, that's just, that's five points. That's a steal.

Speaker 1 What I'm saying is, I had to start thinking like the rest of the world. And what I discovered is I don't like it.
I don't like it.

Speaker 1 But it did get some 10 out of 10s. Basically, yeah, all you do is you go through, there's 10

Speaker 1 dual images, and you pick one, and it's based on previous poll results.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 So then you pick one, and it goes from there, and you can learn and discover all sorts of things about yourself, and what you think looks delicious, and

Speaker 1 what doesn't, and then be told by the world that you are wrong. That you are wrong.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 Sometimes mushy peas wins. Sometimes it doesn't.
There are no rules. Sometimes, if there's a chip on the plate, even if it's a plate of like six chips, that still beats a burger.

Speaker 1 And you're like, what do you mean? That's just six French fries. What are we doing? And they're like, no, we love chips, though.

Speaker 1 And then you go to the next one, it's got chips, and you select, oh, well, that must... No, sorry, no.
We wanted that sludge in a cup.

Speaker 1 Dodger, did you know that in Norway, in some countries, they stick meat broth in a cup and just drink that as like, it's like the sausage water.

Speaker 1 They scoop the sausage water and then just drink it.

Speaker 1 What? So, what I'm saying is, I don't understand.

Speaker 1 There's a lot of stuff. There's so many places where you drink broth.
That's not enough. Not sausage water.
Sausage water is not the same as chicken broth. I refuse to accept that.
Why not?

Speaker 1 Because it's sausage water.

Speaker 1 Okay. It's water that meat was cooked in, correct?

Speaker 1 But you see, here's the difference.

Speaker 1 The sausage has a membrane around around it to keep everything in there right and so all you're doing is just boiling water around the stank of a sausage you don't even get the good juices of a sausage because it's still all up in that thing and then the chicken dog

Speaker 1 got stuff in there you got

Speaker 1 i will knock it that sausage that's that would be like you're telling me right now if we went to new york city And you and I went up to a hot dog cart and I said, hey, no dogs, please.

Speaker 1 Just a cup of water for her.

Speaker 1 You'd be chill. You'd be like, you know what? I want that.

Speaker 1 I would have that instead.

Speaker 1 Here's the question: though: is it hot dog water that you're talking about, or is it sausage water that you're talking about? Don't, don't play semantics with me.

Speaker 1 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, you're not going to be like, well,

Speaker 1 I wanted that just brother, as I call it, is so much more delicious than hot dogs.

Speaker 1 Hot dog water would be nasty.

Speaker 1 What do you got against hot dogs?

Speaker 1 What do you got against the American,

Speaker 1 the American sandwich, the hot dog? What do you have against that? What are you trying to do? What are you doing? You leave the country and suddenly you're too good for a hot dog?

Speaker 1 You can't just have a you can't just have a wiener.

Speaker 1 You're too good for wiener?

Speaker 1 You're too good for wiener?

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 too good for wiener, I guess.

Speaker 1 If you're gonna yell at that many times.

Speaker 1 You know what? I was going to give it equivalent, but I feel like we hit the peak with this conversation.

Speaker 1 Holy shit.

Speaker 1 I'm excited for the person who messages us like,

Speaker 1 I don't get it. The water really is good.
They're making such a big deal out of it. it.
Why do you guys think this is so weird? It's not weird. It's just

Speaker 1 broth water. It's amazing.

Speaker 1 But seriously, no, we should call it broader.

Speaker 1 Please. Broader's good.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'd try sipping some broader because what if it's great? If you give me enough beers, I'll drink all the broader you got.

Speaker 1 Real.

Speaker 1 Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 Can I tell you the story of why my office has no door on it now?

Speaker 1 I believe I know the tale, but please, if you have not done so, did you not tell us last week when your world was falling apart? Did I? Did I tell you about it last week? I don't know about you.

Speaker 1 I would love to hear the strength of your husband. Hold on.
No, last week, it was that my office had flooded, correct?

Speaker 1 I don't think my door was busted yet. Oh, right, right, right, right, right.
I forgot. I forgot.

Speaker 1 Yes. I, it's now my mission to come to this podcast every week with a story that makes you go, thank God I don't live there.
And I think I've done pretty well.

Speaker 1 Uh, it's less of thank God I don't live there and more of like, if only I lived there, I could set them all straight. And then I kiss my muscles and flex a little.

Speaker 1 So, Last week, I was talking about how we were late to start the podcast because when I came into my office, it was minorly flooded. There was a lot of water where electronics were.

Speaker 1 It was very stressful. It was a little bit basically a little flood.
A little flood. Itty beady flood.
Tiny flood. So sopped up the water that was dangerous and we went on with the show, right? Okay.

Speaker 1 So I don't, you know, we moved in here like three years ago or something. I don't know how many times this poor door has experienced a lot of water just sitting under it.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 the next day, I came up to try and get into my office and I couldn't get the door open. And I thought to myself, okay,

Speaker 1 well, it's been raining a bunch. You know, the wood has swollen probably.

Speaker 1 I was able to sort of get the top part of the door loose from the frame, but the bottom part of the door was stuck in the door frame.

Speaker 1 You've had this problem with the door many times where it just gets stuck yes which probably should have been your indication that it experienced water damage in the past because like

Speaker 1 it warps like that you know what a smarter man might have realized that this door should if i was there i would have pestered you all to fix all those problems i would have pestered i learned from the best jack and susan my heroes i could pester like nobody's business It's a skill.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It's a good skill.

Speaker 1 It's a pester. Yeah.
You'll be like sitting down a stream or have have dinner with your family and I'm like, oh, hey, Dodger, really quickly.

Speaker 1 This thing over here, is it supposed to do that? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Guys, I was just looking at your exhaust and

Speaker 1 there's some concerning stuff going on over there. Did you not notice that? Or what's going on there? I was tearing apart your washer-dryer unit and I like,

Speaker 1 do you clean that? Do you like get in there? And it's fine. We'll leave it.
From now on, we're just gonna air dry everything.

Speaker 1 I love that it's like

Speaker 1 it's just slightly passive-aggressive. Did you mean for it to be that way? Are you

Speaker 1 if you're fine with that? We can leave it that way, but it could cause a fire. But if you're all right with that, that's fine.

Speaker 1 There's like a weird smell in the guest room, specifically like on the pillows. Like, I mean, if you guys can't smell it, then that's fine.
You know, like, like,

Speaker 1 you know, I'm only here for like a couple of days, but like, you know, did you not notice that that smell was there? Or

Speaker 1 like, I don't want to be a boss. Anyway, I just like, you know,

Speaker 1 just figured I'd let you know.

Speaker 1 So the door.

Speaker 1 I go to Sam and I say, hey, honey, I've been throwing my full feather class weight into this door and I can't open it. Do you think you could help me? He comes upstairs.

Speaker 1 He is also pressing against it and can't get it open.

Speaker 1 He asks if I can go get his phone so that we can shine a light on it. And I hear a concerning noise the second I turn around.

Speaker 1 I turn back and he goes, I tried to kick it and his entire foot had just gone through the door.

Speaker 1 And it was then that we realized that the entire bottom half of the door was completely rotted. Like, I don't even know how it was holding itself together.

Speaker 1 So that's, yeah. So that's what happened there.

Speaker 1 Can I just say my favorite part of this story is the little detail where

Speaker 1 I don't, you know, I'm not in your lives as a third like, oh, hey, y'all, what's going on? So I don't know the everyday life of you and Sam, but

Speaker 1 I have created sort of a like a mental image of the movie in my head of the two of you and in my mind.

Speaker 1 You know how in

Speaker 1 like kind of sad movies where there's two characters and one's a little slow and they're like, turn away. Don't look.

Speaker 1 Don't look. Look over there.
And, you know, like Mics and Men kind of stuff. And it's like,

Speaker 1 Sam was like, hey, honey, can you go get me that thing? And as you turned around and were distracted, he did what needed to be done.

Speaker 1 He just

Speaker 1 kicked through the door. Yeah, he was like, I'm not going to do that.
And then when confronted, he was like, I did not mean to do that. And he said, yes, yes.

Speaker 1 And he's not, he didn't want, he knew something could happen. And he didn't want to say, honey, can I kick the door down? He just knew that, like, all right, I got to distract.
I'm going to do this.

Speaker 1 I'm going to do this.

Speaker 1 For all of us, I'm going to bite the bullet and I'm going to try to kick the door down. Because look, Sam's rational response, I know this is true.
His rational response to,

Speaker 1 damn, we've got hornets, wasn't, oh, hey, I'm going to like call someone or deal with it. Man, grabbed it and jumped in a pool.
That is the same energy as a guy who's like,

Speaker 1 I got to kick the door down. All right, she's not going to like this.

Speaker 1 She's not going to like this. And so he was like, hey, honey, can you go? And then when you turned around, he was like,

Speaker 1 and he kicked the door in and it broke, but he got it done. He got it done.

Speaker 1 And that's what I'm is that

Speaker 1 he had to do it. That's the, that's the crux of the entire story: he had to be like, turn away, baby, turn away.
And he, and he did what needed to be done.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I was wheeze laughing.

Speaker 1 It was the, it was so funny. Just like to go from trying to get into my office to half of my door is missing.

Speaker 1 That's crazy.

Speaker 1 So yeah, I've now ordered a new new door. It's getting fitted next week.
In the meantime, I have a weird thing sort of covering the hole. So, please tell me again, because I don't know.

Speaker 1 Every time you talk about your property layout,

Speaker 1 I get confused. Is this a separate building from your home? Yeah, so it's like right next to it.
It's basically like a separate garage that we sure, but like,

Speaker 1 is there just a door open to the wild?

Speaker 1 yeah the door goes directly to the outside and it has been one degree every single day stop stop dodger stop oh my god so there's just open fucking air

Speaker 1 what are you doing

Speaker 1 Surely there is a better way to do this. So where you're at right now is freezing cold.
It's freezing. And do you do you want me to to make it infinitely worse? Yes, please.
Okay.

Speaker 1 So, my mother-in-law texts me yesterday morning and goes, Hey, I don't know how to tell you this, but I saw a rat leaving your office.

Speaker 1 And I was like, What? She was like, I think they, whatever you have covering the door, they just chewed through. So, there's rats just coming into my office now because there's no barrier.

Speaker 1 You mean, you mean their office now? I'm so sorry.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they were coming.

Speaker 1 I rent this office from the rats now. Yeah.
Twitch.tv slash rat jam happening right now. Whenever Dodger's not streaming, go subscribe.
I'm sure they're great.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 What a good idea. I should do that.

Speaker 1 Hey, we're the rats. We left the Dodgers home.

Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly. You got the VTube stuff already set up.
They could just make one and be like, hey, that's what I'm insane.

Speaker 1 I'm going to make this conspiracy theory right now. Every VTube thing you do, just the rats.

Speaker 1 It's not actually you. It's just, it's just.
There's no proof.

Speaker 1 None. There's no proof that I'm there.
None. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Anyway, so that's the situation that I'm in right now.

Speaker 1 That sucks. I know.

Speaker 1 I know.

Speaker 1 Because in my mind, I was like, oh, well, surely

Speaker 1 it's

Speaker 1 because you said, oh, it's on its own building. And I was like, okay, but if the door is gone, but you're still in it, well, surely it's like attached to something else.
Nope. Nope.

Speaker 1 Now I'm learning the dark truth of the situation.

Speaker 1 I hate that. I hate that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's man, dude.

Speaker 1 It's

Speaker 1 a big old thick door. Are you getting like a English oak?

Speaker 1 I mean, I'm basically getting the same door, except not a million years old, you know?

Speaker 1 I'm trying to think of like, you know, a door where it could close and then it'll be, you won't get cold.

Speaker 1 That's what I'm thinking. Right.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So that's, that's what my door looks like right now. That's just the open air.

Speaker 1 I mean, that's, that's a, that's basically a rat welcoming door. That door says rats, you're allowed inside.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So somebody pointed out that it's hilarious because the lock on that door is like a, like a big like security lock, but the whole bottom of the door fell to pieces the second someone touched it wrong.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 it's just funny.

Speaker 1 I feel like that's a thing that I see often in,

Speaker 1 I want to say break-ins, but mostly it's like footage that I'm sure like police or someone use where they hammer down a door.

Speaker 1 And you can see this massive security lock and they hit the door and the bottom breaks off. You're like, yeah, that's

Speaker 1 that's the crappiest door I've ever seen. I feel like that's what happened here, except yours was just old.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So, you know, new door, and we should be sorted.

Speaker 1 This was also a barn door that had like a top and a bottom. Ah,

Speaker 1 that's different. Unnecessary.
Unnecessary. Yeah.
That's different. Oh.

Speaker 1 But in the summer, you could open the one door and then you could have the breeze come in.

Speaker 1 That was nice, but I'll give it up to keep the rats out.

Speaker 1 You know what?

Speaker 1 More and more is explained about your room, and I, frankly, I love it.

Speaker 1 I'm getting like, you're like lore dropping in a very... This is, we're like in season two, and you dropped a giant lore bomb on us, and no one was prepared for it.
Right.

Speaker 1 What was a lore bomb? Which part? Which part? That you're three rats in a trench coat.

Speaker 1 That I'm just rats, yeah, you're just rats. Yeah, that is a huge lore drop for season two,

Speaker 1 just giving it all away. The artful Dodger, some might say, was a street rat.

Speaker 1 So true, riff rat. You've been saying it this entire time to everyone since season one.
You've been like, oh, my name's Dodger, and no one caught on.

Speaker 1 And the fans are like, holy shit. They had this plan

Speaker 1 so far in my goddamn entire time. They knew something.

Speaker 1 They knew. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And that, honestly, that's a great moment. That was a great moment.
Going into season three is going to be so crazy. It is going to be crazy.
Like, where do they go for it? Do they even have a plan?

Speaker 1 I don't think so. I don't think so either.
No, there's no way that's going to be a good thing. But I'll still be there.

Speaker 1 I'll still watch. I'll still be like, no, like, yeah.
I mean, the rest of the books haven't even been written yet. So, like, you know, they could do anything.

Speaker 1 They could.

Speaker 1 Oh, Oh, my goodness. What have you been playing this week, buddy? Oh, boy, oh, boy.

Speaker 1 Well, yeah. So I just the other day, since I'll go backwards,

Speaker 1 I played, I was about to say, the just one.

Speaker 1 No. All right.
Never mind. I thought it was more than just Riddlewood Manor, but that's literally all it is.
Oh, okay. Riddlewood Manor is a point-and-click game where you are, it's very like

Speaker 1 in that space of old Flash games/slash rusty like point-and-click, right?

Speaker 1 It's a horror game where you are sent to a creepy house, Reddwood Manor, and you have to exercise the demons and you solve little point-and-clicky puzzles and get jump scared and

Speaker 1 good times all around. Okay.

Speaker 1 It has like just enough goofs. So, a great example is there was this one drawing I found, and I was like, I don't don't know what this drawing means.
I have no idea what this is.

Speaker 1 And I was so obsessed with it by the time I found the stuff I needed and went back to the place where I needed to use the stuff because I'm not going to spoil it. It gave me an ending.

Speaker 1 It was just like, oh, hey, here's an ending. And it was, um,

Speaker 1 I'm going to call it the chicken king ending.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 And I was like, okay.

Speaker 1 And so, uh, it's that kind of stuff. There's little goofs in there, but there's also things that I learned that

Speaker 1 like I thought were

Speaker 1 like

Speaker 1 there are roadblocks, but I thought it was just at first. I was like, why would anyone design something like this?

Speaker 1 It was clearly had intention, but if you go into a room, sometimes the room, the door will lock and keep you in the room, and the only thing you can do is die to get out.

Speaker 1 And I was like, well, I don't like that. I don't want to have to die.
And I was like, how on earth do I move these three gems from this locked room

Speaker 1 to another room? And I had to come up with a solution and I did, but it was like, oh,

Speaker 1 okay, I know what they meant for me to do. But when you're in the moment, I was like, they keep locking all the doors.
How do I leave this room if there's nothing for me to do in this room?

Speaker 1 So going back and checking some things, yes.

Speaker 1 Is this like blueprints like Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, where you are in the manor and you're just sort of like finding puzzles as you walk around?

Speaker 1 Or is it more linear than that? So

Speaker 1 it's, I would say, a mix. So

Speaker 1 when you start, it's like, here's a tutorial puzzles. You go into the manor, you have to your

Speaker 1 right in front of you is a door that leads to a kitchen, and then there's stairs that go up. And it's like, okay, well, we can go up the stairs and look up there and mess around with stuff.

Speaker 1 We can go in the kitchen and mess around with stuff. And there's notes and things everywhere to read.
There's a floating table you can put stuff on.

Speaker 1 So there's like a bunch of stuff to do in this main room but then it funnels you to one of two areas right and then it funnels you to one area and then you get like a boo boom boom boom boom and you start over for reasons i will not explain and now okay you have

Speaker 1 okay i can go upstairs but there's only one room open okay i go into this one room i solve this one room's puzzles oh i'm going up these other things

Speaker 1 All right, well, now I have three options. I can go to the roof, I can go to the garden, or I can go to mom's room.
The thing is, if you go to any of those, the door will lock behind you.

Speaker 1 And so you either have to solve it or die to go back somewhere else and start over and doing things.

Speaker 1 So it's that kind of game where it's pushing you in directions, but then gives you the choice of choosing where to go after that.

Speaker 1 Interesting. Yeah, it's

Speaker 1 certainly a

Speaker 1 like

Speaker 1 there's one or two moon logic-y things, but it's it's, I would say, standard point-and-click horrory game, except the art style is kind of fun, and I like it. So, like, just good stuff.

Speaker 1 I like games like that, so that's what I played, and I loved it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's uh, it's got a if you like a little creepy girl talking to you the entire game,

Speaker 1 it's got that voiced in there. She's like,

Speaker 1 Susie didn't want me to go play today. And I'm like, F Susie,

Speaker 1 let's go play. She's like, I'm trapped in hell.
Come join me. And you're like,

Speaker 1 okay, well,

Speaker 1 all right. If I must.
Fine. Yeah.
So that was fun.

Speaker 1 Then,

Speaker 1 this is going to sound crazy. I played a bunch of demos.

Speaker 1 There's one that I played that is just that. I don't know what else to say, except

Speaker 1 it's a tower defense. I played Tangy T D.

Speaker 1 Tangy T D is literally a tower defense where where you play as oranges.

Speaker 1 Oranges that shoot bows, oranges that have swords, oranges that are like, I'm the healer lady. And it's a tower defense.
Literally, it's a tower defense. And you kill

Speaker 1 slimes and badgers and things of the forest. I don't like, I just like tower defenses.
So I played that one this week because I was

Speaker 1 going through and looking at what was on there. And it was oranges.
And I was like, well, I got to play the orange one. And the demo was pretty fun.

Speaker 1 It ends after like four levels or whatever, but I won 100% of them because I'm cool like that.

Speaker 1 My gosh.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I know. I know.

Speaker 1 Then I went through and once again, and I guess this is something to talk about because I think it's interesting. I think we talked about this before.

Speaker 1 I keep going back to Megabonk because someone, no names, Crenoor, is the, like, keeps playing it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And while, and, so while I was playing Megabonk, that's when we got the news about Megabonk not being able to accept its nomination for like best first-time dev thing.

Speaker 1 Because the worst kept secret in gaming is that it was What's His Face who makes all those other games. This wasn't his first game at all.

Speaker 1 Yeah, long story short, he was like,

Speaker 1 hey, that's so sweet that you guys nominated me for best debut game, but this is not my debut game. I've made lots of games before.

Speaker 1 So I'm withdrawing from this, which has started a conversation along the lines of: well, lots of people have been involved in a best debut game who have made games previously.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 you know, yeah, just like what counts as a debut game.

Speaker 1 Does it have to be like a whole new team or, you know, your first game on your own? Or like, what should count as a debut game?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm I just want to verify

Speaker 1 the truth of the situation

Speaker 1 because

Speaker 1 the dev, right? So

Speaker 1 the dev is, I'm trying to find out what he called himself for this thing.

Speaker 1 Vedinad,

Speaker 1 which is just Danadev backwards.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 Danadev Games is

Speaker 1 a dev who has done many, many, many, many, many games like Crab Game and the roguelike survival game Muck and that kind of thing. And people were like, oh,

Speaker 1 is this just this guy who made

Speaker 1 this other game? And it was. It was just the same guy.
It was just named backwards. And I feel like that was one of those like...

Speaker 1 Clark Cats? Yes.

Speaker 1 It wasn't even a secret. So in my mind, I don't understand why why

Speaker 1 the game was nominated to begin with. If everyone kind of understood that this wasn't this guy's first game, it was his first massive, successful game.
But, yes, yes, it's literally a la card.

Speaker 1 Yes, correct, chat. It's a la card.
It is a la card. He a la carded and was like,

Speaker 1 I don't, it's not everyone online months ago was like, no, this is, this is Danitev.

Speaker 1 And, um,

Speaker 1 who cares? I think, I think it's cute. He made a whole YouTube page about it and a whole like, I'm just trying to, yeah, it wasn't confirmed.

Speaker 1 Nothing was confirmed, but it was like such an obvious rumor.

Speaker 1 It's like a really light version of, or like a really in-your-face version of an author who already has a best-selling series of novels choosing a new name to put novels in it, you know, other novels out with.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, and that it's in the age of the internet where you can change who you are at any given time that happens frequently and so uh this it's a good game megabon's great but uh yeah i thought it was interesting that dude was like no

Speaker 1 you can take my name off i feel like that's a classy move but also it's kind of like it should have been on the game awards to figure this one out like a phone call could have figured this out real quick Like, we want to nominate you.

Speaker 1 However, we are, we heard these rumors that you're this other thing.

Speaker 1 Are you? Yeah, that's it. Yeah.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 But maybe that's also like sometimes people, they're like, whoa, if we put him on there, and then it creates buzz, and then this becomes a thing, you know?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Who knows? Yeah.

Speaker 1 But I played a bunch of that. And then also this week, I

Speaker 1 there.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 There is a game. And now I can't, because I'm playing it at home.
So I'm going to have to go to my email to get this. Hold on.
Hold on,

Speaker 1 hold on.

Speaker 1 I'm gonna ask everyone to Google this to look this up.

Speaker 1 It's it's the next big thing, Dodger. We need to

Speaker 1 play this. I need you to play this.
Okay,

Speaker 1 okay,

Speaker 1 it's called

Speaker 1 Revenge on Gold Diggers.

Speaker 1 Okay,

Speaker 1 uh-huh.

Speaker 1 The first FMV game against emotional fraud. fraud.

Speaker 1 I knew it was an FMV.

Speaker 1 Oh, yes. It is

Speaker 1 another

Speaker 1 in the series of foreign films of the Dodger and Jesse series.

Speaker 1 Here's the description.

Speaker 1 Okay, I'm ready. The first ever FMV game about emotional fraud brought to life by Chinese director Hu Yao Wui.
I hope that's how I say that.

Speaker 1 And a team of film industry veterans in this entire fictional story step into the role of a hunter of hearts and infiltrate a shadowy organization deep in emotional deceit.

Speaker 1 In this immersive, third-person cinematic experience, every choice matters as you navigate the treacherous web of lies, seduction, and manipulation.

Speaker 1 Yes!

Speaker 1 Yep. Absolutely.
Boy, so you haven't played this yet. Oh,

Speaker 1 no, I just downloaded it.

Speaker 1 Oh, my gosh. I literally just downloaded it, and I want you to play it.

Speaker 1 It's on my computer at home. Is it on Stam?

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 Revenge on...

Speaker 1 Every smile, every move tightens the noose, and behind every tender touch, a blade of greed waits in the shadow. You play

Speaker 1 Wu Yulin.

Speaker 1 A man once shattered by betrayal, who deliberately turns himself into bait to strike back at the ruthless gold digger ring, step into the murky depths of love and deceit, navigating a perilous game against dazzling women, each one a force to be reckoned with.

Speaker 1 Yes,

Speaker 1 bro. This okay, hearing you describe this game,

Speaker 1 it sounds like it's like a weird, intense action-drama game.

Speaker 1 But when you go look at it, it's just listed as a story-rich dating sim

Speaker 1 This is this has the intensity of the beginning of fame game where it's like

Speaker 1 and it just shows like ladies and then and then you play the game and it's like

Speaker 1 And it's like I don't know if I should date this girl. This has the same vibe, but I'm not done,

Speaker 1 but I'm not done. He's not done.

Speaker 1 A kind yet vulnerable rookie streamer, a model wrapped in candy-coated charm, a popular influencer who bends public opinions to her will, a cold-blooded fixer lurking in the shadows, and above them all, the unseen mastermind orchestrating it all.

Speaker 1 This is no light-hearted romance, Sim. It's a test of wit, will, and emotional endurance, where every move is a battle between power and vulnerability.

Speaker 1 Will you emerge as the hunter or become the prey?

Speaker 1 oh my god

Speaker 1 will you emerge as the wait a minute are we also

Speaker 1 i think i think if i understand the plot is you're a good boy who had your heart broken you got your heart broken by a bad girl and you discover that bad girl is in a ring of other bad girls the gold diggers if you will

Speaker 1 And it's but but but

Speaker 1 but it sounds like those bad girls are successful. So we could go.
They're very successful. They're very successful bad girls.
They're gold diggers. They're very successful.

Speaker 1 And everyone knows successful women are notorious gold diggers. And so you,

Speaker 1 and then there's a mastermind, like an evil mastermind above them. Okay.
And then the evil come all out.

Speaker 1 The goldest digger. Yes, but then it says.

Speaker 1 This is no game of right or wrong. In a world where desire and deception walk hand in hand, every choice carries weight.
What shade will your moral compass take? Pure white, pitch black?

Speaker 1 Or will you tread the razor's edge of gray in pursuit of your oh so sweet revenge? Just beware, here, with a line between hunter and hunted blurs, a single misstep could plunge you into ruin.

Speaker 1 With over 200 decisions, your words and actions don't just shape the story, they quietly tilt the scales of obsession, drawing you towards one of 38 38 endings.

Speaker 1 Will you stand as an avenger or a redeemer? Yield to temptation or seal an unholy pact with your sworn enemy? Oh my God. The die of destiny rattles and your path lies open

Speaker 1 before you.

Speaker 1 At first, I didn't know if I wanted to stream this, and now I'm streaming the shit out of this. 100%.
We have to stream this for each other. Yes.
Yes. Yes.
The return of Brother Beard and Sister Soup.

Speaker 1 It's

Speaker 1 now.

Speaker 1 I have. Like, I, a lot of the times I'll download games at home that I'm not sure.
I like, like, maybe I'll give it a look first and see if this is something I want to play.

Speaker 1 And 90% of the time, it's not. So this is one of those ones where I downloaded because sometimes I get FMV games sent to me and I look at them and I'm like, oh no, this is terrible.
And so,

Speaker 1 yeah. This one actually

Speaker 1 was going to be a streamer. This is great.
We got to stream this. Yeah.
Steal your heart against a vortex of manipulation.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 Yes. 100%.

Speaker 1 Let's do it. I'm so excited.

Speaker 1 It's going to be hard, though, because if you play it first, I'm really going to want to go watch it.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 I'm going to have to keep myself pure.

Speaker 1 I get that. Hey, um,

Speaker 1 hey, for you,

Speaker 1 for me, for you, I'm just going to put that right there.

Speaker 1 Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 1 That's friendship.

Speaker 1 I just really want you to play it now.

Speaker 1 You just messaged me a key for the game.

Speaker 1 Thanks, buddy. I got you.
I got you. I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 Not even more excuses. That's called peer pressure.
Brother, I can't wait. Yeah.
Yeah. I'm so excited.
I'm excited for

Speaker 1 like, you never know where a game like this will go. Like, it could go into the world of like manipulating and hurting people is wrong.
Or it could go into the world of like women.

Speaker 1 Yes, absolutely.

Speaker 1 It could very easily be like

Speaker 1 all women. They're all conniving, evil bitches.
Am I right, player?

Speaker 1 So, although one of them was who could join them and be in league with them, and honestly,

Speaker 1 I want to be a gold digger so badly.

Speaker 1 Oh my god,

Speaker 1 I would love to be someone's kept boy toy. Are you kidding me? That's the thing they need

Speaker 1 me off.

Speaker 1 Looking at the roster, maybe they need a sausage in there,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 ladies.

Speaker 1 Maybe they should drink sausage water.

Speaker 1 Oh, no. Oh, no.

Speaker 1 Oh, no. You ever just have like a mental image? Like a mental image of a scene from a thing that doesn't exist flash into your mind? And now you know for sure you need a scene where it's this game.

Speaker 1 And all the ladies are going to this, like, you know, hot tub whirlpool thing. And I'm already in it up on the up on the side.

Speaker 1 I'm like, hey ladies sausage water's ready you ever just like have that moment and the ladies are like what do you what does he mean right that's how i felt right then i saw that i saw that moment sausage water's ready

Speaker 1 i'm just glad we both made a sausage water joke yeah well you started and then

Speaker 1 got me yeah yeah yeah yeah

Speaker 1 Oh my goodness.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Amazing. Do you play anything else?

Speaker 1 I mean, I played a bunch of Final Fantasy stuff. Did you play anything else? Yeah, I played Final Fantasy stuff because they released, you know, the new Moogle Tome thing.
So I was doing that. Yes.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was goofing around with.
Oh,

Speaker 1 Total War is releasing a bunch of new stuff. The new, the Total War Warhammer.
And also, there's a new class coming to.

Speaker 1 I keep wanting to say

Speaker 1 tide. Tide, tide, tide, tide, tide, my brain.
Which tide? Tide tide? Dark tide. There are too many tides.
There are too many damn tides. Dark tide.
I was like, which tide is it? Which tide?

Speaker 1 They're hitting us with a bunch of Warhammer stuff soon. Cool.
So, yeah, there's a Warhammer Total War 3. I think three new characters are coming.
And then Dark Tide has a new class.

Speaker 1 And so I was like, oh, I should probably

Speaker 1 get myself back up on those. So I've been dabbling in that as well, but not in any significant way.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I just saw Dodger's office is Vermantine 3.

Speaker 1 No!

Speaker 1 Dude, I can see you in like full plate mail at your door, wildly swinging escape it or trying to get it.

Speaker 1 No, not my office. Not mine.
Not the office. Anywhere but the office.
Sam jumps in like Emperor Protect. And he just starts wailing on shit.

Speaker 1 Holy shit.

Speaker 1 Clark is in the background blasting dudes with fireballs. Fireball.
I'm helping, mom.

Speaker 1 Oh, I need a new door, man. I need a new door.

Speaker 1 I was going to follow up on something you talked about last week. I finally played the first four chapters of dispatch ah do you love it

Speaker 1 i do really like it i think last week correct me if i'm wrong last week you said you really liked the telltale style interactive story part but you weren't as big of a fan of the the actual dispatching mechanics i do not like the dispatcher mechanics correct I love the rest of the game, but the dispatching mechanics, I'm like, it goes against my need to be great at things.

Speaker 1 Good at everything. Because you can't be perfect at it.
Unless you like cheat, which, you know, I'm not going to do that.

Speaker 1 So I really like the dispatching mechanics, actually. I think

Speaker 1 writing-wise, the writing is so funny to me.

Speaker 1 The dialogue's fantastic. I really like the characters.
I don't, if we're going to talk about story stuff specifically, I don't like that you don't have a

Speaker 1 do-nothing option ever. If they give you two choices and you're like, I don't want to do either of these, it will just choose one for you.
I'm not as big of a fan of that.

Speaker 1 I wish that there, that you could just be like, no, I don't want to do either of these things or no, I'm not going to say anything.

Speaker 1 Do you think that's because in a game like, I don't know, like when Telltale would do stuff or life is strange, those kind of, there would be options constantly to not say a damn thing.

Speaker 1 But I feel like most people didn't recognize those were options.

Speaker 1 because every time even I forget when I start a game until I realize like oh yeah sometimes you don't you can say nothing right I don't have to do any of these right I feel like maybe a lot of people just don't they think like oh I must select something like I just I don't I just don't know but it is a choice I mean I guess it makes it more simple to be like we're giving you these choices and you click a thing and that loads into the next thing which loads into the next thing it's probably simpler to put together on on a dev side, maybe.

Speaker 1 I don't know. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So that's that's really my only complaint story-wise, is I wish sometimes I could abstain from situations. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But I actually really like the dispatch mechanics.

Speaker 1 For anybody who hasn't played it or watched it yet, the way that it works is it's like a sort of a percentage system almost. So

Speaker 1 you are basically a superhero version of a 911 dispatcher, and you're looking at a screen, and emergency calls come in.

Speaker 1 You take the call, and depending on what their emergency is, it's your job to look at your roster of heroes and say, okay, I think this person would be good for this because they have high mobility, and the text is implying that something needs to be done quickly, right?

Speaker 1 So you choose. one or more, depending on the options it gives you.

Speaker 1 You pick the superheroes that you think are going to get the job done. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then the way that it determines whether or not you are successful is the same grid that you have that shows the ability scores of your heroes, it will take up a certain amount of that grid to show like, as long as it falls within this.

Speaker 1 It's kind of hard to explain, but it's like, as long as it falls within this area of the ability score grid, then you're successful.

Speaker 1 And if it's not perfect overlap, then it has like a visual that basically represents it randomizing its RNG to decide whether or not

Speaker 1 you were successful or not. So

Speaker 1 leading

Speaker 1 the first three chapters, I would say it feels like a puzzle.

Speaker 1 So it's fun in that way for me to be like, okay, well, all of my, say that, say that a high mobility emergency came in, but fuck, I already used all my people that are fast, you know, trying to gauge like, okay, then who can potentially do okay at this?

Speaker 1 Or,

Speaker 1 you know, that's just balancing the team. Sure.
So I won't give specifics, but chapter four has a huge difficulty curve on purpose. It is a story-based difficulty curve that happens.

Speaker 1 And when I tell you that I failed almost every single emergency in chapter four, and I was like, what the fuck?

Speaker 1 Like people who were watching were saying

Speaker 1 it was to, it was to the point that like, I just had insanely bad luck. Like sometimes my overlap was pretty good and I still failed.
And I was like, this is insane.

Speaker 1 And it was in that moment that I was like, I feel, I, I feel like Jesse right now. Just like, please just get, let me be a little successful.
Like, this is crazy that I'm so bad.

Speaker 1 The snowball that happens from like one really bad choice, I think, is dramatic to the point where

Speaker 1 you were talking about, I was having flashbacks when you're talking about, well, all right, I'm all out of speedsters.

Speaker 1 I'm like, okay, well, I had this, it needs to be done quickly.

Speaker 1 And it's, God, it's, it's.

Speaker 1 All right. I mean, it's public as well.
So I got to send someone who's good with the public. So, all right, I'll just send these two and hope this works.
But then the next one that comes in is like,

Speaker 1 there's

Speaker 1 something going on in the forest. And all I have left is like, oh, the fire chick.
Cool. All right.
Well, I guess that's what I'm. And it's like, I have no other options.
And so then you send her out.

Speaker 1 And you're like, oh my God. And then you get your speedsters back.
And then the next things that come in are like, we need a tough guy to break down this door. And I'm like,

Speaker 1 and from that point on, it's just downhill the rest of the experience and i'm just like i hate this

Speaker 1 and in my mind if it was just that as a game i would just go back to a previous save because i know it's all random so i just go back to a previous save but while playing it i'm like i don't let's just get through this bit so i can get back to the story like that's where i'm at is i'm just really trying to get to this and the story is fantastic but Yeah,

Speaker 1 what I do understand is that a lot of people have the exact opposite opinion of me, where they're like, I wanted more dispatch scenes. I'm glad they drop off.
I was like, oh, thank God.

Speaker 1 We're only doing one this time. Great.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 1 I do still like it, but I think,

Speaker 1 like you were saying, I think that it's too easy for bad RNG to basically ruin everything in a trickle-down effect because your heroes have to be successful on a mission in order to improve as well.

Speaker 1 And their improvements carry over on to next days. So I'm here thinking like, okay, so I had what, one successful mission in chapter four.

Speaker 1 So that means going into chapter five, there's going to be a bunch of skill checks that I'm not going to meet no matter what. You know, like,

Speaker 1 I'm already thinking about the next chapter going, fuck, am I just like never going to have a successful dispatch ever again? Like that sucks. If that's true, I don't know.

Speaker 1 I just know that this is my first chapter where I was like, I

Speaker 1 don't know

Speaker 1 how the next chapter is going to go. And it's that kind of thing where then it makes me afraid of missing, because I'm there for this story and I want to see all the story.

Speaker 1 So then I become insanely afraid of missing things that would make it a better story for me. Because I've been through tons of story-based games.

Speaker 1 If you pick the wrong thing, you cut off from like 20% of the plot. And I was like, I don't want that.
I want to experience this. And so, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 Like, I played the demo on stream and I loved it so much. I realized in that moment, it was one of those things where like,

Speaker 1 I don't want people to tell me what to do. I just want to play it to enjoy playing it.
And so there'll be moments where I sit there and I'm like,

Speaker 1 but

Speaker 1 yeah,

Speaker 1 I'm glad you're enjoying it because it's a very good game. It's, it's actually super enjoyable.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So did you play it off stream? You played it just by yourself?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I did the demo on stream, and then when it came out, I played off-stream because I knew right away I didn't want to stream it with like

Speaker 1 you know, people being like, Do this, or do that, or don't do this, or you did this.

Speaker 1 I was really afraid of spoilers, I'm not gonna lie, because it seemed like the game where people would come and be like,

Speaker 1 Oh, this is a thing, and I didn't want to.

Speaker 1 Do you know what it looks like when you put censorship on?

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 it's really funny

Speaker 1 because

Speaker 1 there's boobles and peepuses in this game. Right.
I'm saying, what does the censorship do?

Speaker 1 So when you put censorship on, they just put a giant sensor bar on everything.

Speaker 1 And it's the funniest shit. Because

Speaker 1 especially when you first start the game, there's a...

Speaker 1 I won't give specifics chat, but there's a huge sequence

Speaker 1 with a guy with his ding-dong out.

Speaker 1 And there's a sensor bar that just has to follow him all over the place.

Speaker 1 And it's so funny, but the, but it also

Speaker 1 is there to censor

Speaker 1 anything that could be deemed profane. So it also puts a giant sensor bar in front of when people like flip each other off.
There's just a huge sensor bar in front of their hand.

Speaker 1 It's silly.

Speaker 1 It's very silly. I mean,

Speaker 1 yeah, no, I'm all right.

Speaker 1 I don't need to. That's like like when we play like a Life is Strange game and they're like, you can turn off all the music.
I'm like, I'd rather get flagged.

Speaker 1 Like, I'd rather experience this game as it's meant to be played than deal with like

Speaker 1 an emotional scene. And then it's like...

Speaker 1 Like, that's the music swap in this game is very good. I haven't at any point playing this game with the

Speaker 1 like

Speaker 1 royalty-free music in it or whatever music they like made for it. Sure, it's all sounded great.
I it hasn't stuck out to me at all, fortunately. But yeah, I hate that.

Speaker 1 I'd rather listen to like they clearly intended it to be this way, and it sucks that we exist in a world where we can't experience that with other people without having to like ruin the experience, which, if anything, makes their game look worse.

Speaker 1 Just saying, just saying, people, you know,

Speaker 1 fortunately, the game is interesting enough to me, and I like the story enough that I know that once I'm done playing it on stream, I'm probably going to play it again off-stream.

Speaker 1 So I can see what the game is actually supposed to be. I say that about everything I play,

Speaker 1 but I don't half the time, 90% of the time. Everything?

Speaker 1 I will say, oh man, I can't wait to play it again off stream. And I will download it and it will sit there for five years.

Speaker 1 And then I'll be like, well, I'm not playing this delete. I know myself.

Speaker 1 Even if I want to, I'll download it and be like,

Speaker 1 yeah, I'll play more of this.

Speaker 1 I lied to myself. It was a dream, a foolish dream.

Speaker 1 Anyway, that's my experience with Dispatch so far. Good, good.
Glad you like it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 There's a choice at the end. I don't, there's a final choice, and I'm just going to like, when you get to it, let me know.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 I will. Good, great.

Speaker 1 Good, great. I'm not even gonna tell you what it is.
Good, great.

Speaker 1 Is it a good choice? Is it a bad choice? Does it have a choice? Is it a chat? Sad choice? I'm gonna tell you. I'll never know, I guess.
Never know.

Speaker 1 I haven't played a whole lot because my mom's been here.

Speaker 1 I also played Winter Burrow.

Speaker 1 Oh, he plays the mouse, the little tiny cutie pie mouse. Yes, the little cutie pie mouse.
Very cute game. It's adorable.
I played the demo for that. And

Speaker 1 when the demo was out and I was playing it, I was like, I love the art style of this.

Speaker 1 The issue was that it felt like the tasks it was giving me were too hard because

Speaker 1 the kind of gameplay loop of it, it's a survival game and you're a little mouse in a burrow. The burrow used to belong to you and your parents.

Speaker 1 Your parents have passed away and you've moved back into the burrow on your own, but it's, it's starting to fall apart. No one's lived there for a while.

Speaker 1 So you're in the middle of the woods and you're like, okay, I'm going to like fix up the burrow, right?

Speaker 1 But the major mechanic in this game is that it's winter.

Speaker 1 So you go outside and you can be outside for like a short amount of time before you start to freeze. Oh, you get little frozen mouse animations?

Speaker 1 Is he like, no,

Speaker 1 no, fortunately, but but the edges of the screen start to like frost frost over

Speaker 1 to show you visually like you need to get back the first punk vibe of like, oh, it's frozen. Yeah.
It's real cold, girl. Your screen's freezing.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So I think at the time they really needed to figure out the balance of, okay, there is a mechanic that's forcing you to go back inside periodically.

Speaker 1 So how do we balance that with you still having enough time to get the supplies you need to feel progress?

Speaker 1 because in the demo i didn't feel like i was progressing very well

Speaker 1 with the game out now playing it i feel like i can progress at a good pace i feel like it's pretty easy to go outside get the things i need and then like learn how to make warmer clothes learn how to you know eventually you learn how to make a little fire out in the wilderness if you find the right spots and So less of a girl.

Speaker 1 You get more of your tools. Yes.
It's less of like a, I'm going outside i'm gonna grab some reeds and now i'm freezing so i'm going back inside do i have enough reeds to make yarn sure don't

Speaker 1 go back outside i guess you know so do they do they increase the time you can spend or did they increase the amount of stuff you gather it's been a while since i played the demo so i can only speculate but i think it's that it's a combination of God, I don't want to, you know, don't take my word for this.

Speaker 1 This is just me trying to remember what the situation was before in the demo. But I think they've increased the amount of time you can be outside.

Speaker 1 And they also made it so that you don't require quite as many resources in order to build certain things.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because

Speaker 1 that's definitely one of the things where games like this, either they can lower the amount of stuff you collect or increase the amount of stuff it takes to build things, or in this case, the amount of time you can spend outside in ways that can make the game pad it out longer, but also make it more of a grind, which is an entirely different gaming experience.

Speaker 1 One, I do not like. And so

Speaker 1 faster is better. Like, the faster I can get in and start doing things,

Speaker 1 the more I'm able to, by the time it gets to, like, well, you got to make this giant ass thing and it's going to require all this stuff.

Speaker 1 I'm more inclined to try that if I've made things rather than like, it took me so long to get seven reads. I just don't care.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 I don't think that the pacing is perfect, but it's a very cute little game. And I love a game where it's like, here's your base.
Your base is a nightmare.

Speaker 1 Fix it, you know, which is literally the whole concept of the game. So, you know, being able to finally fix certain parts of the burrow and stuff, it feels, it feels good.
You feel very successful.

Speaker 1 Like, all right, I did it, you know? Yeah. I mean, so yeah, it's very cute.
I think these games, games of this type, always have pacing issues. There's no perfect pace on these.

Speaker 1 I love Cult of the Lamb. One of my favorite games of this style.

Speaker 1 Y'all, the amount of times I can tell you that I genuinely was like, this game's trash while doing the poop collecting early on.

Speaker 1 Like, that is, like, that's a, that's one small section where before you get like up, up and running, where you're just like, everyone's just going to crap everywhere and I have to clean up all the time.

Speaker 1 And if I don't clean up, they get sick and then they die.

Speaker 1 Like that's, that's a wrong game.

Speaker 1 Or you can teach them to eat it. That's true.

Speaker 1 But like, those, I understand they exist because it's supposed to be one of those like you get over the hump. And when you get going, you're going and you're into it.
I get like every game has that.

Speaker 1 But yeah, they're in all these games. And, you know.
Call the Lamb, which is a great example, is one of the, it has one. And a lot of them do.

Speaker 1 It's that style of game you just got to figure out what that is for every single one of them because they're always different because the devs prioritize one thing over another and you're like what do you mean

Speaker 1 yeah

Speaker 1 uh cult of the lamb

Speaker 1 dude they keep adding stuff to it super fun

Speaker 1 you know but it's

Speaker 1 with that said

Speaker 1 It has the cardinal sin of if you play on console and you play two-player mode on console.

Speaker 1 if you, let's say, were going to go talk to an NPC and I was going to go cut down a tree,

Speaker 1 I would cease cutting down the tree because you were talking to the NPC. It would focus on you, and I couldn't do anything anymore.
Oh. Which makes going to town the worst experience.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 But outside when you're doing this stuff, perfectly fine. It's like a two-player.
You're just going around rogueliding. In town,

Speaker 1 drives me crazy. Not a fan.

Speaker 1 So is it that whoever's playing the lamb always takes priority or whoever tries to talk to somebody immediately? If you interact with an NPC, be it lamb or goat,

Speaker 1 you will always take priority. It'll go to that conversation.
And anything else around, unless you're actively holding the button, it won't let you, it'll pause your character.

Speaker 1 So also, if I'm trying to go collect poof that's on the ground and you go up and you talk to an NPC, I stop. It's that kind of thing.
It happens. Right.

Speaker 1 So, but

Speaker 1 it's not done to play our culture lamb. Yeah,

Speaker 1 I imagine it's different on PC, especially if you're playing connected to each other through the internet rather than like, you know, sharing an encounter.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I would imagine it's better there.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 being on PlayStation,

Speaker 1 same with

Speaker 1 PlayStation Baldur's Gate 3.

Speaker 1 It's fun, it's neat, it's cool, but sometimes I'm like,

Speaker 1 this is a multi-computer thing. Like, doing this all in the same doesn't have the same like oomph.

Speaker 1 Although it is very funny when one character is in a cutscene, but you can still control your character, so you're just running around in circles in the background of like a really important cutscene.

Speaker 1 Like, you'll never destroy me.

Speaker 1 I'm looking for Spider-Man. And then your character's in the background running around.
It's great.

Speaker 1 Perfect. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So, is that all you've been doing? Is that your, that's your week?

Speaker 1 God, I mean, mostly, yeah. I was trying, my mom hasn't, hasn't been able to visit in a few years.
I know I talked about that last week, but

Speaker 1 so I've tried to like spend as much time as possible with her.

Speaker 1 I got to take her to afternoon tea today.

Speaker 1 And where does, where does one go? Without doxing yourself, where does one go for afternoon afternoon tea in like the middle of nowhere?

Speaker 1 You know what? Honestly, afternoon tea is kind of a dime a dozen in England, I feel like. Really? I can't say for like Scotland,

Speaker 1 like any, anywhere else in the United Kingdom, but at least in England, God, there are so many places that are like, and we also have afternoon tea. They vary wildly in quality.
I was about to say.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So like, like my local garden center has afternoon tea, but it's literally, you know, here's a couple desserts, here's a couple of the classic little sandwiches that you expect, and you have bottomless tea.

Speaker 1 And that's, and that's

Speaker 1 going to, like,

Speaker 1 I've been to many high teas, like, I've been to a very fancy high tea, and I also was at a high tea that was incredibly fun. Shout out,

Speaker 1 you weren't there for this because you were good at it.

Speaker 1 The space one, yes,

Speaker 1 yeah, I was literally just telling my mom about that. Sorry, you tell it because you were there.

Speaker 1 We got to experience science high tea in the heart of London. It was amazing.
I loved it. I don't remember where the hell this was, so you'll forgive me.
It may not even be open anymore.

Speaker 1 That was whenever the hell Dodger got married. But

Speaker 1 it was myself and it was our dear pal Kristen and Jeannie was there.

Speaker 1 I don't remember if Isaac was there.

Speaker 1 There were a bunch of people. We were all there.
And

Speaker 1 the girls decided, hey, we want to go get like this nerdy high tea. We were like, great.

Speaker 1 Now,

Speaker 1 some people, I'm not going to name any names. Some people at this gathering

Speaker 1 had some desserts

Speaker 1 of an enlightening variety. And so they were like, let's get like, let's get crazy, man.

Speaker 1 So we were like, all right. So we all went to this

Speaker 1 high tea place that was basically

Speaker 1 science slash space themed.

Speaker 1 And we all sat around this table and they brought out these giant, you know, tower of things.

Speaker 1 But the tower of things wasn't your normal high tea stuff.

Speaker 1 It was all sorts of really cool

Speaker 1 like science things. So there was one dessert that was you had to like use a little brush brush and brush away the cookie crumbs to get down to the skeleton.
There was a candy in it.

Speaker 1 There was one that was like a space ice cream kind of thing. There were all sorts of different space and/or

Speaker 1 science-themed treats with the tea. It was very clever.
It gave us a lot to do with our hands and mess with stuff.

Speaker 1 Usually, a high tea is same tower, except it's a bunch of pastries and/or sandwiches with no crust. And you're just like, oh, yes, Charles, give me another cucumber sandwich, right?

Speaker 1 And then you eat that and you drink your tea. That's pretty much it.

Speaker 1 But with that said, most tea in England is not that. Most tea is like two old ladies sitting down with a cuppa, and that's it.
That's like, that's tea. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the first time that my mom came, we went, we went to like a super low-key

Speaker 1 afternoon tea that was just like

Speaker 1 at a place nearby that had it.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 we had a little pot of tea and they brought out, you know, a little, a little wire rack that had cucumber sandwiches and,

Speaker 1 you know, a couple other sandwich egg salads and then

Speaker 1 egg salad, cucumber, and then that other one other thing. Maybe like a ham and cheese or like a cheese and like mustard or something.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then there's usually like, um, you know, like a macaron and then like a couple little cakes or something. Oh,

Speaker 1 and there's always scones with clotted cream. Clotted cream.
Oh, always. The clotted cream.

Speaker 1 Speaking of scrandle,

Speaker 1 one of the ones was clotted cream and jam with a scon. And it was like,

Speaker 1 why would anyone not pick that? It looked delicious. And then everyone chose the one that was like chips smothered in mush peas and gravy.
And I was like,

Speaker 1 heathens.

Speaker 1 Heathens.

Speaker 1 Amazing. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So, so something for you to know about my mom

Speaker 1 is that she's a lovely woman.

Speaker 1 Stunning. Is that she's incredibly stunning, lovely, sweet woman

Speaker 1 who wants to try new and interesting foods,

Speaker 1 but is unfortunately married to my dad, who would love to just eat meat and potatoes every day for the rest of his life

Speaker 1 and the second she's like stephen maybe we should try

Speaker 1 there's a new place in town where they serve you know uh ethiopian food we should try that you know try something new

Speaker 1 he would rather die

Speaker 1 so i was like okay

Speaker 1 i want to take you to like a fancier tea situation where it's not going to be just like the standard sandwiches and stuff where it's going to be like like really cool, interesting things to eat and she

Speaker 1 cannot stop talking about how awesome that was so it was totally worth it i'm so glad she had a blast

Speaker 1 that's so

Speaker 1 my cousin when he was here this is this is so this is

Speaker 1 yeah

Speaker 1 my cousin's here my parents are like hey i get a call from my mom she's like hey we want to go to this place in beverly hills called like the pie room

Speaker 1 and i was like and it's like a British style, some famous chef's little tiny baby restaurant in Beverly Hills. And she's like, would you come? And I was like, hell yes.
So I bring my cousin.

Speaker 1 We drive all the way out. We go meet my parents at a place that is like on the menu, they got meat pies.
They got like fruit pies. They got

Speaker 1 very

Speaker 1 like

Speaker 1 cocovan. They got like, you know, palm frites and like very like French slash British inspired food.
So we're sitting there, we're eating, everything's great.

Speaker 1 My mom gets like this, uh, like some sort of breakfast thing, uh, maybe like an omelette. My dad got this whole thing.
Uh, my cousin Jake got like, I don't remember what half of us got.

Speaker 1 All I got was, I got steak and fries, and it was great. But here's the thing:

Speaker 1 at the end, my mom ordered one little baby cherry pie. My cousin Jake ordered one little baby

Speaker 1 like apple caramel something pie. Ooh.

Speaker 1 When I tell you, those were the best pies I've ever had in my entire life.

Speaker 1 Like it genuinely,

Speaker 1 like it was crazy. But

Speaker 1 after that moment,

Speaker 1 my mom has been talking about it non-stop. She's like, it was so, wasn't it good? It was so good.
Wasn't it good? And I was like, it was great, mom. Your mom

Speaker 1 loves to find a spot. Yeah.
She loves that. Yeah, that pie.
It was a good spot.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It was good stuff.
The uh, yeah, everything was good, but like, it's also in Beverly Hills and it's expensive.

Speaker 1 So like, it's not one of those places I would go often, but it was small enough that when we were there, when we sat down and maybe like the 10 minutes it took to like get an order in, that place filled up quick.

Speaker 1 There's like 12 seats in there. It's a little tiny pie shop.
But with that said, very good. It's in

Speaker 1 old Bev Hills, uh right near right near all the things but uh yeah if you're in hollywood check it out super interesting but uh yeah

Speaker 1 loved it it's good but very expensive too much to go back but hey well that was fun

Speaker 1 it was a good pie I was about to be like, man, next time that I'm in town. Oh, I should take you there.
That's a treat.

Speaker 1 But it's not like I'm going to drive back to Beverly Hills to go spend a ton of money every, you know? Like, that's a. I got you.
I got you. I got you.
But it's very nice. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But that's I'm glad you're here. Because my mom was like, it was delicious, wasn't it delicious?

Speaker 1 That's so much fun. I'm like, I know, mom, I know.
It was good call, good call. When she loves a thing, she loves it.

Speaker 1 And when she doesn't, I will not stop hearing about that either. She'll be like, it was weird.
I don't even understand. What was going on there? No one seemed to like it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think my Susan, my mom, I take it. We've decided to remind everybody that our mom has the same name.

Speaker 1 Yeah, she immediately

Speaker 1 took a picture of every single thing that we ate and she sent them all to my siblings. So, yeah, she was very, very jazzed about it.
And I am glad. I'm glad.

Speaker 1 Because again, I was like, man, I don't, it took three years for her to come back out. I have no idea when she's going to come back out again.

Speaker 1 So if she goes home being like, that was the tightest shit. That tasted so good.
That was so fun. Then crushed it.
Was it, did it feel like, you know, the afternoon tea experience?

Speaker 1 Maybe not quite so much. It was a skewed version, you know, but like, but the food was good and we drank a lot of tea.
So whatever. You know, there's nothing wrong with drinking a lot of tea.

Speaker 1 Last night, there isn't. I was like, man, I need to sleep.
I need to like sleep. So I drank like a bunch.
of like the chamomile

Speaker 1 like lavender tea sleepy tea yo i'm still tired

Speaker 1 if you're wondering jesse you look actually tired today i still am i zonked myself out i was like another cup would be fine plus it was cold so i was like i can heat up my body before i get in the covers and i'll just keep drinking tea nope no i woke up today like feel what

Speaker 1 yeah

Speaker 1 after we drank all that tea and then it was like a 40 minute drive home and i was like i

Speaker 1 i ordered an espresso because i was like i'm i'm gonna have a food crash out here, like, real quick.

Speaker 1 So, drank my espresso, got us home. The second I was sitting down, I was like, oh no,

Speaker 1 oh, no, the food coma, it's coming. I feel it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not good. It's not good.
Yeah, my eyes are still like glazed over a little bit. I'm like,

Speaker 1 I could have, I got eight hours of sleep. I should be fine.
And I'm just like, but you know,

Speaker 1 sleep is good, though. though your body needs it

Speaker 1 it is good yikes

Speaker 1 yeah

Speaker 1 but from tea

Speaker 1 i got t-itis

Speaker 1 yeah i don't like it but uh yeah

Speaker 1 yeah

Speaker 1 what we're gonna say what were you gonna say you were gonna say something i was gonna i was gonna say something that's like i was gonna say something that's kind of irrelevant tell me the irrelevance itematic i was gonna i was i was gonna tell you that there's a part of my garden that

Speaker 1 I'm growing chamomile in

Speaker 1 specifically just so that I can have chamomile for

Speaker 1 tea. Okay.

Speaker 1 I was wondering, most of the time when you tell me you have something in your farm, it's because something else in the farm requires it.

Speaker 1 Oh, no, just me. Well, we have these snakes, so we need...
Snakes for me.

Speaker 1 We need chamomile because snakes are repellent of chamomile. Like, there's always something that's like in your Rube Goldberg of a setup that, like, well, this hits this and makes this happen.

Speaker 1 So, I didn't say for you. This is the no, this is just, I really like chamomile tea.
And I was like, oh my god, it's literally just the flower. That's it.

Speaker 1 You just pick the flowers and then dry them, and then it's tea. I don't.
Are you aware of this? But that's the whole deal.

Speaker 1 You know that, right?

Speaker 1 That's the whole deal.

Speaker 1 That tea is plant, that plant becomes tea?

Speaker 1 Tea plant is plant is plant equal tea

Speaker 1 plant equal tea

Speaker 1 so all plant equal tea

Speaker 1 all plant

Speaker 1 all plant equal tea some good some bad some dead some very some dangerous tea but all tea but all tea

Speaker 1 yeah all tea plant equal tea

Speaker 1 plant equal tea.

Speaker 1 Dang.

Speaker 1 You can make tea out of anything. You can make tea out of rocks if you wanna.

Speaker 1 No. Not to

Speaker 1 loop back again. No, that'd be broth.
That'd be broth. Not to loop back again, but are we now saying that

Speaker 1 broader is

Speaker 1 tea?

Speaker 1 That's tough. That's a broth.
And I think the reason why. Oh, this is interesting.
Okay.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 living

Speaker 1 like

Speaker 1 fauna,

Speaker 1 broth. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Flora, tea.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 rocks.

Speaker 1 That's tough. That's tough.
Where do rocks fall in? I say broth because they're sturdy. They're substantial.

Speaker 1 But if you put dust,

Speaker 1 like if you sprinkle in dust, that's like a sand tea.

Speaker 1 Because it's fine. And I feel like teas are fine.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 But sand is rock. Right.
Rock is, rock can be any, rock is both.

Speaker 1 Rock is anything. Rock is wild card.
Right. Because rock moves and lava form like it's alive, but is solid like the sturdy oak.

Speaker 1 But veggie broth.

Speaker 1 No, not veggie.

Speaker 1 That's veggie. tea.

Speaker 1 Veggie broth is tea. We need to, yes, all plant is tea.

Speaker 1 We've said all plant is tea.

Speaker 1 All fauna is broth. Those are the rules.
That's the delineation. Okay.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 You know, the best part about this is we need an animation of just you and I as cavemen sitting around a fire

Speaker 1 and just hashing it out. Just trying to figure out what the rules are.

Speaker 1 Just like our forefathers. No, Ugg.
All plant is tea.

Speaker 1 All meat is broth.

Speaker 1 Rock broth? Rock tea?

Speaker 1 Rock both.

Speaker 1 Rock harder than both skull

Speaker 1 and tree.

Speaker 1 Rock me both.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 Great egg in sky gift me many brain images.

Speaker 1 That's right. I know what a brain is.

Speaker 1 I am very smart.

Speaker 1 You are very smart. How'd you figure that?

Speaker 1 SMRT, me have good brain.

Speaker 1 No one else has brain. Only me.

Speaker 1 They call me Big Brain. It's true.

Speaker 1 That's why I chief.

Speaker 1 You're the chief? Well, there's only two of us, so I had to be.

Speaker 1 God, I guess we have to yes and that. Yes, that's why you chief.

Speaker 1 That's right, that's right. Now you go hunt.
That's why you chief. You smart.
You go hunt. I protect camp.
Miko hunt.

Speaker 1 There goes another one.

Speaker 1 And then there was one. Oh,

Speaker 1 we screwed up again, Ugg.

Speaker 1 Having brains.

Speaker 1 Bash myself over the head. Brain too stupid.

Speaker 1 Done.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we have to bring the rats back in.

Speaker 1 Watch for vermintide.

Speaker 1 They strong. Oh, no.
This isn't the 40k universe. That's right.

Speaker 1 Caveman versus Scaveman.

Speaker 1 It's time to go.

Speaker 1 Caveman versus Scaveman is so good.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 You're welcome, Warhammer. You're welcome.
Damn. We're going to need an entire group of guys.
40 cavemen, 40 cavemen! It has to be a thing. Come on, 40.
Oh, my God. Let me make that.

Speaker 1 Let me make 40 cavemen. You can keep all the lizard people.
You can keep them in. We'll bring in some.
Obviously, all the chaos units you can still use, but humans?

Speaker 1 Humans? Oh, and the elves you can still use because the elves are still elves because they've been around a long time. But the caveman, all humans, just cavemen.
Just cavemen. Perfect.
Riding. So

Speaker 1 everything else in the 40k universe is exactly the same.

Speaker 1 Obviously, we wouldn't have tomb kings because they would come later because they're Egyptian themed and we're cavemen.

Speaker 1 So you got to like, you know, but the skeletons, skeleton dinosaurs, and dino riders. Dudes who used to ride the dinos.

Speaker 1 Yep. Right.
Yep. Damn.
40 Caveman. The Pharaoh World.
Beautiful.

Speaker 1 I love it.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I love it. Let's make that FMV.

Speaker 1 They should make a 40k FMV. Right, but it's just,

Speaker 1 it's like a wing commander level acting. Where it's not great.

Speaker 1 But it's there. Yeah.
Not great, but it's fun.

Speaker 1 Ooh, and the orcs.

Speaker 1 The orcs could be the orcs are other bigger cavemen.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Right? They're just like, there's like the cavemen, like the weaknesses. We get down with that, yeah.
And there's like the giant, whatever those guys were,

Speaker 1 Homo Orcus, and they're just like,

Speaker 1 right,

Speaker 1 and the poor Homo erectus can't they get beat up. The Homo sapiens, done,

Speaker 1 finished

Speaker 1 absolutely tragic. No,

Speaker 1 the orco sapiens, that's the one, that's the one.

Speaker 1 No, it's orco erectus, that's the one.

Speaker 1 Oh, come on, come on, boys, with the old co-erectus.

Speaker 1 But it's, yeah.

Speaker 1 But erectus has a K in it.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 I like it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You're welcome. World.

Speaker 1 Jesse, tell us about the news. Oh, my goodness.
So much news. A lot of it very cute and fun.

Speaker 1 The first thing I want to talk about, because it's so funny, I had in my mind what I thought this was going to be. Fortnite is bringing a bunch of people in.
They're bringing in now,

Speaker 1 I don't even know how. They're bringing in the bride and they're bringing a bunch of stuff from the mind of Feet Man.

Speaker 1 The mind of the man who loves feet.

Speaker 1 What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 I literally forgot his name. And that's what came out, Feet Man.
So Feet Man. You know.
Feet Man?

Speaker 1 Feet Man.

Speaker 1 Feet man! Jack knows who I mean. Feet man! What are you talking about? Tarantino! Quinn Tarantino, loves feet,

Speaker 1 never with a million guesses.

Speaker 1 Quinn Tarantino, Loves Feet. Anyway,

Speaker 1 Quinn Tarantino has a bunch of stuff coming to Fortnite. I thought that's very cute.

Speaker 1 But apparently, they're more importantly for fans. Fortnite.
I'm sorry. Keep going.
No, no, no. It's good.
No, no, no.

Speaker 1 No, no, no. That's good.

Speaker 1 That's very good.

Speaker 1 But apparently, Director Friedman is releasing a short

Speaker 1 that is from

Speaker 1 the bride series that has not been released before in Fortnite, which is pretty cool.

Speaker 1 What is the bride thing?

Speaker 1 Bam, bam, bam, with a samurai sword. And then it's

Speaker 1 like, yes, Kill Bill. It's the bride series.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Anyway.

Speaker 1 it's not Kill Bill 1 and 2. It's the Bride.
Anyway,

Speaker 1 in that

Speaker 1 cinematic universe, I guess they made a short that has not been released and that's coming out in Fortnite. And so that's that thing.
And that was pretty cool.

Speaker 1 And I was like, oh, Fortnite's still doing stuff. I went and I watched the

Speaker 1 big,

Speaker 1 like...

Speaker 1 I don't want to say EBM, but they keep having concerts in it. And I keep looking at the different concerts they have.
and they're just

Speaker 1 I think I'm still in caveman mode. I'm still like

Speaker 1 And then Footman made movie

Speaker 1 movie have a lot of characters movie

Speaker 1 But they've been doing a lot of stuff in game and I think it's really neat and it's unnecessary But they keep doing it and I think that keeps it in pop culture and it's very interesting to see I understand why people still love it and they still jump in there I don't know.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they had a deaf deaf punk concert in the game, and that was really neat.

Speaker 1 And that was the most recent one, but they've been doing a bunch of different cool things in it.

Speaker 1 Honestly, when it's not ham-fisted, like

Speaker 1 a Star Wars thing, or like, you know, when they, it's something that's actually cool and not just like, here's Elon Musk cocking some bullshit, right? It's fun. They do a lot of fun stuff in there.

Speaker 1 So, anyway,

Speaker 1 in a completely different alternate reality version of that,

Speaker 1 the newest Hitman game is coming out with a

Speaker 1 Assassinate Slim Shady,

Speaker 1 where you

Speaker 1 it's a game where you are hired by Eminem to hunt down and kill Slim Shady.

Speaker 1 That's the level. That's the level.
It's Eminem versus Slim Shady, and you are hired by M to hunt down Slim Shady and kill him. Now, in my mind, I thought, okay, that's fun.
I love that. However,

Speaker 1 one of the things

Speaker 1 is it's an event. Yeah, it's not a full game.

Speaker 1 Please don't take it that way. It's an event in a game.
It's like a little thing. Well, sure.

Speaker 1 It's the equivalent of like a seasonal thing. Yeah, it's like a little fun thing.

Speaker 1 But in my mind, I was like, oh, that's funny because I would love the idea of if Eminem is like, hey, I want you to hunt down Slim Shady and kill him.

Speaker 1 But it's the Slim Shady from like the, you know, the late 90s, early 2000s, where he's dressed up as like Robin and he can like walk up walls. He's like, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo.

Speaker 1 And so you're trying to kill like a cop book character. I thought that would be very fun if it was very silly.

Speaker 1 But then I read the description and the description is

Speaker 1 the level is packed with psychological dreamlike twists that mirror Slim Shady's fraction reality.

Speaker 1 Set within a medical facility in Hokkaido that has been reconfigured into a chaotic pop sump hill asylum.

Speaker 1 The mission follows Agent 47 as he infiltrates a surreal environment where doctors, patients, and performers blur into one.

Speaker 1 And I think it's one of those, everyone, I think it's it's less him being like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, and more him being in the asylum with all the other Slim Shadies, and it's gonna be you have to figure out which one's which.

Speaker 1 Does that make sense? Oh, from the music video, yeah, okay, sure.

Speaker 1 I feel like that's what they're gonna do, but I would prefer it if it was him and whatever the hell Dre was because he was dressed like Batman, but the two of them were doing wacky stuff.

Speaker 1 I don't know. It could be super fun.
I thought that was very cute. And not at all what I expected.
Are you being attacked by rats? Have they finally come for you?

Speaker 1 They spreaded wings, so.

Speaker 1 That's not great.

Speaker 1 Then,

Speaker 1 in the world of gaming nonsense, shout out to my man, Yoko Taro, the lovely director of the Nier series.

Speaker 1 People have been asking him, yo, when's the next game coming? It's been a while since you've had a game.

Speaker 1 And he replied, people often say things like, why don't you make the sequel to nier or yoko isn't doing any work but lately there have been many projects that ended up being stopped partway through so i was working but they just didn't make it out into the world since i've been paid for it it's no personal problem for me but because nothing has been released as output it looks like i haven't been working yoko said he consider this a problem because he'd rather not be responsible for a game that doesn't live up to typical standards so he like doesn't want to release crap i don't have any negative feelings about it but i think it's better to not release something at all than to put out something odd or not quite right.

Speaker 1 And that's just, once again, the most honest man in gaming being like, I'm being paid to do stuff. I'm just not, look, none of the stuff I'm making people want to like actually buy.

Speaker 1 So, all right, back to the drawing board. It's an honest answer.
I love that about him. They can't all be winners, guys.
Yeah. Yeah.
He's like, it's

Speaker 1 like, sorry. So I thought that was cute.
And then,

Speaker 1 I don't know if this is considered a story, but it's what everyone's talking about right now. Where on,

Speaker 1 oh, God, what is his name? Linus Tech Tips had a video this week that was like

Speaker 1 the Steam machine is going to be competitively priced with a PC. And everyone's like, what does that mean? Because sometimes PCs are $5,000.

Speaker 1 And I guess, according to the video.

Speaker 1 They were in the room with them and were like, hey, is it going to be priced like a console? And everyone in the room like,

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 which he was like, That's probably not a good sign. I think he said 500 bucks, and they seem like everyone in the room was like, Don't do that.
So, I would hope it'd be how could it be more than that?

Speaker 1 That's insane. Like, if it's over 1,000, no one's gonna buy that, it's just not gonna

Speaker 1 the closer you get to a thousand, it's just like even $800

Speaker 1 is too high.

Speaker 1 People are naturally, they can argue all they want that it's not the same as a console, which sure, it's not, but like everyone is going to compare its price to consoles. Right.

Speaker 1 So they have to, they have to be realistic. Yeah.
I mean, like, if they could sell, like, in my mind, I feel like they would have to sell it for $699. I feel like that's the thing.

Speaker 1 That's like the highest they could go. is be like, well, it's $700 because there's tax, but like, it's $699.
I feel like that's what they have. Like, they can't go higher than that.
No,

Speaker 1 I just don't know who would buy it. Even that, I think, is way too much.
But,

Speaker 1 yeah, I don't.

Speaker 1 We'll see. No one has any answers.
This is one of those things that no one has. This is like this past week, Yoshi P for Final Fantasy was doing an interview in Korea.

Speaker 1 And so there's translation things or whatever, but literally said something along the lines of

Speaker 1 we are going to a Realm Reborn 2.0, some stuff with Final Fantasy. and that was it when final fantasy 14 that's what he's talking about

Speaker 1 and because there's so many things that could mean the amount of videos that were made this week of people reacting to that statement with no fundamental knowledge like he's like i want to change things about the game i want to do this and this this people are like

Speaker 1 guessing it'll become a gotcha game which is that's not going to happen or there's going to like

Speaker 1 Or they're going to do a like

Speaker 1 you can join the game later in the story, or they're gonna change the the like the way the game play there's all sorts of different things it could be

Speaker 1 there's literally no answers and so everyone's just speculating because like it is a non-statement the man was was like we're doing we're gonna change

Speaker 1 a big thing or a small thing yeah it could it could literally he's like we'll tell you about it at fan fest okay but that could mean anything

Speaker 1 And so I think that's, it's one of those things where it's like, there's no, I guess everyone wants to talk about it. I'm talking about it right now.
But it's one of those things where it doesn't,

Speaker 1 it's nothing right now. But I like that people are talking and speculating.
That's fun. Look, you still do care about Final Fantasy 14, you liars.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 It's a dead game, Jesse. It's dead.
Yeah. No one cares.
Then, the greatest news of the week. The news that we needed to end on today, because it's the greatest thing.

Speaker 1 Well, we'll do one more new story after this, but this is the best one.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Nintendo. So Kirby Air Riders came out this week.

Speaker 1 Nintendo has begun removing player-made Kirby Air Riders machine designs for the game because

Speaker 1 it's Kirby in a bikini. And when I say you have no clue what this looks like, dukes, you have no clue.

Speaker 1 This mode, and don't look it up, I'm going to send it to you. I'm going to link it to everyone in chat too.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 My machines mode lets players collect various stickers and other designs, then applies them to the game's machines. The ability to scale, resize, and rotate these assets means that some,

Speaker 1 you know, if you have ingenuity, you can mess with things and create a wide range of wacky designs.

Speaker 1 Players can then upload their machine designs to the machine market, an online directory where other players can buy their designs using coins earned in races.

Speaker 1 Each time a design sells, the price goes up slightly, meaning the more popular designs become increasingly more expensive. Pretty cool idea.
Very fun.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Here is the image. I'm going to send it to you first because you deserve to see this.
It's not what you think. It won't be.

Speaker 1 Oh my god.

Speaker 1 What is that?

Speaker 1 Apparently,

Speaker 1 it is a meme in Japan that has been around since like 2021.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 And it's, and I guess this is a thing that like Japanese players have been doing for some time creating this thing.

Speaker 1 And so it just finally got Nintendo's attention. Nintendo's like, we can't have this on here, guys.
Nintendo was finally like, wait a minute a minute.

Speaker 1 Oh my god, it's perfect.

Speaker 1 Yep, so that's it. Doesn't even look like Kirby.

Speaker 1 I don't know what it's supposed to like. I don't know.
They took a star design or they stretched and inflated a curb. Like, I just don't know.

Speaker 1 I just don't know.

Speaker 1 Patrick, Patrick Star from SpongeBob.

Speaker 1 But in a bikini. That's a peak physical specimen.

Speaker 1 I'm not body shaming anybody. I'm just saying.

Speaker 1 That looks like Patrick. That looks like Patrick, not Kirby.
There you go. Love that.
I love Twitch. But then the last one, just because we got game awards nominations this week.

Speaker 1 I didn't want to go over the whole thing. We'll do that when the actual awards happen.
But very much went through. I voted myself.
It was tough this year. I have no idea.

Speaker 1 Last year, I was like, I know who's going to win. This year, I have no clue on a lot of things, but

Speaker 1 you know who the internet thinks does? Metacritic.

Speaker 1 Every year, someone goes in and

Speaker 1 wages out how Metacritic influences the game awards choices. And they say, based on Metacritic scores, this is who should win each category.
Okay. All right.

Speaker 1 Game of of the year, Hades 2.

Speaker 1 Best indie game of the year, Blue Prince or Claire Obscure Expedition 33. Best debut game, Blue Prince or Claire Obscure Expedition 33.
Best Action Game, Hades 2.

Speaker 1 Best Action Adventure Game, Split Fiction. Best RPG, Claire Obscure Expedition 33.
Best Fighting Game, Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection. Best Family Game, Split Fiction or Donkey Kong Bonanza.

Speaker 1 Best Sim, Final Fantasy Tactics, The Evil East Chronicles. Best Sports or Racing Game, Mario Mario Kart World.
Best multiplayer game, Split Fiction. Best mobile game, Umasume.

Speaker 1 Best VR, AR game, Arkan Age, best narrative, Claire Obscure, best art direction, Hades 2, best adaptation, Last of Us Season 2.

Speaker 1 That's what it's saying. Yeah, based on those.
A lot of that rings true.

Speaker 1 I don't know that Hades 2 will win Game of the Year.

Speaker 1 But I would be really surprised about that. Yeah, but they're saying this is one of those, like, this is what it's based off of Metacritic, so I'm curious.

Speaker 1 But yeah, like I played Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection. I thought there was a lot that was kind of like

Speaker 1 jank with that. But with that said, it's not bad.
It's just, you know, I don't know that it would win best fighting game. I feel like that would go to the Riot game.

Speaker 1 The Riot game, everyone's been hype of shit on. So I figure like that would probably win.
I don't know. We'll see.
But

Speaker 1 yeah, Golden Joysticks just happened in Hades 2.

Speaker 1 Claire Obscure.

Speaker 1 Things were good. Things were happening.
But also, more importantly, the Golden Joysticks nominated for the voice role, nominated Alex Jordan for the alters, who played multiple characters.

Speaker 1 And he was not nominated. Look, which makes sense.
I love Claire Obscure, but three noms is like from one game.

Speaker 1 for one category, not even like best supporting actor or best actor, but like best performance.

Speaker 1 That's that's a lot that's a lot that's a lot yeah i agree and and there was and you know there was no one from dispatch nominated there's like there's a lot of games but nothing was yeah

Speaker 1 you know i don't know we'll see but i also feel like that that was a tough one because going through it i was like there are three different ones from claire obscure that's gonna that's like when three people of one party run against one person of another party and the person wins because like they split the vote.

Speaker 1 So I was like, is this, is it going to be Indiana Jones here? What's going to happen here? I don't know. I have no clue.
Here we go.

Speaker 1 I literally, I have no clue. We'll see.
Yeah, this entire awards season, I'm like, I don't know. I have no clue.
We'll see.

Speaker 1 But yeah, I have a lot of good friends who are up for awards, so I hope they win stuff. And if not,

Speaker 1 hey, man, I tried. I'm only one vote.

Speaker 1 But that's the process on our part.

Speaker 1 Wait a minute. Really quickly.
Yes. Like I said, Kirby Air Riders Riders is out this week.

Speaker 1 Demon School, which is a very cool-looking, like stylish tactics RPG, News Tower, which is a tycoon thing where you run a newspaper. That's very cool.

Speaker 1 I really want to play that, but like as a smut peddler and see if I can get away with it. And then next week, we have Constance, which is like a 2D hand-drawn platforming adventure game.

Speaker 1 And then for sports fans, Project Motor Racing. And then that's it through December because holidays here in the States.

Speaker 1 Yee-haw. yeehaw indeed

Speaker 1 absolutely thanks so much buddy oh thank you

Speaker 1 what have you got going on this next week and weekend

Speaker 1 hopefully by monday i'll have all of amanda the adventure 3 up for you guys

Speaker 1 just a lot to edit through mostly because there's one section we got stuck for literally an hour and a half and i don't want that to see the internet the world doesn't need to see that it's embarrassing to all of us so i've got to edit it down and then man, this coming week, there's also Sleep Awake.

Speaker 1 I'm really excited for that. That's the game that is by Blumhouse and also

Speaker 1 Nine Inch Nails. And it's like it's artsy,

Speaker 1 trippy game where like you don't know whether you're dreaming or awake or whatever. It's amazing.
I played the demo. It's fantastic.
I can't wait to play that.

Speaker 1 So we're going to try and do that on Springfield. I'm going to remember you hyping that up.
Yeah. Yeah.
That comes out the second. And then, yeah, I'll probably go through all these.

Speaker 1 Like, I have, Dukes, I got so much stuff. I have, I still want to play the Alabaster Dawn demo that you were like talking about.
Yeah. There's a game called Effulgence.
There's a demo for that.

Speaker 1 It looks like ASCII RPG kind of stuff. There's, I got tons of stuff I want to play.

Speaker 1 I still need to play.

Speaker 1 Came out. I really want to play that.
Yeah, I still got the full sign out to Blake Manor to play

Speaker 1 in Tycoon, right? That's the, you know,

Speaker 1 that's cool.

Speaker 1 Yep. There's so much stuff, and I just don't have time.

Speaker 1 So that's where I'm at.

Speaker 1 For sure. What are you up to? For sure,

Speaker 1 dude.

Speaker 1 Starting next week, I'm back to my normal schedule. So I'm really excited to finish up Dispatch.
Probably redo that last chapter if I can finagle it because that was so piss offy. I was so mad.

Speaker 1 Now you're you're falling into the Jesse trap. It's happening.
It infuriated me, man. Dispatch.
I still haven't finished Silk Song. Definitely got to get back into that.

Speaker 1 Like I said, there's Moonlighter came out.

Speaker 1 There's just stuff. There's so much stuff to do.
Sam and I still have to play Split Fiction. Oh, it's awesome.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Very excited.
So, yeah. Just playing lots of stuff.
Being a little mushroom. You know, you know the deal.
I get it. No.
Yeah, yeah. Fighting off the rats.
Oh. Fermantide 3 in my office.

Speaker 1 You get it. You know, normal stuff.

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That's true. Are we doing one on Friday? Yeah.
Next Friday? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Fantastic. Yeah, we'll be here.
I think that that's it. I think we're done.
I think we crushed it. We did.
Take care of yourselves, everybody.

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