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Prince of Persia The Lost Crown | Palworld · Dad Needs To Talk

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What's up y'all? And welcome back to Danny's
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talk. I'm your host, Robert.
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And today today I'm going to be touching on my first impressions
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of Power World, Prince of Persia, The Lost Crown, and just
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talking about how life has been going the last couple of weeks.
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But before I get into all that, as always, if this is your first
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time here, then welcome. But if you're a returning
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listener and or a watcher, then welcome back.
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Y'all know here Dad needs to talk.
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It's all about fatherhood and family, manga, anime, TV, movies
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and video games. So I hope everybody out there
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has been well. It has been a couple of weeks
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since I've got to record. Life has just been chaotic and
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things of that nature. Some of y'all know of some
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family stuff that happened at the beginning of the year with
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us losing a family member on my wife's side.
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So had to do a lot of stuff situated in that situated or
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whatever. But you know they are kind of
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starting to slow down a little bit regarding that.
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But then of course half, half, half the people in the house got
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sick. So that's been my last handful
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of days of dealing with that as well, because.
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And it happened because parents, parents, parents, parents,
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listen to me, if you know that your kid is sick, like,
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feverishly sick, do not send them to school, 'cause that's
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the situation that happened with us.
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To where think it was Tuesday or Wednesday night or evening or
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whatever. There was a big e-mail that went
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out from the from the nurse at my two youngest kids, their
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elementary school, sending out a memorabilia like, hey, pretty
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much what I just said, hey, if your kids are sick, keep them at
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home because we're having an outbreak of illnesses or
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whatever. And then show enough.
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The next day my wife had to go pick up our two youngest and
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cause 'cause the middle boy, he had a fever And when she went to
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go, so when she was going to pick up our middle child, of
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course she was like, well, since I'm already here, I might as
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well going to pick up Vash, the baby, whatever, just get them
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both, whatever. And then when she walked in,
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they were like, Oh well, since you're here, Vash is in this
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other room laying down, not feeling well.
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So they both ended up getting sick.
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And then my wife also ended up getting sick because my wife was
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a substitute teacher at that school earlier in the week as
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well. So all three of them were out of
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Commission for 1/2 for a few days.
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And it it almost got me. The sickness almost got me, but
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I felt the internal power struggle happening within myself
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and I won and I overcame. So far, fingers crossed, but
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like, 'cause I think it was like Friday.
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I could feel it. I could feel the struggle going
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on inside my body. But you know, here we are
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persevered. But say yesterday, that's been
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like the last, that's been like the craziness that's been
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happening and why I haven't really been able to record like
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I've been hoping to whatever these last couple of weeks, just
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cause life happened or whatever. But I'm here now and other
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little thing I'll touch on too is of course we're we're we're
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starting to wind down basketball season for my for the school
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wise for my for my 3 oldest in in 8th grade.
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And things still are going really, really well.
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So not this past week, the week before.
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So two weeks ago, we were very proud of the oldest three kids
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because, well, I get hold of her before I go to the basketball
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thing or whatever. That last little funny thing
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about the illness thing and how we kind of first knew that it
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was that it was that the illness came from the school was that my
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middle son started feeling sick 1st and we knew that process
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elimination that had to be school because for one he
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doesn't do sports and other activities like the older 3.
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So so you know whenever the older 3 gets sick, whatever,
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it's OK we're traveling around going to different places around
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all different mix of people, whatever.
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So you know more chances or whatever.
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But him, he only goes to school and because of the cold weather,
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he has not been going outside to play with friends.
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So it's like, OK, process elimination.
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He's only been going to school and then he just stays in his
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room playing video games. So it's got to be to school.
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So anyway, I had to get that break up, that little laugh, but
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so yeah, so so my oldest three truly showed their competitive
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nature and the will to push through perseverance because I
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had a conversation with them a couple weeks ago when we kind
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of, you know, was first dealing with the family loss that
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happened. And, you know, kind of just, you
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know, because at some point, you know, kids are growing up and
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you also have to be realistic with your kids or be upfront
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with them on certain things, certain aspects of life.
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And so I kind of had a conversation with the kids about
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how we're all going to go through certain things that are
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out of our hands. But we also have to, of course,
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for sure it's OK to grieve and to cry and to feel, you know,
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whatever you're feeling. But to also know that there also
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comes a time to where it's like, hey, you can't let that paralyze
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you and just cause you to just fully stop.
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Just because sometimes there there might be situations where
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there's still other things in life that you need to keep going
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and keep moving and things of that nature and stuff, whatever,
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cuz just like everything knows. Like, hey, you know, yes, this
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is happening to me, but you know, work is still happening,
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school is still happening, sports is still happening, bills
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are still happening. You know, just different things
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like that to where you kind of have to have that melt of
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fortitude to be able to like, OK, hey, I have something that I
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need to do. So I need to push forward, even
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if it's just for a couple of hours.
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Like, OK, hey, I need to take care of XYZ or whatever, and
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then I can come back and then you'll continue to grieve,
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continue to do, you know, whatever that personal thing is.
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And so I had that conversation with him a few weeks ago, and
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then they show that because unfortunately the funeral fell
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on Thursday, which is their game day for school.
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And so of course we talked with the school staff, talk with the
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coaches and stuff, whatever about how you know, we could
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know, pull it off, whatever, with, you know us having to do
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this whatever. But then they still wanted to
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play in their games or whatever. And so we were to get that going
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or whatever. And so all three of them had
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amazing performances that night, considering what we just what
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they just had to go through earlier in the day at the
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funeral and deal with the family stuff, whatever.
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But my oldest daughter, and remember, she's the one that's
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done track her whole life and just started playing basketball
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for the first time this year. Whatever.
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She had a career high, 19 points in a nail biter of a game where
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they won. My other daughter that's been
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the other twin that's been playing for a while, her team, I
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think she had about 15 or so, whatever and they blew out there
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opponent by 50 plus points. And then my son had a the oldest
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son had a thriller of a performance and of a game to
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where he literally came down to like the last couple of minutes
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of the game and they pulled off the win and he had 28 points.
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So it's like they all went out there and balled out and Hecky
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even the weekend before he went to guest Today tournament
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because of like like I mentioned before, you know, we travel
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around a lot. He gets a lot of eyeballs and
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stuff on him. So somebody that we knew from
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the past or whatever we reconnected with and asked him
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to guest play on their team a couple weekend, a few weekends
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ago and stuff and you know, just kind of help out or whatever.
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And he showed out that weekend too.
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He went for Heat. He played in three games that
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Saturday and did better and better each game.
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He had 1519 and I think 26 in those three games.
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So, you know, I I I love bragging on my kids and stuff
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and just, you know, showcasing how proud I am with these
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accomplishments and stuff. And like I said, was just super
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proud that they were able to, you know, go through and deal
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with this family event and then go through and still perform the
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best that they've all performed, period later that same night and
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stuff. So, so yeah, so shout out to my
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kids doing super awesome as we're getting ready to wind down
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the basketball season for the school at least and get ready to
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play in this district championship tournament in a few
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weeks or whatever. So just got a couple weeks left
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in basketball season and then they'll probably be maybe like a
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like a month break or so and then it's going to be going into
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track season so and that it never stops so but but yeah so
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aside from that everything else like I said, just try to stay
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healthy and dodging illnesses and stuff and things of that
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nature. But otherwise life has been
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pretty solid. Like I always try to say, just
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try to take it and tackle it one day, one moment at a time to
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make it through one day and then I can continue to fight the
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fight the next day. So going on from there, it's
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been lots of interesting things happening game wise.
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And of course, if if you are new here for whatever reason, I
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always do time stamps for everything.
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So I always usually start all the shows off talking about life
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updates and stuff and then talking about and any variation
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of order. But game stuff, anime stuff,
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manga stuff, and there's always time stamps for those different
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sections of stuff. If you want to jump ahead or
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want to hear certain things, whatever.
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Like in the description below for all the information.
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So starting off with some game stuff, I know a lot of people
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are excited because of two big games came out the other day
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like a Dragon, Infinite Wealth as well as Tekken 8.
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Both came out Friday. Both seem to have are are are
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getting stellar reviews and stuff and positive discussions
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around them. I'm not big of a fighting game
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person, but I just said I just admire it from afar and then
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I've unfortunately never gotten to play any of the Yakuza slash
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like a dragon games. It is on my list to hopefully
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get to someday. I know.
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Shout out to the Homie Polo from mic check.
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They're doing a live stream of their other monthly live stream
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pikas episode right now on YouTube.
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I was just watching it right before I went to record this,
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but I know Polo a couple months ago he went through from
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beginning to current and play through all the Yakuza games in
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like a month or two. So I know he's hyped for
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infinite worth, but yeah, so hopefully someday I'll get
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around to it Now. As for myself, I think, I think
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I'm gonna start off with the Prince of Persia, The Lost
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Crown. Now.
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This is a game I am super, super loving right now.
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It is a 2D side scrolling, kind of like action adventure, kind
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of Metroidvania style of game where you have this big map that
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you're that you're exploring and stuff.
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And of course you're going to encounter certain barriers or
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places you can't get to until you get certain items or certain
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powers and abilities and stuff. And the other thing that I love
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about this is that this is done and I just buy Ubisoft, but
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specifically Ubisoft Montpellier, which is the team
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that created the Rayman Legends and Rayman Origins games.
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And if y'all have listened to this pockets for a while, y'all
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know how much I love those Rayman games.
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Like Legends came out I think 10 years ago now and to this day I
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still play it. I started off playing it with my
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nieces and nephews all those years back, continue to play it,
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you know, myself. And then now I'm playing it with
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my own kids and stuff. And it's just been a game series
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that is very near and dear to my heart.
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And so when this game was initially announced last year,
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whatever, I honestly was kind of like, you know, whatever,
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because I've never really been. I've never really gotten into
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Prince of Persia too much. So when I saw the name, I was
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like, OK, you know, and then like the initial trailer,
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whatever looked OK. But I was kind of in, you know,
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not really care too much about her ever.
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But then towards the end of last year, they announced that, hey,
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it's going to get a demo. So I was like, OK, I'll project
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at the demo. And then along the way in the
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LED up to the demo and the game coming out or whatever, I found
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out that it was the Rayman Legends team.
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And then this went from barely on my radar to top of my radar.
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And especially when I play that free demo that they put out, I
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was like Oh yeah, Oh yeah, this, this, this is a Robert type of
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game. But visually I love like the
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unique look of the game, the action and the combat and the
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exploration. It is so fun, so, so fun.
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And they have it set up to where you can either have it best in
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kind of like explorer mode where there's little to no hints
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about, you know where you need to go on the map.
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Or you can kind of put on kind of like a guided mode to where
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it's not going to tell you 100% everything step by step, but
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it'll put a couple of markers on the map of like, hey, these are
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the objectives you need to go to or need you need to head
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towards. But it's still up to you to play
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through and execute and but they also do a really good job of
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having pretty solid customization options for how
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you play and stuff so you can adjust the enemy, the enemy
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difficulty as well as how much damage and stuff you are doing
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and other little things in between.
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So pretty good, pretty solid game.
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Like I said, it kind of it, it has some twists and turns early
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on in the story because basically so.
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So you're playing as Sargon, who is one of these legendary
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characters called Immortals, who are basically tasked with
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protecting the royal family. Well, the Prince, the Prince of
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Persia gets kidnapped and taken to this kind of like a mythical
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mountain. And so you're kind of exploring
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this mountain, trying to recover the Prince while also navigating
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the oddities and stuff of this, of this environment and so but
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yeah, it's been it's been super fun to to play through.
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But yeah, so how do you recommend there's a demo pretty
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much on every platform. The game is on every platform.
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PS4, PS Five, all the Xboxes, Nintendo Switch, PC.
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You can find it pretty much on all platforms and stuff, so
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definitely go and check it out. But yeah, I think I'm about
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maybe about 10 or 12 hours into the game or so, so it's pretty
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pretty meaty game I had. Luckily I had like another gift
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card at work from my job, whatever that I was able to to
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cash in some points on so I didn't have to pay out of pocket
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for the game. Which is a nice little added
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bonus to where I was like oh OK, I got enough little rewards
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points we get at work to get a a gift card or whatever.
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So I use that to buy Prince of Persia.
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So very, very dope. But yeah, loving the game.
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Super, super fun. Next up, the next game that kind
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of has taken the Internet by storm unexpectedly, is freaking
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Power World. Now, Power World is a game that,
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jokingly, was described as a Pokémon with guns.
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But it's it's it's it's a good deal more than that.
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But when they first shut off the game and the initial trailers
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and stuff, whatever, it just like, oh, Pokémon looking
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creatures with guns and shooting and stuff, whatever.
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And that's kind of what got people's initial attention,
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whatever. But at the heart of this game,
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it is actually a survival crafting type of game.
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So right now, so the game is in early access.
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It is on Xbox Game Pass or it's on.
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You can buy it on APC on Steam I think for 30 bucks.
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But but yeah, this game just like blew up.
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Took over the world I think. Let me see.
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I think in the first week of release it sold I believe.
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Yep, 8 million players, 8 million copies sold.
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Not 8 million people playing, 8 million copies sold, and that is
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just on PC now. It's not counting how many
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people are accessing it through Xbox Game Pass, but it sold 8
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million copies within six days and just kind of took the world
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by storm. And so when I saw it was on Game
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Pass, I was like, hey, I might as well take a look at it and
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see what's going on. And next I knew 3 hours went by
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and I was like, yo, where did the time go?
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But it's just it's just dumb fun.
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It is just dumb fun to where you you get to customize your
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character and then you kind of just get set out into the world
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and you get to see the creatures, which are called
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pals, just wander around their environment and you just go out
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and just start you know, knocking down trees, getting no
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wood and stone. So you can build your crafting
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table. And then eventually you can
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build a kind of like a settlement camp area or
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whatever. And you can put the pals to work
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and they have different traits and stuff from being lazy to
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hard worker, so on and so forth. You can attack the pals directly
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yourself, or you can throw out your pals like a Pokémon and
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they fight each other and stuff. But my first situation with this
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game and just because, like I said, I I didn't know about the
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survival elements and stuff initially or whatever.
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So I'm playing the game, whatever.
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And then it's like, OK, hell, OK, I need to get some water,
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stuff, whatever. So I'm no just punching trees.
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Get some wood until you know, I can get make me a club or
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whatever. And then I ran to my first pal
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and so this is before I think this is before I had crafty any
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of the little balls to catch him or whatever.
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So I'm just out here in the woods just duking it out with
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with the with the little pals or whatever.
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But I'm up here fighting boom, boom, boom, going hand to hand
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with the with the creatures myself.
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And then I'm like, OK, his health is getting low.
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And then I delivered one more hit and it didn't knock him out.
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It killed him and they just slump over.
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It ain't like Pokémon where you know, they just disappear,
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whatever it is. Like, no, Their lifeless body
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with XS over, their eyes are just slumped over on the ground,
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knocked out. And then I'm just like, looking
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at the the the blood on my hands of like, what have I done?
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It was just like, did, did did I do this?
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Was this my doing? And so I was like, yo, OK, so
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I'm killing these things or whatever and it it was just fun.
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But yeah, just building up my little camp made me a little
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house and then just going out of the world and just exploring and
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capturing and all these little things, whatever.
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It was a good little fun time. I haven't really played too much
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more since that first couple of since that first weekend the
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other weekend or last weekend just cause life been busy or
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whatever and I got my hands on Prince of Persia so but it was
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fun And then yesterday my wife and my baby boy Vash they played
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it too whatever. And so my wife was going in on
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the game. Bash was loving it.
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He's Oh my mommy oh get get him, get him, get him.
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And so he he just Bash is just having a blast just watching
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this cause of course he just seen these cute little creatures
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just running around he's chasing after them and stuff.
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Whatever it it it's just a fun wholesome time.
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Now, of course, you know, there's like, the Internet likes
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to do, whatever. There's all this controversy
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around the game or whatever as far as like, oh, is this copying
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Pokémon and yada yada yada, Yes, some of these, some of the
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designs are like, yo, OK, that is, that is pretty much that
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Pokémon. But I don't care.
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I'm not a lawyer. I'm just having fun with this
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game in the moment and so you know, hey, if if if the Game
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Freak ninjas come through and take it down, so be.
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I enjoyed my hand full of hours with it.
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But otherwise it's cool, go check it out.
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Like I said, if you have Game Pass on, it's on Game Pass both
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for Xbox and PC Game Pass. So check it out or whatever and
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just see what's going on. But yeah, it was a fun little
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time and like I said, I I love seeing my my wife and son just
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having blast, just adventure into the world chasing out these
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creatures and stuff and just, yeah, having fun.
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So yeah, so that that's power world I'm trying to think of.
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So that's it as far as what I've been playing.
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So some little new stuff I want to touch on briefly, which would
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be mainly some new surrounding the next game of our radar which
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is Suicide Squad killed the Justice League and so I'm trying
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to make my little time stamp notes notes.
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So the developers, Rocksteady, I'm, I'm in their Discord for
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the game and they've been doing some Q&A sessions and stuff,
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whatever and they have been very very detailed with the game.
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So depending on when you're this is just whatever the game
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already be at might already be out.
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But I know I'm early. The early access for the deluxe
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editions begins tomorrow night, the 29th, and then the regular
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release for everybody else is on Friday, February 2nd.
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So they've shown a bunch of stuff, whatever with the game
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that I feel like aside from the people who just don't care about
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the game or just hating for haters sake for anybody that's
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actually interested in the game or whatever.
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So they layout, they gave out some more concrete details on
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some things that were very important.
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So first of all, they confirmed that yes, you can fully play it,
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start to finish the whole story campaign, as well as all the end
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game stuff and all the future DLC's fully solo if you want to,
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or any combination, up to four players cooperatively they said
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that. So all, all of the Battle Pass
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stuff is cosmetics only, and there's a basic Battle Pass that
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is free. And then there's a premium
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Battle Pass, which once again is just higher, just more cosmetics
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and stuff. And the Battle Passes stay
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forever. So even if it's a new season or
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whatever, you can always go back to a previous season, and I
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always have access to the battle passes and stuff and all the
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scans and content and stuff from there.
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All of the DLC for sure that they have Rd. maps for this
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first year are all free. So each each DLC season, which
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is going to last about 3 months roughly, is going to include one
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new playable character, a new location and they kind of like
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split up into like 2 episodes. Story wise.
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They already announced that the first one is Elsworld's Joker,
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so it's like a alternate dimension joke or whatever.
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And they showed a little bit of the gameplay for him and the
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gameplay for him looked super dope like him, like the way he
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was like gliding around the the environment and stuff looks
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pretty cool. But yeah, so yeah, so they
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announced all the DLC, all that new characters and stuff, all
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that stuff will be free. And just like the Ballpass
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stuff, whatever, you can go back to any point in time and access
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any of the older content. So they're so they want to make
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sure they don't create a FOMO, fear of missing out or whatever.
29:10
It's like, Nope, all the content you can access for free at any
29:14
point in time. And so that's been like one of
29:16
the biggest highlights for me in relation to this game.
29:22
And so trying to think what other stuff, oh, the HUD will be
29:28
customizable. So they they have several things
29:33
that you can customize up front as far as like the mini map, the
29:36
AMI, reticle, text size, enemy health bars, damage number, all
29:43
that stuff, whatever screen effects, health shells, all that
29:47
stuff, whatever. You can customize all that stuff
29:50
and then they're going to continue to tweak it even after
29:54
launch with as they you know continue to get more feedback
29:58
and stuff. But yeah, so that that that's
30:02
kind of like like like like the biggest takeaways from it.
30:06
But yeah I am super hype, super excited to get my hands on and
30:11
stuff. I'm myself going to be playing
30:13
it pretty much fully solo, just cause, yeah, I know me, I'm
30:18
mainly a solo game player so I was very happy to hear that.
30:22
And also when I played to close out for a couple months back,
30:25
being able to just go through and explore this myself was
30:28
super dope and I look forward to also seeing what new characters
30:32
and locations they bring it to the game as the new seasons in
30:38
DLC come out over the course of the year and stuff, whatever.
30:42
And like I said it, it's really cool for me.
30:44
Oh, also, if you're playing solo, you can pause the game so
30:49
it's like, hey, when you're in the maze or whatever, the game
30:51
will be paused. So I was like, dope.
30:53
That is super cool because as a parent, life gets busy or
30:57
whatever, which is kind of why I hadn't really stopped.
31:01
Granted, I was like like the biggest, biggest Destiny fan.
31:04
But just as I became a parent and my family got busy and
31:08
busier, I couldn't play games like that as much or whatever
31:13
that don't allow pausing, whatever, because hey, stuff
31:15
happens and I got to go run errands and stuff, whatever.
31:18
Oh, I got to go pick up somebody from practice or whatever.
31:21
So, but I'm saying, so I'm happy that that feature is there.
31:27
I'm trying to think of what other thing.
31:30
But yeah, but either way I'm I'm excited to play that and I'm
31:33
also happy that I also will have to pay out of pocket, because I
31:37
also have some extra points saved up to get the at least the
31:44
standard edition pretty much not costing me anything out of my
31:48
pocket this this week or whatever.
31:51
So I look forward to playing it. And then because of the fact
31:54
that they have the contents where hey, you can access it
31:57
whenever I don't feel like I'm I'm gonna have to rush to
32:01
constantly keep up with everything.
32:03
If life gets busy or I'm on to play some other games, well,
32:06
hey, maybe just months later I can go back and just and see
32:10
what all stuff that they put out or whatever.
32:12
So, but yeah, so just had to show some love to the Suicide
32:15
Squad game because I know there's a lot of people hating
32:18
on that stuff. Whatever.
32:19
Like I said now I'm not talking about the people that are
32:21
disappointed in it or whatever. I'm talking about the people
32:24
that are like going out of their way to to voice their disgust or
32:31
whatever. And it's like, OK, hey, for
32:35
people who are claiming not to like something or whatever,
32:37
y'all are going out of, y'all's way to find YouTube videos, to
32:41
find Twitter threads, to find Instagram posts or whatever and
32:45
just post nasty hate comments or whatever instead of just being
32:48
like, oh, that's the game I don't like.
32:50
I'm gonna keep scrolling, so I don't know, I'm not going to run
32:53
on it too much whatever. Also, and I might have to find
32:59
somebody's Twitch stream to watch, but they got some pretty
33:01
cool Twitch drops enabled, so you're going to have to kind of
33:07
get some really cool little trinkets and stuff for the
33:11
different characters to have on your weapons and cosmetic stuff,
33:16
whatever. So I'm about to find some twist
33:18
strings to put on it, put on the background so I can get those
33:21
free little rewards and stuff. So but yeah, so that's it.
33:27
As far as the Suicide Squad game, what other stuff?
33:34
Let me see. I know there there's like a few
33:38
kind of like new, like minor news things I'm a touch on.
33:42
So the big one. And I'm not 'cause I'm not
33:46
letting, I'm not necessarily like a news guy, but just to
33:49
discuss it a little bit or whatever.
33:50
But freaking what was it Thursday morning?
33:54
Yeah, Thursday morning freaking. Microsoft announced that they
33:59
had laid off 1900 people from their gaming division.
34:04
So and which the bulk of it came from people from the Activision
34:10
Blizzard side of things. They just, you know, that they
34:13
just acquired a couple months ago, whatever.
34:16
So it was like devastation across social media, whatever,
34:20
just like all these people losing their jobs or whatever
34:24
and definitely sucks, whatever, because it was like, yo, OK, you
34:27
know they were kind of like in a bad situation with the former
34:31
CEO and stuff, whatever. Just kind of why this deal was
34:34
kind of starting to happen. And then of course tons of
34:38
people lost their jobs or whatever, and the aftermath of
34:41
this situation and big games and stuff got because of Blizzard
34:47
secret new project nickname Odyssey got cancelled and that
34:52
whole team got laid off, whatever.
34:55
So it was just horrible. It's been a lot of layoffs in
34:59
general in this last you're sort of game or whatever.
35:02
I think I even earlier in the week Riot laid off a bunch of
35:05
people and it's just layoffs happening left and right and it
35:09
just it just come in kind of made me reflecting.
35:11
I was telling my wife this the other day and I come around, I
35:15
probably talked about on here before, whatever.
35:17
But on two separate occasions I worked as a contractor for
35:24
Microsoft and for those of you who don't know, I work in IT.
35:28
I currently work in IT in the medical field now, whatever.
35:32
But years back, almost 10 years ago now when I first really,
35:37
really started or whatever, I got a contract job working at
35:41
the Microsoft headquarters office here in Dallas, TX.
35:47
Or it's technically in Irving, but you know what I mean?
35:50
So I got I worked there 2 * 2 separate times on two different
35:54
contracts for couple of years, total year and 2 1/2 years or so
35:59
roughly total. But but there were, there have
36:06
been times over the years where I'm like, man, part of me was
36:09
like, yo, I really worked at Microsoft or whatever.
36:12
And it's like, man, if I would have got to become full time or
36:16
just stay there and work permanently, whatever.
36:18
But just seeing like how frequently over the years
36:22
they've done rounds of layoffs and stuff, whatever, just across
36:25
the board, not just the gaming side, but just across the whole
36:28
company, whatever. I'm kind of like man, I'm I'm
36:31
grateful for the experience I got to have early in my IT
36:35
career working there. But I'm kind of glad that I'm
36:39
not in that environment anymore and I'm kind of in in a little
36:42
bit, hopefully safer, more secure position where I'm in
36:47
now. But yeah man, I was just
36:49
thinking about that. Likes it.
36:50
Just reflecting on that with my wife when I heard the news about
36:54
all the layoffs happening with the gaming stuff, whatever this
36:56
week. But yeah man, it's it's crazy.
37:01
On the flip side of that, there there's always rumblings and
37:06
rumors going on or whatever, but it seems like things are
37:09
building up for Sony to potentially do a state of play
37:14
soon. Nothing has been confirmed yet,
37:17
but there's been lots of rumblings of stuff with Death
37:22
Stranding 2 getting some teaser stuff and I until Dawn remake
37:28
and movie announcement was happening and stuff, whatever.
37:32
So lots of things kind of bubbling up.
37:35
So I wouldn't be surprised if in the next week or so Sony and
37:41
PlayStation do another state of play event.
37:44
So, so yeah, so just kind of keep your ears and eyes open for
37:50
that. So trying to think, is there any
37:53
other like gaming that I want to touch on, Hold on real quick.
37:57
Oh, I I guess last little thing I'll touch on is because
38:00
Speaking of Xbox and Microsoft, the Xbox did a little developer
38:08
direct a couple weeks ago and showed off a handful of games or
38:12
whatever. Most of them not.
38:13
Not really my thing. Like they shut off a lengthy
38:15
amount of avowed the new game from a city and the people who
38:19
did outer worlds and also did a fall in New Vegas back in the
38:24
day. So that game that that's slated
38:26
for later this year, not my, not my cup of tea, whatever game
38:29
wise that shoot showed a new kind of like tactics game.
38:35
Shoot, I can't think of what that game was called, but once
38:37
again, not really my cup of tea. They finally gave a date for
38:42
Hellblade 2, which is I believe May 21st, I think sometime in
38:46
May. So that finally got a day after
38:49
being shown so many times over the last four years and the one
38:53
I'm interested in is machine games.
38:56
New game. The people who made the the most
38:59
recent Wolfenstein games, their new Indiana Jones game and so
39:05
that game looks really cool. It's going to be in first person
39:10
and so but the certain actions or platforming, whatever, and of
39:17
course the cut scenes and stuff, all that stuff will be in third
39:20
person. But but otherwise it's going to
39:22
be a first person Indiana Jones game and I loved those
39:28
Wolfenstein games and so this is probably going to be on game
39:31
Pass, so I'm going to check it out through that.
39:34
I don't really have much, if any connection to the Indiana Jones
39:39
series. So like I said, I'm more so here
39:41
because this is the team they did the Wolfenstein New Order
39:45
and Wolfenstein 2 New Colossus, which I tell the story before,
39:50
but that's one of the games I was playing the the week that my
39:56
son Vash was born. Cause 'cause that that was the
40:01
that was the time frame when we it was 3 big games came out the
40:05
same time it was Wolfenstein 2. Assassin's Creed Origins and
40:09
Super Mario Odyssey all came out on the same day, like a week or
40:14
so before my son was born. So I remember playing
40:17
Wolfenstein Two, finishing that up in the hospital room, and
40:23
then rushing to to take it back to because I had rented it from
40:27
Redbox. That was one of the last times
40:30
the Redbox was doing a game rentals.
40:32
But I remember I had to to get it turned in before like 9:00 PM
40:38
or 9:10 PM something whatever. Otherwise I get charged from the
40:42
day or whatever. But I remember beating through
40:45
beating the story or whatever and then just standing there in
40:48
the hospital room watching that final cutscene or whatever and
40:51
then OK is it over credits. All right.
40:53
Hey babe. I'm.
40:54
I'm a go right. Take this game back whatever.
40:56
So rushing to drop it back in the and the thing or whatever
41:01
before the time hits whatever. So fun fun memories.
41:05
But I saw I'm looking forward to checking out that game so but I
41:08
just had to shut out that developer direct.
41:11
Like I said, check it out might be some stuff y'all are
41:12
interested in looking at. So so yeah so moving on from
41:17
there. Just a couple of quick manga
41:20
things I want to shout out. Nothing too much.
41:22
I want to touch on specifically with manga, but but Call of the
41:30
Night manga has finished. It ended with chapter 200, so I
41:38
haven't read it. So of course there's no spoilers
41:40
or whatever, but I just. I just wanted to shut it out
41:42
because I really enjoyed. So I I enjoyed.
41:46
So I saw I read the first couple of volumes of the manga before
41:50
the anime came out. Then I watched anime.
41:52
Anime was visually spectacular. The music on point really good
41:58
anime adaptation, but I never know jumped back into the manga
42:03
afterwards, whatever. So I might circle around to it
42:05
because 200 is a nice solid binge amount or whatever.
42:10
And it's all on the VIZ Media app and website, so check it out
42:14
there. But but yeah, so I just wanted
42:15
to shout out Call of the Night Ended.
42:20
Speaking of the Viz manga app, Full Night got added to the
42:26
website. Now this is a manga I had did a
42:30
YouTube short of last year but it is one that I highly
42:37
recommend. Y'all put on your radar.
42:40
So. So just as a little reminder for
42:43
those who might have forgot or just didn't catch me talking
42:47
about it back then, Full Night basically takes place in kind of
42:51
like a dystopian future to where the sun has been blocked out or
42:57
is blocked out for whatever reason, and so people volunteer
43:04
to turn their bodies into plants to provide oxygen for the rest
43:10
of humanity. So basically, if you become a
43:14
donor, I'll try to make sure I'm getting this mixed up with yeah,
43:19
yeah, this is the one. So you donate your body,
43:22
whatever. And then basically you, once you
43:26
get the seed implanted, you have maybe a couple of years before
43:30
you fully turn into a plant. And so as part of volunteering
43:36
your body for that or whatever, you get a large amount of money
43:40
for doing so or whatever. So a lot of times people who are
43:42
kind of on hard times and stuff, whatever will volunteer their
43:46
bodies for this or whatever, get the money, live their life,
43:50
whatever for a couple of years, live it up and then just turn
43:54
into a plant. And so it is very eerie, very
43:58
creepy, but very good. I think I've read about 20
44:02
something chapters of it. There's 69 total, nice as of
44:06
this week. But of course, as Viv and Sean
44:10
jump do sometimes, whatever, there's a gap in the chapters
44:14
that they're going to backfill eventually.
44:15
Whatever. But just wanted to put this on
44:19
people's radar because this was a a very, very good series that
44:26
that I enjoy reading. So I'm saying so check out four
44:30
nights trying to think aside from that, that's kind of it.
44:38
As far as like manga I've been reading My Academia is kind of
44:42
winding up, but I'm not going to touch on that or whatever.
44:44
Too much the manga for that One Piece like the climax for
44:48
Egghead arc is is is is building about to burst.
44:54
So I'm very excited to see where we kind of leave things off with
44:58
that. Trying to think.
45:02
I think. I think later this week I might
45:04
try to do kind of like a recap of some new volume one manga I
45:09
had read this month. One of them I read was called
45:17
Tokyo. These days it is by Tao
45:22
Matsumoto, who is the same manga Arthur as #5 sunny, I think.
45:32
Ping Pong I think is another one of their series that they've
45:37
worked on as well. I can't remember, but but
45:43
basically it follows a manga editor who basically has kind of
45:50
lost his passion for it and decides to quit.
45:53
But then he eventually kind of starts to just like live his
45:57
normal life and they kind of starts to want to come back to
46:00
do like one final series with kind of like a dream team, so to
46:03
speak of like certain people that you've always wanted to
46:06
work with and stuff, whatever, they shut up for crew.
46:08
So very, very heartfelt story that seem like going to be
46:14
pretty short or whatever, 'cause it seems like a, like most of
46:16
his series seems to be pretty sure.
46:19
So I'm interested in checking out more of their work.
46:23
Another manga I had checked out called King and Limbo.
46:28
We're basically, sometimes humanity gets hit with this kind
46:33
of like sleeping sickness, whatever.
46:36
And people have to they're they're these people who
46:39
specialize and diving into these people's minds to help cure
46:45
their illnesses. So it's kind of like a
46:47
psychological drama type of series that was OK or OK Reed.
46:54
It almost lost me though because it almost put itself in a in a
46:58
position of too much hype because when I went to look on
47:02
my SO I mentioned before I use Net Galley and Idle Wise Plus
47:07
those are the two websites that I use to kind of keep track of
47:11
upcoming releases of books and manga and comics and stuff,
47:14
whatever. And that's how I get sometimes
47:16
early access to to digital copies of stuff to read for
47:21
review and stuff, whatever. And so on the on the synopsis
47:25
thing or on the little description thing for King and
47:29
Limbo they had for fans of Naoki Urasawa's Monster or the
47:37
Promised Neverland, you're going to love this.
47:40
That's two big series that I really enjoyed that.
47:43
I'm like, yo, OK, you put a lot of hype and expectation on to
47:46
the series and so when I first started reading it, it wasn't
47:49
really great. I mean I was like, man, like I
47:52
do not like that they put those two series like, hey, if you
47:55
like these you're going to love this.
47:57
No, it still ended up being OK. But no, don't do those high
48:04
comparisons or whatever anymore. So, but yeah, so King King and
48:09
Limbo, what else? Marriage and Toxin.
48:13
That's another manga. I read that one like over here,
48:16
like like sometime earlier last year, whatever, and did a full
48:19
review on that one. But that one finally got a
48:21
physical release. Same thing with the Gotcha
48:24
Akuda. Now that's one I want to go back
48:29
and read the first volume again, but the the mangaka of Gotcha
48:35
Akuda she is, she basically was the protege of the creator of
48:42
Fire Forest and so eater. She was an assistant on Fire
48:47
Forest and maybe so little towards the end, but for sure
48:49
Fire Forest. And so right when Fire Force
48:52
ended she started her own series like a couple months later
48:56
called Gotcha Akuda that basically follows this young boy
49:01
who ends up falling into this kind of like trash wasteland.
49:04
So basically there's like this society above the clouds or
49:09
whatever, and then they dump all of their trash or whatever.
49:13
It's like this kind of like area beneath the clouds or whatever.
49:17
And this kid falls into the area and ends up getting this special
49:22
type of gear that has a special ability, whatever.
49:26
And so basically it's his journey, trying to learn more
49:31
about himself but also trying to figure out how to get back up.
49:34
But super dope. If if you enjoy like the art
49:38
style and stuff of fire Force, you can tell that some of that
49:43
DNA carries over here. But yeah, I got you a CUDA is
49:46
pretty dope. But yeah, the first volume of
49:48
that came out of English or whatever as well.
49:50
So but yeah, so that's it. As far as manga, I wanted to
49:53
shout out. Last thing I'll touch on is a
49:59
couple of anime that I've watched I'm trying to think of.
50:06
Let me go through my little Annie list and stuff and see
50:09
what all I have watched. Yeah, I'm I'm caught up on
50:14
Hokkaido girls, caught up on solo leveling, caught up on a
50:19
sign of affection, the wrong way to use healing magic and that
50:25
unwanted adventure. Most of these I've talked about
50:27
on the previous episode, but all this stuff continues to be
50:31
fantastic. Like the the adaptation for solo
50:37
leveling has been ridiculous. It has been so awesome because I
50:44
even this most recent episode, episode four, yeah, the way they
50:50
animated that snake fight. I'm like, if y'all are doing
50:54
that for this fight, then the fights that are coming later,
50:59
like the real, real fights, I'm like yo, OK, yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm
51:04
locked in for, for, for this show, whatever.
51:07
But yeah, they they've done fantastically with that
51:09
adaptation of it. A sign of affection continues to
51:13
be so heartwarming and so unbelievable.
51:18
I'm just so in love with that show.
51:21
Hokkaido Girls continues to be very fun and adorable as well.
51:26
Undead. Unwanted adventurer or what is
51:30
it unwanted? Undead adventurer continues to
51:34
have that nice air of mystery and solid storytelling with
51:37
these characters. Whatever.
51:39
Same same thing with the wrong way to use healing magic, like
51:44
some kind of glancing over these that I've talked about a lot
51:46
last time. Delicious and danger continues
51:48
to be really good. Oh, a new one that I started
51:53
watching and I think I still need to finish the most recent
51:57
episode. Let me find it.
52:03
Seventh Time loop. The villainous enjoys a carefree
52:08
life married to her worst enemy. Now, I know that that title was
52:12
a mouthful, but this is also kind of a a romance type of
52:18
show. And basically, as the title
52:23
suggests, she has died multiple times.
52:27
And so she died the first time, whatever.
52:34
And so each time after she died or whatever, she basically used
52:38
that opportunity to learn and to grow and to try something else,
52:43
whatever. So I was like, OK, she, you
52:45
know, the first time, whatever. So basically she was originally
52:49
engaged to this Prince. He is Lord.
52:58
My brain is going blank basically not wanting to marry
53:03
her anymore whatever and accuses her of all these crimes or
53:05
whatever what she didn't do and kicks out of the Kingdom or
53:08
whatever. So she's exiled and so she ends
53:11
up running to this band of merchants, whatever travels with
53:14
them around the world. Eventually she dies in this war
53:17
or whatever, comes back, whatever.
53:19
And then, like I said, she's, you know, kind of does things
53:22
again. And then, like I said, she goes
53:24
and learns medicine and becomes an adventurer, becomes a
53:28
swordsman, all these different things, whatever.
53:31
And so now she's on her 7th loop.
53:34
And so now the person who killed her last time has kind of been
53:39
the guy that has started this war every time that has led to
53:44
her death, this son of an emperor or whatever.
53:48
And so she ends up getting engaged to him in the seventh
53:52
time loop, whatever. So trying to figure out if she
53:54
can get close to him, to maybe not only live a more carefree
53:59
life, but also maybe figure out like what happened to lead him
54:03
to the events of starting this big war or whatever.
54:08
So but it's been really good. The show looks beautiful,
54:12
stunning. I like the characters.
54:14
These are adults. I think she's what, 20?
54:17
Yeah. She died at the age of 20.
54:23
OK, OK. I return to the moment five
54:26
years prior, so OK, so she's 15 when she dies, I think.
54:29
And that's how the time thing works.
54:30
I don't know, Benu. Good show.
54:34
Been enjoying it. Glad I finally gave it a shot
54:37
because here in the home is over on mic check, shouting his
54:42
prizes or whatever. I was like OK, you know I gotta
54:45
check that out. So trying to think what else I
54:50
think. I think that's it.
54:51
As far as like new anime I started checking out.
54:56
Yeah, yeah, that that, that's really been it.
54:59
So but yeah, so winter season continues to be really, really
55:03
good. Like I said, I have that core
55:06
group of shows that are like, OK, hey, I must watch every week
55:10
and it's like I enjoy if I get to Thursday nights, sitting down
55:15
with dinner watching Delicious and Dungeon and then like I said
55:21
just over the weekend whenever I can get into, watch a sign of
55:25
affection and solo leveling and free rent still and Apothecary
55:29
Diary still. And then like like, sorry, my
55:33
two kind of fantasy shows I'm really into with.
55:39
I'm watching on that adventure and wrong way to use healing
55:41
magic. Those are kind of like my core
55:45
that I'm like really, really, really sticking to whatever.
55:48
And then there's some other ones I'm kind of watching as I get
55:50
time. Whatever too.
55:52
But but yeah, overall, good shows to watch, good stuff to
55:57
read. And with that, I think I'm gonna
56:01
wrap this up because it's almost midnight and I'm getting tired.
56:05
But like I said, I just had to record today because like I've
56:09
been wanting to talk about Prince of Persia and Power World
56:16
and stuff like that for a while. So I'm glad I can finally touch
56:22
on that stuff, whatever. And hopefully, you know, by the
56:25
time next time I get to record, I'll hopefully have gotten to
56:28
put in some time with the with the retail version of the
56:33
Suicide Squad game. Who knows what else 'cause
56:36
'cause this, the the the the the games are coming and the game
56:42
releases are upon us 'cause matter of fact, let me take a
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quick look at this at this release calendar.
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Let me see, is this for this year?
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Nope. Hold on real quick.
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I need a 2024 list. OK yeah.
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So so yeah. So yeah.
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For for this for January the biggest release is word the
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Prince of Persia game taken a like a dragon.
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Infinite wealth. Those are kind of like some like
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the biggest of the biggest. And then yes, starting next week
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at the beginning of February for the RPG people who got that
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grand Brute grand blue Fantasy relink coming out like I
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mentioned Suicide Squad. Kill the Justice League Persona
57:34
3 Reload Foam Stars and Hail divers 2 Banishers Ghost of New
57:42
Eden. That is one.
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OK, that's in. That's where Valentine's Day is.
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OK, so I keep that in mind. They're doing a Tomb Raider one
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through 3 remaster, middle of the month.
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That Skull and Bones game is finally coming out.
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See how that does Pacific Dr. Final Fantasy.
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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. Yeah.
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So yeah so yeah the the the games are starting to starting
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to roll out. So yes so get get your get your
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wallets ready. But like I said I'm very excited
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like so I can I look forward to continue to chip away at Prince
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of Persia and then dive into Suicide Squad next weekend and
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then go on from there. But yeah, so that's going to do
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it for this episode. As always, thank y'all so much
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for watching and or listening. Yeah, I know you can find me
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boy Rob is out here doing what do you do.
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But but I hope everybody out there has an awesome rest of
59:08
your week as you get ready to wrap up these last few days of
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January and hand it to February. Yeah, so I'm for the head off to
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bed, but I hope y'all have an awesome rest of your day and
59:20
week. And as I always say, treat
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yourself to some nice oh actually shout out I've got some
59:27
issues at the top of the show. I found this very dope hang from
59:34
Avatar, the last Airbender pop pop figure at Ross for $4.00.
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So shout out to my wife for finding it while we were in
59:43
there getting some stuff for the kids.
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So I had to shut that out real quick.
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But yeah, so as I always say, treat yourself to some nice read
59:55
some manga, watch some anime TV and movies and play some video
59:58
games. And of course, live your best
1:00:01
life. And with that I am out.
1:00:04
Y'all, have an awesome, awesome day.
1:00:07
Thank you so much for all the love and support, and I'll catch
1:00:10
you on the next one. Y'all be easy.
1:00:12
Peace.