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Tech Talk With JD For April 15th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Here gotta be sponsored by some kind of a cookie
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  Speaker 1: company or something, or a game company. Maybe JD is here,
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan Deezing. He is a cookie baker, yes, Sir, extraordinaire.
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  Speaker 1: Uh huh, and also a podcaster the.
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  Speaker 2: Three Bit Gamer show yep every Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: Every Tuesday that's available and it's uh and he comes
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  Speaker 1: and shares a little interesting websites with.
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  Speaker 3: Us and yeah, if you guys are bored at work, Oh,
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  Speaker 3: I'm here to save you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you've got stuff here?
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  Speaker 2: What do you got?
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  Speaker 3: I got two games I'll go through pretty quick that
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  Speaker 3: are coming out this month. The first one is out
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  Speaker 3: as of yesterday. It's called Forever Skies now Forever Scout Guys.
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  Speaker 3: I played when this came out on early alpha about
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  Speaker 3: a year ago, and it was fantastic. And since then
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  Speaker 3: they've been spending you know, year a year plus building
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  Speaker 3: it and improving it. Essentially, the whole world, the surface world,
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  Speaker 3: is poisoned. There's a big cloud of poisoned fog, and
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  Speaker 3: you are living above the cloud. There are skyscrapers you
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  Speaker 3: can see that are poking above the clouds, and those
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  Speaker 3: are where you like dock essentially, because you are exploring
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  Speaker 3: this world in an airship. Basically, you build your own
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  Speaker 3: zeppelin and you're improving it constantly, so you want to
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  Speaker 3: expand it, you want to build it. Well, then you've
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  Speaker 3: got to dock on one of these skyscrapers, take the
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  Speaker 3: elevator down to this poisoned surface and hold your breath
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  Speaker 3: because you got you only got like a limited amount
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  Speaker 3: of air, and you've got to run in there and
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  Speaker 3: try to try.
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  Speaker 2: To loot some giant bugs.
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  Speaker 3: And oh, there's all sorts of stuff in the fog.
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  Speaker 3: You don't know what's down there, but you're basically just
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  Speaker 3: going down and on the surface claiming all the stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I like the way it looks because it's not it's
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  Speaker 1: not realistic. Yeah, it's kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of it's like a like a like a Netflix animated
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  Speaker 3: series kind of a five.
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  Speaker 5: The space suits that they wear look almost like old
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  Speaker 5: diving suits, yes, which is super appropriate. Metal helmets like
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  Speaker 5: you know, twenty thousand leagues under the sea kind of things.
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  Speaker 4: Cool.
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  Speaker 3: If you guys played like a game like Subnatica, it's
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  Speaker 3: got it's got vibes of that. But you have this
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  Speaker 3: this base and you're flying your your your ship around
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  Speaker 3: and the storms in the air and you're getting hit
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  Speaker 3: with lightning. Oh, it is fantastic. Forever Skies. Yes, it's
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  Speaker 3: an open, randomly generated world, so you can just go
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  Speaker 3: in one direction and just just see stuff. It's out
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  Speaker 3: now on PlayStation five and PC. That's Forever Skies. It's fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: Another one, bigger name. This actually came out earlier last year,
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  Speaker 3: I think in December on the Xbox, but now it
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  Speaker 3: is out this Thursday on the PlayStation five. This is
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  Speaker 3: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Like I said, it's
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  Speaker 3: already been out. It's received a great acclaim. People love
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  Speaker 3: this one, and it is. It is like considered Cannon
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  Speaker 3: within Indiana Jones like whatever. It's set between Raiders and
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  Speaker 3: Lost Arc. It is a first person game, so you're
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  Speaker 3: seeing through the eyes of Indiana Jones. You are shooting,
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  Speaker 3: you're stealthing around basically anything he does. You're using your
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  Speaker 3: whip to to swing across gaps and solve puzzles and
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  Speaker 3: stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a.
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  Speaker 3: Very pure Indiana Jones game. You're fighting Nazis who are
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  Speaker 3: preventing them from stealing powerful arts.
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  Speaker 2: You know what's new.
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  Speaker 5: These sight and the voice actor they hired to play
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  Speaker 5: Indiana Jones sounds so much like Harrison Ford.
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  Speaker 2: It's right. Yeah, I think they did a great job.
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  Speaker 1: But the the the rendering of Harrison Ford in the
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  Speaker 1: video doesn't quite.
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  Speaker 2: Look like him. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, luckily you don't see him too much because it's
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  Speaker 3: your first person. It's just kind of bland looking. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's a little generic. Yeah, but uh yeah, this one,
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  Speaker 3: this one's fantastic. If you need an Indiana Jones game
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  Speaker 3: that scratches that itch, it's gonna feel like a movie
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  Speaker 3: without aliens.
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  Speaker 2: So that's a bonus.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, I got I got a couple quick
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  Speaker 3: things here for your boredom at work. The first one,
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  Speaker 3: this is so silly. It's called curved text dot io.
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  Speaker 3: That's curved text dot io. You type something in the
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  Speaker 3: text box in the field, and then you draw on
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  Speaker 3: the associated uh drawing pad next to it, and you
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  Speaker 3: are drawing. The line you're drawing with is those is
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  Speaker 3: that word or phrase or whatever you you would like. Essentially,
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  Speaker 3: you know when you were like in junior and you
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  Speaker 3: were just writing over and over in your notebook like
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  Speaker 3: the same thing and little spirals. It's like that, And
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  Speaker 3: then you can of course export your your word art.
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  Speaker 3: You can change makes all sorts of changes. You can
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  Speaker 3: also upload an image and then draw curved words on it,
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  Speaker 3: which I think is kind of a more appealing thing
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  Speaker 3: for like a social media post or something. It's really fun,
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  Speaker 3: though it's it's more distracting than you might see. Definitely
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  Speaker 3: a time Yeah, curved text dot io it's really dumb, okay.
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  Speaker 3: And then another one that I think is really interesting,
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  Speaker 3: especially say you work from you work remote with teams
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  Speaker 3: across the world, across the country people. Yeah, I used
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  Speaker 3: to work when I was in tech. I'd had teams
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  Speaker 3: in India and teams in the UK, and it was
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  Speaker 3: always hard to figure out when we could all work together.
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  Speaker 3: So I would build out basically like a version of
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  Speaker 3: this in Excel. But they've done the work for you.
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  Speaker 3: It's time dot f yi. That's time dot f yi.
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  Speaker 3: You add multiple time zones, whichever time zones you want,
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  Speaker 3: and then it's just a matter of clicking and dragging
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  Speaker 3: the actual time and even any of the time zones
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  Speaker 3: and all all the other ones will adjust to show
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  Speaker 3: you what time it is. And you know, it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of like the clocks you see in like an airport,
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  Speaker 3: with all the different time zones, but if you moved
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  Speaker 3: one clock, all the other.
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  Speaker 2: Ones would move in unison.
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  Speaker 1: So here it is eight ten am Greenwich, meantime April
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  Speaker 1: fifteenth in Isbekistan, tash Kent, it's seven ten pm April
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  Speaker 1: fifteenth in his Bekistan.
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  Speaker 2: In his Bekistan, I'm always wondering what time it is.
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  Speaker 4: You are eleven hours ahead of us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's time dot FYI.
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  Speaker 3: Again, more of a helpful tool for people that work
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  Speaker 3: or hey, if you've got like a kid on a
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  Speaker 3: mission or something that's across this it's kind of helpful
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  Speaker 3: to know what time it is. And then another way,
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  Speaker 3: another way to visualize the passage of time.
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  Speaker 2: Oh year progress. This one was kind of fun.
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  Speaker 3: It's not gonna waste a ton of time, but it
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  Speaker 3: gave me kind of a chuckle.
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  Speaker 2: It's yeared whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Just go to X ninety six dot com for the
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  Speaker 3: link on this one. It'll tell you like, so where
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  Speaker 3: are we in the year if the year was the Hobbit,
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  Speaker 3: what is Bilbo doing? Or or you know, what part
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  Speaker 3: of Abbey Road are we listening to?
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  Speaker 4: I would listening to, oh Darling right now.
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  Speaker 3: Right in this part of the area. It gives you
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  Speaker 3: a percentage how far we are through the year. It
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  Speaker 3: gives you, you know, all these weird random stats just
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  Speaker 3: to help you visualize the passage of time through the
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  Speaker 3: course of a year.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty fun. Again. It's called year Progress and you.
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  Speaker 3: Will have to go to x ninety six dot com
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  Speaker 3: to grab the link on that one because it's not
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  Speaker 3: gonna read it. And then the last one. Now, this
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  Speaker 3: is your time waster, folks. If you have nothing going
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  Speaker 3: on at work today, you have this going on. It
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  Speaker 3: is called Slither dot Io. Slither dot Io. It's Snake World.
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  Speaker 3: It's basically a snake mmo. It is if you remember
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  Speaker 3: the old game on your phone, Snake, where you would
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  Speaker 3: move the little snake around and you'd eat pellets and
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  Speaker 3: you'd get longer, and then you just had to not
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  Speaker 3: run into a wall or run into yourself or a snake.
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  Speaker 3: This is exactly like that, but there's a billion other
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  Speaker 3: people that are playing it at the same time, and
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  Speaker 3: they're all snakes, so you're all working together to not
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  Speaker 3: hit each other and to eat as many things as possible.
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  Speaker 3: And you'll see if you play it, some people are
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  Speaker 3: enormous snakes.
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  Speaker 2: It's so big, it's not fair. It's story.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't seen other snakes, so I'm just eating peal.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you just you just scoop around eating pellets, and
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  Speaker 3: you'll run into them because it's moving around. It's actually
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  Speaker 3: better if you don't see them because you won't run
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  Speaker 3: into them.
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  Speaker 2: So it's kind of nice. But yes, snake.
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  Speaker 3: If you guys remember playing this on your phone, this
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  Speaker 3: one is an update. It's pretty, it's fun, it's quirky.
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  Speaker 3: And the idea that you're just playing with random people
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  Speaker 3: all over the world yea, is kind of it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of entertaining. Slither dot io. This is your time waster
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  Speaker 3: of the week right there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is kind of fun. Yeah, that's that's gonna what.
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  Speaker 3: Is that a little bit? There's a likes a light that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I think it's a super I think that one.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't able to catch one. I played it for
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  Speaker 3: like twenty minutes last night. I couldn't get one of them.
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  Speaker 3: Now I'm getting big. Yeah, my snake's growing. Man, Just
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  Speaker 3: don't run into yourself. That's the key.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, whatever you do, I got a snake. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: I love leaving you guys so distracted. I know this
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  Speaker 2: is like I know I've done my job right.
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  Speaker 4: Between the Chicken game, are you still here?
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry?
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  Speaker 5: And now the Snake game, you got me?
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  Speaker 2: I am here to waste your time.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not paying attention to my job. Now. That's what
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  Speaker 4: these do, the time wasters at work.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, so yeah, go to.
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  Speaker 4: X ninety six dot com.
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  Speaker 5: You can click on the links to find all of
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  Speaker 5: these trailers and games and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And waste it sometime, waste some kind of fun.
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  Speaker 5: You know, your your your sense of impending doom can
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  Speaker 5: be alleviated.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just for a minute, for a minute, I got you.
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  Speaker 4: Jonathan Dee's and jd thank you.
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  Speaker 1: The three Big Gamer Show hosted with a couple of
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  Speaker 1: other numb skulls.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah right, yeah, we're doing our top tens the next
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  Speaker 3: couple of months. Everyone's doing their top ten, all our
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  Speaker 3: different hosts, so it'll be fun.
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  Speaker 2: Good, thanks for coming on, Thanks guys.
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  Speaker 4: One of those pellets is an invincibility pellet.
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  Speaker 2: Oh is that? Well? Yeah, there you go.