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S13E09: WE'RE ALL HAMSTERS ON A WHEEL, MAN! · The Year Of Shame Challenge

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Please wait. Hello and welcome to episode 9
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of the Year of Shame Challenge Season 13.
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It's December and believe it or not, it's the end of the year.
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We've made it. We've made it to the final
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month. So the last show kind of
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upsetting, kind of terrifying and kind of bewildering all at
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the same time. So for the last time, I'd like
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to welcome Brian. How you doing?
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I'm good. I'm good.
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Thank you. I'm doing well.
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Yeah. And Paul, how's life?
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You're OK. Yeah, all good.
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Thank you very much. How's you?
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Not bad through a broken shoulder or the the one of the
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things of getting old. I think we can probably all
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realise that one I break myself and no reason these days but
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other than that on top thank you all very very good indeed.
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We've started a bit earlier today so any any mishaps or if
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anyone yawns feels tired says he's going for a tea break.
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Please accept that. So but yeah, let's crack on with
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this last month. Who wants to go first on what's
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been happening for for you guys is the end of November into
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December. Go on blank.
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Go on Brian, you've had more time than us.
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You need to go for it. I'm not going to spill the
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beans, but you've had a more exciting time than us.
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Exciting in great way. Hey, let me see stuff, what's
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going on. I'll get serious and then we'll
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get later. I had shit news from home,
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really go into it. But it's the sort of thing that
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makes you worry, makes you think about living abroad.
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It's currently just waiting to see how things responding.
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So we'll see how things go. But it's basically marred a lot
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of my month this month and made it difficult to focus and play
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games. So you will see that when you we
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come to the number of games played this month.
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What else? What else was done?
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Let me see. I'm not we're not going to turn
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into the Seal podcast, but I mentioned that our front door
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was twisted last month after a quake at some point.
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I'm not sure if the front door is actually the doorway itself.
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It could be the building that's being twisted slightly, but not
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that's the case with windows. But I went out and picked up
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some insulation tape and spent half a day cleaning the door,
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putting it all up. And we now have AI taped up the
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whole door. You know, just say insulation
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tape you put over in the door did a great job, looked
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brilliant and then tried closing the door and the door wouldn't
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close. So I ended up and take it all
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off and then trimming bits and stuff and half a day later got
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the door seal close with something like a slight bit of
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difficulty but it's sealed so it's good.
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I feel proud of myself a lot. Some of your engineering.
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Yeah, the limits of my DIY skills.
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It's one of the reasons I asked the CL podcast.
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That question should be on the latest show.
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And what else? I was up country at my wife's
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father's home place. So making all the in laws really
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good every time we go up is like a tradition.
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Because in Japanese families the I think it's the youngest days
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and all the other family kids move away.
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Maybe it's the eldest, it's the eldest days and all the others
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move away. Where in Ireland it's usually
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the youngest stays back in the farm or whatever, just going
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back generations. But the eldest, his family take
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over the farm and the farm doesn't get divided up.
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So in Ireland, the farmers used to get all split up, made malls
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small. But here the eldest keeps the
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farm. But if the younger and family go
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back, you get treated and you get loads of food.
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So every time we go back, they put this huge bloody banquet for
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us. It's crazy.
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So every time I go by feel guilty.
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I said don't be, don't be putting me food on for me.
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But the lady, there's my wife's cousin, she makes extremely
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different. She's a cook.
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Her soda noodles are the best I've ever tasted.
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She's the only ones I like. But yeah, it was good.
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We were there. We caught also caught a local
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festival, which typically for Japanese festivals are full of
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music and full of music. Oh my God, what was the other
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thing? I wrote this down.
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This is how professional, I guess, full of music and food.
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So there's loads of dolls selling what they consider
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festival food. And it was really cool, really
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nice up there. The locals sort of stare at me
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because they don't tend to see many guys in many foreigners up
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there. But yeah, so it's quite weird.
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But I enjoyable there and let me see.
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OK, just this last 10 days ago was Speaking of quakes.
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I'm trying to keep this in order.
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We was a large quake up in Amori, which is the snowiest
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place in the world. They typically get about 23
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feet, I think 23 feet of snow a year.
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And the weather is such that it's like 3-3 degrees most of
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the summer winter. So the snow doesn't melt.
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It just builds up a lot. If you go there.
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If you're on the bus or the car driving along either side of the
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road, it's just you can't see anything.
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It's just like a wall of snow that goes way above the height
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of the bus. It's crazy but they have a metre
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of snow or had a metre of snow at that .10 days ago and they
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had they had a huge, massive quake at the same size, maybe a
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bit smaller than the one that hits in Fukushima in 2011.
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Was it a Luckily no, no deaths and the tsunami that did arrive
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was less than a metre. It's enough to still knock
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people over, but by the time it arrived, everybody had moved out
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out of the area, the whole. The whole tsunami side of it and
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he was like, oh God, it's going to be a tsunami.
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It's going to be a tsunami. Then literally World News wise
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kind of harsh. It's just like it went silent
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from this end. Then there was just like I was
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all right, you know, like not being funny.
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It was a huge earthquake in the tsunami.
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So it's like it's not all right. It's the way it's reported
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around the world is very different to what you guys see,
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so. Like the tsunami?
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What was it, I don't say 50 metres back in 2011.
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It was huge really. This time was like they thought
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originally it could be 3 metres, which would do some serious
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damage anyway, but one just below a metre would still knock
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us over and pull you out the sea.
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You wouldn't be able to stand up and take you away.
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So it wasn't big enough. People who were they know what
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happened before so they all get away and get up to the
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evacuation zones are quite good. But one of the main things that
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happens when you have quakes, the houses start to fall on
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people and kill tends to kill a lot of people which the houses
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falling cause fires because gas mains burst.
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Because I'm already get so much snow.
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They have a different type of roof to the rest of the country.
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I'm not being told. Most houses down here are all
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slate roofs and really heavy. But because they get so much
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snow, they can't have the slate roof and then you have the snow,
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metres of snow on top. The way it just damaged the
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house that they've come up with a new type of some of our
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plastic sheeting sheet roof. It's, I don't even, I've not
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seen it, but you've seen pictures showing it.
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It's really thin. Keep this as good thermally as
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the others and but it's more flexible and it's light so that
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when the snow is on the houses, they don't tend to buckle as
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much. But because of the flexibility,
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the houses didn't crack your break or fall apart.
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Never. So less fires.
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Nobody died and a few people were injured.
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I think it was about 50 people injured.
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But for such a huge quake, it was really, they were really
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lucky. Yeah.
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So that's basically we had since then.
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We were, we had a, we had a quake.
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There was when you have earthquakes, especially a big
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quake, you're not sure if it's the main quake or if it's going
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to be a four quake 1 beforehand or and when you had the big
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quake, everybody then is nervous for the next week or so.
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You think there's going to be another even bigger quake come
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along. We didn't thankfully we didn't
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have any, but we've had some aftershocks and we've had a we
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had one that was here and the building was vibrating up and
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down. It's a bit like being on the
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boat in the sea, just straight up and down, disturbing.
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My wife came running and showed up me.
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So I was distracted watching videos, watching Exodus that
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pull Ben sent onto me. And let's see what else.
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The only other thing this just this weekend, one of the in
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laws. I didn't get to see us when I
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was up there recently. She passed away and that it made
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this weekend a total slurry of activity, which is why we're
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recording this many hours earlier than we should be.
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Thanks, Ben. Thanks, Paul for getting up
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early. It's the the our problem.
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My wife's leaving here at 4:00 AM tomorrow so she can get into
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Tokyo to catch the train to go up bring her dad up to this
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area. But funerals here have so much
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etiquette involved this My wife has been spent ages watching
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videos and how to act at the funeral.
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So you've got the, you know, like the funerals in one the I
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think it's in the Buddhist temple usually.
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So you've got to go up and we go up woke up.
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You have to bow to the, the older you walk like 3 steps
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back, the older walk like 3 steps back to the family.
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And you could repeat this up and then tap your hands a certain
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number of times, then do the same coming back down.
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It's really weird. Really, really formal.
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See, she's watching videos on how to do this.
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Then there's you have to get envelopes that you put money
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into to get them, but you have to have the right type of
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envelope. It has to have the right ribbon,
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which is going the right way on the pose certain way.
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There's all these really extremely formal things to you
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to put notes in. You give money to the family, so
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you have to give the certain denominations you give because
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they can't. Kanji and Japanese have multiple
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meanings. The kanji for four, which is
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young or she also means death. So depending on the way you look
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at, so you won't give ¥40,000 or ¥4000.
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You have to give a different number because they mean
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different things. So it's very weird for they if
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you write a letter, you have to get special pens.
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This is crazy. You get these pens that have
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watered down ink, so the ink looks pale.
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It's the show that you've been crying when the person you heard
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of death because the ink is Ronald.
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So it's much lighter in colour. But they sell these special pens
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in the stationary shops for this.
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Very, very odd. I've always been doing this all
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weekend. It's just nuts.
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Yeah, I've only. I've only mentioned a small part
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of it. There's so much to this.
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It's just absolutely nuts. But yeah, it's crazy.
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Really, really crazy. So she's been doing this.
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All the notes you give can't be brand new or crisp, so it looks
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like you've been holding them, keeping them ready in case.
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Some guide you have to use crumpled notes, as though you
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just suddenly hit you and surprised you when you pulled
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them out of your wallet. It's like, I don't know, it's
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just really. And get some out.
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It's got to be this money. I've had a side thing.
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Yes. And wow, yeah, it's really
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weird. Let me see.
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Because of the quakes that we had, we've spent a lot of this
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weekend, I've seen a lot of the weekend trying to reorganise our
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quake food, get us up to date, go through all the food.
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We try and do it twice a year, usually pick the rotate the
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food, basically the dates. So you keep the longest lasting
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food there and take out the old ones are about to expire.
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So some of our water about to expire as we take it out and
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drank. But that's about all the about
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living in Japan. Yeah.
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So some of the interesting stuff for living here.
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I'd say wow, it's just, it's incredible, sort of like
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understanding some of this stuff.
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And I mean, we live, as I think I said to you earlier on before
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we kicked off, you might not have been online yet, Paul, but
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you're saying that like the difference you have with us
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living in the UK, it's like we had a 3.3 earthquake where it
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was and it got mentioned in the news for about 3 minutes because
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someone actually felt it. And then that's it.
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Nothing happens. Like it's like the UK is just so
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benign to these kind of things. It's just like the worst thing
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we get is like, oh, someone's like shed floated off in a flood
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because it rained for two days. And that's pretty much about it.
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Granted, that will stop a train, don't get me wrong, but but
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that's kind of, that's kind of the worst we get.
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But I mean, it's like here, like the we have to go through in the
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preparation and kind of fall shocks, aftershocks.
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It's all stuff you would never actually think of or hear of.
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It's like This is why talking to you such a lot of experience
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with this sort of stuff is awesome.
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It's weird, like one thing I didn't say is that we have when
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you every area being organised, every area has an evacuation
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centre throughout the whole country.
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Typically it's elementary schools because every area will
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have two or two or four of them in the depending on the number
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of kids. But the elementary schools have
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heaters there that will heat the whole gymnasium up.
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They'll have food and water for the whole area, blankets that's
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all stored in these gymnasiums. So if there's a massive
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earthquake that there wasn't a Mori, all the people go towards
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these elementary schools because they all know them in central
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Tokyo, you'll find them all over the place.
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So there'll be signs up telling you where the local evacuation
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zone is or earthquakes place. It's a different way of looking
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at things, a totally different way.
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But yeah, it's one of those things over here.
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Yeah, it kind of the methods and such like you talk about from
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like maybe like a Western point of view.
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It does sound very Japanese, if you know what I mean.
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Like as in it's very organised, clever, well thought out,
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disciplined might be the word you know that you're looking for
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really is in doing it, you know like in a very correct fashion.
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You kind of from a an outside of looking in type of view, it does
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seem very much, you know, like how you would potentially
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anticipate a Japanese society to organise these things from the
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bits you see on TV in particular as well.
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Yes, that's really good. I mean, obviously it's out of
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necessity, but you can see that they do it with precision, you
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know, and accuracy and intelligence, really.
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It is impressive, very, very impressive.
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But as you say, out of necessity is the only way they can
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minimise the number of deaths. So I think there was a, if I'm
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right, it was in the 1920s, there's a great earthquake in
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Tokyo and 200,000 people died in fires.
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And it's just so they're really, really conscious.
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All the buildings have, like our buildings have gas coming to
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every room, gas points. So I don't know how it is.
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I've never lived in an apartment block in Europe, Ireland or
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England, but all these rooms have gas points.
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So you can buy a gas heater and connect it to it.
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As soon as the building shakes, all the gas cuts off, all the
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electricity cuts off because they don't want to minimise
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fires and stuff. But yeah, it's quite weird.
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Very weird to be honest. But it is what it is.
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Yes, as far as I'm aware I think I think your average build in
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England these days maybe for that don't know.
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I could be totally wrong, but I believe that your average build,
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your flat build, you know like your multi Storey type build,
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has no. Gas is always.
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Just electric as far as I'm aware.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not lived in the park in in
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apartments over there or plots, but weird, we were actually, we
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were talking about networking, how to do networking, Wi-Fi and
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wire, Wi-Fi wired. There is a big thing that's
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coming over here. Most of the rooms have coaxial
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points for your TV and people who run those for their networks
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as well. I've not tried this.
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The problem is, because it's all below go central, your
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neighbours could pick up your to join your network without even
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realising. I don't do it, but some of the
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people here do. Anyway, that's that's news from
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Japan. So Paul, do you want to go next?
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Sure. Yeah, well, I've been up so well
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I've been mega busy with work. It's that time of year for me.
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As you probably know I'm I'm just a one man band and a buy
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and sell, use computer parts for a living.
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So I have to do the buying, the testing and the selling.
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So at this time the age just gets really quite frantic and
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everybody wants everything yesterday.
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And as you've no doubt been aware of at the moment, there's
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been a massive increase in the price of PC memory.
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So to some degree, thankfully I had stock which I've been buying
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at the old prices. So for example, like a 16
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gigabyte DDR5 kit might have only been selling second hand
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for about say 70 poundish and not 16.
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A 32 gigabyte kit might have been selling for around about 80
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poundish second hand. So I'd normally give try to give
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about 50% of the price you like to double up because of course
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I've got cost fees and all the rest of it.
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So you don't really get like, you know, you're not making,
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you're not making a total killing, but at the moment you
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are making a bit of a killing because you're selling stuff
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that you've bought at the old prices and you're coming into
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these crazy massively super inflated prices all of a sudden.
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So you're making a bit of a killing.
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Not a bad thing from my point of view, of course, but also the
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buying in prices. It's like, for example, I bought
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some 64 gigabytes yesterday. In fact, I bought 2 sets over
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the past couple of days and I paid £250 for 64 gigabytes of
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RAM. And that basically is more than
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what I would have sold it for. And say a month ago, I wouldn't
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have even a given that I'd have given the sale, like, you know,
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I'd have anticipated selling it for about 220 quid second hand
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or 200 Quiddish and I would probably paid about 100 LB.
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Whereas at the moment that will probably sell because it's
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Christmas time as well for around about 550 LB.
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And that's just absolutely crazy.
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It's not. It's gone crazy.
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It's even, I think it's you're not, you're not taking them.
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If you look at anywhere shops, scan overclockers, anything
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that's now standard pricing for for memory, well, it's just
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become the norm. It's just bizarre.
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Literally in the space of two to three weeks, it's just gone
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mental. You could say we've kind of been
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sort of preconditioned into this situation in the respect of only
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recently. And there was the COVID scenario
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and the mining, the mining scenario with all with all the
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graphics guys going through the roof.
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So any sort of like gamer, that's probably our PC person
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that's probably over a certain age will have already kind of
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already understood what can happen in these situations
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because they've gone and paid a fortune potentially for a
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graphics card back in 2122. And the price is typically I've
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just started to like really sort of like, I don't know if if it's
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become we'd kind of become normalised to the silly prices
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or the prices have come down. But what I will say and what
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people have been saying about I've been reading online as
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well, is that when you're going to be buying your parts,
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potentially when you buy a motherboard now, they might even
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be saying, look, you can't just buy the motherboard.
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You've got to buy. Sorry.
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People are going to be saying you can't just buy the ramp.
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We want you to buy it with other things.
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Because they don't just come in, buy the RAM and then flip it or
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come in and buy the RAM. They want you to come in and buy
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a RAM and they might say you've got to buy it with a motherboard
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or they'll give you a special discount deal.
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Because all these new motherboards and all these new
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cases and all these other bits that you'd need to buy to put
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the system together are going to kind of sit on the shelves and
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they're going to rot away. So if you've got an half decent
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system now, you'd probably want to upgrade a few parts.
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You're going to probably find power supplies.
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All those kinds of things are going to drop in price because
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people are not upgraded. They can't afford to.
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You know, the prices have just gone back in, I mean £550 and
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for some 60 and that's what that's so much cheap to some
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degree. But what I will say is what I
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have noticed is that in places like over clockers, I keep my
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eye on over clockers and CCL computers.
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It's not an advert. We don't I don't buy anything
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for I I bought from the past and I do go on the forums exception,
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but not sponsored by them in any which way share Paul fault.
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But I use them to check the prices, to see what they've got
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in stock, to see what I should be given for second hand, to
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give me an idea of the floor of what's happening out there and
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what I will say. They have to start to get some
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kits in for about £300 and which is for 32 gigabytes, whereas and
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kits were about £380.00. So stock is starting to come in
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and prices are probably going to normalise and, and after
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Christmas then prices might drop back down to sell like £250 for
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like a brand new kit of 32 gigabytes.
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That'd be my guesstimate. But it's still highly inflated
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compared with what the prices are at the moment.
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And so yeah, so it's been mad busy, but yeah, but I'm not even
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DDR4 has gone through the roof. I sold the second hand kit of 64
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gigabyte RGB cost to the Pro. It's 65, so it's 2:32, it's 3600
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megabytes and I sold it second hand for £289.
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The guy was overjoyed. He messaged me back telling me
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how well it's working, blah, blah, blah.
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You know, it was like overjoyed a guy bought, I get off the last
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night and I'll answer messages all hours of the day because
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it's sort of a sale, you know, I mean, if I don't answer, I might
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not get the sale. And the guy bought some Kingston
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and Fiori Fiori, but I can't have it Fiori based or the DDR4
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again. And I think you're about 270 LB
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for 64 gigabytes, 270, That's DDR4 second hand.
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It's not even brand new. That's second hand.
22:18
And I've even bought in a brand new Kitter RAM, which is you
22:22
don't see very often on DDR4. Not for me because I don't buy
22:25
anything brand new from any wholesalers.
22:26
It's all second hand. It's all people's cast offs.
22:29
And I paid £100 for this Kitter RAM and I put it up there at
22:33
£450 and that's brand new because there's no brand new
22:38
stuff. So but yeah, but done honestly,
22:41
people say, oh, you should put it on a chain and buy it round
22:44
your neck. It's like gold, you know what I
22:45
mean? Like, you know, like the old
22:47
bling look like a hip like thing, like a bling bling sort
22:49
of thing. So yeah, prices have gone
22:51
absolutely as everybody else have gone bonkers.
22:55
But I anticipate the price will drink put that after Christmas
22:58
naturally. And I'll tell you what, even 16
23:00
gigabytes of DDR5, I'm selling them for about 100 and 7000 and
23:04
80 LB for two times times 8 gigabytes, people are snapping
23:08
them up. Yeah, people would turn their
23:13
nose up. They'd be like, why would I want
23:15
16 gigabytes of DDR5? People would turn the note that
23:19
that would be a snobby thing, your typical PC, you know what I
23:22
mean? And also I've been watching some
23:23
Youtubes and the big guys are saying, look, don't waste your
23:27
money on 64 gigabytes if you are a gamer by 32 gigabytes, it is
23:33
plenty. Do not future proof at this
23:35
present time or whatever you think it's going to do by the 32
23:40
gigabytes. If you're going to buy anything,
23:41
do it by 64. So.
23:43
But if you need 64, then you need 64.
23:45
What you're going to do? I did the same thing I got when
23:50
I rebuilt mine over the summer because my board failed.
23:52
I was just like, oh OK, we'll put it back together.
23:54
And I had the memory sitting there and I tried to put another
23:57
32 in with mine because I had it laying there when I considered
24:00
doing an upgrade at the start of next year actually, and it
24:04
didn't fit because my water cooler fouled it.
24:06
So I end up selling it ridiculously for £35, but let's
24:11
not talk about that. So I could be rolling in money
24:15
now, but I'm not. But yeah, but it's kind of like
24:17
32 gig is amazing. Apparently the difference
24:19
between 32 and 64 is like 5 frames a second at best on like
24:23
2 games or something. So I mean, it's nice, but in in
24:26
the current currency that they're trying to sell it at,
24:29
yeah, no, don't do it. Previously it wasn't a potential
24:32
why not, you know, like I'd like another 78 LB onto your build if
24:36
you're already checking £1500, you know, or 1000 LB and over
24:40
£80, you know what, I'll get the 64 gigabyte, why not?
24:44
But when all of a sudden it's doubled in price and it's more
24:46
than your graphics card, it's like, yeah, I'll have a little
24:49
think about that. Yeah, yeah, I'll get that later
24:51
and maybe you know what I mean, so.
24:55
It's it's mad. It's like you would think about
24:57
it. You said it's more than the
24:57
graphics card. I mean that a set of 64 gig
25:01
memory. Now there was an article you
25:03
sent it to me or I sent it to you is literally someone was
25:05
like literally it's now cheaper to buy a PlayStation 5 pro than
25:09
it is to try and buy 64 gig of RAM, which is just ridiculous,
25:13
absolute insanity. And it is my Mcgraphics card.
25:16
It's like nearly £200 more than a than A91970XT used one.
25:21
It's just pathetic mental. But you can see why people are
25:24
trying to snap up. They'll pay half decent money if
25:26
you're doing it for it because they've then you said the rest
25:30
of the parts are cheap still. I mean graphics cards are a
25:32
really good price at the moment. Main boards are insanely cheap
25:35
looking on. I just had a quick nose on
25:36
Amazon and even processors are still there.
25:39
So it's literally nothing else has caught up with the curve.
25:42
So you can save a tonne on that. And then you kind of like, well,
25:44
I want to build APC. You're kind of in a catch 22.
25:47
You want to build APC, you need memory.
25:49
This is kind of what you said about the 16 gig thing at the
25:51
moment not being funny. It'll get your machine working
25:54
and it'll run this stuff, but it's not going to be perfect.
25:57
But then when the insanity moves away, you buy another two sticks
26:00
and stick it in there and give yourself 32.
26:02
But £100 for 60. Like I was saying previously, I
26:07
mean you could build even when there was a graphics card
26:10
shortage and the price went through the roof, you could
26:12
still build the PC and get it up and running.
26:15
Unless you've got no IGP in there.
26:16
But you probably could get some real rubbish graphics card for
26:20
still like £20 or so even during the COVID crazy mining times.
26:25
Because it's just like it wasn't a gaming graphics card so it
26:28
wasn't desirable. So you could still get like a
26:30
display adapter of some variety. At least you can get system up
26:34
and running and it sat there waiting.
26:36
You can have the best system in the world, no memory, it ain't
26:39
working, you know. So the memory is such an
26:43
essential part, you know. So yeah, unless some clever
26:46
person comes up with somewhere to use virtual memory off your
26:49
SSD, you can still run the I'd say that'd be really cool,
26:51
wouldn't it? Right.
26:52
If they could use your SSD as virtual memory with no memory in
26:56
your system just to get you going.
26:57
That'd be some clever super duper adapter, you know, like
27:01
you get them, I'll use, I'll use dim adapters, you know, for, for
27:05
testing laptop RAM. I just stick them in my test
27:07
system. I've just got 2 dim adapters.
27:09
But maybe you could get a dim adapter and it goes into your
27:12
SSD drive and they could somehow use it as virtual memory.
27:15
That would be so cool with that. I mean it might ruin it because
27:18
of all the rights you should do into it, but it could be, I
27:20
don't know, some bonkers idea they just came to mind.
27:25
No, it's fair enough. I've literally just looked on
27:27
Amazon now and a crucial company that's decided to pull out of
27:30
the whole thing, isn't it? They've just pulled out the sort
27:33
of like retail memory side of things.
27:35
There's a Crucial Pro DDR5 RAM set 128 gig on Amazon.
27:40
How much is it? Well.
27:41
Is it sodium or is it deed? Is it?
27:45
Proper DDR5 sticks and it's the Crucial Pro, which is nice, but
27:49
it's kind of if you look at it versus anything else it's it's
27:52
lower end of the market kind of it's no pretty RGB on it or
27:55
anything. It's literally.
27:57
A black SO. It's 264 gig sticks.
28:00
He's got four. Yeah, 50 C airport.
28:02
Yeah. Paul's going through his memory
28:03
tub. Literally.
28:04
That's like that's the same as owning a.
28:07
You see this little back to you, right?
28:09
I'll show you. I'll show you this right.
28:11
So this is I'd make a Little Milton all around.
28:14
I'm not sure. Well, you can read that.
28:15
In fact, it's back to front. But basically it says like in
28:19
let's have a look at 312 LB. I paid for this on the 28th or
28:24
the 11th for like the date just in case.
28:26
And that is that's to get a focus 128 gigs.
28:34
Yeah. So it's 64 gigabytes each.
28:37
OK, £300. Honestly, they're probably
28:39
probably worth about 900 LB. Oh my God, you know.
28:44
You couldn't be, Yeah, you're £21.99 off.
28:48
Yeah, and I snapped, I snapped it up.
28:50
I snapped it up at £300 because I'm a bit of a spec.
28:53
You have to, but I have to be a speculator because I'm buying,
28:55
so I have to speculate. I have to think about what it
28:57
might be worth. So yeah, boom.
28:59
I picked it up. I couldn't resist.
29:01
So yeah. 921 lbs for 128 gig of ram.
29:08
You could build APC for that. Yeah, absolutely.
29:12
But I mean some of the RAM I've bought in at certain prices,
29:14
some of the. I'll tell you what though,
29:16
there's still kits turning up for £100 second hand so but
29:20
sometimes when you buy him, you'll end up with what you
29:22
might call seller regret. I snap it up within seconds of
29:25
it coming onto the market and then the bike, the daughter, Oh,
29:29
you've got that quickly. Oh that seems unusual.
29:33
Let me have a rethink about this.
29:34
So what I always do, I always send them a message afterwards
29:37
saying, oh wow, that would great timing, as if I've been watching
29:41
at all times. Yeah, thank you very much.
29:44
I can now finish my build, you know what I mean?
29:47
But a little bit of, you know, please don't not change.
29:49
Please don't change your mind. I'm desperate for it.
29:52
So. But yeah, so anyway, that's
29:53
probably a little bit whatever, but you've got to do it.
29:55
Otherwise you get is buyer regret.
29:57
And there's such a thing as seller regret.
29:59
That's what I found out from buying and selling.
30:01
People do change the mind afterwards.
30:04
So, but that's that's what you've got to do.
30:07
Yes, we. Are I can't believe laptop brand
30:09
is. There we go, memory information
30:11
for the people. What?
30:13
What was that, Brian? I can't believe laptop RAM has
30:16
hit that prices as well so I thought you have to use the
30:19
adapter. That'll get even.
30:21
Well, I'll use the adapter just to put a plug because I don't
30:24
plug it into a laptop. I plug it into the adapter to
30:28
test it on my desktop PC. You know, you just get like one
30:32
of the I've got 2 obviously on the Biomin like I've got DDR4
30:36
and DDR5 ones and they just clip in.
30:40
But I tell you what the cheapest the price where anyone out there
30:44
that wants a bit of a tip Generally speaking, right, if
30:47
you want to go get it and do it cheaply, buy a couple of these
30:49
adapters that change sodium's into regular sticks of memory.
30:53
These are about a tenner each from Aliexpress, maybe even
30:57
cheaper. And basically the sodium's are
31:01
it's slightly less desirable and you'll find plenty of them
31:04
popping up for about £120. I will buy them £120 for two
31:07
sixteens because that's the kind of price and well, no, sorry,
31:11
it's more, but you probably will find them second on popping up
31:14
£120 a £130. So a couple of adapters and
31:17
these being you're in at a cheaper price, you're in about
31:19
£150 for 32 gigabyte. If you get some 5600 megahertz
31:23
RAM that you choose without CL 40 or something, well then you
31:28
could have your system up and running.
31:29
Or even if you buy one of these, just buy an 8 GB sodium DDR5
31:34
just to get your system running. You could have your system
31:36
running for about £40 because this 8 GB laptop sodium's are
31:41
not desirable at all because most people have already got 2
31:45
eights in their laptop that they're going to upgrade to 32
31:48
or 64. So you'd buy one of these sticks
31:50
for a tenner, or buy two of them and get yourself a couple of
31:54
eights for say £30 apiece. Boom, you're into some cheap
31:57
DDR5 in your systems up and running so.
32:01
But yeah, that's what I'd noticed.
32:03
As a real pause at the moment. Excellent.
32:06
Hold on there's. Too much green tea already this
32:08
morning. I've just two found two sticks
32:13
of DDR4 in my drawer when I was talking a minute ago box, so
32:16
I'll start the bidding at three and a half million pounds.
32:20
I'll accept 5. Yeah, it's got it's gone
32:24
bumpers. So outside of your memory and
32:28
purchasing antics, anything else been going on?
32:30
I've sold my OLED, my OLED Steam Deck because an OLED Steam Deck
32:37
is a little bit like an OLED Switch 1 initially really the
32:41
kind of the same system as the the later release hardware wise,
32:45
internally, obviously you're paying for the display and I
32:49
haven't really been using it so much, but I still want them
32:52
because I buy and sell things. I do end up with Steam decks.
32:55
And so it's like, so I bought in like an old 64 gigabyte one ages
33:00
ago that's been sat down there, which I kept on promising
33:02
myself, Oh, we're going to upgrade.
33:04
And I this is before this is probably about two or three
33:07
months ago, I decided to upgrade it and I've just put A1 terabit,
33:14
but what they call NVME, the 223 O drives in there.
33:18
So it's gone from 64 gigabyte to 1 terabit and it's a decent
33:21
speed drivers one. I paid about £45 for it from CCL
33:25
computers. And so yes, I sold me O LED and
33:28
I bought my O LED ages ago and I bought it on eBay and it was
33:32
Simmons brand new one and I only paid somewhat like £420.00 for
33:37
it and I sold it for something like 415 about two years later.
33:41
So I did OK, no complaints. I generally find if I'm going to
33:45
buy some at second hand, I generally if I'm going to keep
33:48
it, then I'll make sure that it's I'm keeping it and it's
33:52
wherever I might sell it for in a year or so.
33:54
It's time I'll get my money back.
33:56
So it's like it's one of the benefits of buying and selling
33:58
computer parts. Obviously you can buy in a cheap
34:01
price and don't lose any money when you sell it.
34:03
Really. I'd very rarely buy brand new
34:05
unless it's really really cheap, no.
34:10
That's cool. I mean, the, the OLED was kind
34:12
of the the drawer I had to it was was purely that panel.
34:15
I mean, the rest of it is, is the same Wi-Fi is different,
34:18
isn't it? I think from memory, I think I
34:20
want to say, but I mean, then the LCD, I mean the first one
34:23
ever played on a friend at work had one and that's what kind of
34:25
like got me into looking at the decks and the screen's still
34:27
fantastic. It's really, really good.
34:29
It doesn't have the same issues the original switch had.
34:32
It's still a really nice, bright, decent display on it.
34:34
I mean, don't get me wrong, I went for it.
34:37
It's like I'm just going to buy this one.
34:38
So I'll treat myself sort of thing and got the OLED one when
34:41
I did and the screen on that is is beautiful.
34:43
I don't regret it at all, but it's so much money versus like a
34:47
used LCD one which is still a perfectly functional brilliant
34:51
nil console really is. Yeah, the Switch LCD screen
34:55
that's kind of give LCD screens a bit of a bad name because it
34:58
is an audible LCD screen on the Switch one.
35:02
Really it's pretty. It is you know the I won't say
35:06
the cheeks out on it because perhaps that was the one that
35:08
had to go with at the time to keep the price.
35:11
But like you said this, the Steam Deck LCD versus the Steam
35:15
Deck OLED, it's like a maybe it's like a 30% improvement and
35:20
it is noticeable and it's a bit bigger and you do appreciate it,
35:23
but it's not like a big wow moment.
35:25
Like going from a Switch LCD to a Switch OLED is like wash.
35:30
It's like wow. Not a major difference.
35:33
Yes, absolutely. I mean, I'd keep thinking about
35:36
the whole upgrade thing on mine next year if it's possibly going
35:39
to one terabyte or something on it.
35:41
But I've got a 512 gig 1 and I just stuck in one of the micro
35:45
SD cards and there was purely a project at the time when I did
35:47
it. Because you think to yourself, a
35:48
micro SD card is going to be absolute crap versus the
35:52
internal memory. It's not going to run anything,
35:54
but you put smaller games on it. It'd been absolutely spot on
35:57
perfect, absolutely faultless. But you get a decent one.
36:00
Like I bought a the SanDisk, what's the golden yellow ones?
36:04
Whatever model that is, but it's the one with that the high
36:06
transfer rate in it. It's like 4K video ever it is.
36:09
I bought one of those completely faultless.
36:11
You wouldn't even know it was running off either of them.
36:13
I'd split between the two based on size, kind of like you do
36:16
with the Xbox Series S. If you have an external drive on
36:19
that you split the games on, what's the faster drive?
36:22
But I'm not really sure I can tell the difference is that the
36:25
cracking really do really, really well with that tech.
36:27
And unlike the Ally, it doesn't eat its own memory card slot and
36:31
die. It's been working fine for the
36:32
last year. Oliver, you've got to be wary of
36:36
is if if you decide to upgrade your driving your machine, make
36:41
sure you do take out the SD card because if you don't take it out
36:46
and you open it up, you can snap the SD card you like you leave
36:48
it in you like you forget to take it out.
36:51
Yeah, if you forget to take it out while you're doing the
36:54
upgrade, you'll end up snapping your SD card.
36:55
So but yeah, the SD card. One thing you didn't do that can
37:00
get a Gabe, he didn't cheap out. So even your MVME drives that
37:07
you can put in there, it's like you think, well, should I go for
37:10
like a high speed one or not go for one?
37:12
Does it really make any difference?
37:13
But based on my research that the faster ones do work in
37:17
there, so you can get the benefits of it is working worth
37:21
paying that little bit more rather than putting in sale like
37:24
a slower transfer rate? So, but yeah, great device.
37:27
I will knock it and I play plenty of games on it when I've,
37:30
when I've got it hooked up to the TV, that's when I'm more
37:33
likely to play it or when it's summertime out in the garden.
37:36
But you do need that shade. That's one of the things that
37:39
these handhelds have not quite got right.
37:41
If you're on holiday thinking I'm going to chill out playing
37:44
the games on the beach, unless you're in the shade, it ain't
37:46
going to happen. Saw your Game Gear at it, right?
37:50
We had that huge piece of plastic, like a hood over the
37:52
top of it. So you basically, you basically
37:54
gave your Sega Game Gear a Conservatory over the top of
37:57
itself on the front. And it stopped all the sunlight
38:00
coming in. And it's like, that's brilliant.
38:02
The glory days of that. You know, I should look up these
38:04
things. I've got a Game Gear that I've
38:06
got converted to a proper backlit screen, LCD screen.
38:10
Last year it was top really, really good.
38:12
And you go looking at, oh, I'm going to get some peripherals
38:14
and stuff on it now. This would be really cool.
38:15
You look it up and it's just like the stuff you used to have
38:17
for it, like the magnifying glass on the front of it that
38:19
was just literally like just like sticking a bucket on the
38:22
front with a magnet magnifying glass on it.
38:24
It's nuts where we've gone through with it.
38:26
But I mean, yeah, maybe that tech still works.
38:28
I don't know, need to have a nice sort of pull out veranda
38:30
across the front of your Steam Deck instead now, so it folds
38:32
away. Maybe that's the tech.
38:34
Yeah, that, that would be cool. Like you said.
38:37
Yeah, You know, if you had it like you mentioned, then Ben, if
38:40
he kind of maybe opened up like a fan like that, so you could
38:43
like push it in rather than fold it down, you know, like a fan,
38:46
like it'd open up like like a paper fund or like a material
38:49
fan. That'd be a really cool idea
38:51
actually. That would really help.
38:53
Otherwise, if you want to play it on the beach, you're going to
38:55
have to put a towel over your head and, you know, just cover
38:58
yourself up. But as pointless being on the
38:59
beach, you might have just go back to the room.
39:02
I mean that is the complete that is the the epitome of the first
39:05
world problem. Oh no, I can't play my Steam
39:07
Deck on this hot beach while I'm on holiday.
39:08
Yeah, yeah, it's a it's a terrible.
39:10
But it's a problem we've all faced.
39:12
Yeah, well, is me in it. But you know the fan idea, Gabe,
39:16
if you are listening, you're you're welcome to pull on that
39:19
one. If we get a concertina fan on
39:22
the next Steam Deck, you know why.
39:23
We'll have to get a pending work way.
39:25
We'll have to get one going. Oh.
39:28
Good. They make money for different
39:32
designs on each one they open up.
39:33
It's like Gordon Freeman on it, or the Steam logo or a picture
39:35
of Gabe's face with that kind of.
39:37
Thing you do, as mad as mad as that sounds, that's a really
39:39
good idea because with home printing and such like these
39:43
days, people send you in any old design and you could customise
39:47
it as long as you could. Maybe if I have like a little
39:49
special folding machine, which I dare say they'd be well because
39:52
you can make funds and whatnot, get some kind of little folding
39:55
machine and he's I don't know, I reckon there's a home business
39:59
in there to be hard for sure they're.
40:04
Trying to give a name for. It now and the Panetti.
40:06
Well. You could just call it Steam fan
40:09
or whatever, or, you know, a handheld fan or whatever, like
40:12
gaming fan or whatever, because fun is in like your name, you
40:15
know, like I'm a fan of gaming Plus it's like it fans out or
40:19
whatever, yeah. You've got to give it some kind
40:22
of trendy name, rather kind of steam the the deck blade or
40:25
something. Yeah, yeah, that's that.
40:26
Yeah. Now you're getting cutting edge.
40:27
Now that sounds good. I can see the YouTube adverts
40:32
now for it everywhere. Everyone's going to be so fed up
40:35
with than YouTube adverts every time, you know?
40:40
Right. So is is that your month?
40:42
I know we literally just spoke about your purchasing habits
40:44
this month, but it seems it has been busy.
40:46
I mean, this is a bit of a spectator sport with video we we
40:49
can see look like a grenade's got off at his office behind him
40:52
with computer power. I mean, it looks like heaven to
40:55
me, but. It is a bit bonkers.
40:58
It is a bit bonkers. I've been.
41:00
If you go like over here, look at all this.
41:03
Oh my God. That's that's that's RAM
41:06
motherboards and then if you can't really see but beyond
41:11
older than the minute oh, you can see that like the tubs are
41:13
over here they're like full of graphics cards and stuff These
41:17
tubs here I've got 39 is all kinds of stuff all over the
41:21
place. Yeah, Yep, just put.
41:25
It in hours in that room. Yeah.
41:29
It's rolling in graphics cards. Yeah, it's it's madness,
41:32
honestly. No, guys, successful guys going
41:36
really well for you. It's kind of one of those times
41:38
where it does pay off to be doing what you do, I imagine,
41:40
isn't it really so? Absolutely.
41:43
And how's your your month been done?
41:45
My month what's been going on for me was so mid this mid
41:49
November. Wasn't it last time we recorded
41:51
what's been going on? Literally it's where we're now
41:54
coming back towards for what is the cryogenics industry working.
41:59
The show season starts like early part of the year.
42:01
So where a lot of show seasons and stuff for industries sort of
42:04
mid year across the hot of the months.
42:06
Around March is when our big one starts.
42:09
So work's just been really, really hectic.
42:11
I need to get loads of stuff finished for, for the start of
42:13
next year. We're not looking into like
42:15
business plans, all this kind of thing.
42:16
So it's been pretty work heavy to be honest.
42:20
Family have been busy as well. There's the, the usual thing
42:23
that happens around Christmas shows, all these kinds of things
42:26
going on. It's been, it's literally a
42:29
pretty boring month to talk about, to be honest with you.
42:31
But it's just been that. And then in between it has been
42:34
squeezing in playing video games, to be honest.
42:38
The only other things we've done.
42:39
It was my anniversary on the 6th.
42:41
We went on a really nice meal and went to Oxford and stuff,
42:44
walked around, did the Christmas market.
42:46
Oxford Christmas Market is the most disappointing Christmas
42:48
market ever for like a huge city that everyone knows.
42:51
Oxford, it's literally like half a street and nothing in there.
42:55
Basically, it's just a load of food stalls.
42:57
OK, that's not bad, but disappointing.
42:59
But I mean, outside of that, it hasn't really been a lot going
43:03
on. It's been a battle for time.
43:04
So the other thing I can't be happy with is we have finished
43:06
Christmas shopping and I've managed to wrap everything for
43:10
my wife. So I'm kind of ahead on that.
43:12
Front which is. I mean, that's been been pretty
43:15
much it. I mean, the the most exciting
43:17
things, I've actually been playing games when I've had a
43:19
chance and I have snuck in a lot of time on that.
43:22
My wife has walked in the room and just going to say, I was
43:24
like, you're on the TV again. It's like, yeah, expect this to
43:26
happen for the next 30 days. It's like time, time is ticking
43:29
now. Got a month left to get as many
43:32
game completes in as I humanly can.
43:34
So that's a short month. Not really.
43:37
I'm going to put a Christmas tree up.
43:39
You bought a new You bought a new TV as well I believe.
43:42
Oh yeah, we did. We did get ATV for the house for
43:44
Christmas. Yeah, my, my old Samsung has
43:46
been, I know 10-11 years of service after getting it for
43:50
free from my old job. The power button plays up, it
43:54
occasionally switches between channels and flickers and turns
43:56
itself off. So Black Friday, I kind of we
43:59
had a load of Amazon vouchers like from sending stuff back and
44:02
kind of just been sat there for a year basically.
44:04
So we picked up a screen. So it's same size 55 again, but
44:07
it is 4K, which is, which is cool.
44:10
Over Christmas, we spend a lot of time sat at home and just
44:14
chill out and have family time and stuff.
44:15
So it's kind of like, yeah, that works out.
44:17
We'll we'll go over that. So that's, it is nice to have to
44:20
be honest with you. It's weird because you look at
44:21
it, it's like the same size as the old one.
44:23
Is that new? It's like you turn it on and
44:24
like, yeah, it's definitely new. But yeah, it didn't didn't spend
44:29
a fortune on it, but I think it was like it dropped to like for
44:32
like 24 hours. It dropped to 239 lbs or
44:35
something, I think it was, which for a 4K HDRTV is pretty
44:39
impressive. So I'm tough with it.
44:41
It's not going to be an OLED. There's nothing spectacular that
44:44
someone would spend a grand on, but works for me.
44:49
Yeah, I think that's pretty much been it month wise for me.
44:52
It's been it's really boring versus you 2.
44:55
Sorry. This is like this is the
44:58
busiest. It's the busiest time of the
45:00
year. It's so weird.
45:01
It's when you suddenly realise that you've you've lost like mid
45:04
November till now, whether it's the 14th of December, it's like,
45:07
what have you done? Go to work.
45:10
Wow, that's amazing. That's pretty much it.
45:13
So I guess I'll just move straight on to the next section.
45:17
So played games. I'll start this one.
45:20
So the biggest surprise for everyone.
45:21
I've been playing a lot of Forza Horizon.
45:25
Another car game. Another car game.
45:28
Exactly. So Kev Horsley and some guys at
45:31
work, we started playing Horizon 5 again.
45:33
We've all completed it, but Ricardo has been cracking on
45:37
going into the dailies and weeklies again and just playing
45:39
it. It's an open world game, so it's
45:40
just it's just fun to play. So we're playing that.
45:43
Forza Motorsport 70. Look, another driving game.
45:46
Surprise Ben, I'm on now on the last championship section.
45:49
It gives you a load of verticals with tonnes of races in it.
45:52
I'm now in that final bit, so I may, if I'm lucky, be able to
45:55
squeeze that in as a finish before the end of the year.
45:57
But I'll see how we go because the last races are pretty
46:00
tricky. I want Gran Turismo 7.
46:06
The Spec 3 update came out about a week ago, which is literally
46:10
they've done a huge update they've been talking about for
46:12
six months, which is new cars, new tracks, all this kind of
46:15
thing on there. It's the biggest one they've
46:17
done in a long, long time. So I was jumped straight back on
46:21
it. There's a lot of cool new cars
46:22
in it. Ironically, the most exciting
46:25
thing for me is they put a three cylinder like 40 horsepower Fiat
46:28
Panda on it, which was just amazing.
46:31
So I've done that and I've tuned it up to a race Spec Panda.
46:33
I think I sent you guys a picture of it.
46:35
Yeah, it looks cool. The Pink Panda The Pink Panda
46:37
apparel. They used to.
46:40
So I've recreated that so. Was it Julia, Julia, I sort of
46:44
remember BBC in the 70s or the 80s, Was it Julia?
46:47
Bravo had the TV show, they had a panda police panda, a British,
46:53
a British police car. The panda was that or am I just?
46:57
I think they called him a panda, but they do actually make a Fiat
47:01
Panda, but I think they called it, but they called him a panda
47:05
for some other reason, you know, like like.
47:08
These cars are white and black, yeah, so they probably just
47:10
called them and just. They did make them OK.
47:13
It's not nightmare or something goes on my mind.
47:14
But yeah, I just remember seeing something like that.
47:19
Yeah, very good. Sorry to disrupt you.
47:22
I've played a lot of that. No, it's fine, don't worry.
47:25
I've played a lot of that. Been basing my Pink Panda around
47:28
quite a lot on Monza for fun and taking it around Spa, you know
47:31
like you would do with the Fiat Panda.
47:34
That's it. So that's kind of played for
47:35
those three. Well so done.
47:37
I picked up Battle Toads. They re released an Xbox version
47:41
of it what must be four or five years ago now, am I right?
47:45
And saying I think it was like 2020-2021.
47:48
So originally old Nintendo NES game I believe was the the first
47:52
Battletoads game. So it's a side scrolling beat
47:54
him up and I put about one or two hours into it when it first
47:58
came out because I was excited for it, completely forgot about
48:01
it. I think it's when I came back
48:02
out having an operation from for something.
48:04
And I sat there for a week off and I've gone back to it now and
48:07
realised that it is pretty hilarious, has loads of really
48:09
dodgy puns and things in it and it's been quite fun to play.
48:12
So I'm sort of picked that up actually yesterday afternoon and
48:15
started playing it again. Our monthly game, Sack Boys Big
48:20
Adventure, which is probably quite a big talking point for
48:23
all three of us, actually start with me.
48:26
Oh my God, how have I missed this being in my collection and
48:28
not played it for so many years? Genuinely, if anyone owns Sack
48:33
Boys Big Adventure on PlayStation, it's also about £12
48:36
for the PC on loaded.com at the moment.
48:38
It is one of the best 3D platformer games and kind of
48:41
adventures I've played a long, long time.
48:44
It's unbelievable. It does everything right.
48:46
The graphics are good, the controls are good, the
48:48
storylines good, the mechanics are brilliant and just it's
48:51
really, really interesting. A really, really great game.
48:54
I mean, we've all played Tearaway this year and that was
48:58
really phenomenal and kind of as a standout for this year.
49:01
And then Sackboy is like another level above that.
49:03
I really want to go and play through it all again.
49:06
It's one of those games I'm definitely going to go back to.
49:08
It's going to be an Evergreen where I try and do all the well,
49:11
the knitted night challenges on it, which would drive most
49:14
people up the wall. But I love trying to get gold on
49:16
everything, so we'll go back. I'm not sure if you guys have
49:19
finished it, so I won't say anything more than that to be
49:21
honest with you. But yeah, absolute cracker.
49:24
I played my friend Pedro, if you've heard of it, that was an
49:28
impulse play on my Steam. Yeah, impulse play on my Steam
49:32
Deck. My notes right here was
49:34
absolutely batshit crazy, but a blaster play for five hours that
49:37
it was to take get through it completely mental.
49:40
It's literally some bloke with different kinds of guns is
49:43
blowing the hell out of everything and shooting people
49:45
with a kind of possessed banana talking to you because you're
49:48
going insane or something for the whole thing.
49:51
It's absolutely obscure. But again, really well put
49:54
together. The physics are good, the
49:55
mechanics are good and it plays, plays really, really well.
49:57
It's one of those ones that I've always seen turn up on Game Pass
50:00
and Steam just to like as a scroll past, you know, like the
50:03
Hell's that? That doesn't look interesting.
50:06
Friend of mine, Paul Glasgow played it.
50:08
I think it was the start of the year and said actually it was
50:10
quite fun. Have a stab.
50:12
So I picked up as a quick play and it was decent.
50:15
We got a Super Puzzle Fighter 2, an old Capcom classic.
50:21
They made a remix of that. I think it's 360 error actually,
50:24
rather than even Xbox One. It's one I've never managed to
50:27
complete. It's a Tetris style game, but
50:30
I've always been utterly crap at it.
50:33
I cannot beat anyone on it. It's like I never work out the
50:35
mechanics and how to get the combos and beat stuff.
50:37
And you always got beaten by the last boss.
50:40
I sit got sat and got angry with it for about 3 hours a couple of
50:44
days ago and finally beat it. So I've now completed that one
50:47
as well, which is quite cool. So there's a massive list here
50:51
of me just playing random games in my spare time this month.
50:53
This is where all my spare time's gone.
50:56
Anyone heard of it? Split Second, which was a racing
51:00
game that was on the 360. No.
51:04
It was one of the last kind of big games I can remember of
51:09
Disney Interactive coming out with.
51:10
So they're owned by, I'm assuming Warner Brothers,
51:13
whatever it is, something like that now.
51:15
But it was a 360 era racer and the whole idea of it was that
51:18
you are part of a game like ATV show and you're the like almost
51:22
the stunt driver in it. So it's kind of, I put down here
51:25
the kind of the it's a bit of Ridge Racer meets Burnout meets
51:30
Mario Kart because it has it's kind of a track racing game.
51:35
It has the damage and stuff that Burnout has and it has the power
51:38
ups of Mario Kart in it. So it's a little weird.
51:41
Incredible graphics engine That's really cool.
51:43
I went back just when I went back and put the 360 on in our
51:46
bedroom a couple of weeks ago to have a go on it.
51:49
Really, really decent. I got addicted to it.
51:50
So another racing game, oddly enough, I've got addicted to,
51:53
but quite cool. It's it's a it's an old one.
51:56
It's probably pennies now if you can find a copy of it for the
51:58
360. But it's a pretty cool little
52:00
game. And the last one I've got on
52:03
here and then I have a completion actually this month
52:06
as well is new Super Lucky's Tale, which it was I think when
52:11
the original Xbox One came out. I want to say it came with that
52:16
was either that or is the 1X and they were, they were flaunting
52:19
the whole 4K thing. It could do 4K60FPS games and
52:23
it's a 3D platformer. You're a little fox and it's all
52:26
kind of cartoony graphics, but it's again put together really
52:30
well. It's a company called Play
52:32
Playful. I think it was that Microsoft
52:34
really flaunted as a big, this big studio they're doing all
52:38
these great things for the Xbox with.
52:40
I don't think they've ever released another game.
52:42
Ironically. I think that was literally their
52:43
their one hit wonder was this game they made Super Lucky's
52:47
Tail and it came out and it played quite well.
52:49
And then they just rather than fixing loads of bugs in it, they
52:52
just made new Super Lucky's Tail which upgraded the graphics to
52:55
run proper 4 Ki Don't know it's similar to that.
52:59
Anyway, I believe that was the case.
53:00
I got about 3/4 the way through it, maybe half 3/4 away about
53:04
3-4 years ago when it came out and I went back to it yesterday,
53:08
sat on the sofa and finished it. So again, have a top quality or
53:11
platformer. Nice, nice.
53:13
And I think it was about 8 hours to finish it.
53:16
I think something close to that. So I've had a bit of a, a Tour
53:20
de force of playing loads of random games and finishing
53:23
things off, which is quite a nice feeling for the end of the
53:25
year. Actually.
53:27
There's a few that still need to be done.
53:28
There's a few hanging over me still.
53:30
But I'm, I'm pretty sure we'll get there.
53:31
But that is, I think if I Scroll down, Oh no, there's one other
53:35
thing on there, one that you guys have completely finished.
53:37
And I'm just gutted. I can't do it.
53:39
I cannot finish Child of Light no matter how hard I try.
53:43
I'm just too stupid to make my team actually be out of beat
53:47
stuff. I think I've now reached, I
53:51
think I'm up to the last boss. I think I'm about to face it.
53:53
I'm not sure. But there was a there was a
53:56
fight I had to do against this kind of sea serpent thing
53:58
yesterday and it took me like 8 goes to beat it because I just
54:01
kept choosing the wrong characters.
54:04
I love it, I know he said. We all really liked it and I
54:05
love playing it. I'm just so bad at it I can't
54:08
work out why. You get there.
54:11
I must have never seem to get sorry.
54:13
Carry on. I was going to say, I've not
54:16
finished it. Brian's finished it.
54:17
He's the, he's the man with the, with all the knowledge on that
54:20
one. I remember the game getting
54:23
really tough at the end, so yeah, but you'll get it.
54:27
We we could talk off off here. It's a character cannot seem to
54:32
get that character balance right.
54:34
I just never continue to do it. I'll get halfway through a
54:36
battle and think to myself, I've called it off and I've managed
54:38
to work out a loop of setting things back and stuff like that
54:42
so they can't attack me. And then I just utterly fudge it
54:45
and that's it. And I die straight away because
54:47
everything does so much damage at that point.
54:49
When you screw it up, you you really screw it up.
54:52
Yeah, it's another twinkle. Prioritise to killing the the
54:55
enemies in certain order and then that makes you really get
54:59
your health back back your support team in certain times
55:04
just to prop you back up again. But yeah, it's I.
55:08
Think it really is about just trying to kill the outsiders
55:11
rather than the main boss in a lot of situations, isn't it?
55:13
Because they just sit there otherwise and like curse you or
55:16
whatever it is, or they just keep doing that, that additional
55:19
damage. But yeah, but I looked at it and
55:21
started playing it again and it's probably on quick resume on
55:24
my PlayStation. Just got annoyed with it and
55:26
turned it off again. So it's not going to do the
55:28
game. The game's great, it's just that
55:29
I suck. Yeah, that was my last one
55:34
anyway. So that was quite a long list.
55:36
Probably quite a car heavy list as well, surprisingly enough for
55:39
me. But there you go.
55:41
That's me. So Brian, I know you've given a
55:43
lot of time to play games this month with other stuff going on
55:45
and sounds like you had a hectic month, but what have you been
55:47
playing? I see, let me see.
55:49
I finished four spoken and I had written a huge about this and
55:56
it's not there. So I don't know where I wrote
55:57
it, but the game is a lot better than people made out.
56:03
I enjoyed it so much. I would I was really tempted to
56:08
do the new get new game plus and just keep playing the game
56:11
because I really want to explore more of it.
56:12
This Maybe I wrote this in my head.
56:16
I didn't actually write it down, but you have, you're up against
56:22
4, big bad guy big. At the start they tell you it's
56:24
like 4, these four gods you've got to attack.
56:27
And after you've beaten the second one, they just be, you
56:30
start to fear it's going to become this just a repetition.
56:34
You have the same thing over and over again, but they change the
56:36
story up and there's real impactful emotional moments in
56:41
it. But early on and then later on
56:44
you start to come across more and there's a huge 2, maybe 3
56:50
twists in the story. And the last one really caught
56:53
me off. I did not expect this because
56:54
you sort of you play games, you start to expect you know what's
56:57
going to happen. And this really caught me off.
57:00
I thought it was really good. Story's really good.
57:05
There is everybody talked about the speech.
57:08
It is slightly annoying. It's repetitive as the main
57:10
thing you have. You talked the cuff, there's a
57:14
magic cuff over your arm, but you keep talking through it all.
57:18
It seems like there's only 10 or 12 barks and they just keep
57:21
repeating the whole time and it gets a bit annoying, but you can
57:26
lower down the number of them, but it still happened and over
57:28
the entire entirety of the game is really does get to be a bit
57:32
tiring, but it the game's excellent.
57:36
The battle is it's different to most of the games I've played
57:42
and it's just it works really well.
57:44
The manoeuvrability around the the world is really good.
57:49
You get to move, you build up all these different moves for
57:53
not quite fine, but gliding over water and swinging of stuff.
58:01
Sorry. It gets really it's really good.
58:03
I enjoyed the game a lot and it got slated unfortunately in the
58:09
media start. I think the first trailer that
58:12
they showed everybody turned on the actor, the voice actress,
58:16
which it was really good. It's well acted.
58:19
The one thing I didn't like, the artwork is great, the graphics
58:25
brilliant, but there are some scenes where you zooms in on the
58:28
main character and the graphics looks like looks dodgy.
58:33
You know, you got that uncanny valley time thing and it begins
58:37
to look really weird. So that the only way only
58:40
drawback in the entirety. Again, I liked it a lot and it's
58:43
yeah, you start to drop or start to care about what's happening
58:46
in the story. So I would recommend people try
58:48
it. It is if it hasn't already come
58:51
off PlayStation Plus, it will be off very, very soon, so I would
58:56
recommend trying it if you get a chance.
58:58
The other game I've been playing a lot of is Detroit Become
59:02
Human. I haven't finished it.
59:03
It's on PlayStation next to me. It, I have maybe about 20
59:08
minutes left in it at most. I want we had it on the squeaky
59:12
wheel, but we're not doing another squeaky wheel this week.
59:15
So I start with that. I want to play it because one of
59:19
the junior high school students I work with is what seems to be
59:23
third grade. He's like 15 years old.
59:26
It's his, it's his favourite game.
59:27
He actually wrote a discussion about the game in English and I
59:33
thought if he's that impressed with the game, I'll go, I'll try
59:35
it. It is excellent.
59:38
I I'm not a big fan of the Quantic dream.
59:42
Quantic dreams. I think it's good name company
59:43
or Cage something Cage, the guy who made the game.
59:47
I'm not big fan of his games in the past, but this is actually
59:50
excellent. The graphics are brilliant and
59:54
the storylines is good. I want OK, I play these games,
1:00:01
this type of game. I want the best outcome.
1:00:03
It's just I don't want. By the by the outcomes in the
1:00:07
game. So if you played Walking Dead,
1:00:09
do you remember The Walking Dead game?
1:00:11
I can't I can't remember who made the games.
1:00:15
There's a all. The countdown stuff.
1:00:17
That's the one you if you make a decision, you get this thing
1:00:20
pops up saying so and so we'll remember this.
1:00:24
The very first time I played The Walking Dead game popped up.
1:00:28
I freaked out and I never, I stopped playing the game and
1:00:29
left it for two years. I didn't know what it meant.
1:00:33
I thought, shit, I've made a bad decision but it's going to come
1:00:35
back and affect me so I just left the game.
1:00:37
I got so stressed. And in this you, you get to see
1:00:41
people's opinion of you go up or down depending on your
1:00:44
responses. It freaks me out so much.
1:00:48
I'm like having computer game think less and less and less of
1:00:52
you as you go through the game. I thought I don't need that in a
1:00:56
game. I have that in real life.
1:00:57
I do that to myself, so I would not need just a game doing
1:01:00
exactly. I play games to get away from
1:01:02
reality. So anyway, so I got a guide.
1:01:07
So when it comes to these weird decisions, got the guide to tell
1:01:10
me so it takes away this whole stress of it and I just play the
1:01:12
game like a big long story and it's just made the game amazing
1:01:16
for me. I look really, really love this
1:01:18
game. It is the story is slightly
1:01:24
obvious, the analogy of the analogy of the what the civil
1:01:29
rights movement in the US and then the the androids trying to
1:01:33
become, uh, seen as not slaves or a bit being real life.
1:01:38
I think is you're hit up at the head with about this a lot.
1:01:41
There's sections yeah, it's quite early on.
1:01:46
You see Andros get on the bus and they get on the back of the
1:01:48
bus. They have their own bus stop and
1:01:50
it's so it's really obvious what they're trying to drive at.
1:01:53
And then the whole thing, there's loads of links with the
1:01:57
civil rights movements, but maybe it might have been a
1:02:02
better story if it was less obvious, At least for me, it
1:02:05
might have been maybe for other people.
1:02:07
They wouldn't notice what the hell was going on.
1:02:09
I don't know. The the junior high school
1:02:12
students, spot on. I don't know.
1:02:15
See, I'm hoping there's going to be something else, another theme
1:02:20
going through it, and it's not just that because I don't write
1:02:23
stories, I can't write stories. But I'm hoping there's more to
1:02:26
it than just that one big thing. I really do.
1:02:31
I love the game. The graphics are excellent, the
1:02:34
characters seem real. The responses, you get the
1:02:37
choice and the responses are really interesting and they seem
1:02:40
real. Like, let me see, that's it
1:02:45
about, oh, I'm not quite finished.
1:02:47
I'm on the last chapter of the game.
1:02:49
I'm halfway through it, so maybe 10-15 minutes left in the game.
1:02:53
But I've really enjoyed this. Really, really probably enjoy
1:02:57
this. It's quite good.
1:02:59
And yeah, I would recommend it to anybody else if they want to
1:03:02
try it. Have you either of you played
1:03:03
this? Yeah, I've played it.
1:03:06
I I'm, yeah, I'm about halfway through it, but this is based on
1:03:11
when it first came out. I've sort of played, say like,
1:03:15
you know, I played like maybe say about four hours of it.
1:03:17
And then I played like another session, maybe say about 3 or 4
1:03:20
hours. I did go back to itself showing
1:03:22
somebody at the point where you sat in the wet.
1:03:25
You kind of got to a point where you're in the warehouse.
1:03:29
It's like you like an underground car.
1:03:30
Park or something? Yeah, yeah.
1:03:33
Yeah, that's exactly where I that's exactly where I am.
1:03:35
But I'm at that point where if I'm going back to the game, I'm
1:03:38
not quite sure what's going on. I know there were a lot of
1:03:41
adventure to get there, you know, like a like an escape
1:03:44
thing. I had to, I think there were
1:03:46
like some baddie just before that bit to get into that.
1:03:49
Did you got into a house or something and some odd that?
1:03:51
Happened. You know what I mean?
1:03:53
Yeah, yeah. So that's where I am.
1:03:55
And yes, it's a game I would love to go back to, like you
1:03:57
said, them graphics. I mean, especially consider how
1:04:00
long ago it came out. That's not a new game.
1:04:02
Those graphics, they are absolutely fantastic.
1:04:06
Yeah, there's, it seems like the rain dripping off them, and it
1:04:08
looks brilliant. It looks really, really does.
1:04:11
Yeah. And OK, just totally sorry.
1:04:15
We load the game up and it's sitting there before you hit
1:04:17
start whatever, there's a lady's face looking at you and tread
1:04:22
every time you start the game again, she'll still be sitting
1:04:25
there just looking at you. And when you if you hover over
1:04:28
options, it should say this is the options menu or this
1:04:31
whatever. But as the game goes on, she
1:04:33
starts talking to you and it really breaks the 4th wall and
1:04:36
it's bloody good. And just if you leave it on the
1:04:39
screen and don't do anything because see her as though she
1:04:42
she starts to move as though she wants to talk to you.
1:04:44
The facial animation is excellent.
1:04:46
It's just like zooming in on her face and you can see her trying
1:04:49
pressing her mouth, mouth, her lips as though she's thinking
1:04:52
about going to say something and not quite doing it.
1:04:55
And he's the whole way through the game was watching this and
1:04:57
this is brilliant there. There's a lot of detail being
1:05:02
put into it. I have liked this game quite a
1:05:04
lot and I did not expect that I would like it.
1:05:07
So it's a thumbs up for me. And what's?
1:05:11
That's what I've looked at. Never got to this kind of.
1:05:16
There's another game as well before that one that came out
1:05:19
just before that, maybe about two years before.
1:05:21
I can't remember what they call it, but it's virtually the same.
1:05:25
The graphics case and all the rest of it.
1:05:27
People slay the story a little bit at the time, but it's the
1:05:29
girl, the woman that's in it. The main person is the person
1:05:33
that she trans into a guy, Ellie, something.
1:05:36
She were in quite a few films at one point and she's like, yes.
1:05:40
Oh, Elliot. Elliot Page.
1:05:41
Yeah, Elliot Page. And she's like the main actress
1:05:44
in the game at the time. But it's another one if you
1:05:47
haven't played that one, I've played probably about two or
1:05:50
three hours of that one. And that's another like ace
1:05:52
looking game. God, yeah.
1:05:56
And we'll look that. Up I'll type beyond.
1:05:59
Two souls. Beyond 2.
1:06:00
So yeah, that's it. Beyond two souls.
1:06:04
Yeah, somebody message me with that later on.
1:06:08
Yeah, beyond two souls, Yeah, let's be quick.
1:06:12
Become human. The only other game I've played
1:06:15
is our squeaky wheel game Sack Boy.
1:06:20
You mentioned before it's like a little big planet game or
1:06:22
something. We get up and start playing it.
1:06:26
It puts a huge smile on your face.
1:06:28
It is excellent. The graphics gorgeous.
1:06:34
I don't know, it's like a childishly.
1:06:36
I'm playing it. It's really, really good.
1:06:38
I enjoy it. I got, now we're going to get to
1:06:41
the bad part. I don't know why, but I think
1:06:45
I'm screwed up. I got to a level it's not that
1:06:48
far into. It's something like off the grid
1:06:50
or something to the grid or not off the rails, maybe something
1:06:54
to the rails and you have 5 lives.
1:06:59
Each goal in the game. They've got one and a four life
1:07:02
you're playing with. There's a four on the front up
1:07:04
at the top corner. It took me on my third attempt,
1:07:08
so I went through 12 different lives this game, playing it
1:07:12
three times to get through that one level and I just could not,
1:07:18
I could not orientate and move the character the way I wanted.
1:07:21
And I, it's like it's purely me. It's not the game.
1:07:24
It's and I was becoming so, so, so much frustrated with.
1:07:28
I ended up just dropping the game.
1:07:29
I couldn't do it. So I will get back to this
1:07:31
again. I'm going to play and finish
1:07:33
because I really like this. The world is beautifully
1:07:36
realised, the voices are excellent.
1:07:39
You've got so many famous British actors and it's, I don't
1:07:44
know, I really like like this. I would like to finish finish
1:07:47
the game. Ultimately it's a bit like a do
1:07:52
you remember a game that was a long time ago?
1:07:55
You're a red rectangle, maybe a blue rectangle.
1:07:59
Thomas was alone. Oh yes.
1:08:02
Yes. It's a bit like that.
1:08:04
The Thomas alone has 100 levels or so and this game Sack Boy has
1:08:12
70 levels and I think when I saw those 70 levels, I almost broke
1:08:16
my controller playing one level and I've probably gone under 60.
1:08:19
After I started to fear. Tom Salon took me over a year to
1:08:24
finish and play to play for you and finish he because I kept
1:08:28
hitting sections. That was becoming really
1:08:31
difficult for me to to do because you characters are going
1:08:34
upside down a little bit. Our inverse movements and stuff.
1:08:37
It was really awkward. They took me, enjoyed the game,
1:08:40
so I got through it. I will do the same.
1:08:41
Sack boy. I like it a lot.
1:08:43
It just it was frustrating me too much.
1:08:46
I won't say so I'll put it down, but I will play it and finish
1:08:48
it. Yeah, some of the levels are
1:08:51
pretty unforgiving at points and it does require literally.
1:08:55
I mean some of them are probably completed by fluke when you're
1:08:57
literally have to jump something to another platform.
1:09:00
Don't. Have you done any of the knitted
1:09:01
night trials yet? If you haven't, probably don't
1:09:04
go and do those. They're literally they are time
1:09:10
trial things and you have like it's a gold, silver, bronze sort
1:09:13
of thing and you have to jump across platforms.
1:09:15
So like the things you come across in the game, like you
1:09:18
have a a level that's got certain enemies in it or throw
1:09:21
you into a maze full of those and you've got to learn how to
1:09:24
compete with all of those in different situations to finish
1:09:27
the trial effectively. So there'll be 1 going up and
1:09:29
down or one on the left or one with platforms shifting left and
1:09:32
right and you've got to get past them.
1:09:33
It's they're really, really well done.
1:09:37
I've got, I think I golded probably about half, but the
1:09:39
other ones, which is like you get though the orbs you get, you
1:09:42
get up to three orbs for each of them, which obviously then
1:09:45
equate to you getting the end of the levels or the section levels
1:09:49
unlocked. The only sort of like tint slash
1:09:53
clue I'll give you is I got to the end of it, to the end game
1:09:55
to get to fight whatever his name is at the very end of it.
1:09:58
And I didn't have enough orbs to get to him.
1:10:02
And I was like, which is like really frustrating because like
1:10:05
I play for this whole thing, but it's like you haven't done
1:10:07
enough. Second, that happens.
1:10:09
Obviously you have taken on that game and it's got progressively
1:10:13
hard and the enemy's got progressively more annoying.
1:10:15
Literally you can hold on to the circle button and you can travel
1:10:18
wherever you want inside any of the maps you've already played.
1:10:20
Just go back to the first set of levels and destroy them all,
1:10:23
because then they're really easy because you've already done like
1:10:28
you've done the whole skill climb by that point.
1:10:31
So I got to that point, I went back and then just three or five
1:10:34
stars or three or five orbs the entire first batch of levels.
1:10:38
And that put me over. But it was kind of like going
1:10:41
back to the first easier part of the game to achieve it at the
1:10:44
time you wouldn't have thought of.
1:10:46
That's good, yeah. That the game is delightful.
1:10:49
To be honest, it is really nice. I I have no nostalgia for Mario
1:10:55
or any of those games. I guess this is probably the
1:10:58
closest I've experienced to that type of game that people's love
1:11:01
to those games. But this game is is pretty the
1:11:07
it's funny. I really do like this.
1:11:09
The I found with that level of the rails don't because you're
1:11:15
like you're on a basic like a train driving along and you've
1:11:20
got to jump off and do but jumping off as much as possible.
1:11:23
I'm going on the sides where it wasn't moving.
1:11:26
I was able to clear the levels easier, but that's how I ended
1:11:28
up doing in the end. So but yeah, I liked the game.
1:11:31
I can, I will finish it. It'll take it'll take time.
1:11:34
It's interesting you said about. Yeah, I think it will.
1:11:37
It's interesting you saying about the whole, the Mario
1:11:39
thing. You don't have that kind of
1:11:41
context for 3D platformers or whatever it is.
1:11:46
Obviously it's based off of the Little Big Planet world from
1:11:49
PlayStation 3 onwards. I have absolutely no time or
1:11:54
love for those games whatsoever. I never really got on with them.
1:11:57
I found them slightly monotonous and I never really got through
1:12:00
them. I think I had, I tried the first
1:12:02
one, I ended up with three because someone got it for me
1:12:04
for a gift I think, and I tried playing them.
1:12:07
I just could not get on with them.
1:12:08
So when I think this is probably the reason I've avoided that one
1:12:11
for so long. So if anyone else has played or
1:12:13
Big Planet and not enjoyed it, do not take that as a gospel of
1:12:18
it being the same game is literally.
1:12:20
I think what they've done is transform the franchise on
1:12:22
purpose to refresh it. So it's gone from being
1:12:25
something that was good, don't get me wrong, and the creativity
1:12:28
side of it was nice, but I did it never felt you were really
1:12:31
achieving anything to like a real now like proper full scale
1:12:34
platformer and it is. It is an absolute cracker.
1:12:37
I really do like it. Well, one of the things that
1:12:39
really annoyed me, I finished Returnal and in that you're
1:12:43
jumping, timing everything. I think I was able to do that,
1:12:48
but this game, I couldn't, could not get the timing right.
1:12:51
It was frustrating the hell out of me.
1:12:52
But yeah, it will be a game I will beat.
1:12:54
I will finish that game and see it to the end.
1:12:56
So yeah. It definitely needs patience,
1:12:59
but it's worth it. Yeah, one thing that's worth
1:13:01
mentioning about that game is the music.
1:13:03
The music is outstanding, yes. Yes.
1:13:06
Yeah, and there's lots of popular tunes that the turn into
1:13:10
like to fit, like the game is like one underworld underwater
1:13:14
scene that you go to and the play Madonna's Material Girl.
1:13:19
But it's kind of like an aquatic fashion.
1:13:22
And what I noticed as well, when I was redoing levels or dying in
1:13:26
a level, sometimes you jump in like a cannon that's kind of
1:13:30
like going to shoot you over to a next section.
1:13:32
Well, though, if you do that game enough times and certain
1:13:35
levels, it hits it on the beat. So like you might spend longer
1:13:40
in that cannon until the music catches up to a certain bit and
1:13:43
then it fires you out. So it kind of like the cannon
1:13:46
goes off at the beat moment sort of thing.
1:13:48
So it's like it's so well orchestrated is the game.
1:13:53
It is fantastic. And if you like that Astro bot
1:13:56
is another level up. You know, the the Astro bot game
1:13:59
that came out, not the not the freebie 1.
1:14:02
And so yeah, I did have that game and I sold it because I'd
1:14:06
lost interest in it. But now since I've played sack
1:14:08
boy, that's sort of like me and say, oh, I've got to get Astro.
1:14:11
But again now so. Oh yeah, God, I can't wait.
1:14:15
That is literally that is probably the only game which if
1:14:18
if anything's open on New Year's Day, I am going to buy it.
1:14:21
Another level. Simple as that.
1:14:23
Another level. Again, it looks Yeah, my
1:14:26
daughter's already said it's like, you're going to get that
1:14:27
because I really want to play it.
1:14:29
And you're like, oh, kind of more of an excuse now.
1:14:30
Great, thanks very much. But she watched me play through
1:14:33
Playroom and Platinum that, and that was literally just a demo
1:14:35
thing. I mean, I have to admit, playing
1:14:38
this again now actually another thing that's kind of
1:14:40
corresponding to that on Sackboy now, if you go on the
1:14:44
PlayStation Store, every single skin that came out for that game
1:14:47
is now free. And be with it being a
1:14:50
PlayStation Studios game, all the character things on there
1:14:54
were all PlayStation game characters.
1:14:55
So there's Ratchet and Clank, God of War, Astro Bots on there,
1:14:59
which I literally played 3/4 of the game as Astro Bot, which
1:15:02
felt a little wrong. Like I was basically just like
1:15:05
imposing him on the game because I like it so much.
1:15:08
But yeah, there's some really cool characters in there.
1:15:10
I mean, I did the end of the game, I almost felt like I had
1:15:12
to go back to being standard Sack Boy for the end of the game
1:15:15
to finish it as him rather than Astro Bot.
1:15:17
But yeah, it's it's so cool. The song I was trying to think
1:15:21
of as well is, is it Bruno Mars? Don't believe me, Just whatever
1:15:24
it is. But as you saying about the
1:15:26
music, it starts the game with just a bit of it and you
1:15:28
recognise the backing thing or the vocals and it slowly builds
1:15:31
the more the level you go along and then you finish on the full
1:15:34
song. I mean, I've got quite a loud
1:15:36
sound bar and stuff on there or I feel like, can you turn it
1:15:38
down? I'm like, no, that's amazing.
1:15:41
Just cranked it up in the lounge on full blast.
1:15:44
Oh, it's so good. I mean, this year we wax the
1:15:46
miracle about the game again now, but it is so good.
1:15:48
It's so good. It is so many excellent elements
1:15:51
to it, the graphics, the colour. And one thing I will say is with
1:15:54
a lot of these sorts of games I often hit a wall when it comes
1:15:57
to like the end level baddies. It's the same with Souls games.
1:16:00
I love all the adventure but the end level baddies are usually
1:16:03
like I'm hitting a brick wall all of a sudden.
1:16:05
But I will say the end level baddies, they were all kind of
1:16:09
like I managed to do them in like 2 or 3 attempts.
1:16:11
They were all kind of doable. There were, there was not
1:16:14
impossible. I mean, I'm going to probably
1:16:16
find an impossible one, but I've done quite a few of them.
1:16:19
And yeah, a joy to play. A real joy.
1:16:22
Excellent. Yeah, they're challenging, but
1:16:24
they're not kind of blocking, I think is.
1:16:26
Yeah, there's not a wall there sort of thing.
1:16:29
You, you, you play it a couple of times and you work out the
1:16:31
mechanics of how you're going to beat them.
1:16:32
It doesn't keep it secret. It makes it difficult, but it
1:16:35
makes it knows that there is a way of passing it.
1:16:38
I suppose it's probably the way of doing it so it never stops
1:16:41
being fun. I'd I'd say it's a crime against
1:16:44
gameplay. If you don't play it, you know
1:16:46
it's one of them games. It's an essential, almost it.
1:16:51
It will. I will finish it.
1:16:53
I will play. Yeah.
1:16:55
So, Paul, that's me. Finish the game.
1:16:57
So, Paul, what have you been playing?
1:16:59
OK, I started the, the, the new month after the show, fancying a
1:17:05
bit of a, a tidy up of my hard drive on my PlayStation.
1:17:08
Because you can go back to your PlayStation, it's in standby
1:17:11
mode and you turn it on and it's like, oh, we couldn't do this
1:17:14
update because you haven't got enough space.
1:17:15
You know, like these updates can be 40 gigabytes.
1:17:18
And so it's like so far. Do you know what?
1:17:19
There's tonnes of games that I've downloaded that I might
1:17:22
take a look at. So if I'll have a bit of a tidy
1:17:25
up. And anyway, one of the games
1:17:28
that was on there is so much crazy, like about 120 gigabytes
1:17:31
is Arc, which is the game from PC where it's like a survival
1:17:35
game. It's like got the dinosaurs in
1:17:37
it. You know, you start off like,
1:17:39
you know, the usual you might just have a loincloth on even
1:17:41
that you might not even have a loincloth on, but you basically
1:17:44
have like nothing and you've got to go around and sort of, you
1:17:48
know, build up your world and survive, etcetera.
1:17:50
But I cleared it for about 10 minutes.
1:17:53
I've kind of played it before and I just want digging it and
1:17:56
it wasn't intriguing me and I just thought, you know what,
1:17:58
Boo. So anyway, it went 120
1:18:01
gigabytes, you know, preed up. So I thought, yeah, it's huge.
1:18:07
It's it's absolutely huge. And so the next game on the
1:18:11
list, and I put this one on which I downloaded and I'd
1:18:14
actually read previously, like about a week or so before that,
1:18:18
they're going to stop development on this game.
1:18:21
And that's it. It's kind of like game over and
1:18:23
within one year's time it's going to turn off the servers,
1:18:25
etcetera. And that is New World Eternum or
1:18:31
Aterum or I think it's a turn I cap the so anyway, but what I
1:18:36
will say, wow, what a game that is an absolutely fantastic game.
1:18:41
And obviously I'm coming late to this game.
1:18:44
It's probably been out about three years or so.
1:18:47
And but you can just tell they've listened of the
1:18:50
developers to everybody's woes or ideas to how to improve the
1:18:57
game. The game just feels like a a
1:18:59
game for gamers. It really has been so well
1:19:02
polished and I really enjoyed it.
1:19:05
I started off thinking I'll play it for half an hour and you
1:19:08
know, this is never room to another easy 100 gigs to wipe
1:19:11
off my hard drive. No problem here.
1:19:13
But I didn't, I ended up playing it for about 8 hours.
1:19:16
I didn't play 8. I was solid.
1:19:17
I played about four hours and the next night I played #4
1:19:20
hours. And I can also say if you get a
1:19:22
chance, give it a go and then well worth it.
1:19:25
It's on PlayStation Plus. No, I don't think we're on plus.
1:19:29
It's on the premium or the one this, whichever the one is in
1:19:32
the middle, it's on that tier so you can download it.
1:19:34
Yeah, highly recommend it. And one of the thing about them
1:19:37
sorts of games like Switch games is like World of Warcraft or
1:19:41
Elder Scrolls on mine. Often exploration can be quite
1:19:46
difficult because often you are surrounded by a lot of
1:19:48
mountainous areas or areas that are difficult to get over,
1:19:53
etcetera. If you could look all over the
1:19:56
top of that mountain or whatever, you could probably
1:19:58
into like a whole different area would have really got the
1:20:01
exploration right on this because it's got a bit of a jump
1:20:04
on him as the character. So you can actually jump up some
1:20:07
of these mountains quite easily and get to the top of the
1:20:09
mountains and work your way around into other areas.
1:20:12
And so it's not frustrating in that respect.
1:20:14
The exploration on it is really good.
1:20:16
I highly recommend it. Well worth giving it a session.
1:20:20
And obviously I played sack boy as well, which I really enjoyed,
1:20:23
which we just spoke about, which led me on to another game which
1:20:26
has been sat in my drawer for a long time.
1:20:28
And it's kind of one end games that probably your average
1:20:31
switch owner will have at least owned or has in their
1:20:34
collection, which is Mario Odyssey.
1:20:36
And and it's swimming games where I've put it on and I kind
1:20:40
of like I don't it's a bit too cubesy etcetera.
1:20:42
But because Sack Boy led me down this, I'm living cubesy games
1:20:47
all of a sudden scenario. Well, then Mario Odyssey started
1:20:51
to appeal and like, oh, wow, hold on a minute, you've got one
1:20:54
of the best Switch games there that you haven't really played.
1:20:57
Give it a go. So I put it on and wow, yeah,
1:20:59
once you get into it, the exploration and the things that
1:21:02
the character can do, etcetera, it's more than just a Mario
1:21:05
game. That's a really adventure game.
1:21:08
Is that. So I've been enjoying that and
1:21:11
probably about, you know, my usual fall off point.
1:21:14
I'm probably about 8:00 and 9:00 hours into that.
1:21:16
But it is one I'm definitely going to go back to because the
1:21:18
Switch is mainly on the upstairs TV where the Playstation's on
1:21:21
the downstairs TV. So that's a great game because
1:21:26
sometimes I'm often SAT upstairs because I'd like to have it.
1:21:30
My missus is absolutely very interesting game.
1:21:33
She does like the original Mario game.
1:21:35
I'm talking nest style. And she does like say like
1:21:38
Pac-Man, she she will always have a go at those.
1:21:41
But beyond that, very little interest, you know, and so yes,
1:21:45
so by upstairs console, but I'm often thinking, oh, should I go
1:21:48
downstairs and bring the PlayStation?
1:21:49
Five books have been played, but I don't want to be unhooking it,
1:21:52
messing about the HDMI part on the back, etcetera, because it's
1:21:55
not that difficult to get them HDMI parts, you know.
1:21:58
So I ain't doing it. So it's sits downstairs.
1:22:02
But yes, so Mario obviously really enjoyed that.
1:22:05
And I also played another game which was on this month's Three
1:22:11
Big Games on the PlayStation, and it's called Thank Goodness
1:22:14
You're Here. And it's all set in like a
1:22:17
Yorkshire town. Wow.
1:22:21
Yeah. It is such a funny game.
1:22:23
I'd heard about this game and it would have totally passed me by.
1:22:25
I heard it on. It's not game.
1:22:27
It's confessional. The other guys with with Jin.
1:22:32
I can't remember the name of the show for some.
1:22:34
Reason gamers. Vector and Gamers, yeah so
1:22:37
Vector and Gamers show they played it on there and they give
1:22:40
it a really good review and I will say yeah, it's absolutely
1:22:42
funny and it's the sort of game you can run through in around
1:22:44
about 3 or 4 hours maximum so S little game it just keeps
1:22:49
flowing and flowing and flowing Yeah absolutely brilliant.
1:22:53
I also played. On premium is it?
1:22:56
Yeah, it's on premium. All the free games on the higher
1:22:59
tiers. This.
1:23:00
Week Well, I think it were on essential, you know, so it's
1:23:04
like the bottom Yeah, I think it were on the bottom.
1:23:06
I could be wrong because they keep doing it don't they?
1:23:08
Like you get 2 lots of releases every month so I like I get lost
1:23:12
amongst them. Rock came out for which tier
1:23:17
sort of thing. Me too.
1:23:18
So, but yeah, it's definitely on it, definitely on it might not
1:23:21
be essential, but it's definitely on the middle tier at
1:23:24
the very. Place on extra Yeah, just
1:23:26
looked, it's only £15 anyway, but the same thing.
1:23:28
I know about 810 people who have played it and they just said
1:23:31
it's hysterical and it's brilliant and you should play it
1:23:33
and it's like, okay, fair enough.
1:23:34
I keep waiting for it to it's on my wish list on on PlayStation
1:23:39
sort of thing for for next year. But yeah, it looks hilarious.
1:23:42
I've watched traders of it and it just looks ridiculous but
1:23:44
funny at the same time. It is, it's really good and
1:23:47
thankfully again that's come to can't remember it once again, I
1:23:51
can't remember if it's extra or essential.
1:23:53
That's just come and with that's Red Dead Redemption, the PS-5
1:23:57
version, you know, the original Red Dead Redemption.
1:24:00
And what I will say, man, that game looks pin sharp on a big
1:24:06
screen. It looks good at 4K.
1:24:10
And yeah, I've got it on Xbox. But I'm telling me the idea of
1:24:14
selling my Xbox, which I haven't sold.
1:24:15
So I've been too busy to sell it.
1:24:17
I feel as if I might have missed the boat.
1:24:19
And so obviously I could sell it after Christmas.
1:24:21
The price is naturally prices drop.
1:24:23
Yeah. And you know, people buying an
1:24:25
Xbox probably for Christmas, offer a gift, the second user
1:24:28
one or whatever. So yeah, but pop them onto Xbox
1:24:33
afterwards as well. So I put it on there because
1:24:36
I've got it on, I've got it on Xbox One, which I'm going to
1:24:39
sell because there's no point keeping that.
1:24:41
You'd probably get about £15 for on Xbox One.
1:24:45
So the disc version, so, but yeah, it's really good.
1:24:48
Looks good. I've played pretty much up to
1:24:50
the point where I got to on the Xbox version, which is about two
1:24:53
or three hours in where you've kind of like Betty Dean, you've
1:24:56
kind of got your horse, you've been out on a few missions, you
1:24:59
know you. So it's kind of opening up is
1:25:01
the world. So what else did I play?
1:25:04
I played in the demo and it's a full 4 hour demo and that is
1:25:08
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. I didn't really enjoy Kingdom
1:25:12
Come Deliverance 1 too much. I I did play it, but I found it
1:25:18
too much of a real world simulator where you had to be
1:25:21
doing too many things to enjoy. It became a bit of a chore, but
1:25:26
I enjoyed it and liked it for what it was.
1:25:29
But everyone said that Kingdom Come Deliverance to the kind of
1:25:31
changed it up a little bit, made it a little bit more a little
1:25:34
bit more fun, a little less in depth as to how you must do this
1:25:38
and how you must do that. And I will say, yeah, definitely
1:25:41
really enjoyed it. It kind of gave me that.
1:25:43
I've been kind of aching a little bit for playing all
1:25:46
fancy, although I can't play it. But the game that I would kind
1:25:49
of like to play is the Oblivion remaster.
1:25:53
So, and this is kind of like I normally like them kinds of
1:25:57
games as mediaeval games. I like to have a little bit of
1:25:59
magic in them. Otherwise I can feel a bit
1:26:01
bland, but Kingdom from Deliverance to as no magic, as
1:26:05
no Wizards. It's not all that kind of stuff
1:26:06
in there. It's a mediaeval simulator.
1:26:09
But yeah, really enjoyed it. So I've hinted for my New Year
1:26:12
gift because I'm not have any Christmas game gifts,
1:26:14
unfortunately, but for my New year game list, I've mentioned
1:26:19
that one. And so yeah, I think that will
1:26:21
be forthcoming. So yeah, definitely a good game.
1:26:26
And I'll tell you what I spotted as well is on Xbox, as you know,
1:26:31
it's gone one key as the price is like £14.00 a month.
1:26:34
Obviously you can go to load it and go buy a six month key and
1:26:36
set it up via Brazil or wherever else.
1:26:39
So you can get it from maybe £7 a month.
1:26:41
But one of the biggest, bestest tricks that you could do for a
1:26:46
long, long time, and they probably stopped at about a year
1:26:49
ago, is that when you set up a new account on Xbox, yeah, you
1:26:54
could get premium or whatever they call it on them.
1:26:57
What do they call the top tier on Xbox?
1:27:00
Ultimate game. Pass Ultimate Game Pass Yeah,
1:27:03
guess what? You can get it for 1 LB.
1:27:05
So yeah, the big trick is, I'm sure everyone knows this, but if
1:27:10
you don't know it, if an account on your Xbox has premium, all
1:27:15
the other accounts that can be used that are used on that
1:27:18
system all get to use premium as well.
1:27:21
So you don't have to start your games again.
1:27:23
You don't have to restart anything.
1:27:25
Just put a brand new account on, pay you 1 LB, turn off the auto
1:27:29
subscription so you're not charged 1499 the month
1:27:32
afterwards. You just need an e-mail address.
1:27:35
Yes, any old e-mail address will do sale.
1:27:38
Pay for it via PayPal. PayPal address doesn't have to
1:27:40
match that. Or you can pay for it via your
1:27:42
switch card or whatever. It doesn't have to match
1:27:45
anything and pay for that 1 LB. And then you can play all your
1:27:49
premium games on your regular account and keep up.
1:27:52
It saves one month later if you're a player.
1:27:54
Xbox Ultimate again, set up another e-mail address, Google
1:27:58
takes 2 minutes, pay for it again for one month, boom, job
1:28:03
done 1 LB. And that's why in the new way
1:28:07
that's going to give me say the option of playing Oblivion,
1:28:11
which is on there, the remastered version.
1:28:13
So it's kind of reignited my urge to keep the Xbox because
1:28:18
this is everyone. I'm going to call it endowed,
1:28:23
but I think that's the wrong kind of word.
1:28:24
That's all about. Yeah, that means something.
1:28:26
Totally different to me. I don't know, but I mean.
1:28:29
Well, in that way, that was a that was a well built or
1:28:32
whatever. I'd he's got a big one.
1:28:34
So so but yeah, he's magic in the bedroom.
1:28:39
So. But anyway.
1:28:42
The title for. Us on the magic in the bedroom
1:28:47
there's a real wizard in the bedroom or whatever so but yeah
1:28:51
so servers yeah so that's really ignited my urge to keep the Xbox
1:28:56
because of a complaint for the next 12 months for 12 lbs and
1:28:59
ultimate or ultimate game pass whatever they call it then yeah
1:29:03
sure I'm game on for that one other thing I noticed as well
1:29:07
for anyone that might be on a bit of a budget I was looking at
1:29:12
I always check prime Amazon Prime gaming because that's
1:29:15
another way to get your freebie games on there They give away
1:29:18
maybe 5 or 10 games a month Some are good some are bad, but you
1:29:22
just keep adding them and if you ever play and you play and if
1:29:24
you don't you don't but Luna, which is their free streaming
1:29:28
service if you've got Amazon prime, you should see the games
1:29:31
on there. I was shocked as Kingdom come
1:29:33
deliverance. 2. Yeah, Kingdom Come Deliverance
1:29:36
2, which is a game from this year.
1:29:38
You've got Hogwarts Legacy, you've got Indiana Jones, last
1:29:43
year's big game, you've got all the Fallout games, you've got
1:29:45
Skyrim, you've got Tomb Raider. If you probably have an Amazon
1:29:49
Prime stick, which about £30, and it'll connect up to any
1:29:53
controller. So you kind of get like an old
1:29:55
Xbox, even an old PlayStation 4 controller, whatever you've got
1:29:59
lying around. You don't even have to be on a
1:30:01
budget, just a range of games that's on there.
1:30:03
Hook you up another go. You know what can you say?
1:30:06
It doesn't cost anything to play.
1:30:07
I think you can pair an extra premium if you want.
1:30:10
I could be wrong on that base. Definitely part of Amazon Prime.
1:30:13
What? What more do you want?
1:30:14
It's definitely part of it, yeah, the lunar stuff is and
1:30:17
there's a was a Windows desktop app for it as well.
1:30:19
So you can do it off that if you want to, yeah.
1:30:21
Well, that's amazing. Yeah.
1:30:23
You could probably hook up your laptop to your TV, right?
1:30:26
Even the most basic Intel HD graphics.
1:30:30
Yeah, you can pull the hook up as long as it's got, as long as
1:30:33
it's capable of. Doubt probably doing the OR
1:30:35
decks, I imagine for the streaming.
1:30:37
So if it's probably 7th or 8th Gen or newer, maybe even a 6th
1:30:40
Gen Intel, which is pretty old now, you probably find you could
1:30:43
stream it. You could probably even do it on
1:30:44
your tablet as well. So yeah, that's an amazing way
1:30:48
to tap into some cheap games if you've got Amazon Prime.
1:30:52
But yeah, other than that, I haven't really been playing much
1:30:55
else, but that's still quite a few games.
1:30:58
But yeah, but there's been some good stuff.
1:31:02
I just looked up Fire TVI just realised that my television we
1:31:05
bought has got Fire TVI don't use the menu system on it
1:31:08
because we've run everything off the Xbox for television but it's
1:31:10
got Fire TV on it obviously if Luna works.
1:31:13
Yeah, give it a blast. Maybe Evergone Kingdom Come
1:31:16
Deliverance too or something like that.
1:31:17
I mean, talking of Hogwarts Legacy, this is probably too
1:31:20
late for this, but Epic Games have started off this month with
1:31:24
Hogs Watts. Hogwart Legacy is a freebie game
1:31:27
that's pretty cool and what they normally do as well as we get
1:31:30
closer to Christmas to do the thing called the 12 of Days of
1:31:32
Christmas. So every day Epic gives a game
1:31:36
where that's what they've done in the past couple of years.
1:31:38
So the and the Dom give some good, good, good quality games.
1:31:42
You can't knock for games at the giveaway.
1:31:45
Hopefully I'll get this out before the 18th, but it is free
1:31:47
until 4:00 on the 18th. Yeah, the first hot is hot
1:31:50
walkers. I mean, even if you've already
1:31:53
got it, if you've got APC, he's a good test game as well because
1:31:57
that'll stretch even some of the more bigger graphics cards.
1:32:00
It will, you know, take it to task.
1:32:02
So even it's a good game for like benchmarking or seeing how
1:32:05
nice it looks. So yeah, fantastic.
1:32:08
I'll. Tell you what Well Worth can
1:32:11
actually just like, and sort of like shedding light on Epic
1:32:14
Games. Their holiday sale is
1:32:16
unbelievable. Every single year when Epic
1:32:18
Games do a sale on their store, the prices are completely
1:32:20
stupid. Like unbelievable underneath
1:32:23
everything else. I mean it seems interesting to
1:32:25
see what Steam and EA do in response to it.
1:32:28
But I mean if you like football, FC-26 is 23 LB Arc Raiders is 24
1:32:34
which is nuts money. Battlefield 641 instead of 60.
1:32:38
I mean that's mad deals. What I'm interested in.
1:32:41
F12550 half price 25 lbs. It's all these deals on there.
1:32:46
They just they're so good with their pricing when it comes to
1:32:49
their sales. It's like once a year.
1:32:51
I haven't actually seen if they normally stick a a 10 LB voucher
1:32:54
in there as well. You can at once what normally
1:32:57
happens. That's how that's how I bought
1:32:58
Division two. I got the gold edition of
1:33:00
Division 2 was down to £20 from 120 and then I'd use my 10 LB
1:33:04
voucher on it as well whenever that was a couple of years ago.
1:33:07
So it's unbelievable. Really, really cool little
1:33:09
store. It's underrated and they have no
1:33:11
clue at all how they make money. Apparently it's a loss leader.
1:33:14
Well, I think it's because, I think it's because they own the
1:33:17
engine. And plus Fortnite says as well,
1:33:20
they are just, they're dripping in money basically.
1:33:22
They are totally and utterly dripping in money and they own
1:33:27
the engines that I think Unreal Engine 5 is their development
1:33:30
tools. So they are dripping, they are
1:33:33
dripping in money, simple as that.
1:33:36
So they're like probably more than Grand Theft Auto guys.
1:33:40
They're probably got like 10 times their money.
1:33:43
So another gaming thing that happened this this week was the
1:33:47
is it the game of the year thing that came out?
1:33:50
Oh, Game Awards. Game Awards, Yeah, yeah.
1:33:55
Expedition 33 I think that got Game of the Year.
1:34:00
It did, yeah. So I'm looking for.
1:34:04
Yeah, that did. Yeah, it was an.
1:34:07
Exceptional game. Yeah, there were a lot of love
1:34:10
for that on all the podcasts that I listen to.
1:34:12
Everyone seems to, you know, obviously some people the
1:34:15
problem can do with any sorts of games is, is that there's so
1:34:19
much everybody loves it Talk. It's like when as a new song
1:34:22
comes out and it's number one for say 10 weeks or something,
1:34:25
you get even if you haven't played it or listened, you just
1:34:28
get so fed up of it just because you're fed up of hearing about
1:34:31
it. Then you never get into it or
1:34:32
it's so over hyped. When you do give it a go, it's
1:34:34
like what sorts special about this?
1:34:38
So yeah, I think I will give it a.
1:34:40
Go You, Taylor Swift's new album.
1:34:41
I don't care, but I cannot stop listening to it now because
1:34:44
everyone else in the universe does.
1:34:46
It's on everything, all the time.
1:34:49
Is that other thing in that happens at this time?
1:34:51
Is it 1 Mageddon as well? Where if you if you hear, if you
1:34:54
hear that particular song or whatever.
1:34:56
I won't even mention its name in case it causes issues, but but
1:35:00
yeah. So I'm still in.
1:35:03
This is my longest run so far, 14th of December.
1:35:05
I've survived a Christmas party as well.
1:35:07
I'm I'm doing pretty well. I'm just going to stay indoors
1:35:10
the best of the month until Christmas.
1:35:11
Currently still surviving as well.
1:35:15
Fantastic. There's the Mariah Carey one as
1:35:18
well, which is the Mariah Apocalypse they call us.
1:35:23
And then there's the the Buble one, which is 0 if this is a
1:35:28
stretch. We'll begin to do a lot like
1:35:29
Christmas or. Yeah, but it's like Buble and
1:35:34
Oblivion mixed together. Oblivion or something?
1:35:37
Oblivion, Oblivion. I didn't know about them.
1:35:41
I'm stuffed on both those accounts.
1:35:42
So is that you? Are you done with your?
1:35:47
Is that done with your gaming for this month, Paul?
1:35:49
Yeah, pretty much. What have you been?
1:35:51
What have you been watching? Have you been watching much or?
1:35:56
I'll go first. This has been quite a sad month.
1:35:58
It'll take me seconds but it'll give all everyone a laugh, so
1:36:01
that's probably the most important thing.
1:36:03
My wife absolutely loves I'm a Celeb, so we've sat through all
1:36:07
of that and watched it and there's another year of it being
1:36:09
finished. I don't know why I'll watch it.
1:36:12
I hate spiders. It's car crash TV at its best,
1:36:16
isn't it really? But she loves it so we watch it.
1:36:18
So that's been on TV most of the time.
1:36:22
Outside of that, I literally haven't really watched anything
1:36:25
actually tell. Like there's one series we've
1:36:26
started, Man on the Inside with Ted Danson in it.
1:36:31
Yeah, we're watched. We've came the entire first
1:36:33
season in a week, all 8 episodes of it.
1:36:36
And we're now on, see, we're now on episode 2 of season 2 and
1:36:39
it's brilliant. Again, I have no idea how I ever
1:36:41
watched it. And Ted Danson instead of an
1:36:43
absolute legend. So we're watching that really,
1:36:46
really cool series. Really, really good.
1:36:48
You both watched it, Take it. I've watched the first season.
1:36:52
Yeah, did you? Oh yeah, we've got.
1:36:53
I'm sorry he hasn't finished yet.
1:36:58
It's worth it. I mean, obviously I can't say
1:37:00
much for season 2. It's started well, but the the
1:37:02
whole first season is so good and it plays out brilliantly.
1:37:06
Really, really does the character development and stuff
1:37:08
on it is is really cool. And just like the dry humour and
1:37:11
stupidity mixed in with it all, it's brilliant.
1:37:14
So that's kind of I'm a celeb that outside of that, there's a,
1:37:17
there's a food channel on YouTube called Sorted Food,
1:37:21
which is kind of there's, is it 3 chefs and three guys who
1:37:25
aren't chefs who are normals, they call themselves and they
1:37:28
just do like cooking challenges and reviews and stuff like that.
1:37:30
And we've got obsessed with watching that.
1:37:32
It's like we started watching it for a recipe about three months
1:37:35
ago and realised they've been there for like 3-4 years.
1:37:38
These guys, some of them actually just like used to be
1:37:40
marketing heads in places and they've stopped their jobs and
1:37:43
they do this instead. So they're, they're really into
1:37:45
it and they also do as well as the live stuff like 2-3 times a
1:37:49
year they do like a live show of kind of, it's all done on the
1:37:53
fly. So if it goes wrong, it goes
1:37:55
wrong. It's not pre recorded for
1:37:56
YouTube. And the last one they did was a
1:37:58
murder mystery event over 2 days.
1:38:00
They rated up this huge Manor house, got actors in and
1:38:02
everything can do cooking around this murder mystery going on.
1:38:06
And we paid for that. It was like 20 lbs or something
1:38:08
to watch it and have the stream. And we're about 3/4 through the
1:38:11
way, 3/4 the way through that. And that's been really good fun
1:38:14
actually, for what is a cooking channel.
1:38:17
They've done a pretty exceptional job between them.
1:38:19
So that's the other thing. And then the other thing as well
1:38:23
is just wasting time. God.
1:38:25
Does anyone else remember a guy called Caesar Milan, the dog
1:38:27
whisperer? Or you're going to look at me
1:38:31
and go, have you been taking stuff?
1:38:33
He's apparently, here's the dog whisperer.
1:38:35
He's a guy you can train any dog.
1:38:37
My children love animals, we both love animals.
1:38:39
We've been watching him The Dog Whisperer.
1:38:41
All the episodes appear to be on YouTube so literally we've just
1:38:44
been burning through hours while watching, even having dinner and
1:38:48
stuff at the same time. Car Crash TV again at its best.
1:38:52
And apart from that there's a YouTube car channel I keep
1:38:55
watching everything on called Top Dead Centre, which is the
1:38:58
guys from a previous channel set up a new one themselves.
1:39:01
They're completely normal people who try and do stuff on cars,
1:39:04
which is why it's funny. So they're kind of, they have a
1:39:06
bit of talent but not that much and they do pretty lamious
1:39:10
projects and stuff on it. So I've just been watching those
1:39:13
in my spare time around other things.
1:39:14
A lot of time I'll be SAT like, I don't know, doing present
1:39:18
wrapping or something or it's on or whatever it is or shit.
1:39:20
I can't sleep because my shoulder's knackered and my
1:39:22
wife's asleep, that sort of thing.
1:39:24
So I'm literally done. Absolutely nothing really
1:39:26
constructive with watching TV this month at all.
1:39:29
Despite having a new TV. I've just watched tat on it that
1:39:33
isn't in 4K. That seems like a real
1:39:36
worthwhile thing to do. But the only thing I can say is
1:39:39
the inside man on the inside. Well worth watching.
1:39:42
But that's probably my that's going to be my highlight since
1:39:44
last month, I think. So quick and easy.
1:39:46
I'll let you talk about stuff which is actually decent
1:39:48
television. So Brian, do you want to start
1:39:50
us off? Yours is normally quite good at
1:39:52
a mix of crazy manga and other things.
1:39:56
Let me see. I watched the latest season of
1:39:58
Invasion. I think it's on Apple.
1:40:01
Aliens invaded the world and it's.
1:40:04
I may have mentioned it before but it's late season is just
1:40:08
more of us. It's OK, the first season was
1:40:12
really good and that's why I've started what I've watched the
1:40:14
latest season I think on season 3 or 4 and it just seems to be
1:40:19
dragging. There's no no motivation or keep
1:40:23
go back and watch anymore. So I'm not sure if I will do or
1:40:26
not. I've finished the last season of
1:40:28
the Witcher. It's the new latest one without
1:40:31
Henry Cavill. It's more his name is instead.
1:40:35
Yeah, I'm not sure if it's him or it's the story.
1:40:39
It's more the same, but just less so.
1:40:41
There's some theory is good, quite it's quite good in the
1:40:43
character, but there's not much else going on in the show.
1:40:48
Found it. It's it basically feels like a
1:40:51
filler filler series or filler season while they're trying to
1:40:56
get on to something else. Because it, it, it starts off to
1:40:59
which you're travelling to go and find Siri.
1:41:02
And that's, I know, 6 episodes long.
1:41:04
He's still travelling and he has, there's no, no further
1:41:07
progress. And it's just like, what the
1:41:08
fuck have I watched six hours of this and nothing's happened.
1:41:12
But yeah, it didn't feel like an awful lot.
1:41:15
I watched. A loading screen again.
1:41:18
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
1:41:19
Like if you watch season. 4 1/2 It was one good thing in in the
1:41:27
I think it was an earlier season.
1:41:29
They say, should we go this way? He says no, no, we'll get
1:41:31
distracted by sides, side quests, which I thought was a
1:41:35
really good thing. Throwback to the games.
1:41:39
Yeah, I thought it was good. But anyway, that later season I
1:41:43
didn't think didn't write it all that well.
1:41:45
So I don't want blaming the change in actors, but the story
1:41:47
just didn't seem to go very well.
1:41:51
I think. Let me see.
1:41:52
I watched season 4 and halfway through season 5 of Only Murders
1:41:56
in the Building. It's a show that but I'm not
1:41:59
watching it. I really don't want to go back
1:42:01
watching it. I get annoyed but when I sit
1:42:03
down and watch it I just watch episode after episode after
1:42:06
episode. I don't like Martin Short as an
1:42:10
actor he he just seems to play the same role every time and I
1:42:16
find them annoying. But the show is quite well done,
1:42:18
it's interesting, it's funny and they have quite good twists in
1:42:21
the story. So if you haven't started
1:42:26
watching any of them, it's definitely a good one to watch.
1:42:28
The first season, it was very good.
1:42:30
And in the latest in the fourth season and in some of the 50s
1:42:35
and they've mentioned problems with the first season, mistakes
1:42:39
that made made. So there's like another mystery
1:42:42
building up in the background. So it's quite good.
1:42:46
I've been watching down some Steve Martin.
1:42:48
Yeah, it is really good. I have to, yeah.
1:42:53
He takes the piss out of himself as an actor like he's a he's
1:42:56
supposedly an actor in the in the show and he takes the piss
1:42:59
out of being an actor as well. So it's quite good.
1:43:02
I have I've been watching Dance Cemetery Rd.
1:43:06
I've watched it all except for the last episode.
1:43:10
Emma Thompson is in it and Ruth Wilson, if you know her, she was
1:43:13
in Luther ATV show. They're both really good
1:43:18
actresses and they've got middling script.
1:43:21
The show is OK. It's like a mystery at the start
1:43:23
and after that you sorted. You question why, especially
1:43:27
Ruth Wilson's character is actually doing what she's doing
1:43:29
to try to justify it, but it doesn't seem to work.
1:43:32
And I don't know. It's an OK show.
1:43:34
I wouldn't wish to watch it. The only other thing I've
1:43:38
watched is a movie, an anime movie.
1:43:42
Have you ever heard of Grave of the Fireflies?
1:43:45
Nope. No, it's a Ghibli movie.
1:43:49
It's Let me see. Otaru Nuhaka is the actual name.
1:43:54
It was directed by Isaio Takahalta.
1:43:56
It's one of the five jibly movies he made.
1:44:00
It's fucking awesome. It's stunning.
1:44:04
OK, it set in the final months of World War 2.
1:44:07
There's a 14 year old boy called Seta and his younger sister
1:44:10
who's maybe 5. She's Sepsico.
1:44:13
They're orphaned when their mothers killed and they're 4
1:44:16
during the air raid in Kobe in Japan.
1:44:19
So it's the very end America's attacking Japan.
1:44:22
It's based somewhat on the true story semi some, some of it
1:44:27
based on true story. The rest of it just becomes
1:44:29
fantastical. But they go to live with their
1:44:32
aunts, they fall out with their aunts, they move into an
1:44:34
abandoned bomb shelter, and then they struggle to survive as
1:44:38
their emergency Russians run out it I did was not had some idea
1:44:45
what the story's about. I was not prepared for it.
1:44:48
I loads of tears watching us. It is horrible.
1:44:53
I mean it, it broke me is I was thinking about the movie for
1:44:59
days afterwards. So I do recommend watching it.
1:45:02
Is they aimed at the kids? So I don't know.
1:45:07
It's quite cruel, but they like when the mother dies there, they
1:45:11
showed you the body. She's all wrapped in bandages
1:45:14
because she got caught in fire and there's flies and maggots
1:45:18
crawling all over and stuff. And it's so it's quite graphic,
1:45:21
but it is a really good story. It's heartbreaking.
1:45:24
And I was very shortly into it. I was in bits and then by the
1:45:27
end I was ruined. So yeah, go watch us.
1:45:30
Grave of the Fireflies. It was released in 1988 and
1:45:36
it's, it's based on some stories.
1:45:38
So they got funding for this and they used them on the the
1:45:41
funding also to produce a tutorial, My Neighbour Tutorial,
1:45:45
which is they're more fit, probably more famous one, but
1:45:47
they were both released in the same year and they're released
1:45:50
in the cinema as a double bill. And My Neighbour Tutorial is a
1:45:53
really nice happy movie, pretty happy movie.
1:45:58
And then this movie is abysmal. It's just it's pits of hell.
1:46:01
But it's a really good movie. I probably one of my favourite
1:46:04
movies of all time. But yeah, you're going to need
1:46:07
boxes of tissues with you just for tears, not for any other
1:46:10
reason. Yeah.
1:46:11
I was thinking that. Yeah, I know the audience.
1:46:16
I know the audience you need to. But yeah, go watch it if you get
1:46:22
a chance. Do watch is excellent.
1:46:25
That's great for the Fireflies. OK.
1:46:27
And that's all I've watched this month.
1:46:30
So, Paul, fantastic. Talking of it's not quite
1:46:36
animated, but oddly enough, I stumbled across a new YouTube
1:46:39
channel last night, probably about 11:00-ish, and it was
1:46:44
actually all about restoration of movie posters.
1:46:49
And that's what this person does.
1:46:51
And they'll restore other kinds of posters, advertising posters.
1:46:54
While it's called 4th called 4th Cone restoration, as in like ice
1:47:00
cream cone, like 4th cone. And basically one of the things
1:47:03
that they were restoring was a very rare Japanese 1950s
1:47:09
Godzilla poster. And the guy that wanted it
1:47:13
restoring it, it's something like he actually buys and sells
1:47:16
posters, so and obviously like this posters from like 1954 and
1:47:22
it was not in terrible state, but it had obviously yellowed
1:47:26
because obviously they're not designed to last really these
1:47:28
posters, it's meant to be a RIP down next film, next week sort
1:47:33
of thing. And this particular poster, we
1:47:35
had to pay particular attention to how they cleaned it because
1:47:39
when they clean it, they generally put water on it, etc.
1:47:43
But in Japan, what they appeared to have done with these posters
1:47:46
is at the bottom section of the poster is left blank because the
1:47:50
guy comes along and he'll, this same post will go out across the
1:47:53
country. But the actual post of the guy
1:47:56
will actually right on the bottom, you know, the time and
1:47:58
the day on the showing times. But he'll do it in like the, you
1:48:01
know, like the big sort of like the like those big brush pens
1:48:05
sorts of things. Yeah.
1:48:07
And one thing that was important to the guy, he says, I want the
1:48:09
ink to remain intact because that's an important part of its
1:48:12
history. So they have to pay a very
1:48:14
special attention. So keeping the ink in place
1:48:16
sounds really kind of boring, but it isn't because I like
1:48:19
those kinds of things. Like, I might watch some shows
1:48:22
about, say, 1970s electronics, how they get it working again.
1:48:25
Or we'll talk about things that are from like, so the 1970s that
1:48:29
were really massively expensive. I watched one about a Sony TV
1:48:34
that was 32 inch back in the 70s and it would have been like the
1:48:39
equivalent of so like in 100 inch TV by today's standards.
1:48:42
If you own that TV in the 70s, it had like remote doors in it
1:48:46
that opened up. You would have to have been top
1:48:48
like millionaire type guy to own this TV.
1:48:52
And of course, these things have ended up in people's basements
1:48:55
and this guy's rescued it and restored it.
1:48:57
I live all those sorts of things.
1:48:59
But one of the other couple of posters that she restores in
1:49:02
other episodes, the episodes are really quite good.
1:49:04
They're only about 8 or 10 minutes long, So and she
1:49:07
restores a post that a guide got in 1976 before all the Star Wars
1:49:11
films came out. And it was, it was like the, I
1:49:16
think you'd probably have seen issue one of the original Star
1:49:20
Wars magazine, the comic version, which is like a Marvel
1:49:23
sort of like graphics on the front and he's kind of like Luke
1:49:26
Skywalker, etcetera. But it's drawn in the cartoony
1:49:29
style. And the poster is basically
1:49:31
based around that. But they couldn't give these
1:49:34
posters away back in 1976 because no one had heard of Star
1:49:37
Wars and of course nobody was interested in Star Wars.
1:49:40
And who's Luke Skywalker? It makes no sense.
1:49:43
And he managed to keep on and he got it signed at this Comic Con,
1:49:46
like back in 1976 when they've given these posters away because
1:49:49
the artists were there at the time who obviously did other
1:49:53
illustrations, but this like his new one and they restored that
1:49:57
and some of the other ones that should be stores as well.
1:50:00
It could be like broken into lots of different bits, but they
1:50:04
don't just clean it. They'll get another artist that
1:50:06
will come along. You know, if like a post is
1:50:08
often being folded, well, they'll get an artist that comes
1:50:11
along and they'll fill in all the gaps and all the little bits
1:50:15
as well, so it no longer looks like it's been folded in the
1:50:17
past. It's well worth watching for the
1:50:19
seven or 10 minutes like your average episode is.
1:50:22
It's amazing. So I watched various films as
1:50:26
well. I also watched ATV show called
1:50:28
Pluribus, which and that I've all heard about.
1:50:31
It's by the guys that did Breaking Bad and it starts off
1:50:34
super intriguing. It's got the perfect intriguing
1:50:36
beginning. It had me hooked.
1:50:38
I've only watched 2 episodes, but the first two episodes it's
1:50:43
all about this virus, this guy working.
1:50:47
You know, it's like this is all first 5 minutes stuff he's
1:50:49
working in say like this particular building and like
1:50:52
they got like the rats in there, the testing drugs, etcetera.
1:50:55
And one of them bites him and then of course he's like becomes
1:50:59
infected with this thing, blah blah blah and it all goes on
1:51:02
from there. It's super intriguing of the 1st
1:51:04
2 episodes is well worth watching the 1st 2 episodes.
1:51:07
As you get into episode 3, then the mystery is starting to
1:51:12
become a little bit more obvious as to what's happening.
1:51:15
So yeah, that's well worth watching.
1:51:16
I watched some great films as well.
1:51:18
I watched the new Running Man, which is obviously based on the
1:51:21
old original Running Man Arnold Schwarzenegger film.
1:51:25
Yeah. And what I will say is there it
1:51:28
really does take on the 80s genre very well and modernises
1:51:34
it and gives it that same kind of like if you're watching 80s
1:51:36
film these days, like Arnold saying some of these punch lines
1:51:40
air a bit cheesy and a bit corny by today's standards because
1:51:43
we've heard them all before. Well, they've managed to adapt
1:51:46
that quite nicely and modernise the cheese.
1:51:48
So you got like a modern cheesy version.
1:51:51
But yeah, that's really good. And one film I fancied watching
1:51:57
and then kind of didn't want to watch.
1:51:58
And then I'll often use my benchmark whether I should give
1:52:02
it a try or not. Give it a tries.
1:52:03
Empire Magazine because they're generally quite trusted a bit
1:52:08
not quite arty magazine, but they do they are interested in
1:52:12
more than just action films and you can get it online.
1:52:14
It's totally free. And if they're generally give a
1:52:16
film 4 out of five stars, it's a very good sign.
1:52:19
If they give somewhat 3 out of five stars, that means it's
1:52:22
probably a good film as well. But a four out of five usually
1:52:25
means it's very, very, very good.
1:52:27
And it's war of watching and this film, I couldn't believe
1:52:30
it. I porn and it starts off
1:52:32
fantastic. It almost is like a Star Wars
1:52:34
feel to it with a lot of scenes that starts off at the beginning
1:52:37
and that's Predator Badlands. Now a lot of Predator films I
1:52:41
watched the original first one that came out.
1:52:43
It would a classic with Arnold in the jungle being haunted by
1:52:46
the Predator and obviously the second one with Danny Glover
1:52:50
where it's set. I think in like you set in
1:52:52
America, it might be New York, it might not be New York, but
1:52:54
it's that kind of environment. Danny Glover from Lethal Weapon,
1:52:58
the one of the you know the cops on on that.
1:53:02
And so like the beam Predator 3, Predator 4, Predator 5 and they
1:53:06
released the the re rebooted it a little while ago and released
1:53:10
the film called Prey, which has actually got a creditor in a
1:53:13
settle like an Indian reserve or something like that.
1:53:15
Could be wrong on that. I haven't watched the film, but
1:53:17
I am going to watch it and this one here now you would think
1:53:24
this film as total heart unbelievable, right?
1:53:27
This predator as heart is unbelievable when you watch it
1:53:31
by the time you finish watching it, you want to watch the next
1:53:34
one they're going to do It's almost guaranteed and you you're
1:53:37
in tune with the predator man. It's really, really good is so
1:53:42
the action scenes are fantastic. The the graphics are fantastic.
1:53:45
The story's fantastic. Don't dismiss it because it's a
1:53:49
predator film. Surely it's junk B movie.
1:53:52
It's not it's quality. You'll come away.
1:53:54
It's like almost like the same level as the the marvel reboots.
1:53:59
They've done that to it. It's it's up there.
1:54:02
It's top tier. That's.
1:54:03
Good to do it, desperately needed it.
1:54:05
The last few Predator films have literally just run out of steam
1:54:08
from everyone. I I don't, I don't watch all of
1:54:11
that sort of thing. But as you just said, Predator
1:54:13
one, Predator 2. They are two of my favourite
1:54:15
films probably of the 80s nineties era.
1:54:18
They're amazing. I love them both.
1:54:19
I love the characters in it and the storylines and they're
1:54:22
great. But the other ones I've seen,
1:54:24
I've watched like the alien versus Predator movies and was
1:54:26
like, oh, for God's sake, why, Why have you done this?
1:54:29
It's like the only it's like whoever wins, we lose.
1:54:31
What the people watching it. Yes, that's true.
1:54:33
We do lose. They were those bad films.
1:54:37
I just didn't enjoy it at all. So it's good to know.
1:54:40
I mean I've seen, I saw a review just quickly online of Badlands
1:54:43
and some were saying it was a really top film and it was a
1:54:46
really great refresh. So that's obviously no one I
1:54:49
know. Whereas yourself as well.
1:54:51
That's that's awesome. I mean it does look pretty cool.
1:54:53
I've seen little snippets that sleep like shorts and stuff.
1:54:57
There's an elephant thing. You'll know exactly what I want
1:54:59
about the run towards them. I've seen the thing of that with
1:55:03
a sword or something. Oh, yes, yes, yeah, yeah.
1:55:07
He's like pretty, almost looks a bit more prehistoric.
1:55:10
Yeah, yeah, it's. Like yeah, but I know I see what
1:55:12
you. Mean woolly mammoth type thing,
1:55:13
isn't it? Is what it looks like or
1:55:14
something. Yeah, yeah, I've seen that being
1:55:16
thought, wow, that's pretty cool how they thought of doing that.
1:55:18
So I need, I do need to watch it, but it's trying to find it's
1:55:21
not something my wife's going to want to watch.
1:55:22
So it'll be there's no point watching.
1:55:25
If she likes any kind of like superhero films, yeah, Or maybe
1:55:29
a little bit of sci-fi. She doesn't mind a bit of Star
1:55:31
Wars sort of thing. Or if she enjoyed the first two
1:55:34
Predators. It is you will get into it the
1:55:38
the predator as a character, but like all the other ones where
1:55:41
it's just some roving Roman monster that's going to kill.
1:55:44
He has no character really in this.
1:55:46
He has a character. He he has a heart, you know, I
1:55:49
mean, he has character, he has meaning, he has purpose.
1:55:52
Really, really, really good. Awesome.
1:55:54
And another film I watched as well.
1:55:57
Now this art back to my youth, really.
1:56:01
I remember watching naively and unfortunately, to some degree,
1:56:08
on reflection, yeah, back in the sort of like it was either the
1:56:13
late, very, very late 80s or the very, very, I think it was a
1:56:16
very, very late 80s. And I'm pretty certain it was a
1:56:19
very, very late 80s. Like maybe it's like 8889.
1:56:21
There was a documentary on BBC Two which I flicked along, which
1:56:26
I fixed, flicked along to, like, by accident.
1:56:29
And it were about a kid. Yeah.
1:56:32
And the first thing that you that hit you before you realise
1:56:35
what you was watching. And now back in the 80s, this
1:56:38
just wasn't going to happen. It was almost funny to hear
1:56:42
these sorts of things being said on TV.
1:56:45
And it was just full of swearing, I mean, absolute
1:56:47
swearing, like, and the things he would come out of.
1:56:50
I don't want to say I'm on here. Like they are absolutely extreme
1:56:54
expletives. The comments that were being
1:56:57
said to people and this was a documentary, a real life
1:57:01
documentary, and it was about a documentary called John's Not
1:57:05
Mad. And basically it's.
1:57:07
The guy with Tourette. The it's about, yeah, it's about
1:57:10
the Tourette's. The kid had the Tourette's.
1:57:13
But when you actually watched it back in the 80s, this was like
1:57:16
an unbelievable TV scene. You might have heard.
1:57:21
Honestly, I don't think you read the F word in the 80s on the
1:57:25
television and this kid was screaming expletives and insults
1:57:32
that would kind of like blow you away.
1:57:34
Like wow, ma'am, that was mind blowing.
1:57:36
And I watched it and I found it highly hilarious at the time.
1:57:40
Unfortunately so, but that's just what it was at the time.
1:57:43
And so anyway, years and years and years and years have
1:57:45
obviously passed. So anyway, they did a film.
1:57:49
Wow, what a film. And they call it, I swear, what
1:57:53
they do, they talk about from when they were a kid and the
1:57:56
film is so well done. The film is absolutely perfect
1:58:01
and it takes you from from the opening moment.
1:58:06
I couldn't believe it. Unbelievable.
1:58:08
The achievement and the things, the hurdles that kid has had to
1:58:13
go through, but excuse me, gotta suffer, he has had to go through
1:58:18
was absolutely amazing, Absolutely amazing.
1:58:20
A real, real achievement for that guy.
1:58:23
So yeah, I highly recommend watching it, I swear.
1:58:26
I know I did and no idea that. So.
1:58:28
But other than that, yeah, I swear.
1:58:31
Absolutely amazing. Absolutely knows it all about
1:58:34
John and his Tourettes and the the achievements in his life are
1:58:37
absolutely. Brilliant.
1:58:38
Cool, sounds quite good. Yeah, it is good.
1:58:45
Even if you watch the original documentary on YouTube, you will
1:58:48
not believe some of the things that allowed you listen to in
1:58:51
the 80s on the television. That stuff that kid comes out
1:58:55
with on there would be banned even today.
1:58:58
You would not let you put it on. So yeah, Fantastic, Phil,
1:59:02
fantastic. What hurdles is that to jump
1:59:04
over? I'm going to look that up.
1:59:07
So it's one of those things a long old time ago that you kind
1:59:10
of forget about. I had no idea they would do
1:59:12
something about it. But I guess it's one of those
1:59:14
things. It's an illness that it only
1:59:17
only gets seen really, sadly, in kind of a comical fashion for
1:59:21
for what it causes and what it does.
1:59:23
And even films do it that way. So I mean, it's good that
1:59:26
someone's done it. That someone's thought we should
1:59:28
probably do something that focuses on this and give kind of
1:59:30
like light on the subject. So that's kind of cool, I have
1:59:33
to say. So yeah, I'm, I'm interested in
1:59:35
looking into that. Yeah, it's, well, it's, well,
1:59:37
good. It's kind of like, how can you
1:59:40
say it's almost Oscar worthy? Is that kind of film?
1:59:43
He should win awards, honestly. It's fantastic.
1:59:46
Really, really, really good. I was going to mention in that
1:59:51
we talked about the PC RAM prices earlier.
1:59:53
Yeah, the new sections. You want to talk about whether
1:59:55
that'll affect the new consoles or the Steam Box price?
1:59:59
Steam Machine, You think it'll affect us?
2:00:03
Possibly. Well, yeah, absolutely.
2:00:06
Absolutely. I think written Steam machine
2:00:08
will be affected PlayStation 5 and even the current the current
2:00:13
generation I'm not sure because I reckon Sony have bought there
2:00:16
is some. The difference will be, yeah,
2:00:18
exactly. The difference will be as well
2:00:20
that people like Crucial and stuff are pulling out of selling
2:00:23
to us little consumers that want to go.
2:00:26
But people who are buying like 500,000 dims every quarter sort
2:00:31
of thing to all like RAM chips themselves, That's who they're
2:00:35
focusing their business model on.
2:00:36
So the people who are making the stuff for AI like servers and
2:00:39
all that kind of stuff, that's who's being focused on.
2:00:42
So they'll still be all right. Those main lines will be the
2:00:45
ones that don't suffer because obviously they're buying them in
2:00:48
monstrous quantities versus like the standard consumer products
2:00:51
will be put to one side to support those.
2:00:55
Yeah. One, one thing I heard on the
2:00:58
YouTube channel which made an interesting point was that bear
2:01:03
in mind DDR5 or memory prices, the cost of production has not
2:01:08
increased. It isn't like they're soft
2:01:10
product seen like as if the price of like if you make
2:01:13
chocolate bars and there's a cacao shortage or whatever for
2:01:16
making the chocolate with you. It's not like that.
2:01:19
This is simply down to someone coming in and buying up the
2:01:23
market. That's all it's about someone's
2:01:25
come in and bought up future, but like the futures, like a
2:01:29
stock market type thing that just bought up all the stock.
2:01:32
And this is that's the price we're prepared to pay.
2:01:34
If you want to come in at that price, you're going to have to
2:01:36
wait a while supply demand. So, but the cost of any of these
2:01:40
things haven't gone up in value, haven't gone up in cost,
2:01:43
production value, but to get hold of it or for us to buy it.
2:01:49
But then again, and also what they've said on some of these
2:01:51
YouTube things and they make an interesting point is we've had
2:01:54
it very cheap for quite a long time, PC Computing and it wasn't
2:01:58
brilliant until the mining crisis where prices went a bit
2:02:02
wonky. You could build a pretty nice PC
2:02:04
for six or £700 before all this mining crisis came along.
2:02:07
You know, it wasn't only usual. You are only a few hundred extra
2:02:10
quid on top of a console really to get yourself a decent gaming
2:02:13
rig. So, but now it's entering into
2:02:17
like silly territories and. It's going to stay like it's the
2:02:20
same as graphics cards never went back down.
2:02:22
Well they did go back down, but unfortunately the world has
2:02:25
somehow convinced itself that a mid range tier graphics card is
2:02:29
absolutely fine at 900 lbs. What used to be 4 three £400 for
2:02:35
a mid tier is now 900 LB Completely acceptable.
2:02:38
I'm talking to you 5080. Hi.
2:02:40
Yeah, yeah. Well, then them tiers have
2:02:44
turned into real tiers at the moment for, I mean, if you were
2:02:47
going to build a system for, I'd know for a fact for the family,
2:02:52
you're gonna give it as a gift for the family or something.
2:02:54
Then DDR5 prices are enough to like say, well, it's
2:02:57
unaffordable now. Unfortunately it's gone out of
2:03:00
our price range. We can't afford that.
2:03:03
So yeah, it's. I've had this.
2:03:04
I don't know I but I did get the benefit from it because
2:03:08
obviously prices have gone up, but I'm also my buying in prices
2:03:12
have gone up as well. But there's still deals out
2:03:14
there. There's still people living in
2:03:15
the land of I only paid £80 for that 32 gigabyte thing and I'm
2:03:19
happy to take £60 for it. There's still people living in
2:03:22
that land because they don't know any better unfortunately.
2:03:26
And that's, you know, that's the market.
2:03:28
Yeah, I mean even the forums have the same thing.
2:03:30
There's a whole profiteering thing.
2:03:32
Fair play to them. On the some of the forums I use
2:03:35
on this market sections and some people put in RAM up and it's
2:03:38
like because of the way the market is, we've had to change
2:03:40
the way that we work. OK.
2:03:42
We don't support profiteering. We don't like it happening and
2:03:45
it's kind of like it's a fair level playing field in here.
2:03:48
But the end of the day things have gone up, New stuff goes up,
2:03:51
so resale stuff goes up. It's simple as that.
2:03:54
You can't just, you can't have people living in the 60 LB
2:03:57
error. Like you said, it's like I only
2:03:58
pay £60 for that. It's only worth 40 now.
2:04:00
It's like, no, it's now a valuable commodity that someone
2:04:03
else will want. So it's fair enough.
2:04:05
Don't go in there and say Oh yeah, I want 2 grand for it,
2:04:08
which is a piss take then I feel that's absolutely fine.
2:04:11
So I mean it is what it is. It's the cost of everything.
2:04:13
It's like you wouldn't go into, well someone paid in the 1960s
2:04:18
paid 3540 grand for a Ferrari Daytona.
2:04:20
They're not going to sell it you now for 3540 grand when it's
2:04:22
worth 5 million, are they so? No, it's just a market.
2:04:28
It happened exactly with the mining.
2:04:30
But the graphics cards, one minute they were down here, the
2:04:33
next minute the prices are just boom shot up because you were
2:04:37
literally a licence to print money.
2:04:39
Yeah, if you knew what you was doing, you had enough graphics
2:04:42
cards, you was literally printing money.
2:04:44
So. It's quite the other side of
2:04:47
that is quite funny now because everyone is trying to sell off
2:04:49
all the farms they used to have are these cards that have been
2:04:51
run ragged for like 2 solid years mining coins and it
2:04:54
doesn't matter anymore. And you get summoned up on eBay
2:04:57
selling like 50 cards of the same and it's like wow, that's
2:05:00
really not obvious. You've been running a farm.
2:05:02
They haven't been running at like 100° solid for two years.
2:05:05
I wonder why no one wants to buy them for that money.
2:05:08
It's just like they will end up going like £30 or best offer
2:05:11
because they've been just had that 10 years worth of life
2:05:13
drained out of them in the space of two months.
2:05:16
Well in fairness for example Linus tech tips did a thing on
2:05:21
this cuz I I buy and sell computer graphics cards and at
2:05:25
some point after this mining or join the mining boom.
2:05:29
If someone was buying a second hand cafe, the most common
2:05:31
question was has it been used for mining?
2:05:34
Yeah. Now if I buy a second hand
2:05:36
graphics card, unless I obviously know it's being used
2:05:39
from mining, well, I don't honestly know.
2:05:41
There's nothing on there that the BIOS doesn't tell you how
2:05:44
many hours it's being used for. It doesn't tell you what it was
2:05:47
used for. There's nothing on there that is
2:05:49
not like a digital log book of what that graphics card has been
2:05:54
doing. And so Linus Tech Tips, he did a
2:05:57
thing on this. And he obviously has graphics
2:06:00
cards that's been sent in for reviews that is probably
2:06:03
reviewed being put into storage and never used again.
2:06:07
So it's almost like a day one card.
2:06:10
Yeah. And what he got was people that
2:06:13
have been mining cards. Yeah.
2:06:14
To send them a card that he'd been using for the past two
2:06:17
years. Solid.
2:06:18
Yeah, past two years solid or whatever, maybe even long year.
2:06:22
But these cars have been running at full blast, full power to
2:06:24
make the maximum amount of money out of them.
2:06:27
And he did a comparison between a mind one that had been heavily
2:06:31
mined and one that had like his old review card that's had very
2:06:34
little mileage put on it. And there was no difference
2:06:37
between the two. And generally speaking, what's
2:06:40
going to go wrong with Ngraphics cards is #1 it's like you have
2:06:44
to give it like a bit of a service.
2:06:45
Usually the fans go wonky on them.
2:06:47
So like it when it's spinning around, you know, like it's done
2:06:50
so many revolutions. It's going to be the fans and
2:06:52
the heat sink paste and the and what they call the other thing,
2:06:57
not the pairs. I can't remember the call
2:06:58
terrible pads. That's it.
2:07:00
Yeah, if you replaced all them and you don't always have to
2:07:03
replace them. Usually use thermal pairs to be
2:07:05
the good trick. And even on the regular graphics
2:07:07
card, the thermal pairs used to put on like them ten 70s and 10
2:07:11
sixes stuff is crud by this time in any case, whether it's been
2:07:14
mined or not or just sat in APC doing playing my Minecraft or
2:07:19
whatever for like, you know, on and off not doing anything
2:07:22
particularly intensive that that thermal pairs dried out
2:07:26
regardlessly. So you really should be opening
2:07:28
up and you'll probably find it drops 5 or 6° just from putting
2:07:32
fresh paste on it. So, but yeah, but it's not so
2:07:35
bad. I think they're finding that the
2:07:36
problems we're having was kind of the GPU's weren't actually
2:07:40
running 100% all the time. They were down clocks if
2:07:43
anything because you didn't really need to do a lot with it.
2:07:46
But it's the basically it can Shawn, that it was shortened in
2:07:48
the lifespan or memory. So it'd run fine, but you're
2:07:51
getting like the memory failing on cards in the space of like a
2:07:54
year, 2 years rather than five. So the dims were literally
2:07:58
burning out because they're just running throughput solidly.
2:08:01
I think it's a problem that could have been down to the
2:08:03
pace, could be down to the calling.
2:08:04
If you bought a cheap crap card and you hammered it and there's
2:08:06
no contact against it, it will murder it.
2:08:10
But I mean, yeah, some of the stuff survives it.
2:08:11
I mean, I don't know if I bought any cards that have been that in
2:08:13
the last two years. I mean, I've done a couple of
2:08:16
second hand purchases. They said they weren't, but you
2:08:18
can't guarantee it, can you? That's the only thing.
2:08:20
It's kind of people being trustworthy.
2:08:22
But I don't know if you're lucky and you managed to get a cheap
2:08:24
one, great. But I mean, in some cases,
2:08:26
imagine you'll find those cards if they've been mistreated sort
2:08:28
of thing, it'll be the problem. Well, if you ever buy a second
2:08:32
hand graphics card, one of the tests that I do on all my
2:08:35
graphics cards when I buy them in is I'll run heaven and I'll
2:08:38
run I can't remember. They've for some reason my
2:08:40
brain's not with it. You know the one that really
2:08:42
hammers it, what they call. It can't.
2:08:45
Remember the name of it Ferbach? Yeah, So do I, Fermach run them
2:08:48
to to test the temperatures, to make sure it's not going like
2:08:51
above a certain temperature. And then the next test I'll
2:08:54
normally do is a programme called OCC.
2:08:57
Yeah, totally free. You can get a free personal
2:09:00
edition. But the one thing that Fermat
2:09:02
doesn't do and what Heaven Benchmark doesn't do, they're
2:09:05
not interested in filling the memory up.
2:09:07
They're all about using the car on the actual sit on the
2:09:10
graphics card. They want to run as fast as
2:09:12
possible. Yeah.
2:09:13
So hammering the memory of course is part of it.
2:09:16
But that might only fill up, say 2 gigabytes of the VRAM.
2:09:20
Now that's not a great test if you want to fully test graphics
2:09:24
card OCCT as an individual VRAM test, which you can set.
2:09:28
If you set it to 100%, it'll slow your computer write down
2:09:31
because obviously some of that VRAM must be used for your
2:09:33
display. So, but I normally set it to say
2:09:36
like 95% and what it'll do, it'll hammer it and it'll go
2:09:40
through and it'll cycle all the memory, cycle memory.
2:09:43
Give it a good test on that and you will know if the VRAM's
2:09:46
dodgy or not. And it's.
2:09:48
Totally free. The main reason I know about
2:09:50
that is from paying PC build SIM, because when you're
2:09:52
overclock computers you build on that you actually use OCTOCT.
2:09:56
So yeah. It's a great, great programme.
2:10:01
Yeah, it's great. The only difference between that
2:10:03
and the paid version from why I've never bought the paid
2:10:05
version. I probably should technically,
2:10:07
but how can you say in between you pressing the video RAM test,
2:10:12
you have to wait 10 seconds and it pops up an advert saying
2:10:15
literally 10 seconds. It's not like it's field, it's
2:10:17
like 10 seconds, It's 10 seconds.
2:10:19
It counts down. And basically the advert is to
2:10:22
pay for a monthly like advanced package or not, you know, and
2:10:27
you press the button and it does the test.
2:10:29
So yeah, well worth doing just to check out if you buy any
2:10:31
second hand graphics cards, even if you're gaming on it, you
2:10:35
can't always assume that it's filling up the VRAM completely.
2:10:37
Yeah, and if you want to give it a good hammer in the VRAM or CCT
2:10:41
for sure. More of Paul's tech tips.
2:10:45
Indeed. Yeah, right.
2:10:48
Moving on then. So the next thing we have is
2:10:51
slips or game purchases. Has anyone fallen over and
2:10:55
bought anything in this last month?
2:10:58
With Black Friday being upon us and the pricing frankly being
2:11:01
stupid on games, has anyone fallen over and bought anything?
2:11:05
I haven't, which I'm quite chuffed to say I got very very
2:11:08
close once. Which was the paid DLC for Gran
2:11:13
Turismo 7 that came out. They bought the Power Pack out
2:11:15
or something which is the only paid DLC they've ever done which
2:11:19
is 25 lbs or something but it comes with 5 million credits
2:11:23
with it which they would normally charge you 23 lbs for
2:11:26
anyway. So it's a fairly good deal.
2:11:28
And there's loads of online championships, extra cars.
2:11:31
They've put 100% realistic 24 hour races in it now as well.
2:11:35
If you want to sit there for an entire day you can do that
2:11:38
should you wish to. Don't play on that, but I'm
2:11:42
trying. I'm trying to convince the guys
2:11:44
at work do we take my race wheel into the office on the massive
2:11:46
85 we got in the meeting room and actually do like a charity
2:11:48
event and do a charity 24 hour race around the Mount.
2:11:51
So I'm trying to get that organised at the moment.
2:11:55
What's that charity date? Charity event for 24 hour
2:11:58
gaming. It's a.
2:12:00
Factor. Of a race.
2:12:02
Yeah, it is. Yeah.
2:12:03
Yeah, that's. What I'm sort of thinking of, we
2:12:05
could do it for that and do the 24 hours, but literally do it as
2:12:08
a proper SIM night. We'll get like Domino's in and
2:12:10
stuff like that and use the boardroom and just do it as a
2:12:12
race team for the night. So you do when you do your pit
2:12:15
in your Switch drivers and all that kind of stuff.
2:12:17
So I'm I'm looking on that. So yeah.
2:12:18
But that's kind of been the only thing is that paid DLC for GT7.
2:12:21
I will get it in a new year because I have 200 and something
2:12:25
hours in that game so that's going to add to it.
2:12:28
And just GT7 is the best grand tourism ever so I've got to
2:12:31
support it to be honest with you.
2:12:34
Other than that I haven't bought anything.
2:12:36
So mission not failed at all, which is a bonus.
2:12:40
No, me too, haven't bought anything.
2:12:42
Haven't been I haven't been tempted since goes to the fiote.
2:12:48
So that's it. I just, I keep I keep seeing
2:12:52
lots of small indie games popping up and hearing about
2:12:55
something. I wouldn't mind playing that,
2:12:57
but I can hold off. I can hold off.
2:13:00
Hopefully they'll come up on PlayStation Plus or one of those
2:13:04
Versus. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
2:13:08
I've got too many games. I did a thing the other day
2:13:12
where I went through all the lists, all the games I've got.
2:13:17
I must have over 3003 thousand something 1600 games I've got.
2:13:24
I don't know, it's just so no, I should not be looking at other
2:13:27
games. The PlayStation 5 does this
2:13:29
thing where it says like what, what's in your, what's in your
2:13:32
folder sort of thing, what you've got installed and what's
2:13:34
in your catalogue. And you're like, oh, that's
2:13:35
everything. And there's no, do you want to
2:13:37
see everything? And you're like, no, I don't, I
2:13:38
don't really know. And it's going to be your
2:13:40
PlayStation Plus catalogue. And it's like, oh God, it's
2:13:42
still scrolling. It's still scrolling.
2:13:45
And I've gone back to like PlayStation 3 error and it's
2:13:48
these are still playable on here as well.
2:13:49
I have this many games kicking around and this is 10s of
2:13:52
thousands of hours worth of gameplay.
2:13:54
I don't need to buy anything ever.
2:13:56
Probably for my children and their children at this point if
2:13:59
they were to keep using this. That's crazy.
2:14:03
Talking of Ghosts of Your Tie, I was watching Digital Foundry's
2:14:07
latest video and they were talking about the best graphics
2:14:10
of the year, because obviously Digital Foundry, not
2:14:12
necessarily, I mean, they, they enjoy playing the games and the
2:14:15
gameplay is important to them. But they're one of their big
2:14:18
focus is, is on the graphics and their how they've advanced over
2:14:22
this year or previous years, etcetera.
2:14:25
And one of the games I thought Ghosts of Your Tie, based on the
2:14:27
graphics that I've seen on YouTube, etcetera, would have
2:14:30
been one of their top games. But their top game actually came
2:14:36
down to another similar game, which is it wasn't the top game.
2:14:40
I can't remember. I think it was second this one.
2:14:42
And that was Assassin's Creed Shadows, which is obviously,
2:14:47
yeah, they massively rated the graphics on that.
2:14:51
And also dark, not dark Doom. Is it the Dark Ages?
2:14:56
I can't. Yes, yeah, Doom that they say
2:14:58
that those graphics are super as well.
2:15:00
Pretty games there's nothing you can't not say the Doom games the
2:15:04
the graphics engine on those games are spectacular they're
2:15:07
awesome, really, really good it's interesting it's.
2:15:09
Crazy game you play at such speed you don't even get a
2:15:11
chance to look at the graphics but.
2:15:13
It's the game shot multiple directions and not dying at the
2:15:17
same time, but it's pretty if you actually managed to find a
2:15:19
piece where you're trying to solve a puzzle and look, wow,
2:15:22
Hell's really pretty for a couple of seconds.
2:15:26
Yeah. Well, that's good.
2:15:29
So I'm assuming Paul, you haven't slipped, Obviously
2:15:30
you've been playing PlayStation Plus stuff I'm assuming, isn't
2:15:33
it? So you're all good.
2:15:35
PlayStation Plus stuff I I have slipped a few ideas into the
2:15:39
missus's sort of like mind sort of thing with regards to what I
2:15:44
would like to be playing on New Year's Day, and they would make
2:15:47
good gift suggestions. So I haven't bought anything but
2:15:52
I I haven't I personally haven't totally bought anything.
2:15:56
I'm not playing anything before New Year, but there has been a
2:15:59
few ideas floating as to what I will be playing.
2:16:01
Same boat same boat exactly. I mean I think my daughter's the
2:16:06
mental was talked about Astro bot too much for it to not
2:16:08
appear at some point I don't think.
2:16:10
But that's to be the hardest thing is looking at it until
2:16:12
January the 1st going I. Want to play it?
2:16:16
But it would be worth it. Everyone has to leave me alone
2:16:18
on New Year's Day for a bit. Cool, that's good.
2:16:20
OK, last month we succeeded on that front.
2:16:22
So that's that is a massive bonus.
2:16:24
Well done, guys. So kind of like the this is not
2:16:28
the last time to look at the the monthly releases that we've got
2:16:31
this in in sort of like end of November into December.
2:16:34
I've got a quick special mention.
2:16:36
First of all, not really yet so much of release, but more than
2:16:40
something that's been wishlisted recently from a LinkedIn sort of
2:16:45
work related contact I had from my previous job.
2:16:48
Guy called Neil Reed, who has the the luck of being the sales
2:16:51
manager for gaming laptops at NVIDIA.
2:16:54
That's kind of a cool job to be honest with you.
2:16:57
His son Alex, who I've recently sort of like started following
2:17:01
on on LinkedIn as well and sort of because of a post that Neil
2:17:03
put up about him, started a game studio called Mancunium Studios
2:17:08
North in last year, little indie studio.
2:17:11
So he's followed in sort of dad's footsteps of the gaming
2:17:13
industry and he's followed him around all the trade shows and
2:17:16
stuff growing up and things. And he's made a game called No
2:17:19
man's land, which is currently just been wish listed on Steam.
2:17:22
And he did his first sort of real unveiling of it last week
2:17:25
at the to the moon Expo in in the UK, which is really well
2:17:29
received. So I've, I mentioned it to him
2:17:31
at the time and sort of said we're doing this podcast and I
2:17:34
give it a shout out. So Alex, as promised, mate,
2:17:38
here's a shout out for your game.
2:17:39
Everyone go and look for No Man's Land on on Steam.
2:17:43
So it is a, it's an RTS game. It's all set in kind of what is
2:17:47
Pitch black, almost the dark trenches of World War 1.
2:17:51
So it's a real time strategy type game, but it looks pretty
2:17:54
daunting as sort of a map and stuff to play on.
2:17:57
It's all kind of preview videos and stuff at the moment.
2:17:59
Sadly, I didn't go to that show so I didn't get to play the the
2:18:02
preview builds that you've done a bit.
2:18:04
But as I said, it got good responses.
2:18:06
Synopsis that I kind of took from Steam last night is break
2:18:09
the deadlock and make shrewd decisions in the field and think
2:18:12
on your feet. Take the enemy trenches at all
2:18:14
costs. Beware of no man's land though,
2:18:17
all it all separates you from your enemy.
2:18:20
It has tricks up its sleeve at both factions.
2:18:24
So it looks like a good little indie title.
2:18:25
And you know, small indie studios in the UK, we need more
2:18:28
of them. So I'm more than happy to give
2:18:30
them a shout out on that. So So what I'll do is I'll drop
2:18:34
I'll drop a link in the video post we're going to do on the on
2:18:36
the group as well, just so it's in there.
2:18:37
So one kind of knows on Steam if they want to.
2:18:39
Just looking at it on Steam, that's good.
2:18:42
It's a. Little like Little Studio doing
2:18:44
it as well is quite cool. I really hope you have success
2:18:46
with it. Yeah, definitely.
2:18:49
It's good. I mean they've proved it in the
2:18:50
past with games like Bilateral. You don't have to be a multi
2:18:54
billion dollar company, do you, to produce a game that is for
2:18:57
the gamers. I mean Bilateral, I think was it
2:19:00
a one man team scenario? So what more can you say?
2:19:05
You know, if he, you know, the magic can happen just for one
2:19:09
person like it used to do back in the 48K is the the early days
2:19:14
of spectrum on Commodore 64 games.
2:19:16
It was usually one person working in the bedroom or doing
2:19:20
whatever or working in the spare time and producing the
2:19:24
foundations for gamers for or you know, forwards.
2:19:29
Really, absolutely amazing. There was a game called the
2:19:32
Falcon Ear, I think it was called about 2-3 years ago that
2:19:35
came out and I think that was pretty much a one man band game.
2:19:39
He might have had some help with it afterwards, but it was a
2:19:42
really tiny studio when it came out and was on Game Pass when it
2:19:45
was first released and got like everyone shouting about it.
2:19:49
It's a really decent game. So effectively you're riding on
2:19:51
the back of a gigantic eagle effectively so and it's so
2:19:55
basically all the all the huge, these huge eagles of stuff are
2:19:58
used as weapons in the game, almost like fighter aircraft.
2:20:00
And you're all going between map areas and stuff.
2:20:03
And it was really beautiful to look at and the musical score
2:20:05
was awesome. It's one of those ones I've got,
2:20:08
I think I've got it somewhere. I think I've got the the day one
2:20:10
edition on on disc for for Xbox. So we need to go and dig it out
2:20:15
and actually have another look at it.
2:20:17
It was a pretty cracking all game actually forgot about that
2:20:19
completely. Do we talk about this?
2:20:21
Right, so let's have a quick nose around on what's happened
2:20:24
in December. I brought up the the list here
2:20:27
that I normally go and grab from.
2:20:29
Where's it from? GameSpot, What we've got on
2:20:32
here. I've got GT7's Power Pack.
2:20:34
The thing I mentioned about the 25 LB DLC, we've already covered
2:20:37
that one off, but I'm really excited about that coming
2:20:39
through. Was it first of December?
2:20:42
There was Marvel's Cosmic Invasion If anyone's played
2:20:45
anything like the Streets of Rage games or there was that
2:20:48
turtles shredders revenge or it was the side scrolling beat him
2:20:52
up platformer. It's the same guys who built
2:20:55
that whatever it is dot MU or coming it's called now, but
2:20:58
they've brought out this little Marvel based side scrolling beat
2:21:02
him up as 4 player. So it kind of echoes back to the
2:21:04
pixel days of like turtles the arcade game and stuff from the
2:21:07
80s and 90s, which is pretty cool.
2:21:09
So that's come out on the 1st of this month.
2:21:13
This can be the last month we're doing this podcast, but this can
2:21:16
be the first month I'm excited about something on Switch to
2:21:20
which is Metroid Prime 4 because that looks absolutely insane.
2:21:24
It's. Just those isn't this.
2:21:26
It's just those. Literally just that.
2:21:28
It's not the best reception though.
2:21:30
Was it the same? It's full of like padding the
2:21:36
games not it's not really that great.
2:21:39
It's good and it's enjoyable, but it but it isn't like, you
2:21:42
know, like the game everyone's been really hoping for.
2:21:46
Really. I listened to another podcast.
2:21:48
No doubt you guys listen to potential listen to them as
2:21:50
well, and they did the year of year and share challenge and
2:21:53
that's how they met. And that's the other podcast,
2:21:55
which is 1 called two guys free consoles and they were talking
2:21:59
about playing the new Metroid Prime and they didn't seem
2:22:02
overchoyed with it. And they are Nintendo.
2:22:06
You know, they enjoy a Nintendo, but there wasn't overjoyed with
2:22:09
the whole experience to the degree of sheer excitement.
2:22:13
And you know, they've got to play all the way through again.
2:22:15
There's been a bit of a complaint as well about the
2:22:18
needing to have an Amiibo to play certain music within the
2:22:22
game. Without the Amiibo you have to
2:22:24
complete the game 100%. But I play this but I know it
2:22:27
sounds wrong to write if you type it in Amiibo Metro Prime 4
2:22:31
and that's the big complaint. Is that Nintendo and Milk in you
2:22:34
for this so you can listen to the music in the game?
2:22:36
I think an absolute plan for being excited about this now.
2:22:41
No, no, no, no. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's
2:22:43
meant to be, you know it's good, but these are the main games.
2:22:46
It's like the next Mario game level or the next Zelda
2:22:50
anticipation level. Yes.
2:22:52
So you kind of like you're expecting A10, but people are
2:22:55
getting like a 7.5 as opposed to A10.
2:22:58
That don't mean it's the worst game in the world, but if you
2:23:00
don't, if you're anticipating A10, if you're expecting A6 or
2:23:03
A5, well then you're going to enjoy it, if you know what I
2:23:06
mean. But if it's meant to be.
2:23:08
A bit. It's a Nintendo franchise that
2:23:09
Metroiders always being good on every single console.
2:23:12
Even the bloody Gameboy Advance when they bought Fusion out on
2:23:15
it. That was an insane, insanely
2:23:17
good game. Metroid Prime on the DS was the
2:23:20
first kind of first person one they put on there and they
2:23:23
managed to make it like Prime. Metroid Prime one and two on the
2:23:26
GameCube. Phenomenal.
2:23:28
Still probably one of my favourite games ever.
2:23:30
The 1st prime insane. Even the Wii one was good with
2:23:33
the motion controls when they introduced that to it.
2:23:35
It's always been a franchise for Nintendo that's done well.
2:23:39
So for it to now get onto this big flagship console with all
2:23:43
the power it's got and to stumble, that's frustrating.
2:23:46
I had no idea. I have to admit, I haven't
2:23:48
looked at reviews because I'd stayed away from it a little bit
2:23:51
because of it being a new relief and it being switched to.
2:23:54
I only did see someone told me a couple of days ago, no, no, it's
2:23:56
on Switch one. Wow.
2:23:57
It's like, shut up. I don't need to know this leave
2:24:00
me alone sort of thing. But I mean, yeah, that's oh,
2:24:04
that's a shame. It really is.
2:24:05
I mean, because this goes there's a hundred 120 Hertz,
2:24:08
doesn't it as well on the switch to or something?
2:24:10
But the good thing is, though, if you're not you, you're not
2:24:13
going to be disappointed if you play it really, because you're
2:24:16
not anticipating this 10. You know, it's a 7 1/2 and, you
2:24:20
know, but there's sections in it where they say it's just
2:24:23
designed to just fill things out.
2:24:25
And also allegedly when you play it, the characters that you
2:24:28
meet, they're the sort of characters that talk and talk
2:24:31
and talk to you, but they're not in it all the time.
2:24:33
People say, don't worry. You know, you haven't got to
2:24:37
worry about these characters being, you know, you get some
2:24:39
games where they're little bit like for spoken where the
2:24:42
character just keeps talking a lot of gibberish.
2:24:44
I've, you know, shut up. I'm playing my game, you know,
2:24:48
that is meant to be full of that kind of stuff at the beginning.
2:24:51
But then again, I've not played it.
2:24:52
That's just me summarising from the bits and pieces I've heard.
2:24:58
But yeah, I think, I'm sure if you watch some YouTube, some
2:25:01
guys will be absolutely buzzing some YouTube reviews.
2:25:04
But I think the general opinion seems to be about 7 1/2 really,
2:25:07
rather than A10. Like Zelda, the net.
2:25:11
They're never going to release the terrible Zelda game or they
2:25:13
should never do and they should never release the terrible Mario
2:25:16
game because they are like, you know, they're going to Polish
2:25:19
them to the MTH degree. So but we've Metroid.
2:25:23
But I do believe it went through a bit of a development health
2:25:25
scenario, didn't it, where it was with 1 developer to begin
2:25:28
with and then it changed to another developer.
2:25:31
So it has meant to have had a bit of a rocky road to some
2:25:34
degree so. Retro Studios are the people who
2:25:36
made the original ones. That was the first games, and
2:25:40
they're phenomenal. They're like, yeah, Retro
2:25:42
Studios are God like for those games.
2:25:44
So I don't know. It's sad times.
2:25:46
If it isn't great, Oh well, moving on.
2:25:49
I'm sorry. I'm sure it's.
2:25:50
I'm sure it's great, but not not like mind blowingly amazing.
2:25:55
Yeah, next one on my list was Assassin's Creed Shadows, which,
2:25:59
I mean, I don't. I've never been a big fan of the
2:26:02
Assassin's Creed game. They never grabbed me.
2:26:04
I mean, I played the first few and maybe I was too young at the
2:26:07
time and didn't appreciate it quite as much as I should have
2:26:09
done. I started playing was it
2:26:11
Valhalla, which I kind of got into for a few hours, but I just
2:26:15
didn't have time having young kids.
2:26:17
But this one, it's set in Japan and it looks absolutely freaking
2:26:21
amazing. And I'm kind of behind you and
2:26:24
want to play it. It looks really cool.
2:26:26
Yeah, well, it's been out on PlayStation since the early like
2:26:30
first quarter of the year and it's just come out on Nintendo.
2:26:33
It's yeah. It's like it's the considerate a
2:26:36
bit of a technical achievement. The Digital Foundry guys really
2:26:41
enjoyed what they'd managed to do with it based on the
2:26:44
hardware, etcetera. They do say it's a very good
2:26:46
game on the Nintendo Switch to. It's it's, I think I'm going to
2:26:49
say start of the year. That sound a bit daft.
2:26:50
It's been out for so long. But it's one of those things
2:26:52
again, where it's kind of, I've tried to ignore releases a
2:26:55
little bit and maybe an Assassin's Creed.
2:26:56
It does totally bypass me. I just saw it like, oh, it's an
2:26:59
Assassin's Creed game. Great sort of thing.
2:27:01
I weren't worried about it. But I mean, the first time I've
2:27:04
really looked into it, was it running on a Switch, as you say?
2:27:07
The the thing I saw was them saying about that, like after
2:27:10
proving that Star Wars outlaws can run on a switch to which was
2:27:13
already an achievement. Now they've proved that the
2:27:16
shadows can run on it as well, showing the power of the switch
2:27:18
to does actually have, if you put your mind to it, which is,
2:27:21
which is pretty impressive. But I mean, that's good.
2:27:23
In fact, there's got we've got an Assassin's Creed game that's
2:27:26
running and playing well on us on a Switch.
2:27:29
Kind of says a lot really is good.
2:27:33
Yeah, and I tell you, one of the games that it pops up on a
2:27:36
YouTube as a bit of a surprise thing I've got, I've had this
2:27:40
game for years, usual about halfway through it, but the game
2:27:43
is humongously big and that shaky is a zero.
2:27:47
And they've just released the director's cut.
2:27:49
And if you've got the original game, you can upgrade to the
2:27:51
PS-5 version for basically it's about, yeah, it's about £11.99
2:27:57
to upgrade, which is something I would be tempted to do because
2:28:01
I'm halfway through it and I do enjoy the Yakuza games and I've
2:28:05
got Yakuza Kiwami and I believe that sort of directors upgrade
2:28:08
as well. But there again, that's meant to
2:28:11
be another like say 1199 to upgrade from the PS4 version.
2:28:14
But there again, the PS4 version I always thought looked pretty
2:28:17
good. But obviously they've enhanced
2:28:19
it, you know, a better light in better frame rate, it's better
2:28:22
resolution, all those sorts of things.
2:28:25
That's cool. OK, Yeah, I need to have nose
2:28:27
into that whilst we've got on there as well.
2:28:29
There's there's loads of stuff. It seems to be like, oh, that's
2:28:32
come out, but it's on Switch too, like Warhammer 40,000,
2:28:36
Rogue Trader. The fact that it's a dungeon
2:28:38
crawler, that looks pretty cool and I put it on a Switch again,
2:28:40
quite tough with that. Whilst we've got there's Mutant
2:28:44
Football League 2. I mean for anyone who used to
2:28:46
love Mutant League football on the Mega Drive, the first one
2:28:49
was all right. But this one?
2:28:51
Is this a ridiculous version of American football effectively
2:28:54
with zombies and stuff in it? Octopaths Traveller 0?
2:28:58
That seems to be a new one of those.
2:28:59
I got Octopath with my Switch and kind of weirdly going back
2:29:03
to about an hour ago on the podcast, I got Octopath
2:29:06
Traveller with it and it was a brand new game at the time.
2:29:09
So I was like this is worth a fortune.
2:29:11
Put it on eBay and sold it for like 40 lbs and then found a
2:29:14
copy of Mario Odyssey for 33. Buy it now and just bought that
2:29:17
straight away. So that's how I ended up with
2:29:19
Mario Odyssey being my first game on the Switch.
2:29:21
Which by the way, is bloody amazing and I agree with you.
2:29:24
Some Avatar, whatever the game was called, something missed.
2:29:28
I can't remember the full time. That's the one.
2:29:31
Yeah, that's got eventually. It's been going on about it for
2:29:34
ages, but our DLCS come out where they've done a load of
2:29:37
work to it and given it third person and stuff like that.
2:29:39
They've been flaunting it for a long old time and now apparently
2:29:42
it's out. Someone seems to send me anyway.
2:29:44
I thought it was already out, but it seems it's been delayed a
2:29:46
couple of times. Has anyone actually played the
2:29:49
further game initially or not? I've never played any of the
2:29:53
Avatar. Oh, yeah, yeah.
2:29:58
Is Avatar is in the film Avatar? Yeah.
2:30:00
Oh, no, yeah. Oh, is it?
2:30:02
Because I do do have a game. Don't though.
2:30:03
It's called the Avatar afterwards.
2:30:05
It's like a manga thing. It might have just been one of
2:30:08
their season names for it, like something else.
2:30:12
Mangary sort of thing. Frontiers of the Avatar,
2:30:14
Frontiers of Pandora. Avatar is the full name of it.
2:30:17
To give it that which is a Ubisoft king.
2:30:20
It's a yeah. I play, I, I did play it.
2:30:25
I do like Ubisoft games and it's kind of like Far Cry, but avatar
2:30:29
version. And for some reason I couldn't
2:30:31
get into the story. But sometimes I play these games
2:30:33
and I'm a little bit tired or I, you know, I've got other games
2:30:36
to play and I didn't quite get into it, which is unusual
2:30:39
because I like Far Cry style games and that technically is a
2:30:42
bit of a Far Cry game really. I put about 3:00 or so at least.
2:30:45
I think I put about 3-3 or so hours into it.
2:30:48
Enjoyed it, but kind of lost momentum with it a little bit.
2:30:53
It can be a little a little bit stayed at times and you kind of
2:30:56
get caught up in just wandering aimlessly.
2:30:58
Then you'll suddenly do it, solve a puzzle and get into
2:31:01
something else and a bit of storyline.
2:31:02
It gets good, but it kind of has like tripping points between the
2:31:05
story. I found a little bit, but the
2:31:07
graphics engine was absolutely phenomenal.
2:31:09
The first bit of it when you walk out into the the forest for
2:31:12
the first time, the musical score, the graphics and
2:31:15
everything are mind blowing, especially on ultra wide on PT
2:31:18
when I played it. But yeah, I'm kind of interested
2:31:20
in that to see how it works because the mechanics are a
2:31:22
little bit flaky sometimes first person.
2:31:24
So having that extra field of vision with it being third
2:31:27
person might well help. So watch this space.
2:31:30
I guess we'll see on that one. The 2D Terminator game that was
2:31:34
kind of like a Mega Drive style game.
2:31:35
No fate, whatever it was called that was meant to be out.
2:31:38
I think it was October got delayed until this month.
2:31:41
So that has literally just come out as well, which does look
2:31:44
pretty cool. Quite interested in that.
2:31:46
I do have a good size scroll like shooter slash beam up.
2:31:50
Obviously that that might be quite good.
2:31:51
I haven't played the game like that for a while so.
2:31:53
Yeah, it seems to be getting kind of decent sort of
2:31:56
reception, I believe anyway, hopefully so.
2:32:00
Yeah, I'd be interested in that. Yeah.
2:32:02
But looking at the list as a poll, you have VR the Thief.
2:32:09
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I watch a guy and he reviews all
2:32:15
these VR games. It's like he's that's his
2:32:17
YouTube channel thing and I think I skipped towards like the
2:32:22
back end of it and the survey, it's kind of well done.
2:32:25
So yeah, but I used to love the Thief games.
2:32:27
I used to love all that sneaking around, going on the rooftops
2:32:30
and sort of like investigate areas.
2:32:32
So yeah, it's probably with a few VR games.
2:32:34
It's kind of like piqued my interest.
2:32:36
The VR is literally sat downstairs gathering dust.
2:32:39
You know, I keep meaning to put it online and get it sold, but
2:32:43
it never seems to happen. So but yeah, I would like to
2:32:46
play more VR, but it can be hard work that VR man, you put that
2:32:49
big helmet on your head and you know, and the sometimes you get
2:32:53
the motion sickness after a little while, etcetera.
2:32:55
It can be a bit of a, it can be a job to get your mind into
2:33:00
wanting to actually play that. But yeah, definitely.
2:33:03
There's another game on this. Looks like it's Meta Quest 3 and
2:33:05
PlayStation VR 2 is a Star Trek game of all things called Star
2:33:10
Trek Infection, which looks like it's trying to be Alien
2:33:14
Isolation but with Star Trek involved is what I can seem to
2:33:18
see. It's new game will boldly go
2:33:20
where no game franchise has gone before.
2:33:22
Survival horror. You're in a derelict Defiant
2:33:25
class spaceship has been overtaken by an unknown entity.
2:33:28
You'll need to manage the infection inside the ship of
2:33:30
your and of your Vulcan bodies. Your player Vulcan in it and you
2:33:34
have to survive this ship with an unknown monster on it.
2:33:36
So it's kind of sounds if you like survival horror stuff, I
2:33:39
imagine we'd be pretty good with the with the Star Trek back end
2:33:42
in it. But it's something that's come
2:33:43
out of nowhere. I had no idea it was coming at
2:33:46
all. Came out three days ago,
2:33:47
apparently on the 11th. AV or full body survival horror.
2:33:52
That's that's a big no I don't need.
2:33:55
I don't need a horror game like that.
2:33:57
Jesus. December the 4th was the elder
2:34:01
and ring expansion pack Night rain, the forsaken hollows.
2:34:05
I haven't played the original ring so it doesn't help me a
2:34:08
lot, but. I've I've totally lost, does
2:34:12
elden ring elder ring have the DLC?
2:34:14
If I remember brightly then there's Light rain and Light
2:34:16
Rain has a DLC. Yeah, so it's Elder Ring, Night
2:34:19
Rain, Comma, the Forsaken Hollows.
2:34:21
So it seems to be a £15 expansion which adds to the
2:34:25
expansion. I'm confused.
2:34:30
It's getting a bit Destiny, isn't it?
2:34:34
Of all these expansions on top of expansions.
2:34:38
Speaking of which, Destiny 2 expansion?
2:34:42
Yeah, I I adored the first Destiny.
2:34:46
I loved it and Destiny 2 was massively hopeful, but they just
2:34:50
made it too complicated though. I mean, they were talking about
2:34:53
on one of the other podcasts the other day, the Seal podcast.
2:34:55
They have overcomplicated. If you probably try to drop back
2:34:57
into Destiny 2 after being away for a number of years, you're
2:35:02
going to be mega confused and I've no idea.
2:35:04
Even if you put hundreds of hours into Destiny 1 you will
2:35:07
not know what's happening. It'll make no sense.
2:35:09
I've played Destiny 2 for about a year, really enjoyed it on and
2:35:12
off. And then my nephew got it.
2:35:15
I got PS4 or something, that's how long ago it was and was
2:35:17
like, oh, I'm paying on, do you want to play with me?
2:35:19
I'm like yeah, OK. And I jumped back in, literally
2:35:21
no clue what I was doing. The only time I've been more
2:35:23
confused was the original Mass Effect and literally I just
2:35:26
deleted a save on that and just gave up.
2:35:29
Yeah, yeah, it's crazy. I.
2:35:35
Was going to say I couldn't even start the game.
2:35:36
I didn't know where to go on the from the very start menu.
2:35:40
Like I knew you've got this choice of worlds and I could not
2:35:45
find which mission to do where what so I just give up.
2:35:48
I spent ages went to look and I even had a guide that some
2:35:51
website did how to get back into destiny and I could not figure
2:35:54
it out so I just gave up on the game.
2:35:56
I would love to learn how to play the game but I don't know
2:36:00
not Destiny 3 comes out. Hopefully they'll reset
2:36:03
everything, make it easy and simple to get it'll.
2:36:05
Be a DLC don't worry about. It I'll wait till then.
2:36:09
Destiny 2, Destiny three DLC. All right, great.
2:36:11
Thanks. Cool.
2:36:12
We got anything else on the list?
2:36:14
What was that seen? Yeah, it's weird because
2:36:16
December's normally such a big month, but it's kind of, there's
2:36:20
some good stuff in there, don't get me wrong, but it's not as
2:36:23
heavy is expected. I mean, The thing is, October
2:36:25
and November were quite release heavy with Battlefield, Call of
2:36:28
Duty, all those kind of things happening before we hit
2:36:30
Christmas, if you will. And actually we're in a position
2:36:33
where the biggest danger of the year are now being discounted
2:36:35
before Christmas, which is an interesting position to be in,
2:36:39
to be honest with you. But hey, it's a good thing for
2:36:41
everyone who wants games for Christmas, I suppose.
2:36:44
Well, the January sales or Boxing Day sales or whatever,
2:36:48
there's gonna be games in there that came out in January and
2:36:51
February. They're gonna be like 1999 or 24
2:36:54
or 99. There's gonna be a whole slew of
2:36:56
games on the big advantage of this kind of thing, as well as
2:36:59
you're gonna get to play it with all the patches.
2:37:01
Yeah, it's gonna be as it was intended as opposed to, you
2:37:05
know, this rushed out thing. So yeah, but it does have its
2:37:09
benefits. Things will be cheaper, things
2:37:11
will be finished. And that's a nice way to play a
2:37:14
game because often you can read about a game and be cut off by a
2:37:16
game because when it first comes out, bad launch, blah, blah,
2:37:19
blah, blah, blah. Give it another six months, 12
2:37:22
months. These turned around, you know,
2:37:24
No Man's Sky, Cyberpunk, they're all classic, classic scenarios
2:37:29
of what what can happen with a game.
2:37:32
One of those exactly that situation is as I said about it
2:37:36
last month or the month before game pool Painkiller that's
2:37:38
coming out on the PlayStation 5 and it was a it was an FPS on PC
2:37:43
made by was it People can fly studios.
2:37:45
It must have been early mid 2000s kind of thing before that,
2:37:50
but late 90s. But they've redone it and as a
2:37:52
whole new game come out, it looked absolutely phenomenal.
2:37:55
The trailers look great. It got absolutely just hammered
2:37:59
when it came out. Apparently all the reviews are
2:38:01
like 3-4 out of 10 on it. They've totally stuffed the the
2:38:04
release. So bear in mind, I think it came
2:38:07
out on like November the 20th or something stupid or something
2:38:10
like that. I'll hold it up to it.
2:38:11
That's currently if it's going to zoom in on my camera's going
2:38:13
to work, it won't do. But it's currently £14.99 in
2:38:16
Argos and it came out literally under a month ago.
2:38:23
So it's dropped 60 quids to 15 lbs because people don't want to
2:38:26
buy it because it's had a bad in.
2:38:28
I mean quite frankly, for that money, it's almost something I
2:38:31
would pick up as you said to hopefully they'll fix it.
2:38:36
Another one I looked at was quite a kind of excited for that
2:38:39
recreation game as well that was made by the people who may burn
2:38:41
out. That got mixed at best reviews
2:38:44
when it came out, 16 lbs on Amazon at the moment and that's
2:38:48
another £50 game. And then someone actually put a
2:38:51
little, I do trust Metacritic quite a lot because that
2:38:54
obviously has all the different site reviews on it.
2:38:57
And someone said yeah, that everyone hated it and they said
2:38:59
it was terrible when it came out.
2:39:00
They've actually fixed 80% of the bugs in a major patch and
2:39:03
they announced it and now the game is absolutely brilliant and
2:39:05
it's like, and it's still £16.00 crap.
2:39:08
Everyone should just buy it then.
2:39:10
I mean, give it a chance. I mean, 3 Fields Entertainment
2:39:12
are, let's say, a high proportion of the original
2:39:15
Burnout dev team. They know what they're doing, so
2:39:17
give it a chance. So I mean, yeah, hopefully it'll
2:39:19
be good for everybody pricing wise in a new year, I hope.
2:39:24
Nobody seems to review games six months down the road, but very
2:39:27
few people do with you. Easier just just to Chuck crap
2:39:32
at the wall the day it comes out and then not think about it.
2:39:34
But it's a shame. If everyone had done that with
2:39:36
No Man's Sky, I'm not giving them a chance.
2:39:38
Where would that be now? But how many millions of copies
2:39:40
has that solved? Yeah.
2:39:43
Yeah, it's a shame. Incredible.
2:39:45
Good to see reviews. 6.7 the road, so you know if you're
2:39:48
going to be buying the game later on, you know the state of
2:39:50
the game you're buying. That is good.
2:39:52
There's some YouTube channels who do that.
2:39:53
Quite often it's just like 6 months later or 12 months later
2:39:56
on games. I end up watching them because,
2:39:59
well, I was going to do it more now because I'm not buying
2:40:01
things. Release day is kind of my thing.
2:40:03
Come to the questions in a minute, actually.
2:40:04
But but yeah, it makes a big difference and those down the
2:40:08
down down the line things and they chucked time and energy
2:40:10
into it if they want to, it can make a massive difference.
2:40:13
So fingers are crossed. Definitely right, Sue.
2:40:18
That leaves us with one more section, which is everybody's
2:40:21
questions, which thank you to everyone because especially for
2:40:24
the last month there's been loads and they're all quite in
2:40:27
depth questions as well actually.
2:40:28
So quite a biggie. So I've got the list in front of
2:40:32
me here. I think I'm luckily printed them
2:40:34
out and a minute I'm going to check on my phone just in case I
2:40:37
haven't got the right wordings. I want to make sure I do it
2:40:39
correctly for everybody. There we go, there we go.
2:40:42
OK, so I'll go top to bottom. So the first question we have is
2:40:47
from Blair Ferguson. Do you think you would just
2:40:51
revert to type or do you think your purchasing process will be
2:40:54
different? For instance, do you will you
2:40:56
still be a day one purchaser or waiting to see what what the
2:41:00
hype was about the price drops etcetera?
2:41:02
In addition, what was the biggest surprise you had in
2:41:05
regards to games of your pile either better or worse than you
2:41:08
expected? So 2 questions in there.
2:41:11
First one, are you going to revert to type?
2:41:13
Are you just going to go out and just buy loads of games?
2:41:17
Me, I hope I'm not and I don't want to.
2:41:21
And I quite think that this year has kind of taken the edge off
2:41:24
me being kind of a little bit smash and grab when it comes to
2:41:28
purchasing games and just going for it.
2:41:30
But a little bit of me wants to go completely ass crazy on
2:41:33
January the first on Amazon and buy lots of stuff.
2:41:35
So hopefully option one, but I'll let you know if it's option
2:41:39
2 would be the response from me, Brian.
2:41:44
We were talking about this earlier in Southern Paul Saros
2:41:47
is coming out middle of next year and I was looking at doing
2:41:53
a pre-order but there's no benefit to doing it so well.
2:41:57
You get armour which I think is just cosmetic.
2:42:01
So there's actually no point in doing it.
2:42:03
So I don't think I'll do day one again.
2:42:08
Hopefully I've beaten that urge. So like Cyrus is a game I want
2:42:13
to buy, but I won't pre-order and I won't.
2:42:16
I don't think I'll buy it. They won't know.
2:42:18
I'll wait, see how it goes. Hopefully the reviews will come
2:42:21
in and it'll be excellent like Eternal.
2:42:24
But yeah, I think I've I've learned something.
2:42:28
Maybe hopefully that's what I don't think.
2:42:34
Yeah, I think I'll be a bit more patient in my gaming.
2:42:36
I hope so, anyway. Yeah, that's all that.
2:42:39
Yeah, I think so. Paul, how about you?
2:42:41
Yeah, I feel doing this for a year has taken me off the
2:42:45
treadmill, the gaming treadmill where a new games coming out and
2:42:49
you bought the new game day one and you kind of like already
2:42:53
looking at what's coming out in four weeks time.
2:42:55
So I have to get this game finished, otherwise I know it's
2:42:58
going to go into a pile and it's never, never, ever going to get
2:43:01
finished. So I don't think I want to
2:43:02
revert back to that because it was starting to feel like as if
2:43:05
I was doing work, which is not a good way to be playing games.
2:43:09
If you're just trying to crash your way through a game and just
2:43:12
get it finished and just to see the end so that you can say you
2:43:15
finished it, you haven't kind of like wasted any money.
2:43:17
Because I'm a tight fisted, so I don't like to look at somebody
2:43:20
just rotting away in the corner, although I've got the VR2 just
2:43:22
rotting away in the corner. But it does break my heart to do
2:43:25
that kind of thing. So no, I'm not going to revert
2:43:28
back to that. I'm going to just pick out the
2:43:31
gems and play them when and if. And also no doubt you guys have
2:43:37
also watched PlayStation, the game's given away over the
2:43:41
subscriptions over the year. The games that you were probably
2:43:44
going to buy last year, some of them are going to come here on
2:43:47
to description subscription for for nothing in any case or a
2:43:50
subscription you've already paid for.
2:43:52
So you might as well hold off and just buy them in dribs and
2:43:56
drops. And the big benefit, obviously
2:43:58
the games all being patched up. So I do appreciate that and I
2:44:01
don't. But even during this year, one
2:44:04
thing I thought I would obsess over would be watching Youtubes
2:44:08
of games and the reviews, whereas now, because I knew I
2:44:11
couldn't buy them, what I'll do, I'll watch the first minute and
2:44:15
then I'll skip to the verdict at the end, which is pretty much
2:44:17
all you need to, you know, we've all done enough game and you
2:44:20
could pick up from the verdict if you're going to like it or
2:44:22
not. Skip to the verdict.
2:44:24
I listen to the vert, I think. All right, yeah, that sounds
2:44:26
interesting. And I've just moved on.
2:44:28
So I've enjoyed not being on a treadmill and feel as if gaming
2:44:31
is work. So that's what I've definitely
2:44:34
don't want to get back on to that treadmill.
2:44:35
I don't want to have too many. I've still got too many games
2:44:38
regardless, but I don't want to add to more too many games to
2:44:41
the too many games I already have.
2:44:43
So no, I don't think I will. Yeah.
2:44:46
Perfect, perfect end to the question, I think.
2:44:48
I think that was sort of like, yeah, yeah, exactly.
2:44:50
That. You don't want more games on top
2:44:52
of games on top of games. Only cup of games, IE I miss or
2:44:57
feel FOMO about this stuff. Like hell.
2:44:59
Divers was like 2 years ago. I didn't buy it, I held off.
2:45:03
I'll never got to play that whole thing where you have a
2:45:07
whole group of mates all playing the one game at the same time.
2:45:11
And then this year Arcade has come out and you've got the same
2:45:14
thing, everybody doing the same thing again.
2:45:16
And I've held off from both, buying both of those and I sort
2:45:19
of regret, regrets doing it. But yeah, I don't know.
2:45:23
Hopefully I'll be able to, I can control that urge if something,
2:45:26
a third one comes out next year and I can hold off and not rush
2:45:30
straight in the minute I see something.
2:45:32
So I saw a new game coming out this month, if it's not already
2:45:36
is Split Gate. Yeah, Split Gate without before
2:45:40
then there was the Gate 2. There's a new version coming out
2:45:44
this month, which is like a combination of the two.
2:45:47
The first two games and I was I loved Split Gate.
2:45:50
I don't have this. I play that as a group of
2:45:54
people, so I don't know if I'd get into this again, but we'll
2:45:57
see. I don't.
2:45:58
I'm going to try and resist. That's the one thing I sort of
2:46:01
miss is where the FOMO hits me most watching that anyway.
2:46:07
That's fair enough. I kind of agree to be honest
2:46:09
with you. Yeah, there is a little bit of
2:46:10
that with other people playing it this year and I haven't, but
2:46:13
yeah, I've got past it just about then it goes.
2:46:16
Playing things together on monthly games I think has helped
2:46:18
with that as well. I think that's what did it.
2:46:21
So the second part of Blair's question was, what was the
2:46:25
biggest surprise in regards to games you had off of your pile,
2:46:28
either better or worse than you expected?
2:46:31
So I quickly scribbled down, there's three for me.
2:46:35
Greg Gris, whatever it is, was absolutely for that.
2:46:38
I love that game so much. First game, I've cried out for
2:46:41
quite a while at the end of it. That was incredible.
2:46:44
Sack Boy has literally blown my mind as far as platformers go.
2:46:48
Can't say enough good things about that game.
2:46:50
It was absolutely insane and I have to say Arcade Paradise that
2:46:55
I played at the start of the year.
2:46:56
I got completely and utterly sucked into that game.
2:46:59
Doing laundry work and building an arcade in the back of the
2:47:02
thing was amazing. Absolutely loved all three of
2:47:05
those, and they're all games that were sat in my pile that I
2:47:09
never knew existed. To be honest with you, I'd
2:47:11
completely forgotten about them a long time ago.
2:47:13
So yeah, biggest surprises for me.
2:47:16
Paul, what about you? Sack Boy 101%.
2:47:20
I had played it before in the respect of our probably, you
2:47:24
know, it's one of them essential games or whatever that turned up
2:47:27
for free on PlayStation. So it's been added to your
2:47:29
library. You've given it a bit of a,
2:47:31
you've given it an hour and think T so far.
2:47:33
Well, I might go back to that because it came up on the wheel
2:47:36
challenge. I went back to it and absolutely
2:47:40
was drawn straight back into it in a massive way and just
2:47:44
totally enjoyed it. It's been, you know, you could
2:47:46
potentially call it, I think Ben, we're talking about being
2:47:48
his game of the year and I'd say it's potentially a game of the
2:47:51
year scenario as well. For me, that particular game,
2:47:54
and even though I've played Astrobot, which is technically
2:47:58
better than that game, they're fantastic, absolutely amazing.
2:48:03
I would highly recommend anyone that's got Sack Boy.
2:48:05
If you've got PlayStation Essential and all that kind of
2:48:08
stuff and he sat there in your library, definitely give it a
2:48:10
go. Definitely.
2:48:12
But it's been so many other games like Grace, like yourself.
2:48:15
The good, the advantage of playing Grace is that it was a
2:48:19
like a four or five or maybe 6 hour game.
2:48:21
So you could play it. You know, it's nice to finish a
2:48:24
game. If you're doing this Year of
2:48:27
Shame challenge and you've got a master pilot game, one of the
2:48:30
things you're missing out on is completing games.
2:48:33
And without being able to complete a game, you're not
2:48:35
fully really getting the benefit of gaming.
2:48:38
That is one of the benefits of gaming is finishing a game
2:48:40
sometimes, and that can be a great achievement just to see
2:48:44
the credit roll at the end. That can be it that you know, it
2:48:47
really draws you on. Whereas these days the games are
2:48:49
so big that it can be difficult to see those credits and it
2:48:52
almost can make gaming a little bit pointless.
2:48:54
Well, it's like watching films, but I never watched the ending.
2:48:58
Why? Why did you start watching the
2:48:59
film? What was the point?
2:49:01
You know, there's no point. Yeah.
2:49:03
Why have you watched? You know?
2:49:04
So you're missing out on the ending in a lot of these games.
2:49:07
So I don't know it, but it's difficult.
2:49:09
Games are so big, and it's a constant stream of new quality.
2:49:13
Games come out all the time. Who wasn't going to want to play
2:49:16
them? Absolutely.
2:49:17
Can't blame anybody for that. Cool.
2:49:20
Yeah, right. Surprise this year, that was
2:49:28
good. Sheepy, a short adventure.
2:49:30
It is short. It's cute, It's a platformer on
2:49:33
Steam, and I did not expect to like it as much as I did.
2:49:37
So I would recommend people try that out.
2:49:39
Sheepy. SHEEPY.
2:49:42
Yeah. It's a very good point.
2:49:44
Tear away unfolded. I did not expect to like.
2:49:46
Yeah, brilliant. I was really blown away away.
2:49:49
Not my type, not my type of game at all, or hasn't been in the
2:49:53
past. And it really surprised me,
2:49:54
being that good. The story was and the graphics
2:49:58
and the mechanics were all very good.
2:50:00
And then this was for spoken. I just spoke.
2:50:05
It was better, way better than anything I've been led to
2:50:08
believe in the media. So it's not a brilliant game,
2:50:12
but it's way better than what the media said it was.
2:50:14
Is quite a good game for spoken. Yeah, that'll be the games I
2:50:20
thought. Biggest surprises for me this
2:50:21
year? That's good.
2:50:24
It's a real mixed bag there between us all, which is pretty
2:50:26
decent, right? So next one we've got is Joe
2:50:29
Middleton's, quite an easy one. Was it all worth it in the end?
2:50:36
Start with I'm honestly, I've written it down here.
2:50:39
This is pretty the easiest sentence I had to write for any
2:50:41
of my notes was more than yes, absolutely.
2:50:44
It was great fun. Absolutely loved it.
2:50:47
I found so many lost gems in my pit of despair that is my games
2:50:51
catalogue that I'm so glad that I went back to and have a look
2:50:54
at. And the most important thing
2:50:57
about the whole lot is I met you too, and it's been awesome.
2:50:59
I've met two well classifieds. I've definitely friends and I've
2:51:03
just absolutely loved every minute of it for the whole year.
2:51:05
It's been great. Really, really good.
2:51:07
Absolutely terrifying to start off with because I've never put
2:51:09
myself to do something like this before.
2:51:12
I think we're all kind of that opinion to start off with, but
2:51:14
yeah, so, so worth it. Brilliant.
2:51:16
That's how I feel. Yeah, it was almost scary
2:51:19
thinking about not buying games, oddly enough.
2:51:22
And you know, but he's turned out to be a real blessing in
2:51:25
disguise. It's something I've sort of like
2:51:28
told with the idea because obviously they've been given the
2:51:30
year of shame challenge for many years.
2:51:32
But yeah, it's, it's a massive benefit.
2:51:34
Do not fear not buying games. You already have enough games in
2:51:38
there. It's like, it's like going
2:51:40
shopping, you know, for for the next two weeks when you've
2:51:44
already got a cupboard in a freezer.
2:51:45
So cram pack full of good quality food that there's just
2:51:49
you've, you're just worse than your money.
2:51:51
People keep it, you know, buy it, buy all that food when it's
2:51:54
cheaper, when you need it, Not now when you've got so much in
2:51:58
storage. Man, we like it.
2:51:59
Basically. I probably as a kid, you all
2:52:02
like a hamster, right? And the more food you put out
2:52:05
for that hamster, the more it'll put in its little house.
2:52:08
Yeah, you could open that. You can keep food up that
2:52:10
hamster's little part, right? And it will keep taking that
2:52:14
food and put it in its house non-stop.
2:52:17
And that's what your games are, man.
2:52:19
They're hamsters. The store and all these games
2:52:21
are unnecessarily. Yeah, we're just hamster.
2:52:26
Oh God, it's just. Ham, that's the title of the
2:52:28
game. You're.
2:52:29
Hamsters on a wheel, man. This is what it is.
2:52:32
I'm losing it. Wow, this has got this has got
2:52:35
deep all of a sudden. No, I think that sums it up.
2:52:39
And we're all like stuffing it into our little pouches, you
2:52:42
know, in in there, taking it home with us, putting it and
2:52:45
that are now a little hot. So yeah.
2:52:50
Game console boxes be sure to be shark in the cheeks.
2:52:52
Right? I probably hurt.
2:52:56
Brilliant. That's covered.
2:52:58
Oh dear. Right.
2:53:01
Brian, was was it worth this? OK, I've got to play a lot of
2:53:07
games that I had. A lot of them were on my pile
2:53:10
and I had this guilt trip. I wanted to play them and
2:53:14
they've just been pushed back back.
2:53:16
So it was good to get them done. I met found some new games that
2:53:18
I did that I really enjoyed. It was really good.
2:53:22
I met you guys, which has been, as you said, it's been amazing
2:53:26
to have someone to chat with for so long.
2:53:29
I've become friends with. It's been pretty really cool.
2:53:31
I've been invaluable, invaluable.
2:53:34
Especially leaving out here having so few people to actually
2:53:37
just chat games and shit with at all times of day.
2:53:42
Unless you've been brilliant. Thank you.
2:53:43
It's been a pleasure. Amazing.
2:53:47
Yeah, it's been great. I formal thing that buying
2:53:51
recent games, despite what I said earlier, you get over that
2:53:54
quite quick because you just look at you probably accept the
2:53:56
fact that you're not going to look at the games coming in or
2:53:59
you're not going to consider buying them and you just focus
2:54:01
on your your backlog. So that that's been pretty much
2:54:06
easy, easy ish. So there's been one or two
2:54:10
wobbles, but other than that, it's been pretty easy.
2:54:13
The one thing that has annoyed me about this year is that I
2:54:15
didn't do it didn't do what I wanted to do it intended New
2:54:21
Year's Eve last year I bought Boulders Gate 3, I bought
2:54:25
Cyberpunk and I haven't played either.
2:54:28
And there's a whole host of other long games that I have
2:54:31
that's that's stranded. I haven't played.
2:54:34
These are games I want to play until I touch them this year.
2:54:36
No, because I just played 24 games or nearly 24 games.
2:54:41
So I'm still playing. And I was like, Oh my God,
2:54:44
Brian, you've a whole year and he didn't do what you intended
2:54:46
to set out today. But has it been worth it?
2:54:50
Yes. I met the two of you, the 2, the
2:54:52
three of you, the 2 of you, and I played the whole host of great
2:54:57
games, but not the great games I wanted to play.
2:54:59
But yeah, it's been really worth it.
2:55:00
I enjoyed it so much. And then it is nerve wracking at
2:55:05
the start. Just chatting nonsense into a
2:55:09
microphone is a bit, is a bit nerve wracking.
2:55:12
You edit. And when I edit, I cut out all
2:55:15
the shit I say. So I sound intelligent somewhat.
2:55:18
So some episodes, if people are listening, I'll appear more
2:55:21
intelligent than others. And they're the episodes I have
2:55:24
edited to make myself look good and clear up everything else.
2:55:27
But yeah, it is quite good fun. And if you were ever thinking
2:55:33
about doing, meeting up with two or three or four of the
2:55:37
strangers, you're just talking about games that we all love.
2:55:41
And it's nothing but joy doing this.
2:55:44
So yeah, I enjoy it. There's no stress.
2:55:46
Not it feels nervous. I felt nervous at the start, but
2:55:51
no, no, it's just really cool. Enjoy it.
2:55:53
Look forward to this. But yeah, yeah, so that's my
2:55:56
answer to that question. It would definitely be more.
2:55:58
Awesome. Yeah, brilliant.
2:56:00
That's great that we all feel that way.
2:56:01
That's that's proper cool. It's lovely to come out the
2:56:03
other side of this and all feel that that is we've done
2:56:05
something right, definitely did it rightly so.
2:56:09
And let's move on to the questions of post A little bit
2:56:11
here now is from from Richard Birch.
2:56:13
What is lined up as your first January purchase when you have a
2:56:16
vendor basically and buy a load of games, which we hopefully
2:56:19
just said that we're not going to do do his words.
2:56:22
What's Q up for the January the 1st purchase fest, which is
2:56:25
exact words. Oh, what I'm going to say I'll,
2:56:28
I'll well, Astro bot is is the honest answer.
2:56:32
If if I get Astro bot on January the 1st, that's me sorted for a
2:56:34
couple of months. It's the only thing I am
2:56:36
desperately, desperately wanting to play.
2:56:38
There's a few underneath arc Raiders I'd like because I have
2:56:41
some friends playing it and a Seto course, a rally, purely
2:56:46
because it's really good and currently has £15 on early
2:56:48
access and it will be 40 lbs at some point.
2:56:51
Outside of that, it's it's not a lot.
2:56:54
It's not this massive, huge go and get a trolley and go run and
2:56:57
like take the front of the shop out situation.
2:56:59
I'm not feeling that way at all. I just want to play Astro bot.
2:57:02
That's it. I just need one thing.
2:57:03
Just need my fix, Paul. Well, I know that I'll be
2:57:08
playing Kingdom Come Deliverance too, but I'm going to try to
2:57:12
take it one or two games at a time.
2:57:15
But I have got a list of games which were pretty much stand out
2:57:18
games and these are probably games that everybody would
2:57:20
probably want to play to some degree.
2:57:23
I mean, I know you guys aren't being into your horror games,
2:57:26
but I quite fancy playing Silent Hill F Outer Worlds 2 and
2:57:30
another one which were quite disappointed to to learn is
2:57:33
digital only and that's dying like the beast.
2:57:36
So I don't like buying digital games so I can't resell it after
2:57:39
I've finished it. And 1st Berserker Kazam which
2:57:44
has got an easy mode that has been added around about six
2:57:47
months after it came out which makes it my kind of game now.
2:57:50
I love a Dark Souls game because but I don't like how difficult
2:57:54
to get the bosses. Often on my I hit a wall of them
2:57:58
massively. So unless it's like a
2:58:00
multiplayer scenario where someone comes in and does it for
2:58:02
me, I'm usually a little bit like I want to, I want to see
2:58:05
more of the world, but I can't. But because I've added the easy
2:58:08
mode, the games can still be quite longing.
2:58:10
Probably still take me 20 hours to finish it.
2:58:13
Well I'll get to enjoy the world best standing 2, Metal Gear
2:58:16
Solid and helizos, Cronus, the new dawn, stalker 2 go to your
2:58:21
tie. But all of them games I am
2:58:23
buying day one. Those are just games that I have
2:58:26
my eye on for the future. I'm not going to pile in there.
2:58:29
Even if everyone of them games came out and they were in the
2:58:32
January sales at £10 each, I still wouldn't buy them.
2:58:36
I like buy them to resell them in that respect, you know, to
2:58:40
make money on them. But I wouldn't buy them to put
2:58:42
them in my pile of shame unnecessarily.
2:58:45
I think he's I've learnt that it's pointless.
2:58:48
So yeah, absolutely. You dilute in your own phone,
2:58:52
you dilute in your own phone by building up all them games.
2:58:55
It becomes a an impossible scenario game and it meant to be
2:58:59
like that. Cool.
2:59:01
Yeah, agreed. Definitely so.
2:59:03
Remember the question of what we queued up queued up for January
2:59:06
1st will be gut of all rec. Look, it is currently on
2:59:09
PlayStation Plus and it is due. It is rumoured to be leaving
2:59:12
middle of January. I fly back to Ireland and don't
2:59:16
get back here till January 9th or so.
2:59:19
So I'm going to have very short time to try and finish that
2:59:22
game. But I don't end up having to pay
2:59:24
for that game if it's been free all year and I've missed it
2:59:28
because of this. So I'd be handy for the pitch
2:59:31
Patreon money that never came in but yeah.
2:59:33
But yeah, that'd be the game I want to play straight straight
2:59:37
away. Then two other games in this
2:59:39
year I really missed out on goes to the OT.
2:59:42
A huge fan of the ghost sushi must I really want to play that
2:59:45
game and then clear obscure because it's won so many awards
2:59:48
and people's opinions of of JRPGS or the ship or PG have
2:59:56
been so profound that I really want to try that game but.
3:00:00
Maybe later goes to war, goes to war first.
3:00:03
Yeah, yeah. Yes, it's a huge, it's a huge,
3:00:07
graphically impressive, massively impressive.
3:00:10
Yeah, Ragnarok. Yeah, outstanding graphics.
3:00:14
Cool, look forward to playing that.
3:00:15
Very, very, it's very, very reserved.
3:00:18
Well done, 23. Yeah, right.
3:00:21
OK. So next question is from Stuart
3:00:25
Ramage, which is what was your hardest point of the year and
3:00:29
how did you get through it? So again, kind of easy a little
3:00:33
bit really the start. That was the hardest bit of it
3:00:36
all. Just how you getting your feet
3:00:37
under the table? How do I get started?
3:00:40
What am I going to do? Do I sound like an absolute
3:00:42
prick, which is a yes, but that's fine.
3:00:44
I got past that after about six months.
3:00:47
But yeah, that was kind of it. But how do I get through it?
3:00:52
How do I get through it? Talking to you guys?
3:00:54
That's how I got through it. By the camaraderie of having the
3:00:57
people you're doing it with. And I think I've said it before,
3:01:00
but the idea of us having the monthly games to play, which
3:01:03
kind of gives us all something. You definitely have something
3:01:05
you're focusing on and you're focusing on together as a group
3:01:08
and it gives you content for the podcast.
3:01:10
It gives you something to work through and talk between those
3:01:13
times. It was just cracking.
3:01:15
Really, really great idea. I can't.
3:01:16
I think it was. Was it you, Brian, who cooked
3:01:18
the idea of doing a monthly game?
3:01:19
I come where it was, but yeah. There ever did still.
3:01:24
Yeah, but that was that was a top notch idea and it worked an
3:01:27
absolute tree. That was the hardest point.
3:01:29
And getting through it was as easy as it was to not not be
3:01:32
worried about it, I think. So that's, that's me definitely.
3:01:38
Me the hardest part to seems yourself the start and then goes
3:01:43
to you'll Take Me Out. I really I almost buckled for
3:01:47
that game, but Stewart himself with messaged me telling me how
3:01:51
good the game was and he not that it made-up the off buying
3:01:55
it, but he was not that. He was encouraging me to buckle
3:01:59
because he kept every so often I get this message from my but
3:02:01
tell me how great this game is. But it just maybe helped me
3:02:05
think I can hold off and in six months time I'll get to play
3:02:08
this game or five months I'll get to play this game.
3:02:11
Yeah, it'll still be great then. So yeah, that's.
3:02:16
He wasn't it didn't feel like he was teasing me, so I felt OK
3:02:19
with it. Yeah.
3:02:20
That would think that was the worst part, the worst time.
3:02:22
The old him the whole year. Other than that, I was OK The
3:02:26
rest of the year I didn't. It wasn't bothered at all.
3:02:29
But FOMO all that much except the Arctic Raiders.
3:02:33
How about you, Paul? Yeah, it was just maybe the
3:02:36
overthinking at the beginning of going cold, technically cold
3:02:39
Turkey. We're all addicts are with many
3:02:42
respects when it comes to gaming.
3:02:45
So you have to really think that through really.
3:02:48
But it's nowhere near as bad as you think.
3:02:50
Well, I've, but I've been gaming just like you guys.
3:02:54
You probably been gaming since like 11 or maybe even younger.
3:02:58
So it's been a constant theme for right life.
3:03:00
It's like taking away food or something really.
3:03:04
But yeah, I I didn't think it was that bad at all.
3:03:08
I really enjoyed it and might be in these two guys.
3:03:10
Obviously it's been an absolute pleasure.
3:03:12
We've never really chatted in Facebook.
3:03:14
We've never really sent any messages.
3:03:16
I might have hit the like or the love button and a few of their
3:03:19
posts or something, but never thought much else about it other
3:03:21
than reading the comment. So even meeting 2 new totally
3:03:25
new to me people. And I think it was the same for
3:03:29
Brian and Ben. I don't think they've met before
3:03:31
or or even chatted. I'm not sure they may have done,
3:03:33
but we've never played a game in the past.
3:03:35
It's not like as if it was a team effort in the respect of we
3:03:38
all decided to do it together. Well individually made the
3:03:40
decision to go into a Facebook group, not a Facebook group, A
3:03:45
messenger group. And we just went from there
3:03:48
really and it's just evolved. But the the like Ben was saying
3:03:53
and and Brian, the common theme is the gaming.
3:03:56
You've got such a big common theme and interest.
3:04:00
They're doing something like this will just work, you know,
3:04:03
unless you have a total all out war, maybe you've got a
3:04:08
PlayStation person that's pure PlayStation or person that's
3:04:11
Xbox. You're going to start slinging
3:04:13
things at each other about how the PlayStation is better than
3:04:16
the Xbox. Well, you know, and it's all
3:04:17
well, well for the next 12 months.
3:04:20
Well then I can't see how you can't get along.
3:04:22
It's just you've, you've, you've got such a genuine interest
3:04:25
that's it's so deep inside, playing all in games for years
3:04:29
that you can't fail not to get along really, I don't think.
3:04:33
Yeah, it's all about celebration that you were gaming.
3:04:35
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, exactly.
3:04:37
Yeah. It's been a pleasure, pain.
3:04:39
It's important. Yeah, yeah.
3:04:42
Awesome, right? Last one, which was from for
3:04:51
Stuart as well actually this was What game do you do you regret
3:04:57
spending time on this year when you could have been working
3:04:59
through others in your pile? Oh dear.
3:05:03
Brian, you go first on this one. OK, very first game of the year
3:05:08
XO one I'd heard so much about this game that was really good I
3:05:13
the game I bought New Year's Eve and maybe it is really good
3:05:18
because I used to listen to three.
3:05:21
I think the podcast called 3 hours 3 hours played or
3:05:24
something like that and they used to brave about this game so
3:05:27
brilliant and I could not get on with this.
3:05:29
I finished this, but it's all about movement and I could not
3:05:33
get this the character, the character like some sort of
3:05:37
spaceship to move or glide smoothly.
3:05:39
The whole which of the game it just it was dreadful.
3:05:43
It really the very first game that was really, really shit.
3:05:48
Then after party, which is I've talked about last month, it was
3:05:54
so annoying. It's so annoying.
3:05:55
I should have just stopped it. I could tell pretty much it was
3:05:59
an hour into it. I was not good to gel with this
3:06:01
game. The dialogue in the game is just
3:06:04
absolutely annoying. The jokes were overplayed and
3:06:08
just crazy. I just I did not like the humour
3:06:10
at all, actually just in this, but I didn't.
3:06:15
I stayed the whole way through and completed it just to add to
3:06:18
the finished pile, which was a waste of time.
3:06:20
Absolutely always waste of time. Or she hadn't done this.
3:06:23
But yeah, that's they're the two I shouldn't have played and
3:06:26
wasted all my time on, but there you go.
3:06:29
How about you, Paul? I'll say the only game I didn't
3:06:33
particularly enjoy, but it was good to try it and that was the
3:06:37
game, the skateboard game that Ben was really good at.
3:06:40
Do you remember the like the little 2D scrolling one?
3:06:43
Yeah, I couldn't get along with that one.
3:06:46
But that typically is not my kind of game.
3:06:49
But it's good that it came up as the game to play because I
3:06:52
wouldn't add it was good to try it and I can at least say that I
3:06:56
tried it because I never would have tried it otherwise.
3:06:58
But it's just not my kind of game.
3:07:00
OK, What was the name of the game?
3:07:02
Ben, you probably. Olly Olly world.
3:07:03
Holy world, that's it. He just wasn't my I just can't.
3:07:07
I'm not that skilled. This is probably why I'm pretty
3:07:10
crud at Dark Souls games and I have to play it on easy mode
3:07:13
because I just don't quite got that.
3:07:15
You know, it's definitely a skill issue scenario, but I
3:07:19
still enjoyed the Dark Souls games.
3:07:20
But the the skateboarding game that was a tough one for me was
3:07:24
that I found it frustrating to the point of like it.
3:07:27
If I didn't know about her, I would have thrown the control,
3:07:30
the fruit of the screen. It you know, if I had to play
3:07:32
that to the end, I'm not sure which should come first, you
3:07:35
know, the broken screen or the end or the end of the game.
3:07:39
I could not have finished that game.
3:07:40
I think it would have been impossible for me.
3:07:42
If someone says to me I could never game again until I
3:07:44
finished that game, I think my gaming would be over.
3:07:49
I just couldn't play it anymore. It was too much.
3:07:53
Yeah, I found that difficult to have a bit.
3:07:55
Yeah, that was I couldn't even finish the tutorial.
3:07:57
Yeah, not really difficult again.
3:07:59
He's tough, a tough game, but then you've glided through it,
3:08:01
didn't it? Because it's your sort again.
3:08:03
I wouldn't say, I wouldn't say glided.
3:08:05
I made it through. It was hard work at points to be
3:08:08
honest with you, and I've I literally done a lot of stuff on
3:08:11
like one star and thought I'm not going back to that.
3:08:13
I will literally end up they say like launching my steam deck
3:08:16
into the nearest tree. So I just left it alone.
3:08:19
After a while. I did get through it.
3:08:21
It was kind of those ones. I just thought I'd have better
3:08:23
finish to be honest, right. So my easy, easy, easy question,
3:08:29
which I think I wrote back. I just I think I did very post
3:08:31
the time underneath as a reply. Just saying this is so easy that
3:08:36
I'm pretty sure I did. Yep, there we go.
3:08:39
That is Trials Trails of the Blood Dragon.
3:08:42
I love Trials games. The ones with the bikes on it.
3:08:45
You have to do stunts and balancing and do assault
3:08:47
courses. And there's the Blood Dragon,
3:08:49
which is the Far Cry knock off like an 80s stupid action movie
3:08:53
thing. And some reason they put Trials
3:08:56
and Blood Dragon together, which created the world's biggest pile
3:09:00
of utter bullshit. Basically, it's crap.
3:09:04
It was. It's like it's a game that's
3:09:05
based on physics control and like the game being like
3:09:11
realistic with everything. It literally had the worst
3:09:13
controls ever. The graphics were crap, the
3:09:16
narrative was crap, the story is crap.
3:09:18
Literally the weird point is it was an R stain on the trials
3:09:21
brand. That was the word I put.
3:09:25
So to say I didn't like it, it's probably an understatement and I
3:09:28
genuinely Ubisoft, if anyone who knows it, you should just never
3:09:31
have done that. Don't ever do the stuff like
3:09:33
that again. Charles the Great brand, make
3:09:35
Trials games, that's all you need to do.
3:09:37
But that is the only game that I have played in the last 12
3:09:40
months that I thought, shit, I could have done something more
3:09:43
useful like, I don't know, walk in circles or something.
3:09:47
Other than that, everything else was Bob on.
3:09:49
So yeah, OK, an easy one to finish with, but I'm quite a
3:09:54
offensive one, an angry one I suppose, really more than
3:09:57
anything else. But yeah, that's it.
3:10:00
That's that's all the questions done with, yeah.
3:10:04
Oh, I just want to do 1 shout, just do one.
3:10:07
Shout out to Ajax for getting in touch with me saying any
3:10:11
appreciation. Oh yeah, of course.
3:10:12
Thank you. That's it.
3:10:14
Just thank you. Thank you for the message,
3:10:16
Metal. I appreciate that you.
3:10:19
Could have put money onto the Patreon but you didn't.
3:10:21
But you know. Next time I mean.
3:10:23
Thanks a lot mate. You forget sending the only fans
3:10:26
link as well, that's your own fault.
3:10:28
But. We could have read him a sexy
3:10:31
story, a sexy bedtime story for probably £100 if we paid into
3:10:35
the pet petrial. He works on, he's a ground
3:10:40
spancer. I hope he doesn't get get get
3:10:42
hurt with a lawnmower or something.
3:10:43
He's trying to listen to our sexy stories.
3:10:49
Right. Appreciate everyone's questions.
3:10:51
That's really cool. Thank you very much.
3:10:52
Sending me. There was a really good
3:10:54
selection in there and if I look a nice way to sort of round
3:10:57
things off, which was pretty cool really.
3:10:59
So this this is a little bit difficult actually, because the
3:11:02
last thing I've got at the bottom here is is last show sign
3:11:05
off. So there's no no creaky will
3:11:08
this month. There's no what we're intended
3:11:11
on doing next month. This is this is kind of it,
3:11:14
which feels exceptionally weird. It's sort of become a bit of a
3:11:18
normality every month now to come and do this.
3:11:20
So that's having it. It's a little strange.
3:11:22
Absolutely. So yeah, I I don't really.
3:11:27
But we are kind of back again out because we've got a handover
3:11:29
show. Yes, there will be a handover
3:11:33
show that is correct. So we will be back to do a
3:11:36
handover show in January because as much as that alludes to,
3:11:39
there are some willing victims for next year, which in time you
3:11:43
will find out who they are. And we'll be doing a handover
3:11:47
show with these buffoons in January.
3:11:50
So you'll you'll find out then. But yeah, in the meantime, to
3:11:54
kind of we've reached December, we've reached the end of the
3:11:57
year of shame and we've all to some degree I think succeeded
3:12:00
quite well, that is. Cracking.
3:12:04
Amazing. So yeah, absolutely.
3:12:07
So. So I'm not quite sure how to
3:12:08
finish off really, apart from gentlemen.
3:12:10
It's been an absolute pleasure. I am contemplating whether in
3:12:15
the future to do this again because I've enjoyed it so much.
3:12:19
And thank you very much for putting up with me for the last
3:12:21
12 months. And that goes for everyone else
3:12:23
who's listened as well, because I hate my voice and I have no
3:12:26
idea how I've done this for 12 months, but it's been pretty
3:12:29
cool at the same time. So yeah, I don't have to go
3:12:33
after that really anything. Gentlemen, that's.
3:12:36
Quite profound. Thank you to you both.
3:12:39
Thank you to anybody who's listened.
3:12:41
As Ben said, he hates his voice so that we all but no.
3:12:46
We hate your voice as. Well, if you, if you, if you
3:12:52
listening hates my voice. Just imagine being in the
3:12:55
classroom of Japanese kids learning to speak English with
3:12:59
my accent. That happens.
3:13:02
They're every day. They're all going Monday.
3:13:05
And how much is that? So it's I'm teaching them how to
3:13:09
speak English proper. But I know this has been
3:13:14
brilliant. I've I've looked every episode.
3:13:17
I've looked forward to doing. It's been quite cool.
3:13:20
Yeah. It's been a really big positive
3:13:22
thing for me. So step forward and do this.
3:13:25
I'm quite impressed with how well we've worked together and
3:13:29
I've enjoyed this. I hope everybody else listening
3:13:31
has enjoyed us and thank you all for listening.
3:13:34
It's been cool and hopefully we catch you again with the
3:13:38
handover. Absolutely, yeah, yeah, it's
3:13:42
been brilliant. Totally amazing.
3:13:44
It's been felt so natural as well to do undoubtedly and
3:13:49
definitely met, met 2 fantastic people and made two good friends
3:13:52
as well. It's been great.
3:13:54
So many common interests and to learn about their lives too.
3:13:58
It's been, you know, really insightful and extremely
3:14:01
interesting. So yeah, it's been brilliant and
3:14:03
I'm glad. I hope you've all enjoyed
3:14:04
listening to it. And yeah, but like we say, we'll
3:14:07
be back for the final handover for the new guys.
3:14:11
And yeah, it'll be interesting. I'll I'll definitely be
3:14:13
listening to next year for sure. Right.
3:14:20
Cool, I think it's. All done today.
3:14:23
Say it again. I almost feel like crying.
3:14:26
I need to get the tissue box for the tears.
3:14:30
I haven't any weird feeling in my stomach since like January
3:14:32
when we first started. All I do have now because it's
3:14:34
kind of like, how do I, how am I meant to finish this?
3:14:37
This is a bit weird, so made by strange indeed.
3:14:40
But I guess that's all that's left to say is again, thank you
3:14:44
and to everyone and to yourselves, have a fantastic
3:14:47
Christmas absolutely to you all in the new year.
3:14:51
So cheers guys. Thank you.
3:14:54
Cheers. Thank you.
3:14:55
Thank you. Merry Christmas, New Year to
3:14:57
everyone. Yeah.
3:14:58
Merry Christmas. Happy New Year.
3:15:00
All the best. By the way, who's going to be
3:15:05
last?