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Sony Stops Single-Player PC Gaming Ports & Capcom Sets New Records · Boss Rush Podcast - A Podcast about Video Games

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  Hello everybody, welcome back to the Boxers Podcast, a great
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  place to play games and be better than one of your hosts.
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  Cordier get alongside me, as always, is the PC muscle race
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  himself, La Ron Dawkins. Hey, what's poppin?
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  Hey, La Ron, what's? So I heard the team who version
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  of me was on the show last week. Yeah, Dollar, dollar, dollar
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  store. The run was on.
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  I'm just kidding. No, I had a great value brand.
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  Yeah, yeah, the the, the, the white labeled brands, the white
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  and black text. No offense to my substitute, I
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  do, I do apologize. There was a, there was, there
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  was a real life situation going on with me.
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  So unfortunately, I could not, I could not drop into the pocket
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  dimension of of of the podcast world last week.
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  It's OK, Leon, it happens, you know, it happens.
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  It happens to the best of us, so you know.
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  Sorry about sorry about that though.
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  Sorry and sorry to everybody I let down last.
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  Week you let everyone down. Oh, I know I did.
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  I know I did. That's.
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  Usually what people say to me, Leon.
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  I don't even have the answer for that one that.
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  I know it's fine, I'm trying to. Cheer you.
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  I'm trying to cheer you up, but but you say stuff that that kind
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  of brings me down. I love you, Laron.
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  You're the best. I love you too, Corey.
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  You look great with your sleeves and your shirt.
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  I don't know. And my and my fresh haircut.
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  Yeah, your little like 1 silver streak in the front, Yeah.
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  There's yeah, like it's so it's so prominent because of the
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  light. There's there's Gray everywhere
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  in my head, in my hair though. Yeah, at least you have hair to
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  cut, you know. For now.
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  So you have any? Is this week better on than last
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  week? Are you doing all right though?
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  For real? Is your week going all right?
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  The week to be determined, I know and that's, that's sad
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  concern is it's Wednesday, you know, it's Wednesday night, you
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  know, to be determined is the best I can give you.
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  It's fair, it's fair. But tomorrow's Thursday,
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  tomorrow's Yoshi Day. Did you know that?
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  The new Yoshi game. My son's very excited for it.
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  Oh yeah. Yeah, I told him if he did good
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  on his last day of school, we would get it and play it.
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  Why is my? Why is my screen frozen?
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  Oh, there we go. OK, that's what I say.
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  Are we gonna have a problem? Maybe.
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  But that's that's, I don't know if it's podcast safe.
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  Yeah, I don't know, man. It's been a bit.
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  It's been a, it's been a, it's been a long year.
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  I know, I know, and the years and the years are only is almost
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  halfway. Done.
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  I know. And I really, I really don't
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  know where it's going, you know, but yeah.
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  But hey, you know what? Life is good when you have
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  friends and people you care about and video games and shows
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  and you know the things that bring you joy in life.
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  Yeah, true that. The show brings me joy.
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  Wednesday nights bring me joy, you bring me.
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  Joy yeah, yeah, same. Even though, you know, like, I
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  guess everybody's like I was like Lauren's always yawning
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  like it's just a by product. Like we like, you know, like we
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  we're. Doing this on Wednesday, man, we
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  can't. We can't staying awake all the
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  time at. The end of a work day, you know.
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  Yeah, we can't. We can't all just be staying
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  awake all the time, you know? Who do you think you are?
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  Me. Jeez.
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  Yeah, you know what? Based on how things are going, I
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  don't know if I want to be you. Like you work too damn much.
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  I'm working right now. I work too.
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  Damn. I work too damn much.
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  Yeah, I'm. Yeah, I'm technically working
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  too. You know, it's called the Boss
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  First podcast. That's my, that's my other job.
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  Yeah. I.
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  See somebody out there thought I was going to say I was doing
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  actual like real life work. No, no, it is.
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  It is go time right now, right here.
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  It is it is go time. You know, it's, it's, it's, it's
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  something to run, you know, like I, I just, I think I think what
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  we need to do is quit life and make a lot of money doing this
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  and everybody just the. Only the only problem is is I
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  need money. I mean, that's fair, but yeah,
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  that's fair. You got me.
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  I mean, there's no other way to slice it.
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  Yeah, I know, I know, I know, I know.
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  I would love to make more money doing this, but we don't make
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  any. So the little we do make has to
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  go into verification and and and all these other things that like
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  just doesn't you know, it's like a be like a mediocre dinner for
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  one at a nice restaurant. When is this going to take off?
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  Hey, you know, I'm working on it.
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  I'm working on it. You know, we did the, we did the
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  whole channel spread thing and our views are way up the the
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  algorithm. We're fighting it, you know,
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  fighting it, doing good. We're fighting it.
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  We are, we are got that new logo going on, which I was bored so I
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  made one and I liked it. So we're using it.
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  Yeah, Things are good. Things are.
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  Things are working anyways, Laron, what are you?
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  What are you, what are you playing?
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  What are you watching? What are you?
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  What are you doing? I know, I know, games are light,
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  but I'm sure you're doing other stuff in your life.
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  Yeah, games are definitely light.
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  I can, I can, I can confidently. I can confidently report that I
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  have finished the boys. Oh, is it over?
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  The finale. The finale happened.
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  Wait, today's Wednesday, right? Yeah, The finale happened today,
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  Yeah. Yeah, nice.
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  Cool. Yeah, No.
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  Did it end well? Did it?
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  Sometimes it feels like, sometimes it feels like I'm
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  actually watching it like a day late, which I think I actually
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  was this season. Like I was watched.
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  I was always watching it like the next day.
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  But today I actually, I was like, oh, it's the finale.
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  So I watched. I watched it today.
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  Nice. I did it end well.
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  Did it end like a good show or a bad show like?
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  It ended up it seemed like a good show it and it it, it ended
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  like a good show, honestly. I mean, you know, like there,
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  there definitely is like a thing going on.
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  There's a discourse going on online about like how the show.
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  Was supposed to end discourse. Yeah, people want the people
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  want the show. People want the show to to like
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  to like end the way the graphic novels in the comic book series
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  did, which I get that. But I think you and I have had
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  many discussion on on across all these podcasts, whether it's the
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  Buster's podcast, whether it was Crossroads, whether it was power
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  block, whether it was standard definition that when that when
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  they do, when they do, when they do TV shows, they cannot do a 1
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  to 1 adaptation of whatever it is they're getting, you know,
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  for TV and make it into ATV show.
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  You know, it never works. Number one, everybody already
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  knows the outcome. Everybody already knows the
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  outcome. This only works in movies where
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  everybody has a movie is a smaller block of time that
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  people are invested. So they want to see the story.
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  They want to see the story that they that they know.
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  And it's only works when it's a movie and when it and when it's
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  movies based off of books or movies that are or movies that
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  are adapted from like a cartoon, cartoon or miniseries.
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  It's only time it works if you're actually doing a series
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  where like the storyline is spread out from from anywhere to
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  6 to 15 to 20 episodes a season across XYZ number years.
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  You can't, you can't do a 1 to 1 representation of, of of of of
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  that thing because it is never going to work out.
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  It's never going to work out. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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  People are going to, people are going to be so pissed.
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  People are going to be so pissed because they'll be like, I sat
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  here for all this time just to, just to see what I already knew
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  was going to happen. Right.
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  Yeah, dummy. That's why.
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  That's why they don't do it. That's why they don't do it,
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  'cause you know what I mean? There are all that time
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  invested. Oh, sorry.
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  Go ahead. Sorry.
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  I was going to say all that time that's invested, like, you know,
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  like you're, you're, you're, you're honestly going to sit
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  there and watch all that stuff that you spent an exorbitant
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  amount of time like reading or ingesting, You know already no,
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  that this is a waste of time. Yeah, there's there's very few,
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  you know, adaptations of other mediums that you that you can
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  truly move one to one, right. Like, I mean, there's even
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  things in like you think of Harry Potter or the Jason Bourne
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  series, like there are things that they changed in the in
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  those series to make it fit, you know, the the movies and stuff,
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  right? And like, I know that Harry
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  Potter show's coming out, but I mean they already changed a
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  bunch of stuff in the show too. Wait, is there I thought.
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  The Harry Potter show was a wait, I thought, is it not a
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  continuation from where the show left off, from where the movies
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  left off or what? No, they're rebooting it.
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  It's a reboot. Yeah, it's an HBO show now.
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  See, that just shows how much investment I've had in that.
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  I mean, I'm not, I'm not super invested in it.
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  I like the movies a lot, but I'm not like going out of my way to,
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  you know, watch Harry Potter, you know?
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  Yeah, I mean, I'm going, I'm going to watch it.
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  I'll be honest with you. I'm.
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  I mean, I'll, I'll watch it if I end up getting HBO at some
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  point. But like, at the same time, I
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  don't, you know, I'm not I'm not going to subscribe to, you know,
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  HBO. Just watch one show or two
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  shows, you know, I, I, yeah. Understandable.
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  I mean, the, the only reason why we're subscribed to what we're
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  subscribed to now is because the kids, you know, I mean, I
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  wouldn't have Netflix if it wasn't, if the kids weren't
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  watching it all the time. So I wouldn't, I don't even know
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  if I would even have Hulu if my wife didn't watch it all the
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  time. You know, I, I would be like a
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  YouTube premium Disney plus, maybe plus one more type thing,
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  right, You know, and it or like that third subscription will
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  alternate between the other ones just because I'd want to watch
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  something so. Yeah, but, but in my honest
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  opinion, I, I, I'm, I like, I like the way the boys ended.
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  I'm satisfied with it. So, you know, like, I guarantee
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  you there's there's going to be people who are all upset, you
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  know, about things, you know, but you know, I feel like it was
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  definitely, I feel like it was definitely handled better than
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  the Game of Thrones ending was. That's because, well.
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  They didn't have they didn't that that show didn't or that
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  show doesn't have an ending technically because the books.
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  Are done because the books. The books aren't done.
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  And, and, and here's the rub. I don't think the books are ever
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  going to get done. Sure they will.
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  When he died, they're just going to fold those other ones in and
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  they're going to fold the scripts in for the show and then
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  AI is going to write it. Well, no apparent.
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  Well, no, apparently. Apparently like one of his, one
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  of his, I can't remember who specifically, but somebody like.
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  His Ghost Rider his has a kind of like.
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  Yeah, somebody's related to him is supposed to have like the the
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  road map for, for what he wants. But you know, here's the here's
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  the thing. I told somebody, I told a couple
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  people and and they definitely didn't like what I had to say
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  about this. I think I think they used the
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  Game of Thrones show as a proving ground to see how people
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  would like the if the books wound up a certain way.
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  So the ending we got in the books was probably one of the
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  original drafts that he that George RR and Martin Martin
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  wanted to do. And then everybody was like, no,
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  not, not that way, you know, so, so now you can turn around like,
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  OK, well, yeah. Like that's, that's the TV show
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  that was going on after, you know, past where the point where
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  the books were, you know? Yeah.
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  Yeah, that's that's the way I feel about that.
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  Yeah, I, I mean, it's always like somebody's always mad when
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  something is like, I mean, this happened with with Captain
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  America Civil War also, right. Like, so the movie really has
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  nothing to do with the Civil War comic book, like at all.
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  And but they called it Civil War and it's like, well, what?
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  I mean, what are you going to do though?
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  You know, like what Civil War would need like A7 A7 year arc
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  TV show? Yeah, which is?
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  Yeah, which is crazy because the events of the events of Secret
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  Invasion is actually is actually more close to Civil war than
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  Civil War is civil war. Yeah, it's as somebody who's re
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  watching the MCU right now as like comfort food while I work.
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  Oh, hi, I haven't I haven't braved that.
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  Are you you watching everything or or just the movies or the?
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  TV, I'm watching the movies right now.
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  Well, I'm watching the movies right now.
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  But I did, I did pin Agent Carter and Agents of SHIELD to
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  my Disney Plus playlist or whatever you want to call it.
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  I'm going to, I'm going to try to give Agents of SHIELD another
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  go, Leron. OK.
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  Yeah, whatever. You know what?
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  You know what? You know what?
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  Honestly? You know what honestly pisses me
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  off about the whole Agents of SHIELD thing?
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  Is that they did the multiverse thing before the multiverse.
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  Only person. I was the only person I knew in
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  all my vast circles, you know, that actually watched it.
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  The only one, the only one that actually watched it, that
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  actually liked it. I don't.
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  I don't understand. I don't understand what the
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  people people will still will literally sit up here and watch
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  like and watch like 14 years of The Walking Dead but won't watch
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  but won't watch 6 1/2 years of of agents of shield.
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  Yeah, I, I've been wanting to watch it honestly, like for a
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  while. I just, I, I feel like I have
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  been trying to keep up with a lot of other things, but like,
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  because I have so much, I have so many things to do now that
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  don't require me to be like either on camera or like in the
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  office or whatever for work. Like I feel like I need that
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  background show, right? And I feel like, I feel like
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  Agents of SHIELD is just one of those shows where like I don't
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  have to be like my eyes glued to the screen the whole time to
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  understand what's going on. But I want to watch it, you know
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  what I mean? If you never watched it then
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  having a show on the. I I watched the first, I watched
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  the first like 10 episodes. I've never understood people
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  that do that. They're, they're like, I just
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  need something on the background.
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  So they put something on that they've never seen before and.
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  Then it's like, I do it all the time.
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  Wow, I can't. I can't.
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  I can't. Dude, you know how many?
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  Movies. You know how many movies?
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  Spoiler casts I've listened to without ever watching the movie.
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  And I just know all these things about movies because I've
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  listened to podcasts about them and never watched them.
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  OK, I, I mean, OK, I, I, I get that.
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  But I've, I've, I've always felt like if you, if you put
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  something on in the background, that means you have like, you
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  have like some intent to like watch it, you know?
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  Yeah, I mean, I do want to if you.
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  If you have the if you have the intent, just go ahead and make
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  the investment. Like I always put on, I always
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  put on stuff that I have already seen before.
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  That way, that way nothing can pull my attention away from
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  like, OK, if it's a background thing, it can't pull my
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  attention away from the stuff that's supposed to be like, you
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  know, paramount to like what I'm doing for that day.
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  Well, what I what I mean by background, right?
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  Iran is like I'm sitting on the couch with my laptop posting
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  clips to the youtube.com/phosphorus clips
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  channel, right? And it has, I'm generating the
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  captions, right? And waiting for them to process.
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  I will, I, I want something to watch while I'm waiting for it.
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  I'm not like running the vacuum or something, right?
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  I'm not like I'm over here and my TV is over there, right?
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  And it's just loud, right? Like, no, I'm sitting in front
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  of the TVI. Just stuff's gotta get uploaded,
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  man. These clips, people want to
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  comment how much, you know, Ed and I look like Morgan Freeman
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  and Fred Durst. So on our last episode for some
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  reason, Yeah, that was a comment.
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  That's a real. Comment It looks like Morgan
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  Freeman. Yeah, that was a real.
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  That was a real comment. Hold on.
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  Let me see if I can find it. I don't remember which show it
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  was on. Oh, my goodness.
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  Oh, someone also yelled at us saying that Xbox and PlayStation
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  going back to exclusives will help consoles sell too.
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  No they won't. No they won't.
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  Yeah, they will. I think I it'll, it'll give
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  people incentive to buy the consoles is what I'm saying.
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  OK, so. Nobody.
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  Nobody wants to come here. Nobody wants new consoles
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  though. That's the problem.
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  At the priced consoles are right now, you're telling me $180 game
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  is going to have you go out and spend $800.00 for a console?
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  No, I'm saying in general, in theory, exclusives help sell the
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  box. And I think the Xbox situation
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  proves that. I'm not saying, I'm not saying
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  people are going to go out and buy a $900 console.
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  I that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying on paper, when
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  consoles are normal prices, normal prices.
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  What's normal, what's normal? I don't think, I don't think
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  we're, I don't think we're ever going to go back to $500
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  consoles anymore. I don't think that's ever going
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  to happen. And this is me being an
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  optimist. This is me being an optimist.
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  I mean the, the, the $500 consoles, I mean the raw, the
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  raw Xbox alley is $500 right now.
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  Did you see that? Yeah, the basic one, the one
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  that no one gives a damn about. If if I got up here, if I got up
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  here on this podcast three months ago, if I got up on this
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  podcast three months ago and said do not spend your money on
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  any of the Xbox ROG allies, why would you buy one now at at the
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  price that it is at that price, at that sale price?
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  I'm not, I'm not buying one. I'm saying I saw it on sale.
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  Also Metroid. Metroid Prime 4 is half half
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  price today at GameStop. It's the deal of the day.
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  At GameStop. It's a new a new copyright.
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  I. Don't stop at GameStop, do.
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  We know it's new. Do we know it's new anymore?
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  I I don't. Know online?
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  The the BS, the BS that their that their CEO has put us
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  through like over the last three weeks, I don't trust it.
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  That sharp, that Sharpie, that Sharpie marker on that yellow
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  envelope with the cartridge inside that says new.
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  But but, but bear with me for a second here because this,
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  because I feel like I should have been here for that
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  conversation last week. Well, we're having it today.
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  OK. It's our main, it's it's our
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  main topic of the show, so. We'll we're going to get that
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  topic of conversation last week because I because I we.
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  We were, we were touching on it. We were touching on the because
• 20:52
  it was an kind of reported on that Xbox is looking at
• 20:58
  returning to exclusives and we were kind of talking about how,
• 21:03
  you know, if they're going to do it, they need to do it now sort
• 21:05
  of thing. OK, I'm going to, I'm going to
• 21:07
  hold my thoughts then. I'm going to hold my thoughts.
• 21:11
  Yeah. I haven't really like it's,
• 21:13
  it's, it's been, it's been, it's been a hell of a couple of weeks
• 21:16
  for me here. Like like, like I said, like I
• 21:18
  was off last week because because I had real life things
• 21:21
  going on. I really didn't play any video
• 21:23
  games at all last week. As a matter of fact, I think I
• 21:25
  turned, I think I turned on like, like an NES simulator and
• 21:28
  played some blind at Commando for like a little bit, Didn't
• 21:31
  even play half of the game and just turned that off.
• 21:33
  I did. I did really do any gaming TV
• 21:36
  shows. Yeah, like I said, just wrapped
• 21:38
  up The Boys, the season, the series finale.
• 21:41
  The show had a lot of ups and downs.
• 21:43
  Like there was definitely a whole bunch of jumping the shark
• 21:45
  stuff going on. I know like, 'cause there is,
• 21:49
  'cause you know, like they've made an expanded universe now,
• 21:51
  'cause, you know, like, 'cause you know, like now The Boys is
• 21:54
  over. And also.
• 21:59
  Generation B. Yeah, Gen.
• 22:00
  VS over, Gen. VS over, Gen.
• 22:03
  VS over because of a a couple of things.
• 22:05
  You know, Gen. VS over.
• 22:08
  There's two new shows coming up, Vaught Rising and another show
• 22:11
  that I'm that I forget that escapes me.
• 22:13
  So it's the Soulja. Boy one, right?
• 22:15
  That's the. That's Vaught rising.
• 22:17
  Yeah, OK. Yeah.
• 22:20
  I think that's Vaught Rising. Yeah.
• 22:22
  Well, anyway, yeah, all that's happening.
• 22:24
  So, you know, like now they have the VCU.
• 22:26
  So there you go. The the Vox and the Matic
• 22:29
  universe. Yep, they.
• 22:30
  Did so. So there's more.
• 22:32
  So there's more that stuff coming along.
• 22:34
  So just just be on the lookout for that.
• 22:36
  I started the I started that. I started that Showtime show
• 22:39
  Shameless. Me and my roommate are watching
• 22:41
  that. That show is unhinged.
• 22:44
  That show dude, that show's crazy.
• 22:45
  My wife and I watched like the first seven seasons of it and
• 22:48
  it's it like, yeah, it was so unhinged by like season 5 or 6.
• 22:53
  It made me uncomfortable watching them.
• 22:56
  That's like me and my roommate, we're in the middle of season 2
• 22:59
  and it just it, it like the crazy part was like we were
• 23:05
  watching it and my, and my roommate and I, we were like, it
• 23:08
  feels like it hit equilibrium. Like some of the stuff is not
• 23:10
  shocking. And as soon as we got that out
• 23:12
  of our mouths, like the shocking stuff came back and it came back
• 23:15
  and like triplicate. And it's like, Oh my God, like.
• 23:19
  It's it'll get you I've. Seen, I've, I've, I've seen TV
• 23:25
  shows doing, depicting dysfunctional families #1 how,
• 23:28
  how is the writing team, how's the writing team keeping track
• 23:31
  of all this stuff? I know this, this show's got 11
• 23:33
  seasons and there are 12 episode seasons.
• 23:36
  I know for sure this show's going to jump the shark at least
• 23:39
  seven times by the time I get to the end of it.
• 23:41
  There's there's yeah, I again, I only watched like the first six
• 23:46
  or seven seasons, but yeah, I would, you know, the first two
• 23:52
  seasons are. Changed hilarious though.
• 23:54
  The show's hilarious, though. I I won't give it that.
• 23:56
  Like there's there is never an episode.
• 23:58
  There's there's there's not been an episode yet where like where
• 24:02
  like if you don't get 5 laugh out loud moments in every
• 24:05
  episode, you're dead. You are a dead person.
• 24:09
  Yeah, the I had a huge crush on Emmy Rossum and that show, the
• 24:15
  main girl, the. Yeah, yeah.
• 24:17
  Yeah, Fiona. Yeah.
• 24:18
  Yeah. Yeah, you know, but what's crazy
• 24:21
  is like the. Dad is crazy too.
• 24:24
  Yeah, I like all the characters and, and even the dad is even
• 24:27
  the dad is jacked up. I mean, there are, there are a
• 24:30
  couple of characters that I can't be sympathetic for right
• 24:32
  now. Like the girl, like the girl Lip
• 24:34
  keeps chasing. Like I, I, I, I I I've tried.
• 24:39
  I'm tried. I understand.
• 24:40
  I understand why she's troubled. But at the same time, I'm like,
• 24:43
  no, like, I've I've lost sympathy.
• 24:45
  How's it that I've, how's that? I've gained sympathy for, for
• 24:48
  Frank and lost sympathy for this, this wayward girl.
• 24:52
  You know, that that makes that makes zero sense.
• 24:56
  Yeah. I don't know man.
• 24:57
  It's just that this show is crazy.
• 24:59
  You're going to flip flop 1000 times on every single character.
• 25:01
  I'm going to tell you. All I know for sure is I love, I
• 25:04
  love V and Steve. Not Steve.
• 25:06
  I'm sorry, V&V and Kevin, they're they're, they are the,
• 25:12
  they are the two most solid characters in the show.
• 25:16
  Yeah, dude, when I when I first saw that show, I'm like, is that
• 25:20
  the guy from Reba? Yeah, it is.
• 25:23
  It is, it is, but it was like, that's a.
• 25:27
  You know, Oh my God, the nudie is off.
• 25:28
  The the nudie's off the chain. Oh yeah, there's a lot.
• 25:32
  I'm, I'm glad I'm not, I'm glad I'm not a, a, a, a, a, a
• 25:37
  millennial or Gen. Z Cause like, cause like I've
• 25:40
  noticed there's this weird discourse going on now with like
• 25:44
  this, with like this young generation of people who are
• 25:47
  actually adults now where they're like, everything's too
• 25:50
  violent, everything's too sexually charged.
• 25:52
  Everything's all this. I'm like, OK, number one, number
• 25:56
  one, like, like this is the world.
• 26:00
  Like like you guys, y'all need to wake up to the fact that this
• 26:05
  stuff actually is happening in real life.
• 26:07
  I know it seems sensational when you watch it on television, but
• 26:11
  it is happening somewhere in the deepest, darkest corner of
• 26:13
  Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, where wherever and,
• 26:17
  and, and I know I just called a bunch of red states, but I
• 26:19
  guarantee that crap is happening in blue states too.
• 26:22
  This, this stuff, this is real life.
• 26:24
  This is, trust me, trust me, the reason why you feel like it's
• 26:29
  written by the imaginations of somebody in a writers room is
• 26:31
  because somebody in real life imagined this stuff and is doing
• 26:34
  it in real life. Y'all need to wake up.
• 26:37
  Y'all need to wake up because trust me.
• 26:39
  Like it could be a lot worse what you're seeing on TV and in
• 26:42
  movies and, and, and reading and hearing audio books and all this
• 26:45
  stuff. It could be a lot worse, you
• 26:46
  know, but but yeah, like, it's it, it, it, it, it's crazy.
• 26:54
  And I mean like this like TV and movie, TV and movies are
• 26:59
  definitely a way to get a look at the psychological thing, you
• 27:04
  know, look at everything. I mean, you know, you know, like
• 27:07
  we, we don't, we don't sit here and we don't think about some of
• 27:10
  the stuff like, OK, so like if we look at the, the, if we look
• 27:13
  at Shameless, like the actual cast of characters in Shameless,
• 27:17
  if we actually look at them for, for what they are based on,
• 27:21
  'cause these are, these are actors, these are actors and
• 27:23
  actresses that are of a certain age, portricting, portraying
• 27:26
  people of a certain age. You know, some of these are
• 27:30
  teenagers, some of these are preteen, some of these are
• 27:32
  babies, some of these are grown ass adults, some of them are
• 27:34
  geriatrics and stuff like that. You know, like, like, but guess
• 27:40
  what, this stuff is happening in real life to real 7 and 8 year
• 27:45
  olds, you know, boys and girls, old men and old women, you know,
• 27:51
  everywhere, black, white, Hispanic, Asian is happening to
• 27:57
  people everywhere. And, and, and the discourse is,
• 28:01
  is that you need to pay attention to this stuff so you
• 28:03
  know what to look out for in real life.
• 28:07
  Yep. It's also entertaining so be
• 28:10
  entertained and wake the hell up.
• 28:12
  You know? Like trust me, trust me.
• 28:16
  Y'all are people are saying like certain things are woke like you
• 28:20
  know like how like Star Trek got woke.
• 28:22
  No, like a show like Shameless is woke as fuck because
• 28:24
  Shameless is showing you for real what the world is like and
• 28:27
  you're not paying attention. Yeah, it's, it's also like the
• 28:33
  generation behind us to grew up with the Internet and all this
• 28:37
  stuff kind of readily available also, which is like, you know,
• 28:43
  we didn't have the Internet growing up until, you know, like
• 28:46
  the late 90s maybe. I feel like, I feel like you're
• 28:49
  going to need, I feel like you're going to need to censor
• 28:51
  this after I say it. But but but did the Internet
• 28:56
  pussyfy everybody? I mean, I mean, kinda, yeah.
• 29:00
  Have you been on Twitter lately or in the last decade?
• 29:03
  I'm on Twitter all the time. Oh by the way, by the way, my
• 29:07
  Facebook account got got got indefinitely suspended
• 29:09
  apparently, or I'm a bot or or I violated terms and conditions of
• 29:12
  Facebook somehow. We'll stop posting nudes.
• 29:15
  That's not what Facebook's for. It's called Facebook, not I.
• 29:18
  Don't do that on Facebook. It's for your face, Leron, not
• 29:22
  other body. Parts don't do that on Facebook.
• 29:26
  Not on Facebook. Facebook, man, it's weird.
• 29:31
  Yeah, weird stuff. So, so right now I'm in this
• 29:33
  weird. I'm in this weird place where
• 29:35
  like do I even want to like just start a new account?
• 29:38
  Like honestly Facebook is the reason why I got sick and tired
• 29:41
  of social media. Even though I'm on social media.
• 29:44
  Facebook is the reason why I'm sick and tired of social media.
• 29:47
  Yeah, it. I mean, Facebook isn't even like
• 29:49
  a real social media network anymore.
• 29:50
  It's just ads. Not anymore, no.
• 29:52
  It's. It's you know what I mean?
• 29:53
  Like their, their, their social network is, is Instagram and the
• 29:57
  you know, it's like. Yeah, like I already had a
• 30:01
  fundamental problem once I found out what they were doing with
• 30:04
  this, with our data and the stuff that we shared on the
• 30:07
  Internet. You know, I that, that, that
• 30:10
  gave me the biggest case of ick and that's been going on for
• 30:13
  like the last eight years now because we've known about this
• 30:16
  stuff. We've known about this stuff.
• 30:18
  Like this was a, this is a whole linchpin of, of, of a freaking
• 30:21
  of, of, of Obama's second term. When all this stuff was coming
• 30:24
  out, like judiciary, judiciary committees were happening and
• 30:27
  all this stuff behind how Facebook and social media was
• 30:29
  handling all of our information. And when all that stuff came
• 30:32
  out, I was like, this makes me feel so dirty.
• 30:34
  And you know, well, AI is going. To get AI is going to be even
• 30:37
  worse, like the way people want AI to be used, right?
• 30:39
  Like people that don't understand what it's useful for,
• 30:42
  right? Like I mean so.
• 30:46
  Yeah, more social commentary. I I know, I, I know our audience
• 30:49
  is eating this up tonight. They're like, man, what?
• 30:51
  When Ron's on one's night. But you know what?
• 30:53
  It it, this is life and welcome to.
• 30:56
  Where we're at, man, where we're at.
• 30:58
  Yeah, this is. It's crazy.
• 31:00
  It's crazy. And I just want to talk about
• 31:02
  video games. I'm sorry.
• 31:03
  Yeah, I, I just, yeah, I just want to talk about stuff that I
• 31:07
  enjoy and, and not be hated for it, you know what I mean?
• 31:12
  Like I, I just, I feel like which, you know, I, I've been
• 31:17
  playing South of midnight, Iran and.
• 31:20
  Oh, oh, another game. Another game that pissed people
• 31:23
  off. I so I actually like, really
• 31:31
  love this game. I've, I'm in chapter 3 right
• 31:33
  now. I've only played, I've played
• 31:35
  for about 3 hours. I'm really only about probably,
• 31:37
  it's probably only about an hour and a half in because I have to
• 31:40
  run around and look for things right?
• 31:42
  Like a like a real video game person does.
• 31:44
  Every corner I have to go into, every door I have to try to
• 31:48
  open, you know, all those things.
• 31:52
  But what I was, what I was telling Ed on Pow Block this
• 31:55
  weekend was it's really nice to see a game visit themes and
• 32:04
  subject matter that people want to amplify, but it's often
• 32:12
  forced or ham fisted or whatever, right?
• 32:15
  And it's really nice to see this take on, you know, Southern
• 32:20
  black culture, Bayou Louisiana kind of New Orleans vibe.
• 32:27
  It's really nice. And like the story's really
• 32:31
  cool. I think Hazel's an incredibly
• 32:34
  well acted character. The main character.
• 32:38
  I want to, I want to reach out to the voice actress and see if
• 32:41
  she'll come on a spotlight episode or something but that.
• 32:44
  Would be cool. That would be.
• 32:45
  Cool. I, I just I really love this
• 32:48
  game. It's it's funny, Hazel's mom
• 32:49
  actually reminds me of my ex girlfriend's mom quite a bit.
• 32:52
  The way she like the way she talks and like her like the way
• 32:56
  her hair is always wrapped up and like the way she inflects
• 33:00
  and stuff. It's really brought back a lot
• 33:02
  of memories from that. But yeah, I just, I don't, I
• 33:09
  really am enjoying the game. I love the and like, what really
• 33:12
  surprised me too is they showed, you know, this is, this isn't a
• 33:18
  spoiler. It's it's in the first like hour
• 33:21
  of the game. And it's literally what the game
• 33:23
  is based on. Like so the the whole thing, the
• 33:28
  whole premise of the game is she's a a a Weaver, which is
• 33:31
  like a, a, you know, in voodoo magic, kind of like the a magic
• 33:36
  wielder kind of healer type person, right?
• 33:40
  She rids the demons and and everything away from our world,
• 33:45
  but she doesn't know it. And she ends up getting these
• 33:47
  powers. But when she finds out how to
• 33:53
  use these powers or she can sense the weaves kind of coming
• 33:56
  through, right? Like the threads coming through,
• 33:59
  they show when they show certain aspects of it, of, of her
• 34:02
  ancestors, they're showing like runaway slaves and like
• 34:07
  different time periods. Yeah.
• 34:09
  And then like, wow, this is like really cool.
• 34:11
  And it's, it doesn't feel ham fisted or like, you know, flag
• 34:16
  waving. Look at us.
• 34:17
  We're showing this. It's like it, it feels like a a
• 34:22
  an expansion of the story that they're trying to tell.
• 34:24
  And it's really, I don't know, it felt kind of refreshing,
• 34:29
  especially with I haven't so I haven't played this game yet.
• 34:32
  I don't plan on it, but like all the discourse going on around
• 34:35
  mixtape, right that game mixtape.
• 34:37
  I know I. Know, I know, Jump.
• 34:41
  Out and like games, like Life is Strange and stuff, some of that
• 34:44
  stuff kind of feels forced and cringy and whatever.
• 34:47
  This doesn't feel like any of that.
• 34:48
  This just feels like they're this is the story they're
• 34:50
  telling. This is the back story in the
• 34:53
  history of her people, you know, And this is how we're gonna
• 34:57
  explain certain things. And it's like, that's that's
• 34:59
  nice. That's cool.
• 35:02
  And some of the side characters are really interesting, too.
• 35:04
  There's this like this trailer, this white guy, this big white
• 35:09
  guy living in the trailer down the street from her named Bo.
• 35:12
  And he's like always drunk. And his dog is he, he like, goes
• 35:16
  out of his way to say that his dog's not the one pooping in
• 35:18
  everybody's yard. And his dog is a gentleman and
• 35:21
  he wouldn't do that. It's pretty funny.
• 35:25
  The combat's pretty cool too. It kind of feels like, it almost
• 35:30
  feels like a slower version of something like Devil May Cry or
• 35:34
  Bayonetta. And then you have your kind of
• 35:39
  press X to do the finishing move type thing.
• 35:44
  And so it's kind of it's kind of cool.
• 35:46
  I'm I'm really enjoying it a lot.
• 35:48
  Like I can't wait to play more after everything's finished.
• 35:54
  So I'm I'm actually kind of shocked at how much I'm enjoying
• 35:57
  it right now. It's also not insanely
• 36:00
  difficult, which is kind of nice at the moment.
• 36:03
  Yeah, yeah, I've, I've heard a lot of people say it's not, it's
• 36:05
  not a difficult game to to get into and play.
• 36:08
  Yeah, so it kind of, it kind of reminds me a little bit of like
• 36:13
  old school God of War 2, like God of War three a little bit.
• 36:19
  So yeah, I I recommend it. Obviously it's on Game Pass Zone
• 36:24
  Switch, PC, PlayStation. So and then I've also been
• 36:30
  playing a little bit more marathon.
• 36:31
  And like I said, I've been, I've been, I've been zooming through
• 36:34
  the MCU, Laurent the last week and 1/2.
• 36:39
  When we talk, when we talk next week, I will I will have started
• 36:42
  Pragmata. Nice.
• 36:46
  Yeah, I really liked that demo. And then I got sucked into South
• 36:48
  of Midnight and I was like, well I'm already into this game I
• 36:50
  should probably play this now. So man dude, I I forgot how like
• 37:00
  Speaking of the MCU, like how remember how amped we all were
• 37:05
  for the first Avengers movie and how quaint it feels compared to
• 37:08
  everything else that came afterwards?
• 37:10
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 37:13
  Honestly, honestly, honestly, Marvel MCU phases one through 3
• 37:18
  was amazing in my opinion. I don't feel like, I do feel
• 37:22
  like there were a few projects there that felt like filler and
• 37:25
  stuff like that, but it was as as, as someone that's into that
• 37:29
  type of geekdom, like, like, you know, yeah, it was, you know,
• 37:33
  like it was a wonderful time. I think once we, I think once we
• 37:38
  got into phase four and we started with the, I mean, we
• 37:40
  started with the TV shows. Not saying anything is wrong
• 37:42
  with the TV shows, not saying that I feel like we got
• 37:46
  overloaded. We got overloaded, over
• 37:48
  stimulated. Uh huh.
• 37:50
  And what it didn't help that they it just still kind of feels
• 37:53
  like they never really had a plan for those phases either
• 37:56
  afterwards, right? Yeah, Like, yeah.
• 38:00
  What was the first movie after End Game?
• 38:03
  Was it Spider Man? Was the first one?
• 38:05
  Yeah, it was not. Far from home.
• 38:08
  Far from home, yeah. Yeah, like that felt like, OK,
• 38:12
  well, Peter's clearly dealing with, you know, the loss of, of
• 38:16
  Tony or whatever. But then like, and then they did
• 38:23
  what Black Widow, which was, I mean, still like.
• 38:27
  Black Widow was a good movie. Yeah, I agree.
• 38:30
  I liked it a lot, but it was like, I feel like that movie
• 38:34
  should have came out before end game, you know, like.
• 38:38
  You saw? Well, well, if any.
• 38:40
  And the book, but the book ends were just introducing
• 38:43
  characters, right? Essentially.
• 38:44
  Yeah, if you, yeah, if you saw them, if you, if, if you watch
• 38:48
  the movie, this is, and this is for the audience, 'cause I know
• 38:50
  you watch the movie, Corey. That movie definitely took place
• 38:53
  between the events of of, of Civil War and End Game.
• 38:57
  They should have just found a place to put it in there.
• 38:59
  As a matter of fact, they could have ran Black Widow.
• 39:01
  They could have ran Black Widow the same time they were running
• 39:05
  Captain Marvel. Yeah, that's probably when it
• 39:08
  should have come out. That's probably, yeah.
• 39:10
  That's honestly when it should have came out.
• 39:14
  And I, I mean, I don't, I don't really understand why it didn't
• 39:17
  except for the fact that like, did they, were they even
• 39:20
  thinking about a black, a Black Widow movie at that point?
• 39:23
  I feel like they never really considered it.
• 39:25
  And, and you know, like, you know, like Scarlett Johansson,
• 39:29
  because she was executive, she was executive producer for it.
• 39:31
  She had this, she had to like launch a lawsuit to get to get
• 39:36
  the thing to get the thing it like, cause, because like it was
• 39:39
  supposed to be in theaters. And then they're like, Nope,
• 39:41
  we're gonna, we're gonna put it on Disney Plus, which, you know,
• 39:43
  like. Well, it came out during the
• 39:45
  pandemic too, though that was the other thing.
• 39:47
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. And like defend Disney and and I
• 39:52
  wanna say, wasn't that the movie to start the whole start the
• 39:55
  whole like like, like spend 30 bucks, 35 bucks to rent this
• 40:00
  movie. And you know, for like these for
• 40:02
  like these few weeks. And the thing you know is like,
• 40:04
  you know, like, you know, like you can only play it like for
• 40:07
  for a certain amount of hours, you know?
• 40:10
  Yeah, you could. You could essentially watch the
• 40:12
  movie twice in two weeks and then in two.
• 40:15
  Weeks. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 40:17
  I was like, man, I was like, I was like #1 I had Disney Plus
• 40:22
  subscription, but I there was no way they were going to get an
• 40:24
  extra $35 out of me just to watch this movie when I knew it
• 40:27
  was going to be available like a month later.
• 40:30
  Yeah. There's just so much, there was
• 40:35
  just so much wrong. But yeah, like, but yeah,
• 40:37
  honestly, by the time we got into Phase Five in the MCU, like
• 40:41
  I was, I was really, I was really running on fumes at that
• 40:44
  point. There are still there are still
• 40:45
  projects in the MCU that I have not I have not seen yet.
• 40:50
  I haven't seen Fantastic Four. I haven't seen, I haven't seen
• 40:55
  Fantastic Four. I never saw.
• 40:56
  I never saw Eternals. So I I hated Fantastic Four.
• 41:02
  I thought it was so boring. I was so bored the whole time.
• 41:04
  It looked like it was. It looked like it was a boring
• 41:06
  movie. I'll tell you what was good
• 41:09
  though. Thunderbolts was really good.
• 41:11
  Thunderbolts. Yeah, I haven't seen that.
• 41:14
  Thunderbolts was good. I'm trying to think of all those
• 41:16
  kind of I. Haven't seen I haven't seen that
• 41:18
  because of all this all the shit talking people did about Captain
• 41:20
  America, Brave New world. That kind of pissed me off.
• 41:23
  The movie. I the movie I enjoyed the the
• 41:26
  way the way we also we also. Are the only two people on the
• 41:29
  planet that apparently like Secret Invasion?
• 41:31
  So you know, like what I and you know, I'm telling you the only
• 41:37
  reason why people did not like Secret Invasion is 'cause they
• 41:39
  found out the intro scene was made by generative AI.
• 41:42
  I'm telling you, that's the only reason.
• 41:44
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, because Secret Invasion, in my opinion, was a
• 41:47
  very was a very solid series. Was a very solid series.
• 41:51
  The I only have one I only have one gripe about that show and
• 41:55
  they killed off one of my favorite characters in the
• 41:57
  entire MCU. Maria Hill.
• 42:00
  Yes, Yeah, Yeah. As my one gripe about that show.
• 42:04
  And guess what, the fact that I even got to see her in a, you
• 42:08
  know, on screen, I was happy, you know, Yeah, You know, but
• 42:14
  but yeah, like, I mean, you know, I, I will.
• 42:17
  I will. I will say this.
• 42:18
  I've always felt like everything that was centered in the Captain
• 42:21
  America shield side of the story, of the storytelling for
• 42:25
  the MCU has always been my favorite thing.
• 42:28
  Yeah, has always been my favorite thing.
• 42:30
  It definitely always been my. It just feels.
• 42:33
  Like in The Winter Soldier, Oh my God, that is one of the best.
• 42:38
  That is one of the best projects they did on NCU television.
• 42:44
  Yeah. I would also say Thunderbolts
• 42:46
  kind of falls into that. Good.
• 42:48
  I did. I need to see.
• 42:49
  I need to do myself a favor and do that and see that.
• 42:52
  Yeah, yeah, I, I, I like the grounded stuff more than the,
• 42:58
  than the like cosmic stuff or like the, you know, kind of the
• 43:03
  artsy whatever kind of stuff, right.
• 43:05
  Like, I, I really like the grounded stuff the best.
• 43:09
  As somebody who's made it all the way up to the the first
• 43:12
  Spider Man movie now over the last two weeks, you know, I
• 43:19
  even, man, I don't know, I even I'm, I'm on, I'm, I'm like
• 43:26
  halfway through Ragnarok right now, Thor Ragnarok.
• 43:28
  And it's like. I never saw the 4th movie, The
• 43:31
  4th Thor I still. Don't I still don't know if I
• 43:33
  like Thor Ragnarok? Blood and Thunder, is that what
• 43:36
  it's called? Love and Thunder, yeah.
• 43:38
  Love and Thunder, thank you. Yeah, I still don't know if I
• 43:41
  like Thor Ragnarok. I like Thor Ragnarok.
• 43:45
  I feel like, I feel like, I feel like it was such a departure
• 43:49
  from the previous two movies, though, that you know, like I
• 43:51
  don't know how I feel about it, you know, but I actually like
• 43:54
  the movie overall. And also because I did not, I
• 43:59
  did not like the original Thor, the first Thor movie.
• 44:01
  I feel like Thor to Dark World was a better movie.
• 44:04
  But, you know, everybody looks at me like I've lost my mind
• 44:07
  when I say that. But I feel like Thor to Dark
• 44:08
  World was a was a was a more solid movie.
• 44:11
  Look, I prefer non bleached eyebrows on Chris Hebsworth that
• 44:14
  I did remember when they did that to his eyebrows.
• 44:18
  Yeah, gosh, Oh my gosh. And then Natalie Portman when
• 44:23
  she, when she sees him transform into Thor for the first time,
• 44:25
  like in the costume the first time at like when he's fighting
• 44:28
  the the destroyer at the end or whatever.
• 44:30
  And she says, Oh my God. I'm like, Oh my gosh, that's the
• 44:34
  cheesiest line I've ever heard in my life.
• 44:39
  But whatever, it's fine, who cares?
• 44:41
  I I also like my, I really like the first Captain America movie.
• 44:47
  Also, my one complaint is like, the whole thing is like, it
• 44:51
  feels really grounded in like a nice like period peace superhero
• 44:56
  movie until you get to Red Skull's obnoxiously, hilariously
• 45:01
  long car, just how long that car is.
• 45:05
  And it's like it doesn't fit at all in any of this, you know?
• 45:09
  Like it really doesn't fit at all in the.
• 45:15
  But man, what a Red Skull man, what a scary character that is.
• 45:21
  I wouldn't call him scary. No, I just meant like the whole
• 45:24
  concept of like he's so evil that his skin peels off and
• 45:29
  reveals a red, literal red skull.
• 45:31
  It's creepy. But yeah, I I still think I
• 45:36
  really liked Captain America. Brave New World too though.
• 45:42
  Harrison Ford, man. I liked, I liked all the Captain
• 45:45
  America projects. I, I really did.
• 45:47
  I liked, I liked all of them. So from some Captain America to
• 45:51
  The Winter Soldier to Civil War to Brave New World, you know.
• 45:55
  Still still waiting on the the Disney Plus show where he
• 45:59
  returns all the Infinity stones. Is that thing.
• 46:05
  It dude, that show's been rumoured for so long.
• 46:08
  Oh see, I hadn't heard anything about that.
• 46:10
  That's been that's been rumored since before Disney Plus was
• 46:12
  even a thing. Oh.
• 46:15
  Like it at first it was rumored to be a movie and then it was,
• 46:20
  you know, a show and then it was like, now it's just people
• 46:23
  making creepy AI posters for it and it's like, Miss, come on,
• 46:28
  guys. Anyways, MCU, man, it was, it
• 46:34
  was a, it was a time. It was first 3 phases, man, it
• 46:38
  was a time. But I'm excited because I've
• 46:42
  only seen Black Panther once and I'm going to watch it next.
• 46:47
  I've seen I can't. I've seen that a few times.
• 46:51
  I've seen that a few times. I don't remember anything about
• 46:55
  it except that his suit turns purple for some reason.
• 46:59
  It's the only thing I remember. And then he hops on.
• 47:01
  He he like jumps on top of a car at one point.
• 47:05
  Yeah. But we'll see.
• 47:11
  You know what movies I don't like that everybody likes are
• 47:14
  the Guardians of the Galaxy movies.
• 47:17
  I like the first one. The second one was bullshit, the
• 47:21
  third one was good. I I I do not like them.
• 47:27
  I tried, I tried, tried, I just. You know what, maybe I need to
• 47:32
  rewatch the first one because I have because I because because I
• 47:35
  want to. Say, the first one's much better
• 47:38
  than the second one, but I still just, I'm like, if I never watch
• 47:41
  these again, I think I'll be all right.
• 47:44
  Yeah, I'm not really. Yeah, I, I, I can, I can also
• 47:47
  say, and I don't know, I I don't know why.
• 47:51
  I don't know why I feel like they're so weak.
• 47:53
  I mean, James Gunn is a phenomenal director.
• 47:56
  I don't know why I feel like they're weak, you know?
• 47:59
  Yeah, I don't know. I don't.
• 48:00
  And I actually like the Guardians of the Galaxy comic
• 48:02
  books, so I don't understand, like, why I like these.
• 48:05
  I feel like Ant Man resonated with me better than Guardians of
• 48:08
  the Galaxy did. Yeah, Ant Man's fun.
• 48:11
  The first one's really fun. Yeah, yeah.
• 48:15
  Except for that awful wig that Evangeline Willi's wearing in
• 48:19
  the entire movie. Yeah, Oh my.
• 48:21
  Gosh, who? Who is who?
• 48:23
  Who thought that was a good idea?
• 48:26
  Who thought nobody will notice? That looks great.
• 48:30
  Oh my gosh that wig was so bad. Dude.
• 48:32
  The cut like the square cut, bang and.
• 48:34
  The sad part and the sad part is anytime I see that hairstyle on
• 48:38
  a woman, I already know it's a wig.
• 48:41
  Yeah, anytime I see the hairstyle on a woman.
• 48:43
  Yeah, it's not a real hairstyle. Like one of my favorite, one of
• 48:47
  my favorite characters in Tekken, her name is Anna
• 48:49
  Williams and she has that hairstyle.
• 48:51
  And every time, every time my every time I go into I, I
• 48:56
  immediately go into the character character
• 48:58
  customization thing and I change her hair because I cannot stand
• 49:01
  that hairstyle. Yeah, it's like, what, what,
• 49:05
  what what's going on here? It's, you know why we, I think
• 49:07
  we think it's a wig is because in every movie where a woman
• 49:10
  dresses up in disguise, that's the haircut she has.
• 49:12
  And it's always a wig. It's always a wig.
• 49:15
  It's usually, it's usually black or red, right?
• 49:17
  Like that's the that's the wig. Or like Auburn Brown, you know,
• 49:20
  Yeah. It's like we, we, everybody
• 49:24
  knows it's, it's the same. It's the same thing when, like
• 49:27
  that scene in in Civil War where where Cap and and Sam are
• 49:35
  sitting at the bar with baseball caps and sunglasses on.
• 49:39
  It's like, that's just we, we know you're trying to be in
• 49:43
  disguise. OK, We may not know who you are,
• 49:45
  but you look, you look suspicious, guys.
• 49:49
  Come on. Yeah.
• 49:50
  Everybody knows, everybody knows the baseball cap is the is the
• 49:53
  disguise, so. I don't know, I guess.
• 49:58
  I guess the same. I guess the same way no one
• 50:00
  knows Clark Kent Superman when he has his glasses on.
• 50:03
  Yeah, So you know what's funny about that?
• 50:05
  I saw a meme the other day of a woman who had glasses on and
• 50:11
  then there's a picture right next to her without her glasses
• 50:14
  on. And somebody said, I can see why
• 50:17
  people can't tell Clark Kent is Superman because she looks
• 50:19
  totally different, but it's the same person.
• 50:20
  But I don't know what it. I don't.
• 50:22
  I can't remember what it is or who it was.
• 50:25
  So anyways, not important, I guess.
• 50:31
  Know what is important though. Le Ron, let's talk about.
• 50:37
  We like to talk about video games here, sort of.
• 50:39
  Sometimes we have a couple topics.
• 50:43
  Oh, wait, you know what, Le Ron? Why don't you, why don't you
• 50:45
  tell us what's on the DL this week?
• 50:47
  Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can do that.
• 50:49
  I can do that. The DL, the download, the games
• 50:51
  you can buy. The big games you can buy.
• 50:54
  Yeah all right, so this is on the DL.
• 50:58
  The upcoming games coming out for for this week, Memorial
• 51:04
  Memorial Day week. So let's get started on this all
• 51:07
  right, so I can already tell you right now this game, my most
• 51:10
  anticipated game, I will be getting it day one.
• 51:13
  We've got on the 27th Double O 7 first light coming out of the
• 51:17
  PlayStation 5, Xbox Series consoles and the PC.
• 51:20
  Guess what? Guess what?
• 51:21
  Guess where I'm getting it at? Guess what platform?
• 51:24
  You're waiting for that Switch 2 version at the end of the
• 51:25
  summer. We know.
• 51:26
  Yes, yes. Which apparently has been
• 51:29
  cancelled I think. It's it's not cancelled.
• 51:31
  They came out and specifically said we're not pulling a
• 51:33
  Borderlands 4. It is coming out.
• 51:36
  There we go. OK.
• 51:36
  All right. The CEO said.
• 51:38
  The CEO is like, I, I don't work for Take Two.
• 51:41
  I will make sure this game comes out.
• 51:43
  I was like. Whoa.
• 51:44
  So in Double Spider in 77 First Light, it is your turn to earn
• 51:49
  the number. First light is a thrilling
• 51:51
  espionage accident adventure game from IO Interactive.
• 51:55
  You know that that little team that was that was behind that
• 51:57
  little game called Hitman, that franchise.
• 52:01
  All right, all right. In First Light You you follow
• 52:03
  James Bond as a young, resourceful and sometimes
• 52:06
  reckless recruit in MI 6's training program and discover
• 52:09
  the origin of the world's most famous spy, Corey.
• 52:17
  Can't wait. I've been looking, I've been
• 52:19
  looking forward to this game because I've needed the game
• 52:21
  that's that was going to fill the gap that was left by
• 52:24
  Uncharted. I need this.
• 52:28
  Yeah, it looks great. Man, I can't wait.
• 52:30
  I cannot wait. Especially now that like, there
• 52:34
  are rumors swirling around that that Marvel, that Captain
• 52:37
  America Black Panther game might be in trouble, which is Amy
• 52:42
  Hennig's next game. It's like, man, I, I I can't
• 52:46
  wait for this. I was I was going to get it on
• 52:49
  switch 2, but I can't wait that long.
• 52:54
  I can't wait. I'm going to I'm going to get it
• 52:55
  on Xbox and just plop it down here we go double O 7 can't
• 53:00
  wait. We've got.
• 53:01
  We've got 2 entries coming up on May the 28th.
• 53:03
  The first one is Echo Generation 2 for the Xbox Series, consoles
• 53:06
  and PC. In Echo Generation 2 you embark
• 53:08
  on a sci-fi deck building RPG Odyssey, your favorite type of
• 53:12
  game. Corey.
• 53:14
  Day one. Build your crew, master powerful
• 53:17
  decks and uncover the truth behind a growing cosmic threat.
• 53:21
  Deal the cards, defy the cosmos and embrace the future.
• 53:24
  And then also on May the 28th, we have Pictonico for iOS and
• 53:29
  Android. Pictonico is a free to start
• 53:32
  mobile game by Nintendo that transforms your smartphone
• 53:35
  photos into hilarious Wario Wear style micro games.
• 53:39
  No, thank you. It is a, it is a, it is a mobile
• 53:43
  game. By the way, everybody from
• 53:44
  Nintendo, it is a mobile game, so.
• 53:48
  Yeah, players manipulate pictures of themselves and their
• 53:51
  loved ones via the touch screen to survive absurd challenges
• 53:53
  like zombie attacks, carnival games, and quirky costume
• 53:57
  changes. I guarantee you some people are
• 53:59
  going to abuse this with the stuff that's in their photo
• 54:01
  roll, but you know what? Who am I to judge?
• 54:06
  And then lastly, on May the 29th, we have Mina the Hollywood
• 54:10
  coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series consoles Switch and
• 54:13
  Switch to and the PC. In this game, you take control
• 54:16
  of Mina, a renowned hollower hurdle into a desperate mission
• 54:20
  to rescue a cursed island, whip foes, Burrow through the ground
• 54:24
  and explore pixel perfect that a I'm sorry.
• 54:26
  Explore a pixel perfect world in Mina the Hollower, a brand new
• 54:29
  game from developers who brought to you Shovel Knight.
• 54:34
  Mina Hollower's gonna do good, but Double O 7 is where it's at.
• 54:38
  Yeah, the thing about Mina though, it's only 20 bucks.
• 54:41
  I'm, I'm kind of surprised it's that cheap.
• 54:43
  I'm going to be honest with you like.
• 54:44
  I I thought it would be a 30 or $40 game.
• 54:47
  I, I mean, Shovel Knight on switch is $40.00.
• 54:50
  So, well, I mean, I guess you get that full package with all
• 54:54
  the campaigns and the card game and the, and the multiplayer
• 54:58
  stuff. But still, like I would have
• 55:00
  thought that this was, I don't know.
• 55:03
  I would, I would have bet at least $30, which I still would
• 55:06
  have paid for it, right? I mean, I'm not, but they're
• 55:10
  they're giving you a steal. Go support Nina.
• 55:15
  We need Yacht Club to make more games, specifically Shovel
• 55:18
  Knight 64. Some chop chop well.
• 55:21
  There you have it, those are your new Noble games coming out
• 55:24
  for the week. 4 or 4 tiles to pick from.
• 55:27
  Please hit us up. Hit us up in our various chats
• 55:30
  or or on Discord. Let us know what game you're
• 55:33
  most looking forward to and we'd love to talk to you about it as
• 55:37
  we go along. So yeah, looks like Pragmata as
• 55:40
  well as Double O 7 will have to be like games I talked about.
• 55:44
  Yep, I can't wait. I'm I'm really excited for
• 55:46
  Double O Seven. Yeah, yeah, that's with my son.
• 55:50
  Something something about me, I've always been, I've always
• 55:52
  been a very big James Bond fan. So the fact that we're actually
• 55:58
  getting getting a double O 7. Game We might get a cast
• 56:01
  announcement soon, do you see that?
• 56:05
  Yeah. Who, who you, who you thinking
• 56:07
  it is? I, I think, I think it's going
• 56:08
  to be, what's his name? Which was Henry Cavill.
• 56:13
  Huh. I wish it was Henry Cavill.
• 56:16
  Yeah, it's not going to be Henry Cavill.
• 56:18
  I know they said they wanted to play Bond for at least three to
• 56:20
  five movies. I'm like, yeah, that's going to.
• 56:23
  Be that's going to be watching McCall Aaron Aaron Taylor
• 56:26
  Johnson, which I'm I'm all right with because because technically
• 56:29
  they shouldn't kill them off in the MCU.
• 56:33
  Man, I. I don't buy him as as James Bond
• 56:39
  though. I I I can get behind it.
• 56:42
  I mean, my pick was Idris Elba. I mean that was my pick too but
• 56:48
  it was the my. My 2 picks were Aegis, Alba and
• 56:51
  and and Henry Cavill but. Clearly racist Brits.
• 56:56
  I I mean, I mean I mean semantics got in the way of
• 56:59
  that. Man, do I have to put a do I
• 57:02
  have to put AEU political ad sticker on this video now since
• 57:07
  you said that? All right, our, our listeners,
• 57:15
  our listeners in the United Kingdom know exactly, exactly
• 57:18
  what I'm talking about. Or the, the people who, the
• 57:20
  people who listen to this show and when watch this show, you
• 57:24
  know, in, in the EU and in and in Great Britain, they know
• 57:28
  exactly what I'm talking about. Like they don't have a problem
• 57:30
  with what I'm talking about. Do they even know what you're
• 57:36
  talking about? Well, let's put it this way, the
• 57:38
  people who have the Simmons about why Aegis Elba it should
• 57:42
  not be James Bond are also the people who helped who helped
• 57:45
  bring about Brexit. So food for thought.
• 57:49
  I don't want to. Remember, I don't.
• 57:51
  I don't live there. Remember, remember, if you don't
• 57:54
  fuck with politics, politics will fuck with you.
• 57:57
  All right, let's talk about some games.
• 57:59
  All right, let's, let's do it. All right Lauren, big news this
• 58:04
  week, PlayStation announced the PC pull back and they're going
• 58:09
  to leave leave some PC players behind for their.
• 58:11
  Oh, you mean this thing we knew? This thing we knew about four
• 58:14
  months because of Jason Shrider's big mouth.
• 58:16
  Yeah, for years, PC gaming. I don't know why I said it like
• 58:23
  that. PC gaming has avoided the kind
• 58:25
  of problem that platform wars that define console, the console
• 58:30
  space. Whether you preferred Steam,
• 58:32
  Epic Game Store, or another launcher, most major titles
• 58:35
  eventually found their way to PC, including blockbuster
• 58:38
  PlayStation games like It Goes to Sushima and Marvel Spider
• 58:42
  Man. But that openness may be
• 58:45
  changing. Reports from Jason Schreyer over
• 58:47
  at Bloomberg and comments from Herman Holst suggest Sony is
• 58:53
  shifting away from bringing single player narrative
• 58:56
  experiences to PC at launch, or possibly at all.
• 59:00
  While the strategy makes sense from a hardware and ecosystem
• 59:04
  perspective as Sony looks towards the future of
• 59:06
  PlayStation, it's still disappointing for PC players who
• 59:09
  value higher frame rates, portable game or portable play
• 59:13
  on devices like Steam Deck, and the freedom to enjoy these games
• 59:17
  outside of a closed console ecosystem.
• 59:21
  La Ron, you're the, you're the PC guy.
• 59:23
  You're the raw ally guy. Feeling all right about this?
• 59:28
  I'm pissed. I'm pissed because in all
• 59:32
  seriousness, even though I have PlayStation five, my PlayStation
• 59:34
  5, the only time I PlayStation 5 gets turned on most days is when
• 59:38
  I have company over or you know, when one of my military buddies
• 59:42
  is, you know it, you know, in town on leave and I let him
• 59:45
  borrow it. I let him borrow it, you know,
• 59:47
  so with that, my P my my PS-5 is it was was designed exclusively.
• 59:54
  Well, I got my PS-5 because of my commitment to my commitment
• 59:58
  to being a a video games journalist and slash podcaster
• 1:00:01
  and content creator, as well as, you know, like for absolute
• 1:00:06
  exclusives. When Sony started, when Sony
• 1:00:09
  introduced that PlayStation like you know, first party games
• 1:00:13
  would show up on PCI was 1. I'm APC gamer.
• 1:00:16
  I was already waiting 3 or 4 years for certain games to come
• 1:00:19
  out, like Grand Theft Auto 5 on the PC, you know, So, yeah, so I
• 1:00:25
  was already ready to wait for like upwards of two years for
• 1:00:29
  like Spider Man, Ghost, Sushima, Returnal, you know, like those
• 1:00:33
  games that show up on PC, you know, it was guaranteed money.
• 1:00:36
  It was guaranteed money that I was going to spend, you know,
• 1:00:38
  versus money that I may not spend, you know, on that place,
• 1:00:42
  on that six, that $600.00 brick. And I'm calling it brick
• 1:00:46
  lovingly because my PlayStation 5 works.
• 1:00:48
  It works fine. But but ultimately, something
• 1:00:54
  about this just doesn't feel right because they're saying
• 1:00:57
  first party, first party is going to sell first party, first
• 1:01:02
  party games are going to sell more consoles, which on paper
• 1:01:06
  that on paper that sounds very true.
• 1:01:09
  But for the most part, for the most part, we are now getting
• 1:01:13
  into a getting into a world where there was a time when, you
• 1:01:17
  know, like everybody had, where like the majority of gamers
• 1:01:21
  there was, there was either a PlayStation or an Xbox in the
• 1:01:25
  household and a Nintendo console.
• 1:01:28
  And the only time that deviated is if APC was involved, their PC
• 1:01:32
  was involved. There was APC involved and maybe
• 1:01:35
  one of the, maybe one of the, maybe one of the Microsoft or
• 1:01:38
  PlayStation machines was in there and possibly a Nintendo
• 1:01:41
  machine was in there. But then the world kind of
• 1:01:45
  changed and you know, because of because of cost and expense, you
• 1:01:49
  know, with PCs, for example, like building APC, building APC
• 1:01:53
  is not building a gaming PC is not cheap.
• 1:01:55
  I know this, I know this. I, I work, I work in IT and one
• 1:01:58
  of my specialties is I built custom computers for people,
• 1:02:00
  including gaming. P CS.
• 1:02:02
  I know they're, I know they're not cheap.
• 1:02:04
  And when you do get a cheap one, you are very fortunate and lucky
• 1:02:08
  if it plays 1080P1080P up to 120 frames per second with no
• 1:02:13
  issues. You're very you're very lucky
• 1:02:15
  and fortunate if you get one of those because nowadays, nowadays
• 1:02:18
  PC gaming is an investment. But guess what?
• 1:02:20
  PC gaming was always an investment.
• 1:02:22
  It was always an investment. Doesn't matter how far back you
• 1:02:24
  you look at it. So PC gamers learned a long time
• 1:02:30
  ago that we had to be patient and wait for PC ports of these
• 1:02:34
  console games if we were not willing to spend, you know, like
• 1:02:38
  the extra amount of money for consoles.
• 1:02:40
  And let's look at this now PlayStation, just hike the price
• 1:02:43
  of PlayStation Plus. They, this is, and this is a few
• 1:02:46
  months after hiking the price of the PlayStation console.
• 1:02:50
  You know, Microsoft upped their price.
• 1:02:53
  Nintendo just upped their price. Consoles are getting more
• 1:02:55
  expensive. And guess what?
• 1:02:57
  Games are also getting more expensive.
• 1:03:00
  There's a thing in the news right now.
• 1:03:01
  We're like, we're like investments investment.
• 1:03:04
  Investment banking is trying to force Rockstar to hitch up the
• 1:03:09
  price point of GTA 6 because overall it will make more money
• 1:03:15
  for investors. I mean I and it won't.
• 1:03:18
  Be I think the base version of that game's coming out at $80.
• 1:03:23
  What's? And there's gonna be 100,
• 1:03:25
  there's gonna be $150.00 version of that game, you know that?
• 1:03:27
  Yeah. The $150.00 version of that game
• 1:03:30
  is probably gonna be like a a a limited edition.
• 1:03:33
  No, it's gonna be you get money, shark cards or whatever.
• 1:03:37
  It's not even gonna be anything tangible.
• 1:03:43
  Basically, I saw this, I saw this in the headline somewhere,
• 1:03:48
  and I'm starting to believe it. The gaming industry, the gaming
• 1:03:52
  industry is going to shrink. It's going to shrink because
• 1:03:56
  number one, we're being priced out of gaming.
• 1:03:59
  We're being priced out of gaming on 2 fronts.
• 1:04:02
  We're being pressed out on software.
• 1:04:03
  And you know what? Kudos to Nintendo for change,
• 1:04:06
  for apparently they're going to universally change the price
• 1:04:08
  point of all their games real soon.
• 1:04:10
  Here they already. They already did.
• 1:04:12
  Yoshi's the first one. Their digital games are $10
• 1:04:15
  cheaper. Starfox is always.
• 1:04:19
  Wait, I thought. I thought it's well it.
• 1:04:23
  Digital. Wait, digital is cheaper and
• 1:04:25
  physical is still regular price? Yeah.
• 1:04:29
  OK, OK, OK. I thought it was I, I, I I
• 1:04:32
  thought I heard some somewhere that across the board it was all
• 1:04:35
  getting lowered. Well, it's.
• 1:04:37
  A debate Nintendo says they can only control first party, but
• 1:04:40
  they encourage third parties to do the same.
• 1:04:42
  OK, OK. Yeah, but but consumers are
• 1:04:47
  being consumers are being priced out of consumers are being
• 1:04:50
  priced out of the entertainment. And entertainment is how
• 1:04:54
  entertainment is, how people forget about some of the worries
• 1:04:57
  of the world that's going on around them.
• 1:04:59
  You know, like crap. We have the United States has
• 1:05:02
  embroiled in in a conflict that nobody asked for, nobody asked
• 1:05:06
  for, you know, and it's making things a lot difficult for us
• 1:05:09
  right now. Like, shoot, I drove fast.
• 1:05:11
  It's hard. To even drive to work.
• 1:05:13
  Yeah, I know, right. Yeah, Like I, yeah, like I was,
• 1:05:17
  I was, I was kind of reeling from the fact that, you know,
• 1:05:21
  like earlier today when I was out because like I do AI do AI
• 1:05:25
  do I'm, I'm pretty mobile for my work because like, because like
• 1:05:28
  one of the things I do is I also go and attend, you know, like,
• 1:05:31
  like like small businesses and offices and stuff that we have
• 1:05:33
  service contracts with and stuff like that.
• 1:05:36
  This morning, this morning at I want to say like 11 something I
• 1:05:40
  drove past, I drove past a gas station and gas was advertised
• 1:05:45
  at 4:27. And this is this is in my area
• 1:05:48
  of Virginia. I know gas is kind.
• 1:05:50
  I know gas prices are crazy all over the place, right?
• 1:05:53
  So I drove past that place somewhere between 11:00 and
• 1:05:55
  12:00 today and that gas station.
• 1:05:58
  Their price was 427 a gallon for for regular.
• 1:06:02
  My roommate and I this evening around 6:30-ish we decided to go
• 1:06:09
  out to grab something to eat. I drove past that same gas
• 1:06:12
  station and it was now $4.57 per gallon for for regular and I was
• 1:06:19
  like shit. It went up $0.30 go on $0.30 in
• 1:06:23
  the span of in, in less than 8 hours in the same day.
• 1:06:27
  Like usually, usually that price changes overnight.
• 1:06:31
  You know what I noticed that and I'm like, and this is the stuff
• 1:06:34
  that people are dealing with. Everything's getting more
• 1:06:36
  expensive. And, and when entertainment gets
• 1:06:39
  expensive, and when I say entertainment, I don't just mean
• 1:06:41
  video games, prices of all the streaming networks are going up,
• 1:06:45
  you know, prices of, you know, movies are, movies are trying,
• 1:06:50
  movies are trying to get cheaper, but the price of
• 1:06:53
  concession stand stuff at the movie theater is going up, you
• 1:06:56
  know. I mean, did you see how much
• 1:06:57
  that those popcorn buckets are now?
• 1:07:00
  I don't. Care 40 or 50 bucks.
• 1:07:02
  I know, but like. I know, but people like, that's
• 1:07:05
  like a thing like people collect popcorn buckets.
• 1:07:07
  I know they. I know they collect them.
• 1:07:09
  I know they collect them. Disney more like is.
• 1:07:11
  This is this is this more crap to have like stacked up?
• 1:07:16
  Yeah, I know. Oh, man, you know, but but yeah,
• 1:07:20
  like the one thing, the one thing gamers have always had,
• 1:07:26
  you know, as their safety net is the, is the ability to play
• 1:07:28
  video games, stuff like that, you know, but you know, the fact
• 1:07:32
  that now it's getting, it's getting more expensive for, for
• 1:07:36
  a one time hobby. And there's no, and there's no,
• 1:07:40
  it's diminishing returns. Like, you know, like
• 1:07:42
  generationally speaking, like, you know, like graphics aren't
• 1:07:45
  getting that much better. Games are not getting that much.
• 1:07:47
  Faster. That's exactly what Kim Levine
• 1:07:48
  said. Did you see that interview?
• 1:07:50
  Yeah, I saw that. Yeah.
• 1:07:51
  Games are not. Games are not getting much, much
• 1:07:53
  more faster, you know, You know, the cost of the cost to develop
• 1:08:00
  games is getting higher. We've got, we've got to pay
• 1:08:02
  motion capture artists, we got to pay voice actors and all this
• 1:08:06
  stuff. And I'm not saying these are bad
• 1:08:07
  things, but these are costing, these are causing the cost of
• 1:08:10
  games to go up and stuff like that, you know, or it's causing
• 1:08:13
  the budgets to go up, which is, which is causing the, the
• 1:08:15
  developers and the publishers to say, oh, $80.00 is a fine price
• 1:08:20
  for this game, $90.00 is fine price for this game, $100 is a
• 1:08:23
  fine price for this game. You know, stuff like that, you
• 1:08:25
  know, but this right here, this right here was Sony pulling back
• 1:08:30
  first party on PC. I've heard so many arguments
• 1:08:36
  about this online where a lot of people were saying PC didn't
• 1:08:39
  move the needle enough for for for PlayStation to care about
• 1:08:42
  it. You know what?
• 1:08:43
  Because guess what? They've got droves of people who
• 1:08:46
  already have their console. This was just extra money they
• 1:08:48
  were going to make. And guess what?
• 1:08:50
  They weren't even going to spend that much money in the resources
• 1:08:53
  to port them. As long as they ported the games
• 1:08:55
  correctly, they weren't going to spend that much money.
• 1:08:57
  Here's the here's the problem when you when they port APC game
• 1:09:01
  and it comes out a trash port and then they have to spend new
• 1:09:04
  resources to fix it over time, that's when they lose the money
• 1:09:09
  on the investment. You know, but you know,
• 1:09:14
  ultimately, you know, like I I can't guarantee.
• 1:09:19
  Wait, didn't I say it's like back in February?
• 1:09:22
  I'm not guaranteed to buy APS six day one.
• 1:09:25
  Not like how I'm not. Buying anything day one now I
• 1:09:27
  mean. Not like how I bought a
• 1:09:29
  PlayStation 5A, PlayStation 4A, PlayStation Vita, APSPA, PS2, PS
• 1:09:34
  one day one. I I, you know, shoot and I
• 1:09:38
  bought and I bought the rehashes of the consoles.
• 1:09:40
  I bought the PS1 when it came out, the little mini.
• 1:09:42
  I didn't bought the one that had the little flip top screen on
• 1:09:45
  it. I bought that when it came out
• 1:09:46
  brand new. I bought, I bought the slim PS2
• 1:09:50
  when that came out brand new. I bought 2 of them because I
• 1:09:52
  modded 1. You know, shoot like my, my, my
• 1:09:58
  day one PS3, you know, like shit the bed on me after like a year
• 1:10:03
  and a half. So I had to buy the new one, the
• 1:10:06
  one that didn't have the, the the emotion engine in it, which
• 1:10:09
  I was pissed and then and then ultimately that one that one
• 1:10:13
  rubbed me the wrong way too, where I wound up having to buy
• 1:10:15
  one. Does those, those, those ugly
• 1:10:18
  little ones that those ugly PS Threes that came out my PS4, my
• 1:10:23
  PS4 actually, I didn't have to replace that one.
• 1:10:26
  And I did not buy a Pro because that's when Pro systems showed
• 1:10:29
  up. I haven't bought a Pro.
• 1:10:30
  I haven't bought a Pro console at all.
• 1:10:34
  I bought the Siri or the Xbox One X because the base Xbox One
• 1:10:42
  was so bad, but that was really the only one I've purchased.
• 1:10:51
  I just don't look. I mean, especially like on the
• 1:10:54
  PlayStation side, No, no offense to the PlayStation, but like
• 1:10:57
  the, the, there's, there's rarely a reason that you know is
• 1:11:04
  worth it in my opinion, if you're a console gamer to
• 1:11:06
  upgrade to the pro version. I mean, like some games run
• 1:11:10
  better, right? Obviously, like Final Fantasy
• 1:11:12
  Rebirth is the big one, right? But like, I don't know, I just
• 1:11:16
  think that these and the way things scale now, like
• 1:11:21
  PlayStation 5 is going to be the new baseline now, right, for the
• 1:11:24
  next decade when the PlayStation 6 comes out.
• 1:11:27
  And like, you know, you know, they have to release those
• 1:11:29
  consoles next year. The Project Helix and the
• 1:11:33
  PlayStation Six. They have to because of not
• 1:11:35
  because they're being pressured by investors or because they
• 1:11:37
  think they need it, but because of the component shortage and
• 1:11:41
  their place in line essentially, right.
• 1:11:44
  Like if they if they say no, we're not releasing it, then
• 1:11:47
  they go to the back of the line. The the one console I made by at
• 1:11:51
  launch, I, I, I take it back. The one console I made by at
• 1:11:53
  launch is whatever Sony's handheld is going to be.
• 1:11:57
  It depends on how much it is. Depends on how much it is.
• 1:12:00
  Yeah, Yeah, that's the only one. But I mean, but I mean, this
• 1:12:04
  logic that, you know, first party is going to sell more
• 1:12:06
  consoles. Like let me, let me ask you, let
• 1:12:08
  me ask you a serious question. You're going to spend $770 to
• 1:12:14
  play one game, whether that whether that is the next God of
• 1:12:17
  War game or whether that's the next Call of Duty game or the
• 1:12:21
  next Madden game. You're going to buy one game and
• 1:12:23
  you're going to tell me you're going to spend nearly $800 to
• 1:12:26
  play it? I mean, I think it, I think it
• 1:12:28
  depends on which what game it. I mean, everybody has their
• 1:12:31
  franchise, right and or their everybody.
• 1:12:33
  Has their Hey hey Monster Hunter Wilds came out broken as hell in
• 1:12:38
  the best place to play almost PS-5 pro and guess what I did
• 1:12:40
  not do? I did not go out and buy APS 5
• 1:12:42
  Pro. Right, but you already had a
• 1:12:44
  PlayStation 5 if you didn't have a.
• 1:12:46
  PlayStation 5, I had APCI, had APC that that that game
• 1:12:49
  struggled on for the entire first year was out and I don't
• 1:12:54
  have I don't have a chumpy computer.
• 1:12:56
  I just, I just don't again, like I don't have the, I'm not in the
• 1:13:04
  same space as I was, you know, 10 years ago at this point,
• 1:13:07
  right, in terms of money in games and everything either,
• 1:13:10
  right, like. And that's wild because Cory, we
• 1:13:13
  have grown people money. Yeah, it goes with my kids now
• 1:13:18
  though. We have grown people money, you
• 1:13:22
  know. You know, we finally understand
• 1:13:25
  what our parents went through when we had to ask them for this
• 1:13:27
  shit. Yeah.
• 1:13:30
  And like I just again, these consoles, they used to get
• 1:13:38
  cheaper because they were being subsidized by the games, right?
• 1:13:42
  Yeah, not only that, not only that, but now the parts got
• 1:13:46
  cheaper than manufacturer which which drove the price down.
• 1:13:49
  Yeah, because I mean, because I mean the the parts were outdated
• 1:13:53
  when the consoles came out, you know, because they have to lock
• 1:13:56
  in like 18 months in advance, you know, at least here's a.
• 1:14:01
  Here's a way we can fix that problem.
• 1:14:02
  Stop liking the wrong people in the office that control that.
• 1:14:05
  That control the economy. Stop letting these people get
• 1:14:08
  into positions of power. Stop that.
• 1:14:13
  I mean, who? Who are you talking to?
• 1:14:14
  I. Making make informed, make
• 1:14:16
  informed decisions when you go cast a vote at the ballot box
• 1:14:19
  and do and do me a favor. Don't don't write in Harambe on
• 1:14:22
  the on the fucking ballot or or I'm automatically your enemy.
• 1:14:28
  Jeez, is that? Is that?
• 1:14:32
  Is that mean still a thing? Is that still happening?
• 1:14:35
  It's been, it's been a lot. I don't know.
• 1:14:36
  I don't know what it was. I don't know what it was for,
• 1:14:38
  for Harris versus Trump, but it was.
• 1:14:41
  But it definitely was a thing for, for, for, for, for Clinton
• 1:14:44
  versus Trump and and Trump versus Biden.
• 1:14:49
  Man, I mean, these are all just terrible people.
• 1:14:54
  Can we get, can we get somebody good in there?
• 1:14:56
  Somebody who cares, please. Yeah, but you know what I am, I
• 1:15:02
  am a little upset that, you know, PlayStation appears
• 1:15:04
  reprioritizing consoles glovity again, including including games
• 1:15:07
  like go see Yote Soros and Marvel's Wolverine.
• 1:15:10
  I wasn't guaranteed to buy Marvel's Wolverine, you know, if
• 1:15:13
  it was coming to PC, but I know now I'm not.
• 1:15:16
  I know I'm not going to get it for PS-5.
• 1:15:19
  Like go see Yote. I may have no choice but to but
• 1:15:22
  to but to buy that for PS-5 because I really want to play
• 1:15:25
  that and I want to play that on the PC or at least on my
• 1:15:28
  handheld on my ROG Ally X because because Ghost of
• 1:15:32
  Tsushima ran so well on it, you know, sorrows.
• 1:15:37
  I want, I want to play that game.
• 1:15:39
  So now I'm wrestling myself with with, do I?
• 1:15:44
  Do I get this game on on PlayStation or do I just let it
• 1:15:48
  go and not play it, you know? Yeah.
• 1:15:51
  I mean, again, it just it depends on what you really want
• 1:15:54
  to do, right? I mean it it is also Sorrows
• 1:15:59
  might be House Mark's last game. It's only it's only sold 300,000
• 1:16:04
  units. Because guess.
• 1:16:07
  Because guess where it would have sold at?
• 1:16:09
  On the fucking PCI. Mean, I don't I don't know man,
• 1:16:13
  it just feels like such a niche game.
• 1:16:15
  Plus it was $70. Like that game should have
• 1:16:17
  probably been 40 or 50 but. No, I feel like $70 is probably
• 1:16:21
  the right price point for it, you know, But you know, also,
• 1:16:26
  you know, like, hey, they had some A Lister acting talent
• 1:16:28
  behind that, you know, voicing it, you know.
• 1:16:32
  Yeah. I'm telling you, I'm telling.
• 1:16:34
  You like Sony built the whole that you know, they've they've
• 1:16:38
  they've made this crater and now they're trying to climb out of
• 1:16:41
  it. You know, like, I mean, they're
• 1:16:43
  the ones that really started the cinematic HBO style video games,
• 1:16:47
  right. I mean.
• 1:16:49
  Oh, so we're not, we're not going to talk about the
• 1:16:51
  87,000,000, you know, on, on, on Bungie.
• 1:16:55
  No, I'm saying with like Uncharted and stuff, right?
• 1:16:58
  Like they, they like started these big blockbuster AAA single
• 1:17:03
  player experiences, right? And like, now everything just
• 1:17:07
  cost so much money. And these things cost so much to
• 1:17:09
  produce like, yeah, you know, like, how do you turn around,
• 1:17:13
  you know, and. And they're closing all the
• 1:17:15
  studios that don't make them essentially, you know?
• 1:17:20
  Now, now what's weird about this whole conversation, though, is
• 1:17:22
  that multiplayer games still have a future on PC with Sony
• 1:17:27
  apparently, like, you know, not abandoning, abandoning it
• 1:17:30
  entirely. Like, you know, multiplayer
• 1:17:32
  titles like Marvel, Tokan, you know, is still playing for PC
• 1:17:35
  releases. And Sony.
• 1:17:37
  See, I feel like Sony's being greedy here because they're
• 1:17:41
  picking and choosing where they want, where they want the money
• 1:17:43
  to come from. They know, they know there's a
• 1:17:46
  competitive scene, you know, in multiplayer games, fighting
• 1:17:50
  games and stuff like that on the PC side.
• 1:17:53
  So they're willing to take the risk on that, you know?
• 1:17:56
  Well, they said multi, they didn't say multiplayer games
• 1:17:58
  weren't coming to PCI. Think Marvel's Tocon still
• 1:18:00
  coming to PC. Yeah.
• 1:18:02
  Yeah, yeah. No, no, no, no.
• 1:18:03
  That's what I meant. They're not abandoning that.
• 1:18:05
  They're not abandoning that on PC and you know, of course, live
• 1:18:09
  service and community, live service and community during
• 1:18:11
  games, you know, of course they're going to like have their
• 1:18:14
  home, you know, on PC because you know, that's kind of where
• 1:18:17
  to meet Potatoes are out there. I just you know what, I'm not
• 1:18:21
  going to complain too much because they could have pulled
• 1:18:23
  everything back, you know, you know, hell, divers could no
• 1:18:27
  longer be on PlayStation on PC, you know what I mean?
• 1:18:32
  Destiny could have got Destiny could have Destiny and Marathon
• 1:18:34
  could have gotten pulled from PC, you know what I mean?
• 1:18:37
  Well I hope not, those are the only places they're selling
• 1:18:39
  right now. So man.
• 1:18:45
  No offense to marathon but cheese.
• 1:18:46
  So it's console player. The count is low Dude I I don't
• 1:18:49
  think I've ever match made with a console player.
• 1:18:52
  They're all steam players. Every single one of them.
• 1:18:57
  That's the other thing too. Like that's the other thing too.
• 1:18:58
  Console has its niches, you know, like, like, like, yeah,
• 1:19:02
  like, you know, there was a time when, you know, like, yeah, like
• 1:19:05
  playing Call of Duty, playing Call of Duty, Halo and all this
• 1:19:08
  stuff. You want to be on a console, it
• 1:19:11
  dramatically shifted, you know, like somewhere along, I want to
• 1:19:14
  say, I want to say in the middle of the 20 tens is when it
• 1:19:17
  shifted that more than that, more and more people playing on
• 1:19:21
  PC. It probably had something to do
• 1:19:22
  with bigger lobbies, bigger player accounts, all that stuff,
• 1:19:24
  you know, you know, you got your keyboard mouse fanatics that you
• 1:19:28
  know, like and NVIDIA reflex came out, which made, which made
• 1:19:32
  playing first person shooters a hell of a lot more competitive,
• 1:19:34
  you know, you know, So yeah, like there there's a shift, you
• 1:19:41
  know, like this. I'm tired of talking.
• 1:19:47
  I'm tired of talking about this. I mean, you know what, I'm going
• 1:19:52
  to shift direction here a little bit.
• 1:19:54
  Laron for you on this topic. You don't.
• 1:19:58
  You don't think that this is a defensive measure against the
• 1:20:02
  next Xbox that will play PC games?
• 1:20:05
  Oh, I think it is. I I, I think it is isn't, I'm
• 1:20:07
  not saying this was the original.
• 1:20:09
  I'm not sure it's saying this original plan.
• 1:20:11
  I feel like, I feel like because, because like this whole
• 1:20:14
  thing about Sony pulling back PC releases, this thing had been a
• 1:20:18
  rumor since like what, December? I don't think it's been longer
• 1:20:23
  than that. Whenever, whenever, when did
• 1:20:25
  Ghost of Yote come out? That was like November, October,
• 1:20:29
  that was October last year. It's been.
• 1:20:31
  Flowing around since then because they usually like
• 1:20:34
  somebody leaks the PC kind of release window once it hits
• 1:20:39
  console and there there was none.
• 1:20:43
  People were talking like I don't think Ghost of Yote is coming
• 1:20:46
  out of that PC. Yeah, this wasn't, Yeah.
• 1:20:48
  So this definitely was not a reactionary thing based off of
• 1:20:51
  based off of Microsoft back then, because back then it was
• 1:20:56
  like the series consoles was the last console Microsoft was going
• 1:21:00
  to do, or at least the last console Microsoft is going to do
• 1:21:04
  Seriously. Because like, because like the
• 1:21:06
  the rock, the Xbox rocks came, you know, started started
• 1:21:09
  becoming a thing. And now it's like, oh, this is
• 1:21:11
  where they're shifting, you know.
• 1:21:12
  So, you know, that was the conversation right there, right
• 1:21:15
  there. I think I think, yeah, what you
• 1:21:17
  said right now about Playstations being a reactionary
• 1:21:20
  thing because Microsoft and new console coming up.
• 1:21:23
  Oh, I, I definitely am am on board with that.
• 1:21:25
  And you know what, I'm happy for them that, you know, like this
• 1:21:28
  is this is the move, you know, I'm happy for them.
• 1:21:31
  But you know, you know, I feel, I also feel like this might be a
• 1:21:33
  bad move. But you know, what do I know?
• 1:21:35
  I only play fucking games. I, I, I I don't make them, I
• 1:21:38
  don't publish them, I don't distribute them.
• 1:21:41
  I want to know what the the like the the metrics are for, for
• 1:21:45
  them and they're like they're are they seeing a decline in
• 1:21:51
  console like the games on console?
• 1:21:54
  Are they seeing a decline in that?
• 1:21:56
  They are like, I mean like. Because like, I mean, it, it
• 1:22:02
  sorry, yeah, I don't know, man. I feel like, I feel like it's, I
• 1:22:11
  feel like these games, I mean, I feel like if you're APC gamer,
• 1:22:16
  you're not really going to play on console unless you absolutely
• 1:22:18
  have to anyway. And even then it's like, well,
• 1:22:21
  there are 1000 new games coming out tomorrow that I can play and
• 1:22:26
  just not worry about it, you know?
• 1:22:27
  Oh, wow, it sucks. You know, it's like, I mean,
• 1:22:30
  it's how it used to be when, you know, you had a Super Nintendo
• 1:22:33
  and your friend had a Genesis and like, oh, I can't play.
• 1:22:36
  Well, here's something else too, like here's something else too,
• 1:22:39
  like PC gamers are not, this is going to sound so offensive, but
• 1:22:44
  PC gamers are not as spastic as console gamers are like PC
• 1:22:47
  gamers. PC gamers have like set games
• 1:22:50
  that they that they play all the time.
• 1:22:52
  Like if you look at, if you look at my, if you look at my Rolodex
• 1:22:55
  of games right now, as a matter of fact, hold on.
• 1:22:57
  Let me just let me just pull up my Steam dashboard right now.
• 1:23:00
  I will tell you I will literally tell you Tekken, Monster Hunter
• 1:23:05
  Wilds, DJDJ Max, DJ Max respect I oh, I loaded up Mel slug
• 1:23:12
  tactics last week and and Oh yeah, a little game called Final
• 1:23:18
  Fantasy 7 integrate Yeah yeah and this is on top of the
• 1:23:25
  library games I have like shoot like I had like I pumped I
• 1:23:28
  pumped nearly 100 hours in the ballot row you know he's.
• 1:23:34
  A rookie numbers man Get him up. Yeah, I still have to, I still
• 1:23:38
  have to finish Horizon 0 Dawn, you know, on BCI have a ton of
• 1:23:42
  games, but you know, but I always have like a main set of
• 1:23:45
  games. I'm always playing like one of
• 1:23:47
  these games is in my heavy rotation at at least every week.
• 1:23:50
  One of these, one of these, one of those five games I just
• 1:23:52
  mentioned. Well, not including also tactics
• 1:23:54
  because I just because I got that, I got that for a dirt
• 1:23:56
  cheap, for dirt cheap. I got it for like $1.49.
• 1:24:00
  Yeah, well, I mean, that's the that's the problem with like
• 1:24:03
  games as a service in general now, right?
• 1:24:05
  It's like, you know, not to switch topics too much, but like
• 1:24:09
  everybody has their game as a service this time now.
• 1:24:12
  And it's like hard to get into another one, you know?
• 1:24:14
  I think that's, I'm actually quite surprised that Marathon is
• 1:24:18
  as popular as it is. And I think that's only because
• 1:24:21
  they have Bungie's name behind them, to be honest with you.
• 1:24:23
  And like a bunch of Destiny fans were hungry for something new,
• 1:24:29
  you know, and that's like not obviously not game loop wise,
• 1:24:33
  but gameplay wise, you know, a bungee shooter is a bungee
• 1:24:36
  shooter. So man, exclusives, man, I, I
• 1:24:43
  want to talk about the Xbox stuff, but we can talk about
• 1:24:45
  that on a on the next show just because we have kind of been
• 1:24:49
  running long and I know we've both had like really weird long
• 1:24:52
  days. And I want to hit on this Capcom
• 1:24:56
  stuff specifically for you. Laron because Capcom is my
• 1:25:00
  favorite third party company and that.
• 1:25:01
  I know my orcasm on that. See, Laron, I'm always thinking
• 1:25:04
  of you, OK? I love you too man.
• 1:25:09
  Always thinking of you, you know what I mean?
• 1:25:15
  I think they were called Monster Hunter for nothing, am I right?
• 1:25:19
  I think Capcom has been my favorite third party publisher
• 1:25:21
  since the days of the NES honestly, because because I
• 1:25:24
  think about I think about all the games I owned on the NES
• 1:25:26
  and, and like in like a a good majority of them were definitely
• 1:25:32
  Capcom games. The Mega Man games, Ghost and
• 1:25:35
  Goblins, Section Z, Bonnet Commando, what else?
• 1:25:40
  What else? What else?
• 1:25:41
  What else? There's there's some other ones
• 1:25:42
  that I that I'm that I'm having a hard time thinking about.
• 1:25:45
  But shit like the fact that I had like the fact that I had
• 1:25:48
  like four of the six Mega Man games.
• 1:25:51
  I mean, they did. They did a.
• 1:25:52
  Lot of they did a lot of like Disney license games that were
• 1:25:55
  pretty good too and. Yep, Yep.
• 1:25:57
  You know, I mean like duck tales.
• 1:25:59
  And then and then that just, and then they just, it just kept
• 1:26:01
  going. Capcom games across Gameboy
• 1:26:04
  Advanced, Capcom games across Super Ninas.
• 1:26:06
  Capcom games across the Genesis, Capcom games across the
• 1:26:09
  PlayStation one, the Sega Saturn, the Segas, Dreamcast,
• 1:26:12
  the PS2, the PS3, the PS4, the PC.
• 1:26:17
  Man, Capcom is my company. They they can't miss right now.
• 1:26:23
  Leron here's here's kind of the breakdown.
• 1:26:25
  They really say financials there.
• 1:26:28
  You know, everybody this it's financial season, Leron, it's
• 1:26:30
  financial year, reporting season there.
• 1:26:36
  I mean, everybody's kind of as expected except for like Capcom
• 1:26:40
  had a Oh my gosh, what just happened?
• 1:26:43
  What I do? I saw that, I saw that weird
• 1:26:46
  shift. What I do?
• 1:26:48
  Whoops. All right Capcom, they have
• 1:26:53
  apparently had a record a breaking a year.
• 1:26:58
  Resident Evil as a series has passed 200 million in sales.
• 1:27:02
  Capcom continues to dominate the gaming industry with another
• 1:27:05
  historic fiscal year marking 13 consecutive years of operating
• 1:27:09
  profit growth and the highest sales and profits in company
• 1:27:14
  history. Lauren Leading the charge is
• 1:27:19
  Resident Evil, which has officially surpassed 200 million
• 1:27:22
  units sold worldwide thanks to the success the the success of
• 1:27:26
  Resident Evil Requiem and the enduring popularity of the
• 1:27:30
  franchise overall. Also it helps that those remakes
• 1:27:33
  are on sale for like 10 bucks all the time.
• 1:27:35
  Every like 2 weeks those things are on sale.
• 1:27:39
  Combined with strong performances from Street Fighter
• 1:27:41
  Six and Devil May Cry 5 which I'm surprised that those games
• 1:27:45
  are on here. They're kind of older.
• 1:27:47
  Although I guess Street Fighter has the DLC fighter has right?
• 1:27:50
  Street Fighter Six has been Street Fighter Six has been
• 1:27:53
  doing the work that Monster Hunter should have been doing.
• 1:27:57
  Yeah, and they keep on that DLC stuff.
• 1:28:00
  Yeah, because, because like for the last four years, Monster
• 1:28:03
  Hunter was always like a mentioned title, you know, and
• 1:28:07
  like whenever there was announcements, they're like, you
• 1:28:10
  know, when Capcom was making had his 9th year consecutive profit
• 1:28:14
  earning this 10th year and his 11th year and his 12th year
• 1:28:17
  notice in this 13th year, it's Resident Evil, Street Fighter
• 1:28:21
  Six and Devil May Cry. Devil May Cry 5, which by the
• 1:28:23
  way has been is you know has been re released.
• 1:28:28
  Yeah, I mean, there's also that rumor that they're remaking the
• 1:28:30
  first one. Yeah, but there's also, but, you
• 1:28:33
  know, a little game called Pragmata, you know, just came
• 1:28:35
  out. 3,000,000 units man new IP. Capcom is doing the damn thing,
• 1:28:41
  you know shit. Yeah, they're, they're I'm they,
• 1:28:46
  I mean, they, they really haven't.
• 1:28:48
  What was their last like quote? UN quote?
• 1:28:49
  Miss Dragon's Dogma 2 maybe? I mean even then it was like a
• 1:28:53
  good game but fans just were like, it's not as good as the
• 1:28:56
  first one. They weren't really like, mad at
• 1:28:58
  it I feel like. Capcom is doing right now what
• 1:29:01
  Square Enix used to be doing back in the 90s.
• 1:29:05
  I mean dude, don't get me started on Square Enix, man,
• 1:29:09
  Everything they do. Squirt Enix, Square, you know
• 1:29:13
  what Square Enix needs to do what?
• 1:29:14
  What Nintendo did for a while and just like Capcom published
• 1:29:17
  their games. Yeah, I mean seriously, like,
• 1:29:23
  why not? It's man you.
• 1:29:26
  Got it. All those, all those, all those,
• 1:29:28
  all those, all those Nintendo games, all those Zelda games
• 1:29:32
  that that were published by Capcom.
• 1:29:33
  Oh my God, that was a glorious time.
• 1:29:37
  Yeah, it was what? The two Zelda?
• 1:29:39
  Well, well, it was what, 3 Zelda games really?
• 1:29:41
  3 Zeal games? And what was the other one?
• 1:29:45
  There was one other one too. You had linked in the past,
• 1:29:48
  yeah. Link to link to the past Minish
• 1:29:50
  Cap and. No, it was the two Oracle games.
• 1:29:54
  Yeah, that oh, oh, oh, we're going back to the Game Boy.
• 1:29:57
  Yeah, the Game Boy Color. Yeah, yeah, just.
• 1:30:00
  You. Know, yeah, 'cause I was.
• 1:30:03
  I was like Link to the Past for the Game Boy events, the Minish
• 1:30:05
  Cap I forgot about. I forgot about Oracle's Oracle
• 1:30:09
  and Seasons. Yeah, so I mean, Capcom, Capcom,
• 1:30:13
  man, they, they, they know what they're doing.
• 1:30:16
  I would be real. I'm really interested to see how
• 1:30:18
  good Oni Musha is later this year, right?
• 1:30:20
  That's still on, that's still coming out this year, right?
• 1:30:24
  And then obviously there will be like several more Resident Evil
• 1:30:28
  remakes. But Capcom, man, they, they
• 1:30:32
  clearly, they clearly know what they're doing.
• 1:30:35
  They've built one of the most. Hold on.
• 1:30:37
  We got, we got a comment from we got a comment from from, from
• 1:30:40
  Nick SG. Yeah, I'm missing.
• 1:30:42
  So what's SG? Summer Game Fest.
• 1:30:45
  Summer Games, thank you. You're welcome.
• 1:30:50
  My brain is not. My brain is not is definitely
• 1:30:53
  not firing tonight. Dude, my brain has been shut off
• 1:30:57
  for two weeks, so it's fine. Yeah.
• 1:31:01
  I mean, I am ready for Summer Game Fest.
• 1:31:03
  I'm really, I'm really interested to see because the
• 1:31:07
  Xbox showcase is the first one I think on Sunday night.
• 1:31:13
  I'm really interested to see Asha Sharma's first on stage
• 1:31:18
  appearance and what she's going to say.
• 1:31:22
  I wonder what her stage presence is going to be.
• 1:31:25
  I wonder that too, actually. I'm, I'm, I'm just like, I'm
• 1:31:33
  really fascinated with the Xbox kind of what's going on over
• 1:31:38
  there right now. And like, look as a fan, as a
• 1:31:42
  disgruntled fan, but as fan nonetheless.
• 1:31:47
  Obviously, I think everybody wants Xbox to succeed in one way
• 1:31:50
  or another because it provides some competition for
• 1:31:53
  PlayStation, but also like they have such an amazing library of
• 1:32:00
  IP that they could be using and they aren't, which and I also
• 1:32:05
  talked about last week like, well, they they.
• 1:32:07
  Fumble. They fumble like they fumble
• 1:32:09
  like the entire art that they inherited the last two years.
• 1:32:13
  They fumble it all. Look.
• 1:32:17
  Asha Sharma and we're best. We're besties now.
• 1:32:20
  OK, here I will write you a list of IP that you own and I will
• 1:32:26
  tell you which developers to go to to make these games and you
• 1:32:29
  can have it for free. Have it for free, just you know.
• 1:32:33
  You sure you don't want like 1%? I mean, I mean. 1% I'll take.
• 1:32:40
  A project. I'll take a project Helix box if
• 1:32:42
  you want to give me that. Oh.
• 1:32:45
  My God, you are the you are the cheapest freaking date.
• 1:32:48
  Oh my God. Hey, I know what I want, OK?
• 1:32:52
  Man, if if this is all it takes, hey man, I got, I got something
• 1:32:56
  for you. Hey man, did you see that rock
• 1:32:59
  on her finger? She ain't going anywhere anyway,
• 1:33:07
  so I got distracted. Oh IP like we were talking about
• 1:33:12
  like where's, where's the Viva Pinata Animal Crossing game?
• 1:33:16
  You know, you're selling, you're selling, you're selling a
• 1:33:20
  handheld. Animal Crossing is the biggest
• 1:33:22
  franchise in the world. You have like 3 franchises that
• 1:33:24
  would fit that perfectly. Like where is it?
• 1:33:26
  Another, another, another developer that they've that
• 1:33:29
  they've done a disservice to Rare.
• 1:33:31
  Well, come on man. Rare toys for Bob.
• 1:33:34
  You know the 75 Activision studios that are now called Duty
• 1:33:38
  map makers like. Yeah.
• 1:33:41
  You know, like, I mean, even Vicarious Visions is now like
• 1:33:47
  Blizzard Albany now, right? They're doing Overwatch help
• 1:33:50
  now. Like, man, I digress.
• 1:33:55
  I'm gonna, I'm gonna back up because if I get down that, go
• 1:33:57
  down that road, we're going to Rd. we're going to be here for
• 1:33:59
  another two hours. And I do kind of want to sleep
• 1:34:03
  tonight since I've only slept for like 15 hours the last week
• 1:34:06
  and 1/2. So I think Capcom deserves all
• 1:34:14
  of the credit for turning there kind of development cycles
• 1:34:17
  around, right, Because I mean, after Resident Evil 5, they were
• 1:34:21
  like Crapcom, right? That was like their name.
• 1:34:23
  That was their nickname. You know, they put out a couple
• 1:34:25
  of bad Mega Man games. They put out Resident Evil 6,
• 1:34:27
  which look, I kind of liked it, but I'm also not a huge Resident
• 1:34:32
  Evil guy and I also only played the Leon Kennedy campaigns.
• 1:34:35
  It doesn't matter I. Played, I played the entire, I
• 1:34:38
  played the entire Resident Evil 6 and and I I enjoyed it, but
• 1:34:42
  yeah, for what it was like, it was kind of bullshit.
• 1:34:49
  I think that obviously resident, those Resident Evil remakes and
• 1:34:53
  the, the repositioning of Resident Evil 7 kind of started
• 1:34:58
  putting them back on the map, right?
• 1:34:59
  Like I really feel like those were the, the foundation of them
• 1:35:03
  turning around and the Monster Hunter worlds became the, the
• 1:35:05
  hit that it was and that just from there they just took off.
• 1:35:09
  I feel like I do wonder how. Oh, go ahead.
• 1:35:14
  That's what I'm saying Monster Hunter World did you know, like
• 1:35:17
  it it, it basically it basically like put like Capcom on a whole
• 1:35:24
  new level, you know, because like because like it got
• 1:35:28
  casuals. It got casuals to play Monster
• 1:35:30
  Hunter. In a way to play Monster Hunter.
• 1:35:32
  Yeah, like in a way that only, only the hardcore like me were
• 1:35:36
  playing Monster Hunter, you know it.
• 1:35:39
  And, you know, like I, I could talk about this all day, but,
• 1:35:42
  you know, like the one thing I will say is, is Monster Hunter
• 1:35:45
  World changed the way I played Monster Hunter.
• 1:35:48
  And that's wild considering the the thousands of hours I had put
• 1:35:51
  in the the Monster Hunter games before World came out.
• 1:35:56
  Speaking of Wild, do they ever turn things around with Monster
• 1:36:00
  Hunter Wilds or people still going back to world?
• 1:36:05
  People. People are here's the here's
• 1:36:10
  it's the sales from monster owner.
• 1:36:14
  I'm sorry. I've I've been hitting my
• 1:36:16
  hitting my leg with a massage gun.
• 1:36:17
  I hurt myself last week when I went for a four mile run.
• 1:36:23
  Monster Hunter Monster Hunter Wilds like the the player base
• 1:36:26
  is coming back. But I think at this point,
• 1:36:30
  because because this last title update was was put out to be the
• 1:36:35
  final title update before like the expansion comes out,
• 1:36:38
  everybody's lukewarm until the new expansion comes out.
• 1:36:42
  Yeah, that so their last free update is soon, right and then
• 1:36:48
  they then the expansion, they're probably going to reveal that I
• 1:36:50
  would imagine summer game fest right, That seems like a decent.
• 1:36:54
  I'm thinking Summer Game Fest is going to happen.
• 1:37:01
  I'm, I'm very curious to see what Capcom has up their sleeves
• 1:37:05
  because like, they still have that Mega Man game coming out,
• 1:37:08
  right? That new one.
• 1:37:09
  Yeah, which I'm amped about that.
• 1:37:14
  So I don't know any any final thoughts on Capcom's positioning
• 1:37:18
  here? Hey, just keep doing what you're
• 1:37:19
  doing, Capcom, because you're doing it well.
• 1:37:23
  Yeah, Capcom, you're doing it well.
• 1:37:25
  And I mean, you know, like, like I like I said, like I like I
• 1:37:28
  just bought Pragmata. You know, I am and I do have
• 1:37:36
  Resident Evil. I did, I did.
• 1:37:37
  I did get Resident Evil Requiem, but I don't know when I'm going
• 1:37:41
  to play that. Yeah, I'm going to probably.
• 1:37:46
  I don't know. Here's the thing.
• 1:37:48
  I own all the Resident Evil games.
• 1:37:49
  I got to play that. I got to play Resident Evil
• 1:37:51
  Requiem on my PCI. Can't play that on the rock.
• 1:37:53
  Ally Yeah. I mean, look, that's fair,
• 1:37:55
  right? I mean, that's totally fair.
• 1:37:58
  I would have already played in BT if I could play on the Rock
• 1:38:00
  Ally though, that's all I'm saying.
• 1:38:03
  Yeah, I mean, that's, I mean, I didn't, I didn't say this at
• 1:38:06
  first, but I'm playing, I'm playing South at midnight on
• 1:38:08
  Switch 2, not even playing on Xbox where I had it for free for
• 1:38:13
  a year and a half before I came out on Switch.
• 1:38:16
  I. Bet it plays.
• 1:38:17
  I bet it plays fine on the on the on the switch to the other,
• 1:38:19
  right? Yeah, I mean it.
• 1:38:21
  It looks really nice. It runs at 30, doesn't run at
• 1:38:27
  60, but it runs at 30 on in handheld mode at least.
• 1:38:29
  I haven't played on the TV. If I was going to play on the
• 1:38:31
  TVI would have just played it on Xbox, to be honest.
• 1:38:33
  But I just, I just love playing on the couch, playing my Switch
• 1:38:39
  while I'm watching TV or something.
• 1:38:41
  So yeah, man, Capcom, keep doing your thing.
• 1:38:47
  We love you. Yeah.
• 1:38:48
  We hope you continue to win, continue to win.
• 1:38:54
  Speaking of winning, we won. We won this episode and we won a
• 1:38:59
  prize of bedtime. So we're going to get on out of
• 1:39:01
  here unless you want to talk about anything else here.
• 1:39:05
  Laurent. Oh.
• 1:39:06
  No, no, no, no, no are. You Laurent's got something
• 1:39:10
  cheeky going on on the side here.
• 1:39:12
  You see his face, he's kind of real.
• 1:39:13
  I'm just looking, I'm just looking, I'm just looking at the
• 1:39:17
  best settings to play Pragmata on the Rock Ally X.
• 1:39:22
  It runs good on the switch too tell you that, so it'll it
• 1:39:25
  should run better on the run on. The switch too, it's going to
• 1:39:27
  run phenomenally on the on the ROG LAX.
• 1:39:31
  Yeah, it runs at. It runs at 40 frames a second on
• 1:39:33
  the switch too. Actually, let me see something.
• 1:39:35
  Maybe someone, maybe someone discovered a trick for for Final
• 1:39:38
  Fantasy, not Final Fantasy. I'm sorry for Resident Evil
• 1:39:41
  Requiem. Man, that's another game I need
• 1:39:43
  to finish too, jeez. Because honestly, honestly, for
• 1:39:46
  the most part, for the most part.
• 1:39:49
  Oh shit. Oh.
• 1:39:53
  Damn it, I looked at the wrong thing.
• 1:39:54
  That was that was the Xbox ROG. Oh no, summer game fest can't
• 1:40:03
  wait, can't wait. Excited to see what's what's
• 1:40:06
  announced. So all right, we're going to
• 1:40:08
  we're going to get on out of here.
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  I want to thank everybody out there for watching or listening
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  to this episode of the boss first podcast, a lighter episode
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  tonight. But you know, you know, we, we,
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  we still, still had a good time, Laron.
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  Glad you're back. Glad you're all right.
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  Yeah. Missed you.
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  Missed you too, man. Like it's like.
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  I said it was just, it was just unfortunate that that, you know,
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  things went the way it did last week and I couldn't make it.
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  Hey, you know things happen, you know life, life happens and you
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  can only do what you can do, you know?
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  So Ed filled in and it was really weird talking non
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  Nintendo stuff with Ed for an hour and a half, but we did it,
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  sort of. I mean he has opinions right?
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  I mean, yeah. He always has opinions, that's
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  the problem. Ed always has opinions and you
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  can't talk him out of it, which is partially why we love him and
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  want to slap him at the same time.
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  Speaking of slapping Laron, I appreciate you Nick.
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  Thanks for joining the chat. Appreciate you.
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  Got to get you on soon, Nick. Yeah, we do.
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  Yeah, like next. Week I love I love that I love
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  that one episode where he he kind of kind of popped in and
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  popped out that that. Yeah, it was awesome to edit
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  Loved it. Yeah, his energy is.
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