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EP 72: My Gaming Foundation · Dad Needs To Talk

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  What's up, y'all? And welcome back to Danny's to
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  talk, I'm your host, Robert. And today, today we're gonna be
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  talking about my gaming Foundation, One Piece bounties
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  and some wholesome moments and some anime.
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  So let's get to it. So this I don't know, thanks for
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  strange times. Feel strange duralee know how to
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  describe it, you know, just a lot of just moving Parts going
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  on in the world in my life. And so just trying to do my best
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  to make sense of it all. But before we get to that, as
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  always, if this is your first time here than welcome, but if
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  you're returning listener or Watcher, then what?
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  back you know here at Danny's to talk his how about fatherhood
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  and family manga anime and sometimes video games especially
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  take a lot of video games cuz like I said One thing or a kind
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  of like the big thing I want to talk about today is my gaming
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  foundation. And what I mean by that is a lot
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  of the like Key video games that are played in experience over my
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  life, that kind of helped shaped me, and my gaming taste that I
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  have today. So, That has been a topic.
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  I've no, you know, you don't have mentioned before that, you
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  know, I have wanted to do more gaming stuff especially
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  recently, you know, it's like, I've been doing my best to try
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  to get back into playing some games, which I actually have
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  something against talk about today that I actually got to
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  play in the last week and yeah. So you know it was just it was a
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  mix between like me, listen to a gaming podcast in, just me, just
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  kind of just getting in this move to.
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  I was like, you know what, screw it, I'll just went home, what
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  I'm going to do this because it's like, said something I've
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  been wanting to do for a while, but of course, there will still
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  be plenty of, you know, manga anime talking stuff, but maybe a
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  little bit more compact today. But before I dive into all that
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  little bit of a housekeeping, first of all, shout out to Um,
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  friend of the podcast, who was a guest on last episode, Shaquita
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  from Wild weird and witchy podcast.
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  It was super awesome to finally, get to have you on the show and
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  to finally get to collab with you.
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  So, I'm glad you had a fun time. It's not people who listen, had
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  a fun time as well, so we didn't have to do that again, aside
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  from that. Also, I'm trying I think.
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  Sorry. I'm trying to gather my
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  thoughts. Um, of course, I ain't any
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  reviews and stuff that I've put up recently, like the cauchy
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  naoko and some other ones, make sure to go check those out as
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  well. And then as always be on the
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  lookout for stuff on the horizon because I have I have some more
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  cool people that I'm excited to have on in the coming weeks as
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  well. And I'm also going to be
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  Hopefully fingers crossed be be a guest on some other podcast
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  and things as well in the coming month of September.
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  So very excited for all those things coming but with that said
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  I'm not planning on it but I feel it coming.
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  There's a chance that it sometime it might even be just a
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  one-week thing. I don't I don't know if I would
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  do another. There for a month away or
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  whatever, who knows? Because like, I said, just a lot
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  of stuff just going on, like, some like, trying to work their
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  figure out and do some stuff for work.
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  Of course, you know, changes with the kids and, you know,
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  everything going on with the school and stuff.
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  And that nature, you know, that I kind of might need to put some
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  more time and focus into so but like I said, we'll just kind of
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  play playthings. it's by and see how things go because, you know,
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  because because one thing I kind of was thinking about was It
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  feels like every time I try to try to bring quote-unquote more
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  structure to my show. The I don't know if I want to
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  say the last natural and Pharaohs it just feels like life
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  just keeps happening and then I have to scrap whatever plans I
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  was going to do because case in point, this is the last Pockets
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  episode for the month which should be a serious review.
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  Not going to happen. So I think for now I'm just
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  going to just stick to doing whatever I want to do as I want
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  to do it. And hey, if things Been to be
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  orderly and, and a certain theme going on.
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  Cool, if not, it is what it is. Cuz cuz I feel like for me Mice,
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  my structure is no structure if if that makes sense, you know,
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  cuz I cuz I really do enjoy the kind of I don't know if I want
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  to see the chaos but a little bit of just the kind of flying
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  by the seat of my pants, so to speak, you know.
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  And like I said, that's not to say, of course I do enjoy doing,
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  you know, planned out stuff, whatever.
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  But I feel like when I try to have it to planned and boxed
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  into whatever that things just fall apart or I start to kind of
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  feel obligated to do certain things and so.
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  So I want to kind of continue to give myself that freedom to just
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  do stuff as I see fit because, you know, I was gonna try to do
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  I owe for the month of September, I'll try to do you
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  know, a lot of romance stuff, because I wanted to have the big
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  thing for the end of September to be a Me reading Olive swing
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  is soap. Hey, maybe, I'll still happen.
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  Maybe not because I picked up some new manga today.
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  I'm like maybe I might read some of those first but like I said,
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  it is what it is. But um, but you know, but in
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  general, your boys, been doing pretty good.
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  Like I said, just like my my perception of time and what all
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  how much time has happened since the last Pockets recording is
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  weird because especially like this month, like, the episode I
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  went up last week, I recorded the week before and then the
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  episode of went up the week of the 17th.
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  I recorded that like two weeks prior to that.
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  So it's just like sometimes like it's like, okay what is current
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  stuff for me to talk about or to cover and stuff whatever but
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  we're we'll figure it out and stuff, whatever as we always do,
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  But like I said, I hope you all are excited to hear my game and
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  talk. As always there will be time
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  stamps down in the down in the description box below.
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  So hey, if you're excited about the gaming talk and you want to
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  just jump straight to that stuff.
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  Cool. Or, you know, if I talk about
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  certain spoiler for manga, or anime or TV, show, whatever you
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  can skip ahead, pass, all the stuff whatever.
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  Subway I just check the description box for time stamps
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  and all that fun stuff. So So yeah, so like so I think
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  that's it as far as I housekeeping.
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  Just like General Life update, you know?
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  Just as always, shout out to everybody out there in the
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  community that is doing anything handling their business, much
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  love to each and every one of y'all.
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  And yeah, let's let's let's let's wrap up August with the
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  bang and let's get ready to kick off.
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  Timber, which is based out to be a, for me, a three-day holiday
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  weekend, which I am happy about, cause your boy needs some rest.
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  I just want to just dive into some games and some other stuff,
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  too. Now, let's see, where, where do
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  I want to start today? So, you know what, You know
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  what? I'm going to talk about real
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  quick. A few monk I picked up earlier
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  today because because I was always like, you know what, I
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  want to get out the house. And yeah, I know I've talked
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  about it before, but I like have and getting these Barnes and
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  Nobles gift cards from work. Well, I had enough points again.
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  Try got another 50 dollar gift card.
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  So I was like, you know what, just end of the month and and
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  this week in particular, some things that I was excited for
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  came out. The soil is some some things,
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  I'm gonna give a try to sew Let me see some look at them out of
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  shift to see. Cat that thing.
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  I'll talk about the rest of the stuff.
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  So so let me start off with 11 of or sorry, Iris, he's found
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  out books, whatever, but but the continuation of one of my most
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  watched reviews on my channel, I finally picked up from the red
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  fog, Volume 2, and so it's kind of wild.
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  Now, of course y'all remember, if y'all hurt, if I listen to my
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  review, for the volume 1, y'all know how much?
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  I enjoyed it. And just as a reminder for those
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  who do, who might I know, whatever, this is kind of
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  setting a in London. What's the time frame?
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  That I don't, I can't remember what time frame.
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  It is ready, but it's in London, and so I'm trying to see if I
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  can find so, usually Thought I had volume 1 somewhere Within
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  Reach, let me check. Okay, I found it.
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  It was on my shelf right next to Da dark but yeah.
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  So this remember this was volume 1 of from the red fog and it's
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  set in 19th century England. But yeah, so and it's about a
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  young boy. Who his mother was a murderer as
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  a he got raised in that environment one day.
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  Something happened to his mother.
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  He is up basically. Into the world and he is a going
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  on killing sprees and stuff whatever himself and he's
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  finding like-minded people and they're forming this group or
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  whatever. So but it was really good.
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  I really enjoyed it by volume 2 came out maybe like a month,
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  couple months ago, whatever. And I kind of been trying to
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  wait. But I was like, you know what, I
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  can't wait any longer. So I finally picked up volume
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  too excited to to read it and of course, as we're getting ready
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  to head into fall, I feel like this.
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  No a perfect time for it. It next up.
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  Hey long-awaited one for me because I enjoyed vol 1 so much
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  lost lad, London, Volume 2. Now the other arm I remember and
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  I actually do have. Are you one right here and this
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  was the one that which funny you're funny enough.
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  I believe this is also, this also takes also takes place in
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  London but it's about this. This college student working
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  with this detective to figure. Out how they are tied into or
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  how they get roped into the murder of the city's mayor.
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  So I really enjoyed volume 1, and so Volume 2 just came out.
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  So today, so I'm very excited to dive into this one and see where
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  where the story goes for that. Another favorites of mine.
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  I got blue period volume 8, which I've been trying to hold
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  back. I Stephen Reed Volume 7 because
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  you know, this is the star of the University Arc that takes
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  place after 4 season 1 of the anime ended.
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  So you know your tour is now going off to a to college and
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  stuff whatever and so I'm trying to let them build her but I
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  might have to go ahead and read seven and eight now that I got
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  two of them because because saving their increasing the
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  volume released Used to where we're getting now, are these
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  two, one volume a month. So I was like, man, that would
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  be nice if like if Ike if I can hold out and then have like four
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  or five volumes to read for like, you know, during the
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  winter break whatever. So but we will see, you know, if
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  I've died because I'll probably do a video or something on it.
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  And, lastly, the last thing I picked up today, now, this was a
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  surprise pick up for me. It is called Momo, the blood
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  taker. Now, the synopsis of this is
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  Tokyo is plagued with a string of murders, where the victims
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  are drained of blood. While the city whispers are
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  vampires, detective me kagame Keiko seeks to avenge his
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  murdered lover as he stalks the man with two faces mikogami
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  catches. The attention of a mysterious
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  silver hair. Girl, so this cover.
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  Looks very nice and that is what got my attention that plus plus
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  just just the way the the name is stuff was I wasn't because I
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  was like Momo and then I you know, picked it up and I looked
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  at the cover and I was like okay that has my attention kind of
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  reminds me. Honestly kind of gives me the
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  same Vibe of what drew me in for from the red fog was seeing the
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  cover and how the letter and stuff.
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  I was on that. So I'm saying, yeah, so like I
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  said, this was, I remember seeing Seven Seas post about
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  this when they announced that they had the license and stuff
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  for it and it seems to be a lot of excitement in the community
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  for it, so who knows? But I'm excited to dive in and
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  it's kind of, I don't know it. I don't know that this was the
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  unintended theme of Of everything I picked up today
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  except for blue period, all surround murderers and violence.
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  So maybe I'm getting ready for for for violent Seasons.
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  So, but yeah, so those are just some things I picked up this
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  week and like I said, you know, some of them, y'all probably
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  will see some thoughts and stuff on them in the coming weeks
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  ahead. But Yeah, and I was so tempted.
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  I almost died. But I'm holding that cuz I like
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  I want to have more money so I can buy more volumes.
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  But I was looking at both shoot, what is it called?
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  Switching the Beast. She what is that called?
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  Hold on. Yeah, I was looking at the the
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  witch and the Beast because they recently announced that it's
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  getting an anime adaptation and so I flip through volume 1 and I
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  heard from some of my friends at the art and it was beautiful
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  because I was looking. Some panels were people are
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  posting the comments when they announce to the anime was
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  coming. And like one of the first few
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  pages there was like a giant whale or shark thing like Going
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  through like a skyscraper, something crazy with ever in the
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  art looked crazy. And I was like crazy in a good
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  way, like beautiful. And I was like, I might need to
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  pick this up, but I'm like no robber.
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  I'ma hold off and wait, I don't know, whatever, at same thing,
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  with, with Ragnar Crimson, I almost bought pick that up to,
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  but I'm like, no, I'm gonna try to try to see how strong and and
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  pick those up later, but um, but I'm excited because I said, both
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  of them. Have anime coming in the in the
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  coming year and stuff so that that is very exciting.
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  Speaking of anime, I'm trying to remember it was something else
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  that had guy. Uh-oh, Undead on luck.
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  We officially got the The announcement of that anime
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  coming. So I did a luck officially
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  confirmed and And the beautiful thing is that it is going to be
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  it's like importance up, it is going to be produced by David
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  Productions. Now if you do not know, David
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  Production Studio, they are the studio, the does fire force and
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  JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and so Undead.
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  I look shout out to the homie Steve from it mob but I don't
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  look is going to be in good hands and it's going to look
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  fantastic. Test equate that with their
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  Studio behind it. And speaking of which I'm just a
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  little PSA for those of y'all who are also going through the
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  pain of a maid in the best season to the final episode of
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  this season is going to be an hour long so our of pain.
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  Yay question mark. But yeah, so, so yeah.
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  So that's coming. I'm trying to see what there any
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  other. Yeah, no, nothing else notable
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  anime announcements recently that I'm like really looking at
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  this worth me mentioning like I said, I'll just talk about them
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  as as as they come out and come to it.
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  But my yeah, so lots of good stuff on the horizon for that
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  and like I said, I picked up some very dope manga that I'm
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  excited to dive into and yeah. So Let's see.
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  Oh, Heavenly delusion is also which I don't think.
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  Who knows where my copy of heavenly delusion is but but
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  that one is also getting an anime.
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  Sorry I'm trying to. I was looking to see if there
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  was maybe behind me but who knows it's somewhere but yeah
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  but yeah Heavenly delusion is also getting an anime as well
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  which I'm excited about because I enjoy that first volume as so
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  seeing that it is getting a anime is just very dope news.
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  so, let me see. But yeah, so like I said I'm
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  fine. George volume 1 and I'm just
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  excited to see more of more of that story more of that world.
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  So yeah, so let me see what else we got to talk about but Flex
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  before we start diving into some of these bigger things, let me
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  see. Okay, it real quick.
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  The little inside joke for for for for you, who is listening?
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  Shout out to you James, I'm recording the podcast right now
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  is I just sent you that last message.
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  Congrats on the house homey, but, but yeah, so, yeah, I'm
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  trying to think. Yeah, I think that's it as far
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  as that stuff. Now, there there was some news
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  with Gamescom that happened to the big gaming convention in Let
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  me see. Let's see, let's see, let's see
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  if there's anything noteworthy for me to talk about right now.
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  Let's see. Oh, you know what?
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  I'll show this actually, only make sure this looks right, you
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  know what, you know what, I want short on my screen, but I'll
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  just run through some of these Gamescom announcements real
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  quick. So After eight years, Dead
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  Island 2 is officially coming out at February 3rd, 2023.
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  That Island 2 was first teased. I think it was like back in 2014
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  and a Lobby, Bridget. A lot of people just thought
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  that it just got canceled because, you know, because that
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  all into the people who made the original Dead Island Game,
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  eventually one on to make the Dying Light series, So Dead
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  Island 2 is kind of been transferred to different Studios
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  and stuff over the years and so, but it seems like it's finally
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  coming out next year. Let's see.
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  Sonic, try Sonic game, got them. Nice, don't care, don't care.
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  Yeah, PlayStation finally announced that their own version
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  of As you all know, how the how the Xbox has the has.
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  The, what's it called? The elite controller.
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  So, PlayStation finally is coming out with their own
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  version of their own Elite controller.
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  It's called the, the Dual sense Edge, which I think that's a
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  pretty dope name, you know, for a for a controller, but your
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  boy, probably going to be getting one no time soon. just
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  cuz I don't really, you know, I enjoy gaming.
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  But you know, I don't really be playing that heavy bomber.
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  I was saying it looks really nice though so but but that's
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  going to happen. Of course, I all the customers,
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  all the customizable buttons and back panels and all that fancy
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  all the fancy do-dads. But who knows, you know what
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  maybe if your boy becomes rich Someday, it might just be a, you
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  know, just a special treat to myself that I would do my best
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  to not let Vash destroy. But I saw the door since age
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  like said that's just a very dope name.
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  Yeah. I'm not seeing too many other
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  things. Oh.
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  So there is this game called Sorry, let me pull it up.
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  It is called lies of p and basically it is like it is like
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  like a blood-borne Dark Souls type of game.
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  But the character that you're playing as is basically
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  Pinocchio. And so I heard somebody on a
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  podcast of something kind of equated to like a 22, like a
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  Alice in Wonderland like the like the like, the McGee's Alice
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  games but makes with kind of like, the kind of, like, a kind
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  of Gothic type of setting that you get in, like blood-borne and
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  stuff. So, but it looks dope.
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  And like I said, I think just the concept of like how your
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  plan is freaking Pinocchio with like, you know like you're like
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  a your prosthetic arm or whatever, you can kind of like
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  switch our flight different way. That's tough.
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  But but yeah it looks really dope so that that was like a
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  nice little surprised that, you know, I wouldn't mind seeing her
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  checking out more of. Let me see, all the the new
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  Tales from the Borderlands Tales from the Borderlands 2 is coming
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  out at the in October. So I'm excited for that one
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  personally because I enjoyed that first one.
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  Yeah, let me see. Yeah, return to Monkey Alan.
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  I never really plenty of the old Monkey Island adventure games.
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  But hey if you into it there's a new one coming out in September.
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  They shut off that new aw fighting game which you know, I
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  haven't really been a fan of wrestling.
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  For a long time. But I always hear positive talks
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  about, you know, special about aw and stuff.
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  It was called aw fight. Yeah, aw, fight forever.
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  So yeah, so yeah so whoa. Whoa see how how that kind of
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  turns out but see just scroll through the seams there.
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  Any other last little things that are worth me mentioning
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  from this event not really seeing anything else.
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  Let's see. Yeah.
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  I'm just scrolling through. Well, one thing I will mention
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  is that more than likely in September.
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  We'll probably get another Nintendo Direct because there's
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  usually a big one is September every year and sad thing for a
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  Playstation showcase. Oh, if we might get some more
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  gaming news and announcements in the coming weeks, you know,
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  especially because more like because it's special because
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  PlayStation is Gary Gary getting ready to re-release.
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  The the Of Us Part 1 remake is coming out.
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  Actually this Friday September 2nd or September first whichever
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  day is coming out or whatever but yeah, so I think that's
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  pretty much it. As far as I think, Gamescom news
• 27:56
  and stuff that I want to talk about.
• 28:02
  Yeah, like I said some pretty fun and dope things, but I think
• 28:08
  I'm ready to kind of dive in really quickly into a little bit
• 28:13
  of anime and TV show stuff. And then I could say, well, I'm
• 28:16
  not going to be too long on this stuff because I really want to
• 28:19
  dive into to the gaming talk. But What kind of like
• 28:25
  reoccurring theme? Which I really enjoyed and it
• 28:31
  happened in both parallel world Pharmacy and you could just got
• 28:35
  the babysitter because I just finished catching up on your
• 28:37
  because it's got a babysitting prefer recorded.
• 28:41
  Now, starting with parallel world, Pharmacy.
• 28:43
  And this is the most recent episodes I think is episode 8.
• 28:49
  I just really enjoyed. Once again, just seeing Farmer.
• 28:54
  And the guy that he talked to, from the other guild, the one
• 29:01
  Dad, it was just so sweet. And, and I and know, just seeing
• 29:07
  his struggle, his internal struggle of, you know, he's a
• 29:11
  doctor himself or pharmacist I should say, but he can't figure
• 29:16
  out nothing to do for his daughter sick.
• 29:18
  As the other doctors in his girl he kind of go to there was
• 29:22
  nearby they work there are their shop was closed.
• 29:25
  I he's freaking he's like man what do I do?
• 29:28
  And he remembers that. They just had a meeting with his
• 29:30
  Guild where they were like hey stay away from parallel world,
• 29:37
  Pharmacy, or whatever. Because you know they're not
• 29:39
  associated with us. You know.
• 29:40
  Did it a day? But He basically just reached a
• 29:44
  Breaking Point, it was like no the the the importance of my
• 29:48
  child's world being comes above everything else and so far my
• 29:52
  happened to be passing by and was like, Hey, some time with
• 29:54
  your kid and you know, and once again, I Gotta Give a shout-out
• 29:59
  to the homies. Polo and town at a mic check
• 30:02
  because Polo was the one who originally, you know, checked
• 30:07
  out parallel world from a sea and mention it.
• 30:10
  And I washed it and enjoyed it and I passed it on to three.
• 30:13
  Podcast and other people in the community.
• 30:15
  And they've been enjoying this stuff whatever.
• 30:16
  So but because I was listening to Polo them talking about it
• 30:22
  earlier today bum, but yeah, but you're just seeing Or seeing the
• 30:28
  Gear start to turn in the dad's brain because you know, he had
• 30:33
  these preconceived thoughts, you know, a farmer and who he is and
• 30:41
  what type of business, he runs our stuff.
• 30:47
  You know, and just have him having these, you know,
• 30:49
  preconceived thoughts of farmers stuff, whatever.
• 30:53
  But as he watched how detailed farmer was with everything, he
• 30:59
  did in the care for his daughter, it truly made him.
• 31:03
  See like know this guy, the reason why his business is
• 31:07
  booming is because he cares and because he has the knowledge and
• 31:12
  he actually, you know, basically he Taylors the Experience to
• 31:18
  everybody that comes into his Pharmacy.
• 31:22
  I like a lot of people in the current year disorder, which of
• 31:25
  course some of it is just because the lack of knowledge
• 31:29
  that they have in this time period or whatever, but he was
• 31:33
  talking about how you know, what farmer was getting the weight of
• 31:37
  the daughter so that he can give her the proper dosage of
• 31:40
  medicine. And other guy was like, wow we
• 31:44
  usually just know whatever we give them.
• 31:46
  The adults we just, you know, just give the child half of that
• 31:51
  or whatever versus like the exact what they need for their
• 31:54
  body. And so just all these small
• 31:57
  details or whatever and then for my healed up his daughter and
• 32:02
  then you know, he eventually make this girl that he was like,
• 32:05
  yo, we need to change, you know, we need to be learning from,
• 32:11
  from this Pharmacy, not trying to tear it down.
• 32:15
  And, you know, of course he got A clash and his Pharmacy ended
• 32:19
  up getting destroyed. He got kicked out of the guild.
• 32:22
  But, you know, Farm a farm. I came through and, and show
• 32:27
  love to him or whatever. I was like, hey, you don't have
• 32:30
  to leave and go to another country, to start practicing
• 32:32
  medicine. Again, or whatever, why?
• 32:35
  Don't you join my getting watered?
• 32:37
  Why don't you join me? Because I'm about to start up
• 32:39
  again old, and Just seeing you know that transition that that
• 32:46
  encouragement, you know, from from farmer.
• 32:54
  And then what the the encouragement he also got from
• 32:58
  from his daughter because I love the part, you know, where where
• 33:01
  they were setting up the shop or getting ready to open.
• 33:05
  Make your debut open, of course, of course, Jude expecting,
• 33:08
  though, he had anxiety and nervousness Daughter.
• 33:12
  Take down here I'll his no side is shorter what I was like, hey
• 33:18
  Dad, you can do it and it just immediately just hit my heart.
• 33:22
  You know? Just because, you know, I've
• 33:24
  talked about before about you know, sometimes you know kids
• 33:29
  were just Give you those words of encouragement.
• 33:34
  When you least expect, it likes especially coming from a child.
• 33:38
  Because like I said, it's been plenty of times where I've done
• 33:41
  the most basic of things. Even mean, nobody, I'm having a
• 33:44
  tough day, but I've done like the most basic things and my son
• 33:47
  vast should be like, good job. Dad, and give me a thumbs up.
• 33:51
  I'm just like, oh my son and so seeing her showing support and
• 33:56
  then him opening up the doors. And being greeted with so many
• 34:01
  people and I love the freaking name of the pharmacy.
• 34:05
  And just when he was like, welcome to Dawn Pharmacy.
• 34:10
  And it was just such a sweet moment that I just truly loved
• 34:16
  and enjoyed. And I'm just excited to see
• 34:19
  like, where things go from here with this show and continuing
• 34:25
  from that on the wholesome, dads.
• 34:30
  You cool has got the babysitting.
• 34:31
  So I watched the two most recent episodes and some of the
• 34:35
  previous one. Once again, it's just, it's just
• 34:38
  always ignore. Just always cool.
• 34:39
  Just seeing these people from, from a kirishima, has the knew
• 34:45
  him from years past whatever. Finally.
• 34:48
  All right, he's taking care of a little girl.
• 34:50
  Now, like, you know, IBS, he is not, and then think he's gonna
• 34:55
  stop that. He's having two people in a
• 34:56
  place but but that, that episode was good.
• 34:59
  But The most recent episode and I believe his name was a Ali aoi
• 35:07
  aoi, seeing that whole back story of why he ended up leaving
• 35:17
  the Yakuza family, and things like that.
• 35:20
  And you know, and basically his own path to Father her to wear
• 35:24
  and to see like like it was also interesting to get to see like
• 35:28
  all the different ages everybody is.
• 35:30
  Well because because Ali he was 27 at that point and, you know,
• 35:36
  kirishima was 20, but boss was 37.
• 35:39
  The boss's wife was 27, so all these different ages and stuff
• 35:44
  forever. So now it's been eight years.
• 35:47
  So the head boss. He's in his 40s.
• 35:50
  Wow. He is in his late 30s, and that
• 35:54
  kirishima is, you know, 28 late twenties, whatever, but just
• 35:59
  seeing Seeing that the alley was the previous kind of like right
• 36:04
  hand man of the boss. Before kirishima took on that
• 36:08
  role, but that a lot of these changes happen, right?
• 36:14
  Around the time when the little lady was born and seeing what
• 36:21
  Ali was, or basically him seeing the bond of the boss had with
• 36:25
  his wife and then eventually was once the daughter was born. and
• 36:32
  him finding Bond and his girlfriend, and his wife, and
• 36:42
  because he grew up as an orphan. So he didn't really have that
• 36:45
  risk. No, semblance of family.
• 36:47
  But that's what the Yakuza family brought to him was like,
• 36:51
  all these people became his family and stuff, but the
• 36:54
  lifestyle was too much for his wife because it was one thing
• 36:59
  when he came to see you in the hospital and she, I think we
• 37:02
  should, I think she was pregnant, and he was covered in
• 37:05
  blood. he like, Passed out or whatever.
• 37:09
  And so it was just always tough on her.
• 37:11
  Every time he came around, he was just covered in blood and,
• 37:14
  you know, or whatever. So, he went and talked to the
• 37:16
  boss and he was like, Hey basically end up leaving the
• 37:18
  family, in the boss told me, like, hey, I understand you
• 37:21
  know, you have something more important that you need to
• 37:24
  protect. You know, then then us you know
• 37:28
  you have your own family and just seeing that Mutual
• 37:31
  understanding and respect. And how now our he's talking
• 37:35
  about how now he has two kids. As his older son, who was his
• 37:39
  Mini Me, and they also have a daughter who looks like the wife
• 37:43
  as. So, it was just really sweet,
• 37:45
  just really wholesome. And then also seeing through
• 37:49
  both of these episodes on little lady starting to make more
• 37:53
  friends and stuff, whatever both that school, as well as with
• 37:59
  other kids that come around, the Yakuza, family and stuff,
• 38:01
  whatever. So but um, But yeah, it was just
• 38:05
  just really sweet, just seeing, you know, him just coming to
• 38:07
  that. Realization of like, hey, I
• 38:09
  finally have something more important that I need to protect
• 38:13
  and that I cherish. And so he ended up leaving that
• 38:16
  life behind to, you know, take care of his own family to start
• 38:20
  his own family. So, say yes, to both of those
• 38:23
  episodes were were very good. And a lot of anime in general
• 38:30
  this week was just Very good. I'm not going to go into all of
• 38:35
  them but just to made in the best was another wild episode
• 38:40
  something. Same thing with summertime
• 38:41
  rendering both of those. Hoof.
• 38:45
  Wow, that was owed. But AI, she another really great
• 38:53
  episode White House. Oh, that most recent episode of
• 39:00
  classroom of the elite from this week.
• 39:03
  Seeing her what's her name kushida get her kind of get her
• 39:08
  a come up. It's a bit this week was a was
• 39:11
  was a joy to watch if I do say so myself.
• 39:15
  But um but so that I was very fun.
• 39:18
  Last last show, I kind of want to give a shout-out to.
• 39:21
  As I finally finished watching the Sandman On Netflix.
• 39:26
  And so that was a very interesting show and one of my
• 39:32
  favorite episodes were a couple of my favorite episodes.
• 39:36
  One in particular, it was episode 6 where we got to meet
• 39:40
  death and death death was very beautiful, shout out to, I don't
• 39:47
  know that just is named, I need to look it up bum but seeing
• 39:53
  dream and her That's nice Bros for this episode but just seeing
• 40:00
  before they revealed who she was them, just kind of just walk
• 40:04
  around talking and then her kind of talking very like a like
• 40:09
  cryptic ways to certain people to where it was like the this
• 40:13
  one young guy who's trying to hit on her and was no he was
• 40:18
  kind of hey, you know, can I see you again?
• 40:19
  She's and she of course, of course but because of them being
• 40:23
  like guys and deities, they know, No.
• 40:26
  All the humans names and different stuff whatever.
• 40:28
  But the way she was like she's of course I know you.
• 40:31
  And of course, you know, election.
• 40:33
  The way she was saying like, yeah.
• 40:34
  Oh yeah. Yeah.
• 40:34
  Well, I'll be seeing you again soon as I was like, oh that's
• 40:39
  weird. But then as the episode went on
• 40:42
  and you something to realize that she is dead, that she's
• 40:45
  visiting these different people and then sending them on their
• 40:49
  way to the afterlife, really hit likes, especially because she
• 40:54
  was taking people of all age ranges like this very old man
• 41:02
  who was just no chilling to freaking newborn baby and, you
• 41:08
  know, younger doors. Somebody who just got married,
• 41:12
  just all these different. Lots of heartbreaking moments in
• 41:16
  there. But another wild Parts in that
• 41:19
  episode, that was just fascinating to watch was, They
• 41:27
  have went to. It was some time period.
• 41:31
  It was like I think he might be like 1689 or something like that
• 41:36
  or whatever and they were at this like Tavern.
• 41:40
  And you know, this one guy was talking about how, how, how you
• 41:45
  don't really have to die. People don't have to die.
• 41:48
  People just die because it's the trendy thing to do basically is
• 41:52
  what he was saying. And so so so dreaming death
• 41:56
  enough talking. They're like, okay, Let's get
• 41:59
  used to him as an experiment to where they took away a death
• 42:02
  from him, so he became Immortal. And so, dream made a deal with
• 42:07
  him. He's like, hey, in 100 Years,
• 42:10
  meet me back at his Tavern and we'll talk was basically dream
• 42:14
  wants to find out why he wants to continue to live and so every
• 42:18
  hundred years they met up at this tavern and talked and dream
• 42:22
  we're asking like, hey so what have you done with these last
• 42:26
  hundred years of your life? Whatever.
• 42:28
  You staying review experience, and then he tells him, and then
• 42:31
  he's okay. Do you still want to live and
• 42:34
  through it all through the guy having lots of highs super highs
• 42:39
  like become a super wealthy and famous to the lowest of the lows
• 42:43
  him losing family, and children and stuff.
• 42:47
  And then, basically, being homeless to kind of coming back
• 42:50
  up and it was just fascinating to watch.
• 42:52
  Those are all of that being in one episode was just very, very,
• 42:57
  very interesting. But the the show is a whole is
• 43:01
  different one. I would recommend also episode 9
• 43:05
  with these serial convention and by serial I'm a serial killers
• 43:10
  convention, that was very wild. But good episode 2 to watch as
• 43:16
  well. And I think that's it as far as
• 43:21
  I TV shows. I want to touch Taco Bell.
• 43:24
  I do want to give a quick shout-out to to the humming
• 43:27
  manga alerts. For tweeting this out and of
• 43:30
  course, it's been confirmed but but Netflix is going to be re
• 43:34
  adding or a mix of adding back some anime.
• 43:37
  But getting some more in the coming weeks or months, they're
• 43:42
  going to be getting a claymore I'm gonna just put some like the
• 43:49
  big ones that claim or berserk 1997, parasite, the maximum.
• 43:54
  Nah, nah, Hajime Ebro in the one.
• 43:57
  I'm most excited for is Monster. So our Okawa the same author as
• 44:03
  20th century, boys. The psychological Thriller
• 44:07
  monster is finally going to be Making its way to Netflix in the
• 44:17
  coming weeks, so very excited for more people to have access
• 44:24
  to to to watching that. So yeah, so let's just dive in
• 44:31
  really quickly to a little bit of manga and then we're going to
• 44:35
  really dive into the gaming talk, so, Just speaking super
• 44:40
  briefly, no spoiler, whatever. But I'll most of this stuff by
• 44:46
  went through. I caught up on Juju skies and
• 44:50
  that was like a 10-15 chapter bed re, very good, very, glad to
• 44:54
  be caught up, glad to see my keys back in the story.
• 44:58
  So that was super dope. People in the tizzy about my
• 45:03
  hero Academia again, but I'm not going to touch on that too much
• 45:05
  this week. I caught up on mashroom, I think
• 45:10
  that I catch them a show. Hmm.
• 45:15
  No, I think I started catching about master body to finish.
• 45:19
  I think I can't remember, but what else did I look?
• 45:27
  Come back up on that, and it looks like we're about to
• 45:30
  finally get ready to do to enter into the to the loop.
• 45:33
  If, you know, you know, caught up on akane, Bonacci, Bonacci.
• 45:41
  That was worried about I was like a handful of chapters.
• 45:43
  But I picked the perfect time to catch back up because first of
• 45:47
  all, they had like this very beautiful.
• 45:51
  Color spread recently. And yeah, the look at that very,
• 46:00
  very beautiful color spread, but but it was just very awesome.
• 46:06
  And finally, we got the confrontation of a Kind, a
• 46:09
  finally, having a kind of the conversation with Mastery show
• 46:13
  about why he banished her father from, you know, from the rakugo.
• 46:21
  Thing. So, so that was very dope and I
• 46:27
  think this it is far as like likes like quick things.
• 46:30
  I caught up on now big thing and I'm gonna try to keep this brief
• 46:34
  whatever but gotta talk about One Piece manga chapter 1058.
• 46:43
  So of course, if you don't want to hear one piece, spoilers,
• 46:46
  skip ahead to the time stamp, I'll be talking about the gaming
• 46:48
  stuff after this, but I got some All this.
• 46:50
  So one piece. 258 titled? New Emperor's.
• 46:55
  We finally got the long-awaited post 10 orc bounties for
• 47:02
  everybody so it was just very dope to finally.
• 47:07
  First of all just seeing like all these new titles and the way
• 47:13
  the way everybody's been addressing stuff whatever
• 47:15
  because like now with the title card for Luffy and I said, you
• 47:19
  know, emperor of the Sea Monkey D Luffy and like the newspapers.
• 47:25
  Emperor of the sea Straw Hat. Lou floofy, leader of the 5600
• 47:30
  Mass Straw Hat Grand Fleet. It has nine senior officers are
• 47:36
  wanted for the following bounties and I love how they
• 47:39
  always do. I from, you know, from the
• 47:41
  smallest to the biggest and so of course, you know, Chopper, he
• 47:47
  still has a gag Bounty but at least he finally crossed up to
• 47:50
  1,000 berries, Nami. Pretty much Nami Nami.
• 48:01
  Brooke Nami, Brooke Frankie and who stopped all got a 300
• 48:08
  million. Barry and Kris are now Navigator
• 48:13
  Nami. It has three hundred sixty, six
• 48:16
  million musician, Brooke musician, soaking Brooke, 383
• 48:23
  million shipwright, cyborg, Frankie 394 million sniper God.
• 48:30
  top 500 million and the archaeologist demon child, Nico
• 48:38
  Robin with a 930 million Berry bounty long-awaited for one of,
• 48:51
  Barely a couple of people in the whole world who can read
• 48:54
  poneglyphs one of the last survivors of O'Hara.
• 48:59
  It's like her boundaries always like weirdly low, but now it's
• 49:02
  okay. Let's give her a bounty to
• 49:06
  issues. What she deserves whatever.
• 49:08
  So now she's sitting right under a billion and then then we have
• 49:13
  the funny one where Sanji now has the fourth highest in the
• 49:17
  crew with with 1.03 two billion, Djembe Helmsman Djembe with 1.1
• 49:29
  billion. In and swordsman Zorro with one
• 49:34
  point 111 billion or 1 billion, one hundred eleven million.
• 49:41
  I should say say it so that was very dope and of course, you
• 49:46
  know, Luffy with three billion, very bouncy.
• 49:50
  Now from there We finally got to see the freaking back story
• 49:55
  behind how this whole freaking cross.
• 49:59
  Gill situation happened with crocodile and mihawk and buggy
• 50:04
  and we see as expected. It was a big goof to where mija
• 50:10
  or crocodile reached out to me talk about them.
• 50:13
  Forming an alliance and they unintentionally came ended up
• 50:20
  saving buggy from the Navy. A tag because because crocodile
• 50:28
  was going to collect money from buggy.
• 50:30
  But everybody took that as oh crocodile is one of buggies
• 50:35
  underlings coming to his Aid to assist him and one of buggies,
• 50:41
  big supporters made the poster the way it was which is why
• 50:45
  buggy is front and center but, you know, mija cuz I hey I have
• 50:52
  no interest in being a Being a, a, a of the sea.
• 50:57
  Let him take all the attention and all the Heat and hey, if he
• 51:01
  screws are, we can just kill him but but we are we learned that
• 51:08
  mihawk also used to have the epithet Navy Hunter, so useless,
• 51:15
  like hunt down, Navy Admiral or navy.
• 51:17
  People are still for the back in the day, but so we got to be at
• 51:22
  the bounties. Of a crocodile is 1.9 billion.
• 51:27
  Mihawk is, what is it? Bum bum bum bum I'm looking
• 51:37
  right at it 359 330k, 3 billion, 590 million and then buggy with
• 51:50
  a 3.1 billion which is funny but he has a higher batting the
• 51:55
  Bounty than Luffy. But anyway so so that's how all
• 52:02
  that good food. Russian happened.
• 52:04
  And then, lastly, we end off with some revolutionary army
• 52:10
  stuff with seeing that all the commanding officers of the
• 52:15
  religion or Army seems to be fine.
• 52:19
  We see that Dragon says that. Like, even if Sabo is fine, if
• 52:25
  he finds out that Szabo actually did Kill Cobra, for whatever
• 52:28
  reason, we're gonna have a problem.
• 52:31
  And so dragon is talking to Kuma and just like a very beautiful.
• 52:38
  Panel with dragon talking to Coma with koala there and then
• 52:43
  we end the chapter with Sabo Colin in with a didn't wish to
• 52:47
  ringing and it's Ambrose saying it's me and so unfortunately
• 52:52
  we're all freaking break next week but I am excited to see
• 52:56
  where things go from here just because you know, we're not
• 52:59
  people talk about this and I know towns.
• 53:01
  He was talking about on his stream and stuff but for the
• 53:05
  first time in a long time, We finally are in like some
• 53:10
  Uncharted Territory with where we are going in the series.
• 53:14
  Because, you know, for the longest time, it was like, Hey,
• 53:18
  all eyes are on 10 all eyes on taking down kaito.
• 53:23
  And so that's been the path since the time Skip and and then
• 53:28
  we're going to punk Hazard and meeting law.
• 53:30
  It was okay. You know, work with long.
• 53:33
  They want to dress rooms to take out doflamingo then once his own
• 53:37
  Oh, then hoecake island with big mom, and then to wanna and now,
• 53:41
  here we are, finally, all that stuff is majority behind us now.
• 53:46
  We're a new territory so I'm excited to just just for the
• 53:50
  unknown. And so, yeah.
• 53:53
  So that's kind of it with that stuff.
• 53:58
  So let me take one quick last little break and then I'll be
• 54:03
  right back. Alright, so we're back and
• 54:10
  before we dive into the gaming stuff where I do oranges just
• 54:14
  give a little bit of encouragement to those out there
• 54:19
  too. Shoot for the stars and to not
• 54:25
  be afraid to put yourself out there because and now I can't
• 54:31
  really fully go into detail what I'm talking about because for
• 54:37
  one it had everything hasn't fully happened yet but things
• 54:43
  are in motion, but I'll just say that, you know, it's going
• 54:50
  through some stuff. Whatever. and looking at what my
• 54:54
  options were, as so, one option was basically just being upfront
• 55:01
  and honest and be like, hey, this is a need I have because I
• 55:07
  got a family, I'm trying to make some stuff work whatever and I
• 55:15
  had fear of you know, of rejection or if you're being
• 55:19
  told no. And so I had to kind of just
• 55:23
  come to terms with that maybe being a possibility before I
• 55:28
  asked. But instead, I was I was greeted
• 55:40
  with mutual respect and mutual understanding of of the
• 55:47
  situation and of why I was asking for things.
• 55:53
  And so, you know, regardless of if things end up fully working
• 56:00
  out, as I hope they will, I will say that I am at least proud of
• 56:05
  myself for for taking that leap. faith and just, you know, just
• 56:11
  helping just be like, hey, the worst thing that can happen is,
• 56:16
  you know, is that, you know things don't work out or
• 56:20
  somebody says no in the end and then, you know, I have to move
• 56:24
  on to other options versus, you know, I'd rather that versus me
• 56:30
  assuming they were going to say no and then, you know, I go and
• 56:35
  do something else and then they're like, hey, What
• 56:39
  happened? Am I?
• 56:40
  Oh well this is my this was was what my what was my situation?
• 56:44
  They'd be like well, if you would have said something we
• 56:46
  would have had you. So, you know, but I just wanted
• 56:49
  to toss that in real quick. You know, and and and much love
• 56:54
  to everybody out there who is, you know, whether you're going
• 56:57
  back to school yourself, or you got kids throwing School
• 57:01
  College, you starting school college, or whatever the case
• 57:03
  may be, or you're in the middle of know, a new life transition,
• 57:09
  much love to you because I know it is some crazy times because
• 57:12
  I'm going through some I'm mixed up in myself, you know, because
• 57:17
  you know, the last couple days this week.
• 57:22
  Don't know. Avast has been having some
• 57:24
  random Tantrums in the morning and so he literally had to get
• 57:28
  like, Drug into the school practically just because I don't
• 57:34
  know, he just been throwing some fish or whatever, which is weird
• 57:36
  because it's like, we're on week, 3 of school.
• 57:39
  Now, I like the first two weeks has been majority good, but now,
• 57:43
  you know, he's having some fits or whatever.
• 57:44
  So we're kind of having to work through and figure out, you know
• 57:48
  what, what is going on with him and stuff whatever.
• 57:51
  So, but, you know, saw part of life, I'll part of, you know,
• 57:55
  parenting and try to make these adjustments and trying to figure
• 58:00
  H t know how to best work with your child and communicate and
• 58:05
  things of that nature. So, but yeah.
• 58:07
  But much-loved, everybody out there, like I said, whether, you
• 58:09
  know, this is your first time, sending your kid off to school,
• 58:11
  or your, this is you're sending your eighth kid off to school or
• 58:16
  whatever the case, whatever you got going now, just much love to
• 58:20
  you like saying, much love to. Everybody as we all try to move
• 58:27
  forward and and head towards bigger and better goals and life
• 58:33
  so high. So yeah, so sorry for further
• 58:36
  for the random tangents but I had it had it had to get that
• 58:40
  off my mind but I want to start off real quick by shouting out.
• 58:45
  A couple of games I've actually been playing first of which is a
• 58:51
  little game that some of y'all might know.
• 58:53
  Called stray. Now, this is the, the game,
• 58:58
  we're basically basically, you play as a cat and kind of like a
• 59:02
  post-apocalyptic world that is just majority filled with just
• 59:06
  robots. And so, yeah, you just paid
• 59:09
  through this through this game as this cat as you just know.
• 59:13
  Basically kind of like solving puzzles and basically basically
• 59:16
  trying to make your way back into the outside world and so,
• 59:22
  It's been interesting. It's been it's been a, it's been
• 59:24
  a nice kind of calming experience because it's nothing
• 59:27
  like super crazy, super stressful, you know, like I said
• 59:30
  it's just just growing just doing these puzzles.
• 59:33
  But one thing though is that, you know, having to their
• 59:40
  certain puzzles, or certain things that, you know, for one,
• 59:45
  huh? You know, I'm a cat owner.
• 59:47
  I have two cats in the house now and so playing.
• 59:50
  This game is sometimes. Really makes you think about,
• 59:54
  okay? I need to either think of this
• 59:57
  or look at this, from a cat's perspective sometimes literally
• 1:00:03
  because sometimes you're like look at the room of like, okay,
• 1:00:06
  how do I get out or hurt? How do I get to the other side
• 1:00:09
  or whatever? And it's like, oh it is
• 1:00:11
  literally a tiny. It is, it is a little like
• 1:00:14
  crevice in the door or whatever or walking between the fence and
• 1:00:20
  you know, versus like Most games of your regular human, you're
• 1:00:23
  like crap I can't squeeze through this fence bars,
• 1:00:25
  whatever words like yo I'm a freaking cat.
• 1:00:29
  I can just walk through these metal bars, you know, or or hey
• 1:00:34
  there's literally no little Gap under this fence or this wall or
• 1:00:39
  whatever. Okay.
• 1:00:39
  I can just squeeze down or whatever, you know.
• 1:00:43
  And like I said, same thing with just all aspects sort of see
• 1:00:47
  this so that's been kind of like anything.
• 1:00:50
  It's just, you know, like I said, just I mean, you know,
• 1:00:54
  those those different perspectives and stuff with the
• 1:01:00
  game, but yeah, like I said, it's this has been, it's been
• 1:01:02
  pretty chill and stuff so far. Like, so I've played maybe like
• 1:01:07
  a maybe a few hours collectively.
• 1:01:10
  I don't like these like little Weird creature.
• 1:01:14
  Things that chase you whatever is very weird.
• 1:01:17
  But um, but yeah, but stray like I said, it's on, I think let me
• 1:01:22
  see real quick because I'm playing it on PS 5 but it's see
• 1:01:30
  stray video game. Let's see.
• 1:01:37
  Okay, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and PC.
• 1:01:40
  So yeah, so PlayStation or PC. So yeah, and I'm playing it as
• 1:01:46
  part of the PlayStation Essentials because I think I
• 1:01:50
  might have mentioned a couple weeks ago about how I was
• 1:01:55
  thinking about, finally by, it's like like this.
• 1:01:58
  Like a like, a murder. Sorry, motocross game called
• 1:02:02
  things like, trials and rising, or something like that.
• 1:02:05
  Or Were they made it vanish? They've been playing the demo
• 1:02:08
  for for a long time and so I saw okay, the game by itself is 20
• 1:02:13
  which isn't bad or I can upgrade my positions Playstation
• 1:02:18
  subscription for the remainder of the hundred days.
• 1:02:21
  I had left on it for just ten bucks and got that game included
• 1:02:27
  as well as straight and some other stuff.
• 1:02:29
  So I'm like, heck I'll do a ten bucks and you know get access to
• 1:02:34
  this game. At me and my son been wanting to
• 1:02:36
  play more of and get to play straight, which is another game
• 1:02:39
  that I've, you know, been been wanting to check out and stuff
• 1:02:43
  whatever. So but yeah, so that's straight
• 1:02:46
  the other game. That I been checking out is
• 1:02:55
  called Midnight fight Express now to anybody, who may have
• 1:03:03
  played games like Hotline Miami or, or one of my little
• 1:03:12
  favorites on the switch. Colorado.
• 1:03:14
  Mr. Shifty. It's a game like that.
• 1:03:18
  Two are basically basically you're going through these
• 1:03:21
  different levels from kind of like kind of like a top-down
• 1:03:25
  isometric View and you're basically just clearing out the
• 1:03:29
  room with all the enemies and stuff.
• 1:03:30
  Whatever. And so it just says on it as I
• 1:03:33
  really dope like hen hand, combat or whatever and you don't
• 1:03:37
  really know, like, like your characters for Baxter could you
• 1:03:40
  kind of seem to have amnesia or whatever, or you kind of get
• 1:03:43
  activated is like a sleeper agent or something, or something
• 1:03:45
  like that. And so Say yes.
• 1:03:50
  So you got the different levels, whatever.
• 1:03:52
  And you can do like hand-to-hand combat or you can pick up
• 1:03:55
  weapons guns, different stuff whatever.
• 1:03:58
  And you just take it basically it's just hey just clear out all
• 1:04:01
  the enemies in this room. And of course each level gets
• 1:04:05
  little bit harder more different variety of enemies, you know,
• 1:04:08
  because it's just like from basic just those with no weapons
• 1:04:11
  to people with, you know, bash two people with, you know, armor
• 1:04:16
  or shells to people with guns and Yada yada yada but but
• 1:04:22
  Hotline Miami was one. Now I never fully played all of
• 1:04:26
  them. My wife loved Hotline Miami,
• 1:04:29
  both wanted to and she play the heck out of both of them.
• 1:04:33
  And so, so what L saw this and I was just listen to another
• 1:04:37
  podcast talking about it. And they mentioned, how long
• 1:04:41
  man, me, I was like, Mmm, Mmm. You know, my, my, my, my, my
• 1:04:45
  eyebrows parked in my ears, perked up, you know, my Okay,
• 1:04:49
  and then I saw now this game is out on all systems, but I'm
• 1:04:55
  playing it on Game Pass on Xbox, but, yeah, so it's very dope.
• 1:05:03
  And one thing I like about it is that it has a crazy amount of
• 1:05:07
  customization as well as a lot of like skills and stuff to
• 1:05:10
  unlock. And so as you play through each
• 1:05:13
  level, you know you get XP and money and stuff whatever.
• 1:05:17
  So you can buy Cosmetics for your character change up, how
• 1:05:20
  they look, how they dress, all that stuff, whatever, and then
• 1:05:24
  and then upgrading your skills and stuff, whatever.
• 1:05:26
  It's like I hate got a skill recently, the kind of lets me
• 1:05:31
  like counter and attack into like a follow-up move, so it's
• 1:05:37
  like I block an attack and then my do does like some like yeah,
• 1:05:40
  yeah, likes my quick Jabs or whatever and I also got like a
• 1:05:44
  like a lock, we're from near like sir.
• 1:05:48
  Environmental stuff, whatever. Like, if I'm near a wall here
• 1:05:51
  batches into the wall, or from your sink in the bathroom, smash
• 1:05:55
  his head through the Synchro from like on like a railing or
• 1:05:59
  something. Maybe I'll toss them overboard
• 1:06:00
  or whatever. So, but overall, very do very
• 1:06:04
  cool game. Like say if you're a fan of
• 1:06:07
  Hotline, Miami, Or mr. Shifty definitely recommended
• 1:06:13
  likes especially if you have gained passes.
• 1:06:15
  Well it is a super worth checking out.
• 1:06:20
  So and just like Hotline Miami, it has some very Bhangra music.
• 1:06:24
  So someone I've been playing lately, whatever I put on some
• 1:06:27
  headphones and that music is going.
• 1:06:30
  I'm just going through and just fighting days, whatever.
• 1:06:33
  And it's just a fun good time. It's not seem like it's a decent
• 1:06:37
  length because I already played like a couple of Hours.
• 1:06:40
  And I've made to like level I think I meant like level 9 or 10
• 1:06:45
  of 40. So still got a lot of ways to go
• 1:06:49
  whatever it's been getting progressively harder but in a
• 1:06:52
  good way. So yeah so like I said midnight
• 1:06:56
  fight Express now on too. The games that.
• 1:07:08
  Molded me over the years. Now I can't kind of like tackle
• 1:07:14
  this list from a couple different angles and so I kind
• 1:07:16
  of mainly focused on games that like hair like games are gaming
• 1:07:25
  moments, they're like really shaped and like changed my
• 1:07:30
  trajectory as far as like how I thought about gaming and and
• 1:07:36
  different stuff like that or A, so I'm roughly going to talk
• 1:07:41
  about this in semi chronological timeline Wise, from like me
• 1:07:45
  being younger up until, you know, more recent stuff.
• 1:07:48
  But I might kind of mix and match some stuff in between.
• 1:07:51
  Now, while I would love to have, you know, graphics and show
• 1:07:56
  video of Everything, whatever. I'm still not 100% for sure like
• 1:08:00
  how a lot of this like showing footage and stuff, whatever
• 1:08:03
  works with YouTube. So I'm always hesitant, you
• 1:08:07
  know, So in doing that, just cuz I don't want to go through this
• 1:08:12
  long discussion and then I upload to Youtube and it's like,
• 1:08:15
  sorry, you can't post none of this part or whatever or we have
• 1:08:19
  to know muted or something dumb. So Whoops sorry.
• 1:08:25
  So I'm sorry I saw unfortunately you know as much as I would love
• 1:08:29
  to whatever I'm not really pregnant having much visual is
• 1:08:31
  going on, so forgive me for that but we're still we're still
• 1:08:37
  learning how all this stuff goes. but but yeah, so diving in
• 1:08:53
  like I've talked about many times before even earlier in
• 1:08:55
  this episode, whatever is the like gaming has been a very big
• 1:08:59
  part of who I am as a person for majority of my life.
• 1:09:03
  As long as far back as I can remember.
• 1:09:06
  And like I said that that's why it's been so hurtful.
• 1:09:10
  You know, that that I haven't had a chance to really play
• 1:09:14
  video games and stuff as much as I want to, in this last year was
• 1:09:20
  like I said some part of it is Is my own doing because I got so
• 1:09:24
  heavily into reading manga and buying manga and stuff, but a
• 1:09:28
  lot of the time I spent playing games got diverted to doing
• 1:09:31
  this. And now I'm trying to find a
• 1:09:32
  better balance and stuff and stuff whatever.
• 1:09:36
  But But yeah, but yeah but yeah I have awesome moments or series
• 1:09:44
  like said it like really shape things and so for me I've pretty
• 1:09:48
  much been playing games for sure.
• 1:09:51
  Since I always I kind of have a kind of have like my first like
• 1:09:58
  concrete memories around the age of like seven or so six, seven
• 1:10:05
  years old. Now my older siblings, you know,
• 1:10:09
  they play video games, especially my older sister and
• 1:10:13
  big gamer ev even, you know, you know, rest in peace to my
• 1:10:19
  sister, but even, you know, as an adult in her, becoming a mom
• 1:10:23
  and stuff for the Reno she was still on play games and stuff
• 1:10:26
  with me with with her kids and stuff and everything.
• 1:10:31
  She was really big fan of fighting games and stuff to it,
• 1:10:34
  especially Mortal Kombat and stuff like that.
• 1:10:36
  So but they are so so I kind of, you know, with been that big age
• 1:10:40
  Gap, whatever. I end up getting a lot of
• 1:10:44
  consoles and stuff early on through through them or
• 1:10:49
  whatever. So that's how I got it.
• 1:10:50
  The first Nintendo Super Nintendo.
• 1:10:54
  And things like that through them.
• 1:10:56
  I even got a, I have a pair myself, I have a an Atari 2600
• 1:11:03
  with with a case full of games with speaking.
• 1:11:08
  Those, let me go. Let me see if I can grab it real
• 1:11:10
  quick. So of course, my setup and stuff
• 1:11:14
  isn't really set up for this. But like I said, I I love doing
• 1:11:18
  a little bit of shawntel and so I still have this big thing of
• 1:11:27
  Atari 2600 games that I got from back in the day and it is I
• 1:11:44
  don't know that. That that's sorry.
• 1:11:46
  Mimi your boy sucking at math. Let me see real quick.
• 1:11:58
  Basically it's about 450 Atari 2600 games that I have here.
• 1:12:04
  In this case. Everything I got Stampede.
• 1:12:08
  I got of course, Donkey Kong Star Master g.i.
• 1:12:13
  Joe Pitfall to fishing derby. Math Grand, Prix.
• 1:12:22
  Not look, I got good. I got guy ET up in here and who
• 1:12:28
  knows what else? I haven't really loaded this
• 1:12:32
  thing and so freaking long. But uh, but yeah but it is a is
• 1:12:43
  this just but but it is a very cherished memory.
• 1:12:48
  Let me go. Put this thing back up real
• 1:12:50
  quick. But yeah, so I end up getting
• 1:12:55
  that from a close friend of my mom's one day, I think, I think
• 1:13:01
  they may be like her kids that grew up or something, whatever.
• 1:13:04
  I remember bomb, but she she said across the street from us,
• 1:13:07
  and she gave me that. And that's been, you know, well
• 1:13:11
  over 20 years ago, whatever this point, and I still have it like.
• 1:13:15
  So I haven't tried to hook up the Atari and years.
• 1:13:19
  So, I don't even know if that, if the, if the atomic Is self
• 1:13:22
  still works. Maybe it might be a fun day.
• 1:13:25
  Maybe try to do one day with the kids.
• 1:13:26
  I don't know. My third play around with that
• 1:13:28
  whatever. But but that being said, you
• 1:13:31
  know, that unfortunately is like the only Older gaming system
• 1:13:38
  from back in the 90s that I still have, unfortunately,
• 1:13:41
  because because when I moved off to college or whatever alone to
• 1:13:47
  make a long story short, you know, my mama got sick and she
• 1:13:51
  had to move out to Mississippi to stay with her sisters or no.
• 1:13:54
  No, she she moved it to steal my sister first before she moved as
• 1:13:57
  Mississippi or so we're sisters. And so, we put all of our stuff
• 1:14:00
  back at the time and storage. Well, It's a wild story.
• 1:14:07
  So, the weekend before I graduated college, I had got me,
• 1:14:12
  finally, got many other car because out my whole two and a
• 1:14:15
  half years. I was in college, I didn't have
• 1:14:18
  my own Vehicles such as my friend Brie for, you know,
• 1:14:23
  working with me and then Mary used to choose her corn from
• 1:14:26
  time, but but which that's a whole other funny story to that
• 1:14:31
  I will talk about some day but But yeah, if I got my own car
• 1:14:36
  somewhere, you know, where I'm gonna go back home hadn't been
• 1:14:38
  home in a while and stuff whatever.
• 1:14:40
  And so I was like, you know what, before I leave or before,
• 1:14:44
  I know finish college and move further away, let me go pick up
• 1:14:50
  some stuff for the ever to take up there, whatever.
• 1:14:52
  So, tell me why the day I get into town, something was like
• 1:14:56
  Hey drive by the storage area or whatever first so I get there.
• 1:15:00
  And if some people, you know, I'm driving, I'm walking through
• 1:15:03
  like I'm like, okay, Tory should be right here where there's a
• 1:15:07
  bunch of people. Loading up a truck with what
• 1:15:11
  looks like a lot of my family stuff, and long story short kind
• 1:15:14
  of find out that whoever was responsible for who's supposed
• 1:15:17
  to be paying for our storage unit over time.
• 1:15:21
  Had not been paying it as so. It literally had got sold and
• 1:15:25
  these people were cleaning it out or whatever.
• 1:15:27
  So I'm like, yo whoa wait now like I said, I had just bought
• 1:15:34
  me a car and I'm Gary to move out of college so I have no
• 1:15:38
  extra money and so they're basically like, hey well we can
• 1:15:42
  sell you back your stuff whatever which suck.
• 1:15:44
  Now, of course, they were at least nice and slight like, any
• 1:15:48
  like personal stuff like photos and documents and stuff like
• 1:15:52
  that or whatever. Of course, I got to get all this
• 1:15:54
  stuff, whatever no issue because it's like, hey, uh, I forget
• 1:15:59
  sell me pictures of my childhood.
• 1:16:02
  You know, but unfortunately, all my gaming systems, whatever were
• 1:16:06
  gone except for the only one I was able if I was like, okay, if
• 1:16:10
  I can only Salvage one, which one of these would probably the
• 1:16:13
  hardest try to come back by in that and it was the tari, 2600
• 1:16:16
  is what I want with. So, I'll add my age in.
• 1:16:20
  All my second Genesis stuff, and my Super Nintendo NES.
• 1:16:25
  All that stuff. God and a lot more stuff.
• 1:16:30
  But anyway, So, yes, I've been through the ringer, like I said
• 1:16:34
  that that's, you know, stay with me all these years, but it's
• 1:16:40
  circling back. One of the first kind of like
• 1:16:45
  video games and seriously, like this, like really like opening
• 1:16:49
  my mind to, like, how different stuff is aside from, just like
• 1:16:53
  the basis, you know, while Mario was fun, playing Legend of
• 1:16:58
  Zelda, A Link to the Past. and just how how intricate that game
• 1:17:07
  was because especially when it came to going back and forth
• 1:17:12
  between the light and the dark world, and all that different
• 1:17:16
  stuff and just that whole series in general.
• 1:17:20
  Now, majority of my fondness for the series came with the
• 1:17:26
  handheld games because I didn't really have, I didn't, I never
• 1:17:29
  had a GameCube or N64 and stuff like that, so I've never played
• 1:17:34
  well. I'll play maybe like the opening
• 1:17:38
  sequence of Ocarina of Time, but that's like, I think when they
• 1:17:44
  hear remade it on 3DS to, I miss Ocarina of Time, I never play
• 1:17:48
  Majora's Mask, all that stuff, I missed back in the day, but I do
• 1:17:56
  also have a very fond memory for for Oracle of Seasons game.
• 1:18:01
  Boy, that was just a very fun game.
• 1:18:04
  And like I said, just also Is just something just very
• 1:18:06
  different to play. And the other one that I cherish
• 1:18:09
  a lot is the Minish Cap on Gameboy Advance.
• 1:18:15
  Just because once again, kind of thing going back to life or
• 1:18:17
  something. What I was talking about with
• 1:18:18
  stray earlier is thinking about things from a different
• 1:18:22
  perspective. And so that was just a very
• 1:18:24
  funny cute game, but I'm bad. The Zelda game.
• 1:18:27
  Like some was definitely very intricate and like so like those
• 1:18:30
  early years like my early teens and stuff, whatever playing
• 1:18:33
  those games. Now this one I still laugh laugh
• 1:18:42
  about to this day. We're thinking back to my child
• 1:18:47
  brain. So for my seventh birthday cuz
• 1:18:51
  cuz for those who do not know, my birthday is January 6th and
• 1:18:57
  so with it being so close to Christmas.
• 1:19:00
  A lot of times, you know, certain people, my family would
• 1:19:03
  just give me just. Hey, will just get you just a
• 1:19:05
  super big gift, you know, to cover for Christmas, or birthday
• 1:19:11
  or whatever, or to cover both of them, whatever.
• 1:19:14
  Ever. And so my mom and my mom and my
• 1:19:17
  sister took me to Walmart to let me pick out a game system.
• 1:19:24
  And childhood Robert. I ended up picking the Sega
• 1:19:32
  Genesis which hey it is what it is and it's put me on these life
• 1:19:36
  trajectory I went on now but also potentially have the
• 1:19:41
  opportunity to get a PlayStation 1.
• 1:19:45
  But my 7 mod, well, let me think cuz this this Depending on what
• 1:19:54
  year was it might have been either me be me going from six
• 1:19:56
  to seven. We going from 7 to 8.
• 1:19:59
  So this might have been Christmas. 97, maybe Manu.
• 1:20:03
  I remember being close to some years old.
• 1:20:05
  Basically and I was in the glass case over there and of course
• 1:20:14
  CDs and disc. Whatever this all-new.
• 1:20:17
  I'm used to no cartridges or whatever and so I'm like
• 1:20:21
  PlayStation PlayStation meeting at playground.
• 1:20:25
  I'm like what the heck? No, I'll take the Sega Genesis.
• 1:20:31
  And, of course it was it was the which I later found out later in
• 1:20:33
  my life was the third version of The Genesis because I didn't
• 1:20:37
  realize how long that, that see how long that serial console had
• 1:20:41
  been an hour. But I said, of course, it was
• 1:20:44
  the one that had the Sonic one packin game.
• 1:20:48
  And so a funny thing is, is that my sister also bought a second
• 1:20:53
  Genesis for her for her and her husband house, to whatever.
• 1:20:58
  And so we all kind of bonded over playing Sonic and different
• 1:21:01
  stuff like that or whatever but that that is just like a moment
• 1:21:04
  that like I am like man how different would my life have
• 1:21:10
  been if I would have freaking I got a freaking PlayStation back
• 1:21:14
  at that point in time, but I will say I did get a chance to
• 1:21:19
  play Playstation systems over the years.
• 1:21:23
  Because I've, as I mentioned before, With the big age gap
• 1:21:28
  between me and my oldest brother.
• 1:21:32
  My oldest nephew is only four years younger than me.
• 1:21:35
  So growing up my brother, got my nephew whatever games you wanted
• 1:21:42
  or whatever. So we are young kids to young,
• 1:21:47
  teens and stuff, whatever. And we played a lot of Grand
• 1:21:53
  Theft Auto. And wrestling games.
• 1:21:58
  So, you know, my first exposure to it was a GTA Vice City plan
• 1:22:04
  over. My my, my cousin dairymaid, my
• 1:22:07
  aunt Sheila's house. Oh, playing that game.
• 1:22:11
  And of course, you know, I am what maybe like 11 about this
• 1:22:16
  point because when one dude, that sounds about right GTA Vice
• 1:22:24
  City. Let's see.
• 1:22:25
  Vice City was 2002. So yeah, so so yes I was 12.
• 1:22:32
  12:13 preteen somewhere. That's in that time frame,
• 1:22:35
  whatever. And my mom was freaking blown
• 1:22:38
  like seeing this game or whatever but but eventually know
• 1:22:42
  my nephew, got it. Whatever and of course it was
• 1:22:44
  just us you know just goofing off for hours and hours driver
• 1:22:51
  in the city doing crazy stuff forever.
• 1:22:55
  I always loved freaking doing know once they still do like the
• 1:22:57
  like the all cars explode cheat code.
• 1:23:01
  Some very fond memories and of course, with the wrestling
• 1:23:04
  games, very www. Now I think this would have been
• 1:23:09
  WWF but I don't let me see WWF. Let me see here comes okay.
• 1:23:19
  Okay. So it was WWE body, okay?
• 1:23:21
  So yeah, so so here comes the WWE, Here Comes the Pain and I
• 1:23:28
  think it was smack Let me see SmackDown.
• 1:23:32
  Shut Your Mouth, all over some games from the early 2000s.
• 1:23:39
  We put the heck out of them as well as all, of course, all the
• 1:23:42
  raw Francis my dad was but but the but the here comes, the pain
• 1:23:45
  is and shut your mouth. What kind of like, kind of like
• 1:23:48
  the two big ones that first started out.
• 1:23:51
  And so we have so many memories are just like playing wrestling
• 1:23:55
  games, watching wrestling as well.
• 1:23:59
  I remember some years later when we were our way over there,
• 1:24:06
  Shoot I think I probably I think yeah I was in high school.
• 1:24:11
  Could come here, I was working. So this is my been the holiday
• 1:24:15
  of like my junior or senior prom.
• 1:24:17
  I see you because if I had a job but my nephew was staying over
• 1:24:23
  for think it was like Thanksgiving break or something.
• 1:24:25
  Whatever. And we had guy GTA 4 and yeah
• 1:24:34
  GTA 4. and, what else was no okay no no it was just GTA 4 and
• 1:24:44
  it might have been a wrestling game but but I but I for sure
• 1:24:47
  member alot of GTA 4 and it's watching a lot of wrestling and
• 1:24:52
  I remember wheeler replayed GTA4 around the clock and shifts
• 1:24:58
  until we beat that game because like, you know, our leaving, go
• 1:25:02
  to work, he be playing around at work, I will come back, play
• 1:25:06
  some whatever, you know, You know, whenever he feel asleep,
• 1:25:10
  but I'll be up all night playing there.
• 1:25:11
  I fell asleep, he would get up and play.
• 1:25:13
  It was just such a very awesome and memorable moment going back
• 1:25:17
  and forth and plan that stuff. I'm and of course, same thing
• 1:25:20
  with center and radius how can I not talk about San Andreas?
• 1:25:24
  Just like that whole vibe that stuff of playing that game.
• 1:25:27
  And I said you're just playing a little game stuff with with my
• 1:25:29
  nephew. And like I said, just just the
• 1:25:33
  freedom that those games just brought you and just like, we
• 1:25:36
  just just driving around just getting to as much chaos as we
• 1:25:41
  could possibly get into back in back in the day during those
• 1:25:46
  times and stuff, whatever so bomb.
• 1:25:48
  But yeah, but but lots of fond memories doing that.
• 1:25:51
  Like I said, like growing up summer break winter break
• 1:25:56
  whenever I got a chance to spring break, go and go to my
• 1:25:59
  brother's house or go to my sister-in-law's house. and me
• 1:26:02
  and my nephew just beyond the game all break, and of course,
• 1:26:09
  you know that would like those those times where where I was in
• 1:26:13
  my like early like pre teens to early teens were super memorable
• 1:26:19
  for me and media in general because I guess I got a chance
• 1:26:22
  to play the forgetting, the PS1 to the PS2, and all those games
• 1:26:26
  and stuff with my nephew to, of course, you know, That's also
• 1:26:32
  time where I got really heavy, it's a watching Toonami and
• 1:26:36
  stuff. Whatever late at night on
• 1:26:38
  Saturday nights and stuff whatever.
• 1:26:41
  So that was definitely a very important time frame of my life.
• 1:26:46
  Now, going back a little bit. Of course, another really big
• 1:26:52
  game series for me, of course, is freaking Pokemon play Pokemon
• 1:26:58
  games from the time when they first came out, I think with
• 1:27:00
  with red and blue, so that would be like 97.
• 1:27:03
  So, once again, I'm about 78 years old and got access to
• 1:27:09
  these games. So, I'm back at school.
• 1:27:14
  A stuff whatever. So and you know, eventually
• 1:27:17
  ended up getting me, you know, a game boy and a game with color
• 1:27:21
  and all this stuff but I have My, my Fondest Memories Are with
• 1:27:30
  Gentoo, and especially Pokemon Crystal, because Pokemon Crystal
• 1:27:37
  was the first game that I bought with my own money.
• 1:27:42
  And so it just made it, it just made it that much more, you
• 1:27:48
  know. Meaning for Meaningful, for me.
• 1:27:57
  Sorry, I'm trying to see. Cuz I still have a lot of My
• 1:28:00
  Pokemon cartridges and stuff and Game Boy, cartridges and stuff.
• 1:28:05
  So, let me see what I have. Oh yeah, yeah, I got some
• 1:28:09
  goodies. Let me pour it these out and go
• 1:28:14
  through these real quick. ROM by.
• 1:28:16
  Yeah, but II never forget. Because once And it was around
• 1:28:21
  town for my birthday. Which let me see.
• 1:28:24
  Let me see. Pokemon Crystal US release date.
• 1:28:34
  July 30th 2001, I started the summertime.
• 1:28:37
  So so yes I remember going to the store with my mom and my
• 1:28:44
  mom's friend, dropped us off whatever and we went to the
• 1:28:47
  electronics department whatever like Side by 7 and my little
• 1:28:51
  money or whatever and so until I tried his apartment and I
• 1:28:53
  freaking purchase Pokemon Crystal which I do not know
• 1:28:58
  where my version of crystal is. Whore.
• 1:29:04
  Where my Game Boy? Color is either.
• 1:29:08
  I need to track those down there, probably.
• 1:29:13
  Yeah, they're there. And one of them one of my other
• 1:29:15
  backpacks. Well, can't find my Game Boy
• 1:29:18
  Color. But of course found my copy of
• 1:29:22
  Pokemon Crystal. Look how shiny and beautiful
• 1:29:25
  that is. I'm pretty sure.
• 1:29:30
  Still works shit. We were going to test it out
• 1:29:39
  alive on my special edition Gameboy Advance SP, which I'm
• 1:29:45
  going to talk about this story in a second, but I heard some
• 1:29:51
  sounds. But let's let's go down memory
• 1:29:54
  lane with these sounds real quick.
• 1:30:05
  Man, I just freaking love it. The sound of the unknown ask the
• 1:30:14
  man. Just just to to freaking good.
• 1:30:21
  But yeah. But yeah, we went in the store
• 1:30:36
  and we pick this up and and I never forget you know, I had
• 1:30:42
  asked my mom I was like so do you need help buy any groceries
• 1:30:47
  or do you me for anything else and she's like why you want to
• 1:30:50
  go? You want to go sit in the car
• 1:30:51
  and play again and I was like yes ma'am issues, I go ahead.
• 1:30:54
  So So I went out in the car with my mom's friend took out the
• 1:30:58
  package, boot it up, and just went through which all just
• 1:31:01
  heard hearing and music and the answer or whatever.
• 1:31:05
  And like I said, I already love to Gen 2 in general.
• 1:31:10
  But I never forget the first time I want them to walk into
• 1:31:14
  some tall grass and and and ran to a Pidgey.
• 1:31:26
  I'm okay. A picture.
• 1:31:27
  I've seen the freakin million pidgeys and the freaking
• 1:31:30
  animation where you like flap this, where you like flapped his
• 1:31:33
  wings and all I, oh my God, they move my, my 11 year old brain
• 1:31:42
  was out of their butt. But yeah, so so sorry, play that
• 1:31:49
  and like I said, of course, with with Gen 2 in general.
• 1:31:55
  Of Pokémon. I just loved gaming generators
• 1:32:02
  back back back then we're just because, of course, no, we don't
• 1:32:04
  have the ease of access and getting spoiled on stuff as, you
• 1:32:08
  know, compared to back then just because it was like I had no
• 1:32:14
  clue that the first whole game, basically.
• 1:32:16
  The whole first region was in the, you know, in June and the
• 1:32:21
  Gen 2 games until I was playing freaking my Pokemon.
• 1:32:24
  Silver version. And You know.
• 1:32:30
  Finally went back to my hometown after I think if I remember
• 1:32:34
  correctly. I beat the leaf or whatever came
• 1:32:36
  back to my hometown. Oh yeah, I got surf.
• 1:32:38
  Let me just surf to the right from my house.
• 1:32:41
  And then it's like, oh hey, you're in canto as I.
• 1:32:46
  Wow. And then, of course, we all can
• 1:32:48
  never forget Climbing Mount. Silver after getting our butts
• 1:32:56
  beatin in and it's okay maybe through all these areas that
• 1:33:04
  darn there on my Pokemon are dead.
• 1:33:06
  What what is what is at the top of this cave is mountain and
• 1:33:11
  it's just the alone person standing at the top.
• 1:33:16
  Turn around three dots and you're like, okay, the battery
• 1:33:20
  is, it starts and freaking red with just such a height moment,
• 1:33:25
  such height memories. And of course, I loved all the
• 1:33:29
  stuff with the secret of the unknown and the other legendary
• 1:33:34
  dogs and all that stuff. And I even enjoyed the mystery
• 1:33:38
  of stuff in gen3 where you had died and they had all the
• 1:33:42
  freaking underwater caves. And, you know, you had the kind
• 1:33:46
  of Like I like that, quote unquote, the hieroglyphic stuff,
• 1:33:50
  whatever, Andy, I know language and whatever else.
• 1:33:52
  And it that whole Arrow just was just just, so just so memorable
• 1:34:00
  for me as a child. And let me see real quick with
• 1:34:03
  all other games. I got here.
• 1:34:05
  I got a Pokemon Gold version. Pokemon Yellow.
• 1:34:17
  I have some, I have some Game Boy, Advance videos.
• 1:34:21
  I have some episodes of SpongeBob.
• 1:34:25
  And put these back in this bag. For I get my stuff out of credit
• 1:34:28
  up here. More episodes of SpongeBob
• 1:34:32
  Cartoon Network Collection, Fairly OddParents and 444.
• 1:34:39
  Those are all they might be young and it's like like what?
• 1:34:41
  Like what is Game Boy Advance video.
• 1:34:44
  So basically, it is actually since I got this, my game boy
• 1:34:49
  here it is basically roof. Giant Dust Bunny.
• 1:34:57
  In that one. It is basically the whole
• 1:35:01
  freaking TV show or episodes of a TV show on your Game Boy.
• 1:35:09
  Oh no, I want to say not competitor.
• 1:35:10
  Okay. So, what I have in here is
• 1:35:17
  freaking for Kids logo. Freaking Yu-Gi-Oh on my freaking
• 1:35:31
  Game Boy, man. Look at this breaking watching,
• 1:35:39
  Yu-Gi-Oh on my Gameboy. Come on now.
• 1:35:45
  Come on that that is so freaking dope.
• 1:35:46
  But yeah, Yu-Gi-Oh what is this? I'll get this isn't a movie but
• 1:35:53
  but I got no. Just some of these.
• 1:35:56
  I just got from random stuff over the years but especially
• 1:35:59
  from we're gonna GameStop whatever but got a freakin
• 1:36:01
  Beyblade game and Happy Feet. And of course, one of my
• 1:36:06
  favorites, the Legacy Dragonball Z Legacy of Goku, 1 & 2.
• 1:36:13
  That was such a fun game and of course, Mario Brothers, classic
• 1:36:20
  and all that stuff. Oh, Dragon Ball Z Boos.
• 1:36:28
  Fury, your boy got the good stuff.
• 1:36:33
  But Anna friend Action Replay, but, but yeah, so F and somehow,
• 1:36:40
  I can't remember. I can't remember how, but
• 1:36:41
  somehow I over the years, I got a second Game Boy, Advance SP
• 1:36:46
  still. Hey, break a full charge.
• 1:36:50
  I ain't Touchin staying freaking years now.
• 1:36:55
  Speaking of Game Boy in years Let me tell you the funny.
• 1:37:01
  Yes slightly tragic story of me and my Game Boy Advance SP which
• 1:37:08
  this device is what has me curious about.
• 1:37:12
  Maybe getting one of those new Samsung flip phones or foldables
• 1:37:19
  or whatever. Because the new ones I was
• 1:37:21
  looking at the other day whatever it looks like it's
• 1:37:23
  about the same freaking size and it's folded up as a Game Boy
• 1:37:26
  Advance and just a two-tone codes, whatever.
• 1:37:29
  Just Everybody knew. So got this for my 11th
• 1:37:33
  birthday. My sister-in-law shout out to
• 1:37:35
  her. You got never hear this to see
• 1:37:37
  disorder but shots of you Teresa, love you so freaking
• 1:37:40
  much but for my birthday to me to Walmart is okay.
• 1:37:45
  Hey do you get to pick one thing?
• 1:37:48
  Which you know her my brother spoiled me all the time growing
• 1:37:51
  up because you know whenever I was at their house during
• 1:37:54
  Christmas break summer vacation whatever.
• 1:37:57
  I would be babysitting my niece and nephew.
• 1:37:59
  And at the end of every break, whatever, they always treat
• 1:38:03
  treat me, neither. Hey, Timmy clothes, shopping by
• 1:38:04
  me, whatever I need or, you know, maybe treat me to
• 1:38:07
  something like said like this. So I decide, I want to get a
• 1:38:10
  Game Boy. Advance, I specifically want to
• 1:38:12
  get this special edition one because they why would you not?
• 1:38:16
  You know, why would you, you know, just want a plain Jane
• 1:38:20
  color like the other one I had. So I got this whatever loved it.
• 1:38:24
  Cherished it One day, it came up missing and now I was dealing
• 1:38:33
  with some shady stuff as a kid with, you know, I had a buddy
• 1:38:38
  who would, you know? And I can and I can meet those
• 1:38:41
  knockers as long as this is well over 20 years past that your
• 1:38:44
  limitations, hopefully, but I had a buddy who, you know, but
• 1:38:51
  maybe still other kids stuff and I'm some everything from Game
• 1:38:55
  Boy. The Pokemon cards to video
• 1:38:58
  games, all all types of nerdy stuff like that or whatever.
• 1:39:02
  And so, of course, tip for Tessa.
• 1:39:05
  I'm thinking, yo, somebody finally got me and stole my
• 1:39:08
  game. Boy was missing for years,
• 1:39:12
  literally years because it wasn't in my backpack.
• 1:39:15
  I didn't I didn't see it's quote on quote for a long time.
• 1:39:21
  Now, my bedroom, I had in my mom's house growing up my better
• 1:39:24
  in my head. Wasn't the biggest room or
• 1:39:28
  wherever and so I never really moved my background too much
• 1:39:31
  whatever. So tell me why years later and I
• 1:39:35
  mean years like I was probably a high school by this point.
• 1:39:40
  So years later I decided to talk till I do listen or we Shuffle
• 1:39:44
  around in my room or whatever. So I move my bed or either.
• 1:39:50
  I move them either. I was moving my bed or are doing
• 1:39:52
  some type of like, real deep cleaning or whatever what you're
• 1:39:56
  saying, I think about it, but I was looking into my bed, order,
• 1:40:01
  for something whatever. And I can't remember, I think I
• 1:40:06
  felt a lump and I was like, what the heck?
• 1:40:08
  So I shine the light on them. Like, what the heck is that?
• 1:40:12
  Cuz I can recognize it because this thing was literally under
• 1:40:17
  my bed for years for and it was under my bed for sir, forget
• 1:40:21
  long. It was covered in a clump of
• 1:40:25
  dust but and shout out to Nintendo because I picked it up
• 1:40:33
  off the floor. Like I said, been under my bed
• 1:40:34
  for a literally at least probably like five years or
• 1:40:36
  more. And I'm like man this thing
• 1:40:39
  power don't even working them or whatever.
• 1:40:41
  Tell me why I turn on. I hit the power button after
• 1:40:44
  years and it booted up. And iodine are be.
• 1:40:50
  No no because of course I eventually told her I know
• 1:40:53
  Thomas is like hey I lost it. Did it and she's upset or
• 1:40:55
  whatever. But it wasn't an immediate
• 1:40:57
  thing. I lost maybe like after like a
• 1:40:58
  year or whatever. But but I told her you're
• 1:41:03
  letting out that found was a hey you remember, when I remember
• 1:41:05
  I've lost my love that Gambler you got me?
• 1:41:07
  She's like yeah, I was like, I found it.
• 1:41:09
  It was under my bed. So all these years I had thought
• 1:41:12
  that somebody has stolen my backpack or there, maybe I lost
• 1:41:15
  it on the bus, or a school or some other weird place.
• 1:41:18
  However, it was freaking under my bed, all these years, so
• 1:41:26
  moving on from there. So the next I would say, kind of
• 1:41:31
  kind of like, kind of like biggest error for me with gaming
• 1:41:36
  happened. Many years later when I finished
• 1:41:42
  high school and I was working. So, I was just, I was 19 That
• 1:41:50
  2009. I was 19 working at Dairy Queen
• 1:41:55
  your boy, you know, flipping them Burgers, flipping them them
• 1:41:59
  blizzards, which figure was that?
• 1:42:03
  I might have a work history, episode of something, whatever.
• 1:42:05
  Because I could man, first I want to Dairy Queen and then let
• 1:42:08
  me do that. Because of course this
• 1:42:09
  everything is like what was like magic and I got to do that.
• 1:42:12
  I was like I got two likes, making a service a customer.
• 1:42:15
  I did that. I was like ah but a new So, your
• 1:42:18
  boy, hey, you know, I'm 19 living at home, I live in
• 1:42:22
  freaking small, freaking Jasper, Texas.
• 1:42:27
  And a lot of in a lot of expenses, whatever.
• 1:42:29
  So I'm just that kind of money. So but of course, back then I'm
• 1:42:33
  young. I had no bank account or
• 1:42:36
  whatever, I knew nothing of banking and stuff, whatever.
• 1:42:39
  So all my money, every paycheck, whatever, I cash, my check and
• 1:42:43
  I'll just toss my money to envelope.
• 1:42:45
  Like, I was freaking Breaking Bad or something and just had it
• 1:42:50
  under my mattress. So your boy just had hundreds
• 1:42:52
  and hundreds of dollars that I wish I had today.
• 1:42:57
  But I did not and so so there is a, there's a big pond shop,
• 1:43:04
  whatever in town quote-unquote big.
• 1:43:06
  And so I went there, whatever and mind you once again?
• 1:43:11
  No car. Your boy walking all over town
• 1:43:14
  or whatever. So I want to the pawn shop on.
• 1:43:15
  This is like a maid like a 30 minute walk, whatever.
• 1:43:19
  And I get there one day. And I see they had a fat
• 1:43:25
  backwards compatible PS3. And so I'm like, yo, how much
• 1:43:31
  was it? And, of course, y'all know, back
• 1:43:33
  on PS2, can I was freaking like, $700 whatever this thing was
• 1:43:36
  maybe like a maybe a couple hundred bucks.
• 1:43:39
  I think whatever by this point or whatever, whatever it was, it
• 1:43:43
  was, it was a did I cannot pass up?
• 1:43:44
  So I was like, hey how much was that they told me and I never
• 1:43:48
  forget, they had a the couple games that was in.
• 1:43:51
  There was a offer. Sure, he got a Dragon Ball Z.
• 1:43:54
  Burst Limit. I think I got Transformers the
• 1:43:56
  game and those I caught the first couple days I had bought
• 1:43:59
  or whatever, but but I was ahead kind of test it out.
• 1:44:03
  They hooked it up, I'll put her on, whatever, whatever.
• 1:44:05
  And I was like, can you hold this?
• 1:44:08
  I'll be back in the milk, get some money.
• 1:44:10
  So I walked back home. Got my little money, whatever.
• 1:44:16
  And I think I think I'm pretty sure your I toss it in a
• 1:44:19
  backpack or in my little drawstring backpack.
• 1:44:21
  I had which I probably still have her somewhere.
• 1:44:25
  Whatever. Touch my little drawstring
• 1:44:26
  backpack. Worry mother, I'll blow my
• 1:44:27
  money, whatever. And I walk in the door, I must
• 1:44:30
  have had biggest cheese and smile on my face and the guys
• 1:44:34
  like, so you back too bad. I'm like Yes, sir.
• 1:44:38
  So now once again young and dumb but hey, I ain't care.
• 1:44:45
  So here I am. Walking through the streets
• 1:44:50
  through the hood. With his big, big part of
• 1:44:56
  languages big-ass box, they clearly says PS3.
• 1:45:03
  So, I walk in 30 minute walk from the pawn shop to my house.
• 1:45:10
  PS3 box backpack for the money but you can't tell me nothing
• 1:45:17
  but I made it home safely no it was a quiet day.
• 1:45:21
  Nobody wants treats whatever really.
• 1:45:24
  Plus I nu plus I nu hey certain routes to do whatever and it
• 1:45:27
  will your boy made it home and one piece and I got it hooked up
• 1:45:32
  and It was the beginning of a whole new era for everything.
• 1:45:37
  Because like I said up to this point.
• 1:45:39
  Yes, I got to play the PS1 and Playstation 2, but that was only
• 1:45:44
  either with my nephew came in town, and I got to play it
• 1:45:46
  whenever when I went to my brother or sister in law's house
• 1:45:48
  whatever growing up, otherwise I only had like I said, I had, you
• 1:45:53
  know, the original Nintendo's, Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis
• 1:45:58
  that was all I had for home consoles.
• 1:46:00
  And of course, the Atari Other than that, all those years I
• 1:46:05
  only ever had the the Nintendo handheld, so the Game Boy Game
• 1:46:09
  Boy Color Game Boy, Advance and stuff like that or whatever.
• 1:46:13
  And so, And so me getting a PS3 blew my freaking mind.
• 1:46:25
  Now, I'm trying to think because I'm trying to remember the order
• 1:46:31
  of things. So, like I said, I'm trying to
• 1:46:39
  remember The order of events cuz my sister damn had a PlayStation
• 1:46:51
  3 as well. Because and I remember, I think
• 1:46:55
  I ought to talk to my nephew again, or whatever my, my
• 1:46:57
  sister's kids about that. But I want us, I think they had
• 1:47:00
  either got it in a dealer store there.
• 1:47:03
  Because I think that, I think that they said that they were in
• 1:47:06
  Walmart one day, and there was a line for something in the
• 1:47:10
  electrons and is like, oh, what is this?
• 1:47:11
  And they just popped in. On and they ended up getting.
• 1:47:15
  It was the Metal Gear Solid 4 like PS3 bundle, or whatever.
• 1:47:19
  And of course at the time you know my sister domain play,
• 1:47:22
  those type of games, my nieces and nephews were way too little
• 1:47:26
  to play those type of games were so they just had a lot of games
• 1:47:28
  like that just in shrimp shrink up or whatever.
• 1:47:31
  But I remember playing some stuff cuz I, cuz cuz, cuz for
• 1:47:35
  the first year after, after high school, I moved Upstate with my
• 1:47:39
  sister now. and, Got a job at GameStop and Footlocker or no,
• 1:47:47
  no Finish Line Game something Finish Line at Stonebriar Mall
• 1:47:50
  appear in Frisco. Once again, a story for another
• 1:47:56
  day for a job episode, whatever, but they were on opposite ends
• 1:48:00
  of the mind. If you know, stubborn Mall, you
• 1:48:03
  know, GameStop and finish line, where opportunities of the mob.
• 1:48:06
  A new point is, I got to play a little bit of a PS3 during that
• 1:48:11
  point whatever, and I guess I can remember, which is, which,
• 1:48:14
  but I remember playing the PS3 in my sister's house.
• 1:48:21
  And this might happen when I moved back to whatever.
• 1:48:23
  But anywho me getting access to pierce through whatever change
• 1:48:28
  the whole game for me. And so I remember, I remember
• 1:48:37
  the first time I got my sister's copy of negus out of forward
• 1:48:42
  when I was at their house and I unwrapped because I had just put
• 1:48:45
  it up whatever. And so, putting up their game
• 1:48:50
  And saying the loading screen. And once again, I've never
• 1:48:53
  played any of the Metal Gear Solid games.
• 1:48:55
  So I'm just like, okay, what is this game, whatever this m-rated
• 1:48:59
  game The most realistic looking game I had seen and at that
• 1:49:04
  point in my life. Like so this is like 2008 and I
• 1:49:08
  just see, just this old guy with the eye patch and a bandana and
• 1:49:13
  he's just on a just a loading screen.
• 1:49:15
  It's just him to smoking. And I am like, this is too much
• 1:49:18
  for me. What did I sign up for?
• 1:49:22
  But like I said like hey only been in a plane like so you
• 1:49:26
  know, like she's like some PS2 games and stuff over the years
• 1:49:29
  but manly being really getting some tuning in.
• 1:49:31
  No handouts for majority of my life to Yo, PS3 Graphics
• 1:49:38
  Blu-ray, all this stuff whatever.
• 1:49:40
  But like I said, when I got my own and I like that, I have fun
• 1:49:44
  playing burst Limit and stuff, whatever.
• 1:49:48
  Then Things truly changed with the give me my shirt and from
• 1:49:55
  this one now and once again, shut up.
• 1:50:00
  I love this shirt, this shirt I have on right now, like I said,
• 1:50:03
  for those who are listening, I am wearing a shirt from the for
• 1:50:07
  the, from the, the PS3 game Infamous by Circle.
• 1:50:10
  Punch the same people who brought you ghost of tsushima on
• 1:50:15
  PS4, PS 5, couple years ago but and of course they also Cooper,
• 1:50:20
  back in the day but Infamous one so spring of 2009.
• 1:50:29
  The big battle between Infamous the PS3 exclusive, and then
• 1:50:34
  prototype, the hype machine behind prototype, which was
• 1:50:37
  going to be on all consoles and stuff.
• 1:50:39
  Whatever. And this is where, once again,
• 1:50:42
  another Divergent paths, have been in my life, like, with the
• 1:50:45
  whole Sega Genesis versus PlayStation thing.
• 1:50:48
  So I walk to Walmart once again, 30 minute plus walk.
• 1:50:55
  I want to run because I'm like, I'm like, I'm like in the
• 1:50:57
  commercials and I've been hype. You know, cuz it's got the
• 1:51:00
  around us time to our be. I'll go to the library because I
• 1:51:03
  had no computer at home. So I will go to the library and
• 1:51:06
  that's why I was like, of course, check up on G4.
• 1:51:10
  I'm trying to think, was I listened to the feedback podcast
• 1:51:12
  around this time, maybe the G4 feedback podcast and all that
• 1:51:17
  stuff. But for sure chicken G4 for a
• 1:51:19
  gaming news and stuff forever. And of course, getting the game
• 1:51:22
  of for my magazines, All the hype was around prototype and so
• 1:51:27
  that's what I had my eyes set on some.
• 1:51:29
  Okay. Hey, prototype is out.
• 1:51:31
  I'ma go to the store and buy it so I could so I won't go to
• 1:51:34
  Walmart or whatever tired. After my long journey they're
• 1:51:39
  sold out of prototype. So am I, okay?
• 1:51:46
  And of course like so I'm in a small Country.
• 1:51:47
  Town Walmart is the biggest thing you store we have and of
• 1:51:53
  course years later after I've been moved out of town, whatever
• 1:51:56
  they need a eventually, get to get a GameStop or whatever.
• 1:51:59
  But at that point in time it was on the Walmart.
• 1:52:04
  And so, it wasn't like a pier where I have a overabundance of
• 1:52:08
  store locations now and 2020 to wherever one starts up today.
• 1:52:12
  I'm having okay. Hey I have I can go to GameStop
• 1:52:15
  Walmart, Best Buy I can just order online, you know those
• 1:52:19
  options you know freaking what was that 14 years ago at this
• 1:52:25
  point whatever 13 14 years ago at this point?
• 1:52:30
  So I was like crap and of course Don't know when they when
• 1:52:35
  they're going to get anymore in and of course, I'm not leaving
• 1:52:37
  here empty-handed. So I start looking at it from
• 1:52:42
  this one. Now, let me see if I have signs,
• 1:52:52
  I'm fine. but, but Infamous one. There, there was just so much
• 1:53:06
  stuff. With this.
• 1:53:11
  First of all, first of all the game, cover for Infamous 1, if
• 1:53:18
  you have never seen Infamous PS3.
• 1:53:41
  Come on now. So cover for Infamous one.
• 1:53:45
  So I'm looking at the box I'm I'm okay.
• 1:53:47
  Yeah. That was the other camera heard
• 1:53:48
  about with prototype whatever. Don't know much about or
• 1:53:51
  whatever and so I saw that and then also they also had GTA 4
• 1:53:58
  was in as well. So I am I oh yeah.
• 1:54:00
  I haven't paid. Right that photo, maybe.
• 1:54:02
  I'll get around the photo, but something about this cover for
• 1:54:05
  Infamous one. And I don't remember what the
• 1:54:08
  back of the box. Description was for Infamous at
• 1:54:14
  the time. I don't know if I don't know if
• 1:54:18
  I can find the back of the box. Oh yeah, here it is.
• 1:54:23
  Let's see if I can Okay. Yeah, I can't really see that,
• 1:54:34
  but a massive explosion rips through six square blocks of
• 1:54:39
  Empire, City, leveling everything, and everyone in his
• 1:54:42
  path. At the center of the blast
• 1:54:45
  crater, a lone man has survived the event and has been changed
• 1:54:50
  forever. Players will experience what
• 1:54:52
  happens when a real person suddenly starts to develop any
• 1:54:54
  superpowers? That probably the prettiest
• 1:54:56
  probably got me where there's a super power than someone, okay.
• 1:55:00
  As I said, screw it. I'ma try infamous.
• 1:55:04
  And that whole opening sequence from him being a care.
• 1:55:06
  A courier who actually I'm binoche to him.
• 1:55:12
  Was carrying a bomb went off. He is up getting a lecture
• 1:55:16
  electricity superpowers, whatever.
• 1:55:19
  Change the game forever because once again, I had never really
• 1:55:24
  played a open world game of this style and getting a chance to
• 1:55:30
  play freaking Infamous and you just Freaking like, I love like
• 1:55:35
  when you get the ability where you're freaking, like, grinding
• 1:55:38
  on the power lines and you had the whole Karma systems because
• 1:55:43
  depending on, you know, if your help out civilians, yet another
• 1:55:47
  positive Karma, and your more blue that your city, or if
• 1:55:50
  you're hurting, people get the red and the red electricity and
• 1:55:53
  stuff forever. And it was just such a fun game
• 1:55:58
  to play. And the story of it was very
• 1:56:01
  dope because spoilers one of my favorite and once again, this
• 1:56:07
  error of not getting sport on stuff, just being able to just
• 1:56:10
  experience the forever finding out that the main villain of the
• 1:56:14
  game. Kessler was you from the future
• 1:56:19
  coming back to basically train yourself to prepare for even
• 1:56:22
  greater threats known as the Beast.
• 1:56:25
  Which that's what you meant. go against an Infamous too, but
• 1:56:30
  When that when that whole fight stickers and stuff happens, at
• 1:56:34
  the end of the game and they Kessler when you taking him down
• 1:56:38
  and he puts his hand on your face and he's like I'ma show you
• 1:56:40
  something and you give reveal that hey, he was you from the
• 1:56:44
  future and he had to come back and do all this crazy stuff to
• 1:56:50
  get you better prepared for this.
• 1:56:52
  Looming threat. Wow, wow.
• 1:56:56
  Wow. And yeah, and I fell in love
• 1:57:00
  with us. Is I kept buying it from there
• 1:57:01
  and so Proto and of course, you know prototype.
• 1:57:05
  Yeah, okay, reviews or whatever. But, you know, I'm glad that
• 1:57:10
  things played out of the weather, whether they played out
• 1:57:13
  over the years and another big game that changed things for me
• 1:57:19
  later on that year, whatever was Uncharted 2 because of course,
• 1:57:26
  Uncharted 2. For one, the cinematics and
• 1:57:34
  stuff of how does game looked at the time, was beyond anything
• 1:57:39
  else. And just like the way naughty
• 1:57:41
  dog, did a physics and stuff, but the biggest thing was the
• 1:57:46
  opener for this game. The fact that the beginning of
• 1:57:49
  the game is actually a sequence from like, Midway through the
• 1:57:53
  game because you throw the game on this train and you're like,
• 1:57:58
  like why is the falling? And you find out the juror is
• 1:58:01
  that Rendered inside of this train hanging off the side of a
• 1:58:05
  freaking Mountain Cliff. And so, of course, you're like,
• 1:58:10
  yo, what happened? I need answers.
• 1:58:16
  And so that is like a fantastic way to start a game.
• 1:58:20
  And, like I said, just the whole like, because, of course, II
• 1:58:23
  knew of Indiana Jones, but every, but I never watched any
• 1:58:26
  of those movies. So, I didn't have any attachment
• 1:58:29
  to that type of stuff that that Uncharted and Nathan Drake was
• 1:58:33
  kind of built off of, but plan, Uncharted 2.
• 1:58:38
  Super awesome game. Like I said, just get a chance
• 1:58:40
  to just go around to all these different worldwide locations.
• 1:58:44
  The big crazy cinematic scenes, of course, the infamous scene on
• 1:58:51
  the train where you have like moving physics on top of Musa
• 1:58:54
  moving physics, which is okay, you're on top of a train that is
• 1:58:57
  literally traveling around somewhere and you're able to
• 1:59:00
  move and do all this different stuff for the, which sounds
• 1:59:03
  like. Okay, so what and 2022 at the
• 1:59:05
  time, that was a freaking amazing.
• 1:59:08
  But yeah that game super awesome.
• 1:59:12
  And eventually of course I went back and played on Charter 1 and
• 1:59:15
  then 3 and so on and so forth and just just naughty dog as in
• 1:59:19
  general because of course years later playing the last of us as
• 1:59:25
  well. And I never forget, like the
• 1:59:27
  first time they shut off Gameplay at that.
• 1:59:29
  E3, demo back at the back in the day and just seeing like how how
• 1:59:34
  visceral and how gritty Last of Us was Compared to now they are
• 1:59:39
  trying to build a lot of games that I had planned played in
• 1:59:43
  scene at that point in time and so I love Last of Us.
• 1:59:49
  I still enjoyed last of us to you know, I feel like you know,
• 1:59:52
  some parts of a dried on but the last of us just kind of just
• 1:59:55
  took that cinematic Notch up to 111 from the bar.
• 2:00:00
  There Uncharted have built over the years and stuff, but hey, I
• 2:00:04
  tried it too. Another key game.
• 2:00:08
  I said that and and Last of Us and stuff, and Batman.
• 2:00:16
  Arkham Asylum. The hand-to-hand the
• 2:00:24
  free-flowing combat in that game because I love the Batman in
• 2:00:29
  general because especially because growing up.
• 2:00:31
  I loved watching Batman. The animated series on TV
• 2:00:35
  growing up and so okay there's gonna be a video game and it
• 2:00:39
  looks like it's going to be a step above all the others.
• 2:00:43
  I'll never forget. Almost every day for months.
• 2:00:49
  I would walk of Taro to Rome art in town and I would play the
• 2:00:53
  demo because they had back in the day.
• 2:00:54
  When you had the demo stations at Walmart or IP, I loved it
• 2:01:00
  because and I loved I missed that error because it was okay.
• 2:01:04
  Hey you want to try out these guys whatever white go to
• 2:01:07
  Walmart, they have them up whatever but I never forget like
• 2:01:10
  how much my freaking neck and shoulders her.
• 2:01:12
  Cuz I'm said I always literally therefore our Earth hours
• 2:01:18
  because I think if I'm a walk 30 minutes 40 minutes 45 minutes
• 2:01:22
  however long it took me to watch.
• 2:01:23
  One More River. I'ma get my times where I said I
• 2:01:25
  would go there for hours and just stand there.
• 2:01:30
  Playing the challenge rooms, whatever, and just being so
• 2:01:34
  hyper there. And then, of course, when the
• 2:01:35
  actual game came out and just like, it's like, yo, I am truly
• 2:01:40
  embodying Batman and stuff. Whatever.
• 2:01:43
  It was just, it was just so freaking awesome. 22 to get a
• 2:01:48
  chance to just get to do that to experience that and stuff.
• 2:01:52
  So and of course, seeing the evolution of that with Arkham
• 2:01:56
  City and stuff forever. Just Is the truly awesome
• 2:02:02
  series. Now. now, we're kind of getting
• 2:02:11
  to the next era of things with Gaming and me going to college.
• 2:02:24
  Because, of course, you know I'm talking about no.
• 2:02:28
  You know, meeting more friends, that are also nerdy and stuff,
• 2:02:31
  whatever, and get exposed to more games and stuff forever.
• 2:02:34
  But I find tried out Assassin's Creed 2 and because like her
• 2:02:43
  because I don't know because for me I never really played a game
• 2:02:47
  that had a gameplay systems and stuff like that.
• 2:02:50
  And so the way the way things looked under in the trailers and
• 2:02:53
  stuff, whatever, and commercials it just looked weird in a way to
• 2:02:57
  wears like yours. Okay, this seems like there's a
• 2:02:58
  lot more going on here than what I'm used to and I never forget.
• 2:03:02
  I think it was at a some, some use game store.
• 2:03:06
  Ever next to Hastings in Longview, they had a used copy
• 2:03:12
  of Assassin's Creed 2 so I'm like screw it.
• 2:03:14
  I'm a by it. Imma Try It Out I fell in love
• 2:03:16
  with it just and like and like to this day I'll never forget
• 2:03:24
  and I still love watching the freaking arm I Sanskrit to
• 2:03:30
  launch trailer. And stuff.
• 2:03:34
  And just hearing sto just just narrate everything about like
• 2:03:40
  his life and the journey of your the journey.
• 2:03:42
  You're about to go on following STL over the course of all these
• 2:03:48
  years and stuff from from him, being a team to watching, you
• 2:03:52
  know, what happened with his family and then his path of
• 2:03:56
  Vengeance and of course, you know, eventually getting some
• 2:03:59
  begin to play with it as CEO across to.
• 2:04:03
  The hood and Revelations and seeing him just age and
• 2:04:07
  different stuff over the years. But, but yeah, it was just so
• 2:04:11
  very dope, of course, can freaking DaVinci doing all your
• 2:04:15
  inventions and stuff. Whatever.
• 2:04:16
  So cool. But but yeah.
• 2:04:19
  But these bad that that just like really getting my first
• 2:04:23
  exposure to Open World Games with I guess, I guess maybe like
• 2:04:28
  like kind of like looking more like RPG style mechanics and
• 2:04:31
  stuff whatever. But it was just super double.
• 2:04:36
  Super eye-opening, I'm glad I finally gave it a shot.
• 2:04:40
  But yeah, I just love this like part of the treasure freaking
• 2:04:43
  just like with the teacher just like the multi Blaze and stuff.
• 2:04:46
  Whatever. So good, so good.
• 2:04:52
  But the next big game, they really Took my exposure to stuff
• 2:05:03
  to a whole nother level Mass Effect 2.
• 2:05:06
  And of course, there's been maybe some other games mixed in
• 2:05:08
  here, whatever. And this is one of those perks
• 2:05:12
  of the years of working at GameStop and getting a chance to
• 2:05:16
  ruin games and take games home. For free was, you know, I saw
• 2:05:21
  all the height processes for Mass Effect 2.
• 2:05:24
  What it was about to come out and all this different stuff and
• 2:05:29
  You know, everything involved with that or whatever.
• 2:05:32
  And so I'm like, I don't know. I never play Mass Effect 2 want
• 2:05:36
  because for one, it was a XBox exclusive at the time asked.
• 2:05:40
  So I'm like, I don't know. I never really played like, a
• 2:05:43
  role playing game like this, whatever, but they did such a
• 2:05:47
  fantastic job with What the Mass Effect 2.
• 2:05:54
  Because one thing I loved about Mass Effect 2 is Hi Lucy
• 2:06:04
  character, try. This is I love how how they had
• 2:06:12
  trailers for all the characters and stuff and so it was just
• 2:06:20
  really dope. Getting a chance to kind of like
• 2:06:23
  kind of like an interview Style. Get like a little like a little
• 2:06:27
  bit of like inside and preview, and to all these different
• 2:06:31
  characters that you might encounter over the course of the
• 2:06:35
  game and just get a chance to see that I see, like, like, what
• 2:06:39
  their abilities and skills are, you know what?
• 2:06:48
  What their personality and stuff is like it was all just you know
• 2:06:52
  just just just really cool and stuff.
• 2:06:55
  And so honestly I go back sometimes and and re-watch some
• 2:07:02
  of these from, you know, from from time to time and stuff, you
• 2:07:07
  know, Jess just because I asked. So yeah.
• 2:07:12
  But that that that's kind of like what so many was like all
• 2:07:14
  the freaking character Ears and stuff like that.
• 2:07:20
  And then I freaking actually in to play Mass Effect 2 and the
• 2:07:24
  way they did the opening and just kind of introduce you to
• 2:07:27
  the world. And it's kind of like, kind of a
• 2:07:28
  nice little introductory Point into the series and stuff
• 2:07:31
  whatever. And I thought I put like, 57
• 2:07:37
  almost 60 hours into that game, and it was just a memorable
• 2:07:42
  experience, like none other that I had up to that point.
• 2:07:47
  Of just like the depth of the story in likes and not only get
• 2:07:53
  a chance lights like like, how all these different characters
• 2:07:56
  on your team but actually in the chance to actually know them
• 2:07:58
  personally and go all these different individual missions
• 2:08:02
  with them, their loyalty missions and so on and so forth.
• 2:08:06
  Freaking fantastic game and awesome Series in general.
• 2:08:15
  Another kind of like, wild Rogers.
• 2:08:16
  Touch on really quick is like, heavy rain and just just thought
• 2:08:19
  of a lot about the Quantic dream games over the years because
• 2:08:21
  like, that style of gameplay was like the different choices
• 2:08:25
  because I Heavy Rain was wild with the choices.
• 2:08:29
  You had to make with the game and a cousin.
• 2:08:33
  The game had like 20, something in danger something crazy but
• 2:08:39
  just like not knowing because I, you know, you get to play as
• 2:08:42
  different characters Who stories can interweave intersect, or
• 2:08:46
  whatever, or if you end up messing up in one of your
• 2:08:49
  characters dies, then the story would just adapt and just keep
• 2:08:53
  going without that character and stuff whatever.
• 2:08:57
  So just kind of just kind of like, you're like that first one
• 2:08:59
  introduction to that style of game was really cool.
• 2:09:02
  And then, I was thinking that also kind of ties it to
• 2:09:04
  eventually, you know, plan, you know, telltale's The Walking
• 2:09:06
  Dead Season one. Um, and then also life is
• 2:09:09
  strange season one because Special, where life is strange.
• 2:09:16
  There are some choices to, as I, okay, making the choice and then
• 2:09:20
  having to live with it, but of course life is strange season
• 2:09:23
  one. You have the time rewind ability
• 2:09:26
  so it's all kind of. Maybe I didn't like how that
• 2:09:29
  went, let me go back and see what during has an auction my
• 2:09:32
  daughter ever, but they also suffer games was a whole nother
• 2:09:36
  like, say exposure to new genre and stuff.
• 2:09:39
  Now, Two big ones and going back to rock, star stuff, whatever,
• 2:09:45
  Red Dead, Redemption and l.a. Noir.
• 2:09:50
  Getting to play a western game and then get into play a
• 2:09:53
  detective game from like a detective came from like the
• 2:09:57
  sitting, like the 50s or something or whatever Red Dead
• 2:10:01
  Redemption. And that, that is another game
• 2:10:07
  that that just has a very memorable.
• 2:10:14
  Launch trailer and stuff for me, just because you're hearing John
• 2:10:20
  Marston, you know, just narrating everything as you're
• 2:10:23
  just like, yo. Yes, I'm some some some wild
• 2:10:28
  stuff is is about to go down, you know, in this game and I
• 2:10:36
  freaking had a freaking blast playing that game and the
• 2:10:40
  freaking ending spoilers you know just the unexpected nature
• 2:10:45
  with Red Dead Redemption like except for one gives us getting
• 2:10:49
  a chance to play a freaking West I've never played.
• 2:10:50
  Never played a western game before and getting a chance to
• 2:10:54
  do that. And we're just so just give me
• 2:10:58
  chest. Just be in that environment in
• 2:11:00
  that setting and hunting down your old pasta and stuff.
• 2:11:05
  And then the freaking ending where the kind of like the
• 2:11:10
  double ending where, you know, you get, you know, you end up
• 2:11:13
  dying, your John dies, and you think, okay, the game's over
• 2:11:17
  credits rolled, then you come back and you're playing again,
• 2:11:22
  but now you're playing is as his son grow.
• 2:11:25
  Own up yours later on the hunt to kill the dude, who led the,
• 2:11:31
  who led the group of people who to kill you and that was so
• 2:11:35
  freaking dope, getting to come back as you jack Marsden.
• 2:11:39
  All these years later, super crazy twist and the same thing
• 2:11:44
  with Elena War for as little bit.
• 2:11:48
  Some, some Jenkins stuff that that game had, it was still I'm
• 2:11:55
  still like I said sometimes just very different very unique to
• 2:11:59
  get to play, you know, like I said again might there were you
• 2:12:03
  kind of like where you're making these choices and stuff like
• 2:12:08
  that or whatever and and our pizza team Bondi because I don't
• 2:12:11
  think they exist no more because man, that one can they were
• 2:12:16
  advertising that they were working on after other in the
• 2:12:17
  war but never came out Manu. Gets to do this detective work
• 2:12:23
  working with the cops and stuff, whatever, and you're having to
• 2:12:25
  interrogate, people and decide. Okay.
• 2:12:27
  Do you believe what they're saying, do you not believe them
• 2:12:30
  and stuff? And the other dope thing about
• 2:12:32
  this game too, is that it exposed me to to the TV series
• 2:12:37
  Mad Men? Because the main character in
• 2:12:40
  l.a. Noire, or the actor, who's they
• 2:12:42
  model, and who plays the main character in l.a.
• 2:12:45
  Noire is a pretty big character in mad.
• 2:12:51
  So that was also kind of cool just to kind of get exposure to
• 2:12:54
  something else from that as well.
• 2:12:57
  But and once again, spoilers for other in the war.
• 2:13:02
  Your character dies, you can get swept up in like a, like a flood
• 2:13:08
  or something crazy, whatever. But the house is now, as I was
• 2:13:10
  like, yo, okay, two games in Road right there.
• 2:13:13
  Redemption. And I didn't know where or y'all
• 2:13:15
  Kelly Curtis that stuff off, whatever, you know, and he'll
• 2:13:18
  which, I guess, you know, are just going to just mention it
• 2:13:22
  now. Whatever, freaking, which I'll
• 2:13:24
  talk about more about this, like, a letter date, but but
• 2:13:27
  freaking, send them with whatever different too.
• 2:13:30
  Just get a chance to go back and see the Western and stuff.
• 2:13:33
  Whatever it was. Just so freaking dope, but those
• 2:13:36
  games are so freaking awesome. Few other games I kind of just
• 2:13:41
  touch on really quickly. Some games that are dead like
• 2:13:46
  really like shape the bond with my nieces and nephews and now
• 2:13:50
  with with my own kids now but but Little Big Planet and the
• 2:13:56
  Rayman Origins /, Legends games, getting a chance to play those
• 2:14:01
  with my nieces and nephews around that time because they
• 2:14:05
  were all very young at that time.
• 2:14:07
  And you know, all of those games especially LittleBigPlanet, with
• 2:14:13
  super dope because it's like Up to four of us could play
• 2:14:17
  together whatever. And like the customization and
• 2:14:20
  have all the different outfits and stuff.
• 2:14:21
  Whatever. We're just so fun to play
• 2:14:24
  Rayman, Legends, you can play multiple people, I stuff as
• 2:14:26
  well. And a third author on of to is
• 2:14:29
  the Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing game because that game
• 2:14:33
  was so freaking dope. And we place too many hours a
• 2:14:35
  day game. Highly recommended if using a
• 2:14:38
  for cool game for yourself and your kids play whatever.
• 2:14:42
  Highly recommend it but but LittleBigPlanet.
• 2:14:45
  Special To be painted 2 came out.
• 2:14:50
  That was kind of a cool way for me to kind of stay in touch and
• 2:14:53
  play with my nieces and nephews. While I was away is that we play
• 2:14:58
  that online together from time to time, and so, that was just a
• 2:15:01
  super awesome experience. Getting a chance to do that with
• 2:15:05
  them. And my, my niece Lydia.
• 2:15:09
  My sister's youngest daughter who lower she thinking she's in
• 2:15:13
  high school now. But she was, Like freaking like
• 2:15:18
  that. Like that like that asses for
• 2:15:20
  about to be five. She was like his age back at
• 2:15:23
  that point in time we were doing this stuff whatever and getting
• 2:15:27
  a chance to like these games being like her kind of first
• 2:15:31
  experience with games like this whatever or just just memories.
• 2:15:35
  I'll always hold dear in my heart and like I said, like even
• 2:15:40
  now you know, like so I started playing Rayman Legends.
• 2:15:46
  Back, you know, still it will carry over from Rayman Origins
• 2:15:49
  for my nieces and nephews. And now I'm playing that with
• 2:15:52
  Vash now. You know, we play that all the
• 2:15:54
  time and so that's just so important to me just like having
• 2:15:58
  a continuation carrying on her stuff whatever.
• 2:16:00
  So so yeah. So those are kind of like kind
• 2:16:03
  of like some like the big tympole series and Mamas and
• 2:16:07
  stuff or whatever but a couple of my honorable mentions I want
• 2:16:10
  to mention as well is just like Portal 2 and portal both.
• 2:16:14
  Games. Like, Just like reshaping.
• 2:16:19
  How I think and approach game is gonna do like a first person,
• 2:16:23
  like puzzle game like that or whatever nothing, I've never
• 2:16:27
  played like that before. So super dope game or games
• 2:16:34
  blood-borne? Just me being able to to to
• 2:16:40
  persevere and make it through the challenge of one of those
• 2:16:44
  games. So shots of blood-borne for that
• 2:16:49
  until dawn, y'all know, I don't really deal with that fool with
• 2:16:53
  spooky or horror stuff, whatever.
• 2:16:56
  But I told on is one that I really enjoyed playing or
• 2:17:00
  whatever, and I really want to try out this I keep forgetting
• 2:17:06
  the name until. Don Studio.
• 2:17:15
  New game. Like so I can't seem to remember
• 2:17:21
  for a nothing or whatever. You see?
• 2:17:26
  The Quarry. It's kind of like a spiritual
• 2:17:29
  successor, to, too. Lord.
• 2:17:36
  I tell Don. But yeah, so by answered are
• 2:17:42
  highly recommend, especially as we're coming back up on a spooky
• 2:17:45
  season, spooky season. If you've never played that the
• 2:17:48
  hey, get on it, play it. Right?
• 2:17:55
  Didn't make it. Did they make the nightmares?
• 2:17:57
  No. Okay.
• 2:17:59
  No, they did. Okay.
• 2:18:00
  But um let me see what else? Shoutout to Journey for like
• 2:18:05
  being kind of like that first kind of like a like a
• 2:18:08
  synchronous experience whatever because because you know in
• 2:18:11
  Journey you know there's no dialogue.
• 2:18:14
  So you just communicate through like like musical.
• 2:18:17
  I chirping between characters whatever and throughout your
• 2:18:20
  literally Journey throughout the game you encounter.
• 2:18:24
  Either characters are stuff. Whatever that I also like you
• 2:18:30
  whatever and people come and go throughout your game but you
• 2:18:36
  don't. And this is the beautiful thing
• 2:18:37
  is that you don't realize until after you beat the game.
• 2:18:40
  That one I can't remember if I knew this playing the game or
• 2:18:44
  not, but before our planning and but but all these other
• 2:18:48
  characters you've been meeting were actually other players.
• 2:18:55
  Throughout your journey or whatever.
• 2:18:57
  And so at the end of the game, when the credits roll in, they
• 2:19:01
  list all the gamertags for everybody that you encountered
• 2:19:06
  as you pay throughout the game. And one thing I loved about that
• 2:19:09
  game for one it was beautiful in the music, I still never forget
• 2:19:13
  that one kind of like side like just like the lighting on the
• 2:19:16
  sand or whatever with like a beautiful like sunset in the
• 2:19:20
  background or whatever. But I love that you can like
• 2:19:23
  collect these like scarf piece. Is already game and like the
• 2:19:27
  longer your scarf was the longer.
• 2:19:29
  You can kind of fly anglo-afghan, glad whatever.
• 2:19:32
  Will eventually you can you can upgrade from this this red
• 2:19:39
  outfit to that dislike all white outfit.
• 2:19:43
  And once I got that, I loved just like playing through the
• 2:19:49
  game again, and then going into other people's games and stuff
• 2:19:53
  and just kind of like, you know, just being like this, like sage,
• 2:19:56
  like figure of like, hey, I have literally been to the
• 2:19:59
  Mountaintop. I've seen it all these.
• 2:20:01
  I've experienced that I've ascended and now I'm adorning.
• 2:20:05
  My white scarf, my white Garb, and now let me help you on your
• 2:20:10
  journey of stuff. Whatever, beautiful, beautiful,
• 2:20:13
  beautiful. And yeah, it's so though, like I
• 2:20:16
  said, those are, those are like sitting like something, like,
• 2:20:18
  the key big ones, some honorable mentions.
• 2:20:21
  I want to mention that. I was like, hey, if you're just
• 2:20:24
  taking notes, Hey cool games. You might want to check out and
• 2:20:29
  decide in limbo once again spooky creepy season, Fallout 4
• 2:20:35
  for my wife because I got that game, she took control of the
• 2:20:40
  game and she ended up beating it's my PS4.
• 2:20:44
  I ended up getting it for Xbox for Christmas, or birthday or
• 2:20:47
  whatever. She ended up paying through it
• 2:20:49
  again. So, yeah, cuz we went out my not
• 2:20:51
  totally of valve's putting together this list shoes.
• 2:20:53
  I do, you should put on Fallout For I was like that was more
• 2:20:57
  game. You play than me but shout out
• 2:21:02
  to wash dogs, 2 and Mafia 3 to dub games which came out around
• 2:21:07
  the same time. They were, it was just very
• 2:21:10
  great playing those games and having a black main character
• 2:21:15
  and 41 with Marcus and Watchdogs to just like his whole swag and
• 2:21:19
  his Vibe and stuff. And then with Lincoln clay and
• 2:21:23
  Mafia 3, just He had business to way he talked because of course
• 2:21:27
  you know, the game is kind of takes place in Louisiana, I
• 2:21:31
  really dug that whole vibe and stuff forever, some Mafia 3 very
• 2:21:34
  Dope Game, a darling game of mind that a lot of people don't
• 2:21:40
  even know about called hob. And one thing I loved about this
• 2:21:47
  game is it's a simple kind of like just like action adventure
• 2:21:53
  puzzle Style game but but one thing I love about the game is
• 2:22:02
  how. As you go through the different
• 2:22:06
  levels or whatever, and you're unlocking, stuff the levels.
• 2:22:12
  Let me see how table gameplay is that the levels and stuff are
• 2:22:20
  like, shifting and morphine and things like that.
• 2:22:27
  And it was just like, like, nothing I had never nothing.
• 2:22:31
  I had never seen before it, to be honest with you.
• 2:22:35
  Why is what is this guy doing? But but yeah and and it has like
• 2:22:42
  a really cool look and style to it to, you know.
• 2:22:46
  But like I said, it was just just a really cool just like
• 2:22:50
  action-adventure game. Like I said, I just loved every
• 2:22:53
  time I just like had to like activate a new area and stuff
• 2:22:57
  and just watching the world and the ground just morph and shape
• 2:23:02
  and stuff. It was just super dope set,
• 2:23:06
  associative hop unfortunate, I think that studio doesn't even
• 2:23:10
  exist no more so I'm not going to get them more games from
• 2:23:12
  them, not in the woods was a a memorable game.
• 2:23:19
  Because that day that and wormans Vita Finch, both hit me
• 2:23:23
  very hard. Firewatch is very dope Titanfall
• 2:23:27
  2 if you looking for a very dope single player first person,
• 2:23:32
  shooter game. And follow to is one of the best
• 2:23:36
  ever especially especially if you're a fan of Apex Legends.
• 2:23:41
  The DNA for Apex came from Titanfall as so yeah.
• 2:23:48
  So time from two super dope game like game series, I almost
• 2:23:52
  forgot until I was doing research for this Pockets or
• 2:23:56
  whatever but the Transformers war for Cybertron games.
• 2:24:03
  I don't know if anybody Is out there.
• 2:24:05
  Remember these games. But this is kind of like kind of
• 2:24:08
  like a shooter Kind of like a shooter Style game.
• 2:24:16
  I see Transformers and it was just super dope that that's all
• 2:24:23
  I can really say about it. Is that it was just a super dope
• 2:24:28
  game where you're playing on either team of Decepticons are
• 2:24:31
  or Autobots and especially like the multiplayer mode.
• 2:24:36
  It was just so dope where you be in a match, your run around and
• 2:24:40
  your robot form, running around shooting, dudes, whatever, and
• 2:24:45
  then just like transforming and just like speeding off and
• 2:24:48
  stuff. Whatever, I love especially Can
• 2:24:50
  we do know your door like having to like capture different
• 2:24:53
  points, whatever? And as I hate emo, we need you
• 2:24:56
  over here and like, you're okay, bop bop shooting and I just
• 2:25:00
  figured transform into a freaking car and just like zoom
• 2:25:03
  over across the map. And then like the
• 2:25:06
  Transformations out coming out of the vehicle mode.
• 2:25:09
  Knocking out, dudes, whatever it was, such a freaking dope
• 2:25:13
  series. That I don't never hear nobody
• 2:25:17
  else really talk about and I think that's gonna really be it,
• 2:25:23
  you know, personal favorite Mad, Max back in 2015, just something
• 2:25:29
  about that setting and just a Vibe.
• 2:25:32
  I just get really lost in Iraq. Play like 60 plus hours of that
• 2:25:35
  game, but I just discovered it. Lawson at Mad, Max game, and
• 2:25:40
  Shadow of Mordor, that Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor in 2015,
• 2:25:43
  2014. I just freaking once again that
• 2:25:47
  they had that that that free-flowing combat from the
• 2:25:51
  Batman Arkham games and just running around just that that
• 2:25:56
  environment just your the different abilities.
• 2:25:57
  And I just love the Asian fusion, making Orcs has
• 2:26:02
  explodes. Super duper super dope, Manu, I
• 2:26:07
  think that's it. I think I've talked about enough
• 2:26:09
  games, but hopefully likes. I hope I didn't ramble too long.
• 2:26:13
  Oh, last thing. Last thing.
• 2:26:18
  Last last thing. The current VR experience.
• 2:26:27
  Now I got to experience viewer and bits and pieces over the
• 2:26:31
  years. Now I have like like the Samsung
• 2:26:32
  VR headset thing, whatever many years back was that I was kind
• 2:26:38
  of neat and novel, then I got to experience the PlayStation VR in
• 2:26:42
  a demo when they were doing like like the demo runs when before
• 2:26:46
  the has that came out over there and I got to play some space
• 2:26:49
  game, whatever that was really dope, but a couple years ago,
• 2:26:55
  Visiting my friends, bringing Aaron.
• 2:26:57
  Shout out to y'all much, love to y'all and they had a valve
• 2:27:02
  index. Now, at the time, and even
• 2:27:05
  still, now of the valve index is still one of the top-of-the-line
• 2:27:11
  VR headsets and set up sort ever.
• 2:27:14
  And so, I got a chest a to fully experience not just oh I got a
• 2:27:20
  headset on, I'm sitting down looking around whatever.
• 2:27:23
  No this is room scale where they have sensor setup and four
• 2:27:28
  corners and they block off, you know.
• 2:27:30
  Hey, okay this is your play area whatever and you can literally
• 2:27:33
  stand up and walk around the game or the environment is
• 2:27:37
  stuff. Whatever.
• 2:27:39
  And so, three games I got to play.
• 2:27:42
  Job simulator, which is very simple but very effective
• 2:27:47
  because you get a chance lights like walk, Ryan different
• 2:27:49
  environments, pick up and touch stuff.
• 2:27:51
  And the other thing is like, really got me and I can't
• 2:27:55
  remember if it was in job simulator, if it was in
• 2:27:57
  Half-Life Alex. But one of the two, is that is
• 2:27:59
  that with the valve index the controllers you have.
• 2:28:04
  They also do finger tracking because, you know, most of you
• 2:28:06
  are games whatever. But up until recently, you know,
• 2:28:09
  you just can't just have just like a block hand or whatever
• 2:28:11
  you just moving around. I'm doing stuff.
• 2:28:12
  Whatever. This one actually tracked
• 2:28:14
  individual fingers, so I never forget.
• 2:28:16
  I had the has sent our headset on out of down in my hand.
• 2:28:20
  And when I did this in real life, And I saw my in-game
• 2:28:25
  characters fingers literally doing that.
• 2:28:27
  I was like, yo, This is some next-level stuff, but that was
• 2:28:33
  dope and I said half life. Alex.
• 2:28:40
  Kind of scared me for it because I how crazy and detailed that
• 2:28:45
  environment is because basically it's like a first person shooter
• 2:28:49
  Style game where you're literally walking through the
• 2:28:54
  streets and you're going to different areas and stuff,
• 2:28:56
  whatever. And you know I'm like walking
• 2:28:59
  around, I might literally picking up items and stuff
• 2:29:02
  forever, and throwing stuff, and same thing job sooner, but it's
• 2:29:05
  like I, you can actually use your hand pick up.
• 2:29:09
  Hey, Picking up this game boy in the game and just throwing
• 2:29:14
  stuff, whatever you plug the gun, you got a freakin reload,
• 2:29:18
  change, change the game and then, of course, B saber.
• 2:29:24
  We've all paid stuff like gets her hair out and shoe or what
• 2:29:29
  was that? What was that?
• 2:29:31
  What was that? That mobile game?
• 2:29:33
  Was it? Adios Surfer.
• 2:29:39
  I think it was called audio Surfer.
• 2:29:43
  Yeah idea server shots to the homely couch but but we've
• 2:29:49
  polyrhythm against the butter but beat cyber is a whole other
• 2:29:54
  Beast because, you know, you have your two controllers which
• 2:29:57
  basically in the game but he gives you lightsaber looking
• 2:29:59
  things and you're like having to know attack the different music
• 2:30:03
  blocks is to find that font flying at you or whatever.
• 2:30:06
  And I never forget Like this is how I know I'm in my was
• 2:30:12
  immersed in the game because, you know, you start off, you
• 2:30:14
  know, you just metal, easy, whatever.
• 2:30:15
  You know, you're just slicing and, you know, eventually, you
• 2:30:18
  know, of course you might like, maybe like move to the left or
• 2:30:21
  the right or whatever, to avoid some stuff coming at you,
• 2:30:26
  whatever. But I never forget what I was
• 2:30:30
  like in it or whatever and then one can in my head and of
• 2:30:35
  course, yes, it's a game, it's not gonna hurt me.
• 2:30:37
  It was just, you know, Argue like an extra, I do you know,
• 2:30:41
  lost a point whatever but when I'm doing stuff for the ever and
• 2:30:45
  then the freakin block came at my face.
• 2:30:49
  I literally dropped down and real life and my friends was
• 2:30:55
  like was laughing because like as you know, on a separate
• 2:30:59
  screen, whatever they can see what you see in the game
• 2:31:02
  whatever like the Monitor and stuff.
• 2:31:03
  Whatever. As so we had a good laugh but
• 2:31:06
  yeah it was like dude. Ooch, ouch.
• 2:31:12
  But yeah, but I had to make sure I didn't forget to mention that
• 2:31:15
  whatever, but but yeah, so the current VR experience Is wild.
• 2:31:21
  So if even if you don't buy one yourself, if you get a chance
• 2:31:25
  to, if you have a friend, like I do if somebody that has a VR
• 2:31:31
  headset, like the valve index and stuff like that, or
• 2:31:33
  whatever. Try out, beat saber job
• 2:31:37
  simulator and Half-Life Alex. That's the trio that hey will
• 2:31:42
  show you how far VRI stuff is, come over the years and stuff.
• 2:31:47
  Whatever. So, because honestly, Hopefully,
• 2:31:51
  if the things change life, get better, whatever financially and
• 2:31:54
  everything. I think I might invest in the
• 2:31:57
  PlayStation VR to when that comes out next year, whatever
• 2:32:00
  Maybe not immediately, when it comes out.
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  But eventually, because that's going to have a better headset
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  that's going to have finger tracking it, something going to
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  have one chord all that stuff for themselves.
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  Okay, VR is getting better and stuff whatever.
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  So so yeah, so we'll see where that goes.
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  But I hope that you all enjoy this extra on condition of the
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  podcast episode. And and, you know, my me time, I
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  my journey of games, but let me something.
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  See? I talked about everything so I'm
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  going to talk about But yeah, so let's go ahead and get ready to
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  wrap up the show. So as always, thank you so much
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  for listening and you're watching y'all know.
• 2:32:48
  As always, you can find me ever work at that is to talk, make
• 2:32:52
  sure you're subscribed to the park, to the audio version of
• 2:32:56
  the podcast, on whatever podcast streaming service you of your
• 2:32:59
  choice as well as make sure to subscribe to the YouTube channel
• 2:33:02
  because your boy just found the across.
• 2:33:06
  To subscribers. So yeah, Amy friend's mom,
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  Milestone and stuff like that. So, but like I said, I hope
• 2:33:15
  y'all had fun going to going down this memory lane with me,
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  seeing some of my, you know, my old games and different stuff
• 2:33:23
  like that or whatever. I shoot, I used to get my
• 2:33:25
  freakin my little carrying case, I got for it for when I had
• 2:33:31
  broken my Emerald. But but yeah, I hope you all
• 2:33:35
  enjoy this class. I said, I kind of have a, the
• 2:33:38
  gaming bug. And so I was always there, you
• 2:33:41
  know, where I want to talk about some games and I want to talk
• 2:33:43
  about just like, like, like the big games, like really hit me in
• 2:33:47
  impacted me and I plan on in the future doing another version of
• 2:33:52
  this but talking about how gaming has and hasn't changed
• 2:33:59
  since I've become much since I became a dad, so y'all look
• 2:34:02
  forward to that episode in the future because that's the
• 2:34:05
  feeling to cover a lot more. Recent stuff, you know, like
• 2:34:07
  Mario, Odyssey and having the Nintendo switch and read every
• 2:34:12
  different to and Spider-Man and Horizon, and all these different
• 2:34:16
  things. That's true Origins.
• 2:34:18
  But so been looking for, like, say in the future, I'll be
• 2:34:21
  sometime down the road but, but yeah, but your boy is about to
• 2:34:27
  wrap things up. Like I said, I got some manga to
• 2:34:30
  read some stuff so I'm ready to dive back into, but As I always
• 2:34:37
  say, treat yourself to some nice race on manga and buy some
• 2:34:42
  manga, watch some anime play, some video games and just live
• 2:34:48
  your best life. And with that your boy is out.
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  Y'all have an awesome rest of your week and let's head into a
• 2:34:58
  new month and new adventures. I love y'all so much.
• 2:35:03
  Y'all take care, y'all take care.
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  Easy, and peace.