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S11E05: Too busy playing rocket league to join... · The Year Of Shame Challenge

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Hello and welcome to the year of show 2023.
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And now, let's go balls deep and made this week's presenters.
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Welcome to episode 5 of The year ashamed challenge.
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I'm so I Stevens your host for this month joining me.
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This time is the Welsh rarebit gave McPherson.
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I really enjoyed the Haggis killer Ross, grieve.
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Good evening. Finally the naked attraction.
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Jay Stokes, but he may be joining us a little bit later on
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because he's currently preoccupied with a dinner
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meeting with some bloke, he called the scarf.
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Anyway, so let's kick it off, guys.
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How are we? And what we've been up to?
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Yeah, not too bad. This one's not too bad.
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Things happened getting through it.
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Are you Russ? Oh, good.
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Absolutely thinking of a hangover, which is great for the
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bank or the weekend. And I actually went and seen
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their top, the top band and Scotland last night, which was
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the foofy photos. That's not that's not a mess
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seeing and then we saw the Foo Fighters.
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A few got them from poundland, / wesh.com.
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But yeah, it was are actually really good night.
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Got far too drunk 853 much and I'm paying for it today.
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So, yeah. Typical a typical for a bank
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called, what did you say, very little.
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I'm recovering from a weekend trip to Edinburgh as the weft.
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And or went to see Harry Styles and be my boy, went on a arkady
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bowling who'd Jolly rounded in brass.
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Oh, yeah, it's, I'm pretty fresh looking forward to the extra day
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off, but other than that, yeah, all good looking to play some
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games. Anyway, I think we should kick
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are looking at the amount of questions we got.
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If I think we should kick it off with a couple of them.
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And OB James has asked that what he stated that he's just bought
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Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic again, today on two
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formats. Because obviously, once not good
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enough, he's got two hands and two eyes because no Star Wars
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game has grabbed me like that one.
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And he gets Jedi Survivor tomorrow for free.
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Not sure how he's doing that, but we would welcome any of that
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information. But his question is, which
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spin-off game comic movie TV book in your piles?
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Are you most looking forward to and why?
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For over to you have to start with.
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Or what? Be one of the Assassin's Creed
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games. As I said, I've not played any
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of them, so I'm looking to crack on with some of them, but, yeah,
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at some point, I need to get one of them done and I think it may
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be fairly soon. I think, is that clean?
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As I sped off there, they did a film of it.
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Did they happen? They made the film because of
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the game. Well, there you go, there's some
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sort of order to it. Smart more of a spin-off.
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That was more of a spin on, wasn't that?
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Yeah. Other.
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What about you? Russ twice that I've had
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Spider-Man sat on the the PS4 for a long time now and I really
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should get going to play in it. So yeah.
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I'm going to see Spider-Man and and I mean I am a massive Marvel
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fan so it should have been played by now and I don't really
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know why it's not So yeah, what were you?
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I think I'll probably go for. I've got the free Vader Immortal
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episodes on the quest. Think they were given to us free
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when you bought the quest or not them super cheap, one of the
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two. But yeah they sat on there the
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whole time. I've never really put as much
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time into the quest as I should 110 to spend more time.
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Modern beats a tracks. Into it for the kids, more than
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I do actually play in the games but I started playing a couple
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of ways games this month. So I think maybe I might dip in
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to fader or immoral at some point in the next few weeks.
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Nice. As we got quite a few of them at
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the same world have another one, last one of Dave's questions
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because he's managed to navigate all the milk bottles.
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He's asking. What's an obscure game?
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You were into that? You're sure not.
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Many others will have played. I've had the think there's
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nothing really that obscure that I can think of other than there
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was a game that was wasn't even released on the Because I'm sure
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it was like houki copy. It was this thing called Thrill
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Kill. It was like a four player Arena
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brawler, type thing, and pretty much more first introduction T
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to that level of violence. And a game where you had a guy
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that could rip his arm off and beat another guy with it.
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Nice. Yeah, I don't think it ever ever
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made it like to actual release. So it was a very much Much of a
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market stole type thing with the magic PlayStation, shall we?
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See I'm sure I'm sure Dave will have heard of it and it's just
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the kind of thing that I think Dave would know about, you know,
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there's a few days time now just What about you got?
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Anything against cure that collection of yours?
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For me, it was a game. I think I started playing back
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when you could rent games from Blockbuster if you remember.
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And I rented one on the PlayStation called Star Wars
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Masters Of Terror, Cassie. And I think, then I had a, how
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can I put it a PlayStation to pull it played less than
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authentic games on. Recordable CDs.
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So, there's a theme here until that sort of PlayStation
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eventually died and so did the copy.
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I had of that game. But about 10 years ago, when I
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managed to get an old PS1 going, I found a copy on eBay, so I
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managed to bitterness play that and I still got it still works.
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It's an awesome. It's basically sub Star Wars
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meets Tech and Nice. So yeah, you can put a check on
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that obscure game. Don't really have any obscure
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games one. I can think of as probably was
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back on the Amiga cd32 and I call it obscure because not I
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think many people had the Amiga cd32 and it was Traffic.
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What the name of it was was basically you were like a film
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editor. You had like he's film stolen
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from him before you film was premiered.
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It was just a side-scrolling platformer.
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But yeah, I slunk quite a few hours into that, but I think
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that was more to do with the fact that I didn't have a lot of
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games for the cd32 and I just made do with crap at times.
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Bring me a that was the name of it premiere.
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Okay, let's move on the way from my questions for a little bit.
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Let's have a look at some pile progress.
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How are you boys doing? Are you actually making any
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inroads on your piles or are they just still sitting there
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Gathering dust or digital dust at the moment?
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You have making some progress. Make, we're starting a new job.
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So, getting time on games has a bit of an issue, but usually
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Tuesday online. Of gaming with Dave self Soul,
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doesn't make gas and we're working our way still through
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dying. Like to that's a really, really
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big game. So we're going to be on that for
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a little while. It does get a lot better mind of
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her found it. At first, I wasn't sure whether
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I want to sink that much time into it, it was a bit of a
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chore, but as you get the skill tree going, it becomes a much
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better game. So yeah, there's that.
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So play into little bit of Modern Warfare 2, and as I said
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last month, I'm still playing through the story on the line as
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well. That's still quite fun.
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Other than that, that's about it this month, apart form. just
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wait for the klaxon to arrive, but I may have some news.
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There is news, there it is. I may have a use the Joker.
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Okay. It wasn't going to be lost it
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was going to be the first to break was that he was going to
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be me and it's no surprise. It's the game that I was
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wondering about one that was announced after I'd agreed to do
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another podcast. I thought I may struggle with
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that it was it was absolutely the fear of missing out and it
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was a Jedi Survivor ER and it was in, it was installed on the
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Xbox and said my wife start a new job, so she's away a couple
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nights a week kids would embarrass myself.
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I want something to do when I want something saying, so fuck
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it. I've got a couple of hours.
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I'm going to play it. I didn't think there was going
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to be anything else that would really Cost me too much money,
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shoot the rest of the year. So I thought this is going to be
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it and he's I waited a soul reviews and the reviews are all
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glowing about it. And yeah, I just don't otherwise
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I'm gonna end up seeing stuff on social media or people talking
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about the story. And I didn't want that.
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So how long I came, is it it's going to be a while mate.
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I was playing through about an hour and a half and I didn't get
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off the first planet, so yeah. And I keep you going for the
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rest of the year. I probably will delete.
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I play games bait and it does have the same.
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Suede inducing jump in model on it.
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Let's say, you know, your stamina GS days, just before
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that one platform and yeah, It's about overall.
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We do you find that you eat DC. It's all worth worthwhile Joker,
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any regrets? It's fucking awesome, mate.
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It's brilliant, their gameplay is great.
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It plays just as well as the previous one it just looks nicer
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and crisper and you know, added it's not a spoiler, but the
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first you start off on Coruscant.
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And the way that you see stuff, move it around you and the set
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of here, the vertigo-inducing views.
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It's all they'd looked brilliant.
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I can't, you recommend that game.
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Heidi enough. Let's hope.
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It's not just a honeymoon period, and you don't turn into
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another Black Desert online. So, now, I've used my Joker.
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It's up to you guys. Now, you're free.
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You're not the first one to back.
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Also, you've got free rein. It's like I don't have to buy if
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I can do is Nev go kind. There's another three.
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I think it's got nice going to be for unit.
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It's going to be like dream layers.
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Now is going to be free to hook you in and then all the fucking
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Mickey pounds are going to have to be spent yet if this.
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Do you ever done anything for free?
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Really? No, there's always a cost, isn't
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it? Yeah, what about you?
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Russ, how you get on with your piles?
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Are they still causing you issues after the last night's
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food and no, wait, sorry, a progress.
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I've played quite a lot in this month.
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Got quite a few crossed off complete so I'll just stop start
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from the top. Mafia Definitive Edition played
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through that just focused on the story, wasn't too bothered about
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the five million Collectibles and it basically played through
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slowly, really good story and Can't really see how much it
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changed from the original release because it's been that
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long since I played that as well.
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But yet enjoyed that, and back to the ground eat because they
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done another content update for it with, with a new boss.
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So that got us another couple of nights enjoyment ungrounded
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before, it's just sat and Purgatory waiting on.
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Hopefully some more content down the line.
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Yeah, I'm from grounded. We went to do maternal because
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I'd started that your ago when it first came on again, pass
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maybe a year either. Whenever it came on gameplay,
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side started that played, maybe one or two the machines.
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So, put that on and I was a, will be honest.
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I was really close to just sucking off and it's going
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really, really frustrated with. I just kept fucking dying.
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Age catching up with me. I just couldn't fucking keep up
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as far too fast paced. So drop the difficulty about and
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then just started progressing slowly, but as as you sort of
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unlock the scales that, you know, come with the campaign
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play, it gets a lot better. And Jeff finish that off really,
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really glad I stuck it out because it was really quite Fun
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In The End by again. Looking at the achievement less
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those like that. Fuck that I'm done.
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So that's gone and Need for Speed.
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Heat gets our five-minute mention.
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I tried it and I got fucking really fucked off with the sort
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of police chase mechanic where you can get arrested, where
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you're traveling at 100 miles per hour because the Nagi and
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takes away your vehicle Health. What the fuck?
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Your vehicle Health? Yeah.
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Vehicles got health. If the police Romani enough you
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just get instantly arrested and the way that it's like
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progressions candle locked behind, not getting caught so
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you go out at night and you do little eagle ray she's and you
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build up your rep or whatever but if you get caught again
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reset. So you lose it just like there's
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the whole rest of the year award type thing.
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And the first time I lost like a fucking 7,000 points, wherever
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the fuck that equates that don't even know because I didn't lose
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her again because I thought it was bullshit and I put off
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uninstalled. I'm waiting on a capsule were
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squadrons instead. Which are blasted riff.
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Finished campaign done the cricket like that came the fancy
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play. Next I've got a I've got Fleet
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stick for the PC and I'm sure it was free on PC or and song is
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included, came past, I don't know.
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And but quite fancy trying to put the flagstick.
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So You can probably convince think Gavin's got a fleet steak.
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I do I have a whole class one right?
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Stick the Xbox and PC. It sure means is PC only.
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Yeah, I think that make that make me a good good crack at
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that. Train played online, say the
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vet, but apparently no one fucking please, which is quite a
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bit of shame. We could try, I quite like the
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idea of the game models. I keep me into this one of those
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games. I keep meaning to play and it it
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kind of gave me Wing Commander feels, which is why I picked it
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up many moons ago. And then I discovered that it
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was One of those games that is fee.
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Are compatible. Yeah.
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So if I plug my question to my PC, I can play it with my VR on
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and I can't play games for as long.
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If I've got the VR on, but I want to play that game in VR the
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fucking shit in the next week. Yeah, totally.
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And it's like, you don't have to worry about, it's really
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confusing to you down to worry, about, like you're right, stick
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to look around, things like that because you just need to look
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around. Yeah, so he's good.
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He's trying to get you. Used to going against everything
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that you normally know about gaming, the play it.
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So yeah, it's like it. I do like 10, 15 minutes shots,
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and then I forget the controls and then, let's go back.
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And I think I've played this territorial about 20 times, but
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never really got much further, but yeah, it's not one of those
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ones that I need to sit down with a day at least.
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You're so, like, break through that barrier.
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Yeah. Not too bad it's not even a long
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game. I think I've done it over the
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course of like two nights and just purely focusing on the
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campaign say that's it's quite good than as much as you get to
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play it from both sides. So you do the sort of Rebel
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story as well as the the motherfucking Jesus Ross.
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What they called. Empire empire bombing flying at
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a Fete. Wasn't even near as cool as
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flying. I fucking hate swing it.
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Let's be honest. Yeah.
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Well, that says, they all the cool kids are do just wish it
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Huntley, cut and out of cockpit view because I want to see the
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whole X-Wing or just what's in front of me.
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But yeah, that's that comes recommended and I hope we can
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even even if we can arrange a night where a few of us get on
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just it just to play it because as I said the, the online
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servers were pretty much dead the cosplay crew.
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Also, if you can't, will go beyond the same thing.
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Know if I'm sure as cross-play, And is it one of those PC with
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Xbox cross plays? Or is it a proper cross-play?
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I didn't even look up properly and but I'm sure it was
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everything because I seem to recall when it first came out
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like playing against PC and Playstation people, but Cuba
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lighting, that could be a totally different game that I'm
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thinking of because quite a few of them would come in and doing
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that now. And it's I'm all for, it is
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great. So when you say Xbox and PC
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cross-play German cosplay that actually works Yeah, that would
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be the one. I just say, most importantly
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Force. I do you get serum legs in the
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game. So, no, that's an important
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thing for him. I don't know yet.
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You're just a camera that fluent in a cock pepper.
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Yeah, you don't need to see your legs in like, flying games.
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It's walking things like sample. One fucking realized that and
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posted about it the other day, didn't it?
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So yeah. It was good at finding that.
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I've only for that was going to find a was they?
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I mean it just shows you that the people on the Xbox market
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and account or whatever they clearly lesson in this podcast.
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So I actually want to fire some free games.
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Over to that, we can't play until next year.
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The free. They first free games are free
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hanging but your subject on it would be this year's excuse for
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you've got like a marketing opportunity with Xbox.
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We sure my legs. They show us some games fucking
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done. So I have I had a month where I
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was pretty much going on. I always I always did that but
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you carry on. All right.
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Okay. What else have you got?
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I told you, I've had a great month.
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We just will break in that their Star Wars squadrons was good.
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The other game that I've gained of put most time.
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And at last month, I went back to 2017 and played the original
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ex-con or not. The original X1, is it?
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The original x-com either the X Plus cos x DX calm because I'll
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pick topics To just before the turn of the new year and I
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wanted player that but I can't do that without playing the
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first one first. So yeah, that, that took up a
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good two to three weeks of sort of game time really fucking
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enjoy that. I think it came out point where
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I'd started playing and I was like, right, I want my, I want
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my squad to take home with me through the whole game.
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So it was like, anytime someone died at a tough to rebuild the
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save. And triangle and I don't I don't
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know if like I don't know if any of you guys the but when I'm
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playing something like that, if you've got like customizable
21:58
squads I'll name them after after people that there are no,
22:03
so son. Yeah, you know, I had the little
22:06
mint leaf gamer crew going. So you know, Dave, Dave
22:10
Southall. He was there with his big,
22:13
massive Rod, a machine gun, and a few of the other sort of chaps
22:18
from Friday nights, stuff like that.
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And what became clear to me is I kept getting Dave killed and
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like, increasingly violent ways. I mean, I got to the point that
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we can order it progressively more stop, the whole save
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scumming, and I'd just be like, if he dies it dies, but what to
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do after that was like, remake people as they died.
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So yeah, they've basically became the fucking Kenny of my
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ex completely through the pretty much got saying and forced
22:49
disorder. Unusually died Bloom up with
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rocket launchers. He got blown up by cars.
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Fucking alien thing, went and face, fuck them and turn them
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into a zombie. I came to shit.
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So, yeah. But I thought was that really
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quite enjoyed that and I'm looking forward to going on and
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doing XCOM 2 and we'll keep up the Dave's dead.
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So the theme as we go through that, I think sorry.
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Dave if you can find a way that He gets killed by milk bottles.
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I'll need a, I'll need trained record as much as possible put
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together, Dave's dead Montage but it was all fun.
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That's pretty much me for for, for Progress.
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Other than that, I mean it's not not progress but we do the
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regular gears. A thing on a freighter will be
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geared taken an extended period of absence and we just play for
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the other shape Among Us College.
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A so even Some Discord nights where we just sitting Dave
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stream, some of his weird and wonderful library and we just
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have have a good drink of a laugh and regret everything.
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The next morning and think things.
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Then we get to see giv gives head because if I was asleep,
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yeah, sorry it's a tank. Is he's taken over Neil and
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terms of fallen asleep. Almost row, Graham has been
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passed anyway, over. You say what?
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You've Um, well, I dabbled in actually tackle.
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The next come to I picked up means go because there's Dave, I
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think diversity in my squads at the time I played ex-con.
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But I did like the whole thing. The same as you slide, the
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midlife game of crew were gone there, and the problem I had
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with it has found my pals get thing.
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I'm sure I've mentioned this previously is, if I haven't,
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we're about to again, I picked up extra my fucking loved
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ex-con, it was amazing. And then steamed audience being
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Waco's, he played Eckstrom. You might like this one and you
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might like this game and it's the same similar game to XCOM.
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So I picked it up and picked up and then I'll start playing when
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going right. The reason I'd like to fucking
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XCOM was because it was XCOM all these other games that are in
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the same genre that do the Sackler.
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Same thing aren't as good as ex-con because they're not
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ex-con, they just a pale imitation of it.
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So yeah, that's how I got a lot of XCOM E-Type.
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Shite on my pile, which I've Bend off, and I went into XCOM 2
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and I've I've just picked up and played the tutorial and I've not
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had enough time to get back to it.
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So it's just literally, it's not really any spoilers.
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It's just the Territorial. And it's like the the big reveal
25:37
with the Commander coming back to life after 20 years.
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But I know once I get into it, it's gonna be one of those ones
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where you just want to play that.
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And you look at different ways of doing each Mission, so that
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if you do fail, Going back to England reanalyzing what you've
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done and and I know it's going to be a time killer.
25:55
So we've got that to come as well.
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I dabbled in idle Slayer which is a little 8-bit of venture
26:06
capital the list. RPG, endless Runner type of
26:09
deal. I basically picked up because I
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kept seeing in my bottom right hand corner steam a few more
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constantly popping up as playing it.
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If there's no story that there's nothing to you literally just It
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coins, you upgrade your create, you keep going like a venture
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capitalist and then you ascend to the heavens, which resets
26:28
everything. But gives you a bonus so you can
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earn more money which you can then upgrade other aspects and
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so on and so forth and it's just literally a good little palate.
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Cleanser I've ditched nothing this month.
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I've played a few Evergreen so WWE SuperCard via BlueStacks
26:48
just grinding that in preparation or for a new tier in
26:51
coming over the next few days. Dabbled in premium bowling which
26:56
is a quest for your tile, which is great for a little pickup and
26:59
10-minute play. It does exactly what it says on
27:02
the tin. It's VR it to the bowling alley.
27:04
You play Ten Pin bowling and then I had a big completion buzz
27:09
on the vmf types games, and interactive movie games that
27:15
Dave was fond of last year. Some of them are right, some of
27:19
them are fucking Shahid. The complex, that was pretty
27:22
much it. Interactive mood movie.
27:24
Okay? For what it was.
27:26
Blood. Sure another interactive movie
27:29
more. If you think you've love Ireland
27:31
and Battle Royale had a bastard. Love child.
27:34
So these all the sort of Choose Your Own Adventure update
27:38
things. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty much.
27:40
Yeah. It's like the you're watching
27:42
the movie. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
27:44
Do you say Bob, or do you save Carol?
27:47
You got about five seconds later choice.
27:49
You made a choice to move the Carries On depending on what
27:51
choices you've made. So on so forth, she sees red
27:56
really well, acted but really shittily poorly dubbed, it was
28:01
just painful was initially, I was just clicking on things just
28:04
to get through it and because I couldn't stand it up and he's
28:06
literally so so bad. It's not even the mouse.
28:10
Don't go with the words because that's obviously not going to
28:12
happen with dubbing, but they didn't even leave, not even put
28:15
any effects on the dubbing. So if they go into, like, they
28:21
go in the fridge, I like going to a kitchen And they speak and
28:24
it sounds like they're in a recording studio and then they
28:26
go into the hallway. And it sounds like they're in
28:29
the same recording studio because they are.
28:31
And it's just that bad is really bad audio who pressed mute on
28:37
Uncle Marcus, which is just the fucking god-awful poorly.
28:42
Acted pandemic, Zoom Quiz game and finally old man's Journey,
28:47
which is just a story based puzzle where you move heels up
28:50
and down to help the old man on his journey.
28:53
Satellite over the course of seven and a half hours.
28:56
I managed to knock out five to six games off the pile, which
28:59
was a good thing for the whole aiming to complete 30 games of
29:05
any description for the year. I think I'm up to 10, not 15 or
29:09
16 now, and we're not halfway through yet.
29:12
So I'm in front of schedules, which is exactly where I want to
29:16
be clear. I think x 12 is next on my
29:20
shoulder hit list, job, sir. Notes, and compare.
29:24
But I mean, actually, do BCA think gives gives tactics, was
29:28
Marshall, a gateway drug in a XCOM got played that and then
29:32
I'll like to sort of gameplay Loop in.
29:34
It was like, that's pretty much based on XCOM.
29:36
So that's what made me go back and then play X bomb born.
29:41
When they should only one little great.
29:44
We asked on this planet on Xbox One controller, think I'd much
29:48
prefer, either the old keyboard and mouse.
29:50
Like I don't use tactics with what As what as it follows
29:55
can't, they're all certain games to me that have to be played
29:57
with a mouse. I can't.
29:58
I mean, I've got the elite controller plugged into the PC
30:02
for a lot of games, but there are some games where I just, I'm
30:05
trying to pinpoint something with a controller.
30:07
Just zoom in the fucking mouse cursor around the screen or not,
30:12
or losing it and not be able to find it or something stupid.
30:14
Like that, which you don't tend to do with a mouse and keyboard
30:18
wonder wonder what Jesus has been played on.
30:19
The team has been busy in the broom cupboard and so Jesus has
30:22
been playing Rock. It leaked think.
30:24
We're pretty much not. Yeah, sure.
30:26
That that's pretty much. Is this place a rocket League
30:28
there and some water on this fire?
30:31
Yeah that's it. That's it.
30:33
I'm done. That's it.
30:34
Thanks very much. You got fuck.
30:35
All of us was piled it since it's and chisel here I can
30:39
probably get away with in I did try usually this player I didn't
30:43
like it. Jack you say that without
30:45
getting a rope when you say you didn't like it whilst come on,
30:47
tell us what you really think they'd Miss Borden took that.
30:50
It's too slow for me to be honest.
30:53
I'm really a big fan. I should turn based for you for
30:58
you. I prefer Real Time by B Star B.
31:01
This is your editor speaking. Anyone who's just mentioned with
31:05
X come 715 times in this episode.
31:09
And then says, there might term based fighting is obviously
31:12
addicted. Give it a good three, four hours
31:16
that just couldn't can get it further.
31:20
Okay, let's move on to some quickfire.
31:23
Hard and fast questions to get some of them out of the way.
31:27
Dave Packard asked to any of you have surnames that rhyme with a
31:30
verb EG Jason Strokes. Yohan no, well I suppose R Us
31:35
heaves really probably was the sporting but fucking heaven or
31:41
David problem that no go. Pooper asks is Russ Abbott still
31:45
alive. Well, if you don't know, Joe, we
31:47
don't rush habit with your think.
31:49
You're supposed to keeping tabs on the man, Joe and you fucking
31:52
abandoned him. Eddie I thought the rumor was he
31:54
was in witness protection, we couldn't talk about it but John
31:57
Ross both. Well, I'll take one, could go
32:00
back to 1818. Davis questions.
32:02
What game that isn't rocket rocket League?
32:05
Do you think you've put the most time into over the years?
32:09
Sighs probably got this on a bit Mickey Mouse, but carry on say,
32:14
no, it's not Mickey Mouse. I'll tell you the game that I've
32:16
pumped so much time into it because it is football manager.
32:20
It's, I it's the one game, I really want to play right now
32:23
and cuz I love playing it. But I also know that if I play
32:27
it, that's the fucking podcast fucked.
32:29
Just having a quick look ski. I'd ever got 20 free on Steam, I
32:35
got 23 on Game Pass so that doesn't give me a time.
32:38
I'm of how much I spent but steam I've spent 1691 and a half
32:43
hours into the 120 22, which isn't as much as some people,
32:49
but that's still a lot of fucking time.
32:52
When you've got other games, you should be playing, I've just
32:56
looked at mine on the to achievement in his fucking
32:58
shameful to be honest. Look, I've been about us.
33:01
But how long was spending both of those games?
33:03
The division original wanna spend 175 hours old?
33:07
And I've just looked act up division to of currently spent
33:10
four hundred and two hours of golden go on.
33:20
And if we're talking Xbox or since Xbox 360 onwards, biofield
33:26
for still tops, the list that nine hundred and something I
33:30
was, but if I go back, way back and Playstation 2.
33:36
So come to, I'm, which would not do my first real introduction to
33:41
online play after the leaderboard reset, the hours had
33:47
on it clock 1600 and I played it for over two years before that
33:53
leaderboard was reset as well. So it's probably a minimum two
33:59
thousand dollars I was at school but not playing it at school but
34:04
it used to be the case that I'd finish school.
34:06
Go straight on even the tops or calm, then I'd sit on it until I
34:10
went to bed. Pretty much.
34:12
I'm used to come in and leave me food, that came the Devoe on and
34:16
just like present for just, send it back through the door.
34:20
I've been, I was the benefit of being young.
34:22
You don't appreciate when you were younger.
34:23
That you could just do that. You come home from school and
34:25
just pump the time between finishing school and going to
34:29
bed into the game. Not to get, not to get
34:32
sidetracked, but it's so come to.
34:34
I've got to thank for basically, finding midlife gamer.
34:38
Hello. I was definitely not midlife
34:40
winner. When I found that I was just I
34:42
was just a wee boy. Stevie B and here he was on a
34:47
group group of guys, Rubble, the robo tech Community Club, just
34:51
started playing our games were them and they went off and done
34:55
so couple of them. I've got like their own websites
34:57
and stuff out there and we got speaking to Steve and then that
35:01
led to make coming down here bottom and I'm one year and met
35:05
everybody and the rest can do. History and I managed to get
35:09
through that with it since TV groomed me?
35:11
So there we go. Speaking of groom and I wonder
35:15
how Jace is going on a date to go.
35:18
Well, maybe let's go with another one.
35:20
Let's ask one of Julie's questions while we're here.
35:22
What do you boys do? When you get in a game in Funk?
35:25
Don't think you can see low vertical.
35:29
Other than that, that to beat to be fairly I ever do find myself?
35:35
No, not playing games. Oh, just passing I go out and
35:39
watch a lot of shit on Netflix or and other streaming service
35:44
they don't do go through phases of that we would all just
35:46
sitting bench it and then eventually that that the game
35:49
and comes back safely matter I like to binge watch a series
35:52
down again and if you get a series of grabs you and makes
35:58
you want to sort of you know, stay up till 2:00 3:00 just
36:01
binge-watching episodes and usually get tired of that and
36:06
Gravitate back to gaming silence, have been to watch
36:09
programs, but I do know, I've got the Marvel Universe, stump
36:12
the old trying to get through. So what we missed this month,
36:17
Ross, you've been delving into the data banks and seeing
36:21
everything that has come before this recording.
36:25
So what have we missed gun? I guess going to the start of
36:28
the month, of must read feel and, or red fall, is it Coleman
36:33
lean on? I think it's called me a known
36:36
as red fail. These days by get Dex.
36:40
Yeah. Well, it Master think?
36:43
Yeah, I mean, I don't think I've said in part shoes.
36:47
I wasn't exactly hate for anyway.
36:49
So I wasn't particularly surprised the, some, some Zelda
36:57
game or something came out, don't know, it's a will play
37:00
that it - advertise that wouldn't ya.
37:03
I had a head. Somewhere it was attenuating but
37:07
yeah. Dudes wanna stay up late.
37:09
The other one. What's that thing called that
37:13
was not breath of the way old? That was the first one.
37:16
So I played that on my switch when I had and I had I can get
37:19
in here, not saying it's a crap game, just one of those games
37:24
that's not for me. I've never played a Zelda game.
37:27
I have got breath of the world on the Shelf here, but I've
37:31
never played a Zelda game and Don't really feel any urge to
37:36
come. Pick that up, guard up, and
37:37
stick it in the switch, either me and what else did we have
37:44
another bag. Completely shitty apartment.
37:46
It was Lord of the Rings. Gone.
37:49
No, a movie tie-in, pinched, right?
37:54
It's a big Italian Italian. There was never a film about
37:57
Golem was the. I think it's meant to take place
38:02
between Hobart and that's it. Called Fellowship.
38:05
Yeah. That's what I bet em between
38:08
really is. She's got slightly more here
38:11
than you've seen them in the movies, but yeah, that's, that's
38:15
came home in. It's it's not going well for it.
38:18
I don't think slightly more hair and problems with his ring.
38:22
Sounds like you. Russ.
38:24
Oh, yeah. So yeah.
38:26
I mean, I'm not saying I'm missing it.
38:28
The only other one leg or 2K cars.
38:34
Something decent. I like Lego, I like cars but not
38:38
enough to key Drive. Jesus Christ, that is maybe
38:41
something that pickup down the line and but certainly not not
38:46
crying that. I'm missing it.
38:47
Not looking into what it is or seen anything about it.
38:51
Is that not just making a full game out of what they did with
38:54
Horizon. A few years ago, maybe more
38:56
building of the cars, I usually have a Lego game on the Lego
39:01
Racers back on the Station one really came down for you in it
39:07
Boulder Colorado. It like a bag of bricks and I've
39:11
not really got a creative bone in my body so I can pet your
39:15
something really intricate and you know really nice looking and
39:19
then when it comes to building it's just like fucking square
39:21
blocks runs it runs and it wins the race.
39:24
That would be me. Happy like a hoarder was really
39:27
good. I do that.
39:29
I just bit disappointed. That they haven't done another
39:31
one. There to go, like with a Valley
39:32
season, the last fall. I did the, the big pre-order
39:36
bundle of that pausa. That had it was the British one
39:41
wasn't it? That the Lego?
39:42
Yeah. Yeah.
39:43
Father of four was. I I bought the big pre-order of
39:47
that because my boy was really into Forza and I thought well,
39:50
fuck it. He can play it on my account and
39:52
he'll get all the coins that for me to come by shit.
39:56
But then he had his own account, which the fact that idea.
39:58
Yes, I'm just thinking, if I do find myself looking at that 2K
40:02
driving, I think in our choir want to do that, I've got The
40:04
forza version, I can jump into the scratch that itch.
40:09
I think if I need to. I think that's pretty much the
40:11
biggest releases and all the Roses, some free play thing.
40:16
Came out was at one Lander, Dave.
40:19
Dave's been hyping up on midlife game or as a sort of cross
40:23
between shovel shovel Ray. And I can't remember what I
40:26
said. Calves, calves, help me.
40:28
I mean, as soon as you said chivalry, I stopped listening
40:30
date. To be honest.
40:31
I hate that game. They've spoke highly of it.
40:35
Something may be worth looking at some point.
40:37
Don't know where we fit with free free games but I've got
40:41
enough on my plate right now then getting sucked in.
40:43
He some FreePlay thing that's probably going to take over if
40:45
they fucking finish. Yeah, free game was nice but
40:48
it's not helping us reduce the part in any shape or form.
40:51
He says after just a mentor like, downloading the idol
40:53
Slayer, which was a free game that sucks time and doesn't have
40:57
any arcing end. And so it's always got 586
41:01
fucking achievements on that. But other than that, there's not
41:03
a lot. Do on it, right.
41:05
Let's get on with another few questions because we have tons
41:09
of them. Dave, again, asks, if we worked
41:12
in the games industry, what would our role be so Gap?
41:15
What would your role be in the games industry?
41:17
I'd like to do something to do with like, story development and
41:21
games. Need a good story.
41:22
Some of my favorite games that will really good story lines to
41:24
them. So I think I'd like to do
41:26
something like that. I thought you were going to go
41:28
for something like, you know, IP lawyer or something.
41:32
Fuck, that sounds really nice. It might be about you Russ I'd
41:36
just been the back in some way augment.
41:38
They say that? That's that's the wrong question
41:40
and I don't probably just work in the background somewhere.
41:44
Goodbye gag, it infrastructure, you know, stick to what I'm good
41:47
at. Now, I see, that's what I get
41:49
paid for normally. So hey, if it's something that I
41:53
can't do, I'd like to if I had the talent and I'd quite like to
41:58
be in the sort of design team coming up with character models
42:01
and like villain bad guys. As monsters that type of shit.
42:05
But yeah I mean I can't draw so yeah let me you say I have the
42:10
same problem as you is. Like I like to be in like the
42:11
development side of it but I can't draw for shit.
42:14
So I'd kind of like to be the like the spitballing ideas and
42:17
come out with the new IPS and new ideas of things hasn't been
42:20
done before, and then let everyone else do the work to
42:23
actually get it to come to light.
42:24
Be sure to start a company and just hire lots of people.
42:27
Yeah, hikmah. Yeah.
42:28
Bob Saxon asks what are our views on the future of psvr to
42:33
nice but Nora That place. Yeah, you've got that grand by
42:36
owning the thing. You fight them in a PS PS to not
42:39
PS2 PS5 under VR headset. I mean, the tech is really,
42:44
really impressive. I'm interested to see where
42:49
where they can take it as noted on the the Police station Sony
42:55
showcase last week, they should of Resident Evil and Resident
42:59
Evil 4, Viola that worked and credible.
43:02
But most book before, I don't raised an evil or horror and VR.
43:08
Think think this is the king, the generation for the tech
43:11
starting to get, get a foothold in their Master up preference.
43:15
I think would be she will may I come over next.
43:18
Well, I think matter might have just got the a trip for me cuz
43:23
The S&P are the PS v. R2 isn't Wireless again.
43:28
Is it? Whereas matter is completely
43:31
wireless. You can go while if you want to
43:34
plug into your PC obviously. But for freedom of moving
43:38
around. Yeah, I think mad just age.
43:41
Is it because of that? Julie asks, if you wasn't doing
43:45
the year of Shame podcast, what podcast would you love to do
43:49
stroke host? Probably do something along the
43:52
comic. / movie say the things that actually probably a good.
43:57
We get me back in here. Reading some of the comments
43:59
that I've stopped by all the years and borrowed from people
44:02
so the nice nice to have a reason to actually read some
44:06
books. All right, calf?
44:09
What about you? Is there any podcast that you
44:11
would love to do? I quite like this is the sort of
44:15
conversational podcasts. You know, this of to Peak 23
44:19
people on the conversation and all sorts of genres.
44:23
We did see some dysfunction 5. I find quite interesting.
44:27
I'll say, it depends on who's on there and what they're talking
44:30
about. But nah, not a beer brewing,
44:32
podcast, beer-drinking podcast, potentially.
44:38
I mean, like I could do something like that.
44:40
I've Got Friends to do one. I got Unfairness got quite a
44:44
popular one at the moment. But yeah.
44:46
Possibly for me you won't actually see what I would prefer
44:51
to do elsewhere shortly. It should be released.
44:55
Now the time we listen to this podcast, I've actually got
44:58
another podcast in the running. We've some Hiroshima Lumen, I do
45:05
white house and Catherine, McAuley and we've brought over.
45:10
That's brother Rob as well. Four-man team.
45:13
The podcast is called album Armageddon.
45:16
And basically, we are taking two albums from a single artist
45:20
matching up their tracks and discussing those tracks voting
45:25
on. Watch track is the best and then
45:26
creating super albums from winning tracks.
45:29
So if you love the sound of my voice, then give that one a
45:33
listen. And if you don't like the sound
45:34
of my voice, don't worry. This free other people.
45:36
You can listen to so still head over and over there and download
45:38
that one as well. Yeah, I definitely prefer less
45:41
than H. There's voice the boy - so, do I
45:46
do if your music taste? This show one was long, but
45:49
there's music taste is pretty eclectic with what we've picked
45:54
for like ice for the first few episodes.
45:57
So it's like an itch changing by the week depending on people
46:01
dying and not dying. It was Tina tunnel making an
46:03
appearance in Nitro Paris, damn it.
46:06
We nearly got through Phil fucking sure.
46:08
With information on a pedal, there's be worried.
46:10
He was going to be all Disney albums.
46:13
We did actually consider it but no, we will study not do a
46:16
Disney albums. So leading out from that, what
46:20
if we got coming up this month? So this month, we've got Street
46:25
Fighter. 6 coming out on basically everything on June
46:28
2nd, we've got Diablo for coming out on June 6th Amnesia the
46:34
bunker coming over time. I forget Leia Sophia's coming up
46:40
in June 15th, alien Dark Descent coming out in June 20th.
46:44
Aw fight Forever on June 29th and me, the thing that I look
46:49
forward to most now, this is going to be Street Fighter. 6
46:52
that looks awesome. It's everywhere.
46:53
You look on all the social media channels and YouTube adverts.
46:57
Everything at that does look pretty good.
46:59
And of Dave, southall's played it on the beta test and he was
47:02
raving about it. I don't keep up to date with the
47:05
street fighters. That been reset and then we've
47:09
got this been more than fucking six of those.
47:11
No I think the problem with Street Fighter is everything to
47:14
bring one out, they bring it 50 different fucking versions of
47:17
it, take Street Fighter 4 for example the Street Fighter 4 of
47:21
the Street Fighter 4 arcade, there's Super Street Fighter 4
47:24
SuperDuper rapper Ultra Street Fighter 4 made interesting when
47:30
we all picked up to play on one of the three denied it's like
47:33
what every every time someone speaks about playing Street
47:36
Fighter 4. I've did - like this end and go
47:40
it's that's one you need to buy this one and it's just a mess.
47:45
Truly, you forgot the turbo super turbo Edition, I can super
47:49
thermal Ultra gangrene additional don't fucking know.
47:53
So it's not like a Mortal Kombat one type scenario then I mean
47:56
it's defeated. Even got story, I don't know as
47:58
you put it on and mash buttons until I lose The street fighter
48:03
film Bailey had a story, so I think so high expectation.
48:06
The game would have fun. Did you see?
48:09
I think it's legendary pictures of picked up the film and TV
48:14
rights to Street fire. So you make be getting another
48:17
movie at some point. Woohoo, can't wait.
48:21
I mean, it can't be any worse than the previous one.
48:24
I've been to some redeeming features.
48:25
Kylie Minogue has in it. So I mean, that's not bad.
48:28
The only one that really stands out on that list for me is down.
48:32
Blow for that would definitely be a fomo thing saying that I
48:36
haven't got time to play a game fucking 57 thousand times just
48:40
so I can get some better Loop. So I think that one be a mess
48:43
for me. I think dear Diablo for could be
48:47
my my Joker, but I don't know. Yeah, I think the last one on
48:52
the left stem I put and specifically for you say, we all
48:56
know that you love your your greasy oil, the men.
49:01
So I don't even know. Ews.
49:03
I think, from what I'm seeing on social medias, they're being
49:07
very Coy of what screens they're showing.
49:09
It seems that some of the models are fucking awful, which is the
49:14
starting to come to light. Yeah, I'm not scratching that
49:16
itch at all at the moment. I think I'll struggle with the
49:19
Apple. The only thing I'm really weird
49:22
up as like I mean if I was to get the Apple just now and The
49:26
Stoke six months left in the year, normal load game, I think
49:29
that Kingdom make me we We were all beasts are filled with
49:34
that's going. That's going to come out with
49:35
like fucking Theory days, left of the fucking challenge.
49:37
So once there it is, I might as well get some enjoyment.
49:41
It the game is actually making me wonder if it'll make me walk
49:44
away. Is it shouldn't be?
49:46
Is the new FIFA that's not FIFA? Yeah.
49:49
It's more to do with the fact of what are they going to do with
49:52
it? It's going to be the exact same
49:54
and stay the same FIFA. She's gonna be, see you?
49:56
Yeah that's what I was wondering.
49:58
If that's what it's gonna be in this fight.
50:00
I didn't do 3423 but Boy did and but it looked like much of a
50:04
muchness to be fairy looks just like a as all FIFA's have done,
50:09
is just a carriage for FIFA Ultimate Team.
50:13
Yeah, give us money. I think it's called it made it
50:16
more difficult just to play online with a mate.
50:19
There needs to be another alternative of deist have sort
50:22
of a kick about online with some mates and have some fun doing
50:27
it. Yeah, definitely sensible.
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Soccer for the fucking wind. All right.
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Let's lead on to our final few questions for the month.
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Bob, Saxon asks, what's the best 8-bit arcade game?
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And why is it Pac-Man? It's fucking not.
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As it. In fact, I was thinking, I'd
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love to go space and fables, just pure Nostalgia.
50:45
No, wish to get technically was but Space Invaders isn't
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technically an 8-bit game, is it?
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It's unless you unless you paid it on the Atari 7800 which was
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an 8-bit console, I'm quite serious, peace and feed those
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enemy. I'm gonna go with, psycho used
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to pump 10 p.m. to 10 p.m. To my local fish and chip shop.
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Yeah, our Kung Fu, I'm gonna go with a game.
51:08
That's not really an 8-bit game, but was available on an 8-bit
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console. That's combat, but my choice of
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Space, Invaders as invalid, Fuck You.
51:17
Gavin, I was available of worked on the Atari 7800 it is an
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awesome, awesome game, the level of subdivision bastard, we get
51:28
up to in that game is unbelievable and Final question
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of the month is from Julie again.
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And what was the first game you personally bought with your own
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hard cash with? I think I'm taking that as not
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like bought with like pocket money or anything like that.
51:45
It's like a remember going to like a local sort of computer
51:48
games shop and buy instead of games for the Atari 800 on
51:52
cassette with pocket money but that it was gonna bolt mode with
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my own money from like my first job.
51:58
I bought an N64. The King was GoldenEye Stop the
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job, just for Christmas. And that, that was the first one
52:05
I went by with my own money. They're made myself the pocket
52:09
money one time, alkanes like the c64 use of the game.
52:11
So like two quid I could say that was pocket.
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Money. Get you to Quick down the shop.
52:17
Pick up a new game for the c64. Rush home.
52:19
Wait, 15 minutes for it to load Happy Days.
52:22
Birthday Christmas money. I would say probably the
52:27
original Super Mario Kart on the snares.
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That actually bought with my own hard-earned job money.
52:36
Probably be Final Fantasy 7 on the PlayStation 1.
52:43
What about you? Russ rack my brain here.
52:47
Got an oblique body money-wise, it would have been something on
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the Mega Drive I can't remember. It's too long ago.
52:56
My first shot a job sorry. Joe bottom of the paper round.
53:01
They also 2012 and I remember because it was really shit money
53:07
ago for four whole pounds. A week for the leaven it was
53:12
like one of these weekly papers. So it took me about ten fucking
53:16
weeks and I saved up the go and buy DSX.
53:22
The Invisible War on original Xbox and only real remember that
53:27
because I played solid for a week and got to the fair No,
53:31
cutscene and the game hard crashed.
53:33
So it took it back, take it back to Tesco, switch that back, came
53:37
home, and it crashed again. So, we took it back and I got my
53:41
money back and I'm never seen the end of that game.
53:47
And I can't remember what I've done with the money after the
53:49
fight. So, yeah.
53:51
So that only leads the normal domestics, you know, where we
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are, you are listening to the show, so you know where we are.
54:00
Why not have a friend able to fling, let's tell two friends
54:04
like especially ones that are improved cupboards.
54:07
They always like to know you can find us on Spotify.
54:11
If you don't listen there, we also have a Facebook group, just
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search for year of Shame, and you'll find us.
54:17
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54:22
that's at MLG, y OS. You can find us on Discord, Link
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54:34
at gmail.com, and we might actually open up and have a look
54:37
to see if there's any there next month that we want.
54:39
Because not one of us has access to that Gmail account but okay,
54:43
then don't bother emailing us. Look at the read them.
54:45
I'm sure. Sticking pick up he's the The
54:47
holder of the keys to the year of Shame Empire.
54:50
I want at least a duration. Say bye and off.
54:53
We fuck and days will perform his magic.
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All right. Well, this is the end.
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We hope you enjoyed the show and if you didn't tough titties.