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One Piece Live Action, Sea of Stars, Under the Waves · 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 robber.
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And today today we're going to be talking about freaking One
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Piece live action and a couple of very dope games I've been
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playing lately. So this episode I'm going to
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keep things pretty short and tight.
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Hopefully because it's pretty late but like so I just wanted
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to talk and my thoughts and all that stuff.
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So as usual this is your first time here then welcome.
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But if you're a returning listener and or watcher then
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welcome back. Y'all know here and Danny to
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talk. It's all about father and family
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manga animated TV and video games.
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So I'm going to just dive right in wasting little to no time.
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Ain't going to be much life and family talk this episode.
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That'll be next time, but One Piece live action.
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Y'all this past weekend, a lot of things were predicted, a lot
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of things were said, like, man, it's going to be a different
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error between One Piece Live action coming out, Starfield
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coming out for games and other stuff in between.
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And I'm not here to talk about Starfield because I'm probably
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not going to play. I might dabble into it later on,
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but that's for another day, One piece live action out the game.
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I'm going to say they did it, they did it, they did it, they
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did it, they knocked it out the park.
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And it is so freaking clear how much love, attention and passion
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was poured. Into the series, I think.
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I think I heard that this is probably the biggest budget.
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The Netflix or one of the biggest budgets that Netflix
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spent on a series. And it makes sense with all the
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different stuff One Piece has going on for it as far as other
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special effects, the different food, different food abilities,
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the sets, all that stuff, whatever.
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But just even in the lead up to the show coming out, all the
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marketing, the different interviews with the cast and the
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biggest one that really for me warmed my heart and set the tone
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of what was to come was a Naki, the actor who plays Luffy in the
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live, actual one piece he got to meet.
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ODA, the author and creator of One Piece and they did this Very
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awesome. It was maybe like a 5 minute or
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so video or something like Oh no, it wasn't super long.
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Definitely less than 10 minutes from what I remember of a little
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conversation that they had where they got to meet and stuff,
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Whatever. And the moment where ODA pretty
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much says, like tells Anaki that when he saw his audition tape
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and everything, that he was like that's loofy and that I can't
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see anybody else playing him. And just like the look and the
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tears on Anaki's face when ODA said that to him and them
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embracing it now again set the tone and then the show came out
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and just like knocked it out of the park.
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Now I'll say up front I feel like the casting for the most
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part they pretty much got on point man USOP super dope like
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his actor was on point. I know they the the ladies
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loving USOP even more. You know now with the live
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action of me. Hawk was on point.
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Nami. Shout, shout out to what's her
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name. I think her name was Emily Emily
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Bird I believe. Shout out to her great Nami
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she's and I've been watching some interviews and stuff with
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her and she's like super hardcore nerd like she's
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actually watches and reads one Piece.
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She's been they they did an interview with her.
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Tell me like all the different nerdy stuff that she watched,
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anime stuff growing up and through life and duh, duh duh
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and knocky. Great as loofy.
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Now I will go and say this up front, just for anybody that's
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curious. Whatever.
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There might be some spoilers in this whatever, but it's kind of
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weird because one thing I want a different mention up front is
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that this is not a Onetoone adaptation of the anime or the
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manga. This is its own thing, so if you
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were watching or listen to this and you haven't checked out the
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live action yet or whatever, just know it is okay.
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Go into it and give it a chance. Because honestly, like like a
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lot of us, we all know the the very long and storied bad
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reputation that live action series have or live action
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adaptations of anime and monger stuff have, especially stuff
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like this. And so I honestly went into it
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just like a baseline, just like, you know what, I'm going to give
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this like honest and fair shot. I'm not going to prejudge
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because honestly, for me, like the couple trailers and stuff
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that I saw beforehand looked pretty cool and pretty solid.
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I was like that looks pretty good and actually watching it or
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whatever hope. I don't know if I'm like over
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hyping whatever. But for myself expectations met
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and surpassed. And one thing like I said, I
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wanted to mention as well as they're like they can dance and
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do stuff very differently. They reorder certain things from
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the anime. Which honestly like watching
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this because it's been a long time since I've watched a lot of
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this material from the very beginning, of course I remember.
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You know, like like the big key points to the the March on Alarm
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park and you know, meeting Sanjay Baratier and Luffy,
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meeting Zorro and stuff at the Marine base and Alveda, hanging
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in the hat, all that stuff, whatever.
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All that stuff is here. But certain things happen
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earlier something some characters kind of get
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intertwined beforehand and that is okay.
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And and I think it's it's fitting for what this is because
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a big one and I'm going to just mention this up front or
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whatever now, just a moment or whatever just to just to set the
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tone or whatever. Is that out the gate by like
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episode three or four? We already know that Garp is
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Luffy's grandfather because first of all, Garp is there at
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Rogers execution, which I'm pretty sure he wasn't there in
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the manga and anime. But yeah, but pretty early on
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they have a run in with Garp and it's already revealed that he is
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Lupe's grandfather. Whereas in the anime and manga
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that didn't happen for like 300 plus episodes of chapters where
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that reveal came in. So little stuff like that, it's
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just like whoa, okay, you know, they just kind of getting to the
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point. But like I said, it is fitting
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for what this is because I've enjoyed hearing and seeing so
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many posts and stuff about people talking about how their
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parents, their friends, whoever that have little to no interest
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in anime. Maybe I've never even seen
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anime. Maybe I've never even heard of
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One Piece. Started watching the show and
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have fallen in love with the live action adaptation of One
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Piece and that that just like warms my heart to see and hear
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those type of stories and stuff and like the series is like
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trending number one on Netflix and like 80 something countries.
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I think it's probably like like like the biggest debut of a
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series that Netflix has ever had, I believe.
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In their whole history. Or if it's not #1, it's like
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pretty freaking up there, but bad.
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So, so little stuff like that makes sense in the context of.
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There's been a live action adaptation, however, because of
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course it's like. Come on now.
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Like, honestly, the fact that we even got this one season is a
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miracle within itself and I truly hope that we get at least
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a couple more seasons and stuff. Yeah, just because I want to see
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at least a little bit more like so of course I definitely by no
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shift of the imagination, expect them to over the next decade
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plus try to cover all 1000 plus episodes and chapters of One
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Piece in a Netflix series. But I definitely would like to
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see them do at least like a couple more seasons, you know,
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and just kind of just hey, it just stops when it stops,
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whatever. But, but so so for myself some
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the changes and stuff, whatever were very interesting because
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and I'm trying to feel, I'm trying to think there there was
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something else. I had watched oh Last of Us when
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The Last of Us TV show come out earlier this year.
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It was adapted in a way to where it was enjoyable to watch for
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both people who were already familiar with The Last of Us
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game series and people who are fully new have no context of
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anything that happened beforehand.
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So I feel like the The One Piece show was perfect in that, or
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very good in that way as well to where if you're new to the
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series, you don't know anything about it, you never watched it
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or read it or whatever, then hey, it's good.
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And then for people like myself who have watched it, whoever at
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it who follow the series very closely to see some of the
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changes and stuff it it it just it just continued to keep that
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fun factor because you're not sitting there knowing beat for
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beat what every single thing your mom is going to play out
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as. And so another cool thing that I
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loved and I guess just just to kind of show an example let me
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pull this up. So this image here and just just
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for reference for those of you all listening to the to the
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audio only audio only podcast version of this this shot of
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after Luffy puts the hat on Nami as a best as they're going to
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March on all along park whatever somebody had captured a side by
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side of the monga panel, the scene from the anime and the
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scene from the live action and they freaking nailed it like off
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rip. And this is a perfect example of
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how well and how much love and care was put into all of this
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stuff. Because even a lot of.
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Because one thing I would also like really appreciated was the
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constant change of their outfits and stuff.
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And a lot of the outfits were references, especially like
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Nomics, for sure. But I'm pretty sure a lot of the
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characters, whatever their outfits were references to
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either early sketches that that ODA had drew of the characters
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before the series started, when he was kind of like trying to
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figure out what they're going to look like and stuff to homages,
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to different cover pages and color spreads and stuff of the
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series. So that was like pretty dope
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that, you know, it kind of kept things fresh with the outfits
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changing up every now and then for the different characters.
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And it painted homage to these, to these special moments and
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stuff that. Like I said, is like, hey, for
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just the casual watchers, okay cool all the different outfits.
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But for the like Eagle eye people with the microscope,
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Easter egg hunting people whatever that stuff is like very
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dope. And another thing that I just
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like simply loved and adored was the title cards.
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So and and I and I forget to mention this up from before I
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just delve into this whatever. But did this the One Piece live
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action. It is 8 episodes on Netflix and
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all of them are at least an hour.
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Some of them a little bit more, a little bit less, but roughly
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an hour piece for all that for all eight episodes and all eight
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episodes had different custom made title cards.
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So you had the loofy one for episode one, Buggy Usab, Zorro,
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Sanji or Zef, Sanji Nami and Arlong and all of these freaking
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Tyler screens look so dope. I also loved how they did with
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the with the different bounty reveals and stuff too to where
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he was kind of like 4th wall breaking with the bounty reveals
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I couldn't find. I was trying to find an example
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but basically they did like like these like cool like 4th wall
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breaking moments to where like the bounty poster be up on
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screen from the person's face and then.
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Like like like like the bright red flash of like their bounty
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number and stuff. And then each character had
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different ways that they, you know, responded to it or
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whatever. Like R Long, like like chewed
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through it. Somebody else like slashed
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through that. I think Coral Matter slashed
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through his. I think Don Cree just like
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grabbed it, bought it up, tossed it on the ground.
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It was like super dope how they did it.
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And it it was just it was just like it was just like one of
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like my favorite parts where it was like okay this, you know
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this big bad character pops up boom, bounty poster bright red
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with their bounty is and then them kind of like knocking out
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the way or tearing it up or whatever they catch maybe
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whatever was a very nice and very cool touch.
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But but yeah, so like I mentioned earlier a lot of
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different moments and stuff for kind of plays to different
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spots, whatever. But I definitely say, like, for
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me, like all of the villains and stuff were a definite highlight.
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Like Buggy was awesome. Buggy all along and all the
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Fishman, Kuro and all the stuff that happened with him and Usap
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and Kaya on a SERP village and stuff like all that stuff
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because a lot of people kind of equating like the Kuro stuff to
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like a slasher, kind of like like a Freddy Krueger with like
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like like the long nails type of vibe and stuff.
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But but yeah, I remember All in all like the freaking one piece
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of action, like it, it stole my heart.
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It just made me so happy because like even through watching that
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first episode alone or whatever, I couldn't help but to smile of
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like man, like they're really pulling this off.
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And after I finished watching the first episode, I was like,
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yeah, yeah, we we we supposed to go in and I took my time and
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watched it over the course of like 2 or so days.
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Just kind of like watching it here and there between you know
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some games and stuff I was playing which I'll talk about
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later. But but it was just such a joy
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to watch and to be part of the community and stuff.
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See how the different reactions the the post on social media and
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stuff, whatever people celebrating yet people with
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their hot taste because one of the kind of like pissed me off a
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little bit or just kind of was like really like we starting
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already was because I believe because it came out Thursday
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morning on the 31st. So I remember I woke up that
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morning. And I was like, Oh yeah, today's
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the day. I wonder, is it already up?
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Open up. Open up the Netflix app.
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Soon as you open up the app. Boom.
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Giant one piece live action splash screen thing right in
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front of them. Okay, cool, it's already there.
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Open up Instagram. The first purse, the 1st, 1st
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post I see on Instagram when it refreshes or whatever is
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somebody might have posted somebody like so at what moment
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did you turn off the one piece live action or whatever just
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talking to them like Oh my God, the thing been out for barely a
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couple hours and the person was going in or whatever but I don't
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want to feed any any more negative energy to that type of
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stuff whatever. But it was like, come on, y'all,
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it's not. Have open mind.
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And I know that this is going to be something different than what
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you've been watching for thousands of episodes, reading
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for thousands of chapters and experiencing for however long
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you've been experiencing. One Piece where there's been a
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year, five, 10/15/20 plus years. This is its own thing and I will
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definitely continue to beat the drum of it because like I said,
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it's been a couple a day or so since I've finished watching
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that last episode or whatever. And I'm just excited to go
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through and watch different people's or reaction streams and
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stuff to it and just continue to hear the different thoughts and
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stuff of it. Because this is truly a special
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show. And not just because of course,
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yes, I do love One Piece, so that's going to lean towards it.
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But I legit feel like it is a solid show.
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Like I said, considering what One Piece is and how larger than
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life and how wacky a lot of the abilities and stuff is, whatever
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that what we all know and our hearts.
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Like I said, this isn't going to get a million seasons or
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whatever, but hoping it does get a couple more seasons.
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Because for one I want to see Crocodile and the Alabaster Ark.
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I want to see freaking the Flamingo even though I I I doubt
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I don't expect us to get to the Del Flamingo fight but I just
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want to see somebody just rocking the the pink fur with
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the sunglasses and stuff or whatever with with with the Del
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Flamingos walking stuff man like that.
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That's the stuff I just want to see is just those moments
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because man I'm I'm already imagining Del Flamingos bounty
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poster whatever and like him turning get into string or
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crocodile his bounty poster he's turning get into sand and stuff
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but but yeah man like everything was done so well yes there are
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some details and things you can kind of gripe on and things you
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can kind of like freeze frame of like up look at this one frame
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and looks sort of off whatever. But it's like, man, come on now,
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you know, like, so I I don't really care about all that
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stuff. And like in some ways I'm glad I
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don't have that super deep analytical for this stuff.
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Like I'm glad I'm not like a lot of these people, they're like,
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hey, the only content that I mainly do is one piece content
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or whatever where they got everything under a super mega
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ultra microscope. It's like, hey, if that's what
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you do, cool. Before myself.
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That's why I like that I have my variety of stuff that I talk
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about and cover is they're like, yes, I can get critical if I
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want to, but I try to get so overly critical to where I take
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the fun out of it. You know, like like I said like
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when when it especially when it's not necessarily called for
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whatever. So and plus like I said, there's
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plenty of other people out there that does that, that y'all can
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go to for that stuff, whatever. But for me, I just want to try
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to highlight and share my thought and and love for the
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things that I'm enjoying. So I'm so yes, I shout out to
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the One Piece live action. Super dope.
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I don't think there's anything else specific with the show.
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Of course, the Zorro versus me Hawk moments and stuff was super
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dope that that whole thing in general was freaking when we
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kind of first get introduced to me Hawk, and it's because of a
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Garp calling him directly being like.
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Hey, I got something I need you to go do whatever and that's
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kind of where they throw in Don Creek and stuff.
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A lot of people are like, man, why is it worse?
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Don Creek at Baratier, whatever. Well they put down quick over
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here in a scene with the with me Hawk and getting getting told by
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me Hawk, whatever and and yeah all that stuff is dope.
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And then of course spoiler for kind of how things wrap up in a
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way where you kind of get like this.
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Well first of all, the whole man.
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Another scene that I love and everybody was just saying that
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like, you know this pretty much just confirms the Fishman are
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black. There's like the scene where
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they're in all our long park whatever and they're partying or
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whatever. They're freaking playing hip hop
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freaking trap music cause freaking hecky even even all
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along's theme when he first kind of pops up whatever to to have
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when he pops up with Buggy. That was dope.
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Seeing Buggy and all along interacting and stuff, whatever.
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That was pretty interesting. But yeah, but like, it was kind
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of like a hip hop vibe. But like, man, they at the
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party, at the pool, chilling, drinking, dancing all along in
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the chair, hyping up and stuff, whatever, with this.
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Chains on it was like come on out it, it was just so dope.
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But but yeah, that that whole scene was super, super cool.
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And then seeing you know loofing them fight all along and fight
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the different fishermen and stuff and then like I said the
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the kind of like the end of them of the the after all the
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aftermath or whatever. We also get to see Freaking Me
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Hawk meet up with Shanks and they have a conversation and
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stuff, whatever about because basically he takes Shanks
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Luffy's bounty. Poster, whatever.
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And they all party and celebrate whatever.
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And so that that stuff was just just like very dope.
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And like I said, just like kind of kind of like with the like
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like the early reveal of like, oh, Garpin's, Lufy's
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grandfather. They also, you know, already
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touch on Shanks and me, Hawk having some type of, you know,
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history and robbery and stuff and even something with Buggy
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and Shanks, whatever. But like them being on the same
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crew and stuff back in the day or whatever.
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So all that stuff was like pretty dope.
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They all this stuff, they took hundreds and hundreds of
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episodes to get revealed in the Anna manga was like, now we're
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going to kind of like already set up some of these story beats
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and stuff like say, if it flows good for what this is.
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I loved. The casting of of Nami sister in
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this and she she was dope. She was beautiful and that whole
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arc and stuff of. You know, getting Namie's
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flashback and all that stuff with with with her mom,
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Bellamir, everything was, it was just so well done.
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Getting USA's flashback, little bit of Sanjay's flashback with
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him and Zeph on the rock and all that stuff and the stuff in the
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baratier and Zorro's back story with Kareena.
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All good, like I said, considering what all they
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covered. In the span of eight episodes,
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they they did the best they could with, with with the time
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frame that they had. Yeah.
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I just checked in. Yeah they they pretty much
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condensed or not not necessarily condensed but they they took a
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lot of a lot of elements, whatever from almost 100
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chapters that I was just scrolling through just to
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refresh my memory whatever. And yeah, because like that they
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were still like fighting or long and like.
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And like the early 90s as far as chapters, that's just where that
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stuff they got to whatever. So the fact that they were able
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to kind of like cherry pick, you know everything with the five
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man crew that started it all, Luffy Sanji or Luffy Nami Zorro
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who stopped at Sanji and condensed it all give you
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flashbacks for for all of them have more or less kind of like
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an episode or so roughly dedicated to each one.
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And the big most of the big moments covered.
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And yeah, so like I said, of course unfortunately there was a
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lot of other like smaller moments excuse me, there were
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kind of cut out unfortunately whatever.
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But given the situation it it is what it is so but so.
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All in all, very dope. Oh, Toby was pretty cool and
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stuff is where Helm Meppo, like shout, shout out to whoever was
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the the actor that played him Meppo.
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He definitely had that cocky, arrogant vibe that Helm Meppo
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had early on in the series and that stuff that that they just
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made you eager to want to punch him in the face and stuff,
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whatever. So say it.
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So I loved all that. But anywho, I've been going on
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for a long time. Like I I I wasn't planning on
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doing like a all this recap and stuff, whatever.
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But this just shows how dope and how fun this show was.
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So hey, if if you happen to listen to all of that, you still
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haven't watched it, go watch it. Go give it a honest and fair
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chance. Even if you've never watched the
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anime or manga. Honestly, that probably is for
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the best. Is that, hey, you're coming in
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with fresh ears and eyes and you know, a blank, you know, little
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to no expectations whatever. So it might be better for you to
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watch it with no previous baggage, so to speak.
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Whatever. So but I saw a shout out to the
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freaking team that put it together.
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Hey Danny's talk approves of the One Piece live action and I look
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forward to hopefully us getting more someday.
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So now going on from One Piece, couple of things I just want to
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touch on briefly, whatever, because I'm going to do more
27:07
indepth stuff with this later on.
27:10
But I kind of just wanted to touch on real quick about some
27:13
gaming stuff and also kind of point out some stuff for those
27:16
of Y'all, especially those of Y'all that are audio only
27:19
people, whatever, on some cool new stuff that I've started
27:22
doing. So I finally got some stuff
27:25
figured out which ended up being pretty simple, but I kind of was
27:31
reminded and got stuff set up to where I can remote play my PS5
27:37
from where it's out of my room to in here.
27:39
My cause where I have my stuff set up to here on this on my on
27:42
my laptop and stuff. So I can stream it from my PS5
27:46
to my to my laptop and play it in here.
27:49
Which means that I can capture my gameplay within my OBS setup
27:54
and stuff that that y'all see this stuff.
27:55
On or whatever. Which means I can now start
27:58
uploading actual gameplay and stuff, whatever to YouTube.
28:02
So in the last week or whatever, I've uploaded the first hour
28:10
some change of sea of. Stars which I'm going to touch
28:12
on a second under the waves which I'm going to touch on a
28:15
second and then one that will be up the day that that y'all are
28:19
hearing this called a chance of sonar.
28:22
It's a demo for that one or whatever.
28:24
So getting a chance to kind of. Because I've I've, I've
28:28
mentioned before previous episodes that I've really missed
28:31
getting deep into gaming. I've just, I don't know, just
28:34
like life and just different stuff, whatever.
28:36
I just haven't really been able to play and experience it like I
28:41
normally would. And so me being able to do the
28:44
streaming, whatever, even without whatever, I don't
28:46
record. Just me being able to have this
28:49
kind of like quiet space to myself.
28:51
I can put on my headphones, shut off my lights, whatever and just
28:55
enjoy a game. And my own little bubble has
28:59
been very nice and so. So yes Sir, if y'all would go
29:03
check out that stuff over on the YouTube channel.
29:06
I thought about maybe streaming it on Twitch, whatever.
29:08
But I don't know if I'm to the point here where I want to
29:11
stream yet, so and if I do, I think I might kind of want to at
29:15
least like. For now, maybe just keep all my
29:17
stuff on YouTube just so I can kind of just focus in one area
29:21
right now. So I don't.
29:23
Run the risk of like trying to stretch myself too thin with
29:27
Twitch and a bunch of other stuff, whatever.
29:29
But but yeah, so this is just like very exciting, like.
29:33
So I've kind of opened up another potential path of being
29:38
able to talk about games and stuff.
29:40
Because yeah, I I do enjoy talking about stuff like I do
29:43
with this, But with gaming specifically, I love being able
29:49
to show off. Different stuff that I'm talking
29:52
about. And so just even the fact of the
29:54
hey, I can just play through the first hour of the game and give
30:00
my commentary and stuff of it as I'm playing or whatever.
30:03
I think it's pretty dope and something that I look forward to
30:06
doing more of and stuff so and I hope that y'all look forward to
30:11
more of that as well. Now before I dive into the game
30:14
specifically, I want to shout out I treated me and my wife to
30:18
some new controllers this weekend.
30:20
Because Vash, just being Vash on my my original PS5 control, like
30:26
one of the thumbsticks, like the rubber pointer was kind of
30:29
coming out. So that made it a little bit
30:31
uncomfortable and something especially for my door size
30:33
hands him with his little 5 year old hands, he doesn't even know
30:38
or feel the difference or whatever.
30:40
But I'm still going to eventually get like a like a
30:41
little like replacement thing to kind of just like go over the
30:44
top of it to make it smooth again.
30:46
But he messed it up on mine and my wife's controller got all
30:50
sticky and but not as responsible whatever.
30:52
So I was like, you know what, treat each other to treat us
30:56
both to some stuff. So I got my wife this this kind
30:59
of like purplish blue Xbox series controller.
31:02
It's the it's the stellar shift color skin that they put out
31:07
recently. And for myself, I knew this was
31:11
coming and I promised myself I went and miss out on something
31:15
dope again because I still keep myself in the butt for missing
31:19
out on that God of War Ragnarok controller.
31:31
I would greatly appreciate that. Which, hey, if anybody out there
31:23
is listening or hearing this, if you come across that controller
31:26
and you feel like, treat your boy to something as a Christmas
31:29
gift, birthday gift, or. Because man, that game was that
31:34
controller was meant for me. It was blue, my favorite color,
31:38
had wolves on it, whatever. And it's God of War themed.
31:42
But, and in hindsight I don't know why I didn't freaking just
31:46
preorder it like I did with this.
31:47
Whatever, just put at least 5 bucks on this.
31:49
I know I have one waiting for me, but it is what it is.
31:51
But I ended up getting the Spiderman 2 custom controller.
31:58
It's nothing too extravagant, whatever, but I still like it or
32:01
whatever. It's got the Spiderman symbol on
32:04
the touchpad and then. It kind of has like the the
32:07
black symbiotes going pretty much across most of the
32:10
controller. Except for the the right side
32:13
with the the face buttons and stuff whatever you see the
32:17
tendrils and stuff and then it's a little bit of splash of bread
32:20
over there so but, but also and it's been nice having a control
32:25
of this like responsive when I'm clicking buttons and stuff
32:29
whatever. Nothing is sticky and stuff,
32:31
whatever. But so yeah, so shout, shout out
32:33
to us for, like I said, get getting that or whatever.
32:38
And yeah, so like I said, they kind of set me up for some more.
32:42
Prime gaming and stuff from I also want to kind of get maybe I
32:46
could capture card or something like this.
32:47
So I can also capture from the Switch and stuff too just so I
32:51
can kind of get get more game stuff out there, whatever.
32:54
Because I kind of want to you know, get some things going,
32:58
build up that part of my audience and stuff as well.
33:02
Because I mentioned on Twitter the other day, I was like, I
33:06
don't want to get so big and. Well known to where I can't go
33:12
out in public or I can't go to the store.
33:14
That's might be like, hey, is there Rob from Denny's to talk,
33:16
whatever. I doubt I will ever get that
33:18
big, but I want to get just big enough to where it's like maybe,
33:22
you know, maybe some publishers might maybe want to send your
33:25
boys some some game codes and stuff.
33:28
Or hey, maybe even some controllers or custom consoles
33:32
and stuff. Because of that, I saw Paris
33:35
Lily from from a Gamertag radio and kind of funny.
33:40
He got like this like Starfield special edition box thing with
33:45
the controller and the headset and stuff and he also got the
33:48
the the custom Spiderman two PlayStation Five.
33:52
So hey, as a dad with a household full of gamers, from
33:57
my wife to all my all five of my kids or whatever, hey, I can get
34:00
some extra consoles and stuff too, whatever that that would be
34:04
extra chairs on top, but. But.
34:07
So say so, going on from there, touching on the couple of games
34:12
and stuff as well, which like I said, I put up a little bit of a
34:16
game play for both of these but still wanted to shout them out
34:19
though and show them off even though I'm I'm going to do more
34:23
probably. Probably like a proper review
34:26
once I actually finish them and stuff, whatever.
34:28
But so starting off with a sea of stars.
34:32
So let me see and I'm showing off.
34:35
This is my gameplay, video, whatever just to have it on the
34:38
screen. But so Sea of Stars is kind of
34:42
like like an old school term based RPG role-playing game and
34:49
you basically play plays these two characters.
34:53
Valeir and Zale Valeir she is like a born on the winter
34:58
solstice. And Zale, he's born on the the
35:04
Summer Solstice. And so you have these different
35:06
powers and abilities and basically it is more or less
35:09
kind of kind of like a hero's tale towards these two chosen
35:16
warriors and their best friend who is just a regular person.
35:21
Going on a on a adventure to basically take down this this
35:26
great evil and so. One thing about the game that I
35:31
really enjoy is like first of all, the visuals of it is
35:34
freaking beautiful. I love the art style of it.
35:39
The music has been fantastic. I love the freaking soundtrack
35:43
and all the different music, the sound effects and stuff too,
35:46
because I like like the little like like the little like more.
35:51
You're like leveling up and getting XP and stuff, whatever.
35:54
It's super dope. All the different music and
35:57
stuff from all the locations. It's super cool.
36:00
I love all the different powers and stuff because you can you
36:05
have your you have like a basic like melee attack and then you
36:09
have like your special powers and abilities and stuff, and
36:13
some of them have multiple traits or multiple types and
36:18
stuff. And there's combo moves between
36:20
the different characters in your party.
36:23
And you also get more playable characters later on in the game
36:26
and stuff as well. But but yeah, and just like just
36:31
like all the different locations you go to, the variety of
36:34
enemies and stuff as well has been pretty dope to see.
36:38
And yeah, like, so I I just like really enjoyed playing through
36:43
this game and just trying to see how just to see like what new
36:51
thing is around the corner. Because I love like so like the
36:55
variety of enemies, the variety of the.
36:57
Be combating stuff as well, like OKA new set of enemies.
37:00
How to how am I going to tackle this set of enemies and stuff.
37:04
The different environmental puzzles and stuff is pretty cool
37:07
as well, but and All in all I've heard the game is roughly maybe
37:11
like 30 or so hours. I'm close to hitting the 20 hour
37:15
mark already, which is very huge for me that I've dedicated that
37:20
much time to a game like this, but that just kind of shows like
37:24
how special. And how much I'm really loving
37:26
this game that I've managed to put in almost 20 hours in less
37:30
than a week. But yeah, so that that's pretty
37:34
much in the general nutshell. Sea of Stars.
37:37
Like I said, if you want to see more lengthy gameplay, whatever,
37:42
go check on my YouTube channel where I have that hour and some
37:46
change of the gameplay. So moving on to the next game
37:53
this next one is called Under the Waves.
37:56
Now under the waves you basically it it takes place.
38:01
Basically you're playing as like a deep sea diver who you have
38:06
some personal stuff going on in life.
38:08
I don't know if what it with the a wife or girlfriend fiance
38:12
whatever. But basically things were the
38:15
points where y'all kind of needed some space, whatever, and
38:18
you kind of need to like to get away with her, kind of like.
38:21
Figure yourself out or whatever. And so you take up this, this
38:27
kind of a deep sea diving gig or whatever toward basically you
38:31
have different tasks and stuff that you're or different
38:34
missions that you're tasked with.
38:36
And so it's just you and the deep sea with your submarine and
38:41
stuff going around doing different missions and
38:44
objectives while also getting some story beats and stuff
38:48
because you also have. A person in your ear along the
38:52
way that's kind of like on the radio, that seems to be familiar
38:55
with you, familiar with your family, your dad and stuff and
38:59
y'all kind of conversate about life, about the different tasks
39:03
and missions of stuff that you have.
39:05
And this is one that I know it's not like super mega ultra long,
39:12
but it is definitely like very story heavy.
39:17
Which I enjoy. Y'all know your boy is all about
39:20
the story focused games, but this one with the visuals and
39:27
the setting and stuff like it does such a great job of just
39:31
like really putting you in this like isolated environment and
39:35
stuff man. Like, so you in this submarine,
39:38
and even without a submarine, like like when you're just like
39:41
scuba diving around and you're going to an objective whatever.
39:46
It truly gives you a sense of scale for like how deep and
39:53
spread out this environment and stuff is.
39:55
Because there's been certain objectives I start swimming to
39:58
in just my scuba gear and I get a little ways and I'm like and
40:01
I'm already seeing like my oxygen level going down and I'm
40:04
like maybe I should drive the submarine over there.
40:07
And I'm and I'm always happy that I do because it always ends
40:11
up being maybe. Like a little bit farther.
40:12
Than what you might think it is. So yeah, so yeah, so, so you
40:17
kind of like having to like manage your oxygen and stuff,
40:20
which is nothing too crazy. Whatever, because it's not
40:25
ticking away super fast and whenever you get back into your
40:28
submarine, it automatically refills your oxygen tanks and
40:32
stuff. And the same thing with the
40:34
submarine too it. Has like a fuel tank that kind
40:37
of runs out and stuff, but whenever you get back to your
40:40
main basin, you kind of like dock it or whatever.
40:43
It automatically refills and stuff as well, So I'm saying so,
40:46
so under the waves, the studio that's behind it, I haven't
40:51
played too much, more, too much of their stuff, but the thing
40:54
that kind of put this in my radar is that it is published.
40:57
By Quantic Dream and I've loved a lot of Quantic Dreams games
41:02
from Heavy Rain, Beyond Two Souls, Detroit, Become Human and
41:09
so the fact that they kind of like put their support behind
41:13
this game. 00 K that's what initially put it on my radar, or
41:18
earlier in the year or whenever it was, and so I definitely had
41:22
to get it and to check it out. Now I know I've heard that the
41:26
game isn't super long. I've heard it's maybe 6 to 10
41:31
hours. It's definitely like on the 10
41:33
hours is like what I'm hearing on average or whatever, which is
41:36
fine by me. Like I said, especially before,
41:37
like a story focused game, whatever that that is cool and
41:42
fine by me. But but yeah, so go check out
41:45
like I said, if you're interested in seeing more in
41:46
depth, I got the first hour and some change on my YouTube
41:50
channel of that as well. Like I said, I am ready to to
41:54
see more what's going on, explore the environment and just
41:57
to learn more about this main character like what stuff he is
42:01
kind of going through because he's he's also had like these
42:06
these night terrors and stuff. That is like okay, man.
42:10
You got some baggage and some stuff you that you need to.
42:13
That you need to unpack, man. So so yeah, so under the waves.
42:18
That one's out now and oh, and I forgot to mention earlier, so
42:21
Sea of Stars that is available on all the PlayStation systems,
42:28
all the Xbox systems, switching PC.
42:31
It is currently available part of Xbox Game Pass and
42:35
PlayStation Plus Extra which is how I'm playing it right now.
42:39
And there's a demo available on all those platforms as well.
42:42
So if you kind of want to get like a little bit of a taste of
42:45
what the game is, how it looks, how it feels, what the game
42:48
player is like, go check out the demo for that as well.
42:52
Under the waves, let me see, let me look that up again because I
42:58
think, let me see. OK, yeah, this one's on all the
43:01
Playstations, all the Xboxes and PC and stuff as well.
43:08
So both of these guys I believe is about 30 bucks and they're
43:11
both out right now. So last game I want to touch on
43:15
and like I said by the time some of y'all are seeing this, the
43:19
gameplay video might be up maybe whatever I got it up or
43:23
whatever, I just got to do some thumbnail stuff.
43:25
But but this game called a Chance of Sonar.
43:30
Now this is kind of like a this is kind of like a puzzle
43:33
adventure type of game and the interesting thing about this is
43:36
that it kind of deals with. The the key component of this is
43:42
kind of like deciphering these glyphs that you come across kind
43:46
of help you get through dialogue of people in the of that you
43:51
encounter because they're speaking a different language,
43:54
as well as kind of like helping you solve different puzzles and
43:57
stuff. Now the first time I played
44:00
through the demo, whatever, it took me maybe like 45 minutes to
44:03
play through the demo or whatever, but that's kind of
44:04
like me, kind of like get in my bearings and stuff.
44:06
But like once I kind of figured it out, I was like, okay a lot
44:09
of stuff you can kind of like go through and figure out.
44:11
Without having to know at all, because there's a lot of like
44:16
context clues. And some of it is kind of like
44:18
common sense to where, OK, there's a lever and there's a
44:22
sign to where it's like like like the picture for like the
44:26
top of the lever, it has a symbol and then another symbol
44:30
and then at the bottom it has a symbol and then a repeat of that
44:33
second symbol from the top, whatever.
44:35
And so it's basically OK clearly.
44:38
This is open and closed. And then I'm guessing this is
44:41
door or a gate or something or whatever.
44:44
And so you kind of get, you know, piercing those together,
44:48
whatever. And then eventually you get this
44:51
moment where you get like like you're like your journal opens
44:54
up, it has three pictures and it gives you some gliphs on the
44:59
side and you basically have to match up.
45:02
What glyph goes with which image?
45:04
And then once you match them up correctly, it will reveal the
45:08
actual true meaning or saying of the word.
45:11
And then once you unlock it that one time, it is then forever
45:15
unlocked. So that as you do more missions
45:19
or whatever the catchment be, talking to more people,
45:22
whatever, it makes a little bit easier to to decipher those
45:28
those. Synthesis and communications and
45:32
stuff and so so yeah, so and and the visual style of it is like
45:36
very striking as well. It's kind of like this kind of
45:39
like yellowish environment with a lot of Reds and stuff too.
45:44
It it it, it really just grabs your attention like to that.
45:47
That's what made me check out the demo because I was like I
45:50
was looking through Oh my previous episode when I was
45:55
talking about games. I'm looking forward to for this
45:57
year. I'll scroll through the the the
46:00
game release calendar the Game Informer had and it had this
46:03
game, this thing where I looked it up and look play the trailer
46:06
for it. He measured it immediately.
46:08
The visual style of it caught my attention.
46:10
I was like, yo okay, I need to check this out and then boom,
46:13
there's a demo of it. So okay, I'm going to play that
46:15
or whatever. So I'm saying, so check that
46:18
out. Like I said, the second time I'm
46:20
going to play through the demo I beat it in in under 30 minutes.
46:24
So demo once you kind of figure out what's going on.
46:27
It doesn't take super long, but hey, you can kind of like live
46:30
in the world and check it out and get used to your bearings
46:33
and stuff, whatever. So, but they have so chances.
46:35
Sonora, that one is out today as the time of me putting this out
46:41
and yeah, I think that's it. As far as like games, I want to
46:45
highlight that I've been playing lately.
46:47
Like I said, I'm happy that I got that stuff set up so I can
46:50
do more gaming and stuff going forward.
46:53
And yes, I'll be looking for more gaming stuff on the on on
46:57
the Danny stock YouTube channel and I'm trying to think aside
47:02
from that couple things I'll just point or just mention as
47:06
well, just like general news and stuff, whatever freaking places.
47:11
And plus, all tiers are going up on the basic tier, and by the
47:17
time y'all are seeing this, they're probably the the the new
47:20
update, the new updated tiers is going live.
47:23
On the 6th September 6th. So if you're going to stack more
47:28
time, whatever, you better do it now.
47:31
But it's it's going up. Whatever the the essential tier
47:36
is going up from. I had it pulled up, so yes so,
47:44
so the so the essential tier is going up and this is for the
47:49
year price from $60.00. To $80.00, so $20 increase the
47:57
extra tier going from 100 to 135, that's the tier I have now
48:02
that's 35 extra bucks and my stuff is good to be to the
48:06
beginning of next year. But I'm like, man, if I had the
48:09
money, I'll probably stack up at least another year.
48:11
But and then the biggest one premium is going from 120 to
48:18
160. So a $40 price increase like,
48:21
man. That's pretty insane.
48:23
But that that's kind of been the thing all across the board.
48:25
Like everybody Disney Plus and Hulu and Netflix and everybody
48:31
YouTube, YouTube Red, everything is like freaking all
48:36
subscriptions and stuff is growing up and it's just
48:38
freaking ridiculous, man. But I saw you want to just put
48:41
that on Y'all's radar for that. Aside from that, I don't think
48:45
there's too much else I wanted to.
48:48
To touch on like I'm I'm going to do another episode about some
48:52
other stuff that I've been watching and playing and all
48:55
that stuff in the coming days and weeks.
49:00
Let me see. Yeah, yeah, nothing else.
49:03
But like I said, I was. Just excited to come on it to,
49:06
to talk about the One Piece live action, see if Stars and Under
49:11
the Waves and a few other things like that.
49:15
But it is past midnight. So I'm going to go ahead and
49:19
wrap this up. Oh, and I have a review for Sora
49:23
and the House of Monsters manga volume one coming out in the
49:28
coming days and stuff as well, because I've already recorded
49:30
that. That was a pretty dope one about
49:33
this this, this girl who's trying to be a warrior now
49:39
having to find a new passion and life by teaming up with these
49:45
dwarves. To go around and to help build
49:48
houses for monsters, for different monster races, So
49:52
goblins, Griffins, slimes, orcs, so on and so forth, whatever.
49:58
So pretty interesting, unique series.
50:00
Been on lookout for that. And yeah, aside from that, you
50:04
know, I'm still watching my anime, my shows, of course.
50:08
Everything kind of got put on hold with all the gaming I've
50:10
been doing and. Do One Piece live action.
50:13
So I haven't watched too many anime or whatever, but in the
50:17
coming weeks I will do a fall preview, Fall Anime season
50:22
preview episode just because there's a lot of dope stuff
50:25
coming on which I put on the House radar.
50:27
And yeah, so with that being said.
50:31
I'm wrap it up so thank y'all so much for watching and listening.
50:35
Let me know what y'all think about everything you want.
50:37
Piece live action. See the stars under the ways,
50:40
Let me know what y'all are playing or what y'all are
50:42
watching, all that good stuff. You can always hit me up
50:44
everywhere at Danny's to talk and make sure that you're
50:48
subscribed to the YouTube channel so you can catch all the
50:50
gameplay stuff and just all the video versions of everything
50:53
that I do. And if you enjoy just the audio
50:55
version. Make sure you're make sure
50:56
you're following on Spotify, which that's also I think that
51:01
also just got a price increase too, but on Spotify, Apple
51:04
podcast etcetera etcetera. You find me everywhere at
51:08
Daddy's to talk and with that I am out.
51:11
Y'all be easy y'all have an awesome day and or week and I
51:15
will catch y'all in the next one.
51:16
As I always say, treat yourself to something nice.
51:19
Read some monger. Watch some Annaman TV play.
51:23
Some video games and live your best life.
51:25
And with that I am out. This dad is sleepy, but it's
51:31
been a good weekend. Catch on the next one.
51:34
Peace.