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S13E07: Nostalgia Overload as He's Gan now · The Year Of Shame Challenge

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  Booting Series 13 of the Year of Shame challenge.
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  Please wait. Hello and welcome to the latest
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  episode. I think it's the August, maybe
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  September episode of Year of Shame 13 with me.
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  I've got Paul say. Hello, Paul.
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  Hi, Matt, How are you doing? Not too bad.
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  And we've also got Ben Say. Hello, Ben.
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  All right, how you doing? OK, pretty good.
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  It's been a bit of a break. Apologies to anybody who's been
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  avidly waiting. Let me see, what have you been
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  up to, guys? So, Ben, what have you been up
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  to? It's been well, just before we,
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  when we finished the podcast last month, I uploaded it
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  literally the day before I got on a cruise ship to the fjords
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  for a week. So we had a big family holiday.
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  So that was literally straight off the last podcast and into
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  that so amazing neck of the world.
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  Really, really incredible. Definitely want to go back.
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  We've seen parts of it, but not all of it and I'm desperate to
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  go back there now. It was probably one of the best
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  holidays I've I've ever had People, people go on about how
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  beautiful the fjords are, but until you've kind of seen it,
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  the pitchers really don't do it justice.
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  It's it's amazing. So that was that was the first
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  week of the month. I also one of my favourite
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  things I did on that, it was there is a spa on board and my,
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  all of my family got up and went on that, that lift.
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  We said about the cable car. I completely chickened out on
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  that one, as expected. No, no, no.
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  No, I looked at it, it got off aside the ship and looked up and
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  it was like no, but that's not happened.
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  You can literally see the building was like a speck in the
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  far distance on the side of a mountain.
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  It was like I can't be doing that, No, no, no, no.
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  So they all went and did that, had a great time.
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  I however went on the ship and went to the spa and then offer
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  on for the day because it was a shore day where I could have
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  come with us now a full shave, Barber shave, a face massage, an
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  Indian Head massage and a shoulder massage for £50.
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  So I went in there, they put me in a seat, span it round.
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  So I was looking at this big window at the side of the ship
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  looking over the fjords and I got pampered for an hour and a
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  quarter. It's great.
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  It's not bad, not bad. So they went and enjoyed
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  themselves and I sat on a boat and got a massage.
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  But you know, hey, you could have all you like.
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  Then I went and played on my Steam Deck and afterwards under
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  coffee. So that was only but I probably
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  didn't make the most of the holiday on that one.
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  But otherwise insane. Amazing.
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  If you can get to the fjords, go and do it.
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  It's unreal. It's really, really cold to
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  stand on the front of the ship in the evening when you're going
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  through it on the very front of the mountains, but no one else
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  was there. And this is the dead silence and
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  just waterfalls either side of you.
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  Incredible. So we did that so that then we
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  have the summer holidays, which was obviously kids off school
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  running around spending time with them.
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  They went back to school and the entire family instantly got ill
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  because my daughter can pick up any germ that exists.
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  So we're kind of like, I haven't spoken to you guys probably a
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  lot this month because I've just been ill.
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  It's it's the honest truth or doing work whilst whilst we've
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  done this much, I bought a new air fryer.
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  I am the appliance man this month bought a new air fryer.
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  I had a flip down door one that was like an oven that was trash
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  made by tower. Sorry tower, but it was trash
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  and we got this new one and it's amazing and it cooks everything
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  properly rather than burning one end and making the other end raw
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  steel. So I'll put if anyone wants a
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  link to this air fryer because it's currently on deal, I'll do
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  that. But I'm not saying more than
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  that I'm not getting Commission from them.
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  So there, that's my month. To be honest with you, it's
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  bizarre and short. There you go.
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  OK, Paul, how did you get, how did you get on?
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  Yeah, I've been up to all sorts, really.
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  We hadn't had a holiday in a number of years, probably three
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  years, literally three years in fact, because it was like
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  literally three years since we moved.
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  There's been a few things going on in between times which had
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  kind of stopped us going on a holiday, but we finally managed
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  to book a nice holiday. We went for two weeks to Egypt,
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  which was really nice, stayed in a really nice hotel.
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  We have been once before about six years ago.
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  It's not normally the sort of thing I like to do.
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  I like to go somewhere different.
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  But my brain was so drained. I just didn't have the energy to
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  put into reading millions of different reviews to figure out
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  that wherever I'm going to is actually going to be really
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  nice. The place, nice food, lovely
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  staff. They can't do enough for you,
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  the guests as well. The good thing the place is
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  actually adults only. It's not that kind of adults
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  only. You know, there was no keys in
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  bowls or anything like that. It's just.
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  That I'm not saying anything. No, no, yeah, is.
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  And off the table straight away. Yeah, so.
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  But yeah, so we had a really nice time.
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  I did a couple of things as well, such as I went diving,
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  which was good. Normally I just go snorkelling.
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  I always assumed that diving was going to be like a three day
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  thing, which I'm not prepared to do because you meant to do like
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  training and then you get like a certificate at the end etcetera
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  to say that you've passed your basic or whatever.
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  So, but as per usual, when you first arrive at these
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  destinations, you are generally, although they're very polite and
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  they don't come back more than once unless you ask them to.
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  You'll get different parts of the hotel departments come round
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  and speak to you while you're on the sun bed.
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  So you'll get one guy come round, he's offering you
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  massages. You'll get another person come
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  round, he's offering you other kinds of services such as like,
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  you know, do you want to go on different trips, not them kinds
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  of services. What better than a massage?
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  Wow. OK.
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  Oh. Sorry.
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  Yeah, well, anyway, they're all priced.
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  The the massages are actually good.
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  I did negotiate with a massage guy, but they're, they're very,
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  I mean, I'm a buyer and a seller, so I understand
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  haggling. So I'm not out of my water when
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  they come round trying to, you know, get the best price out of
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  me. So anyway, this guy, he comes
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  round and they've always got their book, you know, their
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  invoice book. Oh, look how much I've just
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  charged somebody over there for the same thing.
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  So I know the missus, she likes massages so she gets bored.
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  It's a thing that keeps her going, you know, like, oh, I'm,
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  I think I'm going to have a massage this afternoon, you know
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  what I mean? So she goes and has has a
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  massage or whatever. But they started off and they
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  wanted something crazy like about £80 per massage, like a 55
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  minute massage. Now in the UK they ain't that.
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  So anyway, what I always do, I've figured it out already.
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  How much is a massage in Egypt? What is the local price?
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  I mean, you're not going to play the local, local price because
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  that's more for local, local people.
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  But it's generally about 15 U.S. dollars.
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  It suggests. Yeah, of course it's not in U.S.
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  dollars when you get over there, But, but they do want English
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  currency or American currency. They don't like the Egyptian
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  stuff, and they don't want pound coins either.
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  They're like, they'll just throw them back at you almost.
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  Is that still a thing? Is it?
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  I didn't realise so I know it used to be like that years ago
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  but I wasn't sure if they were still big on the on the foreign
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  currency. Interesting.
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  I presume it's maybe the price just keeps plummeting or
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  something. I didn't look at that particular
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  thing. We'd never take any Egyptian
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  money with us in any case. I always, I'll never take
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  English. We've been to Egypt loads of
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  times. So anyway, so it's only like 15
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  U.S. dollars normally. So that's about £11.00.
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  So I always bring these points up about the actual cost of
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  these things. And so anyway, we negotiate down
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  and down and down and down and, and he says how many would you
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  like to book, etcetera. So I says, well, what's the deal
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  for say 5, you know, the misses, she's there for two weeks. 5.
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  So anyway, so anyway, we're negotiating, we're getting out
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  of 34 LB per one, which is, you know, probably still £15 more
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  than it should be, but you're in a nice hotel, they're not going
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  to go much lower. So we booked them that were
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  great. I had one of them which was
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  really nice as well. You don't realise sometimes how
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  much you need a massage and it was perfect after that long trip
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  to well it's only 5 hour trips, it's not that long.
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  But being you know, sat in the silly aeroplane seats, you know,
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  crunched in and pulling your baggage behind you and having
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  things on your shoulders all the time.
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  So no, that was good. But you know like getting back
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  onto the diving. This guy had not that kind of
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  diving either. So anyway we got on to the
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  diving. This guy says well if you want
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  to do diving, he says you can just do an introduction to
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  diving. So I says no, no.
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  I says no. The missus says I'm extremely
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  experienced at that. So anyway, so we got onto the
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  diving again and he says he says I can do that.
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  He says it's a one day thing. He says what they do, you'll end
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  up doing 2 dives, a 20 minute dive and then like I say like a
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  30 minute dive. So as you go on the boat and
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  it's a one day thing, so I'm thinking, well that's one step
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  beyond snorkelling and I'm prepared to do like it's only a
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  day. I says and what about, you know,
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  the missus, can she come along as well?
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  And he says well yeah, she can do the snorkelling while you're
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  doing the diving. So he sort of says, well how
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  much would it be? He said it'd be 130 lbs.
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  No, in fact it was more than that.
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  He wanted £150. And then he says, and the she
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  can snorkel for £50. So I'm like almost half
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  convinced. I know I can get it cheaper sort
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  of thing. But I'm thinking, and so I says,
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  well, my brain's a bit tired. I says, come back and see me
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  like in a few days time. But we're there, we're here for
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  two weeks. So anyway, in between then we
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  get talking to another couple and Egypt is a very popular
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  place. It's the Red Sea for divers.
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  So we got, as you do, you speak to all kinds of couples over
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  there. Everyone's chilled out.
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  So they're all telling you the, the life stories and stuff.
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  And they told us that they're experienced divers and that
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  they're using their previous low, they're not doing it this
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  time. They've previously used the
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  local company. So they give us the details of a
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  local company. And they quoted as £45 for my
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  diving 25 LB for the misses to go do her snorkelling and £15 to
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  be picked up and taken back. You know, 'cause like you're
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  about an hour away from like the port or whatever.
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  So that works out about £75. So I thought, wow.
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  So anyway, it's a, it's a, it's, it's a recommendation from
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  somebody you've spoken to. It isn't just something I've
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  picked out of the Internet and I've got to do tonnes of, you
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  know, reading up about sooner. We're booked and went with them.
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  What a fantastic day. Well, but what I will say, I was
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  speaking to a guy on the you were with his friend and I said,
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  oh, are you, are you doing the diving?
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  He says, no, I'm just going to do the snorkelling.
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  I says, have you, have you dived before?
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  I mean, I've never dived before. I've snorkelled, he says, Jay
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  says. The first time I liked it, he
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  says, and the other times I less and less liked it.
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  But his friend, he will like it. Oh yeah, I can't wait.
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  I'm going to do the diving. So this is my like first time
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  diving and what they do they give you like say like a 10
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  minute introduction is literally probably he tells you all the
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  different signs you've got to use while you're underwater,
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  such as like if it's thumbs up, yeah, you would think that means
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  everything's OK. Well, no, that don't mean
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  everything's OK. That means you want to go up.
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  And if it's if you want to go down, it's thumbs down.
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  You would think that means everything's not good.
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  You know, I'm having a bad time. Thumbs down, thumbs down, you
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  know, SOSSOS or whatever. So anyway, no.
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  And what you if if it's not good, it's like a shake of a
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  hand like this. And if everything's OK, it's
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  like the OK, like a chef's chef's OK.
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  Oh yeah, you know, magnificent food or whatever.
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  So anyway, there were only two other people doing the diving
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  and it takes two people at a time.
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  There was a a whole bunch of other experienced divers that
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  are jumped on a boat that get taken like a distance away.
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  I mean, they're like on like a rubber dinghy type boat, you
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  know, like a little speedboat that's attached to the main
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  boat. And then they take them like a
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  distance away so they can scuba dive all the way back, etcetera.
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  And I tell you what, it's quite the introduction really, because
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  they kick you up and what they do the, the virtually throw you
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  into the water. Because what you've got to do,
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  you've got to sit on the edge of the boat.
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  And what they do, you've got to put your hand up in the in the
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  air. And then what they do the light
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  spin you around because what you've not got to do is let your
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  tank on the back hit the back of the boat, you know, like if you
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  just like went in like that or the tank in at the back of the
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  boat. And then that's not good.
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  So anyway, I'm a, I'm a real wuss.
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  So anyway, he does that froze me in one of my flipper drops off
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  and I got all salt water in my mouth.
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  I'm not much of a swimmer in any case, but it's the Red Sea.
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  So you do almost naturally float because it's so, so salty.
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  So I'm like, Oh no, no, no, no, no, I don't like this.
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  So anyway, it puts my flipper back on.
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  I'm like, anyway, it takes me down underneath, etcetera.
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  And probably after about 10 minutes, I was thinking, oh, I
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  don't like this. You know what I mean?
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  It's weird. Your ears start to pop and all
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  kinds of stuff. It's a really unusual situation.
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  But once you're down there, it's, it is quite good.
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  But I tell you what, I could not have done it for three days.
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  I would not have gone back the day two and three because it
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  feels a bit like hard work. There's so many different things
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  to ponder and things that are going on.
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  But yeah, I enjoyed it. Definitely an experience.
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  But I wouldn't rush back to do diving.
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  But I would go back and definitely do more snorkelling
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  because the snorkelling is cool. You know, you get to see all the
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  stuff in the knee and I think that's about as, that's about as
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  deep as I want to go really in future.
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  But I can finally say I've done the diving and yeah, and it was
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  cheap as well. If you can get a good deal and
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  you go on holiday, it's like £45 for the day.
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  Wow, what a deal really for an experience.
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  I mean, you don't get much for £45.
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  Well, it's £34 for a massage for one hour in the hotel and, you
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  know, so. Yeah.
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  But yeah, really enjoyed it and came back feeling a bit more
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  refreshed. But I took a tonne of gadgets
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  with me, as you guys know. I took a laptop, I took a
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  Switch, I took a Steam Deck, I took a tablet, a Kindle.
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  Obviously it's my phone. I took a spare phone.
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  There were two sets of headphones just in case I lose a
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  set of headphones. And the problem is with all
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  these gaming devices, these mobile game switches, and it was
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  an OLED switch, is that the sun just washes out the the screen.
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  Unless you want to set up a towel on your head, you're not
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  going to get any fun out of it really.
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  Of course, it's perfectly fine in the room.
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  But if we're on holiday, you don't want to spend too much
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  time in the room playing a game. I mean, if you can't sleep, fair
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  enough on the plane, perfect. But I didn't play a single game.
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  I watched virtually no TV as well.
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  And another thing as well is a holiday Internet can be quite
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  bad. So I normally buy a SIM when I
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  go across, I buy it in the airport.
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  You can get like a local SIM, say like 10 lbs, but it'll give
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  you say 60 gigabytes of data. So if the, if the internet's
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  bad, you'll still be able to do like sort of like your basic
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  surfing. You're still going to be in
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  touch with whatever you need to be in touch with just in case,
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  maybe work or whatever. So anyway, we got there and I'd
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  taken the tablet and I'd set all up so I can watch all my shows
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  abroad, etcetera. So, but only via streaming and
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  we arrived and after something to eat, it was about 1:00 in the
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  morning. So we got to the room, I set the
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  tablet up, put the hotel Wi-Fi in, and he's streaming like in
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  four. K it's like, oh wow.
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  This is perfect. But then you get to, like, the
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  following day sort of thing. Of course, it's 1:00 in the
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  morning when I'm doing my streaming.
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  Yeah, no one's up. It doesn't dawn on you.
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  And then of course, you get, you go downstairs in the morning,
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  you like, you're on your phone or something.
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  It's like about 6 kilobits per second because everybody's, you
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  know, bleeding it dry. So I couldn't watch my football
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  or anything while I was abroad. But you know what?
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  It's not a bad thing because you take all these gadgets because
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  you, you know, you think you're going to need them, but really
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  you don't need them at all. My phone.
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  And that's all I really needed, really.
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  So yeah. And the phone thing's really
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  nice to have that sort of like cleanse from a phone.
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  I mean, going on cruise ships and stuff, you don't use them at
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  the sea unless you've bought Wi-Fi, which I refuse to do at
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  the prices they charge. It's like 17 lbs a day for the
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  basic one that can open an e-mail.
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  So you end up with like 2-3 days.
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  You just don't have a phone and you get off the boat for four
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  hours. You check your emails, you send
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  an update to your number, dabber some pictures in it or whatever
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  it is at home, and then you get back on the ship and you turn it
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  off again and that's it. You have like 4 hours every two
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  or three days and that's perfect.
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  It's nice to have that detox fine.
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  I've got a Pixel 10. I love it and I use it as my
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  camera, but that's fine because then you just use it as a a non
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  connected device, which is totally fine.
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  But it's yeah, I agree. There's the detox from it's
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  really good. Absolutely love it.
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  I never thought I'd love it so much.
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  Yeah, I, I didn't watch any TVI mean the, the you do have TV
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  obviously in the room, but generally speaking the channels
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  are very international. You'd probably get like a couple
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  of news channels that are English.
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  There was actually a couple of good sports channels but they
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  didn't show the footballs games I wanted to watch, but they did
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  show Premiership. Like ESPN or something isn't it
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  is more worldwide stuff? Yeah.
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  So I mean, yeah, it was great. So yeah, another good thing
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  about the diving as well. You were taking photographs of
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  you while you were underwater, so of course you think
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  afterwards. Oh, right, yeah, of course
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  they're going to offer you all these photographs at the end,
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  you know, they're going to be like £15 for £20.
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  But you know what, they never mentioned the photographs and
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  they sent them all via WhatsApp afterwards.
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  We've got like 19 photographs, Bargain, you know what I mean?
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  Sent them totally for free. Oh nice.
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  Yeah, the ones you sent him, there were decent photos as
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  well. Really, really nice ones.
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  Yeah, well, yeah, well, he has to have decent tech when he goes
• 17:42
  down, he's got like this, he's got to hold on to it of like
• 17:44
  both hands, etcetera, you know, and take, take his photographs.
• 17:49
  But yeah, fantastic. I'd highly recommend it to
• 17:51
  someone to give A to give a try. But but yeah, what have you?
• 17:54
  What have you been up to, Brian? Let me see.
• 17:58
  Well, we had the summer holidays, so that's about 5
• 18:01
  weeks. We in Ireland, UK, in America,
• 18:05
  we have Halloween, the end of October.
• 18:08
  In Japan they have a thing called Odori.
• 18:11
  It's festival, it's in June, July, it goes into August where
• 18:16
  they celebrate the dead coming back.
• 18:17
  So they, they do all this weird dance and weird music and
• 18:21
  there's all these festivals that go on all around the country.
• 18:24
  So we headed down to a small place called Tokushima.
• 18:27
  It's on a different island. We went by bullet train.
• 18:30
  We got the train from our house, got a bullet train, got an
• 18:33
  express train, got another express train, and then got a
• 18:35
  local train. We left here at 9:00.
• 18:37
  We got there. I know it's like 4:00 in the day
• 18:39
  or something. It's just all day on trains.
• 18:41
  But we got this place and the whole town was rocking it.
• 18:44
  We were there for three days and he just went.
• 18:48
  This festival was going on non-stop.
• 18:50
  There were proper clubs from all around the country came together
• 18:53
  just to do these weird dance that they were doing.
• 18:56
  And then you had, I thought people just set up on the side
• 18:58
  of the street playing music and you had all these locals and
• 19:02
  tourists all mixing together doing is that weird dancing.
• 19:05
  It was really cool, really hot, really sweaty, but it was
• 19:08
  really, really cool. If that isn't a contradiction.
• 19:12
  Recently I went up Shibuya Sky. It's something you're going to
• 19:15
  see a lot on if you go to TikTok is see these images of things
• 19:19
  you should do in Tokyo. It's the 45 store.
• 19:22
  It's the 45th floor of the building's, the top, the roof of
• 19:25
  the building, the wall around the top is glass.
• 19:28
  There's no roof. So you're actually, you're on
• 19:30
  the roof of the building, it's just open and you've got a glass
• 19:33
  wall around. So you've got a brilliant view
• 19:35
  of Tokyo. And we went there for sunset,
• 19:38
  great view of the night came in. And then after it got dark, they
• 19:42
  started playing more of this traditional music.
• 19:44
  There was a bar there as well. It was, it was pretty good.
• 19:48
  Went on for several hours just dancing in the top of the
• 19:50
  building in Tokyo. Let me see, I had a health
• 19:55
  check. They do this here.
• 19:57
  The companies are obliged to do a health check for people.
• 20:00
  So once a year you've got to go along and spend like 4 hours in
• 20:04
  getting blood tests and scans and stuff.
• 20:07
  So I've had that done almost half a day doing it.
• 20:10
  I have, that was six weeks, six weeks ago and I still haven't
• 20:16
  had the results come through. So I'm waiting for that.
• 20:18
  Hopefully I'm OK, there's nothing wrong I'm.
• 20:20
  Sure. I'm not.
• 20:20
  Here we go. Yeah, I hope my blood pressure
• 20:22
  was high and they kept retesting it.
• 20:24
  No, it's still high. Let's do it again.
• 20:26
  Five times the tested and still high.
• 20:28
  Like maybe my blood pressure is high, I don't know.
• 20:31
  So I'll have to go. Maybe you're just stressing me
• 20:33
  out by keep retaking my blood pressure like there's a problem.
• 20:36
  Yeah, yeah, I'm going to go and do it when it's cool, the
• 20:39
  weather is cooler and it's not this fucking hot weather is
• 20:42
  stressing me out or it's upsetting me.
• 20:44
  Let me see. My cousin came over for 6-7
• 20:47
  days. He stayed in Tokyo, so I tried
• 20:51
  to show him around Tokyo. So I did the thing where you see
• 20:54
  old traditional Tokyo and then our old tradition in Japan and
• 20:57
  then up to date stuff. So we went to Sakisa, which has
• 21:01
  the Saint Soji Shrine or Saint Soji Temple, the big massive
• 21:05
  temple, right? It's huge.
• 21:07
  It's one of the prime tourist areas is mobbed after then we
• 21:10
  went to Tokyo Skytree, which is I think the tall still the
• 21:13
  tallest building in Tokyo. The view from it is OK.
• 21:17
  If you go in winter, it's better.
• 21:18
  The clouds are the skies are clear.
• 21:20
  You get blue skies in winter. It's really old.
• 21:23
  But the skies here, it's somewhere for the cloudy.
• 21:25
  So you don't tend to see, have a good view.
• 21:28
  The next day we went to Harajuku, which is a bit like
• 21:31
  the lanes in Brighton or I thought maybe Carnaby St back in
• 21:36
  the 70s races, you know, it's like a all terms of dress style,
• 21:40
  T-shirts and stuff. And after that, then we went to
• 21:43
  the Meiji Shrine, which is besides that is the, if you ever
• 21:47
  watch the Last Samurai, the Emperor and that is the Meiji
• 21:51
  Emperor. So it's his shrine.
• 21:53
  I thought then going all around Shibuya, Shinjuku, Rupongi, all
• 21:57
  these other areas around Tokyo. We went Akihabara, which is of
• 22:01
  the tech area. We were talking about TV's prior
• 22:04
  to the show and I'm not sure if I sent you a picture.
• 22:08
  I saw ATVA see through TV from LG.
• 22:11
  It looks like a window. You had fish moving along so it
• 22:13
  looked like you were looking to an aquarium.
• 22:15
  The guy was there standing beside and put his hand behind
• 22:18
  him. You can see his hand straight
• 22:19
  through the screen and then he switched the TV and you can
• 22:22
  proper TV screen and they could switch back and he this thing
• 22:25
  was 77 inches. It cost ¥11,000,000 which is
• 22:29
  about 55,000 UK sterling. It was absolutely stunning, but
• 22:36
  it's LGC through TV. It was fucking, I spent ages
• 22:40
  just looking at this TV drooling over.
• 22:42
  We went to the Imperial Palace, which is not that much over
• 22:45
  here. You can't not allow it into it.
• 22:47
  You can see it from from basically a car park a mile away
• 22:50
  from it. And then we went to Tokyo Tower,
• 22:52
  which is the Eiffel Tower, but in in Tokyo.
• 22:57
  That was really cool. We hit there around sunset as
• 22:59
  well and the views were stunning.
• 23:01
  I got a drone show afterwards. We were just stopped walking on
• 23:05
  the street was a drone show going on.
• 23:06
  So we stopped to watch that for a while.
• 23:08
  It was it was really good. So I hope you enjoyed this
• 23:11
  because it was good. It was hot, especially we were
• 23:14
  walking around. I think we were doing 14 to
• 23:17
  15,000 steps a day on the heat, but I hope you enjoyed the trip.
• 23:23
  Then the last thing I've got down on my list, I mentioned to
• 23:26
  you guys I had drift on my controller.
• 23:31
  I've opened it up. I think it's the fourth time
• 23:33
  I've had to deal with this and fix the drift, but the battery
• 23:38
  seem to run out really quick. So I opened it up and put the
• 23:41
  connections all back made sure all back it charged up and
• 23:43
  worked for there too and then it's the battery stopped working
• 23:45
  again. So I had to go around and get
• 23:48
  knocked around to get a replacement.
• 23:50
  I got the original 1 again, so just so it fits with the
• 23:53
  PlayStation, but but I'm so pissed with PlayStation there.
• 23:57
  They still haven't put those proper whole effects things in
• 24:00
  there. Yeah.
• 24:00
  They weren't. In the controllers, PlayStation
• 24:03
  is bringing out the PlayStation Pro controller with replaceable
• 24:06
  battery. That's great.
• 24:08
  Let's put whole effect sensors in their role in living because
• 24:10
  they're the pro. The pro has replaceable sticks,
• 24:14
  but the sticks are never available.
• 24:15
  So people are buying them, but you still can't replace the
• 24:17
  sticks. So it's, I don't know, Anyway,
• 24:20
  that's my roundabout. So Sony PlayStation actually
• 24:24
  move on to what you guys have watched.
• 24:26
  Who wants to go first, Paul? Paul, if you want to go first.
• 24:30
  Yeah, sure. Yeah, I've watched quite a bit
• 24:32
  actually. I'll watch the rest of the film
• 24:35
  28 years later, which is about like after like it's like a
• 24:39
  zombie apocalypse type scenario. The first half is really good,
• 24:44
  really well put together. The second-half is is good as
• 24:48
  well at the ending. Man, I won't spoil it for a
• 24:51
  number that is 1 wacky, wacky, unusual ending.
• 24:55
  It was like some I see like some 1970s I'm a House of horror type
• 25:02
  ending. It was just weird.
• 25:04
  It was totally out of context. It would like as if it were
• 25:06
  glued on. It was something as if it was
• 25:08
  almost like an alternative ending that had been something
• 25:12
  that you might have seen on, you know, like, like the DVD extras
• 25:16
  or whatever. So yeah, I totally didn't
• 25:18
  understand it in the slightest. What else did I watch?
• 25:21
  I watched F1, which is Brad Pitt.
• 25:23
  Really good film. Really enjoyed that.
• 25:26
  Well acted. My kind of film, really.
• 25:28
  It's kind of like he was like a previous sort of like fantastic
• 25:33
  driver and he's dropped out of the scene due to various reasons
• 25:38
  and it's like a comeback story. I quite like them sorts of
• 25:40
  films. We have a Rocky, you know, that
• 25:42
  kind of film. Was it decent?
• 25:44
  Was it actually it's one of those things where it looked
• 25:46
  kind of like don't mess this up, please, a little bit.
• 25:49
  It was the trailers looked OK and it was kind of on a Formula
• 25:53
  One. I love motor racing, but is it
• 25:54
  going to be just, you know, just a tack on story sort of thing?
• 25:58
  It actually works, does it, as a film.
• 26:01
  I would say so, yeah. The driving scenes are
• 26:03
  fantastic, The sound is good. It really puts you in the zone.
• 26:07
  The missus watched it all the way through.
• 26:09
  She's not well, she does like a bit of F1.
• 26:12
  I'm not an F1 fan, so I didn't watch it for the F1.
• 26:15
  I watched it more because I want to watch a good sort of like
• 26:17
  comeback story. So yeah, it held my attention,
• 26:21
  her attention to. We both were happy with it.
• 26:23
  We actually saw, I think it. No, I don't know, It wasn't Brad
• 26:26
  Pitt. There was a 1 they did a while
• 26:27
  ago which is about a couple of F1 drivers, famous F1 drivers
• 26:31
  who about 10 years ago. I can't remember the name of the
• 26:33
  film. Oh yeah, the one that had.
• 26:36
  That's it. My brain stopped working the
• 26:38
  second I need to think about it. Sorry about that.
• 26:39
  But yeah, it was the 70s, wasn't it, instead.
• 26:41
  Yeah, the 70s like. Seven.
• 26:43
  That was it. No, no, before that I can't.
• 26:47
  Remember the name of the guys? But they were real.
• 26:49
  They were real massive competitors at the time.
• 26:52
  Trying to remember the name of them.
• 26:54
  But I saw that at the cinema and there were a couple of scenes in
• 26:57
  that. There was 1 scene where he kind
• 26:59
  of almost goes over like a bit of a bump and he gets a little
• 27:02
  bit of air time, you know, like as he's going up and wow man,
• 27:06
  when you were in the cinema you really felt as if you'd you was
• 27:09
  almost in the car. You'd gone up and then come back
• 27:11
  down again. It was a real sort of almost
• 27:13
  virtual reality moment. Yeah.
• 27:15
  Fantastic. Rush.
• 27:16
  That's what the other one was called, and it was what was it
• 27:19
  called again? Rush, Rush.
• 27:20
  Rush Yes. Which was Niki Lauder and James
• 27:24
  Hunt. Yeah, brilliant film, well worth
• 27:27
  watching. That is cool.
• 27:28
  That is a great film. So I watched this, I watched the
• 27:33
  latest Paul Thomas Anderson film as well, which is called 1
• 27:36
  Battle after another, which is Leonardo DiCaprio, where they're
• 27:39
  basically freedom fighters from like say the 1970s or
• 27:43
  thereabouts. They might not be the 1970s, but
• 27:45
  it's in the past, might be like the 80s or something along them
• 27:48
  lines and is sort of partner at the time.
• 27:52
  She's she's one of the main feat freedom fighters.
• 27:56
  He's like into his explosives and such like and and the guy
• 27:59
  that's chasing after them at the time.
• 28:01
  This is all like in the first sort of 15 minutes or so,
• 28:04
  there's like a bit of an incident that happens and then
• 28:07
  it goes like into the future, like modern day.
• 28:10
  So yeah, I won't spoil it, but that's really good film.
• 28:13
  Really enjoyed that. I watched a horror film as well,
• 28:16
  which was more like a thrill of horror, and it were a film
• 28:19
  called Weapons. And it's about a school in
• 28:23
  America where a load of kids go missing, but they all go missing
• 28:27
  at like 17 minutes past 2:00 AM in the morning.
• 28:31
  And when they check all like the cameras, everyone's got like a
• 28:33
  blink or whatever type camera. When they check all the cameras,
• 28:36
  what they do, the kids just come out of the house like put their
• 28:39
  hands up as if it's like wings sort of thing and they don't
• 28:42
  float off. They just run all in the same
• 28:44
  direction. When this guy does the math
• 28:46
  somewhere, they've all run to based on the direction of these
• 28:49
  and that and he gets like a thing and he plots it all out.
• 28:52
  That's a good film as well that gets good reviews.
• 28:55
  I've watched a bit of all sorts really.
• 28:56
  I've watched R2. We did watch.
• 28:58
  We absolutely venge this. I'm not sure if you're into it,
• 29:01
  Brian, but I can highly recommend Traitors Ireland.
• 29:05
  They do an Irish version of the Traitors.
• 29:07
  I don't know if you've seen the have you seen the show The
• 29:09
  Traitors where they put all the people in the house?
• 29:12
  I've not all the media is talking about that back home,
• 29:14
  but I have not seen this. Is it good?
• 29:16
  Oh. It's brilliant, It's brilliant,
• 29:18
  absolutely brilliant. There's a guy on there called
• 29:20
  Paudi, which is the name that didn't make much sense to sense
• 29:23
  to me because it doesn't sound, you know, so I looked it up,
• 29:26
  etcetera. And he's an older guy.
• 29:29
  He used to work in the prison services.
• 29:30
  And as you probably know, three people are picked to be traitors
• 29:33
  at random by the host of the show.
• 29:37
  And he plays it good. He's good.
• 29:38
  He's party. I'll give him his dues.
• 29:40
  Absolutely fantastic. So I highly recommend watching
• 29:43
  that if you like your traitors TV shows.
• 29:45
  Yeah, definitely watch the Irish version.
• 29:47
  I really enjoyed it. We binged all sort of 12 or 13
• 29:50
  episodes. Well, several watched.
• 29:53
  I watched the rest of Finding Love Abroad season 2, which is
• 29:56
  really good. And yesterday we watched Naked
• 30:00
  Gun, the latest film with Liam Nilson.
• 30:02
  It's. Tending to see that.
• 30:04
  It is actually really good. The heat scene, the heat camera
• 30:07
  scene in particular, which I won't spoil, is amazing.
• 30:10
  You won't, just won't believe it.
• 30:12
  That's proper laugh out loud at the beginning.
• 30:14
  It's a little hard to work out whether they're trying too hard,
• 30:17
  but they're not trying too hard. It does work really well and
• 30:20
  most of the jokes do hit home. So yeah, I recommend watching
• 30:24
  The Naked Gun, the latest film as well, But traitors, if you
• 30:27
  get a chance, definitely watch. And A2 I'll watch just for
• 30:29
  nostalgia version. Ozzy Osbourne, he died in
• 30:32
  between us doing our last shows, episodes of the original The
• 30:35
  Osbournes, you know, the original reality TV show.
• 30:39
  And that that still hits him. That guy was just naturally
• 30:42
  funny. The whole household is just
• 30:44
  hilarious, basically. So yeah, watched a couple of
• 30:47
  them. I've just thought nostalgia, but
• 30:49
  other than that, not watched a lot else.
• 30:51
  What have you been watching, Ben?
• 30:53
  We've got sort of into. Where the kids been in all stuff
• 30:56
  for the last month, we get limited time in the evenings
• 30:58
  before they come down with bogeys running out of their face
• 31:01
  and stuff going I can't sleep and you're like, OK, we'll go to
• 31:03
  bed then. But we've ended up watching
• 31:05
  loads of kind of cooking shows more than anything else.
• 31:08
  There's a show called Next Gen Chef that was on I think it's a
• 31:11
  next Netflix series, I want to say, which is set in in America.
• 31:16
  Didn't realise. Obviously there's the CIA in
• 31:19
  America. I've probably been picked up on
• 31:20
  some tracker somewhere for that. Now.
• 31:22
  There's also another CIOAIA, which is the chartered the
• 31:26
  Cooking Institute of America. I don't know how they managed to
• 31:29
  give them the same names, but basically it's the biggest
• 31:31
  cooking school in America and they they do a competition on
• 31:34
  there with these like young chefs come back and who would
• 31:37
  possibly like alumni from there before and do this competition
• 31:40
  to get next Gen chef and win like half $1,000,000.
• 31:43
  It's hell of a prize. Really, really good to watch.
• 31:45
  It wasn't a massive series, but my God, it was really cool.
• 31:48
  We really got into it. So we we binge that in like the
• 31:50
  space for about 3 days. So recommend that I've like
• 31:53
  cooking shows worth watching. It's kind of shows kind of the
• 31:56
  skill that these people have when they come out of like
• 31:58
  proper cooking schools and stuff.
• 32:00
  Once you watch new series of Taskmaster started, that's
• 32:03
  absolutely brilliant. I can't get enough of watching
• 32:05
  Taskmaster. It's just mindless
• 32:06
  entertainment. I don't know why it happened,
• 32:09
  but we've ended up watching season 20 of Hell's Kitchen for
• 32:12
  no reason, which was the first Young Guns 1 they did with young
• 32:15
  chefs in it. It's worth watching it just
• 32:17
  because that it's just ridiculous how crap they are.
• 32:20
  It's kind of it's effectively The Apprentice of cooking, isn't
• 32:23
  it? When you think about it that
• 32:24
  way, to be honest. But that was that was all right.
• 32:27
  Cook at all costs. That's on Netflix as well.
• 32:30
  You can see in my mind has just been in some through for the
• 32:32
  last 30 days. But hey, I've enjoyed it Gets
• 32:36
  worse. Great British Sewing B Can't get
• 32:38
  enough of that. So it's basically a sewing
• 32:41
  competition. But it's, yeah, my wife really
• 32:44
  enjoys it and I've started watching it as well.
• 32:46
  And it's like, oh, this is really quite enjoyable to watch.
• 32:49
  I like creativity. I've got like an art degree and
• 32:52
  stuff. So I can kind of see some of the
• 32:54
  interest inside of it I guess from that.
• 32:57
  We watched that, Madame Blancra. Said ages ago, I think we've now
• 33:00
  bought or got like a month subscription of a UKTV thing
• 33:04
  where the next series is on because it's not on Netflix.
• 33:07
  So we've got to crack on with that this week whilst we've got
• 33:10
  other stuff we're looking at watching.
• 33:11
  My wife's watched something called Wayward which is also on
• 33:15
  Netflix as well. Not me at all.
• 33:17
  It freaked me the hell out because I watched like half of
• 33:19
  an episode of it. If you know Mae Martin, who's
• 33:22
  kind of a Canadian comedian, actor, musician, all this kind
• 33:26
  of stuff, they're pretty well known, I think now to be honest.
• 33:30
  But it's a series about almost like a cult school and then they
• 33:34
  are a police officer in this town they've just come into and
• 33:36
  stuff. It's really messed up and dark.
• 33:39
  And it is the the following sort of what's happening with this
• 33:42
  cult. I mean, you guys might want to
• 33:43
  watch it. But I mean, it has a general
• 33:45
  series. It seems very well put together,
• 33:47
  but it's just genuinely not my thing.
• 33:50
  But my wife said it's very good. What's the other thing?
• 33:52
  Oh, the other thing we've got lined up to watch probably this
• 33:55
  coming week, maybe tonight if we get a chance, is that Thursday
• 33:58
  Murder Club that came out on Netflix, which is kind of a
• 34:02
  group of people who do murder mystery nights together, end up
• 34:05
  getting wound up in what is a proper murder mystery, a murder
• 34:09
  of someone. And then the film follows that,
• 34:10
  I believe. And it looks like a sort of
• 34:12
  comedy. Decent cast in it.
• 34:14
  From from from memory as well. Pierce Borsten, all sorts
• 34:18
  thinking at Thursday Murder Club.
• 34:19
  Where is it? Looking at the cast now myself,
• 34:22
  yeah, I've heard. This based on a.
• 34:23
  Series of books, isn't it? Yeah, I think so, yeah.
• 34:26
  For irrepence of all retirees spend their time solving cold
• 34:29
  case murders for fun, but their casual slooping takes a
• 34:33
  thrilling term and they find themselves in a real whodunit.
• 34:36
  So yeah. Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan,
• 34:38
  Ben Kingsley. Loads.
• 34:41
  Of good actors in there it. Looks really cool.
• 34:43
  So we're going to watch that this week.
• 34:45
  So I think that's kind of where we've been with it.
• 34:47
  Most of it, as I say, it's been taken up with with quick Fire
• 34:50
  series stuff, which has been great because we get time to sit
• 34:53
  on a sofa with a tray on our laps, eat dinner and watch
• 34:56
  something 45 minutes to an hour sort of between us all.
• 34:58
  Watch a couple of episodes quickly.
• 35:00
  But yeah, that wayward if it's the sort of thing definitely
• 35:03
  worth having a look at. And that Next Gen Chef was a
• 35:06
  really, really good series if you like cooking things. 01
• 35:09
  other thing. Sorry.
• 35:10
  We started Wednesday from the very start again.
• 35:12
  We watched Wednesday when it came out originally and loved
• 35:15
  it. Went straight through it in like
• 35:17
  quick succession, binged it. And then we got to the point was
• 35:20
  like what we need to watch season 2.
• 35:22
  We went to go and start a couple of weeks ago and thought we have
• 35:25
  no idea what happened in the first series.
• 35:26
  It's been too long between. So we've started that from the
• 35:29
  start again of series 1 and I am massively enjoying it probably
• 35:32
  more than the first time around. Really, really well put together
• 35:35
  series. Very cool.
• 35:38
  So that'd. Be me, how about yourself?
• 35:40
  Ryan, I don't really like the. Whole Marvel Universe thing.
• 35:43
  I've never really been into superheroes.
• 35:46
  I've watched a few of them. Many many were mediocre.
• 35:49
  Iron Man, Captain America, the Green Lantern.
• 35:53
  I do like the spider man movies because I think there's a sense
• 35:56
  of humour. The first Deadpool movie was
• 35:58
  quite good and 1st Guardians of the Galaxy I thought was quite
• 36:02
  good. But I don't know, I'm not really
• 36:04
  into the rest of them. YouTube shorts kept showing me
• 36:07
  Thunderbolts so I thought OK, I'll watch it and see what it's
• 36:09
  like. And it's pretty OK.
• 36:12
  I wouldn't say it's great, but it's not bad.
• 36:15
  They're basically reject superheroes.
• 36:17
  They're sent to kill each other off, figure out that they've
• 36:20
  been sent to murder each other, and then decide to turn on the
• 36:23
  previous boss and chaos tokens use.
• 36:26
  Some of the actors are quite good.
• 36:28
  It's alright if you're stuck for something to watch.
• 36:31
  I think that's been the general consensus.
• 36:33
  From anyone I've known who's watched it has literally said
• 36:35
  what you've said. It's good.
• 36:38
  It's not great, but it's watchable.
• 36:39
  I think it's it's the consensus of it.
• 36:42
  Someone else may say different to that, but it seems to be it's
• 36:44
  put together. But it's put together ish as a
• 36:48
  as a film. I wouldn't write it better.
• 36:50
  But it was all right. I watched Nobody to.
• 36:54
  Have you ever watched Nobody or Nobody to?
• 36:57
  Oh, yeah, Bob Odenker, He goes on holiday with the family.
• 37:01
  If you watch nobody, you know he's quite.
• 37:03
  It can become violent. They go on holiday for a
• 37:06
  vacation and somebody disrespects his son, so he goes
• 37:10
  and he lays into them and a whole holiday just turns to
• 37:12
  violence. It is quite good.
• 37:15
  It's basically more the same as last night.
• 37:16
  I enjoy this. It feels slightly rushed at the
• 37:18
  end you basically. Watch most of.
• 37:21
  The movies all building up to the last 15 minutes like there's
• 37:24
  nothing and then just 15 minutes of absolute rush chaos.
• 37:28
  It is quite good, I thought. Quite good, ultimately.
• 37:30
  Anyway. Let me see.
• 37:34
  I watched a working man. Jason.
• 37:37
  Station. Station.
• 37:38
  How about I say that Station movie?
• 37:40
  Yeah. Yeah, his latest.
• 37:42
  Action movie I watched it so you don't have to.
• 37:45
  It was terrible. It avoid it was boring and
• 37:48
  extremely fun. Like it's the exact same as all
• 37:50
  those other movies just worse. I watched more violence.
• 37:54
  I watched ballerina. Do you know this?
• 37:57
  OK, yeah. Yeah, That's the John.
• 37:58
  Wick thing isn't it? Is that right?
• 37:59
  That's it? Yeah, it's.
• 38:01
  Lance Riddick's last movie, it's basically John Wick with Les
• 38:04
  John Wick. If you like John Wick will
• 38:05
  probably enjoy this. Not quite as good as the first
• 38:08
  John Wick, but not bad actually overall.
• 38:10
  Then I watched this is all movies.
• 38:12
  I've got TV shows later but I watched the movie just to save
• 38:15
  you. This is truly, truly atrocious.
• 38:19
  So the quiz based on so you see if you can guess the movie, it's
• 38:22
  based on a gaming franchise, PC, Xbox and PlayStation.
• 38:26
  OK, well, the Warcraft. No.
• 38:30
  It's still an. IMDb of 3.2 that.
• 38:34
  Could that could be any game? That could be any.
• 38:36
  Game. Yeah.
• 38:36
  Assassin's Creed Mario. Brothers.
• 38:40
  Assassin's Creed. No, no, it came out two. 1008
• 38:43
  the director is a guy called Uwe Ball BOLL.
• 38:47
  All his movies, like I think 5.5 is the highest of any of his
• 38:50
  movies and definitely wasn't this one.
• 38:53
  It continues my streak of violence.
• 38:55
  The games are at whatever the name is number six.
• 38:59
  That's the latest in this franchise at the moment.
• 39:01
  But there are spin offs. So there's way more games than
• 39:03
  that in franchise. Mortal Kombat, that was.
• 39:05
  That last one was pretty good. No, it was originally.
• 39:08
  A Crytek game crisis. No, there's not a crisis film.
• 39:12
  No, although all games have been published.
• 39:14
  By Ubisoft and then the last 10 years.
• 39:17
  Oh, Far Cry, yes. Yes, I didn't.
• 39:19
  Even know they did the movie I've heard.
• 39:21
  This existed but. I just I heard existed and went
• 39:23
  no and left it. So I am genuinely intrigued.
• 39:26
  It is really, really. Really fucking bad.
• 39:30
  That's why it oh it. There are actors in the
• 39:34
  recognizer. Recognise from British TVI bet
• 39:37
  they regret ever going into this.
• 39:39
  It is atrocious. The acting trap monster is
• 39:42
  really bad this but the story the story is just fucking crush
• 39:47
  oh man. I just do not watch this movie
• 39:50
  or if you want to get drunk and watch something stupid watch but
• 39:54
  do not watch this sober. It is really dreadful.
• 39:59
  It it no, I, I would say. Any of this?
• 40:04
  Guy's movies away away UWEBOLL his family name.
• 40:10
  Don't watch any of his movies after this, it's just pure
• 40:13
  shite. Let me see TV shows.
• 40:16
  There's not much left. I started the alien earth.
• 40:19
  I'm not sure. I'm not really not sure of it.
• 40:22
  The attention is not there at all.
• 40:23
  The first couple of episodes are quite bland.
• 40:26
  Episode 5 is outstanding. It's really good.
• 40:29
  It's worth going as far as episode 5 and maybe maybe 6.
• 40:32
  After that, I wouldn't really go any further.
• 40:35
  But episode 5 is really good. It's just like watching the
• 40:39
  first Alien movie. It's set back in space.
• 40:41
  The attention is there, the hallway through.
• 40:42
  It's really, really well done. And it is that one episode is
• 40:46
  standing. The rest are a bit bland.
• 40:48
  I'm not sure the story is going. I think I finished all the
• 40:52
  episodes five and six of the best.
• 40:54
  The rest weren't all that good. I think that's the only show.
• 40:58
  There's one other thing I wanted to mention.
• 41:00
  I listened to loads of podcasts, but there's one podcast I want
• 41:03
  to mention. I don't know if you saw this,
• 41:05
  Stu White has mentioned that the Facebook Group A Life Well
• 41:08
  Wasted. Have you guys ever heard of us?
• 41:11
  I've heard of it. I think probably from.
• 41:12
  Him discussing it or you mentioned it before, maybe the
• 41:16
  latest? Episode was released back in
• 41:18
  September. Start September.
• 41:20
  I think a dumpster was the person who introduced it to me
• 41:22
  first. Possibly, but this podcast start
• 41:25
  in 2009. There's only 13 episodes, but
• 41:28
  it's about people who love video games.
• 41:30
  If if I had to pick one podcast that was near perfect, this
• 41:33
  would probably be it. The quality that's really good.
• 41:36
  The latest podcast in September dressed layoffs in the industry
• 41:40
  and also spoke to developers who worked on a huge flop came out
• 41:45
  not so long ago. I won't say anymore, but listen
• 41:48
  to it is outstanding. It brings massive humanity to
• 41:51
  the game developers is really, really good.
• 41:54
  And I'm not getting paid by Robert Ashley.
• 41:57
  That's a life well wasted. Don't listen to it.
• 41:59
  I'll just maybe read it. Thank you.
• 42:00
  I'm. Gonna do this.
• 42:01
  I've got write a business plan next week at work so that'll be
• 42:04
  my headphones things whilst I'm doing that.
• 42:06
  It's really good. That's all I've watched played.
• 42:10
  He wants to go first. Benz drinking single pool.
• 42:13
  Do you want me to jump on that? Oh, Ben.
• 42:15
  Yeah, go ahead, there's. A quick sip, it's fine, I'm
• 42:16
  back. Don't.
• 42:17
  Worry right? So what I played this month.
• 42:19
  It's been weird. I've been a little bit
• 42:22
  struggling to get motivated due to just time in general and
• 42:26
  being absolutely knackered for for most of the month, which has
• 42:30
  been sort of physically draining along with with mentally
• 42:33
  probably as well as is the honest truth.
• 42:35
  So you get over from work, you just plough through stuff and
• 42:37
  you're like I want to do something, be just exhausted.
• 42:39
  So I probably haven't achieved as much as I wanted to.
• 42:43
  It's been probably my least favourite month of the year of
• 42:46
  trying to go play games and really trying to achieve
• 42:49
  something for for the year of shame I suppose more than
• 42:51
  anything else. I've gone back to playing a lot
• 42:53
  of the finals this month is one thing I have done.
• 42:55
  So a lot of the friends I used to work with, we played it as a
• 42:58
  group before I left and a lot of them have left as well now from
• 43:01
  the business. We're kind of a lot more
• 43:03
  segregated but still talking. But we've all got back together.
• 43:06
  We're back on as Team Five last couple of weeks and it's been
• 43:09
  really, really good fun. It's one of those games I never
• 43:12
  expected to come from from anywhere.
• 43:13
  It's a free to play. I don't pay any of the
• 43:15
  subscription stuff to it. You can buy battle passes and
• 43:18
  all that stuff, but you just don't need to and it's such a
• 43:20
  really well put together game. So I played a lot of that.
• 43:24
  That was the finals. Yeah, the finals, yeah.
• 43:27
  I think I've sent some videos of it before.
• 43:28
  It is literally it's, it's an arena based sort of first person
• 43:32
  shooter game and you play that to a team of five, three or
• 43:35
  five. But it's just the the physics
• 43:38
  are really well done. The weapons are really done, the
• 43:40
  balancing done really well. I mean, you get the obligatory
• 43:43
  cheaters and stuff on it, which you can't work, you have to work
• 43:46
  around as you do with any game. But it's, it's just so much fun.
• 43:50
  It's just so repeatable. And it is kind of the the thing.
• 43:52
  There's a mode on there called Power Shift and you have to
• 43:54
  move, get on a platform and it moves on a set of rails either
• 43:57
  to your end of the map or the other end of the map within a
• 43:59
  time span. So you get more people on it, it
• 44:02
  moves faster, they get you off of it, it moves the other way
• 44:04
  and it's a battle to and from sort of thing.
• 44:07
  But it's just so playable. I can literally sit and play it
• 44:10
  for hours on end. I'm really excited as well
• 44:12
  because the end of the year they have a snowball thing where all
• 44:15
  the weapons are removed and it's a significant in one of the
• 44:17
  cathedral levels and it's just a snowball fight for 10 minutes,
• 44:20
  five on five, which is hilarious.
• 44:22
  So I'm looking forward to that. And I think there's a, there's
• 44:24
  normally a like an October Halloween one when you throw
• 44:27
  pumpkins at each other as well, which are grenades.
• 44:29
  So they do little things. So it's it's a really good game
• 44:32
  considering it's a free to play apart from these people who will
• 44:35
  buy your skins like Fortnight, whatever you want to do it, you
• 44:38
  can do that. You can throw money at it, but
• 44:40
  you genuinely don't need to. It's really great from that
• 44:43
  perspective. So yeah, you can see me kind of
• 44:47
  spouting about that. I've really enjoyed that that
• 44:49
  month and it sort of kept me afloat I suppose.
• 44:50
  Really. That's good.
• 44:53
  Well, so we got. Circuit Superstars, You probably
• 44:56
  saw the picture when I was on holiday last month.
• 44:58
  I put on me playing on the Steam Deck because it's all like
• 45:01
  isometric top down racing game. But it it looks like it feels
• 45:04
  like micro machines, but they've added physics and weight to all
• 45:07
  the vehicles and stuff in it. So it kind of almost feels like
• 45:11
  an arcade top down SIM. It's really weird how they've
• 45:14
  done it, but it's a lot of fun. I'm playing through that, but it
• 45:16
  is the racing leagues on it along.
• 45:19
  You end up with 1012 races in some of the leagues and they
• 45:21
  make you do 15 laps per race as well.
• 45:24
  So it's not, I'll pick up and play it quick because you're
• 45:26
  going at it for quite a while, but very well put together.
• 45:29
  Well we've got to. I'm now on the final tour or the
• 45:31
  final stack of races on Forza Motorsport 7.
• 45:34
  So that's another Forza nearly done.
• 45:35
  So I'm quite chucked about that. Motorsport 8 to play weekly with
• 45:39
  Kev, who we've done last year's podcast and some other friends I
• 45:42
  used to work with. Gran Turismo 7's had a big
• 45:44
  update. I played a little bit of that,
• 45:47
  but most of you have played an absolute shed tonne of
• 45:49
  Overcooked with my family as 4 player, which I know I mentioned
• 45:53
  to you guys about us possibly having a multiplayer stab here
• 45:55
  for some fun at some point. I mean, either ruin our
• 45:58
  friendship or we'll enjoy it. One of the two.
• 46:00
  That's how that's how every cook works.
• 46:02
  But it's it's such a cool game. I love the overcooked series.
• 46:04
  I think as though we had it on like 4 platforms in our house.
• 46:07
  And there's the the all you can eat edition was the last one
• 46:09
  that came out, which was the first and second game and all
• 46:13
  the DLC in there is one big package, which means you get
• 46:16
  loads of extra levels and stuff. What else is going on, Child of
• 46:20
  Light? I am literally at the last two
• 46:22
  bosses and I haven't played it since we've done the last
• 46:25
  podcast. Before I went away on holiday, I
• 46:28
  went back to it and I have totally forgotten how to play
• 46:30
  it. Literally I am completely and
• 46:32
  completely useless. So I've got to go back and sit
• 46:36
  there and just get beaten up with the normal, normal enemies
• 46:39
  I think for a little while and work out the the dynamics and
• 46:42
  how all the the group works and stuff.
• 46:44
  I think. I know you obviously have your
• 46:46
  healers, your damage makers, all that kind of stuff.
• 46:48
  I just got to remember it all. It's right I can't talk to you.
• 46:52
  On here I'll talk to you. Afterwards I've got to a bit and
• 46:54
  I can't work out if it's sent me on a wild goose chase and I
• 46:57
  don't have to fight something and it just keeps killing me and
• 47:00
  the door isn't behind it or I have to go that way to get to
• 47:03
  the end. So we'll talk about that, OK.
• 47:07
  Infamous second son. I did set it to install, I
• 47:11
  haven't started it and I apologise.
• 47:13
  So sadly that's kind of where I haven't got to anywhere with
• 47:16
  that one. So the monthly game I've sucked
• 47:18
  this month, Everybody's Golf and be coming later on in the games
• 47:25
  that have been released. But I love everybody's golf
• 47:27
  games to the point where my when my first, my young, my oldest
• 47:31
  was born and you have to sit downstairs with the baby at like
• 47:34
  a few months old on the sofa at night doing feeding so your
• 47:36
  partner can sleep and stuff. I played it one handed for a
• 47:39
  three month period on a PlayStation 3 controller and
• 47:42
  completed the whole game. And ever since then I've just
• 47:45
  loved everybody's golf. Oh cool, that's.
• 47:48
  That sounds great. So I've got.
• 47:50
  So I've got. The PS4 version, which is now
• 47:52
  sat on the TV cabinet to put the disc in to go and finish off of
• 47:55
  that. And I'm interested because
• 47:56
  there's a new one coming, but I've got to wait out.
• 47:58
  I've got other ones to finish first.
• 48:00
  I think that's, that's literally it.
• 48:02
  Other than I can't remember. I spoke to you.
• 48:04
  Was it last month or the month before?
• 48:07
  My parents, as my parents, my wife, sorry.
• 48:09
  And my kids are playing Faye Farm, which is this farm, very
• 48:14
  simulated thing. They're playing together across
• 48:16
  3 bits of kits. So my daughter plays it on a
• 48:18
  Switch, son plays it on my Steam Deck and my wife plays it on the
• 48:21
  PS-5. They all sit together and
• 48:23
  they've got this world together. The developers suddenly realised
• 48:25
  they've run out of money like a month ago and just said that's
• 48:28
  it, there's no online anymore. We're turning it all off on the
• 48:30
  10th of September I think it was, and it was like a two weeks
• 48:34
  notice or something daft, which was really gutting my flute.
• 48:37
  Last night I fired the compete Rep to play a quick bit of the
• 48:39
  finals surprisingly. And there is a big piece of like
• 48:42
  news at the top of the screen saying like good news, we've
• 48:45
  been bought out by this Canadian studio and online remains and
• 48:48
  we're going to do more work on it and put a DLC pack in.
• 48:51
  It's like wow, OK, that's a turn out for the books.
• 48:54
  So I had very, very happy. Children this morning.
• 48:57
  When I fired it up and their their world all came back and
• 48:59
  they started playing it again, which was was really lovely.
• 49:01
  So that's not me playing, but it's nice.
• 49:04
  It's a really big thing. I probably should bring it up
• 49:05
  later, but it's it's amazing that that something's happened
• 49:09
  positively on the on a closure this year because there's been
• 49:12
  so much downturn for someone to go.
• 49:14
  You know what let's give it another strike.
• 49:16
  Give it a second attempt at life is is awesome.
• 49:18
  I'm really trapped with it. That's.
• 49:21
  Cool if you bought. The DLC, would you have to buy
• 49:24
  it 3 or 4 times through the family?
• 49:26
  Sadly yes. OK, I was.
• 49:28
  Just wondering, I never. Don't know how that works.
• 49:31
  The first thing I. The first thing my daughter said
• 49:33
  this morning is like, it's back when you finish your year of
• 49:35
  shame, you can now buy it for the Xbox so we can all play it.
• 49:37
  And I'm like, it's probably going to happen, so fair enough.
• 49:40
  So I'll get another copy of it for that as well.
• 49:42
  So I have to work out some way. Then I have to stream the Xbox
• 49:45
  to my Steam Deck, put my son on the PC, and then wife, PS-5,
• 49:50
  daughter, Switch. Yeah, it'll work.
• 49:54
  They've watched them play it and it's one of those.
• 49:55
  Games, you think to yourself, oh, it's just a farm simulator,
• 49:58
  it can't be that good. And you're like, wait a minute,
• 49:59
  there's an embedded fairy story behind it as well, and it's like
• 50:02
  an RPG. Oh, OK, yeah, OK, I'll go and
• 50:05
  play that now. So yeah, that might, might be a
• 50:07
  New Year's Day. I go and buy it first thing and
• 50:09
  install it so we can sit in our pyjamas and play that.
• 50:12
  I think on New Year's Day, we'll see what happens.
• 50:16
  That that's me. It's been all over the show.
• 50:19
  I don't. I'm kind of embarrassed.
• 50:21
  I haven't really achieved as much as I really want to because
• 50:23
  this 12 months is going to be. That's what it's all about.
• 50:26
  But I have played games, but I just kind of haven't had the
• 50:30
  full forward motivation to really get into stuff and get
• 50:33
  through it. It's been been a weird one.
• 50:36
  I've been relieved because every month.
• 50:37
  So far you have done double digit games that finally either
• 50:41
  Paul himself might have completed more games at one
• 50:44
  point in this year so that's good as a chink in monkey karma.
• 50:51
  Carry on. OK, Who wants to go next?
• 50:53
  Please fire away, Paul. Go ahead.
• 50:55
  Sure. Well, I'm usually.
• 50:57
  Influenced by the new games that have come out and what people
• 51:00
  are talking about. And obviously one of the big
• 51:02
  games that have come out is Doom.
• 51:04
  The new Doom game. I can't remember the exact title
• 51:06
  of the latest Doom game but you know in the back catalogue I've
• 51:10
  got 2 Doom games. I've got Doom from 2016 was when
• 51:13
  they re released it and I was absolutely stuck on a boss and
• 51:18
  I'd given up. So I thought to myself, do you
• 51:20
  know what let's just put it on let's give it another go.
• 51:24
  And I absolutely could not do it for like 2020 25 minutes or so.
• 51:28
  So I watched another YouTube guide now to do it, which didn't
• 51:32
  really help and then I watched I read the comments within the
• 51:35
  YouTube guide and they're kind of helped and made it make more
• 51:38
  sense where kind of like this boss it suggests that you should
• 51:41
  be more on top of the boss rather than aware to kind of
• 51:44
  kill the boss. So anyway, I managed to get past
• 51:47
  it, which was really good, and I smashed through the rest of it.
• 51:51
  I probably put another four or five hours into it.
• 51:54
  There were tonnes of meat left on the bone and I really enjoyed
• 51:57
  it. So a game that I from 2016, I
• 52:00
  find the roll credits on it. I don't do platinums and such,
• 52:04
  like I'm a bit useless to that kind of thing.
• 52:06
  But yeah, absolutely fantastic. But then that led me to Doom
• 52:10
  Eternal, which was at a point which was equally stuck at
• 52:13
  because in that particular version of Doom, there's a lot
• 52:15
  of jumping puzzles which I believe they've taken out of
• 52:18
  like the latest version of Doom has less emphasis on jumping
• 52:21
  around. So I got to the point on the
• 52:24
  game where there were this section, and it's probably only
• 52:27
  about four hours into the the game.
• 52:30
  You got to kind of like jump through all these different
• 52:32
  hoops and then you get to this other part and you got to swing
• 52:35
  off these two things. Then you land on something else
• 52:37
  and you jump down and it just kept, you know, the old muscle
• 52:41
  memory just wasn't working. And I, once I started to fail
• 52:44
  it, I just consistently fail and fail and fail and it just gets
• 52:48
  so frustrating. But anyway, I was determined I'd
• 52:50
  finished Doom 2016. I was going to do it.
• 52:53
  So when I managed to finally do this sort of jump puzzle, get to
• 52:57
  the other side and survive and kill the baddies to get through
• 53:00
  to the next part. And then I put about another 6
• 53:02
  or 7 hours into that one and I based on what I have read, I'm
• 53:08
  probably about 2/3 of the way through Doom Eternal, which is
• 53:12
  whereabouts have you got to? Where the I'm at a point as
• 53:16
  well. I'm now doing a push to try and
• 53:19
  complete Eternal. I forgot about that one
• 53:20
  actually. It's when I fired up quickly
• 53:21
  when I was on the PC when I rebuilt it.
• 53:25
  But yeah, I agree it's an absolute stunner of a game, but
• 53:28
  it it really does punish you at certain points when it wants.
• 53:31
  There was a bit I got stuck at as well.
• 53:33
  I'm just curious where you've got to in it because I did that
• 53:35
  check of looking at the there's like kind of the named, isn't
• 53:38
  it? Rather than chapter, whatever it
• 53:40
  is, it's kind of a name section of the game.
• 53:41
  It's a bit more difficult to work out.
• 53:43
  It's. I can't remember the.
• 53:44
  Exact, but based on I could probably send you a screenshot
• 53:47
  later etcetera. But it that game, there's so
• 53:50
  much meat on that bone. I do play as you know, I go for
• 53:54
  easy mode for the win basically. But even in easy mode you will
• 53:58
  find generally speaking, you are down to the last bit of health
• 54:03
  or you just scrape through. It just keeps you on the edge of
• 54:06
  your seat, disease mode and allows you to keep on
• 54:09
  progressing, which is something I find important in a game.
• 54:12
  I need to progress. If I don't progress, I'm usually
• 54:14
  getting a little bit bored, etcetera.
• 54:16
  But Doom Eternal, yeah, I will be going back to that.
• 54:18
  That was the last game I actually played at home before I
• 54:21
  went away on holiday. I have played other games as
• 54:23
  well. I because Battlefield has been
• 54:26
  in in sort of like, you know, being chatted about etcetera.
• 54:30
  I decided I hadn't completed Battlefield 4 campaign and so I
• 54:35
  put that back on and I played another few hours of that.
• 54:38
  That's really good pushed on again, great campaign stories in
• 54:42
  the early Battlefield games. There's nothing wrong with them.
• 54:44
  They're well worth playing and it's a shame not to finish it.
• 54:47
  So I still to finish that one. Wild Hearts was leaving
• 54:50
  PlayStation Plus, Ultimate, whatever they call it, premium,
• 54:54
  so I decided to give that a little go.
• 54:55
  I thought, I'm going to give it a go because it's installed on
• 54:57
  my thing and it's going to disappear off in seven days.
• 55:00
  Let's let's just put it on to prove I don't like it.
• 55:03
  You know, it's Oh yeah, what a load.
• 55:04
  Rubbish. I'll play it for 10 minutes.
• 55:05
  Ended up playing that for three or four hours actually really
• 55:08
  enjoyed it. Going to go around doing all the
• 55:10
  monster hunting, but it's a little bit more souls, Dark
• 55:13
  Souls type action really. So I enjoyed that.
• 55:16
  Because I was going on holiday, I decided to update my Steam
• 55:19
  Deck and I do play the Steam Deck through the TV.
• 55:22
  You can change the resolution on the Steam Deck, so instead of it
• 55:26
  being native, you can set it to native resolution.
• 55:30
  So when it displays out to the TV, it might be say like in 4K
• 55:34
  or 10HP, but the game, you can still scale the game upwards,
• 55:38
  you know? So because obviously the Steam
• 55:39
  Deck's not super powerful, but you can usually get a pretty
• 55:42
  good tune out of it on most older games.
• 55:45
  I play Quantum Break which I've been stuck on Chapter 4 for
• 55:48
  years. I managed to get through and a
• 55:50
  few a few more chapters on that Quantum break.
• 55:53
  Great game. What else did I play if I had no
• 55:55
  one on steam deck as well? Quantum Break, the TV show 1.
• 55:58
  They did years ago for Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 56:01
  Well, it's. Part of the Alan Wake games, you
• 56:03
  know, it's got a good scenario to it.
• 56:05
  I mean, really, it's a bit of a cover shooter really.
• 56:08
  So you got, you know, a lot of killing of, you know, waves of
• 56:12
  bad guys coming along. But there were one of the game I
• 56:15
  played on Steam Deck and I'm sure I've even made a note of
• 56:17
  it, but I can't even see it in my notes.
• 56:18
  So anyway, I played another game on Steam Deck.
• 56:20
  Oh, Batman Arkham Alpha. I got further on that as well,
• 56:23
  but I'm now stuck at a bot where you've got to go kill him five
• 56:26
  different ways to bring him down his liking, like his laboratory.
• 56:30
  I can't remember who it is. I don't know.
• 56:33
  I don't think it's the Joker or whoever, but he got to kill him
• 56:35
  five unique different ways to get him.
• 56:38
  So anyway, I got to that point on that game, but I were kind of
• 56:40
  tired, so I passed that one up. And then I played a game that
• 56:43
  Brian had mentioned. I only played it for about an
• 56:45
  hour or so, but I think it's a sort of game I will definitely
• 56:49
  go back to and that's Coffee Talk.
• 56:51
  I wanted to play something that was a bit more chilled out.
• 56:54
  I did like it I and the story is dragging me in there, that's for
• 56:58
  sure. And I also like the music as
• 57:00
  well because it reminds me of Persona 5 music.
• 57:03
  It's nice, chilled, great soundtrack, really enjoyed that.
• 57:08
  So I will go back and play more than that.
• 57:09
  And I played a couple of games yesterday, played Hogwarts
• 57:12
  Legacy for a couple of hours. That's a great game that I mean,
• 57:15
  that's a must play a game. I think personally, I'm only
• 57:18
  about 12 hours into that, but put another couple of hours and
• 57:21
  got a little bit further. And then I played more of
• 57:24
  Infamous Second Son, which was the game that we picked last,
• 57:26
  which the squeaky Wheeler picked out for his last last time.
• 57:30
  And probably based on chatting earlier, I'm about 3/4 of the
• 57:34
  way through that, really enjoying it, sort of like parked
• 57:37
  it up on a bus at the moment. But I am going to go back and
• 57:39
  play more of that. I do like it, Great game
• 57:42
  actually. But other than that, I've not
• 57:44
  played a lot else. I played a little bit of
• 57:46
  Bloodborne and for a few more hours.
• 57:49
  Yeah, great. What have you been playing,
• 57:51
  Brian? See, I watched.
• 57:53
  A log books stream that's the league of gaming Jetland.
• 57:57
  They're also a part of the MLG group.
• 58:00
  Watch the stream with man in the menus and busy sober playing
• 58:03
  Eternal and Co-op and I got back into a bit of Eternal.
• 58:08
  The game is finished. All I'm trying to do is now
• 58:10
  clear it up and go for platinum. The game is I keep braving
• 58:15
  about. It's just so good.
• 58:16
  OK, you can skip forward this if you've heard this before, but
• 58:18
  the game is so good for me. I need to find specific items.
• 58:22
  There are maybe, I thought in a level 30 rooms and you only
• 58:26
  maybe see 20 rooms when you play a level, so there's ten of the
• 58:30
  rooms that don't show up and I'm waiting for certain rooms to pop
• 58:34
  up. It's just basically going
• 58:35
  through the game again and again almost.
• 58:37
  It's tiring, it's frustrating, but the gameplay is just so
• 58:39
  good. I'm enjoying it, but at that
• 58:41
  point my PlayStation controller started drifting so I just gave
• 58:44
  up on it. At the stop I was on the Veteran
• 58:47
  gamers discord and I was talking to Ricey 55 and Elder Ring came
• 58:52
  up, so I thought I should play some more Elder Ring.
• 58:55
  The game is fucking awesome. As soon as I hear the music, the
• 58:58
  tension builds on me because I just the whole fear of losing
• 59:01
  souls, losing the currency when you die, it's angers me.
• 59:05
  It frustrates me and it makes me scared, you know, not scared,
• 59:08
  but really resident to do stuff. You have to like creep around
• 59:13
  slowly in levels. And I love exploring that game
• 59:15
  because the game is huge. I love exploring, but the whole
• 59:18
  time, like I creep forward to see if there's anything there
• 59:22
  and get the horse ready to go out finally.
• 59:24
  But I was on the start. What's it called?
• 59:27
  The Mountaintop of the Giants action.
• 59:30
  I had my ass handed me so many times.
• 59:34
  I lost so many souls, like sort of getting over the whole thing
• 59:37
  now finally. But I cleared the whole section,
• 59:40
  finished it up, and I've now moved on to an area called
• 59:43
  Mogwin Palace or something. It's underground.
• 59:47
  I'm going there. I'm going to have my ass handed
• 59:49
  to me again. But it is brilliant.
• 59:52
  I could probably, if I stick with the game, I'll probably
• 59:54
  finish the entire game in two 2 1/2 weeks probably I've got but
• 59:59
  that much left. I think that's.
• 1:00:02
  Exploring everything because I just.
• 1:00:04
  I love the world, I love exploring.
• 1:00:07
  And then you die. And you have to run back.
• 1:00:08
  To try and collect your souls and then go again.
• 1:00:10
  Are you ruins? So I've stopped because I need
• 1:00:13
  to play more games. I played, he mentioned Coffee
• 1:00:18
  Talk. I played another game called
• 1:00:20
  Neocab. I did not realise that this was
• 1:00:23
  a graphic novel. According to Steam, it's a
• 1:00:26
  visual novel. Visual novel.
• 1:00:27
  It's about emotional survival in an automated world and you play
• 1:00:31
  as a character who's the last human cab driver.
• 1:00:34
  So you're a newer cab and you drive around and you end up with
• 1:00:37
  loads of conversations. I thought there was more
• 1:00:39
  playing. I thought you actually did
• 1:00:40
  driving or whatever, but you don't.
• 1:00:42
  You just pick destinations and the character goes there.
• 1:00:44
  I've had the game for ages. I picked this game up a long
• 1:00:48
  time ago on PC that's on PS Plus.
• 1:00:52
  I played this on the PS plus. It's not a great game
• 1:00:54
  unfortunately. It was great at helping me fall
• 1:00:57
  asleep. The music is so chill like
• 1:01:00
  you're talking to chill music. This is the music is excellent
• 1:01:02
  pick it up play and I was asleep which was brilliant.
• 1:01:05
  It helped because my sleep is really bad.
• 1:01:07
  Anyway, the story is interesting ish, but I found it often took
• 1:01:11
  too long or forced me to get to carrying people I didn't want
• 1:01:14
  to. And you just got punished.
• 1:01:16
  If you make one slight mistake, you're really harshly punished
• 1:01:19
  because you've got to try and keep a five star rating for your
• 1:01:22
  taxi company. Graphically it's pretty.
• 1:01:25
  I can play on. I said play it on the
• 1:01:26
  PlayStation. I played it on my laptop.
• 1:01:28
  It shouldn't push my laptop too hard but it did and a lot of
• 1:01:32
  jittering and stuff on the screen.
• 1:01:33
  But overall games not bad, it's just not great.
• 1:01:36
  I played Endling extinction is forever.
• 1:01:39
  Do you guys know this? I've heard the title that
• 1:01:41
  suddenly. I pulled the details.
• 1:01:44
  From Steam as the last mother fox on Earth, your Cubs need all
• 1:01:49
  your care to survive in the merciless world that slowly
• 1:01:51
  destroys itself. You have to help them, teach
• 1:01:54
  them and save them. And you should never forget that
• 1:01:56
  this extinction is forever. It's basically a survival game.
• 1:02:01
  The graphics are cute, the Cubs are even cuter, sound is pretty
• 1:02:05
  minimal. What is there the atmospheric
• 1:02:08
  but the game that you lose and tells you fuck all basically.
• 1:02:11
  I found this extremely frustrating.
• 1:02:13
  Control is difficult, to jump is awkward, it doesn't seem to work
• 1:02:16
  when you push the buttons, like a slight pause.
• 1:02:18
  So you've got to get over traps and I basically just ran three
• 1:02:21
  traps and couldn't. I gave up on doing the drum.
• 1:02:23
  I also got killed by human really quickly at the very early
• 1:02:28
  on in the game. I didn't know there was no
• 1:02:30
  warning that this would happen. Or maybe I should know survival
• 1:02:33
  game, but the game? Just.
• 1:02:36
  You're worried and making me feel shit when the Cubs started
• 1:02:39
  starving or dying or and more. It's like I felt dreadful
• 1:02:44
  playing the game, so I felt like I wanted to feel shit about
• 1:02:47
  myself. I just could spend some time
• 1:02:49
  alone, my own thoughts, and it'd be far more effective.
• 1:02:54
  So I wouldn't play anymore. I just deleted the game and
• 1:02:57
  that's it. Gone no more.
• 1:02:59
  I've been there. In the past I played.
• 1:03:03
  Life is Strange. I loved Life is Strange, so I
• 1:03:06
  started Life is Strange too. It was already downloaded my my
• 1:03:10
  PlayStation so I started playing I've.
• 1:03:13
  Googled and found out it's 5. Episodes 16 hours in total.
• 1:03:17
  So why not play it? I play through chapter 1,
• 1:03:20
  basically the open scene and got totally caught up in this.
• 1:03:25
  I finished. Everything I could play.
• 1:03:27
  I didn't realise when I said I finished chapter one that's
• 1:03:30
  chapter 1 and not episode 1 so I thought I was flying through
• 1:03:33
  this game. I finished episode 1 which has
• 1:03:36
  maybe 4 chap 3 or 4 chapters. Finished episode 1 and then it
• 1:03:39
  popped up on the screen. If you want to continue playing
• 1:03:41
  this £25 it. I thought I had the whole thing.
• 1:03:45
  I thought PS Plus had the whole thing but it did.
• 1:03:47
  I think it looked the games came off PS plus back in March so
• 1:03:52
  well I just played was the demo of the first lesson.
• 1:03:54
  So I'm really really upset because the game really caught
• 1:03:58
  me. The story is really atmospheric
• 1:04:01
  the IT really catches you emotionally, far more so than
• 1:04:03
  the original Life is Strange. But the characters really cool
• 1:04:08
  and the animation is pretty much the same.
• 1:04:09
  And I like the music, it's quite relaxed.
• 1:04:12
  Let me see what else I play. I play the squeaky queal game
• 1:04:16
  and from the second son. I didn't realise it before I
• 1:04:20
  started playing the Sucker punch game and basically the one they
• 1:04:24
  released before Ghost of Sushi. OK, no, I still.
• 1:04:28
  Didn't realise, yeah. The game was I.
• 1:04:32
  Thought the game was all right, not bad.
• 1:04:34
  I think it was amazing. I started from the main, the
• 1:04:37
  main character to be annoying. I thought.
• 1:04:39
  Well all his quips, I thought they were a bit annoying.
• 1:04:42
  I chose to be the good character.
• 1:04:44
  Did you choose good or evil? Paul, you.
• 1:04:48
  Can kind of decide. Kat, you as you're going on, are
• 1:04:50
  we going to do a good thing? Yeah, I've mainly stuck to good,
• 1:04:56
  so I didn't. Realise good is.
• 1:04:58
  The hard level, if you play bad you can kill characters quicker,
• 1:05:02
  the enemy are weaker to your attacks.
• 1:05:05
  So then when you want to play, if you play is evil, you'll have
• 1:05:07
  an easier game. Apparently did remind me about
• 1:05:10
  spider man games that there's lots of stuff to collect like
• 1:05:13
  knockout camera was like a some sort of generator in an area and
• 1:05:16
  then you all this the map popped up and there's loads of stuff to
• 1:05:20
  collect. You've got all the flying drones
• 1:05:23
  just to collect your crystals. I had so many collectors.
• 1:05:26
  I think I had 70 or 50 or 70 excess at the end, like maxed
• 1:05:29
  everything out. So I don't know, that was more
• 1:05:32
  my fault than the game. I should have realised I didn't
• 1:05:34
  need to go that far but I did meant some of the fights I was
• 1:05:37
  being to I was way over levelled because I maxed everything out
• 1:05:40
  before I got to them. There was 1 character I found an
• 1:05:43
  origami, I think it was origami character.
• 1:05:46
  They actually play one part of the story and it's part of the
• 1:05:49
  DLC, which one mentioned before we started this that it's
• 1:05:52
  actually free on PlayStation, so I could play this.
• 1:05:55
  I didn't realise it was free or part of the whole thing so I
• 1:05:59
  could finish that off the fights in.
• 1:06:02
  The game are quite. Tough.
• 1:06:03
  Some of the fights can be quite tough, but I thought the save
• 1:06:05
  system was extremely helpful. The game was good.
• 1:06:09
  There's the original movement, the smoke thing I thought was
• 1:06:14
  the best of the whole thing for moving around.
• 1:06:17
  But even though you're given their options later on, later on
• 1:06:22
  I liked the game after hearing it came from the ghost of the
• 1:06:24
  sushi man people. I was hoping you'd be better
• 1:06:27
  because I love that game. But it's not bad.
• 1:06:29
  Not bad. Let me see the community,
• 1:06:32
  people. Luke J Knight said he loved the
• 1:06:34
  game he lived in for my second son.
• 1:06:36
  Stuart said he loved us and he played the hell of it when it
• 1:06:38
  was first released. And that's all I've played,
• 1:06:43
  which wasn't a lot. Not what?
• 1:06:44
  I was quite lost, Paul. You you take.
• 1:06:46
  The drone today I quickly I forgot.
• 1:06:50
  I quickly completely forgot I had two games on here and it's
• 1:06:52
  further down my lift separated. I actually completed this month,
• 1:06:56
  which was King of Fighters doesn't really count for much.
• 1:06:58
  It's a fighting game, but more than I completed it.
• 1:07:01
  But literally because if you have a Steam Deck, actually I
• 1:07:04
  think if you have a controller on your PC, you can play it on
• 1:07:07
  desktop as well. It's a free demo that was
• 1:07:10
  effectively the tech demo for the Steam Deck called Aperture
• 1:07:13
  Desk Job. It's about 40 minutes long.
• 1:07:16
  I know I've spoke wax lyrical to you guys about this already, but
• 1:07:20
  it's hilarious and it is so worth playing through for like
• 1:07:23
  40 minutes. It's just complete tongue in
• 1:07:25
  cheek basically Portal. So it's a Portal comedy.
• 1:07:29
  The robot in it is pretty much like a an early version of the
• 1:07:32
  robots from Portal and it explains how the turrets, but
• 1:07:36
  well, I don't really explain it is how it explains how the
• 1:07:38
  turrets were designed and developed that are in the Portal
• 1:07:40
  games, but an. Extremely funny way.
• 1:07:43
  And it is brilliant throughout. It's just, it's stupid on so
• 1:07:46
  many levels, But it's I read up looking online afterwards and
• 1:07:50
  people said this is classic Valve.
• 1:07:52
  This is what they were when they made Portal versus what they are
• 1:07:56
  now. Yet someone brought it forward
• 1:07:58
  and did it more recently. But it's so fun, so fun to play
• 1:08:02
  through. If you get like half an hour
• 1:08:03
  free and you've got a pad to say for your PC or a Steam Deck,
• 1:08:06
  just go and have a stab at it because it's it's brilliant.
• 1:08:09
  OK, It's news. Let me.
• 1:08:10
  See, we've got PlayStation show this Wolverine, which looks
• 1:08:15
  pretty cool. I want to see the game play
• 1:08:17
  video I saw. I saw it was just basically a
• 1:08:20
  video of the game playing but not somebody actually playing
• 1:08:22
  the game, if that makes sense. I'd love to see more more of
• 1:08:26
  hope it's more focused like Miles Morales was rather than
• 1:08:29
  the Spider Man game. I've found I got frustrated like
• 1:08:32
  Ubisoft when they put all these things that marks on the map you
• 1:08:35
  have to go and it's one of the reasons I've stayed away from
• 1:08:39
  some of the later games because I will just chase everything on
• 1:08:42
  the map and I'll never finish again.
• 1:08:44
  I get angry with and just walk away so I'm hoping it's more
• 1:08:47
  focused than the spider first spider man.
• 1:08:50
  I agree on the people. Or someone showing you proper
• 1:08:53
  gameplay if it's going to be the big thing.
• 1:08:55
  I mean, the trailer looks immense and it does very much
• 1:08:59
  have that feel of the Spider Man games.
• 1:09:01
  But the focus was also very much on look how much violence we
• 1:09:05
  could inject into this a little bit as well.
• 1:09:07
  So I'm hoping it's going to be the same quality of game as
• 1:09:11
  Spider Man is with it in there, rather than just tilting the
• 1:09:15
  scale the wrong way. I mean, you've got to, you've
• 1:09:17
  got to make it gritty and you've got to add that kind of action
• 1:09:21
  violence into it because that is Wolverine's character.
• 1:09:24
  So I hope it's more they've just embraced what they need to
• 1:09:27
  embrace as it being Wolverine rather than going too far, if
• 1:09:31
  that makes sense. Yeah, I.
• 1:09:33
  Was like. Speaking with violence as the
• 1:09:35
  one, the scene where he puts us close through the guy's head, or
• 1:09:39
  I keep thinking, is that going to be like a finishing move?
• 1:09:41
  Do you actually get the choice to do this?
• 1:09:43
  Or is this just going to be automatic?
• 1:09:44
  And will it be this, Will it be like 3 finishing moves and you
• 1:09:47
  just see those over and over and over again?
• 1:09:48
  Or will it be you making the decision so it'll actually be
• 1:09:52
  more interesting, but you can choose what finishing move.
• 1:09:54
  I want to see how it plays. Yeah, I shouldn't worry.
• 1:09:57
  Because their game previous. Games have been good.
• 1:10:00
  I'm really. Hopeful for this game I want to
• 1:10:01
  see. Us, but I want to see it being
• 1:10:03
  played. No, couldn't agree.
• 1:10:05
  More Is it next year? I think it's coming out.
• 1:10:07
  Yes, I believe. It is.
• 1:10:09
  They haven't given anything official date on it.
• 1:10:12
  So hopefully we'll see more. The only other person years I've
• 1:10:15
  got down is that Microsoft went and shafted every Game Pass
• 1:10:18
  customer. You hear me?
• 1:10:19
  Start throwing things in the. Background.
• 1:10:21
  This is why now to be honest with you, I don't want to upset.
• 1:10:24
  Everybody. Yeah, I mean literally my.
• 1:10:27
  My heading I put down there on my thing, my notes is Xbox Game
• 1:10:30
  Pass. What were you thinking?
• 1:10:31
  With an exclamation mark at the end.
• 1:10:33
  I mean I, I get it, stuff goes up and you have the increased
• 1:10:39
  price of energy running a resource centre, the licencing
• 1:10:42
  of games, blah, blah, all that kind of stuff.
• 1:10:44
  But I mean to make it like whatever it was like 46% or
• 1:10:48
  something on top is just bananas.
• 1:10:51
  I, I don't see what it is apart from from, from greed.
• 1:10:55
  I watched a couple of YouTube videos on it of people talking
• 1:10:58
  and I know there's been an official statement from
• 1:11:00
  Microsoft now or they basically put their their Pierre PR
• 1:11:06
  whipping boy out in front of everyone to take a kicking to
• 1:11:08
  say something is pretty much what's happened.
• 1:11:10
  That man who's paid like $1,000,000 a year to just be the
• 1:11:13
  person who gets shouted at. But it was very much kind of
• 1:11:16
  like, Oh well, you're gaining and benefiting from XYZ and
• 1:11:19
  you'll get your day one games and you'll have access to cords
• 1:11:22
  and you get this. Is this OK?
• 1:11:24
  This someone can tell me this. Is there some kind of monthly
• 1:11:28
  subscription model to Fortnite? Because apparently that's part
• 1:11:31
  of it. Is there a subscription model
• 1:11:34
  that I doing? Yeah, the is.
• 1:11:36
  Is your. Battle pass.
• 1:11:38
  There's seasons, yeah. Battle pass.
• 1:11:40
  Yeah, Battle pass. I mean, I thought it's
• 1:11:42
  something. Different, I mean, I don't play
• 1:11:44
  Fortnite to be honest with you, but there's a Fortnite pass or
• 1:11:46
  something they're putting into game pass.
• 1:11:48
  I can't remember what it's called.
• 1:11:49
  So it's Fortnite Crew or something?
• 1:11:51
  It's called so those who don't play it very often.
• 1:11:54
  Fortnite Crew is a service that gives you access to the battle
• 1:11:56
  pass, OG pass, Lego pass and music pass in Fortnite, as well
• 1:12:01
  as special items and 1000 V bucks every month that you pay
• 1:12:05
  for it. To me it just sounds like a load
• 1:12:07
  of jite because I don't like Fortnite, but that's this is
• 1:12:11
  their thing. They're saying, oh, you get that
• 1:12:12
  included in it, but it's just like, but I don't play Fortnite
• 1:12:16
  and I don't I don't want that. I mean, OK, should there be two
• 1:12:19
  versions of game pass all? But now that there's one that
• 1:12:21
  includes it and one that doesn't, I mean, should you have
• 1:12:24
  the choice to kind of like they make it a modular subscription?
• 1:12:27
  I don't know maybe I'm being too out-of-the-box here, but I mean,
• 1:12:30
  does the price bike is nuts? It really is.
• 1:12:32
  I mean don't get me wrong, I think it's great and the
• 1:12:35
  resource itself and then what Game Pass does the streaming,
• 1:12:38
  everything else, brilliant platform really is OK.
• 1:12:41
  It's been a decent price, whatever it is like 13 an hour
• 1:12:44
  £14.00 a month or something. I mean, even if they put it up
• 1:12:47
  to like 1718, I don't know, your people would have probably been
• 1:12:51
  a lot more acceptance than jumping into another 10s of
• 1:12:55
  pounds barrier and going into 20 quids.
• 1:12:58
  I mean, it's just, it's just ridiculous.
• 1:13:00
  I, I looked online and then this is kind of a heads up for anyone
• 1:13:03
  else. There's a lot of places still
• 1:13:05
  selling cheaper three month subscriptions like shop2.net and
• 1:13:09
  places like that and you can stack them.
• 1:13:11
  So I can't remember what I had to, I had it till January or
• 1:13:14
  February next year. So I went and bought another
• 1:13:16
  three of those and put myself through to the end of next year.
• 1:13:19
  And it's like, OK, that cost me whatever it was £90 or
• 1:13:22
  something. But if you look at it now, if
• 1:13:23
  you have Game Pass for a year, that now, if you're paying the
• 1:13:26
  standard subscriptions through Microsoft, it's 200, 165 lbs a
• 1:13:30
  year, which is double. You can say that that is double
• 1:13:34
  or more than double what Playstation's top tier is per
• 1:13:37
  year, which I mean, no one sat in a marketing meeting and went,
• 1:13:41
  by the way, everyone, we're now twice as expensive as
• 1:13:42
  PlayStation. It's what?
• 1:13:44
  Yeah, But this could be bad. Because PlayStation, they say,
• 1:13:46
  well, why do we put up price of? Well, they just did, but they
• 1:13:49
  done it by a. Tenner, didn't they?
• 1:13:50
  Or something? Which again, everyone went but
• 1:13:53
  accepted. But I don't know, it's nuts I
• 1:13:56
  had this long. Chat with Fraser from CL
• 1:13:59
  podcast. There's a guy called Cory
• 1:14:01
  Doctorow. Don't you've heard him.
• 1:14:03
  He's Canadian computer analysts and journalists.
• 1:14:08
  He, he came up with the term coined the term is the phrase in
• 1:14:11
  justification which has been talking about the Internet, how
• 1:14:15
  it's got getting more shit. So Google came up with a really
• 1:14:18
  good search engine. Everybody used this, everybody
• 1:14:20
  switched to it and Google built up the advertising, the adverts,
• 1:14:24
  AdWords I think it's called, got all the companies in it.
• 1:14:26
  There was a meeting held in Google and the emails from the
• 1:14:28
  meeting are available. They've somebody leaked them and
• 1:14:32
  it shows that they wanted to make more money from searching.
• 1:14:35
  So they had to increase the number of searches.
• 1:14:38
  But they already had 90% of the world population doing using
• 1:14:41
  Google. So they can't really get any
• 1:14:43
  more people. So what they did is they made
• 1:14:45
  searches worse so that people had to do one or two or three
• 1:14:49
  searches to find what they were looking for.
• 1:14:51
  So I had to make the service worse in in shitifying it.
• 1:14:54
  So it seems to me that Microsoft has done the exact same thing.
• 1:14:58
  They gave out a deal that was amazing.
• 1:15:00
  Everybody talked about being the best value in gaming.
• 1:15:02
  Then they picked up what they called oh, Activision.
• 1:15:05
  Activision. Activision, thank you.
• 1:15:07
  They bought Activision, you have to tell me they bought
• 1:15:10
  Activision and now they're making the service shitter so
• 1:15:12
  that they can maximise their profit for for their
• 1:15:15
  shareholders. It seems to be just like the
• 1:15:17
  same thing again, but I don't know, that's my, my rant about
• 1:15:20
  this. But yeah, it seems to be
• 1:15:22
  delivered just to maximise profit for shareholders because
• 1:15:24
  they've got a trapped audience and whether they go forward and
• 1:15:27
  make any more devices, I don't know.
• 1:15:29
  So it seems like they're farming that out to everybody as well
• 1:15:32
  now, so Xbox everywhere. So they don't need to bring out
• 1:15:37
  a new console. They just have everybody on all
• 1:15:40
  these devices because they already have all their games
• 1:15:41
  there. I think wasn't one of the
• 1:15:43
  Microsoft people said that getting people to move from
• 1:15:46
  PlayStation to Microsoft or back again is going to be more and
• 1:15:50
  more difficult because everybody has their game library and they
• 1:15:53
  can't transfer their game library with them.
• 1:15:55
  So it seems like they've got pretty much everybody trapped.
• 1:15:59
  So I don't know, I don't know what's going to happen with
• 1:16:01
  gaming. I think I think to unlock.
• 1:16:04
  To unlock that situation, the thing that craps me really is,
• 1:16:07
  is my save game. You know, I would possibly buy
• 1:16:11
  it again on Xbox or I'd be more inclined to move along to
• 1:16:15
  another system if I could take my save games with me.
• 1:16:18
  Which? You know they don't do.
• 1:16:20
  Enough of that, really. I think that's one of the big
• 1:16:22
  lockings for me. But when it comes to the price
• 1:16:25
  of Game Pass, I mean, if you think about it, you know,
• 1:16:28
  practically it's probably the cost of about four full price
• 1:16:31
  games. And so if someone says to you,
• 1:16:34
  look mate, do you want 4 full price games this year, which you
• 1:16:37
  probably can resell as well if you buy the physical version, if
• 1:16:40
  you're buying the digital versions, well then you've
• 1:16:42
  bought your 4 full games or you can have a year's worth of all
• 1:16:46
  these other games. I think your average person
• 1:16:49
  would probably go with, well, do you know what, I'll take the 12
• 1:16:52
  months really I don't agree with the pricing such, but I
• 1:16:56
  understand where the pricing's coming from.
• 1:16:58
  But there again, like Ben was saying, there's still plenty of
• 1:17:01
  options to buy it cheap. And if you want to go one step
• 1:17:03
  further, you don't even, you don't even need AVPN.
• 1:17:06
  If you go into your Microsoft account on your Xbox and let's
• 1:17:10
  pretend you get a key from CD keys or loaded as the better
• 1:17:14
  known as these days and it's for say India or Brazil or something
• 1:17:18
  like that. You'd literally just go onto
• 1:17:20
  your Microsoft account on your Xbox, set your country to
• 1:17:24
  Brazil, restart your console. Then you can redeem your code
• 1:17:28
  for 6 or 12 months, whichever you've bought.
• 1:17:31
  Then you go back in, set it back to UK, restart your console so
• 1:17:35
  and here presto, you've got 12 months and it might have cost
• 1:17:38
  you about, I don't know, £60 for 12 months.
• 1:17:40
  So there's plenty of ways in there.
• 1:17:42
  If you prepared to pay their full price then fair enough,
• 1:17:46
  whatever, but there's plenty of ways through through that.
• 1:17:49
  And also as well, if you've got a pal, you can share that across
• 1:17:53
  on 2 consoles quite easily. So if you've got someone that's
• 1:17:57
  already got Xbox Game Pass, you can share that between
• 1:18:00
  yourselves no problem at all. The family stuff is good for me.
• 1:18:03
  So there's Ways and Means. But I don't agree with it
• 1:18:06
  percentage wise. It's like I often have this
• 1:18:08
  argument with like the insurance company every year who raise my
• 1:18:12
  insurance by their robot does it by say 15%.
• 1:18:16
  I ring up and say, well, the rate of inflation were only 2%
• 1:18:18
  last year. Why are you raising it by 14% or
• 1:18:20
  15%? And they argue the toss with
• 1:18:22
  them and always get it to bring it down in price.
• 1:18:24
  But the price, it's not terrible when you look at like 4 full
• 1:18:28
  price games or a year's worth of lots of games.
• 1:18:30
  It's just whether you're going to get the usage.
• 1:18:32
  Out of it, that's always going to be the big thing.
• 1:18:34
  I mean, I've put my next year in there.
• 1:18:37
  As much as my kids play on it, we play on it together.
• 1:18:40
  So we all play Minecraft occasionally in my daughter's
• 1:18:42
  account, son's account, if it's on Game Pass, we can all play it
• 1:18:44
  together in the same house, which is great.
• 1:18:46
  But at the same time, I put my eggs in one basket and paid that
• 1:18:49
  £8090.00 that I paid because Forza Horizon 6 is out next
• 1:18:53
  year. So it's kind of like I will play
• 1:18:55
  that and that will be 6070 LB alone to buy that game for the
• 1:19:00
  base version of it now or £100 for the gold edition.
• 1:19:02
  So it's like, well, then that's money is kind of well spent ish,
• 1:19:06
  if you will, for next year because that covers that game
• 1:19:09
  and playing some other stuff next year and the kids using it.
• 1:19:12
  So I'll, I'll give it that long. Frankly, I don't know if it's
• 1:19:15
  going to be that expensive for the whole of next year or
• 1:19:17
  whether there'll be some kind of change in it or whatever they'll
• 1:19:20
  do. So I just kind of it it gives me
• 1:19:23
  the scope to sit there and just sort of play it out a little
• 1:19:26
  bit, I suppose, Rich So we'll see what happens.
• 1:19:28
  But I mean, I I don't know if you can see it on there, but I
• 1:19:30
  got this lovely message last night from from Microsoft as
• 1:19:33
  well when phones turned off. But basically it popped up from
• 1:19:36
  the Xbox app saying the export game pass is now even better.
• 1:19:40
  Now you get 75 day one releases a year, already had them Ubisoft
• 1:19:44
  classics and that. But you get Fortnite crew coming
• 1:19:47
  in November which I don't care about and more in game benefits
• 1:19:51
  for your ultimate subscription. Well the benefits weren't that
• 1:19:53
  great. I don't care about Fortnite and
• 1:19:55
  the other two things already existed.
• 1:19:57
  So great. Just a real good sales pitch.
• 1:20:00
  Guys, I believe you can stack. Up to three years, yeah.
• 1:20:04
  If you can get them cheap from Brazil or India, you can get
• 1:20:08
  them cheaper from. Get from our country as well and
• 1:20:10
  the UK does them anywhere. Seems to do them fairly cheap.
• 1:20:13
  I mean, it's just finding the not being funny, it's finding
• 1:20:16
  the places that have now still got them in stock as anyone who
• 1:20:19
  didn't tell Microsoft to shove it out their ass basically went
• 1:20:22
  off to these places. I mean, when I bought my ones
• 1:20:24
  from Shop 2, the website was running with an absolute pig and
• 1:20:27
  it was saying like 300 people are currently buying this at the
• 1:20:30
  same time as you. And it was like, I'm not
• 1:20:33
  surprised. So it was, I paid, you know, 31
• 1:20:36
  or something. I paid per go.
• 1:20:38
  So it's £93.00 for for nine months.
• 1:20:43
  So that's what I mean. It's like nearly like under half
• 1:20:45
  the price of what it would be buying it as a standard
• 1:20:47
  subscription. It's mental.
• 1:20:49
  Well three months would be like, what was that, like £1314.49 or
• 1:20:53
  something? How much was it last?
• 1:20:56
  Month for the for an entire year.
• 1:20:57
  Do you know a month so it was already more expensive than
• 1:21:01
  PlayStation top level I. Think, I think it is slightly
• 1:21:05
  more expensive than PlayStation. It must be.
• 1:21:07
  I mean, it works out like, well, Playstation's 120 LB, isn't it?
• 1:21:10
  That there is yeah. I mean, yeah, they just yeah,
• 1:21:13
  the PlayStation is annoying because you.
• 1:21:14
  Can't buy codes for games or you have to go to shop to and buy
• 1:21:18
  credit cheaper and then use that to which is really fucking
• 1:21:21
  annoying. But yeah, yeah, I got the same
• 1:21:23
  thing mine. Runs out at the end of this
• 1:21:25
  month. My 12 months of essential and I
• 1:21:28
  think it was they had 70 LB vouchers for like 62 a month or
• 1:21:33
  so ago. So I just bought that, flung it
• 1:21:34
  into my PlayStation account and went just renew off that bank
• 1:21:38
  and I'll have. 12. Pounds leftover it is to use
• 1:21:41
  next year when we're off Year of shame, so I'll go and buy Ridge
• 1:21:43
  Racer. The cheapest place I find for.
• 1:21:49
  Buying PlayStation credit, I have a very account which is you
• 1:21:54
  know, like like a catalogue thing.
• 1:21:56
  I never use the balance in other like I've got the full credit
• 1:22:01
  limit, so I'm not stacked up or anything on that.
• 1:22:05
  But I originally signed up for that because when you sign up
• 1:22:07
  for a new account, wherever I was buying at the time, back in
• 1:22:10
  the mists of time, you got something like a really heavy
• 1:22:14
  discount, like about 20% discount on something which you
• 1:22:17
  couldn't get anywhere else at the time.
• 1:22:19
  So I, I can't remember what I was buying.
• 1:22:21
  I bought something. And so anyway, because you've
• 1:22:24
  always got this £1000 credit limit, some people have higher
• 1:22:27
  ones of course, but I never spend in it.
• 1:22:29
  So they don't need to get me any higher.
• 1:22:30
  They will often send me say once, once, maybe say every
• 1:22:34
  three months saying you've not used your credit blah blah blah.
• 1:22:37
  We'll give you say like 50% off or 5050 LB towards £100 spend to
• 1:22:44
  try to lure you into spending some money.
• 1:22:47
  And my last PlayStation credit I got from them it was £100
• 1:22:51
  voucher. I paid £50 for it because of.
• 1:22:54
  The very discount. Code So if it's almost worth
• 1:22:57
  having a very account and I tell you what, if you, if you're
• 1:23:01
  going to go buy a console, I don't know what the deal is
• 1:23:04
  right now, but if you're going to go buy a console, maybe a
• 1:23:06
  switch to or something like that, you're in the UK.
• 1:23:11
  Well then you may well find setting up a new very account.
• 1:23:13
  You can maybe get 20% off of that console just for signing up
• 1:23:17
  for a very account and you can just anything that I buy on that
• 1:23:20
  I just pay it straight off in any case.
• 1:23:22
  So the £50 it goes onto your account, you pay it straight off
• 1:23:25
  instantly. Boom, job done, £50 and I've got
• 1:23:29
  something like 200 and odd pound on my PlayStation account in any
• 1:23:33
  case, and it wouldn't allow me to put the £100 voucher on there
• 1:23:37
  because I've got too much on there already.
• 1:23:40
  So I'll have to use like after like buy my PlayStation
• 1:23:43
  subscription, like in December when it's probably going to come
• 1:23:46
  down, you know, like around Christmas time, they do that
• 1:23:48
  deal where it's about 20% off or whatever.
• 1:23:51
  So I'll rebuy my subscription then and then apply my £100
• 1:23:55
  credit afterwards or whatever. But one thing with that as well,
• 1:23:58
  obviously you've got to be timed properly because if you haven't,
• 1:24:02
  your subscription isn't just about to run out or you know,
• 1:24:06
  it's in its final month. Well then often you can't hop on
• 1:24:09
  to them 20% off deals I find in December.
• 1:24:12
  And also turning off automatic renew as well, I found can make
• 1:24:16
  a difference because that's when the more inclined to give you
• 1:24:18
  the deal. You're bang on with the very
• 1:24:19
  thing I. Think it was the RTX and the RTX
• 1:24:22
  20 series. Whatever it was when that first
• 1:24:24
  came out, Chap was working with the time, opened a very account
• 1:24:27
  purely to buy a 2070 super and from memory they went out of
• 1:24:30
  stock first or any other UK reseller because he got like 20%
• 1:24:34
  off of a brand new card and they had stocking.
• 1:24:37
  So you end up paying like whatever it is, £400 at a time,
• 1:24:40
  20%. That's a good discount.
• 1:24:42
  That's probably the best price in the UK, isn't it?
• 1:24:44
  So yeah, you will get better. It because of their to, you
• 1:24:47
  know, it's a signing on deal and of course what you can do as
• 1:24:50
  well. Obviously if you've got yourself
• 1:24:52
  and if you've got your partner etcetera, they can sign up for
• 1:24:55
  their own account. So you could maybe, you know,
• 1:24:57
  you might be going to buy ATV or something They they have deals
• 1:25:00
  on there that you won't get better because of the initial
• 1:25:04
  discount period option is so good that it's like, yeah, why
• 1:25:08
  not? So maybe for a PlayStation Six
• 1:25:11
  or something like that when that comes out, that could you could
• 1:25:13
  get a whopping whopping amount off of it.
• 1:25:16
  Yeah, definitely. Cool.
• 1:25:18
  That was a big topic. It was going to always going to
• 1:25:20
  be, to be honest with you. So I mean releases of interest
• 1:25:23
  in September, the big ones in there.
• 1:25:25
  There's been a few of those kind of like this is meant to be
• 1:25:28
  amazing. And then it didn't happen quite
• 1:25:30
  as they expected, I think. But I mean hollow night the the
• 1:25:32
  last one of those that came out can remember the rest of the
• 1:25:35
  title on it, but I remember that basically broke every single
• 1:25:39
  purchasing platform for about 8:00 or so hours and esteem was
• 1:25:42
  broken just so I never knew there was such a huge following
• 1:25:45
  and load of excitement for it. But that came out last month and
• 1:25:49
  then the reviews were pretty good.
• 1:25:51
  Not fantastic sort of. I know the first Hollow night is
• 1:25:54
  meant to be fantastic. I've never played all the way
• 1:25:56
  through myself and I think there was a lot of expectations for
• 1:25:59
  this one. Maybe maybe it's got better than
• 1:26:01
  maybe they patched it. I need to read up more on what
• 1:26:03
  the problems were on it, to be honest.
• 1:26:05
  But you look on there and it's like you second you go on to
• 1:26:07
  Steam and it's like mixed reviews and you're like, uh,
• 1:26:10
  that's not good, especially being so it nearly broke and
• 1:26:13
  that was extremely hard was. It OK the.
• 1:26:15
  Game is supposed to be extremely.
• 1:26:17
  Hard. So they patched it to make the
• 1:26:18
  first section slightly easier. It also has three biomes in the
• 1:26:23
  game, but you can miss the third Biome because you haven't done
• 1:26:27
  the right thing throughout the game.
• 1:26:28
  So you may actually finish the game early and not have access
• 1:26:32
  the third because Young collected the right number of
• 1:26:35
  something or the right, the right one I think is.
• 1:26:39
  So you may actually miss the third section of the game.
• 1:26:41
  So I think people are annoyed with this, but as far as I know,
• 1:26:44
  it's very much similar to the original game.
• 1:26:47
  The original game was difficult, was very difficult, obtuse as
• 1:26:51
  well. Not very clear on what's going
• 1:26:52
  on. So I tried the first game like
• 1:26:54
  this is back when I before I actually started like in hard
• 1:26:57
  games. But I like played this and got
• 1:26:59
  lost because the map was crap. The start map is crap so I fell
• 1:27:03
  off the game very quickly. No interest in getting this one
• 1:27:06
  or maybe into it. Maybe that's the.
• 1:27:07
  Reasons it all sort of got the mediocre reception it did.
• 1:27:11
  Speaking of games that are hard and you like hard games, there's
• 1:27:14
  a game called hell is us that I was looking up earlier this week
• 1:27:18
  that looks like it just that looks good.
• 1:27:20
  Kind of gives you Bloodborne sort of vibes from the videos
• 1:27:23
  and stuff. When you look at it.
• 1:27:24
  My my notes here were looks both scary and insanely hard.
• 1:27:28
  I'm out and then in brackets. Brian, do you love a game that
• 1:27:30
  treats you like a dominatrix? This is just for you.
• 1:27:35
  Eternal vibes all over. Watching this, it does look.
• 1:27:38
  Good. It does look really good.
• 1:27:40
  I would like to try this. Paul, you're on demo using
• 1:27:43
  demos. I'd love to try a demo.
• 1:27:44
  This. Yeah, I haven't.
• 1:27:46
  Downloaded it or anything but I definitely will.
• 1:27:48
  That would be really good I. Like those kinds of?
• 1:27:51
  Games, especially if you got an easy mode, because I enjoy the
• 1:27:54
  adventure in, you know, they're going around the corners and
• 1:27:58
  often the game it like that. Lies of P often the game is
• 1:28:01
  still pretty tough even on the easiest mode.
• 1:28:04
  If you're still going to get mobbed, if you just hang around
• 1:28:07
  or you go, you can't just go in there hacking and slashing like
• 1:28:10
  a lunatic. You still have to have the
• 1:28:12
  tactics. It just means that you can take
• 1:28:15
  a little bit more time about it and you probably can have a bit
• 1:28:18
  more energy and you've definitely got a significantly
• 1:28:21
  higher chance of doing it. So yeah, definitely.
• 1:28:25
  It's definitely a game I'd be into.
• 1:28:27
  Yeah, no, me too. It looks really really cool,
• 1:28:30
  that's admitted. I would definitely be interested
• 1:28:32
  in trying this, but another good one that's come.
• 1:28:35
  Out I was listening to another podcast and they actually said
• 1:28:38
  that Silent Hill F, which is the new Silent Hill game that's come
• 1:28:43
  out. They were actually saying that,
• 1:28:45
  unfortunately, one of the things that holds the game back is the
• 1:28:47
  inventory system. Allegedly.
• 1:28:49
  It's extremely sort of punitive. I'm not sure if it's how many
• 1:28:54
  things you can carry or how many health you can carry or whatever
• 1:28:57
  it is, But that were their main criticism of the game,
• 1:29:00
  regardless of how much they enjoyed it.
• 1:29:01
  Says the inventory system's really bad.
• 1:29:03
  So perhaps that might be something that gets patched out
• 1:29:06
  in any case. But yeah, I'll I think I would,
• 1:29:09
  I would like to. I'm not sure it's your kind of
• 1:29:11
  game though, is it Silent Hill left.
• 1:29:12
  Did you like the Silent Hill games Brian?
• 1:29:14
  I played, that was. The first one or the second one,
• 1:29:18
  I thought you ended up in a school or a hospital and it it
• 1:29:20
  freaked me, right? I had to give up to walk away
• 1:29:22
  from it. It was, I was playing it during
• 1:29:25
  daylight and I was still getting scared playing.
• 1:29:27
  I was just like, no, it's my heart.
• 1:29:29
  And the adrenaline was pumping. I was like, this is unpleasant.
• 1:29:32
  I couldn't. Did you like, do you actually
• 1:29:34
  like them? Yeah, I I enjoyed.
• 1:29:36
  I did play the original ones back in the day, but they didn't
• 1:29:38
  stick with me as such. I didn't finish them or
• 1:29:40
  anything. But I played the remaster of
• 1:29:43
  Silent Hill 2 on PlayStation and I, yeah, I was totally
• 1:29:47
  engrossed. It's the sort of game where it
• 1:29:49
  just grabbed me and I couldn't put it down.
• 1:29:50
  You know, You do find them games where you just you can't get
• 1:29:54
  enough of it. And I did finish it meant to be
• 1:29:55
  multiple endings on that though, But I'm not really that
• 1:29:58
  dedicated on most games. It'll let me reload and then
• 1:30:01
  start, you know, chapter 12 or whatever again and I can go see
• 1:30:04
  the alternative ending then I will do.
• 1:30:06
  But I'm not one for playing it beginning to end.
• 1:30:09
  Just send me bonkers after a while.
• 1:30:11
  But yeah, I did enjoy. But hell is those.
• 1:30:12
  Yeah, definitely. I'll give that a go.
• 1:30:14
  Yeah, another one. You mentioned it earlier as
• 1:30:16
  well, Kronos, the New Dawn. That sounds it looks incredible.
• 1:30:20
  And kind of the art style and stuff looks, yeah, like it would
• 1:30:23
  be pretty spectacular and has a lot of depth to it.
• 1:30:26
  It's one of those games where Ben's not going to touch it
• 1:30:28
  again because I'm too scared. But I watched the trailer of it
• 1:30:31
  last night and it did just look pretty incredible.
• 1:30:34
  As I said, I've got down there. It's very much a Dead Space,
• 1:30:37
  aliens, Resident Evil, all sort of wrapped up into one.
• 1:30:40
  It kind of tries to bring sort of futuristic and just like
• 1:30:44
  proper old school horror vibes to it.
• 1:30:46
  It does look very, very good. I would never get through it,
• 1:30:49
  but I wish you both immense luck and enjoyment with it.
• 1:30:54
  I'm not sure. Scary.
• 1:30:56
  I love Eternal. Have we mentioned several play
• 1:30:59
  started playing that Initially I played, I don't know, like for
• 1:31:02
  the first part, which was the first level, but I was finding
• 1:31:05
  all the noises from the creatures and the insects or the
• 1:31:08
  plants was freaking me out. So I actually stopped playing
• 1:31:11
  that game originally because just because I thought it was, I
• 1:31:13
  thought this game was going to turn into a horror game.
• 1:31:15
  It isn't a horror game. So I don't know if I get into
• 1:31:18
  corners it looks stunning on on reternal the way.
• 1:31:23
  That when you die, I haven't played in a long time, but it's
• 1:31:26
  sort of like sucks. You sort of like you wake up
• 1:31:28
  again, don't you? It's like, it's like a
• 1:31:29
  nightmare. It's like wake up from a
• 1:31:31
  nightmare and it's sort of thing.
• 1:31:34
  That. Is visually stimulatingly, you
• 1:31:40
  know, it is weird. It is shocking.
• 1:31:42
  You know, if you if you're playing it in the dark, you've
• 1:31:44
  got your headphones on or something and it's, it all
• 1:31:47
  happens at once. It is quite a stunning effect.
• 1:31:50
  Is that they really have got that spawn, Yeah.
• 1:31:54
  I do like the game. When you go into it, you find
• 1:31:56
  your you find dead bodies of yourself from previous runs or
• 1:32:00
  other characters from previous runs that he does well with that
• 1:32:03
  the atmosphere is quite good. Go on.
• 1:32:06
  Sorry, another game in September.
• 1:32:08
  Dying Light the Beast, which is, I think it might have flown to
• 1:32:11
  quite a lot of few people's radars, but that's obviously a
• 1:32:14
  new Dying Light game, But it's meant to be a bit more.
• 1:32:16
  I think it was meant to have started off as a bit of a DLC
• 1:32:19
  and then it was one of them that's expanded beyond DLC.
• 1:32:23
  So it's probably somewhere in the middle.
• 1:32:25
  But yeah, I definitely would like to play that.
• 1:32:27
  And obviously you've got your Borderlands 4, which is probably
• 1:32:30
  one of the big, big titles. But yeah, definitely would like
• 1:32:33
  to be playing a bit of Borderlands 4.
• 1:32:34
  I mean, it's been obviously it's again.
• 1:32:36
  Massive hot topic Borderlands 4 because the developer being a
• 1:32:40
  gigantic plum on social media about all the problems they had
• 1:32:44
  with it and pretty much well if you haven't got a decent PC
• 1:32:48
  don't bother playing it. I wouldn't ask for a refund.
• 1:32:51
  Which is just like wow, OK, how does alienate people who love
• 1:32:55
  your game? I mean it, don't get me wrong,
• 1:32:57
  as you said, it looks fantastic. The videos I've seen people
• 1:33:00
  playing it plays really well, but it's been not been without
• 1:33:04
  its issues. And I think handling it in that
• 1:33:07
  manner is just stupid. I mean, fair enough.
• 1:33:10
  I mean you may have people who have done so much stupid, they
• 1:33:12
  may not have APC that's fast enough to run it and they're
• 1:33:14
  getting cheesed off. But I've watched videos of
• 1:33:17
  people with fifty 93,000 LB graphics cards and it's running
• 1:33:20
  like a bag of spanners, like a PowerPoint.
• 1:33:23
  So it's not that the problem isn't there.
• 1:33:25
  He could dealt with it so much better.
• 1:33:28
  I need to finish three because I still haven't finished that one.
• 1:33:31
  We were playing it as a Co-op campaign with some friends.
• 1:33:33
  And I do love and the Borderlands games are great and
• 1:33:36
  I love the I love the art style. I love the sort of the the world
• 1:33:39
  it's set in. It's all very, very cool.
• 1:33:41
  I agree. It makes me want to go back.
• 1:33:44
  And play, just go back and play a bit more Tiny teenage
• 1:33:47
  Wonderland witches, Borderlands. Do you know the guys that wrote
• 1:33:51
  that? So yeah, definitely, definitely.
• 1:33:54
  I'm probably about 80% of the way through that great game.
• 1:33:57
  I mean, the Borderlands games, they always look very similar as
• 1:33:59
  well. And I do love the art style.
• 1:34:01
  Absolutely amazing. So I was going to say I love
• 1:34:04
  the. Art style is it?
• 1:34:05
  Yeah, it looks really cool. I love the first Borderlands,
• 1:34:08
  the pre sequel Borderlands 2. I love those.
• 1:34:11
  I got the Borderlands 3. I fell off it.
• 1:34:14
  I hit a level A section I couldn't get through.
• 1:34:16
  It's either go back and grind to build up or I just, I couldn't
• 1:34:19
  get up. The humour I thought was a bit,
• 1:34:21
  I don't know, wasn't as good as the first the first ones.
• 1:34:24
  But yeah, I do like the gameplay and the graphics are cool.
• 1:34:27
  The music for the team. Teams were really good as well.
• 1:34:30
  Total first world issue, but. The only thing I have a problem
• 1:34:32
  with Borderlands 3 is I'm left-handed and I spent good
• 1:34:36
  money on nice peripherals for my PC like a razor keyboard and
• 1:34:40
  stuff. It doesn't allow you to play it
• 1:34:42
  as a left-hander properly. So the arrow keys which I play
• 1:34:45
  on, obviously everyone else is WASD if you're right-handed,
• 1:34:48
  bloody bloody blah. I have the other way around and
• 1:34:49
  use the arrow keys, shift insert, all that kind of stuff.
• 1:34:52
  You cannot reset those buttons in game, they are always emotes
• 1:34:56
  and doing stupid things and putting bubbles above your head
• 1:34:59
  and dancing and stuff and you cannot change them.
• 1:35:01
  So I loaded into the game and tried to play it with my friends
• 1:35:05
  and I was just stood still dancing like a prick on the spot
• 1:35:07
  while still getting killed. So to the point where I had to
• 1:35:11
  get one of those or miniature USB that are just the number
• 1:35:15
  pads only. Basically keyboards with the
• 1:35:17
  extension around it. Put it to the left to put it to
• 1:35:19
  the right of my keyboard and use that to play it so you can use a
• 1:35:24
  control pad, but I don't like playing FBS games to the control
• 1:35:26
  pad so it was just really annoying.
• 1:35:29
  It's APC game that doesn't allow.
• 1:35:30
  You to to respect the keys. That's crazy.
• 1:35:34
  You can respect the. Keys in the option.
• 1:35:35
  Menu. You go in there and change it
• 1:35:37
  and it changes the keys. It shows you it's changed it but
• 1:35:40
  then doesn't change it in the game code so it still does the
• 1:35:43
  same thing behind it. So you don't move, you stand
• 1:35:46
  there just basically dancing to yourself whilst you get run over
• 1:35:49
  by some mentalist in a beach buggy and you're like great
• 1:35:51
  Jesus. So.
• 1:35:53
  We need to go. Back to it I.
• 1:35:54
  Get annoyed with PlayStation. And it doesn't allow you to
• 1:35:57
  change the keys. Very few games allow you to
• 1:35:59
  change. Yeah, it looks online.
• 1:36:01
  It's a literally. It's just something that was
• 1:36:02
  missed and they never recovered that they never sorted it out,
• 1:36:05
  which with that guy is kind of outlook online at the moment of
• 1:36:08
  like you can sod off. It is what it is.
• 1:36:10
  I'm not surprised that hey, but four does look good.
• 1:36:14
  That's not that's not take away from that.
• 1:36:15
  As long as they get that fixed that one and it actually runs
• 1:36:17
  properly, it'll be a it'll be a banging game.
• 1:36:19
  I think whilst we have. In September.
• 1:36:22
  There was a second Frost punk game, whoever's ever played
• 1:36:25
  those, which is like the real time strategy games.
• 1:36:28
  I had a go at the first one and I think I own it, but it is an
• 1:36:32
  insanely hard, unforgiving game from what I've played of it.
• 1:36:36
  Like the the whole thing, if you run in the village and the the
• 1:36:39
  town wherever you're building up and the politics behind it and
• 1:36:42
  stuff like that, you put 1 foot wrong and everything just comes
• 1:36:45
  to part comes apart like that. Like a deck of cards sort of
• 1:36:47
  thing. House of Cards style.
• 1:36:49
  I used to work with someone who absolutely loved it but would
• 1:36:52
  come in and just shout about how annoying it was at least twice a
• 1:36:55
  week whilst playing it. And then we'll go and put
• 1:36:57
  another 20 hours into it because he loved it.
• 1:36:59
  But it would just do horrible things and just be super
• 1:37:03
  unforgiving. But I don't know, maybe they
• 1:37:05
  changed it a little bit. It looks fantastic again and I
• 1:37:07
  think the basis of the game is very, very good and very, very
• 1:37:11
  bad. So it'd be interesting to see
• 1:37:13
  what happens with that. I haven't seen you reviews it
• 1:37:15
  myself actually yet. I should probably go and look
• 1:37:17
  that up, but I'm like that real time.
• 1:37:19
  Strategy type of game. So yeah, it's not my type of
• 1:37:22
  game. I'm not into real time strategy.
• 1:37:24
  It's one of them games. I always read about these kinds
• 1:37:26
  of games and I think cool, I'd like to give that one a go.
• 1:37:28
  It sounds like a good game, etcetera.
• 1:37:31
  And the the sort of premise behind it all sounds really
• 1:37:34
  cool. But then when you put it on and
• 1:37:35
  I'm just like, no, I totally suck at this.
• 1:37:37
  I'm just useless. Another good game that's come
• 1:37:40
  out in September, although I didn't play much of the first
• 1:37:43
  one, but it was a very, very big game was Hades and I got Hades
• 1:37:47
  too, which has just come out, which is a rogue like game, but
• 1:37:50
  it came out it's like late September.
• 1:37:52
  I still got the first one to play at that I.
• 1:37:53
  Know people who have played it and said it is perfect.
• 1:37:56
  It's maybe the same people as Bastion isn't it?
• 1:37:58
  I think from from memory or yeah.
• 1:38:00
  And it's it's so well put together, but you probably will
• 1:38:03
  never ever escape Hades because it's hardcore.
• 1:38:06
  But it is very, very good. I completed it once.
• 1:38:10
  I think you. Have to complete it 7, probably
• 1:38:12
  10 times to get the true ending. Like please don't once and I
• 1:38:16
  thought that was enough. It took me long enough to get
• 1:38:17
  that far. It was a good game.
• 1:38:19
  I like deal. They say there's always enough
• 1:38:23
  when you chat to all the characters.
• 1:38:24
  There's always something new popping up.
• 1:38:25
  It took me so long to get to complete it once I was hearing
• 1:38:29
  repeat, loads and loads of repeats of text and chat with
• 1:38:31
  characters. I ran through most of their chat
• 1:38:34
  from characters. But it is a really good game.
• 1:38:36
  I haven't seen any reviews for Hades 2, is that actually out at
• 1:38:39
  the moment? Just check in there.
• 1:38:40
  Yeah, 25th of. September it came out.
• 1:38:43
  I'm just on a Metacritic now because I.
• 1:38:44
  Was looking Frost pump 2 has got 85% as an overall and Eurogamer
• 1:38:49
  gave it 100%. They said it was like a huge
• 1:38:51
  evolution on the first game and does everything right.
• 1:38:54
  So that's interesting. Let's go get.
• 1:38:55
  Hades. Quickly Hades 294 overall store
• 1:38:59
  it's on. Is it PC?
• 1:39:00
  And Switch at the moment, I think it's not on the consoles.
• 1:39:04
  The other consoles they did definitely not on PlayStation,
• 1:39:06
  yeah. Is that last time they launched
• 1:39:08
  the Leaf on PlayStation as well? Yeah.
• 1:39:10
  It seems odd, doesn't it not? It's not even on Xbox according.
• 1:39:12
  So this is just a switch to Switch, PCPC, Mac and Switch.
• 1:39:16
  Yeah, How? Weird.
• 1:39:17
  Yeah, bit older. I guess it must.
• 1:39:18
  Be coming out in a month's time unless it's well, it can't be an
• 1:39:21
  exclusive because it's on PC. Maybe it's a console exclusive
• 1:39:24
  on Switch to? Yeah, it could be.
• 1:39:26
  It would be a. Great game for a Switch.
• 1:39:28
  Obviously the the big, big game. I thought you might have bought
• 1:39:32
  this one, Brian, as your joker's ghost of your tie.
• 1:39:35
  Yeah. I want to.
• 1:39:38
  I want to. I've been stopped watching the
• 1:39:40
  videos. I was.
• 1:39:41
  You've kind of waited. Yeah, yeah, you've waited it
• 1:39:44
  out. You've.
• 1:39:45
  I am very tempted to go and. Do it.
• 1:39:47
  I have so many games left on my pilot.
• 1:39:50
  Shame if I pick up that I'll not finish.
• 1:39:52
  I'm trying to try to be good. I'm trying.
• 1:39:54
  It is difficult because I stopped watching the videos tell
• 1:39:56
  me what the story is because I knew I'd want the game.
• 1:39:58
  I put them on Reddit. It just keeps popping up.
• 1:40:00
  This game, even my PlayStation 5 and not the pro.
• 1:40:03
  It looks so amazing, so pretty. And I just keep looking at the
• 1:40:06
  pictures of the the short, short gifts of characters walking
• 1:40:10
  through the scenery and it's it just looks so good.
• 1:40:13
  And they've got all these different modes as well.
• 1:40:15
  They've got one that has like walking around through the
• 1:40:17
  countryside was chill music playing.
• 1:40:19
  I really want to, if I stay away from the videos I might get
• 1:40:21
  through without buying it. As well, I'll bet I'll say that.
• 1:40:24
  I've just been on Metacritic on that as well and it's taken me 5
• 1:40:27
  scrolls of my mouse to get off the 100% reviews.
• 1:40:31
  Oh Gee. I was hoping it would be good
• 1:40:36
  because I really worried that it wouldn't be anywhere near as
• 1:40:38
  because other people turn against as the character.
• 1:40:40
  As a woman, it does look pretty amazing.
• 1:40:42
  We've. Got we're October, so 2.
• 1:40:45
  Months. All October, three months and
• 1:40:48
  over Yeah, it's right. You can do it if I.
• 1:40:50
  Can hold off. It'll be a day day.
• 1:40:51
  One purchase I can't remember if I screen grabbed it or not.
• 1:40:54
  Last night but there was a post online from Sony that said like
• 1:40:58
  we had to try and play Ghost of Yuta and like the best way we
• 1:41:01
  could think of doing it with the best atmosphere X on it.
• 1:41:05
  And there's just one bloke sat on the 2nd row front row of an
• 1:41:08
  IMAX cinema with a PlayStation 5 pad playing it and you're like
• 1:41:11
  Oh my God Jesus. If you can push that, that'll be
• 1:41:17
  cool. Kevin Horsley did the.
• 1:41:19
  Year of shame last year for his birthday, I think it was his
• 1:41:22
  30th actually a long, so quite a long time back now.
• 1:41:24
  He rented out a screen at Cineworld in Didcot where we
• 1:41:27
  worked sort of like where between just away away from
• 1:41:30
  where we worked and we went and played Halo and Forza Horizon,
• 1:41:34
  Forza Motorsport 5 on a cinema screen for a couple of hours.
• 1:41:37
  That is one of the coolest things I think I've ever done as
• 1:41:39
  far as gaming goes. Did it work properly?
• 1:41:42
  Yeah, yeah, it's fine you. Just rent the.
• 1:41:43
  Screen and where it all plugs in at the top where the projectors
• 1:41:46
  are you go and go here's my Xbox and they go in and plug it in
• 1:41:48
  upstairs and all the controls are remote and then we played
• 1:41:51
  Halo multiplayer on a full cinema screen with all the
• 1:41:54
  sound, which was unbelievable Oh that sounds awesome I don't.
• 1:41:57
  Think it was cheap, It was probably a.
• 1:41:59
  Couple of £100 for a few hours or something, but because
• 1:42:01
  obviously, but they do it in a daytime during the week was the
• 1:42:04
  intention I think. Well, there's not much stuff on
• 1:42:07
  whether they still do it or not or not, I don't know.
• 1:42:09
  Very cool. That's definitely.
• 1:42:11
  On the bucket list I want to do it.
• 1:42:15
  Says there's quite a lot of big. Ones coming out in October as
• 1:42:18
  well. Some some good looking games, I
• 1:42:21
  think. Yeah, this is probably.
• 1:42:22
  The most difficult month to look at as someone on Year of shame.
• 1:42:27
  Yeah, the whole year has been all right and some ups and downs
• 1:42:30
  on it, whereas like October is just like the rubber stamp of
• 1:42:33
  greatness for like for the year. So I mean, these are the ones
• 1:42:37
  I've noted. So you've got Ghost go to Yote,
• 1:42:39
  top of the list there. Next one down, Battlefield 6 is
• 1:42:42
  coming out. Whether you like Battlefield or
• 1:42:43
  not, it looks ridiculous. The the the game engine is, is
• 1:42:47
  is sublime. It looks really madness.
• 1:42:50
  I've got a friend I went to college with who works for
• 1:42:53
  what's the kind of studios called now?
• 1:42:54
  Is it splash damage or is it something else?
• 1:42:57
  He works. He's he's working on it.
• 1:42:58
  Oh, nice. And he's also there's trainers
• 1:43:00
  coming stuff, but he can't tell me anything.
• 1:43:02
  But it's kind of like wow, that it just look at all the
• 1:43:04
  trainers. I was talking to him.
• 1:43:05
  He's like, yeah, like we put so much work in.
• 1:43:07
  It's like it does definitely show that you put so much.
• 1:43:10
  If he gave us a gift of three of.
• 1:43:12
  Those would he be? Would we using our joker?
• 1:43:15
  I don't know. I don't think I'm that lucky, to
• 1:43:17
  be honest with you, but he might be playing it like no, but so
• 1:43:22
  there's and frustratingly, these are great games.
• 1:43:25
  Mario Galaxy. If you ever owned a Nintendo
• 1:43:27
  Wii, then Mario Galaxy one and two were phenomenal for the
• 1:43:30
  time. Really, really good games.
• 1:43:32
  They've remastered those for the Switch 2, which sadly is a oh,
• 1:43:35
  look, I'd have a remaster for the Switch 2 situation, but they
• 1:43:39
  are they are great games, but a little bit weird because there
• 1:43:43
  was the Mario All Stars pack. Was it on the Switch originally,
• 1:43:47
  which was Mario 64, Mario Sunshine and Mario Galaxy.
• 1:43:51
  So it's kind of yeah, that's it. That's the fella.
• 1:43:54
  I got that on release day. I went and picked it up as a
• 1:43:56
  some wrong mid life game and there's a there's a picture of
• 1:43:59
  me still outside game with it before they shut it down.
• 1:44:01
  But it's weird that they've done that.
• 1:44:02
  They've just remastered the remaster and then tried to sell
• 1:44:06
  it for like £50 again. It's a bit of a weird move from
• 1:44:09
  Nintendo, but it's great games. You haven't played them before
• 1:44:12
  and you've got to switch to probably worth it because they
• 1:44:14
  are awesome. One for you guys more than me
• 1:44:16
  because it scared the hell out of me on my hour I tried to play
• 1:44:18
  it. Little Nightmares 3 is out this
• 1:44:20
  month as well. That looks good.
• 1:44:21
  Yeah, yeah. I don't know.
• 1:44:24
  One and two were excellent, so hopefully three years as well.
• 1:44:27
  It looks very much of the same, but.
• 1:44:28
  That's not a bad thing because it's a really good formula.
• 1:44:31
  I mean, despite the fact that it scares the hell out of me and I
• 1:44:33
  can't play it properly, it looks like a really solid little game.
• 1:44:37
  And I mean, the people said on the on on the forums as well on
• 1:44:40
  the group that they love it as well.
• 1:44:42
  So I think it's got a big following behind it.
• 1:44:44
  Pokémon game says it all really. That is something which may
• 1:44:48
  launch the Switch to to be honest with you, the fact you
• 1:44:51
  put a Pokémon game on it, it's literally licenced to print
• 1:44:54
  money normally on a Nintendo console.
• 1:44:55
  So Pokémon Legends Z to a read here.
• 1:44:59
  OK, the graphics look a bit. Basic.
• 1:45:02
  Though to me I think the other ones did that, even the.
• 1:45:04
  Arcus Legacy ones on or RCS, whatever it's called on the
• 1:45:07
  original Switch. The graphics weren't phenomenal
• 1:45:09
  on that, but it did a really crap job of handling it and
• 1:45:12
  that's the only bollocking that game got.
• 1:45:14
  It was brilliant, it was well put together, but the system
• 1:45:17
  couldn't run it. So I'm now wondering if it's
• 1:45:19
  better on Switch too. Yeah.
• 1:45:21
  So imagine wondering if they. Sort of stepped it back a tad
• 1:45:24
  for the switch to, I don't know, maybe to make it work better.
• 1:45:27
  Maybe that's where you get that graphical downgrade.
• 1:45:29
  So that's interesting. I'm not a big Pokémon game
• 1:45:31
  person, but I imagine someone will love that Jurassic World,
• 1:45:34
  which is kind of the Jurassic Park builder.
• 1:45:36
  So the it's almost like theme park, but Jurassic Park.
• 1:45:39
  There's a third of those coming out.
• 1:45:41
  The other ones are decent, probably much of the.
• 1:45:44
  Same I imagine. Ninja Gaiden, the fact there's a
• 1:45:46
  new Ninja Gaiden or Gaiden, whatever it's called for that
• 1:45:49
  looks insane. I mean, even the 360 ones of
• 1:45:51
  those games look beautiful. So the fact that that's out,
• 1:45:55
  that looks pretty cool. Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines 2,
• 1:45:59
  so that's finally coming out. That feels like it's been
• 1:46:01
  forever. Looks good.
• 1:46:02
  I should say Ninja Gaiden. I went to YouTube just to see a
• 1:46:06
  video and I've got the sign in to prove I'm overrating to watch
• 1:46:09
  a video of Ninja Gaiden. It is basically 8 to 10 hours
• 1:46:12
  of. Slicing the hell out of stuff.
• 1:46:13
  So yeah, but they they were phenomenal games, really well
• 1:46:15
  put together because it's Team Teen Ninja, isn't it?
• 1:46:18
  Who will be making it? Who do make fantastic games, so
• 1:46:22
  I'm looking forward to seeing how that pans out Is that one
• 1:46:25
  that came out on game pass or not?
• 1:46:27
  I'm right in saying it's weird being me that thinks it did but
• 1:46:29
  I can't remember opening game pass.
• 1:46:31
  I don't know. Well, so you got.
• 1:46:33
  On there I'm not sure. If anyone else would remember
• 1:46:35
  this game, Painkiller, which was a first person shooter back in
• 1:46:40
  probably the same time as the original Max Payne games, that
• 1:46:44
  sort of timeline, I think people can fly studios from memory and
• 1:46:48
  it's a first person. You're basically hell was hit.
• 1:46:50
  You're a hit man for heaven against hell, so you're playing
• 1:46:54
  against the undead and stuff on it.
• 1:46:56
  And at the time it was awesome. I think it was one of the first
• 1:47:00
  big games to use the open GL graphics like 3 DFX and it was
• 1:47:03
  the nice rounded renders of kings and stuff like that.
• 1:47:07
  And it was beautiful and it was a fantastic game.
• 1:47:09
  And they completely remade it and a new one looks awesome,
• 1:47:13
  graphically at least. Anyway, I need to see some more
• 1:47:15
  gameplay videos of it, but it looks pretty superb.
• 1:47:17
  It looks very like Doom. Watching it, it really looks
• 1:47:20
  quite cool. Yeah.
• 1:47:22
  Yeah, it is. A first person shooter, but
• 1:47:24
  there was some really cool weapons on it and you use kind
• 1:47:27
  of almost like spiritually driven weapons and things like
• 1:47:31
  that. Obviously with it being based on
• 1:47:32
  heaven and hell a little bit. So that looks pretty cool.
• 1:47:36
  There's a new Katamari game which I'm sure will be huge in
• 1:47:39
  Japan. Heard of katamari?
• 1:47:41
  The Katamari series? Oh.
• 1:47:44
  Yeah. The kids love it, I just, I've
• 1:47:47
  never gotten to them. It's literally like a cheese
• 1:47:48
  dream. Of a game to be honest with you,
• 1:47:50
  but it has like 1 of the funniest intros ever on the
• 1:47:53
  first one. I also got Outer Worlds 2.
• 1:47:55
  Never played Outer Worlds, but apparently it's a good game.
• 1:47:58
  Great game. Yeah, there you go.
• 1:47:59
  Yeah, I. Finished the first one.
• 1:48:00
  I really enjoyed it. Great storyline.
• 1:48:03
  One of them games, I think it had a bit of a bad launch from
• 1:48:06
  memory, but it fixed it, etcetera.
• 1:48:09
  But they also did a silly thing. They actually relaunched it say
• 1:48:12
  about two or three years ago, sort of like remastered it to
• 1:48:15
  some degree. But then that had a terrible
• 1:48:17
  launch as well because they said it, I think it had to do with
• 1:48:21
  the graphics and the performance etcetera.
• 1:48:23
  So. But yeah, definitely a game I'll
• 1:48:26
  definitely be playing in the New Year's out of Wales 2 as subject
• 1:48:29
  to it getting good reviews seems fair.
• 1:48:33
  I also. Got Arc Raiders.
• 1:48:35
  I've seen that and not really looked into it.
• 1:48:38
  That's one game on there, but it's some of those ones that
• 1:48:40
  keeps appearing in lots of advertising arc Raiders sort of
• 1:48:46
  nosy again, it looks personal extraction shooter.
• 1:48:49
  Yeah, third person type. Thing it kind of gives yeah,
• 1:48:52
  again, looks kind of weirdly Dead Space, but not sure what to
• 1:48:55
  say about it, but I've seen videos of it and like there's
• 1:48:57
  this huge Mex and stuff in it part of like the enemies and
• 1:49:00
  things and it looks pretty cool. It's beautiful graphics engine
• 1:49:03
  kind of gives a little bit of feel of almost like The Last of
• 1:49:05
  Us meets Division. Yeah, yeah, kind of a hit.
• 1:49:08
  With some, with some. Futuristic stuff put into it.
• 1:49:11
  The screenshot I've got up here looks very division two, but the
• 1:49:15
  buildings are all derelict and then it has a robot smashing
• 1:49:17
  through it. It's kind of like 3 genres in
• 1:49:19
  one. Why not?
• 1:49:20
  Does look quite good. Watching out watching videos on
• 1:49:23
  steam really looks quite good. Also got reviews.
• 1:49:28
  Wise. Here's the game now.
• 1:49:29
  OK, I'm honestly shocked, but Arc Raiders is a much more
• 1:49:32
  exciting extraction shooter than I thought after four hours of
• 1:49:36
  both shooters. With that and Marathon, Bungie
• 1:49:38
  should be worried that Embark will steal a spotlight.
• 1:49:40
  It's made by Embark. That's why I remember it's
• 1:49:43
  people who made the finals. Yeah, I mean, that's what.
• 1:49:46
  They're doing so if they can take.
• 1:49:48
  The the main bit of the engine of the finals in in Unreal
• 1:49:52
  Engine 5 and do something with that.
• 1:49:55
  I mean, it's hopefully pretty decent.
• 1:49:57
  It looks quite good. Coming 30th October yeah, yeah.
• 1:50:01
  So it's. Third person slash.
• 1:50:03
  First person cool. Yeah, I'm going to have to look
• 1:50:05
  into that one. Definitely anyone who's played
• 1:50:07
  them historically Dragon Quest, which are the RPG games?
• 1:50:11
  There's a remake of one and two of those which I think were
• 1:50:13
  originally they were now what? What age games they PlayStation
• 1:50:17
  maybe don't know much about Dragon Quest at.
• 1:50:19
  All balanced. Yeah, they were kind of almost.
• 1:50:21
  Like Nintendo DS error games, so gone back quite a way.
• 1:50:25
  So it's kind of a top down, yeah.
• 1:50:27
  So it kind of feels a bit like the old Final Fantasy games a
• 1:50:30
  little bit, or Octopath Traveller that came out when the
• 1:50:33
  Switch came out. Oh yeah, yeah.
• 1:50:34
  See, it feels. A little bit like those.
• 1:50:38
  One, I'm quite excited for Virtual Fighter Five.
• 1:50:41
  They've done a Vivo world stage, which is a complete remaster of
• 1:50:44
  the Virtual Fighter Five games. I used to love Virtual Fighter
• 1:50:48
  when it was kind of the Saturn slash Dreamcast era of consoles
• 1:50:52
  and they're in the arcade, the AM 2 stuff, really, really
• 1:50:55
  decent fighters. And as Sega kind of moved away
• 1:50:59
  from their consoles and went into development, they left it
• 1:51:01
  alone. I know there is a a Virtua
• 1:51:04
  Fighter due to come out next year, like a completely
• 1:51:07
  redesigned one, which looks phenomenal.
• 1:51:09
  But this is a there's a rebuild of five, which I'm hoping is
• 1:51:11
  really decent. I've never done well in
• 1:51:14
  fighting. Games.
• 1:51:15
  Not since the last one I really played a lot of was Barbarian,
• 1:51:19
  if you remember that back on the Amiga or Oh yeah, I'm sure
• 1:51:23
  that's what we had, This one chopping the heads off, That's
• 1:51:25
  it. Yeah.
• 1:51:25
  Did you buy it because of the? Advertisement.
• 1:51:27
  With the Page 3 model on it, we bought.
• 1:51:31
  Well, that wasn't because of, but that was one of the the
• 1:51:34
  perks of the game. That is the first thing I think
• 1:51:36
  of when. Everyone mentions that game is
• 1:51:38
  that thing. We just stood there with a sword
• 1:51:40
  and like half naked woman, isn't it?
• 1:51:41
  He's got his big weapon out, I mean.
• 1:51:43
  Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:51:46
  I. Tried one of the superhero
• 1:51:48
  fighter games recently on PlayStation because he gave it
• 1:51:51
  was free maybe two years ago and I couldn't even get through
• 1:51:56
  through the tutorial injustice whether it was.
• 1:51:59
  Yeah. Good games.
• 1:52:01
  That's it. Yeah, Yeah.
• 1:52:02
  Absolutely on me type of game. I can't.
• 1:52:05
  I can't do it all. It's one of those things, I
• 1:52:07
  think, fighting games. You've either got to It's
• 1:52:08
  probably one of those hardest games to get into, especially
• 1:52:12
  these days because of the tactics.
• 1:52:13
  They've kind of injected into it.
• 1:52:16
  Tekken specifically. I can play Tekken, I can play it
• 1:52:18
  quite well against friends and stuff like that.
• 1:52:20
  But you go online and you just get savaged and that's it.
• 1:52:23
  Literally 10 seconds and you basically start a match and you
• 1:52:26
  just get bounced along in the air for 30 seconds and then you
• 1:52:29
  die and you're like, oh great, OK, never mind.
• 1:52:32
  I'll turn it off now and go back to playing it badly myself.
• 1:52:37
  That's the ones I had on my list.
• 1:52:38
  Here there's a Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection which feels
• 1:52:41
  like a another collection of MK games, but they seem to have
• 1:52:45
  done it again and maybe that's coming out on maybe the newer
• 1:52:48
  formats like Switch to and stuff.
• 1:52:49
  But I have a lot more love for the older Mortal Kombat games
• 1:52:52
  than I do probably for the new ones.
• 1:52:53
  To be honest with you, I can remember spending far too much
• 1:52:57
  money on Mortal Kombat 2 in the arcade at my local laser quest
• 1:53:03
  when I was a kid when it first. Came out and they had the 1st.
• 1:53:06
  People I knew who had the MK2 machines, so I mean that's
• 1:53:10
  something to say. 123456789101112, that's 1718
• 1:53:14
  games there for a month and none of them really look negative.
• 1:53:19
  I mean some of the remakes, granted, but it's for for a
• 1:53:22
  month. This year.
• 1:53:22
  I think it's probably the most positive ones we've had.
• 1:53:25
  There's been a few with decent ones wrapped in amongst it.
• 1:53:30
  So last month, September for instance, we've battled with the
• 1:53:33
  Borderlands 4 and stuff like that and earlier in the year I
• 1:53:37
  think as a wind up towards Christmas, I think it's done
• 1:53:40
  everyone a favour of GTA6 not coming out either because
• 1:53:43
  everyone's just gone right stuff.
• 1:53:44
  It just start releasing stuff now and get some money in before
• 1:53:48
  next May get to you. But yeah, decent month I think,
• 1:53:51
  as Paul keeps saying. Give it three or four months,
• 1:53:54
  free pick games up then because of all the books ironed out.
• 1:53:56
  So yeah, it's all good that they come out now if we can hold off.
• 1:53:59
  Yeah, exactly. We worry.
• 1:54:01
  About it when Battlefield 6 doesn't Yeah, true, they might
• 1:54:05
  even be coming onto your. Subscriptions for free as well.
• 1:54:08
  That's interesting, actually you.
• 1:54:10
  Think about it, you got EA Play is included with Game Pass.
• 1:54:13
  I wonder if I'll do anything stupid with that.
• 1:54:15
  I know it's not a direct link, but it's it's a it is a link
• 1:54:19
  Outer Worlds 2 should be on. Game Pass, So it's one of their
• 1:54:21
  games. That's right, it isn't that the
• 1:54:23
  outer. Wilds is on there, but not the.
• 1:54:25
  Outer Worlds. That's I'm being stupid I think.
• 1:54:27
  I'm sure it's one of their games.
• 1:54:28
  I could be wrong. Oh, no.
• 1:54:28
  It might be an independent studio, but I'm sure it was
• 1:54:31
  originally on, you know, when the first launch Game Pass.
• 1:54:35
  I'm pretty certain one of their sort of common, you know?
• 1:54:38
  Yeah, yeah, The Outer Worlds was definitely.
• 1:54:40
  On there because I remember installing it and never getting
• 1:54:42
  a chance to play it. Surprise, surprise.
• 1:54:44
  It's good. Yeah.
• 1:54:45
  I think they've kind of the the stuff on there now is good,
• 1:54:47
  actually looking at it. But that's not on there.
• 1:54:49
  There isn't. They're advertising EAA lot
• 1:54:51
  more, which makes you wonder about that whole battlefield
• 1:54:53
  link Obsidian. Made us.
• 1:54:56
  What else do they make? Yeah, and.
• 1:54:59
  Didn't they do New Vegas? They did a vow, didn't they?
• 1:55:02
  And a vowed was a place, was a Game Pass game.
• 1:55:05
  Yeah. A vowed on Yeah, that's a.
• 1:55:06
  Game I'd like to play a vowed grounded.
• 1:55:08
  Two Pillars of Eternity, Dungeon Siege games you're damn right
• 1:55:13
  on. Pay them for a lot of New Vegas,
• 1:55:14
  though. I was also there.
• 1:55:15
  You have to see how that pans out.
• 1:55:17
  It might turn up on me. You never know what Game Pass
• 1:55:19
  put up at that price. If it comes out on that, it
• 1:55:21
  makes the service. Value for me, yeah, yeah.
• 1:55:23
  So what else we've got left to? Discuss what's on your list,
• 1:55:27
  Brian. I've got questions and.
• 1:55:29
  Comments from the community. Blair Ferguson gave us three
• 1:55:32
  questions. And so, given we're nearly at
• 1:55:34
  the end, are there any games you think you dodged the bullets
• 1:55:37
  with with all the pre launch hype and all the excitement, but
• 1:55:41
  actually turned out to be a pile of balls?
• 1:55:43
  I've got a gigantic. Gold plated chalice I can put on
• 1:55:46
  the table on that one which has got mines eye written out in big
• 1:55:49
  letters if you fancy it because that looked great and then was
• 1:55:52
  Artusia height. That's true, yeah.
• 1:55:55
  Yeah, name for me was in Indiana Jones and the Great Big Circle
• 1:55:59
  because that I was really hoped for game that it came out and
• 1:56:02
  seemed to disappear and not many people were talking about it.
• 1:56:05
  I know on different games Stew Stewart there was playing it and
• 1:56:09
  he he talked about it for a while.
• 1:56:10
  They didn't rave about the game. There's ADLC.
• 1:56:13
  Isn't there a DLC? For it I can't.
• 1:56:14
  Remember what it's called as it came out even last month or
• 1:56:17
  August, something like that. I think it's one of those things
• 1:56:19
  that came out. They made loads of noise about
• 1:56:20
  it and it should have been a killer franchise, as you say,
• 1:56:23
  but it just kind of dropped off a Cliff advertising wise.
• 1:56:26
  Really. A bit of a weird one.
• 1:56:27
  Yeah. Paul, you're up.
• 1:56:28
  You're so good about it. Maybe in January I'll have a
• 1:56:30
  look at the game trial. I was really interested in that.
• 1:56:32
  And then they just sort of fell slap when they came out.
• 1:56:34
  Yeah, there was one I was thinking, Paul.
• 1:56:36
  Have you got any games that you're?
• 1:56:37
  Looking forward to that. Turned out to be crap.
• 1:56:39
  Yeah, one that was chatted. About this year, I didn't play
• 1:56:42
  these two originally when they first came out, these both
• 1:56:45
  remasters, but System Shocker remastered that a few years ago
• 1:56:49
  and I bought that and I thought it was really good, really
• 1:56:52
  enjoyed it. And then this is we're going to
• 1:56:53
  redo System Shock 225th Anniversary Remaster, which came
• 1:56:58
  out, I'm not sure exactly when it came out, but that being
• 1:57:00
  considered as not very good considering System Shock 1
• 1:57:04
  remaster was meant to have been a good one.
• 1:57:07
  So it's a bit of a shame that one because I possibly would
• 1:57:09
  have bought, although I probably would have waited for all the
• 1:57:11
  reviews, etcetera. But that might be one that comes
• 1:57:14
  to one of the subscription services.
• 1:57:16
  But I don't think System Shock 2, I could be wrong, has come to
• 1:57:19
  a subscription service yet. But yeah, System Shock 225th
• 1:57:22
  Anniversary Master is probably one I dodged a bullet on.
• 1:57:25
  It's a shame because the first one, as you say, got like.
• 1:57:29
  Like renowned for being brilliant.
• 1:57:31
  They've done such a great job of it.
• 1:57:32
  There was a few finicky bits on it that some like real hardcore
• 1:57:35
  people like, oh, it's not quite right, but they've done a decent
• 1:57:38
  job of bringing it back. I have to admit I didn't look
• 1:57:41
  too far into it, but I have heard from kind of like a top
• 1:57:44
  level that the second one was a disappointment.
• 1:57:46
  So yeah, well, to show how bad it is, I'd totally forgotten
• 1:57:50
  about it. So maybe that's.
• 1:57:52
  It. That's so it.
• 1:57:52
  Speaks in volumes, which is a shame.
• 1:57:57
  Blair's second question of. 3 Thank you Blair, so many
• 1:58:00
  questions brilliant. In addition, was there anything
• 1:58:03
  that was normally would normally have slipped on the your radar?
• 1:58:06
  But after all the post release excitement and good reviews you
• 1:58:09
  thought bullocks wish I was on the I wish I wasn't on the your
• 1:58:12
  show. The game I didn't know anything
• 1:58:15
  about. Beforehand was clear, obscure,
• 1:58:19
  all I knew. It was going to be a.
• 1:58:20
  Term based RPG, and I've already mentioned the Final Fantasy 7.
• 1:58:26
  I don't really like them, but this game seems to be different
• 1:58:29
  enough that it's pulled people in a lot, diverse people in, and
• 1:58:32
  I would love to give it a try. So I think that's about the only
• 1:58:35
  game, if I wasn't on your shame of the Big Top that I didn't
• 1:58:39
  know about. It's when I thought about going
• 1:58:41
  on. I thought I'd put it onto the
• 1:58:42
  list as well for that under the radar thing.
• 1:58:44
  I sort of seen it and thought, oh, that's been look all right.
• 1:58:46
  And then I watched a stream of my friend playing it and was
• 1:58:49
  like, holy crap, that's good. And it had been out when he was
• 1:58:52
  literally about to finish the game.
• 1:58:53
  So I kind of almost sport the end of it for myself and playing
• 1:58:57
  part of it. But yeah, it does look
• 1:58:58
  phenomenal. It's just like whether I'd be
• 1:59:00
  that good to get to where he's got to with it and enjoy it that
• 1:59:03
  much. But yeah, it did look decent.
• 1:59:05
  Very, very good. Yeah, I'd probably say.
• 1:59:08
  The same real, that Claire obscure one, although it's kind
• 1:59:10
  of my sort of game, you know, it does look, it does look good.
• 1:59:15
  I've actually witnessed it being played for about an hour or so.
• 1:59:18
  The introduction, it didn't leave me though, with a massive
• 1:59:22
  urge to go back and actually sort of think to myself or, you
• 1:59:25
  know, can't wait to play that one.
• 1:59:26
  But I think I will give it a bit more time, definitely, because
• 1:59:29
  often a game for me might take two to three hours really for it
• 1:59:32
  to even begin to gel. Even a game I've actually
• 1:59:35
  bought, I'm often left wondering why I bought it for two or three
• 1:59:39
  hours until it finally takes good grip in me.
• 1:59:41
  But yeah, another one I would consider and then.
• 1:59:45
  Finally, have you played anything off your pile that you
• 1:59:48
  thought was yet? I wish I'd given that more
• 1:59:50
  attention when it came out, but it ended up being totally a
• 1:59:52
  brilliant game. I thought I did.
• 1:59:54
  Do my end of the radar thing quick.
• 1:59:56
  I agree with some agree with what you guys said.
• 1:59:58
  I but also South of midnight. It was announced on one of Xbox
• 2:00:02
  things like the end of last year.
• 2:00:04
  And I looked at it and was kind of like when you talk about
• 2:00:06
  Forza, to be honest with you and sort of just didn't really pay
• 2:00:10
  much attention to it. And then it came out and it was
• 2:00:12
  like, that looks so good. Like the art style, the the
• 2:00:15
  platform, the reviews it was getting, how it was all built,
• 2:00:18
  looked amazing. And that came out in April.
• 2:00:20
  And I have sort of seen that that turned up on Game Pass and
• 2:00:23
  thought, shit, I'd love to play that.
• 2:00:26
  That was kind of one of my it came from nowhere sort of thing.
• 2:00:29
  I didn't expect it to be a game. It would be sort of like catch
• 2:00:31
  my attention, but it's going to be great.
• 2:00:34
  So yeah, a little bit. That's probably the only one
• 2:00:35
  I've looked at when you find out Game Pass and think it's a
• 2:00:38
  shame. I remember seeing that.
• 2:00:40
  I thought. That was a game I really wanted
• 2:00:41
  to play. And then finally it's not coming
• 2:00:44
  to PlayStation. I was so fucking angry.
• 2:00:46
  It was so annoyed. It's the only reason I would go
• 2:00:49
  for Game Passes just for the Indies.
• 2:00:51
  Clear, obscure, they want to have them.
• 2:00:53
  That will be the only reason I would go down, go for Game Pass.
• 2:00:56
  But yeah, it's just I've got the machine to play kind of like a
• 2:00:59
  game South of midnight I was looking forward to.
• 2:01:03
  And then you find out you're not going to get the players.
• 2:01:08
  Yeah, that's. True, they do that one month
• 2:01:12
  subscription for a pound over here.
• 2:01:13
  We don't have to do the same thing in Japan for Game Pass.
• 2:01:15
  Just do that and then see if we can just stream it for a month
• 2:01:17
  and play it. I don't even have to set up the
• 2:01:22
  next. An Xbox which calls login
• 2:01:26
  details. I want a game pass account I've.
• 2:01:28
  No account at all for them so. That's worked it out, but you
• 2:01:31
  can talk me through if you've got any Microsoft account.
• 2:01:34
  You can just use any Microsoft account, like even if you've got
• 2:01:37
  an e-mail account with them, I think you can get Hotmail
• 2:01:39
  account, yeah. Yeah.
• 2:01:41
  Never been thought that. Yeah, that's what mine is.
• 2:01:44
  Based off of that and then just go into it and you'll go to the
• 2:01:47
  game, you'll go to the site for Game Pass and you'll just go
• 2:01:49
  yeah, I've been a subscriber before during a month for a
• 2:01:51
  quid, which comes up every like month or two and just do that
• 2:01:54
  and I'll look into it and see if you can I'll look on the app and
• 2:01:57
  see if it says you can stream self at midnight.
• 2:01:59
  If it does, then you're in business.
• 2:02:00
  That's good. A few months to get through it.
• 2:02:03
  Cool. Cool, That's all right, right.
• 2:02:07
  So next question, was it which we should be played earlier?
• 2:02:11
  I normally normally say the name wrong, but Gree or Gris or
• 2:02:14
  whatever it was that probably again a little indie game.
• 2:02:19
  Beautiful. Absolutely loved it and it's
• 2:02:21
  probably one of the games this year that made me cry at the end
• 2:02:23
  of it as well or the end, you know, I thought it was such a
• 2:02:25
  well put together little game. Absolutely loved it and I wish
• 2:02:29
  it's been sat in my steam account since probably not far
• 2:02:32
  after it came out because someone told me it was decent
• 2:02:36
  and I sat and played it one night until like 2:00 AM, sat in
• 2:02:38
  bed and it was just like my God this has just been sat there and
• 2:02:41
  I've just gone past it for so long.
• 2:02:43
  Beautiful game, brilliant. Now I totally agree.
• 2:02:46
  Game I played last year. I think it was.
• 2:02:48
  It is really, really good game. I love this love everything
• 2:02:50
  about the music, the animation, the graphics brilliant game.
• 2:02:54
  The story is very cool. A game that I played this year.
• 2:02:58
  Let me see where did I put that? I put two OK Fire Fire watch was
• 2:03:02
  truly excellent. I knew it was going to be
• 2:03:04
  excellent, but for some reason I didn't feel like thing I did
• 2:03:07
  really had a turn against this. I didn't like the main
• 2:03:10
  character. He was an asshole, but I played
• 2:03:12
  this through. It's a really good game.
• 2:03:13
  The graphics again, I love the music, really cool.
• 2:03:16
  I like that style of graphics. A game that I wouldn't have
• 2:03:19
  played except for you, You 2 guys was tearaway unfolded.
• 2:03:23
  I did not expect like the game I you guys all picked.
• 2:03:27
  It and I was like. Oh no.
• 2:03:28
  Oh no, I'll tell you that I thought that was a really good
• 2:03:31
  game. It ripped the mechanics in it
• 2:03:33
  were really good. The story was pretty good, but
• 2:03:35
  the graphics extremely pretty. I like that.
• 2:03:38
  That was I'm really glad I got the chance to play that game.
• 2:03:40
  You see brilliant. I love that it.
• 2:03:42
  Was great. Thank you for that.
• 2:03:44
  Paul, how about you? Yeah.
• 2:03:47
  I'd agree with probably tear away.
• 2:03:48
  Really. So another one of them games
• 2:03:50
  that you've probably, there's so many games that you've played
• 2:03:53
  for three or four hours and you just haven't gone back to
• 2:03:56
  because another game has been chucked on the pile and you play
• 2:03:59
  that one for three or four hours and the pile just gets ever and
• 2:04:02
  ever deeper. But yeah, so many good games
• 2:04:05
  that you can go back to. There's so much meat left on
• 2:04:07
  them bones, even like Doom, that I got stuck on Doom 2016
• 2:04:12
  version. I wish I'd have gone back and
• 2:04:14
  played it sooner and got past that part because I really
• 2:04:18
  enjoyed the rest of the game and it inspired me to go on to play
• 2:04:20
  more of Doom Eternal. So the two games I'm a pile of
• 2:04:23
  shame, I wish I'd have played more of.
• 2:04:25
  And I am going to go back. I think the game I might start
• 2:04:29
  playing will be probably Doom Eternal that I'm going to be
• 2:04:33
  playing, you know, next, and I'm probably going to try to get
• 2:04:35
  that finished as well. That's that.
• 2:04:38
  Stuart Hallick. Mentioned that he's right now
• 2:04:41
  he's playing through Steam back catalogue.
• 2:04:42
  He's currently playing Brigador up Armoured edition because our
• 2:04:46
  up armoured edition I've no idea which is like a weird
• 2:04:49
  combination of Syndicate and Mech Warrior I've never heard
• 2:04:52
  before you guys. Noticed.
• 2:04:54
  Me neither. And the second you see those.
• 2:04:56
  Two games I got over excited about it and went to go and look
• 2:04:59
  at it and then fell asleep last night because it was so good.
• 2:05:02
  Or Brigador. Oh yeah, Just like kind of I
• 2:05:05
  just fell asleep. I'm going to need to look that
• 2:05:07
  up and it sounds great. And then I fell asleep.
• 2:05:10
  That's kind of what I do. Cricket all game.
• 2:05:14
  Oh. Geez it.
• 2:05:16
  Really is. How cool is that?
• 2:05:20
  Have you played the? Syndicate.
• 2:05:23
  Games. Like years ago.
• 2:05:26
  So it's an. Isometric thing.
• 2:05:27
  And you're little guys in black coats, basically.
• 2:05:29
  You're like almost like secret agents and it used to be around
• 2:05:33
  in complete missions and like assassinate people and stuff
• 2:05:36
  like that. It was a great little game and
• 2:05:39
  it seems I've taken that on board as like the isometric view
• 2:05:42
  of it, but like tried to update you a little bit so it looks
• 2:05:45
  like an old game still, which is cool.
• 2:05:48
  It actually looks really good. Watch it now.
• 2:05:52
  Yeah, OK. Thank.
• 2:05:55
  You. For telling us about that one,
• 2:05:56
  Sir. Looking into that. ¥720.
• 2:06:02
  That's that's 5 quid £5. Oh, it's currently 70% off.
• 2:06:07
  As well, frustratingly, looks quite.
• 2:06:10
  Good. Quite good.
• 2:06:16
  He also said he didn't missed. Out on anything this year?
• 2:06:19
  Not really at the standard game this year for him has been
• 2:06:21
  Assassin Creed Shadows. I think you about to say because
• 2:06:25
  of that. Thing we're saying about South
• 2:06:26
  at midnight a minute ago. You may want to buy yourself a
• 2:06:29
  new gaming laptop mate because it's on Steam.
• 2:06:33
  Yeah, Yeah. That's like 8 speak.
• 2:06:37
  Look, I've got Windows 10 on this laptop.
• 2:06:39
  I was supposed to end in the next week or two to support, I
• 2:06:43
  don't know, my wife myself, both laptop, my one can do, my wife's
• 2:06:47
  can't. So I may end up swapping laptops
• 2:06:49
  and then going to Linux. Just sort of we run something
• 2:06:51
  later, but I don't know if what will happen.
• 2:06:53
  Don't think I'll update to a newer gaming laptop that's not
• 2:06:56
  really on the cards. I'd rather go for APC.
• 2:06:58
  That makes sense, but I don't know.
• 2:07:02
  We'll see. Yeah, I don't.
• 2:07:06
  I like the form. Factor of the laptop.
• 2:07:07
  But the fact is you can't upgrade.
• 2:07:10
  That really, really frustrates me off of being on the PC for so
• 2:07:12
  long. You.
• 2:07:14
  Can it's easy to update? To 11 even if your computer says
• 2:07:18
  no we can't do it, I can send you a YouTube guide now to do
• 2:07:21
  it. It's a 2 minute trick and
• 2:07:23
  download another programme. You can actually take out that
• 2:07:26
  section where it cheques to see if you can update it and you'll
• 2:07:29
  probably find your laptop is potentially more powerful than
• 2:07:33
  some of the more lower end Windows 11 laptops that you can
• 2:07:37
  buy. You know the really really cheap
• 2:07:39
  cheap ones where they've got these like less than a seller on
• 2:07:41
  type processor in there. I can't remember what they call
• 2:07:43
  them, you know, and it's just it's only they're only doing it
• 2:07:47
  based on the edge of it. They just want you to buy a new
• 2:07:49
  computer. So you could do that.
• 2:07:50
  I'll send you a link on YouTube and this guy explains it.
• 2:07:54
  You just need a USB stick and you be get you be game on.
• 2:07:57
  You can have it done in probably a couple of hours and it'll be
• 2:08:00
  upgraded to Windows 11. I can see him at some point
• 2:08:02
  doing it. Putting down the updates to
• 2:08:05
  check to make sure to confirm you have ATPM 2 chip and if then
• 2:08:09
  barking your Windows 11 because you haven't got it.
• 2:08:11
  But yeah, currently I run Windows updates with a week, so
• 2:08:18
  a week or two weeks, whatever the maximum delay.
• 2:08:21
  Can you do that on Windows 11? If you can, that'll be OK,
• 2:08:23
  because you can hold off and cut.
• 2:08:25
  You wouldn't get caught out. Yeah you can, but you can delay.
• 2:08:28
  Updates on there. Oh, that's cool, then I'll have.
• 2:08:31
  A look at that. Thank you.
• 2:08:33
  If you can send that on the big. Yeah, yeah, definitely a
• 2:08:36
  pleasure. The problem is there was
• 2:08:37
  someone. Decided you got older a TPM 2.0
• 2:08:40
  chip onto the boards wasn't it? And that's the only thing.
• 2:08:42
  It's the security level or something stupid.
• 2:08:44
  Yeah, yeah. The last question we have then.
• 2:08:50
  From Stuart Rummage is what TV series from your childhood do
• 2:08:54
  you think deserves A comeback, Paul?
• 2:08:57
  Do you? Do you have one?
• 2:08:59
  Yeah, definitely. One show, I mean, obviously it's
• 2:09:02
  kind of replicated many times and you know, we're also in
• 2:09:05
  touch with what's coming out next.
• 2:09:08
  But a show that I found absolutely outstanding back in
• 2:09:11
  the day, obviously phone like in the early 70s was Tomorrow's
• 2:09:15
  World. General sort of technology at
• 2:09:19
  home at the time was just generally sort of like ATV
• 2:09:21
  radio, hi-fi, that kind of thing.
• 2:09:24
  There wasn't any computers and video games, even the TV ones
• 2:09:28
  didn't come out probably to like 76 or 75 ish.
• 2:09:32
  I don't know exactly when they came out that the original Pong
• 2:09:34
  ones were talking, you know, real basic ones.
• 2:09:38
  So yeah. And I mean, that show used to
• 2:09:39
  fill you with so much interest for the future, really keeping
• 2:09:44
  you, you know, inspired by what's going to be coming out
• 2:09:47
  soon. Obviously these days.
• 2:09:49
  Overall, it was it was an amazing show.
• 2:09:51
  I mean, obviously it's your first seed really into
• 2:09:53
  technology and to make you actually probably want to buy,
• 2:09:57
  you know, to have a computer. I mean the, the obviously the,
• 2:10:00
  it's kind of like the advent of the micro computer for the home
• 2:10:03
  computer market. It was an amazing show.
• 2:10:05
  So it'd be good if they could bring back something like that
• 2:10:08
  again, which was, you know, quite inspiring as to what's
• 2:10:11
  coming soon. I'll miss that programme.
• 2:10:12
  I have to watch some of the old. Ones now 1994.
• 2:10:15
  Are you ready for the Internet? I'm still not ready for the
• 2:10:17
  Internet. Oh yeah.
• 2:10:19
  Some of them the. Laughable.
• 2:10:22
  They did a lot of them shows about what will it be like in
• 2:10:24
  the year 2000, you know, but they're doing it like in like
• 2:10:27
  1985 or something. And some of the things that they
• 2:10:30
  actually come up with are not that, you know, they're not
• 2:10:33
  miles off. So yeah, they do do some.
• 2:10:37
  Some really good, some good shouts on there for what will
• 2:10:40
  come in in the future and some of the technology and some of
• 2:10:43
  the stuff that's just come out, you could see it shortfalls and
• 2:10:48
  how it has been developed into something better.
• 2:10:51
  So yeah, it is worth looking back at some of their mode shows
• 2:10:53
  for sure. Really cool choice I would love
• 2:10:55
  to see. That I think sparking the
• 2:10:56
  interest in tech, get kids all interested to be really pretty
• 2:10:59
  good. I'd love that.
• 2:11:00
  Ben, do you want to go next? Mine was the.
• 2:11:03
  Well, I spoke to you guys about it earlier, but Jason the
• 2:11:05
  Wheeled Warriors, which is a cartoon when I was a kid, which
• 2:11:08
  I still stand by, is having the best theme tune for a show ever.
• 2:11:12
  I'd love them to really try and remake that.
• 2:11:14
  Not completely ruin it though, just try and keep it like it
• 2:11:17
  was. It was awesome.
• 2:11:18
  As I, as I tried to explain, it was effectively a group of
• 2:11:21
  Wizards with cars with guns on fighting an angry pot plant
• 2:11:24
  called Sore Boss effectively. But it was an awesome cartoon.
• 2:11:28
  I absolutely loved it. I can occasionally go and watch
• 2:11:31
  like episodes of it on YouTube and things that are on there.
• 2:11:34
  I think it was really weird. It's like a lot of these series
• 2:11:36
  I think began in France. So you have to go and get them
• 2:11:39
  on DVD, but they have to they are in in French, some of them.
• 2:11:43
  Same happened with Mysterious Cities of Gold.
• 2:11:45
  I'm not sure if they've actually done them properly again now.
• 2:11:47
  Yeah, I want to watch the whole seasons I think again through,
• 2:11:49
  but I'd love them to make a new one.
• 2:11:50
  That'd be awesome. Just well.
• 2:11:52
  OK, for anybody watching on the the only fans, my camera has
• 2:11:56
  stopped. Yeah, I just noticed.
• 2:11:57
  I thought you were falling asleep.
• 2:11:58
  Just. Taking a nap.
• 2:12:01
  I use my phone. Like an old phone.
• 2:12:03
  I connected, there's an app called Droid Cam, and you just
• 2:12:06
  connect it to your phone and you download an app on your laptop
• 2:12:08
  and you just run that and you turn your phone into a webcam.
• 2:12:10
  Oh, cool. Yeah, but my phone is, Oh my
• 2:12:12
  God, it's roasting. It's burned through my battery,
• 2:12:14
  so I don't know what's going on. Anyway, so enough for the behind
• 2:12:17
  the scenes. I'll set the phone to restart TV
• 2:12:20
  show that let's see come back. We're talking about this in the
• 2:12:22
  pre show banter. Blake 7.
• 2:12:24
  I love that show as I'm concerned the Liberator is still
• 2:12:26
  the best spaceship ever. It was cool, it looked cool, it
• 2:12:30
  was amazing. I don't mind if they can bring
• 2:12:32
  it back with wobbly walls everything.
• 2:12:34
  It was just a great show. I loved Avon, he was fucking
• 2:12:38
  cruel and just he was he was excellent or actually annoying
• 2:12:43
  books with lights you. I loved it and when spoilers for
• 2:12:47
  ATV show that was many generations old.
• 2:12:50
  But when Zen died I was so as a kid I was so upset watching that
• 2:12:55
  happen. So I'd love to see that show
• 2:12:56
  come back with Zen. Was Zen the guy the.
• 2:12:59
  Same as the computer in the. Liberator.
• 2:13:01
  Oh, the computer. I.
• 2:13:03
  Remember a guy dying? There were a guy dying in season
• 2:13:07
  1, I think it happened about episode 7 or something.
• 2:13:10
  He were like the chubbier guy with the curly hair.
• 2:13:13
  I think he were like one of the first main characters to die.
• 2:13:15
  Is that sad that I remember his name?
• 2:13:17
  He was gun. He's gone now.
• 2:13:20
  He's gone now. He's definitely gone now.
• 2:13:26
  Yeah, Gone, but not forgotten. Yeah, very good.
• 2:13:30
  The other. The other thing I'd love to see
• 2:13:33
  come back was the. Cartoon series Dungeons and
• 2:13:37
  Dragons. I love that.
• 2:13:39
  It was really, really cool, really funny.
• 2:13:41
  So I'd love to see that come back.
• 2:13:44
  That was decent bring. That back watch.
• 2:13:46
  That in ages, I mean. For it's day grey and.
• 2:13:48
  Jill were Grey and Jill were pretty good as well.
• 2:13:51
  I mean, the guy went on to write Brookside and such like for for
• 2:13:54
  kids. That was actually pretty in, you
• 2:13:58
  know, pretty deep sort of show really.
• 2:14:00
  Oh, Grangel. Yeah, that was really good.
• 2:14:03
  I used to love that, love to start me the music first.
• 2:14:07
  Oh. Yeah, the intro, the intro is.
• 2:14:10
  Really cool the comic effect with her.
• 2:14:16
  I lived on the central line. On it's blitz and 1/2 goes off
• 2:14:20
  towards Grangel and the other half because that Loudon always
• 2:14:23
  want to go out to the Grangel to live on the other side.
• 2:14:26
  No, it's the love scene that on the tubes on the tube map for
• 2:14:28
  Grangel and Stewart also finishes Stewart Roman.
• 2:14:33
  She finished with hanging there. All the end is insight.
• 2:14:38
  So now please notice a seamless unprofessional or
• 2:14:43
  unprofessional, A seamless professional Segway, as we
• 2:14:46
  casually mentioned in a totally unplanned way that if you'd like
• 2:14:49
  to do this next year, please get in touch with us on Facebook,
• 2:14:53
  join the Midlife Gamer group. That's the difficult.
• 2:14:56
  Test. There's one.
• 2:14:57
  Question, I think then go and search for the year of shame
• 2:15:00
  group and join and message us and we'll see what we can do.
• 2:15:05
  So I thought maybe I just wanted to say anything else about this.
• 2:15:08
  It is fun, it's frustrating, it's worth doing.
• 2:15:11
  I think it's great. It's great.
• 2:15:13
  It's, I don't know, it's not really frustrating at all, is it
• 2:15:16
  really? It's just been a good crack to
• 2:15:17
  be honest. So let's be out of your comfort
• 2:15:19
  zone for it. I'm not really big for doing
• 2:15:21
  this sort of stuff, but I've massively enjoyed it.
• 2:15:23
  Much enjoy doing it with you guys.
• 2:15:24
  It's a palate cleanser, isn't it?
• 2:15:26
  Really. You've now got games to look
• 2:15:28
  forward to, a reasonable price to.
• 2:15:30
  Yeah, very true. I know.
• 2:15:31
  Stuart asked. Me before, did we know each
• 2:15:33
  other before this? We had never talked to each
• 2:15:35
  other. As far as I know, we've never
• 2:15:37
  talked to each other on any social media.
• 2:15:38
  We've never met. But we just met for the first
• 2:15:40
  show and that was the first time and it just worked out that it
• 2:15:43
  is really good. You get to meet new people.
• 2:15:45
  It is good to meet you too. I've enjoyed this a lot It's
• 2:15:49
  really, really good. So yeah.
• 2:15:51
  And you have GTA6 coming or you think about.
• 2:15:55
  Well, when you're playing and focusing on all the other games
• 2:15:59
  that you have, you tend it tends to get pushed into the
• 2:16:01
  background. You don't you won't miss it as
• 2:16:03
  much as you think you're going to miss it.
• 2:16:05
  So don't worry. It is good, definitely and
• 2:16:08
  you've. Always got an.
• 2:16:08
  Alternative option in your catalogue.
• 2:16:12
  Generally if there's a new game coming out like Borderlands 4,
• 2:16:14
  you've probably got Borderlands 3, Borderlands 2, Borderland,
• 2:16:18
  the pre sequel. You know you've got all them
• 2:16:20
  ones to to go back to as well. Yeah, exactly.
• 2:16:23
  I. Found it really fun 3 has been
• 2:16:24
  shocking all year long about stuff, about the games we're
• 2:16:27
  playing, our own problems. It's been really good, been
• 2:16:30
  really enjoyable experience So thank you guys.
• 2:16:32
  Couldn't agree more. Yeah, and plus.
• 2:16:35
  I've learnt a new skill as well, which is editing.
• 2:16:37
  I've never actually edited podcasts or anything like that
• 2:16:40
  before or being on a podcast or setting up, you know, to be on a
• 2:16:43
  podcast, get decent audio, etcetera.
• 2:16:46
  So there's a bit of a learning curve as well if you haven't
• 2:16:49
  done that kind of thing before. Editing is, how can you say
• 2:16:53
  that's probably the hardest part is perhaps editing, depending to
• 2:16:56
  what level you want to do the editing, because that can go on
• 2:17:00
  for. I mean, it's generally takes me
• 2:17:03
  probably a whole day and maybe a little bit more to kind of nip
• 2:17:07
  out all those little bits and pieces.
• 2:17:09
  I mean, I'm probably one of the worst ones for make for saying
• 2:17:11
  the same thing or I'm in an R ING and all the rest of it.
• 2:17:14
  Wow, man, the amount of UMS and Rs I take out is it for myself
• 2:17:19
  is unbelievable really. I'll have a good arm as well.
• 2:17:22
  Don't worry, it's fine. I spent ages.
• 2:17:24
  Cooking out all Ben's. Bad, bad language.
• 2:17:26
  It just takes forever, he swears like a trooper.
• 2:17:28
  I'm abysmal. Most of the time.
• 2:17:30
  You. Only see half of it.
• 2:17:31
  I was swearing. Like a trooper for like 40 to
• 2:17:33
  50% of the whole thing just and he's always breaking wind.
• 2:17:35
  As well the amount of times we have to take that out.
• 2:17:39
  Wow, I thought we. Weren't going to mention that.
• 2:17:42
  Be happy. Be.
• 2:17:43
  Happy it's only. Audience his favourite phrase is
• 2:17:45
  shit happens. Yeah, mid podcast.
• 2:17:50
  Shit happened and it's loud. Breaking a wind it is.
• 2:17:54
  Really good. I've enjoyed this tremendously.
• 2:17:55
  Yeah. It's been great.
• 2:17:57
  Yeah. That's good, so.
• 2:17:58
  If you have any interest in let us know and we'll pass it on and
• 2:18:02
  then we'll come do a do a home. Inspection.
• 2:18:04
  Yeah, do a. Yeah, and we'll go.
• 2:18:06
  Send it like a thing you've got to like sign yourself in, sign
• 2:18:08
  your life away, eat 5 miles bars in a row.
• 2:18:11
  That kind of stuff is fine. Yeah, you.
• 2:18:13
  Have to give all your login details.
• 2:18:15
  For all your accounts, just to make sure you're not cheating.
• 2:18:17
  No, we don't. Yeah, it's good.
• 2:18:20
  It's good. It is definitely worthwhile, I
• 2:18:24
  think. Well, that's it.
• 2:18:25
  Have you got anything else you'd like to add to the show?
• 2:18:28
  I don't think so. We've got the game.
• 2:18:29
  We've. Got our game for a.
• 2:18:30
  Month are we doing the? Game for next month.
• 2:18:32
  Oh yeah, yeah, one other thing. Before we leave the topic this
• 2:18:36
  show. When we release it is.
• 2:18:38
  Usually about an hour, an hour and a half, maybe up to two
• 2:18:40
  hours, an hour and a half to two hours.
• 2:18:42
  It takes 3 hours to record because we chat so much before.
• 2:18:46
  That is basically our own fault. It doesn't take that long to do
• 2:18:49
  the show. I logged in before.
• 2:18:52
  You guys because you had audio issues, but I'm on, you know, 3
• 2:18:55
  hours 43 minutes, so yeah, it. Is good fun anyway if you want
• 2:19:02
  to go to. The squeaky wheel.
• 2:19:04
  I realised I didn't find my laptop.
• 2:19:05
  Up so you have to make like conversation for a couple of
• 2:19:07
  seconds now and then we'll we'll clear it out from the final edit
• 2:19:12
  well. We added some new games.
• 2:19:14
  Yeah, yeah, didn't the last time, so that should be good.
• 2:19:17
  Some of the new games we've added.
• 2:19:18
  See what? See what's going to come up on
• 2:19:20
  there. Have you got many games left on
• 2:19:22
  your? The list that you wanted to
• 2:19:23
  finish? Well, my only my.
• 2:19:25
  List is just ridiculous, you know, since I've come back off
• 2:19:28
  holiday, I keep thinking, oh, I might play that game and then
• 2:19:33
  another game pops to mind. Then another game pops to mind.
• 2:19:35
  I get into that. I get into a bit of an anxiety
• 2:19:39
  sort of thing, you know, like what they call that analysis
• 2:19:43
  paralysis or whatever kind of thing where I keep thinking
• 2:19:45
  which game to play. I've got too many games to play.
• 2:19:48
  So I end up not playing any games because I've warm my brain
• 2:19:51
  out thinking about which game I should be playing.
• 2:19:54
  So yeah, I, I was thinking about starting something.
• 2:19:57
  Well, not, it's not new, as in I'm buying something new, but
• 2:20:00
  I've got games in my pile which I just haven't even played, like
• 2:20:03
  some of the Persona games and such like.
• 2:20:05
  And you think stuff. Well, why?
• 2:20:06
  If you're going to start that, man, that's 60 or 70 hours.
• 2:20:10
  So, but there's a lot to be said for starting a game which has an
• 2:20:14
  ending insight, you know, maybe like a little 8 hour game or
• 2:20:17
  something, which often turns into like a 12 hour experience
• 2:20:21
  or longer. But yeah, it's difficult.
• 2:20:24
  Isn't it? So many of them games, they're
• 2:20:26
  just so big, I mean, and it's a shame not to play them as well.
• 2:20:31
  That's it, yeah. I really want to to get into
• 2:20:35
  there's a Death Stranding, but I'm really worried that it's
• 2:20:37
  going to take forever to get through that.
• 2:20:39
  That is a big. Yeah, it is big, yeah.
• 2:20:43
  It's humongous. Yeah.
• 2:20:47
  So I've been looking at the shorter games.
• 2:20:51
  Right, The wheel is alive. What we've got left on.
• 2:20:55
  There. So we've got left on the wheel.
• 2:20:56
  We have sack boys. Big Adventure.
• 2:20:58
  Overcrooked. Overcrooked.
• 2:21:00
  No, Overcooked. That's a bad overcooked.
• 2:21:01
  It's Microsoft. Trek to Yomi.
• 2:21:04
  That would be a good one. Yeah, don't.
• 2:21:07
  Start me again Minecraft dungeons or Detroit becoming
• 2:21:12
  human. Oh which I'm scared about thing.
• 2:21:14
  So I will now start to spin or hit the wrong button and make my
• 2:21:18
  screen fall over is what I'll do.
• 2:21:20
  First off, Click to spin. Here we go.
• 2:21:29
  That is. Minecraft.
• 2:21:32
  Dungeons, isn't it? Or not on the edge of it.
• 2:21:34
  No. Trek to Yomi.
• 2:21:35
  Trek to Yomi, I'm trying to think.
• 2:21:37
  What is? I'm going to have to go.
• 2:21:38
  But I do know what it is, but I can't remember what exactly what
• 2:21:41
  it is. Well, it's kind of in tune.
• 2:21:44
  It's a Japanese 1, so it's kind of in tune with what you call
• 2:21:47
  it, isn't it? I know it's not the same game,
• 2:21:50
  but Ghosts of Yota we're kind of themed.
• 2:21:52
  Yeah, in that respect, yeah. Excellent.
• 2:21:55
  Oh, nice. Perfect.
• 2:21:57
  It looks visually cool, doesn't it?
• 2:22:00
  Four to six hours to complete. On the normal playthrough as
• 2:22:02
  well, apparently it's a nice and easy, even actually better
• 2:22:04
  achievement it does. Doesn't it?
• 2:22:07
  I'm just. Looking at that one.
• 2:22:09
  Does it very nice. I do want, don't they?
• 2:22:12
  That's that's awesome. Pick that game out for me.
• 2:22:16
  Yeah, but that looks really cool.
• 2:22:17
  Yeah. Because yeah, PlayStation Plus
• 2:22:19
  free one month. Wasn't it from memory?
• 2:22:20
  There was. I'll just pass me by.
• 2:22:23
  Cool. I could have.
• 2:22:26
  I had one thing I forgot. About earlier on that we didn't
• 2:22:29
  really do a have you crumbled in any format and bought anything
• 2:22:33
  which earlier on Oh yes, I well. I can say it handle heart.
• 2:22:39
  I didn't crumble. I didn't buy anything.
• 2:22:41
  Paul, how about you? Well, no.
• 2:22:43
  Well, I'm not allowed to I. Don't have a choice, do I
• 2:22:45
  really? I, I mean, I have the easy life
• 2:22:49
  really because I can play PlayStation Premium, some of the
• 2:22:53
  demos and such like I'm going to give Kingdom come deliverance to
• 2:22:57
  a little girl just for the tech ability, just to see how it
• 2:22:59
  looks on the PlayStation. Well, in the the interest.
• 2:23:03
  Of being the odd one out, I haven't.
• 2:23:07
  Bought any games? At all.
• 2:23:09
  I've been very very good on that and my intention is not to but
• 2:23:13
  it was my birthday back in July and I pretty much didn't get a
• 2:23:15
  lot apart from money which sat there which I shoved in the
• 2:23:19
  corner. So a gift if you will.
• 2:23:22
  I managed to in a clearance section of a site, get a new
• 2:23:27
  graphics card from my computer which I have purchased.
• 2:23:31
  Should have been just under £700 new and I paid 400 for it.
• 2:23:35
  So it's some insane amount cheaper than it should be and I
• 2:23:39
  did pick it up. I'd used my birthday money for
• 2:23:42
  it and I sold my old graphics card.
• 2:23:44
  So I don't know where I stand there.
• 2:23:46
  Is that a gift? Is it a joker?
• 2:23:48
  Do I? Have I lost both?
• 2:23:50
  It's not really affected me buying any games and I have no
• 2:23:52
  intention on doing so, but with that amount of money I could
• 2:23:57
  save on it. I went ahead and did it.
• 2:23:59
  So I don't know that leaves me. If you want to put a warning
• 2:24:02
  siren in at the start of this or anything, call like you dickhead
• 2:24:05
  or something, feel free. But I have bought something.
• 2:24:09
  I do. I know I feel good, but I don't.
• 2:24:11
  I mean it's kind of the amount I'd never be able to afford 1
• 2:24:14
  otherwise I suppose really. And it was kind of a one off at
• 2:24:17
  that time and I had the money as a gift so I thought it was.
• 2:24:22
  I did it, let me go. Guilty as charged.
• 2:24:25
  I think it's like buying a new controller.
• 2:24:27
  Really. It's you're not, you haven't
• 2:24:29
  bought another game. It doesn't.
• 2:24:30
  You haven't added any games to your In fact, it's more of an
• 2:24:33
  incentive to play your PC. Yeah, I mean, a lot of stuff
• 2:24:35
  runs a lot. Nicer, as you can imagine, but
• 2:24:37
  at the same time, I do feel, I do feel guilty with that.
• 2:24:40
  I have a spectacularly large conscience, but it was kind of
• 2:24:43
  like, I can't really not afford to do it, I suppose really.
• 2:24:47
  So I don't want to think that I've broken the rules.
• 2:24:50
  I mean, I'm open to comments from from anyone else or, or
• 2:24:54
  listening, to be honest with you, on where I stand with it.
• 2:24:57
  I have no intention on buying anything else at all this year.
• 2:25:00
  And it's sat there quite happily in the computer now.
• 2:25:03
  And I'm playing the stuff I was playing before.
• 2:25:05
  But it was a, it was a purchase I did make this year.
• 2:25:08
  So there we have it. Guilty as charged.
• 2:25:10
  We'll let you make a poll. Yeah.
• 2:25:12
  I'll poll that and sort of. Say like and see how it goes.
• 2:25:15
  We'll see. What community thinks that'll be
• 2:25:17
  good? Next month's game is Trektiomi,
• 2:25:20
  which is slowly downloading into my PlayStation.
• 2:25:23
  Very good. Have you got anything else to
• 2:25:25
  do? I think that's it, no?
• 2:25:27
  That's as far as I know. That's it.
• 2:25:29
  OK, I would insert the previously recorded socials
• 2:25:32
  here. OK, socials e-mail
• 2:25:35
  yearofshame@gmail.com Twitter if you're still there at year of
• 2:25:39
  shame, blue sky at year of shame dot B sky dot social.
• 2:25:42
  Just search year of shame as one word.
• 2:25:44
  Twitch Year of Shame, Facebook Year of shame as a group, and
• 2:25:48
  we're on YouTube at MLGYOS because somebody got tired of
• 2:25:53
  typing. You're of shame.
• 2:25:55
  OK, talk to you later. And there we go.
• 2:25:59
  Because all stuff tends to say thank you.
• 2:26:00
  Thank you to anybody who's listened this far.
• 2:26:03
  And thank you, Ben. Thank you, Paul.
• 2:26:05
  Oh, thank you. See you next time.
• 2:26:07
  Good luck. Thank you very much gents.
• 2:26:09
  Pleasure as always, as we can prove by spending nearly 4 hours
• 2:26:12
  on air. But it's always great fun.
• 2:26:14
  Another great thing about doing this, to be honest with you.
• 2:26:16
  So yeah, great to talk to you both.
• 2:26:17
  Absolutely. Always a pleasure.
• 2:26:20
  Thank you. Bye.
• 2:26:22
  See you later.