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Epic Games Layoffs, DLSS 5 Debate, and Jeff Kaplan Speaks Out · Boss Rush Podcast - A Podcast about Video Games

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  Hello everybody, welcome back to the Bosters Podcast, a great
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  place to play games and be better.
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  I'm one of your hosts, Corey Derrigan.
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  Alongside me, as always, is the PC Must race himself.
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  Laurent Dawkins. Hey everybody, what's poppin?
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  Hey, Laurent, I have a question for you.
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  Hey, what's up? I've AI have a really quick
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  question for you. Yeah, since.
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  Since we're doing this digitally, does that mean I get
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  $10 off our our podcast meeting? You know, depending on depending
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  on what region. Yeah, like depending on what
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  region you're in. Yeah.
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  And also and also, are you a, are we, are you, are you trying
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  to get wooed into resubscribing? Did you?
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  You didn't. You didn't see the Nintendo
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  news, did you? No, I did not.
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  They announced today that starting in May, all of their
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  first party digital games will be $10 cheaper than their
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  physical ones, starting with Yoshi in the whatever coloring
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  bookshelf there whatever Yoshi games coming out.
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  OK, now I know. OK, just just listen to this.
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  I know this is trying to like basically like it's, it's trying
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  to, it's trying to appease the the the physical collector
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  market. I know, I know somehow, but I'm
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  like I'm like how is it more expensive to buy physical than
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  digital even though like how is? It more expensive.
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  Yeah. Because you got to print the
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  print the. Wait a minute.
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  OK, I mean, I mean make the. Box ship it to the store, pay
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  the stores something. I mean, I know the logistics, I
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  know logistics just. Why are you asking?
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  It could make sense I if anything they should be dropping
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  the price overall for everything.
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  So like if if I mean. That's true too.
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  If the digital version is $10 cheaper now, then the physical
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  version should also have been $10 cheaper.
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  It makes it makes no sense. Hey man, I I nothing.
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  Makes sense except for the fact is I bought one of those
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  high-powered like like like super SD cards for the for the
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  for the switch too. So guess what?
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  I'm going to fill that bitch up. Oh the Super Express supercard
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  or whatever Did you see the Mario branded one is like 4
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  times the amount of like a regular standard 1.
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  It makes no sense. It makes no sense, but I mean
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  the. 512 Mario one the 512 gig Mario 1 is like 219 dollars or
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  something ridiculous. I'm like, you know how much I
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  bought my standard black one for at a Walmart $54.00.
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  So if you need that Mario on your memory card that you're
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  never going to see more power to you.
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  Anyways. Hi Leron, how are you?
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  How's how's your week going doing All right?
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  I do not want to. I do not want to mess up the
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  stream talking about my woes tonight because I've, I've got,
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  I've got issues. I've got As a matter of fact, if
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  I ran issues, if I if I, if I ran them off, I would sound like
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  one of those 80s country songs. Oh God.
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  Yeah. 80s country songs. Yup.
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  Hey Nelly, how's it going? Nelly's here, party's here.
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  The party has arrived as they say, so oh hey, you know what?
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  I'm trying to find something in a folder and it's the wrong
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  folder because I'm an idiot. Oh, we can.
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  I can mark clips 00. Yeah, man.
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  Dude, dangerous. Dude I made I made 24 clip 24
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  shorts this week and scheduled them all out.
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  I just saw one of the power block ones.
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  And it was great. It's nice and easy in this
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  program. It's so easy here dude.
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  I'm going to I'm going to make some sort of like master library
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  though for like just to clean them up a little bit in a in a
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  video editing thing that was. That was still anticlimactic.
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  Did you see what? What?
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  I did. I saw something pop up on the
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  screen. I thought it was like.
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  That was something that was still anticlimactic.
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  I was hoping it was going to be more fanfare.
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  Explains a lot about Euler on anticlimactic.
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  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm such a let down.
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  I'm such a let down. You don't let me down the run.
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  Oh, I'm so happy for that. You know what, Lauren?
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  You know what else I'm I'm happy for?
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  What? What?
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  This next this next episode of Nintendo Pile Blog that's coming
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  out that hasn't been recorded yet that you said you were going
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  to be on, but you're not on yet because we haven't recorded it
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  yet. Yeah, yeah.
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  Did you? Know you know this is the 10th
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  anniversary episode and guess who's not here for it?
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  Oh, I don't know the host for the the the show.
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  Ed won't be on the show. No, he's at PAX.
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  Oh. Why don't you just postpone?
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  Why don't you just postpone the recording for that weekend?
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  Nah, I can't do that. We haven't missed.
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  We haven't missed an episode in two years.
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  We're not doing. That I mean it would make sense
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  though. He wasn't on the first episode
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  so it doesn't matter. Nelly once again, make it make
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  sense, right? But put that in the chat Nelly
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  make it make sense. Ed wasn't on the 1st 4 episodes.
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  OK, but you know, Ed's a fixture now.
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  Yeah, is he? Is he?
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  He's supposed to be. He's something.
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  He's supposed to be no, don't, don't make me become the
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  fixture. Don't.
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  Hey, there's a stretch of time you're on more episodes than I
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  was. Cuz then cuz then everyone's
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  gonna be like, yeah, like La Ron's been like, been like
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  orchestrating this whole thing the whole time.
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  Remember the time? Remember the time when I was
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  actually on like 4 different Boss first network podcasts
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  during the week? Because I was.
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  It wasn't that I was that excited.
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  I just love to be there. I mean, yeah.
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  I was on, I was on, I was on. Why do I keep forgetting the the
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  the Xbox One? Arsenal X.
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  Yeah, I was on Arsenal XI was of course, of course there was
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  Crossroads. I was on the Boss Source podcast
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  and that's and sometimes I was on Nintendo Battleblock.
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  I was that, you know, I was doing.
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  You're going to be on Tower Casual soon too, because of the
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  marathon, yeah. And we hit and back when we were
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  doing standard definition, you know, before there was a thing
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  called after Dark. Like, jeez, I was.
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  Well, the arm's getting around. Yeah, I know.
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  That was a pass around. Yeah, those were the times, huh?
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  Good times. Yeah, it was, it was, it was
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  fun. I I still, I still like it.
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  I still I. I wish, I wish I had the time to
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  do all that again, 'cause it, it was fun, but also certain people
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  in my life don't, don't, I don't know, probably didn't like that
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  I spent that much time on all this.
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  So. There's a, there's a wild part,
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  there's a wild part of, of, of me that's like, maybe it's time
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  to have podcasting and consecration be my job, you
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  know? Well, Leron.
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  But it's wild because I like my real life job, you know, and I
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  don't want to give that up. Well, Leron, that meeting we had
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  but didn't have this weekend that we're supposed to have was
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  kind of about that, but we'll talk about it later.
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  Nobody cares about what we have to say here.
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  They just show up and listen and watch.
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  And I don't know, hate, hate, hate us talking about Marathon.
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  Apparently someone, someone told me that game and someone
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  commented on one of the shorts that said it was that game was
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  gonna fail and that it was Dick's Slop.
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  I'm like, what does that? What does that even mean?
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  If if they had to turn around and if they had to turn around,
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  say like a game is Dick's slop literally a term that I have
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  never heard before That means that means.
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  Hashtag so it must mean something, right?
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  No, no. That means that means that
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  person is suffering from from Dick's slop and they need to go
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  see. They need to go see a
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  proctologist. We've been in a lot of comments
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  about marathon people. People do not like marathon like
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  the error. People like to hate on marathon,
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  I should say, which is look fine with me.
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  I like it. So good on you.
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  I guess if you want to hate on it.
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  I like it. I'm enjoying it quite a bit
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  actually. Although.
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  I did not get to do the cryo archive the special map thing
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  yet so I'm too scared. Why?
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  Why are you scared? Because it's the hard map and I
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  don't have people to play with right now on a regular basis.
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  Oh well, there's that. So those are those are the two
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  reasons. Plus I don't have the gear you
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  have to you have to have a gear kit worth like 505,000 credits
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  or something. And I do not have that either.
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  Not even close. I kind of kind of close, but
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  it's fine. I'll get there someday
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  eventually, maybe someday. Here's the thing.
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  I cannot play for like a week like I haven't and go back and
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  not miss anything. Just like unlike Destiny, 'cause
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  this is just a regular old shooter.
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  You just have to be good at shooting stuff and finding stuff
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  and I'm fine with that. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
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  wait, wait, wait. Hold on in.
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  In the chat, Nelly just Nelly just admitted that Resident Evil
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  9 scared her. How so?
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  Did this scare you, Nelly? Resident Evil I heard it's
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  scary. Maybe it is, I don't know, like
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  I played, I played the, I played the opening.
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  I didn't play it at all. I played with, I played with
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  Leon. Badass motherfucking Kennedy.
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  I mean, that's, that's fair. It's Leon, you know.
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  I mean. Did you play with DLSS 5 on
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  though where he's all shiny and. No, I can't 'cause I didn't get
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  AI, didn't get a preview, I didn't get a preview build of
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  that and and I have AI have a sneaking feeling that it's going
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  to be locked behind the RTX 6000 series graphics.
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  No, it's I think the the card the lowest card it works on is
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  like the 5070 I think. The lowest card.
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  OK, so I'm disqualified. I have a four.
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  I have a 4080 super. Well, whose fault's that?
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  Not my fault because it's not seriousness.
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  Because it's not seriousness. I don't think I want it.
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  I don't, I, I don't, I don't want it anyway, you know, and
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  it's not, and it's not because like I'm a detractor of it.
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  I just, I just feel like I, I just, I just feel like I don't
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  need it. I don't need it.
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  Nobody. Needs anything, Lauren.
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  Well, nobody. Nobody true.
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  I didn't need this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles hat that
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  cost $10 more than every other hat on the website, but I bought
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  it, you know, and it's comfortable.
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  And if it's my head sometimes, all right, Well, you know, we
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  could, we could, we could talk like this all night.
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  But we, we have other things to, we have other things to talk
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  about. Leron, I fixed the dock.
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  Finally, we finally have a run a show dock.
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  Holy moly. What?
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  What'd you do? Jedi Survivor is $7.00 on Steam
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  right now. Oh my gosh dude, it's worth
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  every penny and then some. I would buy it.
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  It's it's, it's so good. I would buy it twice for $7.00.
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  You think I'm kidding, but I'm not.
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  Dude, that game is amazing. It's it's arguably the best Star
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  Wars game ever made. Well, I finally bought.
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  I finally bought Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth cause 'cause cause, oh,
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  you know, what did you see? Did you see Ben Starr versus
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  versus versus Matt Mercer? I did.
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  I don't think I did. The Square Enix 2026 sale.
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  Oh my God, the the campaign for that was oh, it was, it was
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  gorgeous. Let's just put it that way.
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  It was like, man, like these these two guys, like they hammed
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  it up. And what was the line There was
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  the there was a line. OK, first of all, if, if, if Ben
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  Starr, if Ben Starr was was trying to like, you know, not
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  lean into like all the hypersexual stuff that surrounds
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  him. It it it's over now because he
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  said something. I got to I got to I got to find
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  the line. But man, it was something, it
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  was like, man, like I'm like, is this, yeah, no, no, I'm, I'm,
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  I'm for, I'm for real. I'm like, is he, is he, is he,
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  is he pandering to the, to the Moe's 'cause it was, I was like,
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  Oh my, like I, I, I gotta find it.
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  I may have to, I may have to, I may have to mute my mic while I
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  while I find it because I don't want anybody to hear it 'cause I
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  need to repeat it. He has to repeat it, he says.
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  Hold, hold on. Like if, if you if you, if you
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  got any housekeeping stuff to do, do it now while I find this.
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  I mean, I really don't, but I could, I guess.
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  Eventually, someday, maybe. Yeah, man, I'm running out of,
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  I'm running out of housekeeping. Let me tell you, though.
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  Let me let me tell you what though they're on.
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  Let's talk about what we've been playing.
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  OK. Because I finished a Metroid
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  game. Woo Hoo, you're gonna be proud
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  of me. I beat I beat Metroid 0 mission.
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  Yes, yes. I love that dude.
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  That game's so good. It's such it's arguably the best
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  looking Metroid game in my opinion.
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  It's incredibly good looking. Uh oh, here he goes.
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  OK. He's meeting himself.
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  OK, so First off he starts with celebrated mouth for hire.
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  Well, he he is a celebrated mouth for hire.
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  What? What's what's so dirty about
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  that, Laurent? You know, you know, you know.
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  I I know nothing, I just work here.
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  Yeah, hold on, hold on, hold on. It's coming, It's coming.
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  Hold on. That's what she said.
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  I thought that's what he was going to say.
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  He might, yeah. Yeah, like so yeah, like wait,
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  that were foolish enough and in this case desperate enough to
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  once again give me money for the use of my unique combination of
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  tongue lips. Hold on for my unique
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  combination of he said. He said so fast you combination
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  of tongue, lips and vocal cords. What he uses to make money.
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  This this this guy? He's this guy, he's an, he's an
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  expert at that. You know, he's, he's good at it.
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  Song lips and vocal cord. What do you want from the man?
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  That he's good at it. He is good at it.
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  He is very good. I just hey, hey, hey, Ben, just
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  just just just stay pretty and, and keep talking to us.
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  Talk, keep talking to us for the next 15 years like.
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  I mean, he's probably going to for a while, so.
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  All right, so back to you achievements.
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  Achievements Oh I I beat I beat Metroid 0 emission.
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  What was your 70? 72%.
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  Not bad, not bad, not bad. So you got to see, here's the
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  thing a little bit under the under the suit.
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  I wanted, so I was trying to like, I wanted to go back and
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  like explore more, but I didn't realize I was at the end.
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  You can't. Well, yeah.
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  Like once you. I forget where.
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  I forget where it's at, but it's right.
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  Yeah. Like, it's like, it's like it
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  flips a switch. Like the moment you get to
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  Taurian, you're done. Yeah, 'cause there's nothing,
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  'cause like the next thing you know, you're in.
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  You're in what? What was, what's the name of the
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  place? Chozodia, Yeah.
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  Which is a brand new. Which is brand new.
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  And then you're doing the puzzle thing and then you get yours,
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  you get the, the Super suit or whatever it's called, I think
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  it's a gravity suit. And then, you know, once you
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  make your way out of there, you somehow like I was making my way
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  out of there. And then I just found myself
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  fighting what metal, metal Ridley or whatever.
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  And then I was then they were like, you're you're done.
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  You won. And I'm like, oh, I wasn't done.
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  I want to keep playing. So I did the thing, Laron.
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  I jumped right into the return of Samus.
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  Now let me tell you not wait. Wait, Wait, wait, wait, wait,
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  wait, wait. Not the not the 3DS version, the
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  Game Boy version. Let me tell you, dude, there are
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  two things that have saved this version because this game is
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  actually pretty fun. But there are two things.
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  One thank God for the Game Boy Color mode, and thank God that
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  the creator of Metroid worked on the Game Boy Color and made a
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  Metroid color scheme for it. Yeah, OK, OK.
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  OK, thank God for the Internet and maps because like even with
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  maps I'm still lost, right? And so like what I've done is
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  like if I get lost at any point, at any point, I just make my way
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  back up through the map to my ship and start from there.
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  Unless I realize, unless I like recognize where I am because
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  I've I've gotten lost so many times, I've started recognizing
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  areas quite really well. I remember bumbling my way
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  through that back. There's only, there's only this.
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  That's that's the main reason why I've only played the Game
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  Boy game and beaten it one time. Like it, like and like.
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  And I've, and I've always been a Metroid fan and I played the
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  original Metroid so much. And of course I've played Super
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  Metroid so much, but I've only played Metroid 2 Samus Returns
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  one time. Ever.
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  Yeah. And so like, So what I've, what
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  I, what I wanted to do, I was like, I want to, I want to jump
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  into Super Metroid, but I, I should probably play the second
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  one first just to be that guy, Ron, just to be that guy.
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  So, so I'm, I'm curious, what are you going to do?
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  You going to, you going to play, you going to play Super Metroid
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  and then you're going to play Metroid Fusion and then what
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  you're going to. After after Super Metroid.
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  After Super Metroid, I'm going to take a little Metroid break,
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  but then I'm going to play Metroid Fusion and Metroid Dread
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  back-to-back. Oh, I was gonna, I was getting
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  ready to ask, are you gonna, are you gonna like just before you
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  play? OK, so you're gonna play Dread?
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  OK, I was gonna, I was gonna ask if you were going to play the
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  game The, the, the DS Samus returns Metroid 2.
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  No, I don't feel like plugging in my 3DS and buying the game.
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  And you know. Oh, you never bought.
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  You never. You never got the game.
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  No dude, once the switch was out my 3DS was toast.
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  Oh, OK, OK, OK. Well, that that makes sense.
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  I never I plus I wasn't like a huge Metroid person anyway,
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  ever. I really I only like really ever
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  enjoyed the original Metroid, which is why I liked Zero
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  Missions so much. But I never finished Zero
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  Mission because I could never figure out that dumb.
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  The Chisodio puzzle because I was stupid.
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  Well, here's the thing. Here's the thing though.
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  Like like like Samus Returns, Metroid 2, like of a lot of the
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  combat conventions from that game are what appears in Dread.
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  Yeah, yeah. So I, I mean, I don't know,
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  maybe I won't take a break after Super Metroid, depends on how
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  Metroid it out I am. But I, I actually am really like
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  finding the process of playing Metroid 2 very, very fun.
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  In a weird way, as frustrating as it is to get lost all the
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  time and like trying to find my way through certain areas, it is
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  incredibly easy once you figure out like, where to go, right?
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  The hardest part of the game is figuring out where to go and how
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  to get back to where you need to go, right?
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  That's the hardest part of the game.
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  Fighting the Metroids is extremely easy because like the
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  whole point in the game is you have to destroy all the Metroids
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  and then you have to escape, right?
• 22:09
  Like that's, that's the whole premise of the game.
• 22:12
  So yeah, I don't know. I the the other thing though, I
• 22:17
  don't really like is like you have to go back to if you want a
• 22:22
  certain weapon, you have to like go back and get it because once
• 22:25
  you find a new weapon, it like gets rid of your old ones.
• 22:29
  So like I had like the wave beam at one point and now I'm now I
• 22:32
  have like a laser gun or whatever and it's like, I don't
• 22:36
  know, I kind of like the wave one better.
• 22:38
  I kind of like the ice beam the best, but you know, it doesn't,
• 22:41
  it doesn't like allow you to swap weapons.
• 22:44
  You can only kind of keep one. But I don't know, it's cool,
• 22:49
  It's fun. I like, I, I like the way the
• 22:51
  games, the game looks. There's something about that,
• 22:54
  that that 8.8 bit Metroid aesthetic that's like really
• 22:59
  charming, but also you play 00 Mission and it's like, Oh my
• 23:05
  gosh, this is like the best pixel art game I've ever seen in
• 23:09
  my life. It feels like sometimes in
• 23:11
  certain areas. I did kind of find it surprising
• 23:15
  though that in at least so far, and I'm like, according to my
• 23:20
  map and my guide, I am in the fourth out of six areas.
• 23:26
  I have not fought in a boss yet. I don't think there are any
• 23:28
  bosses except for that the mother Metroid or the the Mega
• 23:33
  Metroid. Response.
• 23:34
  That's not that's not true. You're how?
• 23:36
  Wait, you have a Metroid counter, right?
• 23:38
  Yeah, I think, I think there's 30 Metroid.
• 23:40
  Don't know. There's 39. 39 OK, OK.
• 23:44
  How many do you remember having left at this point?
• 23:46
  I think I have one E1 left. Because there is an area of the
• 23:51
  game where it's like Metroid heavy.
• 23:53
  Yeah, it's the, it's the 5th area and I just finished the 4th
• 23:58
  area according to my map, because it tells you on the map,
• 24:01
  it tells you where all the weapons and all the Metroids
• 24:03
  are. So yeah, I don't know, man.
• 24:09
  It's, it's cool, it's fun. I I don't think it's very
• 24:12
  difficult. Like I said, like I said, the
• 24:16
  the hardest part is trying to figure out where to go.
• 24:17
  Dude, if I had to play this on like the Game Boy Pocket or the
• 24:19
  regular Game Boy, I would have been like, no way you would
• 24:21
  have. Lost.
• 24:22
  You would have lost your mind. There's no way, but I get 6
• 24:26
  colors now. They're on, so it's fine.
• 24:28
  You get yellow, orange, red, black, blue and white.
• 24:38
  That must be nice. I didn't, I didn't have a Game
• 24:40
  Boy Color version of play of it, Play of it back in the day.
• 24:42
  So like, yeah, like. Yeah, so it's like the the Game
• 24:47
  Boy Color, like when you turn it on with a regular Game Boy game
• 24:51
  in it, if you press the direction on the D pad and then
• 24:55
  press A, when the game was loading up, it changed the
• 24:58
  colors of the game. So, you know, if there's a Mario
• 25:03
  color scheme, A Metroid color scheme, a Zelda, a Zelda color
• 25:07
  scheme, and a oh geez, I want to say, I want to say Pokémon, but
• 25:12
  that's not right. There's something, there's
• 25:15
  another one other one of Nintendo's other big franchises
• 25:20
  there's a color scheme for. So yeah, it's fun.
• 25:25
  I'm enjoying it. I am excited to move on to a
• 25:27
  better Metroid game, but this process has been really fun and
• 25:32
  interesting. I get the appeal of these games.
• 25:36
  Like it. It took me a while to understand
• 25:38
  the appeal of these games, right?
• 25:40
  Like the let's just get lost and kind of explore and find new
• 25:45
  weapons and and power ups and stuff.
• 25:47
  But yeah, man, it's cool. I like it.
• 25:54
  That's cool. That's cool.
• 25:56
  I'm kind of I'm. I'm glad you're actually having
• 25:58
  fun with it. Maybe.
• 26:00
  Yeah, I don't know. I don't know, Like, like I like
• 26:02
  I said, I have a fond memory of the game, but the same time,
• 26:04
  like the memories also marred in the fact that, you know, like
• 26:08
  that that game was a struggle for me back then.
• 26:11
  So yeah, it was literally it was it wound up being one of those
• 26:14
  things where like, you know, yeah, I'm good and foul.
• 26:18
  I almost wonder if they will ever put it on something modern.
• 26:25
  I I was going to say the switch or the switch too but I know
• 26:28
  people hate it when I say oh port stuff to switch so you
• 26:34
  know. But I would not mind a some sort
• 26:38
  of port of the 3DS version of that game.
• 26:41
  I would love a port. I would love a port.
• 26:43
  A 3DS version. Man, those games have to be
• 26:46
  coming soon, right? Like I, I don't know, I feel
• 26:48
  like, I feel like those games have to be coming at some point.
• 26:51
  I feel like it but also at the same time like I I I I have
• 26:55
  trust issues. With Nintendo, no way.
• 27:01
  What do you mean? Whatever do you mean?
• 27:05
  That's just the way I feel. I'm, I'm, I'm sorry, you know,
• 27:08
  like, you know, like it's, it's we're way past.
• 27:12
  Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
• 27:14
  We're way past that point. Part of me, part of me wonders
• 27:20
  if they're a ever going to do it, but B, they, they padded
• 27:24
  that second screen for the Switch and switch to like 2
• 27:28
  years ago that you attach via USBC to the top of the thing.
• 27:33
  And a lot of people think that that's what, when DS Virtual
• 27:36
  Console is going to come over. But I'm like, you're really
• 27:40
  going to do that and try to, because there's no way 3DS games
• 27:44
  are going to be on, on the NSO thing, right?
• 27:47
  Like there's no way. Those games are too new in my
• 27:49
  opinion. In my, in my opinion, those that
• 27:54
  service stops with the Wii in the DS at the very latest.
• 27:58
  You know, I mean, they've already sold all the good Wii U
• 28:01
  games, so I could put that console on there and buy all the
• 28:06
  good ones. I mean all the Wii U games
• 28:08
  except for the two Zelda games everybody wants.
• 28:10
  Yeah. I don't know, I I just I hope
• 28:16
  they make a good decision when they port these games over, you
• 28:18
  know, like anyways, old games, that's what I've been playing
• 28:27
  and some marathon, but I don't really know what I'll say about
• 28:29
  it except that it shoot shoots gun shoot real good and game is
• 28:33
  real scary when you play by yourself.
• 28:37
  Ron, what are you playing? What are you doing?
• 28:39
  I took your advice and I got back on front mission three.
• 28:41
  I'm, I'm almost complete. I, I, I, I'm pretty sure by this
• 28:45
  weekend I'll have the game. I'll have the game beat at the
• 28:47
  pace I'm going. Yeah.
• 28:50
  And like I, and like I said in previous podcasts, I'm only
• 28:53
  playing 11 mission. So like, 'cause there's two,
• 28:56
  there's two, there's two, there's two stories, stories,
• 28:59
  I'm only playing one story. Like this other story I'm
• 29:01
  playing right now, the Elisa missions is the, is the one that
• 29:04
  I'm going to like finish and then I'm going to move on
• 29:06
  because like after this, I really need to like get, get
• 29:10
  back on Monster Hunter Stories 2 and beat that.
• 29:12
  So like, I can play Monster Hunter Stories 3.
• 29:15
  Nice. The season this season, season 3
• 29:19
  has debuted for Tekken. I it's, it's more of the same.
• 29:26
  I'm mad that, you know, like they did a rank reset.
• 29:28
  So like, yeah, I dropped 4 ranks from where I was at.
• 29:31
  So, so yeah, so I've got to battle my way back up to the to
• 29:34
  the rank I, I previously attained.
• 29:35
  So I'm a little little mad, but I'll be all right.
• 29:41
  I'll be all right. I'm sorry, Laron.
• 29:43
  No, no, don't be sorry 'cause I never.
• 29:45
  Dropped rank in my heart. Neither do you, buddy, Neither
• 29:50
  do you. Oh jeez, I don't know what that
• 29:52
  means anymore. But yeah, but yeah, like it was
• 29:57
  it Lasser was kind of a Lasser was kind of a hard week for
• 30:01
  games for me. Like like, like I want to play
• 30:03
  games, but I just didn't have the drive to play them like the
• 30:06
  way I wanted to. So so yeah, these things, these
• 30:09
  things happen. It's kind of like, kind of like,
• 30:12
  kind of like sometimes, you know, like when you're in the
• 30:14
  mood, when you're in the mood to do the thing, but you can't get
• 30:16
  it up. Yeah, Yeah.
• 30:19
  And no type of stimulation can get you there.
• 30:21
  So, you know, I'm just going to go to bed.
• 30:25
  I'm just going to go to bed. That's.
• 30:27
  Literally, that's literally how it is.
• 30:29
  Like like, yeah, I pulled the wrong ally out.
• 30:31
  Like, you know, I turn it on, you know, like I go through the
• 30:33
  motions. I'm like, I'm just going to go
• 30:35
  to bed, hibernate, put it, put it back on the, put it back on
• 30:39
  the night stand. I I hear you.
• 30:44
  Been there. Yeah.
• 30:48
  Did you hear, by the way, Speaking of fighting games, not
• 30:51
  this fighting game, but did you hear all the the controversy
• 30:55
  around Alex apparently and Street Fighter 6?
• 30:59
  Yeah, yeah, I have. I have.
• 31:01
  It's, it's, it's kind of hilarious.
• 31:02
  What's going on there? I don't.
• 31:04
  I don't know my Street Fighter lore, so I don't know exactly
• 31:09
  how to tackle that conversation. It's weird.
• 31:13
  To say the least, it's kind of. All I can say is that it's
• 31:18
  weird. Yeah, yeah.
• 31:21
  Yeah, it is. I mean, there there's some for
• 31:26
  those who who have been not paying attention to Street
• 31:31
  Fighter because like, if you're not into it, why would you?
• 31:34
  But apparently Alex it married and impregnated his sister or
• 31:40
  something. Is.
• 31:41
  Yeah, yeah. Are they really related?
• 31:44
  Are they adopted? Are they second cousins?
• 31:46
  I heard at one point like, what's going on?
• 31:48
  We. Have we have, No, we have.
• 31:50
  I, I don't, I do not know. Like there was, I used to be, I
• 31:54
  used to be very deep in the Street Fighter lore.
• 31:55
  And then like, kind of, I kind of got lost in the sauce after
• 31:58
  Street Fighter 4, actually not even after Street Fighter 4,
• 32:03
  around Street Fighter 4, you know, Yeah, it's weird.
• 32:11
  Yeah, I just, I heard that I'm like this.
• 32:13
  What? This can't be real.
• 32:15
  Is this real? And then people are like, oh,
• 32:17
  it's real. I'm like you.
• 32:18
  Know cause 'cause you know what, Here's the thing about it,
• 32:20
  right? This is the year 2026.
• 32:23
  There we, we, there's no such thing as bad localization.
• 32:27
  Now there's no such thing. Yeah, it's just man.
• 32:33
  Yeah, Look, I I understand the culture and stuff is different,
• 32:37
  but Dang, that's just kind of. Yeah.
• 32:40
  I think I'm going to draw the line there.
• 32:43
  Be like, you know. I mean, it's a good line to
• 32:46
  draw. It's a firm line to draw.
• 32:51
  So I don't know. Again, I don't know my Street
• 32:53
  Fighter lore. Maybe there's something in there
• 32:55
  I'm missing, which there probably is.
• 32:56
  There usually is. Yeah, there's something weird or
• 32:59
  not, there's something we're missing there.
• 33:01
  There is. I'm telling you, I, I, I don't
• 33:04
  know if I need to know more. Anyways, are you, are you
• 33:11
  watching anything? Are you, are you doing anything
• 33:13
  else besides you're you're always watching Star Trek or
• 33:16
  something that didn't that show just get cancelled?
• 33:19
  Yeah, man, I. This the CW1?
• 33:23
  Somebody called CW slot trek. OK.
• 33:25
  So yeah, like, OK, so first of all, yeah, like Starfleet
• 33:30
  Academy actually turned out to be be a very good show.
• 33:33
  Like you had. Yeah, like every show, every
• 33:35
  show in that first season has like some ups and downs, stuff
• 33:37
  like that. But I feel like, I feel like the
• 33:39
  UPS kind of outweigh the downs for the most part.
• 33:42
  But like a lot of a lot, a lot of people in the Trek community,
• 33:45
  the people who are actually for Star Trek and not just like the,
• 33:48
  the Boo detractors. Because like it, you know, like
• 33:51
  it's like it's, it's woke or there's too many, there's too
• 33:54
  many women and gay people, you know, in positions of power and
• 33:57
  all, you know. Oh man, you mean something Star
• 33:59
  Trek's had in it since, I don't know, the very beginning.
• 34:03
  Well, yeah, maybe not the gay people in the very beginning,
• 34:05
  but you know. No, but I mean.
• 34:07
  But yeah, like, you know, like, like, shoot, you had a black,
• 34:10
  you had a black woman on the bridge who actually had rank and
• 34:12
  could actually like take command of the ship.
• 34:13
  Well, she never took command of the ship, but, you know, she had
• 34:16
  the, she had the authority to to do stuff like that.
• 34:19
  But yeah, like, so, yeah. So start for the Academy.
• 34:23
  Start for the Academy just just wrapped, just wrapped recording
• 34:26
  season 2. And it's been announced that
• 34:28
  this is going to be the final season.
• 34:30
  Even though like the, even though like the showrunners were
• 34:33
  at least were at least working on three seasons of the show.
• 34:36
  And there's, and there's rumour and from an interview with one
• 34:39
  with one of the showrunners that, you know, like season 2
• 34:41
  was going to end in the cliffhanger.
• 34:43
  Well, now, well, now the show is like, now the show is rap, rap
• 34:47
  filming and stuff like that, you know, and now it's in, now it's
• 34:50
  in post production. Are we about to get a Star Trek
• 34:53
  show cancelled on a cliffhanger or ended on a cliffhanger?
• 34:58
  It it's, it's, it's, it's, it's weird.
• 35:00
  It's bizarre. These companies just don't know
• 35:04
  how to take care of these IPS man.
• 35:06
  They don't. Well, they Well, yeah, there's
• 35:08
  that. OK, so, so the marketing for
• 35:10
  Star Trek Star for the Academy probably didn't do it any favors
• 35:14
  because a lot of people really did walk in there thinking it
• 35:16
  was Star Trek 9-O21-O. They probably did even I even, I
• 35:20
  was like, you know what? I'm a Trekkie.
• 35:22
  I'm definitely going to watch it.
• 35:23
  But even I was even, I was like, what's what, what is this?
• 35:27
  Like, I'm going to watch it, but what is this?
• 35:29
  Like it doesn't have an identity and you know, like.
• 35:31
  The thing is this like this, this was the one that I'm like,
• 35:34
  I might jump into this. This seems like a a show that I
• 35:37
  would watch. Yeah, I think and that's, and
• 35:40
  that's the crazy part, right? Like, like there are people,
• 35:44
  there are people who are who are coming into the coming into the
• 35:46
  community and they're like, hey, I just got through watching Star
• 35:49
  for the Academy and it was actually really good.
• 35:51
  Now I'm going back and watching the older Star Trek stuff.
• 35:55
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 35:58
  So. So it's it's it's it's it's it's
• 36:01
  interesting. You know, I enjoyed Season 1.
• 36:04
  I was definitely looking forward to like, Season 2.
• 36:06
  I'm still looking forward to Season 2.
• 36:07
  But now it's like, you just can't.
• 36:09
  You just told us that there's no more of this show coming, you
• 36:12
  know? So, like, how?
• 36:13
  How enthusiastic should I be to watch a show that's rumored to
• 36:17
  end on a cliffhanger? Yeah, it's like, it's like these
• 36:20
  shows were like, I finally decide to like I'm going to sit
• 36:23
  down and watch this. I think one one example is that
• 36:28
  the Cowboy Bebop live action thing on Netflix.
• 36:31
  I. Was watching, I was.
• 36:33
  Watching it and I was like halfway through and I'm like,
• 36:36
  man, I actually kind of really like this show.
• 36:39
  I'm like really I'm, I'm invested.
• 36:41
  I mean like I'm invested. And then they're like, oh, we're
• 36:44
  we're cancelling it. And I'm like, yeah, well then
• 36:47
  why should I finish watching it? And that was the dumb part too,
• 36:50
  because they dropped the entire season all at once, which is
• 36:53
  which Netflix typically likes to do depending on certain shows.
• 36:57
  Like some shows they'll actually drop like, you know, half the
• 37:00
  season. Well, that's the thing now,
• 37:02
  that's the current thing. Now they're dropping half of
• 37:03
  their season, you know, and then like, you have to come back like
• 37:06
  6 weeks later to watch the other half, you know, or some, or some
• 37:09
  shows are actually getting the episode by episode treatment,
• 37:12
  which is Netflix needs to like pick a lane.
• 37:16
  They, they, they got us used to like the entire season dropping,
• 37:19
  which in some regards, like I'm, I'm not a binge, I'm not a binge
• 37:23
  watcher. So you know, like I, so I always
• 37:26
  like, you know, like take my own pace when like an entire season
• 37:29
  of a show that I want to watch is out.
• 37:30
  Because like, I'm, I'm not trying to burn my excuse me, my
• 37:34
  chair. My chair is doing the thing
• 37:35
  where like it just lowers. I, I, I don't, I don't bend
• 37:42
  shows like I like watching them at my own pace and stuff like
• 37:44
  that. So even when a show like drops
• 37:46
  the entire season, like I don't watch it all in one one sitting,
• 37:50
  you know? Yeah.
• 37:52
  I actually like, I actually like, I actually like when shows
• 37:55
  are are on the week to week format and stuff like that.
• 37:58
  It gives me excitement for the next episode especially,
• 38:01
  especially if and, you know, stop me if, stop me if I sound
• 38:04
  like a crazy person when they give you a preview for the next
• 38:07
  episode, I get that excitement, you know, but yeah, like, so,
• 38:14
  yeah. So like for for example, all the
• 38:16
  Star Trek shows come out like basically episode by episode.
• 38:20
  So, you know, like there's always that there.
• 38:22
  I always have that anticipation. Sometimes they will drop 2
• 38:25
  episodes. Sometimes like either at the
• 38:26
  beginning of the season or at the end of the season, they'll
• 38:28
  drop 2 episodes. And.
• 38:31
  And I love it. But but number one, they were
• 38:35
  they were like with with with the Academy being cancelled.
• 38:37
  It was like it wasn't strong enough in the Nielsen ratings.
• 38:39
  So I'm like, first of all, the Nielsen ratings only work for
• 38:42
  stuff that's airing on live television.
• 38:44
  Why are you on live over the air broadcast television?
• 38:47
  Why are? You.
• 38:48
  Why are you using the Nielsen's to so they have?
• 38:51
  That the size they need for to to even have that be like a
• 38:56
  barometer is like when was the last time that was even like?
• 39:01
  Here's here's the thing. Here's the thing, OK, right.
• 39:04
  So, OK, let's see something here.
• 39:07
  The Bosphorus network has, has, has nearly 2500 followers, OK,
• 39:14
  If we were a streaming network and we're putting out the and
• 39:17
  well, we do put out the Bosphorus podcast every week,
• 39:20
  right? If we were a streaming network
• 39:21
  and we use that the logic to a certain extent, nearly 25 for
• 39:29
  for the podcast to be a success on these metrics, nearly 2500 of
• 39:34
  our followers would need to be watching the show during that
• 39:39
  week whenever it drops. It doesn't have to be right then
• 39:41
  when it drops live. But the that makes no sense
• 39:45
  because like a lot of people subscribe to these networks to a
• 39:49
  lot of people subscribe as networks for various different
• 39:51
  things. Not true.
• 39:52
  When CBS All Access dropped before it became Paramount Plus
• 39:56
  a a ginormous follow through was because Star Trek Discovery was
• 40:01
  premiering. Also a lot of people wait for
• 40:04
  the whole season to be out before they start watching it.
• 40:06
  Yes, that. Too binge it, right, Like that's
• 40:09
  like a huge thing for, you know, that that was like a big thing
• 40:13
  for Halo, right? Where like the numbers were down
• 40:15
  until the last episode came out and then everybody watched it
• 40:17
  and like, yeah, man, talk about a show that nobody liked that I
• 40:21
  really liked. We both did, I think.
• 40:25
  Yeah, we, I, I, I enjoyed Halo, but then again, like I think.
• 40:28
  And they ended on a cliffhanger. Yeah, but then again, I had
• 40:32
  different I had different person to Halo because like I I'm not
• 40:34
  invested in the gaming series. So, you know, like this was cool
• 40:38
  for me. Like I knew I wasn't getting the
• 40:41
  whole story, like the whole origin story of like, of like,
• 40:44
  of like, of like the what we have what we have the the we
• 40:49
  have the. It's the covenant with like,
• 40:52
  yeah. The covenant, like the flood,
• 40:54
  the flood was coming. Yeah, all that stuff.
• 40:58
  You know, I knew we weren't getting a true like organ story
• 41:01
  that it would be nice if we kind of like at least had like some
• 41:04
  some some more some some stronger lore based on the game
• 41:07
  and stuff like that. But at the same time, you know,
• 41:09
  like I, I enjoyed it for what it was and it was easy for me to
• 41:12
  get get latched on to it because like I had no real like
• 41:15
  attachment to like the games. You know, I played Halo, you
• 41:19
  know, I played Halo coop with a buddy.
• 41:20
  You know, that was that was that was a fun experience.
• 41:24
  Then I was back when it was when it was brand new.
• 41:26
  Like my buddy, my buddy bought an Xbox just so he could play
• 41:29
  Halo. And he's like play, play with me
• 41:31
  please, 'cause I don't know if I'll play it by myself.
• 41:33
  And yeah, like, that was the most fun I've I've had playing a
• 41:37
  shooter Co-op with someone since since since Perfect Dark.
• 41:43
  Yeah, I I don't, I like Halo. I'm not like a, I'm not like a
• 41:51
  super lore person for Halo though.
• 41:53
  Like I, I don't care that they went off script or whatever.
• 41:55
  I actually really liked this version of Halo, but.
• 42:00
  I like what they I like what they did with the I like what
• 42:03
  they did with the Spartans like you like.
• 42:04
  Master Cheeks. Well, you know what?
• 42:07
  Actually, Pablos Rieber's portrayal of Master Chief was
• 42:11
  not bad at all. And I.
• 42:12
  Liked it, I thought it was good. Yeah, you know, and also just
• 42:16
  showing that, you know, like you showing, showing the Spartan
• 42:19
  program, you know, them plucked up as they were kids and stuff
• 42:21
  like that. Like I.
• 42:24
  Which they've done in like those side things for for Halo, like
• 42:29
  board on to Dawn was like a the prequel movie to Halo four.
• 42:34
  I think was really good at that. Yeah, yeah, I remember that
• 42:37
  actually, because I was working game.
• 42:39
  I was going to Gabe, I was going GameStop at the time when when
• 42:42
  that when that thing came out. But yeah, but yeah.
• 42:45
  Wait, was I working games? I remember, I remember something
• 42:48
  that was basically that was basically like a cinematic
• 42:51
  attempt at, at, you know, like some, some, some Halo stuff
• 42:54
  before the new game came out. But yeah, like, but yeah, I was
• 42:58
  watching, I was watching the Halo series like live, you know,
• 43:00
  like week to week when it was coming out.
• 43:02
  And I was, I was paying attention to all the stuff
• 43:05
  people were saying. And they're saying, oh, this is
• 43:07
  trash. Like Master P Master Chief
• 43:09
  doesn't speak. I was like, do you really want,
• 43:11
  do you really want #1 do you really want a live action show
• 43:14
  where everybody else is talking except for the hero?
• 43:16
  I know it's so stupid. It's like and this is going to
• 43:19
  happen when the the movie comes out too right is like lake
• 43:21
  doesn't talk well, you really. This is why I.
• 43:25
  Hope he talks and not just. Dude, I hope the first thing he
• 43:29
  says is excuse me you Princess, I hope.
• 43:32
  I hope that's the first thing I will die laughing in the
• 43:35
  theater. I hope that's the first thing he
• 43:37
  says. But like the thing too is this
• 43:40
  is like, you know, I think when you get to that, this is what I
• 43:47
  was saying with with the Zelda movie is like Link shouldn't
• 43:49
  even be in it. It should focus around Zelda and
• 43:53
  the political kind of political war that she that they're having
• 43:58
  with the Garudo or whatever and the rise of Gannon.
• 44:01
  And like if Link is in it, he shouldn't even be in it until
• 44:03
  the very end. Or if it's a trilogy like
• 44:06
  they're saying, like maybe he doesn't even appear until the
• 44:08
  last movie or something, or the end of the second movie or
• 44:10
  something, you know, but. Yeah, but, but yeah, like, I'm,
• 44:17
  I'm, I'm kind of, I'm kind of hurt.
• 44:19
  I'm kind of hurt. That's that Star Trek Starfleet
• 44:21
  Academy, like basically is ending before it really gets a
• 44:24
  true chance. You know, the second season is
• 44:26
  probably going to be a really, really strong season because
• 44:29
  because they'd already said they're going to do some things
• 44:30
  differently than what they did in season 1 and season one.
• 44:33
  Season 1, in my opinion was not bad, but I also think there's
• 44:37
  something else bigger at play going on here.
• 44:39
  Like I, I feel like with like the, the paramount and you know,
• 44:44
  like the like, you know, the Warner Brothers stuff, you know,
• 44:46
  happening, you know, odd stuff. I feel like it's just, well,
• 44:49
  there already is a regime change because the Ellisons, you know,
• 44:52
  are, are taking over and stuff like that.
• 44:53
  But I also feel like it's a, it's another, it's another
• 44:56
  changing of the guard as far as things go.
• 44:57
  So cause like A cause like star for the Academy was supposed to
• 45:01
  be a show that keep us going after the final two seasons of
• 45:04
  Star Trek, Strange New Worlds happens.
• 45:07
  We we still got two seasons left of Strange New Worlds.
• 45:10
  It's season 4 and the final season that's season 5.
• 45:13
  And Academy was supposed to kind of like keep us going after that
• 45:16
  and stuff like that. But now it seems like
• 45:18
  everything's going to end all about the same time.
• 45:20
  And I don't think there's any new Star Trek announced right
• 45:23
  now. So I think once again, I think
• 45:27
  once again, as Trekkies are going to be looking at a Star
• 45:29
  Trek drought, which I don't know, like based off of, based
• 45:34
  off the, the BS has been going on with the, with the, with the
• 45:37
  fan, with the fan community. I don't know, maybe, maybe,
• 45:40
  maybe it's time to let it die, You know, for now.
• 45:43
  Like, you know, maybe, maybe people will be more appreciative
• 45:46
  of what, what comes back, you know, afterwards and stuff like
• 45:48
  that. I don't know.
• 45:50
  I'm, I'm just, like I said, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm,
• 45:53
  I'm not upset. I'm just, I'm just hurt.
• 45:56
  Yeah. No, I I get it.
• 45:58
  I understand. Yeah, I did start watching, I
• 46:01
  did start watching that show Paradise with Sterling K Brown.
• 46:05
  It's it's it's yeah, just got renewed for another season and
• 46:09
  stuff like that. It's actually pretty good.
• 46:11
  Like, I mean, you know, without, without spoiling a lot of the
• 46:13
  plot, basically, you know, Sterling Kane Brown plays plays
• 46:16
  a member. I believe it's a Secret Service
• 46:19
  because basically he is he is on a on on a watch duty for the for
• 46:23
  the president United States. And this isn't a post
• 46:25
  apocalyptic time. Something something's gone down,
• 46:28
  which I'm not going to, I'm not going to spoil for anybody.
• 46:30
  You're going to find out. But yeah, like, it's actually,
• 46:34
  it's actually pretty good. Yeah.
• 46:37
  For you people are like that, like animated shows and stuff
• 46:39
  like that. Like my roommate turned me on to
• 46:41
  this show called Primal by by by Samurai Jack, Powerpuff Girls
• 46:45
  creator Gindi Gindi Tarkovsky. And Primal basically follows a a
• 46:50
  caveman who who who joins forces with a with a dinosaur.
• 46:56
  They, they both have a tragic origin and is basically, first
• 47:01
  of all, there's no dialogue in the show besides like just the
• 47:04
  roars and the grunts and all that stuff.
• 47:06
  You know, there's no dialogue from the show.
• 47:08
  So basically you have to you have to be, you have to be
• 47:11
  dialed in and watch and watch the watch the show.
• 47:16
  It's in the third. Actually, the third season just
• 47:18
  wrapped. Yeah, the third season just
• 47:20
  wrapped the show. I'm on season 1 and I'm on
• 47:22
  season the fifth episode of season 1.
• 47:25
  And man, like it is, it is amazing.
• 47:27
  First of all, I think this is probably Tarkovsky's best
• 47:31
  project, and that's coming from watching Samurai Jack and and
• 47:36
  Symbionic Titan and what's crap. There was another, there's
• 47:41
  another one I like. I like The Powerpuff Girls, but
• 47:45
  you know, Powerpuff Girls is not my thing.
• 47:47
  You know, like I. It's totally his thing, guys.
• 47:51
  Yeah, but, but yeah, but yeah, this is, this is.
• 47:55
  Are you a puff hurler on? No, no.
• 47:58
  And and before you even asked, I've never been a brony.
• 48:02
  I I wasn't going to ask that, but.
• 48:04
  Yeah, yeah, but but yeah. So this I feel like this is best
• 48:08
  project. If you have if you guys haven't
• 48:10
  seen primal disease, you have access to HBO Max, Go ahead and
• 48:13
  check that out. Speaking of Speaking of HBO Max,
• 48:17
  I am currently watching season 2 of the pit.
• 48:19
  The pit is the Pit was like one of the best shows I watched last
• 48:23
  year, the first season of it and like it's it's good.
• 48:26
  It's I like procedural shows, like particularly medical drama
• 48:30
  shows. And this is, and this is not
• 48:32
  some some, some some Grey's Anatomy like nonsense.
• 48:36
  This is, this is legit like, you know, medical emergencies and
• 48:39
  crises and stuff like that. That's some Grey's Anatomy I've
• 48:46
  I've also been watching a show, Lauren.
• 48:48
  What show? Well, first of all, Daredevil
• 48:51
  came back this week, so I'm very excited to watch.
• 48:52
  That. That's right.
• 48:54
  It did, yeah. I've so my son has been really
• 49:00
  into Power Rangers. We've talked about that.
• 49:02
  Go go, Power Rangers. And so I've decided to, I've
• 49:06
  been watching. I've been watching it from the
• 49:08
  very beginning. So I'm on seas.
• 49:12
  I guess it would technically be season 6 or 7.
• 49:16
  You're watching the original old school Power Rangers.
• 49:19
  I don't know if I can go. Back.
• 49:20
  So here's the thing. I watched.
• 49:23
  So I watched all three seasons of the Mighty Morphin Power
• 49:27
  Rangers. By the way, did you know there's
• 49:28
  50 episodes a season? Yeah.
• 49:32
  For that, for that show. I knew that.
• 49:35
  It's like, Oh my gosh. That's why do you think why do
• 49:37
  you think it was so easy? Why do you think it was so easy
• 49:39
  for him to get get get that pick that up over here in the States
• 49:42
  like? I know, I know.
• 49:43
  I just, it's just like, Oh my gosh, 50 episodes of season is
• 49:46
  crazy because I mean, they were only on set for 8 minutes of
• 49:49
  episode, so like, you know what I mean?
• 49:53
  Yeah, you could get 3 episodes, the equivalent of 1 episode and
• 49:57
  three episodes from them. But and then there was the
• 50:02
  interstitial season, which I don't know if they count that as
• 50:04
  season part of season 3 or it's own season, The Alien Rangers.
• 50:10
  Which? Was it was the season they did
• 50:12
  where they, like the Power Rangers lost their powers and
• 50:16
  were turned into little kids essentially.
• 50:20
  Not like the reason they did that interstitial season was
• 50:24
  because they were, they had literally run out and reused
• 50:27
  footage from the Japanese show for three seasons.
• 50:32
  And so like they were in each season of the Japanese shows,
• 50:35
  only one season, by the way. And they reused that footage so
• 50:40
  many times that they were trying to figure out what to do.
• 50:43
  And so like the the next iteration of Power Rangers was
• 50:46
  Zeo, which I watched like part of it when I was growing up, but
• 50:51
  then I stopped, I don't know, probably got distracted for
• 50:55
  something else or something, but I watched it.
• 50:58
  Zeo was really good. I actually was like shocked at
• 51:01
  how great Zeo was. And then it goes from Zeo to
• 51:07
  Turbo, which is like the worst thing I've ever watched in my
• 51:11
  life. So I was, I was going to say the
• 51:15
  main reason why I lost track of Power Rangers is because Power
• 51:18
  Rangers, Power Rangers was, was becoming a thing when I was
• 51:20
  graduating high school. And and so like Power Rangers
• 51:24
  was like strong for like maybe like a year or two, like while I
• 51:27
  was still in high school. And then I graduated high school
• 51:29
  and I immediately joined the military.
• 51:30
  So like all that training and stuff, I lost track of the show.
• 51:36
  Yeah, so like, I, I, I watched all of Turbo because I was like,
• 51:40
  Oh my gosh, I'm going to watch this.
• 51:42
  And I hate it already. It sucks because they're,
• 51:45
  they're like, they're robots, right?
• 51:47
  Like they go from dinosaurs to samurais to shoguns to like, you
• 51:54
  know, whatever the Zeo thing is, it's like a giant ninja kind of
• 51:57
  thing. And it's like, that's cool,
• 51:59
  right? But then they go to race cars.
• 52:02
  Yeah, OK, that was weird. I heard about that.
• 52:04
  That one was weird. And then like the movie that
• 52:07
  they did, it was supposed to be like the transition episode from
• 52:11
  Zeo to Turbo and they and like nobody saw the movie.
• 52:16
  So like wait which? Movie.
• 52:18
  The Power Rangers Turbo movie. And.
• 52:22
  It was like nobody saw it, so like everybody was confused when
• 52:26
  they changed suits and powers and wondering why there's this
• 52:31
  kid in the on the team now. As they should.
• 52:36
  But then we get to then we get to Power Rangers in space,
• 52:40
  Laron, and let me tell you. I had no idea that was a thing.
• 52:45
  Power Rangers in Space might actually be the best season of
• 52:50
  Power Rangers that I've watched so far.
• 52:53
  No kidding. It, it's, it gives me like,
• 52:57
  yeah, there's like, it's like, it's still like a monster of the
• 52:59
  week thing and there's still like a, you know, it's still
• 53:02
  really cheesy and whatever, but it gives me like Firefly vibes.
• 53:08
  Oh. They like, go on missions, they
• 53:11
  go to like. Wait, you actually, you actually
• 53:13
  watched Firefly? Yeah, I did not know that.
• 53:17
  I I I figured, I figured, I figured that was definitely a
• 53:21
  show that you would never have. Watched No, I I watched it was
• 53:24
  on Netflix and like it was only 13 episodes or something right
• 53:28
  So like I just. Everything sounds about.
• 53:30
  Right. Yeah, I, I watched it because
• 53:31
  everybody said it was amazing. It was on Netflix right around
• 53:34
  the time like The Avengers came out and everybody's like still
• 53:37
  liked Joss Whedon. And I watched it.
• 53:43
  It was, it was good. But like this season is really
• 53:46
  giving me that type of vibe of like space travel and like doing
• 53:51
  weird quirky things on these different planets.
• 53:53
  And like, there's actually like a story behind the entire
• 53:57
  season, right? Instead of just like a monster
• 53:59
  of the week thing like the old Power Rangers show was.
• 54:02
  OK. That's kind of that's kind of
• 54:04
  interesting. It kind of sucks though, because
• 54:07
  like it definitely pulls from those old seasons of like you,
• 54:12
  if you didn't watch them and don't know what's going on, then
• 54:15
  you're kind of like, oh, who's this guy?
• 54:18
  How long? How long was Rita the bad guy?
• 54:21
  Rita Repulsa How long was she the bad guy?
• 54:24
  Three seasons all through. Well, it was her the first
• 54:28
  season, yeah. And then the second season it
• 54:30
  was kind of a mix of her and Lord's Ed, which was like the
• 54:33
  red guy with the cool looking grill helmet.
• 54:35
  Wasn't wasn't she like once she didn't wind up becoming she was
• 54:39
  like a henchman of Lord's Ed or. Something they got married in
• 54:42
  the show and like she like put a love spell on him because he was
• 54:47
  like trying to make her a henchman and so she put like
• 54:51
  gave them a love potion. They got married.
• 54:52
  OK, see. That's just I knew.
• 54:54
  I knew henchman was something part of it.
• 54:57
  Yeah. And then then after that, it was
• 55:02
  the in the Zeo season, it was the Clockwork Empire, which is
• 55:07
  like a hold. All the enemies were made out of
• 55:11
  like clock parts. Which was so so basically
• 55:15
  steampunk. Yeah, essentially.
• 55:19
  And then Turbo was just like it. It kind of sucks because they
• 55:24
  wasted some really good characters in Turbo.
• 55:27
  Like Diva talks is the new villain in Turbo and she's in in
• 55:31
  space also. But like it had like this weird
• 55:34
  submarine theme to it, but like man.
• 55:41
  And like the Phantom Ranger was cool, was a cool character
• 55:44
  because you never really figured out who it was.
• 55:46
  And like, the Blue Sentinel character was like the space cop
• 55:50
  that came in from time to time, but you never really figured out
• 55:53
  who any like who they were, you know?
• 55:57
  But yeah, in space is actually like, it's really good.
• 56:01
  I'm actually surprised at how much I'm enjoying it because
• 56:06
  when when turbo came on the first time around, like when it
• 56:09
  was new, I was like, I'm out, I'm out.
• 56:11
  I have no interest in cars. Like, there's only one remaining
• 56:15
  original cast member left. I'm done.
• 56:18
  Holy shit there was like there's nearly 1000 episodes of the
• 56:20
  show. Power Rangers, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 56:24
  They're they just put out new episodes up until like 2023.
• 56:29
  Yeah, 30 seasons, 977 up episodes.
• 56:33
  Yeah, my son really likes Dino Fury and Cosmic Fury, which were
• 56:36
  the last three seasons. And then we watched the movie
• 56:41
  The Once and Always. Forever.
• 56:45
  Yeah, I just, I just saw a listing for that.
• 56:47
  It was OK, it was fine. It it it's kind of hard to do
• 56:50
  when like one of the character or two of the characters are
• 56:54
  dead and two of them don't want to come back.
• 56:57
  So like, it's kind of weird, but whatever, it was fine.
• 57:03
  It was, it was nostalgia, right? I mean, it was fine, but you
• 57:07
  know, I mean, the, the guy that played this is the green Ranger,
• 57:10
  you know, committed suicide and the original yellow Ranger died
• 57:15
  in a car accident. So.
• 57:18
  Hey, hey, Nick, what's up? Nick's here.
• 57:23
  Ivan News. Yeah, from the movie.
• 57:25
  That was that movie. Not Canon, by the way.
• 57:27
  Officially not Canon. Apparently it's Canon in the
• 57:31
  Multiverse Saga, the the Shattered Grid Saga, as you
• 57:35
  might call it. Ivan News, which is the comic
• 57:37
  book saga. Ivan News is not Canon to the
• 57:40
  series. I didn't know that.
• 57:42
  Show. I always thought he was.
• 57:44
  I always thought he was like, maybe it was like a big bad.
• 57:47
  Nope, that whole movie is not Canon.
• 57:51
  Wow. Which is hilarious.
• 57:54
  Wow. Yeah, it's funny because like
• 57:58
  everything they do in the movie, like getting the new powers and
• 58:00
  the new Zords or whatever, the next season of Power Rangers
• 58:04
  after the movie came out is literally all about them getting
• 58:07
  their new powers and stuff, and it happens totally differently.
• 58:12
  OK. The Burger King toys were lit.
• 58:17
  Yeah, they were, man. They were the Zords.
• 58:19
  And you put the little Power Rangers in the in the Zords.
• 58:21
  It was awesome. I had them all.
• 58:23
  It was awesome. I remember, I remember I got the
• 58:28
  got the white Ranger 1st and I was like, I'm done.
• 58:30
  This is all I need. It's all I Dean.
• 58:34
  Oh. My God y'all I'm so sorry I
• 58:36
  can't stop yawning like I'm actually I'm actually into the
• 58:38
  show what I can't stop yawning for.
• 58:40
  Some dude. It's I.
• 58:41
  It's, I know. Hey, at least we don't, Hey, at
• 58:48
  least we don't have the peanut gallery like being pissed
• 58:50
  because like, you know, like, you know, like, like, like,
• 58:53
  like, like somebody's watching something on their second screen
• 58:57
  and, you know, like this person's looking down, so
• 58:59
  they're obviously playing video games or on their phone, you
• 59:02
  know, like think. I banned all those people from
• 59:04
  our channel by the way. Go.
• 59:06
  Whoa. Really.
• 59:07
  Yeah. Good.
• 59:07
  Good. Good.
• 59:08
  I'm not going to. I'm not upset about that.
• 59:11
  I'm not either, but other people were.
• 59:13
  So I just kind of, I was like. You know what?
• 59:16
  Yeah. You know what?
• 59:17
  Fuck them. Yeah, comments.
• 59:20
  The comments don't hurt from people I don't know.
• 59:22
  You know what I mean? Yeah.
• 59:24
  Now, Lauren, if you were to say that to me, I would be like.
• 59:29
  Hey Corey, stop looking at your second screen.
• 59:31
  Stop it. I'm sorry you're on the second
• 59:33
  screen. Really.
• 59:39
  You're on my main screen, so I've got all 40, yeah.
• 59:41
  But you have like a super ultra wide IMAX 3D screen in front of
• 59:47
  you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 59:55
  We had some, we had some, we had some, some very angry.
• 59:58
  I don't even know if they were, we can consider them viewers.
• 1:00:01
  We had some very angry people that just did their best to
• 1:00:04
  like, to like to like to like tear us down anytime they could.
• 1:00:08
  Like the but the crazy part was is like, is like, is like I
• 1:00:13
  actually tried to engage them. I tried to meet them where they
• 1:00:15
  were at and they were just like whatever whatever your your
• 1:00:19
  joke. Yeah, you're dumb.
• 1:00:24
  Yeah, we are PC gamers. Nerds PC game.
• 1:00:32
  Look, hey, look. Hey, look.
• 1:00:34
  My PC gives 3000. Dollars on a stick of RAM.
• 1:00:37
  My PC gives me all sorts of pleasure, thank you very much.
• 1:00:40
  I'm sure it does. My PC My PC was the original
• 1:00:52
  Xbox before there was an Xbox. And that's fair.
• 1:00:57
  I mean to be fair Xbox is just APC now so RIP Xbox.
• 1:01:06
  Here's here's the question though as as APC gamer though,
• 1:01:09
  like is it innuendo when I say hey want to come over and play
• 1:01:12
  with my Xbox? No, no it is not.
• 1:01:22
  All right, let me, let me, let me stop being a creep.
• 1:01:26
  LeBron, tell me what's coming out this week.
• 1:01:29
  Why yes, let's see. Well, first of all, you know,
• 1:01:33
  like welcome to our segment called On the DL, basically
• 1:01:38
  games that are hitting the digital storefront this week.
• 1:01:41
  So DL for download. There you go.
• 1:01:44
  All right, so you. Switch players enjoy $10 off if
• 1:01:47
  you're buying digital. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:01:49
  So let's let's get into this, right.
• 1:01:51
  Let's see on the 31st of March, we have Legacy of Cain
• 1:01:56
  Ascendance actually doesn't like we have pricing details for that
• 1:02:01
  one. It's only it's only available in
• 1:02:03
  that weird bundle right now. You have to buy the Defiance
• 1:02:07
  remastered bundle that's 4499 to get it.
• 1:02:11
  Phosphorus. Duke Nukem.
• 1:02:12
  Oh, why? Because I'm always wearing tight
• 1:02:14
  shirts. Is that is that why?
• 1:02:16
  Hey, don't forget Randy Pitchford compared Duke Nukem
• 1:02:19
  Forever to Half Life, okay? So yeah, it's.
• 1:02:24
  True. That, yeah, it's totally true.
• 1:02:27
  Totally True Legacy and Kane Ascendance comes out March 31st.
• 1:02:31
  In this game you enter The Dark World of Nosgoth.
• 1:02:34
  Ascendance is fast is a fast-paced 2D action platformer
• 1:02:37
  built around fluid combat, vertical movement, vampiric
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  powers and skill driven play. It's available on PlayStation,
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  Xbox Series, Switch and on the PC via Steam.
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  The Weaver's Edition of South of Midnight is also available on
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  March 31st from the creators of Contrast and We Happy Few.
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  The award. Running South of Midnight is a
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  spellbinding third person action adventure game set in the
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  American Deep South. As Hazel, you'll explore the
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  mythos and encounter creatures of the Southern folklore in the
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  macabre and fantastic world. When disaster strikes your
• 1:03:12
  hometown, Hazel is called to become a Weaver, a magical
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  mender of broken bonds and spirits.
• 1:03:17
  Imbued with these new abilities, Hazel will confront and do
• 1:03:20
  dangerous creatures, untangle the webs of her family's shared
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  past, and, if she's lucky, find her way to a place that feels
• 1:03:28
  like home. It it'd be available for
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  PlayStation 5 and switch to for the very first time for and it's
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  coming out at 40 bucks U.S. dollars.
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  So yeah, pick it up. Can't wait.
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  I'm excited to play that, all right, Even though I have Game
• 1:03:42
  Pass, so I'm not. I don't have Game Pass anymore.
• 1:03:46
  Actually. I lied.
• 1:03:47
  Yeah, I'm letting whatever the I'm letting my my game pass
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  lapse. I'm letting it lapse whenever,
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  whenever it ends. Like unless, unless of course,
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  like because, because cool thing about my job is I built, I, I
• 1:03:57
  build new PCs for people and sometimes, sometimes those
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  builds, I get a one to three month free trial of X of, of
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  Xbox Game Pass PC. You don't.
• 1:04:06
  Get you? Don't give it to your customers,
• 1:04:08
  that's rude. Some of them, most of the times
• 1:04:11
  they're not gamers. Like actually a lot of PCs that
• 1:04:13
  I've been building lately have not been gaming PCs.
• 1:04:16
  A lot of them, a lot of them have mainly been used just for
• 1:04:19
  work. And guess what?
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  I'm not going to empower somebody that's supposed to be
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  working their nine to five job, you know, the ability to play
• 1:04:25
  video games. No, what what type of what type
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  of IT coordinator would I be if I did that?
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  A. A.
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  Fun one. I just work from home playing
• 1:04:35
  playing on the Xbox game pass like OK I'll.
• 1:04:41
  Play these games for you while you work.
• 1:04:45
  Yep, exactly. All right, on April 1st, Goat
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  Simulator 3, it's back, It's back.
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  It's batter, it's batter. Yep, take life by the horns in
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  Goat Simulator 3A sandbox game with one main goal 'cause as
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  much chaos as possible as a goat Venture 4th into Goat Simulator
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  3, the BA. Brilliant sequel to 2014 Goat
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  Simulator that puts you back in the hooves of Pilgoor the Goat.
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  It really bothers me that there's not a second game like
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  this is the second game, are you?
• 1:05:21
  That's the joke. That's the joke is that it's
• 1:05:24
  Goat Simulator 3, but it's the third.
• 1:05:26
  It's the second game. So what did they announce 2
• 1:05:30
  years ago at The Game Awards that was not Goat Simulator 3,
• 1:05:33
  but it was definitely a sequel to Goat Simulator.
• 1:05:35
  It was this three. It was good.
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  So this year 3. So this is finally coming out.
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  This is what you're telling me? Well, it's been out on other
• 1:05:42
  platforms. It's coming to Switch 2 for the
• 1:05:44
  first time. Oh, oh, oh, see, I didn't get
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  that far. I didn't get that far.
• 1:05:47
  I was thinking Amazon that that it wasn't out yet.
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  OK, all right. So anyway.
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  So anyway, begin your whirlwind adventure on the on on the
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  sandbox island of San Angora, lick head butt and crash your
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  way through an open world full of quests to solve, C percent
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  uncovered, and NPCS to terrorize.
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  We won't tell you how to play accepting a tutorial, but
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  provide the means to be the goat of your dreams.
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  And yes, it's coming to Switch to on April first.
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  You know what? So let me switch this around
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  now. Coming on April the 2nd to
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  PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, consoles, the Switch and PC via
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  Steam is Darwin's Paradox. Dive into the world of the Dive
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  into adventure with Darwin and Octopus as endearing as he is in
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  genius. Torn from the ocean and trapped
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  in a vast and mysterious industrial complex, harnessed
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  his unique talents and abilities to help him uncover many of the
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  dangers and the many dangers and traps in this cat.
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  Captivating. There you go, captivating
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  platformer adventure game. Guess what?
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  You get to beat the Solid Snake as an octopus.
• 1:06:51
  Darwin's Paradox is coming out for $25 on on the platforms I
• 1:06:55
  mentioned, PS Five, the Xbox Series, Switching PC, and in
• 1:06:59
  rounding out the first week of April coming to the PlayStation
• 1:07:04
  5. The Nintendo Switching PC is
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  Motion Wreck, which. Motion Wreck is a recording
• 1:07:11
  puzzle recording puzzle action game where you progress through
• 1:07:13
  stages by recording and playing back your movements.
• 1:07:17
  Is available for 999 U.S. dollars, or 1599 if you get the
• 1:07:21
  digital soundtrack edition that's included.
• 1:07:25
  There you have it. Honestly, I would my pick my
• 1:07:30
  picks for my picks for the for this for the upcoming releases
• 1:07:33
  will probably be South of midnight.
• 1:07:34
  If you haven't already played it, definitely play it.
• 1:07:37
  Definitely you you want to check this out.
• 1:07:39
  I am curious how actually it should play just fine on the
• 1:07:42
  Switch because like it like it's, it's a, it's a beautiful
• 1:07:45
  game, but the but it's not a it's not a heavy game, if that
• 1:07:49
  makes sense. Yeah, I I also am really happy
• 1:07:52
  that they allow you to turn the stop motion features off while
• 1:07:56
  you're playing because it's the cutscenes are in stop motion,
• 1:07:59
  right. So yeah.
• 1:08:02
  That was the part that turned me off when they when they
• 1:08:04
  announced it because I was like, man, this game looks this game
• 1:08:06
  looks terrible. Like is this a work in progress
• 1:08:09
  what they were showing us and kind of find out like it was an
• 1:08:11
  actual feature? Yeah, and which is probably why
• 1:08:15
  they allow you to turn that off, because people were confused
• 1:08:19
  like why is this running so bad? Yeah, yeah.
• 1:08:22
  But I would say I, I would say for sure check out stop at
• 1:08:24
  midnight if you hadn't had a chance.
• 1:08:25
  And also at that price tag, it is definitely worth it.
• 1:08:28
  And then a legacy of Kane ascendance because we need more
• 1:08:31
  legacy of Kane in our lives. And hopefully and hopefully and
• 1:08:34
  hopefully like they're the re releases of all these games have
• 1:08:37
  has basically put in there that we need a new Legacy of Kane
• 1:08:40
  game. You think we're gonna get one?
• 1:08:41
  You think we're gonna get a new one?
• 1:08:43
  Who owns that now? It's.
• 1:08:44
  It's it's, it's 5050. It's who owns that now that
• 1:08:47
  we'll get that, we'll get it that we'll get a new one.
• 1:08:52
  I think Embracer owns it now. Then we might not get it.
• 1:08:56
  Or whatever they're called then. We might not get it, they might.
• 1:08:58
  They might have just been edging us along with these and never
• 1:09:01
  get us give us what we want. Look, I mean, if they keep
• 1:09:03
  laying people off, I mean, look at freaking Crystal.
• 1:09:09
  I was about to say like, like our first topic for the for the
• 1:09:11
  night. Well.
• 1:09:12
  Yeah. Like our first true talk like
• 1:09:14
  topic. This is the way we're actually
• 1:09:15
  about to get into our talking topics now.
• 1:09:17
  Oh my gosh, yeah. Dude, Like this whole layoff
• 1:09:21
  thing, man, it's March. We should have expected these
• 1:09:24
  stories, right? Because everybody's got to lay
• 1:09:26
  people off before the fiscal quarter.
• 1:09:27
  But Epic Games announced what yesterday or today?
• 1:09:33
  That they are laying off 1000 employees and they are shutting
• 1:09:39
  down three-game modes within Fortnite, which is probably the
• 1:09:43
  least of the everybody's problems.
• 1:09:46
  Yeah, even one of the biggest gaming companies in the world
• 1:09:50
  isn't immune to the industry slow down.
• 1:09:52
  Epic Games announced it is laying off over 1000 employees
• 1:09:56
  as engagement for Fortnite declines and the company
• 1:09:58
  restructures. CEO Tim Sweeney said that the
• 1:10:02
  layoffs are due to falling player activity since of 2025,
• 1:10:06
  rising development costs, and broader industry challenges, not
• 1:10:10
  AI. He it did say that not AI.
• 1:10:15
  Alongside the layoffs, Epic will shut down several new several
• 1:10:20
  newer Fortnite modes, including Rocket Racing, Ballistic and
• 1:10:23
  Festival Battle Stage. Now, why rocket?
• 1:10:26
  Why rocket racing? I thought that was I thought
• 1:10:29
  that was one of the most well received modes of the game.
• 1:10:31
  Yeah, I don't know what. Are you going to do with all
• 1:10:33
  those cars you bought? You know what I mean?
• 1:10:36
  Like they they're still selling cars in the thing in the store.
• 1:10:41
  They just, they just had a a like they just had a line of
• 1:10:45
  like Power Rangers ones when the Power Rangers costumes were in
• 1:10:48
  their skins, whatever. Festival Battle Stage sounded
• 1:10:52
  like it could be fun, but it it it it it, it is what it is.
• 1:10:56
  Yeah, it's not the festival. That's not the Guitar Hero mode.
• 1:11:00
  It's just the, it's just some sort of thing, right?
• 1:11:03
  So yeah. I'm actually, I'm actually
• 1:11:07
  surprised the Guitar Hero thing is still it wasn't one of the
• 1:11:10
  first ones on the chopping block.
• 1:11:11
  Because I feel like, I feel like I don't hear anybody talk about
• 1:11:13
  that anymore. Yeah, they're still selling
• 1:11:15
  songs, man. They're like 3 bucks apiece.
• 1:11:20
  Let's see here. They're setting down these modes
• 1:11:25
  as the company refocuses on its core experiences while the game
• 1:11:28
  industry continues to face widespread layoffs and slower
• 1:11:32
  growth. This all comes after Ubisoft
• 1:11:34
  announcing the closure of Red Storm, which is the original Tom
• 1:11:38
  Clancy studio. For those who don't know,
• 1:11:42
  Crystal Dynamics making their fourth round of layoffs within
• 1:11:45
  the last year and PlayStation closing its second studio this
• 1:11:49
  month in Dark Outlaw Games, which they just opened last year
• 1:11:53
  with Call of Duty Zombies veteran, what's his name, Mike
• 1:11:59
  Blendel. It's only been open for a year.
• 1:12:08
  It's too many for anyone out there that's interested in I
• 1:12:11
  threw the I threw the epic game statement in our in our in our
• 1:12:15
  stream chat. Check it, check it out.
• 1:12:17
  Open it in a new tab. Don't, don't, don't close this
• 1:12:20
  tab. Just just look at that.
• 1:12:22
  Open a new tab, keep the stream going, keep us live.
• 1:12:27
  It's just like, Oh my gosh, dude, these layoffs, the Crystal
• 1:12:31
  Dynamics 1 is the one that surprised me the most because
• 1:12:33
  they're already running like I feel like because they were
• 1:12:37
  helping on Perfect Dark, right? They are basically the main
• 1:12:41
  developer on perfect Dark at this point.
• 1:12:43
  And then when Microsoft shut that down, like they've just
• 1:12:48
  been going through layoff after layoff after layoff and they've
• 1:12:50
  got two games in development, they said they were going to
• 1:12:55
  they they are going to see these two Tomb Raider games through.
• 1:12:57
  But like, what's going to happen at Crystal Dynamics in two
• 1:13:01
  years, you know? Don't even realize they've made
• 1:13:05
  some mistakes and picked them up.
• 1:13:09
  Just like, Oh my gosh, like I, I just don't understand how this
• 1:13:17
  industry got this way and how things are so mismanaged.
• 1:13:21
  You know, like, I mean, I understand how things are
• 1:13:23
  mismanaged. I see things get mismanaged all
• 1:13:25
  the time, but it's just like it's it's.
• 1:13:31
  I don't, I'm not stating the obvious here, but it all started
• 1:13:34
  with the pandemic. It it's it's really.
• 1:13:36
  Well, yeah, when I mean, they, these companies got, you know,
• 1:13:39
  all these loans for like, you know, free money essentially.
• 1:13:43
  And then once it was over, it was like, Oh no, we've lost all
• 1:13:47
  this money. As as regular consumers barely
• 1:13:49
  got stimulus checks during this time.
• 1:13:52
  Yeah. I mean, if you had a, if you
• 1:13:54
  were an quote UN quote essential worker, you didn't get stimulus
• 1:13:57
  checks, so. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:13:59
  I'm talking to myself here. Did not because I was working at
• 1:14:03
  the car dealership and I was apparently an essential worker.
• 1:14:08
  So that was neat. But yeah, man, I don't know.
• 1:14:13
  I the thing about the thing about Epic also is like they're
• 1:14:16
  still fighting that epic in Google case.
• 1:14:20
  Which I thought that was quashed.
• 1:14:22
  Still going, man. Wait, wait, no, no, no, I'm
• 1:14:24
  sorry. It was the epic.
• 1:14:24
  It was the epic in in iOS. So they're still fighting Apple
• 1:14:30
  and Google at the same time. Oh my God, I thought that.
• 1:14:33
  I thought I thought that part was quashed.
• 1:14:35
  And they're still spending money on that case and it's costing
• 1:14:39
  them a fortune to do that. And so like, I mean, I
• 1:14:45
  understand, like Fortnite is Fortnite's still huge, but like,
• 1:14:50
  game came out in 2017, man. Like, you know, people are kind
• 1:14:54
  of tired of the battle Royale thing.
• 1:14:56
  You know, these new modes kept people engaged and like, these
• 1:14:59
  different battle passes bring certain people in, you know, I
• 1:15:03
  mean, they've got me with the Power Rangers, but like.
• 1:15:06
  Well, well, let me ask you this because because you kind of you,
• 1:15:09
  you, you still kind of partake in Fortnite.
• 1:15:13
  How long do you think it'll take for versus like get an
• 1:15:15
  announcement that that Fortnite itself is going to be sunset?
• 1:15:19
  I, I don't, I think it's going to be one of those games that
• 1:15:22
  lives forever in some capacity, but I think it's, I think Epic
• 1:15:26
  needs to consider, here's the thing.
• 1:15:30
  Let me let me back up a second. Like they also are spending all
• 1:15:35
  this money on keeping their store open, their storefront
• 1:15:38
  open. What's they're losing money on?
• 1:15:41
  They give away what, 3 or 4 free games every month?
• 1:15:44
  Which doesn't? Oh, it's not something speaking.
• 1:15:47
  Of I'm Speaking of I haven't logged in this week to get my
• 1:15:49
  games, which I, which I'll be honest with you, I think I've
• 1:15:53
  only, I think I've only played like 3% of these games I get for
• 1:15:58
  free. I mean, they're free.
• 1:15:59
  I mean, you might just add them to your It's the, it's the
• 1:16:01
  PlayStation Plus thing where like, oh, just add them to your
• 1:16:04
  library. You can download them later if
• 1:16:05
  you really feel like playing. I don't know how many times
• 1:16:08
  maybe like half a dozen PlayStation Plus games have
• 1:16:11
  played all the way through, you know, but like, it's, you know,
• 1:16:15
  they're spending all this money in these other places and
• 1:16:18
  they're not focusing on the core of their business, which is the
• 1:16:20
  engine and Fortnite, you know, and Fortnite is 9 years old at
• 1:16:28
  this point. The Unreal Engine 5 has a lot of
• 1:16:32
  technical issues that, you know, other companies are trying to
• 1:16:35
  figure out. You know, the Coalition, Xbox's
• 1:16:39
  Gears, Gears of War Studio is helping them kind of rebuild the
• 1:16:44
  engine. And, you know, Ninja Theory also
• 1:16:51
  has been trying to do some technical work on that engine.
• 1:16:54
  So it's like you're essentially outsourcing some of your
• 1:16:57
  engineering. What do you what, like this?
• 1:17:03
  Why can't you just not fight Apple and Google and pay the
• 1:17:09
  30%? You know, you've probably spent
• 1:17:11
  more money than you're ever going to pay them, you know?
• 1:17:14
  Yeah, This started this court case started in what, 2019-2020?
• 1:17:20
  Somewhere in there. I think it was 2020.
• 1:17:22
  I want to say it was 20/20/2019. Sounds a little too far back.
• 1:17:26
  And it's like you're still fighting them six years later.
• 1:17:28
  You're not going to win. Like, I know you're epic, but
• 1:17:32
  they're Apple and Google. You're not going to win if it's
• 1:17:36
  taking you this long, you're not going to win.
• 1:17:38
  You're. Just going to at the best you
• 1:17:41
  can do is a stalemate, right? And either you put your games
• 1:17:44
  back on the on the, the storefront or you don't.
• 1:17:51
  But you, you, you've, you spent way more money on this court
• 1:17:55
  case than you could have ever giving them their 25 or 30% cut,
• 1:18:02
  which, look, I get it, 30% is a lot.
• 1:18:06
  But they're providing you a service on the back end that you
• 1:18:10
  don't have to spend essentially that you're building yourself
• 1:18:13
  and also spending that money on building the back end that
• 1:18:15
  you're fighting against. So it's like, you know, this
• 1:18:20
  store too, man, Nobody wants your store.
• 1:18:22
  Like, you know what I mean? Like, I don't, it just feels
• 1:18:25
  like nobody wants the Epic store either.
• 1:18:30
  It's, it's we, it's a weird situation.
• 1:18:33
  I don't know what are you, what are your thoughts on this whole
• 1:18:34
  situation? I mean, I mean, of course, like,
• 1:18:38
  you know, like we're we're back, we're back to the conversation
• 1:18:41
  piece of like layoffs and stuff like that.
• 1:18:44
  If I'm being if I'm being honest with you, I'm actually shocked
• 1:18:47
  it took this long, you know, at least coming, you know, from
• 1:18:50
  Epic, you know, I'm, I'm surprised, you know, but I guess
• 1:18:54
  they, I guess I have all the sales models that we've seen
• 1:18:56
  from all these gaming companies. They had the they had the most
• 1:18:59
  sustainable ones. So I guess congratulations as
• 1:19:02
  far as that goes. But at the same time, I feel
• 1:19:04
  like I feel like laying off 1000 employees.
• 1:19:09
  That's nothing to sneeze ass to sneeze at.
• 1:19:11
  Wow. Sneeze ass.
• 1:19:16
  That's nothing to sneeze at, laying off 1000 employees and
• 1:19:19
  everything, right? But also at the same time, it's
• 1:19:21
  like, it's like you guys have to do something different or it's
• 1:19:25
  time to like actually invest in new, like new IPS and stuff like
• 1:19:29
  that. You know, like, like, I mean, I
• 1:19:32
  guess, I guess ultimately at the end of the day, Epic's going,
• 1:19:34
  Epic's going to rely on people like, you know, like, like,
• 1:19:37
  like, like using, using the, the Unreal Engine patents and stuff
• 1:19:40
  like that. You know, they're going to rely
• 1:19:42
  on that. You know, the fact that you
• 1:19:44
  know, like they actually have, you know, like have a gaming
• 1:19:46
  division is, is, is amazing. And like I said, kudos to them
• 1:19:50
  for just now like, you know, like having like a massive
• 1:19:54
  layoff. I mean this is.
• 1:19:55
  I mean, this is our second one in two years.
• 1:19:57
  I think, yeah, this is our second one, but 1000 is a big
• 1:20:01
  number. Yeah.
• 1:20:04
  It's a big number. It's crazy to think because of
• 1:20:09
  how much money they bring in with Fortnite it even even with
• 1:20:13
  the game in decline, they're still making more money than
• 1:20:15
  like most other games. It's still in the top three
• 1:20:18
  money making games on every platform, right?
• 1:20:24
  Like you look at, I think you look at Playstation's numbers
• 1:20:28
  every month, like the top three games are Minecraft, Fortnite
• 1:20:33
  and what Call of Duty or Roblox or Grand Theft Auto.
• 1:20:38
  Like those are like the five interchangeable games.
• 1:20:40
  Yeah, yeah, I feel like, I feel like, I feel like Call of Duty
• 1:20:44
  and and and Grand Theft Auto online do you know, are like are
• 1:20:49
  are like always fighting each other.
• 1:20:51
  Yeah, it's, it's still insane that Grand Theft Auto is that
• 1:20:56
  high. You know, people are spending
• 1:20:57
  money though on that game. So yeah, I just, I remember when
• 1:21:05
  Epic was like really still obviously still making games,
• 1:21:09
  right. Like remember when they revived
• 1:21:11
  Unreal Tournament and they brought Unreal Tournament 3
• 1:21:14
  during the 360 PS3 era? We had that that pretty popular
• 1:21:21
  MOBA. What was it called?
• 1:21:22
  Paragon. Oh, I.
• 1:21:24
  Remember that? Yeah.
• 1:21:25
  That was like that was going on for a while and I think they had
• 1:21:30
  some sort of free to play creator or user generated
• 1:21:35
  content version of Unreal Tournament going where like
• 1:21:39
  somebody would create assets and Unreal Engine and you could put
• 1:21:43
  it in the game and sell it and whatever.
• 1:21:45
  Like they were doing something with that like and then
• 1:21:48
  obviously Fortnite took off and it's like, this is what I'm this
• 1:21:52
  is what I'm talking about. Like with mismanagement, like
• 1:21:54
  what is going on? Like how are you spending this
• 1:21:58
  much money? First of all, I didn't even know
• 1:22:00
  Epic had 1000 people working for them, you know?
• 1:22:04
  Like, wait, how could you? How could you not?
• 1:22:05
  I I, I feel like Epic has like a big workforce.
• 1:22:08
  See I. And that might be the problem.
• 1:22:10
  Like to me like because you look at something like Valve and they
• 1:22:14
  have less than 1000 people working for.
• 1:22:16
  Them. Yeah, that's, yeah, that is
• 1:22:17
  true. You know, like across the entire
• 1:22:20
  world, you know, let alone here. So like, I don't know, man, like
• 1:22:29
  how many people can you have either working on the engine or,
• 1:22:34
  or making Fortnite skins at this point?
• 1:22:37
  You know, it just boggles my mind that there there's he came
• 1:22:43
  out in that statement and said we're spending more money than
• 1:22:45
  we're earning. Well, something's wrong.
• 1:22:51
  Maybe you should stop spending money on on things that you're
• 1:22:55
  not successful at. I don't know.
• 1:23:00
  PC gamers sound off in the chat. Do you use the Epic Game Store
• 1:23:04
  at all? You know, do you?
• 1:23:06
  Do you? Yeah, I know some.
• 1:23:09
  Some people use it, some people don't.
• 1:23:11
  Steam users hate it. I don't know.
• 1:23:16
  I'm indifferent. It's it's just crazy.
• 1:23:19
  And then like the other thing too is like Sony closing up the
• 1:23:22
  studio, like what's going on with PlayStation Two, you know,
• 1:23:25
  like 2 Studios. It's just nuts.
• 1:23:31
  Who knows? Who knows?
• 1:23:35
  While we're on Speaking of angry people.
• 1:23:41
  Oh, are we going? Are we going to talk about it?
• 1:23:43
  Let's talk about DLSS for a little bit.
• 1:23:45
  We are going to talk about it. We are.
• 1:23:48
  We are. We are.
• 1:23:51
  It's a popular topic. Yeah, we.
• 1:23:53
  Don't like the topic, but it's a popular one.
• 1:23:55
  I really, yeah, I feel like we, I feel like we had a nice
• 1:23:57
  conversation about it last week. But we can, we can, we can
• 1:24:00
  return to it. Well, this is this is, this is
• 1:24:01
  the aftermath we're on. This is the fight back.
• 1:24:05
  Jensen Wong is fighting back and says that gamers have it all
• 1:24:09
  wrong. Do we?
• 1:24:13
  OK, do we do we. OK, so Corey and I last week as
• 1:24:19
  we were playing well before we even planned last week's show
• 1:24:22
  where we did wind up talking about DLSS 5, Corey was like,
• 1:24:25
  hey, have you seen the DLSS 5 stuff?
• 1:24:27
  And I was like, I hadn't had a chance to yet because I mean, I
• 1:24:29
  was busy at work. And, and you know, if I'm busy
• 1:24:32
  at work to where I can't catch a press release for something
• 1:24:35
  that's in my in my lane and that tells you how busy I am.
• 1:24:40
  Corey was like, hey, I'm going to send you a link and just
• 1:24:42
  check this out. And I was like, I was like,
• 1:24:45
  what's up with the, the glow ups and the justifications of all
• 1:24:48
  the characters? Like I actually had to watch, I
• 1:24:50
  actually had to watch the demo 2 times to actually see the stuff
• 1:24:54
  that was going on in the background.
• 1:24:56
  And which is why I like when we talked about it last week, the
• 1:24:58
  first thing I was like is a, is a, is a, hey, like if you, if
• 1:25:01
  you, if you look past the characters, like the stuff
• 1:25:04
  that's in the background is amazing for what DLSS 5 is
• 1:25:08
  doing. But everybody's on the
• 1:25:10
  justification of character. So here we are.
• 1:25:15
  Yeah, it was definitely, you know, especially Grace from the
• 1:25:22
  Resident Evil. The new Resident Evil was.
• 1:25:24
  Like, see, I'm I'm split, right somebody?
• 1:25:27
  Definitely applied the makeup filter on that that one.
• 1:25:30
  I'm I'm split on this because like in all seriousness, I
• 1:25:34
  didn't see anything wrong with with with the with the after I
• 1:25:39
  didn't, I didn't. At the same time I was like,
• 1:25:41
  this is a little too much, but at the same time I was like,
• 1:25:44
  there's nothing bad about it. It didn't look bad.
• 1:25:46
  It didn't look like the character, right?
• 1:25:48
  That I think that's where. Yeah, that's, I think that's
• 1:25:50
  what it was, right? Because she didn't look tired.
• 1:25:52
  Yeah. I mean, if you look, if you look
• 1:25:54
  past like all the the BS that people just want to like grumble
• 1:25:58
  about AI for grumbling sake, like you look at that and you're
• 1:26:03
  like, yeah, I it doesn't even look like the same character,
• 1:26:07
  you know? And especially with how good
• 1:26:08
  that game looks, right? Like it's one thing where like
• 1:26:11
  the Starfield demo they showed off, I'm like man, this looks
• 1:26:14
  OK, so much better. Yeah, they, yeah, they they
• 1:26:17
  literally did Todd's job for him, you know, like what?
• 1:26:20
  What? What are we now like three years
• 1:26:22
  after the fact? Something like that.
• 1:26:25
  I, you know, I mean, it's coming out next week on PlayStation, so
• 1:26:30
  who knows? PSSR 2.
• 1:26:31
  You guys can be excited for that I guess.
• 1:26:33
  But then but then but then the but then the strange part is
• 1:26:36
  like the like, like the like Hogwarts Legacy game, like it
• 1:26:39
  actually did too much for those characters.
• 1:26:42
  Yeah, I it was very. It was, it was jarring how how
• 1:26:47
  different they looked. Yeah.
• 1:26:50
  I was actually like a little less like about the Hogwarts
• 1:26:55
  Legacy stuff. Like I, I, I thought it looked
• 1:26:58
  fine. Like it, it looked sharper.
• 1:27:00
  Like I understand, like people are like, oh, the kid looks like
• 1:27:03
  he's like 35 years old. I'm like, I don't know if he
• 1:27:06
  looks that old, but he definitely looks older.
• 1:27:08
  But. But the old lady?
• 1:27:11
  I definitely added some wrinkles and some definitely some low
• 1:27:16
  lights in them wrinkles that were definitely happening, but I
• 1:27:23
  don't know. Then people were talking about
• 1:27:24
  how shiny the FIFA like jersey was.
• 1:27:28
  I'm like, have you ever seen a shot soccer jersey?
• 1:27:30
  It's shiny, it's shimmery. It's it's got that weird knock
• 1:27:36
  off Under Armour effect to it. It's shimmery.
• 1:27:38
  It's shiny. Yeah, like I didn't, Yeah, like
• 1:27:42
  I didn't see, I didn't see what they were arguing about in that
• 1:27:44
  one. Because like I, because like,
• 1:27:46
  because just like how we mentioned last week, like it
• 1:27:49
  looks, it looks ultra realistic, which, which you know, for
• 1:27:53
  honestly, I think what I think what DLSS 5 does for FIFA is
• 1:27:58
  honestly what the vision has always been for every sports
• 1:28:01
  game from all the way back to to Tecmo Bowl all the way up till
• 1:28:06
  now. Like I, I believe every sports,
• 1:28:09
  every sports video game has always wanted to look just like
• 1:28:13
  that. And we've had some and we've had
• 1:28:15
  someones in the past that, you know, pulled off amazing feats,
• 1:28:18
  you know, like, yeah, there've been a lot of, there've been
• 1:28:21
  quite a few FIFA games where like, literally, I remember like
• 1:28:23
  working in GameStop and like, and like, people will walk into
• 1:28:27
  it and we would have like the FIFA game on, you know, like on
• 1:28:29
  the 360 playing demo mode and people will have to stop.
• 1:28:32
  Is like, is that an actual game right now?
• 1:28:34
  Like, no, that's a video game, you know, like, you know, you
• 1:28:38
  know, so, so yeah, like there's, there's, there's some ways that
• 1:28:42
  DLSS 5 is going to help out a lot of games because it's going
• 1:28:45
  to help, it's going to help people realize, you know, that
• 1:28:47
  they're playing the game they actually thought they were
• 1:28:49
  playing, you know, from the beginning.
• 1:28:51
  And then in the other, in other regards, there are going to be
• 1:28:53
  some games that just, you know, like it's doing too much.
• 1:28:58
  Yeah, and, and I think it all depends on how the developers
• 1:29:01
  want to use it or how they're going to implement it, right.
• 1:29:04
  Because this is definitely that just a demo.
• 1:29:06
  And it's probably on like people who don't work on games at all
• 1:29:11
  probably were like, oh, what if we turned it all the way up?
• 1:29:15
  Yeah, which is, which is, which is what?
• 1:29:17
  Which is what, Which is what Jensen was trying to was trying
• 1:29:20
  to argue about. Like the like the developer's
• 1:29:23
  going to keep artistic control of it basically, basically like,
• 1:29:26
  you know, they're like, hey, can they're like, can we use, can we
• 1:29:30
  use your games to, to help promo like what we got going on in the
• 1:29:33
  OSS 5? And then they just, they just
• 1:29:35
  turned it up to 1000. Yeah, And I, I think that's the
• 1:29:39
  thing people forget too, is like these developers had to sign off
• 1:29:42
  on this, right? Like, like they had to say it
• 1:29:47
  was OK to show what they were showing.
• 1:29:49
  You know, it's not like they just went out there Willy nilly
• 1:29:51
  and loaded up a random game off somebody's Steam account and was
• 1:29:54
  like, whoa, look, look at this. Here we go.
• 1:29:58
  Grace is, is hot now. You know, like, oh, OK, sure.
• 1:30:11
  It's it's so. Funny and, and, and come on
• 1:30:13
  Corey, we know, we know someone's going to someone's
• 1:30:16
  going to get DLSS 5 and and strike up.
• 1:30:20
  Are these minds? Guys and and yeah, exactly.
• 1:30:23
  And they're going to be gooning. They're either going to be
• 1:30:25
  gooning to Grace or they're going to be gooning to freaking
• 1:30:27
  Leon like. You're you're going to see
• 1:30:29
  features on them that you never thought you were going to ever
• 1:30:31
  see on them. They're going to yell, I mean,
• 1:30:35
  like, 'cause that's, that's the, that's the, that's the other sad
• 1:30:38
  thing about it too. Like, like the day and age we
• 1:30:41
  live in with gaming now. Like it's, it's, it's all
• 1:30:43
  goonery. It's yeah, it's something, man.
• 1:30:49
  My room. 'S saying.
• 1:30:50
  I'm not saying they want like. Speeding.
• 1:30:52
  Weird stuff on the Internet, right?
• 1:30:54
  But like. My roommate walked in just now
• 1:30:58
  when I was talking about Goonerine.
• 1:30:59
  Like he had to look like, what did I just step into?
• 1:31:04
  Look. Your roommate should have known.
• 1:31:08
  Should have known. What?
• 1:31:09
  Well, he knows he. Should have known.
• 1:31:18
  This is what you signed up for when you live with me, man.
• 1:31:26
  Oh my God, we're talking about Chuck Callen now.
• 1:31:32
  Can we talk about something else now?
• 1:31:33
  Sure. Yeah, we can talk about Jeff.
• 1:31:35
  Jackson, it's Speaking of. Gooning Oh my God, every watch
• 1:31:38
  is our next topic. How do we get into this?
• 1:31:45
  Let's do it. Let's do it.
• 1:31:46
  Let's. I'm just telling you, man, the
• 1:31:48
  LSS 5 is gone. The LSS 5 is gone.
• 1:31:52
  Here's the thing, I think it has potential to do some pretty
• 1:31:56
  amazing things. Same here.
• 1:31:58
  I think people need to look at it in a way.
• 1:32:05
  Again, it's the same with the the whole AI thing is like if
• 1:32:08
  you use it as a tool and you implement it in a way that makes
• 1:32:11
  sense, it's going to make it more efficient.
• 1:32:15
  You're reading my mind because I was like, AI is a tool.
• 1:32:18
  But you can't just go in there and expecting it to do the work
• 1:32:22
  for you, right? Like you just can't so.
• 1:32:25
  Well, I mean, Todd Howard's probably.
• 1:32:27
  Todd Howard's probably. Do that, dude, He could, he
• 1:32:30
  could type in make me a game engine into that thing and it
• 1:32:34
  would make a better engine than the freaking whatever engine
• 1:32:37
  they're using for that. Yeah, right.
• 1:32:40
  Like, Oh my God, what's it called?
• 1:32:41
  The creation engine. I always they need to create a
• 1:32:45
  new engine. That's what they need to do.
• 1:32:48
  Well, let's talk about Overwatch, a game I actually
• 1:32:51
  really liked for a long time, and I hear it's getting a lot
• 1:32:55
  better at the moment. They're doing a lot of good
• 1:32:58
  things. They dropped the two.
• 1:33:00
  But we're not here to talk about the game itself.
• 1:33:03
  We're going to talk about the Jeff Kaplan interview, the
• 1:33:06
  former Overwatch game director. Dude, he had, he had choice
• 1:33:11
  words. Yeah, this.
• 1:33:13
  So if you guys didn't read the interview, Ron, will you post
• 1:33:15
  that link in the chat so people can look at it if they want to?
• 1:33:18
  Yep. Basically he left Blizzard,
• 1:33:23
  which he was there for over 20 years and he thought he was
• 1:33:26
  going to work there forever. He said he left because
• 1:33:30
  Activision gave him an ultimatum about Overwatch and if it didn't
• 1:33:35
  hit it's massive revenue targets, that 1000 employees
• 1:33:39
  would be laid off and it would all fall on him essentially.
• 1:33:44
  And in this interview he says, quote, that was just the biggest
• 1:33:48
  fuck you moment I had in my career.
• 1:33:52
  And the quote was to him, if it doesn't hit the revenue target,
• 1:33:56
  we're going to lay off 1000 people and that's going to be on
• 1:33:58
  you. End Quote obviously the pressure
• 1:34:03
  of Overwatch League and investors, and I mean the game
• 1:34:06
  just kind of blew up, I think bigger than most people thought
• 1:34:11
  like Overwatch was huge and I think people knew it was going
• 1:34:13
  to be big because it was something different at the time,
• 1:34:16
  right? I think the only other hero
• 1:34:17
  shooter at the time was Team Fortress 2, right?
• 1:34:19
  So something like this was definitely warranted.
• 1:34:24
  But man, it blew up basically overnight.
• 1:34:28
  And then Overwatch League took off.
• 1:34:31
  I I, I bought an Overwatch League hoodie.
• 1:34:33
  I liked it. I loved Overwatch for a long
• 1:34:35
  time. I actually bought my Overwatch
• 1:34:39
  hoodie at the Blizzard booth at PAX, believe it or not, in 2018.
• 1:34:46
  Must have been that's when my daughter was born.
• 1:34:50
  Yeah. And I still have it to this day,
• 1:34:53
  and it's still one of the comfiest sweatshirts I own.
• 1:34:55
  But it it blew up. Man, I loved Overwatch, but this
• 1:35:00
  is just insane. And this is the type of stuff
• 1:35:02
  that like corporate overlords essentially like just make this
• 1:35:11
  hobby and this like. They ruin it.
• 1:35:14
  They yeah. And This is why everybody's so
• 1:35:16
  angry all the time on the Internet.
• 1:35:17
  I feel like that really love this hobby and are into it like
• 1:35:19
  enthusiasts, you know, like, yeah, Jeff Kaplan is such a a a
• 1:35:24
  storied director, you know, and you're going to threaten him
• 1:35:32
  because, you know, your revenue targets are way over.
• 1:35:40
  Yeah, over what? Over estimated like.
• 1:35:43
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. To hear, to hear that, you know,
• 1:35:46
  like, you know, like if the game doesn't hit the revenue target,
• 1:35:49
  they're, they're just going to lay off 1000 people.
• 1:35:51
  Yeah. And so.
• 1:35:54
  And then and then turn around and say it's going to be on him,
• 1:35:56
  the director. Yeah, like why would it be on
• 1:35:59
  him? He's the game director.
• 1:36:00
  He's not the marketing or salesperson or anything.
• 1:36:04
  Like he's there. He's not.
• 1:36:05
  The one he's not the one putting guns to our heads to make us
• 1:36:08
  play the game. Right.
• 1:36:09
  Like his job is to make the game fun enough for us to be
• 1:36:12
  interested in it, but like, that's not, you know, selling
• 1:36:15
  the game is not his problem. Right.
• 1:36:18
  Yeah. It's just, it's just, it's just
• 1:36:21
  crazy. Yeah.
• 1:36:24
  And that was also at a time when, like, the loot box
• 1:36:26
  situation was big and like, you know, I assume that's where all
• 1:36:31
  that comes from, too, right? It's like, oh, you need to make
• 1:36:33
  cool skin so people buy them or you need to, you know, make it
• 1:36:36
  harder for people to get the things that they want so they
• 1:36:39
  spend more money or, you know what I mean?
• 1:36:41
  Like that sort of thing. Yeah, but we got to think about
• 1:36:45
  this, you know, right. This is exactly like our some of
• 1:36:48
  our most popular game series, like Dead Space, for example,
• 1:36:50
  have also gone through Dead Space did this the the well, I
• 1:36:55
  mean the Calista protocol had problems, but you know, like the
• 1:36:58
  Calista protocol had this had this situation I.
• 1:37:02
  Mean every Square Enix game that has come out over the last two
• 1:37:04
  decades has underperformed? Essentially, yeah.
• 1:37:08
  Aquarius. Square Enix.
• 1:37:09
  Yeah, they lament. They lamented like at like,
• 1:37:12
  like, latching it on to what you call it.
• 1:37:15
  Tomb Raider. Flashing it on to PlayStation
• 1:37:19
  Five, they they remember. The Final Fantasy 16 sold.
• 1:37:26
  It was exclusive to PlayStation 5 at a time when there was what,
• 1:37:29
  2030 million units out there? Maybe it sold, what, three and a
• 1:37:34
  half million copies in the first month on an exclusive platform
• 1:37:37
  and it underperformed? Like what are you talking about?
• 1:37:40
  10% of the player base bought it.
• 1:37:42
  And and, and news flash and news flash to to Square Enix.
• 1:37:46
  Not everybody's playing RPGs like that.
• 1:37:49
  Yeah, Oh don't worry though, when they put it on an Xbox it
• 1:37:53
  sold like it sold like less than 200,000 copies.
• 1:37:57
  Yeah, yeah. So maybe it was just, I don't
• 1:37:59
  know. I'm not going to say maybe it
• 1:38:01
  was just the game, because 16 is actually not a bad game.
• 1:38:05
  Yeah, I like, I loved what I played.
• 1:38:06
  I just didn't finish it at all. I didn't, I didn't even buy it
• 1:38:12
  until it was on sale. And then I never played it.
• 1:38:15
  But I love the demo. Like I played the demo and I
• 1:38:17
  loved it. I was like about ready to buy it
• 1:38:19
  and then I got distracted by something else.
• 1:38:21
  I think. So probably Destiny.
• 1:38:23
  That seems right. But yeah, it's just the numbers
• 1:38:29
  these these companies are expecting, you know, and that's
• 1:38:32
  what a lot of people are talking about Marathon right now that
• 1:38:36
  sold what, 1.2 million copies I think in its first week, I
• 1:38:40
  think. And almost 800 thousand of those
• 1:38:45
  were on Steam, something like that, I think they said.
• 1:38:51
  And. Steam does some really
• 1:38:53
  interesting stuff for For games that are that are that are
• 1:38:56
  typically console releases, Steam does some really
• 1:38:59
  interesting. Things it's sold less than
• 1:39:00
  150,000 copies on Xbox. Yeah.
• 1:39:03
  Which is crazy in my opinion, but.
• 1:39:07
  I guess that's the indicator for why like, you know, like
• 1:39:10
  Microsoft kind of got out of this, is trying to get out of
• 1:39:13
  the console biz. Yeah, well, I mean, they did it
• 1:39:15
  to themselves though. Oh yeah, yeah, they did.
• 1:39:17
  Yeah. I mean.
• 1:39:18
  They did it long before they decided to get out of the
• 1:39:20
  hardware business, essentially. Right?
• 1:39:21
  Like, I mean, yes, I know they're still making hardware.
• 1:39:24
  I get it, I understand. But they did it.
• 1:39:27
  I mean, Game Pass taught gamers to not buy games.
• 1:39:31
  Yeah, on that platform, right? They wait.
• 1:39:34
  They don't even wait for sales. They just wait for it to go to
• 1:39:36
  Game Pass if they're a Game Pass subscriber, you know, I mean,
• 1:39:39
  and then like, it doesn't help when you make PC Game Pass the
• 1:39:45
  most appealing one when you have a hardware out there, right?
• 1:39:48
  Like Game Pass on PC is what, 12 bucks?
• 1:39:52
  13 bucks a month. No, it's a little more expensive
• 1:39:55
  than that because I just, I just, I just because.
• 1:39:57
  Yeah, because I just. Maybe it's 15.
• 1:40:00
  I just checked my subscription the other day and I'm like I'm
• 1:40:03
  like let me. See, they raised it.
• 1:40:07
  They were I I want to I want to say it's a let's see something
• 1:40:10
  here. I'm I'm almost there.
• 1:40:12
  Let me see my subscription PC Game Pass.
• 1:40:20
  And they might have raised it. It is.
• 1:40:21
  It is 1650 a a month now. OK, well still, it's still the
• 1:40:26
  cheapest version. And like I said, the only reason
• 1:40:29
  why I'm still in there is because like every now and then
• 1:40:31
  when I get new computer builds I get free codes.
• 1:40:36
  Yeah, I mean, it's, I mean, if you want Game Pass Ultimate on
• 1:40:39
  Xbox, it's 30 bucks a month Wild.
• 1:40:43
  Which is crazy. Like I mean, I know that
• 1:40:45
  includes PC Game Pass, but like how many people are really
• 1:40:49
  utilizing that or the cloud functionality or you know, I
• 1:40:52
  mean I, I think I use the cloud functionality 3 times.
• 1:40:58
  It's like that. It's like that.
• 1:40:59
  It's like that meme, brother. Yeah, it's to the point where
• 1:41:03
  like I dropped down to Game Pass Core.
• 1:41:06
  Remember when everybody remember when everybody bitched and
• 1:41:08
  moaned that they raised the price to $10 a month for Xbox
• 1:41:13
  Live Gold or whatever? Yeah, I remember, I remember.
• 1:41:15
  That 60 or $70 a year Xbox Game Pass core is just the old Gold
• 1:41:24
  membership and it's 10 bucks a month and nobody said anything.
• 1:41:30
  The power of rebranding, man. We're we're laughing at you.
• 1:41:35
  I mean hey I you're right I'm laughing at myself but I
• 1:41:44
  cancelled I'd I'm proud of myself though.
• 1:41:46
  I cancelled the $30.00 a month one and the only reason why I'm
• 1:41:49
  at $10 a month now is is because marathon is a paid game so you
• 1:41:54
  have to pay to play online. I could have played Destiny for
• 1:41:58
  free online because it's a free to play game technically, but
• 1:42:02
  Marathon is paid so I have to have to have that old
• 1:42:06
  subscription there's. Still something to be said about
• 1:42:09
  playing on PC though. Yeah, sure.
• 1:42:17
  I'll let you play there. It's because I can play with you
• 1:42:20
  where you're at. I.
• 1:42:21
  Mean you can, that's true. I don't think I've ever played
• 1:42:24
  with another console player. When I've teamed up with
• 1:42:25
  somebody, it's always they always have the steam tag on
• 1:42:28
  their on their Bungie name. Every single person I think I've
• 1:42:31
  played with has a has a steam tag, which is also wild.
• 1:42:37
  That's yeah. But I guess when Steam, the
• 1:42:42
  steam version of the game is outside of the console versions
• 1:42:45
  3 to one it's bound to happen. But yeah, I don't know, do you
• 1:42:53
  think, do you think 1.2 million is soft for that game or do you
• 1:42:56
  think it's where it's supposed to be at like.
• 1:42:59
  I feel like it's, I feel like given the, given the current
• 1:43:01
  temperature of, of games of this type, I think that I think
• 1:43:04
  that's right where it's where it's supposed to be at.
• 1:43:06
  Like, I mean, I mean, I feel like, I feel like as the game
• 1:43:09
  progresses and evolves, that's where it's going to pick up.
• 1:43:12
  That's what's going to pick up a, you know, a dynamic player
• 1:43:15
  base. Yeah.
• 1:43:17
  And, and I mean, like, you know, like I, I, I I have a funny
• 1:43:21
  feeling the reason why it's just not doing better than it should
• 1:43:23
  be is because there's Destiny fatigue.
• 1:43:25
  I mean, and when I say Destiny fatigue, there's Destiny fatigue
• 1:43:28
  from like Destiny players and there's Destiny fatigue from
• 1:43:30
  people who just hear about Destiny all the time but have
• 1:43:32
  never actually played Destiny. You know what I mean?
• 1:43:36
  Yeah. I, I also, I also think like, I
• 1:43:38
  also think people are like Destiny players are like
• 1:43:44
  boycotting marathon also. Yeah, yeah, there's that,
• 1:43:48
  There's that. And of course, like the bad
• 1:43:49
  Press of this game got, you know, over the last year and a
• 1:43:51
  half also didn't help. You know, yeah, that that also
• 1:43:55
  didn't help. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:43:57
  But I mean, but I'll be honest with you, looking at all of that
• 1:44:01
  and seeing what Destiny has done, I mean Marathon has done
• 1:44:04
  since its launch, I think it's actually doing better than we
• 1:44:08
  should, than we honestly try to get a credit for.
• 1:44:13
  Yeah, and I think, I think word of mouth that this game is
• 1:44:15
  actually like much better than people were expecting and
• 1:44:18
  actually more intriguing in a way because of the Arg Bungie
• 1:44:23
  did and the, you know, just how well the game plays and how
• 1:44:29
  honestly how fun it is. Like, I didn't think I was going
• 1:44:32
  to like it. And I like can't stop thinking
• 1:44:34
  about it. You know, I hate these types of
• 1:44:38
  games. It's a roguelike, which people
• 1:44:40
  keep reminding me. Thank you, everybody out there
• 1:44:42
  for reminding me that it's this extraction shooter is a
• 1:44:45
  roguelike. Thank you.
• 1:44:48
  I remember the amount of like of like eye rolling and heavy
• 1:44:52
  signing you did. Just just try to get the
• 1:44:55
  interest to turn the game on. Yeah, and, and then I, and then
• 1:45:01
  I play it and I'm like, I can't stop thinking about like going
• 1:45:05
  through these maps and like finding things and completing
• 1:45:09
  the contracts. And I think I actually think
• 1:45:11
  what's kept me going to is like the contracts are really fun to
• 1:45:14
  finish. And you know, it kind of
• 1:45:18
  exploring the different areas that you wouldn't either
• 1:45:21
  normally go to or like maybe you shouldn't go to without somebody
• 1:45:25
  on your team. But yeah, I, I don't know, I, I
• 1:45:31
  think this game will end up doing better overtime if Sony
• 1:45:35
  gives it time, which I think I don't think considering all
• 1:45:40
  these other studio closers. I.
• 1:45:42
  Yeah, I'm going to. It's going to sound weird for me
• 1:45:44
  to say this, but I don't think I don't think Sony's going to be
• 1:45:47
  quick to abandon this game because like, because I feel
• 1:45:50
  like I feel like Sony had to like pull it out of a lot of
• 1:45:54
  muck themselves with their own bare hands.
• 1:45:56
  They've invested a lot more than just.
• 1:46:00
  Yes, yes. Than just money in the studio.
• 1:46:05
  Yeah. So all right, Loron, let's let's
• 1:46:14
  wrap. We don't, we don't have any
• 1:46:15
  questions. So let's wrap it up with our
• 1:46:16
  weekly rotating segment. This is a new one, Loron.
• 1:46:20
  It's a new segment. You've already got achievements
• 1:46:24
  on here man. Come on.
• 1:46:25
  Man, you're right. You've got achievements on this.
• 1:46:28
  Is this is this is the backlog bucket list.
• 1:46:31
  We're going to, we're going to check back in a month, La Ron
• 1:46:34
  and see how we're doing on this. And and we're going to call out
• 1:46:36
  the games that that we feel like are sitting in our backlog if
• 1:46:40
  we've made any progress on them. La Ron.
• 1:46:43
  You know, it's weird, Like I know I beat, I know I beat two
• 1:46:46
  games this year and I've already forgotten what, 2 Those two
• 1:46:48
  games, Those two games, Laura. What's it one of them?
• 1:46:50
  Front Mission? One of the Front Mission games.
• 1:46:53
  I'm almost done with that one. I'm almost done with the with
• 1:46:55
  the with front Mission 3. What the what the hell?
• 1:47:00
  Hold on. Let me, let me go to my let me
• 1:47:01
  go to my library real quickly here.
• 1:47:02
  Let me. I can tell.
• 1:47:03
  You while you look up your library, Lauren, I'm going to
• 1:47:05
  brag that I, I have beaten 2 Fire Emblem games this year that
• 1:47:12
  were in my backlog that I never finished and one of them I never
• 1:47:16
  even played. And now I'm on my second Metroid
• 1:47:19
  game. I'm very proud of myself, very,
• 1:47:22
  very proud of myself. So been a lot of old games this
• 1:47:28
  year, a lot of a lot of GBA, lot of GameCube.
• 1:47:34
  OK, dispatch was one and actually be and actually be
• 1:47:38
  dispatched twice and I was on 1/3 playthrough before like
• 1:47:42
  before tactics came out. The dispatch was the the store
• 1:47:51
  like the episodic story based game with different endings.
• 1:47:54
  That's why you played it twice, right?
• 1:47:56
  Like that's that was the point of that, right?
• 1:47:58
  Yeah, yeah. What anything, anything on your
• 1:48:05
  backlog we should that I should be writing down here to check in
• 1:48:08
  on in a month, Laura? Monster runner stories too and
• 1:48:14
  and and put put monstering stories to Final Fantasy Tactics
• 1:48:18
  on there and Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater because the remake.
• 1:48:23
  Of the the remake. The remake.
• 1:48:25
  The remake because the only because like I defeated myself
• 1:48:28
  in that playthrough. Like if I hadn't put that game
• 1:48:30
  down for a week and let everything in, everything in my
• 1:48:33
  all my, all my food and rations spoil probably would have beat
• 1:48:36
  that game before Final Fantasy Tactics even came out.
• 1:48:40
  But I was like, I was like, Nope, like this is too much
• 1:48:44
  drama. I'm out.
• 1:48:46
  Too much drama, man. That's another game.
• 1:48:48
  I need to get back to those I want.
• 1:48:50
  I want to get back to Final Fantasy Tactics.
• 1:48:53
  I love that game and I've never finished it.
• 1:48:56
  You've never finished any playthrough of it?
• 1:48:58
  No. Oh man.
• 1:49:00
  I played the most, I played it the most on the on the on the
• 1:49:03
  Vita for the PS, the PSP version, the War of the Lions
• 1:49:06
  version, which is in my opinion the best one.
• 1:49:08
  But I only made this two Game Boy.
• 1:49:13
  Then they made the two, well I guess advanced ones, but one was
• 1:49:17
  GBA and one was DS which were good but not they they weren't,
• 1:49:23
  you know, they weren't Final Fantasy Tactics original OG as
• 1:49:27
  they say. I just, I just looked through my
• 1:49:34
  Steam library and I just realized I never beat War
• 1:49:36
  Groove. Dude, that's a game I wanted to
• 1:49:40
  like and I just I couldn't get into it.
• 1:49:44
  And maybe I just wasn't. I mean, it's it's advance awards
• 1:49:48
  essentially, and which is like, oh, I should I should really
• 1:49:51
  like this game, but I for I don't know what it was about it,
• 1:49:54
  but I just didn't get into it. I just couldn't get into it.
• 1:49:58
  So I don't know, maybe someday. Well, we're on.
• 1:50:07
  We did it. Yeah, we did.
• 1:50:09
  We did it, we did a podcast, and now we are going to say goodbye
• 1:50:15
  everybody out there. It's time for us to say goodbye.
• 1:50:19
  Wow, that was everybody out there.
• 1:50:25
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• 1:50:27
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• 1:50:28
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• 1:50:42
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• 1:51:01
  right? That that's what people do.
• 1:51:03
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• 1:51:06
  tonight as always as well. Hey.
• 1:51:07
  Man, hey man, it's this is one of the best parts of the week.
• 1:51:11
  It is even though we're tired, but it's wow.
• 1:51:13
  Why? Why did my voice get so raspy?
• 1:51:15
  I don't know, I kind of thought you were trying to seduce me.
• 1:51:18
  Should I actually think about going into voice acting?
• 1:51:21
  Should I stop? Should I stop the live show and
• 1:51:23
  just leave the camera open? Is that what's happening here?
• 1:51:26
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• 1:51:30
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