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Episode 235: Grand Theft Auto 6 delayed AGAIN?! · WASD and Beyond

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Yeah, the doctor's finger was in my ass, Yes.
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And how did that? Make you feel.
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I Alex is brave because it was only in there for 5 seconds.
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So for the visual audience I'm recording this, I don't care.
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It was a quick this and then a hook and then one of these
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things like AI don't know why she did that.
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Swatting something? Yeah, like with her finger.
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And then she went, you're good. And I went, what were we looking
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for? I don't even understand what
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test this was. I think you just wanted to do
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that. In my head, I'm like, she just
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wanted the fucking power right now.
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That's what she wanted. Fucking power trip.
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You see how you like it. She said Neil Bitch what?
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Yeah, the the worst part was, I don't know if you heard this
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part of it, but she had a student doctor with her.
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Oh God, and. She was like, do you mind if my
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student stays in here? I'm like, I guess I was like, I
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don't. Know what he gets to look.
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Yeah. So I was like, could I please
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use the bathroom and like, I just like grabbed paper towel
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and I just cleaned everything and I was like, all right, just
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in case. You never know.
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I don't know dingleberries in there.
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Oh my God. I don't have hair there though,
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you know I'm hairless. Oh, did you not know that?
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No. I don't grow hair on my body.
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I have like. That's nice.
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Like my chest looks like Diary of a Wimpy Kids hair.
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It's like 4 random sprouts. I had nipple hair for days
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though. It's odd.
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It makes no sense. See, the audience is so used to
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like, not this anymore, but this is the show, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. Brody's in stone.
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Right now I'm I'm. I'm pretty hairy my I don't have
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a ton on my back. Every once in a while a few
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stray hairs on my back, but aside from my head I have hair
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plus places. It's like you're a reverse
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fucked up werewolf. Yeah, it's kind of fucked up.
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It's a cruel joke, really. Oh my God.
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Well, well, well, we're not talking about assholes and
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getting my colonoscopy, which that's happening soon.
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I should try to record that some good content.
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I don't think that would be allowed.
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I should ask if they record the inside of their little scoping
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like you sent me that. So I want to, I want to show
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everyone what my insides look like so they could be just as
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bummed as I am. You know what I mean?
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Anyways, welcome back to another episode of the WASD and Beyond
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podcast. We're your hosts, Nick and Brody
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coming live kind of sort of from Detroit and Indy.
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I don't know. I'm trying new things.
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You're not in Indy. Like Fort Wayne area?
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People know Indy, whatever, Fort Wayne.
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Takes 2 1/2 hours away. I you know what?
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I do like Fort Wayne a lot more than I like Indianapolis.
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That's fair. It's better.
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It's much cleaner. It's not as, it's not as
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exciting. I guess we don't get any crazy
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shows or anything like that, but you know.
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Indianapolis is where I almost stepped on a heroin needle.
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Like I said, it's not as exciting.
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That's not exciting. That was dumb.
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Yeah. Welcome back everybody.
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beyond@gmail.com On to the show Mr. Brody Faults.
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Yes, it has been many a moon since you've been on the show.
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That is now yours with me. What has been going on my
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friend? Oh boy, it's been busy.
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I have. Let's see, I've been working.
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Been on a work trip. Man, I don't know.
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I think that's pretty much all that kept me away for a while.
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But yeah, I've been playing a few games here and there,
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predominantly more so setting things up.
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I got APSP from somebody in the Discord and because I found out
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that you cannot emulate PSP very well.
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So it's like a whole library that was portioned off from
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everything else. So I, I wanted to get APSP and I
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have been spending way too much time setting all of that up and
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getting it all 100%. I had I, I, I'm at the finish
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line here. I'm I'm almost done fucking with
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it finally. It's a neat little handhold.
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Handheld is. Cool.
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I I enjoy it a lot. I I've got that.
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I've got the I have a two an old 2 DSI want to get a 3DS just
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because it's a nicer form factor and everything Yeah, and then
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I've got the steam deck, the switch light switch to the
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switch one. It's weird.
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It's AII might have a problem. Oh, I got one of those little
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like Ambernick devices that look like it looks like a Gameboy SP.
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Yeah, I got a problem, I think. I use my PSP for porn.
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Yeah, that tracks, honestly. I figured out how to get porn on
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it. Yeah, it's got a whole browser,
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man. I played Metal Gear on it
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though. I did do that but there was a
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lot of like. I think it was like XNX anyways.
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Yeah, it is a cool device. I'm sure it was a great porn
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device back in the day too. I'm enjoying it a lot.
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I haven't really played a lot on it.
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I have literally just been getting this thing completely
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set up and decked out the way I want it, and that's cool.
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I played like one game just to make sure everything worked
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properly and everything was good.
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So other than that, lot of lot of tinkering has been my my
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primary focus lately. And as far as games go, I've
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played Battlefield A. Lot.
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Yeah, I've played quite a bit of Battlefield.
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That's still the the go to multiplayer game.
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Still having a good time. I know everybody is up in arms
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about dumb shit but I I still enjoy the gameplay and it's
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still fun. I do wish that their challenges
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tracked properly though, that'd be really fucking.
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Cool. It'd be very nice.
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It would it would help so much. Granted they did knock down some
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of the requirements for some of those challenges.
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So I loaded into a game yesterday and got like 20
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something challenges. Noah did the same thing.
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He was like, I just unlocked a million challenges.
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I'm like how you, you played like a game and he goes, I don't
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know, he just did. Yeah, they, they, they knocked
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down some of those challenges, which was pretty nice.
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And then I played a little bit of Unicorn Overlord on the
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Switch, which is JRBG, Fire Emblem esque type of game.
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Kind of really enjoying that. That's a fantastic fucking game
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and I can't wait to delve back into it.
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Hell yeah, dude. And then the the the last game
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I've been playing this week is one that we both have some
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things to say about dispatch. And Evan?
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And Evan? Expect a full review from
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myself, Brodie and Evan. I've just played three episodes
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since about midnight last night. It's good.
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It is really good. I played two episodes last night
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and I played one earlier today and I plan to play at least
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episode 4 tonight. Dude as.
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Soon as we're done as soon as we're done and I get these
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uploaded because I'm going to upload the YouTube tonight as
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well because I'm not going to be lazy anymore sorry everybody I
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dropped the ball, but no dude dispatch is so fucking good.
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It is awesome it looks great. We're not going to go too far
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into it, but the story is just so fucking awesome and people
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are Oh well, this isn't. I hope gaming doesn't go down
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this road of releasing. It's not going to but not
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compete there. Most companies are not going to
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release games like this. It's a very specific yeah,
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though I kind of did knock on the episodic thing last week
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when I was talking to Evan and I, I was like, man, I, I don't
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care for that. I was just going to wait until
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everything came out and then I was going to get shit spoiled
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for me because Evan would be in the discord talking about it and
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decisions and things. I was like, motherfucker, I have
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to play this game now because otherwise I'm the entire thing
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is going to be spoiled for me. But John has been watching me
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play it because John just absorbs it through osmosis and.
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People watch. Evan play?
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Really. He will not do it.
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I'm like, I'm playing dispatch. He goes, cool.
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Oh, what are you doing, Evan? You played Dispatch?
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And I'm like, OK. That one, I'll talk to you about
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it later because I don't want to.
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I don't want to spoil anything for sure.
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But yeah, there, there was one part that you and Evan both
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tried, and you got really close. This guy fucking got it, dog.
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Yeah, after the show. Tell me what you're talking
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about. Is it sweet?
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I, I mean, it's not really anything, but it was just one
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specific in like 1 of the little mini game things that you do.
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There was one that was particularly hard and you had to
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guess a lot of a lot of question Marks and you, we'll talk later.
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I feel like tiptoeing around it makes it far more confusing than
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it actually is. Go play dispatch though if you
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haven't played this game. Add on the studios dude and for
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for I'm a champion to create more.
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I would think so, especially with the way it's been received.
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Like there's currently there's what, 6 episodes out?
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The last batch of episodes comes out next week and so that will
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finish what I assume will be season 1 maybe.
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I don't know if it depends on how they kick cap this off, but.
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And then today it broke the Steam concurrent peak player
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base. Which is.
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Wild, so it its own concurrent player base, you know what I
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mean, but it it did that for itself today, which that's
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amazing. It's just it's crushing it.
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Dude, go play this ad hoc and critical role put a lot of these
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are people from the tell tale days, dude, like people who
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craft these worlds and I I don't agree with that.
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This is not a game. There's it.
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It's got so many different elements of it.
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That is a fucking game. It's just a narrative driven,
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story driven thing. It's fun to just sit back, relax
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and do this set from time to time and I love it.
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So cannot wait to review this with you guys.
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Yeah, I'm, I'm really excited. This is it.
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It. I'm not a big visual novel type
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of person, but the writing in this is so exceptional and the
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acting is fantastic. Like everything about it is just
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perfect. And if you don't like visual
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novels, don't let that scare you off.
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There's enough interactive things here that it doesn't just
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feel like you're watching a movie and making a decision
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occasionally. Like there's there's plenty of
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things going on and keeping you busy and and keeping the keeping
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your attention. Does this game make you horny at
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one point? I I have to know right now
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there's nothing wrong with it if it.
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Did I? I assume you're talking about
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the beginning of episode 4. I don't know.
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No. Oh, yes.
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No, I don't know where. You at right now I, I was
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getting ready to start. I I finished episode 3 and it
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loaded into episode 4 and the screen's black and there's for
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sounds. For a minute it's black.
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Yes, for a while I was like. OK.
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This is not a game you can play in front of the kids.
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No, most definitely not. Yeah, yeah, I know exactly what
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you're talking about now. There's nothing wrong with the
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guys fly that freak flag. It's.
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OK, it's. OK, I was like.
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Yeah, I will probably be playing that episode tonight in the
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discord. So I.
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Will watch that go play dispatch everybody.
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It's it's awesome. It's fun, fun time.
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What have you been up to and what have you been playing, my
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friend? Yes, other than work, I have
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gotten myself back into the gym as you and I have been talking
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privately. I refuse to be the fat guy.
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And I looked at myself one day, I went.
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What you doing? We like to go lift things.
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You're good at moving heavy things, so I'm back moving heavy
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things. The glow up starts now.
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So by Christmas go to wear Santa hat on stream naked.
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So get ready for that everybody. I'm I'm not doing that.
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It's not going to be moldy. It's clay.
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We got to mold the clay and let it harden.
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It's going to take time to fix what I've done, which is copious
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amounts of booze, cigarettes and laziness.
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But we're working on that. Long gaming sessions too.
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Nothing wrong with that, but other than the gym, I've just
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been hanging out with Landon. We had his parent teacher
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conference today and he fucking nailed it.
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He is crushing it in school. That was one of the greatest
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feelings I have ever had as a person.
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When the teacher was like, academically he's perfect and I
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went cool. How's he behaving?
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She was perfect and I went cool. So I stopped off.
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We we were driving home, 'cause you remember where that liquor
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store is right by my house. His school's two blocks down, so
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that's so nice. Stop over there.
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I bought him a bumpy cake. Came home and I'm like, here you
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go, buddy. He was like cake.
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I was like, oh, yeah, dude, you could have whatever you want
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right now. It's just a great feeling.
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Hell yeah. So other than that, though, I've
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just been playing games, and the games I've been playing have
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been The Binding of Isaac. I am hooked.
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Such a good fucking time. I'm still hooked on that.
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A lot of Battlefield. I played some Mark Raiders.
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I need to play more because I love what that game is.
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I know it's not for everybody, but I feel like this does
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extraction of shooters the right way.
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What else have I been playing? I've loaded in the System Shock
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2 remake. Very excited to play that.
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I played a little indie title. I need to know a nice name.
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It's from Critical Reflex Karimara beneath the forlorn
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limbs. That doesn't sound like anything
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that I would expect you to play. It is phenomenal.
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I think I almost picked that up. 4 bucks.
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Well, I was going to say, I think I almost picked that up at
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Fantasy Critic. Oh dude, Karimara ruled.
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I love it. Karimara.
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CARIMAR. ACAR.
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Yeah, it is from the Critical Reflex guys.
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They also did. No, I am not human and I am.
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You've watched me obsess over that.
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I played that for hours straight.
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Loved that. I am playing the Mork Borg
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Alpha. I haven't.
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Been talking about that. Yeah, we can.
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I think can we? Let me double check.
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I think, I think we're under NDA.
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Bargo on sharing images, videos and streaming is over.
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Remember to tag us on socials. We want to see how you suffered.
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That was yesterday at 4:26. All right, well, I'll tell you
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this. The boy Miss Bug already hit me
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back up and I think we're getting them back on the show.
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Hell yeah. Yeah, dude.
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So this game rules. It is fun.
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It is punishing like Morkborg should be.
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Get ready for, like, your butt hole to hurt.
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Like mine's going to hurt when I go get my colonoscopy.
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This is sweet Mork Borg Heresy Supreme.
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What I've played so far is really good.
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It's it, it needs some. They need to build it up a bit.
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There needs to be a bit more there.
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I think we're only playing like a fraction of a fraction of what
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this is supposed to be. They it's super early alpha too.
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Yeah, but I mean, Mork Borg Supreme Heresy.
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It's got the art, it's got the style, it's metal as fuck.
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It is just Mork Borg through and fucking through the color
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palette in this thing. I was like, this is, this is
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Mork Borg on my screen. Like it's, it's so fucking
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awesome and I'm so glad. My silly little obsession with
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Mork Borg is just like expanding and a lot of shit now.
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So I've been playing that on and off and yeah, Dispatch, I want
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to play Deadlock a bit more 'cause I feel like that game is
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shaping up to be a really good Overwatch replacement for me, as
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I don't like Overwatch. But I just, I want them to have
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like a, A mode in Deadlock for simple minded folk like myself.
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Because what we have now is hard, dude, it's so hard.
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Yeah, it, it takes so many of those mobile elements like
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building your character up and purchasing items and, and yeah,
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the handling certain lanes. And that's where it loses me a
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little bit. It's I never got into that kind
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of gameplay. It's just way too involved for
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when I'm trying to shut my brain off trying to work.
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Yeah, but I, I, I did like the small package that we had at
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initial launch of it. I thought it was cool.
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I, I, it has a lot of good ideas and it's taking, it's taking
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the, oh, MOBA style game and, and making it kind of bit more
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accessible in a weird sort of way.
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Because you, you don't necessarily have to have the
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perfect build if you're good at shooters, right?
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Like you might actually have a chance to, to squeak something
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out there. But yeah, I just, I don't know,
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man. Well, and that's for me.
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Well, and at the end of development, we don't even know
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if this is what's going to stick.
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They've said that like, hey, this, we don't know, like
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they're working. I mean, this is the the
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foundation of this game. But what I'm saying is we don't
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know like what modes they'll have in, you know, will it be
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will they have like a locked character mode where it's pretty
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much just like push point, you know, where it's like this.
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These are your characters abilities for this game mode.
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Use them as you would in like Overwatch or Marvel rivals.
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I I feel like that would benefit this game, but I feel like this
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actual package that this deadlock is giving is going to
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be the huge draw. Yeah, it it plus the art style.
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So the Lovecraftian done right in a very Valve type of way is
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nothing but love for that. I love what they do.
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I see. I didn't.
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I never really, I don't know how to word that actually, because I
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I did play a lot of Overwatch. I wasn't a huge fan of it, but I
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had some buddies that played it. So I played it just for the
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social aspect of it. That being said, I didn't really
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get into Marvel Rivals and it after the last season, I just
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stopped playing. Yeah, I don't it, it was very
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weird. And everything in that next
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season should have been like right up my alley.
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But I just stopped and it was right around the time
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Battlefield was coming out and I knew I was going to get into
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Battlefield. So it was kind of one of those
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things I was like, why start this if I'm going to be over
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here? And so Battlefield is just my my
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multiplayer game. Now I don't want to believe.
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Yeah. So yeah, I, I, I foresee
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Battlefield being my like main multiplayer shooter game for
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hopefully quite some time, unless they continue to make
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poor decisions, which most of them so far have not affected me
22:07
in any way shape or form, but I I could see it potentially
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getting worse. Hopefully not.
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I mean, to their credit, what a good.
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Launch, yes, especially for Battlefield who has historically
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had terrible launches. This was a great launch.
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I have not. I've encountered some bugs.
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I've also found some glitches. I shouldn't be using online
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because I'm being a piece of shit, but I am a sniper and I
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need to find my ways. I love it.
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I love Battlefield 6. I think it's great.
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I I've been happy it went back to like the three and four era
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and I cannot wait to play more of it.
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I I just got to find the time right?
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Like, there's so much coming out and we haven't even like looked
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like we have like a schedule for next year's titles.
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But man, there's a lot coming out next year.
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And with that being said, let's talk a little bit about what's
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going on right now and what's going on next year.
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I'm going to do my tinfoil hat segment.
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There is great rumor circulating around the Internet and around
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circles of people like us, right?
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Reporters, journalists, me and Brody are two assholes with a
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podcast. So call us what you want that
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Valve is working on the trailer for HLX.
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They will not call it Half Life 3.
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Everyone's calling it HLX. This is rumored to release this
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November. So any day from now people have
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speculated that Valve will drop it at the Game Awards.
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I do not think so. I think Valves going to do it
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like they do everything else. If they're going to do it this
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month, it's just going to be a Twitter post.
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I really genuinely believe that. However, we now know that half
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life Alex was supposed to be premiered at the game awards.
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Like we we know that now, but they something happened where
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they just couldn't do it. Brody, do you think we live in a
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universe? And I'll bring up why, where
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this is the time it could happen given all the hype and all of
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the data mining that in the leaks that are coming out.
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Because Valve is starting to slowly let some water out
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somehow through the updates and up to Counter Strike and
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Deadlock and all this of like they're polishing the game.
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They are doing their final tasks to whatever single player game
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they're working on. Is it time?
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Could it be time? Why would there be files for a
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completely separate game and Counter Strike?
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Because of how the source engine runs, so it runs in like a tree,
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when one thing is updated, other things, other strings of long
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that tree get updated as well. And so it'll do callbacks to
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that basically and be like, this is updated this and like you
25:10
could dig through like Counter Strike two and find other things
25:14
that is being worked on on the source engine.
25:18
That's how people are getting all this information of like
25:21
deformation of like objects, right?
25:24
So if something gets too cold, it'll become like brittle and
25:27
something gets too hot. If it's metal, it'll expand or
25:31
it'll melt and twist and do all that shit that that's where
25:35
we're finding all these leaks. And then now we're finding like
25:39
all like the polishing touches of like adding FSR and DLSS and
25:44
all of that in a game that is being called HLX with a lot of
25:51
Half Life terminology attached to it.
25:55
So the, the, The funny thing about all of this and it, it's,
26:01
it's something that makes me laugh every time.
26:03
And I don't think I've ever brought.
26:04
It foil hat. Yeah, the Half Life community
26:12
are so hungry, so hungry that you are.
26:21
I, I, I feel like often create food themselves that is not the
26:26
food that they're actually going to be receiving.
26:30
The what makes me laugh about any time there's Half Life
26:34
stuff. It doesn't make it to mainstream
26:38
gaming though. Anything it is, it is like.
26:41
These did. These made it to IGN.
26:43
These made it to Gaming Bible. And yeah, but like if if you
26:47
were to go to Reddit right now and look at the top posts in
26:52
games for the last week. Yes.
26:54
This is way down there as far as mainstream.
26:58
Like IGN would cover fucking anything.
27:00
Let's be really honest here. Yes, I agree.
27:03
They have to like that's just the the nature of how that
27:06
works. But I don't the the stories
27:12
don't get as much traction as lesser things tend to get.
27:20
Yeah, if if that makes sense. Right.
27:22
It does. And and so sometimes I become
27:25
skeptical, not only because this community has been crying wolf
27:29
for fucking now. So.
27:32
Hungry for it? Almost 20 years just and, and
27:39
every time like I, I, there has to be some developer that is
27:45
just fucking with you guys at this point, just absolutely
27:48
fucking with you. I, I don't know, every time I, I
27:52
feel like in the past what to have have I been back on here
27:56
for like a year and a half now, something like that.
27:59
Yeah, yeah. And in that time frame, the
28:01
amount of times we have had this exact conversation and nothing
28:06
has happened. Nothing.
28:09
Half life, Alex happened. That was before.
28:13
That was before I came. Up.
28:14
We were friends though. Yeah, yeah, Half Life Alex
28:18
happened. That was AVR game that came out
28:23
20/20/2020. It was five years ago.
28:28
It was like 5 years ago. Now 2020 ish.
28:31
Yes. So.
28:38
With us knowing the hardware is coming out.
28:40
Though that means we know. The Deckard is coming.
28:43
We know the next valve frame or whatever they're calling it's.
28:47
Coming out, it means nothing. Again, we've had this
28:52
conversation before too. We found this in the source
28:55
card, the turn of the frog's gay.
28:58
Not Alex Jones. Don't bring this man into this
29:00
conversation. No, I'm sorry.
29:02
I just did the voice and then it just kind of happened.
29:05
You said it, not us. That's an Alex.
29:06
Jones, That's right. I do a better Alex Jones than
29:11
you though. You do, you do I know, but it's
29:14
just it the tinfoil hat thing, man.
29:17
Like every time the smallest little tidbit that could even be
29:22
remotely related to Half Life comes up, this happens.
29:27
The the spiraling of the die hard Half Life fans and I host a
29:37
show with one of them. I'm so impressed.
29:41
No, I, I, I hope it happens. Just because they have found all
29:45
of this stuff. I don't necessarily think that
29:47
means anything. I don't think it necessarily
29:49
means we're going to see anything at the Game Awards.
29:51
I don't think we're necessarily going to see anything in
29:53
November. I I think there will be
29:57
something else in the Half Life universe.
29:59
I don't think they're ever going to do Half Life 3.
30:02
How do you do? How do you how do you go about
30:05
and do that 20 years later? I can tell you now, I, I can
30:09
tell you now because of how they ended Half Life Alex.
30:13
So the way in which they end Alex is a retcon of Half Life 2
30:17
Episode 2. They've now put themselves in a
30:20
position where they can go back and go, we want to do it this
30:23
way, which is cool that so they've put themselves in that
30:26
position. The the latest documentary that
30:30
came out is very eye opening to it.
30:35
They they want they're hungry to make a new game.
30:37
They want to make something new. It's been this close three times
30:44
and they've cancelled it every time.
30:45
So even if it my thing is this, the book hasn't even been put
30:51
online to purchase yet where we were supposed to get that the re
30:54
raising the bar book this year to order nowhere be found.
30:59
People are speculating that it's going to release alongside I
31:03
don't know. Regardless, I want to Segway
31:09
into today's news, real actual news, and I think the Valve
31:15
could do something pretty funny given this news.
31:19
GTA6 has now been delayed again. It is now 200 days away.
31:30
Sucks so hard. What's even worse about that is
31:35
that means it's even further for PC now too. 2028202030.
31:43
I I'm I'm at the point. I don't.
31:47
I don't care. Anymore, I I just don't.
31:50
And how all of this happened to. Mind you, within the span of
31:54
about 12 hours, Rockstar gets accused of union busting because
32:02
they fired some employees and supposedly, yeah, that were
32:06
supposedly talking about a union in a personal discord and they
32:14
think they might have leaked some information and so they
32:18
fired them. And then so yeah, they're
32:22
getting accused of union busting and then so bad, it was like 6
32:26
hours after that go hey, by the way, GTA has been delayed.
32:32
It's like, Oh no. So we just laid off 40 people.
32:37
Yeah. And the game that every 12 year
32:40
old in America right now is waiting for is not coming up.
32:45
Yeah, it was like so close. We were.
32:51
Six months away 6. Months, I know, but now it's in
32:55
November. It's a year.
32:57
It's a fucking year away. Over.
33:01
It's like it's November 19th of 2026.
33:05
That is so rough. Do you think we get it then?
33:11
No do. You think it gets delayed into
33:13
2027? I, I think we, I think damn
33:19
dude, this is tough. Let me let me start off with
33:21
this Grand Theft Auto fans, as a Half Life fan, shut the fuck up.
33:29
Shut the fuck up. You have had an endless stream
33:32
of content for GTA Online. Shut up.
33:36
Is it is it worse to know that the game actually exists and
33:41
have multiple release dates now and get it pushed back than it
33:45
is to tinfoil hat your way into believing that it exists and is
33:50
going to release? Like you are more confident that
33:53
Half Life 3 is going to come out in the next 6 months then you
33:58
are that GTA is going? To I am way more confident now
34:01
that GTA has been pushed back. That's why I said like the Valve
34:05
has the opportunity to go. I guess we'll take that spot.
34:08
Like we have a trailer, they have the story presumably done,
34:12
they're still working on some odds and ends things, but you're
34:15
more confident that Half Life 3 is going to release in the next
34:18
6 months than you think that GTA is going to release in November
34:21
of next year? How wild would that be because
34:24
that would be something that would be a valve mood move be
34:27
like all right release the trailer 3 months from now the
34:30
game comes out and it. Got to have something to release
34:32
though. It.
34:34
Has to exist. It has to be in a finished.
34:37
State there's been a game of development since after Alex.
34:41
Let's not go down that road. I'm just saying that is the most
34:43
valve thing ever You're quiet for 20 years GTA6 it's about to
34:51
release gets delayed you go you know that thing people really
34:55
want I guess let's just do it here you go What do you mean
35:02
like I again I I want Grand Theft Auto 6 to release it.
35:11
The funny thing is, isn't it past game of the year though?
35:16
At that point it's still within the nomination period.
35:20
I think anything that comes out, there's a cut off I think.
35:25
I guess I'm not entirely sure. Think it's past the cut off.
35:30
I don't know here. I'll do a quick quick search
35:34
here. Well, you do that.
35:36
It's just crazy to me. Like, so like, what do you do
35:40
now as Rockstar? Do you show more of the game
35:44
off? Do you just go completely
35:47
silent? What do you do now?
35:51
Because you're in bad faith at this point, like completely bad
35:59
faith with your, with your like audience and your fan base.
36:03
Like people aren't wanting to hear your excuses, especially
36:06
after firing 40 people and like being accused of union busting
36:10
and shit like that. People don't want to hear it.
36:15
So yeah, I'll answer. I'll, I'll give my response to
36:19
that in a second here. But it's a date usually in mid
36:24
to late November is typically with what the cut off is.
36:27
So you they would push themselves into the next year.
36:32
That's hilarious. Which would be totally unfair
36:35
for any game coming out in 2027. Yeah.
36:38
That'd be bullshit. So yeah, my response to to what
36:43
you just said is very much that everybody's going to be up in
36:48
arms about it for a few months and then they're going to
36:56
conveniently forget when the game drops, just the same way
37:01
everybody did it with Cyberpunk after Witcher 3 was a shit show
37:05
at lunch. Everybody is very quick to get
37:10
angry when talking about gaming and very quick to forget all of
37:15
the past transgressions in gaming does.
37:19
This worry you? It doesn't like.
37:23
For this specifically, like the state it's currently in, for
37:27
them to be this concerned to push it back a year?
37:31
I am surprised they announced that they were pushing it back
37:34
this early. Six months is quite a bit of
37:38
time, especially most studios go into a a crunch time, which I
37:44
know is not a popular thing, but sometimes that is a productive
37:53
thing to do when done in the proper way.
37:57
There there is a way to do crunch in a way that is not.
38:01
Inhumane. Yeah, inhumane.
38:05
But yeah, like everybody, once you're close to the finish line,
38:09
you're naturally going to crunch.
38:11
You're going to try to finish things and get things done.
38:16
So pushing it back a year from now when you still had six
38:22
months until that release date. Yeah, it's it's a little
38:25
concerning. I I worry about some things as
38:28
far as the state of the game. I I assume that they didn't want
38:33
to do one of those situations where they launch online
38:37
significantly after because they're going to lose revenue
38:40
for the time period. And that in that I mean, not
38:44
really lose revenue because they're going to be selling a
38:46
shit load of copies of this game, but it's.
38:48
Going to be a big, It's going to be the biggest thing ever.
38:51
Yeah, it's going to be ridiculously huge, but yeah, I
38:55
don't, I don't know, right. Like maybe they're just working
38:58
on the online and want to make sure that they can launch it
39:00
within three months of the game coming out so they can continue
39:03
that revenue stream. I, from what we've, I, I wonder
39:09
if they're fighting with some of the, the graphics in the game
39:13
because it looks really, really good.
39:15
And I wonder if they're still fine tuning a bunch of things
39:17
there. Granted, we've only seen like a
39:20
trailer really. So I don't know, man.
39:24
Like I obviously there's something going on there.
39:27
Firing 40 people from your staff certainly does not help a game
39:31
come out sooner. Not to mention you have to get
39:35
someone else in and get them up to speed on what's going on,
39:39
train them on anything that you were using that was different
39:42
from what they've used in the past.
39:44
Like the the the turnover rate to get someone trained on that
39:49
job and good to where they can actually produce something is
39:53
has got to be astronomical. It's crazy, probably.
39:57
Yeah, it's just, it's not, it's not good.
40:00
None of this bodes well for for the state of this game.
40:05
I'm sure it will come out and be amazing and didn't make a fuck
40:07
load of money and and there's no doubt in my mind.
40:11
But there has to be something pretty concerning for them to
40:14
push it back at this time. Like I would have thought they
40:17
would have waited until they got into the next year because they
40:24
they are going to have a quarterly report on everything
40:26
next at the end of next month, beginning of January, right.
40:29
So why would you do that now? I would.
40:33
Think, I think there were, I think this is how this happened.
40:35
There was the there was their earnings meeting was like like
40:39
yesterday or today. Oh was it?
40:42
I've only briefly looked into to some of it but I saw like the
40:45
union busting side of it and all.
40:46
That there was, there was that there was the earnings call,
40:50
there was XY and Z factor. And it's just like it was like
40:54
the perfect storm. And then they just post on
40:56
Twitter. They're like, you can't play
41:00
this yet. It seems like some of these
41:02
really high profile studios are a fucking nightmare to work for.
41:06
Rockstar has been one that has been brought up multiple times.
41:10
Naughty Dog has been brought up quite a few times.
41:12
Blizzard, like there's there's still seems to just be way too
41:17
much of that 90s bullshit game dev stuff that was going on 90s,
41:25
early 2000s. Still a lot of that that bro
41:29
culture that really fucks these places up and it continues to
41:32
live. But yeah, I just, man, I don't
41:36
know. I the more and more this goes
41:39
on, I just care less and less. It's similar, Similar, but
41:44
almost worse somehow than like Elder Scrolls Six.
41:48
Yeah, they announced Elder Scrolls 6.
41:49
And then they're like, hey, here's this this bullshit CGI
41:53
trailer that shows a city, and then we're not going to talk
41:56
about it for six fucking years. They've talked about the next
42:00
fallout lightly. More we've.
42:02
Talked about the elders. I'm just, I, I get so over this
42:08
landscape that we live in where people have to announce or feel
42:13
they need to announce games so early when they have nothing
42:17
ready to go. And then give a release date, a
42:21
hard release date and then push it back and a hard release date
42:25
and push it back. And I'll give, it's just I'll.
42:30
It's fucking crazy, man. I'll say this, I'll give I'll
42:34
give Valve this. CS2 just dropped.
42:40
Yeah, right. They they just went here.
42:41
Yes, this exists. Here you go Half life Alex, They
42:44
went. This exists 2 months.
42:46
Here you go Deadlock. It's not real.
42:50
It's not OK. Yeah, you guys can play that.
42:52
Here you go. They they are quiet.
42:55
Then they go. Yeah, Here you go.
42:56
So I while the method is not going well for me in the game, I
43:00
want, I at least respect Valve to just be like tight lipped,
43:05
let them work. And when they're ready to talk,
43:08
they talk. These other studios, however,
43:11
are very much like, Oh yeah, Elder Scrolls.
43:14
We, we, we love it too. Guess what?
43:17
We're working on the next one. Oh, cool.
43:19
What is it? Well, shut the fuck up.
43:21
We're not telling you, but we're working on it.
43:22
And it's like, what are you talking about?
43:24
You CDPR has five, four to five games.
43:30
You couldn't handle making Cyberpunk and now you're telling
43:34
us you have two cyberpunks, 3 witchers and some other game?
43:39
What are you going on about? Yeah, I I respect Team Cherry
43:46
for Silk Song and how they went about that.
43:47
Like, yeah, they showed off a trailer and but it's three
43:52
people that were making that game, so a little different it.
43:56
Was a blockbuster. Yeah, and it's fucking huge hit,
43:59
but they never, they didn't give a hard release date until they
44:02
were what, 2 weeks away from it coming out and they're like,
44:05
yeah, here It's like that's some gangster ass shit, man.
44:09
The. Industry.
44:10
Everybody in the industry went fuck.
44:12
Fuck yeah. I mean, games were moving like
44:15
it was crazy. Now one that I'm not as happy
44:19
about it, but I do respect the studio that's doing it.
44:23
So Yacht Club Games and Mina the Hollower, they had a hard date.
44:29
It was on my fucking fantasy critic.
44:34
Maybe I'm a little salty for other reasons.
44:36
But you too mouse Pi for hire. That being said, I trust Yacht
44:42
Club Games just because of their pedigree and the way they have
44:47
treated their fans in the past. They haven't made the mistakes
44:51
of some of these other companies.
44:53
So yeah, if you need a little bit more time to cook, you go
44:55
ahead and cook there, big dog. Same with mouse Pi for hire.
44:58
Just take your time, it's OK. You fucked my fantasy critic.
45:00
You were the 1. Yeah.
45:02
I I knew that that game was going to weep and I don't get
45:06
it. Yeah, MENA, the hollow were was
45:09
was my my golden goose that I was relying on the end of the
45:13
year. I need skate Story to just hit.
45:16
I needed to hit. Yeah, I don't know dude.
45:20
I don't know what the fuck is going to happen with GTA again.
45:23
I'm sure it will come out and be incredible and make more money
45:26
than fucking anything else has ever made.
45:30
But it's it seems like it's in a weird fucking spot, especially
45:35
with all the new surrounding Rockstar right now.
45:37
I it's not good. And if 40 people just got fired,
45:42
I imagine there's going to be people that decide that they're
45:45
going to just walk to. There were strikes there this
45:49
morning like it's it's not good. There is not going to be a lot
45:53
of work being done there for a while.
45:57
And the time ticks on again for all you Grand Theft Auto.
46:02
I'm a GTA fan but the timer just got reset.
46:06
It's like it's like when you put your kid in timeout.
46:08
They don't realize every time they flip the little sand clock,
46:11
they're putting themselves back in time out with more time.
46:14
That's just what happened here. So now you guys got 200 more
46:17
days. So thumbs up man, this is
46:21
fucked. This is this is weird.
46:24
I don't like it, but I'm I'm not one to really oppose pushback
46:30
and shit like that. Like I'm if a game needs more
46:34
time to cook, it needs more time to cook.
46:36
But I'm also the same person going you shouldn't have given a
46:39
date because that was you were overconfident and then you were
46:44
going to under deliver. So you pushed it back.
46:46
Fool me once, fine, that's OK. Twice.
46:49
It's like, come on now. Three times.
46:53
Three times I your game is going to come out fucking half baked
46:56
and then half aborted. So the cyberpunk looking at you
47:00
baby. You got better though you grew
47:01
up. The glow up is real it.
47:04
It took four years, but yeah. Still, we we we got there
47:08
though. We got.
47:08
There, God, I did enjoy it once I played it four years later, it
47:11
was a fucking blast it. Was a fucking it's a fun.
47:14
I played it day one and it was something I loved.
47:19
It did stop playing it for all those hours.
47:23
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