Latest / Dad Needs To Talk / Thunder Ray Review, Parenting is Weird, The First Descendant Beta
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- 0:03What's up, y'all, and welcome back to Danny's Talk.
- 0:07I'm your host, Robert, and today today I have a handful of things
- 0:11I'm excited to talk about, including a review for the game
- 0:14Thunder Ray. My thoughts on a new comic I
- 0:18really call Parenting is Weird, as well as some new manga I read
- 0:24and my thoughts on some of the big Xbox leak.
- 0:29The Xbox game timeline leak. But before I get into all that,
- 0:34as always, if this is your first time here then welcome.
- 0:37But if you're a returning listener and or a watcher then
- 0:40welcome back. Y'all know here Danny to talk.
- 0:42It's all about fatherhood and family manga, anime and video
- 0:47games so I hope everybody out there is doing well.
- 0:52I'm doing pretty good, more or less.
- 0:57Business as usual. Kind of, a little bit of and a
- 1:02little bit of a slow period I guess I should say life wise,
- 1:06you know, as far as like not doing any traveling for the
- 1:09kids, sports and stuff. So kind of been able to stay
- 1:11home, Haven't been any tournaments and stuff on the
- 1:14weekend. So the last like half full of
- 1:16weeks, it's been nice and pretty chill for the most part.
- 1:22So still life. I was throwing wrenches and
- 1:26stuff. At you and and also just just
- 1:31just in case that this is somebody's first time here, I
- 1:34always have to mention that daddy's to talk, especially the
- 1:36podcast. It's where I do everything
- 1:39surrounding discussions, interviews, reviews and just
- 1:43general thoughts on all the stuff I mentioned earlier with
- 1:46the gaming, monga, anime, TV and life.
- 1:50But but yeah so Speaking of life for the most part things have
- 1:55been solid. A little bit of an update on
- 1:59something some of y'all might have remembered me mentioning
- 2:03earlier in the year or throughout the year.
- 2:05You know, Christmas, the day after Christmas last year, so
- 2:08December 26th of last year, my wife's car got hit when she was
- 2:14coming home from the store. Whatever.
- 2:16And so here we are ten months later, we're still kind of
- 2:18dealing with lawyers and all that stuff, whatever regarding
- 2:22that. Well, that car from that
- 2:25accident is gone. Ended up trading it in and
- 2:32getting my wife a newer car. Haven't even had the car for a
- 2:36full month and yesterday I'm out in Dallas.
- 2:41Just picked up my son from basketball practice.
- 2:44Heading back home she calls me some big truck or a big I think
- 2:52like a big Chevy truck. Rammed it to the back of her
- 2:56when she was like. Like, just like in the parking
- 2:58lot, getting ready to pull out, waiting for traffic to clear
- 3:00whatever, Do not pay attention, just smushed in the back of her
- 3:04car. It's still drivable and stuff
- 3:07for there, but it's clearly dented or whatever.
- 3:10And it's like really, it's like we ain't even got stuff cleared
- 3:15fully from the accident last holiday.
- 3:21Car barely, barely had it for a month and already.
- 3:27And I have to do with this mess. So tomorrow we're going to have
- 3:29to freaking, you know take it in luckily it's going to give
- 3:32repaired and stuff whatever. But going to be in a rental
- 3:35again and it's like my God, it's like come on.
- 3:41But like I said, luckily, you know she's fine.
- 3:46You know, no serious injuries or nothing like that or whatever.
- 3:48But just the circumstances of the of the matter just sucks.
- 3:54But aside from that, everything else has been solid.
- 3:56We just finished the first six weeks so got the report cards.
- 4:01I haven't seen all my kids report cards.
- 4:03I've seen bashes is good. My middle son, his is good.
- 4:07I haven't seen any of the bigger 3.
- 4:09But I'm guessing they're okay. My wife hasn't sent it to me.
- 4:13So. So I'm I'm going to just guess
- 4:16that things are good with that. But but yeah, but All in all
- 4:21things are solid. No, no, crazy.
- 4:23Stories and nothing that I can think of that's happened or
- 4:29whatever I guess shout out to me.
- 4:33I got a nice little reward, I guess you could say from my job
- 4:38a few days ago because of a big deployment project that was I
- 4:43helped work on earlier this year or whatever so.
- 4:47I've mentioned before we had this kind of like rewards point
- 4:51system. I had my job and like in years
- 4:55past, I cashed in those bad boys to get like big, big gift cards
- 5:01for like Barnes and Nobles and stuff.
- 5:03Well, I pretty much got the equivalent of like $200.00 worth
- 5:07of points. So I'm kind of scrolling through
- 5:09the little catalog thing or whatever.
- 5:10And I saw they, they've added GameStop gift cards and I'm
- 5:13like, there's some games coming up I want to get hey, if I if I
- 5:19ain't got to spend any coins in my pocket.
- 5:22I'll gladly take that route so but right now I'm just sitting
- 5:26on the points not going to use them gesture like some kind of
- 5:30trying to find the the perfect time to strike because I've
- 5:35mentioned before your boy I I love I love deer hunting I love
- 5:40kind of finding the right time to strike and so little Side
- 5:45Story about that so I've managed.
- 5:52I managed to find my way and to get him my son a so I I
- 5:57originally found him a Xbox series as the original white
- 6:00model for his birthday a couple weeks ago.
- 6:02Whatever found at a pawn shop looked practically brand new.
- 6:06No scuffs, scratches, nothing whatever.
- 6:09For thing like thing was like 180 bucks after tax maybe.
- 6:15So not bad because they're still like 300 bucks.
- 6:17So I'm okay pretty much 100 / 100 bucks off for whatever, hey?
- 6:21He got bad or whatever, But the thing about the series S
- 6:26whatever the base model is that the hard drive is like kind of
- 6:30small and with how big games are, whatever.
- 6:33By the time, you know we got, he got what the new NBA 2K24
- 6:37installed Fortnite, GTA Online and something else.
- 6:49We already running us out of space by like 3-4 games, you
- 6:52know, and it's like God know, so did some thinking or whatever,
- 6:57look at some stuff, whatever. And I and I know of course as as
- 7:00somebody who used to work with GameStop, I understand a lot of
- 7:03people's quarrels with how they deal with the pricing and stuff.
- 7:07But the trick with GameStop is you got to know the right time
- 7:10to strike, how to use certain deals and sales and promo codes
- 7:14and all this stuff, whatever that is the times I use.
- 7:19To get stuff whatever cause I cause I did something saying
- 7:22trade a bunch of like super old Xbox One and PS4 stuff, whatever
- 7:29earlier this year or whatever or last year something whatever and
- 7:32got like 200 something dollars out of all this stuff that
- 7:35individually isn't much but due to some bonuses they had they
- 7:39were stacking or whatever. Well do the same thing whatever.
- 7:42Something like okay need the bigger hard drive some kind of
- 7:45like Wan options as far as like me just buying.
- 7:49A bigger hard drive versus they just came out with the black
- 7:53model of the series S that has the terabyte hard drive.
- 7:56So I'm doing some math or whatever.
- 7:58And plus like the series SI got him at the pawn shop, whatever
- 8:02he says, kind of doing like a couple of like weird things here
- 8:04and there. And you know, me, I work in IT
- 8:08now. At times that I attend with tech
- 8:09stuff, I usually have to try to get it new, but every now and
- 8:12then I find a good deal, some like something at a pawn shop or
- 8:15whatever that I don't mind taking this taking.
- 8:19You know, taking a risk on or whatever.
- 8:21But it did like a couple of like weird things or whatever.
- 8:24And I'm like, I don't want to get stuck with this whatever.
- 8:27So long, so short. I took the series that I just
- 8:31bought 480 bucks his Xbox One S that he still had and.
- 8:39Couple of old games. Some some Nintendo accessories.
- 8:43I have duplicate stuff because we've had multiple Switches over
- 8:46the years so I had like extra dock and different stuff,
- 8:50whatever. And one of the Gamestop's
- 8:53website did the did the math on stuff whatever and did some
- 8:57promo deals or whatever. And Long story short, I was able
- 9:00to trade all this stuff in and I only had to pay 50 bucks out of
- 9:05pocket to get the new series S, which is 350 bucks.
- 9:11So basically I got $300 worth of trading.
- 9:14So pretty much for the Xbox I bought for 180.
- 9:17I ended up getting $212.00 for it.
- 9:20So I ended up getting my money back plus actually $20.00.
- 9:23On top of that got like 80 bucks for the 1S and then like 25
- 9:29bucks, 30 bucks for the for the Nintendo dock, switch dock.
- 9:33Which is pretty cool because like the concern I have multiple
- 9:35of them just lying around the house.
- 9:37But anyway so. Got him that.
- 9:40So he's good on storage or whatever.
- 9:41So like I said, hey, you got to know when to finagle the deals
- 9:45and stuff, whatever, so, but, but, so enough of that.
- 9:50Like I said, I don't think there's nothing else.
- 9:52Life files I wanted to mention and stuff, whatever.
- 9:57But since I'm talking about life and parenting and stuff,
- 10:01whatever real quick, I kind of want to give a shout out to this
- 10:05comic I had read recently. Called Parenting is Weird and
- 10:11the author, her name is Cheska Hoss.
- 10:16I don't know if that's just a pen name or what but but she
- 10:20does a web comic series called Litter Box Comics and so.
- 10:26So basically the way I came across this was I was going to
- 10:30my website that I used to get. Digital review copies of
- 10:35different books and manga and stuff.
- 10:37Whatever. Net galley and idol wives.
- 10:41I've talked about them playing times before, whatever.
- 10:43But I'm scrolling through like recently added stuff to the
- 10:46catalog and came across this and I'm like those of Y'all watching
- 10:50the video version of this. The the image just immediately
- 10:55spoke to me. She she does her, she does her
- 10:58her husband and her two kids as cats.
- 11:03And seeing how colorful and cute the cover is on top of the title
- 11:08is Parenting is weird. Tales from the litter box.
- 11:12I'm like, I'm a dad, I'm a parent.
- 11:16I see the dad on the cover holding a Nintendo Switch.
- 11:20I got to check this out and overall it was like a really
- 11:25fun, super fun read. And one of the cool things about
- 11:31this is so basically. The the journey throughout the
- 11:37comic is basically the author. So she had mentioned at the
- 11:40beginning of it that throughout her life and especially like
- 11:45with motherhood or whatever, she always loves taking notes of
- 11:49everything that's happened. And so pretty much there's like
- 11:53like sections of like many stories, kind of like recounting
- 11:58different moments throughout her journey of motherhood from, you
- 12:01know, when she first. Had her first child to and
- 12:05compare like how that went versus how the second child went
- 12:10different stuff we deal with as parents, stuff that she did
- 12:12specifically with as a mom. You know, kids just being weird
- 12:17kids, kids fighting, you know, parents, you know, trying to
- 12:22sneak in hot snacks and stuff, all those different things,
- 12:25whatever. And so it was just like super
- 12:27relightable and just like made me think finally on.
- 12:32All the different things that I've been through with my wife
- 12:35and all my kids and stuff over the years.
- 12:38So All in all, parenting is weird.
- 12:41It's just like, like I said, it's it's just like a super
- 12:43sweet and funny comic. And like I said it especially, I
- 12:51feel like even if you're not a parent, you'll get some humor
- 12:56out of this. But it's especially cool if you
- 13:00are a parent. And you read this like you
- 13:03immediately will relate to the different things that she talks
- 13:07about and the different stories that she shares and stuff along
- 13:11the way. And obviously she is a nerdy.
- 13:14Her, her whole family is super nerdy.
- 13:17Like, there's a panel I'm looking at now where she's
- 13:21asking the dad, don't they? Don't you think they have enough
- 13:24clothing? And it's like a baby onesie with
- 13:27like. Zelda on it, another one with
- 13:29with Star Wars on it, and then another image with the kids with
- 13:32like the Mario hat, like like this.
- 13:40A Dragon Ball scouter, A Digivice, pokeball, Ghostbuster,
- 13:44things, all types of nerdy stuff, whatever.
- 13:47And like I said it, it it just like just like made me smile ear
- 13:49to ear. And that's the first time I just
- 13:51felt just throughout the whole way.
- 13:53It was just, it was just like something very awesome, super
- 13:55heartwarming. So.
- 13:57So yeah, so parenting is weird. It should be out now by the time
- 14:01y'all are seeing and hearing this.
- 14:03So definitely go check it out. Like a shout out to Litterbugs
- 14:07comics. I think they have a lot of the
- 14:09comics are also on web tunes, I believe so.
- 14:12So yeah, so shout out to her. And this is a very, very fun
- 14:16series. All right, so let's dive into
- 14:22talking about some gaming stuff. So.
- 14:25Trying to figure out where to start with man, because it's
- 14:29it's a couple of couple of ways I want to go, I guess.
- 14:33I guess real quick I'll just shout out.
- 14:36First of all I put in some more time today playing Sackboy with
- 14:42my son Vash. That's been just like such a
- 14:46fun, just such a fun time because I have such fond
- 14:51memories freaking. Like 15 years ago, growing up
- 14:57when I was younger, playing through the original Little Big
- 15:01Planet games with my nieces and nephews and we played through
- 15:06Little Bit Planet One and Two and I don't, I don't think none
- 15:09of us really played three together.
- 15:13But it just it's it's a family thing and so.
- 15:18I've played, I've played a little bit of a sideboard by
- 15:19myself. That's played a bit of a
- 15:20sideboard by hisself. But when I got the second
- 15:23controller, the Spiderman controller a few weeks ago,
- 15:25whatever. Now we finally started playing
- 15:28games together, which of course, you know how that goes, playing
- 15:33Coop in general, especially Coop with not just your kids but with
- 15:39your small kids. And so we've just been having a
- 15:42lot of fun and stuff and so. We played a good chunk of SEC
- 15:48Boy earlier today and it's it's just such a delight and like I
- 15:54said, just like immediately took me back to those happy times,
- 15:57playing the original little bit, playing games with my nieces and
- 16:01nephews and now I get to do that with my own son and stuff.
- 16:05Now it's just truly special. And of course he's he's about to
- 16:10be 6 in a couple of months. So of course he has his.
- 16:13His. Opinions and you know if I mess
- 16:17up like come on daddy what are you doing?
- 16:19Come on. Or a good job daddy thank help
- 16:24help, you know. So it's just such a fun time get
- 16:28into play and share those moments and stuff with him.
- 16:33Another game that I've had such a blast with that I wish I could
- 16:38show some of but sea of stars. I finally finished it up,
- 16:45finished playing it and it was freaking fantastic, man.
- 16:51Like I finished the story yesterday pretty lot that things
- 16:57like like knocking on minute when I finished.
- 17:00And so that whole game from start to finish was truly
- 17:07amazing. Like truly, truly amazing.
- 17:11And for those of y'all, if, if, if you don't remember.
- 17:14The game I'm talking about on my YouTube channel, I have like
- 17:19some gameplay of like the first hour or so of the game.
- 17:23They y'all can go watch and take a look at it and I'm showing a
- 17:27little bit of it on my screen now, just for example for those
- 17:29that are watching the video version, but but it is just it
- 17:34was just holding on fantastic. I haven't really played a.
- 17:40RPG game like this is so freaking long.
- 17:42Because honestly, I think that I think Chrono Trigger on the DS
- 17:47back in 2008 might have been the last one that like really hooked
- 17:51me like this. And everything from the visual
- 17:57style of the game to the whole host of characters that you meet
- 18:02along the way, all the different characters that you get to have
- 18:06of your party that kind of come and go throughout your journey.
- 18:10It's just all so freaking dope and I just loved getting a
- 18:16chance to level up my characters and not only see what new
- 18:21attacks and stuff that they have personally, but also the
- 18:25combination moves and like once your party grows to certain
- 18:30size, that just means more combinations of characters and
- 18:36attacks and so. Everybody has a combo move with
- 18:40somebody else and that is just like so freaking dope to get to
- 18:45see. And then like towards the end of
- 18:48the game you get like these like ridiculous, like basically like
- 18:53super special ultimate attacks. And those things are like a
- 18:58sight to behold every time you get enough of your combo meat
- 19:04and stuff built up to be able to execute one of these.
- 19:08Ultimate attacks or whatever, but it was super awesome.
- 19:13I loved the journey throughout the game, all of the characters,
- 19:19the story, all the the variety of locations that you go to.
- 19:25And I feel like I'm, I'm out to maybe try to figure out
- 19:26something to do in a separate video or something where I just
- 19:30like dive deep into. There are so many comparison
- 19:34points. Of sea of stars to one piece
- 19:38from there's a underwater fish race of people called the called
- 19:45the Dacari that are like the Fishman.
- 19:47There's sky islands you go to. There's giants.
- 19:51There's like a futuristic area that's kind of like freaking
- 19:54egghead and the voice century type of stuff.
- 19:57And there is like so many other things and comparisons I can
- 20:01make but don't want to give away too many spoilers But All in
- 20:05all. Love the game.
- 20:07I wrapped up the story at about 36 hours, but I think I might
- 20:13still have like a few side things to go back and do.
- 20:16But I did like a good chunk of them because I'm glad before the
- 20:21final boss fight I had went and set up camp and I walked around
- 20:28and talked to all the characters in my party and a lot of them
- 20:32had final quest or or or extra quest you can go and do.
- 20:37And some of them I ended up getting extra attacks or special
- 20:41or more weapons or stronger armor or whatever for them.
- 20:45So those are kind of very good to go and do those final little
- 20:48cleanups and stuff before I went on the path to the final boss
- 20:55and stuff. So, but, but yeah, but All in
- 20:58all, I freaking love the game is definitely one of my favorite
- 21:02games that I've played this year, no questions asked.
- 21:06And it kind of it kind of makes me open to wanting to maybe find
- 21:12some more RPG games in this style to maybe dive into more
- 21:18frequently. Because like I said, the last
- 21:20one that I remember really hooking me was Coronal Trick on
- 21:24DS, which was in 2008. I'm 33 years old.
- 21:28I was 1819 at the time when I had got the game, so that tells
- 21:33you that. But yeah, so CS stores, go check
- 21:38it out. It's pretty much available on
- 21:40all the Playstations, Play your PS4, P, S5, Xbox series systems,
- 21:46Switch and PC. And the cool thing is that on
- 21:49Xbox it's on Game Pass and on PlayStation systems it's on
- 21:53PlayStation Plus Extra, which is how I played it.
- 21:57But honestly, the game was so good that I might end up
- 22:02dropping some actual coins on it.
- 22:04It's just something. I always have it in my library
- 22:07and stuff because like I don't know how they pulled it off,
- 22:11getting it both on Game Pass and PS Plus at the same time.
- 22:16And Nintendo is doing promos to afford for the Switch, but they
- 22:20got the bags on both of those deals and I heard the game has
- 22:24been selling super, super fantastically as well.
- 22:27So shout out to them Sabotage Studio.
- 22:29And again this game is a prequel to the Messenger series which I
- 22:34dabbled in a little bit years ago.
- 22:36Maybe I might want to go back and see if I'm actually.
- 22:38I recognized some connections and stuff.
- 22:41So but but yeah, see if stars go check it out.
- 22:46Next up from that, let me see. Yeah.
- 22:52So I played a little bit of there is this beta going on
- 22:57right now possibly going on to the middle of next week, but the
- 23:01game is called the First Descendant and so the best way I
- 23:08can kind of describe this, this is like a scifi third person
- 23:12shooter game that kind of reminds me a little bit of like
- 23:17Destiny maybe mix with a little bit of like outriders, maybe a
- 23:21little bit more on the Outrider side.
- 23:24But it's been like super fun. It's I think like one of the
- 23:28first games I've played this on Unreal Engine Five.
- 23:31So the game looks super cool. I'm showing like a trailer for
- 23:34it on on the video version of the podcast right now.
- 23:38But but yeah, I I like the structure of it or whatever and
- 23:42nothing super crazy and complicated.
- 23:44It's just you pick your character that you want to play
- 23:46as. They're like a whole roster of
- 23:50characters that they have for you to go through and pay
- 23:53through. I think it's maybe like 10 or
- 23:55so, all with different abilities and moves and stuff, whatever.
- 24:03And so you kind of just go on these different little missions
- 24:06and stuff where you just go to the different waypoint.
- 24:08It's kind of like in both Outriders and Destiny where you
- 24:13have this kind of like open map area that you're kind of
- 24:17exploring. And since it is a kind of like a
- 24:22multiplayer game, you can play fully solo.
- 24:25Majority of my time playing it has been solo, but it's kind of
- 24:28like like we're in Destiny where it's like a shared server so you
- 24:33can see other people running around and y'all can just freely
- 24:36team up. And like, if you go to start a
- 24:39mission and it'll kind of prompt you and be like, hey, Soandso is
- 24:44also playing this mission, Did you want to join them?
- 24:47And you can do that. They can join your game and
- 24:49stuff, whatever. Or like I said, you can just
- 24:51completely tackle it by yourself.
- 24:56But All in all, it was pretty fun.
- 24:57It did kind of start getting like like some a bit of
- 25:00repetitiveness with some of the missions and stuff that that
- 25:05that I was playing through. But there might be some
- 25:09potential there and it seems like it's supposed to be free to
- 25:12play. So that might be even more
- 25:15enticing because I don't really play many online shooters and
- 25:21stuff nowadays anyways. I really haven't and like the
- 25:25last handful of years, especially since the Ash was
- 25:27born, because I used to be heavy on Destiny back in the day to an
- 25:30extent. Of course I never played any of
- 25:32the Rays and stuff, but I always love playing Destiny just for
- 25:35the game plan stuff. But a lot of games that don't
- 25:41really let you pause and stuff, whatever, you know, haven't
- 25:45really been too viable for me in recent years because I always
- 25:48need to go get pulled away, do dad duty and stuff whatever on
- 25:51something or an emergency popup. But now that that's just a
- 25:54little bit older and my older kids are bigger and stuff, I
- 25:58might try to start getting back into that.
- 25:59So this is free to play. It might be something kind of
- 26:03nice and chill to kind of just like just kind of like chip away
- 26:05because like I mentioned, I like the the variety of characters.
- 26:11And so once again it's on the video version.
- 26:14I'm just kind of showing a clip of what I had recorded me going
- 26:19through some of the variety of characters and stuff.
- 26:24But but yeah, it it it's looking pretty dope.
- 26:29Like I said it's it's it's got a a handful of characters that I
- 26:33immediately vibed with with just like how they looked and their
- 26:38designs and stuff just like seems super cool and just like
- 26:42really spoke to me. So I am definitely interested in
- 26:48checking out more of this game and stuff so but yeah so that's
- 26:54the 1st to send it. Like I said, the multiplayer
- 26:58beta is going on right now on I know for sure on PS5, Xbox
- 27:05series and PC. Like I said, I think it's going
- 27:10on to the 25th or 6th or maybe a couple of days when we are
- 27:14seeing this, but I'm bad, so put that on y'all's radar.
- 27:19Last thing I want to just give a quick shout out to as well
- 27:22before I get into my other game. I want to review and that is a
- 27:26Lives of P so lives of P, it's out now came out with like
- 27:34really great reviews across the board, which I think surprised a
- 27:37lot of people. But now Laza P, the shortest
- 27:41description I felt about it before on the podcast.
- 27:43But this is the game that is basically kind of like a
- 27:47Bloodborne meets Pinocchio type of game.
- 27:51And if you've played Bloodborne, you're going to immediately
- 27:54recognize the game playing stuff to to an extent, because the way
- 28:00it feels when you're swinging, like your heavy attacks, your
- 28:03light attacks, your staggers and like how some of the enemies
- 28:11kind of shamble and lumber around or whatever.
- 28:14So I had played through like the entrance, the entry, the intro
- 28:19of the game while ago, so about like 20 minutes or so.
- 28:23And it ended up being the same thing that was in the demo that
- 28:26they put out earlier in the summer.
- 28:28But I still want to just like to run through because I wasn't
- 28:30sure if that was the actual beginning of the game or not.
- 28:33And it was the beginning of the game.
- 28:35So pretty much I played through that first little area.
- 28:37I got to the first, what do they call it, Stargazer, which is
- 28:41basically kind of like their equivalent equivalent of
- 28:45bonfires to where I can, you know, save my progress and stuff
- 28:48and level up, But by All in all, a solid star.
- 28:52I might chip away at that over time.
- 28:55This is, it's on PS5, Xbox series and PC.
- 29:01It is on Game Pass on Xbox, which is what I was planning on
- 29:04a while ago. So I might kind of like say chip
- 29:07away at that a little bit over time, but don't know.
- 29:12I I don't know if I'm really ready to feel like fully commit
- 29:15though because just because of the stress that kind of comes
- 29:20with those games. I don't know if if if my heart
- 29:23is built for it right now because even playing through
- 29:26that that first boss like mini boss sort of a while ago like my
- 29:30hands are sweating and stuff I'm like oh man, but but yeah so
- 29:33check that out if you're looking for kind of like a new Souls
- 29:36like game with a little bit of a different twist.
- 29:39But like I said I've heard great things from people that's played
- 29:40it very dope so lives of P and so lastly the game that I want
- 29:48to review is Thunder Ray. Now Thunder Ray comes from
- 29:56Purple Tree Studios and this is the game that is kind of like a
- 30:00punch out style game. So kind of like you're like I
- 30:05said punch on the original any ass Super Nintendo error.
- 30:10And so basically you play as the main character who is known as
- 30:13Thunder Ray who is the best fighter on earth.
- 30:17He's you know undefeated best fighter.
- 30:20Randomly some little alien creature pops up out of nowhere,
- 30:24zaps you away to some alien planet and you end up fighting
- 30:29these different aliens and creatures and stuff.
- 30:33And so I on paper I love or on the surface level, I love the
- 30:40visual look and the visual style of the game.
- 30:44It was like so freaking beautiful, so freaking cool.
- 30:48And it just like really spoke to me and that that's what really
- 30:52grabbed my attention about it in the 1st place was seeing how
- 30:58cool and colorful and vibrant. It looked and so I definitely
- 31:04had to give it a shot because I think, I think it was like 15
- 31:06bucks to buy. I put it on PS5, but it's on
- 31:10Xbox, PC and Nintendo Switch as well.
- 31:14And so I played it. I had fun with it.
- 31:18But my biggest critique with the game and of course, like I said,
- 31:26I I've talked about it before, how I'm not too big into
- 31:28fighting in the general and I've never really played much of
- 31:32punch out back in the day. If of course it's not like the
- 31:34occasional or the casual trying it out here and there.
- 31:40But this game is ridiculously short.
- 31:45And now of course, these type of games are kind of more designed
- 31:49for you to kind of keep playing, replaying them and stuff and
- 31:54just know, just for the fun of it, to hone your skills and
- 31:56stuff, whatever. And I will also say that like my
- 31:59first playthrough of it, I did play on the kind of like the
- 32:02like the lowest level, which is kind of like a like a rookie
- 32:06level. There's like a rookie combatant
- 32:08and like a hard difficulty one. Just because like I said, I'm
- 32:11not too attuned to these type of games.
- 32:15So I was like, you know what I'm drop the difficulty a little
- 32:17bit, just like kind of like get my bearings or whatever.
- 32:21And then by the time I got rolling and grooving or
- 32:24whatever, it was over and I was like what is, is, is, is that
- 32:34the game. And so that definitely left me
- 32:40disappointed with it to say the least.
- 32:43And oh, and I, and I guess I should clarify, when I say
- 32:47short, I'm talking like it was like 20 minutes, thirty minutes
- 32:54tops, like like 30 or so minutes, whatever.
- 32:59Because and and it's kind of funny because at the beginning
- 33:04of it all I had or no when I was looking through like some
- 33:12YouTube videos and stuff I was kind of I came across a couple
- 33:19of videos or whatever. There was like Thunder, right
- 33:22full playthrough. But the video was like 30
- 33:25minutes long or shorter and I'm like you know I'm I'm my ass
- 33:29weird. And I no just you know just kept
- 33:31going or whatever until I played it myself.
- 33:34And like I said, by the time I got rolling and going good and
- 33:38then I beat the last fighter or whatever and then it went to, it
- 33:43went into like this like cut scene or whatever.
- 33:47And it was like, you know Thunder ray stands, you know,
- 33:49undefeated and da, da, da, da and this, you know this kind of
- 33:53shadowy figure appears or whatever.
- 33:54And it's like something like along the lines of like you know
- 33:59who will he fight next or whatever.
- 34:02And then credits rolling and then it's like thank you for
- 34:05playing. And I'm back at the at the title
- 34:07screen I'm like, yo. So that is probably like my
- 34:13biggest Ding against the game is the time as well as also down
- 34:17like during the fights and stuff when you start to get
- 34:22overwhelmed and you're losing whatever the camera will like
- 34:26zoom in on the enemy and like you'll get like really close.
- 34:32And so basically you kind of like you know, be far enough
- 34:34away till you can till you can clearly see their punches, their
- 34:38swings and you know kind of like trying to get rid of them or
- 34:41whatever. But as you know, if you start
- 34:44losing a lot, then the enemy will get closer and closer until
- 34:49they're practically like this in front of the camera and you
- 34:54can't even see some of them. Like like like like some of like
- 34:58the like more. No more human size to smaller
- 35:02ones, not too big of a problem, but like the final boss is like
- 35:08a huge hulking big alien creature dude or whatever.
- 35:12And when that happens, he takes up most of the screen and it's
- 35:16like I can barely see when he's swinging or whatever.
- 35:19And so stuff like that was like another part.
- 35:22It was like kind of frustrating and that I didn't like design
- 35:25wise to where like I said, I could kind of understand in a
- 35:29way what they were trying to go for.
- 35:32And the design of it with like it's like, oh, you know, a boxer
- 35:36getting overwhelmed or whatever and kind of disoriented, can't
- 35:39think straight or whatever. But the ways are represented
- 35:42visually. Whatever, I didn't like.
- 35:44But but All in all, you know, I don't regret buying it or
- 35:49whatever because I can say it was 15 bucks.
- 35:52But like I said, the fact that, you know, I paid 15 bucks for it
- 35:56and then even with me getting my bearings, whatever, within 30-40
- 36:00minutes tops, credits was rolling and bash was sitting
- 36:04next to me, kind of like watching me play through it or
- 36:06whatever. And he was like that how you
- 36:09done? And I'm like, yeah, I guess
- 36:12game's over. The other thing I kind of
- 36:15mentioned to whatever that I was surprised by, but it it fits the
- 36:18visual style over. But just as a heads up, the game
- 36:22is very bloody and gory because I was not expecting that until
- 36:27like, like some of like the enemies you fight, not all of
- 36:30them, but some of them When you hit that finish and blow, the
- 36:34enemy like explodes. And like, it's like blood and
- 36:38guts and intests and stuff like raining down and like, whoa, OKI
- 36:44was not expecting to see that. But but yeah, like I said,
- 36:49Thunder, right? It's fun.
- 36:52But like I said, just know going in that it's a short experience.
- 36:57So like I said, if you if this isn't something that you think
- 36:59you might kind of play over and over and over just for fun or
- 37:07you just have 15 bucks in your pocket that you just know burn
- 37:10the hole in your pocket or whatever, you know, maybe wait
- 37:13for it to get a hair cheaper even though it's 15 bucks.
- 37:15But I I do hope that that the developers maybe revisit it
- 37:23again and circle back to it because like I said like like
- 37:26the the way it looks and stuff was so freaking dope and so
- 37:32yeah. So I hope that they maybe maybe
- 37:35do a continuation of this in some form or fashion because
- 37:38like especially the way it ended it was like setting up for for
- 37:42there to be more or whatever. So but who knows, you know like
- 37:46I said maybe eventually we'll get a a sequel or some extra
- 37:52content or something at some point in time but but I don't
- 37:55know Thunder Ray was solid not great.
- 37:59But like I said the the highlight of it is definitely
- 38:04the visual look of it as well as the the enemy design.
- 38:12But so hopefully they'll get a chance to kind of like circle
- 38:14back to it and give it another shot because I can slide
- 38:18visually it looks so cool and like so like the way it is kind
- 38:22of feel like a cliffhanger you know for for where it stopped
- 38:25at. So hopefully they'll maybe do a
- 38:26sequel or they will circle back to it and some formal fashion.
- 38:33And forgive me if I'm going to repeat that last little bit
- 38:36because because I had paused it and thought I had unpause this
- 38:41recording and started talking again and there was still pause.
- 38:43So forgive me if I just double spoke again.
- 38:45But I'm just going to say again, I really appreciated the the
- 38:49variety of the enemy and character designs and stuff
- 38:53because they had some some really fun looking characters
- 38:58and stuff especially like this little green alien thing and
- 39:00there was kind of kind of like a shadowy smoke vampire looking
- 39:04thing that I really enjoyed fighting against.
- 39:09Whatever. So just because of how
- 39:11outlandish and cartoony and stuff they were, but but so
- 39:16that's it as far as like the games I've been playing, couple
- 39:22of gaming news things I just want to just touch on very
- 39:25briefly before I get to what I'm watching and and monger stuff,
- 39:30whatever the shoot, the Division Three is happening.
- 39:41So I was very excited to see this news.
- 39:45It is still many years away, many, many, many years away, but
- 39:51they confirmed that one of I guess I like like the creative
- 39:55leads or something from like the First Division and stuff.
- 39:58Whatever, he's coming back. I think he's working on the Star
- 40:03Wars. Shoot, what is that Star Wars or
- 40:07Outlaws. I think he's working on that
- 40:08game. So I think once he wraps that
- 40:10up, he's coming back to lead the next Division three-game or
- 40:15whatever. So very cool to see that news
- 40:18and those announcements at Tokyo Game Show just for just put on
- 40:26the radar for the for the Game Pass people.
- 40:30Xbox got a couple of cool things.
- 40:32They got the Yakuza, both the Yakuza like a Dragon 8 that's
- 40:40coming in January that's going to be on Game Pass infinite
- 40:45wealth. And then the the man who forgot
- 40:48his name or something like that that's coming out of November
- 40:51that's going to be on the Game Pass as well.
- 40:53So a couple of pretty big gets there, Xbox, big thing.
- 41:00I'm not going to go through all of it because a lot of y'all
- 41:02probably probably by this point have heard all of the news and
- 41:06stuff, whatever, but I just had to just just touch on it very
- 41:10briefly or whatever. But Xbox had possibly one of the
- 41:14biggest info leaks in gaming history this past week where
- 41:21because. So for a little bit of context,
- 41:25Xbox, Microsoft is still dealing with the FTC and stuff, with the
- 41:32Federal Trade Commission and the CMA court case dealing with them
- 41:40trying to buy a BK, Activision, Blizzard, King.
- 41:43And so during the process of documents and stuff being
- 41:48uploaded, pretty much the tons of emails, design, docs, Rd.
- 41:55maps and stuff. Now some of this stuff is like a
- 42:00couple years old, but still the fact that this stuff got leaked
- 42:03is super ridiculous. So some of some of the kind of
- 42:07like top level highlights or whatever is a a digital only
- 42:14version of the Xbox Series X with a two terabyte hard drive.
- 42:20The the design on this right now it's it's like a cylinder.
- 42:23So it's not the not the cube shape, it's like a cylinder
- 42:26shape and two terabyte storage. It's supposed to be coming out
- 42:31holiday next year. There is a new controller that's
- 42:37on the horizon that's going to have like more haptic feedback
- 42:43kind of like the PS5 controller and stuff that's supposed to be
- 42:47coming out sometime in the next year or so.
- 42:51Let me see the kind of road map for their future concert
- 42:56release. So they're so they're projecting
- 42:58or trying to look at putting out the the next generation Xbox
- 43:05around the year 2028 is where they is, where they kind of like
- 43:09road map for when the next generation is going to start.
- 43:12And so all the stuff was just like just like super interesting
- 43:15to see. There was even some documents
- 43:18with like different stuff that they like supporting or
- 43:22whatever, or like ideas that they've had over the years.
- 43:25And one of those ideas included a handheld Xbox system and a
- 43:32bunch of other stuff. One of the other things, let me
- 43:36see if I can find it. Yes, so there was a Bethesda
- 43:42leak, and this is, this is obviously from back before
- 43:48COVID, right around the time where they were looking at
- 43:52buying Bethesda and Zenimac Studios.
- 43:55And so the kind of like road map for some of the stuff that they
- 43:59had planned and obviously with the dates and stuff of some of
- 44:02the stuff, you can tell that this is outdated.
- 44:05But like originally they were trying to get Starfield and Red
- 44:10and Red fell out in 21, obviously that was just came
- 44:12out. Now there's already plans for or
- 44:18talks of a Starford expansion coming out a year later.
- 44:22They were originally projecting Elder Scrolls 6 coming out in
- 44:262024, which clearly that's not. That's definitely not happening.
- 44:30They're barely getting ramped up on production.
- 44:31Of that, there's mention of a Oblivion remaster, a Fallout 3
- 44:37remaster, Dishonored Three is listed on here, a Ghost Water
- 44:43Tokyo sequel. A new Doom game, presumably
- 44:47called Doom Year Zero. What are the stuff?
- 44:54Those are kind of kind of like the main highlights and some
- 44:58some unknown projects, Project Kestrel, Project Platinum and
- 45:04stuff like that. So, so yeah, so that that's what
- 45:07it was like very interesting, kind of like get that insight
- 45:11into some of their potential Rd. maps and ideas and stuff.
- 45:16So like I said, like a lot of these documents are old and
- 45:19clearly some of these games, I don't know that that I mentioned
- 45:23or whatever if they're still going to come out or planned or
- 45:27when they might release or whatever.
- 45:29But just like I said, just wanted to mention some of those
- 45:32like very brief highlights and stuff, just like I said because
- 45:36it was like such a big thing. Because I remember the other day
- 45:38when it was first happening, I was seeing the like Xbox
- 45:41Trending and different stuff. And I'm like okay, you know, is
- 45:45there, you know, a, you know, I'm just saying okay, you know
- 45:51Tokyo Game Show is coming up and Starfield just came out.
- 45:56So I'm like there's plenty of stuff for reasons for them to be
- 45:59trending. And then I'm seeing, then I
- 46:02started seeing different things here and there and I'm like.
- 46:04Whoa, whoa, whoa. So much stuff leaked.
- 46:08But but yeah, so feel sorry for whoever over there dropped the
- 46:11ball and uploaded all these documents and stuff.
- 46:14Whatever. So because they might not be
- 46:16having a job soon, whoever this person is, but but yeah, so
- 46:23yeah, very crazy stuff to see. But but yeah so I think that's
- 46:27it for like all the gaming news I wanted to touch on.
- 46:31Let me just kind of glance through my thing shout out to
- 46:37Mortal Kombat 1 just came out her that's doing good.
- 46:42Oh, last week, few days ago was the 10 year anniversary.
- 46:49For GTA5, which that is freaking ridiculous to even think about
- 46:54that Grand Theft Auto 5 is 10 years old now.
- 46:58So super wild, super crazy. I guess just for those of the
- 47:04other that are interested on the Cyberpunk 2077 just had a big
- 47:092.0 update that pretty much like overhauled the entire game play
- 47:14and stuff for that game. So that dropped and that's free.
- 47:18But then their expansion Phantom Liberty is coming out in the
- 47:22coming days or might be about some of y'all are saying this.
- 47:26So I still never really played Cyberpunk, but shout out to them
- 47:31because I've. I've been hearing great things
- 47:33for that and I think that might be it.
- 47:39Let me see. Yeah, only other like quick
- 47:42little things Octopath travel to is coming to Xbox early next
- 47:47year. The Ex Attorney trilogy is
- 47:50coming to Game Pass soon. There was a gameplay Deep Down
- 47:55for Dragons, Dolma 2 and DLC for Resident for four Remake just
- 48:03came out. Payday 3 just dropped last week
- 48:05as well. My son has been planning and
- 48:08joining that. Some gameplay stuff for Frontal
- 48:15Fancy Rebirth got out there. I've been thinking about playing
- 48:19Final Fantasy 7 Remake because I have it, because I think I got
- 48:23it through like PlayStation Plus, whatever.
- 48:26And I've never really gotten into Final Fantasy whatever.
- 48:28But I've always heard great things about 7 and especially
- 48:31this remake. So I don't know, I I might give
- 48:34it a shot and and give it a try. So let me see.
- 48:41Sorry. OK.
- 48:43So yeah, so that's pretty much it for gaming stuff.
- 48:48I'm going to pause really quick and get set up to talk about
- 48:51some. I'm trying to think, I don't
- 48:54know if I have much anime stuff to talk about right now, but I
- 48:58might. But if not, I'll be back to talk
- 49:00about either some anime or manga, so I'll be right back.
- 49:10Okay. So.
- 49:11I actually do have a few things. That I have been watching.
- 49:16I kind of took a look at it while I took my little break and
- 49:18also shout out to the homies, polo, polo and tail from my
- 49:25chick wife. We Want Food podcast.
- 49:26They're they're currently live streaming their episode, talking
- 49:30about their fall fall anime preview, and so I had to pop in
- 49:34and show them some love and support while I was getting
- 49:37myself together. And Speaking of which, I'll be
- 49:40doing my own. For all preview of sorts in a
- 49:45couple of weeks, just because I kind of have maybe a different
- 49:49way I kind of want to do it than usual.
- 49:51So I'm kind of thinking playing that out but but I will be doing
- 49:56one in the coming weeks. So, but I kind of trying to plan
- 49:59stuff out in the long run because I already kind of kind
- 50:04of have an idea of what I want to do for the next episode.
- 50:07Because reservation dogs. The final season, the final
- 50:12episode of the final season is airing this week, so I've been
- 50:15waiting to watch that whole season.
- 50:17So I'll probably doing that. My adventures with Superman that
- 50:21finished so I want to go binge watch that the new Harlequin
- 50:25season finished up. The new Adventure Time Fiona and
- 50:30cake series dropped to the other day that I didn't realize I
- 50:34already dropped. So a few things that I kind of
- 50:36want to. Maybe touch on in coming
- 50:38episodes or whatever so just trying to paste this stuff out
- 50:41so but as far as two days so anime wise so I kind of been
- 50:49dabbling in a few things. I'm going to just kind of shout
- 50:52out briefly the couple of new things I've been checking out.
- 50:57And of course, y'all can always follow me on anylist.co slash.
- 51:05Dad needs to talk. And you can kind of like keep up
- 51:09with what I'm watching and reading as I updated more so on
- 51:12the watching than the reading. I got to get my reading list of
- 51:17stuff in order on there. But my watching stuff pretty
- 51:21intensely pretty much stay on point with that because I try to
- 51:24do as soon as I watch episode or watch a few episodes, whatever,
- 51:29go on here and update it and stuff.
- 51:31So, but so couple of things First off.
- 51:34And this is kind of a slice of life show called Super Cub that
- 51:38I started watching. And so it basically follows this
- 51:43young lady who doesn't have anything, she doesn't have any
- 51:48parents, any close friends, plans for the future or nothing
- 51:52or whatever. She just lives by herself and
- 51:55she ends up getting this, this kind of like kind of like like
- 52:01motorcycle. Moped type of thing.
- 52:04Whatever called a a Super Cub and a Honda Super Cub.
- 52:10That's what it is. And and I don't know it's it's
- 52:15just like a just like a heartwarming slice of life show.
- 52:20Just watching this young lady, just slowly seeing her world
- 52:25expand because you know, she used to, I think, walk or ride
- 52:29her bike to school or whatever. And now that she has this kind
- 52:33of like little motorcycle, it allows her to go to and from
- 52:39faster, allows her to go further than outside of her normal
- 52:43means. And she slowly starts to meet
- 52:46people, make friends and stuff. And so I'm about halfway through
- 52:49this. I've watched 656 episodes so
- 52:52far, and there's 12. This originally aired in April
- 52:582021, so a couple of years ago. But but yeah, so it's it's just
- 53:02been like a very fun and chill show to watch.
- 53:05So I look forward to continuing watching that.
- 53:09The other one I started watching was The Daily.
- 53:11Life of the Immortal King. So this one came out in 2020, so
- 53:19it was a few years ago. Apparently there's already a
- 53:22sequel that's finished, and I think a season three is coming,
- 53:24so this one has a lot to it already.
- 53:27But. But the kind of funny thing with
- 53:31this is that basically the main character, Wang Ling is a high,
- 53:36is a high school student with a cool and carefree demeanor, very
- 53:42low spiritual force. But he is super powerful.
- 53:46And so I don't know it it it just kind of just follows this
- 53:50high school dude who is super powerful, but a lot of people,
- 53:54at least at first, doesn't really know how powerful he is.
- 53:58And then like back when he was a kid, he was the one that helped
- 54:02defeat this like great demon thing or whatever that this
- 54:07adult dude ended up taking the credit for and became a super
- 54:11famous hero or whatever. But but I don't know it it's
- 54:14just been like something something interesting to watch
- 54:17from time to time, whatever. So but their life for the
- 54:19immoral king? Nothing super crazy going on
- 54:22about it and. There was another one I had
- 54:26started. Shoot.
- 54:29Where did it go? I can't remember if I talked
- 54:36about me finishing forming Life in another world or not, but I
- 54:42went back to that a couple weeks ago and finished that.
- 54:47I don't know. I don't know where the episode
- 54:49I'm looking for went, but I think it's called She She.
- 54:56Professed herself to be his pupil or something like that.
- 55:03OKI found the name. She professed herself pupil of
- 55:08the wise man. And so this one is basically
- 55:13it's it takes place within a a video game setting so, you know,
- 55:19real world people playing this. Fantasy MMO game.
- 55:25And so that's kind of kind of like the setting for it or
- 55:27whatever. I've only watched like an
- 55:28episode and a half and it was solid.
- 55:32I'm definitely going to continue watching or whatever, but it's
- 55:35kind of one that I'll just kind of like chip away as slowly over
- 55:38time. It's not like a high priority
- 55:41watch or anything like that. Now to a couple shows from the
- 55:45season that I went back and I wrapped up.
- 55:49First off, let me see. Yeah, this one.
- 55:54My unique scale makes me OP even at level 1, so this one was a
- 56:00interesting watch. And honestly, the way the season
- 56:04ended, I don't know where they're going to go from here
- 56:06because apparently both the manga and the light novel are
- 56:09still ongoing. But the way the season ended, it
- 56:13would have been a fine rapper for me or whatever.
- 56:17But you know, it it it's nothing super crazy.
- 56:19Basically, it's the east of Kai. God gets some into another world
- 56:25and he ends up there as a as a part of an item drop from a from
- 56:29a slime monster, whatever. And The thing is, is that like
- 56:33his level is capped at level one, but his skills and stuff
- 56:37can can level up. And he can get unique item drops
- 56:42and stuff that only he can get, only he can see, like these two
- 56:45pistols he ends up getting. But All in all as the the homie
- 56:52Oh would say this was a quality mid show, which one thing I did
- 56:58did appreciate was that this was Samuel dubbed the whole way
- 57:01through. So that made it even much easier
- 57:05to watch throughout the season was because it was dubbed.
- 57:09The hallway through double solid number.
- 57:14One thing I did not like about the show was this Bunny girl.
- 57:19Horrible worst worst character of the show.
- 57:24But but aside from her, it was OK, You know, like I said, I I
- 57:30it was kind of just just like a solid, chill show to watch every
- 57:35Saturday. Nothing too crazy about it or
- 57:38whatever, but nice fun watch. Next is the great the great
- 57:44cleric, another Isaka where this salary man gets shot and is
- 57:54reborn or reincarnated in in another world as a 15 year old,
- 57:5815 year old Hitler. But thing about Hitler's in this
- 58:01world is that they are typically notorious for.
- 58:07For overcharging and price gouging people to provide
- 58:13healing services and stuff. But he's not like that.
- 58:15He's like, Nah, if I see somebody that needs help, I'm
- 58:18going to help them. And so overall, this was really
- 58:23solid because there was steady progress because we watched, we
- 58:29followed him for I think, 4 years past.
- 58:36Across the time of this show, from when he first gets
- 58:38reincarnated to where the season ends, it's four years total.
- 58:44And so I appreciated that and and it's and it wasn't slow
- 58:47either to where it was like, OK, you know, he's at this place
- 58:51training or whatever. And so, you know, we kind of see
- 58:55like training some of the training stuff in chunks.
- 58:58But it'll be like, OK, you know, hey, OK.
- 59:00You'll kind of jump your head up and it's OK.
- 59:02I've been training with this guy for six months.
- 59:04OK man, I've been after years worth of training.
- 59:07Now I'm ready to go on to this next thing.
- 59:09Whatever. OK, now I'm here, Alright?
- 59:11I'm here for a couple months or whatever and did it a dub.
- 59:15But All in all it was like a really fun and solid one that I
- 59:21enjoyed watching. I think, you know this one was
- 59:25up. It does have a dub, but it's a
- 59:26couple episodes behind so I haven't watched a dub, but.
- 59:30I enjoy this and the way that final episode ended definitely
- 59:38kind of like really expanded the world building and stuff for
- 59:47things to come. So I am definitely very excited
- 59:51to kind of see another season for this because the other funny
- 59:56thing is like. I was just like just like
- 59:58looking at some stuff, whatever for the manga and came across
- 1:00:01the the volume, the cover for volume 10.
- 1:00:05And I see him staying on the hill, obviously looking even a
- 1:00:09little bit more older. Which hey, if if if we covered
- 1:00:12four years in this first season, I can only imagine he'll
- 1:00:15continue to progress and get older, which I think would be
- 1:00:18very dope, but it looks like there's a jet.
- 1:00:21Flying in the background. So I am like, yo, I need to know
- 1:00:23what is going on, What is this stuff, What does this show go to
- 1:00:28where there's a jet? But?
- 1:00:30But All in all, I really enjoyed where things left off with this
- 1:00:36show, so I look forward to more coming.
- 1:00:39And lastly, for stuff that I watched Reborn as a vending
- 1:00:44machine, I now wander the dungeon for a show that I know a
- 1:00:49lot of people immediately. Rodolph didn't even give it a
- 1:00:53shot because of the name and the premise of it.
- 1:00:57Of course, for those who don't know, this is the Isakai anime
- 1:01:01where you get it, where the guy gets Reborn has the vending
- 1:01:05machine in a fantasy world. Of course, super out there
- 1:01:09premise or whatever, but this show ended up being really dope
- 1:01:16and really heartwarming and it ended up being kind of like a
- 1:01:20cozy watch that I looked forward to watching every Wednesday when
- 1:01:26it came out. And this one also has a dub
- 1:01:28that's a couple episodes behind. I want to kind of maybe go back
- 1:01:31and maybe check out some of the dub episodes and they also
- 1:01:34already they immediately announced after season one was
- 1:01:37done that they're already working on the season 2.
- 1:01:40So very cool and I look forward to watching more of this, but
- 1:01:44but I just really enjoyed seeing the growth, the different
- 1:01:52characters supporting cast that he meets along the way and how
- 1:01:59they truly expand the vending machine thing or whatever to
- 1:02:03wear throughout the show. He's not just this one machine.
- 1:02:08He can transform into other types of vending machine or
- 1:02:13vending machine. Ask type of things that are like
- 1:02:17real deal real things in Japan. Like a a machine thing that
- 1:02:22provides defibrillators for, you know, for for reviving people.
- 1:02:28A kind of like portable gas thing, a portable washing and
- 1:02:32drying machine thing. A portable machine that provides
- 1:02:41condoms and sex sex safe products or whatever machine
- 1:02:48that provides clothing and stuff, whatever.
- 1:02:51And and even with him being being a just at his base vending
- 1:02:55machine thing whatever. The fact that he can constantly
- 1:02:59change and adapt the items that he provides and stuff, whatever
- 1:03:04is like pretty cool. And how he has his own skill
- 1:03:07tree to where you know, he can, you know, deploy A barrier and
- 1:03:12stuff and he can do freaking telekinesis by the end of the
- 1:03:17season. Just just a bunch of like really
- 1:03:19cool, unexpected things, whatever.
- 1:03:22But like I said, this was just like a show.
- 1:03:23They ended up I took. I took a look at it because of
- 1:03:28the silly idea of the premise. But even before I watched the
- 1:03:32anime I heard people being like, no, this show, this series I
- 1:03:36read the manga is legit good. So I watched that first episode
- 1:03:40and I was okay, that was kind of goofy, whatever.
- 1:03:43And let me at least check out the next episode.
- 1:03:44And the next episode sold me and it was a priority watch every
- 1:03:49week after that. So.
- 1:03:50So shout out to Reborn as a vending machine, very dope, very
- 1:03:54fun show. And let me see.
- 1:03:58I think that's it as far as like stuff I've watched recently that
- 1:04:03I wanted to shout out. So yeah, so I'm taking one last
- 1:04:07little break and I'm going to come back and we'll talk about
- 1:04:08some manga. All right, I'm back.
- 1:04:16So before I dive into all the different stuff for there, and
- 1:04:21of course I'm not going to say no spoilers on either side, but
- 1:04:24I figured this is a perfect one. Just a shout out on my
- 1:04:26transition from watching to reading.
- 1:04:29But shout out to the JJK Jaju Su Kaizen fans.
- 1:04:35I know the anime has some of y'all in shambles, and the
- 1:04:39manga, what happened in the most recent chapters chapter has a
- 1:04:44lot of y'all and shambles too. So I heard a lot of like the
- 1:04:49hubbub and buzz few days ago. So I went and caught up because
- 1:04:53I was like 10 chapters behind in JJK because I enjoy that series,
- 1:04:57but it's also not like a priority thing for me every
- 1:05:00week. So I just let them build up
- 1:05:02whatever. And so so yeah, so I read and I
- 1:05:05caught up and I was like, oh, and the timing of what happened
- 1:05:09in the manga versus what happened in the anime this week
- 1:05:11is kind of a kind of interesting, but I'm gonna leave
- 1:05:15it at that. So but yeah, so shout out to
- 1:05:17y'all, but but yeah, so Speaking of reading and stuff, so yeah, I
- 1:05:23I've been like slowly trying to get back into reading more manga
- 1:05:28stuff because I hadn't really been in the groove for it
- 1:05:31lately. Aside from, you know, my usual
- 1:05:33one piece reads every week, which I'm going to touch on in a
- 1:05:36minute. But aside from that, you know, I
- 1:05:40haven't really like rest or whatever because like I'm I am
- 1:05:46way behind. I am like double digits behind
- 1:05:50On Sakamoto days. I'm like 30 chapters behind on
- 1:05:54Kanye Bonashi with some other man ones, Undead on luck.
- 1:06:00I'm probably like 50 chapters behind or something crazy now.
- 1:06:07I still never circled back to finish reading Cause National
- 1:06:10ended months ago. I need to go back and just binge
- 1:06:13reading. Finish that up, whatever.
- 1:06:16Be In Motion is one that I've enjoyed that I need to catch up
- 1:06:21on. Maybe like a handful of chapters
- 1:06:23behind on that, this new one called Shojo.
- 1:06:26No like the covers are rid of that, while strawberries behind
- 1:06:30the covers on that one as well. Tokyo Underworld.
- 1:06:34I'm like 30 chapters behind on something with Oshinoco,
- 1:06:40shebutarian kindergarten wars, so many things so but enough of
- 1:06:46what I'm behind on. Let me touch on what I'm
- 1:06:51actually reading. So this is one that I had
- 1:06:54actually did like a separate like mini episode talking about
- 1:06:58called Daddy and Buddy. So go check that out for like
- 1:07:01longer and depth thoughts. But I just wanted to shout it
- 1:07:04out, shout it out again here. This is the series that
- 1:07:08basically it follows a dad who's in his late 20s, married, has
- 1:07:15three kids, and he is a gym instructor or gymnast
- 1:07:20instructor, I should say specifically because he used to
- 1:07:22be a former gymnast himself, had dreams and aspirations of going
- 1:07:26to the Olympics and stuff like that.
- 1:07:29That didn't happen, but he still wanted to stay close to the
- 1:07:33sport and to also help kids and stuff.
- 1:07:36And so he became a gymnast instructor.
- 1:07:39Well, some years back he gained the ability to see these weird
- 1:07:45little creatures that only kind of like hunt or mess with kids.
- 1:07:54And so these things, they these kind of like in sex, whatever,
- 1:08:00they kind of basically feed off of like the the misery and
- 1:08:05discomfort of kids. So like, for example, a kid is
- 1:08:10like frustrated throwing a tantrum, a fit or whatever.
- 1:08:13There's probably one of these bugs that is like feeding off of
- 1:08:18that and growing and stuff. And so he goes around primarily
- 1:08:22with his own kids and the kids that he does with at the
- 1:08:29gymnast, stuff that he teaches or whatever.
- 1:08:32He goes. He crushes, he destroys the
- 1:08:34bugs, whatever. But of course he sees them in
- 1:08:36everyday life. But he doesn't do nothing about
- 1:08:38it. Well, one day while he's out
- 1:08:42with his family, whatever, he encounters A humongous, like,
- 1:08:46bug, like bigger than him. And he ends up running into this
- 1:08:52guy who plays, like this superhero figure on this TV show
- 1:08:57that his kids watch, whatever. And this guy destroys the book
- 1:09:01to whatever. And when the dad reacts to him,
- 1:09:05the other guy's like, whoa, you can see me.
- 1:09:08And so that kind of starts this like, kind of interesting
- 1:09:10conversations, like, OK, whoa, who are you?
- 1:09:13What's up with these bugs? And so he kind of sees things
- 1:09:16start to kind of, like, get revealed and some insight into
- 1:09:20that stuff. Whatever.
- 1:09:22Yeah. So basically he is known as a
- 1:09:24gymnastics buddy who they go around fighting these bugs and
- 1:09:29stuff, whatever. And so pretty interesting first
- 1:09:32chapter. Like I said, I of course love
- 1:09:35that we got some adult main characters.
- 1:09:38You know, like I said, the main character and he's like 27, I
- 1:09:41think his wife is 29 and three kids, you know, four year old
- 1:09:48son and then four or five year old son and then two twins that
- 1:09:54are like 2 years old that are a boy and a girl.
- 1:09:58So I really, I really dug it like when this first got put on
- 1:10:02my radar thanks to Knox and Yato, homies I follow on Twitter
- 1:10:07and and on YouTube and stuff. Whatever.
- 1:10:10When I see a new manga that's called Daddy and Buddy, as a
- 1:10:15dad, I feel obligated to check it out.
- 1:10:17So I checked it out and it was like super dope, super full,
- 1:10:21super cool. But but yeah, so that one was
- 1:10:26really cool to read. Another one that I caught up on,
- 1:10:31I had only read like. The first chapter and a half, I
- 1:10:36think whatever. But but it's called oh and by
- 1:10:41the way that daddy and buddy it's available to read on that
- 1:10:46manga plus app and website. Now Mujina into the deep.
- 1:10:53This is one had to read and the nether realm of the Internet but
- 1:11:00but this is the the current manga from Enuo Asano who let me
- 1:11:08pull up his page if I can get this to open up but a lot of
- 1:11:14y'all we'll probably know him from good night pun pun.
- 1:11:21What are some other big ones that he's known from Oh yeah
- 1:11:27dad, dad, demons Dadadadada destruction.
- 1:11:32So those are kind of like kind of like the two main ones.
- 1:11:35Oh it's sullen in as well. So those are kind of like kind
- 1:11:38of like the few big ones that he is known for.
- 1:11:44But but as to move Gina into the deep follows this girl who is an
- 1:11:49assassin and basically just targets different or gets its
- 1:11:56own missions. A hired assassin so to speak.
- 1:11:59Whatever. But like it's super dope.
- 1:12:02I really love the art style and stuff of it or whatever.
- 1:12:05And so I read that. I think I think I read maybe
- 1:12:07like 5 chapters as well as behind on but super dope like so
- 1:12:13the art is super fantastic, super crazy.
- 1:12:17But yeah, so of course so look forward to following and
- 1:12:21checking out more of that. Trying to think what else I want
- 1:12:25to check out freaking or I want to circle back to like
- 1:12:29Shangri-La Frontier especially because the anime is coming
- 1:12:33back. So that's kind of like or the
- 1:12:34anime is premiering next season so that's like top of my mind
- 1:12:38and stuff that I'm interested in.
- 1:12:41Like I said, Oceano Co and stuff from shout outs.
- 1:12:45I can't remember if I mentioned the last episode, but I think I
- 1:12:47did. But My Hero Academia crossed 400
- 1:12:51chapters, so shout out to them and yeah, that's kind of it is
- 1:12:56for like the main things I want to touch on reading wise.
- 1:13:00Like I said really briefly there.
- 1:13:03There's also like a couple of like new ones that started
- 1:13:05lately too, that I might let build up a few chapters before I
- 1:13:09dive in and check out or whatever.
- 1:13:11So but but One Piece, so very brief, quick spoilers, of
- 1:13:19course. One place time stamps.
- 1:13:20If you don't want to hear anything about the One Piece
- 1:13:22manga, skip ahead a little bit, but sorry.
- 1:13:28So One Piece, this is what Manga chapter up to chapter 1093.
- 1:13:33So what is going on right now in the manga?
- 1:13:37Man continues to be super dope. Right now we have freaking Luffy
- 1:13:41versus Kizaru going on right now.
- 1:13:46Chaos all across Egghead Island, of course.
- 1:13:51A Luffy Wing Gear Five that activated the giant ancient
- 1:14:00robot thing that's like in like in like the basement of Egghead
- 1:14:04Island. And all this stuff is going on.
- 1:14:07Last chapter we saw a kind new attacking Kuma Bartholomew
- 1:14:16Bartholomew Kuma. Last episode at the AT the Mary
- 1:14:21Jo the Holy Land before Kuma teleported out.
- 1:14:26Which she's probably going to pop up on eggheads in the next
- 1:14:29in the coming chapters or whatever, because that's where
- 1:14:32his daughter Bonnie Jewelry Bonnie is.
- 1:14:36But but yeah, like things are getting like, very exciting.
- 1:14:40Of course, with the big wild card that Blackbeard is
- 1:14:44somewhere, or somebody from Blackbeard's crew at least is
- 1:14:49somewhere in the vicinity of Egghead Island.
- 1:14:53Because many chapters back we got like a glimpse of one of the
- 1:15:00black beer pirate ship heading towards Egghead.
- 1:15:04And on top of that we have freaking one of the five Elders.
- 1:15:12Saturn is there too, on a ship on the outskirts, whatever.
- 1:15:18So curious to see like what kind of wrenching stuff is going to
- 1:15:21go on with this because I would have set up a while back, we're
- 1:15:26kind of teased that there will be a great incident that would
- 1:15:30happen on Egghead or whatever. So we're kind of like gearing up
- 1:15:35and leaning towards that big moment and stuff.
- 1:15:38So, oh, and also we got to see Rob Lucci awakened versus Zorro.
- 1:15:45So lots of very cool, lots of very dope stuff going on right
- 1:15:49now in one piece. Like I said, I'm just like feel
- 1:15:51very good to be back in and my starting to get back into my
- 1:15:56reading bag. But by the way that's it for one
- 1:16:00piece spoilers or whatever. But but yeah, but All in all I'm
- 1:16:04very excited. I'm kind of finding my groove
- 1:16:06again with all of this stuff and how I'm kind of, I'm very happy
- 1:16:13to be like I said turn like slowly again back into reading
- 1:16:16more manga. But I've also been super happy
- 1:16:19with the amount of gaming and stuff that I've done lately,
- 1:16:22like, so I am super proud of myself for finishing Sea of
- 1:16:28Stars because I've started a lot of games, but I haven't really
- 1:16:33beaten a lot of games like I used to.
- 1:16:35Whatever. I think the last game I beat
- 1:16:36this year was the only games I think I've like completed,
- 1:16:40completed this year. Sea of Stars Thunder, Ray
- 1:16:43Thunder is freaking 20 minutes. Star Wars, Jetta Survivor and
- 1:16:49Hogwarts Legacy. I think those are like like the
- 1:16:51main ones that come to mind that I've actually beaten and stuff.
- 1:16:56So, so yeah, so very excited. Like I said, lots of stuff kind
- 1:17:02of coming up on. We're a little under a month
- 1:17:05away from Spiderman 2 coming out, which I'm different getting
- 1:17:08day one. I'm kind of on the fence on
- 1:17:11whether or not I want to get the new Assassin's Creed day one,
- 1:17:14because it's looking really dope.
- 1:17:16It's looking like it's going back to his roots.
- 1:17:17That I enjoy as far as like it being a little bit smaller and
- 1:17:22more contained story, because I heard that that one's kind of
- 1:17:25more going to be like under 30 hours long, which is super dope
- 1:17:30for me. And the game is also going to be
- 1:17:33a little bit cheaper than a lot of the games.
- 1:17:35I think. I think it's releasing it at 50
- 1:17:38bucks, so maybe I might use some of my little rewards points from
- 1:17:43work to get that or whatever as a little tree in a couple of
- 1:17:45weeks. But yeah, yeah, things are
- 1:17:50looking good. Things are feeling good.
- 1:17:54I'm still trying to figure out stuff with how I want to handle
- 1:17:58my podcast and stuff and the my release cadence and stuff,
- 1:18:03whatever. So you know, things are still
- 1:18:06kind of a little bit hectic and and all over the place.
- 1:18:08But I've been slowly putting things into motion, putting
- 1:18:12things into place to kind of have a smoother setup and
- 1:18:19transition going forward. Because I've kind of found
- 1:18:24myself mentally split between how I pursed this as a podcaster
- 1:18:31and then also sometimes how I pursed stuff as a kind of
- 1:18:34YouTube, YouTube or content career or sort of things,
- 1:18:38whatever. And I think I'm kind of needed
- 1:18:42just lean more into sticking with my podcast bag and not
- 1:18:46worry about trying to do too much fancy stuff, editing and
- 1:18:49all that stuff, whatever on YouTube, whatever, because it is
- 1:18:52what it is, you know? And I kind of want to just like
- 1:18:55focus on one thing. But that's kind of where I also
- 1:18:59kind of get to expand the other side of things with me doing
- 1:19:02more gaming stuff, because I've been recording some snippets of
- 1:19:10gameplay where there be me playing at the beginning of the
- 1:19:13game, at the intro of the game, or checking a couple of demos
- 1:19:17for some games that's coming out and stuff.
- 1:19:20And those have been like, that's been like really cool way for me
- 1:19:23to kind of broaden my horizon with different games and stuff
- 1:19:27I'm playing. And like I said, kind of
- 1:19:29building up that catalog of stuff on YouTube or whatever.
- 1:19:32So of course, make sure if you want to see more gameplay stuff,
- 1:19:35whatever, check it out on YouTube.
- 1:19:38But I didn't want to kind of continue to use my little
- 1:19:41format, kind of how I've always done it, where I have my little
- 1:19:45pillars to where I always talk about at the beginning of the
- 1:19:48show, life updates and stuff, family stuff.
- 1:19:51And then, you know, break it down from there.
- 1:19:53From, you know, when I'm watching, reading and playing
- 1:19:57the Three Pillars. And then, you know, picking a
- 1:20:00topic if whether it might be a topic of any combination of that
- 1:20:04stuff, whatever, and then doing my topic and then.
- 1:20:08If I still want to shout out some stuff I've been watching,
- 1:20:10reading, playing or whatever, still doing that.
- 1:20:12So it's kind of like I've had a good thing going on the whole
- 1:20:16going on the whole time, whatever.
- 1:20:17I just need to fully embrace it and just stick with it or
- 1:20:22whatever and not not overly complicate something that
- 1:20:25shouldn't be complicated. It's the best way I guess I can
- 1:20:28kind of put that in Word that so.
- 1:20:30So I hope y'all look forward to how things look and and same
- 1:20:38going forward and I hope that y'all continue to be there to
- 1:20:42support me along the way. But but yeah, so like I think
- 1:20:48that's going to do it for this episode.
- 1:20:49Like that kind of touch on the main things I want to touch on.
- 1:20:52Reviewing Thunder Ray and talking about parenting is weird
- 1:20:56and some other stuff in between, but.
- 1:21:00But yeah, so I think that's going to be, I think I'm going
- 1:21:03to wrap this up. I'm going to go pop in again on
- 1:21:06the Homie, the homies, Pillow and tail.
- 1:21:09See what they're doing on their podcast stream this week or
- 1:21:12right now. And yeah, maybe I might try to
- 1:21:16go sneak in another game or any recent model before I go to bed.
- 1:21:20But but as always last little thing to whatever that happened
- 1:21:27this weekend my it was my 15 year high school reunion which
- 1:21:33was super crazy to think about them.
- 1:21:35I didn't go this year or whatever.
- 1:21:37I just you know life stuff happening whatever.
- 1:21:41So not really built to to dive into that stuff, whatever right
- 1:21:46now. But but hopefully, hopefully I
- 1:21:50aim to to be able to go in five years for my 20 year
- 1:21:54anniversary. Which is why they even think
- 1:21:56about just because of like man, like how much stuff I know is
- 1:22:00kind of on the horizon for the next five years.
- 1:22:02Because in five years. Because 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th,
- 1:22:0612th, yeah, within the next five years my oldest three fingers
- 1:22:12crossed. You know things go smoothly,
- 1:22:17whatever. In five years my oldest three
- 1:22:20will be done with high school. They'll be young adults or
- 1:22:25whatever. They'll be 1819 years old or
- 1:22:27whatever. In five years, that should be
- 1:22:3010. My middle son, he'll be.
- 1:22:36No, no, no. That should be 11.
- 1:22:39Yeah, that should be 11. And then my middle son, he'll be
- 1:22:4816, so he'll be in high school, bro.
- 1:22:53All right, let let me get out of here because I'm.
- 1:22:54I'm a man thinking about that man.
- 1:22:56Next five years it's a lot of stuff going to be happening.
- 1:23:00Whatever. So and who who even knows, you
- 1:23:03know where where this podcast might be in five years.
- 1:23:05Will I still be doing this in five years?
- 1:23:07Who knows. So this might be a fun little
- 1:23:10clip to the back on in the future whatever.
- 1:23:13So but but as always thank you so much, so much for watching
- 1:23:18and or listening. You can find me everywhere at
- 1:23:20Danny's to talk. Make sure y'all are subscribed
- 1:23:23to YouTube channel if you want to see video, the video version
- 1:23:27of the podcast, as well as any gameplay videos and potential
- 1:23:32live streams. I've been debating about maybe
- 1:23:35doing live streams here and there, just because I do kind of
- 1:23:39miss being interacting with people and stuff, so maybe that
- 1:23:42might be something I maybe do in the future.
- 1:23:45Whatever, I don't know, but we'll see because I definitely
- 1:23:50want to also get when when the extra coins present themselves.
- 1:23:55I definitely want to build me out a really nice gaming PC.
- 1:24:00So, but anyway, so go, yes, so go subscribe to the YouTube,
- 1:24:07follow the podcast everywhere, whatever your favorite podcast
- 1:24:10app is, and shout out to everybody who supports me in
- 1:24:15other ways, whether it be on Patreon or people that that are
- 1:24:19subscribed to the podcast via the Spotify subscriptions and
- 1:24:24stuff. Whatever.
- 1:24:26I very much appreciate y'all that that.
- 1:24:28It's like super dope seeing y'all do that every month.
- 1:24:31So shout out to all of y'all that do that.
- 1:24:35And yeah, and so as always, like I always say, she just set the
- 1:24:41song nice, read some monger, watch some anime TV, play some
- 1:24:46video games and live your best life.
- 1:24:48And with that I am out. Thank y'all so much for
- 1:24:52everything I love. Y'all y'all be easy and peace.