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Episode 246 – Marvel Rivals Season 3 Recap & Review 🎮 · My Third Place Pod

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Hey, yo, boot up that PlayStation memory card, blow
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the dust off your NES cartridge, and somebody grab a roll of
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quarters for the arcade cabinet, because this right here is the
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Rivals report name schedule to change.
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Probably, I don't know, your biweekly save point inside the
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battlegrounds of Marvel Rivals. This is where button mashing
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meets strategy, where Marvel lore collides with joystick
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glory, and where every new season feels like unlocking a
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hidden character on the playground.
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If you ever lost track of time on X-Men Arcade, pour your soul
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into Marvel Versus, Capcom 2, or web swung through Manhattan and
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Spider Man 2 on the PS2, you've already found your lobby.
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I'm EVO podcaster, Lord dropper, sometimes live streamer, and
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yeah, the guy who still rage quits when a match goes
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sideways. Y'all seen my YouTube videos?
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Rivals? Today I'm flying solo, just me
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and you. But don't worry, this won't
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always be A1 player campaign. Very soon I'll be tagging in
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some Co-op partners and fellow rival heads to breakdown the
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game alongside me. Here's the mention though.
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Every few weeks we're diving head first at the Marble Rivals.
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We're talking Season 4, Season 4.5 as everything in between
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covering past notes, team comps and Lord drops.
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But also rewind the games that raced us from Maximum Carnage on
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the Genesis to Ultimate Alliance on 360 all the way to those
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midnight launches for PS3 and Xbox 360.
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We've been grinding Marvel. We've been grinding Marvel games
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long before Rivals took over our lives.
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And before you ask, why listen to another Rivals podcast when
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there's already Rivals Assemble or Rival Banter or another one I
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haven't heard of yet, but I'm sure if I find something about
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Rivals is there pretty simple. Because we do things differently
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here. I do things differently here.
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This is gameplay plus nostalgia. I love nostalgia.
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Y'all know that We talk about nostalgia on the podcast, on
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with Greg, with Menace, Now with you.
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Strategy plus storytelling. The Rivals grind mixed with the
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culture and the childhood memories that keep us plugged
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in. If you've been with me since my
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third place episode 1, you know the deal.
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If not, welcome. There's one of your crash course
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on why I love marble, why I game and why Rivals has me hooked.
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By the time we've wrap, y'all know my history, my highlights
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and where I stand on the season 4 and crying or where I will
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stand, who knows. So grab your controller, press
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start and let's jump into the campaign with questions straight
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from the M3P universe. Let me read some comments
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already. Sorry if I press that button
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right there. I love introductions and
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closing. Very creative and catchy.
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Yes child, my marriage, keep them alive, generating to the
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next generation, to the next. I love it.
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Question number one, what's the very first video game you
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remember playing? Mike Tyson's Punch Out.
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I'm so sure it was Mario, the first Mario game, but for the
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most part, it's all the freaking.
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Mike Tyson's Punch Out has always been living rent free in
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my head. For those that don't know the
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story, my upbringing, I grew up in a hostile environment,
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parents fighting all the time. So I one night I just walked out
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and went to my neighbor's house and told them what was going on.
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They let me stay there for a minute.
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The my neighbor's kid became my friends and they like took me in
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as one of their own, like you're my brother now.
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And I'm like, hey brother. So they introduced me to
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wrestling, They introduced me to horror movies, They introduced
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me to gaming. Basically one of these games was
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Mike Tyson Punch out like every time I come over, I play it all
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the way up to Mike Tyson and I die.
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That was it. I get punched out by Mike Tyson
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one punch and that was it. So that was a very first video
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game I remember playing and then it was obviously Mario.
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Obviously the whole like this whole way, the whole take out
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the cut game, blow on it and put it back in.
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And I'm like, wouldn't that ruin the game?
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Like, why are you doing that? Because you're supposed to do
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that, OK. But it only happened with Mario.
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It never happened with these other games.
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And like it never happened because we would always go,
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yeah, I got to get the dust out. Unfortunately, knowing now years
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later that if you blew on the freaking cartridge, it even said
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in the backup saying don't blow on this, but if you blew on the
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cartridge, it would mess up the little lines, the little
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tackling. We didn't know back then what
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we're not going to read the freaking fine print on the
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cartridge, but we're not going to read that.
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So we did it. We did that and it was always be
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Mario that would always mess up. It wasn't any other game unless
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we actually did that. It's like, OK, put it in and it
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was fine. I got, I love playing that game.
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I got all the way to the end, got knocked out by one punch by
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freaking Mike Tyson and never knew.
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I never found out how the game ends.
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Not for the life of me. I never looked it up.
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And I'm just like, I just figured it was like, I don't
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want to get spoiled. I'll play it one day.
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I'll play it to the end. I tried playing it a few years
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back, couldn't reach like, I don't have that young mentality
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anymore where I want to like beat this game.
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No, it's like, oh, all right, cool.
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Bye. OK, That was fun.
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I love answering these questions already.
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What console did you really cut your teeth on?
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NESSNES, Genesis, PlayStation, etcetera.
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Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment
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System, Genesis or PlayStation. OK, so my friends had the
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Nintendo as well as the Atari. I had the Super Nintendo and
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then the Lego Genesis and then the PlayStation and then the
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GameCube. So I really cut my teeth into
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the Super Nintendo with Super Mario World because, you know,
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that was the first console. Well, dad bought it for the
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kids, but like, I'm the gamer in the family.
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What the hell? I'd be like all always playing
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that one games Super Mario World.
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And then I got to a castle and like I was so I had so much
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anxiety for that and like after and I was a kid.
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I was like, what, 910 years old? I didn't know what I was doing
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and then the, you know, the theme music to that, the
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freaking music when the castle was going on and you're just
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like, maybe I should have lowered this.
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No, but every time I was just like passed by.
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And then like after I beat that castle, I flipped the, the
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controller down and I looked at my hands and they were shaking
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and I was like, damn, what the hell happened?
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Like I was so focused into it. Even told my mom look I'm
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shaking and she's not like well you're, you've been playing for
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like 4 hours. I was like oh OK.
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And she was like OK just give it a rest, give it calm down, go
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rest, give it a rest, put the game down and you know go eat.
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Like you can play later like alright so did that and bought
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some save for save stuff. I think it was like a save point
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on these games at the time. So once I beat the castle, just
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like the first castle of fucking ten other castles that they were
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there or 15. I don't remember this, but your
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mind and hands needed a break. Yes, they did.
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They really did. Oh yeah, the Super Nintendo.
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I love the game to the Super Nintendo Super Mario world and
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then there were others F0. I can only remember Super Goals
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and Goblins. I remember that.
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And you know, I'm just like, I'm trying to remember what other
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games I had on there that I would like play.
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Supergirl and Goblins. Super Mario World.
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I'm sure my brother knows. I'm sure my brother remembers
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them. And then there's the Sega
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Genesis, which we played countless of times.
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Sonic the Hedgehog, Paperboy, I didn't play Paperboy.
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I think that was for the Nintendo.
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Sonic for the Genesis, I think it was wrestling around
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wrestling and there was some wrestling games in there as
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well. And I just like asked my mom to
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buy them for me and she did. Next question, did you learn
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more towards arcades or home consoles back in the day?
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Arcades because I didn't have Nintendo, my friends did, but
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weekends, you know, my mom would be like good laundry, good
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laundromat and wash the clothes and here's some quarters for it
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and here's some quarters for you can go play on the arcade.
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So every time I just walk over to the laundromat and put some
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quarters in for that, and then I look over and there's like these
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guys playing on the arcade and it was Street Fighter 2 and
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Mortal Kombat. But it was always, I would
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always go into like, look around for the Street Fighter.
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I was like, oh, that's so cool, That's so cool.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Final fight.
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I'm sorry. Final fight two.
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Final fight. One Street Fighter and final
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fight and I I see these guys just going on.
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It was like, you want to play next?
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I was like, no, I'm just watching, just like watching and
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stuff because I wasn't prepared at all for this at all.
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Like I said, I'm shaking about Super Mario World and then this
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game comes along where you have to fight with other people.
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And so I like, all right, I don't know how to play.
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So like once it got empty to where like nobody is there, like
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I put in the quarter and I'm like looking around like, how do
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I do this? OK, start, start doing this.
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Start doing that. Start doing that.
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Awesome. Won the blue game a few games.
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Here comes somebody else trying to like do a player too.
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They beat me. All right, thanks a lot.
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Appreciate it. Bye and always, like there would
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always be and you know, the, the, the whole on cue where they
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put the quarter on the fucking on the sink.
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That means they're next. And I didn't know that I was
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like, oh, is that for me? Like, no, dude, it's for me.
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They're teaching me how to do the, the, the arcade stuff.
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And I'm just like, I don't know anything about this.
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I'm sorry. It's like, OK, sorry, sorry.
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Like, alright, so what's next? So then quarter right there
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means that the person behind it is next, like all right, cool.
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So either myself or the other guy that's next to me is if they
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lose, we got we got to go and let the other person in.
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Or if we're playing by ourselves, this guy will come in
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and be like, here you go, like all right, cool.
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And that game lasted there for like forever.
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And then we ended up getting in on the on the Super Nintendo or
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second Genesis, I don't know which one.
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It was more combat and 2nd Genesis and then home consoles.
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So it's like arcades for a few and then home consoles later on.
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Which game from childhood made you say OK, I'm a gamer now.
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That's going to be Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time.
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And I know it's like late 19971996 around there and you
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know, should I should say that I'm a gamer now during Super
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Mario World, but it's just Super Mario, you know, like whatever.
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I used to play these games just to have fun.
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I wasn't into them. I didn't play like all the time,
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all the time until I got to Oak Arena of Time.
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Legend of Zelda, before I started, before I had this game,
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my best friend used to play it all the time.
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So I'd be at his house, listen to music, watching him play.
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He'd be like all over the shit. He gets stuck in some parts and
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I'm just like sitting there the entire time.
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All right, try doing that. All right, try doing that
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instead. And like nothing.
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So it'd be like, OK, so fucking hell, it'd be, it'd be crazy.
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It'd be like we'd we'd have to like I'd have to take a break.
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It was like this guy is upsetting me.
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So, you know, I figured let me go play, let me go buy it
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myself, buy a game by myself and play this game.
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It wasn't until he realized I haven't, I wasn't coming over
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lately that he stopped by my house.
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It's like you're angry. I was like, yeah, why?
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What's up? Like, no, just checking out you.
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You're right. I was like, yeah, I'm.
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I have. Why did you ask me?
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Like I would have let you play mine like I've seen you play.
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It's just I wanted to play in the comfort of my own home, you
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know? So it wasn't until I decided to
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buy a game by myself, to have my own moment in the game, where I
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decided I'm a gamer. Now you know this is what I want
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to do this way. I want to play Legend of Zelda
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green up time, invest my time in this game by myself instead of
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just watching some other person do it.
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Mess up or not or take his sweet time or not take his sweet time
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or go rush your things. Whereas to me, I like taking my
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sweet time. I like looking at other things
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while I'm there, like all right, NBC character, let me see what
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you have to say. You know, like as to him, he's
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just like, I don't want to talk to this person.
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I was like, man, all right, so Ocarina of Time and then legend,
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Legend of South, Ocarina of Time and then Final Fantasy 8.
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You like to explore? I love to explore.
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I do. I love to explore.
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Final Fantasy 8 was a long ass game and yeah, that's where I
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was just like, I was it 9, it was 9, I'm sorry, Final Fantasy
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9 and then 10. But 9 was just like a long game.
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10 was a longer game. And like, I get that I beat
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these games at the same time I look back at them, like, what if
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I ended up doing this instead of that?
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Would I still be here? Like, whoa, I'm so glad I beat
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them. Like, I don't want to play these
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games again, but sometimes they're play replayable, like
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Legend of Zelda. All right, Marvel beginnings.
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What was your gateway into Marvel Comics cartoons, trading
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cards or movies? Cartoons.
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I'm gonna no toys. Toys.
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Yeah, toys. Incredible Hulk with Bill Bixby.
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Yeah. Like I didn't know anything
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other than he's, I didn't know he was a marble.
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Like I wasn't paying attention to that at all.
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I was like, oh, that's a a big scary green looking guy, you
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know, big scary green looking green guy that wants that gets
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angry, like all that shit. I didn't know he was Marvel.
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I didn't know about Marvel. DCI just knew like, OK, I have
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comic books, I have Batman. I don't think I collect any
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marbles at the time or I didn't like realize they were marble.
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You use your brother's GI Joe teach for your Barbie.
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That's awesome. I love it.
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I use my sister's Corvettes for my Thundercats.
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Yes. I had no idea who marble was
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exactly. I know you have no idea who
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marble is at the time. When you're like young, it isn't
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until you're like, older I was like DC versus marble.
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Who do you choose? Who do you like better?
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Like, does it matter? Like I grew up watching these
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two. Why can't I love both, you know?
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So that was first cartoons, Spider Man, well, not Spider Man
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cartoons was X-Men 93. Like I, I wasn't into them.
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I didn't know anything about them until I like actually sat
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down and watched these Saturday morning cartoons.
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We didn't have money to collect. Most lucky we had TV though.
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My mom's soap opera. I remember right.
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I didn't know anything about these.
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And then my uncle was telling me was watching me watch X-Men and
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I was like, oh, this is so cool. And then he's all like, have you
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ever heard of X Force? Like what?
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No. So he introduces me to.
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Marvel Comics or reintroduce me. I'm like, oh, look at me like
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Batman, all that stuff, like no, this is Marvel.
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Like what is that? He's like, so he showed me all
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this stuff, showing me the X-Men, the at showing me Iron
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Man, Captain America. I'm like, who are these people?
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What the hell? Like I don't even know you.
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Where do you have Hulk? It's like, yeah, the Hulk is
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right here. It's like all right, cool,
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Spider man, all right, awesome. That's great.
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So the comics were like later on, like in 93 as well, cartoons
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and then trading cards at the same time I started buying
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trading cards and then like I have a whole freaking binder of
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trading cards like Marvel credit cards and they all like come
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together for a bigger picture. And that was back in the 90s and
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like, I still have them and even now it's like I want to buy some
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more, but it's like they're too expensive.
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There's no way I'm buying these movies.
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Of course Blade, of course Hulk. Like movies for me for Marvel
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was like around the 90s. Also Bill Bixby, the trial of
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the Incredible Hulk, Thor, who else?
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The Punisher from Dolph Lundgren, the Punisher.
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You know those those guys, I was like, I was like the MCU came in
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later. But like if you watch any of
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these movies like back then, like, oh shit, All right, Blade
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1-2 and three, of course. But the gateway, my gateway into
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Marvel was cartoons. X-Men.
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Who was your first favorite Marvel hero or villain and why?
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Marvel hero, if we're going by I knew it was Marvel at the time,
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then X-Men, then around X-Men 93, if I didn't know it was more
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about time Hulk because it shared the same name as you know
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who Hulk Hogan. So you know just because it
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shared the same and I was just like, wait, what came first?
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The Hulk came first. I didn't know like oh, that's
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Hulk and that's Hulk Hogan. Hulk is green.
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Hulk Hogan is that old man with no hair.
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That's great. Do you remember your first
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Marvel video game? X-Men Arcade, Marvel versus
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Capcom, Spider Man 64, etcetera. What's wrestling?
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What's wrestling? Hulk Hogan is wrestling.
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My first Marvel video game. Think it was X-Men, like I said,
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it was like every single X-Men at the time arcade and it was
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forgot X-Men 2 clones X-Men game.
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It was in Mojo's world. Yeah, this is me looking it up.
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I'm gonna I'm gonna edit this. Sega Clone Wars, X-Men to The
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Clone Wars and it had Magneto as a playable character.
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Gambit, Nightcrawl, Wolverine, Cyclops, and then Magneto.
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And at the very end there was, I don't think it was Clone Wars,
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but it had the Phalanx, a alien, and it was a big alien.
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And at the very end. OK, which involves an X-Men
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fighting the alien violence race trying to control Earth as a
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sequel to X93 X-Men game featured A storyline where the
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heroes must stopping alien advisory dominating Sentinel
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manufacturing facility in Siberia.
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That was it. You know X-Men 2 Clone Wars.
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So I remember playing this game and like the failings, there's a
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big alien like Sing chasing after you and there's a side
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game, side scrolling game and like you'd have to run this way.
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The freaking thing is chasing after you and like you can't.
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I would die immediately around there.
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So one day I use Magneto because he can fly.
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So like I'm in the air, the aliens like whipping his tail.
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So like you try to move around, try to move around, try to move
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around and then you don't end up at the very end where you're
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just like stuck in one place and shooting at him.
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And so I ended up buying this controller where you just like
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stick grab the button and like just press it the entire time.
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So I'm just like, shit, this is going to take a while.
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So I had to go to the bathroom. So I put like a freaking
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something on top of it where it just kept on pressing, shooting,
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shooting, shooting, come back out of the bathroom.
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I win the game. I win the fucking game and the
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fucking game is over with. I'm just like, oh shit, that's
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awesome, great. This is great.
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I love it. It is I love like, and you know,
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nobody's there to congratulate me.
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And then my brother, like when I tell my brother about it and I'm
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like, I so I did this and I kept pressing the button and I was
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like, that's what you do. That's.
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I beat the game. And we would always tell each
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other it's like, yeah, I beat the game.
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Did you like yeah, cool. Like we that's our
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accomplishment. Like we if there's anything else
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that we could do that for accomplishments, they'd be
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telling each other, I beat this game.
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It's like I beat that game. I beat this game.
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Awesome. How many hours?
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A few hours. All right, cool.
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I can do it in less than that. All right, bet, let's go.
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So we fucking do that. Marvel has so many arrows.
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What's the one that feels most allstagic to you?
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90s train, 90s, nineties Marvel 90s is my my era because I got
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into it with them with like I started getting into Marvel at
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around that age. Around 90s, I started learning
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about these characters. I started learning about the
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comic books, X Force, X-Men, Avengers.
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I didn't know what Avengers was. It's like every time my friend
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be like Avengers and like, what's that dude?
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I'm like what? I don't know what that is.
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You don't know about doors. Like I don't know what door is.
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What is that? You know?
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So yeah, my era is nice, uh, gaming taste today, outside of
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Marvel Rivals, what type of games do you play now?
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Fighting game shooters, RPG strategy outside of Marvel
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rivals, I like fighting games. I'm not into shooters.
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I'm not into no I'm not into shooters, I'm into RPGs.
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Like if there was a great what is the last game?
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I played as RPG Avengers in 2020, but that died.
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If it's like a good RPG where I will sit there for like hours on
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end, I would I would do it. Strategy also wrestling games,
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obviously the game just to create a wrestler and then
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that's it. Pokémon Go, that's strategy,
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right Where you just like walk around in in real time and just
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that that yeah, that counts that get out of the game.
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I game that. Fighting games, obviously Mortal
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Kombat, Street Fighter, I would play those.
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What else? Spider Man the game, yes.
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Pokémon Go, yes to Pokémon Go, for real.
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When you're not doing Rivals, what kind of games fit your vibe
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best? RPG fighting.
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Something that will have me playing for a while and keep my
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focus and then at the same time editing the podcast because it's
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like an hour long, sometimes two hours.
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Sometimes I'll pause the game, listen to what I'm playing
29:58
again, what we're talking about, and if it sounds crazy I'll edit
30:02
it, go back to gaming again and just listen to myself talk for
30:06
hours on end and just keep going and playing.
30:10
I love doing that. Where do you fall on Co-op or
30:14
competitive? Competitive.
30:17
I love competitive Co-op. I don't know like I I can't
30:21
trust somebody to help me. I'm barely trusting anybody.
30:26
I'm marvel rivals where like you know, I got AI got a team with
30:32
you guys to like get to gold. The gold rank can't do that.
30:43
Marble Rivals entry point. All right, here we go.
30:46
How did you first hear about Marble Rivals?
30:49
Freaking November. I don't know.
30:51
It was around October of last year perhaps maybe where people
30:59
were talking about it on Twitter.
31:01
There's this game called Marble Rivals that's going to come out
31:05
and we're working on it. The beta, if you want to join
31:10
the beta and like work on it, you can try.
31:14
Beta is closed, can't play it anymore.
31:16
But I heard Marvel Rivals and I immediately thought is it going
31:20
to be like Marvel's Avengers like in 2020?
31:27
You know, where we have storylines, where we have where
31:32
we Co-op, where we have to Co-op with each other to work a
31:36
certain campaign and when this shit and not die at a certain
31:45
amount of time. And is it going to be like that?
31:47
Is it going to be strategy? Is it going to be RPG style?
31:51
And that was the first thing that came to my head.
31:52
I was like, is it going to be like Marble Avengers but with
31:56
the actual help that this time the reason Marble Avengers
32:00
wasn't working, it happened and like dead in the middle of 2020.
32:06
So, you know, like the creator, the developers had to like go
32:12
home. They couldn't work in the
32:14
office, so their computers were at home, but they didn't have
32:20
enough juice in that computer to work the bugs out, so it just
32:29
died. And so finally they said, you
32:31
know what, we're done with this game.
32:34
We're not going to do anything else.
32:35
There was a whole road map to it.
32:37
They're going to bring in characters they were going to
32:39
bring in. Like they brought in at least
32:41
like 6 new characters out of the eight that were already there.
32:50
And I forgot who they were, but they look kind of flimsy.
32:54
Thor didn't look like Thor. Thor didn't have muscles,
32:56
Captain America didn't have muscles.
32:58
They just look like regular people.
33:02
It was like the Hulk, Hulk look like Hulk didn't look like what
33:09
Rivals looks like now. So when I first heard about
33:13
Rivals, I said, is it going to be like that?
33:15
And like, what do you mean rivals?
33:18
Is it going to be like Spider Man versus Venom and Iron Man
33:23
versus Whiplash? Are we going to have people like
33:26
good guys versus bad guys and are we going to have like an RPG
33:31
style game? What's it going to be about?
33:35
And then you find out later you're on a team and you're
33:41
going against the other team and then is a rank system and then
33:46
is quick play. And then there's other stuff
33:49
going on now and I'll just like I'm in, I want this, I want this
33:54
game. And lo and behold, December
33:59
season 0, I got it. I got it.
34:02
I fucking downloaded it. I started playing it.
34:05
It was awesome. It was amazing.
34:06
And since then I've been hooked. I've been hooked.
34:09
I've like, I stopped talking to people, like I stopped
34:15
associating with people. I stopped talking to people.
34:18
I said, hey, I'm gonna go play this game see y'all in a month.
34:23
If y'all don't hear from me, I'm fine, blah, blah, blah.
34:26
It's so good, right? Yeah, you know, it's so good.
34:31
But you know, ever since then I'm just like season zero.
34:34
I've just been like, you know, there was some bad times also
34:38
last season where I wasn't into it.
34:41
Now this season it bring me back.
34:42
All right, cool, let's go. Let's do this.
34:46
What made you want to actually try it versus just watching
34:49
clips? I want I FOMO, like fear missing
34:56
out. Yeah, like I wanted to try it.
35:04
I was like, no, I'm not good. Like, yeah, cool clips, great.
35:08
Uh huh. But let me enjoy this.
35:11
Let me have fun with this. And it wasn't until like I saw
35:18
like other people say, oh, it's just like this other game.
35:22
What's the other game? Overwatch?
35:25
Just like Overwatch. It's just like Overwatch.
35:27
It's dumb. It's so dumb.
35:28
It's not going to last long. Here we are on September.
35:33
What, 10 months later it's still going on with road map of like,
35:44
oh, we have enough for 10 seasons.
35:47
Like, we have a, we have ideas for like a whole full year of
35:51
new characters and they're saying it's not going to last
35:54
long. I'm still playing it even though
35:57
I hated last season, but I'm still playing it.
36:01
Which was the first hero You locked in on this your main
36:05
punisher. Oh God, yeah, Punisher guy with
36:18
a gun, with a Tourette gun. Just I, I I'm a simple person.
36:27
I'm not like, you know, this game looks like it's Overwatch
36:31
where third person shooter. OK, let me play the third person
36:36
shooter. And that's the first character I
36:41
played. That's the first character I got
36:45
further. I got Lord with.
36:48
I got in ranks with. I won games with.
36:56
Yeah. So it was fun.
36:58
It was fun to do that. Other people were just like,
37:01
dude, can you please stop doing that?
37:02
It's like, no, I'm going to do whatever the hell I want.
37:07
Fast forward ten months later. Hey, new guy, you should do
37:12
this. Like, no, I was like, all right,
37:17
you're right. You're right.
37:18
Do whatever you want. Hey guys and bronze, maybe we
37:22
should do this together. No, we're going to do what we
37:25
want. I was like, OK, you do that.
37:28
Was I this bad as well when I was when I when I first started
37:33
yes. Am I complaining about it?
37:36
No, I can't because we did it too.
37:40
Like every new player that comes along, they think that they're
37:43
they're what they do is the best thing to do.
37:48
No, look at everybody else that's been there for like the
37:51
entire 10 months that the game's been on.
37:55
I'm at level 85. It could, it could have been
38:02
like 90 by now. But like I said, I didn't play
38:05
last month, last season, I wasn't into it.
38:09
But now it's just like, all right, time to grind on this
38:12
game one more time just to get, you know what, I'm going to get
38:16
200. And the reason being is that
38:18
probably because you're playing right now.
38:21
That's great. I love it.
38:23
And the reason being is because, you know, around April, I was at
38:31
level 70s around there and, you know, people in the freaking
38:41
community, like, we have something to say.
38:44
Oh, you're Lord. Lord about what?
38:47
Oh, you're level 70. My goodness, you play this so
38:49
much. Like, no, I've been here since
38:52
season 0 just because you started right now.
38:56
Some of us have been playing a long time.
38:58
Some of us play. Some of us, you know, have
39:00
nothing else to do but play. Too bad.
39:05
Do better, you know, and the question was which was the first
39:13
year we locked in as your main and I'm here talking about this
39:15
other stuff. Great Punisher is the right
39:19
answer. And then Captain America and
39:22
then who else? Who else am I as Lord now?
39:30
Squirrel Girl, Namor, Thor and now Penny, Penny Parker, few
39:50
others as well. Yeah, and those are my mains.
39:57
I'm still doing. I'm still using them.
40:00
What's been your funniest or wildest moment so far in the
40:02
game? Every time I play Squirrel Girl.
40:06
Like, so fun. It's been every time I play
40:09
Squirrel Girl. And I just like just grow girls.
40:15
So chaotic. Love her.
40:18
I love her. She's so chaotic.
40:20
You just shoot. You're just shooting, shooting,
40:23
shooting until you hit something.
40:25
And then and you love her and rocket.
40:28
Ah, goodness, you're shooting and shooting and shooting until
40:32
you hit something. And then here comes Iron Man
40:34
just going back and forth, going back and forth and you're just
40:37
like hit the middle and you hit the middle and you hit him.
40:40
And I'm just like, yes, it's like, yes, this is awesome.
40:45
I love it. And you know, with the Iron Man
40:48
character, every time somebody plays Iron Man, they're like,
40:51
they, they're their ego gets in the way.
40:54
And then here comes little, oh, little tiny you just bouncing up
41:00
and down, bouncing around, bouncing around.
41:02
And they don't like, they don't realize that freaking Squirrel
41:05
Girl can shoot and then they die and then they get pissed off.
41:10
It's like they get upset about it.
41:12
So that's the funniest time ever, the wildest moment.
41:15
I don't know, there's always some wild moments out there.
41:20
Oh, wild moment. I was playing Captain America
41:27
and like, I love Captain because he has the shield.
41:32
And if you're, if you're good at playing captain, you will die
41:37
for your team. No matter what, no matter what,
41:40
always go for the point. Always go for the point.
41:47
Make sure you win at many means, by any means necessary, make
41:51
sure you win. So here comes Iron Man about to
41:54
hit his ultimate and here I come with the shield and I jump in
42:00
front of the freaking old and it hits me.
42:04
Everybody around is just like chilling still and I didn't
42:08
freaking die and then I'm just like freaking go back to spawn.
42:13
I come back, we win. I'm like what just happened?
42:17
I watched a replay and the Holt hit me, but same time I'm with
42:21
the shield and it hits back at him and we both end up dying
42:26
because I like jump right in front of me, like no, like and I
42:34
like in the chat. I'm just like, you're welcome,
42:37
guys like I I, I had to and they're like, no, that's
42:42
awesome. Thank you very much.
42:43
That was great. And everybody is just like
42:45
congratulating me because it was great.
42:48
It was fun. So that was my favorite moment.
42:53
Funniest moment, wildest moment. There's always a wild moment
42:57
telling you, the Captain America one, even when was his face a
43:10
Magneto goes to do his alt and it's like a bunch of stuff and
43:17
you're there as Punisher and you're shooting his old and it
43:22
breaks and then he looks at you and I'm just like, Yep, I did
43:26
that. And then I shoot him and he dead
43:28
and I'm just like putting it in the friggin chat.
43:31
Yes, Sir, I did that. Just like what the hell.
43:36
Like Yep, all right, where are we?
43:42
This was supposed to be like a 30 minute episode.
43:44
We're now 45 minutes and that's great.
43:47
I'm just going to talk and talk and talk forever, aren't I?
43:50
No, not really. Let's talk about Season 3.
43:57
OK, so up to this point, I'm not going to tell you on this
44:00
episode what my career was. Maybe I'll because I didn't
44:04
check. Like I wasn't, I wasn't going to
44:07
do this episode at all by myself at all.
44:11
But you know what? Let's just do a Season 3 recap
44:18
episode. Can be as long as I want.
44:19
Exactly. Welcome to season 3.
44:22
The Abyss Awakens Season 3 launched on July 11th, 2025 with
44:25
the addition of a powerhouse duelist, Phoenix, whose AOE
44:29
attacks and stacking passive made her a force to be reckoned
44:31
with. Her epic team up ability Primal
44:34
Flame with Wolverine also applies life.
44:36
The Otis attacks a Moody new domination map, Clint are
44:41
celestial, Husk arrived alongside it.
44:43
Tight corridors, flanking routes and pure symbiote vibes.
44:48
Everything about this whole season with symbiote and I loved
44:52
it. It was so fun but same time I
44:57
wasn't into it. I wasn't playing as much as I
45:00
used to because they took away weekly, weekly challenges.
45:10
They took away the daily challenges and put in weekly
45:12
challenges. And I just thought like, there's
45:15
no reason for me to play anymore daily when I have nothing to
45:20
play for. All right, I'll come back next
45:22
week and play and do the weekly stuff and that's it.
45:27
It just, it just defeated the purpose for it, you know, bring
45:30
back the daily challenges and then I'll start playing it like
45:34
daily again. But even the like, if you have
45:37
to buy the other stuff the in order to get that type of daily
45:43
challenge and yeah, that's fine, but it only takes like a few
45:50
matches and then you're done with.
45:53
So it's just to me, it's like, OK, it is still weekly and I
45:58
hate it. Like I wanted to back to daily,
46:02
you know, I can play more, I can have more purple units more.
46:11
What is it? I don't even have yellow units
46:14
anymore because I bought this season's.
46:19
I got bought this season. I'm just like, all right now I
46:21
got to like wait another week so I can have more purple units so
46:26
I can do all this other stuff. A Moody new domination map.
46:34
I said that competitive matchmaking hit the reset
46:37
button. Top tier players were demoted by
46:39
7 divisions. Exclusive rewards included a
46:42
Phoenix skin for Gold rank and new nameplate tears for Diamond
46:46
and above. A slick new accessory system was
46:49
introduced. Earn accessory points during
46:50
matches to spruce up your hero with in game trinkets.
46:54
I love those. I love, though I only have I
47:11
think I have two of them. I think I have two of them right
47:16
now. What's it called?
47:18
It's Deadpool on Jeff like a little haze like and I'm waiting
47:26
for Deadpool to showing up on my arrivals so we can do something
47:31
with them. I'm waiting for Deadpool to join
47:36
up on my arrival so we can do with this stuff.
47:45
Competitive matchmaking. Hit the reset button, top to
47:47
your players were demoted by 7 divisions and the game pretty
47:53
good. OK, so the other one is, is it
47:59
little venom on, what's her name, Psylocke?
48:05
And then like every time I shoot somebody on a Psylocke, there's
48:10
little venom hanging in the corner of the screen right there
48:14
and right, right there. And like, like a little Boo.
48:20
I don't know. It's like.
48:27
A slick new accessory system was introduced.
48:30
Earn accessory points during matches to spruce up your hero
48:32
with in game trinkets, quality of life improvements, unified
48:35
cinematics tab and gallery, enhanced mission system, Discord
48:38
linking for friend chat and flexible costume MVPS.
48:47
Hero drops and skin drops the battle pass deeds the chaos
48:50
phoenix bundle along with dynamic recolors for scarlet
48:53
witch immortal slobbering Jeff the land shark sunshine
48:56
invisible woman malice and rocket raccoon sunshine malice
49:04
malice. Anyways twitch drops unlocked
49:06
goodies like the Hawkeye Willow galactic costume via watch time.
49:12
I love the Twitch drops like I can just like sit there for
49:15
hours and just leave the twitch playing while I'm doing
49:21
something else, while I'm playing myself or while I'm
49:23
listening to music while I'm heading the podcast or while I'm
49:28
live streaming and just look over at the Twitch and be like,
49:31
oh, I made it to half an hour. I made it to an hour.
49:33
I made it to four hours and now I am locked.
49:37
The I unlocked the freaking the costume and then like later on
49:43
go play like hey, but last season I wasn't playing at all.
49:47
You know, there's like I wasn't into it.
49:49
So I just like did that unlocked everything.
49:52
It's like oh great I gotta have everything cool.
49:55
Just like I wish I played mid season.
50:01
Season 3.5 rolled out Blade as another duelist option.
50:04
Plus animated dynamic sprays like Jeff sighted and cool
50:07
doodle emotes. Jeff and Emma Frost, my baby and
50:10
me. That's so cute I loved it.
50:15
Every time Jeff dies, Emma Frost, like, Oh no, my baby, I
50:21
loved it. So they've made over again an
50:24
emote where like if you're in Jeff, if you're playing with
50:28
Jeff and you do the emote, here comes like a Emma Frost hugging
50:34
Jeff, but Jeff is right there. And then if you're playing as
50:38
Emma, here comes the Jeff hugging Emma.
50:41
It's so fun. I loved it.
50:44
Arcade Mode The replay value expansion.
50:46
While Season 4 revamped Arcade Mode fully, Season 3 began
50:50
setting the stage. It saw the rise at limited times
50:53
mode and new shop systems, laying the groundwork for Season
50:56
4 overhaul that made modes like Clone Rumble and Giant Sized
50:59
Brain Blast permanent. The groundwork was late for more
51:03
diverse game mode and fashion systems, even if the pool arcade
51:06
mode hub came later. Arcade mode I love it so far.
51:13
Clone rumble was awesome. It was pretty fun just having
51:16
like a whole bunch of the same character, sometimes good,
51:22
sometimes bad. It's some when it was bad is
51:28
like a why, why are you gonna have a healer?
51:33
Like what? Not all healers, but why you
51:36
have a healer? And I'm just like, I don't like
51:38
these characters. Like you guys picked like, what
51:40
the hell? And sometimes, uh, your
51:43
opponents will pick the character for you or at least
51:46
like, you know, ban one of the characters.
51:49
The giant size brain blast pretty fun.
51:53
Every time I use Thor, like every time someone he did use
51:58
Hawkeye and is free. Feel free to hit the head and
52:06
I'm just like a store. It's like, don't forget the aim
52:09
for the head. Oh man, those were fun and I'm
52:18
glad they're on there. The free mode is just free.
52:22
Just you walking around as the same character as everybody else
52:26
and just, you know, practicing. I guess if you want to practice
52:31
or if you want to make it turn it serious, I'll do what the
52:35
others are doing. Oh, you had a strategy strike.
52:39
Community versus controversy, A community flashpoint streamer
52:46
necros disparage strategist players calling them morons and
52:49
idiots. This part of community backlash
52:51
and a literal support strategist strike.
52:54
He was dumb. Like seriously who listens to
52:57
him? Why can I listen to the guy?
53:00
I can barely understand what he says sometimes.
53:04
Sometimes he sounds like a freaking douche, just like
53:11
sometimes, sometimes not all the time.
53:14
Not gonna say anything bad about the guy, but then again, why
53:18
gonna take his his opinions literally?
53:23
Who cares what he sings? You know?
53:26
So everybody had a strike. Like every time I played there
53:30
wasn't and a strategist. So I said I'll play strategist.
53:33
I don't care. Like yeah, you're you're on
53:36
strike. So I'm just going to go in there
53:38
and just that's fine. I mean, I needed the freaking
53:42
practice anyways. I needed to use the strategy to
53:45
speak so I can go to lordship. Might as well use this one.
53:49
And I'm where am I cloak and dagger with?
53:54
I'm almost there because of the strike.
53:56
I went up to whatever, I'm right.
54:01
I'm right there before I turn into Lord.
54:04
So thanks to the the strike, the strategy strike.
54:08
Appreciate that for doing that. Strategist players began
54:14
refusing to repeat a role. Quotes like the kind of
54:16
statement coming from a big boys in the community does real
54:18
damage. Neddy stepped in and analogy
54:22
issue and pledging buff for strategist and nerf for dominant
54:25
banguards like Captain America and group.
54:28
Yeah, thanks a lot for that. Because of that, I can't play
54:32
with Captain America anymore because he keeps getting buffed
54:35
or he keeps getting nerfed. I'm like, dude, come on.
54:41
I can't play it. Like make more back, make more
54:46
strategies. Then I don't know, like stop,
54:49
whatever, just whatever. All right, we're almost at the
54:56
end here. Where am I at an hour?
55:01
We're an hour into this. We're almost at the end.
55:04
Before we hit that same point though, let's throw some Angela
55:07
lure in a few closing questions your way.
55:10
Season 4 edition tomorrow. Rivals is just some deep cut
55:13
character. She's literally crossed entire
55:15
comic book universes to land in this game.
55:18
I'm talking about none other than Angela, the lost sister of
55:21
Door and Loki. Door has a sister and she's
55:24
packing swords and cosmic fury. A lot of people don't realize
55:29
Angela didn't even start in Marble.
55:30
She was boring the pages of Spawn back in the 90s created by
55:34
Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane. She was the celestial bounty
55:38
hunter who haunted hell Spawn. But after some behind the scenes
55:41
battle gaming won the rights and Angela got ported over to Marble
55:45
in 2013. A multi versatile jump before
55:49
the MCU EU was even doing it. Marble wasted no time writing
55:54
her back story to drop the bomb that Angela was all really
55:58
Aldrith. Odin's daughter Dor and Loki's
56:01
long lost sister. She was stolen as a baby during
56:03
the war with the 10th realm Heaven and raised by angels.
56:08
That explains why she's got the Divine Warrior of meets
56:11
mercenary vibe. Power set wise she's built like
56:15
a demigod. Super strength, agility and that
56:18
escorting durability. Plus she wields her signature
56:21
blade, the Siphos, Sword of the Stars in the comic that cuts
56:26
through practically anything. Mythical Shields, cosmic armor,
56:30
you name it as she's got skills and hunting gods and demons
56:33
straight up train as an angelic assassin.
56:37
Now let's line that up with how Angela plays inside.
56:39
Marvel Rivals Season 4 introduces her as a high
56:42
mobility melee heavy damage dealer.
56:46
She's rocking sword based combos that give her an insane burst
56:50
damage up close. Think of her as a fusion between
56:52
Silox precision and doors as guardian power.
56:56
But here's the kicker, she's got movement tech that lets her
57:00
close to gap fast, like a wing dash mechanic that feels
57:03
straight out of her heaven upbringing.
57:06
She's not just a button measure, timing matters if you hand her.
57:10
If you land her sword strings clean you get bonus damage.
57:14
Plus her ultimate. This angelic strike from above
57:17
calls down celestial energy in a straight line, perfect for
57:20
punishing cluster enemies. Feels true to her lore because
57:24
in the comments she's got that from high on from on high Divine
57:30
assassin aura. So in short, Angela and my
57:33
Brother was a love letter to both her Spawn origins and her
57:37
marble retcon. She's fast, deadly, cosmic, and
57:41
mythic. A blade dancer who feels unique
57:43
in the roster but still fits riding with the Asgarden crew.
57:48
Expect a learning curve if you master her mobility, she's a
57:51
game changer. So that's your Angela download,
57:56
from Indie Comics Origins to Asgard's lost daughter to Season
58:00
4's newest Blade Queen. If you're picking her up, let us
58:03
know how you're building her out and if she's fitting into your
58:06
squad compositions. And hey, keep your eyes on the
58:09
stars because that's where Angela always comes cutting
58:11
through. All right, last questions.
58:16
Based on everything we've seen online, what was your most
58:19
hyped? What are you most hyped for in
58:21
My Rifle Season 4 and beyond? All the new characters are
58:25
coming. What's it called?
58:32
I heard Rogue and Gambit. Daredevil Isn't Daredevil.
58:38
Matt Murdock, Daredevil. He's dancing.
58:42
So that's going to be new. That's going to be fresh for me.
58:45
I want to know about this. Every new character is coming,
58:48
basically. That's what I'm hyped about.
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Like it could be new, IT could somehow like even new characters
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that I don't know about, like Angela.
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It could be other characters that are not that I don't know
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about. And I'm just be like, I'm hyped.
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Let's see what he got. Let's see what this person got
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even like, let's do one in the X mansion and the boys ago.
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Let's do what in New York? Like there's already one in New
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York. Let's do one in Wakanda, you
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know, let's do some stuff there. Like I can't wait.
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That's awesome. Who's your dream character pick
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for future seasons, Harold Villains or even deep cut
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Barbara Wild card Gambit. I want to see Cyclops.
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I want to see the X-Men there. I mean, still trying to figure
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out how they're going to introduce Professor X in here,
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but still, if it's going to be like a rivals, like should be a
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Magneto's rival Professor X, that would be great.
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What's 1 map or mode you'd love to see added to the game?
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I was I listened to podcast the Zombie outbreak.
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They said this on the What's it called Rivals Assemble podcast
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since Marvel Zombies is coming out pretty soon and I'm going to
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talk about it on the podcast as well.
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I want to see a zombie outbreak on the game where all six of you
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and then the six from the other 6 versus 6 against zombies.
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The winners. How many year 6 beat, you know?
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Yes. And like king of the Hill type.
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Yeah, I want to see that. That would be great.
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I want to see that. I was like for next month.
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Hopefully it's like a horror themed moment.
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Let's do That was your first marble game and does it still
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hold up? Extra arcade Spider Man 2
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Ultimate Alliance first marble game extent?
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I don't think it holds up now. It's like it's great for
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nostalgia, but it's not going to hold up.
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Spider Man Ultimate Ultimate Alliance was awesome.
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Yeah, none of these games still hold up.
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Like I, I'm not interested in those anymore.
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Like I used to be. If it was like a side scrolling
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game a 16 bit, then yeah, it'd be fun.
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Best Marvel team of all time. Freaking hell.
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I don't know. There's a lot.
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Capcom Marvel versus Capcom X-Men, Avengers, Cyclops versus
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Cyclops and Emma Frost teaming up.
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Yeah. All right, well, drop your takes
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1:02:24
Wherever you game lurker scroll we there.
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We are going to always be there. Wow, an hour into this.
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That's awesome. So that's going to wrap it up
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for this round. The rivals report name subject
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change. Whether you were button mashing
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with us, theory crafting comps or just vibing with the marble
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lore, we appreciate you for jumping into this Co-op
1:02:43
campaign. Big shout out to everyone
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listening on the go on the grind or maybe still holding on to
1:02:48
that dusty game board color and a drawer somewhere.
1:02:52
This shows and just patch notes and tear to list is about the
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community, the creativity and the 16 bit chaos that raised us.
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So until next time, keep your supercharged, your squads
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stacked and your nostalgia meters maxed out.
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OK, I'm evil. We'll catch you right back here
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in two weeks when Marvel Rivals drops its next update.
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What's his face? Daredevil.
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Yeah, Daredevil. It's going to be fun.
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This rivalry never is going to end.
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It only responds. I'm blessed say that again, I
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mean, but we'll catch you right back here in two weeks when
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Marvel rivals drop this next update, which can be Daredevil,
1:03:35
because this rivalry never ends. It only responds.
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Thank you for listening to my Third Place podcast where
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community, creativity and just the right amount of 16 bit chaos
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always collide.