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THE WORST VIDEO GAME TITLES OF ALL TIME · Critical Error

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You know how they say don't judge a book
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by its cover?
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>> Sure.
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I see what you're doing. Okay. Sure.
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That's what the because that's because
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the episode's kind of about the titles,
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games, and see. See, I really like where
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you went with the
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>> a critical error is an error which the
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OS cannot reasonably ignore. Jake
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Steinberg is a streamer, writer, and
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certified yapper. Complimentary. Peter
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Hunt. Spit tech
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is a YouTuber, journalist, and certified
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yapper. Derogatory. These are the things
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they cannot reasonably ignore.
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>> Names. Names matter. This is not my
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opinion. This is one of the oldest known
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facts of literature. In Romeo and
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Juliet, William Shakespeare famously
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wrote, "What's in a name? That which we
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call a rose by any other name would
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smell as sweet." And I have to say,
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>> yeah,
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>> maybe Shakespeare
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was [ __ ] wrong about this one. Okay,
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maybe this is the worst take in the
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entirety of the western ca western
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cannon. Okay, because imagine imagine
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imagine now that your your girlfriend,
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your wife gives you a beautiful bouquet
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of roses. You hold them up to your nose,
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you breathe deeply, and she says, "Do
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you like them? They're called flesh
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tubes."
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>> What would you think? IT WAS A DIFFERENT
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EXPERIENCE.
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>> I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT you mean. I saw
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someone say online once like, "Yo,
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whoever named the frog frogs, like they
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nailed it." And it's like true. It's
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exactly right. If they were called
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something else, I wouldn't like it.
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>> I like that a lot.
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>> And to your point, yeah, if they were
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like, "Yo, get a get a good whiff of
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those flesh tubes." Like,
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>> huh? No. And I And I don't even think
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Shakespeare himself believed this [ __ ]
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because he didn't call his play like two
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Italian teenagers killing themselves.
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You know what I mean? Like, he he knew
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he knew what he was doing. He knew that
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the names mattered. So names, the first
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act of interpretation before you play a
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video game, before you press start,
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before you even get hyped about it, the
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first thing that you are told a lot of
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the times is what the game is called.
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And I think that choice is powerful. The
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title can do something to you. It can
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withhold something from you. It can
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establish a framework that you play the
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entire game through. So, on today's
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episode, you and I have both assembled
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lists of game titles. Five good ones and
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five bad ones. I don't know what's on
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your list. You don't know what's on
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mine. I would like to take turns
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introducing a game on our lists, and the
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other one has to guess if they think
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it's good or bad.
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Can I say
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>> yes?
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>> My favorite thing,
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>> okay,
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>> is thinking about video game names
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because sometimes I mean do you ever
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play a game and you're like they got
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this very wrong. Like this should not
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have been called this. It should have
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been called something like all the time
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for me.
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>> Uh and I'm always curious too because I
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think that like obviously a game name is
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like marketing, right? Like that's the
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marketing. But it's also like you can
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tell when something I think got uh you
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can tell when they worked on it for too
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long I think.
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>> Okay. Okay. There's a game that just
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came out. I I guess it's part of a
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series. This series has completely
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escaped me entirely. The game is called
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Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy. What
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>> is this on your list? Is this your first
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one or you just are you just right now?
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>> I'm just saying that like
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>> you guys you spent too long thinking of
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the name for that.
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>> Okay. Yes. Yeah, I agree. I just Okay.
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While we haven't started the game yet, I
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I want to say another one is Blood of
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the Dawn Walker. Kill yourself. Okay.
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Like that's that's
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>> Jake. You got the name wrong. It's not
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called Blood of the Dawn Walker. The
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Blood of the Dawn Walker, I believe.
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>> Like there's a the in there, right?
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>> Just Just Facebook.
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>> Just
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>> Oh, it's called Oh, excuse me. Excuse
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me. It is called Blood the Blood of Dawn
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Walker.
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>> Terrible. Wow, that's actually worse.
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Mine was better. They should have
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>> Blood of the Dawn Walker. Sure. Yeah.
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>> Okay. All right.
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>> What was this game? Oh, this just came
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out. This was like from the Witcher
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people, wasn't it?
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>> It was from ex Witcher people. Yeah.
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Yeah. So,
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>> all right. Anyway, um would you like to
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go? Would you like to go first? Would
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you like me to submit? What? What do you
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want?
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>> Yeah, I got one. I got one for you,
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Jake.
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>> In fact, let me take you Let me take you
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back a year and some change. Huh? A year
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and some change.
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>> Two two young starlets, the two of us
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are looking at each other trying to
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figure out if we're going to do a
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podcast. And what is the first podcast
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of the Critical Error uh uh catalog
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about? Of course, Donkey Kong Bonanza.
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Jake, is this a good name or a bad name?
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Donkey Kong Bonanza. I think you love
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this name.
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>> I think it's a brilliant name. I think
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it's like so good for a game that I
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don't like really at all, but it's a
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game that like it's a name that like
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>> it's the word banana.
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>> No.
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>> With a Z in it.
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>> No, this is bad. Let me stop you right
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there. This is not a good title.
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>> You think it's bad?
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>> This is not a good title. Donkey Kong
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Bonanza. It is bonanza with an O with
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banana shoved into it. This is the
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lowest form of video game titling. It is
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IP IP themed pun substitution. By this
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logic, you should have called Kirby Air
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Riders. Kirby air pinkers. Okay. You
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cannot just locate the noun that is
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associated with your mascot and replace
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the syllables. What does Bonanza tell me
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about this game, Peter? That there are a
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lot of bananas. Incredible. This is Poke
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Punk. THERE ARE ALWAYS A LOT of bananas.
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So, here's here you've revealed
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something actually to me that Bonanza is
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spelled with an O. That's correct.
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That I didn't know. And I think I will
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say I do believe that it is I've always
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thought it was B A N A N Z A because I
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think that's my accent.
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>> Let me tell you exactly what's going on
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here with this word.
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>> Okay.
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>> Bonanza already means an abundance of
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something valuable. So, bonanza. Bonanza
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means banana abundance. So, let me ask
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you this. Is a better title for this
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game. Donkey Kong colon too many
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bananas.
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>> No, it's not simply no. No.
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>> Although that was my feeling playing the
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game. That was the primary just like
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there's too many of these. Too many.
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Yeah. Uh do you do you really not like
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Donkey Kong Bonanza? I think it's I
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think it like slides off the tone so
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nice.
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>> I like I like I like the title. I just
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wanted
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>> I think it's good.
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>> I just wanted Yeah. No, I appreciate
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that. I appreciate that. But I will
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actually say this is kind of [ __ ] me
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up that bonanza is spelled with an O.
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There's certain words like that I will
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misspell and then like Google Docs will
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be like I don't know what you're trying
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to say. I'm like it's not that hard.
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Like I think bot like past tense of to
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have to like to buy has an A in it and
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it doesn't and Google's like what are
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you trying to say? I mean come on.
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>> Yeah, that's a tough one. So, I guess
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part of this is I I am a little bit
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compelled to think could I come up with
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a a a title that I like more if that is
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part of the challenge here, right?
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>> So,
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>> what do you So, like let's just say this
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is these aren't better titles. You're in
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the room. You're throwing stuff on the
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whiteboard. What kind of stuff
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>> are you putting on the Donkey Kong
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Bonanza
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>> whiteboard before they settle on
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Bonanza? I'm probably putting Donkey
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Kong Rampage on there.
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>> Wow. I love Donkey Kong Rampage
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>> cuz you're breaking so much stuff,
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right? Like you're you're like tunneling
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through all this sort of stuff. Uh the
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problem is I think Rampage maybe has
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like a negative connotation to it. You
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know what I mean? Like
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>> Yeah.
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>> But like I'm also thinking about uh is
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it Pauline or is it Paulina?
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>> It's Pauline.
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>> Pauline. Yes.
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>> Singing aorious voice. You know what I
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mean? And like but like Rampage isn't I
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don't know.
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>> Wow.
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>> Rampage is actually not bad.
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>> I know. No, I actually like I actually
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like what you were what you were
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thinking there with with the Pauline and
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the singing part of it because that's
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almost I think not
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>> a part of Okay.
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Donkey Kong rock and roll.
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>> Oh wait, this is good.
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>> Donkey Kong, you know. Okay. Like I
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think you could do Donkey Kong smash
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hit.
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>> Yep. Yep.
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>> That's not bad, right? Little Nandra
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with with the name
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>> cuz also I'm thinking like the key art
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too and he's like punching. He's like
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hitting the ground. You know what I
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mean?
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>> Donkey Kong Rockstar is pretty good.
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>> You could do some stuff.
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>> Yes. Yes. I don't know the word slam,
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but that's not like a music. want now is
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for the comments of this episode to be
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filled with people giving suggestions
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for better names for these games. Wow,
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that's good. Okay, wait. Can I Can I hit
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you with one now?
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>> Please, please.
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>> All right. I would like to submit
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Dragon's Dogma.
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I think it's probably not good.
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>> What makes you say that?
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>> Yeah. Um,
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I think it has to do with the word
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dogma. And listen, I get what the word
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dogma means, but dogma, it it
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I don't know. I think I get a little
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caught up like the word dog is right in
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there, and it just makes me think about
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a dragon's dog, ma. Yes. You know, I
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Yeah. No, I I I agree. Listen, I think
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that this is maybe an alltime bad video
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game title. Yeah,
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>> I love dragons dogma and it it pains me
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to say this. It pains me to say this,
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but like
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dragons possessive dogma.
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>> No.
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>> What does the dragon believe?
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>> Does the dragon subscribe to a
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theological framework?
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>> Is there we learn that? I I am not 100%
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sure, but I think Dragon's Dogma implies
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that somewhere in this game there is a
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dragon with like an extremely rigid
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position on on something. Yes.
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>> Yes. Yes. Exactly. And I just think like
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it is putting two fantasy ass words
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together and hoping for the best. I
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would agree because I also think that
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like
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>> because when I hear like dragons dogma,
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I start to think like like you got to
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reframe this in a way that is like a
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little bit more like like mysterious
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maybe or mystical or like I would say
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like and this is even a Capcom game,
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right? Like on Musha Way of the Sword I
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think is cool. Way of the Dragon, you
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know what I mean? Something like if you
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want to stick with dragons in there. Um
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what was the name of the what's the
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disease that your pawns can catch that
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where they kill everyone? Oh, I can't
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remember what it's called, but
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>> it's like dragon something.
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>> It is. Yeah. Yeah, it is.
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>> Uh, dragon's dogma disease.
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>> Wait, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
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>> Dragon's Plague. Dragon's Plague, I
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think, is a decent name.
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>> Dragon's Plague. That is what it is. I I
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have some startling news for you.
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>> Please.
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>> Capcom has information about what the
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title is and why it's called that. And
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their explanation is that the dragon,
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what the dragon teaches you, represents
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the game's underlying theme. And can I
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just say to Capcom right now, if they're
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listening, that's not how possessive
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works. You can't if my English teacher
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teaches me about Hamlet. I do not refer
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to Hamlet as Professor Mc, you know,
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Donny's Hamlet. That is that's not This
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is Oh, you know the Bible? Yeah. Moses's
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dogma.
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Yeah. And it's not it's just not how it
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works.
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>> What they've done is they've actually
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decided that they don't want to give it
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a title,
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>> right? It feels almost that they're like
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they didn't they decided not to title
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it. That they were like the dragon
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actually has the title really.
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>> And I think there's a lot of
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>> player um authoritative kind of stuff in
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these games. Like you get to kind of
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co-author what's happening in the story.
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And I feel like that just is the exact
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opposite of what the dragon's dogma.
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It's like it's like dragon's dogma to me
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is the Elder Scrolls Skyrim was taken.
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>> Oh yeah, 100%.
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>> You know what I'm saying? It's
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>> really bad. Really bad. So
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>> dragon needs a new name. I wish this
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this edition that was coming out this
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week. I wish it just had they were just
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like it's called something else now.
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>> Dark risen. Is that right?
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>> Yeah, but it's Dragon's Dogma 2.
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prison.
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>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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>> This is a question I actually wanted to
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pose to you as well. Is Dragon's Dogma 2
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a better name? I think it's slightly
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better.
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>> Yeah, it is better. It takes It takes
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the focus off.
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>> Yeah, it does. It does. Cuz you're like,
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"Oh, a sequel." Oh, the first one must
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have been good despite it terrible
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title.
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>> Let me hit you with this.
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>> Let me hit you with this, Jake. Speaking
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of sequels,
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>> Marvel's Spider-Man 2. Good title, bad
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title.
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That's not right.
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>> That's not good, is it?
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>> No, that's that's not right. That's
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>> Yeah, that's
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>> Marvel's SP. So, this is a problem that
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we've been running into with uh Marvel
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games actually for for a while, I think,
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actually since u Marvel's Spider-Man one
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>> is that having to have Marvel's in the
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title is is like dumb, right? like
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Marvel's Wolverine, Marvel's And I think
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the reason I'm so caught up on Marvel's
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Spider-Man 2 is that Marvel's Spider-Man
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is really hard to say.
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>> You're right. That that that's very bad.
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Mhm.
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>> Um and I also think that just calling it
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two is is I don't know. There's already
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a game called Spider-Man 2 that when we
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think of we know what it is, right?
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>> But Peter, have you considered that the
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number is diagetic and this is Marvel's
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Spider-Man 2 because there are two
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Spider-Man
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>> Spider-Man. But is there a third
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spoilers I suppose at the end? Isn't
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there like a
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>> Oh, no.
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No. There's two on the cover. I guess
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there's two on the cover. I suppose
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that's true, but it's bad, right?
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Marvel's the Spider-Man 2. Anytime I
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have to like had to say it in a video
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script when I was working at Dual
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Shockers. I think that's when that came
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out. I just felt dumb cuz I had to like
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resay it a bunch cuz like Marvel's
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Spider-Man, you know what I mean? Sure.
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But like Marvel's Avengers
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is Spider. So, okay. So, what's a what's
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a what's a better what's a better title?
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>> I think you just got to get rid of first
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of all, get rid of Marvel's. I think
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like my main problem here is Marvel's I
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know. [ __ ] It's Spider-Man. I know he's
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Marvel.
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>> Insomniac's Marvel's Spider-Man too,
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>> too.
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>> Yeah.
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I I I guess I don't have like Okay,
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Marvel needs to go. Yeah, please.
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>> You can't get rid of Marvel's, but you
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have to give it a new subtitle. That is
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That is not two. Let me let me throw a
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few at you.
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>> Yeah. Marvel's Spider-Man Web of Two.
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>> Okay.
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>> Okay. Um you got You got some more.
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>> I got some more. I got some more. Um Um
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Marvel Spider-Man colon greater
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responsibility.
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>> Okay, sure. Because there's two require
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more responsibility.
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>> Marvel Spider-Man 2.
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No. Marvel Spider-Man.
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>> Tangled.
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>> Tangled. Okay. Sure. Tangled. Kind of a
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Disney crossover there. So,
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>> here's here's what what if we got rid of
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Spider-Man in general?
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>> Whoa. Wait, now you're talking to me.
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>> Marvel's web of something or Mar, you
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know what I mean?
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>> That's awesome. Actually,
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>> you know what I mean? I know it's
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Spider-Man. He's on the [ __ ] cover. I
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know what he looks like. Impossible to
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mistake. Marvel's webs between us.
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There's something.
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>> Okay. All right.
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Um.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Okay. Let me let me give you a little
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softball here.
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>> Yeah. Yeah. Super Smash Brothers.
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>> It's good. It's good.
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>> It's really good.
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>> It's good. It's good.
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>> They got it in one.
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>> Yes.
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>> And I even think because what are the
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So, Super Smash Bros, Super Smash Bros.
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Melee. I think it's good. Uh, Brawl is
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very good cuz also
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>> it was called Super Smash Brothers 4 Wii
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U, but it was the fourth game.
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>> Uh, okay. So, we're That one That one's
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bad cuz I played the one on the 2DS as
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well.
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>> It was just called Super Smash Brothers.
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Like they just It's
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>> That's right. No, it's called Super
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Smash Brothers 4 Wii U.
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>> Is it really?
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>> Yes. And then the 3DS one is called
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Super Smash Bros. 4 3DS
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>> and with a Is it with a four or is it F?
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>> No. No, it's F.
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>> Okay. Well,
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>> but he's he's trusting you,
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>> I guess. So,
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>> yeah. Listen listen, they took they took
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Super Mario Brothers.
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>> Yeah.
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>> And he was like, "Okay, we're going to
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we're going to we're going to physically
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assault it. Smash. We we insert that.
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That's the game, baby." And they aren't
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like,
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you know, I think I think somebody not
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as intelligent would have called it
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Nintendo Allstar Fighting or Correct
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>> or Super Smashers, but no,
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>> Smash Brothers. The this is this is
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delightful because the language of the
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platformer has been invaded by violence
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in the same way that like Link is is
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going to invade the Mushroom Kingdom and
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beat Mario to death with a sword.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Okay. It's it's really good. I I think
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>> I like the imagery in the title, too.
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Mhm.
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>> So like smash I think is obviously like
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the the main word here that is like just
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just like so much imagery associated
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with what that is. And then now of
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course we know like what Smash means in
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the context of that game. But even then
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Smash is like demolish, right? It's it's
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like this like big sort of like it's
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loud. A smash is like a very loud sound
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and and like whatever.
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>> But then like a super smash is like oh
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[ __ ] it's a really big that's a big one.
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brothers. It's like there's conflict.
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Like what's happened to this family?
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>> See, no, I like brothers because it's
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like they are the it makes it so that
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the characters are placed in
18:01
relationship with each other. So, it's
18:03
like it's like, oh, we're bros.
18:05
>> We're we've we've invented a fake
18:07
familiar relationship and it's like, no,
18:09
we're just having fun, though. We're
18:10
just having fun. It's all in good fun.
18:12
>> I I completely agree. I think it's
18:15
You're so right though. The fact that
18:16
like the word like Nintendo is not in
18:17
there at all is like awesome cuz I think
18:20
it would ruin it, right? Nintendo's
18:22
Super Smash Brothers terrible, right?
18:24
>> Um
18:25
>> that's why like even cuz what was what's
18:27
the one you like? The PlayStation one?
18:28
PlayStation Allstars Battle Royale.
18:31
>> Yeah.
18:31
>> Like that's a really bad title.
18:34
>> The the title that when it was in
18:36
development it was Title Fight and that
18:38
was a better title.
18:39
>> That's way better. It's also
18:40
>> it's very it's annoying. Yeah. But I
18:43
mean like because you had to have the
18:45
PlayStation branding in there. It's like
18:47
no no no let it be what it is and if
18:49
it's good it'll be good. Yep.
18:51
>> Um because now I think like Super Smash
18:53
Bros. is like I mean of course it's it's
18:56
such a popular title like it's popular
18:57
game series but it is synonymous with
18:59
Nintendo right like
19:00
>> Oh yeah.
19:01
>> without even being you know Nintendo
19:03
branded really.
19:04
>> Oh yeah.
19:04
>> Other than just being the one of the
19:05
games. Um let me with this. Okay. Okay.
19:08
Okay. Stick it in N N N N N N N N N N N
19:09
N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N
19:09
N N N N N N N N Nintendo Metroid Dread
19:15
Bad. You think it's bad? I think it's
19:17
pretty good.
19:17
>> Yeah. No, no, no, no. Yeah, Metroid
19:19
Dread. That's bad. Metroid Dread.
19:20
>> What do you like about it?
19:22
>> Well, what do you like about it?
19:24
>> I think that it's Dread. It's like
19:26
scary. And I think it makes me think of
19:28
Dread. Like Judge Dread, which is like
19:30
cool. Um I you know what I mean? Like
19:33
like it's brutal. Uh it's kind of
19:36
spooky. Uh, that's the game where you're
19:38
being chased by those like big robots
19:40
you can't kill and it gets really
19:41
stressful when you're in there. And I
19:43
think that uh it's Snappy Metroid Dread
19:47
the Dr. the DRDR in there. You know what
19:51
I'm saying?
19:51
>> No. No. I think that
19:54
>> Yeah.
19:54
>> It's like if you called a game It's like
19:57
imagine Nintendo comes out with Luigi's
20:00
Mansion colon anxious.
20:04
>> Yeah, I GUESS THAT'S FAIR. YOU KNOW, I I
20:07
SUPPOSE that's fair. I just Yeah. Yeah.
20:10
Yeah. That is true. Resident Evil
20:13
unease.
20:16
>> Well, I'll say this. Resident Evil is
20:18
already like very silly. This house is
20:21
[ __ ] bad. We don't like this guy at
20:23
all. Um, I'll say that Metroid Ravenous,
20:26
I think, is a terrible title.
20:28
>> That's okay. Now, hold on a second
20:30
there, Buckaroo.
20:31
>> You like Ravenous?
20:32
>> I don't know. I guess I I guess Let me
20:35
Okay. Okay.
20:36
>> Big hungry. Should have called it that.
20:38
>> That's See, now we're now we're cooking.
20:40
That's really nice.
20:41
>> Yeah.
20:42
>> So, like
20:44
>> I just think dread is like somebody
20:47
again going back to the whiteboard. I
20:49
could see the whiteboard where somebody
20:51
wrote fear.
20:53
>> Terrible.
20:53
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
20:54
>> Darkness. And they just and they just
20:57
went with dread and I'm supposed to
20:58
believe them, you know? It's like it's
21:01
it's
21:02
>> to me it's it's almost like
21:06
coming out with a literary fiction novel
21:08
and it's like Jake, what's the title of
21:09
your book?
21:11
>> Trauma. Yeah, I get that is fair. That
21:14
is fair. Um
21:18
I think uh I will say this, the Metroid
21:22
series I think has a lot of really bad
21:23
titles, truth be told. I think Metroid
21:25
Prime, great title. I think Metroid
21:28
Prime 2 colon echoes is stupid.
21:30
>> Okay.
21:31
>> Like, and then adding addition like
21:33
Metroid Prime 3 Corruption. Okay, who
21:35
cares, right? Like, these these
21:36
subtitles are stupid. Metroid Prime.
21:38
Great. Great.
21:40
>> Had Metroid Prime Hunters. Remember
21:41
that?
21:42
>> Yeah.
21:42
>> What if this game was called Metroid
21:44
Colon Hunted?
21:46
>> Hunted. Bad. Bad. I think past tense
21:48
titles is no good.
21:52
>> All right. Well, comment, I challenge
21:54
you. I challenge you to come up with a
21:56
better come up with a better title. All
21:58
right.
21:58
>> Metroid Prime. There's a bird in this
22:00
one. Or no, it wasn't Prime. Metroid.
22:03
There's a It's a bird
22:05
prime for Poland psychic.
22:09
>> Did that one have a subtitle?
22:11
>> It it
22:14
beyond.
22:15
>> Oh, that's a bad name.
22:17
>> That's a bad title.
22:20
>> Why' they call it that? Why did anyone
22:23
believe this was a good video?
22:28
>> Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Get Get another
22:30
one.
22:31
>> The world ends with you.
22:41
What if I said this? I think it's a good
22:42
title. I think it's not a great video
22:44
game title.
22:46
Oh,
22:47
>> what does that mean?
22:49
>> I think what I mean by that is we just
22:51
in the the conventions of naming video
22:54
games, I think it sort of exists outside
22:58
of the the naming conventions that we
23:01
typically assign to video games. Um,
23:04
I'm not saying it's like a bad title
23:06
because I think it's actually a good
23:07
title, but I wonder if it's a good video
23:10
game title. Again, given the conventions
23:12
we usually use,
23:13
>> I think that this is an all in the
23:16
conversation for alltime great video
23:18
game titles. I think that if it's not
23:21
this, there are two maybe other games
23:23
that I would put it in conversation
23:25
with. I that's how strongly I feel about
23:27
this. I think that you could print these
23:29
words across a t-shirt or a messenger
23:33
bag and people would like [ __ ] ride
23:36
with this. This is this to me is a video
23:39
game title. Whereas I look at Dragon's
23:41
Dogma and it's like the words evaporate
23:44
out of my brain the second I like like
23:46
like here's here's what we're working
23:47
with. You've got the the main character
23:49
in this game. I love this game. He's
23:50
this antisocial little freak and he's
23:52
walking around Japan. He's got these
23:53
giant headphones on because his
23:56
fundamental philosophical position in
23:58
the world is that I don't want to hear
23:59
anybody else talk. That's our guy.
24:01
That's the hero of the story. It's
24:04
awesome. Okay. And like
24:08
the game looks directly at this little
24:11
[ __ ] and says the world ends with you.
24:15
What does that mean?
24:16
>> And I think it I think it's an
24:18
interesting philosophical question
24:19
almost as the premise being your world
24:21
is exactly as big as you allow it to be.
24:25
That's the whole game. The world ends
24:27
with you. And Neku, this guy, he thinks
24:30
that everything that the world is
24:32
something outside of him that sucks. But
24:34
he's wrong. The world sucks because he
24:37
sets the the the his purview of the
24:40
world to six feet around him.
24:42
>> It's got to take the headphones off.
24:45
>> I love this.
24:47
>> I do like when the title of something
24:50
interacts with what it's about or like
24:52
what it is. I'm I'm struggling to think
24:54
of another example of it um like right
24:56
off the top of my head, but yeah, cuz I
24:58
like I really really like that. Um, also
25:01
I like when it a title like makes you go
25:04
like,
25:05
>> "Oh, nice." Like I get it now. Yes. Um,
25:09
yes. This isn't on my list, but a bad
25:13
example of this is Resident Evil
25:16
Reququum. Did you you played that,
25:17
right?
25:18
>> Not yet.
25:19
>> Oh, okay. Do you know why it's called
25:20
that?
25:21
>> No.
25:24
>> It's because uh No,
25:25
>> it's because the big gun you have is
25:27
called the Reququum. Oh, well that's not
25:29
what I was expecting. It's
25:30
>> just not that interesting. Like, you
25:32
know what I mean? You get the gun and
25:34
it's like, oh my gosh, obtained the
25:36
reququum and you're like, okay,
25:37
>> wow.
25:38
>> I think that's not that interesting.
25:40
>> You always get big guns in Resident
25:42
Evil.
25:42
>> Yeah.
25:43
>> Who cares? The gun's like not important.
25:46
It's like not important at all. I don't
25:48
know. I thought it was interesting, but
25:49
it's like Oh, yeah. And it felt it felt
25:51
like it was like a moment that you were
25:53
supposed to be like, "What? That's why
25:54
it's called that?" But you're like, "I
25:55
don't know."
25:56
>> Um,
25:57
>> all right. All right, here's one for
25:58
you.
25:58
>> Mhm.
26:00
>> Metaphor reefantasio.
26:05
>> No.
26:07
>> Bad.
26:08
>> Really? No. You think it's bad?
26:09
>> All uh extremely bad.
26:11
>> It's like an all-time bad one. And
26:13
here's why.
26:13
>> All time. That's on the other end of the
26:15
spectrum as The World Ends With You.
26:17
>> So, uh I was talking with my wife's
26:22
friend's husband. So, about as loosely
26:25
as you could possibly know someone. Yep.
26:27
Yep. Yep. Yep.
26:28
>> And all he knew about me was that I work
26:31
in games in some capacity. And so this
26:33
was two years ago at this point. And
26:36
he's like, "Hey, uh, like what uh what
26:39
kind of games are you you looking
26:41
forward to this year?"
26:43
>> No, bro. Don't do this.
26:44
>> And I was like, "Oh, like I was like, do
26:47
you play a lot of games?" He's like,
26:47
"Yeah, I play a bunch of video games."
26:49
And I was like, "Cool." And I thought we
26:50
were both sort of on the same page. And
26:52
I was like, this is before I found out
26:54
that the game is not very good, but I
26:56
was of course because it wasn't out yet.
26:57
I was like, "Oh, there's that uh game
26:59
from the Persona people. It's Metaphor
27:00
Reefantio." And he looked at me as if I
27:03
grew a second head. And I and he was
27:06
like, "What?" And I had to be like, it's
27:09
like a it's like a fantasy thing. And he
27:12
like straight up no recognition, no
27:13
idea. And I was like, "What are you what
27:15
are you looking forward to?" He's like,
27:16
"Ah, the Elen Ring DLC." And I was like,
27:17
"Yeah, me too." And then I'd move on. I
27:19
think a bad title is embarrassing to say
27:22
out loud.
27:23
>> Yeah. But also, it's like it's like
27:26
worse than embarrassing to say out loud
27:28
because it's also trying to be like
27:31
smart and stylish.
27:32
>> It thinks it's doing something and it's
27:34
not.
27:34
>> It's Imagine if you had an album come
27:37
out and you titled it music colon remlo.
27:42
>> Yes. No, it's not good. It's not good.
27:46
It's It's like straight up embarrassing.
27:47
And also like I'm not even totally sure
27:50
if I'm pronouncing it right.
27:52
>> We're going to go back and we're going
27:54
to rename Moby Dick into
27:58
allegory colon rehale.
28:02
>> Yeah. Good.
28:02
>> That's good.
28:04
>> Is fantasio is that a word I don't know
28:06
or is that just something they made up?
28:08
>> I think it's something.
28:10
>> It feels like it feels like fantasy a
28:12
little. Right. But like
28:13
>> Mhm. and then re to to re to do it
28:16
again.
28:17
>> It's actually I haven't thought about
28:18
this in so long. It's like crazy to be
28:20
like, "Hello audience, please be advised
28:23
that what follows is a metaphor."
28:26
>> Can you imagine? Well, dude, and the
28:27
game starts that way. It's like the
28:29
world is so crazy and this might be some
28:32
something about it. And I remember too
28:34
that game came out right after
28:37
>> uh the the assassination attempt on on
28:40
Donald Trump. Do you remember this? And
28:42
then it had to at least it felt like to
28:44
me it felt like the start of the game
28:46
goes like don't do political violence
28:48
just so you know this is not this is not
28:50
don't do what happens in the game and
28:52
it's like
28:53
>> well I I want I wonder
28:57
>> bad name.
28:58
>> So is refantio just fantasy again?
29:01
>> I think
29:02
>> metaphor
29:04
fantasy is it metaphor colon or I
29:06
thought it was metaphor recon fantasio.
29:09
>> Oh well that that's okay. Wow, how could
29:12
I have how could I have made that
29:14
mistake?
29:15
>> Uh, no. I'm I'm incorrect. It is
29:17
metaphor colon re and then fant but it's
29:20
a capital R E capital F fantasio. What
29:24
does that even mean?
29:25
>> It's this is symbolic and a fantasy
29:28
story.
29:30
>> Again
29:35
I can I tell you something? Uh
29:37
>> I just keep thinking I'm so sorry. I
29:38
just keep thinking irony
29:41
juxtopizio.
29:43
>> Well, dude. OKAY, SO AGAIN, THINK ABOUT
29:44
LIKE THEY'RE AT they're at the
29:46
whiteboard, right? And they're like,
29:47
what do we call this game?
29:49
>> It's good.
29:49
>> How did they land on this?
29:51
>> It's good.
29:51
>> Like, how did they land how did they
29:53
land on this?
29:54
>> Mhm. Mhm.
29:55
>> What was the At what point did was there
29:58
no one who said, "Guys, we can't do
30:00
this." Like, it can't be called this.
30:02
You if you can't remember this, if you
30:04
can't like doodle this logo, then you
30:06
can't make this the game.
30:08
Wow. If you can't do doodle the logo,
30:11
that's good, actually.
30:13
>> No, I I'm not kidding. Uh I'm I'm
30:15
working on, you know, like writing new
30:16
music and stuff.
30:17
>> Yeah.
30:18
>> And I have like thought to myself like,
30:20
is there a line in this verse, in this
30:22
chorus, in whatever that if I were a kid
30:25
again that I would and I heard, I would
30:27
write on the back of my notebook. And if
30:29
the answer was no, then I need to to go
30:30
back and and work on it again. The world
30:32
>> because you have to have something,
30:33
right? The world ends with you. You
30:34
could write on a notebook and you you'd
30:36
like write the logo up and it looks so
30:37
sick, right? Metaphor reantasio. Get the
30:40
[ __ ] out of here.
30:41
>> Okay. All right.
30:42
>> Yeah. Let me let me hit you with this
30:44
one.
30:44
>> Mhm.
30:46
>> Near Automata.
30:47
>> Okay. Let me hit you with one. I got
30:49
Near Automata. Uh, it's bad. It's bad.
30:52
Okay.
30:53
>> It's bad.
30:54
>> It's really bad. Oh my god. I think it's
30:57
like I think it only appeals to somebody
31:01
who doesn't want to do any reading but
31:04
wants to imagine that they have
31:05
encountered a philosophy class syllabus.
31:09
It I mean it's just can I can we just
31:11
start by saying the title near is bad.
31:15
Yeah, that's bad. And because also not
31:17
to get back on the capitalization thing
31:18
here, but it's capital N I E capital R.
31:22
>> What are we doing here? Like truly what
31:24
are we doing? And then yeah, automata.
31:27
It's also tough because it's like, is it
31:29
automata? Is it automa? I call it
31:31
automa, but I might be wrong. I'm like
31:33
willing to accept that I'm wrong about
31:35
it. It's not good. Can I ask a question?
31:38
>> Yeah. Near. Mhm.
31:41
What do we What is that? So that's
31:43
that's the name of somebody,
31:45
>> correct? And they are a robot.
31:49
>> No.
31:51
So, okay. Are you sure?
31:54
>> Yes. They're not a robot.
31:56
>> That is correct.
31:58
>> Okay.
31:58
>> So, Ne is in the first game. Near is the
32:00
main character of the first game.
32:03
>> And depending on which version you
32:05
played, he's either like a young boy or
32:08
like a grizzly dad.
32:10
>> Okay.
32:10
>> In America, they made him a grizzly dad
32:13
because they thought that was going to
32:14
be more appealing. And then in Japan,
32:16
he's like a young young fellow. And then
32:18
in the when they remade the game near
32:21
version 1 point a bunch of numbers they
32:24
just went back with the original
32:25
Japanese where he's like a young young
32:27
lad that the main character's name is
32:29
Near of that game and then the sequel of
32:31
course Near Automa is set you know uh
32:34
2,000 years after that first game. So
32:37
he's not in it at all. Like it's not
32:39
related to him at all. Like there's
32:40
nothing there's it's not related to him
32:43
at all. So, it's it's kind of a puzzling
32:46
name now, isn't it?
32:48
>> So, just to be clear, dear Automata is
32:51
name of person colon robots.
32:54
>> Yes.
32:54
>> Okay.
32:54
>> Yes. It's it's name of a boy who's not
32:57
in this,
32:58
>> right?
32:58
>> And there's robots, by the way.
32:59
>> Much like how we all know it as
33:02
Frankenstein, but originally it was
33:04
Jerry Colon Monster.
33:06
>> Yes. Correct.
33:07
>> Okay. Just just All right. Just Just
33:09
making that clear. Um
33:10
>> Yeah. I think it's a I think it's a
33:12
really bad title
33:13
>> cuz that's also it's not this it's not I
33:15
don't think it's as bad as metaphor
33:16
reefantasio but it's also one where like
33:19
if you say it and the person doesn't
33:21
know what it is they're going to go what
33:22
did you say and you have to be like
33:24
nothing never mind don't worry about it
33:26
it's yes you're no there is something
33:27
about the words that by choosing those
33:30
extremely esoteric words you are you are
33:32
like appealing to somebody that I just
33:35
don't want to spend time with. I'm just
33:36
like I'm so sorry like we can't be
33:38
friends. Dude, you know what's
33:39
interesting about Near is that like I've
33:41
had two conversations about it in my
33:43
life with another with other people
33:44
where I've been like that was good. And
33:45
then the rest of the conversations I've
33:46
been like I wish I didn't have that, you
33:49
know. Um I've been I've been meaning to
33:52
revisit that game too because I I like
33:53
it a lot in my memory, but I haven't
33:56
played it since like 2019 or 2020, you
33:59
know?
33:59
>> Right.
33:59
>> So, I'd be curious. I'd be curious how
34:01
how it holds up to me as as this thing.
34:06
>> Here's another one. Yeah, tell me.
34:08
>> Star Wars Jedi fall in order
34:15
>> Star Wars Jedi
34:17
>> Fallen. It's too much. No, I'm sorry.
34:19
No,
34:20
>> it is too much. But I do like it.
34:23
I And And cuz here's what I'm also
34:25
thinking, right? If you cut Star Wars
34:28
out of it.
34:28
>> Uhhuh.
34:29
>> And if you because you can, right? Cuz
34:30
like Star Wars is the name of the
34:32
series, right? But if you just call it
34:33
Jedi Fall in Order, I think it works.
34:37
>> How could you say this?
34:38
>> How could I say what?
34:39
>> How could you say this after How is this
34:41
different from Marvel Spider-Man 2? It's
34:43
that for some reason everybody calls it
34:47
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 and for another
34:50
for a different I guess reason people
34:52
just will call this one Jedi Fall in
34:53
Order. I don't know why.
34:56
Don't know why. But I also don't think
34:57
Star Wars Jedi Fall in Order is
34:59
terrible. I also when you abbreviate it
35:01
when if you're just like oh I really
35:03
liked fall in order I think it works
35:05
>> this you are defending right now
35:09
>> there wasn't even a whiteboard for this
35:11
game just so you're aware this was this
35:13
was franchise SEO the video game title
35:18
they said they said okay first we got to
35:19
get Star Wars good okay now we got to
35:21
get Jedi and it's like okay we got to
35:23
get a couple of other things now they're
35:25
going to go fall in order that's good
35:27
then what the [ __ ] is the fallen order
35:29
>> the order of Jedi.
35:31
It's fallen.
35:34
So, so Jedi fall in or it's the Jedi
35:37
fall in order. Star Wars Jedi fall in
35:39
order.
35:40
>> That is correct. But instead, we're
35:41
calling it Jedi fall in order.
35:43
>> Correct. And here's the problem. What I
35:46
will say that I maybe don't like about
35:47
this is that it's Star Wars Jedi colon
35:50
fall in order. I guess it should be Star
35:51
Wars colon Jedi
35:54
colon fall in order or just Star Wars
35:57
col Jedi fall in order.
35:59
But I do I do I think Jedi fall in
36:01
order. And now I've said Jedi too many
36:03
times and it's not it's kind of sounded
36:05
wrong in my mind. I think Jedi Fall in
36:07
Order is a is a good name for a video
36:08
game about a a little magical boy who
36:11
has to go find the rest of his magical
36:13
friends.
36:16
I think the fact that this game title
36:17
starts with the word Star Wars is
36:19
distracting you from how bad the title
36:21
is because I think if you because I
36:23
think Jedi fallen order is total garbage
36:28
because it doesn't make any sense. The
36:30
order has fallen. The Jedi order Jedi
36:34
or the Jedi Order Jedi Order had fallen.
36:37
Oh my god, that is absolute garbage. I
36:39
can't even tell you if this is the
36:41
original or the sequel. I have no idea.
36:42
>> So, let me hit you with this. Also on my
36:44
list is Star Wars Jedi Survivor.
36:50
>> Bad. It's really bad. Okay. It's really
36:53
bad. I like cuz everything here, Jake,
36:56
what I'll tell you right now, everything
36:58
you just said is correct, right? That
37:00
like like it's like it's the first one
37:02
is confus like it's confusing whatever.
37:04
But I like the syllables. I don't know.
37:06
I think it there's something about it
37:07
that works for me. Star Wars Jedi
37:09
Survivor because Fall in Or if you said
37:11
like, "Did you play Fall in Order?" I
37:12
would be like, "Yeah, I did." If you
37:14
said, "Did you play Survivor?" I would
37:15
be like, "Are you referring to the the
37:18
reality television series hosted by Jeff
37:20
Proes?" Like, "No, I've not played it
37:22
yet. I would love to. I mean, sign me
37:24
up." Um, are you watching that new
37:26
season, by the way?
37:27
>> Not yet. I haven't started. I'm saving.
37:29
>> I also haven't.
37:30
>> I also haven't. Um, yeah, I think Star
37:32
Wars Jedi Survivor is really, really
37:34
bad. It's like a because I think you're
37:36
right about like they did the they
37:37
didn't use the whiteboard for the first
37:38
one and the second one they're like
37:39
whiteboard and it's like uh you didn't
37:42
have it.
37:43
>> I agree. And it's like oh so he's a
37:45
survivor.
37:47
>> I guess they survived in the first one
37:48
too.
37:49
>> That's just every protag protagonist
37:51
that's in a sequel. You you're you made
37:53
it.
37:54
>> Yeah. Other than right. I mean hey he's
37:56
just not in it. It's just it's Super
37:57
Mario Later.
37:58
>> Super Mario Brothers 2. Mario Survivor.
38:04
It is. That is a very silly. Yeah. Like
38:07
Yeah. The main characters survived and
38:09
so here they are again.
38:11
>> Mhm.
38:15
Pokemon Sun and Moon.
38:21
>> Good. I think it's good.
38:24
>> You don't like it?
38:26
>> I like it a lot.
38:28
>> I like it a lot
38:29
>> cuz here's here's the thing about the
38:30
Pokemon games, right? They've had um
38:32
duality, right? They're very interested
38:34
in duality.
38:35
>> Um
38:37
>> and
38:38
they were doing sort of colors and then
38:40
like like gems and stuff and then it's
38:42
like sun and moon. What what what could
38:45
be uh uh uh what what's more tied than
38:48
the two of those uh celestial bodies? I
38:52
think this is
38:55
something that I appreciate even more
38:57
when I zoom out and I look at the entire
38:59
franchise because if you start with the
39:00
history here, of course, you start with
39:02
red and blue. Yep.
39:03
>> And it's like, okay, a couple of colors.
39:05
We're establishing the franchise. I'll
39:06
give you a little pass.
39:07
>> Um, gold and silver. Okay, we we
39:09
escalate.
39:10
>> These are precious metals. Okay.
39:13
>> Ruby and sapphire.
39:15
>> I don't know. Gems,
39:17
>> diamond and pearl. I'm sorry. We're
39:19
still on rocks.
39:21
And then and then you go to black and
39:23
white and to me it's like we have run
39:25
out of rocks.
39:26
>> Well, the problem here is is we've run
39:28
out of rocks and didn't do anything. We
39:30
just went back to the first ones and
39:33
then but it's like then they do then
39:35
they do X and Y and they're like we've
39:37
run out of words.
39:38
>> We we've ran out. We we red and blue,
39:40
black and white. No more colors.
39:43
>> Oh my god. So I think Sun and Moon is
39:46
good because of like the scale, you
39:48
know? There's there's there's something
39:49
there that is um like
39:52
>> you know human beings have been staring
39:54
at the sun and the moon forever. It's
39:56
like you don't you don't need Pokemon
39:57
lore to understand the relationship. You
39:59
don't need to know like black and white
40:02
truth and ideals or whatever those games
40:04
think they're about. You know, it's just
40:06
like you you look up they're
40:07
complimentary. They're they're they're
40:09
big. They're they're you know they're
40:10
enormous. That is a that is a pair of
40:12
like like awesome things. And I think
40:14
like Sun and Moon, what's good about
40:16
them is that they exist relationally as
40:19
well. So it's not just like two random
40:21
things out of like maybe six possible
40:24
things,
40:24
>> right? Cuz when you look at like Ruby
40:26
and Sapphire, it's just kind of an
40:28
illusion back to Red and Blue, right?
40:30
>> But like in real life, there's no
40:33
connection between rubies and sapphires
40:35
really. But Sun and Moon, look at that.
40:37
>> And then when you pick up Pokemon Sun,
40:39
you're playing the game, it's normal,
40:41
you don't even notice something's weird.
40:42
You play Pokemon Moon. Do you know this?
40:44
It's 12 hours off. So,
40:45
>> do I know this? That's the version I
40:47
played.
40:47
>> Me, too. Me, too. And
40:48
>> so, it was always dark out.
40:50
>> It's like Spongebob when he's when he's
40:51
like when he's like at night.
40:53
>> At night. Yeah.
40:54
>> Exactly. So, that's awesome.
40:56
>> Yeah. It's cool. It's cool. I also I
40:57
like that they do that specifically,
41:00
too, that like, you know, in all the
41:02
Pokemon games there's like, oh, what's
41:03
the regional differences? Whatever. But
41:04
then, um, there's like actually a
41:07
difference. You know what I mean? Like,
41:08
there's actually like a tangible
41:09
difference.
41:10
>> Um, and then they went back to colors
41:12
again. and Scarlet and Violet. And
41:13
that's bad. That's bad. That's their
41:15
worst actually
41:17
because then also the Scarlet was
41:19
orange.
41:20
>> It wasn't red. Scarlet was orange.
41:22
>> Listen, they have been fumbling the
41:24
names lately cuz Sword and Shield is
41:28
awful.
41:29
>> It's awful. They just They just looked
41:31
at a knight and they were like, "All
41:32
right, we'll take the Sword and the
41:33
Shield." Like, it's it's
41:36
>> Oh, man. They They've Winds and Waves
41:38
were back on track.
41:39
>> Winds and Waves is back on track.
41:40
Pokemon Legends ZA is one of the worst
41:42
titles of all time.
41:44
>> No,
41:45
>> no,
41:46
>> no.
41:49
Z no. I can't believe you would even say
41:52
that.
41:53
>> What's good about it? How about How
41:54
about this?
41:59
>> Are you asking me? Uh-huh. Okay.
42:02
>> Nothing. It's bad. It's a bad title.
42:04
>> Here we go. Here we go. The normal
42:06
order. A to Z.
42:10
I know. I know.
42:11
>> Beginning to end. Okay. Progress.
42:13
Forward movement. Whoa. Pokemon looked
42:16
at that and they said, "Wrong way,
42:19
Peter. We're going back." All right.
42:22
That's already more interesting than
42:24
Dragon's Dogma. Okay. I'll say this.
42:27
What I do appreciate about Pokemon
42:29
Legends ZA is that it's a swing. I think
42:31
it's like a major whiff, but I do
42:33
appreciate that they took the swing. You
42:35
know what I mean? I I can I can respect
42:37
that it is a swing. I just think it is a
42:38
terrible swing,
42:39
>> you know.
42:40
>> Um, yeah, it's a game that asks you to
42:46
look look closer, you know, and and I
42:49
think think about
42:52
what what what it what it entails. Well,
42:55
you you play through Pokemon Legends ZA
42:58
and you're still wondering what does
43:00
that mean
43:01
>> to go from to go from new to old. But
43:04
you know what's fun though about it is
43:05
that the game also doesn't know what it
43:08
means in that it throws like nine
43:10
different things at the wall being like
43:11
one of these you'll like right cuz
43:13
there's like the guy named AZ right or
43:16
and then there's like the organization
43:18
called Zah or whatever. Okay so first
43:20
off there's Zygarde the Pokemon but when
43:24
you play Pokemon Legends ZA the starting
43:26
rank of the
43:28
>> Royale is Z.
43:30
>> Yes. which is typically the end point of
43:33
the alphabet and
43:35
>> traditionally yes
43:36
>> that's like listen dude
43:39
>> a who's one of the most important
43:41
characters associated with the game AZ
43:44
that's the name of the [ __ ] game with
43:46
the hyphen removed turned around AZ it's
43:50
turned around
43:51
Z which is your base in the game AZ Za
43:56
look at this the title is doing
43:57
cartwheels right before your eyes it is
43:59
a city that you are locked in and you're
44:00
you're lost You're going through the
44:02
alleyways, the blocks. You're you're
44:03
running in circles in this maze right
44:05
now. AZ Za Aza. You're rearranging your
44:09
[ __ ] brain right now.
44:11
>> Here's one for you.
44:13
Bloodborne.
44:18
Here's what I'll say.
44:19
>> Yeah. Yeah.
44:20
>> Against my better judgment, I'm willing
44:22
to say that this one is good.
44:24
>> I think it is. I I think it's a little
44:26
silly.
44:27
>> Yeah.
44:27
>> But I think it's good.
44:29
>> Yeah.
44:29
>> I don't know. I I can't really place my
44:31
finger on what takes it out of being
44:33
kind of goofy and into being like kind
44:35
of cool,
44:36
>> but I think it does. I think there's
44:38
something about it
44:40
>> cuz it's it's on the nose, right? I
44:41
mean, because anyone would be like born
44:43
in blood. You're carving your way
44:44
through all these beasts. You're covered
44:46
in blood. What happens in the whole
44:47
game? You're covered in blood all the
44:48
time. Like, I get it, right? But there's
44:50
something about it that I think does
44:52
work. I think
44:58
I think that they I think a lot of it is
45:00
that they got there first.
45:03
>> Uh what do you mean? I think I agree
45:04
with you, but what do you mean?
45:05
>> I think they got there first. I think
45:06
like like Bloodborne
45:09
is is like
45:13
I think Bloodborne makes retroactively
45:15
makes like Dusk Bloods not as good of a
45:18
title because Bloodborne got there
45:20
first.
45:21
>> Yes. Yes. Completely agree. I also think
45:23
like if this game had been called like
45:25
Bloodborne colon ritual of the night
45:28
bad,
45:29
>> right? But the fact that it's just
45:31
Bloodborne. Um I also think something
45:33
that helps it as well is that it is not
45:35
embarrassing to say.
45:36
>> Have you played Bloodborne?
45:37
>> Yes, I have. And it's good.
45:39
>> Have you played
45:40
>> Metaphor Reefantasio? Please get away
45:43
from me, sir. Right.
45:44
>> Right.
45:45
>> Um I think I I think it's cool. And I
45:49
also I think it gets across like it's
45:51
kind of gothic. It's kind of spooky.
45:53
Kind of vampiry.
45:54
>> Yeah, it is. And I'm sure there's some,
45:57
you know, extended meaning.
45:59
>> Oh, there. Oh. Oh, Jake. How much time?
46:02
>> No, I don't need to. I don't need to
46:03
know. You don't have to.
46:04
>> Well, I mean, we could, you know, let's
46:05
talk about the school of Bergenworth.
46:06
Um,
46:07
>> Burgerworth.
46:08
>> Bergenworth. Yes.
46:11
School of Bergenworth.
46:12
>> Are they making burgers?
46:14
>> I wish. No, they're doing
46:16
>> What are they doing?
46:17
>> The school of Bergenworth.
46:19
>> Yeah. So they were doing
46:22
>> Oh no.
46:22
>> research into uh uh enlightenment.
46:26
>> Uhhuh.
46:27
>> And there was a split between now it's
46:30
been a minute since I since I have
46:32
thought of these characters. There's a
46:33
split between two guys.
46:35
>> And one guy
46:37
>> uh thought that the path to
46:39
enlightenment would be could be reached
46:42
um by injecting the old blood into
46:45
yourself. Um and he split off and and
46:49
began the church of um church of healing
46:52
I believe. Oh, misremembering maybe. And
46:55
then um father uh
46:58
he's got a bunch of eyes. He
47:02
he he doesn't believe in all that. I'd
47:04
have to I'd have to really, you know,
47:06
brush up, I guess. But
47:07
>> okay,
47:08
>> that's what happens before Bloodborne
47:09
starts and then you show up and you're
47:10
like, "What the fuck?" Father Amelia,
47:13
no. Father,
47:16
someone's mad at me. Someone's screaming
47:17
at me.
47:18
>> Danganrompa trigger happy havoc.
47:21
>> It's good. It's good.
47:23
>> Sorry. Obviously.
47:25
>> Yeah.
47:25
>> Danganrompa trigger trigger happy havoc
47:28
is good.
47:29
>> And here's why.
47:30
>> Yeah.
47:31
>> I don't even know what danganrampa
47:32
means. I I'll tell you what. I don't
47:34
know how to spell it.
47:36
>> If I had to look it up, if I had to I
47:37
mean D an
47:40
>> I actually do know what it means.
47:42
>> Oh. Does it mean something? I thought it
47:44
was like kind of like anamanopia.
47:46
>> It means truth bullet.
47:48
>> Good. Okay.
47:49
>> Yes.
47:50
>> Is does that mean like is that in
47:52
Japanese? Danganrampa or is it like
47:53
>> I believe so.
47:54
>> Got it. Okay.
47:56
>> Yeah. I'm I'm very down with Dang and
47:57
Rompa: Trigger Happy Havoc.
48:00
>> I think the title understands that if
48:03
you are part of the Danganrompa
48:05
franchise, you should never behave as if
48:09
you have any sort of dignity.
48:11
>> Yes. Yes. No, it's it's 100%. It's like
48:13
if you if you can't get past this as the
48:16
title.
48:16
>> Yes. Don't play it.
48:18
>> They're warning you. They're warning
48:19
you. They're like, "Look at this stupid
48:20
shit."
48:21
>> They're like, "Yes,
48:22
>> this is what you're getting."
48:24
>> Yes. And And like that's You know what I
48:26
like about it is that like I played I've
48:28
only played the first one and I was
48:30
going to play the second one and then
48:31
they announced that like remake sequel
48:34
thing that I thought was coming out this
48:36
year and it didn't. Whatever. That's
48:37
fine. Um,
48:39
but
48:42
there is something to
48:44
playing this game and knowing exactly
48:46
that it's never going to be any deeper
48:48
or like it's like exactly as trashy as
48:50
it is and you know it. You know that
48:52
like right from the get.
48:53
>> Um,
48:55
>> I
48:57
really like that game. Are the is two
48:59
and are two and three good?
49:02
>> Oh yeah, I like them. People People get
49:04
weird, but there's there's like the two
49:07
remake coming out, too. That's that's
49:08
like also four, which I'm excited for.
49:11
>> Yeah.
49:11
>> But no. Yeah, they're fun. They're just
49:13
like you just can't take them that
49:14
seriously. Like it's just
49:16
>> right.
49:16
>> You just want to get entertained from
49:18
beginning to end.
49:19
>> Yes.
49:20
>> It's like just straight up like a like a
49:22
daytime soap opera in my opinion.
49:24
>> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No,
49:25
>> it's fun. It's good.
49:26
>> Oh, that's perfect. Yeah.
49:28
>> Yeah. Yeah.
49:29
>> How about this one? Last one I got.
49:31
>> Okay.
49:33
blueprints.
49:39
That's a 10 out of 10.
49:41
I think it's really bad.
49:43
>> Wow. Really? I think it's really bad.
49:46
>> Wow.
49:46
>> Um and it might just be because
49:50
how many people were like, "Wait, did
49:53
you notice that blue prints?"
49:57
I mean now I just it kind of s I mean
50:01
like to me it just for from my
50:03
perspective it sounds like uh blueprints
50:07
of a house as you build the house and I
50:10
and maybe that's maybe that's the
50:11
association I can't shake off and
50:14
>> I think that's fair but I like for that
50:16
but
50:17
>> you like it for that
50:18
>> I like it for that the title itself
50:21
>> is a blueprint incorrectly assembled
50:31
That's the game.
50:31
>> That actually worked on me a little bit.
50:33
That actually you saying it like that
50:35
specifically cuz by people just saying
50:37
like Well, it kind of sounds like the
50:38
word blueprints.
50:40
>> Mhm.
50:40
>> Makes me go like, "Okay, that's
50:41
nothing." But what you just actually
50:43
said actually does
50:45
>> mean something. Is is blueprints. Is
50:48
that something in the game?
50:50
>> Yes,
50:51
>> it is. Okay.
50:52
>> Because
50:52
>> because I remember the red something was
50:55
happening in that game. But then
50:56
>> so a big a big like thematic thing in
50:58
the game is that it's trying to talk
51:00
about inheritance. So So a blue prince
51:04
like not a king like a prince inherits
51:06
the throne. So it like works on all
51:08
these different levels.
51:09
>> Yeah. Okay.
51:10
>> Mhm. Should I revisit that game? I
51:12
didn't like it or like I had like really
51:14
mixed feelings about it, but I wonder if
51:16
like now Yeah.
51:17
>> Blueprints was a game that you were
51:19
destined to revisit at some point and
51:21
like So
51:22
>> you did you did say that to me and it
51:23
might be now.
51:24
>> Uhhuh.
51:24
>> Cuz can I be so honest with you actually
51:26
you saying
51:27
>> well it's Blueprints but it's you know
51:30
organized wrong or whatever. I was like
51:31
wait a second that's something. Do
51:34
>> people ever figure that game out? Cuz
51:35
wasn't there like when it came out I
51:37
remember everyone being like yo like
51:39
there's like an ending to this but it's
51:40
like there's like four different endings
51:43
like way way deep. Did anyone ever like
51:44
get to the whole end of it? You know
51:47
what I mean? Oh yeah. I'm sure it's out
51:48
there somewhere but it's not even who
51:50
can even be concerned with the endings
51:52
with such a with an experience as
51:54
indelible as as what Blueprints
51:57
provides. So,
51:59
>> yeah. I think it's a game that resists
52:01
the um like getting getting too much
52:04
value out of an ending to be honest.
52:06
>> Oh, it made me feel stupid when I got
52:08
the ending cuz I spent cuz I knew what I
52:10
had to do
52:11
>> and I was like trying to just like rush
52:12
to get to the end,
52:13
>> right?
52:14
>> And it took me way longer than I than I
52:16
wanted it to
52:17
>> and then all that happened was I got to
52:20
the room, he went inside and the credits
52:22
rolled and I was like, "Wait, why did I
52:24
even It's exactly what you're saying.
52:27
I got nothing out of that.
52:28
>> No. Yeah. Nothing out of that. Yeah.
52:30
>> You got to go find the answers. They're
52:31
out there. But it's like you you think
52:33
you got
52:34
>> blueprints, but you're actually looking
52:36
for, you know, it doesn't it doesn't
52:37
matter.
52:38
>> Yeah. Yeah.
52:39
>> You got one more.
52:41
>> Sure. I can hit you with one more. Let's
52:43
see.
52:45
I have a few here. I just want you to
52:47
know that I also put Pokemon Black and
52:49
White as bad, but I guess we covered
52:50
that already.
52:51
>> Yeah, they're not good.
52:52
>> Um I Okay.
52:55
Kingdom Hearts 358 over two days.
52:58
>> It's not good.
52:59
>> It's really not good. No, it's not good.
53:01
It's good.
53:01
>> Here's the thing I will give you. I
53:03
think Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance
53:05
is really good.
53:06
>> Yeah.
53:07
>> Okay. Here here's what here's what
53:08
happens in 358 over two days. You have
53:10
this character Roxis. He wakes up.
53:12
>> He doesn't really know who he is.
53:14
>> He doesn't know what his relationship is
53:15
to the people around him. He is He's got
53:17
this weird relationship with his
53:18
memories. And Square Enix, they say,
53:20
"Hey, here you go. What if I gave you a
53:23
title that is at first an illeible
53:27
object and now you have to reconstruct
53:29
it to meaning?
53:32
>> Yeah, I think it's still illeible
53:34
though.
53:35
>> No, no, no. Cuz you go you get these
53:37
days experienced through these different
53:39
relationships and how you're dividing
53:42
that time amongst people and it and it
53:45
starts to mean something to you. I guess
53:48
my problem is like if you told me to
53:51
read this title out loud just looking at
53:52
it.
53:53
>> Uhhuh.
53:54
>> I I would probably say multiple things
53:57
before I said 300
54:00
30 uh
54:02
wait how do you say it?
54:05
>> 358 over two days.
54:07
>> Okay. So Wikipedia says that it's uh the
54:09
subtitle is read 358 days over two.
54:13
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's that's also
54:14
acceptable.
54:16
That's crazy.
54:17
>> That's accept That's acceptable. Yeah,
54:18
that's that's extremely
54:20
>> that's acceptable.
54:20
>> That's acceptable. Yes. If you only
54:22
knew. I I suppose if I only knew cuz I
54:25
would read this. I would probably say
54:26
Kingdom Hearts 358 divided by two days.
54:30
>> No. No. You 358 slash two days.
54:34
>> Like I understand fractions. I
54:36
understand division I suppose. But
54:38
>> no, here's the thing. This game could
54:40
have eight days over two. You could have
54:43
called this game Kingdom Hearts colon
54:45
Roxis if you were a [ __ ] coward. But
54:47
instead they were like, "No, this is
54:50
like a this is a this is a puzzle meant
54:52
for you to unsolve." They they they they
54:54
handed you a Rubik's cube all mixed up
54:55
and they said, "Can you will 3, five,
54:58
and eight make sense to you?" Well,
55:01
over the two days.
55:02
>> Wait. Yeah. What do the numbers mean?
55:04
What do the numbers mean?
55:05
>> 358.
55:06
>> Yeah. I thought it in my mind I always
55:09
read as uh 364 like like it was a year.
55:13
It's not.
55:14
>> No.
55:15
>> It's like,
55:16
>> yeah,
55:19
>> I'm going to be so honest. I just don't
55:20
think I can ever play this game.
55:22
>> No, no, no, no. You can never
55:25
I don't think I have it.
55:26
>> There's a new collection available on
55:27
Switch 2 now.
55:28
>> Oh, I know why you like this game. It's
55:30
cuz these the studio that made it also
55:32
made The World Ends With You,
55:35
>> I guess. So, but they they also made
55:38
Chocoo's Crystal Tower, you know.
55:43
and uh
55:46
Disney magical world too.
55:48
>> Just think about this. You've got this
55:50
character who exists for literally 358
55:54
days. That's
55:55
>> Wait, why that many days?
55:56
>> It's that's he he comes into existence
56:00
in between Kingdom Hearts 1 and two.
56:04
>> Okay. And so it's just like
56:07
Yeah. It's the time between those games.
56:09
Got it. So the whole game is structured
56:12
by days. So it's like, oh, you wake up,
56:14
it's day seven, day 20, whatever. And
56:17
then the over two is it's this idea that
56:20
over those 358 days, they're actually
56:22
shared between two people. So
56:27
there are these two characters whose
56:29
their existences are kind of like
56:30
entangled in a way that makes it hard
56:33
for them to exist independently. So,
56:35
it's not just 358 days. It's 358 days,
56:39
two people.
56:44
>> Do you know that the original one of the
56:45
titles they worked on for the movie
56:47
Spider-Man 2 was Spider-Man two lives?
56:52
Kind of a similar thing.
56:53
>> That's not right.
56:54
>> That's It's not right, but it is true.
56:59
>> Jay, can I tell you about the uh the
57:00
critical eration?
57:01
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But but can I spoil
57:02
358 over two days? I'm going to play it.
57:05
No. Yeah, but
57:06
>> can I All right. All right. So, on the
57:07
cover of that game, there's these three
57:09
characters and you see these three
57:10
characters hanging out all the time and
57:12
>> let me see.
57:13
>> And and it's like once once you
57:16
understand Are you looking at it?
57:17
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
57:18
>> Okay. Okay. You see them?
57:20
>> Yeah.
57:20
>> What do they What do they look like to
57:21
you?
57:22
>> Well, okay. So, you got whom I
57:25
understand is Roxus.
57:27
>> Yeah, that's right.
57:27
>> Kind of a little boy, a little lad with
57:29
with yellow hair.
57:30
>> Mhm.
57:31
>> Keyblade. There's a There's a fellow
57:33
with spiky red hair.
57:34
>> That's right.
57:35
>> There's someone in the back. White hair.
57:37
>> Yep.
57:38
>> Face obscured.
57:39
>> There's like a What is this? It's like a
57:43
like a big mouse wearing a hoodie.
57:45
>> Yeah, that's Yeah, that's that's um
57:46
Mikey.
57:48
>> Mikey.
57:50
>> Mhm.
57:50
>> So So I guess there's Michael down here.
57:52
>> Yep. Yep.
57:53
>> And then um there's there's a gal sort
57:56
of sitting on a on a right
57:58
>> palm tree.
58:00
Mhm. Okay.
58:01
>> So, you got these three friends the
58:03
whole game and they're all hanging out.
58:04
>> Wait, there's there's five or four.
58:06
>> Yeah.
58:06
>> You know, the two on the side, don't
58:07
worry about them. They're they're
58:08
somewhere else. So, so the whole game
58:10
you're you're going up on this uh this
58:12
clock tower in the back and you're
58:14
sitting up there with your buddies.
58:15
>> Yeah. Yeah. And it's the three of you
58:18
>> and but the game is is over two for the
58:22
two people.
58:25
And I think I think that's the title of
58:27
the game telling you
58:29
someone's not going to make it.
58:31
>> What?
58:33
>> What do you mean someone's not going to
58:34
make it?
58:35
>> Someone's not going to make it cuz it's
58:36
cuz it's about the experiences of two
58:38
people.
58:41
>> So somebody in that group of three isn't
58:43
going to make it.
58:44
>> Oh,
58:46
I guess I see what you mean. I I guess I
58:48
understand what you mean.
58:49
>> All right. Just tell me about the
58:50
critical error nation.
58:53
>> I'm sorry. And how does this this fellow
58:54
Michael play into it?
58:57
>> Michael, he's doing stuff in the
58:58
background.
58:59
>> Okay, got it. Got it. Got it. Uh, so
59:00
here's let me let me tell you about the
59:01
critical nation. First of all,
59:03
>> shout out to the nation. Miss you guys.
59:06
Miss you all. Missed I missed that each
59:07
and every one of you. Uh, seeing seeing
59:10
your your sweet little faces pop up on
59:11
the on the Patreon comments. Missed it
59:13
while I was away. And I'm glad that
59:15
y'all held down the fort while I was
59:16
away. These are the people of course
59:17
supporting us on patreon.com/critical
59:20
error
59:22
every single week our uh our our me the
59:25
members of the nation are getting an
59:27
additional bonus episode today was a
59:29
good one catching up Jake caught me up
59:31
about all the news I missed I missed a
59:32
bunch of news and I'm we talked about a
59:34
bunch of games that came out all
59:36
everything talked about it all so if
59:37
you're interested in that
59:38
patreon.com/critical
59:39
error I want to give a very big shout
59:41
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59:43
tier of course these are the people at
59:45
the top of our Patreon on members like
59:47
Andrew Bulkar, Evan Snee, Mitch Dyer,
59:50
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so much for supporting us in the way
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that you have financially.
1:00:00
But that's not all though, is it Jake?
1:00:02
And we got to play the sound for the
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Critical Era royalty members for this
1:00:06
week. Let's go ahead and play that sound
1:00:07
right now. Members of Critical Air
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Royalty, we are back. Do you hear this
1:00:13
music right now? Let it fill your ear
1:00:16
holes. Take it in. Oh my god, the
1:00:19
weight. The drama. What is even going on
1:00:23
in this track? Well, this is my urge to
1:00:27
you to maybe check out Kingdom Hearts
1:00:31
358 over 2 days. I don't know if you're
1:00:35
enjoying this. Maybe there's a lot more
1:00:36
you could enjoy over the course of the
1:00:39
better part of a year. That is my urge
1:00:42
to the members of Critical Error
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Royalty. Thank you so much for
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supporting us on patreon.com/critical
1:00:48
error. You of course get access to not
1:00:51
just this perk but our weekly bonus
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episodes. Always good always valued each
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and every week. I'm of course referring
1:01:01
to these members who I know are watching
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the episodes. Andrew Bulkar, Anel,
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Error. See you next time. I think I'm
1:01:41
going to try to get a little Kingdom
1:01:43
Hearts 358 over two days music for the
1:01:46
sound this week.
1:01:49
>> That'd be good. I think that should be a
1:01:51
a Patreon tier is that if we get a
1:01:55
certain amount of subscriptions or
1:01:56
something, we will sing a song of their
1:01:58
choosing.
1:01:59
>> Oh, that's fun.
1:02:00
>> Yeah,
1:02:01
>> that's quite fun.
1:02:02
>> Mhm.
1:02:04
What if we what if we did like a a $25
1:02:08
tier and it's just if you want that when
1:02:10
you sign up we you could choose a song
1:02:11
for us to sing.
1:02:14
>> Yeah, that's good actually.
1:02:16
>> Wow. We just post it.
1:02:18
>> Yeah.
1:02:19
>> Patreon feed. We just post it. Yeah. All
1:02:21
right. That's good. Okay. Yeah. As we do
1:02:23
every week, we um we end the show with a
1:02:25
pre-written piece. Um Peter, here's what
1:02:28
I've got. Here's what I've got for you.
1:02:30
>> Yes, please. I have
1:02:33
uh I I was uh fooling around with micro
1:02:37
fiction. So,
1:02:39
>> incredibly incredibly short little
1:02:41
pieces. And I've got a subject that I
1:02:45
was writing about. And these pieces are
1:02:48
each two sentences long, but it's like
1:02:50
the same subject. So, I was kind of just
1:02:52
circling this idea. So, almost as a
1:02:55
demonstration of the creative process, I
1:02:57
want to I want to show you I want to
1:02:59
share with you and the listener my two
1:03:01
sentence formulations that are almost
1:03:03
like me doing different drafts of the
1:03:05
same idea.
1:03:06
>> Sure.
1:03:06
>> Okay, this is cool.
1:03:07
>> Great. Yeah. Okay, great. Um, okay. Here
1:03:10
we go.
1:03:15
Stay late at work, my forgetful love.
1:03:18
I've been sleeping diagonally,
1:03:20
but even the whole bed gets lonely.
1:03:25
Okay, same idea.
1:03:29
Come back soon. I've been using your
1:03:31
good pillow, and I'm beginning to
1:03:34
understand why you're always stealing
1:03:35
mine.
1:03:37
All right, here we go.
1:03:40
>> Without you, I eat directly from the
1:03:42
container, standing in the blue
1:03:44
refrigerator light. I called this
1:03:47
freedom for three nights.
1:03:51
>> Last one.
1:03:55
My love, I have become lawless in your
1:03:57
absence. My shoes are upstairs. There
1:03:59
are crumbs in the bed, wet towels
1:04:02
wherever they fall.
1:04:04
You would be amazed at how quickly I
1:04:07
have established anarchy in our home.
1:04:12
There it is, Jake. That's it.
1:04:16
This is the closest thing I've ever
1:04:17
heard to you writing a song.
1:04:21
And I really liked that.
1:04:22
>> Wow.
1:04:23
>> I really liked that.
1:04:24
>> Um,
1:04:25
>> wow. I really really liked that because
1:04:27
for me,
1:04:29
>> I mean, what draws me to that is that is
1:04:32
how I write music is it's two I I write
1:04:34
a song two lines at a time.
1:04:36
>> And um, usually like the how it starts
1:04:39
for me is I'll be walking around and
1:04:40
something will just pop in my head and
1:04:42
I'll write it down and I have just this
1:04:43
notes app that's just all of this stuff.
1:04:45
But then as I think about it, I'll keep
1:04:46
walking and usually I'll get like four
1:04:48
or five of these like double line ideas
1:04:50
at once because I'm just as you're sort
1:04:53
of saying like this rehashing the same
1:04:55
idea and think about like the different
1:04:56
angles you could take with it. And I
1:04:58
really really liked that. I thought that
1:05:00
was very very uh
1:05:02
poignant. I liked that a lot actually.
1:05:04
Wow. I'm so curious now to hear your
1:05:12
response to the critical error episode
1:05:16
that I did with Christian Basillas. Did
1:05:17
Reviews Make Us Dumb.
1:05:19
>> I did a written piece on that that I
1:05:21
described as this was me in songwriter
1:05:24
voice in my
1:05:24
>> Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Okay. Yes. So,
1:05:28
I'm I'm curious about this. Yeah.
1:05:29
>> Next week for the bonus episode, I will
1:05:31
have listened to that and I will we'll
1:05:32
talk about it on the bonus podcast.
1:05:34
>> Okay. Cool.
1:05:34
>> Critical Patreon.com
1:05:37
>> cuz I even said to him in that podcast I
1:05:38
was like, you know, this is a part of my
1:05:39
brain that I don't typically activate
1:05:41
where I was I almost think of myself as
1:05:42
like I'm doing a piece of musical
1:05:44
theater. That's like the voice in my
1:05:45
head. Yeah.
1:05:46
>> Well, something I really like as a
1:05:48
writing exercise with songs is that like
1:05:52
you know if you're writing an essay,
1:05:53
you're writing some whatever like you
1:05:55
could be as long as winded as you want,
1:05:57
>> right? Like you don't have to fit within
1:05:59
these specific like uh requirements of
1:06:02
of sort of what you're doing. Whereas
1:06:04
like in a song you have to be really
1:06:05
specific about your language and you
1:06:06
have to be like very intentional about
1:06:08
like how many syllables and stuff you
1:06:09
have and whatever. And so I think
1:06:11
writing if you are a writer who's never
1:06:13
written a song before. I don't even
1:06:14
think you need to necessarily write a
1:06:16
song per se, but like trying to maybe
1:06:18
just like think about like poetry,
1:06:20
right? And trying to find like a way to
1:06:21
make something like that work I think is
1:06:23
is an interesting sort of switch that
1:06:25
you have to flip when you're like doing
1:06:27
different things um between different
1:06:28
types of writing. So I'm actually very
1:06:30
excited to hear that. I will I'll give
1:06:32
that a listen probably tonight actually.
1:06:33
Wow. Okay. So, if you haven't listened
1:06:35
already, make sure to go back. Uh, thank
1:06:37
you for watching and or listening to the
1:06:39
podcast. We'll see you next week. Bye.