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Checking Off the Boxes on Your Backlog Games List · Boss Rush Podcast - A Podcast about Video Games

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  Hello everybody, welcome back to the Boss Rose podcast, a great
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  place to play games and be better.
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  I'm one of your hosts, Corey Derrigan, alongside me, as
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  always, is the PC muscle race himself.
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  We're on dockets. Hey everybody, what's popping?
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  We're on. What's on your shirt?
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  Does this say Cajun crab? Crawling Crab.
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  This this is the very first five Ki ever I ever ran back in 2018.
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  I don't. I don't run.
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  That's, you know, but this is what we want.
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  Yeah. This is one of the most
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  comfortable shirts I've ever gotten.
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  I have shirts like that. It's fun.
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  I love a good comfortable shirt. Speaking of a comfortable shirt,
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  also here is PK Power Pat Klein. And straight I am an extra extra
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  large shirt baby. I'm the best comfort you get.
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  You wear it well, you wear it well.
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  This this this black T-shirt's an extra large tall.
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  Oh, that's right, 'cause you're like some.
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  Freakish height aren't you? You're like 6 foot 7 or some
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  shit like that, right? I'm 65.
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  It's not that tall. We've been over this before.
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  We've we're almost the same height.
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  We're like the same. You've got me about two inches,
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  man, and I'm and I'm a little jealous.
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  We're the same, can't you see? Hey, I have I have some good
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  news report, uh. Oh.
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  I had AI had a 48 hour stomach bug last week so guess who lost
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  14 lbs? Yay and.
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  Guess who kept it? And guess who kept it off an
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  entire week for their for their doctor's appointment?
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  You did had a boy. Yeah.
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  Cool. Yes, you know, it's almost like,
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  it's almost like I kind of sort of want another one to lose
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  another 14 lbs and then then I'll only be 9 lbs away from my
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  goal weight. What you need to do is you need
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  to walk barefoot in Africa and pick up a tapeworm.
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  That sounds. But they don't want to have all
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  this loose skin because I'll lose it too fast.
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  Well, you know, you gotta. You gotta pick and choose, you
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  know? I can't just.
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  It's not even like I have a lot. It's not even like I've been
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  carrying around a lot of blubber either.
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  But I've seen, I've seen how emaciated those people with
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  that, that wind up with some type of parasite.
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  It's like, it's like, congratulations, you lost the
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  weight, but now you have a new problem because now you look
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  like, now you look like the mummy.
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  The Mummy 42028, May 14th. How did they get Rachel?
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  How did they get Rachel Weisz back in this?
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  I thought because her. Career tanked and nobody wants
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  her to do anything anymore so. And you got Brendan Fraser, so
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  you know, it's of course she's coming back.
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  Well, Brendan? Technical was Brandon.
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  Well, Brendan Fraser stuck around 2 movies longer in the in
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  the series than she did 'cause no.
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  No, just one. Oh was it one?
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  I thought it was 2. She was.
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  She wasn't in the the the the Dragon Emperor.
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  The one that her kid. Yeah, yeah.
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  Look, Dad, a new mommy. Yikes, that hits home for some
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  people. Anyways, not important.
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  The Mummy. Very exciting.
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  I like that Series A lot. Isn't there a horror movie?
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  A new horror movie? Mummy, that's who.
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  Who's making it? Some really famous horror guy.
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  That don't wear his gore. Some some director, some
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  director. Mummy, 2026.
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  Tom Cruise did that weird reboot one that was.
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  Let's see Lee Cronin. Lee Cronin that that sounds like
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  a. That sounds like a pseudo name
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  by itself. Sounds.
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  He's the he's the guy who's I think he's doing dead the Evil
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  Dead reboot, Evil Dead reboot. And they already rebooted.
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  They rebooted like 3 Times Now. And doesn't what's his face?
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  Just keep coming back. Bruce Campbell.
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  That's his name, right? No, no, no, no, no.
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  Bruce Campbell has not been the last two iterations of it.
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  Oh. God, I don't know.
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  Oh, he was in the show. They did, right.
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  They did a show that was. Sequel Stroke.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, the more recent Evil Deads
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  are like, not campy and like just gore, fat gore, gore porn.
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  How do you what do you call that?
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  Gore porn. It doesn't sound right.
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  Yeah, I mean it goes. Through torch torture porn.
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  There we go. Sure, Basically there is Gory's
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  shit. Yes, well, you know.
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  So that gives you an idea what the mummy's going to be like.
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  Yes, yes it does. Can't wait, can't wait.
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  Anyways, let me. Ask you guys a question real
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  quickly here. Let me ask you guys a question,
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  'cause I'm 'cause I'm 'cause I'm gonna start going back to the
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  gym, like full time and everything, OK?
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  So I'm a guy that I have Thunder thighs, right?
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  What? Yeah, I have Thunder thighs.
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  Yeah, yeah, it really pisses me off 'cause I 'cause I, I cause
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  'cause I chew up at least 4 pairs of pants a year. 4 pairs?
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  What are you doing in those things?
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  Hey, the thighs, the thighs like the rub.
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  Hey, so here's the here's the question, though.
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  Should I just go ahead and lean into that and just just go ahead
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  and like quad Quadzilla and and and and and hand me the man,
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  these motherfuckers out, or should I at least try to like do
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  something about them it? Depends on what kind of pants
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  you want to wear or RIP. You know, at this point, at this
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  point, I'll just go back to the trend that everybody was doing 7
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  years ago. I'll just go.
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  I'll just go right back to to skinnies.
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  Everyone knows it's about the spandex pants.
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  Now the yoga pants. I mean, I'm, I mean, I'm, I
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  mean, it already looks like it already looks like I'm, I'm
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  carrying summer sausages and, you know, with the legs of my
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  pants anyway, So I mean, should I embrace it?
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  I had to, I had to stop wearing 'cause I used to wear like boot
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  cut jeans 'cause I thought they looked cool back in the day.
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  They used to look cool. And I had to stop wearing them
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  because my calves were getting so big that they would be tight
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  in the part that like went in and.
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  Then I had that problem too. I had that problem too, and it
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  was. It's very embarrassing.
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  It's very embarrassing when you need to get out of your pants
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  fast for a reason. You can't 'cause they're caught,
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  right? Damn calves.
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  Yeah, what if I have to poop? Oh my God why are y'all?
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  Why are y'all texting me? Y'all know it's podcast time.
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  Why are y'all doing this? Because they know they know they
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  know. Anyways, let's let's talk about
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  some video games. We play them sometimes we.
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  Don't want to continue talking about Quadzilla?
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  No. OK.
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  I'm I'm past it was a video game.
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  Maybe I'm maybe I'm feeling myself because I was down 14 lbs
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  for like. A week and a half, I mean, yeah,
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  I would. That would be too.
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  I mean, I felt I felt good because I forgot to eat dinner
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  for three days in a row and I lost like 7 lbs so.
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  How did you forget? Dude, I work.
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  Late and then I put my kids to bed and then I came down here to
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  do stuff and then I just forgot. You know, I find that I forget
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  to eat a lot because like, you know, Corey, you and I both are
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  functioning adults that, that, that, that form Adderall now.
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  And I noticed I forget to eat a lot whenever I take Adderall.
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  Yeah, I I have also like not drank as much caffeine on the
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  Adderall, which is like, I mean, it's fine, but also like.
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  Maybe, maybe, maybe that's my thing, right?
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  Because, because. OK, so like, I'm guaranteed and.
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  And yeah, welcome to welcome to another snippet of Boss Wars
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  After Dark, where we will relaunch that show eventually.
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  But but yeah, I, I usually, I usually, I usually I definitely
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  take my Stemis, you know, on, on days that days I have like
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  loaded things going on. So like the days I have my
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  weekly business meeting, I usually take one in the morning
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  when I get up. So like that.
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  But then I also like on my way to that meeting, I always stop
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  somewhere and get like a 24 oz coffee loaded up with sugar, of
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  course. And you know, like, yeah.
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  And I think and I think now and then I think now I'm not
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  starting to understand why. Like even if I take my addie at
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  like 6:00 in the morning, why, like why, why I why I own why I
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  find out why, why I wind up finding myself unable to get to
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  sleep until like 3 AMI had the hardest time.
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  Like when I was, I was bedtime and I just I I just lay in the
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  bed. Yep, bedtime.
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  Yes, bedtime is the best time. Yeah, amphetamines and caffeine.
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  Hell. Hell of a hell of a wonder
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  combination. You were going to say hell of a
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  drug, weren't you? I was.
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  I was Rick James, Bitch. Wait, wait, wait.
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  Hold on that. Yeah, that's definitely more
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  than 5 minutes. Yeah, we we're good.
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  It's it's something so. Wow, you know what, ever since
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  you ever since you asked me about this shirt, I've just been
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  checking myself out in this shirt and hot damn.
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  Stalking Ron's looking at himself guys.
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  Everybody take 5 minutes and let them gaze.
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  Hey, this is almost as good as the mirror, hey.
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  Speaking of gaze, did you like that video I sent you last
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  night? I hate you so much.
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  You saw my you saw my response. I was like, how rude winky face.
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  How rude. Come on, it made me laugh.
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  I'm like, dude, did you have to run all the way to tell me that?
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  Did you have to run so fast? Like I just still been here by
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  the time you got ready to tell me the message, but still.
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  Oh, so good. If you want, if you want to know
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  what Corey I'm talking about, like slide into one of our DMS
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  and we'll and we'll send it to you.
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  It was it was pretty funny though it.
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  Was I was like, how rude. And then I immediately sent to
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  like, four other friends I knew. You should have seen the, You
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  should have seen the other one. I was going to send you but then
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  I ended up not sending it to you.
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  Send it like I'm. Going to send it now actually.
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  We are way past the sexual harassment phase, man.
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  As a matter of fact, As a matter of fact, like we would, we would
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  be well past fired at this point.
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  Like, they'd be like, they'd be like, yeah, like you're fired,
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  we're sending you to jail, and you both found the same cell.
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  I'm going to send it to you right now.
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  I want your live reactions to this, Laurent.
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  OK, OK. As you can see, there's we just
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  kind of just don't want to talk about, oh, there we go.
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  Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Is this what?
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  Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait, you got to, you got to
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  mute it, though, because there's some words on there that
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  probably shouldn't be said on the Just mute yourself.
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  Do you want me to send it to you too, Pat?
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  My phone's all the way at the other side of the room.
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  It's. Hard right now.
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  OK, first of all I follow this person.
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  I love everything they do. There, Pat, you can watch it
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  when we're done this interview. OK, come.
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  On you started the inside joke. Did you hold on?
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  Hold on, hold on. OK, OK.
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  Shut phone. Shut phone.
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  All right, that same creator, right.
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  I know, I know, Corey, you have a hard time with with with pop,
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  with pop music and stuff like that.
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  But do you remember that song? Touch it because that that
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  creator, that creator do the video with that song is like and
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  it's and it's just as messy as you think it is.
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  I'll find, I'll find it and send it to you.
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  Yeah. But I'd love that creator.
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  So yeah, like I, I always, I'm always titillated whenever I see
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  that person. Emphasis on tit.
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  Jeez, we're terrible people. Are.
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  Terrible. How are we terrible when people
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  on the Internet do it? 'Cause we're sharing it and
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  giving them the, the, the. Hey, we're helping them be
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  monetized. Abling it OK, you're enablers.
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  Trust me, trust me if they did you.
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  Might as well be grooming. If they want, if they did not
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  want the monetization on it, they would not be putting it out
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  there for us because guess what? I would monetize myself just
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  like that, just like he's. He's not wrong, so.
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  By the way, I am not drinking beer.
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  This is liquid deaf water Stillwater so so the non
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  carbonated 1. Side tangent, I'm working on
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  something right now unrelated to this podcast and I love when you
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  ask for a high resolution headshot of someone and they
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  send you a 192 by 192. It's like you I could have just
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  gone to your LinkedIn page and got a higher resolution image.
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  Brah. So that's my if.
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  You're if you're not sending, if you're not sending 2560 by 2560,
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  are you even living right? No, dude, I would dude.
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  Some some I would take. I would take 1000 by 1000 at
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  this point. Like just. 1000 by 1000 isn't
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  even HDI. Don't care.
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  As you are just saying numbers for the sake of saying numbers,
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  I know it. Hey, get on our level, nerd.
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  I mean our our YouTube thumbnails are only 1280 by 720
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  anyway. Exactly I know right What why
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  does why does YouTube, why does YouTube ratio us?
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  But then they they but then they make all this money off of our
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  content. Hold on, let me, Hold on, let
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  me. Hold return on investment.
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  Hold on. Let me.
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  Let me stop before the Google overlord strike us.
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  Let me stop. Any any any any anyway.
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  We love you, Google and YouTube, We love you.
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  Yes, Google. Please bring back Stadia.
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  I mean, did you see they extended their controller
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  Bluetooth thing again? Why?
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  Because they just don't. They just, they're just like,
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  it's a waste of time to pay somebody to go in and turn this
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  off. We're just not going to.
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  Yeah, yeah. We're going to start talking
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  about video games we've been playing or something like that.
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  Yeah, but you brought up Stadia so that it's a video game
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  conversation. Well, none of us, none of us in
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  here played Stadia. So like, it definitely wasn't
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  the game we were playing. The sad thing is, is I actually
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  kind of like the design of that controller.
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  It looked really clean and nice. Same here, sit here.
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  I'm not. I'm not talking shit about the
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  controller. I'm not.
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  If I was APC gamer, I would have got one.
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  I'm just saying. It's not too late.
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  Yeah, it's too late. A pirate.
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  It's not too late to be APC. Gamer.
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  Yes, it is. No, no, it's.
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  Not too late. No, it's not too late.
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  It's too late to. Turn back now.
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  How much does a stadia controller costs on eBay?
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  Let's see. Brand new stadia.
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  Whoops. Not staphia.
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  Stadia Staphia sounds like the new like STD medication.
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  Thinking of. Like staff not bad.
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  Brand new Stadia controller with Chromecast 27 dollars.
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  See, it's not too late, Corey. It's not too late.
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  That's a pretty good deal. Let's see if they're doing a
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  good deal on a Chromecast. I thought, wait, didn't it just
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  didn't it just discontinue Chromecast like like 3 weeks
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  ago? I don't know dude.
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  I don't know anything about Google except that they present
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  at work events, so. You have you have Google Fi,
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  right? No.
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  I thought you did. No.
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  OK. No man, I have fairlon gig so
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  suck it. So my upload speeds are
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  terrible. Not tonight.
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  I didn't mean right now. Later.
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  Podcasting. Are you initiating the video
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  chat tonight or am I? I don't know, we'll see if I
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  charge my phone or not. Make sure you make sure you keep
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  the lights on this time dude. I don't know what what was wrong
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  with you last time. That's why the lights were off.
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  There's a lot wrong with me. Anyways, I am beginning on what
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  I've been playing because I finally finished a video game.
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  It's technically my second this year.
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  Technically it's my second one, but I started the other one last
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  year and I finished the game on New Year's Day.
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  Does that count? Yeah.
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  It does. So I beat the Fire Emblem Path
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  of Radiance game for the Nintendo Game Cube system, which
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  is how Nintendo would tell you what the game and system it is
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  called for because apparently they don't want people to get
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  confused that the game is a system and the system is a game
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  or something of that nature. Who knows?
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  I am now very confused. Is this is this is this where
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  Microsoft got it from? I don't know dude.
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  I haven't. I don't pay attention to
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  Microsoft anymore. I'm boycotting Microsoft.
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  How can you wait? How can you, how can you boycott
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  something that's that's that's boycotted itself?
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  I mean, they're just helping me, man.
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  They're leading the charge for me.
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  They're. Like not like, not like that
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  like this. Dude I seriously haven't turned
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  my Xbox on except like one time to update Destiny but that was
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  it. Like I and I barely play Destiny
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  because I was like Oh yeah it's Destiny and it's not in a great
• 18:53
  spot right now and the Star Wars expansion is not good.
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  I don't care what anybody says. Yeah, yeah, yeah, You, you,
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  Yeah, you keep emphasizing that. Also they delayed their next in
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  game update to not even expansion or season in game
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  update because Marathon's coming out that same weekend.
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  It's like. Which?
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  Marathon Marathon's price point is 40 bucks, right?
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  Yep, it's $40.00 for the standard edition.
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  I think the deluxe edition is 50 and the collector's edition is
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  180. Yo, they're, they're doing,
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  they're doing. That sexy statue in that sexy
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  box? That changes.
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  They're doing things in that game because after that last
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  scandal, I didn't think that game has come out till 2028.
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  I know their art director resigned though, did you see
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  that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  I I mean, I knew it was coming, but.
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  Oh, I knew it was. I knew.
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  I knew it was coming too. But.
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  Cause 'cause the one guy they the one guy they want to fall on
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  their sword didn't fall on their hard enough apparently.
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  Well, the one guy that they wanted to fall on the sword got
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  fired a long time ago. Oh.
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  That's right. Yeah.
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  Yeah, that's. Right, like is is still in a
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  like massive lawsuit with Bungie apparently.
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  That's right, yeah 'cause they're like yeah well it was
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  this guy and then and then people started looking like he
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  hasn't done any all his favorite for like 2 years.
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  Yeah. So that's also happening.
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  Scandal after scandal. Just remember, right now at all
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  of Activision's problems come from Bobby Kotick.
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  Yeah, well, apparently the rumor, the rumor is that they
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  are in negotiations with Luke Smith to come back and kind of
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  reboot Destiny with the Destiny Three according to the Internet.
• 20:45
  Is Luke Smith an All Star for destiny?
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  Was he? Dude, he's like, he's like.
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  Did he launch Destiny 1.0? Two, he was he he so he he
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  designed Vault of Glass, which was the very first raid in
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  destiny and then he went on to be the franchise director until
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  I guess the final shape and then he mysteriously no longer worked
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  at the company anymore with no no reason or anything he.
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  Didn't eat breadcrumb or anything.
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  No, wow. It was like when all those
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  people got laid off and Pete Parsons took that big bonus and
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  bought a bunch of cars or whatever.
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  Oh, OK. OK.
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  It was during that era. It's all relative.
• 21:31
  It's again, it's it's something, but that's funny that.
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  You guys assume there's going to be a Destiny Three.
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  We all know that in our current video game landscape, the second
• 21:43
  marathon comes out, they're going to lay off at least 3/4 of
• 21:46
  their staff whether or not successful.
• 21:49
  Well, it's OK it. Oh, go ahead.
• 21:51
  Go ahead, Corey. Man, I didn't know I was going
• 21:54
  to talk about destiny tonight. You didn't.
• 21:57
  You didn't. No, I'm, I'm fucking with you.
• 22:01
  I've kind of been avoiding destiny, but it's fine.
• 22:07
  I I don't know man. They the the player count is at
• 22:12
  an all time low. Like this was the week, this was
• 22:16
  this latest expansion was the was the weakest launch of any
• 22:20
  expansion ever in the history of Destiny.
• 22:23
  And yeah, I mean, I know Steam numbers aren't everything, but
• 22:30
  the Steam count is also the lowest it's ever been.
• 22:33
  Oh, where's it at right now? I don't know what it's at right
• 22:37
  at this current. Moment, you know, well, I, I, I
• 22:40
  can look it up real quick, real quick.
• 22:41
  It's just just, it's just Destiny 2, right?
• 22:45
  Yeah. Destiny 2 concurrent players
• 22:46
  Steam concurrent player count. Let's see Steam charts is as of
• 22:52
  29 minutes ago 11,651. The 24 hour peak was 12,674 and
• 22:58
  the all the all time peak for anyone that cares about that is
• 23:01
  316,651. Let's let's compare that to my
• 23:06
  game that I that I, that I'm playing Monster Hunter Wilds.
• 23:09
  Yeah, like Destiny's behind Monster Hunter 14,448 players
• 23:15
  right now with 24 hour, with a 24 hour peak of 24,709.
• 23:19
  That's practically double what Destiny has done in the last 24
• 23:22
  hours. And the all time peak was
• 23:24
  1,000,000 three. Wow, 1,384,608.
• 23:29
  Damn. Like Destiny should have been
• 23:30
  like, I'm not going to say maybe in the 1,000,000, but shit,
• 23:33
  Destiny should have been in like like three quarter million, you
• 23:36
  know? Yeah, it's also does.
• 23:39
  Contrary to popular belief, it is.
• 23:41
  Destiny is still much bigger on console than it is on PC.
• 23:46
  Oh well, OK, well that does. That does take into account
• 23:48
  because Monster hunters flipped it's more it's bigger on PC than
• 23:52
  it is on on consoles. Yeah.
• 23:55
  So I, I, I mean, I don't really care either way, but like people
• 24:02
  like to make that kind of, they like to point that out.
• 24:06
  So anyways, I haven't been playing Destiny.
• 24:10
  I've been playing Fire Emblem Path of Radiance.
• 24:13
  And I finished it last night at like 2:00 in the morning because
• 24:18
  I started the final battle at like 10:30.
• 24:21
  I'm like, I'm going to finish it.
• 24:23
  And then I started. Then I restarted it twice.
• 24:26
  Bestie, we're both up at 2:00 in the morning playing video games
• 24:29
  because like I said, I could not go to sleep last night.
• 24:31
  So yeah, I was, I was playing my game that I'm going to talk
• 24:34
  about in a second. I really enjoyed it.
• 24:38
  I thought like I I played it back when it came out on the
• 24:42
  game cute. Well, not like right when it
• 24:44
  came out, but when it was, you know, used it and there was like
• 24:47
  4 or 5 copies used at every single GameStop for 2499.
• 24:53
  It's, it's kind of, it's kind of weird.
• 24:54
  It's kind of weird about that game too, because I remember
• 24:56
  that game did have a high trade in value, high trade trade in
• 24:59
  rate when I was working at GameStop.
• 25:01
  And it didn't make any sense because like the the 2 fire
• 25:03
  emblems on Gameboy advance, like you, you never you never saw
• 25:07
  them pre owned on shelves. Yeah, and Path of Radiant.
• 25:11
  Dude, there's like 3 to 5 on every.
• 25:13
  Every single GameStop I ever went into had like 3 to 5 of
• 25:15
  them. Yeah.
• 25:16
  Well, let me ask you this because you, I think I know you
• 25:18
  played those GBA. I haven't.
• 25:21
  I haven't. I've never played them.
• 25:24
  I I'm going back the first, the first game, the first firearm I
• 25:27
  ever played was Awakening and I haven't played anything before
• 25:30
  Awakening. Awakening was on switch right?
• 25:33
  3D3DS was the 1st 3DS game. Oh.
• 25:36
  That's right. I didn't play that one.
• 25:37
  I didn't play that one because. No, that was ADS one I thought.
• 25:42
  No Shadow Dragon was the DS1 OK I.
• 25:46
  Didn't play any of the DS ones because, because like, I was
• 25:49
  just, I was just getting the memo that that that brand new
• 25:53
  Nintendo games do not drop in drop in price.
• 25:57
  And I was and I was and I was disgusted.
• 25:59
  Like, this game's been out for three years.
• 26:01
  Why is it still $40? Yeah, wow, It it's funny those,
• 26:05
  it's funny, the hills I die on sometimes.
• 26:08
  Why is this game still $40? We got $80 fucking games coming
• 26:11
  out, coming out the gate now. So like my, my whole thing is
• 26:16
  like, I want to go back and play the older ones now just because
• 26:19
  I have never played them and you know, now now now's as good a
• 26:24
  time as ever and to go back and play them since, you know,
• 26:26
  they're all very cheap to buy. Yeah.
• 26:28
  And you know what, in this economy, in this economy right
• 26:31
  now, the backlog is the best, is the best, best way to play
• 26:34
  games. Yeah, but the Game Boy, the Game
• 26:38
  Boy Advanced ones are on and so and I've never played them, so I
• 26:43
  think I'm going to play them at some point.
• 26:45
  I I want to play them next, but like, I don't want to burn
• 26:50
  myself out on Fire Emblem. I was just talking to Pat about
• 26:52
  my. Boy, yeah, in the first, in the
• 26:54
  first Fire Emblem game, my boy Irk, he's he's the man.
• 27:01
  We are missing we're, we're missing the Game Boy Advance.
• 27:05
  There's three-game Boy Advance games, but there's only two.
• 27:07
  Yeah, there's only two. There's only two that ever came.
• 27:09
  Out what the binding? The binding blade is the one
• 27:11
  that's not out. Here.
• 27:12
  Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
• 27:13
  Yeah. I and I wonder if they'll ever
• 27:16
  bring that over here just because they they do bring
• 27:19
  Japanese games over here a lot. They do, they do.
• 27:22
  They slap. They slap a nice little
• 27:23
  outrageous price tag on them and then they make them disappear
• 27:26
  after a certain amount of time. No, they're on NSO.
• 27:30
  Not the. The Japanese ones, Japanese
• 27:33
  games are on NSO. They released.
• 27:36
  They released the the NES version for like 6 months for
• 27:39
  $7.00 and then took it off. Yeah I, I, I don't care about
• 27:43
  that. Shadow Dragon exists, which is a
• 27:45
  remake of the first one. Is that true?
• 27:47
  Is that true then? That's the one I then.
• 27:49
  That's the one I need to hunt down and play then.
• 27:51
  That's the one on DS. It's like I I looked at it on
• 27:53
  eBay, it's not terribly priced. It's like $65 complete inbox,
• 27:57
  which is like, I don't not terrible for ADS game that's not
• 28:02
  called Mario. But yeah, I I I really enjoyed
• 28:07
  it. I like the characters.
• 28:08
  I think it tells a really cool story without force feeding it
• 28:14
  force feeding you. I feel like if it came out
• 28:17
  today, the quote UN quote anti woke mob would be out with
• 28:22
  pitchforks. But because it's a story about
• 28:27
  slavery and racism and and like, hostile takeovers and they're
• 28:35
  unruly king, essentially. Oh yeah, Oh yeah, that game,
• 28:41
  that game would get along just fine in this political climate.
• 28:44
  So, you know, it's it's very it's less Persona anime than
• 28:50
  Three Houses and even engaged to an extent, but I really liked
• 28:56
  it. I think Ike is a cool character.
• 28:57
  Like watching his growth through the game of like going from this
• 29:01
  kind of shitty kid who wants to be part of this mercenary team
• 29:06
  that his dad kind of runs and then him kind of, you know,
• 29:11
  growing into the role of commander and becoming more
• 29:14
  mature throughout the story. Although he does say some starky
• 29:17
  things that, you know, commanders probably wouldn't
• 29:20
  say, but still fun. So yeah, I really enjoyed it.
• 29:26
  I, I was so like meticulous and making sure nobody died and
• 29:31
  killing every enemy in every battle that like I wanted to
• 29:33
  that to the final battle with like I think you can have like
• 29:36
  15 characters in your final battle party or whatever and I
• 29:42
  and I had 12 of them at Max level.
• 29:45
  Now I now I now you give me this conundrum because I'd never be 3
• 29:49
  houses and now I'm like man, advanced Wars, Fire Emblem or
• 29:54
  monster stories too. I, I I don't know.
• 30:02
  But yeah, even even with 12 Max out characters, it's.
• 30:06
  Like, I'm not, I'm not stepping in that one at all.
• 30:08
  I, well, I know where we're going with that.
• 30:10
  I, I, I, I just want to get my thought out and then we can talk
• 30:13
  about anything you want, Laurent.
• 30:14
  I just very rare that I get to say that I beat a video game on
• 30:19
  this podcast. That is true.
• 30:20
  That is true. Yep.
• 30:24
  But I, it, it's cool because one of the characters I had you
• 30:28
  could call in reinforcements. So like I can have six extra
• 30:32
  characters on on the field, which is cool.
• 30:36
  And then halfway through the, the final battle, you can call
• 30:38
  in another reinforcement. I was like, oh, cool, nice.
• 30:43
  So it's funny at the very beginning of the battle, they're
• 30:46
  like, I expect many casualties. I beat the final level with no
• 30:51
  deaths so. For them.
• 30:55
  You know what, you know what? I'm I'm, I'm glad.
• 30:58
  I'm glad you and I are the same when it comes to firemen games.
• 31:00
  If if I lose a character on the field, I reset that board.
• 31:05
  Yeah. And so like I was, so I was
• 31:07
  playing through and like the first like 5 or 6 hours I was
• 31:10
  playing it, I was like, OK, yeah, I'm just kind of going
• 31:12
  through the motions or whatever of firemen because NSO has a
• 31:17
  rewind feature. And I was like, oh, if anybody
• 31:19
  dies, I'll just rewind it. GameCube is the only one that
• 31:22
  doesn't have a rewind feature. That's kind of bullshit.
• 31:25
  Well, because all the buttons are used because the GameCube
• 31:28
  controller is like a normal controller.
• 31:31
  OK. I thought the GameCube one was
• 31:33
  specifically supposed to have a rewind feature.
• 31:36
  It just has the suspend function so you can like create suspend
• 31:39
  states but no rewind. So I after like the first six
• 31:45
  hours I had to start over because I lost a character.
• 31:51
  So that was fun. That was cool.
• 31:56
  So yeah, my in game clock says 31.31 hours and 32 minutes, but
• 32:02
  my Game Cube app says 55 hours or more.
• 32:10
  So yeah, that's that's what I've been playing.
• 32:15
  I'm very happy that I finished it because I don't know, it's
• 32:19
  it's just one of those things where Pat and Story were talking
• 32:21
  about backlog stuff on Gamescast, which I think that's
• 32:25
  the episode coming out next, or maybe it's the one that came out
• 32:27
  last. Came out recently.
• 32:30
  Dude I edited 6 episodes of stuff this weekend so I needed
• 32:33
  to I. I don't know which one it was,
• 32:35
  but it's coming out soon. If it's not out already, if
• 32:39
  you're a patron, it is out now for sure.
• 32:42
  So you can go listen to that now.
• 32:46
  But I was, I'm just really into like clearing out some games
• 32:52
  I've been wanting to play in the backlog and not buying new games
• 32:57
  because they'll just sit on the shelf.
• 32:59
  And La Ron, like you said, Nintendo games never go down in
• 33:02
  price, so they'll still be $70 when I want to play it.
• 33:07
  I know, like what? Let me ask a serious question.
• 33:12
  Should I, should I, should I exercise like, you know, just
• 33:16
  just get it, Just get it as quickly as it comes out and then
• 33:19
  and then just just just move on. Or depends on the franchise.
• 33:23
  Or should I or should I or or should I buy it when I'm ready
• 33:26
  to play it, given that it's never going to like drop in
• 33:28
  price anyway? See, it depends on the
• 33:30
  franchise, because Zelda is Zelda and those games, they're
• 33:33
  going to print, you know, 50 million units of that thing,
• 33:36
  right? And so that'll be around
• 33:38
  forever, but you get something like, I mean, you know, it used
• 33:42
  to say fire them, but like, you know something we'll say
• 33:46
  Asheville chain, right? Like good luck trying to find a
• 33:48
  copy of Asheville Chain for MSRP right now.
• 33:52
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, like right now the only the only game, the only
• 33:56
  game series for Nintendo I'm guaranteed by day one is Metroid
• 33:59
  and, and and it breaks my heart that Metroid Prime for like came
• 34:04
  the way it did. That's what it's not that bad of
• 34:08
  a game. It doesn't.
• 34:11
  Do anything special that's. Well, I mean, I just.
• 34:16
  Metroid. I, I, I basically, I basically
• 34:18
  followed like the whole development.
• 34:20
  Well, once, once the game was in my hand and I started playing, I
• 34:22
  was like, OK, what, what the hell happened here?
• 34:25
  So I, so I understand the history of the game.
• 34:27
  I understand why we we got what we got and we should be happy
• 34:30
  that we got it. Yeah.
• 34:33
  I yeah, I mean, at this point for me, like day one purchases
• 34:38
  is it's only like Zelda and and firearm at this point for me.
• 34:42
  Now I'm just you know, I mean fortunes weave comes out later
• 34:46
  this year and I'm sure we'll get some sort of Zelda release
• 34:49
  because it is an anniversary of two Zelda things actually the
• 34:52
  franchise and Twilight Princess 20th 20 year anniversary
• 34:55
  Nintendo case you forgot in case you forgot the best 3DS all the
• 35:01
  game so. We're we're saying that it took
• 35:04
  them 10 years to make that Twilight Princess remaster that
• 35:08
  we keep asking for. And they did remaster it for Wii
• 35:12
  U. It's already done and it says
• 35:15
  save. File save how long ago?
• 35:18
  They just have to click. They have to take the file and
• 35:20
  save file saveas.switch.exe and there you go.
• 35:24
  Put it on the cartridge and just.
• 35:25
  It's been rumored ever since the switch came out that they were
• 35:29
  going to port it to the switch. Well, you know what they're
• 35:32
  going to do, right? They're going to put those games
• 35:35
  out for Switch One, and then they'll get the Galaxy treatment
• 35:38
  of be like, what if you play it on Switch 2?
• 35:40
  It'll be 4K something, something, something.
• 35:46
  I don't know, The orange hand that sticks out of mid in his
• 35:49
  head will move better. I don't know anyways.
• 35:58
  Nick's Nick's asking if we're going to if we're going to try
• 36:00
  the replace demo. I tried.
• 36:03
  I don't even know what replaced is.
• 36:04
  Yeah, I tried. I tried to answer him in the in
• 36:06
  the actual stream chat here as myself, but for whatever reason
• 36:11
  it didn't show up in it didn't show up in our stream.
• 36:13
  Chat there it is there. Put it on screen.
• 36:18
  I was like, I was like, not sure maybe.
• 36:21
  What is replaced? I don't even know what that is.
• 36:23
  Do I know what? That is, that's cyberpunk.
• 36:26
  Oh, the cyberpunk strip off. Metro Bandit.
• 36:29
  What? No to.
• 36:31
  Replace for a very long time. Oh, that.
• 36:34
  One unfortunately it's APC only title or the.
• 36:37
  Devil is PC only, so I'm not going to play it.
• 36:40
  Yeah, no, Nope. Also, by the way, Speaking of
• 36:44
  PC, did you see the Steam Deck sold out?
• 36:47
  Yeah. I wonder if they're going to put
• 36:51
  out the Steam Deck too. The Steam, the Steam Deck sold
• 36:55
  out because I think the, I think the I think the community is
• 36:58
  speaking about how they feel about our topic from last week.
• 37:01
  Or I think they're going to put out the Steam Deck too, Lauren,
• 37:07
  wink wink nudge nudge. I'll OK, OK, maybe you might be
• 37:12
  on the something. I was about to say I'll believe
• 37:13
  you want to see it, but maybe you might be on the something
• 37:15
  now. Will I get it?
• 37:18
  I don't know. I don't think so.
• 37:21
  Maybe I will, then I'll PC game with you Laurent.
• 37:26
  Except for multiplayer games, because apparently you can't
• 37:28
  play player games on. Yeah, because yeah, because anti
• 37:31
  cheats. Yep.
• 37:35
  So I've also been playing a Fire Emblem Heroes on my mobile
• 37:40
  device because it's the 9th anniversary event.
• 37:45
  It's also the spring swimsuit event, which is weird because
• 37:50
  it's February and it's ice cold outside and it's just a weird
• 37:55
  event to have going on in February, but whatever.
• 38:01
  But yeah, it's still still firearm Hero, still really good
• 38:05
  actually. Still fun, actually.
• 38:07
  I actually really did like the campaign part of that game quite
• 38:12
  a bit. So that's it for me.
• 38:19
  I bought some new toys. I did do that.
• 38:22
  I bought some more. Toys for the quarry.
• 38:25
  I bought some Ninja Turtles, I bought some Power Rangers, and I
• 38:27
  bought some Amiibo. There's actually an Amiibo out
• 38:30
  in my mailbox right now I forgot to go get before I started,
• 38:32
  before I sat down for this podcast.
• 38:35
  It's a fire and a little Amiibo. It's Roy.
• 38:40
  Roy. Roy, we are no longer producing
• 38:46
  the Steam Deck LCD 256 Gigabyte model.
• 38:48
  Once sold out, it will no longer be available.
• 38:50
  OK, so. Now let's do that.
• 38:51
  So now let's do that. That's been they stopped
• 38:54
  producing that a long time ago. Oh, it hasn't been so, yeah.
• 38:58
  So they've completely sold through their stock now.
• 39:01
  I guess I knew they stopped the 256.
• 39:04
  They're still producing the 512 and the one terabyte I think
• 39:07
  though. But.
• 39:11
  It's been a while since I checked up.
• 39:12
  It's been a while since I checked up on Steve.
• 39:14
  Yeah, I just, I like to check 'cause sometimes they're on
• 39:17
  sale. Yeah.
• 39:19
  And if they're like under 400 I would buy one but not the 256
• 39:25
  one 'cause it doesn't have like the the glare glass or whatever
• 39:28
  it is. Yeah.
• 39:30
  So and the 512 and the one terabytes do.
• 39:34
  And then I, I also want an OLED model 'cause once, once you go
• 39:38
  OLED, you can't, you can't go back.
• 39:43
  Sometimes I play, sometimes I play indie games on my Switch
• 39:46
  one because it's an OLED and it looks nicer.
• 39:49
  But then I'm like, oh, this stinky Switch 1.
• 39:52
  Gross. Then I go back to Switch 2
• 39:55
  because I can play Game Cube games on my Switch 2.
• 40:00
  Oh, somebody saved me the Ron. What are you playing?
• 40:04
  Basically same as same as last week, definitely pumping more
• 40:08
  and more time in the front mission 3.
• 40:10
  Like I, I feel like I'm really on track to beat this game and
• 40:12
  I'm only I'm only playing through one scenario.
• 40:15
  Like there's it's the two scenario games.
• 40:16
  Technically, like this game, you wind up, if you wound up playing
• 40:19
  it the the way like the way like most people should play it, you
• 40:22
  wound up spending 70 hours in this game.
• 40:24
  I don't have time for that. I'm going to beat 1 scenario and
• 40:27
  and I'm moving on. I did download the the trial
• 40:31
  version for Monster Stories 3 Twisted reflection.
• 40:34
  I definitely cannot wait to turn that on.
• 40:36
  But yeah, like it, like I said earlier, now I have this
• 40:40
  conundrum like do I? Because I want, because I'm kind
• 40:45
  of in a tactical RPG phase right now.
• 40:47
  So, oh and so do I. So do I do Advanced Wars 1-2
• 40:52
  reboot camp or do I do Fire Emblem 3 houses because I never
• 40:55
  beat that. Here's the thing, do you want
• 40:58
  good tactics game or do you want like all the the, the, the
• 41:03
  flirtation and the, the sexy characters and the tea parties
• 41:08
  and everything? I kind of want a good tactics
• 41:11
  game. I know I yeah, Three Houses.
• 41:13
  It does feel like a dating SIM at certain points.
• 41:15
  You are. I will say I will say hot take
• 41:20
  here Firewoman engage if you want a good tactics game like a
• 41:25
  fireman game that has it's strictly pure gameplay without
• 41:29
  the. All that interaction.
• 41:31
  Yeah, I will say, although the somnial stuff gets a little long
• 41:36
  in the tooth, but like isn't. Engaged.
• 41:37
  No, isn't engaged the one where basically like yeah, like I
• 41:40
  think they I think the the player base didn't really like
• 41:42
  that one. Yeah, because they wanted more
• 41:45
  Three houses, I think I I actually.
• 41:48
  Three houses, OK. So The thing is, is I actually
• 41:51
  played it when it came out. I'm like, man, I could really go
• 41:53
  for some three houses. I waited.
• 41:55
  Well, I played it last year when it when it come out 2023, right?
• 42:00
  It came out 2023. Yeah, I think so.
• 42:03
  I played it last year after a good chunk of time away and
• 42:07
  playing the mobile game and like I was like, you know what, I'm
• 42:11
  going to give Engage another shot.
• 42:12
  And I actually, I actually think I like Engage more, especially
• 42:16
  from a gameplay perspective than three houses.
• 42:20
  I think 3 houses characters are more memorable just because
• 42:23
  they're all kind of most of them are new, whereas Engage it's
• 42:26
  like a celebration of the history of the the franchise.
• 42:31
  I mean there's new characters in there but you know, the emblems
• 42:33
  are all pre from previous games. But I think from a gameplay
• 42:38
  perspective I like Engage much better and the DLC was really
• 42:43
  hard and good so. In the in the stream chat right
• 42:48
  now, Nick just asked us was any of us playing Mugenics like that
• 42:53
  game just came out of the day, right?
• 42:54
  Yeah, I think it. I think it.
• 42:55
  Did what in the stream chat? Yeah, exactly.
• 42:58
  Yeah, Stream chat isn't updating.
• 42:59
  I had to, I had to actually look.
• 43:01
  I had to actually look in the last time on on YouTube, Yeah.
• 43:04
  The last one I have here is if from him is if we played the
• 43:07
  replace demo. Yeah, yeah.
• 43:09
  Also like why does my? Why does my why does my thing
• 43:12
  have a question mark box on? It I don't know.
• 43:16
  We. We are.
• 43:17
  We are. You're asking a question.
• 43:19
  Well, it doesn't matter. We're gonna, we're not gonna,
• 43:21
  we're not, we're not gonna. We're not gonna use stream yard
• 43:23
  soon anyway, so. OK.
• 43:25
  OK, yeah. So, so Nick, we aren't so Nick,
• 43:28
  we aren't ignoring you. It's it's, it's more like we are
• 43:31
  being shielded from you. Yeah.
• 43:33
  That sounded wrong. Stream Yard doesn't like you,
• 43:36
  the duck in the corner of the screen doesn't like you, the
• 43:40
  weird duck with the headphones. Yeah, yeah, but, but yeah, but
• 43:45
  yeah, so, yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm having a lot of fun with Front
• 43:49
  Mission 3 Remake and I'm on I'm, I'm on the Internet and man,
• 43:53
  everybody's just like trashing this game because you know, like
• 43:56
  they, they use, they use AI generated assets, you know, for
• 43:59
  this stuff. I'm like, I, it doesn't even
• 44:01
  bother me. That's the crazy part.
• 44:03
  You know, like we want, I had to, I had to literally like tell
• 44:07
  somebody in one of the forums, I was like, listen, I was like,
• 44:11
  you need to be happy that you can play this game on a modern
• 44:15
  console that you own because like, it'd be stuck in the
• 44:18
  purgatory of the PS1 library that nothing's backwards fucking
• 44:22
  compatible for. Yep, front.
• 44:25
  Front mission 3 front mission 3 only got re released one time on
• 44:31
  PlayStation Network back when we all had PSPS.
• 44:34
  So guess what if you still don't and guess what you can't even go
• 44:38
  if you still have your PSP you can't even go play that shit
• 44:40
  because that side of the store is down.
• 44:42
  So why are y'all bitching? You know like I you know like I
• 44:47
  think the game I think I think honestly the the graphical
• 44:49
  assets in the game are fine. I think, I think the little
• 44:52
  tweaks they did to the dialogue are fine.
• 44:55
  You know, the, the online, the the online, the online system in
• 44:59
  the game is, is I've never liked in the original game.
• 45:04
  So like what they tried to do to revamp it in this game, you
• 45:06
  know, like I've given them, I've given them some applause for,
• 45:08
  but you know, I never liked in the original game.
• 45:09
  I felt like it was I felt like it was way too over the top.
• 45:14
  You know, stuff like that. You know, the fact that the fact
• 45:18
  that your characters no longer look like 3D3D stick models, you
• 45:22
  know, when they're in and out the outside their mechs, like
• 45:24
  OK, for example, example, right. Sometimes you can OK, like every
• 45:28
  pilot can actually eject themselves out of their mech.
• 45:30
  You know, usually what you usually what you want to do with
• 45:33
  that is you want to like if you want to like steal some steal a
• 45:36
  mech that's abandoned. Like you eject from your mech
• 45:38
  and you get in that that mech, but that also leaves your mech
• 45:41
  abandoned. So like a random pilot can jump
• 45:44
  in your shit, but you know, but you know, back in the hey
• 45:46
  though, on PS1, your characters, your your characters didn't look
• 45:53
  like your characters at all. They just look like they just
• 45:55
  like, they look like super deformed versions of The Sims,
• 45:58
  except really skinny. And at least at least now when
• 46:02
  your pilot's outside the mech, you can tell, Oh, oh, that's
• 46:04
  actually, that's actually that character.
• 46:07
  They put some time and effort into making that character look
• 46:10
  like that character, you know, and stuff like that.
• 46:11
  So I, I don't understand. I don't understand.
• 46:14
  Now there are, there are some purists out there and I get it,
• 46:16
  you know, like some like this, there's some purists.
• 46:18
  They, they, they didn't want the original soundtrack touch, which
• 46:22
  is weird because you can choose which version of soundtrack you
• 46:24
  want. Most people, I guess these
• 46:25
  people are just lazy. You know, once you start the
• 46:28
  game, you can't just switch the soundtrack, you know.
• 46:31
  And there's and in my opinion, there's nothing wrong with the
• 46:33
  mod with the modernized soundtrack.
• 46:35
  It still sounds like the same front mission 3 music, you know,
• 46:37
  stuff like that. You know, some of the battle
• 46:40
  noises have changed and stuff like that.
• 46:42
  I don't care like the machine guns still sound like machine
• 46:44
  guns in my opinion. They don't sound like the
• 46:45
  machine guns from the original game.
• 46:47
  I don't care like they are like when your skills activate and
• 46:50
  stuff like that, the the sounds for that's changed.
• 46:52
  But you know what, I'm a little nostalgic, but at the same time,
• 46:57
  it's all fucking good. I, I don't care what I, this is
• 47:02
  the problem I'm starting to have in the video game community, you
• 47:05
  know, like, like we love our game so much that we cannot
• 47:09
  stand. We cannot stand when like 1% of
• 47:12
  the game is different. We can't stand it.
• 47:15
  And that's not a problem. That's that's not a problem we
• 47:18
  as gamers should have because like we are looking at a video
• 47:22
  games recession. We're looking at video games
• 47:23
  recession on quite a few different fronts.
• 47:25
  Games are getting out priced and they're shitty.
• 47:28
  That's one. Games are being overpriced and
• 47:30
  they're really shitty. That's one.
• 47:31
  That number two, we have a hardware crisis going on now.
• 47:36
  Yeah, the consoles don't have to worry about it too much.
• 47:38
  PC side has to worry about it right now.
• 47:40
  But but guess what, back in back when COVID, everybody was
• 47:43
  bitching. I can't find, I can't find an
• 47:45
  Xbox, I can't find a PlayStation.
• 47:46
  And it tells like, hi, you know, I don't want you and number and
• 47:54
  #3 and #3 there's a lack of originality going on.
• 47:59
  So you know what? When a company takes the time
• 48:02
  and it actually does does a decent job of remaking or
• 48:05
  remastering the game, we should be celebrating it.
• 48:08
  Well, that's part of the problem I think that Horizon is finding
• 48:12
  itself in at the moment because they just revealed that
• 48:15
  multiplayer game. Yeah, well, the main thing about
• 48:18
  it, the problem with that Horizon game, in my opinion, is
• 48:20
  I feel like it loses the identity of Horizon.
• 48:23
  I like this in that world, but like #1 it's all like.
• 48:27
  Cartoony it's it's style I I saw a lot of and this is the thought
• 48:33
  I had as soon as they showed it. Remember that?
• 48:34
  Remember the monster under clone Dauntless?
• 48:36
  I'm sure you played it. That's what it reminded me of at
• 48:40
  first. I was like this looks like I'm
• 48:41
  like this is clearly going to be a Monster Hunter style game, but
• 48:45
  it's that's kind of like. Hauntless.
• 48:46
  That's kind of what we wanted, yeah.
• 48:48
  Like, you know, like. I.
• 48:51
  Because I so. Here's the thing as as as
• 48:55
  someone who wanted to go to school for animation and did for
• 48:59
  like a hot 2nd and then still pays attention to that industry
• 49:03
  somewhat and also all of us being into the games industry
• 49:08
  making a big multiplayer game like this.
• 49:12
  And this is partially why World of Warcraft still looks like it
• 49:15
  does the chat. Just like the entire chat.
• 49:17
  The chat just caught up. Yeah, and it's part of the
• 49:22
  reason why World of Warcraft still looks the way it does,
• 49:24
  right? It's because that that art style
• 49:29
  is easier to maintain on a console that's going to probably
• 49:32
  it's probably going to be on for a decade if it takes off.
• 49:35
  And so like updating, like the file sizes are smaller, there's
• 49:38
  not a lot of texture detail, right?
• 49:40
  Like it's all stylized for a reason.
• 49:43
  And that reason is because they want this game to keep going.
• 49:46
  It's the reason why Fortnite looks like it does and PUBG
• 49:48
  still runs like crap 10 years later, right?
• 49:51
  Like, I mean part part of the reason obviously, obviously
• 49:56
  epics, you know, different than. Here's the only thing I'm here's
• 50:01
  the only thing I'm gonna say about the difference between
• 50:02
  Fortnite and Pub G Pub G took itself way too seriously when it
• 50:05
  was when it needed to be like taking its, you know, we need to
• 50:07
  be like making sure the assets were strong.
• 50:09
  Yes, the game took itself way too seriously when you landed on
• 50:12
  an island with a frying pan on your face and AI don't know.
• 50:19
  To be fair, I played a lot of Pub G when it came out.
• 50:21
  I really liked that game a lot. You look like you look like a
• 50:25
  pub G player, and that's that's I'm not being offensive when I
• 50:27
  say you look like you look like pub you look like pub G
• 50:31
  demographic. Okay, maybe now that was mean,
• 50:33
  but you look like they're that's fine.
• 50:36
  I've been called worse today, but.
• 50:40
  I'm not being mean, it just it just came out mean.
• 50:42
  I'm sorry. What I don't even remember what
• 50:44
  we were talking about now. Horizon, Horizon.
• 50:47
  And then people started comparing it to Fortnite.
• 50:49
  And I'm like, it doesn't really look like Fortnite.
• 50:53
  Like just because it's cartoony doesn't mean it's Fortnite.
• 50:56
  But like, I, I think we all, I think we can all agree that
• 51:02
  Horizon 0 dawn and forbidden western some of the best looking
• 51:06
  games maybe ever, right? That Decima engine does wonders,
• 51:12
  environments and characters and everything, right.
• 51:15
  And so like seeing this style seems like OK, well, I guess
• 51:22
  it's differentiating itself from the mainline games because we're
• 51:25
  we're still getting 3 Horizon 3 right?
• 51:27
  Like that's it's coming, but I don't know.
• 51:32
  I have mixed opinions. I think it looks neat, but like
• 51:37
  I think the one thing that kills it too is like it doesn't have a
• 51:41
  it doesn't have a character creator.
• 51:43
  Yeah, you have to pick. You have to pick a preset
• 51:46
  character. Yeah, I think, I think that's,
• 51:49
  that's one of the things that that they're most vocal, that
• 51:51
  the the community is most vocal about.
• 51:52
  And I get that, you know? Yeah, if I'm going to play a
• 51:55
  multiplayer game, I want to make my own character, right?
• 51:57
  Exactly, like even as bad as Destiny's character creator is
• 52:01
  like I still got to create a character in Destiny, right?
• 52:04
  Yeah. Or Monster Hunter.
• 52:06
  Monster Hunter has the best character creator maybe ever,
• 52:11
  ever. I would say ever.
• 52:12
  I think Monster Hunter World had a great one.
• 52:14
  And then Wilds. Oh yeah, Wilds.
• 52:18
  Wilds makes Monster Hunter World look like look, you know, look
• 52:21
  like your kid brother. Like like drew it on crayon.
• 52:24
  Yeah. It's, it's it's crazy how good
• 52:28
  that character creator is. Yeah.
• 52:30
  So yeah. But but yeah, front mission,
• 52:34
  front mission 3 like I'll, I will, I will have some words
• 52:37
  about the monster stories 3 twisted, twisted reflection
• 52:40
  trial next week on on the show. So like that.
• 52:43
  I'm definitely amped up about it and based off everything I've
• 52:45
  seen. Oh, of course.
• 52:46
  Oh, and on the in in Sokuda a couple days ago, like there was
• 52:53
  a Monster Hunter, there's a Monster Hunter dev brief just
• 52:55
  for with the Riozo. I'm sorry, Riozzo for Monster
• 52:59
  Hunter for the producer of Monster Hunter came out and
• 53:02
  talked about it. They're, they are currently
• 53:04
  working on the expansion for Monster Hunter Wilds and it is
• 53:06
  going to be on the same scale as Ice Born was for for Monster
• 53:10
  Hunter World. Nice.
• 53:12
  Yeah. Awesome.
• 53:14
  Yeah. And I, I need to play that game
• 53:17
  again. I I wanted to like it.
• 53:20
  Which one? Monster Hunter Wilds.
• 53:23
  Dude, dude, play with me. I want I wanted to like it so
• 53:27
  much. What?
• 53:28
  What didn't you like? Well, I mean, we can.
• 53:30
  We can the. Controls are bad.
• 53:32
  That was my whole issue. That's.
• 53:34
  Right. That's right.
• 53:34
  That's right. That's right.
• 53:36
  I can get over the 30 frames, sometimes frames a second thing
• 53:41
  right, whatever. But like, it's the controls man.
• 53:46
  OK. Let me remap the controls.
• 53:49
  You win simulism, Pat. That would have been a game.
• 53:56
  That would have been a game I would have been sucked into if
• 53:58
  the controls were, if I could customize controls.
• 54:01
  I think you. See you're playing on console
• 54:03
  because I guarantee you're playing on on PC.
• 54:05
  You could do that. Yeah.
• 54:09
  But I mean it. I mean it is what it is.
• 54:13
  Pat, are you, Are you ready? Is he frozen?
• 54:20
  I don't know. What?
• 54:23
  I was like, Are you ready? It's your turn.
• 54:26
  Oh, OK, cool, cool. He's owned out.
• 54:31
  We were talking about Monster Hunter and Destiny, and he heard
• 54:35
  those words together and he's like, oh, he's.
• 54:38
  Like he's like he's no longer my.
• 54:39
  Show it forced me into a factory reset.
• 54:43
  Taking a nap? Well, I've been playing some
• 54:48
  games based off the Nintendo Partner Direct from last week.
• 54:52
  They showed a couple sequels video games coming out and so I
• 54:57
  decided I should probably try to finish some of the original ones
• 55:00
  before the sequels come out. So one of the ones that they
• 55:04
  showed was Kyoto Xanadu, which is made by the producers of the
• 55:11
  the Trail series and the E series Famicom or not Famicom,
• 55:16
  Falcom. And they they also have a series
• 55:20
  called the Xanadu series and they came out with one called
• 55:24
  Tokyo Xanadu. And then this was back for the
• 55:29
  Vita I believe. And then they ported it to the
• 55:33
  PS4 and called it Tokyo Xanadu EX Plus.
• 55:37
  And then they did one more kind of up res of it for the Switch,
• 55:43
  which they also just called EX Plus.
• 55:46
  And anyways, what this game is, it's essentially a Trails game.
• 55:51
  Like it looks just like a Trails game.
• 55:53
  It sounds it plays just like a Trails game or for the most
• 55:57
  part, it's made by the people who did the Trails series.
• 56:01
  So you have this style of game, but it's also like very
• 56:07
  reminiscent of Persona. In the sense that you are sorry.
• 56:12
  What's it called again? This is called Tokyo Xanadu.
• 56:17
  So you are a student in high school, and this other world is
• 56:23
  kind of creeping into the real world.
• 56:26
  And so in this other world, you unlock special powers which only
• 56:31
  you and other teenagers from school have the ability to
• 56:36
  fight. So yeah, it's Persona, but it's
• 56:40
  Persona in a trails of series, you know, style.
• 56:48
  Nice. There are things you can do such
• 56:50
  as tackle side quests in it and build up your your stats such as
• 56:56
  courage and wisdom and valor, doing things like answering
• 57:00
  questions correct, reading books, so doing your side quests
• 57:05
  or finishing dungeons within a certain amount of time and
• 57:09
  getting some good scores of that.
• 57:11
  What sets this apart differently from the Trail series is that
• 57:15
  the game is actually action combat based and you you kind of
• 57:22
  run through a lab at this fast pace, you can switch between the
• 57:26
  characters who had different elemental abilities.
• 57:28
  So it's it's almost like a mix of the ES combat with the trails
• 57:34
  of dungeon and then the trails of like gameplay.
• 57:40
  I've only played a little bit of it, but it's it's pretty
• 57:44
  interesting so far. And from what I understand, this
• 57:47
  is actually very different from how the rest of the Xanadu
• 57:50
  series works because Kyoto Xanadu when it comes out is
• 57:54
  actually going to be a metroidvania with like anime
• 58:01
  with kind of that anime style cutscenes, but also has like
• 58:06
  more of an action based boss system where it goes into like
• 58:09
  3D And then apparently that's more traditional.
• 58:14
  Xanadu is the Metroidvania style.
• 58:19
  What's what's interesting is the standard series came out where
• 58:23
  it's like an offshoot of like one of the most original RPGs
• 58:29
  called Dragon Slayer. And Dragon Slayer was what
• 58:34
  inspired so many other RPGs to come out, you know, after it
• 58:39
  games such as Dragon Warrior was very inspired by Dragon Slayer.
• 58:46
  And so Dragon Slayer ended up like branching off and creating
• 58:48
  like these other branches that lead to the trails of Ceres and
• 58:55
  also the Xanadu series. It's a, it's, it's got a very
• 58:59
  long lineage, so it's kind of cool.
• 59:03
  I I vaguely remember Dragon Slayer.
• 59:05
  I vaguely remember it. Yeah, I, I had to kind of like
• 59:10
  fall down the rabbit hole just to understand.
• 59:13
  Like Xanadu was like the second Dragon Slayer.
• 59:18
  It was called Dragon Slayer Xanadu.
• 59:20
  And it was that's kind of then spawned off the Xanadu series
• 59:24
  and then another Dragon Slayer series kind of spawned off the
• 59:28
  Legend of Hero series, which then spawned off the trails of
• 59:32
  series. It's it's kind of fun to, you
• 59:36
  know, research just like how I guess involved Falcom was in the
• 59:46
  like making of like the RPG series or just RPGs in general.
• 59:53
  This this almost sounds like just the the snaky windy thing
• 59:58
  is like how near the the first near is a random like timeline
• 1:00:05
  sequel to the third Dragon Guard game.
• 1:00:08
  And one of the one. Of the false endings.
• 1:00:11
  Yep, yeah, This is like, oh, OK, sure.
• 1:00:16
  Oh man, the the deep history. You can go on it get our friend
• 1:00:20
  block block games, very interested for sure.
• 1:00:27
  But other than that, I also picked up a game I bought it.
• 1:00:33
  I I bought Tokyo Xanadu like a year or two ago and just never
• 1:00:37
  got to it until now because I saw the direct.
• 1:00:40
  I'm like OK I really should get into this now but this one I did
• 1:00:44
  pick up my first game this entire month Paranorma site but
• 1:00:49
  I got it for 5 bucks so. Nice.
• 1:00:53
  Yeah. How'd you how'd you pull that
• 1:00:54
  off? It was on, it's on sale.
• 1:00:57
  It's currently on sale on the E shop, but I don't know if it'll
• 1:01:00
  be on sale by the time this gets recorded originally.
• 1:01:04
  I think this is a $20 game. That's why you should watch
• 1:01:06
  live, everybody. Yep, Wednesday night if you're.
• 1:01:09
  Watching live? Check.
• 1:01:10
  It out right. Now 5 bucks on the eShop.
• 1:01:14
  It's called paranormal site. The seven mysteries of Honjo
• 1:01:21
  Hot. I want to say hot, but you know
• 1:01:23
  there's no way it's HONJO Honjo. Anyways, this also had a sequel
• 1:01:31
  that was promoted on the recent partner Direct.
• 1:01:35
  I believe it is called the Paranormous site and let me
• 1:01:41
  Scroll down and releases here because it comes out on the
• 1:01:44
  19th. Paranormous Site and the
• 1:01:48
  Mermaid's Curse. But they sing to you, and they
• 1:01:53
  drown you and eat you, right? That's what that is.
• 1:01:57
  I think it's Vault. I think the story behind the
• 1:02:00
  mermaid's curse is you're this kid and you're on like this dive
• 1:02:04
  and all of a sudden he sees another version of himself like
• 1:02:09
  diving as well or like a dead version of himself under the
• 1:02:13
  water. And that just like sets off this
• 1:02:16
  like whole like weird mystery. ANYWAYS, Paranormal Sight is a
• 1:02:21
  horror visual novel. It's mostly like you point,
• 1:02:26
  point and click and you talk to people and you look at things
• 1:02:31
  and it's got a lot of like horror elements that it it's
• 1:02:37
  it's about like these urban legends that take place in this
• 1:02:41
  section of town. And each one of these legends
• 1:02:46
  kind of has a curse behind it. And these curses end up choosing
• 1:02:53
  cursed bearers. And so now it's almost like a
• 1:02:56
  killing game where these cursed bearers have to go out during
• 1:03:01
  the night and kill either just regular people, which will only
• 1:03:07
  give and, like absorb their souls and that only gives them
• 1:03:10
  just a very tiny bit, or to kill other cursed bearers, which
• 1:03:13
  would then give them a lot of like souls.
• 1:03:17
  And the purpose of gathering these souls is that once you've
• 1:03:20
  like fully like filled up your cursed, it allows you to perform
• 1:03:26
  the right of resurrection and bring someone back from the
• 1:03:29
  dead. This story is told through
• 1:03:34
  multiple perspectives. It is definitely in the vein of
• 1:03:38
  a choose your own adventure where if you choose to do the
• 1:03:41
  wrong thing, you will end up dead.
• 1:03:44
  But luckily then you can restart, you know, at very
• 1:03:48
  generous points to, you know, choose the correct option.
• 1:03:53
  Other things that are interesting is that you have to
• 1:03:58
  kind of progress through the different characters to learn
• 1:04:01
  aspects that will help another character progress through their
• 1:04:06
  story. So and then in the end, I think
• 1:04:11
  there's they're supposed to be like several different endings
• 1:04:14
  that you can get. And then I think one true ending
• 1:04:17
  once you like tie all the stories all together, But it's
• 1:04:23
  it's it's a very creepy story. I will definitely say that the
• 1:04:28
  curses that the the stories that the curses are involved are are
• 1:04:35
  about are kind of creepy. And then seeing like the curses
• 1:04:39
  take their form in like like an like this, it takes a form of a
• 1:04:47
  spirit that kind of floats around.
• 1:04:49
  And those spirits are also very creepy looking too.
• 1:04:54
  But so far the story's been pretty good.
• 1:04:56
  I've for 5 bucks I'm definitely getting my money's worth out of
• 1:05:00
  this game. Yeah, 5 bucks, that's a good
• 1:05:02
  deal. I mean, even even if you don't
• 1:05:06
  like it, like 5, it's like it's 5 bucks, you know what I mean?
• 1:05:09
  Like. Yeah, yeah, Visual novel games
• 1:05:13
  typically are with like 10 to 20 hour range, so 5 bucks for like
• 1:05:18
  a 10 to 20 hour game is definitely worth the money.
• 1:05:21
  Yeah, cool. Nice.
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  Well, what else do you play, Pat?
• 1:05:30
  Anything else? I beat the escape from Ever
• 1:05:35
  After the Paper Mario. Oh yeah, how was that?
• 1:05:39
  That was an amazing game, I loved it.
• 1:05:42
  That's the game. You said it's like Paper Mario,
• 1:05:44
  right? You like, it's like.
• 1:05:45
  Exactly. Paper Mario.
• 1:05:47
  Oh man. I.
• 1:05:48
  Kind of want to play it. Everything is Paper Mario in
• 1:05:50
  that game. I put it on my wish list.
• 1:05:54
  I want to play it like that. That is a game on my list that
• 1:05:57
  I'm like I gotta I want to play that after you talk about it
• 1:06:00
  what what I guess it was last week, right?
• 1:06:02
  You talked about it here, so. Yeah, Now the gameplay is
• 1:06:06
  strictly pay for Mario. You, you the different kind of
• 1:06:11
  you use different strategies to fight bad guys depending on like
• 1:06:14
  what they're holding, whether they're holding Shields, what
• 1:06:17
  direction their swords are pointing.
• 1:06:18
  You know, 'cause if the swords are pointing up and you try to
• 1:06:21
  jump on them, it hurts you. If their swords are pointing
• 1:06:24
  sideways and you try to run up to them, they hurt you.
• 1:06:27
  And then, of course, you have your button prompts that allow
• 1:06:30
  you to power up your attacks, power up your defenses.
• 1:06:35
  But if you're not very good at those, you can also have the
• 1:06:37
  option to turn those off and just have the game, you know,
• 1:06:40
  automatically do it for you. Yeah.
• 1:06:43
  So there are there are options in the game to make the game as
• 1:06:46
  easy or as hard as you want it to be.
• 1:06:49
  Yeah, cool. I wanna, man, I wanna play that.
• 1:06:53
  Like, yeah, maybe, maybe I'll play that next.
• 1:06:58
  Yeah, it's got some good, you know, in the corporate if, if
• 1:07:02
  you love a good corporate world, this, this game is going to, you
• 1:07:06
  know, pickle that little jargon for you, that the jargon that
• 1:07:10
  comes around the corporate side. Feel like a good corporate
• 1:07:16
  world? A good corporate world, you
• 1:07:19
  know, something that you can circle back around and, you
• 1:07:21
  know, put a pin on it, you know, talk about projections and
• 1:07:26
  quotas and downsizing and budget cuts and, you know, I'm not
• 1:07:35
  good. That's it's fun.
• 1:07:36
  I'm not. I was curious to talk about the
• 1:07:38
  final level, but the jokes are kind of spoilery in that
• 1:07:41
  anyways. But it's it's fun.
• 1:07:44
  It's fine. Yeah, let's just see a lot of
• 1:07:48
  budget cuts change the the the layout of that world.
• 1:07:57
  Well, cool. Yeah, that that one's one.
• 1:08:00
  I'm like really excited to play. Speaking of excited to play, I'm
• 1:08:07
  excited to play something new. And our topic tonight is
• 1:08:14
  something that you guys have talked about on games, on games
• 1:08:17
  cast by managing your backlog and and kind of going through
• 1:08:21
  your backlog and that sort of thing.
• 1:08:23
  But I want to know, when you are looking in your backlog and you
• 1:08:29
  see the games infinitely stacking up, how do you choose a
• 1:08:37
  game and not be paralyzed by the choice?
• 1:08:40
  Because that's something that I have a problem with.
• 1:08:42
  Is like. I have this choice paralysis.
• 1:08:45
  Yeah, I have that. I have that problem.
• 1:08:47
  Which is why, Lauren, I think you and I keep going back to
• 1:08:49
  Destiny and and Monster. Monster Hunter, Yeah, because.
• 1:08:54
  I like to play, I'll play this. It's it's our cozy games for
• 1:08:57
  those are our cozy games for sure.
• 1:08:58
  You know, like it's, it's, it's part of our it's OK.
• 1:09:04
  So cozy, cozy anything like some for some people, for for gamers,
• 1:09:08
  it's cozy games for, for, for other people, it's like they'll
• 1:09:12
  read this, they'll read the same book they read like 50,000 times
• 1:09:15
  like again, you know, so like that some people have TV shows
• 1:09:18
  or movies that, you know, they always, they always watch like
• 1:09:20
  once a once a month, you know what not.
• 1:09:22
  And so like that everybody has this cozy thing because like,
• 1:09:25
  you know, like we have certain mindsets and, and you know, like
• 1:09:28
  it resets, it resets our sympathetic, our sympathetic
• 1:09:31
  nervous system, you know, like, you know, so that's cozy and
• 1:09:35
  comfort games are all are, are like that for us.
• 1:09:38
  But all that being said, we're talking about backlog games.
• 1:09:41
  And, and I want to go first because I feel like, I feel like
• 1:09:44
  I, I haven't, I have a ginormous backlog.
• 1:09:48
  I do, I do. And and the sad part is, is
• 1:09:52
  like, is like I probably, I probably would have had a very
• 1:09:55
  good retirement savings if I didn't just buy these games, you
• 1:09:58
  know, on a hair trigger on a whim.
• 1:10:00
  Like now when I buy games, like now when I buy games and they're
• 1:10:03
  add to my backlog 9 times out of 10 is because I found them on a
• 1:10:06
  deep, deep discount sale, particularly on Steam, you know,
• 1:10:10
  so I don't mind. Oh, I spent $7.00 for this game,
• 1:10:13
  you know, like, yeah, I don't mind.
• 1:10:14
  I don't mind like, you know, the fact that that's in my backlog
• 1:10:17
  because, you know, I did not spend 506070 eighty, $90.00 for
• 1:10:21
  that game, you know, at that time, you know, so like that,
• 1:10:23
  you know, but yeah, like I I sometimes I don't trust myself
• 1:10:31
  to actually like give my backlog an honest look and be able to
• 1:10:35
  say this is the game, you know, our viewers and listeners
• 1:10:40
  tonight for this for this show alone.
• 1:10:41
  Like you see me wring my hands three different times about what
• 1:10:45
  should I play next, even though there is a brand new freaking
• 1:10:48
  game coming that is coming out in a month.
• 1:10:51
  That's in my wheelhouse and you know I'm going to get it day
• 1:10:53
  one. What game's that Laurent?
• 1:10:57
  Monster Runner Stories 3 You know it.
• 1:11:00
  Sounds like you should play Monster Hunter Stories 1 and 2.
• 1:11:04
  I'm not playing one again. Like I beat one.
• 1:11:07
  I beat 1 back on when it was on three yes, I'm not.
• 1:11:09
  I'm not playing that game again. You know, nothing's wrong.
• 1:11:11
  Nothing's wrong with that game, but the but the stylistic jump
• 1:11:15
  that they took from Monster Hunter stories one the two it's
• 1:11:18
  kind of like what it's kind of like how like we transition from
• 1:11:20
  Monster Hunter 4 ultimate for Monster Hunter generations to
• 1:11:24
  Monster Hunter world. I can't go back.
• 1:11:27
  I can't go back at this point. Yeah.
• 1:11:29
  So, so that's what that is. Let me, let me, let me see here.
• 1:11:34
  So, yeah, like, so, yeah, I, I, I think, I think basically kind
• 1:11:41
  of what I do. And here's the sad part.
• 1:11:43
  Sometimes I will pick a game out of my backlog, start playing it,
• 1:11:47
  and then the new shiny thing comes along and, and the game
• 1:11:50
  goes right back to the backlog, you know, You know, like I, I
• 1:11:54
  have, I have, I have quintessential gamer ADD, you
• 1:11:57
  know, like, if I'm not trying to play every brand new thing
• 1:12:00
  that's out there, like I'll like, I'll play a game to a
• 1:12:02
  certain point. And I was like, OK, like I've
• 1:12:05
  kind of had my fill or like, or like, you know, like I need to
• 1:12:07
  take a break from this game. I move on to another game.
• 1:12:09
  Like if you need to take a break from a game, you know, and it's
• 1:12:12
  not because you dislike the game or you or, or, or you hate the
• 1:12:15
  game or whatnot, you need to take a break from a game.
• 1:12:17
  That means that means your attention span is just way too
• 1:12:20
  short, you know, and and take it from a guy who's in therapy,
• 1:12:25
  that means your attention span's too short.
• 1:12:26
  You know, I I personally cannot give you the fix for that.
• 1:12:29
  You know, This is why I'm in therapy.
• 1:12:31
  But, you know, yeah. So all that, all that could.
• 1:12:34
  Just be the game also just never caught you.
• 1:12:37
  I mean that the when we had a talk with Daryl from Daryl talks
• 1:12:41
  games on our backlog episode of the games cast.
• 1:12:45
  You know, it's kind of important that you you just the end goal
• 1:12:49
  is you want to have fun, you know, and I think that's kind of
• 1:12:53
  what prevents a lot of us from like maybe attempting different
• 1:12:57
  games of our backlog is, you know, we feel like if we try to
• 1:13:01
  pick up a game, we have to see ourselves through it.
• 1:13:03
  But if you're not having fun with the game, it is OK to put
• 1:13:07
  it down and, you know, pick up something else.
• 1:13:13
  Yeah. You know, I think it's.
• 1:13:14
  Cool as it is to say, I completed all these games, you
• 1:13:16
  know, it's if if you guys get bored with something, it's don't
• 1:13:22
  beat yourself up because you can't complete the game.
• 1:13:25
  You know it's you're gonna end up hating or finding yourself
• 1:13:29
  just getting bored with games in general if you do it that way.
• 1:13:32
  Yeah, and that's the other thing too.
• 1:13:33
  That's the other thing too. Don't, don't play a game to the
• 1:13:35
  detriment of your of your love of video games, you know,
• 1:13:38
  honestly don't do anything to the detriment of like, of like
• 1:13:42
  harming your hobby, you know? Yeah, don't do that because, you
• 1:13:46
  know, like, it takes a long, it takes a long time for people to
• 1:13:51
  pick up a new hobby, you know, after they've abandoned, after
• 1:13:54
  abandoned their hobby that they loved or, you know, like,
• 1:13:57
  cherish for so long. You know, it takes people a long
• 1:14:00
  time to pick up a hobby and not just pick it up, but also to get
• 1:14:03
  back to that same love and joy that the previous hobby had for
• 1:14:06
  them, you know. But at this point, you know,
• 1:14:07
  I've gotten resentment now towards it.
• 1:14:09
  So. Yeah, you know, Yeah.
• 1:14:16
  Yeah, I just, I think also like especially, especially with all
• 1:14:22
  these online services now like PlayStation Network or, you
• 1:14:26
  know, what is the game PlayStation Game Catalog or Xbox
• 1:14:30
  Game Pass or PC Game Pass or whatever.
• 1:14:33
  Like my Xbox, like when I turn my Xbox on and I go to all games
• 1:14:38
  or whatever, there's like 900 and something games in there,
• 1:14:42
  right? And that's all between like all
• 1:14:45
  the games with Gold games that I've collected over the last,
• 1:14:49
  you know, whatever, 15 years or so, all the Game Pass Ultimate
• 1:14:52
  games, all the games that I've purchased, all the games that,
• 1:14:55
  you know, developers have graciously given us overtime.
• 1:14:59
  Like, I mean, how I can never buy another game as long as I
• 1:15:04
  live and never finish that catalog of games, right?
• 1:15:07
  Like it's insane, It's crazy. Or like when I go into NSO and
• 1:15:12
  there's like 200 retro games just sitting there waiting for a
• 1:15:15
  new play or more right. Like it's like, Oh my gosh, how
• 1:15:19
  do I, how do I choose? You know, and, you know, I've,
• 1:15:24
  I've kind of been looking at the how I've been going about it now
• 1:15:29
  is like I'm looking at the franchises that I like and
• 1:15:32
  picking the games that I haven't played in those franchises,
• 1:15:35
  right? Like I have a list, I have a
• 1:15:37
  list of all the games that I've that I haven't finished.
• 1:15:39
  I have a list of fireman games I never played or finished.
• 1:15:42
  You know, we were talking about Golden Sun before we started
• 1:15:46
  recording. Like I've never played those.
• 1:15:48
  I kind of want to play those, you know, and so I've, I've just
• 1:15:54
  kind of been going through that sort of list and, and just, you
• 1:15:59
  know, saying, oh, I haven't played these games in this
• 1:16:01
  series. Maybe I'll give that a shot.
• 1:16:03
  You know, Mario games specifically?
• 1:16:05
  Like I've never, I've never finished Galaxy and I've never
• 1:16:08
  played Galaxy 2, mostly because Galaxy gave me a headache from
• 1:16:13
  all the turning and shifting. Same.
• 1:16:17
  All that. Also I'm not like a huge 3D
• 1:16:19
  Mario guy but I still like. Should probably play those
• 1:16:24
  considering Power Box is going to hit it's 500th episode this
• 1:16:27
  year. I'm going to I picked up I
• 1:16:29
  picked up Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 like collection and I'm going to
• 1:16:33
  give them an honest try. I feel like I feel like I'm have
• 1:16:35
  a better time playing them on handheld than I than I than I
• 1:16:37
  did back when they were on, just like, you know, the Wii, you
• 1:16:41
  know, and having and having that big ass television screen, you
• 1:16:45
  know, and, and the physics of a game just fucking with my
• 1:16:49
  equilibrium. Yeah.
• 1:16:51
  I will say the they did a good job with the controls for the
• 1:16:55
  Galaxy switch version or the switch the the dual pack it it
• 1:17:03
  you know that works. It works nicely without having
• 1:17:07
  that sensor bar there. Anywhere did they do anything
• 1:17:10
  new for for Galaxy? They added 30 new Rosalina
• 1:17:14
  pages. I don't really know what that
• 1:17:17
  means, but I don't know if you'd like those or what, but you
• 1:17:21
  must. Storybook that Rosalina reads
• 1:17:25
  from the game and I guess there's more chapters in it now.
• 1:17:30
  I bought the physical book that they sold.
• 1:17:33
  It was like 25 bucks. I read it to my kids.
• 1:17:37
  It's down there on my shelf somewhere.
• 1:17:39
  I think it's this one. Whoops.
• 1:17:41
  Somewhere over there. It's fine.
• 1:17:43
  Oh, Pat, I forgot to show you something.
• 1:17:45
  I'll show you after. What?
• 1:17:47
  Show you after. To go to your your problem
• 1:17:52
  though, Corey, you know, it sounds like if you were to play
• 1:17:55
  the Mario Galaxy games, you might not be enjoying yourself
• 1:17:58
  so maybe that wouldn't be like the games that you would pick
• 1:18:02
  for your backlog yeah. Now, I really like the idea of,
• 1:18:06
  you know, going back and playing through the series that, you
• 1:18:09
  know, you haven't played the games for yet, such as those
• 1:18:12
  Zelda games or the Fire Emblem games that you haven't reached.
• 1:18:16
  You know, obviously right now you have a huge interest in Fire
• 1:18:19
  Emblem. And while you just finished one
• 1:18:21
  now, and I would definitely suggest take a small break so
• 1:18:25
  you don't get the burnout, maybe move on to a Zelda game that you
• 1:18:30
  haven't played, Play that. And then, you know, if you don't
• 1:18:34
  finish it, move on to Fire Emblem If you're still kind of
• 1:18:37
  craving that, you know, you don't necessarily need to stick
• 1:18:40
  to one thing, you know, all the time, just whatever you're like
• 1:18:46
  feeling, just go with that. Like it doesn't really have to
• 1:18:50
  be that big of a decision. You can just be like, OK, I'm
• 1:18:53
  going with this. Pop it in, play it, even if it's
• 1:18:57
  just for a day, you know, and then you needed to play
• 1:19:00
  something else. Yeah, I the, the nice thing
• 1:19:04
  about NS OS, like it has a lot of the games that like, for
• 1:19:07
  example, I never owned a Super Nintendo and so like I've, I've
• 1:19:13
  maybe beaten like 2 Super Nintendo games in my entire
• 1:19:16
  life. So like that whole catalog is
• 1:19:18
  just wide open for me to play. And like I never, I've never
• 1:19:25
  finished any of the 2D Zelda games except for Links
• 1:19:28
  Awakening. So like, you know, that 2D Zelda
• 1:19:32
  game itch, like after I got that itch, after I finished Links
• 1:19:36
  Awakening on Switch and played Echoes of Wisdom and I was like,
• 1:19:41
  oh, I kind of should probably go back to those older 2D games and
• 1:19:44
  like try to play through them just from a history perspective,
• 1:19:49
  essentially. I mean, I, I've, I've made it
• 1:19:52
  noted that I, I think I do like the 3D games more than the 2D
• 1:19:56
  games, But, but I think that's just because I never really gave
• 1:20:02
  the 2D games a shot because of, you know, I never, it's that
• 1:20:08
  weird point where like in 64, obviously it was like O3D
• 1:20:13
  graphics, this is amazing. And like going backwards was
• 1:20:15
  like not cool at the time. Like I don't want to do that.
• 1:20:21
  And then I just never, you know, never went back.
• 1:20:24
  And every time I thought about it, I'm like, man, now I got to
• 1:20:27
  find a Super Nintendo and I got to find a cartridge.
• 1:20:29
  Now I got to find a but NSO man, I have the right controllers.
• 1:20:34
  They're all sitting right there waiting for me to play.
• 1:20:36
  It's. Just so sad that they're just
• 1:20:37
  not doing a better roll out of stuff on NSO.
• 1:20:40
  Like, I mean, I mean, they were doing OK for a while and then
• 1:20:43
  they got stagnant and like, what's happening, you know?
• 1:20:46
  Well, because you can't. They're not putting third party
• 1:20:49
  games on there and Nintendo only has so many first party games.
• 1:20:52
  That's why they're adding GameCube and what looks like we
• 1:20:56
  soon if you want to believe such things.
• 1:20:59
  Yeah. So, OK, so basically they're
• 1:21:01
  moving fast. They're just not moving
• 1:21:03
  correctly I guess. Well, I mean you think about it
• 1:21:06
  though, like everything up to GameCube has been out for 7-8
• 1:21:12
  years, you know that's a long time to be spreading games out.
• 1:21:15
  Yeah. And they put it, they try to
• 1:21:18
  put, I think they put out games twice a month on the service,
• 1:21:22
  so, and sometimes it's like two or three games at a time.
• 1:21:27
  They just released those Game Boy games last week.
• 1:21:30
  Balloon Kid and Yoshi Yoshi Yoshi.
• 1:21:36
  Yoshi Yoshi. On Game Boy, but yeah, like I
• 1:21:41
  was like, man, I wonder what games I could add to this.
• 1:21:43
  But like you look at NES for example, you're not going to add
• 1:21:47
  the Mega Man Legacy collection or anything.
• 1:21:50
  You're not going to add the Mega Man games because the Legacy
• 1:21:53
  Collection exists and Capcom wants to make money off of that,
• 1:21:55
  obviously. Or like you're not going to add
• 1:21:57
  the Castlevania games because Konami wants to make money off
• 1:22:00
  that collection. You know, like a lot of the
• 1:22:03
  third party games that Nintendo's known for are in
• 1:22:06
  collections of their own at some point.
• 1:22:08
  OK, so basically we're looking at chicken and the egg syndrome
• 1:22:11
  here. Yeah, I think, I think, I think
• 1:22:15
  the Ninja the Ninja Gaiden games are on NSO, which was like a
• 1:22:18
  weird pool. Let me see.
• 1:22:22
  Let me open the the NES app here.
• 1:22:27
  I know the arcade classic thing or whatever.
• 1:22:31
  I don't know which one of the mini arcade classics, but the
• 1:22:34
  second Ninja Gaiden game just came out.
• 1:22:38
  Yeah, the console. The console archives hamsters,
• 1:22:43
  you know how they're doing that arcade archives, They're doing a
• 1:22:45
  console archives now. It's to get some of these games
• 1:22:49
  on other consoles. I think though, because like
• 1:22:52
  obviously Ninja Gaiden is on NSO, but like it's not available
• 1:22:57
  anywhere else and Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2 are on NSOI guess I didn't
• 1:23:04
  know that. Oh my gosh, there are so many
• 1:23:08
  NES games. Holy cow.
• 1:23:11
  Why are there so many? Why are there so many?
• 1:23:15
  That's not important. Who cares?
• 1:23:19
  So yeah, I mean, the my point is, is like these third parties
• 1:23:23
  want to make money off of these, right?
• 1:23:24
  Like the Ninja Turtles collection will have been a big
• 1:23:26
  one, right? But like, oh, well, we'll just
• 1:23:29
  sell that in a collection for 40 bucks and people will buy it,
• 1:23:34
  Which spoilers? I bought it when it came out,
• 1:23:37
  but man, those Game Boy we. Don't blame you.
• 1:23:42
  We don't blame you. Those Game Boy and Ninja Turtles
• 1:23:44
  games man, the third one is a Metroidvania, which is crazy
• 1:23:51
  because like you just think of like side scrollers or beat em
• 1:23:54
  UPS and then you play that third one on Game Boy and it's like a
• 1:23:56
  straight up Metroid game but. I played the second one a lot,
• 1:24:08
  was it back? Was that called back from the
• 1:24:10
  sewers or? The second one, I forget what
• 1:24:14
  the second one's called. I follow the foot clean is the
• 1:24:16
  first one, which is the one that I played a lot and still have.
• 1:24:22
  I have I have the inserts and the cartridge and the case, but
• 1:24:27
  not the box. Wow.
• 1:24:32
  Yep, the second one was called back from the sewers.
• 1:24:34
  I played that one a lot. Yeah, I I wish I would have
• 1:24:40
  played more that, but like, I mean, I was little at the time.
• 1:24:42
  I didn't have any money. I had no idea there were more
• 1:24:44
  than one. You know, they need to do a
• 1:24:49
  better job catering to children. Ninja Turtles, Game Boy.
• 1:24:58
  Well, any, any backlog games you're specifically eyeing at
• 1:25:05
  the moment? I told.
• 1:25:08
  Myself, I was going to work through the Trail series just
• 1:25:12
  because we're fine. Caught up here in America.
• 1:25:15
  Resolution. That was a resolution you had,
• 1:25:16
  right? Yep, I already beat one of them
• 1:25:20
  the trails into reverie. So now I have, I think what I
• 1:25:26
  since I'm doing Tokyo Xanadu, maybe that could be considered a
• 1:25:28
  Trails game. Not really.
• 1:25:32
  I think I'm going to jump to doing the Sky One next, even
• 1:25:37
  though that trilogy's being remade, and then do the
• 1:25:42
  Daybreak. Which, yeah, they just announced
• 1:25:45
  that second remake, right? Yeah.
• 1:25:47
  They announced the second one. There should still be the third.
• 1:25:53
  The third one was a black sheep just because it was loosely tied
• 1:25:56
  off of the first and second one. But it was kind of like a
• 1:26:00
  different story with like a different main character.
• 1:26:06
  But they still call it a sky. And I think they said they will
• 1:26:10
  make all of them. And then I don't know what they
• 1:26:14
  plan on doing after that. I need to catch.
• 1:26:20
  Up on that series. Maybe they'll bring that
• 1:26:22
  character in somehow. I don't know.
• 1:26:24
  I mean, I don't know how that story rolls out, obviously.
• 1:26:26
  No, that that character is actually in the latest one
• 1:26:30
  again. Yeah, the IT started a priest
• 1:26:34
  named Kevin with like, green hair.
• 1:26:36
  And so he's one of the three main characters that you can
• 1:26:39
  choose from in Beyond the Horizon.
• 1:26:44
  Man a priest named Kevin with green hair.
• 1:26:48
  Yep. It's it's some, it's some church
• 1:26:54
  or whatever. Honestly, I've just, I'm just I,
• 1:27:00
  I kind of doing what you suggested, Corey, and like I'm
• 1:27:04
  playing games from like if there's a series that has like a
• 1:27:09
  game coming out, I seem to be putting a lot more focus on
• 1:27:12
  those and like trying to catch up on some of those series.
• 1:27:18
  But otherwise, it's just, you know, I just kind of playing
• 1:27:21
  whatever is in the mood. If I want something, a
• 1:27:24
  platformer, I'll see what I have that I haven't quite beat yet
• 1:27:28
  and I'll pop it in. Will it stick?
• 1:27:32
  I don't know. But I'm just kind of, I just
• 1:27:36
  kind of want to focus on that now, even though there's a bunch
• 1:27:40
  of new stuff coming out that I'm like kind of getting hyped on.
• 1:27:47
  Yeah, I've, I've been trying to stay away from the new stuff
• 1:27:50
  just because I don't want to be excited for things that I know
• 1:27:54
  I'm not going to have time or money to play except for
• 1:27:59
  firearm. But also I'm staying away from
• 1:28:01
  firearm because I want to, I want to be surprised and I want
• 1:28:05
  to know because man, that trailer like totally teased
• 1:28:12
  something and. It teased.
• 1:28:16
  It teased. A direct relationship to Three
• 1:28:17
  houses is what it teased. Someone wants to buy 3.
• 1:28:22
  Houses. It's not a spoiler, everyone saw
• 1:28:24
  that. I know.
• 1:28:27
  You saw the girl with the green hair, and you knew exactly who
• 1:28:30
  she was. Yeah.
• 1:28:32
  The throne also gave it away. I mean that throne, I mean like
• 1:28:36
  she looks different. She's clearly like a little bit
• 1:28:39
  older or whatever but like the throne is what gives it away
• 1:28:43
  1000%. Yeah, Also I need to save money
• 1:28:50
  because I have a Europe trip that I'm going to be doing at
• 1:28:53
  the end of the year and just keeps getting bigger each time I
• 1:28:56
  talk to talk to my travelling companion about that.
• 1:29:01
  It was originally just going to be Scotland, then became
• 1:29:04
  Scotland in London, and then she suggested Iceland.
• 1:29:07
  And then while we were talking about it, we realized we could
• 1:29:09
  take a train to Paris from London, so we got like 4
• 1:29:15
  countries we're already visiting.
• 1:29:18
  It's it's quite the travel. Yeah, we're going to need money
• 1:29:23
  for that. Now at this exchange rate and
• 1:29:28
  you can go there for pennies. Just.
• 1:29:31
  Take a take take them some condiments to London.
• 1:29:34
  You'll get everything for free because look when vinegar is the
• 1:29:38
  condiment you use to improve your food.
• 1:29:42
  Jesus Christ. Just saying, dude, come on.
• 1:29:44
  Oh. My God.
• 1:29:49
  I mean just saying dude, vinegar improves their food so.
• 1:29:57
  I mean, you're not lying. You're not lying.
• 1:30:03
  Well. Before we, before we veer into
• 1:30:07
  like some really like, like like outrageous territory here, let's
• 1:30:10
  move on. Yeah, I was going to ask you,
• 1:30:14
  Laron, what games we should be looking out for this week.
• 1:30:17
  OK, all right, cool, cool. Well, this is the new segment
• 1:30:20
  for the Bossers podcast. Normally it'd be a lot earlier,
• 1:30:23
  but we've just been on a roll just talking about everything
• 1:30:25
  tonight. But but as a service to
• 1:30:27
  everybody out there that's listening and or watching the
• 1:30:29
  show, like here are the games that are the games that we
• 1:30:33
  picked the lookout for this week.
• 1:30:35
  Today is February the 11th. That's the time it's recording.
• 1:30:38
  And yesterday two games came out that definitely everyone's put
• 1:30:42
  on the radar. The first one being reloaded,
• 1:30:47
  the synopsis breakdowns. Breakdowns goes like this.
• 1:30:49
  A crew, a job, a plan. Toss those ingredients together
• 1:30:52
  and you've got yourself a classic heist, but with a few
• 1:30:55
  twists. Your crew members are everyday
• 1:30:58
  citizens from different countries in Africa with pretty
• 1:31:01
  normal careers. The job is to liberate African
• 1:31:04
  artifacts from Western museums. And the plan?
• 1:31:07
  Well, that's up to you to create.
• 1:31:10
  Near the end of the 21st century, political powers that
• 1:31:12
  be brokered A transatlantic returns treaty promising the
• 1:31:16
  reparations of African artifacts from museums.
• 1:31:19
  Good old fashioned diplomacy was working until it wasn't.
• 1:31:21
  An amendment switched up terms and the conditions of which the
• 1:31:24
  objects were to be returned. Museums now knowing that only
• 1:31:28
  publicly displayed artifacts would be given back, or slowly
• 1:31:31
  removing the artifacts from public display.
• 1:31:33
  Rebooted is available for PC and Xbox Series X for 1499.
• 1:31:39
  Yeah, it is is. I've seen some of the previews
• 1:31:42
  of the game is actually it actually looks pretty good.
• 1:31:45
  I like, I like heist tech deals and stuff like that.
• 1:31:48
  And like, if you want those people that love multitasking in
• 1:31:50
  games, this is this is probably the route to go for you $15.00.
• 1:31:54
  You can't go wrong. It's graphically impressive.
• 1:31:57
  It's got good, it's got pretty good dialogue and voice acting.
• 1:31:59
  So yeah, give it a try. Also also that came out
• 1:32:02
  yesterday was a game called Eugenics that our boy Nick was
• 1:32:05
  talking about earlier in the in our chat.
• 1:32:08
  Music. In music, you level up your team
• 1:32:10
  as you venture further and further from your home,
• 1:32:13
  collecting unique items, defeating epic bosses, game
• 1:32:16
  mutations and return home so you can breed and further your
• 1:32:19
  bloodline. If you did not know already,
• 1:32:21
  this is a cat game, so yeah, there you go.
• 1:32:25
  This is a cat game, so yeah, but.
• 1:32:28
  This is a cat game made by Edmund McMillan, the famous guy
• 1:32:33
  behind The Binding of Isaac. Yep, Yep.
• 1:32:36
  Gosh, Matthew Keel is going to cry.
• 1:32:39
  Yep, Yep, yeah. So so prepare yourself for
• 1:32:43
  shenanigans this turn based legacy roguelike, which I know
• 1:32:46
  right there, Corey is like, I'm not playing this game cats and
• 1:32:49
  roguelike. It's it's, it's a done deal.
• 1:32:51
  Just come on, It's also a strategy.
• 1:32:54
  Yep, a draft SIM. Yep yeah.
• 1:32:57
  Currently music, music is only available on PC via Steam right
• 1:33:01
  now it's 2999 but up right now there's an introductory discount
• 1:33:05
  of $3.00. So you can get for 2699 through
• 1:33:08
  February 24th. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Steam, Steam
• 1:33:11
  does this a lot. You know, you can get you can
• 1:33:13
  get like a slight discount on like your on like your games and
• 1:33:15
  stuff like that, you know. Yeah, Switch does that a lot too
• 1:33:18
  for 3rd party and indie games. All right, so for all you Suda
• 1:33:23
  51 and Grasshopper Manufacturer fans out there today, we Romeo
• 1:33:28
  Is Dead is a dead man released on Series X, PlayStation 5 and
• 1:33:34
  PC. This is the latest game from
• 1:33:36
  Grasshopper Manufacturer who was famous for the Killer 7 game as
• 1:33:40
  well as No More. Hero series is described as a
• 1:33:43
  super bloody action, crazy twists and turns that to blow
• 1:33:47
  players minds and a whole mess of kind of stereotypical
• 1:33:51
  gimmicks all rolled into one wild ride.
• 1:33:54
  Our hero Romeo stargazer is a man stuck between life and
• 1:33:58
  death. Romeo.
• 1:34:00
  You play as Romeo, who's an FBI space-time special agent dead
• 1:34:04
  man that's in quotes and sporting a red mask called the
• 1:34:07
  Dead Gear. He must hunt space time's most
• 1:34:10
  wanted fugitives through multiple universes, swapping
• 1:34:13
  between guns and swords, using his enemy's own powers against
• 1:34:16
  them and to absolutely annihilate the evil hordes in
• 1:34:19
  this peak example of full on bloody action featuring
• 1:34:22
  ridiculously clever love design in which you will be jumping
• 1:34:26
  back and forth between the world, the real world and
• 1:34:29
  subspace. Actually hold on, I read that
• 1:34:32
  wrong. The real world subspace.
• 1:34:33
  That's that's how it's titled in the game and as well and the
• 1:34:36
  white hot battles cathartic enough to collapse the universe
• 1:34:39
  itself. As I said, available for Series
• 1:34:42
  X, PlayStation 5 and PC right right now it's 40.
• 1:34:46
  It's 4999 U.S. dollars, but you can save $5 on it on Steam
• 1:34:51
  through February 17th. So there you go, save some money
• 1:34:55
  on the 12th. We've got a State of Play coming
• 1:34:58
  up for PlayStation. So Yep, the first one for 20.
• 1:35:01
  This is, yeah, the first one for 2026.
• 1:35:04
  TuneIn to live the live event Thursday for 60 plus minutes of
• 1:35:08
  news, gameplay updates and announcements from game studios
• 1:35:11
  across the globe. The State of Play will spotlight
• 1:35:15
  eye-catching third party and indie games.
• 1:35:17
  Head to PS-5 along with the latest from teams at PlayStation
• 1:35:20
  Studios. Broadcast starts live February
• 1:35:23
  12th at 2:00 PM Pacific Standard Time, 5:00 PM Eastern Time.
• 1:35:27
  And you can catch it on YouTube and the Twitch and the Sony, the
• 1:35:30
  PlayStation Twitch channels and they'll be broadcast in English,
• 1:35:34
  which have any subtitles where you need them.
• 1:35:37
  All right, February 12th rounds off rounds off our week of
• 1:35:41
  notable releases. First up is a little game called
• 1:35:46
  Mario Tennis Fever for the Switch too.
• 1:35:49
  I hit the court for explosive action in the latest Mario
• 1:35:52
  Tennis game. Join Mario and friends for over
• 1:35:54
  the top tennis, over the top tennis mayhem.
• 1:35:58
  Use top spins, slices, lobs and other familiar shots along with
• 1:36:02
  other fancy footwork and new defensive maneuvers to outpace
• 1:36:05
  your opponents on the court. Keep a rally going, build your
• 1:36:08
  build up your fever gauge and unleash powerful fever shots
• 1:36:11
  that can be augmented with special effects by equipping
• 1:36:14
  Fever rackets. Wow, there's a lot going on
• 1:36:17
  here. Freeze the court with an ice
• 1:36:19
  racket. Summon mushrooms that shrink
• 1:36:21
  opponents to the mini mushroom racket with the mini mushroom
• 1:36:25
  racket. I'm sorry.
• 1:36:26
  Duplicate yourself with the shadow racket.
• 1:36:28
  Hello, Bowser, Junior and more. Mix and match 30 different Fever
• 1:36:33
  rackets with 38 playable characters, the most in the
• 1:36:36
  series history so far, to find a strategy that works for you.
• 1:36:39
  It's available on Switch to starting on February the 12th
• 1:36:42
  for 6999 U.S. Dollars and rounding everything
• 1:36:45
  out also on the Switch as well as coming Series X, PS4 and five
• 1:36:50
  and the PC is Yakuza Kiwami 3 and the Dark Ties debuting on
• 1:36:58
  this game originally debuted on PlayStation 3 back in 2009 as
• 1:37:02
  Yakuza 3, so it's returning revitalized the cutting edge
• 1:37:05
  technology. Remake or remaster, we don't
• 1:37:09
  know. This evolved edition brings
• 1:37:11
  Okinawa to life, featuring more intense battles, added cutscenes
• 1:37:14
  that bring depth to the story, and mini games chock full of
• 1:37:17
  replay value. Kiriu's back in the brawl,
• 1:37:20
  continuing to fight continue to fight to protect those he holds
• 1:37:23
  dear. But this title also includes
• 1:37:25
  Dark Ties, which stars Yoshitakamine, Kiriu's adversary
• 1:37:31
  in this in this in this expansion of the title, you
• 1:37:34
  follow Mene on his journey from working as a venture company's
• 1:37:38
  founder to becoming a full-fledged Yakuza member.
• 1:37:41
  After losing everything, Mene sets off in an attempt to form
• 1:37:44
  the the connection that will fill the void in his heart.
• 1:37:48
  Yakuza Kiwami 3 and Dark Ties is is releasing standard editions
• 1:37:53
  5999 U.S. dollars with a digital deluxe edition for 7499.
• 1:37:58
  There you have it. That's the.
• 1:38:00
  I'm going to throw three more title few more titles on here
• 1:38:05
  that you might want to also add. Okay.
• 1:38:09
  On the 13th we have Reanimal, which is made by the guys who
• 1:38:14
  did Little Nightmares one and two.
• 1:38:16
  This is a very similar vein. I will read the description
• 1:38:20
  here. The original creators of Little
• 1:38:22
  Nightmares, and Little Nightmares too have returned to
• 1:38:24
  take you on a more terrifying journey than ever before.
• 1:38:28
  In this Co-op horror adventure game, you play as a brother and
• 1:38:31
  sister who go through hell to rescue their missing friends.
• 1:38:34
  Exploring by boat and on land, you must use your wit to
• 1:38:37
  survive, working together to escape a hellish island and the
• 1:38:41
  dark secrets that haunt you in this unsettling tale.
• 1:38:43
  The emphasis on is on tension and thick atmosphere as you join
• 1:38:48
  the two orphans on a desperate search for hope and redemption
• 1:38:51
  in the dire of circumstances traverse and an intriguing but
• 1:38:56
  terrifying world where the main path is only one part of the
• 1:38:59
  fragmented story. Discover all sorts of mysteries
• 1:39:01
  locations on your perilous journey, each with its own story
• 1:39:05
  to tell. And then we also have high on
• 1:39:09
  life too. Oh.
• 1:39:12
  How did I miss that one? How did I miss that one?
• 1:39:14
  Who's looking forward to hunting life too?
• 1:39:21
  Yeah. You've done it.
• 1:39:23
  You have taken down an intergalactic cartel, brought
• 1:39:26
  humanity back from the brink of extinction, and haunted
• 1:39:28
  dangerous bounties to the far corners of the Galaxy.
• 1:39:32
  Bounty hunting has brought you fortune, fame, and love.
• 1:39:35
  But when a mystery, mysterious figure from your past reappears
• 1:39:38
  and puts a price on your sister's head, your cushy life
• 1:39:42
  gets thrown into chaos. Do you have what it takes to
• 1:39:44
  risk it all and bring down an intergalactic conspiracy that
• 1:39:47
  once again threatens your favorite species?
• 1:39:50
  Humans High on life returns as you and your beloved rag take
• 1:39:55
  team of alien misfits shoot, stab and skate your way through
• 1:39:58
  gorgeous, dangerous worlds all across the Galaxy to blow up the
• 1:40:02
  evil pharmaceutical conglomerate hell bent on putting price tags
• 1:40:06
  on human life. Basically, it's the first person
• 1:40:11
  shooter by the people. Who are were associated with
• 1:40:14
  Rick and? Morty before Justin Royland got
• 1:40:17
  kicked out and features talking guns.
• 1:40:23
  Yep, I cannot believe that that game.
• 1:40:25
  Got a sequel I. Can't.
• 1:40:29
  I mean, I know and it's there's. There's there's definitely a big
• 1:40:33
  demographic. Of people that this game is
• 1:40:34
  their. Flavor.
• 1:40:36
  Yeah. I mean, I know it was like at
• 1:40:38
  one point it was like the highest downloaded game.
• 1:40:40
  On Game Pass that wasn't made by Microsoft at one point, but I
• 1:40:45
  mean, man, crazy. Well, that's it.
• 1:40:56
  I think we did it. We did it.
• 1:40:59
  It's that it's that magical time where we say goodbye.
• 1:41:03
  The witching hour. Well, isn't that like 3:00 AM or
• 1:41:08
  something? I don't.
• 1:41:08
  Know I think it is. I don't know knows how much I
• 1:41:12
  know about all the drunks go home because.
• 1:41:14
  They can't stay where they were. It's true.
• 1:41:19
  Anyways. Thanks so much for watching and
• 1:41:21
  listening to this episode of the Boss Rush Podcast.
• 1:41:23
  You can support us over on patreonpatreon.com/boss Rush
• 1:41:26
  Network. Leron, Pat, thank you for your
• 1:41:29
  time as always tonight. Miss you guys.
• 1:41:34
  I'll make sure. I'll make sure to wear another
• 1:41:36
  tight, tight shirt for next week's podcast.
• 1:41:38
  I'll make sure to do that. Not sure it's a lot next.
• 1:41:40
  Week 'cause I really I oh, I mean I I.
• 1:41:44
  Can go with the tank top. Actually, actually wait, haven't
• 1:41:47
  you gotten some more? Ink did you get did you get any,
• 1:41:50
  any ink over the holiday? Yeah, I did.
• 1:41:54
  I've got a couple more sessions. OK, I know you got some before
• 1:41:58
  Thanksgiving. Yeah, I've had two.
• 1:42:01
  Sessions since it's we're getting close to being done, I
• 1:42:04
  think it's got. At least maybe 2 if not three
• 1:42:09
  sessions left before it's. Completed All right, Corey, so.
• 1:42:12
  We're coming back to the podcast next week to objectify Patrick.
• 1:42:15
  So, Pat, you get ready. All right, get ready, Pat.
• 1:42:19
  I won't be peeling by then hopefully.
• 1:42:23
  I need, I need you to. Have your tank top and your.
• 1:42:28
  Picture of ice, cold water or beer or beverage to pour all
• 1:42:32
  over it. Got it.
• 1:42:36
  I was just going to rub the pitcher all over me, but.
• 1:42:38
  You know, I mean whatever, whatever, whatever gets Laurent.
• 1:42:45
  Excited. That's right.
• 1:42:46
  That's right. I want to see you shake it.
• 1:42:50
  Let's. Go home, let's go home.
• 1:42:52
  We already are home. Let's we.
• 1:42:54
  Are home. Anyways, thank you guys so much
• 1:42:58
  for watching and or listening. Remember to like.
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