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Where do we you go from here? · Open Comms Radio | A Star Citizen call-in show

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long as possible. But to set the stage, literally
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and figuratively, tonight's question Lord Anubis.
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Tonight's question is a is a very heady 1 and I need to bring
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it up on my screen. Here we go.
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OK, with 4.8 on the way and so many things changing the game on
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a level not seen in a long time, where do you go from here?
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Have you found yourself going in a different path or are you
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still trying to find it? Without context would be a very
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philosophical question and it still kind of is.
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So if you want to answer the philosophical side of it, we're
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we're fine with that too. I'm sure we will somehow dip
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into that at some point as well. But what?
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I'll ask you the question then, Anubis, where do we go from here
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and where do you think we should go from here?
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I absolutely do not know where I where I'm going from here.
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I, I really haven't had an opportunity to play the game in
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detail or at least on a, you know, concerted effort.
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I have minutes at a time. You just with how busy things
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have been. But when I get in there, yeah, I
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don't know what to do. And, and I guess that's a great
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thing because before there was only one or two things to do and
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just go bust some bunkers or something like that or, or do
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whatever priority mission was there.
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But now it's like, OK, wow, this is actually a world now.
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So you know I'm needing direction and maybe some can
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advise that later on. Great.
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Yeah, I it is a nice thing that now instead of just being
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dropped in, it's not a what can I do?
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It's a what do I do? Because there are options.
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Now. I remember there have been many
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times in the past where I've tried to join in like solo or
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something like that. And I truly ask myself, what can
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I even get done before something like breaks or my energy just
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disappears entirely to my, my motivation Just like vanishes
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'cause it's like, oh OK, I could go mining.
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And then I think about it like for what?
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But now it's I can go mining and look for high quality mats to
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make stuff. So that loop has a purpose.
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Yeah. Things like that.
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It it's there's actual directions to go, and you can
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still be entirely directionless if you want.
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If for whatever reason you just want to hop in a ship and fly
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out into the verse, there's places to go, there's places to
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see, there's planets and moons in Pyro that I'm sure most folks
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haven't even touched. Yeah.
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And it's not just about money anymore, which is I think the
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biggest part of all this is, is it is it is another way to, you
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know, kind of keep score for yourself.
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Oh yeah, it's and that's that is a goal and we've needed goals
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beyond the the the Rep grind or the UEC grind there there's
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actual goals now for us to do when that goal could be.
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It's still simplistic, admittedly, like the crafting
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system in its current state in this patch is pretty simplistic.
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It's you're, you're, you're going for 700 plus quality mats
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to make something a little better and that's it.
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Like there's, there's not much beyond that.
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That's and, and armor especially, it's kind of a
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problem in the sense that it doesn't do much.
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Like you could be grinding out 950 level mats for a set of
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armor and it does like 4 percent, 5% damage reduction and
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temperature improvement, temperature control improvement.
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So like great. I could be out in the hot in the
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heat, like for an extra 3 minutes or something cool,
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great. And those are going to have to
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evolve over time in order to make it worth it.
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Oh yeah, either by lowering NPC resilience, you know, and
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leaving things as is so, you know, as a player you're just
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super, or, you know, make that, make some of that armor
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extremely wild. Yeah, well, Speaking of wild
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that that that that segue doesn't work.
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We have a guest in in the lobby looking to come in and sit on
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the couch. I am going to bring them up if
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you'll introduce our friend also is blue interestingly.
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I am in fact blue both here and real life.
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Not blue like figuratively, like literally.
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I don't really know where I'm. Going Oh, you blue yourself.
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Actually blue. No, no, no blow, no, no bluing
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anything. Yeah, Hi.
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Hi Skeeter, welcome to. Open, yes.
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Today's question where do we go from here?
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Honestly, I feel like we're asking the wrong question.
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I feel like the question should be what?
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Wait, no, that's not. Is that the question?
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I thought the question was what? What do you OK, if the question
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is where do we go from here? I think the question really
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should be where can't we go? Because I'm.
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I don't know this, this the past couple of batches have made me
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super optimistic. There's a lot to do in the game
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right now. There's and if you look at the
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state of the game compared to like, you know, just a couple of
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years ago, I mean, the game is, you know, literally tripled in
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size. We have three star systems now
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and the the content has been just pouring out.
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And I don't mean just mediocre content.
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There's been some mediocre content that we've already
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talked about rehash all that. But you know, things like rock
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breaker, even C ZS, we've talked a lot about C ZS and I think a
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lot of these this content is, is game changing, specifically with
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crafting. I think, you know, we talked
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about crafting a few episodes ago before it was released and
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everyone was so Debbie downer and pessimistic about crafting,
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like, oh, it's not going to be game changing.
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I think it'll just be something to do.
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And I think in reality, we it's been super game changing.
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And to add to it, if I may even be more optimistic, freaking at
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the road map. I this is a hot take.
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So I honestly think we could be like we're less than three years
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out from one. Oh, I even I'll even go as far
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to say 2 years. I think we're it, we're like
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between the two to three-year mark.
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I would agree with you I. Think it's going to be another
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year? It'll be a little one more year
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or four years. No, just one more year, I think.
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You think we'll be at one O in one year?
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Yeah. Oh, all right.
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Well, you're more optimistic than I am.
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I'm proud of you. I.
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Could see it, but it would be, it'd be like a 0.95 I think.
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In reality, I, I think I, I, I think, yes, it'll have the title
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of one point O, but I just get the impression it's, it's going
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to be missing some things. It's just.
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So, so I don't want to catch up, but I think you're right or
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well, I fear that you're right. I don't, I'm hoping you're not
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right, but that is a concern. I my concern, I think is that
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maybe they're going to rush one O and that it's going to be like
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a soft opening and not like a real one O.
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Yeah, that's just the way that they came out with Nix has me
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concerned about that. Like, I know why they did Nix
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the way they did. And to be fair, they did do
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Stanton the same way. Stan did not have planets
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starting out and they did slowly introduce the the planetary
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bodies. But even that, even they were
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even, they weren't even bodies for the long time.
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You could see them from a distance, but you know, you
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couldn't land on them, couldn't, certainly couldn't get out of
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your ship and and walk around on them.
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I remember when they, the first, they introduced the first city
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area 18, and if you wanted to experience Area 18, you had to
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go to a separate instance. It was kind of like jumping into
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Arena commander. It was a completely separate
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environment. I remember that.
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The good old days, am I right? I remember because all I had was
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my little Aurora and I would get so frustrated because after one
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mission I'd run out of missiles because it only, I think it only
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helped had like 2 or maybe 4 missiles.
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And that was the only way I knew I had a dogfight.
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And then I was, and I would run around asking people how can I,
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you know, change my loadout? And at the time he couldn't.
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But you know, I was just a naive little guy.
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But I mean, we look back at that and you just look at the game
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now and how much has changed. Like way back then, there was so
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little to do. There was like 5 missions and
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but it was still amazing. Like it was mind blowing even
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back then. And you know, I think if, if I
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could have taken little Skeeter back then and shown him the game
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as it is today, he would probably have a stroke.
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He wouldn't be able to handle it.
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And yeah, I I'm really happy and, and so.
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But but you do see that. You see, the technology has been
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built, the the server meshing, the the AI has dramatically
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improved. Yeah, and it runs smoothly.
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We don't have, you know, 30 KS anymore.
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That's not true. Recently it they picked up
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again, but. It's still.
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Vastly better than. Yeah.
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Like a 30 Ki was. Old time was disastrous, like
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you were done like you might as. I was.
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Go to bed. I was sitting on a 990, I think
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it was 994 quality. What was it?
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I can't remember what it was. It was either still around or
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tungsten, I can't remember. And 30 Ki was so upset because
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I've been sitting there for a while waiting for someone to
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come help me break it and then it was gone.
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It was very sad. Yeah.
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And that that's that that certainly does suck.
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And I, and I think, you know, them tamping down these things,
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you know, and, and, and being able to fix them relatively
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quickly as, as they have with the past couple patches and, and
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just seeing how fast they're adding things.
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I think I think a year is a reasonable expectation to see
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like Castro released and base building in place.
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And I think that's kind of the final, the final piece to what
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we're looking for here. And then they could just add
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everything in in as DLC. Yeah, I always, I keep
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forgetting about base building and even as I was looking at the
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road map today, I was like, Oh yeah, base building.
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Oh yeah. Like players play stations.
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That's going to be amazing. I always forget about those
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things because I get so preoccupied and whatever the
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latest content is. Those are going to be the real
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investments that will keep people playing and be resourcing
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and be kind of the fun things we decorate and build out and brag
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about and waste time on. You know that reminds.
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Me sorry, just reminds me of a game.
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Oh, game was. Like, oh, if you say yes, if
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you. Remember it, let us know, but we
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have another guest who wants to speak.
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So just hold that thought and like think about it really,
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really like run it through the ringer there in your brain and
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what we'll come back to that, I'm sure.
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But Speaking of coming back to things, damn it, I'm just not
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doing great with these transitions.
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Our next guest wicket. Come on in, make room on the
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couch. #1 guilty. Long time listener, frequent
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slash, occasional caller. The question to this week is
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obviously very open-ended and, you know, could be interpreted
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in many different ways. Well, we are open comms.
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Luckily, yeah, it's not closed comms, yeah.
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These are open. Luckily we we like all opinions
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here. Mostly, that's not accurate.
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That no, there there's, there's, yeah, in particular opinion that
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someone in this room perpetuates that is factually incorrect.
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That timers. Well, I'll say this.
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Oh, that one. Sorry, that one.
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Yep, Yep, the the, the the future does look bright, and
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usually the future always does. But in this case, trouble is
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afoot, I think. And I'll get to that in a
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minute. But as far as answering the
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question, I think a fully and well-rounded game is what's in
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the future. Hopefully, you know, with the,
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the, the taste of crafting, we've gotten the gate to the
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taste of, of resource gathering. They've given us a little taste
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and, you know, it's it's it's been done well enough to where
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it gives you a reason to do things in game that are not just
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collecting dollars or, you know, fighting over meaningless stuff.
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Yeah, Now Speaking of. Taste dollars and meaningless
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stuff. That's a perfect Segway for our
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first ad. Oh, he was still in the middle
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of his thing. Damn it, but the the Segway was
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too good. The Segway.
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Go for it, go for it. I'll wait.
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Gosh, we got Linus here all right.
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Hey, since winter has ever timed well.
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I know, right? So yes, our first, our first
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advertiser has a little thing for me to read here and that's
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Big Benny Noodles. And they are announcing today
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that Big Benny is back after our shortage during the Regen
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fucks. You know, they have big Benny
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noodles that that almost said Twitchcon citizen Con.
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I mean, it's really good. Since we're talking about the
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future and directions, a great, a great announcement was made in
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the in the future. What?
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What? What's it called?
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Skeeter where you posted that picture?
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From the the IT was the road map, the road map.
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The road map one point O tentative gameplay Guild system.
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Unbelievable. I feel like a damn process.
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Hey, for for the I'll let you. In any way, In any way, and,
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and, and and all I can say is why our organization is actually
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a Guild, because it fits right in with the narrative of the
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story and the future of Star Citizen.
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We're so and. We're, we're, so we're, we're so
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eager to see it implemented and become part of this great Guild
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system, obviously. Like we may need to fill in our
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listeners who may not listen regularly.
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In any event, and if you if you're not a frequent listener,
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I've been talking guilds for many, many months now and
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everybody poo poos on it and now it's official.
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It's because you left to go to play dude, and you came back
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with blue eyes talking about I'm never going to play this game
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anymore, this broken game, whatever.
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I am totally in Dune now. And then you gave up Dune
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because it died. And then he came.
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Back and tell everybody it's a creepy impression.
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That impression was creepy good. OK, in in any event, in any
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event, the the, the thing that worries me recently is here we
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are, it's now almost the end of April.
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We've got, you know, about a week left in the month and as
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the game start of a Squadron 42 has been announced to be
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released in this year of 2026, you know, we've literally
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there's seven months left in the in the year, in a, in a, in a
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week or so, if you want to be precise about it.
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And we haven't heard one and we haven't heard one single thing
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as far as. Release cadence, we haven't seen
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any new trailers, we haven't seen any hype being generated
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from the company about about Squadron 42.
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No one's talking about it except, you know, in passing
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kind of we keep getting told that oh, it's feature complete
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and they're just polishing. But you know, if that's the
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case, they should be at least starting to generate that hype
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and starting to talk about release dates and getting the
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non pledge potential player base, the people that have
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already pledged for it. But the people that are actually
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going to buy this game starting to get invested in it.
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Now. We've had trailers that have
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been bandied around for years from different citizen cons and
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different, you know, different, different content that starts or
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that CIG has released. But the worrying part about this
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is that in in modern day game release cycles, you don't wait
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till the last minute to start talking about your game.
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And this worries me because if they're not talking about it,
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that that points to, for me it points to the fact that they're
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not confident they can do it. They can't.
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They're not confident they'll be able.
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To they building up the suspense.
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Well, well, let's look at pretty.
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Dumb thing to do. Let's let's look at the at at
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the rhinoceros to the elephant in the room, GTA6.
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There's the. Ads.
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Where's the where's the, the constant that, you know, news
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press from Rockstar? They're not.
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Doing it either in April. Fool.
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Well that that that you're comparing apples and oranges
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there. Because Rockstar and GTA have a
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long release history and multiple decades of games that
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have been out there. This is the GTA 6 is just the
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next version of it, but and it's been hyped up and talked about
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it almost needs no hyper talk from from from Rockstar because
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everybody else is doing it for them, whereas.
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When you have a big game like that, you don't.
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You don't sit there and not. Advertise and they've they've
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advertised, they've had their little releases, they've had
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their little Nuggets. Hell, part of me thinks some of
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these like I, I maybe I'm being conspiratorial, but like, you
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know, how this, the, the, they've had these quote UN quote
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hacks and then contents been released.
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A part of me wants to think that that's been done on purpose.
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Oh, no, no, no. They are probably one of the
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most attacked companies, you know, when, when it comes to
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gaming. I mean, everybody's trying to
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hack them to find out what's going on.
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Well, I don't, I don't know, maybe they let a little bit of
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info slip here and there just, you know, and, and, and get, get
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this massive boost of, of, of, of, of attention share with
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little to no investment. But in any event that that's not
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new here or there. I don't think you can compare
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the two things. Star Citizen Squadron 42 has
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never been released, never has had any kind of anything,
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whereas you've got at least 20 plus years of GTA.
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That's apples and oranges. You can't, you know, the only
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thing you can compare is gamer mindshare when the when those
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titles get released, because they're, I don't know if there's
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going to how much of A crossover there will be.
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There will be some, but the, the, the audience for GTA is way
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larger, way more diverse than Star Citizen.
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Whatever you know, and its wildest, wettest dream could
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have. I think, you know, I think if,
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if, if they do a release and Star Citizen sells a million
24:06
titles, I think that'll be a massive success.
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I think it would. If they sell 500,000 it would be
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a massive success. I mean, they've already made a
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billion. Well, yeah, but they've spent a
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billion. They've spent a billion.
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They've spent a billion. They, I mean, their operating
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budget has been a billion, you know.
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To run well, they've spent a billion dollars and so far, so
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far all we have is this very buggy game to show for it, which
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I mean, we have a lot of fun in it.
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And we have, we, we, we, you know, we spend a lot of time in
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it and, you know, we've had our fun from it, but it's kind of a
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buggy mess. Let's be let's be honest.
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I mean to defend the game here. Most games are a buggy mess and
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most. Games, big titles nowadays when
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they come out. Yeah, and most games don't have
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all their content either, or all their features when they come
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out. Yeah.
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But that's that's that's that's only been a recent phenomenon of
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like the last five or so years where these.
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AAA's been more than that. These.
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AAA titles, they come out with this garbage and they sell a
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bunch of a bunch of copies, but everybody is just pissed off at
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it and nobody cares for it. Every, you know, it dies on the
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vine within a couple of months. Nobody's constantly playing
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these games. The, the, the, the thing in, in,
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in. If you look at some of these
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other titles, these small indie games, they have next to no
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budget when you're compared to and they're beloved and they're
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caught in the numbers of play of consistent players and people
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playing the updates for those games.
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It's tremendous for what's been put into them and they're and
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they're complete. They're feature complete and
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they're like one or two guys building the game and putting it
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out there. It's fun for a lot of people.
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People enjoy it. They updated, you know, that's
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how gaming used to be. This thing from these AAA
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companies that bring out all the slop, basically, and unfinished
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games. That's a recent phenomenon.
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It used to not be like that. Ubisoft used to not put out
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crap, EA used to not put out crap.
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They used to bring bring out quality game titles.
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But then of course they got on this bandwagon.
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Software as a service, gaming as a service.
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They want to constantly squeeze more money out of you,
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constantly pull more fund funding for literal garbage,
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rehashing the same themes over and over and over again and
26:46
trying to get basically paid to play the same game again and
26:50
again and again. That's a recent phenomenon, and
26:53
I hopefully. They don't think that's recent
26:55
at all. Look at Call of Duty.
26:57
Like even getting Call of Duty's for a long time, yeah.
27:01
But Call of Duty, Call of Duty's a finished game.
27:05
Call of Duty is like one of the most played games in the world.
27:09
It has its IT has its audience, people.
27:12
Would like that. Kind of content, love it and
27:14
they play it. The repetitive nature though of
27:17
releases is not new, doing sequel after sequel and
27:21
sometimes being. Yeah, but Call of Duty, Call,
27:25
that's a whole thing. That's a, that's a genre thing,
27:28
all right. But what I'm talking about is,
27:30
is like the all these recent Assassin Creed games and the
27:34
garbage, they're literal garbage.
27:39
So to back up a little bit about the advertising push that we've
27:42
not seen from CIG about Squad in 42, I would say we need to watch
27:48
what they do this weekend at the first convention that they're
27:52
going to. So they're going to a bunch of
27:55
different conventions this year, which is interesting 'cause they
27:58
didn't use, they did used to do that like a decade ago, but then
28:03
they stopped and only really went to a handful of different
28:07
things. But now this year they're doing
28:09
the convention circuit, the concert.
28:13
So if we get a new AI we'll get to Citizen Con or we won't
28:22
because they haven't said anything about it yet?
28:26
Because they're waiting. They're waiting.
28:27
They're they're trying to marry up the Squadron 42 release and
28:32
ads and hype videos to their Citizen Con announcement.
28:36
And that they're not and that they haven't announced anything
28:39
for Citizen Con. They've never waited this late
28:41
in the in the calendar year to announce Citizen Con for that
28:44
year. We said the same thing last
28:46
year. And well, and now they've broken
28:49
that, they've broken that record again.
28:51
And it's obvious to me anyway that just like Skeeter saying
28:56
Squadron 42 Citizen Con marketing for all that stuff is
29:01
all like hand in glove. And I think the reason they're
29:04
either not have announced it yet is they have a really precise
29:09
structured marketing campaign that's going to start any day
29:12
now, you know, which I doubt, but.
29:17
I. Think the reason is, is that
29:19
they're not confident they can deliver on anything that they
29:22
because in order to market something you have to give
29:25
people an idea of when it's going to be, if it's going to be
29:28
OK. They said it's going to be out
29:30
in 2026. Well, they've got what 150 some
29:35
odd days left and if they're not confident in saying that they
29:41
can make it before the end of the year and they can't put a
29:43
put a pin in it and you know, save the date kind of deal.
29:47
I think that's what's holding them back because they're not
29:49
confident. They're they're either not
29:51
confident in the in the product that they would be able to bring
29:54
out at that time or something is holding it back.
29:58
What if? Sorry, go ahead hobo.
30:01
I think the date. We need to.
30:03
Watch is Invictus. If we hear absolutely nothing by
30:08
Invictus, I will agree with Wicked, but I strongly think
30:13
they're holding off for both starting the con circuit and
30:19
Invictus. I think we're going to see an
30:20
announcement in Invictus. What it is, it might be a
30:23
release date and maybe they started the campaign.
30:26
I don't know, but I think we need to wait until Invictus to
30:29
see at least for Squadron 40. I do not know about a citizen
30:32
con. I'm I'm not sure what they're
30:34
doing there. I've heard different theories,
30:36
like it's going to be an insider thing and they'll be like invite
30:39
only and a big squadron con. I don't know.
30:44
I've heard different things, but I do think Invictus is going to
30:47
be kind of the big, big point. No.
30:51
What do you say? Convention circuit which?
30:55
Which conventions are they doing?
30:57
Oh. Lord, I'd have to pull that up.
31:01
But why? He's heading that up.
31:03
I will. They're doing say this.
31:04
I hope I'm wrong. I hope I'm real.
31:06
I'm wrong. Yeah, But you know.
31:08
My. Theory, all points all all all
31:12
science point to know that I'm I'm I'm right and or, or you
31:16
have some right, I don't know what, whatever go on.
31:18
Skeeter. Skeeter, what's your theory?
31:21
My theory is we are way closer to 1 O than we think, and
31:26
they're trying to time it to release quadrant 42 and one O at
31:29
the same time. But one O is holding them up.
31:32
They're trying to get one O to the point where they can
31:34
announce and release them at the same time, one O by the end of
31:39
the year. You know, I thought I was being
31:40
optimistic when I said two to three years.
31:43
What if one O is a December Christmas drop?
31:48
Nope. This year?
31:51
This year, no. And.
31:54
Come on, they were working on We're still.
31:58
Missing Castra and Terra like. We need to sandbag.
32:02
It we're still missing my shoe wipers and sun shades and a
32:07
working train. All right.
32:10
I'm trying to answer your question, Manuvis.
32:15
The first one they're going to this weekend, starting Friday,
32:19
is Level Up Expo. OK.
32:24
And have they announced who that is?
32:27
Who's going? It's a big convention, so I
32:33
don't know who all they're sending, no.
32:35
If it's not Sandy and Chris and and maybe Jared, it's probably
32:39
he's not going to be any kind of major announcement.
32:42
Oh I don't really expect a major announcement.
32:45
I expect them more to just have a teaser or something.
32:50
Yeah, I mean, if they're going to be doing, I mean, I'm not
32:52
sure if they're going to be doing San Diego Comic Con, but
32:55
if they are, that's where they would do a huge announcement.
32:59
That's the place you do those. I'm scrolling back to see if I
33:05
can remember when they announced where they were going this year.
33:11
Well, I mean, I, I, I, I'm, I'm hopeful for the best, but I'm
33:16
doubtful that I'm, I'm getting more and more doubtful and more
33:20
and more pessimistic about a squadron 42 releasing.
33:23
And I think Squadron 42 is still sucking the air out of the Star
33:27
Citizen dream of our M, our beloved MMO to get where it
33:31
needs to be. Because I think they're still
33:34
putting way too many assets into 40.
33:37
They're, they're having to put so many assets in the 42 to, to
33:41
try to get it out the door. And those folks that are being
33:46
pulled off of the, of the, of the MMO project to finish the
33:52
single player game is I think what's keeping keeping us from
33:59
getting a way better and more polished product than, than what
34:02
we've had. Because for me, the Telltale
34:07
always is, is that we keep getting a bunch of broke every
34:12
time something new comes, it seems like the same old stuff
34:15
breaks over and over and over again.
34:18
And you know, we've been, we've been pulled along for months and
34:23
months to we're getting this, we're getting that.
34:25
And it just seems like for everything new that comes,
34:29
something old breaks again. And, and their excuse is always,
34:34
whoa, that's an old system that wasn't designed for where we're
34:37
at now. And we have to, it's like, well,
34:39
what's keeping you? Well, I think what's keeping you
34:41
is Squadron 42. I mean they they have an ample
34:45
amount of staff for all that though.
34:48
Do they? I have a list of all the places
34:50
they're going this year. Ollie.
34:53
All of the conventions level up on this weekend, then skipping
35:00
over all of the bar citizens. Twitchcon in the Netherlands,
35:04
May 30th. Oh, the big Twitchcon in the
35:07
Netherlands. Big one, then Gamescon.
35:12
Which they do around then. Yeah.
35:21
It's all bots. In August then which one W games
35:27
com in Cologne, Germany, August 26th, the 30th.
35:31
That's a big one. Pax W also.
35:35
A big one. So 6th.
35:37
That's pretty late though, like once we get past the summer
35:41
we're getting and then Twitch con San Diego and November.
35:48
So that's. A pretty big 1-2 twitch cons
35:51
What? Yeah.
35:52
Where do where do they fit Star Citizen in between all that?
35:56
The Citizen Con. Oh, that's usually a November
36:02
and. October.
36:05
October. It's October, but they don't
36:07
have any. Well, they can easily.
36:11
Or anything in October. They can easily hitch off of LA
36:15
Comic Con if they wanted to and just kind of, you know, kind of
36:19
add themselves to that. It wouldn't be the first
36:21
convention to do that. Yeah.
36:24
I don't think there's going to be a in person citizen con again
36:26
this year. I think it's going to be digital
36:28
and it's probably hopefully going to be them announcing
36:34
Squadron 42 finally can see that.
36:38
And I think that's why they're not not so worried about
36:43
providing a date because there's nothing going to be to go.
36:46
You're not going to go to anything.
36:47
You're just going to sit in the privacy of your own home and cry
36:51
in your pillow or something, I don't know.
36:53
We'll be in a bar, Citizen. Well, I mean I, I.
36:56
Would go there. Another live stream here in the
36:58
DC area if we if it was at a reasonable hour.
37:03
Yeah, but it what it what if? What if there's no announcement
37:06
until it's too late, when nobody can make plans and.
37:09
I think they will announce some I I, I.
37:12
I don't think they'll just shadow drop a citizen con.
37:18
Well, I don't think so either, but I don't know this.
37:22
I think we'll have some heads up for something like October is
37:27
free. They're not going to any bar
37:28
citizens. They're not going to any
37:30
conventions. The N1 is interesting because
37:33
that's fairly early November or mid November.
37:40
That's Twitch con, right? That's the second Twitch con.
37:43
Yeah, that's the North America. That's the big Twitch con.
37:48
Yeah. Which, if you know, who knows,
37:50
Twitch might even be around then.
37:55
I had something to say. I forgot what it was.
37:57
I was talking about what Wicked said.
38:03
Oh yeah, so talk about resources and I get upset that there's
38:06
been too much effort into Squadron 42.
38:09
So I think the real question is how much money do they expect?
38:14
Like once they go to one O mean, do we really expect a lot more
38:20
people to buy the game then who who's already bought and playing
38:24
it now? Like so it because if you think
38:26
about it scoring 42 only the only no one's played it and the
38:31
only people that have it are the ones that pre-ordered it.
38:33
I don't think you can pre-order anymore.
38:35
And so I expect there's going to be a huge, what's the word, like
38:42
a uptick in or, you know, it's going to be a huge sale.
38:45
I think especially for the people who placed our Citizen
38:47
that don't have Squadron 42, I think they're expecting a lot of
38:50
sales in Squadron 42 and they're not expecting a lot of
38:54
additional sales in Star Citizen after one O, which would explain
38:58
why they're putting so much effort and a Squadron 42.
39:01
Again, it's just a theory. Yeah, so that's a good question
39:04
and I'll go around the the couch.
39:06
Will we get more players from Squadron 42's release or from
39:10
one Point O's release? Anubis?
39:15
One point O's release, honestly. Really.
39:18
OK, I don't see, I don't see Squadron 42 being this, you
39:25
know, thing that changes the world or anything like that,
39:28
because Star Citizen, the MMO is, and it's a game that you'll
39:33
play for years. Well, you'll play Squadron 42
39:37
for about, you know, about a month or so.
39:41
If that, if that all right, Skeeter.
39:46
Well, so me personally, I don't, so I don't know.
39:51
I'm Squadron 42 now. I only have Star Citizen.
39:54
I would buy Squadron 42 if only for the lore.
39:58
So I know very little about actual Star Citizen lore other
40:01
than what we've seen in the game.
40:03
I know they published stuff, but you know, I don't read that
40:05
stuff. Everything changes, so I don't
40:07
get invested. But I think that's one of the
40:10
good things about campaign games is the lore.
40:13
And I would buy Squadron 42 just for that single purpose.
40:18
And also just because it's related to Star Citizen and I
40:21
think it'd be cool and I expect there's a lot of people in my
40:26
boat who don't own Squadron 42, but play a lot of Star Citizen
40:30
and would buy Squadron 42 just because it's the natural
40:33
progression from what they're doing now.
40:37
And it's more of an in, you know, it's a final product.
40:42
So I expect there will be a, a pretty big, that'll be a pretty
40:48
big source of revenue. I don't expect.
40:51
So when I you're asking about like if we expect people to buy
40:54
after one. Oh, I look at I think Rust is a
40:56
really good example. I'm sure I know some of you have
40:58
played Rust, but you know, Rust was in beta for a very long
41:02
time, but kind of like Star Citizen.
41:04
It wasn't as buggy as Star Citizen, but they were always
41:06
adding new content. And eventually they did release
41:10
a final quote UN quote final, but it was just like a line in
41:13
the sand. Nothing really changed.
41:15
They were still adding new content and I don't think there
41:19
were that many more people who bought Rust just because now it
41:22
was a quote UN quote final. I expect we might see something
41:27
similar. And I think Sig knows this,
41:31
which is why they're kind of dragging some things out and
41:35
trying to milk it with new ships because, you know, there's so
41:39
many ships that still haven't been released, but they're still
41:43
introducing new contact, new concepts to sell more stuff.
41:48
So I don't know. That's my that's my theory.
41:51
Yeah. All right, Wicket.
41:54
Well, I think Squadron 42 is going to be a significant
42:01
milestone for CIG. And what what how many titles it
42:06
sells. Let's compare it to its most
42:10
relevant counterpart, recent counterpart.
42:15
That's going to be Starfield. All right now, Starfield does
42:19
not have the fidelity, does not have the technical depth and
42:23
does not have the the the overall immersiveness that
42:28
Squadron 42 will have. But as of if I'm looking at this
42:34
correctly, as of 2024, there were over 15,000,000 players of
42:43
that game total, all platforms combined.
42:49
Now that game sucked. I didn't play it, but from what
42:54
I saw of it, it was terrible. I mean it I'm I guess for and
43:00
and when I need to qualify that it sucked based on the price
43:03
that you paid and what you got, I guess some people might have
43:07
saw that as OK, it's fine. It it was a fine enough game.
43:12
But when you're a Star Citizen and you know the fidelity and
43:16
the depth that a game can truly have, that's a space sci-fi
43:20
game, then Starfield is like lesser than anything that you
43:29
already know. And we're only playing an alpha
43:31
that's years away from completion and it's a buggy
43:34
mess, but we still would prefer to play that over this.
43:37
So having said that, keep in mind all the money that CIG has
43:42
made so far has been basically for the development of Star
43:46
Citizen slash Squadron 42. It's not designed to make a
43:50
profit, it's designed to make a game.
43:53
So at some point they want to have a product that they can
43:57
sell to make money with. You know that.
44:01
And and unless it's, you know, Chris Roberts dream that all I
44:07
care about is the art and fulfilling my destiny of making
44:11
this awesome game and he doesn't care if it makes money or not.
44:14
That could be one way they could go, which I very much doubt
44:18
because of the game. Besides US backers, that does
44:20
have investors, so they wanna. You can sell, you say.
44:26
Yes. That sounds like a wonderful
44:28
transition to an ad read. Yes, and today, you know, we
44:34
have very interesting 1 and I think everybody in the room is
44:37
gonna be pretty excited about this one.
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They're scratching the battle with the barrel.
45:16
Where's where's your agreed Sir are.
45:20
You out there Wheeling and dealing and making us, making us
45:23
I'm. Just a caller.
45:25
Connections. Listen, we're just content,
45:29
Skeeter. We're we're not important.
45:32
I'm not charging for the AI, it's listening.
45:36
M Dash. To get back to what I was
45:40
saying, I think I think Squadron 42 sales to the open general
45:46
public that are not backers or maybe are backers that have not
45:50
purchased a license to play the game is going to be
45:54
significantly important. And I think if it's done well
45:57
and if it's received well, I think it will do nothing but
46:01
drive people to want more in this open world MMO.
46:09
Everybody had that plays this game thinks it's going to be a
46:12
game changer, pun intended, as far as the MMO is concerned at
46:18
some point in the future. And game changer.
46:23
Hopefully, Squadron 42 will be nothing.
46:27
You know if it it'll be an awesome experience unto itself,
46:31
but it will also be the gateway drug to bring folks and new
46:35
blood, new eyes, new attention to Squadron or to Star Citizen,
46:40
the MMO. That's a that's a good point.
46:43
I didn't think about that. You know, Speaking of the
46:48
gateway drug and I and I know we've all kind of kind of been
46:51
there. We are getting an update from
46:53
the courthouse or or from the New Babbage County court right
46:59
now about the charges that have been filed against Jar Jar.
47:04
Folks even went for this news all day.
47:05
Yeah. Yeah, in fact.
47:07
So the New Babbage D as office has officially filed charges
47:10
after a heated grand jury determination.
47:14
So far, Jar Jar is facing 14 counts of turtle smuggling, 2
47:18
counts felony evading, 1 count of resisting of arrest with with
47:23
violence, one possession of slam with intent to distribute.
47:28
And Duke Leto is is also is also facing 14 counts of turtle
47:34
smuggling. You know he he, he had joined
47:38
Jar Jar in this. Endeavour.
47:40
Are we talking about literal turtles?
47:42
Actual turtles that you know, they are highly illegal in the
47:45
UAE, but they have been like all, literally all the UAE.
47:50
You cannot have a turtle in the UAE and I think you know.
47:53
Why or no turtles? You know, you you, you're not
47:58
taking this seriously, are you? I'm just trying to understand.
48:03
Turtles are highly illegal. Yeah, all right, turtles are
48:06
bad, I get. It well, we'll check in on that
48:07
case in a bit. We have another guest.
48:11
So I'm going to bring up our next guest, if they'll there we.
48:18
Go there you. Go sorry about that.
48:24
So I just wanted to follow up actually on what Wicked was
48:27
saying about saleable products. I don't think the game is the
48:32
main saleable product that they're working on.
48:34
I really honestly think star engine is what's driving a lot
48:37
of it. If they can sell that, I'm, I'm
48:40
sure they look at how much they spent on on licensing out cry
48:44
engine way back in the day and said, Hey, wait, that's a good
48:47
situation to be in. Why aren't we, Why don't we have
48:50
an engine we can license out And once they've got that all fixed
48:54
up, they can sell that. If people see that it works,
48:58
Mmos are going to base their systems off of that for years to
49:02
come. What is the star engine based
49:05
on? Cry engine?
49:06
Isn't it just like a fork in the road?
49:09
Kind of like a Linux fork. I, I think it's, if I'm
49:14
recalling correctly, it's different enough that they can
49:15
license it out because they have new technologies shoved in there
49:20
that other people are going to be able to use.
49:21
I think the the main product, the game will will be fine if it
49:24
pays for itself. That's awesome.
49:27
I honestly think what they're do, what they're building is
49:31
games, technology, back end, back end engine that they're
49:34
going to try and license out. For a while.
49:37
We needed to introduce the guest.
49:39
Oh shit. Well, why?
49:44
Don't you try. Yourself then.
49:47
Hi, my name is Veritable Hatter or the Veritable Goose.
49:50
I am obviously a wildly opinionated listener.
49:54
Thank you. Hello.
49:56
Well, let's also ask you the question, where do you think
49:59
we're going to go from here? Or where should we go from here?
50:02
Or where do you go from here? Go from.
50:06
Here man I am so bad at this game I don't know where I go
50:09
from here. I would love to build things but
50:12
we'll see if that ever happens because I keep dying every time
50:15
I try and get more blueprints. Fair enough, fair enough.
50:19
Oh good. I I see the game becoming a much
50:24
more socially oriented game once they implement social tools.
50:28
I think it's going to be oh. My God we need better social.
50:31
Tools like Guild tools. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
50:41
affiliation with any sort of. I think they're going to have
50:45
Guild master ranks and stuff like that.
50:49
That'll probably be a real good thing to implement.
50:51
I think crying could support that too.
50:54
No, they've, they've got them. Bounty Hunters Guild.
50:56
Do you want to become Guild master?
50:57
The Bounty Hunters Guild. I already AM.
50:59
Go for it a plus. Actually now do you level a
51:04
bounty hunter on on Corelia? Is that the better place or do
51:09
you do it on feed near the PvP battleground?
51:14
That's going to be the question. It's not galaxies again.
51:19
That's a galaxy's reference of. This, Oh, that game, yeah.
51:24
You're just. Thinking about that.
51:26
Or Holly market just racked up a couple of $1000.
51:31
Yeah, everyone who bet like $0.10 on us mentioning Star Wars
51:34
Galaxies. Yeah, and of course, and of
51:36
course, you know, it's I, I feel in good company 'cause I, I
51:42
always mentioned dead games. This guy's constantly mentioning
51:45
dead games. Star Wars Galaxy.
51:50
So how long have your have the games that you've personally
51:53
killed? Yeah, like I.
51:55
Don't like how long have they lasted?
51:56
Star Wars Galaxies. Well.
51:59
Yeah, that's medley killed Star Wars Galaxies and I hope.
52:03
EVE Online still going. World of Warcraft still going.
52:07
I. Didn't.
52:08
Ask about those. I asked about the ones you
52:10
personally killed. I didn't kill anything.
52:13
Ashes, the creation self ended itself.
52:16
Really. Where's Dune?
52:19
Dune. It's in the total.
52:20
Well, it's dead to me, but it's still going.
52:23
Still do you were. So excited about Dune.
52:26
I was, I was. And listen, that game was
52:30
glorious for like a month or two and maybe a little more, but
52:34
one. Time and then it's done.
52:36
Once I finish the all the the the achievements like all the
52:44
the steam achievements, I was like OK, I've done everything I
52:47
can do in this game. I don't care if new content
52:49
comes, I'm done. That game to me.
52:52
Cool. So how long did they last
52:54
compared to, you know, a truly revolutionary game that was
52:59
killed by an executive at Sony? But damn, so you admit it's
53:03
dead? Thank you.
53:05
Let's move on. Intentionally.
53:06
It was murdered. But then it is, and you admit
53:10
that. Thank you.
53:11
Let's move on. How long did yours last?
53:14
Mine's still going. It's, I told you it's that's
53:16
that to me. Dune is still going.
53:19
Ah, we have another guest in the audience if you wish to come on
53:22
to the Bantam. Burger.
53:24
Great get you can't introduce. You ruined it.
53:28
Till they come in and you don't know if they're even going to
53:31
come in. They might just sit there and
53:33
listen. They may just want to observe.
53:34
Handsome raise your hand. Click on the little hand the.
53:37
Little. Hand.
53:38
Give yourself he's got his hand up.
53:41
His hand is up. I'm.
53:43
He's going to go be up. Give him a handy no do.
53:46
Not call it a handy. Do not call it a handy.
53:49
We've had we've had the talk before guys come.
53:52
On Yes, let's welcome our new guest.
53:59
First time caller. Hello.
54:02
Hello Phantom, first time caller.
54:04
Welcome to open Cons Radio. The well, OK, the one of like 2
54:10
Star Citizen Collins. Shows that occur.
54:12
On Wednesday. There's a second one.
54:16
I I I think there is. Apparently terrible.
54:19
It's probably terrible. This. 1 is a problem.
54:22
The. Race to the bottom on Wednesday.
54:26
Maybe we could let? Phantom steal all our thoughts
54:29
anyway. Phantom Hi welcome.
54:32
Where do you go from here as? Philosophical as the question is
54:38
that is, I'll keep it to Star Citizen in this case, that's
54:41
fine. So as somebody who pledged, I
54:46
think my first pledge was back in like 2019 or 2020 or 22.
54:50
Sorry, 2021-2022 couldn't handle the game at the time because it
54:55
felt more like a very elaborate tech demo that a game.
54:59
And then coming back in beginning of this month, it's
55:02
come a long way and it gives me a lot of hope for Squadron 42
55:06
and 1.0. I know I heard you all talking
55:09
about like the budget and how they've got almost a billion
55:14
dollar budget up until this point.
55:15
That's just covering their bases.
55:18
I did want to mention that GTA 6 is at, I think $2.2 billion for
55:22
their budget for GTA 6, and that's a significantly larger
55:29
company. So I think that it's interesting
55:32
that CIG is making a game of this scale, two games
55:37
realistically of this scale with the team that they have and the
55:41
funding that they've gotten, especially considering that they
55:44
have more or less aside from Cry engine, built up a engine of
55:49
their own and built systems in like Star Starcotech, I think it
55:53
is. That's star to anything, and
55:56
you'll be right. OK, that sounds.
55:57
Great star food I'm sure will be a thing star star cloth is an
56:02
actual thing star just just yeah it's star to it our.
56:07
Toilet. Can't wait for my gamer Subs CIG
56:12
limited edition ramen. Start ramen.
56:16
Yep, and Etsy. Yeah, that you can get that at
56:19
Big Benny's the the the protein packed noodles that everybody
56:24
loves. Get them today at your at your
56:27
local rest and relax. I'm.
56:30
Trying to watch my blood pressure.
56:33
Smart, but we're. Closed.
56:35
Like when you die, your blood pressure resets.
56:39
Until perma death. Until perma death and then
56:42
somehow your blood pressure is reprinted with you your the
56:46
cholesterol which. Is like consequences.
56:48
Reads you on death and goes ah, their cholesterol was super
56:51
high. Let's.
56:52
Reprint with the high. Cholesterol.
56:54
But you lose your Rep and stuff. I'm.
56:58
Glad 200 years in the future the healthcare system is the same.
57:01
Uh huh. That and you've got a it's
57:03
extra. It's an add on charge to
57:05
decrease your cholesterol on reprint.
57:08
So so so so if your Rep. Is like.
57:11
Either positive or negative and they implement death of a
57:14
spaceman. So when you permanently die they
57:19
could send you to two end game areas, either heaven or hell and
57:24
then that's where your character exists from then on.
57:27
What do you think? I'm I'm pretty sure hell is the
57:29
30K. Yeah, it's just, it's.
57:31
Just buggy. It's a.
57:33
It's a loading screen. It's just a.
57:34
Blind loading screen. It's an infinite loading screen
57:36
that you can't alt F4 out of. Or or is that purgatory just?
57:41
You. Did just a little cluster, yeah.
57:45
You will spend all of eternity mining high quality materials
57:48
and then put 30K right as you are about to refine them.
57:51
Yes, Yeah, that sounds right. So I asked.
57:55
The oxygen because the machine doesn't work.
57:57
And you just joined us. So Phantom, what do you think
58:01
will bring in more players? Squadron 42 or One Point O.
58:08
That one's kind of a mixed bag. I I personally know that a lot
58:12
of people, especially with the amount of early access games
58:14
because it seems like far for the course if you're not a major
58:16
studio. Pretty much every game coming
58:18
out right now is early access, either alpha, beta.
58:23
Not that I'm saying CIG is not a major studio at this point, but
58:26
I wouldn't necessarily call them triple AI.
58:30
Think Squadron 42 for people who have never heard of Star Citizen
58:34
or maybe aren't aware of its existence.
58:36
Being that it's marketed more like a mix between a first
58:39
person shooter game and like a flight SIM.
58:41
Sort of like an Ace Combat meets Titanfall type deal.
58:45
I think that'll bring in a certain market and those people
58:47
that end up really liking the flight or really liking the
58:50
combat will go, oh wait, I can also like make a base or join an
58:54
org or any of these other things.
58:58
I think. Yeah, not a Guild.
59:01
Those are dumb. And.
59:03
Who? The world.
59:04
Would say that. Who would think a Guild would be
59:07
a thing? That's like point.
59:09
Of order, your honor, Point of order.
59:12
Decline. Can we?
59:14
We got to get rid of this orange character over here.
59:17
He's got to go. You want, you know why do you?
59:19
Why? You know what?
59:21
Why do you describe him as just an orange character and you call
59:25
me just a blue guy? Well, you are blue. 2 blue guys.
59:28
Well, he always sees color I. Think we know the answer he
59:31
only. Sees color.
59:32
Oh, OK. I'm not color blind.
59:36
Isn't Jar Jar color blind? Yeah, that's right.
59:39
Yeah, I'm sorry. Is it probably hip?
59:41
Hip of red? Green.
59:42
Oh well, that's. Those are my colors that I
59:45
usually play in Magic, so I should play those ducks more.
59:48
You play what? Red, Green.
59:50
Yeah. Gruel.
59:52
Interesting. There is another question again.
59:55
I wonder how they intend to add accessibility features like for
59:58
color blind because I know that certain vehicles with the way
1:00:01
the MF DS are set up, the Prowler utility specifically
1:00:04
like all of the Hud's red. So if you're red green color
1:00:07
blind, it's just going to be Gray on Gray or I I'm not color
1:00:10
blinds. I don't know how it looks, but I
1:00:11
imagine. Yeah, so recently, so recently.
1:00:17
It didn't matter. It was all this, everything's
1:00:19
the same color. It was very difficult.
1:00:24
It's hard to read normally. I have a question for the host.
1:00:27
They'll they'll have a way to implement that.
1:00:30
I have a question for the host, Mr. Hobo.
1:00:34
Yes, you mentioned Magic the Gathering.
1:00:38
Oh gosh. Do you use those transparent
1:00:41
pockets for your cards? Please.
1:00:44
You're supposed to sleeve your deck if you're playing in a
1:00:47
tournament. I get sick of seeing on sleeve
1:00:49
decks. I played with one of these pair
1:00:51
of. Pockets.
1:00:52
They had an UN sleeve deck and it was 'cause it was like a
1:00:56
brand new deck. But you should not do that.
1:00:57
You should still use sleeves sleeve you.
1:01:01
Protect the sleeves. Yeah, things that are on in on
1:01:04
the ends of armholes of shirts. They are called sleeves, they're
1:01:09
not called pockets or whatever they.
1:01:11
Are transparent pockets with multiple.
1:01:15
They're not all transparent like, they're half like.
1:01:18
One side is transparent. One side is opaque.
1:01:22
Yes, but the moment. Why they do that?
1:01:24
The bottom line is, just like the Hurston Department of Public
1:01:28
Health says, no glove, no love. Play it safe, wear your sleeves.
1:01:33
Oh my gosh. Always sleeve your deck, that's
1:01:36
how you get infections. Yes, Yep.
1:01:41
OK, didn't we have a sexual harassment lecture like a couple
1:01:45
months ago? What?
1:01:49
We. Had to go through sexual
1:01:50
harassment training a couple months ago I'm pretty sure
1:01:53
comments like that. Yeah, we had to learn how to do
1:01:55
it better. Still a few, obviously.
1:02:02
Transparent sleeves are bad. Both sides.
1:02:06
One side should not be transparent, that's the whole
1:02:08
point. To be transparent sleeves when
1:02:11
plant with a deck that you're actually playing with because.
1:02:14
That's oh, we have a new call. Oh, we have somebody who must
1:02:18
have been paroled. Oh my.
1:02:19
God, OK, we can do. We have.
1:02:21
He must have. He must have bought.
1:02:22
He's only listening. His hand's not up.
1:02:25
His hand's not up, we are not, but he must look the audio
1:02:28
members. Why is the?
1:02:29
Schedule started. We started talking about magic.
1:02:32
Or we're going to get a message from HR.
1:02:33
Again, right? We should start talking about
1:02:35
start listening again. And, and I gotta say for Jar Jar
1:02:40
being able to listen right now, he must have been able to post
1:02:42
that 26,000,000 AUEC bond. Because currently, you know, our
1:02:49
legal analysts are saying that if he is convicted, both him and
1:02:54
Duke Latolle are looking at about 1700 years in pleasure
1:02:59
with no time given for for turning off your computer and
1:03:03
coming back to it a week later. Hey, remember he legally gets
1:03:06
one call and instead of calling his lawyer, he's calling us.
1:03:09
He's calling us. Wow, what a mistake on his part.
1:03:12
Let's see if that works out. His hands.
1:03:16
Down. I thought at least we could have
1:03:19
one week without this kid and well.
1:03:22
Unless he raises his hand, I'm not letting him in.
1:03:26
I just want to say I'm really. Preschool rules.
1:03:30
I'm excited for the Star Citizen magic set.
1:03:35
Is that if they? Come with those translucent
1:03:38
transparent pockets. No, you have to buy the sleeves
1:03:43
like on your own separately. They don't come with them.
1:03:47
So they don't come with them, so that means you don't need them.
1:03:51
No you have to. Some cards are double sided so
1:03:53
if you're not playing with a sleeve deck you it could be
1:03:56
viewed as cheating because you can see when that card is you
1:04:00
know about to pop up. Is there something in the rules
1:04:04
of the game? When you buy a this game Magic,
1:04:07
does it come? Is there somewhere in the rules
1:04:09
that says you have to put your cards in these transparent?
1:04:16
Yeah. Quite literally, there are
1:04:20
rules. I do think it's funny.
1:04:24
Is it? Is it?
1:04:25
Is it in the these cards? They come with an instruction.
1:04:30
No, we even get on magic. Sometimes.
1:04:33
They do. If you if you buy like a starter
1:04:37
deck, yes they'll come with rules or a one of those packs
1:04:41
that comes with all the cards. OK, make your own.
1:04:44
Starter, yes. So in those in those rules that
1:04:48
come with those starter packs, does it say in there you need
1:04:53
transparent pockets? Does.
1:04:56
Does anything ever say transparent pocket?
1:04:59
It will not say that. What does your basketball say?
1:05:04
No traveling. Does it say no fouling?
1:05:06
No, it doesn't say anything. It doesn't need to.
1:05:09
There's rules that are made for these things.
1:05:12
Well, you learn if you're in the community.
1:05:16
Yes, but these, they're the rules are usually written out
1:05:20
somewhere, yes. They are all.
1:05:24
Transparent. Sleeves anywhere.
1:05:26
That is not a term they would use a transparent pockets.
1:05:30
God, you're melting my brain. When you go to your spice mine
1:05:36
or whatever to is there rules that say you can't like snort
1:05:40
the spice while you're pushing it into your mouth?
1:05:43
Wow. OK, well, yeah, it's what's
1:05:45
everyone's favorite spaceship. Spaceships.
1:05:51
What I know, right? What a whole topic.
1:05:53
They were awful in magic because you you have to crew that.
1:05:58
They're like vehicles. I tried tried you.
1:06:01
Can tell this nobody here plays Star Citizen anymore.
1:06:06
They're all playing these cards with these unwritten rules of
1:06:10
transparent pockets and whatnot and.
1:06:13
These. Played.
1:06:13
Very well. Two days ago so.
1:06:15
They're obviously written down for the tournaments.
1:06:18
These very well organized, codified and even legally
1:06:22
binding rules that you agree to when you enter the tournament,
1:06:26
you mean? Yeah, those I don't know.
1:06:31
I was talking about. Lady the lawyer.
1:06:34
There's a game called Magic the Gathering.
1:06:36
Am I correct Correct. You're sitting.
1:06:39
For the the weather. Engine the baseline here of.
1:06:42
Saturday, the weather. Engine.
1:06:44
It is. It is a a game and somewhere.
1:06:48
And Morbius is a movie. Here is the Earth that's round.
1:06:52
And the game of Magic the Gathering has.
1:06:55
Ruled it's a nice. He's trying to just gaslight us
1:06:58
all right now and there's somewhere.
1:07:01
Is this time to talk about anything but starsys?
1:07:05
That that is true. So with 4.8 coming up, are are
1:07:09
you excited for the expansion of crafting?
1:07:14
I am. Yeah, and.
1:07:17
Can someone tell me about his battle cruiser though?
1:07:20
Like I don't understand is it bigger than the Idris?
1:07:23
Yes, it is going to be the largest player owned ship,
1:07:26
player hanger owned ship in the game.
1:07:29
And it's not a. Not a ship, it's a jpg.
1:07:33
There is speculation. That is a Drake ship.
1:07:36
It is not a Drake. What do you mean by a hanger
1:07:38
ship? Like one that can spawn in a
1:07:40
hanger. No, as as in like hanger bound.
1:07:43
As in, you can pay pay Chris Roberts your money.
1:07:47
Is the is the merchant man? I thought the merchant man was
1:07:50
supposed to be the biggest, Is it not?
1:07:52
No. What about the tiger?
1:07:57
Was the biggest. The Bengal, but the Bengal?
1:08:00
Was maybe it was the Bengal I was, yeah.
1:08:04
But it will be be able to be owned by players.
1:08:06
But it OK. What they have told us is that
1:08:09
it was always persistent and. There's rules written anywhere.
1:08:13
Oh my God, yeah. So where do we go?
1:08:17
Actually in in stars, in this case, a lot of them are not
1:08:20
written down. That is actually a problem.
1:08:23
Some are, but a lot of it's just kind of like community knowledge
1:08:26
here and there. See you see how problematic
1:08:29
these things can be? With Magic the Gathering, the
1:08:33
community. And all.
1:08:34
I didn't bring it up but two. Cards with sleeves.
1:08:38
It doesn't have to be written down, it's just common.
1:08:41
Sense leave your deck. Sleeve.
1:08:44
Your deck, I'm in a tournament. I see an unsleeved deck.
1:08:46
I'm like, did you, did you miss the rules?
1:08:48
Kick them out. On the top.
1:08:51
Of the band and merchantman and Magic the Gathering at the
1:08:55
current rate, given that all of the people that were working on
1:08:59
the Merchant man disappeared, it's more likely that you will
1:09:03
get a Magic the gathering, Banju Ban, and merchant man right now.
1:09:08
Then you will get the actual ship.
1:09:11
But they need to. Make Lego versions of ships 1st
1:09:13
that I. Will buy those.
1:09:15
It's I. I'm staring at my Star Wars Star
1:09:18
Destroyer I just got. And well, we need finalized
1:09:21
ships before we can get Lego. Lego one.
1:09:24
That is true. That is probably why they've not
1:09:26
done much in the way of merch and that sort of stuff, because
1:09:28
they haven't finalized all the designs.
1:09:30
So. So we're going to skip Gray box
1:09:31
and go to Lego box. Yes.
1:09:34
Yes. All right, so it is 10 past the
1:09:40
hour, so we are coming up on the end of the show.
1:09:44
Are there any pressing topics that anyone just has to get off
1:09:48
their chest right now before we? Oh.
1:09:54
Before. We he just abused his admin
1:09:56
powers and barged in here. You, you could have just raised
1:10:00
your fucking hand and you know what?
1:10:02
I'm calling security because we did not let him in.
1:10:06
Can I take this? For a second.
1:10:08
Well, it's a shame I'm. Doing a lot of defending of
1:10:09
yourself lately. What's going on?
1:10:11
Are you? I thought I thought I clicked
1:10:15
the raise hand button and I fully intended to raise my hand.
1:10:19
OK. Yeah, just just yeah, I, I fully
1:10:22
intended to drive sober, Sir, but like.
1:10:25
Did he fully intended to? Return those turtles to the zoo.
1:10:28
But yeah. What?
1:10:29
Did the turtles? No, I didn't.
1:10:31
I didn't. I didn't.
1:10:32
Counts. Mm Hmm.
1:10:35
Can I say something? I've been listening to you guys
1:10:36
for like 10 minutes now and I have no idea what is going on
1:10:42
here today. Don't go.
1:10:44
Go ask the Gemini. I think I I clocked like 6
1:10:48
minutes of transparent pockets talk and I don't.
1:10:54
Check the chapters later on and it'll be it'll it'll, it'll make
1:10:58
sense. Look, I don't, I don't want to
1:11:00
give you guys too many notes, but you got to reign wicked in.
1:11:03
Yeah, I mean could. Tell you the same damn thing.
1:11:05
We could say the same thing to you, Mr. Jar Jar Jar.
1:11:10
And and sorry. How many how many times have you
1:11:12
apologized this week to a large group of individuals like.
1:11:16
Four or five. Four or five everyone to
1:11:18
apologize yet, because they'll love that.
1:11:23
Yeah, I don't, I don't know how much you guys talked about it,
1:11:27
but I did abuse the ping this week.
1:11:29
But I just wanted to come in and say thank you guys for taking
1:11:32
over the show and and thank you for doing.
1:11:34
What your? Hard work tonight.
1:11:36
Seriously. And from what I, from what I
1:11:40
saw, you know, not great, but I'm, I'm, I appreciate that
1:11:45
you're here. Yeah, oh it.
1:11:46
Was back heaven because. It's because he's in the chief.
1:11:50
Passive aggressive behavior. And I'll see you.
1:11:53
Later. In all seriousness, thank you
1:11:55
for doing the show and thank you guys for for being.
1:11:59
Here. Well, we're still live, so we
1:12:00
have to ask you the fucking question.
1:12:02
Where do we go from here? Where do you go from here?
1:12:06
Where do I go from here? Yeah.
1:12:10
Jail is a is an OK. Yeah, Tuesday nights I play
1:12:13
Magic the Gathering. I've pocketed all my cards in
1:12:16
purple pockets. I try to play Star Citizen, but
1:12:20
honestly, can I tell you something?
1:12:23
What a hassle. What, pinging people?
1:12:26
I've, I've been in the game twice this week and I just like
1:12:33
hop into my prospector and I, I go out there and I, I, I speak
1:12:39
in a ping and I ping the rocks and I don't find what I need and
1:12:42
then I just go back in my bed. And then the rocks get really
1:12:45
upset. And then the rocks get really
1:12:47
upset. Yeah, I'm just, you know, I'm
1:12:49
waiting like the rest of you guys.
1:12:50
I'm just sitting there holding up waiting and finding other
1:12:55
ways to spend my time pinging. And if anyone wants an F7A, I'm
1:13:02
selling it for 1500. 1500. You went up.
1:13:09
I have to question this a little bit because there is a chance,
1:13:13
not a super high one, but there is a chance that they're going
1:13:17
to rerun that token again. I know, that's why I'm trying to
1:13:21
sell it now, so I'm trying to get rid of it.
1:13:24
Your strategy is to increase the price.
1:13:27
I'm not a good businessman, obviously.
1:13:31
Let's see post high you sell low, lower and that gives the
1:13:37
buyer the the sense of a deal. Yeah, but he started like in the
1:13:40
medium and then went up. I'm going for the trade.
1:13:45
I'll trade you. I'll trade you Skeeter.
1:13:49
OK. Just going to take Skeeter from
1:13:51
us. Oh wait, I'm I'm not part of the
1:13:56
deal. Well, you are now that'll bring
1:14:03
your transparent pockets. Yeah, yeah.
1:14:06
I mean custody, you know, you know of all callers can be
1:14:10
transferred at any time and you agree to those terms when you.
1:14:13
If there was a Kraken involved, we could talk you.
1:14:17
Could look at the fine print folks.
1:14:19
Yep, that's what you get. Let's do, let's do, let's do our
1:14:25
usual round of wrap up questions.
1:14:30
Anubis, take us away. Yes.
1:14:33
So as we end every show here, we ask our callers in reverse order
1:14:42
of what they would like to say to Chris Roberts, the CIG or the
1:14:48
people on the Internet. Yes, but before you take him out
1:14:53
security, I just wanted to ask him real quick, what do you have
1:14:58
to say to Chris Roberts, CIG or the people on the Internet?
1:15:05
Nothing. Wonderful.
1:15:08
Thank you. Get him out.
1:15:10
Of here you just left get. The fuck out of here.
1:15:15
OK. And Phantom, how about you,
1:15:19
Chris Roberts, CIG, the people of the Internet?
1:15:22
I I, I I would like to say that despite all of its shortcomings,
1:15:26
and that list is long, thankfully getting shorter, it
1:15:31
is probably the most unique experience you can get out of
1:15:34
APC game in 2026. Amen.
1:15:38
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:15:45
That's good shit. Go to the next one.
1:15:52
OK, yes, I, well, I, I, I, I, I blanked out there for a second
1:15:57
because I'm trying to remember the order here.
1:16:00
Veritable. What do you have to say to CIG,
1:16:05
Chris Roberts and the people who have not heard of Star Wars
1:16:08
Galaxies yet, but still need to understand the glory that it is?
1:16:14
I I was going to say not all that much because I'm being
1:16:17
currently overrun by a pack of Copians.
1:16:19
But for the people who haven't understood the glory of Star
1:16:23
Wars Galaxies, just just look up it's history and, and the
1:16:26
sadness that was Sony at the time.
1:16:27
There's, there's, I'm sure there's a whole site that's
1:16:29
written up the drama somewhere. Yeah.
1:16:33
That's true, that's true. And and and I highly recommend
1:16:36
that you do because you can see just kind of the hope that we
1:16:40
get. I would think you and I get when
1:16:43
we look at the future of I'm sorry, the future of Star
1:16:47
Citizen as well. There it is.
1:16:52
All right, so, so Skeeter, you currently have yourself on mute
1:16:57
and I ask that you take yourself off mute so we can skip you and
1:17:01
go straight. No, I'm.
1:17:02
Kidding. Let's go ahead.
1:17:03
Let's go ahead. Are you ready or are you OK?
1:17:07
Yeah, I'm good. You know some if I got to like
1:17:10
clear my throat, I don't want to like hack into.
1:17:12
The oh, I just like full bore into the mic.
1:17:15
Yeah. Oh.
1:17:15
Yeah, people do it on Discord all the time.
1:17:17
Like, Oh my gosh, mute yourself. Yeah.
1:17:20
Anyways, so at the when I first joined, I, I suggested that
1:17:25
maybe we were asked question. Question is, you know, where
1:17:29
can't we go? I don't know if you remember
1:17:31
that, but yeah, I was, I, I was. I've been thinking about it.
1:17:35
And. The answer is Tara.
1:17:39
Yeah. Yeah, that's it.
1:17:43
OK. All right.
1:17:46
All right. And so that's our show.
1:17:52
You know, we have someone to rein in.
1:17:53
We're not going to say their name so we can go ahead and rein
1:17:55
them in, because we also don't want to be stuck with yet
1:17:59
another legal letter from the Law Offices of Barnard and
1:18:05
Wills, who represent the wife of the creator of our illustrious
1:18:11
favorite game. We're not allowed to say her
1:18:14
name. Yep, we're not allowed to say
1:18:15
her name. Thanks.
1:18:16
Thanks for that. Search the Nash rhymes with Andy
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Roberts, Yeah? So wicked to anyone at all,
1:18:26
except except the one person we're not allowed to talk about.
1:18:31
What do you have to say to anyone else?
1:18:34
Anyone at all except that one person.
1:18:38
Mr. and Missus Roberts as the leaders of CIG.
1:18:41
All right. Jesus, that's $1500.
1:18:51
Thanks. I would just like to say, I
1:18:53
would just like to say in all your future communications with
1:18:59
us about whether it's about Squadron 42, Star Citizen, the
1:19:05
beloved MMO that we're all dreaming and hoping for to come
1:19:09
in the future. As the great communicate as you
1:19:12
are, we would really love for you to be transparent in all
1:19:17
your knowledges and transmissions to us.
1:19:19
Please be transparent. Thank you all.
1:19:24
Right. Probably that cost us a lot of
1:19:26
money. Thanks.
1:19:27
As good as we're going to get. But it wasn't as bad as some of
1:19:30
the others. Yeah, it could have been worse,
1:19:31
I guess. All right.
1:19:34
Well, Anubis, we did it. We we did.
1:19:38
I I'm not sure how, but we did. We had an intruder in the
1:19:42
building. They've been dealt with, yes,
1:19:45
and it's gonna send them down the river.
1:19:48
I I'm just gonna say I can't wait to see the body Cam on that
1:19:50
one because I've been hearing screaming and I heard chairs
1:19:54
thrown. I.
1:19:57
Got. Hurt the the the I I I I heard
1:20:00
Taser Taser Taser Taser Taser Taser again.
1:20:05
Keep tasing him now tase his butt.
1:20:09
Mm hmm. And then and then and then.
1:20:11
Pepper spray deployed. OC deployed like at least five
1:20:14
times. We have really good sound
1:20:16
cancellation in here and we were just still hearing it through
1:20:20
the door. Like it it's clearly edited out
1:20:22
now. Like it's just we edited out
1:20:25
with with AI, yeah or something. But it's see so it, it was so
1:20:32
loud. It was, it was disturbing.
1:20:35
Honestly, I just, you just hear the the the tongue and the ears
1:20:38
flapping around, you know, it's just.
1:20:43
Yeah, what? What?
1:20:44
What's it like? What?
1:20:46
It's gonna smell like fried fish.
1:20:49
What? What was the noise?
1:20:52
That one, yeah, that one, it's, that's just a recording,
1:20:55
obviously, like. It's just.
1:20:57
Like turning off the sound cancellation.
1:21:00
Used to save me under. Arrest for what?
1:21:02
For what? Well, let's play us out, Anubis.
1:21:12
I got to play it out now. We're not going to call Duke and
1:21:15
have him do it, all right? Well, Duke.
1:21:17
Duke could have shown up, but he's currently on the run.
1:21:19
He's probably halfway to Pyro. That it that is Take Me Home.
1:21:26
Me home to the. Pair today's wait.
1:21:29
Are we going to get a DNC strike?
1:21:32
What? Kirsten Mountain.
1:21:36
Shit. A city.
1:21:37
Mama, Mama Mama. Simple.
1:21:40
Philip for you. Get a strike.
1:21:45
Yeah, that's DNC strike right here.
1:21:48
Hey, well, like I was playing show changer lyrics.
1:21:51
That's like enough of a copyright strike we're probably
1:21:55
going to get. Anyway, thanks for coming folks.
1:21:57
Thanks. Thank you.
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Bye.