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Episode 257: We hate journalists, and so should you! · WASD and Beyond

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What are your thoughts on Doctor Pepper Coconut?
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It tastes the way that sunscreen smells.
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It's that bad. Yes, that was the immediate
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thing I had. My sister got a for whatever
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reason because yeah, the more I think about this, it doesn't, it
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makes less and less sense. She had never tried Doctor
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Pepper Coconut before but she saw a deal for like getting a 2
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pack of it like like of the cans so for some reason.
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She did that 24 of them. Yeah, so we have 24 Doctor
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Pepper coconut cans that as soon as like so I didn't want a full
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can, obviously. So I was like, she poured me a
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little shot glass of it and I no.
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One likes. It she, she, the weird thing was
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is that she drank it and she went and I went that tastes the
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way that sunscreen smells like when you apply that like like
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not the spray, but like when you have the, the cream and you have
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to rub it, the lather, you have to lather all over yourself.
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That's what it smells like. That's what it tasted like.
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And then she goes, she's like, she's drinking it as I say that
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and she takes it. She takes the the doctor Pepper
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can down and she goes, no, you're right, You're absolutely
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right. And then she drinks it again and
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I'm like. No.
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You're drinking like that. See, that bothers me 'cause then
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I feel like they put the chemical that they use in the
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sunscreen and the Doctor Pepper, and now I'm putting that in my
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body. RFK What have you done to Doctor
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Pepper? It's being absorbed by my skin,
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sure, but like, this is a difference when you know you're
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drinking it. But yeah, no, I, I did not.
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Not a, not a fan. I'm not a fan of most.
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I'm not a fan. Of most sodas that are that are
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flavored like that, like I don't mind like I don't like coke
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vanilla. I don't like like I don't even
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like it's also different, right? Like I like cherry Dr. or I like
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I like cherry Pepsi. I like Cherry Coke, but I don't
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like Cherry Dr. Pepper because I think Doctor Pepper's already a
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little bit. I think Doctor Pepper.
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I mean Doctor Pepper has 2349 flavors in it or 20.
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Is it 29? I think it's 29 bro how?
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Many. I have a Doctor Pepper stand and
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I don't know. Brother, brother, I'm hanging on
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by a thread right now. I don't know.
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You are man. I can.
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I can see you holding on. This is the first video I'm
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going to upload back to YouTube is when I have drank myself into
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a stupard where I left the boys play for 14 hours straight on a
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stream on Discord. My poor computer's in here going
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stop. It's gone.
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Beep. Like it was just, yeah, it was
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like I woke up at 6:40 AM today to see Nick streaming and I was
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like, oh, I wonder maybe it's like a Liverpool match that's on
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in. It was on early, I missed it.
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So it was on. It was on early, Yeah.
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So I was like, I'll join in a second.
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And I joined and I go, hey, Nick, I don't hear anything.
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And I go hold on a second and I joined the stream and it's like
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season 3, episode 5 of The Boys. And I'm like, what?
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When did this happen? And then I like go and I do
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things I don't get on the computer again for another
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couple hours. I come back and you're still
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streaming it. And I was like, is he?
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I was like, is he dead? What happened to him like?
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Well, you know is what it is. Happy Mother's Day everybody.
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Welcome back to the episode of the WASD and Beyond podcast.
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If you have a wife and you have a child with them, go give that
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woman a big hug and kiss. If you love your mom, go give
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her hug and kiss. Your mom's insufferable bitch,
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leave her alone. Go give your grandma a kiss as
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well. Go give all the moms hugs and
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kisses. Happy Mother's Day or just like
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I said, just play your video games.
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It's could be a fun project that you'll probably be seeing Evan
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on more. You'll probably seeing other
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rotating people on with Noah, Alex and myself, and it would
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just be a blast. So yeah, if you like what you
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hear here, just share us tallow. Like yeah, yeah, fighting
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through it, buddy, we got. This I can I can sell you're
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you're leaning like this like you're about to fall over.
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Also apologize. OK, never.
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Mind. Wait, turn your fucking car
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alarm off. Dude, this guy, like they, I
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swear to God, he sits in his car, the car alarm goes off and
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he just lets it. He just looks like he's testing
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it. I'm.
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Doing it right now. Yeah, he this happens.
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I apologize. It happens like every weekend.
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He just, he's there. He's just there like now it's
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oh, you hear it, it's gone now. It's like, bro, just keep your
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keys in your pocket. I don't know.
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It's also, well, how do you keep hitting your car alarm?
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He's looking out his window, going.
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I wonder if my car is still there.
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I kind of see it. He.
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Keeps hitting the button to make sure.
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Fucking whatever, Let's just hop right into it.
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We have a lot to talk about today.
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I kind of want to go through a few things.
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First being because I have it in my hands because I have it in
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front of me, the new steam controller.
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So right off the top, I'll say this.
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I was concerned with the chunk of it yes Connor, if you edit
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this video, please like just do your magic here.
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I was concerned with the chunk of it.
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I will say right now the minute I grab this controller I wrap my
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fingers are exactly where they need to be.
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My thumb does not interact with the touch pads in the slightest
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if I'm not trying to use them. The the the symmetrical layout
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is very nice. Everything just lands where it
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needs to land in your hand. This controller feels nice once
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it's charged. There's a nice bit of heft to
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it. It's it's great.
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It's wonderful. No, I haven't had experience any
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latency with the wireless puck that you get included with it.
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This is a charger and wireless interface for the controller.
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That's good. So you put you plug it in via
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USB to the back of your computer, you slap it on the
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puck, it charges, you take it off done charging.
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But now you can play your games nice.
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You want to charge while you're doing that.
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You could do that too. It's it's wonderful
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out-of-the-box. It goes through a quick little
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update with the puck and the controller and you're done and
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you're ready to name. This has been great for
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Pragmata. I've had a very good time with
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it. Yeah, no, I I'm very impressed
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with this thing. I I'm not a controller guy like
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I I'm not like a like a controller buff like other
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people that we know are So to have this and then go OK, no,
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this, this feels great. This this is more than likely
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going to replace my everyday Xbox for you know, like certain
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games. Like Pragmata for me is a
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controller game. Last of Us.
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Is a controller game. There's games that were meant
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for the controller and this could be my go to.
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This is wonderful. I haven't gotten to really test
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out the haptics because there's not many games that really
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incorporate that, so I need to figure out some good games to
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test out the haptic triggers. Death training 2.
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Yeah, we have that. I, I should do that.
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That'd be. Great.
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Is it only haptic triggers? I don't know.
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I got to look into that. I think it's just Hapticola.
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It's I thought the whole thing was.
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Happening or no? Sorry.
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Yeah, it has to be Well, yeah, sorry.
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No, I'm. I'm getting confused because
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there's a lot of different feedback that the PS-5
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controller gets from Death Training 2 because you get a lot
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of the audio. The vibrations are also like
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really not all over the place. It's not the right term, but
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like there's there's vibrations for a lot of things in the game.
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So sometimes my brain will translate that to haptic, but
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it's that's not the case. That's just the the the
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triggers. But yeah, the.
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Rumble. Is great too.
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It might be good. Oh yeah, good.
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Good and when you're when you're using the track pads it if you
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have a steam deck, this is a steam deck in a controller.
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You know what to expect. I am moving my mouse on my
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computer right now with the mouse pad with this pad right
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here. That's cool and when you move
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it, depending upon how you're moving how fast how hard you're
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pushing it has that little bit of like rumble and like all that
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in that already. So it it it feels great.
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If I had to give it a grade, I'd give it a night.
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OK, it's it's a wonderful controller.
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Damn the design of it for looking kind of odd, but it is
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comfortable. If it's right in your hand, your
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thumbs will be exactly where they need to be.
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You can clog RIP it. It looks like I I know people
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are sorry. I know clog RIP.
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People are like, well, could I do that?
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Yeah, probably. So this thing is lightweight.
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It's great and I really like it. And the presentation of the
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packaging was nice too. You open it up and it's just
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like this nice thing and you're like, OK, cool.
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You're immediately greeted with the controller and instructions
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and like, this is awesome. It's just typical Valve.
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So that Steam controller very cool for comparison really
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quick, let me grab it. I did not fart.
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That was my leg brushing up again.
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Sure it. Was.
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It was my leg brushing up against the chair.
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I'm sweating. Here is the Steam Controller one
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and the Steam Controller 2. Yeah.
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Totally different beasts, man, Totally different beasts.
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That puck is super nice. Yeah, that's the Steam
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Controller in a nutshell. I if, if, if you don't like how
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it looks, you you're worried about it, you're not gonna buy
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one, right? So like there's people who are
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just not gonna buy one. If you don't need a controller,
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I don't foresee you needing to buy this.
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No, I I, I I won't get like I'm not gonna get one 'cause I'm
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happy I got AI got ADS 2 branded PS-5 controller.
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I was thinking about even though I won't be playing it with a
10:04
controller, but because it just looks nice.
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I was thinking of getting the double O 7 first light PS-5
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controller because that looks that does look really sick, but
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that's kind of where my thing is.
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The PS-5 controller for me is is pretty perfect.
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I don't really need anything more than that.
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I don't need the the steam controller because I don't I
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don't really need the track pads.
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I don't care about the stick drift problem.
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You know, like that's not something that's really going to
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like that doesn't affect me in a way where it's like I don't use
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a controller for that long like I only play very specific games
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with them. So you know like I'm glad that
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it's it's nice. I'm glad that you like it.
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It would never really replace anything for me just because
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PS-5 controller is probably my favorite controller I've ever
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had. It just it all the bells and
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whistles, right? It's got the the haptics, the
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adaptive triggers. It's got the like the audio
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playback, but also like everything is pretty easy for me
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to navigate and like it fits comfortably in my hand.
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So there's not really much more I can ask.
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I'm not really picky about my controllers right?
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If I can get to all the buttons and it's not confusing, then I
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don't really care. I'm usually not either.
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So I was like I was stoked. I was stoked when I picked this
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up and I was like all right, cool.
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I don't feel like I'm drifting from what I'm used to on the
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Xbox controller. I'm like it's just picked it up.
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I started playing. I was like, all right, good,
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this feels great so. Good, good.
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Yes, get that out of the way. Very nice.
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Can I tell you some rumors? Yes you can.
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These aren't like a very very heavy heavy heavy heavy heavy
11:31
heavy heavy rumors, but it seems that there may be a May 12th
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announcement for GTA6. Pre-orders might go live I.
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Think I was seeing that around Twitter yesterday, yeah.
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So if that happens, wouldn't really surprise me.
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I think we're only six months out now.
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So we're, I think actually we're past the point from when?
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No, what's today, May 9th? It's May 9th.
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In like about a week it will be. I think when it was originally
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supposed to come out in May, when they announced it last
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year, that would be. Crazy if they decided fuck it,
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let's just get them. Let's get everyone charged up.
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Let's get them pre-ordered in. Let's show them what we've been
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working with. So, yeah.
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So potential that there will be, you know, some some news there
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this week, maybe a trailer, maybe what I would expect is
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maybe just the marketing push itself to kick off.
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So there will probably be a trailer that is more cinematics,
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not a lot of gameplay. And then it will be tune into
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our gameplay showcase of GTA6 a week from today, pre-orders will
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go live, you know, today, Friday, next week, whatever.
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And like people will know kind of what editions that will be
12:43
available. And I think that's kind of, and
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then I think most of everything else will just be more gameplay
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news. I genuinely, for PC players,
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which would comprise definitely you and me and a lot of the
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people in our Discord, I don't think we're gonna hear anything
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about the PC port until sometime later this year before it comes
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out or after. I can see what happening, yeah.
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Because I know that Rockstar likes to play this sort of stuff
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close to their chest, but I also, I mean, PC gaming is as
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big as it's ever been. It's bigger.
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It's rather it's it's bigger than it's ever been, and a lot
13:15
of the success of GTA5 has to do with the credit of five M
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role-playing servers and. Which Rockstar purchased.
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Which Rich Rockstar purchased. So I would expect the the
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interesting thing and we talked about this maybe on an episode a
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couple maybe a month or two ago. I wouldn't be another rumor if
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we didn't bring it up then was that there may be AQ one early
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Q2 release of the PC port next year.
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So I'm kind of interested to see if that happens.
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That'd be pretty quick it. Would be.
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The the soonest, from what I understand that's ever like the
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soonest one that's made its way to PC in recent memory between
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GTA5 and RDR 2 was RDR 2. That took about a year.
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GTA5 took about a year and four to five months.
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Which would really suck because that would mean I'm going to be
14:09
playing this game when I'm 28, even though it came out when I
14:12
was 26. I mean, I'll be playing it
14:14
prior. I'm sure I'll play it on a
14:16
console. But.
14:16
But the version that's going to be stellar is going to be the
14:19
one on the. PC, the thing that I want to
14:20
play on is going to be, yeah, the PC version.
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I also saw some news that some analysts were encouraging them
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or some people were encouraging them to.
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This is Rockstar and Take Two's chance to raise the price of
14:32
games again. But from what I understand, I
14:36
don't think they're doing that. I think they're going to keep it
14:37
at a standard, $70.00 for the standard and then they will do
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maybe 8090 whatever for the other editions 'cause I don't
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think GTA. Encourage anything like that.
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Well, because to them it's just more money and that's what the
14:51
whole point of the game is, right?
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But like, I, I think that they're going to keep it at 70.
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I think that, I mean, GTA 6 is going to be the most premium of
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premium games. I would say like in terms of a
15:02
product like that, like what you're getting.
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And I also don't think we'll ever see a game like it again.
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I think that after like with all the use of AI that's coming into
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gaming, that's already being used by Capcom and Ubisoft and a
15:13
lot of other developers that just haven't said it.
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Because that's the thing. Everybody wanted to get mad at
15:18
Larian for admitting that they used AI at the very beginning of
15:20
the process. And that was like a company that
15:23
people loved, you know, very. Yeah, so now everyone's good
15:26
relationship. Yeah, now nobody's going to say
15:29
it, but Capcom's not going to tell us shit.
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Why? Why would they?
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I love their games. I love RE-9.
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If, and genuinely if you told me that there was AI generated
15:35
assets or AI was used in the making of the game, I couldn't
15:37
tell you. It doesn't know that.
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It doesn't. It doesn't pop out at me at all.
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But you know, but yeah, those are just some light rumors that
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we might be seeing some trailer this week.
15:47
We might get a pre-order option, which would be I think pretty
15:52
cool. Although I got to say, even
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though I know I will be getting it, I will not purchase it until
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it is like the week before the game comes out.
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Give it one drunk, excited night.
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Yeah. So that's the thing.
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I got to watch out for that. I got to watch out for the the
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impulse buy of getting it. But for me it's more so just,
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yeah, I know you guys are going live with the pre-orders, but
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I'm not getting it. I don't want to purchase it and
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have you guys delay it again. So that'd.
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Be fucking wild, dude. That'd be some wild behavior.
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Yeah. So like I and I don't think
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they'll go live with the pre-order until they're
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absolutely certain they're going to make that date.
16:28
But judging by how much they've been sort of not talking about
16:32
it, but talking about it, I think they're they're pretty
16:34
confident they're going to make the November 19th.
16:36
Yeah, I think GTA is on the horizon.
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Obviously there's a date for it, but I think it's more so on the
16:41
horizon now than it ever was. Also another real quick rumor
16:45
that I'll just get out of the way cuz this shouldn't take me
16:47
very long at all. The for those who are interested
16:51
in Star Citizen Squadron 42, there is usually what ends in
16:55
the month of May slash June. There's what's called Invictus
16:58
Week. It's basically like 4th of July
17:00
style. Like it's just a celebration of
17:02
the military in the game. They usually do that to give
17:06
people a free two weeks to play the game.
17:08
So if you don't have it and your computer can run it, which
17:10
computer should be able to now because they've made a lot of
17:12
performance improvements over the past two years, it's free to
17:16
play. So you can go there, You can
17:18
play the game for free and you can fly any ship that's in the
17:20
game for free as well. They, I believe they rotate out
17:23
each day or two. So you can rent multiple ships
17:26
and you can try them out for a couple days and just see what
17:28
you like. But apparently this one's
17:30
different this year. Usually at the end, one of the
17:33
ship manufacturers takes over and it's usually Drake and they
17:36
use that. That's called Defense Con.
17:39
But apparently Invictus is now completely overtaken by Defense
17:43
Con and that there are big things coming.
17:46
One of them being it's this Orion warship that is like the
17:50
biggest ship in the game. You can actually purchase it in
17:53
game. It is 40 million credits and
17:58
obviously you couldn't fly it yourself, but the rumor there is
18:01
that this also is supposed to be the year where the first of the
18:04
single player game, Squadron 42 comes out.
18:06
So people are expecting to see a similar thing with this game I
18:10
think as well going to be a launch date, pre-order options
18:14
if you want 'cause you can't buy the game right now.
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You used to be able to 12 years ago.
18:21
You used to be able to 10 years ago.
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I bought the game. I bought Squadron 42 in 2018.
18:26
I think I have it on my account as well.
18:28
Yeah 'cause you could purchase a ship package that would give you
18:30
Star Citizen and the single player game for 65 bucks.
18:33
So it was actually pretty good deal if it came out, which still
18:38
supposedly it's supposed to be this year.
18:39
We haven't heard anything about a delay and they haven't talked
18:42
about it since 2024, so could be something there.
18:47
I think that'd be pretty interesting because man, how
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shitty would it be if this game that is actually potentially
18:53
really good gets completely crushed by GTA just due to being
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out the next week? There's a couple things people
18:59
are speculating this year that'll happen.
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So I think the yeah, sorry, go. Ahead, this game gets released
19:06
in the same year GTA gets released and possibly a Half
19:10
Life gets released. That sucks.
19:12
You just got to spread them out. Right, like you have to so let
19:16
you have to but but what I'm saying is if, if when GTA drops
19:22
and if Half Life drops, what else is anyone going to play
19:26
other than multiplayer games? Yeah.
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Single player, that's it. You're that's it.
19:33
You're playing Half Life, whatever and then GTA.
19:35
I appreciate that. Insomniac is like, yeah,
19:38
Wolverine's coming out in September.
19:39
You're going to have like 2 months.
19:41
You're going to have plenty of time to play it.
19:43
Yeah, and you got Wolverine, so you like.
19:46
You got Wolverine, these Double O seven games out this month.
19:48
I think there's probably a couple single player games
19:50
coming out through June and July and August that I can't.
19:52
Drag man is great. Go play that like but what I'm
19:55
saying is like, God that would suck.
19:57
You're in a in a full stacked year.
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Well, and especially if it comes out after right, if it's
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especially. If it comes out and it sucks.
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That's that's a whole other thing that I've I totally expect
20:07
could happen, but I will say this, it's tough.
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I can't. I can't.
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I don't. Trust them anymore dude.
20:14
I don't. I don't want to spend too much
20:15
time on this on the squadron stuff, because at the end of the
20:18
day, it's it's all just running in circles right now until it's
20:20
until it's out or until they announce that it's not.
20:23
And my thing is we have not seen a finished product from them
20:29
yet. We have only been a part of the
20:31
very janky journey of an alpha slash, you know, build of a game
20:36
that's, you know, barely running sometimes and none of the tech
20:40
exists for it the way that they want to yet.
20:42
So we just don't understand. I'm not even understand.
20:45
That's not the right word. But like, I think that the
20:48
single player experience is the better judgment of how these
20:51
devs actually are, right? Like it's a, it's a, it's a
20:55
contained experience. So you can have, you know,
20:57
that's it's their full creativity on display.
20:59
They're not bound by OK, you know, we got to make sure that
21:02
the server works properly so everybody can play together,
21:05
right? It's just you, so you don't have
21:07
to worry about all these other things.
21:09
However, it's one of those things where it, it, it, it, it,
21:15
it can't suck, right? It can't be bad because if it's
21:19
bad, that's a complete. It's just, it's a, it's a blow
21:22
up in your face like a Looney Tunes moment, right?
21:25
But. They just go away at that point.
21:27
But because it's been out, but because you've been able to
21:28
purchase it and follow it along for 12 years, it also, I think
21:33
it really has a higher bar to clear.
21:35
You have to show people that this is a project that it was
21:38
worth waiting for in some aspects.
21:39
And even then, I don't think it ever will be worth waiting for.
21:41
Same thing with GTAGTA is gonna be probably one of the best
21:45
games of my life, but I had to wait 13 years.
21:50
Don't get me started. You know, and they had, I want
21:52
to say they had to wait 13. Yeah, I know.
21:54
I know exactly what you're thinking.
21:55
But they had to wait 13 year, you know, and these devs worked
21:58
13 years of their lives to make one game, one game that yeah,
22:01
it's probably gonna sell like crazy.
22:02
It's gonna be an industry. It's gonna.
22:04
Sell more copies in the Bible. It's gonna be insane, I'm sure,
22:07
but like. GTA is more popular than God
22:11
brother. Oh, boy.
22:13
Yeah, that's John. That's The Beatles, John Lennon
22:14
moment. Yeah, I get it.
22:18
But yeah, those are some some quick, not so quick rumors about
22:21
some games potentially being, well, one game having a release
22:25
date and then the other, both of them getting potential pre-order
22:27
options. I'm excited to see what happens
22:29
with both those. Squadron 42 is a bit Star Field.
22:33
Star Citizen is a bit of a sticking point for me that I
22:37
don't want to talk about yet. I feel like that's an entirely
22:39
other episode just for us to re go into because like, I do not
22:43
trust RSI. Yeah, I get it as.
22:45
Far as I can throw them, I don't man it's they've made so much
22:50
fucking money. They have and there's
22:53
improvements. There's improvements to that
22:55
game, but still, dude. Like, but you're right, they
22:57
have it it like it's when they started selling the packages
23:01
where you could upgrade your ship and like you could purchase
23:03
missiles like on the website for real money.
23:06
Oh, that was like, no, no, no, no, no.
23:08
What the fuck are you doing? Yeah, you're, you're monetizing.
23:10
You're turning the ship into Eve, you're turning the ship
23:13
into EVE Online. And like that's it's not what I
23:15
think this game was ever supposed to to because it just
23:19
kills it the whole point. It's a first, It's a first
23:21
person perspective, you know, third person perspective game
23:24
where you can do anything from bounty hunting to serving in the
23:27
military to, you know, fucking delivering shit.
23:30
You know, you can be, you can do Death Stranding in Star Citizen.
23:33
You can just deliver cargo to you know it should.
23:35
Be planets. It should be that.
23:37
Do what you want in the universe, but.
23:40
I shouldn't be able to spend real money on ammo.
23:42
And yeah, we need. No, the game's not even
23:45
existent. It's like there, but it's not
23:47
where it needs to be. And you want me to spend more
23:49
money? I'll play it today.
23:51
I'll play it today. I'll I'll play.
23:52
I'll play an updated version. I'll give my thoughts on it when
23:55
we talk about it next. Oh.
23:56
We're going to talk about it next week.
23:58
OK, that's fine. We can do that.
23:59
I mean, we might have news, who knows?
24:01
But who knows, Who knows, there might be a ton of news there.
24:03
Might be a lot of news. Next week there might be
24:05
emergency episodes. Yeah, who knows, depending on
24:08
between. What Valve might do with their
24:11
hardware next week. What Rockstar might do with
24:13
fucking GTARSI. We don't know what's coming out
24:17
next week. I mean, fucking Nintendo.
24:19
I'd be remissed not to say this. What do you mean you're doing?
24:23
What do you mean you did a surprise Star Fox announcement?
24:27
Yeah. That's insane they just went
24:30
we're live in 5 minutes with what?
24:33
That's honestly, can I say really based.
24:34
That's also what Capcom did with the The Leon Must Die game mode,
24:39
which, by the way, yeah, well, I'll cover that just really
24:41
quick. Oh my.
24:42
God, I am so bloated today. I'm sorry Leon must die forever
24:46
is the mini game. It's just like it's not really
24:50
like a rogue light, but it's like you clear numerous stages
24:52
as Leon while you unlock exclusive enhancer abilities.
24:56
It's distinct from the main story mode and it's packed with
24:58
like replayability. It's pretty fun.
25:01
I've I've played through it. It was it was really cool.
25:03
They also added adaptive triggers, vibration functions
25:05
and the motion sensor function for the dual sense on PC as
25:09
well. And they fixed some other bugs
25:11
and things like that. But I thought it was actually a
25:13
really cool game mode. You should play it if you still
25:15
have it downloaded. But that's what the industry
25:17
needs to do just. Surprise me.
25:19
And yeah, stop telling me shit's coming out.
25:21
Three years. Later Starfox comes out next
25:24
later this month. Next month, something like.
25:26
That that's great. But like more of that more Valve
25:31
listen here, just when you do the fucking pre-orders for the
25:35
the the box, just say. And by the way, here's our tight
25:38
flagship title for it. Just do that well, and I
25:41
wouldn't be surprised if they they did say something along
25:44
those lines of hey, here's the Steam frame, here's the Steam
25:49
machine. I think.
25:49
I think the machine gets announced last.
25:52
Yeah, probably will, because it's gonna, it's gonna be
25:54
certainly the most expensive one.
25:56
But I think that they'll, I think that's what they'll do.
25:58
They will. They will do, or maybe they
26:01
won't because it's Valve. Who knows, but they might.
26:04
I think the steam frame gets announced.
26:05
I don't know if they have a game for it.
26:07
I think that they just. Will that'll only be one at this
26:09
point for the frame? I don't care like I'm gonna
26:12
play. I would like to play some VR
26:14
today because I've seen some really great progress on some
26:16
games. But at the same time, it's like,
26:19
I don't know if it's worth it because at the end of the day,
26:20
they all end up looking the same to me where like the environment
26:23
looks really good, but then I can clearly see who people are
26:27
because they look like really obvious character.
26:30
You know what I mean? Like it's it's just, it feels
26:32
very cheap, even though they're very expensive to make.
26:35
Like, but I think for the machine, I think that they will
26:39
announce it and then they will say and every you know, you
26:43
know, every console has to have a game that goes with it, right?
26:46
Except for, you know, the Xbox Series X and the PS-5
26:49
apparently. Oops, sorry.
26:52
They just went shit COVID. Remember.
26:55
Remember Halo? Yeah.
26:57
Guess what? We're making a bunch of dogs out
26:59
there. Yeah, yeah.
27:00
Well, they're, they're doing a battle.
27:02
They're doing a extraction shooter for Halo now, supposedly
27:05
so. Speaking of extraction shooters,
27:07
Bungie cost Sony a lot of money. Oh yeah, let's get into that and
27:12
let's go into our main topic. Both in purchase price.
27:15
I believe Sony paid 3.2 or 3.3 billion for Bungie several years
27:21
ago, and Sony recently reported that Sony has reported a $765
27:31
million impairment loss due to the underperformance of Bungie.
27:37
They bought Bungie, the original creator of Halo, in early 2022
27:41
in a deal valued at $3.6 billion.
27:44
Destiny 2 has failed to do the business, and Marathon is also
27:47
having a hard time breaking out. Speaking of that, I think the
27:51
last time I looked at this, yeah, the Steam charts for
27:53
marathon, it's a Saturday at 11:22 AM There's 9000 people
27:59
playing. That's not good.
28:01
The 24 hour peak was 15,000. It's all time peak was 88,000.
28:06
In comparison, a recent extraction shooter that came out
28:10
that's also on steam that's I think a little bit cheaper.
28:13
There's 68,000 people playing Arc right now.
28:16
Not good. Yeah, very, very bad.
28:18
And I can't imagine that it's much better on console.
28:20
Like I really can't. I know that it's a PlayStation
28:23
like Sony thing but like I I'm sorry I can't imagine that more
28:27
people are playing this on console.
28:29
I have no clue dude. It's.
28:30
It's I just don't see it. It's bad.
28:32
It will. It's you.
28:32
Can't see those numbers anyway. You would hate to see a
28:35
legendary studio like Bungie just get dissolved, but
28:39
something has to change there. Well, and I think what's the,
28:43
you know, what's the problem with marathon, right?
28:46
Like what? What is it about?
28:47
Like, 'cause I guess this, I don't want to make this our main
28:50
topic obviously, but like we haven't played it since March.
28:56
I've had I've had desires too, but I've not.
28:59
Me too. And I and I.
29:01
I wonder why? Because it should have been a
29:03
single player game with the multiplayer as a fucking
29:06
afterthought. That is why I would agree with
29:08
this. I would agree with because 100%.
29:11
Marathon story is so rich. The lore is rich, the aliens and
29:16
the fucking AI rampancy and the fucking human protagonists and
29:21
you're also a Cyborg. It's like there is so much to
29:24
explain there and it's rich. Do the extraction shooter thing
29:30
in the background. Release the single player
29:33
fucking if they're, but I think Sony did this.
29:37
I think Marathon was going to be a single player game and Sony
29:40
went, oh, extracted, you guys are doing that.
29:44
Right. Or at the very least, do what
29:47
they did for Bungie with with Marathon.
29:51
I just. I I learned about a story when I
29:54
fucking am getting killed by cock slapper 76 and I'm just
29:58
sitting there and you just go dropping the N word on me and
30:02
killing me and I'm trying to listen to Durandal talk.
30:06
It's a interesting point I'd like to bring up.
30:09
I played Arc Raiders for two games yesterday.
30:11
I killed a guy in the second game and he proceeded to call me
30:15
several slurs. That sort of thing is doesn't
30:21
matter to me in Arc because it's Arc.
30:23
I'm not really trying to learn the single.
30:25
I'm not trying to learn the story of it.
30:26
I kind of know it right? Like we humanity's lost, there
30:30
are robots. I'm doing like quests and other.
30:32
I'm like the guy. Yeah, like I'm doing stuff like
30:35
I'm just, but I'm like, but it's like Tarkov, right?
30:37
Like, I don't really, I don't really care about the
30:38
overarching story of it 'cause you're not.
30:40
These people don't grab me, you know?
30:42
Like Marathon's an inch. It's an alien world that's set
30:45
hundreds of years into the future.
30:47
And that's a very interesting concept because it was like
30:51
humanity sent the ship here and now these corporations have
30:55
their greedy little fingers in all of it.
30:57
And you're working for them and trying to also understand
31:01
there's there's so many things going on to unpack there.
31:04
So when you have, like you said, things like cock slapper 79,
31:08
who's calling you, you know, something that they shouldn't be
31:11
or like myself yesterday, I didn't say anything to this guy.
31:15
I just I, he ran up on me. I saw him and I'm a PvP player.
31:19
When I play extraction shooters, I'm not trying to make friends.
31:22
We are all Daisy players, brother.
31:23
We're not. We're not your friend.
31:25
I'm not. I don't trust your ass.
31:27
Like, and granted, this guy, when I shot him, he didn't say
31:29
friendly. He pulled out his gun.
31:31
He tried to shoot me, which of course I'd expect, but I got the
31:33
upper hand. I killed him.
31:34
And yeah, he just called me A bunch of nonsense.
31:38
And it's like, that doesn't matter to me because Arc is a
31:41
like APVP game. It's an extraction shooter where
31:44
I'm, I'm having fun taking other people down, getting their loot,
31:47
getting quest done, and that's it.
31:48
And when Marathon, yeah, I want to learn about the world.
31:50
I want to learn about the story. I want to especially because
31:54
isn't that kind of what you guys are making me do with the quest?
31:59
Like you're asking me to go to places that I'm not going, that
32:02
I don't normally go to. You're asking me to like when I
32:05
found those markers and I would like hit him or I'd walk by him
32:08
and they'd turn green and then Derndale would flash on my
32:10
screen or talk to me. I can't really, I can't really
32:14
pay attention to him. If somebody else is walking into
32:16
the room with me. It's like, it's like, it's like
32:19
Titanfall one. Like Titanfall one had this
32:22
weird concept where you would play the multiplayer games with
32:26
other people but they were also the story but you also couldn't
32:30
pick what side you were on so you would play 1 where you're
32:34
the the car alarm again bro. Your guy, bro.
32:38
This dude, I'm just going to keep talking like you would have
32:41
these, these multiplayer sessions where you would do this
32:45
Crazy. Yeah, like, shut up.
32:49
Like, dude, I'm going to actually go over there.
32:53
What a dude. This guy's neighbors.
32:55
Stop being a douche bro. Dude, he's still got like you're
32:59
right there. No, so you would have these
33:02
multiplayer sessions where like you'd play as the rebel team and
33:05
then you'd play as the military team and like you would switch
33:07
in between you, but you it was like matchmaking, so you didn't
33:10
get to pick, so you would just go along for it.
33:13
So it's like if you want to play as like the rebel army or
33:15
whatever, I don't remember the name of them, but like you are
33:18
like some of this, this resistance thing.
33:20
You would if you wanted to play them.
33:22
You had to just get lucky that each game you were going to
33:24
play, you were going to be on that team.
33:27
Yeah. So that, but then it also is,
33:29
it's like, what do you want me to do?
33:30
Because if I'm playing for the resistance team, I'm going to
33:34
fight as hard as I can to win those matches.
33:37
And then if you go into the next game and that's the next mission
33:39
and I'm playing as the, the like oppressors or whatever, I don't
33:43
again, don't know the names of these these armies at all
33:46
anymore. But like then it's like, why am
33:48
I incentivized to win? I want the resistance to win
33:50
because that's the team I'm I'm trying to play for.
33:53
So like then it doesn't incentivize me to really do well
33:56
because I want to. I want the game to lose.
33:57
I want to see what happens if the resistance wins this, this
34:00
game, you know, like what happens here.
34:02
So it's just, that's a long shot I think to bring in, but I think
34:07
the the same confusion around you want me to take the time to
34:11
play slow and learn about the world and and like get
34:15
enthralled by all this stuff, but you also want me to have to
34:19
contend with other players who are simply not going to be
34:23
playing that way. They don't know.
34:26
That's why you. Shouldn't have to be pigeonholed
34:28
into playing a certain way. No, and I and I and I agree with
34:31
the phrase like don't hate the player, hate the game.
34:33
But man, gamers, you guys really don't make it any better for
34:37
ourselves when you guys spend like 100 hours in a single week
34:41
playing one game, learning everything about it and then
34:43
like you go, well, like that's just the way I that's just the
34:46
way to play the game. It's like, no, like, just relax.
34:51
Like, God, yeah, Marathon will fail because they neglected.
34:56
Yeah, it's they. They're doing a lot of cool
34:58
stuff, but that's on the outside.
35:01
But it's cool for it's cool for us to watch and think about
35:04
getting into, but at the end of the day, we don't play it.
35:07
Once you get. In there you're like.
35:08
Oh no, you're good. Once you get in there, you're
35:10
like, OK, so like all that cinematic you've showed me, all
35:13
the cool merch you're selling, all the cool shit you're showing
35:16
online, and these AR GS, they boil down to an extraction
35:20
shooter. Really it all.
35:22
But you've boiled Marathon down to an extraction shooter.
35:26
I wouldn't even care if you made it an extraction shooter that
35:28
was single player. Totally fine.
35:30
At least I can get through the story.
35:32
I wouldn't care because then I have the world to, I have the
35:36
world to get pulled into, I have the AI enemies and then just
35:41
like just like single player Tarkov does this.
35:43
That was a mod that came out way before the Pve version of
35:46
Tarkov. And Tarkov itself has a Pve
35:48
version where they give Pve instead of human PMCS that you
35:54
would fight in the normal game mode.
35:55
They just have AI that replaces them and it's like, just just do
35:59
that. You already do it.
36:01
You you've, you've made the UESC.
36:03
Enemies on the map. Yeah, just replace them with the
36:06
actual runners and their abilities and give them, you
36:09
know, play styles that would reflect that and put me in the
36:12
middle of that. And then it's like, make it
36:14
difficult. It's already hard enough when
36:15
you get overwhelmed by the UESC you die like it.
36:18
It's yeah. One kick from a bot?
36:20
Dude, you're. It's a great game.
36:22
It really, I genuinely like it, but at the same time, I, every
36:26
time I think about playing it, I just go inside because I'm just
36:29
like, what am I going to do? I'm going to go to, OK, they
36:32
gave, they gave everybody free kits for cryo, so I'm going to
36:35
go cryo. I've played, that was the last
36:37
time I played. It was that weekend when it came
36:39
out. So that was like mid to late
36:41
March and I haven't played it since.
36:44
I want to because they have that cryo archive kit so you can go
36:47
in for like at least one free time because it looked like an
36:49
amazing place. But at the same time, how many
36:53
people am I going to run into that are level 60?
36:57
Level 100, they've already fought the compiler a million
37:00
times because they had the time to do it.
37:03
So they have the compiler's goo gun and they're just killing you
37:06
with it. Yeah, like that's the thing.
37:09
And then that that one kit that was freed, that was 5000 for me
37:12
is just moot because I died in the first minute and a half
37:15
because somebody, some other team only plays this game.
37:19
But like, and again, I don't think it's a problem necessarily
37:21
with those three people. I think it's a problem with how
37:25
are you, Why are you matchmaking someone who hasn't played in the
37:27
month and 1/2 with people who have played every day, right.
37:30
Like I think that there has to be, I'm not advocating for it to
37:35
be made just so easy that it's, it feels like it's single
37:38
player, even though it's not, but for the love of God, make it
37:42
feel like something where I actually want to play, because
37:44
that's that's why I only played two games of Arc.
37:47
Like I, I wanted to play more, but I, I genuinely sitting
37:50
there, I sit there and I look at it and I go, what am I going to
37:53
do? Like I'm going to, I'm going to
37:55
run around. I'm going to get killed by some
37:56
guy who I didn't even hear and he's going to come over.
37:59
He's going to call me the N word 16 times as he's punching me
38:02
out. And then it's like that guy's
38:04
not going to get banned, you know, like he's not going to get
38:08
in trouble. So whatever, Like, what's the
38:11
point? Let me just play dust ranning.
38:12
I'll deliver pack. Exactly.
38:14
Yeah, exactly. Evan, go ahead and close this
38:16
out on our last topic for the day.
38:18
So the last topic that we were talking about, which I think we
38:21
spoke earlier last week, this is related to a different Sony
38:24
slash PlayStation title. This is from this is related to
38:29
Soros, the game that just came out I think April 30th from
38:32
House Mark, the makers of Returnal, which I want to play.
38:36
Now that I've seen Soros, I kind of want to give Returnal a go
38:39
and I all I want to give Soros a go as well.
38:41
But again, it's a PlayStation on the game and it also looks like
38:44
a game I would love with a mouse.
38:46
But why can't I have nice things?
38:48
I don't know but. Thank you, Sony.
38:51
This came up from a Twitter user.
38:53
I believe they've since deleted this tweet.
38:56
Pirate Nation. Scumbag fuck face don't like
39:00
you. They basically LED with people
39:03
who did not play sorrows started spreading misinformation around
39:10
the game story, the game story, specifically Raul Coley's
39:14
character. This will be I'm going to say
39:16
right now spoilers because I'm going to cover the whole topic
39:19
here. And this has to do with the
39:20
story of the game and, and things like that.
39:22
But basically, from what I understand it because this was
39:25
from a Kotaku article where the person who wrote it, which is
39:28
crazy because I don't really have a lot of nice things to say
39:30
about Kotaku. But either this was a a a good
39:35
article because I thought it provided really good it it
39:39
provided a lot of context into what is happening.
39:43
So yeah, this was from at pirate no E under score nation claiming
39:48
that the game included a quote storyline involving a cucked man
39:52
being betrayed and left by his wife for a lesbian woman.
39:55
It also included a doctored image of Arjun's crew.
39:58
Arjun is the main character that you play as.
40:00
Nitya and Kayla are two members as well.
40:05
Nitya was Arjun's wife and it was this is a whole doctored
40:10
image of her embracing Kayla, who is another member of Arjun's
40:13
crew. They are never seen on screen
40:15
together in sorrow, not once. Nitya did not leave Arjun for
40:21
her because they don't even know each other.
40:23
So what actually happens is a whole other thing.
40:26
But it got it got pulled into the culture war immediately.
40:31
Completed the bullshit. Completed bullshit and and
40:34
Twitter is is a big problem with this because nothing is really
40:37
ever verified anymore. Nothing is ever confirmed or
40:40
denied by anybody. But yeah, essentially the entire
40:46
this entire thing got pulled in and I just I feel bad.
40:49
I feel bad for Raul. I feel bad for the other two
40:52
people who played Nitya and Kayla and the house mark team,
40:56
because this by and large for me when I when I saw it looked
41:00
really interesting. I also love Rahul because I like
41:03
I watch. I watch a lot of Funhouse.
41:05
Midnight Mass. He was great in.
41:06
He was great in Midnight Mass, but I also, I when I first saw
41:10
him, he was in Funhouse because he was in iZombie as well.
41:13
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, and he was friends with some
41:16
of the some of the people in in that on that YouTube channel.
41:18
So that's where I first saw him and I loved, I loved him.
41:20
He was very funny when I saw him in those episodes.
41:23
And then I realized he was an actor.
41:24
I thought that was cool. And I love that he's the, he's
41:27
the main guy, he's on the, he's on the box, right?
41:29
Like that's cool that that's exciting.
41:31
So I feel bad that this happens. I mean, it happens just
41:36
consistently because nobody, it's all just everyone's filled
41:39
with rage and, and it's like, this is not a cup story.
41:42
This is not like I, I don't get what, who, who's this for who,
41:48
who's like, what are you? What, what were you trying to
41:51
get out of it though? Because it's not like the game's
41:53
going to get cold collects. I mean, yeah, I guess so.
41:55
It's just clicks. It's just fucking money.
41:57
Guys, these are not the accounts you see on Twitter from Grums to
42:02
Pirate Nation which fuck you fuck face fat virgin fuck face
42:07
stupid fucking cunt. OK grums, I will punch you in
42:11
your fucking face. Fuck them.
42:15
They cause rage baiting bullshit, right?
42:18
They talk about games. They talk about women in games
42:20
and how you can't be a strong protagonist but hey, dumb
42:24
fucking dumpy fuck Laura Croft exists, Alex Vance exists.
42:30
What are you talking about? You can't be a strong and woman
42:33
in video games. These women exist in games and
42:36
they're some of those badass fucking characters.
42:38
You can be OK, cool people of color can't be in games.
42:42
What are you talking about? These fat dumpy fucks and I'll
42:46
bring I'll bring it back in a moment.
42:49
They make it hard for my point is they make it hard for
42:52
channels like us, Boss Rush, Podcasting with Power and other
42:59
what The Famicon and other awesome Big Temp and other
43:04
awesome places to talk about gaming news, to talk about the
43:08
things that we actually love. And we actually love video games
43:13
and the stories that we're able to fucking explore because of
43:16
them. Yeah, these are the same people
43:18
who made a big stink about Diana and Pragmata, OK?
43:22
Yeah. Yeah, she is a fucking Android.
43:25
Yeah, and if you play the story, you understand why she looks
43:28
like that. But no, you didn't play it and
43:31
no it and yes, you reported on it to rage bait and talk about
43:35
pedophilia. And then what you did was you
43:37
had these. Weird.
43:39
They talked about like the birth rates and it's like it's like,
43:41
oh, the birth rates are going to shoot up.
43:42
It's like, what are you talking about?
43:44
And what you did was you sparked an online resurgence of these
43:49
openly fucking weird people talking about, wow, look at her
43:54
feet. What?
43:54
No, you fucking weirdos, dude. But that's what they do.
43:59
They click bait and they rage bait and they get people like me
44:03
and my chubby fucking ass freaking out and pissed off on a
44:05
show. But that's because I I love what
44:09
we do on this show. I love what Boss Rush does.
44:12
Big temp fucking podcasting with power.
44:14
I love what they all do. Absolutely, because we love what
44:17
we talk about. All those people just want
44:19
clicks. They want clicks.
44:20
They want to be salacious. And look what happened.
44:23
That Pirate Nation dude got in the Kotaku.
44:27
Yeah. I have called Jason Schreier a
44:30
piece of shit Skinless grape being fucked for so fucking.
44:32
You've never been mentioned once.
44:34
He fucking blocked us. But he's a problem too.
44:37
Jason Schreyer's a problem too. Because he what he does is he
44:41
grabs information, he fucking investigates, and then he holds
44:45
shit and allows abuse and cycles of abuse to continue.
44:49
And then once the news breaks, he, because he helps break it,
44:52
he drops a book. Fuck you too.
44:55
Like I, I, I know that I know that there was from one of the
45:00
Rockstar devs. He had apparently one of the
45:02
Rockstar devs had tweeted on their own personal account, but
45:05
then had since deleted it because it was most certainly a
45:08
mistake and they probably got in trouble.
45:11
But he this this dev was like, I he's like, no, like Jason Trier
45:16
is not good because he basically learned that we were going to
45:18
release the trailer and then he reported on it 24 hours prior
45:22
and just didn't wait. So it's like he he reported on
45:25
that because he had to get that out.
45:26
But like other things, he would sit on or maybe not reveal until
45:31
it was like convenient. Like the whole Blizzard thing.
45:34
Yeah, he dropped the. Book that's my problem though
45:37
these people have such carte blanche and they have these they
45:40
have these this following, but they don't deserve it right.
45:45
It's not me sitting here going I want my show to be bigger.
45:47
I would love for was to be bigger, but in a sea of that,
45:50
how do you navigate? So we either have to fucking go
45:53
down the beaten path of acting like them or we just continue,
45:56
which we're not going to do. We're going to continue doing
45:58
this, but it's like they flooded the the creator space with their
46:03
fake journalism. There's a lot of, there's,
46:05
there's a lot of that going around.
46:07
There's a lot of just like that. Like that's not like Pirate
46:09
Nation. That's not journalism.
46:10
What did you even report on that from?
46:12
You just tweeted that out. And because your account gets
46:15
put onto people's feeds and it clicks the algorithm a lot, it
46:18
got thrown around and people just believe it because they
46:20
don't actually verify anything anymore.
46:23
And it's like that's another problem in and of itself that we
46:25
can't fix. And we can't fix this problem
46:27
with with people like that either.
46:29
But we can't call it out when we see it and, and just point it
46:33
out. Like it's not hard to point out
46:35
when, when these people are lying.
46:36
Like it's not hard to point out when it's just completely absurd
46:40
thinking. Like the whole, the pragmatic
46:42
thing was really, really bothersome because I, I was just
46:46
like, what I was like, this is this is your guys's own doing
46:51
because you're, you're living in your own world.
46:53
Like the new Laura Croft is coming out, which is which is a
46:56
recreation of what? The first game, right?
46:57
The new Laura Croft. What's up?
46:59
The new Tomb Raider coming out, isn't that a recreation of like
47:02
an older one or it's I don't know if it's an if it's a
47:05
recreation of the older one or it's.
47:06
Just like UE5. But doesn't it?
47:08
But OK, either way, it's more of a classic Laura Croft look.
47:11
She's got the, she's got the blue tank.
47:13
Tops. She's got yes, she she she is.
47:17
I don't know. I don't she's not not like she's
47:20
she's attractive and this one she was attractive in the
47:21
previous one. So I don't understand what the
47:23
whole. Laura Croft is just awesome and
47:24
timeless. Yeah, there's she's never looked
47:27
like I I hate using this phrase. She never looked and I'm using
47:31
air Croats wokeified, whatever that means, like.
47:35
Noah. She she like she always looked
47:37
the same, like, yeah, they just didn't make it so that way.
47:41
She had like a low cut top because like that's not really
47:45
what you're playing the fucking game for.
47:47
You're playing the game because it's it's the original
47:51
Uncharted, It's the original like, you know, iteration of
47:55
this. And it's a, it's a that series
47:57
was. Nathan Drake too by.
47:59
The way she is. But that's kind of those things
48:02
where it's just like you out yourself when you say these
48:05
things, you out yourself when you point these things out,
48:08
like, oh, this game is going to do so well because Laura Croft's
48:11
tits are back. No, it's going to do it's it
48:13
might do fine. It might not.
48:15
It really makes no difference because that's that's like,
48:19
like, and also I just wouldn't, I would be less inclined to buy
48:22
the fucking game if the devs came out and they're like, her
48:26
tits are back boobs. Yeah, like boobs.
48:29
Like, oh, really? That's it?
48:30
Like you're just appealing to the caveman part of every
48:33
person's brain like I. Want to play the new Tomb
48:35
Raiders? I don't need it to, yeah.
48:38
Because have you ever wanted to just explore?
48:42
Have. You just wanted to play a single
48:43
player game because it looks cooler to you.
48:45
And you're Laura Croft. And then, Oh no, I fall down
48:48
this fucking like hole and there's dinosaurs now there's
48:53
ponies. What?
48:55
It's just I'm in a fucking other world.
48:58
It's cool. This fucking guy dude. 3 * 3
49:02
times. Third time no.
49:05
Oh, the car alarm guy. I'm gonna kill him.
49:06
I'm gonna go over there and be. Like dude in Minecraft.
49:09
In Minecraft, what do you just, we need to wrap this up because
49:13
I'm gonna, I'm gonna wrap this. Guy, my problem is this.
49:17
Oh. My.
49:18
Gosh, journalism never has really had that much integrity
49:22
because it's all about getting those scoops and being salacious
49:25
and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
49:29
It has had integrity. You calm it down, video game.
49:32
It's had integrity. What I'm saying?
49:33
Gaming Journal. You don't talk shit on my guy
49:35
Walter Cronkite like that. That's OK.
49:37
I'm not going to talk shit about Walter Cronkite.
49:39
What I'm saying is this, Walter. Walter Walter Cronkite.
49:43
We do what we do because we love it and whether we reach an
49:46
audience of 5 or 105, I don't care.
49:50
I just like talking about this. I like talking about the stories
49:53
that released. I like doing our emergency
49:55
episodes, even though it's annoying and last minute where
49:57
I'm like, hey, gotta get an episode out right now.
50:00
This just happened in the moment.
50:02
It's annoying for everybody, but then we do it and we're like, Oh
50:03
my God, that was a blast. We do it because we love it.
50:06
The other channels I brought up do it because they love it.
50:09
They don't need to do the salacious headlines and the the
50:12
thumbnails that look like you just took a load in the mouth
50:15
like you don't. They don't need to do that
50:18
because they just it's fun. We have fun, We love what we do,
50:23
and these other channels who do it don't love what they're
50:26
doing. They just do it because they get
50:27
the fucking Elon Musk money through Twitter because they've
50:30
just rage baited people like me to go no, you're a fuck head.
50:34
And yes, I really quick to say this grums and pirate nation.
50:37
I will do a fucking one V2 in real life, set up a boxing match
50:42
and we're not. It's just full street ball.
50:43
I'll beat the brakes off both you fat fucking virgins get.
50:47
Them, Nick. Get them.
50:48
But yeah, I am. It's.
50:50
Like a yeah woof woof yeah. So edgy.
50:57
I would fight them in person. Who are you talking to?
51:01
Who are you talking to in Discord right now?
51:03
I'm asking, I asked Noah if he was leaving, leaving because he
51:05
just disconnected. He'll be back. him and I are
51:08
recording today. We're banking episodes, boys.
51:10
That's really good. WSD is getting on top of our
51:12
shit that that's my thought. Like follow who you follow.
51:17
Wario 64 is a great example of an awesome Twitter account.
51:21
He does great things. So that's my thoughts.
51:26
Fuck the fake fucking weird click baby journalism.
51:30
Find somebody you like and follow them and if they're
51:33
reporting ethically and good shit to you.
51:36
Make sure that. Also just make sure to like make
51:41
sure that you get your information from multiple
51:43
sources and that you verify. Make sure that you know, like if
51:46
you see something like that tweet from Pirate nation,
51:49
confirm it go. Is this real?
51:52
You know other things. You can Fact Check us.
51:54
I'm sure that we're wrong about shit all the time, but I I
51:58
promise that we when we are wrong, we are wrong because we
52:01
are not informed, not because we are trying to spread some sort
52:05
of script. We didn't read the script.
52:07
We don't write shit for this show folks.
52:09
But I I can say without a doubt that when we forget things or
52:12
because we're if we're incorrect about things, rather not forget.
52:15
But when we're wrong about things, it is truly because we
52:18
we don't know and we're just talking off the top of our head
52:21
or or we miss something, but it's never from a place of I I
52:24
know the truth and we are deliberately trying to tell you
52:27
other. Exactly.
52:28
It is never because that's just, it's not who I am personally,
52:32
it's not who Nick is and it's what's the point in that?
52:36
I don't, I'm not I don't do this shit for money.
52:39
I'm I'm talking with this, I'm talking to you about all this
52:42
stuff because I love to talk to you about it, right?
52:44
Just because we. Over on a Saturday, right?
52:46
Do this because I love it. Right.
52:47
We're not doing it because there's money involved in this.
52:50
And even if there was, it's like, OK, but there's no point
52:53
in lying to people. It only makes.
52:54
You gonna buy me? I don't wanna unless, unless,
52:57
unless I'm lying to people because it makes them be kinder
53:00
to each other than now. Like every lie that these people
53:02
tell is meant to divide you further.
53:05
Yeah. It's meant to make you angry at
53:07
us and angry at the game next to you.
53:09
We're woe cucks. By the way, yeah, like we're,
53:12
we're we're low tea soy boys because we can clearly see the
53:17
obvious things that Soros is not.
53:19
Like, you know, being. Cucked.
53:23
The whole thing you just did was pretty low tea.
53:26
I gave myself a bigger headache doing that.
53:28
Yeah, I'm sure you did. I'm gonna pop so.
53:32
Many fuck. OK, again, we do what we do
53:35
because we love doing this show. We love the industry that we
53:38
talk about and it's not in a good spot.
53:41
And we, in my opinion, this shit makes it worse for the
53:44
developers, for the players, for the actual journalists with
53:49
integrity. Go find good people, find your
53:53
people that you like to listen to, whether it be us or other
53:55
people that we just we we talked about here, Go do that, but
53:58
don't fucking fall for the rage bait me yelling and doing all
54:02
that's a bit. I don't fall for it.
54:04
Like I just ignore them. But thank you for listening,
54:07
guys. Happy Mother's Day, everybody.
54:10
'S day. It's all the good moms out
54:13
there, Mom. Looking at you, Carrie.
54:14
Love you. Look at you, Perry.
54:16
Love you. My mom's name is Carrie.
54:18
My wife's name is Perry. And looking at you.
54:20
Needy. Love you dog, you got you got
54:22
anything to. Say love you, man.
54:24
I'm not going to. I'm not going to say her name.
54:26
We're not going to, we're not going to name drop Evan's mom,
54:29
but. The tamps here.
54:31
You just did it. No, that could be anything.
54:35
That's true. End it, end it, end it, end it.
54:37
Take it easy everybody. See you guys next week, go check
54:40
out Final Walks. Goodbye.
55:15
Music.