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Uninformed Echoes · Dad Needs To Talk

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  What's up Y'all, and welcome back to Dad Needs to Talk.
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  I'm your host Robert and today today I'll be talking about
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  Uninformed Echoes and specifically my thoughts on the
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  Suicide Squad game as well as some other stuff like some
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  winter anime and some other games about Touched On.
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  But before I get into all that, as always, if this is your first
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  time here then welcome, but if you're a returning listener and
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  or watcher then welcome back. Y'all know here and daddy to
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  talk. It's a conversational show all
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  about discussions and reviews surrounding fatherhood and
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  family manga, anime, TV, movies and of course video games.
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  So here everybody out there is doing well.
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  It is still been a kind of a crazy time for my family with
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  where I talked about last episode.
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  I'm not going to go into it again, but kind of still dealing
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  with that family situation and stuff.
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  But in the midst of that, you know, trying to find some
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  positivity and of course, you know, having support of family
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  and friends and then of course having some interesting things
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  to kind of divert my attention to, like some anime, some very
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  awesome winter anime I'm going to touch on later in the show.
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  Addition, if if you're new here, whatever, check the timestamps
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  for any specific topics and stuff you want to jump to.
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  But yeah, I'm going to touch on some of the new winter anime as
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  well as a couple of game demos and stuff, but before that life
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  talk. So family and stuff, like I
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  said, still kind of going through things or whatever, but
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  all but in general, everybody's doing OK You know, school
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  started back the last week, so we're kind of been getting back
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  in the swing of things with that.
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  So kids had their first basketball game from winter
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  break and stuff. Daughters did OK though.
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  Both of them lost their games. But and my son, his team is
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  still his school. I should specify it's still
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  undefeated and stuff and so shout out to what is this
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  called? DDM Sports on Instagram?
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  Davis Digital Media. It is somebody here in the DFW
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  area who you can hire to record games and put put together like
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  a editing package and stuff, whatever.
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  So we, my wife hired him, came out to my son's home game this
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  week, and this guy does fantastic work on those of
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  y'all. Watching the video version of
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  the podcast on YouTube. I got the video up on on screen
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  now, whatever for y'all to see. But.
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  And it's kind of funny because, you know, I've mentioned before,
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  my wife does all the home games and I do all the away games
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  because our oldest son and our twin daughters, they're all in
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  the eighth grade. And so, of course, they all do
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  basketball, which means that each week, you know, the boys
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  play one spot, the girls play another.
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  So we just decided, hey, wife, you'll do all, my wife should do
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  all the home games. I'll do all the away games.
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  And so this week my son played home, daughters played away.
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  So I was at their game and I was kind of laughing watching this
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  footage, whatever, because my wife, you know, was Timmy was
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  like, yeah, Jay, he kind of had a off game or whatever, wasn't
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  really doing his best, whatever. And of course I shout out to the
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  do the do the footage or whatever but and off game for my
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  son he still drops think she said like 15 or something or
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  whatever this game. And then even today he got
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  invited to guest star with a different team this week just as
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  like a a pickup game and in a in a tournament that was that was
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  happening in the area. And The funny thing is is like
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  she said he went off like the three games he did he scored 15
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  the first game or no 1517 something 15 the first game I
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  think 19 the second game and 27 the third game.
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  So hey man he'd be putting in work but but yeah so shout shout
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  out to DDM sports if you're here in the DFW area check out their
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  Instagram page and hit him up you know for for pricing stuff.
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  Like I said hey he did fantastic work on recording my son's game
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  and then you know doing chopping it down doing some Edison stuff
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  that he puts up and promotes on his Instagram page and that he
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  also gives you a full copy of the full game as well that he
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  recorded. So that's that's like a pretty
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  dope package and I think for this one I think it was like 80
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  bucks, which honestly is not bad for the work that he did and the
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  turn around time like I think like that same night or whatever
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  or at least early the next morning he already had this
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  package that I showed on video whatever on the screen already
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  done or whatever. So and then he sent my wife the
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  full thing within the next day or so.
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  But yeah, so. Very very dope stuff.
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  Well, yeah. So aside from that, you know, a
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  lot of y'all know I live in Texas in the DFW area, and so
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  I'm sure a lot of y'all are here preparing for this little cold
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  front we got coming over the next couple of days.
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  So I just thought I was like, you know what, it's Saturday
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  night. I'm a kind of, you know, record
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  and stuff, whatever. And then just buckle down to
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  snuggle up for a couple days and stuff.
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  But I hope everybody out there stays safe and stays warm and
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  hopefully this is just like a light, you know, little thing
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  that'll kind of pass whatever. Because I don't think there's no
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  indication this is going to be nothing crazy like what we've
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  had in the last couple of years where it's like, hey, everything
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  shut down for a week or whatever, so but but yeah, so
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  otherwise like I said, things have been pretty pretty chill.
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  Literally and figuratively speaking.
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  There is a I'm I'm gonna give a shot 'cause this be the only
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  manga thing I'm gonna touch on or whatever 'cause I don't yeah,
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  there there's nothing else life wise I wanna talk about.
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  So just gonna give a quick shout out to there's a manga I've been
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  reading through over the last week and make sure I get the
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  actual name. Sorry, let me see.
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  Rainbow. Here it is.
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  Yeah, here it is. It's called Rainbow The.
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  I always get the name mixed up I believe.
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  Yeah. Rainbow the 7th from cell six
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  block 2. Now this honestly and I am not
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  lying. This has been one of the best
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  things I have read in a long time.
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  Now the manga is done and they did a 26 episode of anime.
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  They pretty much covered the kind of like first two-story
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  arcs, whatever of the show of the of the manga.
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  But I discovered it because I was on Crunchyroll last week and
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  I can't remember if if it had just got added to Crunchyroll or
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  if it was just my recommended thing.
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  But anywho I see something. Whatever.
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  I just call it Rainbow and I'm like what the heck is this?
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  So I'm click on it or whatever looking around at it and
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  something like OK And so I know as I do do my research and I'm
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  looking around social media Twitter and stuff, whatever.
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  And one of the homies that I follow on Twitter, whatever had
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  it listed with some other series that I really enjoy.
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  As far as I think it was like Villa Saga Kaiji and it was, it
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  was another one that that they had that they had it in the same
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  conversation with. And so I was like, OK, I need to
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  reach out to this person and see like what what's up with, what's
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  up with this series? OK yeah.
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  The other series was Parasite, the Maxim.
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  So I'm like, OK, you got this thing listed with Kaiji, the
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  Ultimate Gambler, which I just watched a year or two years ago,
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  Venezuela, which is one of my all time favorites, which is why
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  I got it on my shelf behind me, and Parasite, a classic.
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  So I'm like, OK, what is this thing?
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  Whatever. So basically in a in a basic
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  nutshell because I do plan on giving this series its own
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  separate thing at some point in time.
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  But basically it follows 6. They're considered minors
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  because they're at the start of the story.
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  They're like 1617 years old and who have the nicknames of Joe
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  Mario, Supan Bermoto, Haiti and Kia Batsa or Kaya Batsu.
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  And then the 7th one is a guy that they meet a little bit
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  later called Sakuragi. And so basically all seven of
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  these young men end up in this juvenile facility for a variety
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  of things, some of which is crimes or things that they did
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  and like to like protect somebody or where basically
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  people don't have, don't know the full context for all these
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  different situations. But you know, this is, I think
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  what posts think World War 2, I believe.
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  And so, OK, this is about the 1950s and so, yeah, so basically
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  it's just a lot of crimes and stuff going on, whatever.
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  And a lot of people just kind of getting thrown into prison
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  systems and stuff like that. But anyway, so it basically just
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  follows these seven young men and how they come together and
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  form one of the dopest brotherly bonds I have seen in recent
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  memories and just all the situations that they go through
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  within this prison. And like there is some stuff in
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  here like this is like super high mature, right or whatever.
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  This is basically some stuff that a young guts from Berserk
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  went through and a certain situation that he got put in or
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  whatever. If you know what I'm talking
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  about, then put two and two together with, you know young
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  man in a prison system and you get with probably some stuff
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  that happened or whatever. So, but throughout all this,
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  whatever, of course that's the whole story is not just them in
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  this prison, but that's kind of like the starting point of it or
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  whatever. But I am about 120 something
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  chapters in. So I'm pretty much in like the
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  kind of like third arc so to speak, whatever, because it kind
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  of does the, the, the flow of it to where it's like you know
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  after a certain point it's like part one and Part 2 end.
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  So I just started part three and of course lots of time has
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  happened over the course of this.
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  I think where I'm at now, I think it's been maybe five to
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  six years. I think collectively, I think
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  for for where I'm at right now, 'cause 'cause they are, all the
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  kids were 1617 when this started and most of them are 2021 at
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  this point or whatever. So, so yeah, so a handful of
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  years, but but yeah, it is just been so, so, so, so fantastic.
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  Like I said, just seeing just like all the different
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  situations that these guys go through and the way they stick
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  together and you get back story for all of the for all of the
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  kids. And you also get growth and
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  development arcs for each of them continuously throughout
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  this story to where you kind of deal with each of them and
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  certain arcs within each part. So each of them kind of go
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  through certain things within the overall story arc, whatever.
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  And the driving theme with all of them is that they are always
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  there to support each other and have each other's back, even
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  when it's stuffed where it's like, hey, this person's being
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  hard headed or they're kind of in over their head or you know,
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  they don't want to listen to reason.
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  They will go above and beyond, like through mud, dirt,
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  fighting, whatever the case may be, whatever pull, whatever
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  strings of connection they need to whatever to support their
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  brotherhood. And so it has just been
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  fantastic. And some of the surrounding cast
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  members and people that have, that they've encountered on the
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  way have been have been super amazing and stuff as well.
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  So yeah, it it has just been a very fantastic manga to read.
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  And so I was debating on if I wanted to do like a separate
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  podcast episode for like different parts or whatever, or
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  if I'm just going to just go through it all.
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  I might just go through, just finish it all because I'm
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  already kind of like at the halfway point and then just do a
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  general overall serious discussion because I think this
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  is something that I don't need to tell every single detail of
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  whatever, but I do want to talk about in general.
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  So. So yeah, so rainbow, the seven
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  from cell 6. Compound two.
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  Yeah. Cell six, block 2.
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  So, yeah, yeah, very, very, very dope stuff.
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  Yeah, Like says what, 235 chapters total.
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  I do. Kind of want to try to maybe?
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  Watch the anime as well before I do like a for like review thing
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  whatever on it. But we'll see we'll see when
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  when that time comes and stuff. So, all right, so now for kind
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  of the the kind of main topic thing that I want to touch on
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  and like I said, this is kind of stemming off of stuff that's
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  going on with the Suicide Squad killed the Justice League game
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  and the kind of discussions happening around it.
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  So that's what I'm about to talk about.
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  OK. So.
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  Before I fully. Fully dive into this this
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  Suicide Squad game situation. I'm going to give a.
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  Little bit of. Context for my point of view
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  where I'm about to come from in this discussion, because that is
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  why I'm a title. This episode, Unim Uninformed,
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  echoes so. We can I.
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  Can finally talk about this. So back at the end of November,
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  I believe I got a chance to play the Suicide Squad kill the
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  Justice League Alpha test. So I got an invite for that.
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  But we were under NDA to where? We can't even talk about it,
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  which at first it sucked, but it was like whatever it is, what it
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  is, but as the last. Couple months have gone by and
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  then last week. They did a a lot of like bigger
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  gaming websites and publications and stuff, whatever went to a
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  preview event where they also got to play it or whatever and
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  share their thoughts on it and stuff.
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  And it's just been chaos across social media and stuff for the
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  last week and it. Sucked seeing the chaos unfold
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  and not being able to like fully, fully give my thoughts
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  and opinions on the game because we were under NDA or whatever.
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  Which, you know, a lot of people still have been speaking
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  anyways, whatever, but trying to do my best to honor as as close
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  as possible. But finally the other day they
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  were like, hey alpha players, I can finally talk about it,
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  whatever. So that is why I'm here, to talk
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  about it. Mainly because I want to talk
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  about my experiences that I have with the game, because there is
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  so much kind of like misinformation going around
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  about this game. A lot of uninformed people
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  online talking about stuff that they have no clue about because
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  they didn't even play the game or they haven't played the game
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  yet and it. It's just like just a lot of
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  just like chaos and stuff, whatever, so.
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  For for preview. Events and stuff like this with
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  a lot of like like some like IGN and GameSpot, like the bigger.
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  Publications and content creators and stuff, Whatever.
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  I think a lot of times whenever we see thoughts, opinions,
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  articles, whatever, that it is important that you as a listener
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  or watcher or reader of whatever, the coverage is, that
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  you have as much clearer context for.
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  The situation that the person got to play the game and stuff
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  in. And so like for example for IGN
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  they mentioned that, you know they went through like the
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  initial tutorial thing, whatever play kind of like like like the
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  intro part of the game. And then they got jumped into
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  like a few chapters later in the game, whatever with a different
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  character and all this stuff whatever.
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  And a lot of just like stuff just unlocked or whatever.
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  And they didn't have much time to pay around or whatever
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  because they basically had like I think they got like 3 hours or
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  so. For their preview event or
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  whatever. So with that being said and what
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  I was reading through that article and some of the other
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  discussions and stuff I'm seeing going around.
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  So from my perspective in the alpha, we got to play that
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  tutorial part or whatever, but we got to play without any skips
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  ahead or anything, whatever, from the very beginning of the
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  game up through basically a boss fight with Green Lantern.
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  So but aside from that or whatever, so once you trigger
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  that or whatever, then you know that's kind of the stopping
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  point of the alpha. But if you never go into that
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  mission or whatever, we kind of had unlimited time to play.
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  I think. I think collectively I may be
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  playing like a handful of hours, but I know some people who
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  played dozens of hours during that alpha period, 'cause we had
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  it for maybe like a few days to maybe a week tops, I believe,
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  maybe a few days, so 3:00 to 5:00 or so days, whatever.
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  And so from my time playing the game, it actually turned me
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  around on it. Because once again, just going
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  off of the initial way that the game was shown or whatever and
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  how lot of people been talking about whatever, it was kind of
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  like, I don't know if this is going to be my type of thing or
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  whatever, but I am so happy I got a chance to actually play
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  myself like I said. In a way to It's like, hey, I'm
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  at home playing on my own system with no little to no
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  restrictions whatever. So I played through the intro
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  part or whatever. And so I will say that intro
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  part was a little wonky trying to get used to it because you
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  basically the tutorial thing, whatever made me play through
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  all four of the characters. So just as a reminder, Harley
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  Quinn, Captain Boomerang, King Shark and Deadshot.
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  So you play through as each of the four characters or whatever,
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  just kind of like getting kind of like like a like a basic feel
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  for how they move and stuff, whatever, but playing through
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  that tutorial intro part or whatever.
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  I was kind of like, I honestly was not feeling it at that point
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  or whatever. And I was like man, I don't know
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  that this this feels super weird because the way a lot of like
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  the the button layouts and controls like like like the the
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  button mapping or whatever was kind of.
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  Finicky. Whatever.
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  You know, like I said, just like me just jumping in new or
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  whatever. But I ended up being happy that
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  I stuck with it because once you actually start the story mode,
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  this is where I saw the signs of Rock Steady Studios.
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  And just a reminder for those who might have forgot, this is
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  the same studio who made the Batman Arkham trilogy so Arkham
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  Asylum. Arkham City.
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  Arkham Knight and of course it's been almost a decade since
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  Arkham Knight. So it's been a long time people
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  been waiting for a new game from them.
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  And so like I said, like that tutorial part, I was kind of, I
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  don't know because things ain't moving as or doesn't feel like
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  it was moving as snappy and free flowing like Batman was.
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  And that's kind of where I had to kind of like separate it a
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  bit towards like, hey, yes, this is that same studio, but.
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  I need to be open to not only the fact that this is a
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  different game, but this has been nine years, 8-9, almost 10
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  years since the last game, so. A little bit more of an open
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  mind and just play the game for what it is and see where it
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  takes you. And so when the story mode stuff
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  started off, whatever. And every time throughout my
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  time playing the game, every time you went to a cutscene and
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  the story stuff, whatever you saw, I saw the high level
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  Rocksteady production. Because in general, the game
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  looks great. Like visually, the game looks
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  great. The cutscenes and stuff, the
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  character models, all that stuff looks super clean, super good,
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  super solid. I'm like, OK, there's
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  Rocksteady. It's right there.
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  It's right there. The gameplay stuff was kind of
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  like, I don't know, like I said, 'cause this is something new,
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  but the story and the cutscenes and stuff, whatever that I
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  mainly care about, was there. And the other thing I'm gonna
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  mention too, for context, is that I played the beta.
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  I played the alpha fully solo by myself and that is something
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  else a lot of people are kind of misinformed on to where it's
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  like, yes, the game is technically always online right
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  now. Eventually after launch they're
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  going to put out a update to make it to where you can play
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  offline, but yes, it is always online.
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  But if you want to play solo like I do, I love my single
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  player, story driven games, whatever.
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  You can do that and so basically you.
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  Pick whichever of the four characters, characters that you
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  want to play as, and the rest are just controlled by AI or
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  whatever. They're just just bots or
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  whatever, and they're pretty competent.
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  You know, when I was in combat situations or whatever, I didn't
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  feel like, Oh my God, where's the help?
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  It was like, no, you know, if I if I went down, they came over
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  and healed me up or whatever, and so on and so forth and so
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  and that essence. And then when you're kind of
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  just like out in the open world or whatever, you can freely
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  switch between the four characters.
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  I think it is only when you are locked into a active mission.
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  I believe, if I remember correctly, you can't change
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  while you're inside of a gameplay mission, but once that
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  mission is over, then you can switch to any of the four at any
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  point, at any point in time. And so that way you're not
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  feeling like crap. I started the game off with King
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  Shark. And you get a couple hours in,
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  it's like, crap. Do I have to start the whole
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  game over with somebody else? And it's like, no, you just pick
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  a different character, try them or whatever and get a feel for
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  how they play and stuff. And so, so yeah, so the cut
• 25:03
  scenes, the story stuff was super dope.
• 25:06
  You could you kind of. And and I feel like getting to
• 25:11
  play the game from the beginning gave a lot more context to
• 25:14
  certain things because when you're doing the tutorial thing,
• 25:17
  whatever, you're using all these different powers and abilities
• 25:20
  and stuff for them. And it's like, it's like, why?
• 25:22
  Like, like, of course I'm not like a super big comic book
• 25:26
  person, whatever. But I'm also like, OK, why is
• 25:29
  Captain Boomerang throwing his boomerang And they like teleport
• 25:33
  into it or whatever or like running super fast like he's you
• 25:36
  know, got the Speed Force, whatever.
• 25:37
  And I'm like, OK, maybe something in the comics that I
• 25:40
  don't know well, the sort of the game, whatever, when you first
• 25:43
  go on the mission or whatever. You end up in kind of this like
• 25:46
  Justice League Museum and that is where and they have like a
• 25:51
  bunch of like old weapons and gear and stuff from different DC
• 25:57
  characters and stuff. And that's how each of the four
• 26:00
  gets their find their signature weapons and stuff, whatever, but
• 26:05
  also get like these extra abilities from these extra
• 26:09
  heroes. And so that's how Captain
• 26:11
  Boomerang got the Speed Force stuff order, because he had, he
• 26:15
  found something of the flashes and this museum that he combined
• 26:19
  with his boomerang and his gear and stuff, whatever.
• 26:24
  And so I was like, OK, that is pretty cool and a moment that
• 26:30
  kind of shown something else to whatever that I'm like, OK, this
• 26:33
  is super dope and I can't wait to see how they might expand
• 26:36
  that later on in the story. There's a section.
• 26:39
  Where you're going through this? Some building.
• 26:42
  I can't, I can't remember what I'm building it for, if if it
• 26:44
  was going through the museum or what it was.
• 26:47
  But basically you're getting stalked by Batman.
• 26:51
  And so if you've played any of the Batman Arkham games, one of
• 26:56
  the funniest things about those games is of course being Batman
• 26:59
  get into kind of like work in the shadows and like doing like
• 27:02
  steps, takedowns on enemies or pudding, you know, explosive gel
• 27:07
  on the ground or. Whatever.
• 27:09
  Catch me beginning getting, you know, strung up upside down or
• 27:12
  whatever. You get to be on the receiving
• 27:14
  end of that. So you're kind of like sneaking
• 27:15
  around this environment and dodging Batman traps or
• 27:19
  whatever. And you kind of like seeing his
• 27:21
  like, shadow passing by. And it it was like super dope.
• 27:25
  And I was like, I was like, OK, OK, the stuff that I want is
• 27:32
  here and. Wow.
• 27:36
  So some of the OK, so so get into some of the parts that were
• 27:39
  kind of like a little bit weird. They still kind of left me
• 27:43
  feeling a little off. Whatever was the presentation of
• 27:48
  how they're doing the kind of like live service stuff.
• 27:51
  So like, so like you complete missions and stuff, whatever.
• 27:54
  And you get gear and stuff, whatever, with your own paper,
• 27:57
  hey, it's whatever. But I didn't like how after the
• 28:03
  mission or whatever they take you to that kind of like.
• 28:06
  Like separate screen where you see all the different guns and
• 28:10
  gear and stuff, whatever that you had unlocked or whatever.
• 28:14
  Cuz I'm kind of like I'd rather just.
• 28:16
  Hey, you know, I beat the mission or whatever, OK?
• 28:18
  I picked up a gun. I'll look at that light or
• 28:21
  whatever. Instead of like, hey, that's
• 28:22
  taking up your screen, You're going to look at this gun or
• 28:24
  whatever, you know that I was there like a part I didn't like.
• 28:33
  It was also kind of weird, kind of like kind of like with the
• 28:35
  like, live service interface, whatever to where it's kind of
• 28:38
  like you're queuing up a mission and stuff, whatever.
• 28:42
  That part felt a little weird and stuff like, say, you know,
• 28:45
  that was kind of kind of like a minor nitpick in the grand
• 28:48
  scheme of things. Because another thing that I saw
• 28:51
  a lot of people losing their minds over were screenshots of
• 28:56
  the hood. Now yes, there's a lot of stuff
• 28:59
  kind of going on within the game, but I feel like,
• 29:02
  especially for people who have not played it and are just
• 29:05
  seeing these crazy looking screenshots out of context,
• 29:08
  whatever, or like Oh my God, that looks so crazy.
• 29:11
  Why are they like coins and numbers and dah dah dah all over
• 29:14
  the screen, the numbers thing, whatever.
• 29:16
  It's just like any other game kind of like this, where like
• 29:18
  shoot a game like this like a Borderlands to where you're
• 29:22
  shooting at the enemies or whatever, you're seeing the
• 29:23
  damage and stuff coming off of them, whatever.
• 29:27
  They kind of like. Slot machine, jackpot thing with
• 29:30
  the coins and stuff, whatever that is literally a very small
• 29:35
  moment in time that is captured frame by frame in those images.
• 29:39
  Because that is like a this ability or perk, one of the
• 29:43
  characters can unlock to where when you get certain types of
• 29:46
  kills, it'll do like a roulette thing, whatever really quickly
• 29:53
  to give you like bonus damage or you know, basically you roll in
• 29:58
  for like a bonus damage or bonus health or whatever the catch may
• 30:01
  be, whatever. And that is what some of that
• 30:03
  stuff is that you're seeing on screen.
• 30:05
  But when I think back to my time playing the game, whatever,
• 30:08
  like, and I'm looking at these screenshots, whatever these like
• 30:10
  stairs with all the stuff on the screen and everybody's like
• 30:13
  losing their mind, I'm honestly like, I don't even remember any
• 30:19
  of that stuff. Being a problem, you know,
• 30:21
  'cause it was. It was like collects like the.
• 30:22
  Coin thing, whatever it was like, it'll be like a quick.
• 30:26
  You know, splash of coins come out after you, you know, kill
• 30:29
  the last enemy or whatever and you, you know, you're just
• 30:32
  running around or whatever and then you absorb the coins and
• 30:35
  it's like, OK, whatever, you know, it's not that big of a
• 30:38
  deal everybody. Is like super freaking out.
• 30:42
  Just like I said, it's just like the game already got off to a
• 30:46
  bad start because of how they first chose to present it and
• 30:50
  then it got that leaked image of.
• 30:52
  The kind of like a live service set, kind of kind of Fortnite
• 30:56
  screen or whatever. Everybody's like, Oh my God,
• 30:58
  there's going to be a battle pass and all this stuff,
• 31:00
  whatever. And it's like, no, Yes, there is
• 31:02
  some type of like pass thing, whatever, but it is all
• 31:05
  literally cosmetics. So it's like different outfits
• 31:09
  or hats and stuff, whatever clothing for your characters.
• 31:12
  But there is no actual, like literal Fortnite type of stuff
• 31:18
  in the game. It is literally a a a online
• 31:24
  cooperative shooter within the Arkham world.
• 31:30
  Because this game takes place a handful of years after the
• 31:35
  storyline of Arkham Knight. You're in Metropolis City.
• 31:38
  Brainiac has taken over majority of the Justice League's minds
• 31:42
  and stuff. And so yes, you're on a mission
• 31:44
  to supposedly kill the Justice League, OK?
• 31:48
  You know, everybody's freaking out about stuff.
• 31:50
  Whatever. And it's like slow your roll.
• 31:53
  So but like I I'm just like I said just happy to finally be
• 31:56
  able to get this off my chest and talk about it.
• 32:00
  Now going to more on the the. The gameplay front of things.
• 32:07
  Now, yes, I I would love for this to be more of a pure melee
• 32:13
  action whatever, like Batman Arkham games, whatever.
• 32:16
  But it is what it is. That's not what this game is.
• 32:21
  All the characters have different guns and weapons and
• 32:24
  stuff that they use, but they do each use melee attacks and
• 32:30
  special abilities and stuff as well.
• 32:32
  So like I said, I mainly played as Captain Boomerang so.
• 32:39
  It felt a little slow and weird to get used to.
• 32:41
  But once I kind of like said spent some, some time, some
• 32:45
  hours with or whatever, I started kind of finding the flow
• 32:48
  of things, whatever. So because with Captain
• 32:51
  Boomerang and he has a speed force stuff, with the boomerang
• 32:54
  you can zip around the freaking map like crazy if you know how I
• 32:58
  kind of like chain the movements and stuff, whatever.
• 33:01
  And there there is one gift somebody had where it's just
• 33:04
  like pure chaos in a good way of some gun play with him to where
• 33:08
  like he's like running, sliding in, shotgunning somebody,
• 33:13
  whatever, freaking throwing your boomerang.
• 33:17
  You can teleport to where the boomerang is or whatever at any
• 33:19
  point in the area, on the map, whatever.
• 33:22
  So, so like, example, I'm fighting some enemies or
• 33:26
  whatever here on the ground, and then there's some enemies or
• 33:29
  whatever up there on the roof. I literally just throw my
• 33:32
  boomerang up there, up in in the vicinity, on the roof, whatever,
• 33:36
  teleport up there, whatever, shoot them from the sky or
• 33:39
  whatever. Or, you know, I get up to this.
• 33:42
  I teleport from the ground to the sky, the teleport again
• 33:45
  behind the enemies or whatever hit them, whatever.
• 33:48
  When I'm close enough, whatever. I can do Malay attacks with my
• 33:51
  boomerang and stuff, and each of the characters can do Malay
• 33:53
  attacks once they're. Like up close or whatever and
• 33:57
  change stuff like that. And then I had unlocked a
• 34:01
  special ability to where basically.
• 34:06
  I threw out my boomerang or whatever.
• 34:08
  It's like it's. Like like a group.
• 34:09
  Of enemies or whatever, and you basically like use the speed
• 34:12
  force to dart around to all the enemies within a certain
• 34:16
  vicinity or radius of the of your of your.
• 34:19
  Attack and takes them all out or whatever.
• 34:21
  It is like super dope. And so you like, you do that,
• 34:24
  zip around, knock them all out and then go back to the shooting
• 34:27
  or whatever. And it's like, it felt really
• 34:30
  fun to do. And like I said, like Captain
• 34:33
  Boomerang was my main. I play.
• 34:36
  I tried playing a little bit with Harley Quinn, but I
• 34:38
  couldn't really get like in like a good natural flow stay with
• 34:43
  her. But that that's how it's going
• 34:46
  to be with each. With each of the characters or
• 34:47
  whatever, it's just kind of like learning the nuances and stuff
• 34:50
  and each of them have like things like a few different
• 34:54
  skill trees and stuff wherever that you can inspect into
• 34:56
  whatever for you know, for weapon damage, for like the
• 34:59
  melee stuff with your signature weapons and so on and so forth.
• 35:04
  So yeah, overall I had a freaking blast with the game and
• 35:08
  I look forward to playing it. Hopefully around lunch.
• 35:11
  You know, I just don't finances, I'm a dad, Five kids.
• 35:15
  Life's busy. But if I.
• 35:17
  Have the money to spare, Whatever.
• 35:19
  Then I don't mind playing this game at lunch because like I
• 35:22
  said, the story stuff alone balances things out for me.
• 35:28
  To where? At least, like I said, like from
• 35:30
  what I got to play and I said like the general missions,
• 35:32
  whatever, it's like, yes. It's kind of just like some like
• 35:35
  generic mob enemies, but that's freaking the same thing that was
• 35:39
  in the Batman Arkham games, where you have the different
• 35:44
  groups of the of the, you know, two faces.
• 35:47
  Goons or Penguins, goons or whatever, just, you know,
• 35:52
  nameless grunt that you're beating up, whatever.
• 35:55
  And it's kind of pretty much the same thing here, except for it's
• 35:57
  just kind of like civilians that got turned into like these like
• 36:00
  alien looking creature things, whatever.
• 36:03
  And so, yeah, you going around taking out these people, taking
• 36:07
  out these, these enemies or whatever, and it's fun.
• 36:13
  It is fun to traverse the city. And like I said, it's kind of
• 36:17
  like learning the getting the flow, state of stuff, whatever,
• 36:22
  you know, having to deal with the Justice League members and
• 36:26
  stuff, whatever, dealing with Amanda Waller.
• 36:30
  Oh, and of course, they're kind of like.
• 36:32
  Interpersonal like banter and stuff between the four
• 36:36
  characters or whatever kind of reminds me of the Guardians of
• 36:39
  the Galaxy game. They came out a few years ago,
• 36:41
  whatever. So to where it's constant talk
• 36:44
  and banter between the characters, both within the
• 36:48
  cutscenes but also outside of the cutscenes and stuff.
• 36:51
  And so it is what it is, that that is what this game is or
• 36:56
  whatever. And so, like I said, like people
• 36:59
  like say it it it it just sucked.
• 37:02
  For a few days and just see now of course, hey, if if you don't
• 37:08
  care about the game, whatever that is fine.
• 37:09
  But like I say, just like some of these are like suggest many
• 37:12
  from like the uninformed perspective which I get some
• 37:17
  stuff you can only glean so much from.
• 37:21
  From what you get access to so. So most people will only get the
• 37:25
  screenshots or watch gameplay videos or whatever or hear you
• 37:29
  know some of these big sites and stuff, whatever, talk about
• 37:31
  their short you know cobble together preview event or
• 37:36
  whatever that they went to whatever.
• 37:38
  And I get it but it. Feels like sometimes people
• 37:43
  don't take that extra step to do that extra level of due
• 37:49
  diligence before they read a headline and it's like, Oh my
• 37:53
  God, OK, well hey, IGN don't like it or whatever.
• 37:56
  Or so and so person. They hate this, that and another
• 37:59
  whatever. Yeah, this game is going to be a
• 38:00
  commercial flop, you know, going to be dead on arrival or
• 38:03
  whatever. And it's like I do not believe
• 38:05
  that because. Sometimes I have to.
• 38:10
  Just remind myself and remind others, whatever, that a lot of
• 38:13
  us sometimes are in this echo chamber, this bubble, all social
• 38:19
  media and stuff to where it feels.
• 38:22
  Like it's a lot of people that or upset about something or not
• 38:27
  happy or do they catch maybe, whatever.
• 38:31
  When in the grand scheme of things, whatever.
• 38:32
  That is just a small portion of people cuz like prime example.
• 38:39
  Online, there was a lot. Of, you know, discussions and
• 38:44
  and people refusing to cover the game and I'll talk about
• 38:47
  whatever with Hogwarts legacy last year, whatever.
• 38:51
  But then. That game went on.
• 38:52
  To sell 22 million copies. And became the best selling game
• 38:56
  last year because majority of people when you're dealing with
• 39:04
  big named properties like these comic book superhero games and
• 39:08
  stuff whatever or stuff like Harry Potter and different
• 39:10
  things like that or whatever to where there are more people that
• 39:14
  are just quote. UN quote just.
• 39:15
  Normal civilians who don't spend all day on social media, who
• 39:20
  don't listen to podcast or. Read gaming websites, whatever
• 39:26
  to even know that there, you know is controversy or that.
• 39:32
  A lot of reviewers are. Are talking negatively about
• 39:35
  their impressions on playing a game, or whatever case may be.
• 39:38
  Whatever it is. Like the average person who you
• 39:43
  know it's just a student, or, you know, in college, or just a
• 39:48
  random parent who grew up watching Harry Potter, who grew
• 39:52
  up enjoying DC Comics, or just comic book stuff in general, Who
• 39:57
  will go and watch the movies and stuff?
• 39:59
  Whatever. Or watch the TV series, but they
• 40:02
  don't engage in online discussions on Facebook or, you
• 40:06
  know, TikTok and Instagram and Twitter and stuff.
• 40:09
  Whatever. It is, just, hey, I enjoy comic
• 40:12
  book stuff. Whatever.
• 40:14
  Oh, I'm gonna go get that, go watch that movie.
• 40:17
  Whatever. Or hey, oh, there's a there's a
• 40:19
  game out about this thing. Whatever.
• 40:21
  Cool. You know, they're at the store,
• 40:22
  grocery shopping or whatever, and just having to swing through
• 40:25
  electronics or whatever and see copies of this game just on the
• 40:30
  shelf is like, oh cool, I did not know that this game was
• 40:33
  that. Or they watch sports or
• 40:36
  whatever, catchment be, whatever.
• 40:37
  And it's like, oh, there's an ad during an NFL game or a football
• 40:41
  game or whatever regular TV stuff, whatever for this game.
• 40:46
  Or this thing. Whatever.
• 40:47
  And it's like, oh OK, cool, there's a.
• 40:50
  Suicide Squad game out of There's a there's a Harry Potter
• 40:52
  game or whatever, you know, big name, property, whatever.
• 40:56
  Cool. I'm a go check that out or
• 40:58
  whatever and you know. They're they're like a small.
• 41:02
  Portion of them that might go to a big website like OK, hey,
• 41:06
  what, what, What? Review score did IGN or GameSpot
• 41:10
  or whatever give this, whatever. But a lot of them don't care
• 41:13
  about that stuff. A lot of them.
• 41:14
  Are just like, oh cool. Here's this game.
• 41:17
  I bought it. Cool.
• 41:19
  I enjoyed it, didn't enjoy whatever the catch may be,
• 41:21
  whatever. And so sometimes we got to
• 41:23
  remember that. Whatever discourse is going on.
• 41:27
  Within our echo chamber is just a fraction of the overall
• 41:32
  conversation, like I said when you're talking about big named
• 41:35
  properties like this. So As for myself, I feel like
• 41:42
  this game will do fine. I'm not saying it's going to.
• 41:47
  Blow up like you know. Hogwarts legacy did or whatever,
• 41:50
  of course, because that was a purely single player adventure
• 41:55
  game or whatever that's easy to grasp around versus this being
• 41:59
  more of like a. Advertiser It's kind of like a.
• 42:04
  Online Co-op shooter thing or whatever, But I think just off
• 42:09
  of it being a Suicide Squad, just a comic book thing,
• 42:12
  whatever it's going to do solid is what I.
• 42:16
  Predict I definitely don't see right now.
• 42:19
  I feel like I. Don't see, it's going to be like
• 42:21
  a commercial flop and all of a sudden half of Rocksteady is
• 42:25
  laid off or the studio is shut down or whatever.
• 42:28
  No, I think this will be a lesson learned for that studio
• 42:33
  for WB executives, because it's kind of funny that this online
• 42:38
  type of game is. Coming out a year after they had
• 42:41
  such. A huge success with Harwood's
• 42:42
  legacy or Warner Brothers. And so I was like, now the
• 42:46
  executives are like, crap. OK, so the single player stuff
• 42:49
  can work, whatever. But they've also been trying to
• 42:52
  push all this online multiplayer.
• 42:54
  Functions and stuff whatever. So, but either way it's it's
• 42:57
  going to be an interesting launch to see when it comes out
• 43:01
  in less than a month now. And like I said, if I have some
• 43:05
  coins to spare, I will get it and I will play it.
• 43:08
  Because like I said, I just want to see where this story goes and
• 43:11
  if I can just have. Some decent fun along the way,
• 43:15
  just fighting some grunts and stuff across the city of
• 43:19
  Metropolis while seeing what creative ways they do these
• 43:24
  encounters with the the Justice League members and stuff.
• 43:28
  Whatever. Then hey, I am here for it.
• 43:30
  Like I don't see myself like getting like you can go super
• 43:35
  deep and do different. Character bills and stuff.
• 43:39
  Whatever. Because it also kind of reminds
• 43:41
  me of like how games like The Division, same thing, kind of
• 43:47
  like a similar things where it's like I mainly play Division Two
• 43:50
  for sure solo by myself, even doing like those big kind of
• 43:55
  like not The Raid or any things, but kind of.
• 43:57
  But the higher level stuff that they had later on in the game,
• 44:00
  whatever I was doing those by myself slowly and meticulously,
• 44:03
  whatever, but I was doing them by myself.
• 44:05
  But kind of like a similar things where like before you go
• 44:08
  into the world you can kind of pick kind of like a difficulty
• 44:12
  of the world or whatever. And so I just stick with just
• 44:16
  like like the basic level. But hey, you get those
• 44:19
  difficulty options, whatever. And if you want to just play
• 44:22
  fully by yourself, you can set that setting, or if you want to
• 44:26
  of course team up with people on your friends list.
• 44:28
  Or you can also open it up to. Where Hey, this is just open to
• 44:31
  anybody online that wants to hop in and play whatever so but but
• 44:36
  yeah so I'm looking forward to. Suicide Squad cure?
• 44:39
  The Justice League, like I said, it comes out on February 2nd on
• 44:45
  PS5 and Xbox series and PC. So I'm down.
• 44:51
  To see where Rock City. Brings blacks I I just I'm happy
• 44:54
  that the that they lifted the NDA on the alpha stuff where
• 44:57
  because I'm like I have to talk about this and stuff so
• 45:01
  collectly just like the comparison of.
• 45:05
  The the test environment that these that these people do their
• 45:08
  preview in with only a few hours.
• 45:11
  And kind of got jumped around to different chapters and stuff
• 45:14
  versus what I got to do, which was play from the beginning of
• 45:18
  the game with unlimited time at my leisure.
• 45:23
  And getting a, getting a. Chance to kind of get familiar
• 45:26
  with the systems and the the character bills and stuff,
• 45:30
  whatever, like that or whatever kind of made me come away.
• 45:33
  With a different viewpoint. Now, yes, there were some people
• 45:35
  that after the Alpha we're still like, no, this definitely is not
• 45:39
  my thing. But like I said, I'm glad that.
• 45:43
  They did the alpha and that I was able to get in and
• 45:45
  experience that and stuff, so. So yeah.
• 45:49
  So more of the story is. Do more research on things and
• 45:54
  also when possible, if you're able to hop into these things,
• 45:58
  whatever, keep your eyes open because a lot of times these
• 46:01
  these companies will do close, beta test, close.
• 46:04
  Alphas test sessions or whatever.
• 46:07
  Sometimes even free demos. Which I'm going to talk about
• 46:09
  one in a second, so you can kind of.
• 46:12
  Like form. Your own opinion or and also
• 46:17
  look for your friends or just like peers and stuff, whatever.
• 46:20
  Because like I said, that's why I wanted to talk about this here
• 46:24
  on this platform to where I was like, yes, I'm never going to
• 46:26
  reach as many people as a big name place like IGN and stuff,
• 46:31
  whatever will or you know, like bigger, you know, content
• 46:34
  creators stuff, whatever will. Which is kind of why originally
• 46:39
  I was going to do this as a separate discussion.
• 46:43
  Thing whatever on its own or. Whatever.
• 46:44
  But just because of knowing some of the potentially nasty people
• 46:50
  that might find that and be kind of crazy, whatever, I was like,
• 46:53
  you know what, I'll just put this within my show or whatever,
• 46:58
  and the people that find it find it and so be it or whatever.
• 47:02
  So, so yeah, so anyway, make your own decision calls like so
• 47:08
  that goes for just stuff across the board when you're able to
• 47:13
  just 'cause. We have YouTube.
• 47:15
  Videos. Hey, heck, you can even just
• 47:17
  wait and watch. Somebody on launch?
• 47:21
  Day or whatever. Or a streamer that you like,
• 47:23
  whatever. Or somebody that you follow who
• 47:27
  kind of like has like similar taste as you in games or
• 47:30
  whatever medium or whatever. Watch.
• 47:32
  See what they. Had to talk about.
• 47:33
  On their podcast or review or discussion, whatever case might
• 47:36
  be. Whatever.
• 47:37
  So anyhow, enough. On that game.
• 47:41
  So like I said, I would talk more about it whenever, whenever
• 47:45
  the time comes and I actually get to play the full game
• 47:47
  myself. After release.
• 47:53
  Now, like I said. I'm going into another game that
• 47:59
  I got a chance to check out or whatever, which I was so, so
• 48:04
  happy about and. That is.
• 48:08
  Prince of Persia. What is the sub name for this
• 48:13
  game? I'm looking my PlayStation app.
• 48:18
  Let me see, Prince of Persia The Lost Crown now.
• 48:24
  When they first when they first show this.
• 48:26
  Game off. Last year or whatever.
• 48:31
  Honestly, I was kind of like I I I look, I had honestly like like
• 48:37
  little to no interest in this game.
• 48:40
  Not because I thought it looked bad, but just because I was like
• 48:43
  Prince of Persia. I've never really played many of
• 48:46
  those games and never really got into that series.
• 48:48
  So you know, I was like you know what?
• 48:50
  Whatever. You know if I if I get to try it
• 48:52
  out, whatever. But it was not a priority on my
• 48:58
  radar at all, so. They announced like a month.
• 49:03
  Ago where they were like, hey, there's going to be a free demo
• 49:07
  on all platforms, and I mean everything.
• 49:10
  PS5PS4 Xbox series XS and Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC and
• 49:16
  I think even maybe even Amazon Lunar streaming thing, whatever,
• 49:20
  so it is on all these platforms or whatever.
• 49:24
  And I am so. Happy they did this.
• 49:27
  Because not only me playing the demo and stuff myself changed my
• 49:34
  perspective, but also I learned that this isn't.
• 49:38
  Just any. Old Ubisoft team that is working
• 49:40
  on this game. This is Ubisoft Montpellier, I
• 49:45
  believe, who? Which is the studio behind my
• 49:49
  beloved Rayman Legends and Rayman Origins games that came
• 49:55
  out over a decade ago, and y'all know how much that series means
• 50:00
  to me. I've still been playing.
• 50:02
  I still play Rayman Legends frequently, primarily with my
• 50:06
  son Vash. We.
• 50:09
  We love and play this game all the time.
• 50:13
  Heck, even before I became a father, I was playing this with
• 50:17
  my nieces and nephews all the time, my my sister's kids, and
• 50:21
  to be able to transition from playing with my nieces and
• 50:23
  nephews to now playing it with my own.
• 50:26
  Kids and stuff. Whatever.
• 50:27
  It's just like a beautiful thing and a strong connection and so.
• 50:31
  Once I learned that piece of info.
• 50:33
  And before I played the demo and I was kind of just like, I went
• 50:36
  back and I was like looking at some like, like like more recent
• 50:39
  trailers and gameplay or whatever.
• 50:41
  And it's like when you're watching it with the.
• 50:44
  Knowledge that this is. From the people who made Rayman
• 50:47
  Legends and Origins, it's like I see it, I see the DNA there from
• 50:55
  the character movements and stuff, whatever.
• 50:57
  So of course, because there's no science scrolling just like the
• 50:59
  Rayman games or whatever, but just like from the character
• 51:01
  movements to the action and the combat and stuff, whatever the
• 51:05
  secrets and stuff, because it is kind of like a like a
• 51:08
  Metroidvania style of game to where you get different powers
• 51:12
  and. Abilities and stuff.
• 51:13
  Whatever. Which lets you backtrack and
• 51:16
  unlock secrets and other passages and other routes and
• 51:19
  stuff, whatever. And so which is a lot.
• 51:22
  Which is a big part of the Rayman Legends and Rayman
• 51:26
  Legends and stuff, whatever, where there's a lot of secrets
• 51:27
  and stuff, whatever in those games and so.
• 51:32
  Playing the demo. Yesterday was.
• 51:37
  Super dope. The game looks great.
• 51:40
  I love the art style and the visual aesthetic that they went
• 51:44
  with for the game. I was very happy to see that.
• 51:48
  Even though now there there are some cutscenes and stuff,
• 51:52
  whatever. But even just for like like and
• 51:56
  like how a lot of kind of like not SIM one of those games.
• 52:06
  It's not the SIM games, but basically the games where you
• 52:08
  kind of just have like have like the character profile and it's
• 52:11
  text, whatever, for those parts, they're fully voiced.
• 52:16
  So all the characters in the game or for the voice.
• 52:18
  So the first time I see the character thing pop up, I'm
• 52:21
  like, oh OK, I got to read this, whatever.
• 52:23
  But then I hear them talking. I was like, there's voice full.
• 52:26
  Voice acting, whatever in this. And so I'm like, OK, voice
• 52:30
  acting is clean, top notch gameplay is super dope.
• 52:34
  I watched somebody on Twitter that I came across.
• 52:40
  Had this this gameplay. Clip.
• 52:45
  That they did of the combat. I'm going to see if I can.
• 52:50
  I don't know if I have it handy, but anywho.
• 52:53
  It it just showed. Them doing all types of like
• 52:57
  really dope gameplay. Stuff.
• 53:03
  And. Just seeing.
• 53:04
  Like like like the moves and the combat and stuff.
• 53:06
  For that it was like, yo, this looks like super clean, like
• 53:09
  once you get deeper in the game. And you have all these
• 53:12
  techniques and stuff. Whatever I was like this is
• 53:15
  going to be. Super awesome.
• 53:16
  Whatever. But but yeah, so that that just
• 53:20
  got my hype even higher. But like I said, I paid through
• 53:23
  the demo or whatever, really enjoyed it and I can't wait to
• 53:27
  get my hands on the full game. And the dope thing is that the
• 53:31
  game is coming out. I think it's going to be like 50
• 53:34
  bucks for like the regular edition or 60 for like a deluxe
• 53:37
  edition and stuff. Which is super cool that it's at
• 53:41
  a. Little bit of a cheaper price
• 53:43
  and stuff, but it's of a high quality so yeah, so, so shout
• 53:48
  out to Ubisoft for putting out this free demo of the game.
• 53:53
  And. I mentioned this last year.
• 53:55
  When? I was doing my my my game of the
• 53:57
  year discussion wrap up thing that was like a highlight for me
• 54:02
  last year was more video games started.
• 54:06
  To come out with more demos and stuff lately because there's
• 54:09
  another game of course. I'm not too much interested in
• 54:11
  this, but just I downloaded it just for the sake of it.
• 54:14
  It's this gram. I think it's grand blue.
• 54:17
  Yeah, here it. Is yeah, grand blue?
• 54:19
  Fantasy Relink, it's a JRPG that's coming out within the
• 54:24
  next couple of months. There's a demo for that as well.
• 54:26
  I saw. I was like, you know what?
• 54:27
  Hey, free demo. I'm gonna.
• 54:29
  Try it out or whatever. So and even just like just like
• 54:32
  the small portion I played in the tutorial of that or whatever
• 54:35
  seem pretty clean. So like saying it's not nothing
• 54:38
  to do that's on my radar now, but I'm still happy I had the.
• 54:42
  Opportunity to even just to try it and stuff, whatever.
• 54:45
  So, so yeah, so shout out to these teams doing this stuff.
• 54:49
  So yeah, more demos. Last little thing I'll touch on.
• 54:54
  Just game wise, before I touch on some anime stuff and then get
• 54:57
  out of here, there was a a preview event.
• 55:06
  In a more positive flight. That they did for this game
• 55:10
  called. Shoot.
• 55:13
  What is that game called? Sorry, I like my brain,
• 55:16
  literally just went blanket. I was trying to think of it.
• 55:25
  Where is the name of this game? Pacific Drive.
• 55:29
  So this is a game. There's going to be PS Five and
• 55:33
  PC only coming out, I believe, at the end of February.
• 55:39
  And so this game, I was not on my radar at all, just 'cause
• 55:44
  it's it was, you know, the trailers, whatever, OK, you're
• 55:46
  in a car, some spooky stuff going on, whatever.
• 55:49
  I don't care. Well, I watched, I believe it
• 55:52
  was ACG and many other people, but that this is the one that
• 55:57
  like did like a really good. In depth, look at the game,
• 56:01
  whatever. So they got to spend several
• 56:04
  like 8 to 10 plus hours with this game or whatever and.
• 56:09
  Just seeing the. Game like there's so much more
• 56:12
  going on with this game to where it's different kind of guy slump
• 56:15
  some like supernatural stuff but definitely something like a like
• 56:19
  survival type of LMS to. It's where you're literally
• 56:25
  having to take care of the car and not doing just like basic
• 56:29
  repairs and stuff like you did in the Mad Max game.
• 56:32
  Shout out to that game. I love that game from 2015 or
• 56:35
  whatever. Like, no, like like as you're
• 56:38
  driving through the court you got to be mindful of the
• 56:41
  environment and places you going through whatever because you can
• 56:45
  damage your. Core.
• 56:46
  Whatever you can damage to the points where like, hey you, your
• 56:49
  tires come off and if you don't have a spare, you're kind of
• 56:52
  stranded until you can go and search for another one and all
• 56:55
  these different intricate parts of the car and stuff, whatever.
• 56:59
  And you kind of going through this kind of like a kind of like
• 57:03
  a like a rogue like sections where like you're going to these
• 57:06
  kind of like rifts or or tunnels or whatever and collecting parts
• 57:16
  and stuff for your car to do these upgrades and stuff,
• 57:20
  whatever to then go on another run to get further and further
• 57:23
  to solve this mystery of what's going on in this space that
• 57:27
  you're. In or whatever.
• 57:28
  And it just seems super intriguing.
• 57:30
  Super in depth, though. Like, definitely not my cup of
• 57:34
  tea per Southeast. Because.
• 57:36
  I was like looking like all the different systems and stuff for
• 57:38
  them and I was like, yo, this might be too much for me, though
• 57:42
  I will say if it. Ever.
• 57:45
  Someday gets. Like super cheap or goes on
• 57:47
  PlayStation Plus or they do a demo or.
• 57:50
  Try. Whatever, for it, I might give
• 57:52
  it a honest, fair shot or whatever because I'm like you
• 57:55
  know what, this looks interesting enough to where I I
• 57:58
  may I would at least maybe want to get my hands on it.
• 58:00
  But like I said, it is like super intricate to where even
• 58:03
  the point where it's like hey one.
• 58:05
  Of the one of the. Previous is something.
• 58:07
  Like hey, if you do something on your passenger side or whatever,
• 58:11
  work on something and you leave your car door open or whatever,
• 58:13
  the car door isn't going to automatically close like most
• 58:16
  games with driving towards like you get in one side and all the
• 58:19
  doors just close, whatever. Like no, you can be driving, the
• 58:22
  door can be wide open and stuff for it might get yanked off if
• 58:25
  you hit a tree or whatever to even where when you get out the
• 58:29
  car you got to make sure you put it in park or put on your
• 58:32
  emergency brake, whatever. Because if you don't and you
• 58:34
  just help out the car and it's still the drive, it might roll
• 58:37
  away and get damaged or whatever.
• 58:39
  So lots of interest and stuff like that or whatever.
• 58:43
  But yeah, like, I just wanted to shout that one out because that
• 58:46
  was actually a really good game preview situation or whatever.
• 58:50
  Something like so maybe somebody out there that hears this, that
• 58:53
  game might be of something of interest to you that you might
• 58:55
  want to put on your radar and. Take a look at and stuff.
• 58:58
  So, but yeah, and last. Kind of.
• 59:02
  Little thing I'll say in regards to like game previews and stuff,
• 59:05
  whatever is that. Between this stuff with Pacific.
• 59:11
  Drive and specifically stuff with Suicide Squad or whatever,
• 59:15
  it kind of made me think about how I don't.
• 59:22
  Sometimes, I don't know. And sometimes, kind of.
• 59:26
  Glad that I'm in the position I'm in to where I'll just
• 59:31
  experience things of my own accord when I have the full
• 59:35
  thing or the ideal kind of situation to look at this thing
• 59:38
  and to talk about it. Because so many times, and this
• 59:41
  goes back to the subject of, you know, uninformed echoes or
• 59:46
  whatever, and people not doing proper research or whatever is
• 59:49
  there. Like they don't know sometimes
• 59:52
  all the conditions or whatever that a person was in when they
• 59:55
  got to see this small portion of the game that they're talking
• 59:58
  about. Because like I said, back to the
• 1:00:00
  Suicide Squad thing, whatever it was, OK.
• 1:00:02
  They played a little bit at the like the tutorial intro thing,
• 1:00:06
  then got jumped ahead. Multiple chapters later in the
• 1:00:10
  game. Whatever, with a different
• 1:00:12
  character and you know, hey now, hey, here's all these weapons
• 1:00:16
  and and perks and skills and stuff, whatever, when that's not
• 1:00:20
  the way that the average person will experience the game.
• 1:00:25
  And that's something I definitely try to keep in mind a
• 1:00:27
  lot of times with stuff like this and.
• 1:00:30
  These preview events and stuff to where it's like, OK, you know
• 1:00:33
  what was? How how much of the game did you
• 1:00:35
  get to play? And then what was kind of like
• 1:00:37
  the situation and stuff? Did you get to pick your
• 1:00:39
  character? Did you get to pick?
• 1:00:40
  This and that. Or were you kind of just like,
• 1:00:42
  hey, here is? You know, Spider Man 2 or
• 1:00:46
  whatever, we're dropping you into the game.
• 1:00:49
  You know, 15 hours in, you have all the skills and stuff already
• 1:00:54
  unlocked or whatever. Play for two hours or whatever
• 1:00:57
  and then come up with your preview and it's like yo, that's
• 1:00:59
  not, that's not the ideal situation to be in or whatever.
• 1:01:03
  So yes, like I just wanted to to mention that one last time
• 1:01:06
  before I move on from this and kind of why sometimes I'm like,
• 1:01:10
  man, I don't know if I ever. Want to get big enough to do
• 1:01:16
  that type of stuff. Whatever, you know, to to kind
• 1:01:20
  of experience stuff in those situations, whatever.
• 1:01:22
  So, but hey, maybe if I ever did, I do have that stuff to be
• 1:01:26
  mindful of to make sure I I inform my audience about hey.
• 1:01:30
  Here are this, Here are the conditions in which I
• 1:01:32
  experienced this game, or this show, or this book, or manga,
• 1:01:35
  whatever the case may be. So anywho, that's it for the
• 1:01:39
  game stuff. Whatever.
• 1:01:40
  Like I said, lots of dope stuff coming.
• 1:01:42
  Looking for the playing Prince of Pressure.
• 1:01:44
  Hopefully soon. I still need to finish up God of
• 1:01:48
  War, Ragnarok, the Valhalla DLC and stuff.
• 1:01:54
  And then yeah. So look forward to talking about
• 1:01:56
  more games in the coming weeks. So OK, just gonna do a quick
• 1:02:05
  shout out. To some of like my early
• 1:02:07
  thoughts on some of the. Winter anime, they have come out
• 1:02:13
  'cause. Right now, let me see.
• 1:02:18
  Let me see one. 2345. 6. 7. Eight of the shows I've.
• 1:02:29
  Watched so far have already had their episode.
• 1:02:33
  Two out by the time I'm recording this Saturday night.
• 1:02:37
  There was a few of them that. Just had their episode one this
• 1:02:39
  week and then a couple of them will have had their episode 2 by
• 1:02:44
  the time y'all see this episode or whatever.
• 1:02:46
  So it is what it is but but also overall so in general I am
• 1:02:52
  happy. With.
• 1:02:54
  What I am watching so. Far.
• 1:02:57
  Of the winter anime season, I'm already kind of like seeing some
• 1:03:01
  stuff that I'm already kind of even just like a couple episodes
• 1:03:03
  into. I'm kind of like, yes, I'm a
• 1:03:06
  stick with this. Or this might be a pause or
• 1:03:08
  wait. Or you know what?
• 1:03:09
  I'm not even going to really waste my time.
• 1:03:15
  With this right now, so I'm a. Touch on the stuff.
• 1:03:20
  That I am actively. Probably going to stick.
• 1:03:24
  With. So, well, First off, I'm going
• 1:03:26
  to say well, no, no, I'll touch on that in a second.
• 1:03:29
  So couple. Continuation shows whatever,
• 1:03:32
  just. To show some love to us, I
• 1:03:33
  always do. Both Free Rein and Apothecary
• 1:03:36
  Diaries still continue to be awesome what we're on.
• 1:03:41
  We just had episode 14 of Apothecary Diaries and 18 Free
• 1:03:45
  Rein, so both still going very strong this season and I love
• 1:03:50
  them so. New stuff Solo solo leveling
• 1:03:55
  has. Two episodes out now.
• 1:03:56
  Whatever, real solid and as it with the caveat of I've already
• 1:04:02
  read majority of that series. I still have not finished
• 1:04:05
  reading it, but I think I'm within like the last like 10 to
• 1:04:11
  15 or so. Chapters.
• 1:04:13
  Of being close to the end, so. I've experienced way past
• 1:04:16
  whatever they're going to cover in this season, but they've been
• 1:04:21
  solid. Good first two episodes.
• 1:04:24
  Whatever. And so I like them.
• 1:04:26
  So not not too much to say of that of that.
• 1:04:29
  Series or whatever and I. Guess I should give some context
• 1:04:32
  in this case. Anybody that is listening to
• 1:04:34
  this, whatever. Don't know what this stuff is.
• 1:04:38
  So solo leveling basically takes place in a world where these
• 1:04:46
  dungeon rifts opened up about 10 years ago and a lot of people
• 1:04:51
  started getting these various skills and abilities and stuff,
• 1:04:56
  whatever. But The thing is, is that you
• 1:04:59
  know that everybody is classified by different ranks
• 1:05:03
  from the highest rank, which is like S or double S, which they
• 1:05:07
  haven't touched on the show, but basically S all the way down,
• 1:05:11
  you know, ABC, blah blah blah, all the way down to E and that
• 1:05:15
  is where our main character Mr. Sung Jin Woo.
• 1:05:21
  Is the main character who is Class E weakest hunter in
• 1:05:28
  history and so it basically follows his journey into a
• 1:05:34
  dungeon and then he ends up in a situation where he ends up
• 1:05:38
  getting the ability. To level up and stuff.
• 1:05:41
  And that's all I'm saying on that because they haven't even
• 1:05:44
  gotten to all of that yet in these two episodes, whatever.
• 1:05:47
  So, but that's kind of like the basic premise of the show,
• 1:05:50
  whatever. So definitely if you're into
• 1:05:51
  like real action. Heavy stuff.
• 1:05:54
  Whatever. That's gonna be something you
• 1:05:55
  wanted to write or let's. See A sign of affection.
• 1:06:03
  This is a romance series which. Let me see if I can put this.
• 1:06:13
  Up on my screen and to to specify a a adult romance series
• 1:06:20
  were. These are.
• 1:06:21
  Both young adults who were in college and stuff, and basically
• 1:06:26
  the main character, she is deaf and so she ends up encountering
• 1:06:34
  this guy at school who he is a very charismatic world,
• 1:06:42
  traveling type of person, whatever.
• 1:06:43
  So he knows multiple languages and stuff, whatever, and it's
• 1:06:47
  kind of like love at first sight.
• 1:06:50
  And so it has just been like very awesome.
• 1:06:54
  The the show itself just has like such a calming aesthetic to
• 1:06:58
  it and a calming vibe to it. Kind of reminds me of of kind of
• 1:07:03
  like a similar, just like calming vibe of Angel next door
• 1:07:08
  that they came out. This time.
• 1:07:11
  Last or whatever. But yeah, like I said, it's just
• 1:07:14
  been very awesome to kind of get this unique perspective of a
• 1:07:18
  love story with somebody who is deaf and kind of like how she
• 1:07:23
  sees the world and how she communicates, how she feels and
• 1:07:26
  different things like that. And then seeing this guy who is
• 1:07:30
  going above and beyond to kind of come into her world and see
• 1:07:35
  how she feels and different things like that.
• 1:07:37
  So say so. Sign of affection.
• 1:07:40
  Very awesome romance. Series that I've.
• 1:07:45
  It is definitely going to be a must watch for me weekly.
• 1:07:50
  What else? Oh yes, this one.
• 1:07:56
  The Oops. Sorry.
• 1:08:01
  OK. The unwanted undead adventurer.
• 1:08:05
  So this is a fantasy series that basically follows.
• 1:08:11
  The main character. His name is.
• 1:08:13
  Rent, RENTTI joked. That.
• 1:08:17
  I know that that. That's like the.
• 1:08:21
  Sign that he is on the struggle boat, the struggle bus or going
• 1:08:25
  to be on the struggle bus with something in life when your name
• 1:08:27
  is rent. So basically he is a hunter.
• 1:08:34
  He's he's hunting monsters and stuff for 10 years, but he's.
• 1:08:38
  Not the best at it. He's still pretty low class.
• 1:08:42
  Adventure and stuff, whatever. And so, but you know, he is
• 1:08:46
  steady at his job, He is reliable at what he what he does
• 1:08:50
  and so basically. He.
• 1:08:53
  Ends up in a situation where. He's in a in a dungeon or
• 1:08:56
  whatever. He kind of ends up in a going
• 1:08:58
  down a secret path a a hidden passage.
• 1:09:01
  Kind of funny that that's what happened in silver leveling as
• 1:09:04
  well, going on a passage that they shouldn't have.
• 1:09:07
  And basically he he ends up encountering a legendary dragon.
• 1:09:11
  That kills him. He stands no chance whenever he
• 1:09:14
  gets killed and so he comes out to life as a skeleton.
• 1:09:19
  And so it is like a super interesting premise to where.
• 1:09:26
  He. Starts off as just a skeleton
• 1:09:29
  with a sword or whatever, but he realizes that as he is fighting
• 1:09:34
  and doing stuff, whatever, he is basically gaining experience.
• 1:09:38
  He is leveling up and stuff, whatever.
• 1:09:40
  And he is adapting, evolving, so to speak, whatever to where,
• 1:09:47
  even to the points where, you know, he notices that he's.
• 1:09:50
  Starting to get a little bit more better coordinated.
• 1:09:53
  He's getting stronger, he's getting faster and.
• 1:09:57
  Then he evolves. Into a ghoul that happens at the
• 1:10:00
  end of the first episode. He evolves into a ghoul and so
• 1:10:03
  that he kind of starts being able to use some remnants of the
• 1:10:06
  magic and stuff that he could and different things like that
• 1:10:09
  or whatever. So, so yes it it has been super
• 1:10:12
  intriguing so far and even like with this second episode he
• 1:10:18
  encounters a rookie adventurer or whatever who you know, of
• 1:10:21
  course he knows OK and and I love that he is a smart man
• 1:10:25
  character, a logical man character to where he realizes
• 1:10:29
  that hey, he can't just run out like hey, you know, whatever
• 1:10:32
  trying to talk to. Her.
• 1:10:33
  And like, OK, that was a ghoul. And this dungeon, I'm gonna kill
• 1:10:36
  you. But it's like he conveys and he
• 1:10:42
  understands, He's cautious, and I am very interested to see
• 1:10:47
  where this one is going to go. So this is also high on my
• 1:10:54
  weekly must watch list and stuff.
• 1:10:55
  Whatever 'cause I said, just from that premise of this undead
• 1:10:59
  adventurer that is trying to figure out how to adjust and
• 1:11:04
  live. This new?
• 1:11:08
  Way of life or whatever. So bad.
• 1:11:09
  So definitely, very, very, very intriguing.
• 1:11:13
  Set up with that one another. Fantasy 1 but.
• 1:11:18
  This one is a Isakai that I think this is also going to be a
• 1:11:26
  kind of a comfort watch every week, and that is the wrong way
• 1:11:30
  to use healing magic. So our main character, Usato,
• 1:11:35
  basically kind of a, you know, just an ordinary average dude at
• 1:11:40
  school or whatever he ends up. He ends up hanging out.
• 1:11:47
  With basically the two most popular people in his school or
• 1:11:50
  whatever, and they kind of start to hit it off wherever and
• 1:11:53
  become friends. Well, all three of them get
• 1:11:58
  summoned to another world to be heroes, but unfortunately Soto
• 1:12:03
  got some in accidentally because they're supposed to just be the
• 1:12:06
  other two, whatever. And so the other two, the girl
• 1:12:10
  gets a lightning ability and the God that he gets light magic or
• 1:12:17
  something or whatever, but Usoto gets healing magic, which it
• 1:12:23
  seems like in this world healing.
• 1:12:27
  The. Having healing magic is
• 1:12:29
  something to be revered and stuff so.
• 1:12:33
  And so he ends up getting taken away and under the tutelage of
• 1:12:37
  somebody who is super strong named Rose, Captain Rose, who is
• 1:12:43
  also a healer and stuff and so teaching him to get.
• 1:12:49
  Stronger because he needs to be fit.
• 1:12:54
  And able to. Adapt to things, whatever, to be
• 1:12:57
  able to support his friends, the heroes that are also getting
• 1:13:00
  their own form of training and stuff, whatever.
• 1:13:02
  And it is just like super fun, just kind of watching these
• 1:13:07
  characters. It's like a fun cast.
• 1:13:11
  Of supporting characters. And stuff.
• 1:13:12
  Whatever. So the wrong way to use healing
• 1:13:15
  magic is on my radar. Let's.
• 1:13:19
  See what else is. Priority watch for me.
• 1:13:26
  This one I I I don't know if it's going to be a priority
• 1:13:29
  watch, but I'm enjoying these couple episodes so far and that
• 1:13:36
  is the strongest tanks labyrinth race.
• 1:13:41
  A mouthful. So basically the main character,
• 1:13:44
  he was part of a party and he was a tank class.
• 1:13:48
  So basically he specialized in Shields and defenses.
• 1:13:51
  And. Stuff.
• 1:13:52
  Well, he ends up the hero of his party, ends up kicking him out
• 1:13:57
  of the party because they feel like he is a burden and his
• 1:14:02
  skills are unreliable. So they're kicking him out and
• 1:14:07
  going to go with some other, some new people, whatever, so.
• 1:14:10
  On his journey, whatever he. Discovers he gets insight into a
• 1:14:14
  couple of hidden skills that he never knew what they were and
• 1:14:18
  that kind of changes the game for him and he kind of realizes
• 1:14:21
  that or you as a viewer kind of realized like yo his.
• 1:14:26
  Skills are. Super dope.
• 1:14:29
  And I can't wait to at some point in the series, it's going
• 1:14:33
  to come back around to where that hero dude is going to
• 1:14:36
  realize that, like he is actually trash without this tank
• 1:14:41
  dude. And so yeah, so yeah, basically
• 1:14:44
  he is going on a journey himself to find a cure for his sister's
• 1:14:49
  illness. He does.
• 1:14:52
  Kind of hell like like. Like the sister complex trope or
• 1:14:54
  whatever, which, you know, we'll see how that goes.
• 1:15:00
  And he's also he comes across this homunculus girl who
• 1:15:07
  specializes in combat and stuff as well.
• 1:15:09
  And so it's going to be kind of interesting to see like how
• 1:15:13
  those two team up and form a party and stuff, whatever.
• 1:15:16
  So I don't know. Like I said, it has some
• 1:15:18
  promise. They're not like a must must
• 1:15:22
  watch for me, whatever. But entertaining enough so far.
• 1:15:26
  But like I said, I could see myself kind of maybe falling off
• 1:15:30
  and letting maybe a couple episodes build up for maybe
• 1:15:35
  like. A.
• 1:15:36
  Binge later. On.
• 1:15:40
  Oh, delicious and dungeon. This is one that was on my radar
• 1:15:49
  heavy going into the winter season because I had heard such
• 1:15:55
  high praise of the manga from a lot of people whose opinions
• 1:15:58
  that I trust for a while, and I know the the the manga actually
• 1:16:03
  just ended in the later half of 2023 last year.
• 1:16:09
  So the manga. Finished fairly recently.
• 1:16:14
  Whatever. But when I saw that there was an
• 1:16:17
  anime coming out and that the anime is being done by Studio
• 1:16:20
  Trigger, I was like, OK, I need to see what's going on with the
• 1:16:23
  show, whatever, so. So yeah, so delicious.
• 1:16:25
  And Dungeon basically follows a set.
• 1:16:28
  Of adventurers who are traveling through this dungeon to rescue
• 1:16:32
  one of them's one of the main characters, his sister from a
• 1:16:37
  situation with the dragon. And along the way, because
• 1:16:42
  they're short owned resources and finances or whatever,
• 1:16:44
  they're having to survive off of their environment and that leads
• 1:16:48
  them to cooking and eating. Monsters like wild monsters and
• 1:16:54
  place and stuff that they encounter as they go throughout
• 1:16:56
  this dungeon. So that's basically like the
• 1:16:59
  basic premise and setup of this whatever.
• 1:17:01
  And so this one is airing on Netflix.
• 1:17:05
  And one. Thing that I love about that is
• 1:17:07
  that it is. Dubbed in like.
• 1:17:10
  A dozen different languages week to week.
• 1:17:13
  So I'm watching the English dub. It has been super dope, super
• 1:17:17
  clean. So that's how I'm watching it.
• 1:17:20
  But yeah, it's just like a fun adventure show.
• 1:17:23
  Kind of reminds me of a little bit of like at least like the
• 1:17:25
  starting part of like a campfire cooking that I enjoy.
• 1:17:30
  That came out earlier last year as well.
• 1:17:32
  So so yeah, so delicious and dungeon.
• 1:17:34
  That's another must watch on my radar.
• 1:17:41
  Let me see. Some other stuff that I kind.
• 1:17:44
  Of checked out and I'm not even bother pulling a lot of these
• 1:17:47
  up. Mr. Villain's Day.
• 1:17:49
  Off there's only one episode out so far.
• 1:17:51
  Episode 2 comes out tomorrow I think, but so far it basically.
• 1:17:56
  Follows a villain on his day off, so he's kind of kind of
• 1:18:01
  like a big bad on the villain side versus like some Rangers
• 1:18:04
  and stuff. And it's just.
• 1:18:07
  Kind of like. Just like a kind of like a fun
• 1:18:09
  slice of life show about this big bad.
• 1:18:13
  But how he tries to distance distance?
• 1:18:16
  Himself from. Work and work related
• 1:18:19
  obligations and stuff on his day off because he just wants to
• 1:18:22
  chill and have fun. So it kind of gives me a little
• 1:18:26
  bit of. Maybe it might be in.
• 1:18:27
  That kind of like Jacuzzi's babysitter pocket a little bit
• 1:18:30
  as far as like vibes, so I don't know.
• 1:18:33
  Like so I'll see once I watch Episode 2 tomorrow.
• 1:18:35
  But I. Enjoyed that first episode?
• 1:18:39
  Hokkaido. Girls are.
• 1:18:40
  Super adorable. That was a super fun first
• 1:18:43
  episode that kind of gave me similar, just like fun vibes as
• 1:18:49
  like a a my. Dress up, darling.
• 1:18:55
  Type of situations where you have a very popular girl who is
• 1:19:00
  befriending a kind of like a. More.
• 1:19:05
  Quiet sheltered guy or whatever. So this guy, he moves to
• 1:19:09
  Hokkaido from Tokyo. So from the big city to the
• 1:19:12
  small kind of like country area, whatever.
• 1:19:15
  And. Instantly meets this like really
• 1:19:18
  popular cute girl or whatever and just teasing shenanigans in
• 1:19:24
  suits, so like, so it's just like a very smart and very fun
• 1:19:28
  kind of like a ROM com or romantic comedy type of show.
• 1:19:32
  So maybe we want to check out another Easter car that's kind
• 1:19:38
  of on my radar is Doctor Elise now?
• 1:19:43
  This one is interesting because. This is a kind of like like a
• 1:19:47
  like a re reincarnation because she was like.
• 1:19:51
  A. Princess or something of this
• 1:19:55
  fantasy world. She was horrible to everybody
• 1:19:59
  around her. Whatever.
• 1:20:00
  When she died, was reborn and kind of like a more modern.
• 1:20:08
  Technologically advanced. World became one of like the
• 1:20:12
  best surgeons in the world. Ends up dying in a plane crash.
• 1:20:17
  Ends up getting sent back to her first life.
• 1:20:24
  Again, so that's kind of. Interesting to where I was like
• 1:20:26
  OK, she died, realized she was a crappy person, changed her life
• 1:20:32
  around, became a top notch life saving, saving surgeon in the
• 1:20:36
  world, died again and went back. And so now she's kind of trying
• 1:20:39
  to figure out how to do better and be better with her original
• 1:20:44
  life and family and stuff, try to turn things around there and
• 1:20:48
  potentially. Use some of her medical
• 1:20:49
  expertise from her previous life or.
• 1:20:53
  From her second life. Now in her first slash third
• 1:20:57
  life again. So I don't know.
• 1:20:58
  I love my ASCAR stuff whatever. And y'all know I loved Parallel
• 1:21:02
  for Parallel World Pharmacy that.
• 1:21:05
  Came in a couple years ago, so willing to give it a shot.
• 1:21:10
  Let me. See the 1st.
• 1:21:12
  Episode of the Witch and the Beast.
• 1:21:16
  Finally came out. And so the kind of the premise
• 1:21:20
  of this one is kind of worth to try to describe, but basically.
• 1:21:26
  It follows. This maybe a witch dude or
• 1:21:31
  whatever, and this kind of maybe monster girl as they're kind of
• 1:21:36
  like trying to track down a specific witch to break a curse.
• 1:21:40
  And that's kind of like the basic level way I can describe
• 1:21:43
  it. But it was very intriguing, just
• 1:21:48
  like the characters, the world, some very dope action scenes and
• 1:21:52
  stuff in it and some mystery and stuff.
• 1:21:54
  Too, and very, very bloody and violent.
• 1:21:57
  And stuff too. Whatever.
• 1:21:58
  But I don't know. I'm intrigued to like, say I've.
• 1:22:02
  I've heard people mention this as far as like like one of like
• 1:22:05
  the best kind of like fantasy series, manga wise.
• 1:22:09
  So far out up there with free Rin and Magus of the library and
• 1:22:18
  Witch Hat Atelier. So I'm like, OK, I love Witch
• 1:22:21
  Hat. I love Magus of the library.
• 1:22:24
  I love free Rinse, I'm OK Witch and the Beast.
• 1:22:27
  And so I've had volume one of the manga for a while just
• 1:22:30
  hadn't popped it, popped it open yet.
• 1:22:33
  And especially when I heard that there was an anime, I was like,
• 1:22:34
  did you know what, let me try being an anime only person for
• 1:22:37
  maybe an episode or two. But what I will say that a lot
• 1:22:41
  of people point out whatever, is that like the show looks.
• 1:22:45
  OK. But some of like the detail and
• 1:22:48
  stuff of the art of the manga is kind of top notch, so I think
• 1:22:54
  I'm end up diving. Into.
• 1:22:58
  This this manga. And stuff, whatever.
• 1:23:00
  And maybe doing a comparison of that after a few episodes later
• 1:23:04
  this month. So we'll see.
• 1:23:05
  But yeah, so that one was. Interesting Sasuke and Peeps.
• 1:23:11
  This is 1. That I still don't know how I
• 1:23:15
  fully, fully feel about it, but I'm still intrigued.
• 1:23:20
  So first episode was 48 minutes long and.
• 1:23:25
  It basically follows. A Sasuke and middle middle-aged
• 1:23:29
  office worker who ends up going to get a pet Jessica.
• 1:23:34
  You know he's feeling drained, but kind of feeling lonely when
• 1:23:36
  when a companion. So he ends up getting this like
• 1:23:39
  small bird. This bird ends up.
• 1:23:43
  Being able to talk because the bird was a reincarnation of
• 1:23:51
  somebody from this fantasy world that has magic and all this
• 1:23:54
  stuff, whatever, and ends up taking Sasuke to this magical
• 1:23:59
  world or whatever. And so it kind of starts off
• 1:24:03
  with him trying to this magic world, helping out this bird,
• 1:24:08
  but also like selling earthly items in this fantasy world or
• 1:24:16
  whatever. But then it later turns into him
• 1:24:20
  also getting the ability to use magic and stuff himself and
• 1:24:24
  getting. Drawn to this.
• 1:24:25
  Secret organization to where there are actually other people
• 1:24:31
  on Earth or at least in Japan, they have special abilities and
• 1:24:34
  stuff too. And so they go, they basically
• 1:24:37
  kind of like kind of like an FBI type of organization where they
• 1:24:40
  track down and monitor these people with abilities and stuff,
• 1:24:44
  whatever. And so yes, I don't know it's
• 1:24:46
  it's a very intriguing premise. And so like I said, I really
• 1:24:50
  enjoyed that first episode. I started episode.
• 1:24:53
  Two, I think I need to. Finish it or no, maybe I did
• 1:24:56
  finish episode 2, but anyway, it's it's interesting because
• 1:25:01
  this is one of those series that has, it has both a light novel
• 1:25:06
  and a manga. But the light novel is what I've
• 1:25:08
  always seen 1st. And when I saw it, I was like,
• 1:25:11
  OK, the cover looks interesting, but I was like, oh, it's a light
• 1:25:14
  novel. I'm not.
• 1:25:14
  Supposed to read all that, and so it's been very interesting to
• 1:25:18
  see this show. Come out.
• 1:25:23
  So like I said, still. On the fence on how highly I
• 1:25:26
  would recommend it, but it is definitely one that has garnered
• 1:25:30
  my attention. Now, another series that is
• 1:25:35
  based off of a light novel that's.
• 1:25:39
  I don't. I'm still kind of feeling less
• 1:25:41
  sure about it or whatever, but it is.
• 1:25:46
  It sure so in this series, so, so.
• 1:25:51
  So the demon King has died and. A.
• 1:25:55
  Host of demigods. Capable of failing him, have
• 1:25:58
  inherited the world and. So I don't know.
• 1:26:03
  So it. Kind of follows this guy who is
• 1:26:06
  from supposedly another world known as a traveler, and he's
• 1:26:11
  kind of going around doing. I'm not fully sure.
• 1:26:16
  What? But I don't know.
• 1:26:19
  I don't know it it it's it's worth me to even try to describe
• 1:26:22
  what this is, because even after two episodes I'm still not fully
• 1:26:26
  sure like what the cohesive plot.
• 1:26:29
  Is with this shit I've just enjoyed.
• 1:26:32
  It so far. Because it's been the action has
• 1:26:35
  been interesting, the world and the characters in it have been
• 1:26:40
  interesting. Black City So far there is no
• 1:26:42
  one plot thread going through it yet, and that's kind of like
• 1:26:47
  what's kind of has me. On the fence.
• 1:26:48
  About it towards like, I feel like there's something here with
• 1:26:52
  the world and these characters and these legendary figure
• 1:26:55
  figures and stuff, whatever. But I don't know.
• 1:26:58
  So like I said, I'm still kind of cautiously watching getting
• 1:27:02
  stuff, whatever. So but I don't know I.
• 1:27:05
  Don't know, it might be 1. That I might pause and maybe.
• 1:27:09
  Circle back to once. There's multiple episodes for me
• 1:27:14
  to check out and to watch it once.
• 1:27:17
  So but. Yeah, so.
• 1:27:19
  Those are kind of it for like the main things I've checked out
• 1:27:22
  so far. Let me.
• 1:27:26
  See. There was one I watched.
• 1:27:27
  What was this yesterday called The weakest timer began a
• 1:27:32
  journey to pick up trash. I don't know, there might be.
• 1:27:36
  Something there. I don't know.
• 1:27:38
  Like, I don't really have much to say on it or whatever, but I
• 1:27:41
  watched that first episode and I was kind of like kind of kind of
• 1:27:44
  slow to get the wheels turning on the story and stuff,
• 1:27:48
  whatever. But I'm like there might be
• 1:27:50
  something there. Classroom of the Elite Season.
• 1:27:54
  3. I think I'm going to wait until.
• 1:27:59
  It is dubbed and done because that's how I think.
• 1:28:02
  That's how I got into season one and I enjoy season 2 as well,
• 1:28:06
  but I think I might just wait for all.
• 1:28:08
  The. Episodes to be done on that.
• 1:28:10
  Same thing with. Sukumichi Mulet Fantasy Season
• 1:28:14
  2, because I just watched season one a few months ago.
• 1:28:18
  Whatever, I really enjoyed it. So I'm.
• 1:28:20
  I'm cool. I'm just waiting for this to be
• 1:28:23
  dubbed and done. What else?
• 1:28:30
  I still need to check out That metallic rogue show that tells
• 1:28:35
  the wedding rings. Don't know about that one yet.
• 1:28:37
  I watched that first episode. Interesting.
• 1:28:42
  Definitely in the in the ecchi camp, but I don't know if I'm a
• 1:28:45
  check out any more of that one. There's a couple other things.
• 1:28:51
  That I'm kind of looking at on this list, whatever that I might
• 1:28:55
  get around to at some point. Yeah, but I don't know, nothing
• 1:29:02
  100%. They're like super, super, super
• 1:29:06
  screams like, hey, you got to watch this now, which I am fine
• 1:29:09
  with 'cause I'm busy enough with the North shows.
• 1:29:13
  One thing I was very saddened about that I didn't get a chance
• 1:29:18
  to see whatever. Is that so?
• 1:29:20
  So they announced a few months ago that they were doing a
• 1:29:22
  sequel to the Great Pretender anime.
• 1:29:25
  Very, very hype, very excited about that.
• 1:29:26
  I love the Great Pretender. But then it was.
• 1:29:32
  It was. Revealed that it was going to be
• 1:29:34
  a movie, which OK, cool, it's going to be a movie or whatever.
• 1:29:39
  But they did a super ultra limited run of the movie last
• 1:29:46
  week. So when I I heard about the
• 1:29:48
  dates like a month ago or whatever, and I was annoyed
• 1:29:51
  then. And then I was annoyed again
• 1:29:54
  when I heard that hey yeah the it's coming out.
• 1:29:58
  So it came out on I think the 8th and 9th or the 9th and 10th.
• 1:30:02
  Basically it was Tuesday and Wednesday last week and on top.
• 1:30:07
  Of that. Now I've talked.
• 1:30:09
  About before. Like when I went to go see the
• 1:30:11
  boy and the heroin and the blue giant anime movies and stuff
• 1:30:13
  like whatever is that. I am very fortunate that me
• 1:30:18
  living in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex and Funimation having
• 1:30:23
  a headquarters and stuff here now Crunchyroll I guess Boston
• 1:30:26
  say Funimation that. We get a.
• 1:30:31
  Plethora of access to not not just to being able to see a lot
• 1:30:37
  of these anime movies and stuff, whatever, or special screenings,
• 1:30:40
  but a lot of times there's no problem finding a theater like
• 1:30:43
  multiple theaters across the hall.
• 1:30:45
  Metro Place was usually showing this stuff.
• 1:30:46
  Whatever. Well, great pretender not only.
• 1:30:51
  Was it? Only on two days in the middle.
• 1:30:54
  Of the. Week.
• 1:30:56
  But there was only. One theater in the hall, DFW
• 1:31:00
  Metro Place that was showing it, and because of where it is, if
• 1:31:06
  it was on the weekend I could have justified making a trip out
• 1:31:10
  there to go see whatever. But it being on a work day or
• 1:31:14
  whatever, middle of the week, especially with the other life
• 1:31:17
  stuff I got going on, I couldn't justify right now going to see
• 1:31:20
  that movie which which saddened me because I'm like, man, I
• 1:31:24
  really would have loved to been able to watch this, whatever.
• 1:31:27
  But it. Is what it is, but.
• 1:31:31
  I I I hate when. I I just like when they do.
• 1:31:35
  Stuff like this, and I hope that maybe they'll put it on
• 1:31:38
  streaming services at a later date or.
• 1:31:41
  Bring it back to. Theaters later on or.
• 1:31:43
  Whatever. So, so yeah, so, but aside from
• 1:31:45
  that. That's pretty much.
• 1:31:47
  It for. The winter.
• 1:31:51
  Anime stuff that. I have checked out and stuff
• 1:31:53
  that is caught my attention so far, but yeah, so I'm gonna end
• 1:32:00
  that here. So I hope that y'all enjoyed
• 1:32:03
  this episode. I hope y'all enjoyed my
• 1:32:05
  discussion on. You know, on suicide.
• 1:32:11
  Squad and kind of how you know us as.
• 1:32:16
  People doing. Better about, you know, doing
• 1:32:20
  more due diligence with these. With a lot of just like.
• 1:32:27
  Online coverage and stuff that happens.
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  With a lot of media and not. Just games, but TV shows,
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  movies, manga, whatever. Catch me build whatever to get
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  context for the person and. How they?
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  Got to experience a thing and all that stuff.
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  Whatever. But.
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  But yeah. So.
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  Don't know if I'll be if I have an episode next week or not or
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  whatever with you know, stuff still going on family wise, but
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  I do have more manga. Reviews and discussions planned
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  to come out soon and like I said, some great games are on
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  the horizon and I'm looking forward to.
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  Watching more awesome TV shows and stuff, whatever.
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  So 'cause I I ended up pausing my.
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  Peaky. Blinders watch through, which
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  probably because of the family stuff that happened and I kind
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  of wanted to get away from some of the heavier stuff in that.
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  But I'm also now reading through this this super dope manga
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  series Rainbow. You know the seven from Cell six
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  block 2. So Benny who nerf rambling.
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  It's late. I'm ready to eat and chill and.
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  Snuggle up for this cold front. Come in SO.
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  So thank y'all. So much for.
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  Watching and or listening. As always, you can find me
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  everywhere at Danny's Talk. If you want to talk conversate,
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  hit me up. I would love to talk to Y'all
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  Share. Your thoughts on anything, I'll?
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  Discuss today from the Suicide Squad game, to demos, to the
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  Winter anime and everything in between and.
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  And yeah. As I always say, treat yourself
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  to some nice read some manga, watch some anime TV and movies,
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  play some video games and live your best life.
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  And with that your boys out. Y'all stay safe.
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  Y'all stay warm and I'll catch y'all and the next one.
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  Peace. Whoops.