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Gamer Over: Star Wars Outlaws, Dune Awakening & Resident Evil Requiem · Multiple Nerdgasm

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Matt, are you excited? Often.
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Good. I assume you're excited to be
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heading over to LA tomorrow. You'll be heading into LA just
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after this record, won't we? Will they?
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Yeah, it's the opening of the rugby league season.
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Oh. Welcome to multiple Nerd Gazan,
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a comedy. Show.
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About all things nerdy. Isn't that hang on, isn't that
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in Vegas? Yes.
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Yeah. What did I say?
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You said LA, I know it's in Vegas because my brother is
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there. Oh really?
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Yeah. Is he going to see the game or?
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Yeah, he's working at the game, Yeah.
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Oh wow, that's awesome. I'm jealous.
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Now can you take me next time? I'll ask him but I don't know.
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Can you do video work? Yeah, it's pretty simple I
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think. Lots of stuff.
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I'll just tell him Luke will do what he's told me.
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Yeah, yeah, I think what cheap don't even have to pay me.
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He might like, he might like that.
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He might like that. Tell me I mentioned
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accommodation. I mentioned, well, that's not
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nothing, is it? All right, well, I'll talk to.
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It's cheaper than having to also then pay me on top of.
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That's true. That's true, Vegas.
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I've never been to Vegas. I don't think I'd like it.
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Because it's something I don't like it.
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I don't like the stuff that people normally like about it.
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Well, there's just all the casinos and the gambling and
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stuff. There's some cool stuff there,
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like the Pinball Hall of Fame and like, like there's, there's
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some cool stuff. Yeah.
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In Vegas. Not just the gambling.
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I know at one stage they tried to go down.
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Vegas was for family and I think they gave up on.
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That, yeah, it's probably the yeah, the people hanging up the
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Flyers for the hookers, probably, yeah.
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Put a damper on that a little. Bit because Nevada's the only
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place where hook is illegal, isn't it?
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I don't know, not sure. I'm not sure they are legal.
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Are they because they. They are in Nevada.
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I remember watching a show on ABC.
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There's a documentary called The Bunny House and that was set in
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Nevada. All.
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Right. And so they, yeah, drive free.
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It wasn't like in the heart of Acres you had to drive.
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No out. No, because that's what when we
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were there, the first, you know what, this only happened the
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first time when I was with Dan and Dave.
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What does that tell you? We were walking down the strip
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and then people were handing out basically like Flyers and like
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cards and booklets of ladies. It was like he champagne right
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here in the limo if you want to go.
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And we were like, fuck no, that's terrifying.
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But yeah, that's what it is. People do that, jump in the
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limo, they give you drinks, they drive you out into the desert.
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Yeah. But then you have to pay for the
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fucking drinks. Yes, they pay for everything,
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Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.
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But yeah. And then yeah, they were like
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flicking the cards, which was a a weird thing that we noticed
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and, but I've not seen that since, but I've been, I was
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there with Jenna the second time.
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Maybe they'll leave you alone if you're with your Wi-Fi.
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I. Mean, I don't know why they
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would, but maybe just didn't notice it.
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And then I was there for work a couple of times, yeah.
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So maybe they could tell I was a businessman.
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Yes, I think if you see a group of young guys together that
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that's probably their prime target.
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Yeah, that's what we were exactly.
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Happened to be there for the fucking Adobe thing.
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But anyway, yeah, Vegas is fucking weird.
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I will get there one day. Yeah, I don't dislike it.
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It's just not like it wouldn't be my choice.
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You know, if someone said what do you want to do for your
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birthday, let's go somewhere, I would not pick Vegas.
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No, let's succeed the football. I pick fucking Disney or
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something. I need to go to Disney again.
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I have to take my daughter to Disney.
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She knows about it now. She knows about it.
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And it's possible for you to go, yeah, like in Australia, where
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like, you learn about it and you go, well, that's never going to
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happen. Yeah, that's on the other side
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of the world. Yeah.
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Yeah. It took us to, what, our 30s to
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get there? Yeah.
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No, she knows about it. It's going to have to happen at
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some point. And they have, like, deals every
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year. So go keep an eye because it's
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fucking expensive man. And.
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Then when she get there you have to pay even more money otherwise
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you're not going on any rides. You go on one ride every day if
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you wait in the lines. Yeah, well, the other thing is,
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is because you're going to be with her, you get, you're not
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going to get to go on all the cool rides.
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That's true, But I also think it will be fun on a different
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level, yes. So I'm not not super worried
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about that. But still, yeah, you're going to
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pay the extra money because you don't want to just stand there
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all day. Yeah, just go and go on.
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Yeah, I don't know if the kids are busy.
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That's an interesting question. I don't remember.
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I remember we only went on it's a small whale ride and I wanted
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to kill myself. Yeah, yeah.
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And then you made me go on the Goofy roller coaster, which was
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a kids ride, love. Good.
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There was no line and you were like, no line.
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Yeah, like I fucking insist. Like there's no line, we might
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as well. Yeah.
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So what's been going on? Together.
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Nothing much work work work you. I mean, same, I guess I've been
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playing some stuff. We could talk about it.
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Speaking of Disney, we're not the only ones concerned by the
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Super Bowl trailer. Apparently, executives at Disney
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were also like, what's going on with this movie?
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And especially because the reaction was so well, it says.
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Concerns have been raised about the recent Super Bowl spot for
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The Mandalorian and Grogu. It was unconventional, featured
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2 characters riding a Taunton pulled wagon as we discussed.
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It was strange. It was like a whiskey commercial
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or something. Probably it failed to generate
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the kind of excitement the marketing team was hoping to
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spark. And questions remain over the
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potential of a streaming series turned film beyond the Die Hard
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fanbase. Which, yeah, I think they should
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be a little bit worried about that.
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I mean, maybe it'll be all right, but I don't know, man.
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People who aren't familiar with it who saw that ad?
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Yeah, they're now not going to go.
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You've not convinced them. Yeah, you've not convinced them.
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That was fucking weird. Also the Taunton, why are they
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on Hoth? Or the Taunton's just everywhere
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in the. World.
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Well, you could take the presumably.
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I see your point. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Were they native? They must be.
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No, because they freeze to death on Hoth.
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Where do they get the tontons? Like where they get the Tontons?
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Yeah, because yeah, you flaunt on a freeze before it reaches
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first marker. But what the whompers eat?
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They do die Luke Skywalker. Yeah, yeah, of course.
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Luke Skywalker must be native too, yeah?
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But yeah, I I reckon someone must have been fired or has been
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demoted over that that Super Bowl commercial.
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It's It was weird. Because it would have cost them
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what? It's millions of dollars to put
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up ads. Yeah.
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For in that break. And that's what they came up
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with. I mean and.
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People signed off on that. Someone must have thought this
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will be clever and convinced everybody, which, you know,
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worth a shot I suppose. But yeah, I don't.
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I, I, Yeah, well, obviously it's not just us.
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The feedback on it has been like, that was weird.
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Yeah. Why'd you do that?
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Happy it's not just us, because it's just us.
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Then I have no idea how the world works.
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Actually, during the fucking Super Bowl, if that's your
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chance to like show the world everyone, like even people in
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other countries who don't care about football.
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I'm in America and I don't care about fucking football, but I'll
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watch the trailers from the Super Bowl.
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Yeah. And it's like just do a normal
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trailer that makes me want to watch the movie.
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What's this weird shit? Show action show something like.
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That I think this the the new trailer that came out while I
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still didn't like it, that's what they should have shown yes.
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I think that actually shows you what the movie is, yes.
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Whereas the the one they had. Just doesn't riding on just
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writing saying nothing and. It's not even clear what it is.
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And that's smooth talking, man, talking over it.
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Yes. So I'm happy we're not the only
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ones. And my God.
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On the subject of Star Wars though, I the other day I for
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whatever reason remembered I have an Xbox which I haven't
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used in I'm not not lying months haven't used my Xbox because
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I've been playing Dune and stuff on.
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My yeah Dune and trying to get some time on the switch.
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Yes. So I turned on the Xbox and
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after updates, obviously I was like, what's the current state
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of my game library? Because you remember I cancelled
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game. Pass back.
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Right. And I like as in that's about
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how long it's been since I've used my Xbox?
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Yep. Is it like whenever the fuck
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that happened? So like last year?
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Yeah, I think the last game you would have been playing would
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have been Indiana Jones. Yeah, because I played stuff on
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my PlayStation for a little bit there.
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I was playing Silent Hill and that.
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So anyway, so I turned the Xbox on and I realized I purchased at
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some point in a sale Star Wars Outlaws.
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Oh. And I was like, Oh yeah.
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So I installed that. Oh, I know why I turned it on.
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I turned it on because of another game we're going to talk
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about, just briefly, because what we can talk about now, I
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suppose. Resident Evil Requiem is out,
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and apparently it's fucking incredible.
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That's what I'm hearing. I really liked a wait 7 or 8,
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whatever the last few right village and the one.
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Seven. And then there was a village.
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I loved both of those games. So I saw that Requiem was
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getting these rave reviews and I was like, is that on the Xbox?
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How much is it? So that's that's why I turned on
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the Xbox. And then I looked and it's $70
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and I went, no wait. Is it out yet?
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Requiem, Yeah. OK, because I know I've seen
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some reviews of it. I didn't know it was out yet.
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Yeah, that's out. That's yeah.
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But like I said, 70 bucks which 70 US is a lot for a game.
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That's the future. Is it?
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Games are going to be expensive or you're going to be paying a
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subscription. Well, see, it's not on a
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subscription, is it? I don't think I also had a.
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Loogie stuff game. I'm getting, I'm bouncing around
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a lot here. Let me let me try and focus
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myself. Resident Evil Requiem is getting
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really really good reviews. I'm very interested in it, but I
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don't particularly want to pay $70.00 for it right now.
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So, but it's got the best reviews of the franchise, I
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believe. And Leon's back.
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Yeah, it looks fucking awesome and I really want to play it, so
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maybe I'll change my mind at some point and spend the money,
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but. Or maybe you could play the game
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that you already purchased. Yeah, so let's get back to that
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then. So it's called Star Wars
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Outlaws. I have not played it since they
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made updates to evidently make it better.
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Oh, OK, See, I didn't play it before that.
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So Star Wars Outlaws was controversial in that people
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didn't like it because apparently it wasn't very good.
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I don't know. I can't remember why they didn't
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like. It it's just a lot of, they
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turned it into like a normal Ubisoft game where there's just
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a lot of everything. Yeah.
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And. I can see that.
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Already and. OK, I've played through the
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intro and I'm on the 1st planet where you crash the ship that
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you pinch and I'm doing and and so now I can see.
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OK so you've got these so far I can only see three, but there's
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another spot at the end for another syndicate or something
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like that. So I've got the Pikes.
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Crimson. Crimson.
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Dawn. Crimson Dawn I think Crimson
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Raiders. That's from Fallout.
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Crimson Dawn and the Hut. Yes, and.
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And you have to and you have to work with all of them and you
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don't want to piss, piss them off too much by working with one
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and. Yeah, and I'm like interesting,
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this is cool. Like so far, I mean, I haven't,
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like I said, I haven't played a lot of it a couple of hours.
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Yeah, I like it so far and it and yes, it's a very stealth
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heavy game. Clearly, and I think that's what
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people didn't like, people wanted.
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Star Assassin's. Creed Yeah.
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I want to run out and shoot lasers at people.
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I think you can. I don't know whether.
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That's one of the things that they did fix because there were
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a lot of missions that if you've got caught, that was just
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mission over. That's it.
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Like interesting point. You know what?
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Now you can start shooting. There's a mission early on.
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Tell me, tell me if this is the case.
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This is not a spoil, it's one of the first fucking.
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Oh, I I probably won't remember. It's power news.
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There's a mission. Early on where you have to break
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into the Pike like base and steal some data to give to this
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Mon Calamari woman. And when I was doing it, I was
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doing the stealth thing. And then I was thinking, I
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wonder what happens if you get spotted or whatever because she
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keeps saying, oh, I'm going to make sure I don't get spotted.
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And then at some point something I screwed up.
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Someone saw me and I just started shooting.
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And then the main character actually said, well, I guess it
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doesn't really matter if they see me.
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And I was like, do they add that in?
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I think no, I think they added that in because that was
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basically teaching you how to be sneaky and not get caught, and
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that would have ended the game and sent you.
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Back well, I got my ass kicked and it reloaded and then I was
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back in stealth mode and I completed it that way, but it
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just made me laugh that it just seemed very like she was very
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I've got to make sure I don't get caught.
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You know, they see me, we're fucked.
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And then she's like, I guess it doesn't matter it.
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Doesn't matter anymore. Yeah, just shoot them all.
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It's their fault they saw me. But yeah, I can see already see
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there's a lot too, because it seems like there's a lot of
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character customization clothing wise and equipment wise, you can
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like customize the weapons and. Customize the weapons and
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upgrade the weapons and the weapons you can actually, You
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can actually, because you've got different types of weapons as
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well. You've got your ion one, which
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is good for robots. You've got your actual normal
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lasers, good for humans. You can power them up.
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You've got the superpower, which can be different for each how
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you play your game, right. There's a lot to it, yeah.
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And there's a lot of collecting resources to upgrade your ship
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and then upgrade your scooter bike.
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Not scooter. Bike.
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Speed a bike when you get it. Speed a bike?
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Yeah. Yeah, when?
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You. Yeah.
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I've got speed. Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, you get that out of the ship when you crash.
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Yeah, it's, I mean, so far it's pretty fucking good.
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I should go. Back to it, because I there's
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DLC for it and I actually I didn't, well I hated the stealth
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part and getting caught and that's what sort of put me off.
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I didn't mind the actual other parts of the game.
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Yeah. Well, the other thing is I knew
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it was going to be like that because everybody was bitching
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about it. So maybe that helped too,
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because I'm like, well, yeah, it's a stealth game.
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And the fact that that whether whether or not they did change
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that, the fact that you can just blast your way out seemingly
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maybe whether, yeah, that that made it like, oh, OK, actually
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it doesn't matter that much. Yeah.
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So maybe that's a later edition. Yeah, so you try and be stuffed
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at the start and if you get caught, well, you you're the
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reason that. Like watchdogs.
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Are now going to die, yeah. Like Watchdogs.
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Watchdogs was the funniest with that, where it was like you
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could murder 5000 people and then leave and then everybody
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goes back to normal. Yeah, and all because you're
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upset that someone murdered your family or your daughter or your
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niece. Yeah, so now you just murder
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them. Murder.
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Murder everyone who's just doing it for a paycheck.
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Yeah. They're just doing their job.
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Well, they should have done it to someone else.
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No, I think I might install that again because I'm looking for
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another good game to play. I've sort of finished a few
17:40
lately, so I need a long game of Mike.
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There's also Resident Evil Requiem.
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There is, but I already just spent a lot of money on a few
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games lately, like the Yakuza series.
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Oh yeah. But I did the remakes of 1-2 and
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three. I just played through all of
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them, yeah. And I love those games.
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They, I don't know why, they're just they.
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Seem so strange to me. I've never played them, they
18:06
just look. Weird.
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I love them they they are so strange and very Japanese and.
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Did they start out as weird and goofy as they seem to have?
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Ended up. OK.
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All right. Well, sometimes it does.
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I think some of the games have escalated a little bit.
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But there are times where, hey, you saved my life, come to this
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club with me, you'll enjoy it. And then you get in there and
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it's just a room full of men wearing nappies with women
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changing them. Right, OK.
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There's actual clubs, video clubs where you go in and it's
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actual video of girls. Right.
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OK. And you're just sort of watching
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them in the bath and stuff like that.
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And then you don't, you don't see anything too graphic or
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anything else. Off the Internet fair.
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Yeah, but then it sort of ends with him going and then it looks
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at the box of tissues next to him.
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God, Oh, one thing about Outlaws, the storyline, There's
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some bits where I'm like, OK, we're we're moving through this
19:13
very quickly. Like you do that job for those
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people at the start and then you find out they're the Rebel
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Alliance and this, the person you've literally just met is
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like, join us, join the Rebel Alliance.
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And it's like, whoa, hang on a minute.
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They don't even know who I am. It just hired me to do this
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break in the computer system. And then so that was like, OK,
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that happened very quickly. And then when you crash land on
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the planet, the first planet, you crash the ship.
19:40
You get out and that whatever. What?
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What? A Rhodian guy, Dash, I think his
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name is you. You literally crash the ship.
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You walk outside. He goes to hit you with a pipe
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and you go whoa. And then and then he goes, I
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thought you were a bandit. The bandits come and shoot the
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bandits. And then this guy goes, OK, now
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I'm going to fix the ship. And I was like what the fuck?
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Yeah, I think there's some some bad writing at the start just to
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get. It's just like, let's just this
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guy's going to fix your ship and because.
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And then she's like instantly she's like, OK, cool.
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And then you're off on the speed of bike.
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And I was like, that happened very quickly.
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He's now my best friend, I guess.
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Yep. And he'll do your ship up quite
20:25
nicely for you. I mean, that's fine.
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It just made me laugh that. Yeah.
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All right. That's the last Star Wars game
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we've had. It's been a while since we've
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had a Star Wars game. Yeah.
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I think there's one, yeah. Isn't there something coming
20:41
out? There's something coming out,
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the one with the drums. Oh, that?
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Yeah, Eclipse. That's the David Cage.
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What's the fucking company? Yeah, the heavy rain.
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Yeah. Quantic Dream.
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Yes. So I'm interested to see their
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take on Star Wars because that's.
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Yeah, I wonder what's very. Different to or yeah, if it's if
21:04
it's still happening because. I imagine that's likely to be
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the opposite, where the story will be very slow, yes, but
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hopefully. And also, I think that one's set
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like thousands of years before, yeah, the events of Star Wars.
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So they're actually doing the thing that we want is playing
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the universe. You don't need to have the join
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the Rebel Alliance as part of it.
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What? Happened to the Kota remake, did
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they get cancelled? That comes and goes.
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The last I heard is this sort of meshing it all into one game.
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So it'll just sort of just no one or two.
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It's just. Oh.
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So just follow straight on. But that was a long time ago.
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Yes, it's still happening, but it's been troubled, the
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development shifting from Aspire to Sabre Interactive.
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Sabre. Likely 202728 Sabre.
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You don't like them? They're they're good at, they do
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make remake games. They do, they're good for that,
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but they're they sometimes don't release well when they need to
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do patches. Oh OK, what have they done?
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I know Aspire did all the baldest gate ones.
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I'm still sick by the way. It's fucking driving me nuts.
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Trying to remember, I think they did like.
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Oh yeah, Jurassic Park Survival. Hellraisers.
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Yeah, I don't know about any of these games.
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Painkiller. Remember that one?
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Yeah, like they tend to be the what people you go to if you
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want to remake something. Yeah, all these look like a snow
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runner. OK, My friend likes those games.
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Ghostbusters, the video game Remastered.
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Yeah, there's nothing on here that like wows me but.
23:00
Yeah, like that game? The video game.
23:10
Oh, they own 3D Realms? Interesting.
23:14
So yeah, that's yeah, I think they're a bit hit and miss for
23:18
me. Yeah, right.
23:21
They're really they're they're doing in John Wick.
23:24
Yeah. OK.
23:26
It was a John Wick game, wasn't it?
23:30
Like not no, no, I do, I think, I think not a full on.
23:32
These all look like a new game, so maybe I was thinking of
23:34
someone else. Yeah, just doing the roommates
23:37
because these all look like Rd. King.
23:39
I mean, I spy the company that was doing them.
23:43
Maybe I'm. Thinking of the spy.
23:44
Yeah, Spy did tons of stuff like the bald is gay never with
23:51
tonight's rather I'm thinking of Spire games.
23:57
Yeah, Tomb Raider 123 remastered.
24:00
They did the Knights of the Old Republic re releases, but not
24:03
remastered. But you know the RE releases
24:05
modern modern hardware. There was just one that was
24:10
doing like the Star Wars Republic Commando, the Star Wars
24:15
speed race, pod racing and stuff like that.
24:17
I just can't remember who they are.
24:19
Oh, that's, that's I, you know what?
24:21
I just remembered the game that's coming out.
24:22
There's a new Star Wars racing game coming out.
24:25
Oh, there is. Yeah, What's it called?
24:27
Star Wars racing game? It is Galactic racer.
24:33
Star Wars Galactic Racer. Oh, is it out?
24:37
No, 2026, Yeah. Anyway, it looks like it looks
24:42
nice like visually, but I don't know that I play it.
24:47
It's going to be I'll buy it and I'll play it.
24:51
It's just pod racing. Yes, I played a lot of that
25:01
original Star Wars racer back in the day.
25:05
Dave used to comment on the fact that I would go in and crank
25:08
them, crank the sound up when we lived together and just play
25:12
fucking pod racing. That sound was awesome.
25:14
Wake up the neighborhood. Yeah, exactly.
25:16
Because, yeah, Because I had big speakers.
25:17
It'd be like, yeah, with the music and everything.
25:22
It was just, it was cool. Yeah, Oh, no, this, this
25:25
actually does look quite nice. The racing game, yeah.
25:29
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, like visually looks
25:32
fucking great. I just don't know that it's
25:34
going to be. I get.
25:37
Bored. Compelling these type of racing
25:39
games exactly though, yes, because it is honestly the same
25:42
thing just over and over. But yeah.
25:45
But it does not look very nice. Still buying it day one.
25:49
I'm sure you will. You see this photo from the God
25:56
of War TV series. I've not been paying much
26:00
attention to go to war because I had I've never played any God of
26:04
War. You know what it looks like
26:05
there, right? Yes, yeah.
26:07
Click through and have a look at this photo the Internet reaction
26:10
has. What the?
26:14
It's been mixed. What am I?
26:17
Looking at is this meant to be live action?
26:20
Yeah, it is live action. It doesn't look like it.
26:23
It looks, it looks odd, right? And yeah, the reaction has been
26:28
pretty funny. People are like what it looks
26:32
like, like looks like cosplay. And then somebody said like,
26:37
yeah, maybe they shouldn't have tried to make a live action
26:43
version of this because it looks a bit.
26:44
It just looks weird. Like even the rock that that
26:47
kid's standing in front of, it looks foam.
26:53
Yeah, you're right. So I don't know man, maybe it'll
26:59
look better in maybe it'll be like the Witcher show where
27:02
first of all, like, Oh no. Oh yeah, and then we found it.
27:05
Great. And then we all stopped watching
27:07
it at the same time. Yeah, but then yeah, I know the
27:11
guy is Kratos. I just.
27:14
Don't know there's there's some CGI on his face already.
27:18
Yeah. Well, that's what I think
27:20
anyway. It's, I mean, it doesn't, it
27:26
doesn't blow me away. Let's let's just say that it's
27:29
a, it's a really odd choice to be like, let's show them a photo
27:33
of what we're working on to for for it to be, yeah, it was just,
27:37
it's just a bit weird. But then the other thing you'll
27:40
look at is unfortunately. That's the best photo they've
27:44
got. That's the best photo they've
27:45
got, but they're really not the audience for this game.
27:50
No, I mean, I have got it. I haven't played it.
27:54
Jenna loved it. The Yeah.
27:57
Oh, that the first one? You have a PlayStation?
28:00
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I've been mean to
28:02
play God of War. We've got God of War and the
28:05
Ragnarok we've got. I've got them, I just haven't
28:07
played them. I don't know.
28:08
Jenna really like the first one. I don't think she's played
28:10
Ragnarok yet. See, I really I would love to
28:13
play, except Sony's doesn't like to share.
28:17
Yeah, if it was on the Xbox, you'd play it.
28:19
Yes. If you still have an Xbox.
28:22
I'm still going to have an Xbox. They might come and take it away
28:26
from you because they've had enough.
28:28
No, they are not. Sharma has.
28:30
Sharma has already told me. They're sticking her out.
28:34
Fill me in what's going on because I keep hearing even the
28:38
one of the Co founders this week was like they're fucking done.
28:42
They are done. OK, so that she did an interview
28:47
and a lot of people have been digging in, looking at her gamer
28:50
score and all this stuff. This is.
28:52
The new seat, new head of Xbox, right?
28:54
Yes, and they're also concerned about she comes from the AI
28:58
side. Yeah, that's how I saw that.
29:00
Too she. Did some big speech about how
29:03
like AI will save the population like issues or whatever or some
29:07
weird thing people. Will possibly, yeah, whatever.
29:12
But one of the main things she said is she wants to protect
29:15
invested Xbox players, which is me.
29:19
Yeah, that certainly describes you.
29:22
Protect you from what? Taking my gamer score away I
29:30
don't know what I would do if I took my gamer score away I.
29:34
Don't know what you would do. Like what?
29:39
Where will I get my dopamine hits anymore?
29:43
Yeah, you might have to become a gambler or a porn addict or
29:47
something. That doesn't, that doesn't sound
29:51
fun to me. But no, I, I look, she's still
29:58
saying that they're going to be talking about the new hardware
30:01
very soon. Yeah, OK, that's coming up.
30:03
And yeah, I don't think it's all doom and gloom that people are
30:07
making out. No, no, it's interesting.
30:10
People are going so hard on it. Yeah, I think it's just, I think
30:14
people have been afraid because Phil was an absolute gamer, like
30:18
400 hours in Destiny, like he was always showing off.
30:23
Like he was, he he played games and was committed to games.
30:27
And now you've got this new person in who maybe doesn't have
30:30
isn't but so I'm I'm not scared yet.
30:38
I mean, if she's a business person, right, it's a business.
30:40
Yes, and they want to make money.
30:42
And how do you make money if you release good games and good
30:46
hardware? Yeah.
30:51
Well, so we do have at least one more Xbox coming out, but as
30:54
I've been saying for a while, I think it will be the last Xbox.
30:57
Yeah, because they'll everything is an Xbox now.
31:00
Yes, I think everything's going to go to cloud.
31:03
Like I was even looking at I brought up my Xbox for the while
31:09
since I brought it up because I haven't been playing on this PC
31:12
much. Brought up my Xbox thing and it
31:15
saw that I'd been playing Homeworld 3 on Steam and on my
31:21
Xbox stream. It's got that sitting there.
31:24
Jump back into Homeworld 3 from Steam.
31:27
Yeah. So I think they're trying to
31:29
become a new valve maybe. Yeah, OK.
31:34
A little bit, we'll see. Well, I'm all in on cloud stuff
31:39
like my I'm like GeForce now is just great.
31:44
Like I tried it out when it first launched years ago and it
31:47
was good already there. Now it's just like I've not had
31:49
any issues with I got disconnected once from Duke and
31:55
then the Xbox cloud stuff. I did use that a bunch.
31:57
I can't use it right now because I don't have.
32:00
Oh yeah, that's I was going to ask you.
32:02
OK. Yep.
32:05
It's I got distracted earlier by like 5 things.
32:09
I know you're everywhere tonight normally.
32:10
Let's see. Yeah, well, it's, it's it's
32:12
first thing in the morning for me.
32:13
My brain's not on track yet. It's my first cup of coffee over
32:17
there. Sure.
32:18
What's your first? It is.
32:21
I'm not. I got to cut to cut back on the
32:22
coffee. Like as in I've been told you've
32:26
got to fucking cut back on coffee anyway.
32:31
Game Pass, yes, right. I don't have Game Pass anymore.
32:35
I was looking when I was poking around, looking on the store and
32:38
stuff like that. There are some games that I'm
32:40
interested in like Outer Worlds too, and I don't know, some
32:44
other stuff that I was like I could spend the 60-70 bucks on
32:49
the game or I could look at Game Pass again, right?
32:52
But now Game Pass. I don't understand Game Pass
32:55
anymore. I've been gone for a couple of
32:56
months. They've changed everything.
32:58
I don't understand. There's 3 levels, right?
33:01
Yes. There's a $10 a month.
33:03
US 10 bucks 5 bucks. There's there's. 1020 and 30
33:10
bucks I think it. Is a month, so there's I think
33:13
it's Game Pass call which gives you some things.
33:17
Yeah. Game Pass.
33:19
Yeah, there's Game Pass Ultimate, which gives you
33:22
everything Pass on Xbox and PC. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
33:26
And then there's the middle one, which I think just gives you all
33:29
the games on Xbox. Let's say this is what confused
33:32
me, right? Because I thought that was what
33:34
it was too. But when I looked on there, it's
33:37
got, it's got the three levels right there.
33:40
And I was like, oh, the middle 1 is probably where I would sit
33:43
because I just want those games just on the Xbox in theory,
33:47
unless I can play them on G force now.
33:49
But anyway, that's that's put that aside.
33:53
When I look at it, it says I think the one on the left had
33:56
like 100 games, the middle one said 200 games and the one on
33:59
the right said 400 games or something like that.
34:01
When I looked at the library, the middle 1 does not have Outer
34:05
Worlds 2O, which was an important thing I noted and I
34:10
didn't go through extensively the game list but it's
34:14
definitely got less games. And so I wondered, do you need
34:17
ultimate? Oh yeah, like and also the whole
34:20
the full Bethesda catalog only on Ultimate as far as I can
34:23
tell. Unless I'm just stupid and I
34:26
missed it. Yeah, no, no, I'm looking at now
34:28
Xbox Game Pass library. So for Ultimate you get 400
34:31
games and for the Game Pass Premium is 200.
34:35
OK, that's a huge. Difference, yeah, I didn't make.
34:37
That. So yeah, you would need to get
34:39
the ultimate to be able to get everything.
34:42
So that's 30 bucks a month, or I pay 60 or 70 or whatever it is.
34:47
Or there's PC Game Pass which gives you 300 games.
34:54
I just don't know. Well, there's essential Woosh
34:57
gives you 50. I don't think I'd bother with
35:01
that. No.
35:02
Frankly, it's not worth it for me.
35:05
Because that will all be the games that forever.
35:09
They're not going to be anything of the new games, they're going
35:12
to be day one releases. No and the other thing, I think
35:16
Ultimate has EA and Ubisoft too now right?
35:20
Or some of it like I. Believe in catalogues.
35:23
Yeah, I still pay separately for my Ubisoft account.
35:27
So I get all the Ubisoft games. Yeah, complete.
35:31
But there are some Ubisoft games on Xbox.
35:35
Yeah. Game Pass.
35:36
OK. But not their entire back
35:39
catalog, which I get, which I probably stopped since no,
35:42
because they're going to play Star Wars again now because of
35:44
you, so I need it. Well, that's the thing.
35:47
I was like looking at and I'm like, Oh yeah, I had a world to
35:49
play. And then I'm like, well, I've
35:50
got games, I've got games. I don't need to be playing other
35:54
games. So, I mean, but it's just
35:56
something to think about. Like I have not missed not
36:00
having Game Pass at all until I turned my Xbox on and I saw
36:04
these shiny new games that I can't have those.
36:09
That's Yeah. So.
36:11
And if you look at it like Xbox, you got to look at how many
36:16
games you're actually going to play in a year and then work out
36:18
the value. I mean realistically the the
36:22
value proposition is is poor for me because what I should do is
36:27
wait until I actually have time to play a different game.
36:30
Play the games I have when I when I run out, which probably
36:34
won't happen, or when I get but when I get bored, which might
36:36
happen. Just buy Outer Worlds too and
36:39
play it because it's going to take me more than two months.
36:42
Once Lyra gets older and she maybe starts playing some more
36:45
Xbox games, that might be a time to get it.
36:49
Yeah, like I have the family plan for the Switch because that
36:54
allows us to like share the games between each other and.
36:57
Yeah. All that stuff.
36:59
So. Because like, I just recently
37:02
just played Paw Patrol and at the moment I'm playing My Little
37:06
Pony. OK, All right.
37:09
Are you saying you want someone to play with?
37:12
I've got just a candidate. She's very good.
37:14
She does get distracted pretty easily.
37:17
But a bit when she's a little bit older, there are games that
37:19
are for children and you set up the parental locks on her
37:22
account, she would only have access to those.
37:26
And that might be? Yeah, that's why I've done her
37:28
switch light. She can't get.
37:32
It's like Nintendo, it's very clunky.
37:36
Nintendo is notoriously bad at this.
37:39
And like, even there's a game where like one of the Lego
37:41
games, it was like, no, you can't play that.
37:43
And I'm like, why can't she play that?
37:44
It's just fucking Lego. And then I have to go and
37:46
explicitly say, yes, she can play the Lego Marvel game.
37:49
Yeah, why, why? Why is that one on the
37:53
blacklist? It's weird.
37:55
Yeah, Lego, Nothing. Yeah.
37:57
What's in there? I mean, maybe, I don't know.
38:01
Could be classified as violent, but it's Lego, you just.
38:05
Yeah, well, it's more than just that.
38:07
Yeah, doing anything on the Nintendo consoles is clunkier
38:11
than it needs to be. They're just so behind on that
38:13
stuff and like the game sharing too.
38:15
Jenny gets the shits because it's like she's wants to play a
38:18
game, but she can only borrow one game from me at a time, and
38:23
I have to be around with my Switch turned on for.
38:27
And it's just she just gets frustrated.
38:30
It's like, yeah. So you.
38:33
Why can't it be like the Xbox like where it's just like she
38:36
can just play the fucking games that we own.
38:38
Yes. Like.
38:39
Yeah. You said that one up as the
38:41
home. You said that one up as the one
38:42
you logged into. Done.
38:45
Yeah. Oh, it's, I guess it's further
38:46
complicated in that I have a Switch light and the Nintendo
38:49
Switch too, and then she has the original Switch that we had, and
38:53
then Lyra has a Switch. So I guess we've got a more
38:55
complicated so, but that's not unusual, surely, Like families
38:59
have a bunch of these things. Like that's what you want,
39:02
Nintendo, don't you? You want us to have a bunch us
39:04
to buy a bunch of your consoles, right?
39:06
Let us play the fucking games on them.
39:09
I don't know Nintendo, just they're weird, but they still
39:14
seem to be the best at it. My switch to is incredible.
39:18
Yeah, but they make it hard for everyone.
39:22
Yeah. No shared saves, cloud saves.
39:27
No, you've got to have cloud saves.
39:29
You've got it's got cloud saves, but it's clunky.
39:32
Like I said, you could you've got to subscribe to get them and
39:37
I'm assuming this is still the case.
39:39
Like you, I think you have to go turn them on for the game that
39:42
you're playing. Like it's just not just on
39:44
automatically, like I don't know, it's just actually
39:46
everything's just a bit weird. There are.
39:48
Games that are Xbox play anywhere where I can be playing
39:51
on my console, then install it on my handheld.
39:55
Yeah. Thing and it'll sync the save
39:57
without me doing anything, it'll just do it.
40:01
There's some good so like a No Man's Sky will sync like through
40:07
through hello game servers like it'll sync and like all the
40:10
Larian stuff has cross save through.
40:14
Them through, yeah, but not. Through like Boulder Skate 3.
40:18
I have Boulder Skate 3 on the Xbox and on the PC and it'll
40:21
sync across and everything. Yeah.
40:24
But yeah, it's not. But yeah, Nintendo.
40:26
But not yeah, Nintendo just fucking bad on that stuff.
40:30
Yeah, so, so weird. Buy another copy of it.
40:35
I will not. We'll see.
40:38
Maybe I will the other day. Oh, did I bump this at some
40:43
point? How did that happen?
40:45
Oh wow, you sound a lot different now.
40:48
Yeah, sorry, Did I bump this or did it like fall down at some
40:51
point? All right, anyway, sorry about
40:52
that everybody if I suddenly the other the other day Leora's into
41:01
skating, rollerblading, ice skating, all that stuff she.
41:04
Just actually doing it. Yeah.
41:07
And so she has some roller skates that she skates around in
41:10
the basement because it's got a great floor.
41:13
So she's skating around and then that's where the booze is.
41:15
There's like a cabinet of booze down there and she skates around
41:19
the basement and she goes past the booze and she goes, hey, why
41:22
does that that bottle looked like red drink.
41:25
Red drink is a Shirley Temple. She likes Shirley Temples with
41:29
cherries in them. And I said, it's not a red
41:33
drink. You can't have that.
41:34
It's Aperol. That's a drink that mommy likes.
41:38
And she goes, oh, OK, which drink do you like?
41:40
And I said, well, I like this one.
41:43
And I pointed this Johnny Wooker Black and I, and then she's
41:48
like, oh, so that's your favorite?
41:49
And I was like, well, I feel like we don't get into it.
41:51
It's not my favorite, but it's like the inexpensive best one
41:55
for me kind of thing. Yeah, the best just having a.
41:58
You don't really run in me having the too in depth a
42:01
conversation about your favorite alcohol.
42:03
Yeah, actually, sweetie, my favorite is Chaliska, but it's
42:06
quite expensive, so I don't buy that all the time, blah, blah,
42:09
blah. Anyway, so I just said, Oh yeah,
42:10
that one. And she goes, oh, you don't have
42:12
very much left. And I said, that's true.
42:14
I've gone through that. So anyway.
42:16
And then that was the end of it. But then like either later that
42:21
day or the next day, whatever, she was down there skating again
42:23
with Jenna. And she goes, she grabs the
42:26
bottle of Johnny Hooker Black Label and skates over to Jenna
42:30
with it and goes, Mum, mum, this is daddy's favorite drink and
42:34
he's almost run out. We've got to get him some more
42:35
for his birthday. She was like, Jenna was like,
42:41
the fuck? And now I'll send you a Jenna
42:47
sent me a video. She wrote on it.
42:50
Lyra wrote on it in a red marker.
42:53
Matt Dad's favorite Johnny Walker Red label.
42:58
A black label. Yeah, she's fucking funny.
43:03
Well, I think I know what you're getting for your birthday now.
43:06
No complaints. No.
43:08
I'll have. I'll have that.
43:09
Yeah, it's very cute though. Yes, she's very funny.
43:16
She's very into pop finals because I was selling a bunch of
43:19
them off and she found them. There's a bunch of a bunch of
43:22
Star Wars pop finals we've just acquired over the years.
43:24
And I was going to sell them. And then she saw them because I
43:27
got them out and she was like, can I have those?
43:29
And I was like, oh fuck. Here we go.
43:33
Yeah, she should have put them back away after I took the
43:35
photos to sell them. Yeah, Yeah.
43:37
So. I've got a ton of pop finals in
43:40
one of these boxes somewhere. Yeah, yeah.
43:46
You just collect them and you don't know how.
43:49
No, we just acquired them over the years from conventions and
43:51
things, I think. Yeah, like I.
43:54
Think my favorite 1 was my Wedge Antilles 1.
43:57
Yeah, yeah, I've got, I've got the Blade Runner ones that I'm
44:02
going to keep and I've got somewhere.
44:03
I've got Cooper from Twin Peaks. That's the other thing.
44:07
I don't even know where that is. Thinking is I'm one of those
44:11
terrible people that opens the box.
44:13
Oh yeah, me too. Yeah, yeah, we've got something
44:15
to seal. Like we've got a bunch of thing
44:17
is, I've got, I've already listed a bunch of these anyway,
44:19
no one wants them like, but we've got a bunch of the Rogue
44:23
One, like a set of six of the Rogue One things I'm just
44:26
selling as a as a bunch together.
44:28
I put them up for 30 bucks. No one wants them.
44:30
No whatever. But now I'm the I'm the worst.
44:35
I get it. I open it, it goes somewhere.
44:37
I have to take all my stuff home from work.
44:40
Do you get fired? No, we're moving offices and
44:42
we're going to a shared workspace.
44:46
Oh, interesting. Shared with you.
44:50
Just with everyone. So the the it's going to be like
44:53
6 desks to every 10 people, so you have to book your desks in
44:57
and stuff like that. Oh, because you're like hybrid
44:59
or something? Yeah.
45:00
Yeah, yeah. So I'm just working out a way
45:03
that I can get a permanent desk. Yeah, because you're always
45:06
there. Yeah, I don't like I could not
45:09
work here. Yeah.
45:11
My, my Xbox is there and this would be where I'd be working.
45:16
Yeah. And I'd do this and then I'd
45:18
look at my Xbox and yeah, just put an end.
45:20
Well, fair. At least you know yourself.
45:24
Yes, you know your limits. I don't have the discipline that
45:26
you do. Yeah, do I?
45:30
Do. I yeah, we've got this is, I
45:38
guess follow up doctor disrespect is I thought.
45:44
He went away. Yeah, he should have.
45:46
It's all the comments in this on this article were like why are
45:49
we still talking about this guy? I don't know.
45:51
I don't understand what he's what what this is right.
45:54
So he's just so weird. He's doing this thing lately
46:00
where so yes, he went away. He got in trouble and all that
46:04
stuff. We don't have to go into that re
46:06
litigate any of that, right. But he he went away and brands
46:09
don't want anything to do with him.
46:11
No. Because he's kind of tainted and
46:15
but he's been doing this thing lately where he pretends that
46:19
he's like a partner with a game launch or he's been invited to
46:24
some event or whatever when he hasn't.
46:27
And then he so like, for example, he pretended he was
46:32
invited to the High Guard preview event.
46:36
Yeah. And then when they said no, he's
46:39
not he he went idiots. And it's like what?
46:45
Who would the idiot team? Exactly like what?
46:49
And then the most recent one, marathon, the new bungee game
46:53
marathon is out or coming out or whatever.
46:56
And they've teamed up with a bunch of influencers and
46:58
streamers and stuff, and they've done these like photo shoots in
47:02
the style of the game. And he did one himself and then
47:08
posted it as if he was also part of the thing.
47:14
I have a we'll move on to talk about how I think Marathon's
47:19
going, but no. But yeah, but why is he doing
47:23
like? So he posted this thing and he
47:24
was like, did all the hashtags like, you know, like let's go
47:27
marathon launch or whatever. And then the bungee on the
47:30
marathon account was like, he is not a a partner with us on this.
47:36
And then he tweeted screenshots of them saying we don't want
47:41
anything to do with this guy and said this is a tweet.
47:45
This is the industry in 2026. These people are actually real
47:48
and dead serious too. I love it.
47:51
Hashtag marathon partner. It's like what?
47:54
What? OK, you just need to go back to
47:58
being a developer and just. Is he the well or something?
48:03
What is happening here? Like how is he doing anything
48:05
other than embarrassing himself? It's so.
48:07
Weird. Yeah, like he's not getting
48:10
anyone with like I'm just. I hate none of these companies
48:13
want to work with me. Isn't that fucking hilarious?
48:15
I'm lying about them wanting to work with me and when they call
48:17
me out you are all the idiots. Yeah, it's so weird.
48:22
And like he also, he's just for giving them free advertising as
48:28
well because like, I don't know, it's really strange.
48:32
I don't know what he's doing. I don't understand why he's
48:36
doing this. I think he just got used to
48:39
bringing in so much money that he's confused about what he
48:43
needs to do now because he's never going to make that money
48:46
every year. Yeah, you think maybe just
48:48
desperate to like figure out some kind of angle or something?
48:51
Yeah, which honestly, what you should be doing is just go back
48:54
to what you were doing before and be a developer.
48:58
Yeah, just go back, go back to work.
49:02
The days of a streamer are over. Yeah.
49:06
But. It's just strange thing to do.
49:08
Like, like if we pretended to be, I don't know, like, yeah, I
49:13
don't know. We pretended to be invited to
49:15
the premiere of Mandalorian Grogu.
49:18
And then when Disney were like, these guys are fucking idiots.
49:21
We have nothing to do with them. We were like stupid Disney like.
49:26
Yeah, got them. Yeah, you dumb asses.
49:31
What are you talking about? We lied, and you called us out
49:34
on our lie. Yeah.
49:35
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're not idiots.
49:38
You are OK. Yeah.
49:41
It's really strange. But Speaking of marathon, I
49:45
don't think it's going to do that well.
49:50
I forgot about it to be honest. It's like a remake of the old
49:55
one, right? Or like or.
49:57
It's like it's but Bungie's first ever game wasn't actually
50:00
Halo, it was actually Marathon, and it was actually on the Mac.
50:06
Right. Yeah, yeah.
50:06
But it was like a 3D shooter, like Wolfenstein style, right?
50:11
With a kind of flat 3D, if you know what I mean.
50:13
See so every weekend Xbox have free games you can play.
50:19
Yeah. Marathon just came out and this
50:22
weekend I could play Marathon for free on Xbox.
50:26
Right. That have you played it?
50:28
No, I haven't because I forgot that it was the all, but that
50:33
just seemed a very bad thing that.
50:35
For it to be immediately free. Free play it for a weekend for
50:39
free. We don't think it's going to be
50:41
that good. Let's see if we get some people
50:42
playing it to Yeah, that's just my feeling.
50:47
I I don't know, I could be very wrong.
50:51
Is it? Oh, it's an extraction shooter,
50:53
is that? Yeah, is.
50:55
That like the division. Yeah, it's like The Division.
50:58
It's like, OK, so many other games like that.
51:01
You need to get a huge fan base into it.
51:04
Quite early and they need to become addicted to it.
51:08
Well, maybe that's why they use them.
51:10
That's all I mean. Maybe it is.
51:12
Maybe it is why they're doing. It free.
51:14
But I don't know, it's the same thing happens all the time.
51:18
You'll get they'll get a huge influx of people playing it like
51:21
they the first week and then they'll drop off.
51:24
Same thing happened my God. Yeah, right.
51:28
Like people went in, played it, went Yep, and now I'm going to
51:30
go back to my normal game that I play.
51:34
Yeah, doing Awakening. Just kidding, actually massive
51:40
influx of people in doing. Oh, did I tell you this story
51:43
about my my worm story? I mean, like I might have
51:45
mentioned it on the WhatsApp, but I don't think I told it on
51:49
the podcast. I am doing Awakening.
51:54
I was playing the other day. Oh yeah.
51:56
So there's been a massive, the new update came out, a bunch of
52:00
really good improvements and there's like tons more people
52:03
playing again, which is interesting.
52:04
There's lots of bases popping up around and stuff, but they've
52:08
released like a bunch of new features and stuff like that.
52:10
So I guess there's been bugs. So anyway, I'm playing the other
52:14
day I did like a big loop all around the map collecting
52:17
resources, doing this stuff. If I've got a base down South
52:19
and a base up north at the moment.
52:21
So you can drop stuff off. Yeah, stuff.
52:25
So I went from my N base, went around, did a bunch of stuff, a
52:28
bunch of missions and stuff, Came back down, went to my S
52:30
base. Dropped some stuff there.
52:33
Picked up some. No, I don't.
52:34
I can't yet. I'm working on it.
52:35
I'm going to build it on a thought pursuit.
52:37
I'm working on it. So anyway, I drop a bunch of
52:41
stuff at the South base and then I'm like, OK, I'm going to head
52:45
back up to the north base and I need flower sand, which is this
52:49
type of sand you can make into silicon blocks as a resource in
52:52
the game, right? To get it, you got to go out on
52:54
the sand and collect it. Yeah, that's where the worms
52:57
are. Yes.
52:58
So you're going to tread lightly and pay attention to.
53:02
Yes, and have an escape plan because the worms will get you.
53:06
So anyway, I start making my way up to north.
53:09
I find a good spot of flower sand and I'm like not
53:14
sufficiently prepared let's say. But there's so much flower sand
53:19
because. I've done all, I've been playing
53:20
for a while, I've done all this stuff and I was just like, ah,
53:23
yeah, there's some rocks over there.
53:24
If the worm comes, I'll just fucking ride the bike over
53:27
there. So which is don't do that.
53:31
So I get I get out, I'm like harvesting flower sand worm pops
53:35
up and I'm like, all right, here we go.
53:36
Hop on the bike and I quickly open the map and I see that
53:41
between me and the rocks that I was planning to escape to,
53:44
there's a patch of red on the map which and I just quickly
53:47
glanced at it and I was like, oh, that's drum sand, right?
53:49
Drum sand when you go over it makes more noise, attracts rooms
53:53
already a worm chasing me, doesn't matter.
53:54
So I'm like, I'll just fucking book it across the drum sand.
53:58
It attracted more worms, didn't it?
54:00
No, no, no. So it wasn't drum sand mate.
54:04
Read the fucking map. That's the lesson learned.
54:08
Read the. Don't just glance at it, look at
54:10
the map properly. It was quicksand.
54:15
So I get on the bike, I'm fucking fanging it towards these
54:18
rocks and and then I hit what? Suppose what?
54:22
I thought, OK, here we go, drum sand.
54:23
No. And I just go and I'm like, I'm
54:30
fucking dead. This worm is going to eat me.
54:33
And it did right? Worm Amy, which as we've
54:35
discussed before, when the when Shai Haloud devours thee, you
54:40
lose everything that you have on you.
54:42
I lost my bike, all the stuff that was in my bike in the
54:46
storage, all the stuff that was on me.
54:48
I woke up naked at A at a station nearby and then a rage
54:55
quit. It's like and I it was my own
54:59
fault. I was like you idiot.
55:01
Like why did you not look at the fucking map properly?
55:04
You were too greedy. You were?
55:06
Yeah. Didn't plan.
55:07
Just lazy. Not even greedy, it's just lazy.
55:10
Like I didn't prepare. Like, yeah, you can't do that
55:13
when the worms are around. So anyway, I was annoyed and
55:19
then I didn't really think about it.
55:21
I just was like, I'll go back on and I'll rebuild everything like
55:25
get my I lost my arm or my weapons.
55:28
I have to remake all that stuff. And I was just like man,
55:31
whatever my own stupid fault. So I couple days go by and I
55:36
start seeing on the Reddit that there's been like an exploit
55:39
introduced by accident with some of the patches where like a base
55:46
griefing exploit where basically that if if you have a base, you
55:50
have a compute, a main computer, 5 console that is the main
55:56
computer for the base and you need that.
55:57
If that goes away, the base is not yours anymore and it'll
56:00
start to degrade and fall apart and all that kind of stuff.
56:03
Anyway, there's some kind of exploit where people could
56:06
destroy the foundation underneath your base computer,
56:11
like 5 console and and it would disappear and your whole base
56:15
would just disappear basically. And like someone read it said
56:20
that they logged on and like they had been in their base,
56:22
they logged on and they were just standing on sand like it
56:26
was just gone. God, that would, yeah, With some
56:28
people who put like hundreds of hours, yes, that would be
56:33
devastating. So they rolled back the servers
56:38
to fix the bug. And I didn't think about this
56:42
very much until I logged in a couple of days later after my
56:47
worm incident and I found that I was back at my S base with all
56:51
my stuff. And then I was like, what the
56:55
fuck? And then I looked in the logs on
56:58
the server and it said, yeah, we had to roll back for this
57:01
exploit. Really sorry.
57:03
We've given everybody some money, some ways, apology.
57:07
And I'm like you fucking do not let that happen again.
57:14
Like you will not get this lucky ever again.
57:17
Yeah, no. So you got, you don't have to go
57:19
back, build your bike, get your armor, anything.
57:22
You just got it all and plus you got a bonus.
57:24
Yes, and it they reverted to like right before I got fucking
57:31
eaten too somehow. Like it's like like I was
57:35
literally thinking you lucky son of a bitch.
57:39
Like how did that happen? So so.
57:44
You've learnt your lesson now. Yes, yeah, yeah.
57:48
Do not. Because you never, you are
57:50
never, ever going to be that lucky ever again.
57:53
No. No, no, no, no, exactly.
57:55
This is like, I can't believe this happened.
57:58
Like, yeah, I went, I ran over the bike, I checked open up the
58:01
back of the bike and I was like, oh, my stuff's in there.
58:05
Fuck yeah. So.
58:08
And they gave you more money for it.
58:10
Yeah, yes, amazing. Yeah.
58:16
So loving that game. I I do like Funcom.
58:20
It's funcom, isn't it? Or yeah.
58:23
Yeah, yeah. I mean, when it's out on the
58:25
Xbox and, you know, and therefore entices you to play, I
58:30
think it'll be fun. Yeah, it's it.
58:32
It's like, it's fun. It's like Conan Exiles sort of,
58:36
but you know, it's got guns and stuff.
58:38
So it's more like like a third person shooter version of Conan
58:46
excels but. Conan I got bored pretty
58:48
quickly. I don't like the combat in
58:52
Conan. I liked Conan broadly.
58:54
I liked everything about it really, except the combat.
58:56
But it's such a big part of it that it was kind of like because
58:59
it was one of those, you know, like kind of like World of
59:00
Warcraft and all those games where you'd like push a button
59:03
and then you guy performs an action and it's like, I don't
59:06
know, it's just not. Yeah, I think actually shooting
59:09
things is actually going to be more interesting than.
59:12
Yeah, yeah. It feels like you're more
59:15
involved in what's happening and, you know, you duck behind
59:18
cover and shoot at people and stuff.
59:20
It's like, yeah. Yeah.
59:23
So very excited for that, for that to come out in Xbox, which
59:25
is coming out later this year I believe.
59:28
They still are saying so, yes. Yes, please come out this year.
59:35
But when it does, be careful in the sand.
59:40
Yes. And when you look at the map,
59:43
look at it properly because they are quite, they're different.
59:47
It's just I just, I just went map, yeah, fuck it, whatever.
59:51
Like. No, no.
59:53
Don't do that. Look at it before the worm shows
59:55
up. So.
59:56
Do you think if you had have gone around the quicksand you
59:58
might have made it? Maybe no.
1:00:02
Well, if I had looked at it before, The problem is that I
1:00:06
did. Like I said, I didn't look at
1:00:07
the map before. I just went, oh, there's rocks
1:00:09
over there. That's where you go if.
1:00:10
The worm comes and then and then the worm came and then I was had
1:00:14
to rush because I had to get away.
1:00:16
So I opened the map and I hit him and I'm like, hey, yeah,
1:00:17
yeah, just drum sand, whatever. Fine.
1:00:19
And then it wasn't drum sand because I didn't look properly.
1:00:22
Yeah. So no, what I if I had prepared
1:00:25
properly, I would have found a different way to get away.
1:00:29
I probably wouldn't have bothered with that patch of.
1:00:32
Flower sand, yeah, if you had a known, yeah, or you would have
1:00:36
done a very quick grab some run. Yeah, exactly.
1:00:40
Yeah, just done a little little mining, not a lot.
1:00:44
And look, since then, now that I've got my stuff back, I have
1:00:46
got more flower sand and I'm all good.
1:00:48
And you know what I did? I made a proper plan and I was
1:00:52
not getting by a fucking worm like an idiot.
1:00:57
But you could maybe e-mail and go someone's exploding again.
1:01:00
Can you roll back for me? Yeah, we could.
1:01:03
Yeah, I suppose. Just grief.
1:01:05
Grief my own base. Yes.
1:01:08
Someone shut out my foundations. I think they would know.
1:01:17
Probably. They could probably see yeah in
1:01:19
the logs. I would think so.
1:01:23
You know where we don't check logs though.
1:01:25
Where? We don't check logs in the after
1:01:28
party. Why would we check?
1:01:29
Oh, we're like a, we're like a VPN company.
1:01:31
Yeah. What you do in the after party
1:01:33
is between you and whoever you do it to.
1:01:37
Yep, nothing to do with us. We don't check.
1:01:41
No, don't like that. Yeah, I know.
1:01:43
It's like, why did I say that? No, that went wrong.
1:01:46
Yeah. No, no, no, it's a we.
1:01:48
Do we do check logs now after that?
1:01:51
We went to make sure I'm not promising things I can't deliver
1:01:56
on. We'll be checking the logs,
1:01:59
yeah. What was the after party?
1:02:00
I was punished where we were going to continue to talk for
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another God knows how long. Depends how awake we are and
1:02:07
when your daughter comes in to say hello.
1:02:10
I can tell you now that she's already upstairs.
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Yeah. So I don't think we have to
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