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Show #154 A Break from Games · Because Fuck You That's Why Podcast

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Because fuck you. That's why it is a founding member of the Odd Pods
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Media Network. But I don't know for me, like I love these games
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with you guys when we're playing them because I don't give a fuck if I
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want to lose. I'm just having fun. I'm playing with my friends and
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trying to make somebody on the board. Fuck what in the games had me
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until that last bit like wait what? I'm like wait wait what? Oh
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yeah, I forgot the fuck hut stone age. We gotta play that again.
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That's what we should do. We should listening. One of the actions
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you can take to send two of your workers to a hut space and they
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produce a third worker. So how does it happen? Just when two meeople's
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love each other very much, they go into a hut, they disappear into
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a hut, and then they show up with gets on top of the lady
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meeple that searchs his meeple penis to meepal people his meeness you. Oh my
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god, I don't think we're gonna have a better intro than that one.
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Welcome to b F y tw because fuck you. That's why nothing personal.
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We are having a chill show. And we're just kind of enjoy each other's
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company and catching up as it were, talking about playing stone Age and making
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meatpals. Fuck you do you know? Yeah, So we're just chilling today,
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no real agenda, no games, just kind of relaxed and hanging out,
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getting away from the stresses recently. And you may have noticed, because
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of the audio quality, at least coming from my end, that this is
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a remote show. And that's because our neck of the woods in western New
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York just got hit with an ice storm. So basically every surface for like
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thirty miles is covered in a sheet hockey skates or ice skates. You're not
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going anywhere. Like I came out to the studio and almost felt like four
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times like no joke, And I was like, what the fuck, it's
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literally treacherous. Were like, nah, not doing that, fam na um.
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But we are. We are chilling. So um, yeah, what's
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been going on, guys, What's what's been up lately? Um, no
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joke, I haven't. I mean we've been coming up with some extra Patreon
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stuff, obviously because love Patreon. Yeah, if you ever want to check
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out our extra bonus content, we send a ton of it over to Patreon.
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Dot com slash b fy tw it's only five bucks. Yeah, that
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reminds me I need to whip up some more Aaron Murders people clips for you,
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because I imagine you'll be running out soon. I just did the latest
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one, a vp amp episode four just released last Friday, yesterday, Episode
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four, Yeah, so fantastic. What we did is we teased a little
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bit. We gave. We gave everybody a taste. As long as you
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were just following us on Patreon, not even subscribe, just following us.
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You got to see the first two for free, and then after that everybody
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from the point tier, the two dollar tier it up, gets to see
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those videos. So now we got something extra for that point tier, that
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support. So we're starting to give everybody a little bit more if we can.
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Among other things. Yes, yeah, it quite literally pays to be
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a member of our Patreon because we just we have so much extra stuff that
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just gets thrown up there. And aside from that, I have been enjoying
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your YouTube videos and the two of you, Oh my god, dude,
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like I've been trying to get back into streaming real bad, and I'm glad
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I've done away with the video cam because that helped a lot. Now I
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just got to work on the whole not sitting there for dead silent for like
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minutes on end. I can't help it. I'm also high while playing video
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games, but naturally, what games have we been playing. We've been playing
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a variety of games, but we seem to gravitate towards our favorites most of
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all. I tend to play a lot of World Warcraft. You tend to
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play a lot of Call of Duty. Yes, yes, I am fucking
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Call of Duty whore. Like no, I can't stop. I played six
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or seven matches already this morning, like before noon. I'm just like,
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I love that game so much. But I've been having a lot of fun,
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and I can definitely tell my skill has increased over the last couple of
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months to be playing practically every day. And now you've been joining me on
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which has been a riot, and we've been both streaming it to our respective
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Twitch streams, but we have also been placing it on our YouTube channel,
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um which is which is befw yep YouTube dot com. I can't remember before
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I still if I change it to beyw podcast, so that way was more
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distinct about my god, I don't think I did. I know it still
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should still be. I mean it's pretty obvious. It's our logo. Yeah,
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I mean like there's nothing else like it on YouTube. You find it
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on our site either, but yeah, it's we've been freaking everything that we've
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been streaming individually. We've been throwing up on the show YouTube just for some
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extra stuff for people to watch. Yeah, because some visual entertainment. We
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are normally you know of the audio, uh persuasion, but media persuasion.
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But what else we've been We're doing VR together. We've been streaming VR together
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as well. We've been doing Contractors, which is a Call of Duty type
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game, but in VR. Um. Look, it's been a very cold
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winter. We've just been playing. But it's nice because all he's been modifying
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it. We played a Stormtroopers already with multiple Star Wars weapons and we just
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modded it again where they've unlucked like what thirty other guns or something, yeah,
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or something stupid and all these different armors and gardais and shit. So
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we get to jump on that soon. But today today I was able to
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get Xbox Game Pass game display and work over my VR and it's No Man's
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Sky. Oh yes all, ye already started in the VR. You actually
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got to right first. I started it before the recent update. The reason
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update has has improved its quality immensely. Beforehand, I wasn't even wasn't even
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batting an eye atic because it was it was just functional enough. But now
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it seems to be a full fledged, like VR version of No Man's Guy.
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I was in today for about an hour and a half, maybe just
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because I'm setting it up, because I had to start it over like brand
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new and go through the whole intro thing and just no joke, the game
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loading, when you're going through that star system, you see the random planet
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names and all that people made. Being in that at the inn the VR
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was insane. But getting into that fucking ship and flying off man and being
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like, oh my god, being in the cockpit felt like actually being in
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the cockpit again, Like, no fucking joke, It felt so nice.
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I'm like, after we're done with this, I might be jumping on that
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tonight. I know tomorrow for a fact, we are playing oh Man Sky,
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So if you want to hang out with us tomorrow, we're jumping into
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that bitch for sure. Like wow, oh dude, it is so beautiful
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like I never realized. And not only have it cranky on settings, it's
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on medium. I'm like, no, this is going to fucking high tomorrow
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because I'm so I'm putting all Command Rise in seven fucking kick ass ad that
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bitch. It's gonna be great. I feel like, oh, I'm so
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excited. And the best thing is, I don't know much about this game.
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I really don't, but what I have been learning and watching Augie play
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and what he's taught me, I'm having a lot of fun and I just
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know it's gonna be so much more fun if we can all play together.
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You know. Hell yeah, man, Like you have that game, don't
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you, because I think you played it as well. Oh yeah, I've
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got no man sky. I got it on a goog back when it launched
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out nice and I liked it back then, like, and this is before
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they apparently have added a whole metric ton of stuff yeah to the game,
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like it's it's huge now. And yeah, you know it didn't originally have
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co op play, like you could you could go to a planet where your
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friend had been, but it was impossible to meet up, I believe.
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To put it into perspective, I think for like almost a year after its
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initial release, the game went from a full priced game to like maybe ten
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dollars. Holy shit. Yeah, it did not go over very well.
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The company behind No Man's Guy, which I can't remember at the moment um,
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I think it's is it Hello Games? It might be. They've come
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a long way. They've they've basically they went in with a promise and it
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was not their greatest work and they but instead of giving up on it,
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they spent pretty much the entirety of it's lifetime now just improving it. And
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even better is they've been improving it without cost to the players. So yeah,
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which is they're not they're not asking for expansion, although I think I
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think now recently they released an actual expansion. I could be wrong, but
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they might been talking about it. But at this point they've earned that right.
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Yeah, they come back because up until now, and it's been several
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years at this point, all of the updates have been free, like all
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of them, um, and they've added a ton of content literally free of
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charge, So that that alone is reason enough to give No Man Sky a
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shot, even if you hadn't before. Well, and even better, it's
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on sale right now on Steam two for half price. Wow. Yeah,
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I saw if exploring a massive, massive, procedurally generated universe filled with all
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sorts of crazy planets and creatures and uh and weird alien species and whatnot.
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If that sounds like you're bagged, then check out No Man Sky because it
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is. It is a thoroughly enjoyable little crafting slash survival slash exploration game that's
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unlike anything else I've ever played. For sure, it's cool. Not sponsored,
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by the way, No, yeah, not sponsored, just just recommendation.
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Yeah, it's definitely huge, but yeah, I look forward to playing
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more of it tomorrow, especially with Augie. If we can get you in
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there, and it'd be fucking cool. We can get a b f y
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tw planet, I say, we fucking do it. The planet I'm on
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right now has acid rain, so I gotta take all my buildings shit and
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go somewhere else. We fill it with creatures that look like bombs. Oh
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my god, yeah we will. We will spend the next several months scouring
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the galaxy looking for the planet that has equal parts creatures that look like bombs,
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plants that look like we leafs, and uh, and building buildings that
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look like a ticking ball. Yeah, just because in a somewhat livable atmosphere,
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I'll be happy. Oh my god, there's gonna make a giant bomb.
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It's just the shape of a bombs. Oh my god. Okay,
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I don't again. I'm new. I don't know much about this game.
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How many players can actually play together at once? Is it unlimited as MMO?
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So I don't know. It's like, how many can you play?
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Like, say, I want to get a bunch of bfy T people together.
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Can you do that? Or no? It's complicated, Algie, you
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don't have to get to your phone. Now, we can look this up.
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Okay, it's complicated because the way their multiplayer system works is, yes,
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you can invite friends. I don't know how many friends you can invite
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into an area. But if you went to, like, say, I
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don't know, a planet that had multiple players on it, I don't know
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how many would actually show up on your screen because they might still only allow
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a limited amount. Oh, I'm on, I'm on the I'm on the
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wiki right now. Yeah. The game can currently be played by multiple people
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together online in parties of two to four players. Okay, now up to
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thirty two players on a PC or eight on console can be in the same
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instance of a star system. Start. You could theoretically get thirty two people
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together, all playing on PC, into the same into the same instance of
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a star system and play together. They just wouldn't be in the same party
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and probably wouldn't share resources or whatever other bonuses you get from being in a
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party, but you could probably meet in a star station, have everybody get
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together and build two to four. Yeah, that'd be kind of cool.
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Could you imagine, Like, all right, anybody who's in the discord,
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we're all gonna go to the stars, and we're in the star system.
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We're going to this fucking in this instance and come hang out. We're gonna
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build a giant base that looks like a dick and ball, Yes, next
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to the Java Spaceport. Like they'd be fucking cool. Man, Like,
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oh, this just made me so happy to play games tomorrow. If all
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that's gonna happen tomorrow, well, if you find a planet, if of
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it, we could always jump over to pay Day two, which I learned
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this week. Ye features the voice of a frequent contributor to our show,
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the multiple episode guest David Atovino, blew min. I had no idea.
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His wife apparently had made him a new banner to show off on his you
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know, his voice actor page and you know, to take with him the
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conventions and whatnot. And on the banner was the logo for Payday two.
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And I was like, huh, did you do voices for Payday two?
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We play paid two. I've been playing pay Day two for years? And
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he was like, yeah, no. Back in like twenty seventeen, twenty
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eighteen, Starbree Studios called me in and just had me do some lines for
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you know, just a cop. And I was like, you have got
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to be kidding me, uh, And sure enough, he actually he sent
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me what he could. You know, obviously, you know, some of
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the stuff was confidential. H R. What's what's the word? Not dmade,
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but yeah, and D A lot of it was probably ND eight.
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But what he did send me was like, oh, I've I've heard these
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lines before. They were they were generic cop lines, were like greade or
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let's get the motherfuckers and you know, stuff like that. And I was
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like, oh shit, has Dave been in our fucking game this fucking time?
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Because we played a lot. I have played that game enough to prestige
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twenty eight times. Hey, So to be fair, I would a prestige
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if I knew how to all those times. I'm just an idiot. I
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know. We played paid A one for a while, then we jumped to
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this and this thing was just blew that game out of the water. Yeah.
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But the fact that Dave, he's playing one of the cops the whole
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time, he's just mind blowing me, Like, we got motherfucker. We
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got to stream the three of us, or I'll record the three of us
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playing next time and we'll try to haunt him down and we'll just send him
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the clips in Twitter. I'll just keep tagging him every like fifteen second clip
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of a and we we we have to at least one time like convince him
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to join our team. Oh my god. Yes, for those listening who
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don't know Payday two, you're playing as bank robbers and thieves basically, uh,
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you know, basically pulling heists at various locations. And one of the
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things you can do is you can you can convince an officer to you know,
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give up, basically surrender, put their gun down, and then cuff
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themselves. But there's a special ability you can then do to turn them to
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your team. They basically just go oh shit, and then they pull their
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gut out and start shooting the other police with you. Yeah, they just
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join you. It's amazing. I'm sure is a thing that happens in real
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heists all the time all the Hey. You you're on my team now,
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Okay, okay, sorry, just amazing. I'm offering you zero money and
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no promise of survival. Fuck it, I'm in. Let's do it.
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You had it. You had to get this job anyway. You had me
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at zero. Oh man, all right, I think that's a good time
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for a break. That sounds good. All right, all right, let's
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take a quick break. You'll hear from our advertisers and we'll be right back
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It's it's part two of our rather chill show. Um as per usual
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one card two. We usually start off part two by um uh listening to
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some voicemails or emails, but we don't have either of those, but we
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do have some comments on our Patreon page Stevie, is that right? Heck
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yes or um yeah, we got one from actually, so if you do
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join our patreon, if you didn't know the extra content some of it is,
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we will send our pre show and some of our stuff that we cut
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out of our breaks to our patrons. So this is actually a comment on
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one of the pre shows, one fifty three in Breaks said I'm dying laughing,
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cannot wait for this episode, and that episode was actually the one fifty
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three, that one that came out last week on Thursday. The Fink Kink
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Stink that was from Kristin Farley also commented on the same episodes David m.
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He said, Yes, I've been waiting for this episode since it was announced
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this week and it's early. Thank you guys so much. That's one of
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the other bonuses of being in the Patreon. You get the episodes a few
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days earlier than everybody else do as well. Yeah that's true. And then
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our last commentists from Kristen again, what a great episode made me laugh so
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hard. Bless you Aaron, for you have the patience of a saint.
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And then I wrote back sbfy, we definitely need to get Aaron a gift
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basket or something to put up with us. So those were the Patreon comments
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for this. You know, I enjoy everything. You know that is it
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his patience or his punishment heaven or hell, Aaron, It's kind of my
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fetish at this pace. I can't even get it up. If my friends
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aren't driving me crazy, like Stevie, just just just say some real annoying
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shit into this microphone so I can use it later. And wow. Anyway,
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uh hockey, do you do you want to go next? Or should
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I go next? I can go next. I'm an issue. Oh yeah,
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go ahead, fuck it, I'm going next do the thing. I
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have been having a lot of fun and I haven't been able to talk about
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it much since. I think the last time we did a chill show maybe,
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but you remember that mini PC I was talking about the one that was
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going to take a month to show up something. Uh. Yeah, the
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the it's the chatray uh g one Max I think is its official name.
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Um. I found it just as the g one on Alley Express, but
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I bought it directly from the company that quote unquote manufactures them. Although I
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think they're I think they're more of like just a reseller because they have tons
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of different models that I know other companies are also selling. So so this
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thing is about the size of a large book and say maybe maybe a Lord
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of the Rings hardcovers. I described it as being the size of a good
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steak. It would be the size of a really good steak. It's that
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big. Um, you probably couldn't finish it. But it is demonstrably many
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many times aaller than my my actual PC. But the power this thing puts
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out is just insane. It came bare bones. It had an I seven
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ten eight seventy h I think, which is a really solid uh. And
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it's only it's only three generations old CPU in it um, which is still
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impressive in my book. And it's paired I think, quite well with a
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sixteen fifty TI mobile graphics card. Nice nice now, Um, the it
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was it was bare bones, so it had no RAMS, so I had
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to furnish my own RAM. I also had to furnish my own storage,
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so I got sixteen gigs of DDR four I think thirty six hundred thirty two
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hundred. Okay, I know it was a multiple of four because it's gonna
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be but you know, reasonably fast ram H And I put in an NVMe
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one terabyte SSD. But this thing also had room for a two point five
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inch drive, so I added a two terabyte of refurbished Western Digital hard drive.
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So this thing had three terabytes out of the box of storage, which,
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as it turned out, wasn't enough. I literally filled it out,
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and then I was starting to I had to delete, go back and delete
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things because I too much space in any event, so I basically loaded it
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up with everything. I tested everything. Everything was great. Um, And
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this was like this past week. I think I posted on Facebook and I
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posted it in our our patreon only discord server. I posted pictures to our
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patreons. Got to see all those pictures, and I think Stevie threw it
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up on the actual Patreon page shortly after. Yes, and that thing is
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awesome. It even came with like led and ship, yeah, which I
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was not expecting. I thought it was literally just going to be a great
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a box with some like twinkling lights on it whenever the Internet was interacting or
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whatnot. But it actually does have rainbow led on the top cover, yeah,
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which I thought was a really nice touch. It actually does look pretty
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fucking bad ass, Like, that's pretty neat. It's it's it's pretty cool.
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I'm I'm, I'm, I'm I'm. I've been becoming more and more
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a fan of it the more I play with it. Um and the whole
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thing came to about seven hundred and fifty dollars, which isn't bad. And
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the specs in that machine like no joke, the specs and that can run
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practically every game you need to run. Yeah, literally every night. But
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it can run everything you need, everything I've thrown at. It has run
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even Cyberpunk twenty seventy seven, which is probably probably the hardest game to run
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that I currently own. Um it it runs at ten ADP at thirty fps,
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okay, not bad. If I wanted to push it to sixty,
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I could probably drop it down in seven twenty or I could even drop the
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graphic settings down to low. I think they're on medium UM at thet when
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I installed it, basically, but that's that's like the hardest thing that the
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machine has, you know, and calling it struggling is a joke, because
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thirty FPS is enough for me to play the game enjoy it. Like you
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know, I absolutely do not need sixty to enjoy every single game lay you're
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not playing against other players, so you don't really need thats a single person
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game. As long as I'm enjoying myself, that's what matters, UM.
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So, like everything I've thrown at it has been great, UM. But
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usually once I'm done testing, like it's usually like onto the next thing.
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But I can't stop playing with this thing, so I've been I've been pushing
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it UM as much as I can. In particular, this past week,
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I have spent a lot of time with upscaling, experimenting with upscaling older UM
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older game systems and emulators to higher resolutions than they originally played in really,
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so, for example, UM, I've been playing a lot of PS two
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games, PlayStation two games upscaled to ten ADP resolution, which the PlayStation two
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could not do, and the results have been kind of gorgeous, like I
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played Final Fantasy ten, and it just like I The difference was night and
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day. Like now that I've upscaled Final Fantasy ten, I can't play it
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any other way. Like it's it just looks. It looks so good,
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and now I'm literally spoiled. Now I can't go back. Um, like,
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any three D game on the PS two is going to benefit greatly from
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upscaling. Now two D stuff. The problem with upscaling is that when you
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get like two D stuff involved, usually like xt on screen text or like
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simple two D graphics like your HUD, sometimes there will be like lines you
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can see yes on the edges of them because they're not meant to be upscaled,
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you know. So upscaling does weird things, and it usually results in
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these these lines that you can see, and sometimes, depending on the game,
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sometimes it might take you out of it. And there's there's one game
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in particular I tried that just could not be upscaled at all because it broke
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everything so badly and it just looked ungodly ugly because there were so many two
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D elements that had those lines. It basically looked like lined paper and I
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was like, this is gross. This is awful, so like I think
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it's like Wild Arms Altar Code f is the game that I played at that
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just when I tried to upscale it looked terrible. But Final Fantasy ten has
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very few of those. There's only a couple that you can see sometimes,
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like on the character's hit points on screen, but it's very faint and unless
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you're looking for it, you're not even going to see it. Um.
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And that game was designed like with so much richness of color, Like it's
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just an absolutely gorgeous game to look at, especially in ten ADP, and
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I didn't stop there. Um. I also I did the same for GameCube
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and we those are also upscaled to ten ADP. Really, and I spent
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a good deal time playing Super Mario Galaxy for the first time. Really,
28:30
I've owned it forever, I've never actually played it beyond the first ten minutes,
28:34
but now I'm actually giving it a shot now that it's absolutely gorgeous,
28:40
and I figured out how to configure it to be played with a with a
28:44
three sixty controller nicely. Yeah, it's fantastic. Um. I haven't dealt
28:52
too much in the GameCube because I mean, we if if a we game
28:55
looks that good. A GameCube game is going to be gorgeous too. Yeah,
28:57
although I think I did play the Mario Kart Double Dash just to just
29:02
to see it, and if I recall, it was absolutely gorgeous. Um.
29:06
I've also been playing around with upscaling like Dreamcast games. So even Dreamcast
29:11
games are in full ten adpuh and they're gorgeous as well. And with the
29:17
widescreen mod, it's just perfect. It's like, oh my god. Dreamcast
29:22
games were generally all in four by three resolution, but there's an easy widescreen
29:26
mod that you can apply to just about any game, and most of them
29:30
work with it perfectly. Like it's kind of impressive how easily you can just
29:34
change the Dreamcast over to widescreen. M and I also have been upscaling the
29:41
PlayStation Portable the PSP really um that was if I recall like that was one
29:47
of the first emulators that allowed up scaling, was the PPSSPP is the name
29:52
of a young lator which is just designed to be hard to say and funny.
29:59
But yeah, I know that even that's in like in three X resolution.
30:03
I think it's higher than three x ten ADP. But because the PSP
30:06
is really low resolution to start with, something like I think it's four eighty
30:10
by two seventy two. I think it's just a little standard resolution in the
30:12
PSP because it was a little handheld, it was not meant to be crazy.
30:17
But yeah, you can pump that thing up to ten ADP and all
30:18
of a sudden, everything sharp as hell, and you're like, oh my
30:22
god. Um, so I've been playing around with that, but I didn't.
30:26
I didn't suck there either. Um, Like, you can't do a
30:29
lot of upscaling for older systems than that, and there, and it's it's
30:33
insanely difficult to do upscaling on newer systems than that. It's like that that
30:37
is the sweet spot, like GameCube, PS two, PSP, all that
30:41
stuff, any anything newer would require an absolutely beastly processor and GPU combo to
30:51
upscale beyond what the system was meant to. Like, I wouldn't even try
30:56
PS three upscaling yet, um, even though most games were on at seven
31:00
twenty p just twine. You know, it's like that's a bit scary,
31:04
Like I may be pushing maybe pushing this little box a little too hard,
31:10
um, but instead I've also been looking at it naturally. Instead, I've
31:18
been looking at like PC remakes and remasters. So I've been spending a lot
31:25
of time with the Super Mario sixty four PC port, which plays in full
31:30
ten ADP and wide screen. What um with the Xbox controller. Yeah,
31:37
with an Xbox through sixty controller. Um. And I've heard that the Legend
31:42
of Zelda Acarina of Time has also been ported to PC in the same way,
31:47
but I don't haven't and I haven't played with it yet. But just
31:51
being able to play Super Mario sixty four again on a controller that makes sense?
31:55
Yes? Um, I don't under control was made for man. I
32:00
mean yeah, we needed vmba dextrous No, I mean you need to have
32:06
three hands to work every single but no sense um um? But yeah,
32:13
no it in ten ADP and wide screen. I mean you can only shine
32:16
a turd so much like but you you cannot. You cannot change the fact
32:22
that the N sixty four games had limited polygons. So everything does still look
32:27
you know, like low low, low poly But as far as the resolution
32:31
is concerned, like, everything does look sharp and crisp, and it's it's
32:36
it's it's prettier to look at than it would be on a real N sixty
32:38
four and it's in wide screen, so it fits my PC perfectly, you
32:43
know. Um, So I've been having fun with that. But probably the
32:46
absolute gem and one of my favorite things in my collection. Like I came
32:51
across somebody some years ago, well before Nintendo finally got around to doing it,
32:57
um decided to on their own take Metroid Prime Trilogy on the Wii and
33:05
using Prime Hack, which is a it's a version of the Dolphin emulator that
33:10
allows you to play Metroid Prime as a first person shooter with one stick being
33:19
moved and one stick being looked. And he took all that, and then
33:27
on top of that, decided to upgrade as many textures in the game as
33:30
he could to higher resolutions. So it's basically a homemade version of Metroid Prime
33:37
Trilogy Remastered, which recently came out for the Switch. Obviously it's obviously not
33:44
the same thing, but this is like a homemade version of that, and
33:46
it is absolutely stunning, and I've been having an absolute blast with it.
33:53
Like I've been having so much fun playing through the first Metroid Prime, which
33:58
I'd never finished, and I never even played two or three, so I
34:01
might actually wind up playing through all three games at some point, just because
34:06
it's so much easier now, Like you can't go back to those old games
34:09
where they didn't have you know, one stick is look and one stick is
34:14
move when that's what you're used to now, like first person games like even
34:20
Gold and I and a Nintendo sixty four feels weird because I can't move and
34:25
look at the same time, you know, independent, you know what I
34:30
mean, and H and Metroid Prime was also a problem, like when I
34:35
would try to go back and play again because I got pretty far. I
34:38
think I got halfway through the game at one point, but never finished it.
34:43
And now every time when I go back and try and play it,
34:45
it feels weird. So with Prime Hack, it actually plays more like a
34:49
shooter, like you can actually look and move and you can aim properly at
34:53
enemies without needing to use the lock on feature because you can actually control your
34:59
aiming right now that you're able to use the right stick to look around.
35:04
I don't understand the complications they why I even I mean, back then didn't
35:08
even make sense, Like none of it made sense ever. Well in their
35:13
defense back then, like the first person shooter model wasn't standard, like nobody
35:20
had a few developers had put it into their game, but it wasn't it
35:24
wasn't the common thing, and you know, uh, and it took it
35:29
took some people, you know, time to come around. There are people
35:31
who still haven't come around to using one stick to move and one stick to
35:35
look, like our good friend of the show who we still have to get
35:38
on at some point somehow. Reluctant Butter is one of those people who's just
35:45
never gotten used to the modern First he has, oh he has. Oh
35:50
yeah, we've played Call of Duty really. Oh yeah, we would do
35:52
bots all the time downstairs. Oh oh yeah. Yeah. The last time
35:57
I talked to originally talked about it, he still hadn't come around. He
36:02
was still like, I have to have it where you know, one you
36:06
know, moves and turns and the other stick strapes and looks up and down.
36:12
And I'm like, that is insane. You are you are literally crossing
36:19
the streams. Why why would you do this? Um? But now he
36:25
just was so used to it from games like Golden Eye and you know,
36:29
the earlier stuff that sucked it all. He just he just never bothered to
36:32
learn the new way. Which honestly just makes so much more sense to me.
36:37
It's like separating your left brain and your right brain into two separate things.
36:42
Okay, I can move in this direction while aiming in another direction entirely
36:46
independently of one another, and it doesn't break my brain. You know,
36:55
Yeah, I don't. I mean I got it right away with those I
36:58
love that shit when it came out, like I was like, I wasn't.
37:00
I didn't even have a PlayStation. I think I had a PlayStation two
37:04
at one point. But like when when the newer systems came out twer back
37:07
then after Nintendo the newer systems came out, when PlayStation had the analog sticks,
37:13
I'm like, this is fucking genius. No, I'm like, this
37:15
is fucking smart, because the Xbox One was fucking stupid the way they had
37:19
it, the original Xbox I'm like, why, why why are these This
37:22
is not set up right at all? What with one stick in the upper
37:27
left and another stick in the lower right. Well, I knew it was
37:30
like further than that. It is now, you know, like now it's
37:32
kind of even and shit, even if it is off a little, but
37:36
it's like that first one and then they had the two white and black buttons
37:37
that were underneath the ant like it was a weird spot orneath the analog stick,
37:42
like what are you guys doing? No, okay, so PlayStation,
37:45
when's this is? Because it's a controller. But then after when the new
37:49
xboxes came out, the Xbox three sixty I think was the one that yeah,
37:52
three sixty was the first one with the new design. That shit was
37:55
like, all right, this fits my hands perfect. I don't have like
37:59
big hands or anything, but like I can cradle that thing like my balls.
38:05
Well I on that note, I think we'll just turn this train right
38:12
around now that we board Augie to tears. Yea, all that tech stuff,
38:19
great, bake up. We're doing a podcast. I thought we were
38:22
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38:27
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38:30
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listen to podcasts. Shades on We're off he Man, welcome back. It's
39:22
time for part three of our chill show. We've caught up with me,
39:27
We've caught up with Stevie. It just leaves one person. Now, who
39:30
could it be? There's somebody else I don't know, who could have Jesus
39:37
Christ. Hey, look, something fell over in the studio earlier. I'm
39:43
pretty sure it's haunted now because we were it was the opposite side of the
39:46
studio. We were. The lamp is on the floor. Yeah, no,
39:50
a lamp fellow. It's on the floor, and I don't know what
39:52
the nothing vibrated. I don't know. I'm pretty sure the studio has haunted
39:57
now. Awesome, good jog, All right, very good, it's very
40:00
good. Well I'm terrified, so I'm just gonna go. But in the
40:04
meanwhile, Aggie, what's going on? Man? Uh? Not much,
40:08
honestly. Uh. It's just been such a brutal winter, just kind of
40:13
biding your time for spring. I've been spending it playing mostly World of Warcraft,
40:17
which I really need to. It's like a bad addict that just keeps
40:22
relapsing. I really need to do you need an intervention, Aggie. Do
40:27
not yet give me to put a block on your account. No, that's
40:30
unecessary. But give me a couple more months. Wait a minute, and
40:32
we'll see we're at if it really is bad? Can I Am I allowed
40:37
to make your account and a child account under my adult I don't think so,
40:40
because I like no, Aggie, there's no while for you today.
40:44
What you need to chill the fuck out? You played for twelve hours yesterday.
40:49
Motherfucker, you're done, I don't think so. You go to logging
40:53
screen, it says you're locked, it says a countdown or something to be
40:57
fucking. I think the accounts made to be a child safe account. This
41:01
was just a standard made account. Just I don't think it works that way
41:05
unless you can convert it. I don't think I'm gonna find out. But
41:07
anyways, I need your Passford. Yeah, sure, I'll say it right
41:12
here. It's oh yeah, um uh so. Yeah, that's basically all
41:17
I've been doing. I've just been buying my time. I've got a lot
41:21
lined up for spring. I've got so much stuff line up for spring.
41:24
I've got sunflowers, a plant, vegetables, a plant. I've got a
41:29
bunch of science projects I'm gonna be doing with my niece. Yeah, I
41:32
want to pick up singing singing? Yeah? Do you want to do karaoke?
41:38
And this my sister could do it. I want to try it.
41:40
Yes, Okay, So now you guys heard it here. At first,
41:44
our new fucking superstar is gonna like rise from like the b F y tw
41:49
studio and like set the world a blaze. First, the fucking snow needs
41:52
to go right, which it's far too depressing to try anything right now.
41:58
So Aaron's should come over too, because Aaron sings, we should all just
42:01
come in here and do karaoke. True, I mean we could do that,
42:06
sure, yeah, yeah, no, I fully appreciate and endorse your
42:09
desire to learn to sing. Man, it's never too late. Um,
42:14
there's it's extremely rare that anyone would be tone deaf. But it's funny because
42:20
the one person who we would never try to get to sing it was Jorge.
42:27
Jorge is as close to a tone deaf person as I've ever met in
42:30
my entire life. He could not could not sing a note if he tried
42:37
to sing along with the song, it would sound awful and God bless him,
42:43
Like he would keep trying, and then like one time I remember,
42:45
I remember actually confronting him about it. I'm like, dude, are you
42:49
tone deaf? And he's like no, I'm just singing the harmony And I
42:52
was like, sh just the harmony to what completely different song? Like oh
43:05
man, but but listen, like you know, it's never too late.
43:08
Like a lot of people who think they're tone deaf aren't actually tone deaf,
43:13
and they just lost confidence as a child. Yeah, like maybe somebody told
43:17
them you're doing it wrong or whatever, and they just, you know,
43:21
weren't like this is not my thing. I'm pretty sure that's just what happened
43:23
to me. I was inquired when I was in school, um, as
43:28
a young kid. Yeah, to even get inquired, you have to be
43:30
able to sing at least a little bit. Yeah, so I was capable
43:34
of I think what that is. It's just it was either too boring or
43:37
it was just not enough support behind it. Like I did get bullied bullied
43:42
a lot in school, so maybe that what didn't help a lot. So
43:45
I just kind of left it behind me and never really. Every time someone's
43:49
like, hey, sing this with me, I'm like, no, it's
43:50
okay. Now, I kind of want to see if I can try.
43:53
Yeah, dude, hell yeah, I'm just to see I'll sing with young
43:59
not good, I just do it, okay, fuck, I mean I'll
44:06
sing with you. I'm nothing special, but I can sing so like you
44:09
know, yeah, I've heard you only do some duets and whatnot on a
44:15
karaoke machine that we oh, we just gave it away. We don't need
44:17
a karaoke time. It's okay. I've got the equipment, hipment and YouTube
44:24
and you literally don't need it. Like you could. You could just took
44:28
up microphone up to a PC and and just run a YouTube song. That's
44:32
the plan. Or we could just stand in front of the television just sing.
44:37
Yeah, you do that too, It's so fun. It's fun with
44:40
the microphones though, that is true. Yeah, I can record it and
44:45
send it the Patreon. Yeah yeah, looking forward to our new Patriot exclusive
44:52
it. We'll do it. You know, it'll be really kind of it
44:55
is that if I can actually do it, but I can also improve.
45:00
So yeah, if you follow us on Patreon, you'll actually see me try
45:02
and possibly even improved. Let me write this down. We're doing karaoke and
45:08
I can start singing. I'm fucking in. Let's do it, man.
45:14
I'll start setting it up so we can. I gotta get the monitor speakers,
45:16
but I'll get it set so we can do that shit. Yeah,
45:19
for the time being. You got where your headsets too, because your tone
45:22
death. That's why that's an entirely different acronym b f y t d W
45:32
wait because no, wait, there's no F because b y t d W.
45:40
What b y t d t W. You don't need the other D
45:45
tone deaf is hyphenated. Oh so it's one word. Yeah, Oh so
45:52
b y t t W. Yeah, hin TD. I knew it,
46:00
knew it. I knew that was heading somewhere. Why don't you have a
46:07
damn it, you and your fucking bits. I genuinely don't see this ending
46:17
on. No, sorry, guys, sorry, this is what you're getting
46:22
this week. This is our doing, and we're sorry. Um, that's
46:35
gonna be it for us. I think that that's also a good plan.
46:39
You can follow me, although why would you want to after this episode?
46:43
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Yeah, So thank you to everyone who's listening. And that's going to
48:42
be it from us. Why because I was gonna do it too, and
48:50
I'm like, well, I stopped that because because