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S14E04 - Invisible bits · The Year Of Shame Challenge

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  In the not too distant presence, a challenge unlike any other,
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  begins Three men, One year 0 game purchases.
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  They stand against temptation, towering backlogs and the
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  endless lure of digital sales. This is the year of Shame
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  challenge. A test of willpower.
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  A battle against impulse. A journey into the heart of
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  unplayed games where only discipline survives.
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  Hello and welcome to the next episode of Your Shame season 14.
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  I think it's episode 4. I've been reliably informed I've
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  been joined by my 2 Co hosts. The Co host with the most
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  professional setup I've seen yet.
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  Hello, Rich. Hello there.
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  And the Co host with the most notes I've ever seen.
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  Stu, hello. Hello to you.
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  Hey, Brian. Hey, Rich.
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  How's it going? Yeah, good.
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  Thank you. It's.
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  Good to see you both. Feels like it's been a while.
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  Been a while since the last episode.
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  So what have you guys been up to?
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  Rich, do you want to go first? Yeah, sure.
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  It's been a busy month. So I've been banging on about
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  moving house all all year long. It's finally happened.
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  So this month my gaming list is short, but my activity list is
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  long. I've been managing the house
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  move. I'm in a good place now.
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  So we're all set up. Got my kind of new new office,
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  new man cave. But that's come after quite a
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  bit of excitement with the house move.
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  So I tried to, I kind of tried to make life easier and get
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  professional people in to help with the move.
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  So I'd got people booked to come the day before the move, load up
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  fans, like a proper packing service, that kind of thing.
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  And I got rid of a bunch of old furniture the weekend prior,
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  like things I knew I wouldn't need.
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  So I felt like I was completely on top of the whole job.
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  And I was set to move on a Wednesday, and then on the
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  Monday night, having got literally everything ready to be
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  packed on the Tuesday, or already packed, I just had to
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  whizz around the house and take off lampshades, light shades and
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  things like that. Because that's part of the deal.
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  When you move house, you just leave a bulb in.
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  Don't leave the other stuff unless people have asked for it.
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  And unbeknownst to me, because I've used these like Life X kind
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  of Wi-Fi bulbs, so you can change the colour of them and
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  change the brightness and all of that kind of stuff.
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  But what that has the effect of doing is your light can not be
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  on, but your lights can also be technically on.
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  So as I was fighting with a slightly troublesome light
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  shade, trying to unscrew it with some very old cabling in the
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  house that was more like Jelly than actual cabling, I did one
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  twist too many and like genuinely set off quite a big
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  explosion which blew all the electrics in the house and sort
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  of blew myself up a little bit. So my arms were like kind of
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  like twitching and shaking and stuff like that after I'd done
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  it. Oh dear.
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  Oh my God. And this was all, you know,
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  literally 36 hours before completion, no electrics.
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  I was worried about the being a fire this honestly.
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  So let's call out an emergency electrician.
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  Meanwhile, yeah, my arms are sort of tingling and that kind
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  of stuff. So my should just get hold of
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  some company that we're able to come out within the hour and get
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  stuff sorted. So that was good.
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  And then there was the discussion about, well, what do
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  I do? Do I need to go to a hospital?
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  And it's like, this is such bad timing.
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  So I took the ignore it and it'll go away approach.
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  I make the mistake of Googling, you know, what happens if your
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  arms are kind of red hot and tingling after an electrical
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  incident and might never Google anything to do with health
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  because it's like, Oh yeah, this will be necrosis.
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  You're basically burning from the inside out and your nervous
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  system is torched and all of that stuff.
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  So obviously I just took a professional approach of like,
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  let's ignore this. Let's see how we're doing in the
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  morning. And it and it was fine.
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  It did die down, but it was genuinely quite weird because I
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  didn't feel a massive electric shock, but it was like just in
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  the minutes afterwards I was kind of like, Blimey, I must
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  have taken quite a few vaults through me at that point.
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  So that was that drama that got fixed.
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  And then Tuesday was packing day.
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  So we just got this kind of team of people that just come in and
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  just whirlwind through the house and load stuff up and then got
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  to the point of having to disconnect the washing machine,
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  which again, I was kind of like, well, this, this is not
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  difficult. It is literally turning a tap
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  off, unscrewing a single thing and then pulling the thing out.
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  So I did that, but then upon doing that realised that they
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  kind of shut off. Tap in my house was unable to
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  actually shut off. So then ensued the water leak
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  which was unstoppable. So I had to call out emergency
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  plumbers on the night prior to my moving and exactly the same
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  deal. Pay through the nose, people
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  will come out straight away and sort it.
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  That got sorted as well. So it would have been a really
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  stressful time, but for the fact that we were actually really
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  well prepared and had people to help, which kind of built in the
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  time to be able to deal with all of these crazy disasters that
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  were going on. So to be honest, by the time
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  trying to move the next day, I was I was shot of the old place.
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  It wasn't like an emotional farewell.
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  It's like basically old house. Thanks very much and goodbye
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  forever. And then moved into new house,
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  which is just lovely. Like the the previous owners
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  have had it for three years. They've spent those three years
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  basically doing it up and it's like they've been out and bought
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  one of those home magazines and gone nice ideas of decoration.
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  The the kind of thing you look at and go, that's really nice.
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  I could never do that. And that's what I've moved into.
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  It's got this, this lovely house.
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  It's all like hard floors on the ground floor and carpets
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  upstairs, which I've not been used to.
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  I've always lived in hard floor houses and it's actually really
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  cosy and nice and I had the joy of basically building from
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  scratch my gaming room. So it's just start, you know,
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  obviously started with a complete blank sheet empty room.
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  And I've because it's all different shapes to my old room.
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  I've I've got new desk, new whatever you call the thing that
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  holds your PC, PC stand, I guess.
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  So been doing the kind of flat pack building and like just
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  configured everything. I've got some lovely displate
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  posters up on the wall. I've put my soundproofing in
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  because I'm a bit nearer to where the rest of the family are
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  going to be. And I've just made it all really
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  nice and it's, it's just comfy, cosy.
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  And then I think the only disaster I've had at the new
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  place is in this gaming room actually.
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  So the carpets are all kind of deep.
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  So what I was finding was once I was sat in my gaming chair and I
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  tried to move, I was, I was essentially in like, it's like
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  being in sand. I just stuck.
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  So I've bought one of these polycarbonate mat things, which
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  is wonderful. I can just kind of freely roll
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  around on the floor here now. But being being a bloke who
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  doesn't read instructions, this, this thing arrived rolled up
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  with a couple of like that kind of tape straps around it and I
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  could see there was some kind of instructions on it.
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  I was like, oh cool, I'll open it all up and then I'll read
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  those logic was not applying at this point.
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  And then cut the cables on this thing and what was a really
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  tight roll in a, in a nanosecond expanded to be a 1 1/2 metre, a
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  1 1/2 metre sheet of bulletproof glass in a room that is not much
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  wider than that. So it just, it was too quick to
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  even be shocked. And miraculously, because it's
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  not a big room, it managed to just sort of open into empty
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  space. Whereas if I'd been standing at
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  any different angle, it would have, I don't know what would
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  have happened because it would have like the forces of this
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  thing would have had to brace against the PC, the desk, the
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  walls. So I got out of that with just a
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  quite a deep cut in my hand and then obviously once it was open,
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  the instructions were then there to be read all cuts.
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  Yeah, do not cut. You need to follow these
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  instructions. This is an incredibly kind of
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  hard and sharp basically glass like material.
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  Under no circumstances just cover tape.
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  So so learning has has kind of not happened.
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  But anyway, all's well that ends well there.
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  It's obviously been kind of house centric this month.
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  I've done kind of, I talk about fitness every month.
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  I've done literally no fitness stuff because I've just been so
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  busy. But the act of moving heavy
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  boxes in, in the kind of hundreds of like journeys
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  overall has meant that I've actually hit my target for kind
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  of weight. So I'm 21 lbs lighter than I was
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  at the start of the year. I've hit target weight and I'm
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  feeling good. So I've kind of, I've obviously
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  been active and I've walked up and down flights of stairs so
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  many times that it's kind of replaced any kind of exercise.
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  So that is all good. And the sun has come out here in
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  the UK. So yesterday, I mean it 19°,
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  it's not like a scorcher but for April time that is very nice.
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  So yesterday afternoon I was saying to Stuart before we hit
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  record, I was working from home in the afternoon, sat in the
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  garden in scorching bright sunshine with my 170 megabits
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  Wi-Fi connection in the garden, feeling good about life and the
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  move. So that's that's my month in a
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  nutshell. How about you, Stuart?
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  Yeah, again, I didn't think I had a busy month, but when I
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  start to list all the stuff down for each of these recordings,
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  there seems to be an awful lot that's on the list.
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  So we started off the month with we had a like an annual Comedy
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  Festival down here in Hobart and we had a couple of comedians
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  come in from overseas and one of them was a South African
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  comedian called Sculpt beside note that we went to go and
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  watch and he was really funny. So that was a good night out.
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  And then about a week later Lloyd Cole came back to Hobart.
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  He was here about 3 years ago, came back again.
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  This time the airline didn't manage to lose his guitar so he
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  was in a much better mood. Another good night out.
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  You know, he was playing all the hits.
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  So that was a that was a good night.
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  Started building an Arduino based tape player from my ZX
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  Spectrums so that I wouldn't have to load up audio tapes.
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  Bought a kit that was going to do that.
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  Realised that the Arduino clone that it used was faulty.
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  After I'd sold it all together. Started again because the the PC
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  board and that was then destroyed because I couldn't
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  unsolder it without taking various bits and pieces off.
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  So decided to make a version that didn't use a a pre printed
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  PC board. Wires everywhere.
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  Got it all working was just about to put into the 3D case
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  and then it failed because the board just died.
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  And again it was a it was a clone Arduino so not a genuine
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  1. I looked at my collection and
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  thought should I do a third one? And then thought no I'll change
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  directions and I'll build something using Raspberry Pi
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  because I got all these Raspberry pi's lying around so
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  I've got a touch screen for that.
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  Got a Raspberry Pi out-of-the-box, put everything
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  together, finish the build, 3D printed a case for it.
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  And I thought, you know what, I'll send a link, a photo to you
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  guys showing you how good it looks.
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  So I picked it up beside the Zedex Spectrums in the wall and
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  I went and got my phone and I was taking a photograph of it
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  and dropped the damn thing and cracked the Raspberry Pi board
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  in half. And I was like, Oh no, that's
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  another one in the bin. So the next morning had to go
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  down to the electronic shop by another Raspberry Pi board.
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  It's all now working the programme all been written from
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  scratch using Python, which I've I've never really used a lot of
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  before. I'm more of a Pearl or Java
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  programmer. And so it was good.
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  It was good fun to do that. You know, it's oh man, I've just
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  said, you know, again. And for anyway, that listened to
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  the last episode when I listened back to it as part of the, the
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  pre work before we published that, I realised that I'd
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  probably say, you know, about a million times a day when I'm
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  doing these other recordings and not so much when I'm just having
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  a chat to, you know, a normal sort of situations.
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  See what happened there. So I apologise, I will try to
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  reduce that down in this episode.
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  But yeah, I, I, I got it back up and working.
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  It's, it's got a nice little Python front end, a little gooey
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  that shows you a list of all the Zedex Spectrum games.
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  And there's a different direction for Oryx and then
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  Dragons and all the other computers from the same age.
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  And you can basically select the one, hit play and it'll play the
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  audio out through the earphone socket.
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  And you can stream that into your Zedex Spectrum or your your
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  computer that you got there and load straight from it.
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  So that was quite a fungal project to get going, even
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  though it needed a lot of iterations to get it right.
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  I got my science at Cambridge Mark 14 back from the framers,
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  and it looks really good. It's hanging on the wall there
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  behind me. So it's on the wall here with
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  all the other. I think there's about 10 of them
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  on the wall around my office now.
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  I've run out of wall space for all of my computers, so I need a
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  bigger office. But that's a conversation I'll
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  have to have with the family as to which room they want to give
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  up so I can move. Into that exactly.
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  And then my wife pointed out that she needed a space in the
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  garden to do some re potting of plants.
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  And we've got, you know, a couple of little again, see,
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  we've got a BBQ area and we've got, we've got the front garden.
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  It's got a little patio on it. But there was nowhere that she
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  could just stack up all the garden stuff and, and go mad and
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  do various potting activities. So I said I'd make her a potting
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  table and went down to the local hardware shop, picked up some
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  some wood, some planks and things for that, and severely
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  overestimated just how robust this thing needs to be.
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  So the the planks that I came back with were probably an inch
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  or two too thick for what the use case is going to be.
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  This table is the most solid thing in the house, including
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  the framework of the house. It's going to last for about
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  1000 years. You know, it's it's robust as
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  all hell now. Yeah.
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  It doubles up as an earthquake shelter.
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  You can definitely hide under it if there's any sort of shaking
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  going on. Yeah.
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  And so that was that was the month I did.
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  I've got one other topic that I wanted to talk about here
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  because it was something that I learned about that never heard
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  of before. Have you guys ever heard of
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  Galaxian 3? In the arcade, it sounds like it
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  sounds like medication. So Galaxian was like, there was
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  almost like a, a Galaga or a Space Invaders type clone where
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  you were looking down the bottom shooting and you had these,
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  these aliens that would drop down and spin around and shoot
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  you while they're going. I, Galaxian 3 Project Dracoon
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  came out in the 1990s and I, I, I went down this massive rabbit
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  hole on the Internet looking at this thing.
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  It's a multiplayer game that supported 28 concurrent players
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  in one room. 28 Oh, that is, That's impressive.
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  Seriously impressive. It's an entire, yeah, it's an
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  entire like large room of itself.
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  And I have never seen anything like that before.
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  So that was that was something that, like I say, I spent far
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  too long this month just looking at a thing, trying to figure out
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  why it existed and who would ever put it anywhere.
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  Because I mean, it wasn't a good game.
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  It was just it was just that you could do 28 concurrent players
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  at once. But that was my that was my bits
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  of time that I spent this month on on non direct gaming related
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  activities. What about yourself, Ryan?
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  Let me see, I think last month I hadn't finished the school year
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  hadn't finished, or I was just about to finish.
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  Did I talk about graduation ceremonies?
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  You were you were getting ready for the kind of emotion fest
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  that that is, those ceremonies. Yeah, So look, they have
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  graduation from elementary school and from middle school.
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  I only time I ever got to graduate was from uni.
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  So we don't do it in schools in Ireland or didn't anyway.
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  But we had them and I knew it was the last day I was going to
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  see these kids. Now we're going to see them
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  again and the whole they're all saying see you see you next time
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  phases. They've learned.
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  So I'm like no, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye because I can't
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  officially tell them that I'm leaving.
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  So I was getting I was trying not to get emotional saying
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  goodbye to the gates lever playing games.
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  I had a week off, which didn't they have like a midterm below
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  midterm break. It's the end of term and you get
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  a week and then you're back at the school.
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  So I started in a new school this year instead of being in in
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  multiple schools. I mean, one school, which is
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  really weird because last year I was 2, the year before I was in
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  three different schools on different days a week.
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  This year, one school and it feels like I'm going to work in
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  the same place every day and it's really old.
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  It's really for me, it's not become very old.
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  But the key, the staff, the staff are all really good,
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  really good, really friendly to chat.
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  They don't know much, know much English, but I don't know much
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  Japanese. But between us, a lot of
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  pointing stuff, we sort of get through it.
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  There is one staff member who is new.
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  He's he was in my previous school and in the two years that
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  I was there, he spoke to me twice because he was forced to.
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  No, he spoke to me once and then he spoke at me another time.
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  So we don't exactly get on. And he's now sitting beside me
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  in this new school. So I'm very, very chuffed on the
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  days he's now a teachers teacher.
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  So he's like, like God at the old.
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  He goes into helping the teachers to teach their classes
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  and giving them pointers and stuff, but he's a bit of a Dick.
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  If you're listening to this, you are.
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  But you see the rest of the kids.
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  I've got a whole new bunch of kids from what, 13 to 1516?
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  And they're all, they're all pretty good.
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  They're I've, this is embarrassing the first grade.
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  So first year in secondary school are absolutely, it's just
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  like they've been where they've got where caffeine wired into
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  them and energy drinks. They're all really, really
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  energetic. And if I walk down the corridor
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  and they're all coming up and they're all screaming Brian.
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  And it's the teachers there think it's hilarious because
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  they think I'm being treated like an idol.
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  And they're the kids all want to come up and chat, which is great
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  because that's my job. But they all keep calling me
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  cute and it's no, no, I'm not cute.
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  I had this in the previous. I have to accept the fact that I
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  have put weight on. And they think round is cute.
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  So yeah, I need, I need to do the exercise routine that we're
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  just doing. I need to lose weight.
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  Other than that, the kids are all great.
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  I've really enjoyed the classes so far.
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  I've been put in charge of the special needs kids.
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  They have one class, technically 10 to 15.
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  So I have to go through their, the curriculum and set up
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  classes for them, design classes, which it's not
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  something you've ever had to do before.
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  So it's new challenge and has me extremely nervous, but it'll be
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  fun. I have one or two, one or two
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  teachers with me, every single with me for most of the classes
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  and some special needs teachers in there for the emotional
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  control kids. They seem to be really cool.
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  I've enjoyed I've met with them twice so far and just chatting
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  with them, most of them quite good.
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  Someone very, very shy. So they hide behind their their
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  notebook when they're looking at me.
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  So I picked up another notebook and I was hiding kind that I was
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  talking to them. They were getting really, really
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  freaked out. He's weird, but yeah, yeah,
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  that's quite good. They're quite cool.
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  Let me see. Other than school, it's cherry
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  blossom season now, which is called hanami.
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  Hanami. It's the cherry blossom viewing
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  thing. So you've probably seen pictures
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  of parks where people sit down underneath cherry blossoms.
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  They usually get the newest employee, but most recent
• 21:35
  employee to run out in the morning and find spots under
• 21:38
  cherry blossom trees and that they all the rest of the company
• 21:40
  can come out and have lunch then underneath and they so they, if
• 21:45
  you're the newest employee, you've got great days.
• 21:47
  Head out there as soon as work starts, head out there and sit
• 21:50
  in the park all day waiting for everybody else to come up.
• 21:52
  So you bring tarps or blankets, picnic blankets and music and
• 21:58
  then they all come out and sit there and have lunch at
• 21:59
  lunchtime and then you just get to play up.
• 22:02
  It's really nice. So yeah, nice day, but it's
• 22:05
  quite crazy. So we went to a park that is
• 22:09
  it's probably about maybe about 3/4 an hour away from us.
• 22:13
  My wife had seen this on the Internet, the pictures amazing.
• 22:16
  So we thought there's loads of trees we turned up and there's
• 22:18
  probably about 50 to maybe to 100 trees all throughout this
• 22:23
  park in the park is huge. So, but they're spread out, just
• 22:26
  nice little sections, everything again, so we can think.
• 22:28
  We saw, we wanted to see more. So we went up, we went to
• 22:32
  Nagano. It's about 3 hours of West from
• 22:36
  here. The trains don't really go up.
• 22:39
  The trains go near, but they don't actually go into that
• 22:40
  area. So because it's up the mountain.
• 22:42
  So we got a bus from Shinjuku and central Tokyo and all the
• 22:46
  way out. And it's Tokyo, not Tokyo.
• 22:51
  Japanese bus tour the only foreigner sit on the bus and
• 22:55
  it's this really weird Japanese vibe because everybody is all
• 22:58
  sitting there. They all have their little lunch
• 23:00
  boxes. The trip the bus brings you
• 23:02
  along and once every time we hit a service area on the motorway,
• 23:07
  we stopped for people deal the toilet because there was like an
• 23:10
  older an older clientele on the bus.
• 23:14
  But it was good they, they got up into the mountains, into
• 23:18
  really rural areas and got the whole sides of mountains that
• 23:21
  are just covered in cherry blossoms.
• 23:24
  The views were amazing. The, we think of cherry blossoms
• 23:28
  being like, especially back in Ireland, they're just like
• 23:32
  they're on the street and they're all planted.
• 23:33
  But over here they're wild. So you'll have sides of mantels
• 23:36
  that are like dark green or different colours of green.
• 23:39
  And then you have like maybe 10 or 20 cherry blossoms just in
• 23:42
  one section. Just looks really weird.
• 23:44
  Looks really good, very beautiful.
• 23:46
  When we did the trip, we, we stayed in a hotel and like, you
• 23:54
  know what, these Japanese toilets, advanced, super
• 23:57
  advanced. I swear they've got AI in them
• 24:00
  or something. But you walk into the toilet and
• 24:03
  the lid opens up automatically for you.
• 24:04
  So this is nice. If you stand there in front of
• 24:08
  long enough, the seat will pop up.
• 24:11
  If you're going to do, if you're going to do as a comedian used
• 24:16
  to say, Russ Abbott, a wee jobby, I think that's what he
• 24:19
  used to say. You sit down.
• 24:22
  It's really weird because as soon as you sit down, lights
• 24:24
  come on, come on underneath, underneath you and the whole
• 24:27
  bowl is just lit up. I'm like, why are you lighting
• 24:30
  it up? Is there a camera down there?
• 24:32
  Isn't it? But I'm going to as a fan going
• 24:35
  the sprays going, what the fuck is?
• 24:37
  I don't know what's going on. I'm going to end up with some
• 24:39
  only fans website with this. It's just got really weird.
• 24:44
  But it's always warm as well. I'm like.
• 24:46
  Yeah, this just doesn't feel right.
• 24:48
  Why is it eating it? Yeah, like even don't just.
• 24:53
  It's not just the seat is warm. The water afterwards that washes
• 24:57
  you is warm it. But yeah, it.
• 24:59
  But anyway, you sit in this way, you do your business and as you
• 25:05
  you want to clean. I thought, how about you reach
• 25:09
  around the back In order to reach around the back, you lean
• 25:11
  forward. As soon as extra light gets in,
• 25:14
  it thinks you're finished, you've stood up and it starts
• 25:16
  flushing. That's OK.
• 25:18
  That's grand, but then the the lid starts to come down on top
• 25:21
  of me and I've been swallowed by this toilet.
• 25:25
  This thing. Keeps coming down and back, hit
• 25:27
  me on the back and like there's a button on side of the on the
• 25:29
  wall that you tap to get the lid to open up.
• 25:32
  I'm hitting that tree, it opens up and then soon as I lean
• 25:35
  forward again, the thing comes out smacking me on the back,
• 25:37
  trying to swallow me the whole time I'm using the toilet and
• 25:40
  the toilet flushing the whole time.
• 25:41
  Stuff AI toilets are scary. They're trying to, they're
• 25:44
  trying to take either like one of the big snakes trying to grab
• 25:47
  you. Yeah, that's really weird.
• 25:50
  So a crazy toilet. Let me see.
• 25:55
  Other than the toilets, we took a drive up north Bus an hour and
• 26:01
  a half from here, from my wife's mother used to live.
• 26:07
  It's a small city called Sano and it has the, it has my
• 26:11
  favourite cafe in this country. So we went up and took a drive
• 26:16
  around and headed to the cafe, and the cafe was set up in 85.
• 26:22
  I think it was this, this old guy running it.
• 26:24
  It looks like his wife was there as well, and maybe some
• 26:27
  grandchildren running around serving in it.
• 26:30
  It has maybe six seats. And it's usually.
• 26:33
  Reasonably busy because it's just the neighbourhood.
• 26:35
  It's in the middle of a housing estate for what you would call
• 26:38
  out what you call a housing state if it had been organised
• 26:41
  better. But it's just really weird that
• 26:44
  you go in, he's roasting beans. He does competitions, the in
• 26:49
  Tokyo and stuff and he's it is really well.
• 26:52
  But when he when he gets bored or when he's finished roasting
• 26:55
  beans, he takes out a guitar and starts to serenade people.
• 26:58
  So he starts singing old Japanese rock songs or Elvis
• 27:02
  songs. It's just the most, it's really,
• 27:05
  really bizarre. But it's he's really nice and
• 27:08
  well, he's chatted to my wife. I can't my Japanese not that
• 27:12
  good. But yeah, it's just a really
• 27:13
  nice place. And that's the only other thing
• 27:16
  we've news from here is that we've had yet more earthquakes.
• 27:21
  So I think next week, I've got some boxes to the left of me
• 27:27
  here. We have to open up.
• 27:29
  It's our earthquake supplies. Because of the earthquake,
• 27:32
  they've said that we should have a weak supply of food in case
• 27:35
  the Army can't get to you. So we're going to go through,
• 27:38
  make sure everything's in date and add in more food stuff.
• 27:41
  One of them's full of water, one of them's full of food.
• 27:44
  And I don't know the other ones in, but yeah.
• 27:46
  So we have to add more. The realities of living in the
• 27:49
  earthquake world. Yeah, that's.
• 27:53
  Yeah. Wow.
• 27:54
  Yeah. So the latest earthquake, we
• 27:57
  didn't feel it even though it was quite large.
• 27:59
  But it's very odd. Japan has got it's four or five
• 28:03
  plates, it's all lined on. And then you've got the what I
• 28:08
  call the vault lines, the fault lines.
• 28:10
  So if you, you can be right beside for an earthquake,
• 28:13
  earthquake is, but if your piece of ground is actually stable,
• 28:16
  you won't feel all that much. Or you could be a hundred 200
• 28:19
  miles away and still feel it. So the earthquake two years ago,
• 28:23
  that's maybe 4 or 500 miles away.
• 28:26
  We, we felt that quite bad. But the one the other day,
• 28:30
  despite being bad, we didn't feel it Also, it's quite weird.
• 28:33
  And that's, well, that's it. That's basically all the news
• 28:36
  from here. Who wants to go next?
• 28:40
  What programmes have you watched there?
• 28:43
  I'll go next. Yeah, got your organised lists,
• 28:45
  your organised notes? So this month, what have I
• 28:49
  watched Quite a lot somehow. And again, I don't know quite
• 28:53
  how this happened because I don't think I watch a lot, but
• 28:58
  there's there's two Youtubers called Ludwig and Michael Reeves
• 29:02
  who did that tip to tip Japan that we talked about previously.
• 29:06
  They're now going through from the South of China to the north
• 29:09
  of China, which is like 3000 kilometres with no maps, no GPS
• 29:13
  and no Chinese language skills. It was it was a good fun watch
• 29:18
  completely unscripted, some quite good moments and an
• 29:25
  interesting insight into how Chinese people treat rules.
• 29:31
  So they they're talking to a whole bunch of guys that that
• 29:33
  they meet and every so often they get told the same thing
• 29:37
  over and over again. It's if the rules don't say
• 29:40
  you're not allowed to do it, do it.
• 29:43
  OK. So there'll be a, there'll be a,
• 29:46
  a road they're travelling down and there'll be a big bollard in
• 29:50
  the middle of it saying Rd closed.
• 29:51
  But there's no sign saying you can't go around the bollard.
• 29:55
  Just go around and carry on going.
• 30:01
  It's more of a guide than a rule, you know.
• 30:04
  Yeah, so that was a good watch. I carried on watching The Man of
• 30:10
  the High Castle. I think I'd, I'd got through
• 30:12
  like 4 episodes in the last month.
• 30:16
  So this month I've watched the remaining 36 episodes, all Four
• 30:21
  Seasons. The end of season 3 was was
• 30:24
  genuinely the end of where they should have stopped the story.
• 30:29
  Season 4 you just got the feeling that they'd run out of
• 30:31
  ideas. They were killing off 1 main
• 30:34
  character every episode and it was like, I don't, I don't see
• 30:38
  where this is going anymore. It ended OK, but it was very
• 30:42
  definitely the end. I mean, it's never going to be a
• 30:44
  season 5. It was it was finished.
• 30:47
  So it was an enjoyable watch Despite that last season just
• 30:50
  being that little bit weird, you know?
• 30:52
  And then I think Richard in, in the last episode you'd mentioned
• 30:57
  inside the manosphere the Louis Theroux.
• 31:00
  Yes. Miniseries.
• 31:01
  So I watched that and and that was eye opening.
• 31:04
  That was, that was really eye opening to the point where, I
• 31:08
  mean, all the young guys that they're, that he's actually
• 31:10
  interviewing are all the same age as my son.
• 31:13
  And so it made me quite worried. So I, I ended up going around to
• 31:18
  my son and saying to him, do you know who these guys are?
• 31:20
  I mean, do you follow any of them?
• 31:22
  And language warning in advance, his response was, why would I
• 31:28
  follow them? They're all some new NTS, you
• 31:31
  know. So.
• 31:35
  That was very reassuring to me. Yeah.
• 31:38
  But it is, it's worrying to think that there's, there's
• 31:41
  that, that view out there of, of people living their lives with,
• 31:45
  with that approach to the opposite sex and not just
• 31:49
  sexist, but homophobic, racist, everything was in that, that
• 31:53
  sort of mentality that these guys were, were living their
• 31:56
  lives according to and, and, and I did that was, that was quite
• 32:01
  eye opening to me, as I say, but well worth the watch.
• 32:04
  I think, I think it's, it's something that everybody should
• 32:07
  at least be aware of. I, I finally got around to
• 32:11
  watching micro men, which was a mockumentary that came out in
• 32:15
  2009. And it's the story of of
• 32:19
  Sinclair and Acorn back in the 70s, eighties, 90s.
• 32:25
  Oh wow. It stars Martin Freeman and and
• 32:31
  Alexander Armstrong. Alexander Armstrong wearing the
• 32:34
  worst orange wig or bald cap wig that you've ever seen and and
• 32:40
  Martin Freeman playing what seems to be exactly the same
• 32:44
  role as he played as Tim in the office.
• 32:48
  But again, it sort of fitted the storyline.
• 32:50
  So it was it was a good, it was a good single view.
• 32:54
  And that was just on on YouTube. So it wasn't like you had to
• 32:57
  have a subscription service to watch it.
• 33:00
  There was a couple of things that were that they did get
• 33:02
  wrong. And again, this is just me
• 33:03
  being, you know, a spectrum fanboy.
• 33:06
  But when you're doing a mockumentary on the spectrum and
• 33:10
  you see them typing load, open quote, close quote and an enter,
• 33:14
  at least show us a Spectrum loading screen and not a
• 33:16
  Commodore 64 one. And they had a shot of like a,
• 33:27
  it was supposed to be like a, a computer show from 1979.
• 33:32
  And so they're going around showing you all these people to
• 33:34
  try to sell these very, very basic computers back in 1979.
• 33:39
  And then as the camera pans across, there's two kids sitting
• 33:41
  playing on an Amstrad CPC 464 that probably only came out in
• 33:47
  about 198687. So again, maybe just dial it
• 33:51
  back and don't take things so seriously.
• 33:53
  That's more on me than on them. You need a job as a consultant
• 33:59
  for them. Exactly.
• 34:00
  Yeah, The Boys season 5 has started up again.
• 34:05
  Again, it's the same as over the top violence and gore as the
• 34:08
  previous Four Seasons. This is going to be the last
• 34:10
  season. It's supposed to be superhero
• 34:14
  sci-fi absurdism. Unfortunately though, the
• 34:18
  storylines that they're showing you in this season mirror what
• 34:21
  we're seeing in the US government.
• 34:23
  Almost image by image. I mean, everything that they do
• 34:26
  that seems so stupid and over the top we're actually seeing in
• 34:30
  the news as well. So that's it's worrying and it's
• 34:34
  I mean, this was all filmed sort of six months ago, so it's not
• 34:37
  like it's current that they're they're the leeching off of.
• 34:41
  But it's weird that real world is now emulating what used to be
• 34:46
  something that was unimaginable, you know?
• 34:49
  Yeah, that's. Deadlock.
• 34:52
  I know we spoke about Deadlock before Brian.
• 34:55
  It was filmed there. Season 1 was was filmed around
• 34:58
  my part of the world. In fact, a lot of the scenes
• 35:00
  came from a local beach. Season 2 is on Amazon Prime now.
• 35:05
  It's an Australian comedy murder mystery series.
• 35:10
  This one is set up in Darwin, the opposite end of Australia
• 35:13
  from where I am. And Darwin's got this, this
• 35:17
  famous competition between the two jumping croc companies that
• 35:23
  operate for tourists out there. There's the there's the original
• 35:27
  jumping Crocs and there's the superior jumping Crocs and the
• 35:30
  two companies that operate, but they've had to subdivide the,
• 35:33
  the river up so they're not allowed to step on each other's
• 35:35
  toes and infringe each other's little sort of footprints.
• 35:40
  And this series plays off of that an awful lot.
• 35:43
  You know the whole murder that happens is is associated with
• 35:46
  the the crocodile tourist boats. It's quite comedic in the same
• 35:52
  way that season 1 was. If you if you enjoyed season 1,
• 35:55
  I can definitely recommend season 2.
• 35:57
  Yes, Deadlock season 1 was amazing.
• 36:00
  It was a really good show, yeah, but look, we'll try and watch
• 36:04
  that next month. Season 2 is quite good.
• 36:08
  Look looking forward to. It and then based on that sort
• 36:13
  of vein of, of, of mini series Netflix is how to get to heaven
• 36:19
  from Belfast came up and going into this one, I, I knew nothing
• 36:23
  at all about it. The story is it's from 2026.
• 36:26
  It's on Netflix. As I say, three friends get
• 36:28
  together to remember a fourth friend that's passed away.
• 36:31
  There's a lot of sort of, you never know quite what's
• 36:34
  happening from episode to episode.
• 36:37
  The first episode, it came across as like a mix of Derry
• 36:41
  Girls and Knives Out murder mystery.
• 36:44
  You know, there's comedy there and it's, it's about, like I
• 36:47
  say, it's based in, it's based in, in Ireland.
• 36:52
  As the episodes went on, each character sort of was fleshed
• 36:56
  out and the actors grew into the character.
• 36:58
  So there was more comfort in the way they were presenting them
• 37:02
  and, and less overacting. And it ended up being very
• 37:06
  similar to Deadlock. Really enjoyed that as well.
• 37:10
  So that's what I've been watching.
• 37:12
  When it comes to reading, I'm still on the Wheel of time.
• 37:14
  My Kindle's telling me that I'm now 75% of the way through book
• 37:17
  8. I'm probably back to doing one
• 37:20
  paragraph a night before my eyes just slow down and shut
• 37:24
  completely. So it's not quite as fast a
• 37:28
  walkthrough as it was the last time, but but we're progressing
• 37:30
  through, you know, we're up to 75%.
• 37:32
  So that's that's probably as much as I did this month.
• 37:37
  So, Rich, do you want to go next?
• 37:39
  Yeah, sure. So I mean, I guess I might have
• 37:42
  done a bit more telly and books and stuff because I was without,
• 37:46
  with the move, I was kind of without Internet for probably
• 37:48
  8-9, ten days and managed to get a few things kind of downloaded
• 37:53
  onto a tablet so that I could cope.
• 37:56
  And certainly the kids they had, they had plenty of stuff
• 37:59
  downloaded to, to help them survive a very testing week in
• 38:03
  their lives. So telly wise, and I guess it's
• 38:06
  a little bit related to the Louis Theroux manosphere thing.
• 38:11
  I do watch John Oliver does like a satirical news thing last week
• 38:16
  tonight. So that's that's kind of weekly,
• 38:19
  except for when they don't make up episodes.
• 38:22
  They they they all do weekly and then they'll stop for a month.
• 38:25
  But there's one particular one that they are focusing on
• 38:29
  Twitter slash X and how it's evolved since basically it
• 38:34
  became monetized. And it kind of runs in parallel
• 38:37
  almost to that Louis Theroux thing where there's, you know,
• 38:40
  people are generating content just for the purposes of
• 38:43
  engagement, AKA money. And that that was really eye
• 38:47
  opening. I mean, it's a really good show.
• 38:48
  It's probably not a good show if you're a pro pro Trump because
• 38:52
  it's very much taking the opposite stance.
• 38:54
  But I find that every episode, whilst they'll be kind of like
• 38:57
  taking the Mick out of people and generally kind of roasting
• 39:02
  right wing politicians, but they will always deep dive into a
• 39:06
  like a really well researched topic.
• 39:09
  And it can be something completely random, you know, a
• 39:13
  random government department or talking about certain medication
• 39:16
  or whatever it might be. But I'll always deep dive into
• 39:19
  something and give you like genuine like education about
• 39:24
  what the issues are and what the options are to make things
• 39:27
  better. So I find that quite a kind of
• 39:29
  galvanising thing to watch with the, you know, with the world
• 39:32
  going mad, there's, there's moments of hilarity and hope
• 39:37
  contained within that programme. And then theories wise, I
• 39:42
  watched. So BBC have run a kind of, I
• 39:45
  think it was 6 parts episodic thing of Lord of the Flies,
• 39:50
  which I watched. I think that's a book that I was
• 39:52
  probably made to read as a kid and probably didn't read it.
• 39:57
  So I feel like I'm playing, you know, catch up from several
• 39:59
  decades ago. And it was it was slightly
• 40:03
  pretentiously done, but but generally pretty well acted.
• 40:06
  Obviously entire cast of children basically running
• 40:11
  through the story. I can't say how close it is to
• 40:13
  the book. But the themes definitely seem
• 40:16
  to be the right sort of themes and that was good fun.
• 40:19
  What else have I watched? Night of the Seven Kingdoms
• 40:21
  again, six part series in the House of the Dragon and Game of
• 40:25
  Thrones world. It's a it's not really a
• 40:29
  prequel. It's a stand alone based, based
• 40:31
  before events of the other series and really good little
• 40:36
  short, tight episodes, about half an hour each written with
• 40:39
  some humour. It kind of stood on its own.
• 40:41
  It didn't feel like a needless spin off it, it was its own
• 40:45
  short story and good fun. And then what else I've planned
• 40:48
  through more, These are the ones I downloaded.
• 40:50
  So more Parks and Recreation that I was talking about.
• 40:53
  Good, good comedy. So I've watched all of season 3,
• 40:56
  which was like 20 episodes. All of season 4 that was about
• 40:59
  20 episodes. And I'm a good way through
• 41:01
  season 5. Again, they're just little 20
• 41:04
  minute hits where it's like I don't want to go to bed yet.
• 41:06
  So one more thing, movies wise. So I made a promise to the kids
• 41:11
  that we'd watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
• 41:14
  We watched the first one at Christmas time.
• 41:17
  I think. The rest of them watched The Two
• 41:20
  Towers during a school holiday when I was working, so I was
• 41:24
  given some homework whilst they were away.
• 41:27
  At Easter I was given homework to catch up and watch The Two
• 41:29
  Towers, which I very much enjoyed.
• 41:32
  And then we all together watched Return of the Return of the
• 41:35
  King, the third one last weekend.
• 41:38
  And I always remember it as being absolutely epic.
• 41:42
  And I just remember like sobbing at the end and that kind of
• 41:45
  stuff. And it was weird this time
• 41:47
  around. I don't know whether I've
• 41:48
  watched it just too many Times Now, but I I found the third on
• 41:52
  a real drag this time because it is a long movie and I obviously
• 41:56
  know what happens. And it does do that thing where
• 41:59
  you think it's going to end and then there's like another 45
• 42:01
  minutes of extra stuff and then you think it's going to end
• 42:04
  again. And there's more.
• 42:06
  So I didn't enjoy it as much this time around, but it's nice
• 42:08
  to have watched it all together. We're doing The Hobbit.
• 42:13
  Next. I don't know.
• 42:16
  I've only ever watched the first Hobbit and I didn't.
• 42:18
  I think once you've got for me, once you've got through the
• 42:21
  trilogy, it's kind of like, right, I'm I'm done now.
• 42:25
  I've done this world, but you never know.
• 42:27
  Maybe, maybe. I didn't think a new one.
• 42:31
  The Army can join, yeah. Search for Gollum or something.
• 42:35
  Yeah, Conan O'Brien is involved. I think it was Conan O'Brien.
• 42:39
  OK, either that or it was April Fool's Day and I read a weird
• 42:44
  article. I don't know.
• 42:46
  No, no, they're definitely making a new one when I think
• 42:47
  they were saying that Viggo Mortensen is the only one that's
• 42:50
  not going to be coming back for his role, but they're trying to
• 42:54
  get all the rest of them back. Great.
• 42:58
  Interesting. Yeah, I'll look.
• 42:59
  At that should be interesting. Yeah, I've been playing a little
• 43:04
  bit of board games. So there's a game, I don't know
• 43:05
  whether I've talked about it before, but I must talk about
• 43:07
  it. It's called Flip 7 and it's just
• 43:11
  essentially a deck of cards. It's a it's a combination
• 43:14
  between, if you've heard of it, past the pigs push your luck
• 43:19
  game where you roll little rubber pigs basically and score
• 43:23
  points depending on whether they land snout first or on their
• 43:27
  backs or whatever. But it's a really great game
• 43:30
  that's good for whatever crowd you've got.
• 43:33
  So if you've got kids, it's easy enough to understand.
• 43:35
  If you've got parents who kind of don't want to invest in
• 43:39
  learning rules or if you've got a bunch of mates or whatever,
• 43:42
  it's really good. It's, I'll describe it quickly.
• 43:45
  Just get a great big deck of cards.
• 43:47
  And in that deck there is one card with the number one on it,
• 43:50
  2 with the number 23 with the number 3 and so forth, all the
• 43:54
  way up to 12. So it's 12 twelves.
• 43:57
  And the object of the game is you basically just get Delta
• 44:00
  card and then you get a choice each time whether to hit or
• 44:06
  stick. And if you get duplicate cards,
• 44:09
  you're out. And if you stick, you can bank
• 44:11
  the points that you've currently got.
• 44:13
  So there's, you know, it's, it's kind of mathematically based.
• 44:15
  You know, if you've got 12 in front of you, A, you've got some
• 44:18
  points, but B, you stand the strongest chance of getting a
• 44:22
  duplicate. And once, and if you get 7
• 44:26
  unique numbered cards in front of you, you bank all of those
• 44:29
  points, the round ends and you get some bonus points as well.
• 44:32
  So there's a kind of incentive to push, but you don't have to.
• 44:36
  And then thrown into that, there's just a few little kind
• 44:39
  of wild card things where you can freeze somebody else or you
• 44:43
  can force somebody else to have to draw three more cards with no
• 44:48
  no opportunity to bank in the middle.
• 44:50
  And then I think there's like an extra life card, which you can
• 44:54
  you can take keep for yourself and then obviously use it if you
• 44:57
  get duplicate and carry on. So it plays really, really
• 45:00
  quickly and you just whizzing around the table just kind of
• 45:03
  like stick, stick, stick hit, hit, hit, hit.
• 45:06
  And then first of 200 points wins.
• 45:09
  Great fun. Takes about 10 minutes per round
• 45:11
  to play. It's dirt cheap.
• 45:13
  You get it off Amazon for 10 bucks.
• 45:14
  Highly recommend it if ever you find yourself with probably
• 45:18
  three other people wanting to fill a few minutes.
• 45:22
  So we've played a few rounds of that and then in book news, I've
• 45:26
  I was complaining a bit about Wolf Hall in previous months and
• 45:29
  how it was a bit of a drag. And I think I've I've channelled
• 45:33
  my Stuart vibes and I've said to my I had a word with myself as
• 45:38
  like, I might hate this, but I'm still going to invest the time
• 45:41
  and finish it. So during the house move, I made
• 45:44
  sure that I found time whilst there was no Internet to get it
• 45:50
  finished, which I did. And I have to say, there's so
• 45:53
  much fuss about this book meant to be good and it just isn't.
• 45:57
  I didn't vibe with it at all. I found it snobbishly kind of
• 46:00
  assumed that you knew all the history, which luckily I did so,
• 46:05
  but it's only through remembering what I was taught
• 46:07
  when I was like 13 that I knew what was going on, not not
• 46:11
  because of the book. And I, I did some kind of
• 46:14
  Googling to work out whether this was a thing.
• 46:17
  And that is apparently a feature of Hilary Mantel, the author.
• 46:21
  She likes to just let not explain anything and let the
• 46:28
  reader do their stuff. And and and I find it really
• 46:31
  obtuse and unfun. So having finished that, I
• 46:35
  picked up a book called 1000 Blues which is a Korean sci-fi.
• 46:41
  And it was. Instantly better.
• 46:42
  A pleasure to read. It was kind of futuristic, all
• 46:45
  about essentially robot jockeys in the future.
• 46:50
  So they kind of designed lightweight robot jockeys so
• 46:54
  that the horses could run faster.
• 46:56
  But it very much wasn't really a sci-fi.
• 46:58
  It was all about the people, about the people and the animals
• 47:02
  and how, you know, was it fair to let horses literally run
• 47:05
  themselves into the ground because they're going, you know,
• 47:07
  that much faster and having tiny, short careers.
• 47:12
  And yeah, it was really good. And I knew it was such a relief
• 47:15
  coming to that after Wolf Hall because the author described
• 47:20
  what was happening and who was talking.
• 47:23
  So it was very easy to follow. So I enjoyed that very much and
• 47:26
  finished that as well. And I've now moved on to a book
• 47:28
  called Stoner, which is not what you think.
• 47:31
  Well, it's not so far what you think it is.
• 47:33
  It's it's just a story based around First World War times
• 47:37
  about a guy who's a teacher. And again, it's just nice, good
• 47:41
  characters, well described, not a whole lot happening, but
• 47:44
  delightful to read. So I've I've had quite a good
• 47:47
  month in terms of all those other types of media.
• 47:50
  Very enjoyable. How about you, Brian?
• 47:54
  Let me see. I've watched Mayor of East Town.
• 47:59
  My brother told me many years ago to watch this show.
• 48:02
  Do you know this? Do you guys know us?
• 48:05
  No. I feel like I've heard of East
• 48:07
  Town. Not not seen.
• 48:08
  It it's, it was really good. It's basically a small town cop
• 48:13
  has been working on a missing girl case.
• 48:15
  She's not gotten very far more start to go missing and like an
• 48:20
  FBI, because FBI agent turns up to help to work with her and you
• 48:24
  get to see where you get to experience the well.
• 48:28
  It's like to be a small to live in a small village in America.
• 48:31
  It's the story is really well told.
• 48:34
  There are some minor surprises but it's quite good.
• 48:39
  I like this. Pretty good show.
• 48:42
  This. I think it was only one season
• 48:43
  though so I can't remember how many episodes.
• 48:47
  I then watched the movie called Res Ball which is REZBALL 2
• 48:52
  words. Think it's basically a feel good
• 48:55
  feel good teen movie that's set. Feel good teen movie that's not
• 49:00
  all that good to be honest. It's set on a Native American or
• 49:06
  first people's reservation in America.
• 49:09
  It's about it's school basketball team or they call it
• 49:13
  reservation ball team and trying to reach the basketball at the
• 49:17
  finals of a basketball competition.
• 49:18
  And it's OK. I wouldn't recommend it to be
• 49:21
  honest. Let me see.
• 49:22
  After that I watched Alice in Borderlands.
• 49:26
  Well I watched season 3. It's based on a Japanese manga.
• 49:31
  They made a live action version. It's the first.
• 49:35
  OK, quite simply, just watch the first two seasons.
• 49:37
  Do not watch the third season. It's a bit like Lost.
• 49:40
  It does not stick the ending at all.
• 49:43
  So watch the first two walk away with it.
• 49:46
  Do not watch anymore. It's basically people wake up in
• 49:50
  Tokyo and there's nobody around them.
• 49:52
  The place is deserted and they they're invited to games in
• 49:54
  which they die if they don't don't win.
• 49:57
  That's basically season 1-2 but just told better let me see it
• 50:02
  after that. Do I say let me see a lot?
• 50:06
  No more than I say, you know. No.
• 50:09
  Well, well, you know, I watched. This is a really weird movie I
• 50:15
  watched or yeah, movie. Did you read about Erskine
• 50:19
  Fogarty? That's the title.
• 50:21
  Sounds familiar. Why does that sound familiar?
• 50:25
  Did you ever you ever hear Blind Blind Boy or blind Boy Boat Club
• 50:31
  Irish comedian, podcast star and songwriter.
• 50:38
  This book, it's a short was a short story.
• 50:41
  It's set just after the Celtic Tiger crashed in Ireland about
• 50:45
  2008 roughly. It's this guy who it's set his
• 50:52
  whole life based based on what he had bought.
• 50:54
  He has his wife, he has his two kids going to private schools.
• 50:57
  He has a fancy car, he has an American refrigerator and it's
• 51:03
  all like status symbols. And because the crash, he loses
• 51:06
  everything and that he decides he's not going to lose his
• 51:10
  American refrigerator because this was his major status
• 51:13
  symbol. He has the ice cubes and the
• 51:15
  door and stuff, that type of thing.
• 51:17
  So he basically drags it to his former home in Limerick, which
• 51:22
  is from Dublin. How many 100 miles?
• 51:26
  It's basically across the country and down a bit.
• 51:29
  It's he wants to bring it home to show his neighbours how
• 51:32
  successful he has been. And his mind starts to crack as
• 51:36
  he's going, as he's drag, dragging it down.
• 51:40
  It's just really weird. He starts quoting all these
• 51:42
  crazy facts about things. It's very odd, very, very odd.
• 51:47
  And it's if you've got nothing to do, it's a really good, it's
• 51:50
  a good watch, but it's difficult to recommend it.
• 51:54
  Let me see. No, I started and finished the
• 51:59
  final season of Stranger Things. That's a return performance as
• 52:03
  far as I'm concerned. It's sort of speaking about
• 52:07
  sticking the ending. I thought it did.
• 52:11
  Season 4. I didn't think it was that good.
• 52:15
  The finals, Season 5, whatever the previous season wasn't I
• 52:18
  think didn't think it was that good, was it?
• 52:20
  I don't know the Russians ever season that was.
• 52:23
  I don't think it was that good. This season was pretty good.
• 52:26
  A you weren't really sure what's happened at the end, but you
• 52:31
  know, they sort of leave things a bit fuzzy about what actually
• 52:34
  what really happened at the end. But my whole issue the final
• 52:37
  season is that the kids are supposed to be in junior high
• 52:39
  school and they look like adults because it's taken so long to
• 52:42
  make this, you know, 7 is definitely not the child.
• 52:46
  She wasn't the way for the start where she was like, she looked
• 52:50
  like, she looked like she was only 7 or whatever, 11 Now
• 52:52
  she's. Was there anything about that?
• 52:55
  I can't remember anything, but yeah, whatever.
• 53:00
  You know, they've grown up so much.
• 53:02
  Kids look really tall and they're big and beefy and it's
• 53:06
  just. But other than that, the show
• 53:08
  this season was quite good. It finished it off quite well.
• 53:12
  I watched the new hypeness project, Hail Mary.
• 53:17
  Overall, it was a pretty good movie.
• 53:19
  I can't even remember the name of the actor.
• 53:21
  And this was Ryan Reynolds maybe, I don't know, on camera's
• 53:25
  name. It's definitely over long.
• 53:29
  It's like 2 1/2 hours long. It could definitely lose at
• 53:32
  least 30, maybe maybe even closer to 50 minutes of it.
• 53:35
  That'd be much better. It just take goes too long.
• 53:39
  It's based on a book and I believe the book has two halves
• 53:45
  to it in getting the loneliness and then it becomes more of a
• 53:50
  buddy type movie. If you've watched the trailers,
• 53:54
  it's already spoiled or how it becomes a buddy type movie, but
• 53:58
  the movie basically focus on that buddy type buddies type
• 54:02
  movie section. I'm trying not to give it away,
• 54:05
  but if you've watched the trailer and you know that what
• 54:06
  happens? It is pretty good.
• 54:10
  But yeah, yeah, it's I don't know, it's pretty good.
• 54:14
  And you say after that. Then again, let me see.
• 54:17
  I also watched Rental Family. You notice that movie based in
• 54:21
  Japan? I think it's.
• 54:23
  That's Brendan Fraser. Yeah, yeah.
• 54:26
  I was going to say, actually, I need to write down actors names.
• 54:28
  I think it's Brendan Fraser. Yeah, from IMDb.
• 54:31
  It's basically a struggling American actor.
• 54:34
  American actor in Tokyo. He's trying to find the purpose.
• 54:36
  He lands an unusual gig working for Japanese rental family
• 54:40
  agencies, which do actually exist.
• 54:43
  He plays standing roles for strangers.
• 54:46
  He rediscovers his purpose and all that nonsense.
• 54:49
  He takes the role of being a, a husband to a, to a marriage to a
• 54:54
  lady. It's a fake marriage, but it's
• 54:57
  still the family thinks the lady's got married because
• 54:59
  actually she's going to end up, but she's gay and she doesn't
• 55:02
  have to tell her parents that she's gay.
• 55:04
  And so it helps her get and she, she's told the family she's
• 55:08
  moving to Canada. She can then live in the other
• 55:11
  side of Tokyo with her gay partner and not have to worry
• 55:13
  about it. And there's loads of these
• 55:15
  little things that help. One of them, a mother wants to
• 55:19
  get her child into a, an elementary school.
• 55:22
  So over here they have, you have like your public schools, you
• 55:27
  also applied one somewhere quite low standards.
• 55:29
  So they're really high. But some of the universities
• 55:32
  have high schools and they have middle schools and they have
• 55:36
  elementary schools. So if you get your child into
• 55:40
  an, excuse me, into a university's own elementary
• 55:44
  school, they will then progress through all that and they will
• 55:47
  get into the university without any problems.
• 55:51
  They'll get into much easier. They won't have to do the exams
• 55:53
  to apply to get in. They just move along.
• 55:55
  They call them elevator schools. So if you can get your child
• 55:57
  into the junior high school, then the same thing will happen.
• 56:00
  They move up. They are expensive to get your
• 56:02
  kids into. So you're paying a lot to get
• 56:04
  your child through the, the university.
• 56:06
  So it is, we've actually got 1 not so far away, but it is quite
• 56:11
  crazy. But to get your child in, you
• 56:14
  need to have a family unit, and a single parent with a child
• 56:17
  doesn't look good, so they won't pass the interview.
• 56:19
  So she, this lady hired Brendan Fraser to be her husband because
• 56:25
  her child was what they call hafu over here, half American,
• 56:28
  half half foreigner, half Japanese.
• 56:32
  And so he had to pretend he was the child's father.
• 56:36
  They actually pretend in the movie, they pretend to the child
• 56:38
  that he's actually the father as well.
• 56:40
  So she's never met her father. And that way the child acts more
• 56:43
  convincing in the movie. Yeah.
• 56:46
  Or in the interview. So it's sort of based on real
• 56:50
  life experiences. What will happen.
• 56:54
  It is. The movie is quite good.
• 56:56
  I liked it overall, to be honest.
• 57:00
  This whole rental family thing helps.
• 57:02
  It gives you an alternative to cope with situations that should
• 57:07
  be better addressed through counselling or just being
• 57:10
  honest. But there is, I don't know, it
• 57:13
  works. The movie is quite good.
• 57:16
  And if you're expecting American smalls, because I think it is
• 57:22
  American, it's not actually, It's not an American movie.
• 57:24
  It's a Japanese movie, so there's no American smalls.
• 57:26
  The ending of it isn't all this like syrupy sweetness, which is
• 57:30
  good. It's like a cross between
• 57:33
  European and American because European movies just give you no
• 57:36
  real ending. Everything's left open to your
• 57:38
  adjustment. The Japanese tend to give you a
• 57:40
  bit more closure. So like I was a huge fan of
• 57:43
  European cinema growing up and there's no a lot of the movies
• 57:47
  just don't have a proper ending. So this gives you a gives you
• 57:52
  closes the movie out, but it doesn't spell everything out to
• 57:54
  you. So I liked the movie was quite
• 57:56
  good. I've also been watching I
• 57:59
  haven't finished yet Dan the Dan, which is a manga but not
• 58:02
  like an enemy is quite good. I'm enjoying it.
• 58:06
  I mentioned that started new school.
• 58:08
  The kids have been recommending anime to me that they like what
• 58:13
  numbers called Hunter Hunter Hunter actually in Japanese
• 58:16
  Hunter Hunter, which is basically Hunter X Hunter and
• 58:21
  it's I didn't realise it's got like 80 episodes or maybe more
• 58:25
  and I started watching it watch the first two.
• 58:30
  It's OK. I think maybe if I started
• 58:35
  watching it many years ago when I was younger, I might be OK.
• 58:38
  I'll start watching one called Doctor Stone and that's not bad.
• 58:42
  That's OK as a really annoying character in it.
• 58:45
  But so I'll watch that. And that's that's all I've been
• 58:50
  watching. I'm watching or not watching
• 58:53
  Reading Brains by Eric SP Otrowski, better known as Duke's
• 58:58
  Gath or Duke on the Veteran Gamers.
• 59:02
  I've got the book here so I can read the blurb at the back.
• 59:05
  Nasha is a she's building a light.
• 59:07
  Basically somebody. The book is called Brains or How
• 59:09
  to Survive Apocalyptic Bibliophilia.
• 59:13
  It's basically somebody trying to build a library in after the
• 59:16
  apocalypse when there's zombies roaming the earth.
• 59:18
  And it's, it's actually quite good.
• 59:20
  I've been caught off guard with some of the reveals going
• 59:23
  through it. It's quite good.
• 59:24
  I like it to farm just over halfway.
• 59:27
  I'm enjoying a good read. And then the only other thing
• 59:30
  we're talking about shows that come from lots of different
• 59:32
  networks and I was watched and I listened to a podcast called
• 59:38
  Darkness Diaries. Don't know if you'd know it.
• 59:41
  It's basically all about dark side of the Internet.
• 59:44
  And it's a guy he interviews people have been previous
• 59:48
  hackers or on the security side. And this was about an episode,
• 59:53
  an episode called Superbox. It was just released and these
• 59:57
  are boxes that you can buy on Amazon or in Walmart Under those
• 1:00:01
  boxes you plug into your TV and give you all the channels, give
• 1:00:03
  you everything. You know, dodgy box is what they
• 1:00:06
  call them. These apparently part they're
• 1:00:10
  full of viruses and there's every they hook into your
• 1:00:14
  network, they street, they attack everything on the
• 1:00:16
  network, your network. So they'll go for your PC.
• 1:00:19
  If you bring your work piece on, they get infect that so that you
• 1:00:22
  bring into work and it gets on the networks.
• 1:00:24
  These things are really fucking dangerous.
• 1:00:27
  I've been trying not to use bad language.
• 1:00:28
  That's the item. So kids who are listening do not
• 1:00:30
  get any of these dodgy boxes. They're really, really suspect.
• 1:00:35
  But like people have in America, they have limits on their upload
• 1:00:39
  and whatever one of these super boxes was uploading I think was
• 1:00:44
  100 gig every couple of days just going to be uploaded.
• 1:00:48
  So where it was coming from, I don't know.
• 1:00:49
  They're all part of bot Nets and stuff, taking attacking websites
• 1:00:53
  or whatever. So if anybody's listening, be
• 1:00:56
  really careful about getting these dodgy boxes.
• 1:00:59
  But anyway, there you go of school of people.
• 1:01:04
  Other than that, that's all. So we'll go to playing and while
• 1:01:10
  we're doing playing, I'm going to mute and start closing
• 1:01:14
  because it's just hitting noon, not noon, sunset here.
• 1:01:17
  I'm going to close the curtains problem.
• 1:01:18
  I'm here put the lights on. So Rich, you said you hadn't got
• 1:01:21
  many. So if we go to Stewart first, so
• 1:01:23
  I've got time to to get around, so that's sure.
• 1:01:27
  You got you got an hour or so, no.
• 1:01:28
  Yeah, you got another one? Yeah, I've got the kettle on as
• 1:01:33
  well. All right, well, this month I've
• 1:01:36
  played. Back in a month.
• 1:01:37
  OK, go for it. This month I've played ten
• 1:01:40
  different games to varying degrees of success.
• 1:01:44
  I I started off with my my 2, you know, perennial games.
• 1:01:49
  I'm playing Baldur's Gate 3 and clear obscure and I I'm just not
• 1:01:54
  progressing on them at all. Boulders Gate 3 I think I'm
• 1:01:57
  going to have to backtrack quite a bit and take another another
• 1:02:02
  attack vector on it because I'm just completely stuck.
• 1:02:06
  I'm not progressing anywhere at all there.
• 1:02:08
  Clear. Obscure.
• 1:02:09
  Are you stuck with a boss or are you stuck just unable to
• 1:02:12
  progress story? No, it's, it's on a boss.
• 1:02:15
  You get to this point where you have to go and find this hammer
• 1:02:17
  to defeat the, you know, the eventual end boss.
• 1:02:21
  And as soon as you pick up the hammer, this guy who's like a
• 1:02:25
  devil says he's going to get you.
• 1:02:27
  And you got to save this little Hobbit thing that he's kept,
• 1:02:29
  he's capturing or holding as a as a hostage.
• 1:02:34
  And so when I go and rescue her, by the time I get her rescued,
• 1:02:38
  I've used up all of my like mini camps that I'm allowed to get my
• 1:02:44
  health back. I've used up all of my, my magic
• 1:02:48
  attacks and all I've got left is this, you know, piss poor sword
• 1:02:52
  that I can then attack him with. And so I've got nothing left in
• 1:02:56
  the in the in the pocket to, to actually do the main attacks
• 1:02:59
  that I need to. So I'm going to have to go back
• 1:03:02
  and try and figure out another way of actually getting to the
• 1:03:04
  point where I can get to him. And I've rescued her and I've
• 1:03:08
  still got something left in the tank to, to actually.
• 1:03:12
  So that was the first one where I just, it made me doubt my, my
• 1:03:17
  sort of ability to be a gamer. I then thought, right, I'll go
• 1:03:21
  back to clear obscure. And the note I've got here is I
• 1:03:27
  am no longer enjoying this. Oh no.
• 1:03:31
  I was just getting, I was just getting beaten every time.
• 1:03:34
  I tried hard and my reflexes weren't fast enough to do, you
• 1:03:38
  know, Paris. I then realised that I was
• 1:03:43
  playing the game completely incorrectly.
• 1:03:46
  I was using everyone as an attacker rather than dedicating
• 1:03:50
  one to be a healer, one to be an attacker, one to be a magic or
• 1:03:54
  whatever it needs to be, you know.
• 1:03:56
  So I need to go back there and and relook at that and skill my
• 1:04:00
  or equip my guys with the the little boosts that you get that
• 1:04:07
  are affiliated with the role I'm expecting them to play on.
• 1:04:10
  Every single encounter. So that'll be that'll be a task
• 1:04:14
  for next month. Top tip for me then let's start,
• 1:04:18
  yeah? Yeah, Rec Fest every week on
• 1:04:23
  Thursdays. I'm not making every single
• 1:04:25
  week, but those that I do join is still really good fun with my
• 1:04:29
  my mates down here. Rec Fest 2 is out on the PCI.
• 1:04:33
  Don't think it's come out in PS-5 yet, but we're still stuck
• 1:04:36
  on Rec Fest 1 and we're still really enjoying that, you know?
• 1:04:39
  I mean, that game has just got years of content in that, you
• 1:04:43
  know, you could just keep going and playing the same tracks over
• 1:04:46
  and over again and you still wouldn't be anywhere near as
• 1:04:48
  good as some of the guys that join our games as randoms.
• 1:04:52
  There's probably. About your your buds going to
• 1:04:54
  wait for for 2027 before because presumably all you'll all move
• 1:04:59
  together to rec fest 2. It would be pretty savage if
• 1:05:01
  they if they did it now and left you just flailing around.
• 1:05:06
  Knowing. Knowing them.
• 1:05:08
  Is that sowed the seed of the idea now?
• 1:05:12
  No, they're good guys. They'll, they'll most likely
• 1:05:16
  they'll flip flop between them. So, you know, maybe half the
• 1:05:18
  Thursday night session. We'll do Rekfest 2 if it is
• 1:05:21
  available and, and fully fledged and, and a full release and not
• 1:05:24
  just the, the beta that's out there now.
• 1:05:26
  And then we'll switch, switch back to Rekfest to give me a
• 1:05:29
  chance to at least have some, Yeah.
• 1:05:31
  I reckon you might find it in your library at some stage.
• 1:05:34
  I reckon you know in, in that, in that line, none of us have
• 1:05:40
  had a joker, none of us have had a a gift.
• 1:05:43
  So there is still some capacity to actually join those games if
• 1:05:48
  I need to, albeit at the at the cost of a klaxon.
• 1:05:53
  So other than Recfest, I was in this real funk and I thought
• 1:05:57
  I'm, I'm just not, I'm just not enjoying what I'm doing.
• 1:06:01
  This month I I picked a game called We happy few to play this
• 1:06:07
  month is is one of the ones on my list.
• 1:06:09
  It was originally banned in Australia because the the game
• 1:06:13
  focuses on taking this drug called joy to to fit in with
• 1:06:16
  society. And the Australian age rating
• 1:06:21
  guys took a very firm stance on the fact that that's that's not
• 1:06:26
  all. You can't have a game where the
• 1:06:27
  main focus of taking drugs. So it was originally banned and
• 1:06:31
  then they eventually LED it through.
• 1:06:32
  And so it appeared on my list somewhere, but was never
• 1:06:36
  actually played. I fired it up and it's a game in
• 1:06:40
  three parts. The first part, you're this guy
• 1:06:43
  who's trying to break free of this restrictive society that's
• 1:06:47
  all focused on taking drugs. I work my way all the way
• 1:06:50
  through that. It's got a lot of interesting
• 1:06:53
  missions you can do and a lot of math exploration.
• 1:06:56
  So it was it was OK playing through.
• 1:06:59
  It certainly wouldn't have been a game that I would have raved
• 1:07:02
  the boat to anybody. But you get to the end, that guy
• 1:07:05
  finishes his missions and then the second character that you
• 1:07:09
  play starts up and it's in a it's in the same timeline just
• 1:07:13
  running in parallel with his story.
• 1:07:15
  But in this one you're his ex-girlfriend and you got to do
• 1:07:19
  similar missions. But at the same time, you've got
• 1:07:22
  a newborn baby that you have to keep rushing home to feed
• 1:07:25
  because babies are banned in the society.
• 1:07:27
  So you can't take it out with you.
• 1:07:29
  So you, you end up running across the map and then running
• 1:07:31
  back because you run out of time to feed the baby to go back and
• 1:07:33
  run to the end of the map to do something else.
• 1:07:36
  And it just got quite frustrating very quickly because
• 1:07:42
  you're, you're not doing anything different.
• 1:07:43
  You've just got this added complexity.
• 1:07:46
  And then I, I managed to complete her bit and the third
• 1:07:50
  act started up. And then the third act, you're
• 1:07:54
  an old grumpy type 1 diabetic that everybody hates.
• 1:08:01
  And that was just, it was like, I, I felt hard, you know, it was
• 1:08:07
  like, this is about me. So you were doing the same
• 1:08:12
  missions, but you had to keep finding sugar to boost your your
• 1:08:16
  blood glucose levels. And you had to take injections
• 1:08:19
  at various points of the game as well to make sure you didn't
• 1:08:22
  sort of, you know, go too high and go into a coma.
• 1:08:24
  And it was like, this is this is not fun.
• 1:08:27
  This is real life. And is it like game over screen
• 1:08:33
  if you if your insulin gets too high or if the baby doesn't get
• 1:08:37
  its dinner kind of thing? So I didn't enjoy the game is is
• 1:08:42
  the short answer, but I completed it.
• 1:08:44
  I finished all three storylines, rolled credits and and that one
• 1:08:49
  went on the list of games that are completed.
• 1:08:51
  Probably not going to be looked at again.
• 1:08:54
  Then I thought, I'm going to have to find something that's a
• 1:08:56
  wee bit sort of, you know, light and airy, not complicated.
• 1:09:02
  And I found that on my epic store, I had crash lands listed
• 1:09:05
  there and it looked like a game that's very similar to a game
• 1:09:08
  that I played last year called the Collector.
• 1:09:10
  It was on PS PlayStation Plus and, and effectively what you're
• 1:09:14
  doing there is you're going around the map and you're
• 1:09:15
  collecting various bits and pieces and it, there's an
• 1:09:19
  element of collect ten of these to make one of those, click ten
• 1:09:23
  of those to make one of these. And just continuing to build up
• 1:09:26
  the complexity of, of things in your inventory.
• 1:09:30
  This one's quite similar. You've crash landed on a planet.
• 1:09:35
  You're trying to get the, the, the satellite dish that you need
• 1:09:40
  to communicate back to your own planet from the, the big bad
• 1:09:43
  baddie. I played maybe about 30 hours of
• 1:09:48
  it and just didn't enjoy it. And then I got to the first big
• 1:09:53
  boss battle where he's got your satellite dish.
• 1:09:57
  I just can't do it. It's another one that goes on
• 1:10:00
  the list of games that I'm not good enough to do, so I've
• 1:10:04
  given. It a fair crack though.
• 1:10:05
  I cut the losses on that one. Yeah, 30 losses.
• 1:10:08
  That was it. I I just couldn't do it.
• 1:10:10
  I didn't know what I was missing.
• 1:10:12
  There's no real skill level that you can get a better weapon or
• 1:10:16
  do different things. You, you just, you have what you
• 1:10:18
  have and you just got to somehow beat this guy and, and I
• 1:10:21
  couldn't. So I got into this spawn shoot
• 1:10:25
  die cycle that I just wasn't enjoying.
• 1:10:30
  So then I thought, OK, let's go back even easier than this and
• 1:10:34
  play a game called Walker on the the Commodore Amiga.
• 1:10:38
  And Walker was one that my my mates that had Commodore Amigas
• 1:10:41
  used to talk about as being a fantastic game.
• 1:10:44
  You're like a big ED2O9 robot from from RoboCop and you're
• 1:10:48
  walking across this map side scrolling and all these little
• 1:10:52
  enemies are coming at you and you've got to just try and get
• 1:10:55
  as far as possible. And when I played it, that was
• 1:11:00
  the entire scope of the game. You're walking left to right,
• 1:11:04
  you're an overpowered robot and you got these little characters
• 1:11:07
  that are maybe 6 pixels high walking towards you that you
• 1:11:11
  just mow down with your machine gun.
• 1:11:13
  And I did 2 full levels of that and realised the third level was
• 1:11:18
  going to be the same and just thought, Nah, boring, shut it
• 1:11:21
  down, not doing any more of that.
• 1:11:24
  So it really wasn't a good month for games.
• 1:11:26
  And then I then I thought, let's try the Witcher 2.
• 1:11:29
  I loved the Witcher 3. The Witcher 2 has been sitting
• 1:11:33
  on my list again from God knows where.
• 1:11:36
  I started it up and I loved it. I absolutely loved this game.
• 1:11:43
  The the game itself is more of a visible corridor game than the
• 1:11:49
  Witcher 3 is. You know, you can tell you've
• 1:11:50
  only got one way of going from here to there and and the the
• 1:11:54
  map is locking you down to that direction until very late in the
• 1:11:57
  game when it all starts to open up.
• 1:11:59
  The cutscenes are just phenomenal in their their movie
• 1:12:05
  qualityness. You know that there's for the
• 1:12:08
  age of the game, 2011 game. This is it's age really, really
• 1:12:13
  well. The graphical engine has still
• 1:12:15
  got all the chops it needs. You can see the shared heritage
• 1:12:19
  of a game that became Witcher 3. So there's a couple of of funky
• 1:12:24
  bits in terms of how you, you're managing, you know, your, your,
• 1:12:27
  your, your inventory and how you're, you're actually
• 1:12:30
  navigating around the map. But other than that, it was a
• 1:12:33
  really good game. And so I played all the way
• 1:12:36
  through that, completed it, rolled credits, added on the
• 1:12:39
  list of games completed. How long did that take?
• 1:12:43
  I don't know. It would.
• 1:12:46
  It would probably have been about 40 hours again.
• 1:12:49
  OK, Yeah. Yeah, it wasn't.
• 1:12:51
  True games so fast. Yeah, there's a lot of hours
• 1:12:54
  there. When whenever I check HL how
• 1:12:57
  long to beat it says well like 10 hours to beat game.
• 1:13:00
  I know it'll take me twice whatever is on there, but I
• 1:13:03
  think it's HLTB is based on you because you get games so fast.
• 1:13:07
  You message I'm going to play with your two and then it's like
• 1:13:09
  a week later I finished it I'm. Done.
• 1:13:13
  It's like a month's I'll put into these games and I'm trying
• 1:13:15
  to get through and you, you, you're dedicated.
• 1:13:19
  I don't know how you do it. It's amazing, amazing, really
• 1:13:21
  amazing. The problem?
• 1:13:22
  With The Witcher 2 was I didn't play it through play night, I
• 1:13:26
  just directly loaded it up. It's OK, maybe it's telling me I
• 1:13:31
  only played 24 hours, but I don't know.
• 1:13:35
  That was on Steam, so I might have just been launching it
• 1:13:38
  directly from Steam and then play Night doesn't actually
• 1:13:41
  record the hours. So let's say somewhere between
• 1:13:43
  24 and 40 hours. OK, it's good.
• 1:13:49
  So that was that was good. The next game I looked at was 10
• 1:13:51
  + 4000. You can't go wrong with 10 +
• 1:13:54
  4000. Yes, go ahead, Brian.
• 1:13:56
  How long The Witcher 2 has how long to beat?
• 1:13:59
  Oh, it's just 33 hours. So you would basically you are
• 1:14:04
  how long to beat. Yeah, OK.
• 1:14:08
  Just I can't believe you get through games at the same rate
• 1:14:11
  as done. Sorry, I thought you're back
• 1:14:13
  with that. Something obviously wrong with
• 1:14:16
  the way I play games. Yeah, go on.
• 1:14:19
  But you're, you're enjoying them more.
• 1:14:21
  You're doing all the little side quests.
• 1:14:22
  I I did all the side quests for the 1st chapter of of The
• 1:14:25
  Witcher 2 and then the second side quit or the second chapter
• 1:14:30
  I did maybe half the side quest and the 3rd chapter I just
• 1:14:33
  pushed through to the end. Yeah.
• 1:14:35
  Yeah, fair play to you. So, yeah, 10 + 4000 I, I had
• 1:14:41
  that on Amazon Games as part of my Amazon Prime membership.
• 1:14:45
  That game, I mean, there's so much chaos, so much fun and just
• 1:14:48
  a fantastic soundtrack, but it's a solid game that you're, you're
• 1:14:52
  not going to spend hours and hours playing, you're going to
• 1:14:54
  dip into it continuously over the entire duration of you
• 1:14:59
  having that hardware. It's it's Tempest, but it's more
• 1:15:02
  of the same, you know, Jeff Minter game, lots of flashy
• 1:15:07
  visuals, exploding pixel art, mind bending sort of colour
• 1:15:12
  choices. Yeah, really good.
• 1:15:15
  And then this last week I fired up Hue HUE, which I seem to own
• 1:15:21
  on multiple platforms. I've got like 3 different copies
• 1:15:23
  of it somewhere. I've got it on Amazon, I've got
• 1:15:25
  it on Epic, and I've got it on PlayStation and I've not played
• 1:15:28
  it on any of the three of them. And it's a, it's a 2D platform
• 1:15:32
  and puzzled game that uses colour as a mechanic in order to
• 1:15:35
  change the world background to complete each level.
• 1:15:38
  So each level is a effectively a puzzle.
• 1:15:40
  It gave me real Limbo, Braid vibes in terms of limbo, in
• 1:15:45
  terms of the look and feel, because it's a, you know, black
• 1:15:48
  and white world to start with and then you introduce colour
• 1:15:50
  slowly as you progress Braid and maybe even a touch of Thomas Was
• 1:15:54
  Alone, just in terms of how the stories were told.
• 1:15:58
  That's a nice easy game. It's, it's exactly what it says
• 1:16:01
  it is on the tin. You know, there's no, there's no
• 1:16:04
  extra glossy bits, but it's fantastic.
• 1:16:07
  A relatively short game. I think it took like four or
• 1:16:10
  five hours to rule credits and it's probably the one game that
• 1:16:14
  I've genuinely enjoyed playing this month.
• 1:16:17
  And yet without your ashamed, I would never have looked at it.
• 1:16:22
  It would have sat there getting no love at all.
• 1:16:25
  So I'm glad I found it. It certainly got me out of the
• 1:16:28
  doldrums of of of what all the other games that I'd tried this
• 1:16:32
  month that had pushed me into, and here's hoping there's more
• 1:16:36
  of them on the list for next. Month.
• 1:16:39
  And that was. It I must look at Hugh again.
• 1:16:43
  I did try it before, but I found the changing colours were quite
• 1:16:47
  awkward on the keyboard. So you were saying you need a
• 1:16:49
  controller? So yeah, I'll try that after you
• 1:16:53
  said it's fantastic. It sounds like a game, I should
• 1:16:55
  try it at some point. I remember I said air was
• 1:16:58
  fantastic as well. Oh, that's true, that's true.
• 1:17:05
  Installed. I've still installed.
• 1:17:07
  I must check to see if it does have those things on the map or
• 1:17:11
  if I isn't telling you where to go because I could never spot
• 1:17:13
  that myself. But Rich, do you want to go
• 1:17:17
  next? Yeah, sure.
• 1:17:19
  I mean it's quite a short section for me.
• 1:17:21
  I've spent all my time moving house and then finish ball fall.
• 1:17:26
  But I think this my last month, I was entering what felt like a
• 1:17:31
  bit of a large kind of scratching around looking for a
• 1:17:35
  game to play and looking at the backlog list and thinking, I
• 1:17:39
  don't know, maybe I just want to buy a new game with a bit of a
• 1:17:42
  crisis. But I've, I've started by Outer
• 1:17:46
  Worlds and that has pretty much dominated the the games that
• 1:17:51
  I've played this month because I'm absolutely loving it.
• 1:17:55
  So I must have got it through Epic.
• 1:17:58
  I think I might again, I might now own it on multiple platforms
• 1:18:01
  despite never having actually spent money on it.
• 1:18:05
  I'd put a couple of hours into it years ago and remember
• 1:18:09
  enjoying it, but must have fallen off because something new
• 1:18:12
  and shiny came out and I've gone back into it again.
• 1:18:16
  And after some initial problems, so I started playing it with a
• 1:18:18
  controller and I was doing it, doing it on stream as well.
• 1:18:22
  And I remember just trying to shoot anything that was coming
• 1:18:26
  at me that I've fiddled around with the settings, but I was
• 1:18:30
  essentially I'd shoot miss, miss to the left, adjust miss to the
• 1:18:35
  right, adjust, miss to the left, like everything was, it was
• 1:18:39
  almost like the opposite of auto aim was going on.
• 1:18:42
  And it was super noticeable. I, you know, I, it was winding
• 1:18:45
  me up. I was like, this is ridiculous.
• 1:18:47
  And the people who are watching my stream were just like, this
• 1:18:49
  is so painful. Can you do something about this?
• 1:18:53
  You get like, we know you're not this bad.
• 1:18:56
  You're pretty bad, but you're not this bad.
• 1:18:58
  So I configured all my input device, my Azeron thing and got
• 1:19:04
  to playing it with with with that and using mouse and that
• 1:19:09
  completely changed it. So I became combat effective and
• 1:19:14
  could just get on with enjoying the game.
• 1:19:16
  I had a bunch of kind of screen flickering problems with it as
• 1:19:20
  well because I think it was trying to put FSR on and that
• 1:19:25
  was doing some crazy things. And the whole the, the beautiful
• 1:19:28
  environments in the game were, were beautiful one minute and
• 1:19:31
  then flashing the next. So once I'd sorted out those
• 1:19:34
  initial teething problems, I kind of really got into it and I
• 1:19:37
  must have put sort of several 10s of hours into it.
• 1:19:41
  Really loving it. I'm zooming around the Galaxy
• 1:19:43
  there. There must be, I don't know
• 1:19:45
  exactly how many, but probably mid, mid teens of locations that
• 1:19:49
  you can go to. Different characters you meet
• 1:19:52
  have got their own kind of quest lines.
• 1:19:54
  You've got the main quest line, lots of side quests.
• 1:19:57
  And I'm finding it a really, really chill experience because
• 1:20:00
  I've got to the point where I've got a selection of quests that I
• 1:20:04
  can be doing and I can choose them based on, you know, which
• 1:20:08
  character I feel like helping or whether whether I want to move
• 1:20:11
  things along. And just a really nice pattern
• 1:20:14
  of combat, but not super intensive combat.
• 1:20:18
  So it's generally combat when you're moving between places or
• 1:20:21
  at the arrival of a quest. But plenty of conversations and
• 1:20:25
  story building in between. So I'm just finding it like
• 1:20:29
  really good to sit down for kind of two to four hours at a time.
• 1:20:33
  And over that time spent, I know I'll be able to move the story
• 1:20:35
  along, meet some more characters, learn a bit more
• 1:20:38
  about the law, have a few fights and sort of generally be be on
• 1:20:44
  top of it all. So I'm having a brilliant time
• 1:20:46
  with that. And it's, it's kind of restored
• 1:20:49
  my hope that I can get through the year because I've just sunk
• 1:20:53
  my time into that. And where usually I'd, my
• 1:20:56
  attention would just drift and I'd like, even in the year of
• 1:20:59
  shame, I'd be like, oh, let's just play something else.
• 1:21:02
  And that's always the, the danger moment when the drop off
• 1:21:05
  might happen. I've, I've, I've only done that
• 1:21:08
  a tiny bit and I keep coming back to it.
• 1:21:10
  So my intention is that I'll finish it during the next month.
• 1:21:14
  And then so alongside that, I've played more Rocket League, which
• 1:21:18
  I usually do. I, I won't say much about it
• 1:21:20
  apart from the fact that it's a brilliant test of new house
• 1:21:25
  Internet. Because if, if any game will
• 1:21:28
  draw out little flickers of disconnect, it's Rocket League.
• 1:21:32
  And you know, you'll find yourself driving perfectly onto
• 1:21:36
  onto the ball one second and the next second you'd have rubber
• 1:21:40
  banded and you'll be upside down on the ceiling without knowing
• 1:21:44
  what has happened. So I use Rocket League mainly as
• 1:21:47
  kind of Internet tuning. I played a tiny bit of Arc
• 1:21:50
  Raiders right after we last recorded with Kev and Ben, who
• 1:21:54
  are in the community. I don't think I played it for
• 1:21:57
  four weeks now. So I don't know what that means.
• 1:22:01
  Part of me is like, oh God, if I is that me now falling out of
• 1:22:05
  love with my forever game or is it is it just a circumstantial
• 1:22:09
  blip? We will see.
• 1:22:12
  And then I I have tried one other thing which I won't talk
• 1:22:15
  about because I'm going to save it for when I play it properly.
• 1:22:18
  Another thing that I've tried out, it's been in my backlog as
• 1:22:21
  AII will love this game because I love these games.
• 1:22:25
  It's called Shadows Over Loathing and it's come, it's
• 1:22:30
  come from a a rich heritage. So if you go to
• 1:22:34
  kingdomofloathing.com it that that website has been there I
• 1:22:42
  think since my early 20s. So I think it has been in
• 1:22:46
  existence for about 25 plus years.
• 1:22:50
  And it's basically like a little stickman RPG.
• 1:22:54
  And it started as a web web-based game.
• 1:22:58
  And by the looks of it, you can still go on there, create a
• 1:23:00
  character and play in in a browse of the first game.
• 1:23:04
  And over the years subsequently, they've released West of
• 1:23:08
  Loathing as the first follow up as a full-fledged game, which
• 1:23:11
  you can get on, I think all the platforms.
• 1:23:14
  I think I played it on Switch. And then the latest offering is
• 1:23:17
  Shadows over Loathing. And it's just a comedically
• 1:23:21
  written bit of a kind of piss take RPG, but it's got it's got
• 1:23:26
  all the elements of a of a proper RPG, but just the it's
• 1:23:30
  real slapstick ironic, kind of taking the mic out of its own
• 1:23:35
  genre, that kind of game. And it's a lot of fun.
• 1:23:37
  And they're they're quite big, beefy games, loads of locations.
• 1:23:41
  You've got the combat, you've got the conversations, you're
• 1:23:43
  chasing quest items, all of that stuff.
• 1:23:46
  But it's it's kind of a chill experience in that because it's
• 1:23:50
  presented in stick men with crazy faces and that kind of
• 1:23:55
  thing. It's just, it's just a bit of a
• 1:23:57
  like a pallet lenser I think between other games.
• 1:24:01
  I do love the comments on the website where it says we've
• 1:24:04
  begun the process of bringing Kingdom of Loathing up to 2014
• 1:24:08
  standards and improving the way text on map images displays on
• 1:24:12
  ultra high resolution super monitors from the far future.
• 1:24:18
  Exactly, it's it's really good fun.
• 1:24:20
  I'd recommend like I'd, I mean, anyone can try it on a browser
• 1:24:24
  and I'd it'd be interesting to know how that would count clacks
• 1:24:28
  and wise if you're visiting a website, does that count as a
• 1:24:32
  new game purchase? Anyway, that's your problem to
• 1:24:35
  deal with, not mine. So that's me for them.
• 1:24:39
  Not not a whole load of stuff to talk talk about, but just shout
• 1:24:43
  out to the year of shame for kind of making me try and
• 1:24:49
  continue with our worlds. I'm loving it.
• 1:24:53
  How about you, Brian? You've been in some hefty stuff
• 1:24:56
  as well. So I played and finished Lost
• 1:25:00
  Records, Rage and Bloom. I really enjoyed this.
• 1:25:05
  It's another Don't Not game, you know, along the lines of Life is
• 1:25:09
  Strange. It's sort of a coming of age of
• 1:25:13
  story of four teenagers revolving around the final
• 1:25:17
  summer together. Some spooky weirdness happens
• 1:25:19
  and they promised to meet again. Well, spoilers they do.
• 1:25:24
  That's why the game is there and you play true, basically
• 1:25:27
  memories of 1995 and the modern what's happening in the modern
• 1:25:31
  day. One of the gimmicks in the game
• 1:25:33
  is that character you play records everything on the VHS
• 1:25:38
  camcorder recorder and it's so you end up part of it like this
• 1:25:45
  collected something. You could get video of the of
• 1:25:48
  graffiti or of a scenery and stuff like this, but that's
• 1:25:51
  quite easy to do if you're into doing another thing.
• 1:25:54
  The game is itself is sufficient to Type 1 and Type 2.
• 1:25:59
  Type 1 is way over long it. There's a lot of just doing
• 1:26:03
  nothing in Type One. It really dragged for me.
• 1:26:07
  You spend all your time waiting for this weirdness to happen
• 1:26:09
  that takes an absolute age and all part of this character
• 1:26:13
  building. You can see you can delight the
• 1:26:15
  characters, but it just took way too long.
• 1:26:17
  Take 2 is much tighter and all the better for us to be honest.
• 1:26:21
  There is a bombshell nuts tape. It really hit me a lot basically
• 1:26:29
  because of recent stuff in my family life and stuff from work
• 1:26:32
  last year as well. So but overall the game is
• 1:26:35
  really good overall, very good game.
• 1:26:38
  I would I would recommend trying to search that's lost records
• 1:26:42
  rage and bloom yeah, I went up to blueprints more blueprints.
• 1:26:48
  So I played a couple, yes, finished let me see days seven
• 1:26:52
  at the time I wrote this thing about day 10 now or something.
• 1:26:56
  I've locked the garage and now I started and I start the day with
• 1:26:59
  two extra jewels. I still find the frustrating.
• 1:27:04
  Many rooms have mysteries and trying to find the mystery in
• 1:27:07
  the room is near impossible. Often I think like you, no, I'm
• 1:27:12
  not going to spoil any mysteries, but is some of them
• 1:27:16
  are really, really difficult to spot.
• 1:27:17
  You walk into a room, you know there's a mystery there and at
• 1:27:23
  least you hope it feels like there's a mystery there.
• 1:27:25
  And you spend ages in the room trying to look at everything,
• 1:27:27
  try to see everything. But I found later, some of the
• 1:27:31
  mysteries, you can't be solved. You do them in a different
• 1:27:33
  something in a different room. And then when you go back to
• 1:27:35
  that room, something's changed, which means that could be all of
• 1:27:38
  the rooms. And you like, you walk into
• 1:27:42
  there's like the church, there's a church or Chapel or something
• 1:27:47
  and there's loads of stuff in the room.
• 1:27:49
  You think, where's the puzzle here?
• 1:27:50
  But I don't know if it's in this room or if it's outside.
• 1:27:53
  There's the cellar as well, stuff in it.
• 1:27:55
  Oh my God. But there is so much in the game
• 1:27:58
  and it's I'm finding a frustration that I can't see.
• 1:28:03
  Where the puzzle are you walking through?
• 1:28:05
  Yeah, it's a hard balance that whole game.
• 1:28:09
  Yeah, so I've gotten to the anti chamber a couple of Times Now
• 1:28:13
  next to us and I can't get in because the door is locked.
• 1:28:16
  I'm like, I don't have to unlock the door.
• 1:28:19
  So I've got, I've got to find it, find how to do that.
• 1:28:24
  Richie, keep on. I feel like I'm I'm I'm kind of
• 1:28:27
  pushing you on on this game, but I think, and obviously you do
• 1:28:32
  you, but but if you were going to set yourself a target, I'd
• 1:28:36
  I'd set the target not to be right.
• 1:28:38
  I'm going to solve this puzzle or I'm going to solve that
• 1:28:40
  puzzle. I'd almost set yourself a target
• 1:28:42
  of saying I'm just going to get to day 22.
• 1:28:46
  I've picked a random number there.
• 1:28:47
  There's nothing specifically significant about it.
• 1:28:50
  But by doing that, you'll, you can time your runs and be like,
• 1:28:56
  I'm not going to spend 2 hours trying to figure out this thing.
• 1:28:58
  I'm just going to get through the day.
• 1:28:59
  I'll put, I'll leave this room unsolved and I'll crack on and
• 1:29:03
  I'll just finish a day. And I think if you, it's through
• 1:29:07
  that repetition that more things become apparent to you.
• 1:29:12
  So I think if you let yourself get through some days, even if
• 1:29:15
  lots of them are just like write offs, there's no penalty, just
• 1:29:19
  doing more. You know, you've only completed
• 1:29:21
  9 days if you're on day 10. So you've only had nine chances
• 1:29:25
  to learn. And if you could double that, I
• 1:29:28
  think, I don't know. I, I hope and I think that
• 1:29:30
  you've come back and there'd be a little light bulb right above
• 1:29:34
  your head. I've written here Rich wants me
• 1:29:40
  to play more a game has to maybe give in yes, I respect Rich and
• 1:29:45
  I'll keep playing it so it's all new so next month all of this
• 1:29:49
  may change. I played some more eternal in my
• 1:29:54
  quest for my ever ongoing quest for platinum in the game.
• 1:29:59
  I've listened to this game. I've I saw online there's
• 1:30:02
  something like 300 rooms across 6 biomes.
• 1:30:06
  But when you play, you have made what's 650 rooms per Biome
• 1:30:13
  roughly you will only play, you might see 30 rooms and the
• 1:30:17
  things I need to see are may not even spawn in that game.
• 1:30:20
  So you basically play through. I've now just gotten to the
• 1:30:22
  point I play, get to the Biome, I need to check if the room is
• 1:30:27
  there, it's not there. I just kill myself and start
• 1:30:28
  again and go again and again and again to get these rooms to
• 1:30:31
  spawn so that I can get through it.
• 1:30:33
  Yeah. So like playing that that way,
• 1:30:36
  whereas the the previous I thought how many runs I've done,
• 1:30:39
  I've only gotten one of these glyphs in one run, I've picked
• 1:30:44
  up 4. So I'm getting through clearing
• 1:30:46
  them all off. So it's the game is I don't need
• 1:30:50
  to rate well anymore. It's magnificent.
• 1:30:53
  I opened Witcher 3. I finished my mission I was
• 1:30:58
  doing with Tress, the one where you get to choose whether you
• 1:31:00
  romance her or not. I chose not to noble the rest of
• 1:31:06
  the mission worked out well. But every time you see Trish's
• 1:31:08
  face after that, there's a tears, right?
• 1:31:10
  That's a really nice touch, well done.
• 1:31:12
  Her expression changed, she looked angry, whatever she was
• 1:31:16
  talking to you. I thought that was really well
• 1:31:17
  done. I don't know if it changed if
• 1:31:20
  she looks like that, if he did, if he chose to her answer or
• 1:31:23
  not, but the way I looked way up, it looked like it was really
• 1:31:26
  nice touch. I had a bad day recently, stuff
• 1:31:30
  about home and a mum and stuff. So a typical manly fashion site.
• 1:31:35
  Instead of exploring my feelings I'm working through them all.
• 1:31:39
  I chose to ignore them, push through and try to distract
• 1:31:41
  myself playing games. So this went extremely
• 1:31:45
  swimmingly. I loaded up Witcher 3 again and
• 1:31:50
  I've looked at all the quests I've got available and it's
• 1:31:53
  offhand I've got to load them half done and I remembered some
• 1:31:57
  of them. I deliberately stopped because I
• 1:31:59
  want something else to be done before I can complete them.
• 1:32:02
  I couldn't remember what. So that's the day.
• 1:32:04
  Just trying to figure out what to do next.
• 1:32:06
  I'm doing this. My mind starts wondering.
• 1:32:09
  So I thought this is not distracting me, close the game.
• 1:32:12
  Then I thought, I need some shooty shooty arc Raiders.
• 1:32:16
  Rich. But you and Ben seem to have had
• 1:32:18
  a lot of fun playing this. You've you've shown videos
• 1:32:21
  having great time playing this, playing the world, tackling the
• 1:32:24
  arc and stuff. I've watched other people
• 1:32:26
  playing it and the game looks like so much fun.
• 1:32:28
  So Oh my Oh my God Speranza is hell is boring moving from one
• 1:32:35
  retailer, reseller or trader to another to another to pick out
• 1:32:38
  stuff. And this isn't I'm not even
• 1:32:40
  getting into the loadout stuff but the inventory management
• 1:32:43
  anyway. So I opt to play.
• 1:32:45
  I hit the play button obviously and then I get to choose my
• 1:32:49
  load, where what to go and my loadout.
• 1:32:52
  I pick random loadout and then try to get to deploy and it
• 1:32:55
  won't let me deploy. I usually go to the first area
• 1:32:58
  because I know best, so I keep going there so I can explore
• 1:33:02
  more and more. And it wouldn't let me go.
• 1:33:04
  Don't. What's going on?
• 1:33:05
  There's some sort of counter. I don't know what it means.
• 1:33:07
  It was like 30 minutes. It was just counting down and it
• 1:33:11
  wouldn't let me in. So, OK, so there were, some of
• 1:33:14
  the other areas had storms, electrical storms and stuff
• 1:33:17
  going on. So I don't want that.
• 1:33:18
  I tried the Space Centre or something at the top.
• 1:33:24
  Spaceport. Yeah, the spaceport.
• 1:33:26
  Yeah. I tried to go there and it
• 1:33:27
  wouldn't let me go even though it's on the map.
• 1:33:28
  Why won't you let me go? It's there, but so I ended up
• 1:33:32
  going to doing a what's it called?
• 1:33:35
  It's like a training session training area.
• 1:33:39
  I'll say, well, yeah, but that's like so why not went there?
• 1:33:42
  And frankly, it's boring. Just like models of the arc
• 1:33:46
  going being wheeled across in front of you and it's and
• 1:33:49
  there's some section to do some jumping.
• 1:33:51
  I thought this is not I'm getting annoyed to this.
• 1:33:55
  So I'm back to the main lobby and actually got into Speranza.
• 1:33:59
  I'm not in Sprungs, into the first area that you start off
• 1:34:02
  the game and start playing. Every a few minutes in I'm in
• 1:34:06
  the battle fighting some of the arc and begin to join myself and
• 1:34:11
  then the game crashes and I got kicked out back.
• 1:34:14
  Kicked out back to the Sony, the PlayStation hub.
• 1:34:18
  I thought, what the fuck? So a second, a second.
• 1:34:22
  I'm really trying not to use language, but I loved the game
• 1:34:26
  back up. It went straight back into where
• 1:34:29
  I was playing, despite the fact that I'd just been kicked out of
• 1:34:33
  the game had crashed when I was totally kicked out because it's
• 1:34:36
  online the I. Remembered.
• 1:34:38
  ARC kept killing me. I kept loaded into loaded into
• 1:34:42
  this. I'm just basically crawling
• 1:34:44
  along and create is crying out for help and no help came.
• 1:34:51
  I died alone. Sad reflection of life it was.
• 1:34:56
  So I thought screw this gone, this game's still there.
• 1:34:59
  This is a game I paid money for and I'm stuck in not being able
• 1:35:02
  to play. But anyway, I will pay more.
• 1:35:05
  Those, those counters, just FYI. So, so each of the map
• 1:35:10
  locations, they'll potentially have a map condition, so like a
• 1:35:14
  hurricane or whatever. And certain map conditions give
• 1:35:17
  you kind of better, better loot or whatever.
• 1:35:19
  But you'll quite often see two timers and 1 is a countdown of
• 1:35:23
  how long the existing map condition is available on that
• 1:35:28
  map. If you load in and there's a
• 1:35:30
  second count, which is a countdown to the next map
• 1:35:33
  condition. So depend the UI is not that
• 1:35:36
  brilliant on it. So you can end up in a place
• 1:35:40
  where you're selecting the future map condition, if you see
• 1:35:43
  what I mean. And that's why it won't let you
• 1:35:45
  load in. You're trying to get into a
• 1:35:47
  thing that isn't ready yet. But because of these two timers,
• 1:35:50
  they kind of look the same because they're both counting
• 1:35:53
  down. So it's yes, but it can be
• 1:35:56
  confusing. But that'll be why I.
• 1:35:57
  Find it frustrating. The game is when you get out
• 1:36:02
  there playing and shooting and attacking and crawling, you're
• 1:36:06
  at the attention. Built racket rackets up really
• 1:36:09
  well. It's like playing the early days
• 1:36:11
  of pub GI. Used to get really free to play
• 1:36:15
  in that. It's good, Good game.
• 1:36:17
  Nice shooting, great shooting. Oh my God, It's just trying to
• 1:36:20
  play the game. But I paid money for it.
• 1:36:22
  Let me play the game. Just get rid of the whole
• 1:36:24
  Esperanza. Have one, one currency.
• 1:36:27
  You collect stuff, it's automatically turn to currency
• 1:36:29
  and buy whatever I want to get out.
• 1:36:31
  But yeah, anyway, that's Sony for this thing.
• 1:36:35
  This is how you make Marathon more effective.
• 1:36:38
  Did you see the news article this week about our graders
• 1:36:41
  though, where they discovered that the developers expected
• 1:36:47
  that when everybody got into the game, it would all just become
• 1:36:50
  this survival of the fittest, Shoot everyone in the back, take
• 1:36:54
  as much as you can and get out of there.
• 1:36:57
  And the way that people are playing it now has become more
• 1:37:01
  of a, let's call it a male mental health thing or a buddy
• 1:37:06
  bonding thing where everybody's looking out for each other and
• 1:37:10
  everyone's, everyone's happy to help you and give you a hand up.
• 1:37:13
  And not, I mean, there will, there will still be the arsenals
• 1:37:16
  out there that will go and, you know, lock grenades every day
• 1:37:18
  and, and take as much as they can.
• 1:37:20
  But in general, most of the players are not playing the game
• 1:37:24
  the way the developers expected them to play.
• 1:37:26
  They're actually being nice to each other.
• 1:37:28
  And that's. Nice, yeah.
• 1:37:30
  Yeah, that's a great. Thing, you know, Yeah.
• 1:37:34
  And it's Australia, apparently. Is is the most significant
• 1:37:38
  friendly region really. Yeah.
• 1:37:43
  Is, is, is absolutely why generally is where literally
• 1:37:46
  everybody is, is really, really nice.
• 1:37:48
  I, I loaded in on an Australian server when I was playing with
• 1:37:51
  my sister who's down there. And it's like a next level of
• 1:37:57
  friendliness. So there were other players
• 1:38:00
  running across the map and they were just announcing everything
• 1:38:02
  they're doing. It's like, no, now I'm going
• 1:38:04
  over to this building and I'm like, OK, and I'm going to this
• 1:38:08
  building. Thanks for the update.
• 1:38:13
  We're a simple folk band here. Well, they haven't got social
• 1:38:19
  media so this is what they got to do.
• 1:38:20
  No, it's been banned anyway because I got killed in that.
• 1:38:27
  I just searched through my PlayStation what games that had
• 1:38:31
  installed and I found pray and thought why not PREY and start
• 1:38:36
  the game. You get told to put on your toes
• 1:38:38
  and go out, go upstairs to a helicopter.
• 1:38:41
  Yes, I did and just to try it, I jumped into the blades, the
• 1:38:44
  helicopter, this and I got my trophy for instant death.
• 1:38:47
  So that was quite cool. I restarted and opened the
• 1:38:50
  helicopter and went along. You end up in some lab and they
• 1:38:55
  think you could be long helicopter journey.
• 1:38:58
  It reminded me really of, excuse me, Half Life, the train ride in
• 1:39:03
  Half Life that you get to see the scenery and stuff.
• 1:39:05
  I felt like that Half Life was more interesting to be honest.
• 1:39:10
  Like you get into that's like an enemy appears at some point, but
• 1:39:14
  before the enemy appears, you get music kicking in so you know
• 1:39:17
  something's going to happen. It takes me any surprise or I
• 1:39:20
  went through double the test lab and you end up finished that and
• 1:39:24
  you end up starting the day again and everything sort of
• 1:39:27
  goes along, but you pick up a wrench, not a crowbar like in
• 1:39:31
  Half Life. Pick up a wrench, you break
• 1:39:34
  breakthrough the, let's say the 3rd wall, but whatever you
• 1:39:38
  breakthrough, you end up, you find out you're in a lab, you
• 1:39:41
  move into the background and it's a bit portal esque.
• 1:39:45
  And I thought this, and as I said before, every time you come
• 1:39:48
  close to the meet, the music ramps up, you know something's
• 1:39:50
  there, there's no surprise. And a few whack of this crowbar
• 1:39:55
  and everything's dead. Or not crowbar wrench,
• 1:39:58
  everything's dead. I just thought the game began to
• 1:40:02
  feel boring. I know these characters are
• 1:40:04
  mimics and it can appear to be a cup or whatever else, but if
• 1:40:08
  you're going to warn me before I get into the room that there's
• 1:40:10
  going to be an enemy there, I just, you know, I don't know.
• 1:40:15
  I lost any interest in playing the game.
• 1:40:18
  So this is like the third game, but so I wouldn't move to
• 1:40:21
  Fortnite. I'll try some Fortnite because
• 1:40:23
  that's just basic shooting loads up, shoot Fortnite.
• 1:40:27
  And then it wouldn't let me play instead to restart the game
• 1:40:29
  Wasn't an update to go through. Restarted the game and it
• 1:40:32
  wouldn't let me it wouldn't let me in.
• 1:40:35
  So I checked the the the down which you call it the update.
• 1:40:40
  It's 28 gigs off crap. After a while it downloaded and
• 1:40:46
  after you open this you go. That's one thing that really
• 1:40:49
  annoys me Fortnite is you open it up and then you All I do is
• 1:40:53
  play zero build, so usually solo or groups, but it's 0 build and
• 1:40:59
  then you open games with a Click to no, I don't want the latest
• 1:41:05
  game game password ever. I don't want to end.
• 1:41:08
  I know of for some reason I've been given loads of stuff.
• 1:41:11
  I came, but I don't want to equip it just and then you go
• 1:41:14
  search for the mode that you the only mode I've ever played in
• 1:41:17
  this game. You could try and find it.
• 1:41:18
  Just take the ages 10 minutes later off start the game two or
• 1:41:22
  three two or three games and that was it was done tonight.
• 1:41:28
  That was a bad day. Let me see oh ever since I've
• 1:41:32
  been I've picked up Eldon ring again, I'm still progressing.
• 1:41:36
  This game is truly magnificent. I start to the week.
• 1:41:41
  I'm not the I've just killed the God.
• 1:41:42
  I had just killed the Godskin duo.
• 1:41:45
  So if anybody's played the game, you know roughly where I am
• 1:41:48
  according to people online. I've been talking to SO on the
• 1:41:52
  Sofio Games discord channel. I've been talking to them and
• 1:41:56
  they mentioned that there's four buses left, 4 mandatory buses
• 1:41:59
  left to finish the game. And like I checked this before
• 1:42:05
  just now, I have 521 game, 21 hours in this game.
• 1:42:10
  So I have 4 mandatory buses left and I can finish this game.
• 1:42:14
  But instead of going for the four mandatory buses I went.
• 1:42:16
  I started looking for the optional buses because why not?
• 1:42:20
  Anyway, I've before we started the show today I killed this
• 1:42:24
  optional dragon that's hidden in that level.
• 1:42:28
  So it's just the game is brilliant.
• 1:42:32
  I know I keep going for the optional stuff because I don't
• 1:42:35
  think I'll ever come back to this game once I've finished it.
• 1:42:38
  I think I've put so many hours into it.
• 1:42:39
  I think I don't think I could stomach starting again, so I
• 1:42:44
  keep going around looking for everything else.
• 1:42:46
  You like the root. The whole point behind these
• 1:42:48
  games is you get your souls or your ruins.
• 1:42:51
  They don't mean anything to make some.
• 1:42:53
  I've levelled up so high they and I can farm them and in 10
• 1:42:58
  minutes I can get a million rooms.
• 1:42:59
  So I can, if I want to have to upgrade, I can do it's not a
• 1:43:03
  problem. But so it used to be whenever
• 1:43:07
  you started, used to play the start.
• 1:43:09
  If I know rooms I'd explore like crazy.
• 1:43:11
  Then when I had a lot of rooms, I'd get really, really careful.
• 1:43:13
  Now just explorer, explorer. So if it looks like the ledge
• 1:43:17
  I'm off trying to jump off trying to go off, the game is
• 1:43:21
  brilliant. If you explore, there is so much
• 1:43:23
  in there and there's always enemies or something there to.
• 1:43:27
  Be honest, that's the difference between an average game and a
• 1:43:30
  good game though, isn't it? Is that you can get lost in the
• 1:43:32
  world. So, so the fact that you're
• 1:43:34
  doing that and you're losing yourself in that world and
• 1:43:36
  spending as much time as possible there is a good thing.
• 1:43:38
  It's not the intent is not to just smash through the games and
• 1:43:42
  complete them. And I realise that I'm the one
• 1:43:44
  that's saying that when that's exactly what I tend to do.
• 1:43:47
  But you should be enjoying it. And so if you're, if you're
• 1:43:52
  going off on all these side quests and loving the world,
• 1:43:55
  then hey, keep doing it, you know?
• 1:43:58
  Yeah, it's because I don't care about like it was the whole
• 1:44:02
  worry about losing your ruins and having to go back and get
• 1:44:03
  them again. Now we don't need to care about
• 1:44:06
  them, just and just wonder. And it's brilliant.
• 1:44:09
  The game is excellent. There are like, you have all
• 1:44:13
  these bosses, but to be honest, so far the worst things have
• 1:44:16
  been characters called Crucible Knights and they're just
• 1:44:19
  littered all around, not all around this, but in several
• 1:44:22
  places. And they're absolute buggers to
• 1:44:24
  kill. But other than that, you just
• 1:44:26
  wander around and it's great. It, I don't know, I've found the
• 1:44:31
  excellent. Yeah, that's like you have
• 1:44:35
  written out the music, the audio, the world, the battles,
• 1:44:39
  all brilliant. So I love the game.
• 1:44:41
  Anyway, that's all I've played. Doesn't sound like much to be
• 1:44:46
  honest. But yeah, that's all I've
• 1:44:48
  played. Go on to news.
• 1:44:51
  We had an absolutely amazing news art news list given to us.
• 1:44:57
  I'll start off with one story that I found.
• 1:44:59
  There was, I sent this to you guys.
• 1:45:01
  It was a 91 year old lady in Ohio.
• 1:45:04
  She's part of an are you OK programme.
• 1:45:06
  So like her grand, her daughter couldn't get in touch with her,
• 1:45:09
  so she got in touch with the police.
• 1:45:11
  They tried ringing, couldn't get in touch with her in the house.
• 1:45:13
  So they sent out the police to visit the house, expecting the
• 1:45:16
  worst. When they go in and get into the
• 1:45:19
  house, they find the lady sitting there playing games and
• 1:45:21
  she's trying to beat her record and she's just been ignoring the
• 1:45:24
  phone and I think it's a gaming granny.
• 1:45:27
  Just absolutely brilliant. That's where I want to be when I
• 1:45:31
  hit 91, playing games. It's quite cool.
• 1:45:35
  Anyway, was there any other news stories that you guys were
• 1:45:39
  interested in or stood out to you?
• 1:45:41
  I think the big one is the, the Xbox game pass.
• 1:45:44
  I mean, I, I've had my head very much in in the sand.
• 1:45:47
  So all of these news articles that that shared are news to me
• 1:45:51
  apart from the Xbox One. So they've brought down the
• 1:45:56
  price of game pass, haven't they?
• 1:45:57
  From I think it's 30 U.S. dollars to 22 and I think that
• 1:46:01
  translates UK money from about 2324 lbs down to 1699.
• 1:46:08
  And it's kind of like perfect price drop really, where in
• 1:46:15
  equal measure as it was a stupid price rise.
• 1:46:18
  I think it was pitched, you know, everyone was saying it's
• 1:46:20
  the best deal in gaming and all of that kind of stuff.
• 1:46:22
  And it was for me at least it, it felt pitched just right.
• 1:46:27
  It's kind of like a, a high level Netflix subscription, sort
• 1:46:32
  of similar cost and you'd, you'd get your range of games stuff to
• 1:46:35
  play. It felt like good value over
• 1:46:37
  over the course of a year. And I think when they put it up,
• 1:46:40
  it was, it was before the year of shame.
• 1:46:42
  This year started and I, I knew I wouldn't be able to play the
• 1:46:46
  games offer anyway, but I cancelled it kind of before the
• 1:46:50
  year started because I was like, well, I, I object to you
• 1:46:53
  charging me the best part, 25 lbs a month because you can buy
• 1:46:58
  a AAA game every two months. And that's, you know, 6A year
• 1:47:02
  actually feels like, you know, that feels like better value to
• 1:47:05
  just go out and spend that rather than play what you've
• 1:47:07
  been served. But now it gets back down into
• 1:47:10
  that kind of threshold of, well, it's, it's good money.
• 1:47:13
  I, I look at it as being, it costs kind of double humble
• 1:47:17
  choice or humble monthly, whatever it's called now.
• 1:47:20
  But obviously you've got a huge breadth and variety of games and
• 1:47:24
  day one releases as well. So I think that's really good
• 1:47:28
  news. They've cut Call of Duty out of
• 1:47:30
  that the future releases of it, which bothers me nought percent
• 1:47:37
  and I expect bothers Call of Duty players not at all either
• 1:47:41
  because I think they probably buy it.
• 1:47:43
  I think people who are into it would would buy it.
• 1:47:45
  They wouldn't get a annual subscription to get their game.
• 1:47:49
  They'd just wait and go and buy it.
• 1:47:50
  And they probably don't play anything else.
• 1:47:52
  So it it felt weird trying to munge them in together because
• 1:47:56
  all it's done is put the cost up.
• 1:47:58
  So good news. A rare bit of good news out of
• 1:48:01
  Xbox. Yeah, one of the articles that
• 1:48:04
  that I had on my list of things to focus on this week was the,
• 1:48:08
  and I don't know if anybody in the listener group was playing
• 1:48:10
  Stormgate, but Stormgate server suddenly disappeared.
• 1:48:16
  And, and what had happened was that the the company that made
• 1:48:19
  Stormgate was bought out by an, an AI hosting company.
• 1:48:25
  And the comment I've got here on this article is, you know, first
• 1:48:27
  they came for our video cards and we were OK with that.
• 1:48:30
  And then they came for the RAM and it was a little bit arksome.
• 1:48:33
  But now they're taking our game servers, damn it, and we won't
• 1:48:37
  stand for it. The other interesting articles
• 1:48:43
  that that we had since the last episode was there's apparently a
• 1:48:48
  new God of War game being talked about.
• 1:48:51
  And the difference with this one is it's going to be across all
• 1:48:56
  mythologies they're talking about.
• 1:48:59
  But you're character will have a like a sidekick that's described
• 1:49:06
  as a gelatinous cube, and I don't know what that means.
• 1:49:16
  Anything else that you guys noticed this month?
• 1:49:18
  Not for me, it was just the Xbox news.
• 1:49:21
  Oh what is this Vampire Survivor follow up launches?
• 1:49:24
  Yes, that one actually stood out.
• 1:49:26
  So they've got a card based kind of version of Vampire Survivors.
• 1:49:30
  So it's meant to be, well, the things I've listened to suggest
• 1:49:34
  it's like Slay the Spire, but slay, Slay the Spire kind of
• 1:49:38
  played at four times speed, So almost like a light, a light
• 1:49:42
  version of that. And it, I mean, Vampire
• 1:49:45
  Survivors is a ridiculous, addictive game where you're
• 1:49:48
  like, I, I shouldn't enjoy this, but I do.
• 1:49:52
  And I, I love, I love a little card game.
• 1:49:56
  I think that's what I was talking about in January was the
• 1:49:58
  six Astraya 6 sided dice. It sound, it kind of sounds like
• 1:50:02
  that turbo version of that. So that would have been however
• 1:50:07
  much 999 spent if only I was allowed.
• 1:50:12
  None of you had a planned Joker of Disney Princess My Fairy Tale
• 1:50:16
  Adventure, did you? Because it's it's it was just
• 1:50:19
  doesn't. He delisted a whole bunch of
• 1:50:21
  games from Steam with no warning.
• 1:50:22
  They're just gone and nobody knows why they've gone.
• 1:50:25
  I mean I don't think any of them are are going to be award winner
• 1:50:30
  AAA's titles, but a strange thing to do to just delist a
• 1:50:34
  whole bunch of your games with no warning.
• 1:50:36
  Rockstar had their snowflake servers hacked and they decided
• 1:50:40
  not to respond and just allow the data to be stopped to be
• 1:50:42
  published, which is very Rockstar.
• 1:50:45
  And the other good news? Well, the other news?
• 1:50:49
  A new Uncharted game. Yeah, which would be cool.
• 1:50:53
  Nobody knows anything about it yet though.
• 1:50:54
  So is it going to be a prequel or is it going to be his
• 1:50:57
  daughter that's going to take over the as the main character?
• 1:51:00
  Yeah. I was wondering if it's going to
• 1:51:02
  be the daughter take over the prequel.
• 1:51:04
  They could do and they couldn't. I suppose there's a whole host
• 1:51:07
  of things they could do with pre the prequel, him and brother,
• 1:51:09
  yeah, that type of thing. But I loved the the very last
• 1:51:14
  game I thought was the one they've actually achieved, the
• 1:51:17
  one the Heathen Freak isn't all that much.
• 1:51:18
  There's the two ladies thing as a camera was called, but that
• 1:51:22
  was that had the whole story, the the excite the shooting, but
• 1:51:26
  also had proper manoeuvrability for playing, for moving and for
• 1:51:31
  climates. I thought it was much better
• 1:51:33
  than the previous games I really like.
• 1:51:35
  Yeah, they're all good. But to see a new one?
• 1:51:39
  Yeah, Tim Cook, The cook is down, has gone.
• 1:51:42
  I don't know what it'll mean. Do you guys use Apple hardware?
• 1:51:48
  Just speaking with Tim Cook. No, I've had, I had an iPad for
• 1:51:51
  two weeks maybe 15-16 years ago. I was given a loan I want to try
• 1:51:57
  out and I didn't get on with it in work.
• 1:52:00
  Now the new job, I've been given a laptop that's four or five
• 1:52:04
  years old and can't be switched off or it may not switch on
• 1:52:08
  again, which is great because some software needs updating and
• 1:52:11
  I can't get it to update, which is yay.
• 1:52:14
  So I've not. So they gave me an iPad and
• 1:52:18
  well, it is a nice bit of kit. It is.
• 1:52:21
  So to me it's so unintuitive because I've just grown up at PC
• 1:52:24
  and Android and I just find it really frustrating using it.
• 1:52:27
  So I don't know, it's just my my mini rant about Apple products.
• 1:52:34
  Yeah, it's, it was just like, it's like growing up speaking a
• 1:52:37
  language and, and all of a sudden everything's different.
• 1:52:41
  It's it's hard. Yeah, I just, I've got to edit
• 1:52:45
  videos or like don't leave you steady.
• 1:52:49
  I create slides and stuff using Canada and just moving images
• 1:52:54
  around and trying to shrink them and not having a mouse, not
• 1:52:57
  having what's called touchpad on the case that I've given no
• 1:53:01
  touchpad. It just becomes I'm there
• 1:53:03
  pushing stuff with my finger and all things just sliding across
• 1:53:06
  the screen like no skates more. Can you not sync?
• 1:53:10
  And this might sound stupid given what an iPad is, but can
• 1:53:14
  you not sync a Bluetooth mouse? Maybe.
• 1:53:17
  Maybe I I'm fairly sure you can. We don't have them.
• 1:53:23
  Everything's tied down. I can't do anything right.
• 1:53:26
  They did give some of the teachers wireless mouses of the
• 1:53:30
  Bluetooth mouse, but they've stopped doing that.
• 1:53:32
  They've just gone back to regular mouse.
• 1:53:33
  I don't know why, but yeah, they're all, I don't know, it's
• 1:53:37
  quite work because having a wireless mass if you're doing a
• 1:53:39
  presentation is quite handy. You just click a button on it
• 1:53:42
  moves the slides along. But they've all gone to cable
• 1:53:45
  ones. You've got to stand beside your
• 1:53:47
  laptop. But annoying.
• 1:53:49
  But yeah, anyway, that's just mini round for for me.
• 1:53:54
  So do you want to do game games this month, next month that are
• 1:53:59
  coming up that you're interested in all?
• 1:54:01
  Right songs. Chair.
• 1:54:03
  Coming up next month, obviously Forza Horizon 6 is coming out.
• 1:54:10
  We can race across Japan and wave at Brian as we go past.
• 1:54:13
  You know, there's a there's a new Bubsy game coming out, first
• 1:54:20
  one in 30 years. There we go, Bubsy 4D.
• 1:54:24
  Bubsy, I don't know Bubsy D Bubsy it.
• 1:54:27
  Was it was like a generic? Sort of bad guy character that's
• 1:54:34
  animal, but also person type thing and just odd.
• 1:54:38
  Anyway, the other one that that sort of caught my eye this month
• 1:54:43
  is a game called stone Macchia and I'd I'd not seen anything
• 1:54:47
  about this until it appeared on the the games radar list of
• 1:54:51
  releases for this month. It's it's, it looks like a souls
• 1:54:55
  like hack and slash, but you play a pawn and then your attack
• 1:55:01
  moves. You can change the different
• 1:55:03
  chess pieces and each one has got different skills.
• 1:55:08
  When you look at the gameplay in in the video, it looks great
• 1:55:11
  until you see the pawn moving because he's just hopping across
• 1:55:14
  the map and it just looks very straight.
• 1:55:22
  So those are the ones that I saw coming up this month. 00 Parades
• 1:55:26
  for Dead Spies comes out next month, and that's made by the
• 1:55:30
  guys that made Disco Elysium. So any Disco Elysium fans out
• 1:55:34
  there, I'm sure we'll be snapping this one up.
• 1:55:37
  And I'm I'm looking at Rich's displate poster behind him where
• 1:55:41
  he's got Disco Elysium on the wall.
• 1:55:43
  Yeah, I got the Disco Elysium. The trouble is they've had
• 1:55:46
  they've had such as kind of torturous end to their studio.
• 1:55:50
  And I think I'm I'm never up on exactly which ones the the the
• 1:55:55
  good ones are and which ones the bad ones are.
• 1:55:57
  But I think 0 parades has been made by potentially the baddies
• 1:56:01
  in, in the whole scenario. So, so it's really tricky
• 1:56:05
  because I really want to play it because I love Disco Elysium,
• 1:56:08
  but but I think politically I'm I'm not supposed to.
• 1:56:11
  So we'll, we'll see. We will see.
• 1:56:15
  There's, there's another game coming out next month called
• 1:56:18
  Directive 8020, which is made by Supermassive Games.
• 1:56:22
  So they're the ones that that do.
• 1:56:25
  Is it dark dark pictures anthology and did what's.
• 1:56:30
  Yeah. All of these kind of narrative
• 1:56:32
  ones where it's basically a horror movie and you're you're
• 1:56:34
  playing as all the characters and going through decisions and
• 1:56:37
  choices and trying to keep everybody alive.
• 1:56:42
  And I think this one is based quite heavily on the thing.
• 1:56:46
  Also, it's it's based in space with thing thing like monster.
• 1:56:52
  And it's been on my wish list for I don't know how long, more
• 1:56:56
  than a year and a half. And I've just, yeah, learned
• 1:57:00
  this week it comes out on the 12th.
• 1:57:01
  That's good. So that's another one little
• 1:57:03
  tear. It's going to roll down the
• 1:57:05
  cheek as it as it comes out. I saw mixtapers coming up like
• 1:57:10
  coming up in the next couple of days.
• 1:57:12
  It's made by Beethoven dinosaur who made Oh my God, what was the
• 1:57:17
  game? The artful escape.
• 1:57:20
  That's it. Ah, wonderful.
• 1:57:23
  Basically reading from their they're blurb, the title is
• 1:57:27
  inspired tonally and visually by the 1980s coming of age films.
• 1:57:31
  Similar to look of John Hughes. It looks good.
• 1:57:33
  I really want to play this game, so looking forward to seeing
• 1:57:38
  seeing that in January. Coffee Talk Tokyo is coming out.
• 1:57:42
  I play the first one and that was really good Coffee Talk
• 1:57:46
  Tokyo. The second one is my backlog so
• 1:57:48
  I should get into that. What do you think?
• 1:57:50
  The 07 Double O 7 first life. Bond, baby Bond.
• 1:57:55
  Bond Yeah. It's going to be, I mean,
• 1:57:57
  they're not going to let that game fail.
• 1:57:59
  It's, it's going to be a good one.
• 1:58:00
  I reckon the title or the, you know, the, the, the heritage is
• 1:58:05
  too big. Yeah, to be bad.
• 1:58:07
  I think so it'll, it'll get an appropriate amount of testing
• 1:58:10
  and it'll be an appropriate level of quality.
• 1:58:12
  Fingers crossed when it comes out.
• 1:58:15
  It was the people did hit madness.
• 1:58:18
  Yeah, and you can see that when you look at the gameplay video.
• 1:58:21
  I mean, it's it's certainly shines through that it's it's
• 1:58:24
  got that Hitman type aesthetic to it.
• 1:58:27
  But yeah, it looks good. Does it look like its own thing
• 1:58:30
  though, rather than reskin hitman?
• 1:58:32
  And it's not trying to be a Double O 7 game based off a
• 1:58:37
  movie. It's its own thing there as
• 1:58:38
  well. So it's yeah.
• 1:58:41
  Yeah, great. Yeah, I watched the very first
• 1:58:43
  trailer, but I haven't watched anything since.
• 1:58:46
  It did look quite good, yeah. So hopefully it'll be hopefully
• 1:58:49
  it'll be great in in six months time.
• 1:58:53
  And then the only other one is Soros, which May anyway, and
• 1:58:57
  that's in a few days time. Return was excellent.
• 1:59:00
  It's excellent, like being nervously waiting for the fun to
• 1:59:03
  come out to see how well it's been received.
• 1:59:06
  The reviews seem to be quite good in the high 80s according
• 1:59:09
  to Metacritic at the moment. I was worried whether they could
• 1:59:13
  do it again after that, so I hadn't played any of their
• 1:59:16
  previous games. Not played much of their
• 1:59:18
  previous games anyway. So I'm really worried whether
• 1:59:20
  they could do it and what they'd have the same level or same
• 1:59:23
  controls type of control. But it seems to be doing quite
• 1:59:26
  well. Some people said it's too easy,
• 1:59:29
  which I don't know. I would say I don't think they
• 1:59:33
  have difficulty levels or like From Soft.
• 1:59:35
  So it's just one level to play the game.
• 1:59:38
  And some of the Guardian past the comments, so their reviews
• 1:59:42
  saying that the storytelling is quite bad by the way, the story
• 1:59:46
  is retold to you. So yeah.
• 1:59:48
  But other than that seems to be doing quite well.
• 1:59:50
  So I don't know, have to see whether or buckle or not.
• 1:59:54
  It's the only game I've tried to finish the other stuff first.
• 1:59:56
  I'm trying. We'll see.
• 1:59:58
  But other than that, yeah, we'll see.
• 1:59:59
  So. That that's House Mark Games,
• 2:00:01
  yeah. House Mark Yeah, yeah, I think
• 2:00:04
  they did. They do rezo gun or something
• 2:00:06
  like that. Yeah, Rezo gun, to be honest, I
• 2:00:09
  own every house smart games game on the PlayStation and I am
• 2:00:14
  absolute garbage on all of them. So the very first game they
• 2:00:19
  brought out was Super Stardust and it was it was excellent.
• 2:00:22
  But I there's just so much going on on that screen that you can't
• 2:00:26
  keep track of, you know, you need to divide your brain into
• 2:00:28
  two. And then after that was Rezo
• 2:00:30
  gun, which is sort of a side scrolling, almost like a what
• 2:00:34
  was the game from the 80s where you you'd be scrolling along and
• 2:00:37
  you have to drop down and collect the the little men and
• 2:00:40
  save them from the alien invasion while you were going
• 2:00:42
  backwards and forwards across the screen.
• 2:00:44
  It's like that, but you're going round like a a tubular world.
• 2:00:48
  But again, so much going on. I could never get into it, but I
• 2:00:51
  loved the short bursts of play that I gave it.
• 2:00:54
  And then, yeah, as I say, I bought everything else.
• 2:00:57
  Got to Eternal, absolute garbage at Eternal.
• 2:01:00
  Couldn't get into it at all and chances are when Saros comes out
• 2:01:04
  in the new year I'll probably go and buy it and I'll be garbage
• 2:01:07
  at that as well. Like when I first start with
• 2:01:11
  Eternal, like the sounds are really creepy.
• 2:01:13
  I like what this game would be like scare.
• 2:01:16
  My scares are horror type game, but it's not.
• 2:01:19
  It's just pure intense shooting. It is quite good.
• 2:01:22
  You know, I don't know, I've liked the game a lot and it's
• 2:01:26
  the movement. That game for me is set the
• 2:01:28
  standard and it's ruined other games for me because I just
• 2:01:31
  freak if if you don't have that same level of control or
• 2:01:34
  movement, it really freaks me out.
• 2:01:36
  So yeah, I don't know. It's I'm hoping sauce is
• 2:01:39
  excellent. So we'll see.
• 2:01:41
  We'll see. Should we do questions if that's
• 2:01:45
  the games or is there any other games that you guys?
• 2:01:47
  Yeah. Yeah, let's do it.
• 2:01:49
  One question before we go into them all.
• 2:01:51
  Studio came up with thinking about the top 10 games.
• 2:01:55
  Yeah, so game around to publish their top ten games of all time.
• 2:02:00
  And and that got me thinking as to what our top ten games of all
• 2:02:03
  time were. So I I know you guys have gone
• 2:02:06
  through and you've got your list.
• 2:02:08
  I've I've populated my list and I the games that I've chosen,
• 2:02:14
  I've chosen them for advancing the state of gaming rather than
• 2:02:17
  flash, Nurse or hype. And, and so a lot of these games
• 2:02:21
  tend to be either the, the first version of this genre that came
• 2:02:26
  out or the one that I view as being a baseline for that genre.
• 2:02:30
  And, and so the first one was obviously elite on, on the BBC
• 2:02:33
  Micro and Elite Dangerous on the PC for being the same game with
• 2:02:37
  lots more graphical blink. This is a game that I still dip
• 2:02:40
  into every so often. And I, I could probably play
• 2:02:43
  this game forever. I, I, it blew me away back in
• 2:02:47
  the 80s. It blows me away right now on
• 2:02:50
  Elite Dangerous when you get into that game and you, you get
• 2:02:53
  lost in the fact that you're not actually driving a spaceship, if
• 2:02:57
  that makes any sense. You know, the, the, the
• 2:03:00
  viewpoint you get when you're coming in to dock into the
• 2:03:02
  docking stations. It's just so detailed and you,
• 2:03:05
  you fly inside it and you look around you in the world.
• 2:03:07
  It's just so complete. I'm I'm amazed by the way in
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  which this game has has gone from that original wireframe
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  graphics into where it is right now.
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  So that was why that's my top, my, my top one of, of games ever
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  I think #2 I had Skyrim. You know, how could you not pick
• 2:03:28
  Skyrim? It was, it was another fully
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  flesh world. You were free to go and do
• 2:03:32
  whatever you wanted, wherever you wanted.
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  Just off you go and, and, and, and you're on your own,
• 2:03:38
  completing the story in whatever order you wanted to complete it
• 2:03:41
  in #3 good old Space Invaders, the original.
• 2:03:45
  Without that, would any gaming devices have ever have existed?
• 2:03:50
  It was the, IT was the thing that was in every corner shop.
• 2:03:53
  It, it chewed as much spare change as you can throw into it.
• 2:03:58
  And for such a simple game, it got everybody hooked.
• 2:04:01
  You know, I threw so many coins into that along the Moon Patrol
• 2:04:05
  and goes to goblins at our local corner shop that I reckon I must
• 2:04:08
  have put the guy's kids through university.
• 2:04:12
  It was just, it was just, it drew you back over and over
• 2:04:16
  again #4 I had a Tomb Raider, the original, forget the
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  dinosaurs and the unrealistic perkiness.
• 2:04:23
  It was the way in which they would introduce an element of,
• 2:04:28
  of our level with no loading in between levels that that you
• 2:04:31
  were sort of seeing. So you'd run down a corridor and
• 2:04:34
  then it would open up. And I think it was probably not
• 2:04:36
  in the first one. It would have been in the last
• 2:04:37
  Revelation. You go down this narrow corridor
• 2:04:40
  and you walk into this cave and you've got an entire sphinx
• 2:04:44
  sitting in front of you. But you don't have to climb up
• 2:04:46
  the face of and, and that, that level of depth in, in what was a
• 2:04:52
  3D World that we weren't really that familiar with using 3D
• 2:04:56
  gaming with again, just blew my mind.
• 2:04:58
  You know #5 for me was The Sentinel.
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  It's, it's the game that I still go back to now. 10,000 levels,
• 2:05:09
  try and finish them all. I'm going to do it one day.
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  The Sentinel Returns was a lot easier.
• 2:05:14
  It was only 1000 levels I think, but you had to do every single
• 2:05:17
  one and I did it. But I will finish the original
• 2:05:22
  one day. Number six, I picked Loom.
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  I don't know if you guys ever played Loom.
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  It was a LucasArts game. We are much like Monkey Island.
• 2:05:34
  You know, it was sort of side on.
• 2:05:36
  You had the little commands down the bottom that you pick from,
• 2:05:39
  but you also had a music element to it and this.
• 2:05:43
  And there was an adventure game like any other adventure game.
• 2:05:45
  There's plenty that came after. But to to me, the way in which
• 2:05:48
  this was implemented, I thought was just the perfect Lucas Art's
• 2:05:52
  game. And it never features very
• 2:05:55
  highly in anything else that you see in terms of Lucas Art's
• 2:05:58
  work. But for me, that was that was
• 2:06:00
  the one that that really shown #7 of pick Wipeout.
• 2:06:05
  This is probably the one game that made gaming mainstream, you
• 2:06:09
  know, when they produced it. Yeah, Sony basically put a whole
• 2:06:11
  bunch of PS ones into nightclubs and loaded up, but with the wipe
• 2:06:15
  out and it changed the world's perception of what gaming was
• 2:06:18
  all about and made it mainstream and made it something that
• 2:06:21
  everyone could actually pick up a controller and just dive
• 2:06:23
  straight into. And I think it it probably makes
• 2:06:28
  Sony's sort of involvement in the gaming industry now what it
• 2:06:33
  is. Because without it, we would
• 2:06:34
  still would just be, you know, bedroom coders and bedroom
• 2:06:37
  gamers and not, not as, as widespread an interest as it is
• 2:06:43
  right now #8 for me was Assassin's Creed.
• 2:06:47
  The first Assassin's Creed game I thought was completely
• 2:06:49
  different to everything that come before it.
• 2:06:51
  The various iterations that have come out every year just about
• 2:06:54
  have, have either been moving it forward or lost their way a
• 2:06:58
  little bit. But in general, the, the
• 2:07:00
  parallel game world and the real world stories suck me.
• 2:07:03
  And it's let me not not let me go for more than 20 games, most
• 2:07:07
  of which are either platinum or completed all the single player
• 2:07:09
  trophies on. I don't tend to do the
• 2:07:12
  multiplayer components of Assassin's Creed games when they
• 2:07:14
  come out, but the single player bits, I I love every single one
• 2:07:18
  of them. One that's on your list, Brian,
• 2:07:21
  and I know you you haven't got to quite yet is Cyberpunk 2077.
• 2:07:25
  The way in which this progressed, the storyline, the
• 2:07:28
  character development, the graphical chops it, it had
• 2:07:31
  everything you could pretty much do whatever you wanted in that
• 2:07:34
  game. And the the writing quality I
• 2:07:38
  thought was really strong in it, certainly in the original game
• 2:07:41
  and in the ad on DLCII thought was 100% sci-fi cyberpunk genre.
• 2:07:48
  True. There was no shortcuts taken
• 2:07:51
  that I could see in that story. I I loved it and I think it's
• 2:07:54
  it's turned into something very special.
• 2:07:56
  They were one similar to No Man's Sky that had a bad launch,
• 2:07:59
  but they they certainly invested the time and effort into turning
• 2:08:02
  that around and making it something truly special now and
• 2:08:06
  then. My last game is a game that I
• 2:08:10
  don't know anybody else ever played called Swift 3D.
• 2:08:14
  It's one of these games that came out in the late, oh, it's
• 2:08:18
  probably 1996 that came out. You get a combination of a
• 2:08:22
  helicopter and a tank and you're on a like a 3D map.
• 2:08:25
  And I still go and load it up every so often now just to play
• 2:08:27
  through because I love it. It's it's hard as nails.
• 2:08:32
  There's zero storyline. It's basically just blow
• 2:08:34
  everything up. I think the, the, the swift
• 2:08:37
  component is, it's #4 in the Silkworm gaming series and this
• 2:08:42
  was the 3D iteration of it. But I just love it.
• 2:08:46
  Yeah, it's, it's, it's still one of my my favourite games, even
• 2:08:49
  though it's now, what, more than 30 years old?
• 2:08:53
  That was my 10. Nice.
• 2:08:56
  What about you guys? Rich, do you have yours handy?
• 2:08:59
  Yeah, I do. I've, I've approached it in a
• 2:09:02
  different way to you, Stuart. So you've you've gone for kind
• 2:09:05
  of influencing the gaming landscape, whereas I've just
• 2:09:08
  gone really like introspective which which are the ones that I
• 2:09:12
  just enjoyed the most. So I have got, and these are in
• 2:09:16
  no particular order, I've got Resident Evil, the first one
• 2:09:20
  just because it was at the time, I think it's PlayStation one.
• 2:09:24
  Super amazing graphics for the time.
• 2:09:26
  Having voice acting, no matter how comedy it is when you look
• 2:09:30
  back at it now, felt incredible. Just a brilliant game and
• 2:09:35
  definitely my favourite of of the whole lot.
• 2:09:38
  I've got Micro Machines, so this was Saga Mega Drive and I
• 2:09:43
  remember it mainly just because I sync day after day into a
• 2:09:47
  university trying to better a lap time.
• 2:09:50
  Ran a bathtub versus versus my mates at the time.
• 2:09:55
  I've also got Tomb Raider, the first one on there just because
• 2:09:58
  it, like you say, the size and scale and it just all felt
• 2:10:01
  absolutely epic. And again, it graphically at the
• 2:10:05
  time, it felt like a a step ahead.
• 2:10:08
  I've got the first Red Dead Redemption in there just because
• 2:10:11
  it's again, an epic storyline. Really, really good fun.
• 2:10:15
  And I, yeah, I super enjoyed it much more than I thought that I
• 2:10:19
  would. I've got Claire Obscure, which
• 2:10:22
  depending on how the rest of your year goes to it, you'll,
• 2:10:24
  you'll either agree with me or not, but superb.
• 2:10:29
  I've got Rocket League. How can I be playing a game for,
• 2:10:34
  I don't know, six hours a week for eight years straight?
• 2:10:39
  Just absolutely incredible. I've got Disco Elysium on there
• 2:10:43
  because that game is just so beautiful to look at, so absurd
• 2:10:50
  in its storylines, and it's a real journey, like getting to
• 2:10:55
  the end of it. You'd feel kind of emotionally
• 2:10:58
  drained once you've got through it.
• 2:11:00
  So that's on there. I've got Detroit Become Human,
• 2:11:05
  so when PlayStation started putting things out onto PCI,
• 2:11:08
  started getting in amongst it. So I was late to the party with
• 2:11:11
  that, but what a game that is in terms of having to make critical
• 2:11:16
  decisions in in a in a short time frame and then immediately
• 2:11:20
  seeing that the consequences of your actions playing out.
• 2:11:25
  Absolutely superb. I've got Grand Theft Auto 5.
• 2:11:29
  I'm going to love all of the Grand Theft Auto's back from the
• 2:11:32
  original top down ones, but I thought 5 was just so polished
• 2:11:38
  and I can't wait for six. And then I've got Arc Raiders on
• 2:11:42
  there as well for all of the reasons mentioned over the last
• 2:11:45
  few months. And then of course, having done
• 2:11:48
  the ten, I was like, oh God, but what about all the ones that
• 2:11:50
  didn't make the list? So I've put honourable shout
• 2:11:53
  outs to Wasteland 3, which is a bit of a, a weird choice, but a
• 2:11:58
  great big, funny, well made RPG that I really enjoyed.
• 2:12:02
  And again, any game that I sink 100 hours plus into, you know, a
• 2:12:08
  kind of narrative game always leaves its mark on me.
• 2:12:13
  I've got Heavy Rain on there, which I played immediately after
• 2:12:16
  having played Detroit Become Human because, you know, made by
• 2:12:19
  the same people. And I was like, give me more of
• 2:12:21
  this. And Heavy Rain.
• 2:12:22
  Superb. And then the final honourable
• 2:12:25
  shout out to Assassin's Creed Black Flag because it's great.
• 2:12:30
  And again, I would have been buying the remake, which is
• 2:12:34
  coming out in a couple of months.
• 2:12:36
  I'll have to wait. How about you, Brian 10?
• 2:12:40
  You probably guess, people probably guess this Number one
• 2:12:44
  eternal is magnificent L #2 Elden Ring.
• 2:12:48
  Also magnificent #3 Mirror's Edge, which I said 4 was I think
• 2:12:53
  it started this year, was probably in the top game, but in
• 2:12:55
  the 10th, 3rd place. All three of them give freedom,
• 2:13:00
  give exploration, reward exploration.
• 2:13:04
  Eternal underage have really good freedom of movement.
• 2:13:08
  Elder ring you do have somewhat jumping is not as good as I
• 2:13:13
  would like it to be, but as you also get the over encumbered
• 2:13:17
  thing which I really hate in games.
• 2:13:19
  But the game is still great anyway #4 the artful escape is
• 2:13:26
  just pure joy. It has great music and it's I
• 2:13:30
  don't think there's a fail state in the game, but you can just do
• 2:13:34
  less well. But the game is brilliant, it's
• 2:13:36
  pure happiness. Ghost Sushima is number 5, which
• 2:13:43
  again, it's just more exploration.
• 2:13:44
  I love the world, looking around, the scenery, everything.
• 2:13:48
  It was just amazing. Beautiful game #6 going from a
• 2:13:53
  game that's pure joy to a game, it's really, really sad.
• 2:13:57
  The grist, or Gree Grist I think it's called.
• 2:14:00
  I love the colour palette, the music, and the story in that
• 2:14:03
  game was really good #7 was just pure action.
• 2:14:07
  There was a story in this God of War 2018.
• 2:14:10
  I really, really enjoyed that game #8 Do you guys know Last
• 2:14:15
  Day of June or have you ever heard of it?
• 2:14:18
  No, I haven't. No, it has really beautiful
• 2:14:23
  graphic style. It's quite unique.
• 2:14:26
  I haven't seen much like it before.
• 2:14:28
  The story is really sad and there's like A twist or
• 2:14:33
  something that catches you at the end.
• 2:14:34
  It is really good part in the middle gets drags out a little
• 2:14:38
  bit or quite difficult some of the puzzles, but the story, the
• 2:14:42
  start and the end, really, really excellent.
• 2:14:44
  I loved playing that game. It was really the end.
• 2:14:47
  Really sad #9 I've got Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six the first
• 2:14:52
  couple of months because the game I really got into online
• 2:14:54
  gaming was part of a clan. Enjoy that so many Knights just
• 2:14:59
  playing that game of people from around the world and that the
• 2:15:02
  final one I've got is last. Was Part 2 The Last of Us Part 1
• 2:15:07
  or you want to call it the very not the very first ones, The
• 2:15:10
  Last of Us? I like the game, I like the
• 2:15:12
  story, but controls are dreadful.
• 2:15:15
  I remember trying struggling waiting fights because I just
• 2:15:19
  could not get used to the controls.
• 2:15:21
  Last last is Part 2 sorted that out.
• 2:15:23
  It felt over long the Part 2 and it's the first time I've ever
• 2:15:27
  hated a character that I was playing and deliberately killing
• 2:15:29
  them. When you switch characters
• 2:15:31
  partway through the game, Honourable mentions Witcher 3
• 2:15:35
  and Witcher 3. Once it finish it may make it
• 2:15:38
  into the top ten. A game that many people know is
• 2:15:42
  called Halfway to the Lampposts. If many people know it's an
• 2:15:46
  Ichio game. It's basically a short horror
• 2:15:49
  twine game about a few year you play as a character.
• 2:15:52
  She's walking down the street and to meet to her friend's
• 2:15:54
  house. And you, your friend, are going
• 2:15:57
  to meet, supposed to meet each other halfway, which is at the
• 2:16:00
  lamp post in the middle of the street.
• 2:16:02
  And darkness is following the girl as she's going on the
• 2:16:05
  street. So it's all about building
• 2:16:07
  tension. It's graphically extremely
• 2:16:10
  simple, but it's quite a good game.
• 2:16:12
  And then finally, Titan, Titanfall 2, which is really,
• 2:16:16
  really great action game. Yeah.
• 2:16:18
  And the time travel mechanic for solving puzzles.
• 2:16:23
  It wasn't unique, but it's done very well and has been often
• 2:16:27
  copied since. But it was a really good action
• 2:16:29
  game and that's my top 10. Nice one.
• 2:16:34
  Yeah, have you got the questions handy?
• 2:16:37
  Stewart I. I do, yes.
• 2:16:39
  So. I'm asking this question have
• 2:16:41
  you I know you have amazing note.
• 2:16:45
  All right, let's start with the first one, which is from Paul
• 2:16:48
  Wilson, Season 13 host, who posted on our You're a Shame
• 2:16:52
  group and on the Seal podcast Discord.
• 2:16:55
  We're across you, Paul. You call that as well?
• 2:16:57
  Yeah, they should have answered yesterday, I think.
• 2:17:03
  Yeah. It's yesterday, so yeah.
• 2:17:06
  So the the question was Game Pass prices drop?
• 2:17:09
  Was the subscription price getting out of hand?
• 2:17:11
  Is the currently reduced price about right or should it be
• 2:17:13
  cheaper? Some people seem to be
• 2:17:15
  complaining that Call of Duty will no longer be a day one
• 2:17:17
  edition, but failing to do the maths of £6 * 12 dollar saving.
• 2:17:20
  You want to go first, Ryan? I think you're right the the
• 2:17:25
  maths, they've just basically removed the cost price of code
• 2:17:28
  of code from the from the the Game pass price.
• 2:17:33
  So I I'm not on Game Pass, I've never used it.
• 2:17:37
  I have been extremely envious of it.
• 2:17:39
  I think it's it was great value. It is expensive though I will
• 2:17:43
  admit compared to the PlayStation offerings is quite
• 2:17:45
  expensive. You're talking £20 a month at
• 2:17:48
  the moment for for the game which I think was a PlayStation,
• 2:17:54
  this is probably £14.00 or maybe around that.
• 2:17:56
  Still quite a bit expensive if you do get the day once which is
• 2:18:00
  a huge thing. And for me it was the Indies.
• 2:18:04
  The number of indie games you had every month coming out was
• 2:18:08
  just amazing. That was why I was, if I had
• 2:18:10
  APCI would be looking at getting the the Game Pass PC for.
• 2:18:15
  Is the price right? I think they can set the price
• 2:18:18
  to whatever they want. I think, I don't know.
• 2:18:24
  Pricing is getting out. Definitely getting out of hand
• 2:18:26
  when you're hitting was it $25.00 a month or £24.00 a month
• 2:18:29
  for the game? That's just extreme.
• 2:18:34
  I don't even know if I've answered the question.
• 2:18:36
  No, I think you have, I think. What is the question is the?
• 2:18:39
  Question was, do you think it was getting out of hand the
• 2:18:41
  price of them? And you're right, I.
• 2:18:43
  Think it's definitely it should be cheaper.
• 2:18:46
  I've wanted to be cheaper, but they need to make their money.
• 2:18:49
  They're not making money on consoles.
• 2:18:52
  Yeah, yeah. So this is what's pulling
• 2:18:54
  people, keeping people in the Xbox ecosystem.
• 2:18:58
  And if a number of people stopped their subscriptions
• 2:19:01
  because the price went up, they were damaging their own
• 2:19:03
  ecosystem, their ecosystem. So people start moving abroad,
• 2:19:07
  moving other abroad. But so, yeah, I think they
• 2:19:10
  needed to reduce. They were smart that they only
• 2:19:14
  reduced, removed COD and then removed the VAT, the price of
• 2:19:17
  cod. If they went lower, they would
• 2:19:19
  make it some even take another $2.00 and then £2 off it.
• 2:19:23
  They would make it so much more attractive to people.
• 2:19:26
  But now I think it's probably where it should be at the moment
• 2:19:29
  and it will keep people in their, their ecosystem.
• 2:19:32
  That's me talking a lot about and answering the question.
• 2:19:36
  Rachel, do you want, do you want to come up with something
• 2:19:38
  sensible, please? Yeah, I mean, I, I can say to
• 2:19:41
  Paul what I said in the feedback that I gave when I cancelled my
• 2:19:45
  subscription. I don't normally write lots of
• 2:19:48
  feedback, but I felt strongly enough to to write a bit of an
• 2:19:51
  essay on it. And basically I said the price
• 2:19:53
  as it was initially was a complete no brainer.
• 2:19:57
  So for for myself and presumably lots of subscribers who will
• 2:20:01
  just be playing games as a hobby.
• 2:20:03
  And getting Game Pass because it totally supports that hobby,
• 2:20:06
  lets them play some of the big hitting games they've been
• 2:20:09
  looking forward to, but also just double in and amongst all
• 2:20:13
  of the indie stuff that comes out.
• 2:20:16
  It went from being a complete no brainer and they raised the
• 2:20:19
  price so steeply that it became something you have to think
• 2:20:22
  about. So I would think nothing about
• 2:20:24
  dropping my 14 or 15 lbs to support my hobby because of that
• 2:20:29
  felt like great value. Once it hit 25, it's kind of
• 2:20:32
  like, well, I need to actually make think about this because
• 2:20:35
  this is like becoming proper money and they all they've done
• 2:20:38
  is put it up and passed that threshold.
• 2:20:41
  So I cancelled and they brought it back down.
• 2:20:43
  So January the 1st, if it stays where it is, it will go straight
• 2:20:47
  back on the list. So there's a shorter, more
• 2:20:49
  sensible answer than what I said.
• 2:20:51
  Thank you. I mean, from my perspective, I,
• 2:20:55
  I don't own an Xbox, so it, it was never really something that
• 2:20:59
  I, I thought affected me. I didn't realise I had Game Pass
• 2:21:03
  until my son pointed out that I'm paying for it for him.
• 2:21:08
  But, but that's more of a reflection on the proliferation
• 2:21:12
  of subscription models across all of the entertainment
• 2:21:15
  platforms. So you know, if we, if we look
• 2:21:16
  at what we pay for every month, you're paying for Netflix,
• 2:21:18
  you're paying for Disney, you're paying for Amazon Brian, we've
• 2:21:21
  got HBO Max, we got binge, which is like Aussie version of sky.
• 2:21:25
  We got Stan, which is a local streaming service.
• 2:21:29
  All of those are are subscription services for
• 2:21:33
  television and and for movies. And then on top of that, we got
• 2:21:36
  PlayStation extra, which is the top tier you can get down here.
• 2:21:39
  We don't do anything above extra.
• 2:21:41
  You got PC game pass, epic, Amazon gaming, steam, all of
• 2:21:44
  them are are, you know, it makes finding things to to watch or
• 2:21:48
  play just that that little bit harder, regardless of what
• 2:21:52
  you're paying for them. So I mean, we need less services
• 2:21:56
  and more consolidation back to the, you know, not quite back to
• 2:21:59
  where you had one provider, but certainly I, I think we need
• 2:22:02
  some, some way of, of consolidating everything
• 2:22:04
  together and making you aware of what the subscriptions you've
• 2:22:08
  actually got active. I know that way back in the days
• 2:22:10
  of midlife, gamer Matthew Moore was always getting in trouble
• 2:22:13
  because he would be paying for his game pass two or three times
• 2:22:17
  and at once. I think that some level of
• 2:22:21
  control and consolidation and and exposing those services to
• 2:22:25
  you in an easy way, it needs to happen and make it easier to
• 2:22:29
  find what you want to to do in in the 5 minutes that you might
• 2:22:33
  be sitting down at the computer and try to find something to
• 2:22:35
  pay. And price wise, yeah, you would
• 2:22:39
  think the competition would drive that price to a sensible
• 2:22:42
  level. So that was the first question.
• 2:22:45
  Second one, Blair Ferguson on On the Ocean Facebook.
• 2:22:49
  As the days go by, we face the increasing inevitability that
• 2:22:52
  we're all alone in the godless, uninhabited, hostile and
• 2:22:54
  meaningless universe. Still, you got to laugh haven't
• 2:22:57
  you? So given as it stands just now,
• 2:23:00
  none of you have used your wild cards IE Joker, Gift etcetera.
• 2:23:04
  Have you earmarked a particular release to wait for or are you
• 2:23:07
  just playing it by ear? If you got a specific title in
• 2:23:10
  mind, what was it that swayed you towards towards this IEA
• 2:23:14
  developer you like or an instalment in a franchise?
• 2:23:16
  And if you're playing it by ear, do you think you will use it?
• 2:23:18
  Or maybe go the year with 0 purchases Rich.
• 2:23:23
  So for me, I rightly or wrongly, have decided that I want to go
• 2:23:27
  entirely clean for the year. So I'm planning zero joker.
• 2:23:33
  No, you know, no excuses, no gifts, no nothing.
• 2:23:36
  Whether that is the the death of me in the year of shame terms or
• 2:23:41
  not, we'll see. But I, I do feel like maybe
• 2:23:45
  compared to, and this might be completely wrong, but I feel
• 2:23:48
  like compared to people on seasons 1-2 and three, we've
• 2:23:52
  probably got such a breadth of choice.
• 2:23:55
  Just three time elapsed and and collections having grown, I've
• 2:23:59
  got such a breadth of choice that I I feel personally that I
• 2:24:04
  do not deserve a little pass into something else.
• 2:24:08
  There's there's enough knocking around there for me to entertain
• 2:24:11
  myself for 12 months. All that said, as I mentioned
• 2:24:15
  earlier, I have daydreamt during the past month of just sucking
• 2:24:19
  it all in. I was like, what will happen if
• 2:24:22
  I just stop and go on a buying and playing frenzy?
• 2:24:26
  Like, like I just won't look at the the group.
• 2:24:30
  I won't I won't see the vilification that comes.
• 2:24:33
  So yeah, that's my answer. How about you, Brian?
• 2:24:35
  My answer ties into a question that's Dave Packer had mentioned
• 2:24:40
  later on. Soros is coming out next week.
• 2:24:44
  Surely it's Joker time and this is the only game.
• 2:24:50
  This, and I'm really, really trying to resist.
• 2:24:53
  I've watched one video, I've read a few of the I didn't read
• 2:24:58
  the actual reviews. I read much shortened versions
• 2:25:02
  of the reviews. So because I don't want don't
• 2:25:03
  want any, I don't want too much information coming in.
• 2:25:06
  And I've seen a few comments from people who are talking
• 2:25:08
  about the game, but I've muted the subreddit for Saros so I
• 2:25:13
  don't want to see what's going to come up there.
• 2:25:16
  I'm going to try to go without it, but if people keep posting
• 2:25:19
  about how great the game is, I think there was was a highlight
• 2:25:24
  that I could fall for that. My one problem is if I do, it'll
• 2:25:27
  be the next three months, four months of me playing that and
• 2:25:30
  I'll come on here and say, oh, Cyrus is great.
• 2:25:33
  How about you? I think he played and that'll be
• 2:25:36
  it for me. So yeah, I, if I wasn't doing
• 2:25:38
  this, it would be day one and I, I, I don't remember the last day
• 2:25:44
  one game I bought. It's you're going back 15 years,
• 2:25:48
  probably for a day one game that I bought, I think.
• 2:25:51
  But yes, I and I don't typically like particularly I don't
• 2:25:56
  typically follow the devs like I have like don't know, some don't
• 2:26:00
  know games and this is eternal house Mark and I've been really
• 2:26:05
  nervous about what what they could do it again.
• 2:26:07
  So I haven't really been focusing on trying not to focus
• 2:26:10
  on it yet. This is what I may fall for but
• 2:26:13
  I'm trying not to because I want to keep trying to keep.
• 2:26:18
  I've just realised I'm watching myself on the video and I keep
• 2:26:20
  moving and because I'm feeling really uncomfortable talking
• 2:26:22
  about this game. The physical struggle.
• 2:26:27
  Is you guys. Watching me, you can see me.
• 2:26:29
  I'm just stretching. No, this game, I am going to try
• 2:26:32
  to resist this game. If I get past this game, doesn't
• 2:26:35
  matter what comes out the rest of the year, I won't.
• 2:26:38
  I won't fall for. I won't weaken.
• 2:26:41
  So yeah. Just remember you said you
• 2:26:43
  wanted to finish cyberpunk as well.
• 2:26:45
  So what's the the Billy Connolly line from from the wall?
• 2:26:49
  If you don't eat your meat, you don't get your pudding or
• 2:26:52
  something like that. This is your pudding.
• 2:26:56
  Cyberpunk, A boulders case and the dyskinesium.
• 2:26:59
  They're the my next three after completes what I'm doing now, so
• 2:27:03
  yeah. Right.
• 2:27:04
  That's OK. So yeah, I don't know.
• 2:27:07
  Sorry. I've been accurate and up there.
• 2:27:10
  From my perspective, I've got nothing earmarked and nothing
• 2:27:12
  making me feel like I'm missing out.
• 2:27:13
  Currently. There's a couple that have come
• 2:27:15
  out this year that will go to my Jan One list, so things like
• 2:27:19
  Crimson Desert and the new Black Flag remake, but they're not
• 2:27:22
  tempting me to the point where I've got to go out and buy them
• 2:27:25
  right now, so I'm still good. Next question is from Bob
• 2:27:28
  Normal. If you could take one genre of
• 2:27:30
  game to desert island, what would it be?
• 2:27:33
  From my perspective, it's not even a genre, it's just a
• 2:27:35
  specific title. And that would be, as I talked
• 2:27:37
  about earlier, Elite Dangerous. I mean, in the absence of other
• 2:27:40
  temptations, I would play that all day, every day.
• 2:27:43
  It's it's just such a strong game and I could play it for
• 2:27:48
  months and just not get tired of it.
• 2:27:49
  So that's, that's my that's my answer to that one is, Yep, just
• 2:27:54
  Elite Dangerous. Oh, you're rich.
• 2:27:57
  I, I'm just like, imagine what would happen if you took Animal
• 2:28:00
  Crossing with you and so you are stuck on a desert island whilst
• 2:28:05
  also playing this kind of endless desert island game be
• 2:28:09
  the ultimate torture. So I think given that I was on a
• 2:28:13
  desert island, I think I would have to take kind of narrative
• 2:28:16
  adventure games. So, you know, super, super
• 2:28:20
  massive games and Until Dawn and stuff with a start and an end.
• 2:28:24
  So you get some sort of closure. Because if I feel like if I took
• 2:28:27
  an endless game, I'd be stuck on a endless desert island playing
• 2:28:33
  endless games and I'd feel lost. So I'd want, I'd want closure.
• 2:28:37
  What about you, Brian? I think it would have to be
• 2:28:41
  souls. I've only played the one like a
• 2:28:45
  Elden Ring. I think it was If I was stuck
• 2:28:47
  there for a long time I might actually get the playthrough
• 2:28:49
  Bloodborne and finish it maybe at least I could give it a good
• 2:28:53
  try and I'd like to try the other ones as well to see how I
• 2:28:55
  get on those. But yeah, it's it would probably
• 2:28:58
  souls type or from just from softer games, yeah.
• 2:29:03
  Cool. Another one from Paul Wilson,
• 2:29:05
  this one on the MLG group. So sharing the love around all
• 2:29:09
  the groups full. If you go to a nice restaurant
• 2:29:14
  exhibiting regular fast food burger places and you order a
• 2:29:16
  meal that includes some kind of burger in a bun, are you going
• 2:29:19
  to use a knife and fork to eat the burger in the bun, Brian?
• 2:29:23
  If it's one of those fancy burgers that has the little
• 2:29:25
  stick in it that keep to hold it together and it's so big you
• 2:29:29
  can't get your mouth into it, I will break it down these with
• 2:29:31
  knife and fork. But the problem is even if you
• 2:29:34
  do that, you still can't you end up putting the breaking the
• 2:29:37
  burger in half. It just becomes I don't know.
• 2:29:39
  I don't know how to eat them properly, but I try.
• 2:29:43
  But I won't if it's, you know, some of the giant, they're giant
• 2:29:48
  burgers. And so now I'll use, I will go
• 2:29:51
  posh and eat it with knife and fork.
• 2:29:53
  Yeah. You can't get this.
• 2:29:54
  Point is you can't get your mouth.
• 2:29:55
  And even if you squish them together, this doesn't happen.
• 2:29:57
  You just end up. Yeah, but the problem, if you
• 2:29:59
  like the fork, it just falls apart the whole thing.
• 2:30:01
  So I don't know. You're supposed to eat them
• 2:30:05
  rich. I'll pass it on to you for more
• 2:30:08
  sense. Yeah, so I I'm the kind of
• 2:30:11
  person that will, I'll hand back that cutlery and ask for extra
• 2:30:16
  napkins and I'll just go in messy.
• 2:30:19
  I think it's the only way. Yeah, I'd I'd written down here.
• 2:30:22
  I take the background, eat it by hand, and then eat the bun with
• 2:30:25
  a knife and fork. Seriously, though, always a
• 2:30:29
  knife and fork. It's a safer option than I'm to
• 2:30:31
  spend the rest of the night with your burger down the front of
• 2:30:33
  your your shirt. You know, I have.
• 2:30:36
  It's interesting when when you can't eat wheat, though, because
• 2:30:39
  what you get given is a hamburger.
• 2:30:41
  Those buns are they don't. The Bailey lasts the time from
• 2:30:45
  coming out to the kitchen to get to your plate before they turn
• 2:30:48
  into either a a rock or just a a pile of mush.
• 2:30:51
  And you're never actually sure when you order a hamburger in a
• 2:30:55
  restaurant that's gluten free, whether it's actually going to
• 2:30:58
  come with any bread of any form. So I've I've ordered a hamburger
• 2:31:01
  or cheeseburger and been brought out the burger with cheese
• 2:31:06
  wrapped in a lettuce leaf and looked at it with serious
• 2:31:10
  disdain and not being able to send it back because that's
• 2:31:13
  theoretically what I asked for when I asked for no bread, you
• 2:31:15
  know? So.
• 2:31:18
  Yeah, didn't appreciate it one star, but but that's, that's
• 2:31:21
  what you're left with. So knife and fork always for me.
• 2:31:25
  Next question from Ross Grieve from season 11.
• 2:31:28
  What's your gaming or other media to guilty pleasure?
• 2:31:31
  What's your biggest gaming related achievement?
• 2:31:33
  And would you rather have an invisible toes or an invisible
• 2:31:35
  penis? So much to unwrap there.
• 2:31:38
  My guilty pleasure is probably Stargate SG1I.
• 2:31:42
  I love that series. There was there was 214 episodes
• 2:31:45
  of it and I watched every single one of them, even when it was
• 2:31:47
  obviously starting to decline in quality and they they all just
• 2:31:50
  like they were phoning it in. My biggest achievement is the
• 2:31:54
  biggest gaming achievement is probably finishing The Hobbit of
• 2:31:57
  Mazaric Spectrum in the days before the Internet with no
• 2:32:00
  hints and and nobody to talk about it with it at school.
• 2:32:05
  And to the last question, definitely Toes.
• 2:32:09
  Why would you go any other way? Brian, how about you?
• 2:32:17
  It's other game. Guilty pleasure, media guilty
• 2:32:21
  pleasure. I would go along with you
• 2:32:22
  Stargate. I love those type of sci-fi
• 2:32:26
  shows. So Stargate was a huge show I
• 2:32:28
  watched. I've watched again all of the
• 2:32:30
  episodes multiple times. Really good series I follow.
• 2:32:34
  I watched the follow up ones as well if they weren't anywhere
• 2:32:37
  near as good, but I still watched them.
• 2:32:40
  I'm missing a show like that now to be honest.
• 2:32:42
  But yeah I like them. Biggest achievement for gaming.
• 2:32:46
  Got it to know gull of war Platinum, probably my first ever
• 2:32:50
  platinum. It took me ages a lot of doing
• 2:32:55
  same the same battle over and over again against the Valkyries
• 2:32:58
  and invisible. Having been told I was going to
• 2:33:03
  say I haven't been told. Where is it?
• 2:33:06
  I prefer the invisible. The invisible told so rich.
• 2:33:15
  How about you? Yeah, so guilty pleasure.
• 2:33:19
  It's got to be watching Married at First Sight on the telly.
• 2:33:23
  So it's one of these reality shows where couples get put
• 2:33:25
  together having never met each other and then they go through a
• 2:33:29
  series of honeymoon and then living together in a flat and
• 2:33:32
  all of the adventures that ensue.
• 2:33:34
  So this is the kind of pro, well, this is the programme
• 2:33:37
  where my missus would be watching it while I'd be doing
• 2:33:40
  something else and I'd be giving her loads of grief saying what
• 2:33:44
  is this absolute rubbish, awful trash, telly brain rotting.
• 2:33:49
  But secretly, and not even secretly, I'm paying quite a lot
• 2:33:53
  of attention to it, thinking this is actually really, really
• 2:33:56
  good. So now I'm a full convert to
• 2:33:59
  that kind of telly. Gaming related achievement is
• 2:34:02
  going to be I think it's going to be completing Tomb Raider in
• 2:34:07
  one sitting. So this was back in the days
• 2:34:10
  where to get hold of a PlayStation.
• 2:34:13
  Well, you you used to have to rent.
• 2:34:15
  Well, the way I would do it is you could spend £5 a blockbuster
• 2:34:20
  and get a a PlayStation one in a, in a hard case that you can
• 2:34:25
  rent for the weekend with with a game.
• 2:34:28
  So did that got got the PlayStation, got Tomb Raider and
• 2:34:32
  it was this needs this needs doing basically because it's got
• 2:34:36
  to go back. So just literally men and mate,
• 2:34:39
  we sat down, played Tomb Raider, went kind of through the night
• 2:34:44
  and literally to the point, and I'm not joking here, to the
• 2:34:46
  point where we were so tired that we ended up lying on the
• 2:34:50
  bed with like heads kind of lulled over backwards over the
• 2:34:52
  bed and turn the TV upside down so that we could continue
• 2:34:57
  pushing through with the with the right orientation despite
• 2:35:00
  being. Recently.
• 2:35:02
  Asleep. Yeah.
• 2:35:06
  And yeah, so that was good. And and I am too in toes for the
• 2:35:10
  invisibility then. All.
• 2:35:12
  Right, Facebook MLG Dave Packer from season 8.
• 2:35:16
  Source coming out next week. Brian.
• 2:35:18
  Surely it's Joker time. Yeah, as I said earlier, this is
• 2:35:22
  the one I'm trying to resist. The struggles we commence I'm.
• 2:35:24
  Going to resist this and hope I'll try.
• 2:35:27
  We'll see. Depends on the reviews and what
• 2:35:30
  people say. So keep quiet.
• 2:35:33
  Don't. Don't be sending me messages
• 2:35:35
  about how good it is. Yeah.
• 2:35:40
  You guys even thinking about Soros?
• 2:35:43
  Would you like it? No.
• 2:35:45
  I've seen no. Just everybody's shaking their
• 2:35:47
  heads. Yeah, no.
• 2:35:52
  Oh, OK, See the previous conversation around how smart
• 2:35:54
  games. I, I, I'd love to love them.
• 2:35:58
  I I love how they look but I just don't get engaged in the
• 2:36:03
  game and I end up frustrated instead and turn off after 5
• 2:36:06
  minutes. All.
• 2:36:09
  Right, last question that we had was from Stuart White House from
• 2:36:11
  season 8 and and background legend for every season that's
• 2:36:15
  been. Have you held back playing a
• 2:36:18
  game until it's been patched? I'm balls deep into Cyberpunk
• 2:36:21
  2077 because of the recent PS4 PS Five Pro patch, and it's so
• 2:36:25
  much better than before. From my perspective, definitely.
• 2:36:29
  I I tend not to wait for, well, I tend not to buy any day one
• 2:36:32
  games. I prefer to let them work out
• 2:36:35
  those bugs before I dive in and let somebody else go through all
• 2:36:39
  the pain. I I, I probably couldn't tell
• 2:36:42
  you the last day one game I ever bought.
• 2:36:46
  Yeah, It's just not the sort of thing I do.
• 2:36:48
  What about you, Rich? It's funny as Stuart mentioned
• 2:36:51
  Cyberpunk because that's that's the first thing that came into
• 2:36:54
  my mind. I've mentioned it before.
• 2:36:56
  I bought it for Xbox. It stayed in the cellophane.
• 2:36:59
  I think I bought it, got home, put Twitch on, watched some
• 2:37:03
  people streaming it and saw the struggles that they were having
• 2:37:07
  with that game. So I left it in the cellophane
• 2:37:10
  for years and then even until it was out on PC and patched, at
• 2:37:14
  which point I then sold the still cellophane Xbox version
• 2:37:19
  for more than it was going to cost me to buy on PC.
• 2:37:21
  So I made some money back on it and I did start playing it last
• 2:37:24
  year and it looked great and it's very much on my list.
• 2:37:28
  I'll probably, it's been long enough for me to probably go
• 2:37:31
  back and restart it. I think that you get the three
• 2:37:34
  characters, don't you, with different paths into the as the
• 2:37:37
  lead in. So I might just choose a
• 2:37:39
  different character because I'd only just got to the point where
• 2:37:41
  they they kind of meet anyway. So there's that one and then a
• 2:37:45
  shout out for one other. There's a game, another kind of
• 2:37:48
  extraction shooter kind of game called Grey Zone Warfare that I
• 2:37:52
  got very, very excited about. I think it's set out in Asia
• 2:37:57
  jungles and that kind of thing and I did what I do.
• 2:37:59
  I'm the opposite of you guys. I'm I'm very much a day one or
• 2:38:02
  pre day one. So I lumped a silly amount of
• 2:38:06
  money into the founders. You know, mega send me all your
• 2:38:10
  money version of grey zone warfare and they're the devs are
• 2:38:15
  spending that money right now. I think they've got as far as
• 2:38:18
  nought .4. I played it for a couple of
• 2:38:21
  hours at nought .1 and was like this looks like it could be
• 2:38:25
  everything I want but very much isn't.
• 2:38:26
  Right now. It's it's been coming on leaps
• 2:38:30
  and bounds but I know that I've having spent the money on that
• 2:38:33
  version, it's just waiting for me.
• 2:38:36
  So it'll be long after this year if shame is finished by the time
• 2:38:40
  it gets to 1.0, but by which time it should be great.
• 2:38:45
  OK, cool, Ryan. I don't tend to play day one
• 2:38:50
  games. I've been a patient gamer for a
• 2:38:53
  long time. I can't remember the last game I
• 2:38:54
  bought David. So every game I think tend to
• 2:38:57
  pick up is definitely well over six months old.
• 2:39:00
  So I don't don't tend to. Not a problem really for me to
• 2:39:05
  be honest. Cool.
• 2:39:06
  So I think we've hit time for Rich, so we'll have to finish up
• 2:39:13
  if that's all right. And that's the questions that
• 2:39:15
  come to an end as well. So thanks to the community for
• 2:39:18
  those. Yeah, let's start socials here.
• 2:39:22
  All right, that's the show. If we got something wrong, which
• 2:39:25
  is very possible, I'll admit, e-mail us at
• 2:39:27
  yearofshame@gmail.com if you want to find this on the
• 2:39:31
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• 2:39:36
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• 2:39:47
  and we're on YouTube at MLGYOS. No video yet, mostly for the
• 2:39:53
  safety of the viewing public to be honest.
• 2:39:55
  And then you'll do some shout outs. 2 shout outs 1 to Chini
• 2:39:59
  for comments about my mum, the thank you and to the guys and
• 2:40:03
  the veteran gamers and shout out to Brad Galloway who's feeling
• 2:40:06
  quite rough today. We'll talk to him earlier on SO.
• 2:40:10
  Lovely games podcast. OK with that I'll say goodbye.
• 2:40:16
  Goodbye for me. Yeah, goodbye for me.
• 2:40:18
  Thank you everyone again for your questions and you too.
• 2:40:21
  It's been lovely catching up with you.
• 2:40:23
  I'm sorry I have to run off straight after the recording,
• 2:40:25
  but I feel like we we get through so much.
• 2:40:28
  I feel like we're like fully caught up and I'm, I'm very much
• 2:40:31
  looking forward to kind of getting back on the horse And
• 2:40:34
  now that I'm interneted up and I've got my gaming room.
• 2:40:37
  So I'm hoping that next time I record whether it's more games
• 2:40:41
  or not, or just more hours in the same games, but either way,
• 2:40:44
  I'm. Looking forward to really good
• 2:40:46
  fun. My shout out is I've I've got
• 2:40:49
  some, some buddies that are not gamers that have started
• 2:40:52
  listening to the podcast. So if you've made it this far, I
• 2:40:55
  really appreciate it. And so a shout out to you guys
• 2:40:59
  to to Matt and, and to the local gaming guys, Jason and, and,
• 2:41:03
  and, and the team. And that's it from me.
• 2:41:06
  So cheers all. OK, see you.
• 2:41:10
  Thanks a lot for catching up and hope.
• 2:41:12
  Thank you for making it this far.
• 2:41:13
  If you made it this far, everybody.
• 2:41:15
  OK, see you. Bye.