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S14E03 - The One Where Stu Says 'You Know' · 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 all and welcome to episode 3 of the Euro Shame Challenge
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Season 14. My name's Stuart and I'm joined
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by my Co host Richard and and Brian and our attempt at not
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buying or playing any new video games and just focusing on what
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we already on. Welcome back Brian, we we missed
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you on the last episode. How are you doing?
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I'm, I'm OK. I'm doing OK.
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I think I'm hanging in there. Thank you.
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Cool. And Richard, how are you doing?
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Yeah, I'm very well. Thank you.
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Nice to what? You've been up to since the
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last. Oh me since last time.
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I've been in the perpetual waiting to move house zone since
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last time. Just Just waiting and waiting.
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We've got, I think there's five parties involved in the chain
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and I think probably since we last recorded, four of the five
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have been totally ready and we're just waiting on the person
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who's at the bottom of the chain.
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So I'm getting a little bit nervous because I'm guessing
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people who are kind of first time buyers at the bottom of the
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chain and that like the more likely people to have just
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something circumstances changing and stuff.
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So it's, it's making me a little bit nervous.
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They're currently, because I think interest rates have gone
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down since this whole saga started.
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So they're currently redoing their mortgage because they can
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get a cheaper rate, which I think is going to end up being
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futile because war on Iran is pushing the rates back up again.
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So I think they'll get 90% of the way through their
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application and it will all change again.
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So I, you know, I've been using the time to line things up.
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So I've got the removals company booked for a date that won't
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happen and I've cleared out some more junk from the house.
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So the house is getting gradually tidier, which is good.
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And then what else have I been doing this month?
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I've done, I've done some really good kind of PC maintenance.
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So as part of the kind of cleaning and tidying I gave my
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gave the rig a proper going over.
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I've got one of these dust blowers so I can take the sides
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off and just absolutely blast the innards and just watch the
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whole room filling with with dust.
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But once that's done, everything feels good and the CPU runs a
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couple of degrees cooler and stuff like that.
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So so that's very satisfying. And then I think last time I was
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talking about my Azeron Cyborg thing, which I'm showing to you
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guys and I've I've been having some problems with it is it's
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all meant to be entirely adjustable.
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So you can adjust it exactly how you want your hand to kind of
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sit in the device. But it's, it has a like it's all
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3D printed and there's like a weak spot where essentially you
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should be able to adjust, adjust it and then tighten a screw.
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But if you over tighten it, it kind of snaps off.
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And it's done this a couple of times.
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And whenever you have to order replacement parts, they come
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from Latvia. So it only costs kind of about
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$12.00 or something for the for the parts themselves.
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But then you pay 25 the postage for like 4 or 5 little tiny bits
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of plastic. So I went for a repair because
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because it had sheared off. And it's, it's always the
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buttons I use most frequent frequently.
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So it's like a run button, which obviously when that breaks mid
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game and this thing starts flapping around, you've got a
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bit of a problem with moving around in the games.
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So I I did a replacement with one of the new parts and then
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the new part broke. So I lost patience with it got
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the Super glue out. So I've now super glued and it's
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absolutely rock solid, but it means it is no longer
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adjustable. So I've I've done some good
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maintenance, clean PC and input device sorted and then this is
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all like very middle-aged man stuff.
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I got envy this month because somebody on the street had a
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mobile car balloting company come out and just spend a whole
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day making their car look really nice.
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And it made me realise that that my car looks an absolute state
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because I I've been, I don't do that much driving because
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everything's kind of local here. We walk quite a lot of places,
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but I'll go to festivals in the summer and stuff.
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So my car's just like caked in mud and I've been thinking, oh,
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I need to treat myself at some point, but I can't bring myself
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to, to spend the money basically because you're probably looking
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at about £80 to have a proper, proper job done on it.
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And I kind of feel like I feel like I deserve it, but I can't
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bring myself It's, it's two games that obviously I can't
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buy. So anyway, that's it, That bit
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of it's two games next year, but seeing that mobile violating
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company come out and my vacuum breaking and me getting a new
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one seemed like a perfect storm. So I've got a new vacuum and
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last weekend I went out and did it myself and the car is
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gleaming and shiny and I did all the inside.
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So there's like 3 years worth of mud and bogeys all up in the
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vacuum and honestly it's like I've got a new car.
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So I feel pretty, pretty proud of that, that effort.
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What else has happened? I've been invited to a wedding,
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which is, which is a weird thing at my age.
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So one of one of my friends who I did some of the travelling
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with, he's, he's been with his future wife for for years and
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years and years, over a decade probably.
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And he's finally getting married.
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So I got an invite both to a stag do and a wedding and I've
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had to, I've had to bail on the stag do because it's going to
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coincide probably with me moving house.
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And also they were going to be cycling around the Isle of
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Wight. The could the combination of
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that stuff kind of just put me off?
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So I'd said yes originally and then I've I've bottled on the
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stag, but I've got a wedding to look forward to in May, which is
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nice. And then aside from that, I
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think I might have mentioned last time I had a big birthday
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and I think I might have mentioned that I, with lots of
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vouchers, bought myself a fancy coffee machine.
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So I've pretty much spent three weeks since we last recorded
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just drinking coffee. Oh nice.
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It's, it makes such a nice cup of coffee and I found a found a
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local roastery. So they, they now deliver me
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fresh, freshly roasted beans on a, on a kind of frequent basis.
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And so work is now easier because I'm like fuelled and
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I've got a little, little treat every day.
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So those are my main things, the whole health and fitness things
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still going well. I set myself that target of
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doing a certain amount of exercise each quarter of the
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year to keep it consistent and I'm tracking that day by day and
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looking good for my kind of end of March target.
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So yeah, that's kind of mixture of middle-aged stuff, drinking
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coffee and then doing a bit of fitness to make things better
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again. Excellent.
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Good stuff. What have you been up to, Brian?
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Since the last episode or since before that?
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Before the last episode let me see.
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So I mentioned I think back in never in the previous year about
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my mother being I'll. Well she turned, turns out she
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had cancer and she passed away early February.
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So I get a phone call, come home now fly home and well I didn't
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make it in time so I arrived a couple of hours late.
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I'll say it's been a bit of a shock.
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So I had to fly back. It was back in Ireland for a
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week and a bit. Share it with my brother.
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Lister, I don't know if you could listen to this, but you've
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asked me Well, and you mentioned the fancy coffee.
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My sister has an extremely fancy coffee machine, at least in my
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standard, and it's it was excellent to stay in there.
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Her, her, my nieces or young daughters were making coffee for
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me the whole time. So that was great.
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Get up in the morning and they're there with the doing the
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barista thing making coffee for me.
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So that was cool. Since I've been to Mori, which
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is the really snowy area I think I mentioned before I'm going to
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go to it is Forza Horizons the game that's coming out soon.
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This show a scene where you're driving through Japan.
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Yeah, and it's all the snowy area.
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So that's where we went. Mori is the snowiest area in the
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world. Hotel.
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We stayed in snow with money, maybe about 5 or 6 feet.
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But I would like to live there for a year, but I don't think I
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could hack it, not for a long term anyway.
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Like I saw small vans side the road parked.
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They must be parked up for three because they they just had like
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four or five feet of snow just on top of them.
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Oh, wow. They're not moving them.
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So they just sat there and it's like you couldn't tell them.
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Absolute nightmare. But yeah, it's really
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interesting place to go if you're into skiing, Really good
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skiing there as well. What else has happened here?
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School year is coming to the end.
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As mentioned to you guys earlier, I work in two schools.
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I work in a junior high, an elementary school.
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So the elementary is what we used to call Ireland, a primary
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school. And then the junior high is the
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first three years of second. So my third year students from
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junior high, they've graduated last Friday, they graduated.
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So they're moving on to high school, which would be another
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three years. So and then my elementary school
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to 6th grade is about to graduate Thursday week in the
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school year. It's just basically exams and
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doing tests. So I do, I record audio.
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So I'm a, I won't say a radio star, but a voice actor over
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here doing audio for the kids and going through like
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scenarios. And they have to listen to the
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scenarios and answer questions. So tough on them having to deal
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with the Irish accent, which suddenly got worse after I came
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back from her. But yeah, so it was quite fun.
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But the other thing, with the end of the school year, my
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contract is up. We get a contract for 52 weeks.
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So it starts April and finishes the end of March.
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So last year we didn't get told whether you had a new job with
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the company until the end very end of March.
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It was like March, I think it was twenty 23rd, 24th and this
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this school year ended on the 27th.
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So you didn't know that you had a new job.
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So I went out and applied and got another job with another
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company that pays slightly less, but I had a job and then my
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company came out and offered a job.
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So I switched and stayed with my company.
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And I like I had the full on argument with them saying that
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it's stupid. You're going to lose teachers if
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you don't tell us earlier. Two weeks ago I found out job
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next year, which is great. I've no idea what schools I'm
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going to be working in as they have this bizarre system.
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They they move teachers around. Now because I'm not employed
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directly by the Board of Education, I can at least stay
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up to three years in one school and after that you have to move.
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Otherwise the board of have to employ you directly.
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So they don't want that because we're like temps.
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But the teachers themselves get moved around and they can spend
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up to five, between 5:00 and seven years typically in the
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school. And then they get moved to
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another little. And if they're hired by the
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local city, they get moved within the city.
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But if you're hired by the OR employed by the prefectures, you
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have a much better job. You get paid more, you get more
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holidays and stuff. But you also get a prop drawback
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that you could be sent within the prefecture.
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So you could be sent to a school 100 miles away.
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And you get told, actually they were told yesterday, yeah,
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Friday the 13th. The teachers were told yesterday
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by the Board of Education where they're go, where they're going,
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they have no idea. Elastic could be teaching.
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So typically to stay if you're an elementary, you'll stay in
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elementary or if you're in junior high, you'll stay in
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junior high. But you could be teaching like a
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homeroom teacher or you could be teaching specific subjects.
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So you could become the arts teacher or the science teacher.
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And when you go to school, then you you get told what club
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you're going to look after. So you could become you could be
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the good as the science teacher in junior high and be told
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you're going to look after ladies tennis and that you have
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to read up about how to train people on ladies tennis and then
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play take the girls and do that. Or you could be doing boys
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baseball or ladies baseball or you could be whatever.
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It means they have a week to figure out class notes for the
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next year and then work out this we're going to train these kids.
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It's really bizarre. And the other thing is they
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don't they So the teachers found out yesterday what schools are
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going to. They can't tell the other
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teachers until March 24th. For some reason.
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It's kept secret. They may tell their friends.
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I'm not going to say for definite that they do, but they
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may tell their friends that they do where they're going.
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But in general it's not actually made public.
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But they never tell the kids. So just come back to school next
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year that their teacher had last year has gone, has gone
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elsewhere. So it's quite weird.
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And I think I mentioned last year that's I may have said this
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all last year. The some of the schools they run
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goodbye festival. So, you know, may they'll,
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they'll have a festival, bring back the teachers who left so
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that pupils can say goodbye to them all.
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All it is, is trauma, pure trauma.
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You're in a gymnasium. There's like 2-3 hundred kids
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and they're just all crying, absolutely flits of tears.
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So I've got that to look forward to again this year.
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I went to to the last year one I, I was one of the teachers who
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had left. And you like you, you brought
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into classrooms afterwards and the kids come up and they're
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just crying, looking at you and holding your hand.
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I miss you. These aren't were you like in
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the hole and doing the same thing?
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It's just it's a nightmare. But the elementary school I'm
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currently in, I was there one for last year and the kids were
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so broken hearted. It was horrible.
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I I felt like I was going back. You've got so many kids all
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around you crying. I had packets of tissues I was
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just hanging handing out to the kids like, but it's just, oh,
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it's horrible. So and.
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They do it every year, you know, every year these.
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Kids like they, they see the teachers 8-9 hours a day in
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school and then you've got after club, after school club
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activities at the end, teachers gone.
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There's no goodbye, no nothing. That's just seemed really
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bizarre. I mean, you can see them doing
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it one year and and having, you know, causing all this trauma
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and going, all right, that was a bad idea, let's not do that
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again, but to do it every year. You a teacher will stay in the
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school maybe five years, but other teachers will get moved.
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So they're all moved the whole time.
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Now there was it. I saw a policy things, but kind
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of the good teachers get to move around within the area so that
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they can pass on their good teaching practises.
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I can see that, but maybe only move to good teachers and make
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sure the bad teachers are with the good teachers so they can
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train them up. But this is just, I don't know,
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it's just pure trauma for the kids, especially still because
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they they love their teachers. They're absolutely head over
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heels. The teachers are, they're the
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cool dude. They're they're amazing lady,
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whatever. But it's just, it's crazy to
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watch. It's really horrible, horrible,
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you know, But anyway, that's, that's all coming up in the next
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few weeks. Yeah.
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But yeah, the graduation sermon, is it pretty good?
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I had a farewell party in elementary school to do a
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farewell party to the the 6th graders that have all the other
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grades come out and sing songs or try and play tricks.
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It's really sweet, really nice. And that was quite cool the
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other day. But yeah, we'll see.
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So that's work. We see the only two other
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things. One I was listening to the game
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was confessional. They hit 400 episodes.
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So Congrats on hitting 400 episodes.
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The Vimsy Clark Clarky and pet. Other than that, that's all
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happening around my area. So cool.
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Stu, how about you? Well, Richard pointed out before
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we started recording that it's only been three weeks since we
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we recorded the last episode, and I thought that not a lot had
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happened in my life in the last three weeks.
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But it turns out that, you know, when you start listing things
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down in in preparation for these episodes, you tend to figure out
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that you've actually done quite a bit.
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So shortly after our last episode, I went out to the
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garage one morning and my car had just decided to dump the
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entire contents of the coolant system on the garage floor.
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And. So I, yeah, I know.
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And so I, I took it into one of our local garages here and they
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said, yeah, it's a, it's a, a Skoda, which is a, a Volkswagen
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variant. And there's a known flaw with,
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with all of these variants that the, the, the water pump that,
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you know, services, the coolant system is made of aluminium and
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plastic and it warps over time and then none of the pipes fit
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and it just all leaks out. So that was annoying.
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It was a fairly easy fix, but they basically have to dismantle
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the entire engine to get to the water pump.
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So they're not going to do that for free.
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You know, I'm so they certainly charge for it.
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But the car is now back to, to, to working again.
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And that's always good to, to have the mobility.
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Now I just need to be able to afford putting petrol in it
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though, because I don't know what things are like in your
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part of the world, but our petrol prices have gone
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absolutely mental this week. Yeah, yeah, they've just gone up
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slightly here, but they're queuing to get into the place,
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which is just nuts. Yeah.
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Same, same here, you know, You know how it is in the UK,
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everyone just panics and like straight in for the petrol.
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And whilst we're here, let's buy loads of pasta and toilet roll
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just in case, yes? Actually, do you guys, do you
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guys listen to the SEAL podcast? Yes, I think because you
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mentioned it. I absolutely love it.
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I was listening to it last night, actually.
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Pilch. He works in Tesco in the petrol
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station. They ran at petrol like 3 days
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into the week. Their week supply of petrol went
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within three days. There's just everybody coming in
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to top all the sudden, the driver topping up their cars and
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stuff. So it's just just panic buying,
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which is crazy, absolutely crazy.
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Our our local hardware shops have all run out of Jerry cans
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apparently. Oh.
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My God, it's not enough to. Just fill your car.
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You got to go and get as many containers as you can and fill
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all of them as well. You know so.
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Anyway, yeah. So that was, that was the first
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thing. The second thing is I'm, I'm
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planning a trip to South Africa. My 40th school, high school
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reunion is coming up and I've not been to any of the previous
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ones. You know, I, I left the town
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that I grew up in shortly after I graduated from university and,
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and I only go back like every so often.
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You know, when my mum was still alive, I'd go back and visit mum
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and dad. My dad's there and we've been
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back a couple of times to visit him, but he comes out here quite
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often as well. So there's not been much call to
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go back to the town. But I think I'll go back from my
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40th. It's in September.
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Yeah. It's been a long time since I've
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seen these people though, so hopefully everybody's got a name
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badge on because I don't know if I'd recognise any of them.
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And. And much like myself, I expect
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that there will be an abundance of baldness.
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You know, I think there'll be a lot of bold.
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Guys around don't forget when you're talking to them if they
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ask what you're doing now I'm a podcaster OK so yeah yeah, yeah,
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we'll. Boost those numbers.
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I finally finished building my science at Cambridge Computer
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and. I.
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Got everything plugged into it and the only thing I hadn't done
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was turn it on. So there was a couple of days
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where all the parts were in and I just sat and looked at this
20:27
thing under the microscope and made sure that all of my my
20:31
solder joints were correct. Because if I if I powered it up
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and the power shorted out and it blew a chip, it was going to be
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very difficult to get those parts again.
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So it was, let's say it was sphincter tightening when I,
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when I finally plugged the power in and turned it on and it all
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worked and I was like, oh, phenomenal.
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Yeah. So that was good.
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Do you have a? Little ceremony or, or do you
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just press and hope or do you do you give yourself a bit of a
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build up and like cut a ribbon or something like that?
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No. No, it was just Ausb.
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So effectively what I've done with it is and for the nobody's
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going to see this on the audio podcast, but it doesn't actually
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have a connector on the board. So what I've done is I've Jerry
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rigged some AUSB connector to the back there.
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I don't know if you can see that just about USBC and then
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soldered that onto the the mount points where the the power is
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expected to come into the board and that gives you the right 5
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Volt, one milliamp type power that you expect.
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But yes, plugging that USB cable in was a very tentative plug in,
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you know, so that that's that project is all finished now and
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and I'll I'll make sure that that gets framed and put on the
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wall with all the rest of them now that it's in working order.
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But it does mean that I now need to start looking at something
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else to build. So what's my next project going
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to be is going to be the big question.
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You know, but it did get me thinking about how many of these
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computers I've actually got distributed around the house.
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And so I went through and I counted them all up and, you
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know, not including, you know, multiple Windows desktops and
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laptops and things. Turns out there's, there's 34
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devices in my collection. Yeah.
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That's crazy. So I, I probably need to slow
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down with the collections there. But yeah, it's, it's a nice
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little collection to have. And it's nice that they're all
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in working order and you can, you can take them out and power
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them up and, you know, play something on it.
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That's, that's the way it was meant to be played on, you know,
22:41
on the actual hardware. So I, I do enjoy that.
22:44
Separate to that though, I had a couple of trips to Melbourne for
22:47
work, but they were just like fly in fly outs.
22:49
You know, you get up at 4:00 in the morning or before that, you
22:53
get the first flight out at 6:00 AM and then you get home at
22:56
11:00 at night, but you're, you're sleeping in your own bed.
23:00
So that's certainly preferable to, to check in into hotels and,
23:03
you know, stay in overnight unnecessarily.
23:06
But that does obviously then disrupt on your ability to do
23:09
any gaming. I have a little Ambanic portable
23:14
device that looks like a Gameboy SP.
23:17
So it just folds open and shut, you know, single screen and it's
23:20
got a whole bunch of of retro games on it there.
23:22
So I tend to take that with me and and just play that on the
23:25
planes if I'm not watching anything on my tablet.
23:29
But but yes, there's no way of I haven't tried using my
23:33
PlayStation Portal when I'm away from home.
23:37
So the PlayStation Portal is nice.
23:38
It's supposed to work. Now isn't it?
23:39
It is supposed. To work, but it still requires
23:41
quite a dedicated high speed network, OK and even in even in
23:46
the house. If I'm sitting here and the
23:48
PlayStation 5 is in the other room and I'm, I'm playing on the
23:51
portal here, I, you do get moments where the network
23:55
quality dips too low and then it just loses connectivity and, and
24:00
it's a bit of a mess. So yeah, the, the portal sits in
24:03
the, in the, the cabinet beside me here doesn't get a lot of
24:06
love. But I might try taking that on
24:10
some of my next trips and see if I can connect back home and fire
24:13
up something and, and just see how it goes because that's what
24:16
the device is intended to be used for, you know?
24:19
Yeah. So do you?
24:20
Do you need your main PlayStation to be switched on?
24:24
Much like if you're to. Work or it's it's going to be.
24:27
Turned on, but it can be in sleep mode.
24:30
So that's good. So as long as it's in sleep
24:32
mode, you can say, you know, wake on land type connectivity
24:36
and it will fire it up. And then I'll establish the
24:38
connection and then you should be good to go.
24:40
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
24:42
Since the last episode, well, I celebrated a birthday as well.
24:46
50. 7th. OK, Yep.
24:49
Managed to do it with no gaming related purchases or or or gifts
24:53
that might activate klaxons somewhere.
24:55
I'm aware that the, the guys that I was talking about on the
24:58
last episode that were threatening to gift me either
25:02
Battlefield or Barbie's Dream House are now listening to the
25:06
podcast. So hello guys.
25:10
We'll, we'll still see whether there's anything coming there.
25:12
But yeah, my, my family managed, they limited themselves to give
25:16
me Star Wars Lego and tickets to see Lloyd Cole when he comes
25:19
back into town this week or next week.
25:23
So looking forward to that. And hopefully this trip goes a
25:28
bit better for Lloyd Cole than the last one because he picked
25:30
up a virus the day before his show and, and the airline lost
25:33
his guitar and then only delivered it 2 hours before he
25:35
was due to go on stage. So he was not in the best of
25:38
moods when he came on stage. But yeah, I'm looking forward to
25:46
it. Lost guitar rather than last
25:48
weekend. Exactly.
25:49
Yes, struggling to think. Of a song.
25:53
Yeah, Speaking of which, what do you what do you guys tend to
25:58
listen to? Rich Well, that's.
26:01
A question, isn't it? I think so.
26:04
I mean, I listen to quite a lot of drum and bass and I don't
26:08
know whether that's just come out of festival listening or
26:12
whether it's come out of doing like running and stuff.
26:15
I find I find that the, the, the, the beat of a drum and bass
26:17
is really good if I'm going out for a run.
26:20
But the, the festival I go to is quite kind of it.
26:24
It's it's a weird, it's a weird festival.
26:27
So by day it's kind of world music.
26:29
So, you know, lots of obscure, you know, you'll, you'll get
26:33
kind of like Pakistani, African, Jamaican music or all kinds of
26:38
things through the day. So there's a real eclectic
26:40
variety there. And then once it hits about
26:43
11:00 PM, it just turns into a like a savage kind of drum and
26:46
bass and dubstep kind of mess. So I do enjoy a variety of a
26:54
variety of stuff. And I build a playlist at this
26:56
time of year, every year with all of the artists that are
27:00
listed to be at the Shambhala Festival I go to in August
27:04
because I, I've never heard of any of them, pretty much.
27:08
So I, I build up a playlist and then listen through the air so
27:11
that when I'm at the festival, I'm like, Oh yeah, I actually
27:13
know these. And they're, yeah, they're quite
27:15
good. What about you, Brian?
27:18
So they grew up listening to heavy metal music.
27:21
Was big into heavy metal music in my earlier days.
27:24
Then I fell into my main love which is indie, also rock.
27:27
So stuff like the Pixies. Huge fan of that type of thing.
27:30
And then into grunge because that little fish.
27:33
So Nirvana. But yeah, for some reason in the
27:37
past four or five years I've gotten into dance music.
27:40
So back into trance and stuff like that.
27:42
And hopefully no traffic cops listen to this.
27:44
But I use it mainly to keep awake coming home from work.
27:47
Put it on. And like Japanese people.
27:51
Already think Daishi and foreigners are pretty weird but
27:53
I'm in the car dancing for the car.
27:55
In the car listen to music having a blaring just keep me
27:58
awake as I'm going along and it's the actually to audio
28:02
listeners there was a demonstration but.
28:06
I just. I it's listening to me listening
28:08
to music mainly these days to keep awake.
28:10
I'm driving home from work so I've really got the trance so
28:14
probably not the best to keep me awake.
28:17
The trance music, So loads and loads of trance music recently,
28:21
but I put on the just put on a DJ you can down hello.
28:25
The DJs put podcasts up just like an hour set or two hours
28:28
set, put it on. That'll get me the one hour will
28:32
get me home. So that's great.
28:34
That's yeah, it's a broad spectrum.
28:37
I'll listen listen to a huge range of music I just have.
28:40
Visions of Do you remember a movie called Office Space?
28:43
Yes. Yes, Oh my God.
28:46
I just have visions of you doing that in your car.
28:48
The start of the movie, the guy's like in his car and he's
28:50
listening to like gangster rap or something.
28:52
And, and, you know, he's being all like dancing and hardcore.
28:55
And then some guy comes up to the window to ask for change and
28:58
he's like calms it down. You know, I'm, I'm, I'm not, I'm
29:03
not a hardcore dude. I'm just a just an office worker
29:06
who's, you know, making my old. But yeah, exactly.
29:10
Yeah, I mean from my point of view, I'm.
29:12
I'm definitely a child of the 80s.
29:13
So it's it's usually all electronic and, and you know,
29:16
pops or Depeche Mode and erasure and U2 and then Lloyd Cole, as I
29:20
say. And and then you'll throw in the
29:23
odd bit of Texas and beautiful South and Paul Heaton and those
29:25
guys. Definitely child of the 80s.
29:29
I'm sorry, you know, well, the the only other thing I've done
29:35
this month is I bought a new 3D printer and I've upgraded from a
29:39
single colour 1 to a it's a 4 + 1 colour.
29:43
So one of them is manually fed and the other four are all
29:45
automatically sort of fed through as the, as the print
29:48
demands it. And it's amazing how quickly
29:51
that technology has changed since I got the one colour
29:53
model, you know, that which has only been like a year ago.
29:56
The new one is just so much faster, so much more accurate
29:59
and, and so much higher quality prints than this one.
30:02
So I'm looking forward to to putting that through it's paces.
30:05
How long? How long does Post take?
30:07
How long does Post take to get from Tasmania to England?
30:12
Just thinking Rich. Rich needs some widget.
30:14
Freeze his gaming voice. Yeah, so.
30:18
One of the things about printing things via 3D printer is the
30:21
choice of material is is very important.
30:23
And so the cheapest material is something called PLA, which is a
30:26
fairly soft, brittle plastic. And it wouldn't surprise me if
30:29
to have printed those parts using PLA.
30:31
But if you went to like what they call PETG or if you went to
30:37
ASA, these are much more hard wearing, you know, temperature
30:42
sensitive plastics that will last for much longer.
30:47
And they do cost a little bit extra to print with them.
30:49
But the the quality that you get from them is just so much more
30:52
usable and so much more worthwhile to do.
30:54
So if you do need any, let me know and I can see if I can find
30:58
a model for it and print it out and post it to you.
31:01
Thank you kindly. Yeah, all.
31:03
Right. So that was all of my news.
31:06
Shall we move on to so you mentioned?
31:08
ASA, that's what they do a lot of.
31:11
I love, I love keyboards, like computer keyboards.
31:14
They make a lot of key cut key cups in those.
31:17
They do, yes, because it's hard wearing.
31:19
Yeah. PBT and KASA.
31:21
Yeah, I knew. I heard it before.
31:24
Right now I'm, I'm busy printing a, a new a new case for one of
31:27
my Raspberry pies and I've decided to print it so that it
31:31
looks like an Oracle Exadata machine, which is a, you know, a
31:34
massive big server that usually sits in data centres.
31:37
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
31:38
But it's, it's, it's about a third of the way printed now.
31:41
I'm just checking the progress and it says it's done 243 layers
31:45
out of 331, but it will take another two hours and 47 minutes
31:50
to do the remainder 90 layers. So it's still not instantaneous,
31:54
but it's, I mean, it's so much quicker than the old ones, you
31:57
know, Yeah. Do you have to do any finishing
32:00
like filing off or anything on the end just to smooth it out if
32:05
you? If you were to pump the speed
32:08
and make it print a lot faster, then yeah, you would have to
32:10
smooth out and finish it properly.
32:12
If you slow that down though, and the quality become a lot
32:15
better. And as long as you try materials
32:18
for things like supports and that sort of stuff, a reduce the
32:22
amount of of cleaning up you need to before you end up with a
32:24
usable thing. So you don't.
32:25
Have like the the old Airfix you used to do the Airfix, you break
32:30
off a piece of plastic. It's like it'll, it's going to
32:33
stop you for the time that you've had that plane or
32:36
whatever. It's like, that's good.
32:39
There's progress at last. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
32:42
That's good. I mean, the new thing with this
32:44
one now is that you can actually have different materials for the
32:46
supports from what you're printing the device out.
32:48
And if you choose the plastic combinations exit the support
32:52
when it's printing, but they don't bond together.
32:55
So you don't end up with any marks on the finished surface
32:57
because the the other plastic is, is supporting a lot of
33:00
prints. But it's, it's effectively just
33:02
like a, an air bed that it's floating on when it prints.
33:05
So it's, that's really neat. It's finding those right mixes
33:08
and, and, and, and combinations of materials to get the best
33:12
result. Oh, very good.
33:13
Very good. So that's.
33:14
Our activities this month. What have you both been playing?
33:17
Rich? What have you been playing this
33:19
month? Yeah.
33:20
So this month, not too many things, but I'll I'll run
33:24
through them. So every month I'm going to
33:26
mention arc Raiders and I think shortly after we recorded last
33:30
time, I had a good a three-way with Paul and Ben from last
33:36
year's podcast. So we we hopped on and jumped
33:40
in, jumped into a trio, which was a lot of good fun.
33:44
I've been on a Saturday night, I play with my mate Kev, who's
33:47
part of the community as well. And I got a lovely message from
33:51
my little sister who lives out in Australia.
33:54
And she sent me a message with a screenshot of Arc Raiders one
33:58
Saturday morning a couple of weeks ago.
34:00
And she's like, look what I've done.
34:02
And I was like, Oh my goodness, she's playing it.
34:04
So I immediately booted up and much like our recording time
34:08
now, morning, morning UK and evening your time, she she was
34:12
on a late night Arc Raider session.
34:14
So I managed to have a really nice catch up with my little
34:18
sister whilst we were topside in Arc Raiders.
34:21
So that was good fun. Although I haven't played it for
34:24
a fortnight so maybe maybe the initial excitement is starting
34:28
to just tail off a tiny bit. My usual dose of Rocket League.
34:33
So Brian joined me in my stream last night where I was slamming
34:37
back a little bit of bourbon and just generally playing Rocket
34:40
League and listening to drum and bass.
34:43
So that was fun. And then I finished two games,
34:47
which is good. So the first of the two is Air
34:50
Memories of Old, which Stuart, you talked about last time we
34:54
recorded. So I've played and finished
34:56
that. So I know Brian, you're probably
35:00
going to talk about it as well, but I'll give go for it.
35:02
I'll give my. Views and then we'll see how
35:04
they compare with yours. So I found it some positives.
35:09
I found it to be a very nice morning game.
35:12
So if you're kind of a little bit tired, cup of coffee on the
35:15
go, just want to kind of have a bit of a chill floating and
35:19
flying around doing a bit of exploring kind of experience.
35:24
It was good. It was, it was a bit more
35:25
involved than than I'd expected after having heard you talk
35:30
about it, Stuart. So I think you might have, I
35:32
don't know whether he blasted through it quite quickly,
35:34
whether I'm just a bad gamer, but I started off and I, because
35:39
he'd gone through it quickly, I was kind of expecting it to be
35:42
really quick and easy. And I think as soon as I
35:45
started, literally the first instruction I was given, you
35:49
know, go east or whatever. And I found the place I was
35:53
meant to go and there was some clue about something under the
35:56
waterfalls. And there's this island
35:58
suspended in the sky with waterfalls going off the side of
36:01
it. And I must have spent half an
36:03
hour flying under the island behind the waterfalls looking
36:07
for where the freaking clue was. So I didn't have a good first
36:11
experience with it because I couldn't find the blooming
36:13
thing. And it was only when I gave up
36:14
and went, I'll just go somewhere else, that the first kind of
36:18
next place that I went to was actually where I was meant to
36:20
be. So I got a bit crossed with it
36:23
early doors and but then I played through it and actually
36:27
the the puzzling in it was quite good.
36:29
So you just kind of fly to different islands and different
36:32
places and there'd be little clues and little buttons you had
36:34
to press and sort of semi maze like almost like dungeons
36:39
weren't there in it. So I found it, I found it quite
36:44
a pleasant experience. I think the things that Jarred
36:45
with me was that you'd use the same button to interact with
36:51
things, to jump, and then if you pressed it again when you were
36:55
jumping, you'd fly. So I'd quite often be trying,
36:59
trying to do one thing and I'd end up zooming off and that kind
37:03
of stuff. And I did find whilst the kind
37:05
of in flight stuff was quite mellow, I do, I do like a
37:09
floating and flying around kind of game.
37:12
But I found the transition from when you're flying to when
37:15
you're trying to land somewhere. I don't know whether I've just
37:17
got no skills, but try to land this bloody character.
37:21
I, I basically had to just crash land into the islands, which
37:25
kind of Jarred from the experience of it all being chill
37:28
and mellow because every kind of 30 seconds I'd be like, right,
37:31
brace, brace, brace and then crash land into the island.
37:36
But I anyway, I persisted with it and got to credits and I, I
37:39
did have a thoroughly nice time. I always when I'm playing a game
37:44
on stream and I let the credits roll and I have a little think
37:47
and I'd give it my score out of 10.
37:49
And if I'm honest, it probably only gets a 5 or 6 out of 10.
37:54
I think we're, so we're so accustomed to that associating
37:58
that kind of a score with being, oh, it must be trash.
38:01
It's a 5 or 6 out of 10 and it's a perfectly serviceable 5 or 6
38:05
out of 10. You know, it's not a game.
38:06
I'd go out and say everyone must play it.
38:09
If you've got a couple of hours and it's in your backlog, then
38:13
it's perfectly serviceable. So that one was, that one is now
38:17
done and ticked off, uninstalled.
38:20
And then I finished another one called She Sees Red, which is
38:24
one of these kind of FMV story kind of games where basically,
38:31
you know, choose your own adventure.
38:32
You'll essentially be watching a movie and then a choice will
38:37
come up as to what you do and then you click a button and then
38:41
it'll branch off into the next part of the story.
38:44
So I expect in particular, Stuart will be the kind of game
38:48
that drives you mad because you're like, I've done 10 inputs
38:52
and then I've finished the game. But for a lazy gamer like me,
38:56
it's perfect because I can just sit down essentially watch a
38:59
movie and feel like I'm feel like I'm interacting with it.
39:03
And I've, I've played a fair few of these over the years.
39:08
And actually this one, even though it is very short, is done
39:12
a lot better. The the early ones that I
39:15
played, whenever you got to a decision point, the whole thing
39:18
would kind of stop. And then when he made your
39:21
choice, you'd, you'd kind of get this kind of conscious loading
39:24
of the next bit. And it would be not a not a
39:27
seamless experience at all. You'd really feel the way that
39:32
the game was constructed, whereas this one was filmed.
39:35
It was filmed really beautifully.
39:37
And the transitions when you've made a choice would, would just
39:40
flow really nicely. So it really was like watching a
39:43
movie. Like, I think Netflix did one,
39:45
didn't they? I think it was Banda Snatch,
39:47
yeah. Yeah, Banda Snatch.
39:49
That's right, yeah, You'd just sit.
39:50
You'd sit there with your controller and you'd make
39:53
choices and it was, it was, it was kind of not, not as good as
39:57
that, but it was, it was really well done.
40:00
It was kind of, it was done in Russian language.
40:02
You could have a very bad dub. Or you could have it in native
40:07
Russian with subtitles. So I went for the authentic
40:09
experience. So there's lots of scary, scary
40:13
Russian folk based in a nightclub.
40:16
So there's lots of booming music and interesting lights.
40:19
And I, I found it really good fun.
40:21
It was a romp. It's one of these where you can
40:23
go back and get multiple endings depending on the choices that
40:26
you'd made. But for me that I always find
40:29
that contrived. I like to play these games once,
40:32
get my ending, make my choices and not go back and see what
40:35
would have happened if I'd done something different because that
40:39
would have felt like busy work, just like grinding through to
40:41
see all the alternatives. So I got that one finished and
40:45
again uninstalled. And then I've there's two others
40:49
that I've tried and I'm, I'm a little bit frustrated because
40:53
I've got my Lenovo Legion go handheld.
40:58
And the way I'd seen this year panning out would be that I'd
41:02
install a bunch of stuff on the handheld, give it a kind of
41:04
first try, first half an hour of a game, have a little look, see
41:08
if that's something that I'd like.
41:09
And then if I do like it, either start again or proceed on on the
41:15
desktop and and probably on a stream.
41:18
But so many of the games in the epic library don't have cloud
41:23
saves. I finally got to the bottom of
41:25
it. I was struggling with a couple
41:27
thinking it just wasn't doing it properly.
41:29
But now I've found the the settings in each individual
41:32
game. I think if you if you right
41:35
click or go into the menu options of the the specific game
41:39
rather than Epic itself and whether it's manage options or
41:43
settings or whatever. But you will see there is a
41:46
cloud save option that only shows if that game supports it.
41:52
So I've run into the problem a few times and thought it isn't
41:54
working. And I've tried to kind of like
41:56
reboot things and change settings and all of this kind of
41:58
stuff. And I finally, finally got to
42:00
the bottom of it. And so there's two games that
42:03
I've done this kind of process with.
42:05
So one is Into the Breach and the other is Backpack Hero, both
42:09
of which I'm really liking and, and actually played a good few
42:14
hours of each on the handheld and thought, great, this is
42:16
good. I'm going to carry on on desktop
42:18
and I can't do it. So they'll be confined to kind
42:23
of off stream handheld sessions and I'll probably talk more
42:26
about them in future episodes. I'll just mention what they are
42:31
so into. Into the Breach is a kind of
42:35
like a mini XCOM. It's really highly rated and you
42:39
essentially load onto a map. You've got 3 characters that you
42:43
control that have got different attributes and a bunch of
42:46
enemies that are trying to destroy you and destroy
42:49
buildings. And you've got a, you've got a
42:51
little task each time, you know, fend off, fend off the enemy for
42:56
however many turns or destroy all the enemies or protect this
43:00
particular part of the map. And you just have your turns.
43:04
Everybody's got, you know, a certain amount of movement and a
43:06
certain amount of damage they can do.
43:08
And it's, it's very puzzly, very, very puzzly.
43:11
It's, it's quite a small grid that you're on.
43:13
So you're not, you're not marching around.
43:14
It's, it's almost like chess, almost like those chess puzzles
43:20
you get in the newspaper. But it's, it's really good, very
43:23
addictive. And it's caught a little bit
43:26
rogue light as well, in that you'll do a run, you'll die and
43:32
it's kind of all over. But for the start of your next
43:35
run, you can maintain one of your 3 characters from the
43:39
previous run. So what you'll find is that you
43:42
you do your first run, you die pretty much instantly, but you
43:45
can keep whichever of the characters you'd you'd managed
43:48
to get the most progress on. And then your next one you'll do
43:50
a bit better. And then as you go through the
43:53
levels, you get various perks, doing more damage, moving
43:56
further or what, whatever it might be.
43:59
So it's kind of rewarding. The replay thing.
44:02
It might have been quite frustrating otherwise, but I'm
44:04
finding myself strengthening up, so I'm going to play more of
44:07
that. And then Backpack Hero is a
44:11
really cute little game. It's it's like a deck builder.
44:16
So in the in the same kind of same sort of vein as Slay the
44:20
Spire and that six sided dice game.
44:24
I can't remember the name Astraya that I talked about in
44:27
January, but there's no cards. So you essentially got a
44:31
backpack that starts with a three by three grid, and you'll
44:35
have a A1 by two sword, A2 by two shield, and a one by two
44:41
meal in your backpack. So it starts off full.
44:44
And then you go through a dungeon and make choices about
44:46
where you go, and it might be an enemy or it might be a treasure
44:48
chest, etcetera. And you've got to proceed
44:50
through a dungeon, go through your encounters and then kind of
44:54
escape, escape the other side of it.
44:57
But rather than collecting cards, what happens when you're
45:01
in battle is you've got a certain amount of energies and
45:03
you just click on things in your backpack.
45:05
So your sword might cost 1 energy to use, the food might
45:09
replenish your energy, and the shield will give you some kind
45:12
of block attributes but will have a cost to using it.
45:16
And then as you go through, you build up more backpack space and
45:20
you find more things that can go in your backpack and that all of
45:23
the things have different attributes.
45:27
And quite a lot of it is all about the organisation of the
45:30
backpack. So you might have heavy items
45:32
that when you put them in the backpack, they sink to the
45:34
bottom and light items that float to the top.
45:37
And there's all sorts of like, if this is adjacent to that,
45:41
then the other thing will get a perk.
45:43
So you end it ends up being this kind of interesting backpack
45:50
packing experience, but it's just a really nice novel way of
45:54
of delivering the kind of usual variety you get in that kind of
45:59
game, but in a totally different way.
46:02
So that's another one that I'll be playing more of.
46:05
And that's it for me in the last three weeks.
46:07
Yeah, OK. And no klaxons.
46:11
No. No klaxons, although I mean, I
46:14
might get to it in the questions.
46:16
I found myself yesterday feeling very, very stuck with what to
46:21
play. And so I've had this little
46:24
little slap around the face of reality about what this will
46:27
might entail. So I think I've got through that
46:30
initial period of like, oh, this is fun.
46:32
You know, old games are the new, new games, whereas now I'm just
46:37
stuck with the same old games. And I'm starting because I
46:41
played Rocket League last night because I, I couldn't find
46:44
anything else that I wanted to play which would, which would
46:47
have normally been a purchase. So more on that in a bit.
46:50
But yeah, it's getting real. What level?
46:54
Are you US? What?
46:55
Level in Rocket League. So there's, there's two
46:57
different things. There's there's your, your
46:58
general ranking, which is your, you know, basically how skilled
47:01
you are and, and who you match against.
47:04
So I'm at diamond level there. And then there's AXP level,
47:08
which is, you know, how many goals you've scored and how many
47:11
games you've played. And I'm embarrassingly level
47:14
3348. If I look at my stats, I've,
47:19
I've played too much of my life like a genuine, you know, you
47:24
start looking at things like how long have you been married?
47:28
It's it's kind of up there with that kind of thing.
47:33
I watched you last night playing and I have tried the game and I
47:37
realised quickly I am extremely bad at this game.
47:40
But watching you play you, you like you and your teammate,
47:45
whoever offers around or somebody you knew you were
47:48
really good play in this. It was really impressive to
47:51
watch the game and two players. So you were covering the back a
47:54
lot while he was trying to do at the front and you're you're
47:56
covering. It was really good, worked
47:58
really well. I was quite impressed because I
48:00
don't usually watch I'm crap the game, why would I watch it?
48:04
But yeah, it was really good to watch you.
48:06
I learned a lot about the game. I was good levels within it.
48:10
Yeah, yeah, there's levels within it.
48:12
So like if I, you know, my boys started playing it and he's at
48:16
the very kind of base levels of bronze.
48:18
And it's, it's frustrating to watch, to watch him play because
48:21
it's like, oh, why would you do that?
48:22
And oh, you need to jump earlier and all of this kind of stuff.
48:25
And then you like, once you put in tonnes of hours, you get to
48:27
my level where you can do things relatively competently.
48:31
But there's levels and levels and levels and levels above
48:33
where there's just gets to the stage where people who are
48:36
really good looks like they're playing an entirely different
48:40
game because it's all, everything they do is airborne.
48:43
And I don't know how they'd manage it with, yeah, you've
48:46
only got a certain amount of boost, but they, they just
48:48
mastered the controls to such a level that they, they're
48:51
literally playing on a different dimension to, to everyone else.
48:55
It was really, I found impressive.
48:57
Anyway, watching yesterday. It was quite good, very good you
49:02
mentioned. Which was the the like the the
49:05
full motion video one are are you 100% fluent in Russian?
49:12
I'm not OK, but enough to get by on the game.
49:14
Yeah. Well, no, no, no.
49:16
It was, it was subtitled. It was subtitled.
49:18
So I had, I had the Russian language just so it felt
49:21
authentic. But no, the only words I know is
49:24
I can say coffee or pejolsta which makes a coffee please.
49:28
That's that's about as that's about all I can do.
49:31
Right. OK, you should have.
49:33
You should have gone yet instead of no, yeah, I think it's now.
49:40
What have I been playing? So I've played, I haven't played
49:43
much. I've played some bilateral,
49:47
mainly on the planes flying backwards and forwards.
49:50
I think everybody knows what bilateral is.
49:52
It's poker type of game. You've got to try and collect as
49:55
many points as you can using the deck that you're given that you
49:58
could get boosts and stuff like that.
50:01
I don't know what it is with the game, but I play it rarely for
50:06
many reasons. I can't get into it for some
50:08
reason. I have no idea what's going on.
50:11
You give them random hands and I don't unders.
50:13
I don't understand. I know you get a boost and you
50:16
get a joker and there's all these different things, but I
50:18
can't do it. I know the whole just make the
50:20
numbers go up and that's all you have to do, but for the life of
50:23
me, I just cannot get into it. I'm not going to say the game is
50:26
boring, it's just it doesn't. There's nothing in it that
50:28
compels me to go back. And I know this game took over
50:32
people's lives because it was huge and people still love the
50:36
games. I put a lot of hours.
50:38
I cannot for the life of me see what's in this.
50:40
But anyway, that was Batro. You mentioned air memories of
50:45
old. So the game revolves around
50:48
somebody called Orc who can shapeshift a bird.
50:52
It's set on floating islands. The main character must solve
50:55
puzzles on discovery rooms. Where to start?
51:00
Let me see. The game is really pretty.
51:03
I liked the graphics really good.
51:06
Did you guys play this with controller or mouse and keyboard
51:10
or what Controller. So I played mouse and keyboard
51:14
stupidly, I think because it's a nightmare. the IT took me too
51:19
long to figure out the pulling back on the mouse or it did just
51:23
make your character look up and it didn't change direction for
51:26
flight. So I was plummeting and it
51:29
wasn't I wasn't going any place. It took me too long.
51:31
So A&D left and right WS up and down, but the mouse is just
51:37
viewing. I found the flying to be
51:40
extremely awkward with the keyboard you mentioned trying to
51:44
land. I would just try to get above
51:47
the island and then hit the button to stop you flying and
51:50
just plummet down to the ground and then.
51:54
Yeah. Half the time missed the island
51:55
and start flying again and go around again and try to do it
51:58
again over and over. It was so frustrating.
52:01
That's about that. Then the directions in the game.
52:05
Free start of the game, you're told you have to go to the
52:07
lighthouse. I don't know about you, but
52:10
lighthouses tend to have a light at the top of a house, a big,
52:13
tall, big tower. There's usually a light at the
52:14
top and like it's in the name, but the lighthouse in this game
52:18
doesn't. It's just a big tall tower.
52:21
But they said like, follow the kites and they'll bring you to
52:23
the lighthouse. So I was going round and round
52:25
and round and round looking for this lighthouse.
52:28
And then I would, oh, maybe it's way over there.
52:30
So I started exploring way off the set, first of islands
52:33
looking for this island for this thing.
52:35
It can't be out there. So I went on Google to try and
52:37
find out where the lighthouse was, only to find out it's on
52:39
the next island from where you started.
52:41
So I have to go all the way back and then you get to the got to
52:45
the bottom of the lighthouse and there's no characters there.
52:47
Like who am I supposed to talk to?
52:49
So I eventually explored the whole island.
52:51
Do you find somebody? Use that campfire a bit away
52:54
from it? So I got slightly frustrated
52:56
with the game to say the least. OK, did.
53:00
Either of you see in the game though, that if you're flying
53:03
around as a bird and you look in the sky, there's the the points
53:08
of interest are a different colour.
53:11
No. It's like a beam of light that
53:13
goes up into the sky. Did you not see that?
53:15
No. Yeah.
53:16
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Eventually.
53:18
Not initially. Yeah, OK.
53:21
Maybe I was just lucky that I spotted that First off and went,
53:23
oh, I'm going to go there. Yeah, yeah.
53:25
Yeah, and I think there's some subtle hints with the kind of
53:28
like vapour trails as well. I feel like the vapour trails
53:32
and wind directions are kind of signposting you, but it's but
53:35
it's it's kind of not obvious. So I think when you first see
53:39
all this stuff, you just think that that's a feature of of the
53:42
whole environment rather than a clue.
53:45
True. Very subtle, yeah.
53:47
Well, OK, well, that's what that means.
53:50
My my opinion, obviously it was too subtle for me.
53:56
It's like because I have down here, my next thing is the game
54:00
could be easily improved if they have destination markers on the
54:03
map or on the compass. Because I could not find
54:06
anything. I was just going round and round
54:08
and then to Google try what does the next section look.
54:10
I was like, oh, OK, I'll go there.
54:13
So I got extremely frustrated with and just there, but maybe
54:17
I'll go back and have a look and see if I can.
54:19
Now you said that there is actually indications of where
54:22
you're supposed to go. I can't.
54:24
Oh my God, I think it's. OK, for us to hate games that we
54:27
play, of course, yeah. Yeah.
54:28
No, we're not all middle of every game, Yeah.
54:31
Yeah, that was, Yeah. OK, Anyway, that's that game I
54:36
played God of War Ragnarok. I hope everybody knows that is,
54:41
but apparently it's the 9th installment in the series, the
54:44
10th chronologically. I don't know how that is, but
54:48
there you go. That's from Wikipedia.
54:49
I looked up earlier. The game is magnificent, it's
54:55
brilliant. I love to go the God of War
54:58
T18I, think it's the previous one.
55:00
The game is brilliant, it's huge.
55:03
It distracted me with so many side quests that I wanted to
55:08
check out and they read off. In the end.
55:10
When you do it, you've got more, more story in the background.
55:13
You got not just armour and stuff, but it's actually paid
55:17
off pretty well with the story and emotions that play through
55:21
in the play through in the game. I did avoid doing the
55:24
berserkers, which are basically the equivalent of the Valkyries
55:27
in the first game. So that's if you're going for
55:31
platinum or whatever I have doing them.
55:32
But I have completed the game and the most most of the side
55:35
quests and they were pretty excellent overall.
55:38
The sound that the game was excellent.
55:42
You know, you the spatial audio, you can hear characters that
55:46
might be on a different level. It might be even behind walls or
55:48
something. You know that there before you
55:50
get there. It was really good.
55:52
The battles were brilliant. They were really challenging.
55:56
And yeah, you can set at different levels.
55:59
I didn't play too much at the levels difficult, but well, I
56:03
remember from 2018 that some of the tougher battles, they go on
56:07
for a while. They're really good.
56:09
They're not cruel and you're not going to lose just because of a
56:13
stupid mistake they give. There's you have a mere giving
56:16
you hints and stuff one of the characters, but it is really,
56:20
really good. What wasn't great.
56:21
The game can get frustrating in places.
56:24
There's one level is so lush vegetation that trying to find
56:29
hidden passageways or trying to get to the next section is
56:32
really difficult because you can't see them.
56:34
There's like it's not that quite that they can kind trees, but it
56:37
feels like it a lot of the time and just you can't figure out
56:40
where you can climb or you can see place you can get to and you
56:44
know you can get there this treasure chest, but the way to
56:47
get there is by going basically walking well away from that area
56:51
and finding another route back. I found that quite frustrating,
56:55
but that that means that the game is really good for all the
56:59
story. It meanders a little bit,
57:02
especially in the middle. You when you're playing, you
57:05
start to wonder why you're doing what you're doing.
57:07
They give you like goals and stuff but like the story isn't
57:10
complicated but they sort of lose what they're why they're
57:14
doing or why you're doing what you're doing.
57:16
The world itself is extremely pretty, but it is really just
57:19
one big long corridor. Each world you got to it's just
57:22
like 1 long corridor and there's interesting side rooms on that.
57:25
They don't look like rooms because it looks like it's open
57:27
world and stuff, but it is basically just a big white room
57:30
of a white corridor. So you're going into enclosed
57:33
sections every time. Did it annoy?
57:35
You that the tree isn't fully opened up like you know.
57:39
You know, the tree that takes you to the different worlds of
57:41
that tree that. You just never get to go to.
57:43
Those points of it and you think yes come on was that supposed to
57:46
be DLC when's that going to open and and they just never done
57:49
anything with it you know it just it was always locked off
57:52
and that annoyed me a wee bit yeah I think it maybe it's going
57:55
to be deal that well it. Was going to be DLC but yeah at
57:59
the moment now it's going to happen.
58:00
It doesn't look like any I think you never know what Sony maybe
58:04
they'll open any higher back to point into it.
58:06
I don't know It's like there is 2 endings in the game.
58:13
There's like the when you hit the first set of credits going
58:16
up, if you keep like you can play while the credit is going,
58:19
which hopefully people found was odd.
58:22
But in keeping or wandering around and talking to
58:25
characters. And if you do, you get told to
58:27
try and go to something which if you've liked any other
58:32
characters to wait through, you'll probably go along to
58:34
afterwards and try not to get into spoilers.
58:36
If you keep playing and go to this occasion that happens
58:39
afterwards, there's a huge emotional payoff that for us and
58:42
it brings you to the true ending.
58:43
At the end of it. You start to think what would
58:45
have happened next with Kratos and Atreus or what and who's
58:49
going to be the next bad guy or whatever in this because things
58:53
change and it I don't know. I found it really, really good
58:57
and quite emotional at the end because I could, but it was
59:00
quite a good game. I have to admit the original
59:03
games tighter as far less fuss about, but at the ending doesn't
59:07
hit anywhere near as well. And I'm so happy to see that
59:10
Atreus has finally grown up and it's not a whiny little gift
59:13
anymore. So 1 1/2 game, it's that whiny
59:16
gift. Very good game.
59:18
I would love to have seen them go.
59:20
I well, I hope ultimately they will go further with this, but
59:23
you never know. Well, unlikely probably.
59:26
Let me see this here next OK Arc Raiders.
59:32
I mentioned this in the Oh yes in the chat.
59:37
I bought arc Raiders. I want to play arc Raiders do
59:40
not make me sell and have to manage my the crap that I've
59:45
picked up. I know it's my fault I picked up
59:47
so much crap. I do free loaders because I'm
59:50
too scared of losing my loaders and then it wouldn't let me play
59:53
because I have too much stuff in my inventory.
59:56
I have to go and watch, watch videos on what character, what I
59:59
should keep, what I should sell, how to spot the difference
1:00:02
between what's crap valuable, how to highlight what you need
1:00:06
to keep for missions or whatever.
1:00:08
Oh my God, I just want to play the freaking game.
1:00:11
Let me play. If they could get rid of the
1:00:14
inventory and just let me go out and start shooting people,
1:00:16
that's really good. And our creators is excellent
1:00:19
attention when you play. So good attention just builds
1:00:23
with it. If you don't know who's going to
1:00:24
come against you, there's another arc Raider or the arc.
1:00:31
Raider over there basically and it's.
1:00:33
I don't. I find the game extremely
1:00:35
intense. I am my wife can hear me playing
1:00:37
this game coming down and say stop, what are you doing?
1:00:41
Because you can hear me fretting.
1:00:42
But because I'm playing the game, I'm just like, yeah, so
1:00:46
the game is brilliant. Just let me play the game,
1:00:48
please. But anyway, yeah, so if I
1:00:51
extended my inventory, I've got 24 slots so I can go playing
1:00:55
until I fill them up and I will do it's good.
1:00:58
And then the final thing I paid is a small bit of blueprints.
1:01:02
Oh yes, OK, ice, that came out free last.
1:01:06
Year. Day one and somebody on Reddit
1:01:09
or something said day one games on PS Now or PS Plus only tend
1:01:14
to last a year and they should be leaving.
1:01:16
So I thought I'll let's open up and try it.
1:01:19
If you haven't played this, it's I took this off Wikipedia as
1:01:23
well. The game challenges the player
1:01:25
explore a mansion with ever shifting rooms and they change
1:01:28
every day. So you basically go from one
1:01:31
room to the next and you get a choice of dreams that you can
1:01:34
pick that as you build out your floor pan.
1:01:37
There are 45 rooms in the mansion and your challenge is to
1:01:40
get to the 46th. Let's be awkward about it.
1:01:44
Yeah. So there's loads of puzzles and
1:01:47
stuff in the game to play, and this may be in depth of my state
1:01:50
of mind, but I did. I do love puzzle games.
1:01:54
I swear I found it extremely frustrating as well.
1:01:56
Like the first run through of this, the map is what's 45?
1:02:01
So you've got 5 by 9. It's not 9 or whatever.
1:02:07
Yeah, that's it. Yeah.
1:02:08
And then you've got the one extra room that you're.
1:02:10
Trying to get to so I got as far as the sixth level back on it.
1:02:13
So I thought my first one, this is really good.
1:02:15
And then you just sort of end up with loads of closed doors and
1:02:20
you've every time I go back I got so I lost that many further
1:02:24
because I closed doors, I couldn't progress.
1:02:26
So the day ended. But every time I go back, I
1:02:28
don't get anywhere near as far. I had one run I had I think it
1:02:32
was 33 steps. I had only one choice of all my
1:02:36
doors are closed except for one. So I open up and I get a choice
1:02:39
of three rooms. Two of them are basically a dead
1:02:43
ends. So you've got like a bedroom or
1:02:45
closet or something. And then the other one was give
1:02:48
me a choice of three exits. I thought that's brilliant
1:02:51
whenever you've got to be open, so go further.
1:02:54
But the problem with the room that you lose half your steps, I
1:02:56
think it's the gym. So you lose your half your steps
1:02:58
and you walk in. So my 33 dropped down to 16 or
1:03:01
15, walk in and all three doors are locked.
1:03:05
I'm like, Oh my God, no keys. I can't buy keys because I've
1:03:07
got enough coins. So I'm stuck.
1:03:08
That's just the end of the game. So I have to get redo again.
1:03:11
Finding it frustrating. The reason is I don't think
1:03:15
there's music in the game at all because it's just there is this
1:03:19
kind of semi. Atmospheric music, but it it
1:03:22
comes on and off. You might, you might want to
1:03:24
look into settings. But no, you're right.
1:03:25
Yeah, I found I found the music to be quite subtle, but it's
1:03:31
it's nice because it does start playing and you're like, oh,
1:03:33
what is happening? There's something here.
1:03:35
It seems to, yeah, seems to come on at the right.
1:03:38
Moments. I've like I've solved some of
1:03:40
the puzzles the. Dartboard and stuff.
1:03:43
Because I found the magnifying glass, I learned some things
1:03:46
that I want to kill back and play it now, but I'm finally
1:03:51
extremely frustrating. I had thought maybe play a
1:03:54
podcast I'm being but then I won't be doing either just well,
1:03:57
not podcast, just I won't be doing the game just as no, I
1:04:00
thought I would like a bit more music in it, but it is good.
1:04:04
It's just extremely frustrating or extremely cruel.
1:04:09
I know people played in many, many hours.
1:04:12
It's a super, super interesting game and I.
1:04:14
There's so much I want to say to you, but it's difficult because
1:04:19
because that's part of the secrets of the game.
1:04:21
I think the one thing that that I'd suggest is if if it in your
1:04:26
mindset, you don't treat it like a I'm going to finish it.
1:04:31
This run, you treat it very much like a roguelike, and whatever
1:04:36
you do on any run, like take. Note of what you're what you're
1:04:42
doing. And what you're learning and if
1:04:43
you try different things on each run, it will pay back.
1:04:46
Even if it comes to nothing on that run, things will slot into
1:04:51
place and it. Because I because.
1:04:53
I, I was the same. I I, I was actually, I started
1:04:56
playing on holiday on a handheld and I was treating it very much
1:05:01
like I need to get to the end of the path.
1:05:05
And I was every run I was trying to strategize how can I get to
1:05:08
the end on this run? And it was only after I'd failed
1:05:11
a lot of times and sort of similar kind of frustrations
1:05:13
like, oh, this is really hard and this is this just RNG as to
1:05:17
whether I'm going to do it and then just through.
1:05:22
Kind of volume of playing. It suddenly clicked that
1:05:26
actually it didn't matter whether I got to the end because
1:05:31
and learn something new and like fundamental.
1:05:34
And it's like now I've got to play again because I know I know
1:05:37
something different now. And that get that payback keeps
1:05:40
happening. It's not like one or two times
1:05:42
that payback keeps happening and you're like, holy shit, this,
1:05:46
this is a completely different beast to what I thought it was
1:05:49
two hours ago. OK, I will go back.
1:05:51
I will go back. Yeah, I'm aware of this like
1:05:55
huge amount of game and then when you finish the game,
1:05:57
there's more a game afterwards. But I was getting frustrated.
1:06:01
I maybe it's, as you say, like a.
1:06:03
Rogue treated like a rogue like, a rogue like or a yeah, yeah,
1:06:08
yeah, like a Souls game. You just just expect that you're
1:06:11
going to die and then you die. You learn 100%.
1:06:14
And it also pays to have a notebook.
1:06:16
To hand because you'll learn things and you'll, you'll see
1:06:19
things that that there's no chance that you'll remember.
1:06:23
So I ended up with an Excel spreadsheet and I was screen
1:06:26
grabbing stuff and just putting like, I've, you know, I've seen
1:06:28
this bit piece of paper and this looks very useful, but I have no
1:06:32
idea what for. I'm just, I just dump everything
1:06:34
on there and it, it became almost like a detective game in
1:06:38
the end. Like this is no spoilers, but
1:06:41
the way I was playing it, it's like a detective game.
1:06:43
So it's like I've got so much evidence and I don't know when
1:06:46
I'm going to need it, but I know that this might be helpful
1:06:48
sometime. I just have visions of next
1:06:51
month, next month when we. Record we'll have.
1:06:53
Brian with the board behind him with all the red thread.
1:06:57
Screenshot the screenshot you know.
1:06:59
Yeah, yeah. My dear stalker.
1:07:02
Hat on smoking my bad Rathbone pipe.
1:07:08
But yeah, so it's showing my age that he's.
1:07:11
Not the Sherlock I think of. Yeah, but yeah, so the case
1:07:17
good. I just that time I ended up in
1:07:22
that room with I thought, you know, edits freeze could be one
1:07:24
open and they didn't. I have I almost lost it.
1:07:27
So yeah, that's so I'll go back. Yeah, I'm learning each time I'm
1:07:33
learning each time it'll be my new mantra.
1:07:38
But that's that's all I've played, I think Yeah, OK, that's
1:07:42
it. Right yourself.
1:07:44
So I've got I've got about 10 games on my list this month.
1:07:47
The 1st 2 are boulders getting clear, obscure, which I'm still,
1:07:50
you know, pushing through, just taking over.
1:07:53
They get the odd bit of love every now and then.
1:07:55
The the weekly racing fund with mates.
1:07:58
I haven't managed to attend many of the weekly episodes or
1:08:02
sessions this month because I've been, you know, travelling a bit
1:08:05
and and busy with work meetings and so on.
1:08:07
But Rec fest is still up there. I think I managed to play one
1:08:10
game this month with them. Still loads of fun.
1:08:14
Still nowhere near the front of the the queue on every race.
1:08:17
I'm I'm always last but enjoying being last.
1:08:22
Do you all play the same car? No God, no.
1:08:26
No, everyone. The other guys know exactly What
1:08:28
Car goes with what track and I just pick one and floor it and
1:08:34
see how far I get, you know, and end up in this crumpled wreck at
1:08:37
the end of the game. Just take take out the bus and
1:08:40
go the wrong way round. And frustrate everything.
1:08:42
I've got the massive big truck as well.
1:08:44
It's always fun. To to go on the truck when
1:08:47
everyone else is in minis. Yeah, so.
1:08:52
That was that's. The the standard sort of I think
1:08:55
those three games are going to be near the top of the list for
1:08:58
most of the next sort of what's it nine months that we got left?
1:09:04
But I then moved on to my my list of ones that I want to work
1:09:08
through. And the first one I picked was
1:09:11
Batman, the Telltale season series.
1:09:15
And, and you know, back to Rich's comment about me not
1:09:19
being a fan of these sorts of games.
1:09:22
In my, in my notes that I've written beside each of these
1:09:24
games that I've played, I've got 3 words written down.
1:09:28
And it just says bored me shitless because I honestly, I
1:09:35
didn't see the point in this. You know, it was, it was just
1:09:37
watching the story and clicking A or clicking B every so often.
1:09:41
And I just, I went through all, I think there's there's a 5 or 6
1:09:45
episodes in in the thing. So I went through all of them,
1:09:49
got to the end. But.
1:09:51
It's off the list now and I should have known because
1:09:55
Telltale Games in the past, I've, I've tried a couple of
1:09:58
them and they're just not for me.
1:09:59
I understand, you know, that they're quite rich storylines
1:10:03
and the story does branch as you make the various decisions, but
1:10:07
not the sort of game that I I plan on playing much of.
1:10:11
So that was one that was completed but not enjoyed the.
1:10:20
Second game I then moved on to was I went back to.
1:10:22
Brigador, which I think I've mentioned on some of our
1:10:25
previous episodes, it, it's like a, a 3D or, or what's it
1:10:31
isometric view map where you're given either a, a, a like a, a
1:10:38
mech or a tank or something else and you're told to go and do a
1:10:40
mission on the map and, and basically the mission equates to
1:10:44
blow everything you see up and don't get killed yourself.
1:10:48
So it's, I'm enjoying playing it.
1:10:50
I mean, it's, it's the menus are fairly rough.
1:10:53
The game itself is fairly rough. It's not certainly not a AAA
1:10:56
Polish title and it's it's not the same game, but it definitely
1:11:04
gives me syndicate satellite rain type vibes.
1:11:08
You know, I think it's the the isometric view.
1:11:10
It's the fact that it's in the future, the style of the
1:11:12
graphics that the the the selected are, are quite
1:11:16
syndicate looking. And I'm about 50% of the way
1:11:20
through the campaign on that one.
1:11:21
But I'm enjoying it. You know, it's, it's, it's, it's
1:11:23
really worth while having a look at if you like those sort of,
1:11:27
you know, futuristic isometric style games.
1:11:34
And then I, I moved on to playing Sackboy, a big
1:11:39
adventure, which I know was on the I think it was a monthly
1:11:41
game last year. Yes, it was again.
1:11:47
You know it, it gives, it gives little big.
1:11:49
Planet vibes, obviously, because it's a Sackboy game, it gives
1:11:52
Astrobot vibes as well, because the, the, the style of the music
1:11:58
and the style of the, of the, of the graphics are, are very
1:12:00
Astrobotish and I, I love the music.
1:12:03
You know any any game that's got Depeche Mode is a theme song for
1:12:07
one of the the levels is always going to get an award in in my
1:12:09
book, but the the later. Levels are.
1:12:15
Hard as nails, man. It was brutal, but I finished it
1:12:20
and so you know, I got was it you finished credits?
1:12:25
Yeah. Yeah.
1:12:26
Oh well done. I got so frustrated with that
1:12:28
game. So did I.
1:12:33
Yeah, like I say, those last levels really, you know, you end
1:12:36
up playing the same level just over and over and over again,
1:12:40
trying to beat the damn thing, but got all the way through,
1:12:43
rolled the credits, post credits, there's like another
1:12:46
world that opens up. I didn't go and do that, but
1:12:51
rolled credits, it counts as a as a completion in my book.
1:12:54
Yeah, the seventh game I selected again is one that has
1:13:01
been on the list there. I don't know where it came from
1:13:03
on my list. It certainly must have been a
1:13:06
freebie because I don't recall ever buying it.
1:13:08
There's one called Is it XL or Zell or Yeah, it might be Zell
1:13:14
because the the reviews of it say it's a Zelda clone, but it's
1:13:18
spelled XELII. Didn't get Zelda vibes from it
1:13:23
though. I mean, if anything, it gave me
1:13:27
the same sort of vibes as that. You know, there was a there was
1:13:30
a Tomb Raider game that came out that was like a an isometric
1:13:34
viewpoint was a Tomb Raider and the staff of the Cyrus or
1:13:38
something like that. One of those yes, yes, yes, yes,
1:13:41
yes, yes. I.
1:13:42
Think it was like a mobile game? That moved to.
1:13:45
To the the various platforms after it was was published.
1:13:49
This has got the same sort of vibe as that it's honestly the
1:13:55
game itself is a bit of a buggy mess.
1:13:57
I kept falling through the world map.
1:14:01
I couldn't even start the final stage of it until I dropped the
1:14:04
graphics quality down a notch. I was running it in high plus
1:14:08
and I had to drop it down to high just to get the the the
1:14:11
actual final level to trigger. The voice acting and the story
1:14:17
are complete garbage. The maps annoying but but after
1:14:23
that. But despite all of that.
1:14:25
I I actually enjoyed. Playing it and I completed it as
1:14:28
well. It only took like well done 10
1:14:31
and a bit hours to complete. But yeah, I'm I'm probably not
1:14:35
doing the best to sell it. You, you said all that about
1:14:42
the, the graphics stopping, well, not great, The the bugs
1:14:46
and stuff and you still spend 10 hours in the game.
1:14:48
Yeah, yeah. Well, I don't really start that.
1:14:51
I might as well finish. It you know.
1:14:55
There's one or two of the. Little you, you find these
1:14:57
little chests scattered around the world and you have to open
1:15:00
them up to unlock various things.
1:15:03
And two of the chests, every time I triggered the opening
1:15:06
action, I would just plummet through the through the the
1:15:09
world and just fall to my death like a track and like rather
1:15:13
than a chest. And it turned out I had to.
1:15:16
Stand 2 pixels. Further to the left and I was
1:15:19
standing when I when I triggered the opening and it was like,
1:15:22
come on. I mean really honestly, but you
1:15:26
know, you work your way through it you get to the end in the end
1:15:28
and and you're all credits. So once I've done that, I then
1:15:35
thought. OK.
1:15:35
Let's go back to the the old retro list that I've got and
1:15:39
let's work through some of those.
1:15:42
And I thought, you know, what would be great is if I could
1:15:43
finish playing Boulder Dash on the Commodore 64.
1:15:48
So I fired up Boulder Dash and I realised that my reflexes are
1:15:53
about 20 years too old to play this game because I, I got
1:15:59
through the 1st 6:00 or so levels and then beyond that it
1:16:02
was just not going to happen. I just, I couldn't do it.
1:16:06
So I closed that down. And I went.
1:16:09
Looking for an Amstrad CPC 464 game.
1:16:11
Found Alienate by Ultimate from 1985.
1:16:18
I had played this in the past but never got anywhere near
1:16:20
finishing. And it's it's a bit like again
1:16:24
there's there seems to be a pattern here.
1:16:25
My style of game I enjoy playing seems to be isometric 2 1/2 D
1:16:30
type games. This is another one of those.
1:16:33
You start off as a as a little robot in space.
1:16:36
You go through individual rooms. You got to have pixel perfect
1:16:40
jump requirements. But it's it's a fun game.
1:16:46
You know, I, I did have to use fast save, fast load and a
1:16:51
published game map, which I don't think the game map existed
1:16:54
back in 1980580687 when I would have been playing it in order to
1:16:59
work my way through to the end, but got to the end saw the end
1:17:04
screen. There's no real credits that
1:17:05
roll on these games because they were produced by a team of two
1:17:08
people. So there's no point doing
1:17:10
credits for that, but but you get the end screen, it tells you
1:17:14
you've finished it and and so that's another one on the list
1:17:17
of of games that were well done, right stuff.
1:17:22
And then I thought, let's look at some.
1:17:23
Amiga 500 games. Because you know, when it comes
1:17:26
to retro games, the Amiga 500 is certainly up there as as having
1:17:30
some of the best games around for for that generation.
1:17:34
So I loaded up Xenon 2 Mega Blast.
1:17:37
Anyone that ever owned an Amiga would have most definitely had
1:17:40
this game. There's no way in hell you're
1:17:43
ever going to finish it. You know, impossible to finish
1:17:47
it because some of those levels are are just bullet hell.
1:17:51
It's a it's a a vertical scrolling shoot em up.
1:17:54
OK, yeah, with, you know, all the power ups and.
1:17:58
Things that you would normally expect from.
1:17:59
A from a game in the arcades at the time.
1:18:01
The difference from this one though, is that not only does it
1:18:03
scroll up, but you can actually Scroll down if you want to.
1:18:07
So you can go backwards through the map and then revert back and
1:18:10
go up a different stream. So some of the some of the
1:18:12
levels will branch and you you end up getting to a dead end and
1:18:15
you have to come back a bit and then go back up and, and go up
1:18:18
the other stream. So a great, great sort of
1:18:22
quality of, of game. Definitely the soundtrack blew
1:18:27
people's minds back in 1989. And I know I shared you as I was
1:18:31
playing this game. I don't know if any any of you
1:18:33
went and looked at the video of it.
1:18:35
It's the the soundtrack was done by bomb the bass amazing.
1:18:40
It's it's a really. Good song, you know.
1:18:43
It really gets you going. Bloody hard game, but lots of
1:18:47
fun. So I really enjoyed my time with
1:18:49
that one, but never ever going to be able to complete it.
1:18:52
No, that's attitude anyway. Yeah.
1:18:59
So that was my that was. My games yeah so right now I
1:19:02
mean in terms of games completed this year I've I've just hit 12
1:19:05
of them completed which is probably about 12 more than I
1:19:09
thought I would do that's amazing I.
1:19:14
There's not. A lot on there that I would have
1:19:16
looked at sort of in before doing this exercise.
1:19:20
So in terms of is it worthwhile doing?
1:19:24
I still think that I'm really enjoying myself doing this and
1:19:28
I'm certainly playing a lot of games that I wouldn't have
1:19:30
played otherwise, but yeah. That was my month.
1:19:36
So, Brian, what are your plans to play next?
1:19:38
Anything. Thank goodness you're here.
1:19:41
I've opened up. I'm going.
1:19:42
To look at that for next month good game very good fully yeah
1:19:46
you're. Saying this is quite fun some.
1:19:48
Everybody said it's funny and of course morbid fear that I'll go
1:19:52
in and think no, this is not funny, this is crap.
1:19:54
How could these people think this is funny?
1:19:56
But and I played their previous game and the unforgotten.
1:20:02
Garden is it or something? I did like it up earlier, but
1:20:06
the human quite over the top, quite gross and quite.
1:20:18
Have you have any of you played their previous game?
1:20:20
I don't think I did no. It's.
1:20:25
Unique. It's very, very.
1:20:28
It is very. Oh, the good Time Garden is what
1:20:33
it's called. OK, It's a game that's very
1:20:36
moist. Let's.
1:20:37
Put it like that. The Good Time Garden it's free
1:20:40
on steam if anybody wants to play it.
1:20:42
OK, well they recommend this. I'm not sure, but this is
1:20:44
interesting to play. It's.
1:20:49
I might even go. Try and describe it.
1:20:50
Just go watch a watch a video. I I'm reading the the blurb now
1:20:54
and the blurb on steam. Says explore a throbbing pink
1:20:56
world full of strange naked creatures to gather food for
1:21:00
your friend in this short, surreal experience.
1:21:03
Yes. That's a game you cannot play on
1:21:05
a plane. Is it?
1:21:07
No, no. It's, oh God, it's, it's unique,
1:21:12
definitely unique. And it's full of the really
1:21:15
weird sounds. Yeah.
1:21:17
You're not going to play. You'll be playing with
1:21:19
headphones anyway. So go watch, go play this game.
1:21:22
Somebody. The good time Garden is their
1:21:25
their previous game and reckons this from what I played a little
1:21:31
bit of what it sounds, sounds or looks a bit like that, except
1:21:35
it's less pink. But yeah, so I'm looking for
1:21:38
playing that and hopefully it'll be funny.
1:21:41
I hope so. I'm going to play more
1:21:42
blueprints and I think I'll go to Witcher 3 told me that but I
1:21:52
think I'll sign more with. Tridium, I'm not.
1:21:54
Quite halfway through it, but I'll play a bit more of that.
1:21:56
I think that's what's going to take my interest next.
1:21:59
We'll see. Well, thank goodness you're
1:22:01
here. I mean, there's a lot of subtle
1:22:03
humour happening. In it so you have to look at
1:22:04
what's happening on the screen because things change from from
1:22:08
you're entering a screen one time to the next OK, it is very
1:22:12
funny I mean there's. There's a hint of vis.
1:22:14
Style humour in there, you know, you definitely get you get the
1:22:18
idea that. These guys have read.
1:22:19
Viz at least. So it's a little bit crude, it's
1:22:22
a little bit funny, but but yeah, it's enjoyable.
1:22:26
The characters voices are quite good.
1:22:27
So I've enjoyed that. Well, I've seen them anyway.
1:22:30
So yeah, it's good. Excellent.
1:22:32
So how about you? Rich.
1:22:35
Whether you got any plans for games?
1:22:38
Yeah, so I've got myself about halfway.
1:22:41
Through Mafia 2, which I'm really enjoying.
1:22:45
So I think I'll I'll press on with that a little bit.
1:22:48
And then I was saying earlier in my kind of epic cloud saves
1:22:52
adventures, I have found some games that will play both on the
1:22:57
handheld and on the PC and save between the two and Outer Worlds
1:23:02
is on there, which is a game that I have started and enjoyed
1:23:06
and inexplicably fell off a few years back.
1:23:10
So I might well fire that one up as well as as well as carrying.
1:23:16
On with a bit of backpack. Hero and into the Breach, but
1:23:18
that will be handheld only. So I think those, those will be
1:23:22
my areas of focus. I like landed on outer worlds
1:23:25
because I've, I've mentioned I've kind of got that feeling of
1:23:27
I, I kind of need, I feel like I need something new to play so
1:23:31
that that almost counts as new. I've, I've, it's so long since
1:23:34
I've played it that I've forgotten the plot.
1:23:36
So I can I can go back to it and start again.
1:23:40
Any news too? So again, you know, continuing.
1:23:44
Through with Baldur's Gate and Claire Obscure I had to look
1:23:48
through the list and there's one on it called Contra Rogue Corp,
1:23:51
which I've again, I'm probably about 60% of the way through.
1:23:56
So I'll try and focus on finishing that one up on the
1:23:59
PS4. We Happy Few is on my playlist
1:24:05
and I've never looked at that one.
1:24:07
So I might try and I might try and get into that one next
1:24:11
month. I know that name, yeah.
1:24:14
I think it was it. Was briefly banned here because
1:24:19
it's all about taking drugs or something, which, you know, the
1:24:21
Australian government frowned upon.
1:24:24
Yeah, but it's on my list somehow.
1:24:27
I don't know how it got there again.
1:24:29
So I'll have a look at it and then see what I can find on the
1:24:35
on the old list, old, old list and, and dig something up from
1:24:39
there so I can balance it out. And that's about it for me.
1:24:44
Let's move on to what we've been watching, reading and doing.
1:24:46
So watching, Brian, what you've been watching, reading and
1:24:50
doing. I watched Predator.
1:24:54
Badlands, have you seen this? It's on my list for this month
1:24:59
as well, yeah. It is.
1:25:00
Yeah, I know, Paul. Mentioned it last year and I
1:25:04
caught it on one of my plane journeys.
1:25:05
So I'm watching on the plane screen not sure what to say.
1:25:11
It's what it's like an action revenge movie and it was pretty
1:25:15
OK as a predator movie. I found it to be slightly
1:25:19
disappointing. To me the predator is this miss
1:25:22
mysterious person that you don't understand.
1:25:25
All you know is there to kill. A bit like Terminator.
1:25:28
So you hit no back story, you don't know his motivation or
1:25:32
whatever. But this turned into like an
1:25:39
underage teenager movie and he was just trying to get do good.
1:25:43
And it's, it's was a little bit different to what I wanted.
1:25:48
If, if it hadn't been with the Predator, it might have been a
1:25:51
good movie. But I don't know.
1:25:53
I prefer the Predator when you don't know what's going on.
1:25:55
But I know they're building the lore and the the background, the
1:25:59
whole thing. But I don't know.
1:26:02
I found this slightly disappointing ultimately because
1:26:05
it wasn't all I wanted of a Predator movie, but as an action
1:26:09
fake, it's quite good. I played on the plate.
1:26:12
I watched another movie called Play Dirty.
1:26:17
This is with Mark Wahlberg. He's a ruthless thief and his
1:26:24
expert crews stumble on the heist of the heist of a lifetime
1:26:29
or singing mob boss. That's what the blurb says.
1:26:33
I don't know if you know Tony Shahoob.
1:26:35
His name, I think his name. He was Monk in the TV series.
1:26:40
Every time I see him, he sort of plays the.
1:26:42
Same type of character slightly. Weird, but he's he is he's as
1:26:46
good as usual. He's quite good, but the movie
1:26:49
is basically mind the mean bubble gum.
1:26:52
It's not really that good. Actually knows it's more like
1:26:56
the bubble gum was crap. Favoured, but I would say best
1:27:00
avoided is Yeah, it is. It's really dreadful actually,
1:27:05
because done. Oh, what can I show you?
1:27:07
It was a dreadful movie. Don't, don't watch it, don't
1:27:10
see, don't even search it. Avoid the movie altogether.
1:27:15
Or if anybody has a different view to get about this, I don't
1:27:19
care and send it to idontcare@gmail.com because
1:27:22
you're fucking wrong. It was dreadful.
1:27:26
Let me see. I watched.
1:27:30
Also watched on the plane an anime called Look Back.
1:27:34
It's a Japanese anime. That's the name anime would
1:27:38
suggest it was made by the people who made Chainsaw Man,
1:27:43
which would make you think it's a totally different type of
1:27:46
movie. Chainsaw Man is all about
1:27:49
killing demons, lots of blood and guts, and the guy's got
1:27:52
chainsaw for arms. So this movie is nothing like
1:27:55
that from IMDb it says the overly confident Fujino is a
1:28:02
girl and the truant Kyomoto also another girl there.
1:28:07
I think at the start there maybe about 11 or 12 they couldn't be
1:28:11
more different but they both love drawing drawing anime and
1:28:15
it's brings the 2 girls together.
1:28:17
So basically both them growing up.
1:28:21
It's let me see. It's a short movie.
1:28:27
It actually feels really short, and it would.
1:28:29
Be it's less than an hour long and it's basically had their
1:28:33
relationship going from elementary school all the way
1:28:35
straight through to working life.
1:28:37
And the title look back refers to loads of stuff in the movie.
1:28:41
So it's like when they run together, you'll always have one
1:28:43
girl running ahead of the other and she's looking back.
1:28:45
Watching the animation was quite good, showing the other girl
1:28:48
behind being pulled along, but it's also about when one of them
1:28:53
something happens serious seriously bad happens to one of
1:28:56
them. And then the other girls looking
1:28:57
back on their life is really good movie actually I would have
1:29:02
loved it to be longer so you could build more on their
1:29:04
friendship. But the short movie short movie
1:29:07
is extremely good. The animation is really good,
1:29:09
music is really good and the story hits really well.
1:29:12
It's basically a tribute to manga artists and loss and I
1:29:19
definitely recommend it. So that's look back.
1:29:21
It is extremely difficult to find because the name is so
1:29:23
generic. But yeah, go watch it.
1:29:27
Let me. I think they're also going to
1:29:29
make a live action version of us, but I don't know how that
1:29:31
will go. Let me see then the last thing
1:29:35
down here. Oh, no, second last thing,
1:29:39
Pluribus. I finished Pluribus.
1:29:41
I don't know. Have you ever heard of a play?
1:29:45
Called Waiting for Godot. Like his famous play, it's
1:29:50
described. As a play in.
1:29:51
Which nothing has twice in pluribus there's 9 episodes and
1:29:56
nothing happens in virtually every single episode.
1:29:59
To be honest, he's I'm not saying it's a modern waiting for
1:30:03
a good old, but something happens at the very start and
1:30:07
then something happens at the very end.
1:30:10
I don't know why. I don't know how he does it.
1:30:12
This. It's compelling viewing the
1:30:14
whole way and it's. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:30:16
It just draws you in and. Like he's the.
1:30:21
The guys who do this, they did Breaking Bad.
1:30:24
Like there's so many episodes in breakout work, literally nothing
1:30:27
happens for for half the episode, but you're still sat
1:30:30
there watching it glute. And they're the masters of doing
1:30:33
this, doing a show where nothing happens, keeping you in there.
1:30:37
And they, they like sitting with the silence and characters as
1:30:41
they the character sort of realises what's happening or
1:30:43
going through. They're going through and
1:30:45
they'll just sit there watching the character and you watch it
1:30:47
and it's brilliant. I don't know.
1:30:49
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Really good.
1:30:51
And it landed on such a good and I don't say sarcastic, but
1:30:56
cliffhanger at the end. Really good.
1:30:58
I like this. But yeah, you the whole way
1:31:00
through, you're going what the fuck?
1:31:01
There's nothing happening. Nothing happening.
1:31:02
What's going on? Yeah.
1:31:04
But really good show. Good show watches.
1:31:06
And then. OK well I was in Ireland I
1:31:09
watched a documentary about bullying and abuse on children.
1:31:14
Like you're like viewing that what we watch it's an absolutely
1:31:18
horrible but my nieces loved it and they kept watching it
1:31:24
episode after episode after episode.
1:31:25
Now my nieces are what I know 1313. 14 and. 11 I just could
1:31:35
not stop watching this show. The show is called Dance Moms.
1:31:39
I don't know if you know this. Basically children.
1:31:43
Being pushed through. Dance school.
1:31:45
And it's an appearance and how it all reacts.
1:31:49
It's absolutely horrific, but it's compelling viewing.
1:31:53
You've got this dance teacher calling them out, saying you're
1:31:56
crap, you're dreadful, you should never be here and all
1:31:59
this and the kids are breaking down.
1:32:00
The parents are trying to defend them.
1:32:02
But I sat down and stopped watching this alone, you know,
1:32:06
chatting with my nieces and got drawn into this and got to the
1:32:09
point where, you know, like the worst moment was when I heard
1:32:14
myself shouting at my niece. Go to the next episode, quickly
1:32:18
go on. I want to see what happens next
1:32:19
because one of the characters that hit without going to hit
1:32:21
her, hit the dance theatre. I was like, destroy me in this
1:32:25
dreadful TV. Utterly dreadful.
1:32:27
But you know, addictive, really addictive.
1:32:31
I'm so glad I'm back here Mum. I have not gone to look to see
1:32:34
if I can watch it anywhere else. It dreadful show and really
1:32:39
funny to. Watch it.
1:32:40
Just yeah. So that's Dance Moms.
1:32:43
Watch it at your peril. That's basically all I've
1:32:46
watched. Yeah.
1:32:49
OK. Who wants to go next?
1:32:51
Rich. Do you want Rich around your
1:32:52
house? Planning.
1:32:53
Have you had much chance to watch anything?
1:32:55
Oh yeah, there's always time to watch a bit of telly.
1:32:58
So I think last month I talked about the fact that I dip back
1:33:02
into Parks and Recreation. Amazing kind of comedy show.
1:33:07
I'm just going back through the whole lot.
1:33:09
So I think there's maybe 7 Series and I'm a good way
1:33:12
through series 3 now. It's just, it's basically the
1:33:16
opposite of the of the show that Brian just described.
1:33:19
It's it's just really heart warming funny.
1:33:23
There's there's virtually no bullying in it.
1:33:26
It's just really good fun. So strongly recommend that for
1:33:30
anyone who hasn't seen it. And then last time I think I
1:33:34
mentioned that I'd just watched the first episode of Fallout and
1:33:38
I did that as a did it as a bit of a recce to see whether it was
1:33:43
good viewing for me and the missus or whether it was going
1:33:45
to be just a strictly me game game, a nerd thing only.
1:33:50
And having watched that first episode, I thought now this is
1:33:52
this is kind of good enough, good enough for us to watch
1:33:55
together. So we've watched the whole of
1:33:57
season 1 since 3 weeks ago and loved it.
1:34:03
Really, like really, really impressed.
1:34:06
As I said last time, I'm not super familiar with the games,
1:34:09
but I've played enough to know that it seems to be just tapping
1:34:13
in very much to the kind of law and the, and the, the look and
1:34:17
feel of the world. Yeah, and the plot got a lot
1:34:21
deeper than I thought it would, and it went to some surprising
1:34:24
places. So yeah, really impressed with
1:34:27
that. And I think, Stuart, was it last
1:34:29
time you mentioned that you'd had a bit of a whether it was an
1:34:32
Amazon thing serving you up the wrong episodes of things.
1:34:36
Was it used? Oh, that was, yeah, that was me
1:34:37
on Apple TVI. Was on Apple was it?
1:34:40
Well, it did it to me. So I got through the 1st 3
1:34:44
episodes of Fallout and then got presented with you know watch
1:34:50
next episode and so thought I was watching episode 4 of season
1:34:54
1 and it came up to the the beginning was slightly different
1:34:58
and it came up with ghoul log as in a play on words on Yule log
1:35:05
which I didn't realise at the time but I just thought that was
1:35:08
the name of the episode. And the ghoul came in, sat down
1:35:13
in an armchair and then bought himself a whiskey, I think, and
1:35:17
then started staring at the fire where he was burning a kind of
1:35:20
human arm. And it was like feature length.
1:35:24
It was an hour. And 1/2.
1:35:25
So it's pretty watching away and the first, you know, 10 minutes
1:35:28
goes and there's just like a radio on in the background and
1:35:31
this fire burning. And I was saying, oh, this is,
1:35:35
this is interesting. And I was like making comments
1:35:38
like it's really good the way that TV's serve now because
1:35:41
they, the, the directors can go whichever way they want. 20
1:35:45
minutes in, still staring at the fire, still with music off this
1:35:48
radio. And I sat 90 minutes and, and it
1:35:52
was only afterwards I realised the fucking thing, it just
1:35:57
served me up. I play on a Yule log, but in the
1:36:01
Fallout world. So I literally watched a fire
1:36:03
burning for 90 minutes thinking that it was episode 4.
1:36:08
You cannot comment on me pushing.
1:36:10
Through playing games I don't enjoy.
1:36:11
Then if you sat and watched that for 90 minutes, yeah, yeah,
1:36:14
yeah. Jeez.
1:36:16
So. That was the experience and now
1:36:20
I've I've ceased using the watch next episode feature and I now
1:36:24
navigate and make sure I get to the right one.
1:36:27
So does that finish season 1 of Fallout and still watching more
1:36:31
Apprentice. And then movies wise, I had last
1:36:35
Monday off and the way I consume telly, I use a thing called
1:36:41
Skystream now. So everything streams.
1:36:43
There's no kind of recording capability.
1:36:46
But essentially it turns all of my telly into how Netflix serves
1:36:51
it. So I can browse through things,
1:36:53
I can wish list things, put them on a playlist, and then it will
1:36:56
just, I don't need to have recorded it, it will just stream
1:36:58
it for me. So I was having a little look
1:37:01
through the movies on Sunday night last week before my day
1:37:04
off and just just browsing through to see if there's
1:37:07
anything new. And then up pops the Usual
1:37:11
Suspects, which is probably up up there in my top two or three
1:37:15
all time movies. And so I just, you know, put the
1:37:19
1st 10 minutes on and before I knew it, it was one in the
1:37:22
morning and I was watching the credits roll up on that, knowing
1:37:26
that I'd got the the day off afterwards.
1:37:28
And just every time I watch that film, I love it.
1:37:31
So that was good. And then last, no, not last
1:37:35
night, the night before. I don't know whether this counts
1:37:37
as a movie or a feature length documentary, but Louis Theroux
1:37:41
has got a new documentary out called Inside the Manosphere.
1:37:46
So he goes off to Marbella to chat to these kind of young male
1:37:51
influencers and kind of just do a bit of an expose on what their
1:37:57
life is like and what their what their life views are like.
1:38:01
And I find his work really compelling.
1:38:03
So I I enjoyed that a lot. And then back on books, I think
1:38:10
last time I was stumbling on Wolf Hall and I'd pivoted to
1:38:14
reading why the Last Man comic on DCUS.
1:38:20
And yeah, which I'm loving and I'm probably halfway through the
1:38:23
whole run of that now. But as is ever the way, as soon
1:38:27
as you pay for a subscription to something, your mind wanders off
1:38:31
elsewhere. So I've I've put why the last
1:38:33
man down and I've picked Wolf Hall back up and I'm, I'm, I'm
1:38:38
just pushing through. I want to get it done.
1:38:39
I don't, I'm a bit like you, Stuart, with your games.
1:38:41
I'm kind of like, I don't want to be beaten by this.
1:38:44
So I'm, I'm nearly there a couple 100 pages to go, but I,
1:38:49
it's so highly rated. And Hilary Mantel, who's the
1:38:53
author, She's, she's super highly rated.
1:38:56
And I, I've got to the point where I've had to Google like,
1:39:00
is she a good author? And I know that's a ridiculous
1:39:03
people to do because it's, it's all about opinions, but I wanted
1:39:05
to know, is this just me or, or do other people share my view?
1:39:10
And actually, it was a really interesting little rabbit hole
1:39:12
to go down because lots of people were saying that the way
1:39:17
she writes is a bit of a stream of consciousness and that the
1:39:20
best way to read it is to kind of let it wash over you and not
1:39:22
try to get in, not try and stumble on the detail, just kind
1:39:27
of let it happen and you'll work it out.
1:39:30
And I read a couple of interviews with her as well, and
1:39:34
she comes across very steadfastly not wanting to dumb
1:39:38
it down at all. Which kind of?
1:39:42
Basically means that. She's made a choice to let the
1:39:46
reader work out who's who. Who's saying?
1:39:51
What, what their job job is at the time, because everybody's
1:39:55
kind of changing their jobs and who their alliances with.
1:39:58
So everything's just left down to your own inference and
1:40:02
interpretation, which to me doesn't work.
1:40:07
I mean, I, I get it, you don't want to dumb it down too much,
1:40:09
but just a basic understanding of who is in the room, which
1:40:13
Stephen is talking at any given moment and so forth.
1:40:16
Anyway, I, I, Despite that I am enjoying it.
1:40:19
It's kind of like that 10 hour game that you hated but.
1:40:22
Enjoyed at the same time and still played.
1:40:24
I'm doing that with it. So next time we record, I will
1:40:29
announce the completion of all four and the enjoyment of
1:40:33
something subsequent. Cool.
1:40:36
How are you Sir? I I watched Predator Badlands as
1:40:40
well and. I agree 100% Brian.
1:40:43
It was, you know, young teen predator trying to prove himself
1:40:47
to his father who didn't appreciate him.
1:40:50
Yeah, just got a wee bit annoying.
1:40:52
The the the. Ramming of the Wayland Utani
1:40:55
company from the Alien series down your throat in this one,
1:40:58
you know, as they're trying to force these two worlds together
1:41:02
into into one one sort of standard sort of shared world
1:41:07
between the two. Was was a little bit ham fisted
1:41:11
in the way it was done? Slightly, yes and yeah.
1:41:16
Their their attempt to take. Down the unkillable Uber prize
1:41:19
you knew was always going to be a bit of a weird twist at the
1:41:24
end that would prove that that wasn't the right thing to be
1:41:26
doing. So yeah, it wasn't.
1:41:28
It wasn't a good movie. I watched all the way through
1:41:30
it, though. It was a Predator movie.
1:41:32
You know, you're not going to. You're not expecting it to win
1:41:34
Oscars, but. But it's certainly nowhere near
1:41:37
the what the original Predator movie was in terms of quality.
1:41:41
Yeah. Yeah.
1:41:43
I I then watched a movie called The Rover.
1:41:46
Which was getting some high ratings on our our local
1:41:51
streaming services down here. It's a guy Pearson Robert
1:41:55
Pattinson movie from 2014. So a very young Robert Pattinson
1:42:01
very much pre pre the Batman days.
1:42:04
But I think possibly post the what was the the the werewolf
1:42:11
vampire thing that he did anyway?
1:42:15
I think it was certainly a yeah, I think he was certainly.
1:42:18
A a known. Name at that stage and this is a
1:42:21
This is a weird movie for them to be in both of them.
1:42:25
He plays a like a a. Young man.
1:42:30
With issues with mental issues, right.
1:42:32
So he's, he's not all there. He's got all these nervous tics
1:42:36
and things. And it's like a cheap Mad Max
1:42:38
knock off. You know, at the beginning of
1:42:41
the movie, Guy Pierce's car gets stolen and then he's just
1:42:45
chasing after these guys the whole movie to try and catch
1:42:47
them. And you never know why.
1:42:50
It's never explained what's so important about his car.
1:42:54
And then it all ends badly for everybody sort of thing, you
1:42:58
know. So not, not the movie I thought
1:43:01
was going to be watching. No explained story, very little
1:43:05
in the way of, of, of the way of dialogue.
1:43:11
Yeah, probably not something I would recommend anyone spend any
1:43:15
time watching though. And then you know.
1:43:19
Swapping from sweet to. Salt or salt to sweet?
1:43:23
I decided to go and have a look at some some episodes of Love,
1:43:26
Death and Robots because I've seen some have managed to avoid
1:43:29
watching season 3 and season 4. And the first episode I started
1:43:33
watching was the first episode of season 4, which is called
1:43:36
Close Encounters of the Mini Kind.
1:43:39
And I just fell in love with this series all over again.
1:43:43
What a good episode. It's it's made use an Unreal
1:43:47
Engine and it's, you know, aliens invade the Earth, but
1:43:50
it's all done as one of these sort of what's the there's a
1:43:55
camera technique where you make the real world look like a
1:43:57
little tiny model. Is it is it tilt?
1:44:00
Tilt shift. That's this.
1:44:01
Yeah, tilt shift. Yeah, it looks.
1:44:03
Like it's been filmed using tilt shift, but it's obviously all
1:44:05
done. And unreal.
1:44:08
And it was just just very funny, very enjoyable, very short.
1:44:12
I mean, the, the, you know, the episodes themselves were only a
1:44:13
couple of minutes long each. There's another episode in, in
1:44:17
season 4 called the Other large thing, which is about humans
1:44:23
bringing a, they bring a, a, a robot into the house.
1:44:26
And the humans are all, you know, large, obese and loud and,
1:44:31
and living, you know, life to the excess.
1:44:33
So in terms of food and drink and so on.
1:44:35
And it's all about the cat in the household establishing a
1:44:39
relationship with the robot because the robot learns to
1:44:42
speak cat and it very funny. You know I really enjoyed this
1:44:46
so watched all of season 3 and all of season 4 then switched
1:44:51
over to YouTube and my son recommended it a watcher a
1:44:55
series called tip to tip which is which is not some.
1:45:03
Sexually deviant thing. It's, it's 2 Youtubers.
1:45:07
They travel from the southernmost end of Japan in a
1:45:09
place called Cape SATA to the northernmost end in a place
1:45:14
called Cape Sawyer with no maps on motorbikes.
1:45:18
So, but no maps, no GPS, very basic Japanese language skills
1:45:23
and, and they're not allowed to use any major roads.
1:45:26
So you know, like expressways and things.
1:45:28
And they have to complete the trip from one end to the other
1:45:31
in 15 days. And it was a good, fun watch,
1:45:34
you know, completely unscripted, some genuinely funny moments.
1:45:38
They're they're two fairly famous Youtubers, a guy called
1:45:41
Ludwig and a guy called Michael Reeves.
1:45:43
And, and if I was to watch any of their other sort of channel
1:45:47
bits that they that they publish, they tend to annoy me
1:45:51
quite a lot. I could see them both being on
1:45:56
that Louis Theroux documentary if I'm not, you know, if I'm
1:46:01
being honest, you know that they're they're a wee bit sort
1:46:04
of loud and obnoxious and very much that sort of veering to the
1:46:09
toxic masculinity side. But but this this was quite,
1:46:13
quite funny to watch. I watched the first episode
1:46:17
after you linked to it. I.
1:46:19
Need to go back and watch the rest.
1:46:20
I really enjoyed the first episode.
1:46:21
It was quite good, but I found it shocking that they found that
1:46:26
he thought, oh Japanese people are helpful now.
1:46:29
It was amazing because they got stuck at some junction.
1:46:31
Some old man stopped and gave them directions telling where to
1:46:34
go and was breaking it down easy for them.
1:46:37
But they went into a combini, a convenience store and the lady
1:46:41
drew them after them. That I don't see it being
1:46:44
beyond. That's just normal.
1:46:46
People here are quite friendly and helpful, especially if
1:46:49
you're not being allowed aggressive tourists, they will
1:46:51
help you out. So they kept saying, oh, that's
1:46:55
helpful. I know, I know in America people
1:46:58
are more less likely to. Be open and helpful, but.
1:47:01
I don't know it's it's normal. So yeah.
1:47:06
But the show is really good. I enjoy this and I agree it's
1:47:11
definitely a more comment. On how how life in America is
1:47:15
versus how life in the rest of the world is.
1:47:17
In terms of just how surprised they are by by the amount of
1:47:21
assistance they get given throughout this trip, Yeah.
1:47:24
Yeah. I started watching season 2 of
1:47:28
Mythic Quest on Apple TV again. It's quite a funny, funny comedy
1:47:33
series. It's the guys that made Always
1:47:37
Sunny in Philadelphia. Have you ever watched that?
1:47:40
OK, so, so there's a, what's the guy's name?
1:47:48
One of the guys that now owns a football club, Ryan Reynolds or
1:47:53
Ryan Reynolds and the other? Guy, Rob.
1:47:55
McInerney or something yeah so he's he's the star of this one
1:47:59
as well. He was also in always sunny in
1:48:02
Philadelphia and the the concept is that they have this software
1:48:05
development company that makes an MMO that's, you know, massive
1:48:09
worldwide and, and how do they keep the development happening?
1:48:13
And what do they do from season to season?
1:48:15
And, and all the interplay of all the teams within the
1:48:18
business And it's all just complete chaos, to be honest.
1:48:21
But but that's, that's what they're they're you know,
1:48:23
they're playing off in terms of the comedy value.
1:48:27
So started watching that. But it's, I mean, it's
1:48:30
definitely, you know, disengaged brain viewing when you watch it,
1:48:33
because you're not going to learn anything.
1:48:35
You're not going to, you're not going to have any sort of, you
1:48:38
know, amazing breakthrough in life just from watching it.
1:48:41
It's, it's definitely just bubblegum TV.
1:48:44
And then on my flight to Melbourne this week, I started
1:48:50
watching the Man in the High Castle season one on Amazon
1:48:55
Prime. And I mean, it came out in 2021.
1:48:58
I, I missed it when it came out and didn't watch it.
1:49:01
And I've now smashed through the 1st 4 episodes of the season and
1:49:04
I am absolutely loving this series.
1:49:07
It is real. I mean, it's a Philip K Dick
1:49:09
book. So you know, based on, you know,
1:49:12
there's going to be alternate realities or sci-fi somewhere in
1:49:15
there. The story of this is that the
1:49:18
the Nazis in Japan are sharing ruling the world because they
1:49:22
won World War 2. But there's other things
1:49:26
happening that make you doubt exactly what that reality is,
1:49:29
you know, So very, very enjoyable watching.
1:49:35
And then in terms of reading, I'm still going through the
1:49:37
Wheel of Time book, still on book 8.
1:49:39
I'm about 50% of the way through that now.
1:49:40
So you're sleeping well. Picked up.
1:49:46
Yeah. No, I'm actually.
1:49:47
Reading a lot. More of it before I fall asleep
1:49:49
now than I was before I I think that I don't know quite when the
1:49:55
the new author takes over to finish the story Final three I.
1:50:01
Think it's OK, maybe the final two or three.
1:50:04
I think Book 8 he's certainly got over.
1:50:07
His, you know. 15 page description of a, of a, a pot
1:50:14
or, or you know, the, the, the bridle on a horse or whatever it
1:50:18
might be. The story is progressing well.
1:50:22
So yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm getting through that and still enjoying
1:50:25
it. And then on other sort of topics
1:50:29
that the guy that I was watching that was printing the, the
1:50:31
Porsche GT3, he's now nearing the end of that project.
1:50:36
So that gate, that car is now just about fully built and it's,
1:50:41
it's looking really good. And so this month he announced
1:50:45
his next project and he's decided what he's going to do is
1:50:48
he's going to 3D print a full 2026 spec F1 car.
1:50:56
And he started with the nose cone.
1:50:57
So he he printed. The nose cone.
1:50:59
Out and he started to glue it all together with the front
1:51:02
wing, which has got, you know, 1000 different parts in it.
1:51:05
And he was he, he glued everything together for the, the
1:51:09
first episode that he published last week.
1:51:11
And just the nose cone itself is a massive, massive piece of, of
1:51:16
a car, you know, and then he then he painted out on the floor
1:51:19
just how big he expects this thing to be when he's completed
1:51:21
it. And it is going to be huge.
1:51:25
So I'm looking forward to watching that.
1:51:29
And then as I said earlier, I finished my, my last electronics
1:51:32
project with the, the computer here.
1:51:34
So I'm looking for a new project.
1:51:37
And I think anybody that listens to the podcast, have you got any
1:51:41
ideas of things I could build? You know, something that
1:51:43
includes a little bit of electronics, maybe using some
1:51:46
Arduinos or a Raspberry Pi and some 3D printing.
1:51:50
Let me know. I had a look at something called
1:51:53
a TZX Duino board which emulates a tape deck, so you know the old
1:51:59
80s tape decks and that would then allow me to plug that into
1:52:02
my Spectrums and my Amstrad to load games off of off of an SD
1:52:07
card. So I might look at building
1:52:09
something like that. If there's no better.
1:52:11
Ideas, but certainly community. Let me know if you have any
1:52:14
ideas of things that you think I would.
1:52:16
I'd like to build and and post it on the socials.
1:52:21
Right. So that's everything.
1:52:22
I've been up to all right, so games.
1:52:25
Coming out next month, anything worthwhile that that you're
1:52:27
aware of? There's a couple of things and
1:52:29
what I think 1's just come. Out and 1 is coming out soon.
1:52:33
All that and he says 2026, but it has just had a demo.
1:52:36
So these are two games from the kind of disco Elysium mould and
1:52:44
there's a whole bunch of politics that I'm not super well
1:52:47
read on, but I know that the the the Disco Elysium studio kind of
1:52:51
ripped itself apart and there was a massive fight between the
1:52:55
the kind of business side and the creative side.
1:52:58
And so 0 parades for dead spies has has got a demo out now and
1:53:04
it's due for release during the year.
1:53:06
And I think that they're they're the bad guys arm of things.
1:53:13
And then there's I think there's various of the creatives have
1:53:16
scattered about and there's another game called Esoteric
1:53:19
Ebb, which has just come out. And I don't know whether it
1:53:22
contains some of the good guys or is just influenced by the
1:53:25
good guys, but that's showing overwhelmingly positive on Steam
1:53:31
at the moment. And it is a game that I
1:53:32
absolutely would have bought day one.
1:53:36
Another kind of well, story rich RPG choices, Dungeons and
1:53:42
Dragons kind of vibe about it, text down the right hand side,
1:53:47
all of that kind of stuff. So I'd have really, really
1:53:50
enjoyed that. And those are the only two
1:53:52
things that I've kind of stood out this month, apart from, of
1:53:55
course, Marathon, which I think we talked about on the last
1:53:58
show. So from what I've seen of that,
1:54:01
I, it's a game that I would have bought just because of the hype
1:54:06
and I'd have already fallen off it.
1:54:08
I'm sure it's, it's, it's dividing a lot of opinion.
1:54:14
I think some people do love it, but some people are struggling
1:54:17
with it. And I think in particular the
1:54:19
criticism that I've seen about it is that playing as a solo,
1:54:24
the balance is all kinds of wrong and it's really rewarding.
1:54:28
Like basically fighting against MPCS.
1:54:33
If you're a trio that works fine, but if you're a solo,
1:54:36
they've essentially got the same kind of health bars and so the
1:54:39
whole thing just becomes super problematic.
1:54:42
So I think there's a bunch of balance issues that would have
1:54:44
made it hard for me to enjoy it because I'd have I'd have dived
1:54:47
in solo. So there's however much money
1:54:50
saved right there. They're they're the main things
1:54:54
for me this month. Ron, how about yourself to me?
1:54:59
The only game. This month, I think Saros is
1:55:03
next month, isn't it? If I'm all rightly, Marathon is
1:55:06
the game. I would April.
1:55:08
Yeah, I would have liked to try Marathon.
1:55:11
I know it's the numbers aren't there yet.
1:55:13
I'm really hoping Sony don't can the game or kill it early.
1:55:17
Let it give time. Give it time to grow.
1:55:18
Hopefully it will. So I hope Sony don't kill it.
1:55:22
Rainbow 6 Siege starts off low and this development has become
1:55:25
quite a big game now, so hopefully this will.
1:55:28
I believe Marathon is free to play and then you just buy
1:55:33
cosmetics. I'm not.
1:55:34
Sure, I think it's free. To play.
1:55:36
So I would have gone for it anyway.
1:55:38
Try, but hopefully we'll stick to it and develop a game, unlike
1:55:42
previous games where they just cancelled or unreleased a game
1:55:47
like they did before. So I'm hoping to stick with it
1:55:49
and show faith in the bunch of stuff because I really don't
1:55:52
want to see them getting screwed over.
1:55:54
I was like, yeah, Marathon was actually, that's a paid game.
1:55:57
It's 34. 99 here in the UK. So I think that they kind of
1:56:00
like have to stick with it. Surely if people have paid, like
1:56:04
if it's free to play, they can just switch it off, can't they?
1:56:06
Nobody's, nobody's out of pocket, but they need to stick
1:56:08
with. That's my fear.
1:56:09
You like Highgard as you mentioned before.
1:56:12
Highgard was free to play, I believe that was.
1:56:14
And when the game is free to play, you have no investment in
1:56:16
that game at all. So you you just tend to leave
1:56:19
it, even though there's no, you don't feel any loss or anything
1:56:24
of that game. So I'm hoping with Marathon
1:56:27
they'll stick with it and it'll become a bigger game.
1:56:32
Yeah, but it's, I don't know. I hope that game does well.
1:56:36
That's the main game I would like to have tried this month
1:56:39
and cool. How about yourself?
1:56:41
Well, I had four games listed of of note for.
1:56:44
You know, coming out in in April, one of them was was Saros
1:56:48
that, you know, you were talking about earlier.
1:56:49
The other one is a game called Darwin's Paradox where you, it's
1:56:53
a platformer, but you play as an octopus and it looks, you know,
1:56:58
similar to that, that mouse for hire when they were talking
1:57:00
about it just looks like the sort of game that nothing else
1:57:04
looks like. So I think that could be a lot
1:57:06
of fun. Oh yes, yes, that looks quite
1:57:08
good. Yeah, I've been looking at
1:57:11
March. That's why I haven't seen what's
1:57:13
coming out in April. Sorry.
1:57:16
So that's April the 2nd that's supposed to come out and then.
1:57:18
Replaced was one other one that that appeared on my list and
1:57:21
that's like a 2 1/2 D cyberpunk action platformer.
1:57:25
Similar to flashback in style but hopefully better than.
1:57:30
I don't know if you guys ever played Flashback 2 that came out
1:57:33
in 2023. It's it's about the only game
1:57:37
I've ever considered taking back it.
1:57:41
It was such. Utter garbage.
1:57:44
That I thought, you know what, I'm going to take this back.
1:57:46
And then I thought, well, if everyone that buys it takes it
1:57:50
back, this will become a rare game in the future.
1:57:53
So I'll just put it in the back of the drawer.
1:57:55
It's investment. But it will never be played in
1:58:01
in the on my. Machines, because it just was it
1:58:04
was utter garbage. And then the final one that I
1:58:08
see coming out on April the 24th is Pragmata.
1:58:12
I still don't know what that game is going to be all about.
1:58:15
You know that it's a sci-fi and a lunar base with this weird
1:58:20
young girl Android that can hack things, but she hangs on your
1:58:23
back like a backpack. It just looks odd.
1:58:28
I wonder if you can call her a tool I.
1:58:32
Don't know like in the. Well, not alien.
1:58:35
But in Predator movie, yeah, he he refers to the the the Android
1:58:40
on that as. His tool, yeah, yeah.
1:58:42
So those are the only three that are coming out this month that
1:58:44
that I would probably have looked at.
1:58:49
There's one game I think it's going to well.
1:58:51
You mentioned Soros, the excellent game.
1:58:53
I'm looking so looking forward to that, or I would be so
1:58:57
looking for this. But the other game, did you ever
1:58:59
play Days Gone? Have any of you played this
1:59:03
Gone? I love that game.
1:59:05
It's been remastered apparently for the PS-5, and that's coming
1:59:09
out in April, 25th of April, right?
1:59:12
I really would love to have seen the second game.
1:59:15
That was. It had such great horde
1:59:17
mechanics. It was brilliant for the game,
1:59:20
but terrifying to see it. Yeah.
1:59:23
You'd be. You'd be walking through the map
1:59:25
or driving. Through the map on your
1:59:26
motorbike. And then suddenly you'd hear the
1:59:27
roar and you'd think, what? And you look behind you and
1:59:30
there's just this massive zombies coming running at you.
1:59:33
You're like, Oh no, but trying to set them up so you could lead
1:59:38
them and funnel them through. Places where you could blow it
1:59:40
up and catch them and that was really good fun.
1:59:42
It was really good. And shooting all all the one
1:59:45
that was really good game. Yeah.
1:59:47
Hopefully the remaster will generate some some interest.
1:59:50
All right, so news. What news?
1:59:52
Articles have come out in the last month or three weeks that
1:59:56
have tickled your interest. OK, before we say anything, I've
1:59:59
got to say Stuart. Pulled together so much news.
2:00:04
It's such a good job bringing it through and then putting in
2:00:08
deep, like a little blurb about each story.
2:00:11
It's like the pages of it is well done.
2:00:14
Thank you for that. This is amazing.
2:00:16
Yeah. We won't read them all out
2:00:17
because we'll be here for another two hours if we do.
2:00:24
So you've got the US Customs destroying an extremely rare
2:00:27
copy of a game because it had adults only on it?
2:00:31
Yeah. So this is a game from 1999.
2:00:34
On a floppy Dr and when you watch the video of the guy
2:00:39
claiming it was destroyed, it is a little bit SUS looking because
2:00:44
he opens the box on camera, but you can clearly see that the top
2:00:48
of the box has already been opened.
2:00:51
So whether it was customs that did it or whether it's him
2:00:54
trying to do, you know, buyer's remorse, let's do an insurance
2:00:58
scam to try and get the money back.
2:01:00
I don't know. But but yeah, his theory is that
2:01:03
because it said adults on it, adults only on it, that customs
2:01:07
just completely destroyed this floppy disc.
2:01:09
They probably had no way to access it.
2:01:12
Maybe. Yeah, yeah.
2:01:16
Anything else that took your interest?
2:01:19
Witcher 3 this DLC. Or expansion.
2:01:24
Interesting is. I didn't ask about this because
2:01:27
I was. The I don't have Ghost of Yota
2:01:30
and I did ask the community about whether you could play the
2:01:33
deals and it wasn't because I was thinking about the Witcher 3
2:01:35
DLC coming, which I do have. But yeah I don't know.
2:01:39
Hopefully it'll be be good expand the world the linking to
2:01:43
Witcher 4. But they have mentioned bringing
2:01:45
a patch that would allow PlayStation to play mods.
2:01:49
Hoping they do that some stage because that'd be quite cool.
2:01:52
Yeah. But yeah, that's I.
2:01:54
Think Sony pulling. From multi platform day one
2:01:57
games is intriguing, whether it's because of steam or because
2:02:02
of Microsoft self destruction. But yeah, if well, they haven't.
2:02:07
I don't think they've admitted to it about they haven't
2:02:10
declared it themselves. It was Jason Schreyer who broke
2:02:13
the news. Yeah, I'll see see what happens.
2:02:17
What did you guys think of the The God of War series that's
2:02:19
being? Filmed.
2:02:20
Did you see the first first images of it?
2:02:24
The the ones that look like AI. Yeah, yeah.
2:02:30
It just it doesn't look right, does it?
2:02:33
It does not look right. Looks very strange, yeah.
2:02:36
Hopefully it's it's just that it's.
2:02:38
Raw footage and it's not been polished up by by editing, but
2:02:42
yeah, I don't know, the image was a bit weird.
2:02:45
Bit odd, yeah. Yeah, and nobody.
2:02:49
On this group was still playing high guard.
2:02:52
No? Can you still play it shut?
2:02:54
No, it shut down yesterday. Yesterday, yeah.
2:02:57
It disappeared, yeah, I mean there.
2:02:59
Was still activity on it. When I looked at Steam DB, yeah,
2:03:03
so there's still players playing it right up until the end, but
2:03:07
yeah, it's it's no more. It's been shut down 31 days
2:03:11
longer than Concorde lasted, but it was still less than two
2:03:15
months from from go to. Oh, and as you say, Brian, you
2:03:19
know, if if you're not paying, if you're not paying to invest
2:03:21
in the game, then it's very easy just to move on to something
2:03:24
else because there's no buy in, you know?
2:03:28
Yeah, yeah. It's sad to see.
2:03:30
Because the devs, they put how many years building that game
2:03:33
up, Yeah. And to have $0.10 put from
2:03:37
around and say no, go on and close it.
2:03:40
Yeah, the people who worked on Concorde, the I saw there's an
2:03:46
interview with them and they're talking about the fact that
2:03:49
that's on their CV now, that they worked on that and other
2:03:52
people, when they go for a new job.
2:03:54
Oh, you worked at Concorde, You worked on Concorde.
2:03:56
And they don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, but
2:04:00
high garden, they're going to have the same.
2:04:02
Grief now. However, they go for a new job
2:04:04
that don't know it's rough. Maybe just put on your CV.
2:04:08
You've been in gaol for two years.
2:04:13
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a shame.
2:04:16
It's a shame. Oh, and when it comes.
2:04:21
To you know, you were talking about beating the the Valkyries
2:04:24
or the what was the other one in in God of War 2 Berserkers.
2:04:28
The Berserkers, yeah. We we probably won't have.
2:04:31
To worry about getting through those, because both Microsoft
2:04:35
and Sony have now got these AI patents where you'll have an AI
2:04:39
agent that pops up and plays the game for you when it gets too
2:04:42
hard. That's cool, someone doesn't
2:04:46
understand. The attraction of gaming, then,
2:04:47
if that's. What they're proposing gaming
2:04:50
for us elderly. That's it.
2:04:56
Midlife. Gamers will be just filled with
2:04:58
bots helping us. So yeah, I was playing God of
2:05:04
War right now. I got plus I couldn't find a way
2:05:07
to progress and I knew like I had to go through it, but I
2:05:10
couldn't see it. So if it I know you have like my
2:05:12
mirror saying maybe it's over here and the the tray is
2:05:15
standing beside us, but I could not see it that I I had to do
2:05:19
this jump or whatever like. So maybe if something just
2:05:23
points out it appeared as a big arrow point here, here, you've
2:05:26
done whatever here, here. And then I go over it.
2:05:30
Yeah, that would be good. That would be helpful.
2:05:33
But yeah, so we'll see. Yeah, I don't know.
2:05:37
We'll see how it goes. Yeah, there's, I mean, there's,
2:05:40
there's so many more. Sort of notes I've made here,
2:05:43
but one that I did love from this month was that there's a
2:05:47
there's a apparently a web cartoon called Space Kings and
2:05:52
they decided to come out with this this fan only exclusive
2:05:58
purchase called the no gate No Girls allowed box.
2:06:02
And so all these people queued up to buy it and inside it there
2:06:07
was a flagging that you could use to drink your you know your
2:06:10
daily drink out of flagging was made of pewter.
2:06:13
Turns out everyone that's been drinking out of that has now got
2:06:15
quite severe lead poisoning. Oh my God, meant to issue your
2:06:19
attraction saying. Don't.
2:06:27
I'm not going to say. Serves them.
2:06:27
You used the flagging, yeah? Wow.
2:06:32
Yeah. Anything else that you guys
2:06:33
noticed? I think the one that jumped out
2:06:36
to me is obviously the. Xbox news so project Helix
2:06:40
getting announced and it's it's kind.
2:06:45
Of interesting because it's obviously the.
2:06:46
Steam Box is coming and I'm thinking that that'd be a lovely
2:06:49
way to play all the Steam games in a different room.
2:06:53
And then obviously Xbox sort of looking like it's going the same
2:06:56
way. And it's, I think that coupled
2:07:00
with the fact that I think there's it's the back backwards
2:07:03
compatibility coming to PC next month.
2:07:07
Well, next month, yeah. So so all of this.
2:07:10
Stuff together makes me think well, I don't need the next Xbox
2:07:14
console because if my PC will play my games that I've got on
2:07:18
the Xbox ecosystem, then that's good I'll have the Xbox upstairs
2:07:24
that I've lost to my son and then I've got my PC that I can
2:07:28
play all my Xbox games on so I'm so I mean I think it's great
2:07:34
carry on go on say you said the compatibility that's where
2:07:37
they're. Allowing people on Xbox PC to
2:07:39
play games that were previously not available on the.
2:07:43
On the PC side, Windows 11 will get an.
2:07:46
Xbox app. I didn't know play Xbox games
2:07:50
now whether it's whether it's Xbox and Xbox 360 and not Xbox
2:07:57
Series X Series S hasn't been clarified, but they're certainly
2:08:01
starting to merge those those two platforms together into one
2:08:07
become one skew the only thing that I.
2:08:09
Could see that might. Potentially cause you to
2:08:12
consider buying a separate Xbox now would be if the graphical
2:08:16
capability of it is so much higher than a a 5090, you know
2:08:19
or something that that would cost you an exorbitant amount to
2:08:22
put into APC. But yeah, certainly what they're
2:08:26
talking about in. Terms of.
2:08:28
Putting into the next this project Helix, it doesn't look
2:08:31
like it's massively above what we have right now in our
2:08:34
desktops. No, exactly.
2:08:36
I'd say it must be strategic because I've been.
2:08:38
I've been generally on the green side.
2:08:40
I had a well, I had APS 1 and PS2, but I've been kind of Xbox
2:08:44
since with, with a fair amount of regret, I've got to say, but
2:08:47
but also a a lot of joy. And I'd I'd normally get, you
2:08:51
know, the next console on day one, but I, I just don't see
2:08:56
what it would give me now. So I think next Gen I'll get
2:08:59
myself a PlayStation and kind of like shore up my, my coverage
2:09:02
across the whole games sphere and then on desktop I can do it.
2:09:07
Looks like I'll be able to do whatever I want Xbox wise.
2:09:11
So got it all covered without, without having to buy 2
2:09:14
consoles. So that's good.
2:09:16
Yeah, it's intriguing. If they start playing bringing
2:09:20
their whole catalogue onto PC, there's no Unless you don't have
2:09:24
APC, there's no reason to go buying an Xbox.
2:09:27
New Xbox. Maybe it's just given up on the
2:09:31
PC side. And just decide they're going.
2:09:33
To pull cash from them as much as possible.
2:09:37
I don't know. Yeah, it's weird.
2:09:38
Watch this space, I guess. Yeah, yeah.
2:09:41
See how it develops. Then all right, should we move
2:09:44
on? To the questions from the
2:09:45
socials, I was going to say the biggest news the entire month.
2:09:49
Is Nathan Fillion is bringing back Firefly Yeah, it isn't
2:09:53
true. It's a big brown coat.
2:09:57
Love them love love them the show and the the movie.
2:10:02
But Oh my God, it's so good and he's been if you've been
2:10:06
watching on Instagram, I think it's he's been supposedly
2:10:08
knocking on all the casts door being really obtuse thing.
2:10:12
Oh yeah. Is it time, this type of thing?
2:10:14
And not not seeing exactly what's going to happen, but I
2:10:17
believe we'll find out tomorrow what's happening.
2:10:19
Yeah, the time. Time of recording anyway.
2:10:21
So yeah, I'm looking forward to hopefully Firefly 2.
2:10:25
That'll be cool. As long as it's not a web comic,
2:10:28
you know. As long as they're not boosting
2:10:31
us all up for something that's just a non event.
2:10:33
So but we'll find out tomorrow. Better not be little bobblehead
2:10:35
dolls. Yeah.
2:10:39
All right. OK.
2:10:39
Questions from the socials. So we've got, we've got 4.
2:10:44
Questions this month? First one's from Paul Wilson
2:10:48
from season 3, Sorry, season 13. And that is when it comes to
2:10:53
movies and TV series trailers. Can you tell quite quickly that
2:10:57
yes, you would like to watch it And if so, do you stop the
2:11:00
trailer before the end to avoid any further spoilers?
2:11:03
Personally, he finds it. Most trailers give too much of
2:11:06
the plot away. Brian, how do you approach
2:11:10
these? OK, the last thing the trailer,
2:11:13
the trailers give too much of the plot that.
2:11:14
Is so true any big surprise in the movie is often ruined but
2:11:19
the trailer I've found anyway I've watched YouTube shorts you
2:11:22
get to see clips of trailers and I get watch a part of it and
2:11:25
that's I like that looks good I'll go and watch it and YouTube
2:11:29
has figured out that I like movies where there's either
2:11:33
somebody being bullied or somebody's fighting back against
2:11:35
a larger crowd so I get to see all these small fight like one
2:11:38
person fighting a lot of other people are standing up against a
2:11:41
lot of other people and that's what brought me to a.
2:11:45
Load of shit movies last. Year because I watched all the
2:11:47
movies that YouTube brought to me, so I'm not sure it's an
2:11:51
idea. One thing but there.
2:11:53
Yeah, I try not to watch trailers.
2:11:57
I'll hear about the movie coming up and then watch a little bit
2:12:00
and that's if I get the sense of it's something I like and then
2:12:04
I'll be in the trailer and not watch no more until I get the
2:12:07
chance to watch the movie. I just not noted down an app
2:12:10
that I have for TV and movie TV time.
2:12:14
Put it in there and I'll I'll get back to it at some point in
2:12:16
the house. Yeah.
2:12:18
How about you, Stuart? What do you think?
2:12:22
I I usually watch it all. The way through and then I'll
2:12:26
activate my usual goldfish short term memory capability and it's
2:12:29
gone 10 seconds later and then three years later on down the.
2:12:34
Track I'll be scrolling through. All the streaming services and
2:12:36
I'll go, oh, that looks quite interesting and I'll watch it
2:12:38
and it'll be a complete surprise to me.
2:12:39
So yeah, it doesn't worry me if I've watched all the way through
2:12:42
the the the trailer itself. Nice, nice.
2:12:47
Rich, what do you do? So I I.
2:12:50
I avoid trailers like the. Plague.
2:12:52
So the only time I'll ever watch a trailer is if I'm sat in the
2:12:55
cinema and I can't. I can't avoid it.
2:12:58
So if I'm, if I'm at the cinema with the misses, the trailers
2:13:01
will come on and we'll do like almost like a rock, paper
2:13:04
scissors kind of 321 thumbs up, thumbs down.
2:13:06
And if we get a get a double match, then that's something we
2:13:09
might go watch. But I'll, I will avoid
2:13:13
completely trailers. I'll do my own kind of research
2:13:16
on what I want to watch to the point where at the beginning of
2:13:20
The Apprentice series that I watched, they at the beginning
2:13:23
of every show they show short like an intro sequence that
2:13:28
shows the contestants kind of doing their thing through the
2:13:31
series. And I, and I avoid that because
2:13:34
I know that I'll start working out who I've seen in which clip
2:13:37
and which task it was. And I'll start like spoiling for
2:13:42
myself. So it's like I can't let myself
2:13:44
do it because I'll overthink it. So yeah, no, no, thank you.
2:13:47
Trailers. OK, very good.
2:13:53
Next question is from Stuart Cullen from Season 3.
2:13:57
Do you fear that we have a point during the year where clearing
2:13:59
your backlog stops being enjoyable or an achievement and
2:14:03
instead becomes more like gaming homework for the cast?
2:14:05
And how much of your respective pals of shame would you say are
2:14:08
titles you really wanted compared to titles you bought
2:14:11
from ultimately, the fear of missing out, as the cool kids
2:14:14
would say, FOMO. Yeah, Richard.
2:14:20
Yeah. So I think I do fear that I'm.
2:14:22
Going to kind of run out of stuff that I really want to play
2:14:26
only because that's what I had last night.
2:14:28
I mentioned it earlier, is that I, I really wanted to play
2:14:31
something new and different And I was looking, I've got a bunch
2:14:34
of games downloaded on my desktop that I'd kind of
2:14:37
shortlisted and I was looking through those and thinking, I
2:14:40
don't really feel like any of these right now.
2:14:43
So, so it's definitely it's, it's going to start hitting and
2:14:47
I am conscious it's early in the year.
2:14:49
So I need to put that right and get my teeth In Sync.
2:14:52
So that's what I was thinking. Something like outer worlds, you
2:14:55
know, something I can invest in and spend a good few hours in
2:14:58
will be will be good. So it won't feel, I mean, I know
2:15:03
what I've signed up to. So I don't think it's going to
2:15:05
feel like gaming homework. I'll still get joy out of trying
2:15:08
new things. I just might struggle a little
2:15:11
bit more finding which ones. And then I think the second part
2:15:16
of the question was how much of the pile of shame is stuff I
2:15:20
wanted versus FOMO? So.
2:15:23
I mean 90% of my backlog is stuff I didn't knowingly buy
2:15:27
anyway. It's come out of.
2:15:28
Bundles and. Things like that.
2:15:30
So, so that there's, yeah, there's not a lot in there that
2:15:35
that I've bought and wanted to play but haven't yet.
2:15:39
So it's going to be interesting over the next nine months, like
2:15:42
trawling through it and finding, finding the stuff I really want.
2:15:46
Yeah. How about you, Brian?
2:15:49
Do I fear it's? Going to become.
2:15:52
Like homework? No no, I did this last year
2:15:55
because I hope it doesn't hit now.
2:15:58
I like playing games they usually.
2:16:00
I find them challenging so. If I get to the point where I
2:16:03
keep getting frustrated with games and down, that might
2:16:06
happen then, but I'm hoping that's only just the old game
2:16:09
that happens with and I put so many good games on the backlog.
2:16:12
So yeah, you've got a big meaty selection of.
2:16:15
Great games, haven't you? Yeah.
2:16:17
So like if if I do enjoy Ballers?
2:16:20
Skate that's the results of the chance.
2:16:22
I mean I hate the game and just finished, but I'm looking
2:16:25
forward to trying that and like cyberpunk.
2:16:27
So they're what was it? They're pretty much known
2:16:31
quantities. They're supposed to be great
2:16:32
games. So hopefully pure blaming bliss,
2:16:36
blaming gaming bliss. There you go.
2:16:38
I can't. All I've been drinking is green
2:16:42
tea. I have no, I have no alcohol, so
2:16:45
I still can't speak. As you said, most of my gaming
2:16:48
catalogue bundles I bought and I got you get you get like 20
2:16:51
games or 10 games or in one case I got 1000 and something games.
2:16:56
There's only one or two games off the whole pile that I wanted
2:16:59
to play and the rest you Add all this stuff, the keys here
2:17:03
catalogue so it looks bigger and bigger, like I have all these
2:17:06
games, but they're not games I wanted to play.
2:17:08
So the games on my on my backlog.
2:17:11
Are quite small that I really want.
2:17:13
To play and do I think it's going to be fun?
2:17:15
The only game I bought for FOMO recently is Arc Raiders, like I
2:17:19
said, and before that I got being what they call a patient
2:17:22
gamer. I could wait two or three years
2:17:24
for a game to come out and then play it.
2:17:26
So I don't mind. On PC, it's definitely
2:17:29
advantageous to be a patient gamer because the game prices
2:17:31
drop. If you wait even six months,
2:17:33
game prices drop dramatically. On PlayStation, you have to tend
2:17:36
to wait a little bit longer to be a bit more patient.
2:17:38
But yeah, I'm more of a patient gamer, so like, Formal doesn't
2:17:41
really tend to hit me. It did badly with Arc Raiders
2:17:44
because I kept seeing everybody talking about how great it was
2:17:47
and we were getting towards the end of the the year.
2:17:49
I was thinking how I need the new game, I need your game.
2:17:51
And then that hit at the same time and Formal definitely hit
2:17:54
me. And it's frustrating because
2:17:56
it's just, for me, it's just become this game where I'm
2:17:58
dealing with my inventory for the moment.
2:18:01
Ultimately, it should be a good game, I hope.
2:18:03
I mean, it sounds like you're playing the same game as
2:18:06
Richard. 'S playing with Backpack Hero,
2:18:08
yes yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I think.
2:18:13
Yes, Stuart Warehouse said to me, just sell everything, sell
2:18:16
everything, get rid of it all, and then you can go out and play
2:18:18
more, maybe a lot. Just sell everything and move
2:18:20
on. Yeah, that's the important part.
2:18:22
But yeah, I enjoy, I enjoy playing games too much, I think.
2:18:27
Cool. How about yourself then, Stuart?
2:18:30
Yeah, I mean, not at the stage. It's not become anything like
2:18:36
gaming homework. My, my backlog's still quite
2:18:39
large and I've already selected the target games for each month.
2:18:43
So I, I plan to just keep churning through those.
2:18:46
I've still got those, those long games that I'm playing.
2:18:48
So the clear obscure the boulders Gate 3 and I've, I've
2:18:52
got the Indiana Jones game that the eternal circle or whatever
2:18:57
it's called. Yep, the great circle.
2:18:59
So that's sitting there still in the shrink wrap.
2:19:03
So they'll be, they'll be fired up continually throughout the
2:19:07
period. And, and, and right now I'm
2:19:11
definitely enjoying it. I can't see that changing in the
2:19:14
short term. And as to how many of the games
2:19:18
on the list were ones that are really wanted versus FOMO
2:19:20
purchases, it's probably about 20% are.
2:19:24
Games are wanted. And the rest are not formal, but
2:19:27
they're, you know, epic PS plus Amazon freebies.
2:19:31
So it'd be poor for them not to add them to the list.
2:19:34
They just never ever got looked at, you know, so having them on
2:19:38
the list and never looked at seemed like a waste.
2:19:40
And that's why working through them now and giving them that
2:19:43
opportunity to, to see a little bit of sunlight, I think is, is
2:19:47
what I'm trying to do here. And it's, it's, it's been good.
2:19:50
You know, I'm, I'm playing some stuff that I'd never would have
2:19:52
looked at. So that's that's been really
2:19:54
good. All right.
2:19:57
Next question is from Mark Tudor, who's a a new member.
2:20:01
So welcome Mark, hope this is entertaining for you.
2:20:07
And his question is, hello chaps.
2:20:09
Do you have a favourite weekend gaming beer?
2:20:11
I enjoy a St. Austell proper job.
2:20:14
From my perspective, if I drink beer, I I drink a full strength
2:20:18
lager called GFB and I've I've got one right here right now.
2:20:22
Oh lovely GFBI, don't know what it stands for.
2:20:25
It's. Either gluten free beer.
2:20:26
Or it's good fucking beer, depending on how much you think
2:20:30
they thought about the name when they were designing it.
2:20:33
It's it's quite good given that it's gluten free, but usually I
2:20:36
tend to stick to a glass of red wine or more recently, I've
2:20:39
started drinking gin and tonic when gaming.
2:20:41
And you know, that's I tend to enjoy a gin more than the other
2:20:46
two. Brian, let me see.
2:20:48
I've sort of given up drinking. Just by and by trying to be
2:20:52
healthy. I do drink.
2:20:54
I'm back in Ireland on Guinness 0 recently.
2:20:56
It's not the same but it's good enough and after 20 years living
2:21:00
in drink, trying to drink the Guinness there.
2:21:03
Guinness 0 is actually really good.
2:21:04
Guinness, proper Guinness is gorgeous, but the only drink
2:21:08
I've had here was another stout. It came in a bottle and it was
2:21:13
slightly chocolatey, but it was like Guinness laced with pork
2:21:17
and it came in. You got in 1/2 pint glass and it
2:21:19
was 12% was 12 or 15% and it was lethal.
2:21:23
It was gorgeous. It was amazing.
2:21:27
I link it with gaming because I was one of my first times doing
2:21:30
DND gaming in a pub. There's a club here that meets
2:21:32
up. I have to go back.
2:21:34
I have to start getting back into it because I find myself
2:21:36
getting self-conscious about all, you know, being imaginative
2:21:39
in front of loads of people instead of just in my own mind.
2:21:41
And the Guinness, the not Guinness, this beer was really
2:21:44
helpful because after a small bit of it, I could feel the back
2:21:47
of my head lifting. And then a little bit like for
2:21:50
the next, the next class or like, you know, stay quiet, stay
2:21:53
quiet, stop talking, stay quiet. And then after that, then it
2:21:56
really relaxed me and I got into the game.
2:21:58
The DND very much so. Yeah.
2:22:00
So about me for for alcohol. So rich.
2:22:04
You, you obviously don't drink it.
2:22:05
You were that was ginger ale you were drinking last night, I
2:22:08
thought, yeah, it wasn't bourbon.
2:22:11
Definitely wasn't bourbon. I, I do, I do like a beer when
2:22:15
I'm gaming. So most streamers have like a
2:22:17
hydrate command. So the people who watching kind
2:22:20
of accrued points and they can redeem a hydrate to kind of
2:22:24
keep, keep their streamer hydrated.
2:22:26
So I've got one of those, but I've also got a, a premium
2:22:28
hydrate that costs a few more points and that makes me crack
2:22:31
open a beer. So I do like, there's a brewery
2:22:35
near me called Wiper and True. And they do, they do a lovely
2:22:39
milk stat, so sort of Guinness adjacent.
2:22:43
And I, I thank Mark for this question because it has prompted
2:22:48
me that after we finish recording, I will go down to my
2:22:50
local green grocers that sells this stuff as well and get
2:22:54
myself a couple of cans and sit and enjoy that this afternoon.
2:22:58
Nice, nice. Yeah.
2:23:00
Good stuff. Actually, I was just thinking.
2:23:03
The only other drink here I've had that was quite good, I've
2:23:05
had sake, and sake is like petrol.
2:23:08
They do frozen lager here, so it comes out at sub zero.
2:23:11
The head turns ice. It's like the ice crystals in
2:23:14
the head. And it's really cold.
2:23:16
And because it's cold, you can't taste how good or bad the lager
2:23:19
is, but it's actually quite refreshing.
2:23:21
But that was quite nice. Yeah, that's it.
2:23:25
Sorry. I'll let you get back on.
2:23:26
Stop going on tangents. All good.
2:23:29
All right. Last questions from Blair.
2:23:31
Blair Ferguson. So it says.
2:23:34
Sorry, just a minute, need to get my question out from my
2:23:36
briefcase. It's baby height, 100% genuine
2:23:38
human baby height. Do you like it?
2:23:41
So on to my question. Given your current.
2:23:43
Situation Has your gaming experience changed?
2:23:46
Do you find you're playing games less often due to not having the
2:23:48
new shiny? If so, what are you doing
2:23:51
instead? Is there another existing hobby
2:23:53
you're doing more of or have you taken up a new pastime?
2:23:56
Also, have you noticed any differences in your financial
2:23:58
status due to not buying all the new gas games?
2:24:03
Brian, I think your your briefcase looks snazzy and we.
2:24:07
See the curt has my situation changed?
2:24:11
And no, I still pretty much come home from work, sit down the
2:24:15
couch and play games. Gaming any less I'm not gaming
2:24:19
more, not normally anyway. So I'm pretty much doing pretty
2:24:22
much the same I would, I would isn't.
2:24:26
More of a patient game where the amount of.
2:24:27
Money I would have saved would have been less anyway so not
2:24:30
that much of that not that big of a difference for me Yeah.
2:24:35
Yeah. See, we'll see that's about it
2:24:38
really. Yeah.
2:24:39
How about you, Rich? Yeah.
2:24:41
It's interesting I I think if. Anything I'm probably.
2:24:45
Playing more games. So in a in a typical year when
2:24:47
I'm doing the new buying of new ones, it's kind of what we were
2:24:52
saying about marathon and high guard.
2:24:54
There's a bit bit more investment.
2:24:56
I mean, I know I've already bought these games at some
2:24:57
point, but in mentally, all of the games in my backlog are
2:25:01
free, new, new ones that would cost money.
2:25:04
So, so I'm trying out games. So like, you know, Backpack Hero
2:25:09
and Into the Breach. I've I've picked those up, I've
2:25:11
fired them up on the handheld and because they're already in
2:25:16
the backlog, I'm not feeling a specific commitment to play them
2:25:19
through to a finish. It's just like, I'll give this a
2:25:21
try, I like it, I'll carry on. If I don't like it or I've
2:25:25
something else grabs my fancy, I'll just move on.
2:25:27
And it's kind of like giving me that opportunity to pick up
2:25:30
something and not have that, oh, I've just spent 10 bucks on
2:25:34
this. I must play more before I buy
2:25:36
something new. So if anything, I'm trying a few
2:25:40
more games and there's a maybe a little bit less commitment from
2:25:44
my end at least to definitely finishing them.
2:25:47
And I'm, I feel OK with that. And then in terms of gaming
2:25:51
time, it's, that's purely a function of how busy work is,
2:25:56
how much stuff I've got to do with the kids, how tired I am,
2:25:59
that kind of stuff. So I will, I will game as much
2:26:01
as I can, like in the balance of things.
2:26:04
So it's, it's not driven by what games I'm playing because I've,
2:26:09
you know, I've got my arc Raiders, I've got my rocket
2:26:11
League that I can always go to. And if I've got my teeth into
2:26:14
something else, I'll go to that. It's just that age-old kind of
2:26:18
battle of, you know, should I stay up later than later than I
2:26:23
should on a on a weekday because, because gaming.
2:26:26
So it's just always that fine balance of having the energy to
2:26:30
do it. How about you, Stuart?
2:26:34
I mean, yeah, we spoke about the the list.
2:26:36
Of games that I'm playing and completing.
2:26:37
So you know, we're three months into the into the year and I've
2:26:41
completed 12 games already. That would not have happened pre
2:26:45
year of shame. I would have most likely
2:26:48
encountered a spot in some of those games and just dropped it
2:26:51
and moved on to the next game because it it got too hard.
2:26:55
Whereas now I'm I'm focusing on it and playing it through and
2:26:58
completing it and moving on to the next thing.
2:27:00
So maybe the opposite to to what you were just saying, Richard,
2:27:03
you know, that having the list of games there, I'm still
2:27:07
focusing on one at a time and and playing that to completion
2:27:10
before I move on. So that's, that's been, that's
2:27:13
been interesting for me and it's, it's been fun.
2:27:15
You know, have I saved any money?
2:27:18
God, no, I've not saved a cent because all the money I would
2:27:22
have spent on gaming I just spent on a 3D printer and I'm
2:27:24
spending on filament for the printer, you know, so life finds
2:27:29
a way to spend, you know, that's funny.
2:27:31
It's funny. I didn't answer the money
2:27:35
question because. What I've been doing because
2:27:36
the, the way we divvy up finances, I won't go into all of
2:27:39
the detail, but I, I end up with a little bundle of money.
2:27:42
Not not that much, but each month I end up with a bundle of
2:27:45
money which I pretty much exclusively would spend on games
2:27:49
previously and obviously that hasn't been happening this year.
2:27:54
So I've done I've done a couple of things I'm, I'm like
2:27:57
refreshing some of my clothes. I, I generally just don't buy
2:28:00
new clothes and that is now telling.
2:28:03
So I am using some of that pot to just like restock on jumpers
2:28:07
and things, but the rest I'm putting into a little savings
2:28:11
account. And I mean, interest rates won't
2:28:13
make much of a difference, but there's just this little part of
2:28:15
money that is, is not growing because of the interest, but
2:28:17
it's growing because I'm not buying games.
2:28:20
And I, I'm absolutely prepared to admit that January the 1st,
2:28:24
2027, that part is getting rinsed.
2:28:30
I'm not going to. Change.
2:28:34
So you're not thinking of doing. Another year after this, you
2:28:36
know, following Brian. No way.
2:28:38
No, Brian can go for the three. I'm not.
2:28:40
I'm not doing so. Oh, no, no, no, no.
2:28:44
I've just. Like the first, the first year I
2:28:46
definitely played more or completed more games this year
2:28:49
and far more they played back. So.
2:28:51
So I did at one stage try to do a game a week, clear a week and
2:28:55
then see if I could get how far can you get from how many games
2:28:58
are clear? But last year we turn up and I'd
2:29:03
have three games or four games, and it's like a month.
2:29:06
I'm doing OK. And then Bennett came out with
2:29:08
like 12 games. I've finished these 12 games.
2:29:11
Bloody hell, I can't keep up with that.
2:29:13
So I sort of gave up after a while.
2:29:15
But you know, it's far more laid back.
2:29:18
I'm not putting in the extra hours, but I'm spending more
2:29:20
time in each game and join it. I do think if a game doesn't
2:29:25
click with me, I will drop it quicker now because of the
2:29:28
answer doing this, whereas before I would start the game
2:29:31
and finish it regardless whether I like the game or not or just
2:29:34
because I started, as you said, before I started, I'll finish.
2:29:36
So now I'm far more likely to just now gone.
2:29:40
Move on. Yeah, All right.
2:29:43
That was all the. Questions.
2:29:43
So thank you very much guys for, for submitting very much
2:29:47
appreciated. So we're looking at some new
2:29:50
ideas for upcoming episodes. And, and so a couple of things
2:29:55
we're looking at is, you know, maybe getting some of the old
2:29:57
you're a shame crowd to, to come back and record some episodes.
2:30:01
And, and we can, we can include that here again, reaching out to
2:30:04
the community. Let us know if you, if you think
2:30:07
that's something you'd like to hear.
2:30:08
We've sent some questions out for, for guys to consider
2:30:12
recording against. And when we get those back,
2:30:15
we'll we'll be including them every so often in these
2:30:18
episodes. The other thing we were looking
2:30:20
at was maybe reintroducing a game of the month.
2:30:24
So looking through our list to see where the overlap is between
2:30:27
all three of us and finding something that all three of us
2:30:30
want to play, I think is one of the things that we will have to
2:30:34
focus on at least over the next month or two.
2:30:39
So watch this space and if it's something that the listeners
2:30:43
have got on their pile as well and they fancy joining us along
2:30:46
for the ride, you know, I'd be I'd be keen to find out how that
2:30:49
goes. So we'll let you know what the
2:30:51
what the the game will be at the beginning of the month.
2:30:55
And then we can we can work through our in a shared space
2:31:00
and hopefully all enjoy it. And with that, I think we're
2:31:03
coming to the end. So unless you've got anything
2:31:07
else you want to chat about, I want to thank you both for
2:31:11
hosting this episode with me and and thanks to the loyal
2:31:14
listeners for sticking with us. So with that, we're done for
2:31:20
this episode. Brian, do you want to leave us
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out with the goodbyes? Yep.
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Thank you for anybody who's listening.
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Thank you for the. The questions to the four
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question givers that was Paul, Stewart, Mark and Blair.
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Thank you for the questions. Always good to get them.
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Thank you to you both and thank you for covering for last month
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for me. It was anytime quite cool of
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you. I'll try to finish quickly.
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Bye. Amazing.
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And yeah, thanks, Stuart. For hosting and thanks.
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In advance, Brian, for the for the edit.
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Good luck. I know it's always a scary time.
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And yeah, thank you, listeners, and look forward to telling you
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about some some new old games next month.
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Cool. All right, goodbye.
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All have a great gaming month and enjoy all those new games
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that we can't touch for another nine months and we'll see you
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all again in April. Cheers.
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Bye bye, onto the socials. You can e-mail questions and
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comments. To us at yearofshame@gmail.com.
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Thanks. I'm editing so I'm cutting this
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all that so I appear intelligent.