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close to the enemies and then use the 73 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:16.319 passes that correspond to that play style, which I think 74 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:22.800 is pretty neat. So two new characters, one new military 75 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:25.600 building as well, which is the Adventures Guild, which lets 76 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:30.560 you embark continue on a run after beating the boss. 77 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:33.199 And now there's leaderboards for how deep you can go 78 00:04:33.319 --> 00:04:37.040 into a level if you play if you decide to 79 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:40.120 play a level on Endless, which, fuck my life, I'm 80 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:41.800 gonna be playing a shit litat a ballpit again to 81 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:45.160 try to to try to score well in these But 82 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:47.279 you know, so far of what I've seen. Solid update. 83 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:51.360 The stream that I did earlier will be on the 84 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:55.279 YouTube channel probably tomorrow alongside the podcast, so you guys 85 00:04:55.279 --> 00:04:58.680 can check that out if you're interested. Again, Ballpit a 86 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:02.959 criminally under pre to gain my estimation my number two 87 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:06.360 game from last year. So uh so, Terrence, you have 88 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:11.439 played the game of the day. The new free to 89 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:19.639 play raid shooter is what they're calling it, High Guard. 90 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:24.000 Yes, I did. It is no longer on my system. 91 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:30.959 Wow, Okay, I played two matches. It's not terrible, right, 92 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:34.560 I'm just I don't know if I'm like a multiplayer 93 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:38.759 shooter guy anymore. The game is really weird, right. You start, 94 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:41.680 like the game has eight characters, and they call it 95 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:44.800 a raid shooter because each team which is three v 96 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:47.160 three by the way, and the map is way too 97 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:50.920 big to be they're in the base and when the 98 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:53.720 game starts, you have to fortify your base. You forty 99 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:55.759 five second roles in the base and it takes like 100 00:05:55.800 --> 00:05:58.720 a minute. Then once that phases over, you go onto 101 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:01.879 the give up phase, which is two minute phase where 102 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:04.879 you go out and you lose stuff, you collect crystals 103 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:05.639 and shit like that. 104 00:06:06.079 --> 00:06:08.000 And then after that the. 105 00:06:07.959 --> 00:06:11.120 Phase where the I think it's called the shield Brickers 106 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:13.519 sword shows up and it takes a minute to show up, 107 00:06:13.519 --> 00:06:15.639 and then the two teams congrege to try to get 108 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:17.199 the sword. Whoever gets the sword, they got to go 109 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:19.879 to the opposing team to put the sword into the 110 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:23.720 whatever they call it for a battering ram to come 111 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:26.120 to knock down the shield of that base so your 112 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:28.319 team can rate it to try to blow it up. 113 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:33.120 The two matches that I played lasted thirty minutes a piece, 114 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:36.439 and I'm like, I'm not fucking because none, neither one 115 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:38.439 of us could actually blow up the base in time. 116 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:40.480 Because if you don't blow it up, if you blow 117 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:42.920 up like one, then and you still and you lose 118 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:46.959 all your respawns. The game resets to the two teams 119 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:49.319 go back to their bases, and then you just repeat 120 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:52.639 the same format like three times or something like that. 121 00:06:52.680 --> 00:06:55.160 If you don't blow up each other's basis, whoever has 122 00:06:55.160 --> 00:06:58.519 the least amount of energy left loses. The gun play 123 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:02.920 is fun, right, spawn or whatever. The their name is 124 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:05.399 now Wild Light Studios. 125 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:07.519 Yeah, it's for it's former respawn people. 126 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:08.920 Yeah, former respawn people. 127 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:11.800 So they know how to They did Apex Legends, they 128 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:15.120 did Titan Fall two, so they know how to do gunplay. 129 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:17.920 But the guns are kind of boring, the characters are 130 00:07:17.959 --> 00:07:21.000 kind of boring, the world is kind of boring. Everything 131 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:25.839 is just it's fucking boring. Yeah, I don't know how 132 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:29.079 long this is gonna last. I'm assuming they're gonna like 133 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:31.839 bring out more DLC. They're gonna add more characters and 134 00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:35.279 shing like that. But I don't know what the general 135 00:07:35.279 --> 00:07:38.079 consensus is right now, have no idea. I just played it. 136 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:40.240 I didn't know it was out. I'm like, oh, all right, 137 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:43.360 that's neat free downloaded. Played it like I don't like this. 138 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:46.519 But then again, I haven't played Hell Divers too since 139 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:49.079 I bought it, Yeah, either, so I don't know. 140 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:50.120 That could just be me. 141 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:53.639 I don't know it from I watched a couple of 142 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:57.079 streams of it today. I mean, it seems like they 143 00:07:57.519 --> 00:07:59.800 so from what I understand, they have like a year's 144 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:03.959 worth of content planned out for the

game for the 145 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:04.519 first year. 146 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:07.480 It is free to play. 147 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:10.800 All the stuff that is in the game micro transaction wise, 148 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:14.839 from my understanding, is just cosmetics. There's no loot boxes 149 00:08:14.920 --> 00:08:19.079 or anything like that, which is all good. Yeah, And 150 00:08:19.160 --> 00:08:22.120 I think and I think people were like lining up 151 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:25.879 to to kind of compare this game against the Concord 152 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:27.639 but it's kind of apples a artist because Concord is 153 00:08:27.639 --> 00:08:29.160 a forty dollars game and this is free to play, 154 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:32.000 so like, of course it's gonna you know, come out 155 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:34.519 of the gate better than Concord does. And I, and 156 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:36.720 I think because it is free to play, it'll probably 157 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:41.200 have a longer tail. But yeah, like it, Like as 158 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:44.159 I was watching the stream, like it just looked like 159 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:47.039 another one of these and and and not to diminish it, 160 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:49.799 but because it does seem to be doing some different things, 161 00:08:49.799 --> 00:08:51.600 Like it looks like it's taking a little bit of 162 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:53.519 a lot of games. 163 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:56.240 And it's kind of amalgamation that like Apex, you do 164 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:57.879 a lot of looting, you got to pick better gear 165 00:08:58.320 --> 00:08:58.639 like that. 166 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:03.159 But like there's twelve teams right when you're fighting in Ax. 167 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:05.279 It's twelve teams with three in Apex Legends, and it's 168 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:06.919 not the map is not as big as an Apex 169 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:10.320 Leedgens biggest shit, but like the map is big enough 170 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:12.360 to where you can literally add one more character to 171 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:14.919 the team would make all the difference in the world. 172 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:16.399 It could be four v four and it would be 173 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:22.039 a lot better. And again it's just it's just nothing there. 174 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:24.000 Like once you get into the raid section, I mean, 175 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:27.799 it gets exciting because you're you're three v three, you're 176 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:30.320 shooting at each other, but like the looting part, you 177 00:09:30.360 --> 00:09:32.720 don't see the other team. You barely see the other team, 178 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:35.039 Like they're all doing the same shit. But the map 179 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:36.600 is big enough to where you won't see the other 180 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:38.639 team until you actually have to go and fight them, 181 00:09:38.879 --> 00:09:41.279 and it's kind of weird. It's all right, I'm not 182 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:43.080 having a lot of fun. 183 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:46.159 Yeah, I mean again, it plays fine, but. 184 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:50.240 They have like they I don't know what's up with 185 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:53.159 this team, because they when they release Titan Bull two 186 00:09:53.240 --> 00:09:57.039 back in that twenty eighteen or something like that, between 187 00:09:57.120 --> 00:10:00.879 two Titans, no point intending, what was it called of 188 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:05.399 Duty and the Battlefield came out the same time, and Titanfield. 189 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:08.840 Literally bitterly it was Battlefield came out the next week 190 00:10:08.919 --> 00:10:12.559 was Titan Fall. The next week literally said that game 191 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:13.120 to die. 192 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:13.759 So it. 193 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:19.399 Is a great game. People still play that game online. 194 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:22.720 But this one, hey, I hope it. I hope it succeeds. 195 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:28.000 It's funny because because I think the I think the 196 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:32.000 fact that it was revealed at the Game Awards this 197 00:10:32.120 --> 00:10:34.639 actually hurt the game because I I I saw an 198 00:10:34.799 --> 00:10:38.320 snippet from an interview with this I think the head 199 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:40.000 of the studio or the head of the team that 200 00:10:40.080 --> 00:10:42.639 made this, and they were like, yeah, like we were 201 00:10:42.679 --> 00:10:46.159 gonna do like we were gonna stealth shout just like yeah, 202 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:48.879 just like just like Apex did, because that that worked 203 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:51.639 and we figured that would be smart. But then Jeff 204 00:10:51.679 --> 00:10:53.960 was Jeff, you know, saw the game and it was like, hey, 205 00:10:53.960 --> 00:10:55.639 like can I feature this? And he's and we're and 206 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:57.440 we're like yeah, sure, like go for it. But then 207 00:10:57.720 --> 00:11:00.360 when you had that reveal in the position during the 208 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:01.759 show that it was because it was like the one 209 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:03.879 more thing at the very end, right it was the 210 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:06.080 last thing shown. And then the fact that they went 211 00:11:06.559 --> 00:11:11.039 completely radio silent on the game until it released today, essentially, like, 212 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:15.120 I think that rollout has helped build a narrative about 213 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:17.080 the game that if they had just shadow dropped the game, 214 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:19.720 I think we'd be having a slightly different conversation. Like 215 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:20.799 I'm not to say that you would have been like 216 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:21.840 head over heels in love with. 217 00:11:21.799 --> 00:11:23.600 It or anything like

that. But I didn't know. 218 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:28.000 Yeah, it was a thing I completely forgot. I just 219 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:29.639 I just happened to see a free to play a game. 220 00:11:29.679 --> 00:11:31.360 Oh high God, I'm like, okay, let me get and 221 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:34.600 download this. An hour later, I'm like, no, thank you, 222 00:11:34.679 --> 00:11:37.759 I'm good. I don't need to play this anymore. 223 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:37.919 Oh. 224 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:41.440 I also play the stage too, and Dead out into 225 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:44.399 is what I what I played over the weekend. Those 226 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:48.320 are two games I played over two old games that 227 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:50.919 I enjoyed quite a bit. So that's what I did. 228 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:54.519 Okay, Carrie, you didn't play a new games, but you 229 00:11:54.600 --> 00:12:01.000 did go to Los Angeles to check out a concerts angles. 230 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:01.360 Yes. 231 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:07.279 Yeah, last week I had a show in San Francisco 232 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:10.200 and so I was kind of my free time was 233 00:12:10.279 --> 00:12:16.279 spent preparing for that, and yeah, so Friday we drift down. Uh, 234 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:19.240 this is the first time that Atlas has held a 235 00:12:19.399 --> 00:12:23.679 Persona live concert in the United States. They've been doing 236 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:28.279 them in Japan, not quite annually, but fairly regularly since 237 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:33.840 two thousand and eight, so this was exciting. There were 238 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:36.080 two shows on Saturday, there was also one Friday night. 239 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:39.159 To my knowledge, it was the same set list across 240 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:43.279 all three shows. It was just focused on music from 241 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:46.759 three and from five. There was no Persona four representation, 242 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:50.559 which is fine by me because that's my least favorite 243 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:54.480 of the Botton personas. But in the past they have 244 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:57.200 featured you know, three, four and five or before five 245 00:12:57.240 --> 00:13:02.519 came out, it was three and four basically, So they 246 00:13:02.519 --> 00:13:06.519 called it Persona Live twenty twenty six Awakenings, and it 247 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:12.720 did feature like the actual vocalists from three Reload. Mind you, 248 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:16.519 Yumi was not there because she didn't sing on Reload, 249 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:20.600 but they had Azubi Takahashi and Lotus Juice, your singer 250 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:25.240 and rapper respectively from Persona three Reload and Lotus Juice 251 00:13:25.279 --> 00:13:27.600 was on the original Persona three as well. And then 252 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:31.559 lynn Inaizumi, who's the singer in all of the Persona 253 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:34.399

five games, so she did she did the original p five, 254 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:37.279 but then she also did Royal and Tactica and Strikers 255 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:42.840 and stuff from the Phantom X. So the setlist was 256 00:13:42.919 --> 00:13:48.799 interesting because there's been a lot of Persona five titles 257 00:13:49.399 --> 00:13:54.559 now and they pretty much just did stuff from five 258 00:13:54.600 --> 00:13:58.120 and Royal and then they did some Phantom X stuff. Now, 259 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:01.000 if you're like, what the hell is Phantom X, it's 260 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:05.879 their free to play game that's kind of an alternate 261 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:10.639 universe retelling of the events of Persona five. 262 00:14:10.759 --> 00:14:11.960 I think I haven't played it. 263 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:15.320 I did. I did put it in my Steam library 264 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:17.720 because it is on Steam. 265 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:20.240 It's it's a mobile game. 266 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:22.159 It's a mobile game, and it's but I was like, 267 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:23.879 I'm not playing this game because I don't want to 268 00:14:23.879 --> 00:14:28.679 play like a big ass JRPG on my phone. So 269 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:32.480 it's I haven't installed it because it's a hefty install. 270 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:38.039 It's like seventy five gigs, which feels like a lot 271 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:39.360 what a. 272 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:42.039 Phone on a PC. 273 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:45.240 But still, I mean, if if it's seventy five gigs 274 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:48.440 on PC, that's still probably a pretty healthy phone install 275 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:49.039 as well. 276 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:53.159 Yeah, so I don't really know what's going on with that. 277 00:14:55.639 --> 00:15:00.960 For comparison, the space required to install Persona five Strikers, 278 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:04.879 which itself is a fairly hefty game, was twenty five gigabytes. 279 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:08.600 So I have a lot of questions about Persona five 280 00:15:08.679 --> 00:15:12.840 with pantom X. But basically, the way that they do 281 00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:15.720 it and the way that they incentivize you spending money 282 00:15:15.879 --> 00:15:20.240 is that like actions cost energy, and you only have so. 283 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:23.600 Much energy available to you and you gotta wait for 284 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:24.360 it to replenish. 285 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:26.279 So if you want to go dungeon diving, you have 286 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:28.080 to spend a certain amount of energy to enter the 287 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:29.240 dungeon kind of stuff. 288 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:34.399 So whatever, it apparently has decent music. 289 00:15:36.559 --> 00:15:39.399 Probably the only probably the only reason, probably. 290 00:15:39.080 --> 00:15:41.000 Like the only redeeming quality about it. 291 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:43.600 Steam reviews are mixed. 292 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:50.519 Trust Mobile bullshit definitely will get that reaction. 293 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:52.960 Yeah, I do like the character designs. I think this 294 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:55.399 sort of like alternate Phantom Thieves. I do think they 295 00:15:55.440 --> 00:15:58.919 have very very cool designs. It still feels very much 296 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:02.440 in line with the of the kind of Persona five 297 00:16:02.519 --> 00:16:05.159 cannon in that way. But yeah, so it's like they 298 00:16:05.159 --> 00:16:08.559 did a couple like two or three Phantom X tunes 299 00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:11.000 and then they were like, Hey, you know what's so 300 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:14.440 cool is we're coming out with this Persona five Tactica 301 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:17.240 box set and it's four LPs, and I am ap 302 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:20.159 it's putting it out and they please order it. It's 303 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:22.519 going to be on pre order through the end of February. 304 00:16:22.679 --> 00:16:26.039 And then they didn't play anything from Tactica. They were like, 305 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:28.559 Tactica is really cool, and we did such good music 306 00:16:28.600 --> 00:16:31.159 that we're putting it on vinyl. Not gonna play anything 307 00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:36.120 from it, but like just a couple hmmm kind of 308 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:38.759 moments about that. The other thing is they didn't have 309 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:40.799 a full live band, which they have had in the 310 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:43.639 Japanese performances, and that's kind of my biggest kind of 311 00:16:43.679 --> 00:16:47.360 hang up with this. Keeping in mind, I was thoroughly 312 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:50.480 entertained the entire way through, Like I thought, the overall 313 00:16:50.519 --> 00:16:54.279 presentation was great. The persona life dancers, who are basically 314 00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:58.200 folks in cosplay as the main characters from three to five. 315 00:16:58.519 --> 00:16:59.919 They were great. It was fun. 316 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:04.640 It was a great way to escape from the hell 317 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:08.079 of reality for two hours. But because of the fact 318 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:10.119 that they didn't have a live band, it was just 319 00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:15.319 tracks and then one guitarist, one lead guitarist, Toshiki Kuonishi, 320 00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:18.079 who's one of the composers for Atlas and he's also 321 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:20.720 like kind of like your lead guitarist for the Atlass 322 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:21.160 sound team. 323 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:24.000 He was there, so he got some cool moments to 324 00:17:24.200 --> 00:17:24.759 show off. 325 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:28.759 But it meant that pretty much all of the tracks 326 00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:31.960 were vocal tracks, so you only had like one kind 327 00:17:32.039 --> 00:17:34.880 of

instrumental track. I think they did Blooming Villain from 328 00:17:35.079 --> 00:17:38.799 five and then they did something from Free three that's 329 00:17:38.839 --> 00:17:43.599 completely escaping me at this point, so I I like 330 00:17:43.640 --> 00:17:46.839 the instrumentals in three and five are also incredible. So 331 00:17:46.920 --> 00:17:49.960 it did feel lacking in that sense that they just 332 00:17:50.119 --> 00:17:53.039 did vocal tunes and they didn't even do all of 333 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:59.240 the vocal tunes, so that that could have been improved 334 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:02.079 if they chose used to do more persona concerts in 335 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:07.000 the United States, perhaps outside of Los Angeles at some point. 336 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:09.960 I do hope that they have a live band and 337 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:12.319 that they kind of balance the setlist a little differently, 338 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:17.400 but overall, like Linn was great, Azumi was great, Mister 339 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:21.359 Juice was great. Like it was a great time, Like 340 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:23.759 I had so much fun. There were so many people 341 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:26.240 in cosplay. They sold the I think I actually have 342 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:33.640 it in arms reach. I got the lightstick because this 343 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:37.559 is such a thing in Japan to do this during concerts. 344 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:38.119 So okay, it's cool. 345 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:40.880 You can change the color. And I had a fun 346 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:46.200 time with my friends in Los Angeles. So that's that's 347 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:49.480 about it though. Yeah, I'm looking forward to actually playing 348 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:52.559 some games this week. I want to get back to 349 00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:55.200 Blueprints and I want to start on a two point Museum, 350 00:18:55.359 --> 00:18:56.599 so oh. 351 00:18:56.519 --> 00:18:59.680 I'm very excited to get your impressions of that once 352 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:02.880 you start playing it. So both games actually for that matter. 353 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:07.680 So I'm still kind of working through Tokyo Extreme Racer, 354 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:11.400 and I've also gone back to finish Art of Rally, 355 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:13.359 which is something that I had not done. This game 356 00:19:13.400 --> 00:19:15.039 I talked about on the podcasts before a very good 357 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:18.359 game to check it out. In between then, I found 358 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:21.599 time to play two smaller games The first one is 359 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:24.119 a game called Vital Shell that just came out last week. 360 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:30.559 This is a small, little indie Survivors like game, but 361 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:33.039 it's one of the level based survivors like. So if 362 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:36.319 you if I talked about Brotato on the show before,

363 00:19:36.960 --> 00:19:39.839 it's very similar to that in the way it's structured. 364 00:19:39.880 --> 00:19:44.599 So basically the general premises, it's a wave based game 365 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:47.240 where you have a character that was round on a map. 366 00:19:47.640 --> 00:19:50.359 It's an auto attack game where you have you know, 367 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:52.200 attacks that are on cool downs and stuff like that, 368 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:54.920 and you have to defeat waves of enemies. The difference 369 00:19:55.000 --> 00:19:57.279 here between this and something like a Vampire Survivors is 370 00:19:57.279 --> 00:20:00.759 that each level is timed. You have to survive for 371 00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:03.000 a certain amount of time, usually like a minute or 372 00:20:03.079 --> 00:20:06.480 ninety seconds, and then at the end of the level 373 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:09.960 these if you leveled up during in collecting experience points, 374 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:13.119 you can cash those in for different like weapon upgrades 375 00:20:13.160 --> 00:20:15.559 and power ups and stuff like that. So that's that's 376 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:20.519 the kind of basic premise here. It's a good game. UH, 377 00:20:20.880 --> 00:20:23.960 It's not as like like Brotato is probably the gold 378 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:28.519 standard in this uh, in this genre, because it has 379 00:20:28.559 --> 00:20:30.519 so many characters that has so many weapons, so many 380 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:34.839 passives where you can there's a lot more ability to 381 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:38.559 play with your build. The upgrade path and vital Shell 382 00:20:38.599 --> 00:20:41.440 is actually quite fixed. Like you up you you gain 383 00:20:41.519 --> 00:20:46.519 new weapons at the same point during each run, you 384 00:20:46.559 --> 00:20:48.720 get upgrades for those weapons at the same point. Now 385 00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:50.759 you can choose different upgrades and you can apply them 386 00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:54.759 to different weapons at different times. But the way the 387 00:20:54.799 --> 00:20:56.720 run kind of plays out is similar is just the 388 00:20:56.799 --> 00:20:58.039 choices that are offered. 389 00:20:57.799 --> 00:21:00.359 To you are going to be a little bit different. 390 00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:03.000 There's like a special attack that you that you unlock 391 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:04.839 halfway through that you can use as well, and things 392 00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:09.200 like that. The thing that I would recommend this game 393 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:13.200 for over Singingly your Potato is that the aesthetic of 394 00:21:13.240 --> 00:21:18.759 the game is tremendous because this basically looks and sounds 395 00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:24.839 like a PS one era like Gundam Shooter essentially like 396 00:21:24.920 --> 00:21:28.039 it has It has a PS one graphical style, It 397 00:21:28.079 --> 00:21:30.519 has PS one shit all over the menus and stuff 398 00:21:30.559 --> 00:21:33.599 like that or stuff alluding to it. The soundtrack is 399 00:21:33.640 --> 00:21:36.799 very PS one esque. So if you are a gamer 400 00:21:36.839 --> 00:21:39.880 of a certain age and a certain style and that 401 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:43.559 is very appealing to you, then Vital Shell might be 402 00:21:43.599 --> 00:21:45.759 a good one to go with. Otherwise I would tell 403 00:21:45.799 --> 00:21:48.920 you to just get Brotato, because I think Protato is 404 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:51.799 a better game that will have long more staying power. 405 00:21:51.880 --> 00:21:56.359 I don't see myself playing this past, you know, completing 406 00:21:56.359 --> 00:21:58.200 all the stages once essentially, I don't think that I'm 407 00:21:58.200 --> 00:22:01.799 going to grind down. So the other game that I've 408 00:22:01.799 --> 00:22:04.759 been playing is another game that feels like a game 409 00:22:04.799 --> 00:22:08.359 released out of time, a game called Super ten ten, 410 00:22:09.599 --> 00:22:13.839 which looks and feels like an N sixty four game 411 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:19.039 in all the best ways, and as the name would 412 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:23.279 lead you to believe, this is a bowling game, but 413 00:22:23.400 --> 00:22:27.519 it's like a bowling game by way of like super 414 00:22:27.519 --> 00:22:31.200 monkey Ball essentially, where each of the lanes that you 415 00:22:31.319 --> 00:22:35.799 bowl on are different tracks that have hazards and obstacles 416 00:22:35.799 --> 00:22:41.079 that you have to avoid, but still roll the ball 417 00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:43.960 down the lane and try to get the best bowling 418 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:49.200 score that you can across five frames, and so a 419 00:22:49.240 --> 00:22:51.319 lot of stuff to do in this game. There's a 420 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:54.240 lot of different lanes. Like so far, I'm just in 421 00:22:54.279 --> 00:22:58.400 the second area, and I think there's fifteen different lanes 422 00:22:58.799 --> 00:23:01.319 in that area by itself, and then there are two 423 00:23:01.359 --> 00:23:03.240 more areas beyond that that I would assume have a 424 00:23:03.279 --> 00:23:08.359 comparable amount of levels that are in the game. Each 425 00:23:08.440 --> 00:23:10.559 level has like a high score target that you're trying 426 00:23:10.559 --> 00:23:13.480 to achieve. There's also a hidden star somewhere in the 427 00:23:13.559 --> 00:23:15.880 level that you have to try to collect as well 428 00:23:15.880 --> 00:23:19.359 in order to fully complete it. But you can still 429 00:23:19.400 --> 00:23:21.759 move on past past the levels. You don't have to 430 00:23:22.119 --> 00:23:24.039 like three star them, but obviously you need a certain 431 00:23:24.039 --> 00:23:26.839 amount of metals in order to unlock the later the 432 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:29.240 later world. And then the other thing that's cool about 433

00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:31.880 this is that, as you might expect, there's different balls 434 00:23:32.440 --> 00:23:36.119 that you can unlock as well and use in each 435 00:23:36.200 --> 00:23:39.000 level that have different attributes. So like there's a heavy ball. 436 00:23:39.519 --> 00:23:42.759 There's like a speedball that you can roll that runs 437 00:23:42.759 --> 00:23:44.319 a little faster, but then it also has like a 438 00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:48.400 speed boost that you can activate to rocket it forward 439 00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:51.359 to knock down pins. There's like a bouncing ball that 440 00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:53.880 you can you know, hit a to make it jump, 441 00:23:53.880 --> 00:23:56.200 and wherever it lands creates like a little mini explosion, 442 00:23:56.279 --> 00:23:58.359 so that if you can if you can time that 443 00:23:58.400 --> 00:24:01.200 correctly to land into where the pins are, then it's 444 00:24:01.240 --> 00:24:04.400 an easy strike and that sort of thing. This cool 445 00:24:04.440 --> 00:24:06.279 little game, like I said, it's it's got a lot 446 00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:10.039 of content for a pretty for a pretty inexpensive price. 447 00:24:10.319 --> 00:24:12.759 And again, if you're an old man like me and 448 00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:15.759 remember the days of the N sixty four, uh, this 449 00:24:15.799 --> 00:24:18.400 will be very appealing to you. And I believe he 450 00:24:18.400 --> 00:24:20.400 does have multiplayer as well. I think you can play 451 00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:22.279 with multiple people locally. 452 00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:22.559 I don't. 453 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:25.480 I don't think it's online, but it does have local multiplayers, 454 00:24:25.480 --> 00:24:28.119 so you can compete against your friends. So if that 455 00:24:28.279 --> 00:24:32.039 sounds appealing to you, give Super ten Pin a shot. 456 00:24:32.119 --> 00:24:35.839 I think it is only on PC for now, but 457 00:24:36.799 --> 00:24:37.519 maybe it'll come to. 458 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:40.720 Looking it up. Either. You bowl. 459 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:44.480 I used to, I really I used to. He used 460 00:24:44.519 --> 00:24:46.440 to be pretty good. He's to be very good. I 461 00:24:46.559 --> 00:24:49.240 used to work in a bowling app. I don't know 462 00:24:49.279 --> 00:24:52.400 that I was ever good, but but I didn't enjoy 463 00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:53.759 it for sure. 464 00:24:54.759 --> 00:25:00.279 About ray Lewis once, Oh really I beat him? Good 465 00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:04.400 for you. This is when he was on quote unquote 466 00:25:04.440 --> 00:25:05.680 murder somebody. 467 00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:10.839 Okay, so is during that is what they're doing their 468 00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:14.759 Super Bowl? Okay, yeah, No I was better than him. No, 469 00:25:17.839 --> 00:25:22.000 I don't don't respect my skills. I will say I 470 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:24.240 do enjoy I haven't been duck hit in a while, 471 00:25:24.279 --> 00:25:24.880 but I do like that. 472 00:25:25.359 --> 00:25:28.440 I hate that I like duck pin, and that's not 473 00:25:28.599 --> 00:25:30.279 something they believe in out here. 474 00:25:31.480 --> 00:25:32.559 They probably don't even know what it is. 475 00:25:32.759 --> 00:25:33.720 I don't know what it is. 476 00:25:34.359 --> 00:25:37.119 That's a that's a that's a very it's the East coast, 477 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:38.480 perhaps specifically American. 478 00:25:38.920 --> 00:25:43.720 It's a it is a Maryland thing. Yeah, yeah, sure, 479 00:25:44.359 --> 00:25:45.480 I am in New York. 480 00:25:46.440 --> 00:25:50.720 I mean, I mean it might have radiated, but mid Atlantic. 481 00:25:51.559 --> 00:25:54.359 Yeah, uh quick, quick wiki check. 482 00:25:54.400 --> 00:25:57.519 According to the National duck Pin Bowling Congress, which is 483 00:25:57.519 --> 00:26:01.839 apparently a real organization that exists regulation, duckpin bowling is 484 00:26:01.880 --> 00:26:11.119 playing in nine states. Uh so those include, uh, Maryland, Virginia, 485 00:26:11.160 --> 00:26:23.720 West Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Uh, Illinois. Yeah so no, 486 00:26:24.079 --> 00:26:26.359 not a thing they know about out here. No, it's 487 00:26:26.519 --> 00:26:34.920 uh it's commonly believed that duckpin originated in Baltimore. But yeah, 488 00:26:35.559 --> 00:26:37.799 no one. I don't think anyone west of the fucking 489 00:26:37.839 --> 00:26:39.839 Mississippi knows what duckkin bowling is. 490 00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:44.039 Lacrosse also weirdly the same way, like if you go 491 00:26:44.079 --> 00:26:45.279 out west, people don't. 492 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:46.039 Lacrosse from. 493 00:26:47.519 --> 00:26:50.880 I mean, like lacrosse is laid out here. It is 494 00:26:50.920 --> 00:26:59.079 not nearly as popular though. I would say, like like 495 00:26:59.119 --> 00:27:05.039 there's there's like college teams out here that that play lacrosse. 496 00:27:05.960 --> 00:27:10.279 But yeah, it's like it's not really it's not a 497 00:27:10.359 --> 00:27:12.680 thing in the way that it is in the mid 498 00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:13.960 Atlantic specifically. 499 00:27:14.079 --> 00:27:20.400 So well, I regret to inform everybody that we must get. 500 00:27:20.200 --> 00:27:23.079 On to the news. 501 00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:26.240 We are once again talking about ubiquitous software. 502 00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:26.519 Yeah. 503 00:27:26.519 --> 00:27:28.359 I don't like the fact that this is becoming like 504 00:27:28.400 --> 00:27:30.599 a weekly segment on the show. Is this this this 505 00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:34.799 week and ubiquitous Software? So last week was actually pretty 506 00:27:34.839 --> 00:27:37.400 big week for ubi soft. We have some major news 507 00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:42.279 to talk about. So ub Soft has detailed the future 508 00:27:43.319 --> 00:27:49.079 structure of the company. Uh, they are doing

a what 509 00:27:49.079 --> 00:27:54.359 they're calling a major company reset that will quote reclaim 510 00:27:54.400 --> 00:28:00.440 its creative leadership and drive a sharp rebound over how 511 00:28:00.519 --> 00:28:04.119 things have been going for them as a result. So 512 00:28:04.359 --> 00:28:06.559 the first thing that kind of got announced with this 513 00:28:06.759 --> 00:28:10.920 is that there are six games that have been canceled, 514 00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:14.279 only one of which was announced previously, which was that 515 00:28:14.319 --> 00:28:15.319 Prince of Persia. 516 00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:16.880 Since the Time remake. 517 00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:21.599 Yeah, I saw something today about that that was the 518 00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:26.480 one of the actresses involved basically was like cool, So 519 00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:28.799 I just lost three years of work and I've gotten 520 00:28:28.920 --> 00:28:29.799 nothing to show for it. 521 00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:36.200 So ye, seven games have been delayed, including what people 522 00:28:36.200 --> 00:28:40.720 assume the Assassin's Creed four remake that people assumed was 523 00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:43.960 pretty close to being able to be released, and two 524 00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:46.799 studios closed, one of which I assume was Halifax, which 525 00:28:46.799 --> 00:28:47.359 we talked about a. 526 00:28:47.319 --> 00:28:47.920 Couple of weeks ago. 527 00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:50.799 Was Halifax, Yeah, Halifax, and Stockholm and. 528 00:28:50.839 --> 00:28:51.640 Stockholm, right. 529 00:28:51.799 --> 00:28:56.240 So the reason they canceled these six games is because 530 00:28:56.279 --> 00:29:01.160 they did not meet Ubisoft's new quality ex spectations according 531 00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:06.359 to them, even though industry insiders were assuming that that 532 00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:10.000 game was going to like drop any day now essentially, 533 00:29:10.119 --> 00:29:13.160 like like they according to them, it was like basically 534 00:29:13.240 --> 00:29:17.759 done essentially. And then so what they've decided to do 535 00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:25.200 here is they have split Ubisoft into five creative houses. 536 00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:32.440 Uh that is going to like organize things around Ubisoft. 537 00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:36.440 So so the first creative house, uh is Vantage Studios, 538 00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:39.559 which this is that's the ten Cent owned or partially 539 00:29:39.559 --> 00:29:43.119 owned subsidiary where Assassins create Rainbow six and far Cry. 540 00:29:43.519 --> 00:29:44.599 Yeah, aka, the. 541 00:29:44.519 --> 00:29:47.720 Profitable games got shunted, got shunted off to you. So 542 00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:52.400 that that's that's creative house one. Creative House two is 543 00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:56.359 going to be dedicated to quote competitive and cooperative shooter experiences. 544 00:29:57.039 --> 00:30:01.640 Which includes the Division Ghost Recon and Win Yourself. So 545 00:30:01.720 --> 00:30:03.319 that's that's what Creative House two. 546 00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:07.160 Is heading up. Is going to be a Splinters coming out. 547 00:30:07.559 --> 00:30:13.839 I mean, and it will apparently be a cooperative or 548 00:30:13.839 --> 00:30:16.240 competitive game there. It's that's that's that's the even war 549 00:30:17.160 --> 00:30:23.559 exciting news there. Creative House three will have a selection 550 00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:30.480 of quote select sharp Live experiences Capital L Live, Capital 551 00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:30.960 L Live. 552 00:30:31.400 --> 00:30:31.559 Uh. 553 00:30:31.599 --> 00:30:37.359 So that's gonna include like Farana, the Crew Writers, Republic, Rawhalla, 554 00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:39.559 and somehow also mentioned. 555 00:30:39.759 --> 00:30:42.359 Skull and Bones. That was a dead water. 556 00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:48.200 Uh. 557 00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:53.319 Creative House four will focus on fantasy worlds and narrative 558 00:30:53.400 --> 00:30:57.720 driven universes like the Fantasy World of eighteen hundreds, Industrial 559 00:30:57.799 --> 00:31:01.279 Revolution England with the Ando series, uh Might and Magic 560 00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:05.279 ray Man, the Prince of Persia series, and Beyond Good 561 00:31:05.279 --> 00:31:12.200 and Evil still hagging in their so not not one 562 00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:14.880 of the games canceled despite being in development quote unquote 563 00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:20.319 for seventeen years. And then Creative House five, which we'll 564 00:31:20.319 --> 00:31:24.519 call the Junk Drawer, which yeah, Ubisoft says this is 565 00:31:24.559 --> 00:31:27.160 going to reclaim our position casual and family friendly games. 566 00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:30.799 And this is where like just Dance and Uno and 567 00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:33.079 all the Hasbro licenses that the U be Soft has 568 00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:41.119 right now are gonna live essentially so uh sure, yeah 569 00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:43.680 and so and so they're They're philosophy here is that 570 00:31:43.799 --> 00:31:48.240 each creative house will have its own leadership and end 571 00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:53.240 to end responsibility for its specific portfolio, which Ubisoft says 572 00:31:53.279 --> 00:32:00.079 will help these studios make faster uh decisions and hopefully 573 00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:05.880 developed games quicker as well. So Ubisoft is a publicly 574 00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:09.519 traded company, and so usually when you have announcements like this, 575 00:32:10.359 --> 00:32:14.200 seeing how the market reacts as a good barometer to 576 00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:20.119 the level of confidence that that shareholders have in these 577 00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:23.480 new plans. And if you believe the level of confidence 578 00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:27.279 that you be Soft shareholders have for this new new announcement, 579

00:32:28.359 --> 00:32:32.359 not so good, not good? Yeah, U be soft shares 580 00:32:32.440 --> 00:32:37.079 dropped thirty three percent following the company reset announcement. 581 00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:41.799 Also worth noting, the share price of Ubisoft has plummeted 582 00:32:42.640 --> 00:32:47.400 ninety five percent over the last eight years. So the 583 00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:51.559 company's doing really well. Guys. I can can't stress enough 584 00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:54.039 how good you be soft is doing right now. They 585 00:32:54.079 --> 00:32:55.599 have so many good things coming up. 586 00:32:57.119 --> 00:32:59.559 So mean, hey, if you you be soft shares right now, 587 00:32:59.599 --> 00:33:01.759 you can get a for like five bucks apiece. 588 00:33:02.359 --> 00:33:04.799 I wonder what their stock price is right now. 589 00:33:05.440 --> 00:33:07.480 As as at the time of this VGC article that 590 00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:10.039 we're pulling this from, it was at four four thirty 591 00:33:10.079 --> 00:33:11.319 six euros. 592 00:33:11.400 --> 00:33:16.880 I want you to guess how much it is dollars 593 00:33:16.960 --> 00:33:22.160 or in euro in real money bucks American. 594 00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:26.920 Dollar in American dollars. So the the euro is stronger 595 00:33:26.960 --> 00:33:29.359 than the dollar. So it's gonna it's gotta be more. 596 00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:33.559 I'm going to say five fifty. 597 00:33:34.920 --> 00:33:36.240 Tarant you got something. 598 00:33:38.119 --> 00:33:38.440 Seven. 599 00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:48.160 It is currently trading as of closing today one dollar. 600 00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:52.240 And one Centkay, that is what. 601 00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:59.480 Wait a minute, it opened at ninety five cents. 602 00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:01.160 Hey, we're making. 603 00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:07.680 Games total or whatever the fucking Wall Street assholes say 604 00:34:07.799 --> 00:34:10.960 out there, you gotta you gotta have diamond hands on UBIS. 605 00:34:11.079 --> 00:34:17.400 So yeah, yeah, in in comparison, in comparison, Nintendo is 606 00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:21.920 trading at uh sixty seven dollars. 607 00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:27.960 So good. So here, So here's the thing with this plan. 608 00:34:29.599 --> 00:34:31.960 I don't think it's a bad plan. Like, honestly, I 609 00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:34.960 think the way they they're they're restructuring the studio is 610 00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:36.360 actually kind of makes a lot of sense. 611 00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:37.920 I do think it kind of does make some sense. 612 00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:39.119 Yeah, I have the same thought. 613 00:34:39.280 --> 00:34:42.679 Yeah, I think it does make sense to have like 614 00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:49.320 dedicated creative houses, dedicated dev teams for essentially different genres. Right, 615 00:34:49.559 --> 00:34:52.760 you need your Ruty two D gun mcshootie house, you 616 00:34:52.840 --> 00:34:58.199 need your uh like competitive game house, you need your 617 00:34:58.920 --> 00:35:01.119 Just Dance, you need your mom's house. 618 00:35:01.760 --> 00:35:05.079 Uh and uh yeah, I don't. 619 00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:07.760 I look at the restructuring plan and I go, Okay, 620 00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:11.039 this actually makes some sense. However, given that this is 621 00:35:11.400 --> 00:35:15.760 Oobi Soft we are talking about, I am fully expecting 622 00:35:15.800 --> 00:35:17.039 this to blow up in their face somehow. 623 00:35:17.159 --> 00:35:21.320 So this would be solved if they just made another 624 00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:22.360 fucking rate game. 625 00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:22.880 Well. 626 00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:26.679 Also, I don't understand how the Gemo brothers have not 627 00:35:26.719 --> 00:35:29.519 been run out of the fucking building on a rail. Y. 628 00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:35.280 It really does beg that question if they've lost of 629 00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:38.119 shareholder value that has been lost over the last decade 630 00:35:38.119 --> 00:35:45.519 for Ubisoft investors is astounding. But don't worry. Don't worry, guys. 631 00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:48.880 They have a plan to get that money back. 632 00:35:49.679 --> 00:35:49.760 Uh. 633 00:35:49.840 --> 00:35:52.000 They're gonna lay off about eighteen percent of their staff 634 00:35:52.679 --> 00:35:57.760 in Paris, specifically in Paris, so uh, still a couple 635 00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:03.159 hundred jobs. I like how they call it a mutual termination. 636 00:36:03.400 --> 00:36:05.840 I don't think this is going to be entirely mutual 637 00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:08.280 for those two hundred people that are about to lose 638 00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:13.559 their jobs. Uh yeah, so this is they're just like 639 00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:17.320 this is part of the restructuring and blah blah whatever. 640 00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:20.679 But anyway, more game industry layoffs shocking. 641 00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:21.840 It must be. 642 00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:23.960 It must be awesome to be rich and white, not 643 00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:27.320 not having to be accountable for anything, any any bad decisions. 644 00:36:27.320 --> 00:36:29.320 You've made one of those things. 645 00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:31.360 Yeah, yeah, one of those. 646 00:36:32.159 --> 00:36:35.360 Yeah, but we're not rich. 647 00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:38.480 We can't we can't understand. I wonder. 648 00:36:38.840 --> 00:36:42.639 No, No, I'm just irresponsible with money. That's that's that's 649 00:36:42.679 --> 00:36:44.760 the real that's the real thing. 650 00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:45.920 See, I could. 651 00:36:45.800 --> 00:36:48.639 Really live the high life, but I live in one 652 00:36:48.639 --> 00:36:53.920 of the highest cost of living countries. Uh country, Yeah, 653 00:36:55.880 --> 00:37:00.280 the country all the time. Yeah, put it. 654 00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:02.360 Put it to you this way, like like I like 655

00:37:02.440 --> 00:37:04.760 I do, okay, right, but like if I made if 656 00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:07.119 if I made a series of moves at my job 657 00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:12.280 that costs the company like like millions of dollars, I 658 00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:16.840 wouldn't have this job at the job that I have anymore. So, 659 00:37:16.840 --> 00:37:18.719 So like you know, I don't. I don't have that 660 00:37:18.840 --> 00:37:22.159 level of privilege. That's that's that's only something we can 661 00:37:22.199 --> 00:37:22.880 all aspire to. 662 00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:24.199 French. 663 00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:27.960 No, I am mean comfortably. 664 00:37:29.760 --> 00:37:30.000 Yeah. 665 00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:34.039 Truthfully, I only I only get to live the way 666 00:37:34.039 --> 00:37:35.679 that I do because I don't I don't really have 667 00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:40.760 the way because of uh cozy living situation I have 668 00:37:40.880 --> 00:37:46.079 out here. But even still it's like I try not to. 669 00:37:47.320 --> 00:37:49.199 I try not to be dumb with money. 670 00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:54.920 Yeah, well not not easy if I had If I. 671 00:37:54.880 --> 00:37:58.760 Had more money, then I could be dumb with money. 672 00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:02.159 Well, and and again like this, this will work great 673 00:38:02.159 --> 00:38:05.719 for UBI Soft because now instead of having every game 674 00:38:06.239 --> 00:38:08.639 in their portfolio would be the same but just with 675 00:38:08.719 --> 00:38:12.760 like different theming, now they'll have five different games that 676 00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:16.159 they can apply across many many different licenses. 677 00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:16.400 And stuff like that. 678 00:38:16.559 --> 00:38:20.119 So they got that going for them, which I'm. 679 00:38:20.039 --> 00:38:25.039 Sure is nice. I don't think it's gonna change anything. No, 680 00:38:25.239 --> 00:38:27.000 I mean, we'll just don't. 681 00:38:27.440 --> 00:38:31.079 We'll They're gonna have to dedicated fucking you know, houses 682 00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:33.800 book all right, They're still gonna be saying fucking games. 683 00:38:34.679 --> 00:38:37.960 You're still fucking laying people off. Yeah, next year we'll 684 00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:40.280 see another five thousand people laid off. 685 00:38:40.920 --> 00:38:42.920 Dude, I can't. I can't good people too. 686 00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:45.639 Maybe one day possibly comes out and I think just 687 00:38:46.119 --> 00:38:49.599 like just just just a complete sun costs. I I 688 00:38:49.639 --> 00:38:51.199 don't know how they haven't canceled. 689 00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:52.519 That game yet. 690 00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:56.320 It defies belief because it's not like that game is 691 00:38:56.320 --> 00:38:58.280 gonna beat like a fucking ten million sellar when it 692 00:38:58.280 --> 00:38:58.639 comes out. 693 00:38:58.639 --> 00:39:05.599 It's not. There's no way the first that what I'm. 694 00:39:05.480 --> 00:39:08.599 Saying, No, don't care about the first one when it released. 695 00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:11.320 It's it's a cult classic. It's not. It's not like 696 00:39:11.400 --> 00:39:12.960 a mainstream success. 697 00:39:13.159 --> 00:39:16.519 No, Like God, that games. 698 00:39:18.239 --> 00:39:18.599 Years old. 699 00:39:18.639 --> 00:39:18.719 Now. 700 00:39:18.760 --> 00:39:21.960 I didn't finish it, but I played a bit of it. 701 00:39:21.960 --> 00:39:24.119 It's like I saw this statement in the movies off 702 00:39:24.280 --> 00:39:28.960 saying that it remains a priority for us in the 703 00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:33.000 context of our strategy centered around open world adventures, and 704 00:39:33.039 --> 00:39:38.440 my brain just created the sure Jan gift in my brain, 705 00:39:38.599 --> 00:39:40.519 Like I just you know what I'm talking about the 706 00:39:40.519 --> 00:39:43.159 Brady Bunch movie. Yeah, I just I don't believe this. 707 00:39:44.199 --> 00:39:45.039 I don't believe them. 708 00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:49.000 All their open world game games are the same, just 709 00:39:49.039 --> 00:39:52.480 a different motif. So what the fuck are we talking about? 710 00:39:52.920 --> 00:39:53.280 All right? 711 00:39:54.039 --> 00:39:55.000 Sure, I don't know. 712 00:39:55.000 --> 00:39:57.239 It might be completely different now because now it's part 713 00:39:57.239 --> 00:40:01.679 of Creative House too, so. 714 00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:02.760 So Creativehouse two, which is going to do the same shit. 715 00:40:03.800 --> 00:40:06.119 All right, so good. 716 00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:10.280 Can't wait to see what ub Soft news we have 717 00:40:10.280 --> 00:40:11.760 for you next week. I'm sure it's gonna be a 718 00:40:11.760 --> 00:40:17.880 fucking banger. Carrie, tell me about what's going on in 719 00:40:17.920 --> 00:40:22.320 the UK and how apparently digital currency can is now tangible. 720 00:40:22.840 --> 00:40:25.480 I read this and I thought this was just an 721 00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:30.480 interesting story, especially because it specifically deals with the game RuneScape, 722 00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:33.920 which is not a game that I spend a lot 723 00:40:33.960 --> 00:40:38.079 of time thinking about, but it's apparently still a thing. 724 00:40:38.599 --> 00:40:42.800 So the UK Court of Appeals has ruled that currency 725 00:40:42.840 --> 00:40:46.960 within massively multiplayer online games can be treated as property 726 00:40:47.800 --> 00:40:50.440 and therefore the stealing of such currency can be deemed 727 00:40:50.840 --> 00:40:56.320 criminal theft. So there was a verdict against a former 728 00:40:56.480 --> 00:41:01.000 jag x developer who apparently had access seventy player accounts 729 00:41:01.039 --> 00:41:04.079 to harvest large quantities of gold and then sold the 730 00:41:04.119 --> 00:41:15.960 in game currency for bigcoin, so essentially like the UH 731 00:41:16.000 -->

00:41:19.119 this there was some back and forth and the conclusion 732 00:41:19.639 --> 00:41:26.199 is that RuneScape gold falls under intangible property and when 733 00:41:26.239 --> 00:41:32.960 it comes to the definition of theft, so that these 734 00:41:32.960 --> 00:41:37.239 are assets which have a ascertainable monetary value and that 735 00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:39.880 can be traded for that value both within the game 736 00:41:39.960 --> 00:41:42.840 and outside of the game. Within the game, the money 737 00:41:42.920 --> 00:41:45.800 is it represents the money's worth as the product of 738 00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:47.800 a purchase of a bond. Outside of the game, they 739 00:41:47.800 --> 00:41:51.719 are regularly traded for money's worth. They are capable of 740 00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:54.960 being subject to dishonest dealing, which deprives their possessor of 741 00:41:55.000 --> 00:42:01.599 their use and value. So this creates an interesting legal precedents. 742 00:42:04.559 --> 00:42:06.760 Hold on, hold on, So what you're saying, so is 743 00:42:06.840 --> 00:42:10.840 RuneScape gold money you gold you buy with real money. 744 00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:14.079 No, it's gold you farm in the game itself. 745 00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:16.760 It is you can because you can sell it in 746 00:42:16.800 --> 00:42:19.719 the real world if you if you like, via eBay 747 00:42:19.960 --> 00:42:24.960 or forums or whatever, because you can do that. Therefore, 748 00:42:25.320 --> 00:42:26.360 that makes. 749 00:42:26.119 --> 00:42:29.159 It so you can take money that you've earned in 750 00:42:29.239 --> 00:42:32.960 a video game, hoard it, and then say, hey, I've 751 00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:36.599 got five thousand Escape. 752 00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:45.880 Bus MMOs MMOs worthing you'll been creating. Selling characters, selling gold, selling. 753 00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:50.440 Gold, gold gold farm gold farmers is a legit career, 754 00:42:50.559 --> 00:42:53.000 especially in like Korean stuff like that, Like you can 755 00:42:53.039 --> 00:42:55.280 literally pay someone to go on to your account and 756 00:42:55.360 --> 00:42:57.960 just farm gold for you because you can then use 757 00:42:57.960 --> 00:43:00.599 that gold to do all sorts of do what you 758 00:43:00.639 --> 00:43:01.119 want to do. 759 00:43:01.079 --> 00:43:07.400 In the game. So yeah, look, fuck it, it really 760 00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:10.199 does big. 761 00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:12.360 A question of. 762 00:43:13.639 --> 00:43:18.360 The article purports, you know, a very valid question of 763 00:43:18.800 --> 00:43:21.159 if in game items have value and are not just 764 00:43:21.199 --> 00:43:24.360 packets of valueless data. Does this now throw a curveball 765 00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:29.199 into the our loot boxes gambling debate within UK institutions. 766 00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:33.199 And then yeah, if stealing in game goal is considered 767 00:43:33.239 --> 00:43:35.199 theft as a legal precedent, what does this mean for 768 00:43:35.280 --> 00:43:38.800 other UK based hackers for other games? So I want 769 00:43:38.800 --> 00:43:42.440 to be really curious to see kind of what happens 770 00:43:42.559 --> 00:43:47.320 next now that this precedent has been created within the 771 00:43:47.360 --> 00:43:51.800 British courts. I'm very curious. 772 00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:54.280 Yeah, So I still think there's gonna be a high 773 00:43:54.280 --> 00:43:55.960 bar to clearer because I think you, I think, at 774 00:43:55.960 --> 00:43:57.480 the very least, like if you were to bring any 775 00:43:57.519 --> 00:44:00.840 kind of case against someone who defrauds you here, you'd 776 00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:05.119 have to be able to prove definitively that that that 777 00:44:05.400 --> 00:44:09.960 product can be sold, you know, in the real world 778 00:44:10.079 --> 00:44:12.280 for monetary value. I think if it just lives within 779 00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:14.280 the game, there's no there's really no way to kind 780 00:44:14.280 --> 00:44:15.000 of bring that case. 781 00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:19.239 Yeah, I mean exactly. I mean this was this specific 782 00:44:19.320 --> 00:44:23.440 situation was like this dude like hacked into multiple accounts. 783 00:44:23.760 --> 00:44:26.360 These were not people who like were tricked into giving 784 00:44:26.400 --> 00:44:28.119 it away or something like that like, these were people 785 00:44:28.119 --> 00:44:32.320 who had their accounts essentially stolen from them, hacked into. 786 00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:38.239 So but this again, this happens across all MMOs. 787 00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:42.960 Like just not just MMOs, I mean FIFA, FIA, gold 788 00:44:43.079 --> 00:44:46.679 farming and also like gold selling is a not not 789 00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:49.480 a condoned thing by EA, but it's certainly something that 790 00:44:49.559 --> 00:44:52.320 happens in you know, on on the web. 791 00:44:52.519 --> 00:44:57.360 So yeah, value of the gold he stole over five 792 00:44:58.039 --> 00:45:00.480 over half a million pounds, Yeah. 793 00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:02.880 Of course, Well according to what he bought with that, 794 00:45:02.920 --> 00:45:04.400 I guess because I guess because, like I said, if 795 00:45:04.400 --> 00:45:07.719 you turn around invested in cryptocurrency, I mean, I guess. 796 00:45:10.639 --> 00:45:17.960 So, Okay, interesting stuff insanity, uh. 797 00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:18.559 Carry Why don't you also tell us about the uh 798 00:45:18.760 --> 00:45:20.440 Lee Mario trailer, which I have not watched. 799 00:45:20.760 --> 00:45:23.159 Yeah, I just put the link to the trailer in there. 800 00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:26.119 It's it's not too long, but it does give us 801 00:45:26.440 --> 00:45:30.400 the uh not so much a look at galaxies, but 802 00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:35.400 definitely some stuff inspired by Mario Odyssey, some distinct areas 803 00:45:35.440 -->

00:45:41.360 that are very reasonable easy to recognize from uh Odyssey 804 00:45:42.199 --> 00:45:49.400 and our first look at uh tax fraud specialist, Yoshi fraud. 805 00:45:49.199 --> 00:45:53.559 Specialist, because what is what is this? The smirching you're 806 00:45:53.559 --> 00:45:54.440 doing to my boy here. 807 00:45:54.679 --> 00:46:01.360 Uh, yeah, there are. You're not familiar with yoo tax fraud? No, alright, 808 00:46:01.440 --> 00:46:03.199 I'm just gonna let you go down that rabbit hole. 809 00:46:03.199 --> 00:46:06.920 All right, I'll discover Yoshi needs to go to jail 810 00:46:06.920 --> 00:46:10.320 for tax fraud. But regardless, we we we have we 811 00:46:10.360 --> 00:46:16.239 have Yoshi now he certainly sounds like Yoshi, and Yoshi 812 00:46:16.280 --> 00:46:20.760 in the games has always been voiced by Kazumi Totaka, 813 00:46:20.840 --> 00:46:25.519 who's one of the like lead video game composers for Nintendo. 814 00:46:26.679 --> 00:46:30.760 But I would love it for it to be Totaka. 815 00:46:31.679 --> 00:46:35.320 And in the film they have not said anything about 816 00:46:35.360 --> 00:46:41.239 who Yoshi's voice actor is, so right, like no, he 817 00:46:41.400 --> 00:46:46.320 just just makes the Yoshi noises. I don't like Yoshi. 818 00:46:47.199 --> 00:46:49.639 Yeah, it's it's it's well documented and I will stand 819 00:46:49.679 --> 00:46:51.039 for I won't stand for. 820 00:46:52.239 --> 00:46:57.440 Yeah regardless, uh Phillips. They had like a five minute 821 00:46:57.480 --> 00:46:59.760 direct the other day for it where they were just like, 822 00:47:00.119 --> 00:47:02.519 here's the new trailer and here's a new poster, and 823 00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:07.159 the film comes out on April first, No Foolin' So 824 00:47:09.639 --> 00:47:13.280 I'm I'm looking forward to it. It looks like more 825 00:47:13.320 --> 00:47:15.719 of the vibes of the first film, but the other 826 00:47:15.800 --> 00:47:17.760 really cool thing is that we're getting our first look 827 00:47:17.800 --> 00:47:22.599 at power ups for Mario and Luigi. So we see 828 00:47:22.599 --> 00:47:26.920 them use the Fireflower. We see Luigi in the frog 829 00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:30.599 suit at one point in the trailers, so it does 830 00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:35.480 look like they are leaning into the more video gamey 831 00:47:35.679 --> 00:47:38.679 elements of the video game adaptation. 832 00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:44.480 So yeah, I still have not seen the original yet, 833 00:47:44.599 --> 00:47:47.119 even though I probably should. It's it's just hard because 834 00:47:47.519 --> 00:47:49.920 Chris Pratt really just has left the bad taste. 835 00:47:49.719 --> 00:47:50.159 In my mouth. 836 00:47:50.639 --> 00:47:54.679 I really do not care for Chris Pratt. That being said, 837 00:47:54.960 --> 00:47:58.440 I for me, the first film was like it's good 838 00:47:58.559 --> 00:48:01.960 enough that, like you just kind of forget that it's him. 839

00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:04.559 Yeah, I will say that. Also, like I enjoyed the 840 00:48:04.559 --> 00:48:08.719 first one. It's a fun movie. Yeah, he's in it again. 841 00:48:08.960 --> 00:48:10.000 He's playing Mario again. 842 00:48:10.400 --> 00:48:13.320 Yeah, they brought back the same Okay, yeah they brought 843 00:48:13.360 --> 00:48:15.440 they brought back the full cast that was in the 844 00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:15.840 first one. 845 00:48:15.880 --> 00:48:17.039 So yeah. 846 00:48:17.960 --> 00:48:20.280 Also, Betty Saftie is playing Bowser Junior, which is very 847 00:48:20.280 --> 00:48:21.039 weird to me. 848 00:48:23.400 --> 00:48:26.159 Did you watch The Smashing Machine? I know I did. 849 00:48:26.239 --> 00:48:29.679 That was it him? 850 00:48:29.760 --> 00:48:31.599 I think I think I thought his brother directed that? 851 00:48:32.280 --> 00:48:34.800 Is it? One of the safty brothers directed that? Yeah, 852 00:48:34.800 --> 00:48:35.519 I don't know which one. 853 00:48:35.519 --> 00:48:35.760 I don't. 854 00:48:36.960 --> 00:48:37.639 I didn't. I didn't. 855 00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:41.199 I didn't finish the Rocks guaranteed Oscar bat movie that 856 00:48:41.239 --> 00:48:41.920 nobody likes. 857 00:48:41.840 --> 00:48:42.760 An Oscar bait movie. 858 00:48:42.800 --> 00:48:46.880 And like again, like he he looks and he looks 859 00:48:47.039 --> 00:48:49.559 different enough, but like he's still the rock. 860 00:48:50.400 --> 00:48:53.159 Yeah, you can't not see the rock when you're watching that. 861 00:48:53.840 --> 00:48:56.880 Better better luck next time, Duane, Better luck next time. 862 00:48:57.000 --> 00:49:00.960 So this next movie isn't a news story, but I 863 00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:03.360 did think it was an interesting commentary and it was 864 00:49:03.400 --> 00:49:05.960 something that like as soon as I heard someone say it, 865 00:49:06.039 --> 00:49:08.320 I'm like, oh yeah, it was like it is interesting 866 00:49:08.320 --> 00:49:10.719 and this is the way. So Elizabeth Alpato of The 867 00:49:10.840 --> 00:49:14.320 Verge wrote an article. The title of the article is 868 00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:19.800 payment processes were against ce SAM until Grock started making it. 869 00:49:20.639 --> 00:49:22.960 So basically it's just an article calling out how it's 870 00:49:23.000 --> 00:49:28.239 really interesting that payment processors were very gung ho to 871 00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:36.159 follow the trend of combating sexually explicit material on various 872 00:49:36.199 --> 00:49:40.079 storefronts or various fronts, including video game storefronts, as we 873 00:49:40.119 --> 00:49:43.239 talked about on this show, as they kind of leveraged 874 00:49:43.280 --> 00:49:48.239 Steam into removing a lot of games from their service 875 00:49:49.039 --> 00:49:53.400 that they found or that they were lobbied to find disagreeable. 876 00:49:53.880 --> 00:49:57.440 Yet Grock is out here making child porn and Visa 877

00:49:57.559 --> 00:50:01.239 MasterCard can't be bothered to care for some reason. 878 00:50:01.719 --> 00:50:05.360 Yeah, I wonder why that is. Side note, if you're 879 00:50:05.400 --> 00:50:07.800 still on Twitter or x or whatever you want to 880 00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:11.880 call it, I think less of you because at this 881 00:50:11.960 --> 00:50:12.599 point is. 882 00:50:12.599 --> 00:50:15.480 Why is everyone afraid of these people? They have money? 883 00:50:15.559 --> 00:50:16.079 So what. 884 00:50:17.960 --> 00:50:20.000 Because they because they have influence as well. That's that's 885 00:50:20.159 --> 00:50:21.719 that's the bigger deal, you know what I mean? 886 00:50:21.760 --> 00:50:23.480 So people are going to like, I'm not gonna use 887 00:50:23.559 --> 00:50:24.880 Visa to process. 888 00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:25.960 No one's gonna do that. 889 00:50:27.159 --> 00:50:27.719 What the fuck? 890 00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:29.760 No one is thinking about? Like when you have to 891 00:50:29.800 --> 00:50:30.920 buy something. 892 00:50:30.719 --> 00:50:33.800 It's gonna be Visa MasterCard, Discover American Express. 893 00:50:34.679 --> 00:50:36.119 You don't give a fuck which one it is. 894 00:50:36.880 --> 00:50:41.880 You don't care what, But it's But it's this also 895 00:50:41.920 --> 00:50:44.199 kind of goes back to like it's it's kind of 896 00:50:44.239 --> 00:50:46.639 incredible that groc is still able to do what Rock 897 00:50:46.760 --> 00:50:51.320 is doing because like the the app stores themselves could 898 00:50:51.400 --> 00:50:53.400 knit this in the bud very quickly if they wanted to. 899 00:50:54.039 --> 00:50:57.480 Yeah, but they just don't. Again, I don't understand this. 900 00:50:57.880 --> 00:50:58.639 I don't get it. 901 00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:01.639 You're not people are not gonna boycott the fucking Apple 902 00:51:01.679 --> 00:51:04.159 store because they take fucking it's I. 903 00:51:04.119 --> 00:51:06.119 Don't think it's about people, boy. I think the problem 904 00:51:06.199 --> 00:51:09.960 is because the president is who the president is right now, 905 00:51:10.639 --> 00:51:14.079 and again, things like the the the FTC are run 906 00:51:14.079 --> 00:51:16.880 by the people who run the FTC right now. They're 907 00:51:16.920 --> 00:51:20.360 afraid that if they lean on one of the presidents 908 00:51:20.360 --> 00:51:24.119 good good buddies uh and and ruin his little app 909 00:51:24.440 --> 00:51:28.480 by his little fucking child, poor generating machine, that it 910 00:51:28.559 --> 00:51:31.039 will have downstream consequences for them. 911 00:51:31.280 --> 00:51:32.920 He's not even on X. 912 00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:38.519 I'm social right right, but but but but they still 913 00:51:38.559 --> 00:51:40.679 but they would still like he was still probably like 914 00:51:40.679 --> 00:51:42.440 if ELI ran to him and was like yo, like 915 00:51:42.440 --> 00:51:44.760 they're being mean to me,

like, they would still probably 916 00:51:44.760 --> 00:51:45.639 try to lean on them. 917 00:51:45.880 --> 00:51:47.880 They would try, and they would have no fucking grounds 918 00:51:47.880 --> 00:51:50.440 to stand on everyone. 919 00:51:50.519 --> 00:51:54.480 So I understand what you're saying. But every time, here's 920 00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:57.480 the thing, every time someone fights back. Just gave him 921 00:51:57.480 --> 00:52:01.679 sixteen million dollars. When people fight back, they fucking lose, 922 00:52:02.400 --> 00:52:05.440 Like the this administration loses. Like what happened in was 923 00:52:05.440 --> 00:52:08.519 it Maine or something like? I remember that that, uh, 924 00:52:08.599 --> 00:52:12.199 there was something about transgender sports. It was in Maine 925 00:52:12.400 --> 00:52:15.239 or it was it was it was in main and 926 00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:17.199 and yeah, and the woman was like, he was, I'll 927 00:52:17.239 --> 00:52:18.840 see you in court, and she was like, bet nigga. 928 00:52:18.920 --> 00:52:21.280 And they went and they went to court and she won. 929 00:52:21.559 --> 00:52:24.599 Yeah, the governor fucking slapped them around. And right, they 930 00:52:24.599 --> 00:52:27.639 don't have an actual case, so like everyone should be like, 931 00:52:27.719 --> 00:52:29.960 go fuck yourself. You know, you lose all your cases. 932 00:52:30.119 --> 00:52:32.079 I don't understand why they's so pussy. It's weird to me. 933 00:52:32.159 --> 00:52:35.639 It just makes me very angry. Yeah, it's it's certainly 934 00:52:35.679 --> 00:52:38.880 a lot of stricken so dumb man Like I'd be like, 935 00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:40.840 all right, nigga, but we have as much money as you, 936 00:52:40.880 --> 00:52:42.599 fuck you, what are you gonna do to me? 937 00:52:43.119 --> 00:52:44.280 Cosco did the same ship. 938 00:52:45.960 --> 00:52:47.559 Now they're like, give me my money back for this 939 00:52:47.679 --> 00:52:50.199 fucking these terrorists that we've been eating for the last year. 940 00:52:50.960 --> 00:52:54.920 So you know what. Whatever. Yeah, everyone's a bunch of bitches. 941 00:52:55.440 --> 00:52:57.519 I don't get it is, but but like I said, 942 00:52:57.519 --> 00:53:01.320 I just like it's just it's an interesting thought experiment. 943 00:53:01.320 --> 00:53:03.239 And I do wish that like if they're gonna use 944 00:53:03.320 --> 00:53:05.719 it in one respect, like be consistent at least, like 945 00:53:05.719 --> 00:53:08.639 like it's the hypocrisy and the inconsistency is what drives. 946 00:53:08.400 --> 00:53:10.039 Me the most insane. 947 00:53:10.400 --> 00:53:16.519 Yeah, and again like literally, this app, this AI is 948 00:53:16.639 --> 00:53:22.039 generating child pornography. It's generating at this point, like onloaded 949 00:53:22.119 --> 00:53:24.039 pornography in general, on dem Twitter. 950 00:53:24.159 --> 00:53:26.880 Twitter is a revenge porn site at this point. 951 00:53:27.199 --> 00:53:30.119 Like and it's like, here's the thing, Like I have 952 00:53:30.199 --> 00:53:33.800 friends who I know maintain like locked accounts because basically 953 00:53:33.880 --> 00:53:35.960 because Blue Sky doesn't have locked accounts yet and they 954 00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:38.559 want like a private space to get whatever fucking thoughts 955 00:53:38.559 --> 00:53:41.639 out of their system. You don't need a private Twitter account. 956 00:53:41.840 --> 00:53:45.519 You need therapy. You don't need a private Twitter account, 957 00:53:45.559 --> 00:53:50.280 you need a journal and therapy. Like I'm fucking sorry, 958 00:53:50.400 --> 00:53:53.480 Like I absolutely think less of the people who I 959 00:53:53.519 --> 00:53:56.960 know who are still active on Twitter because of the 960 00:53:57.000 --> 00:54:01.119 fact that they just cannot pull themselves away from again, 961 00:54:01.199 --> 00:54:04.039 what is a prevenge porn website at this point. 962 00:54:04.639 --> 00:54:07.760 So I'm just I'm so. 963 00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:12.159 Over the whole thing, Like, uh. 964 00:54:12.599 --> 00:54:14.800 There was a funny your account. 965 00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:17.000 There are other things you can be doing with your 966 00:54:17.000 --> 00:54:19.840 time that aren't doom scrolling on the porn site. 967 00:54:20.159 --> 00:54:23.480 There there was a funny post that I saw last 968 00:54:23.519 --> 00:54:26.840 week where it was a screencap of some Twitter account 969 00:54:26.840 --> 00:54:29.639 that there's a picture of Anne Hathaway, and one of 970 00:54:29.679 --> 00:54:33.800 the people replied to the picture by saying, you know, hey, 971 00:54:33.920 --> 00:54:37.000 Rock to your thing. I'm assuming they wanted it to generate, like, 972 00:54:37.159 --> 00:54:40.000 you know, like remove anne Hathaway's clothes from her in 973 00:54:40.039 --> 00:54:43.519 this image or whatever and it, and instead Rock replied 974 00:54:43.599 --> 00:54:47.519 with basically like, yes, anne Hathaway is Jewish because blah 975 00:54:47.519 --> 00:54:49.400 blah blah blah blah blah blah. I like, it's really 976 00:54:49.400 --> 00:54:51.079 cool that those are your two things. 977 00:54:51.559 --> 00:54:52.559 Rock. Me. 978 00:54:52.719 --> 00:54:55.320 I meant the other thing, but like I said, it's 979 00:54:55.400 --> 00:54:58.199 very it's very good that these are very defined. Your 980 00:54:58.280 --> 00:55:06.400 two things is generating revenge porn and being a fucking Nazi. Awesome, cool, 981 00:55:06.480 --> 00:55:11.039 cool website she got there? Yeah, I agree, get get 982 00:55:11.039 --> 00:55:13.599 the fuck off of Twitter x or whatever the fuck you. 983 00:55:13.599 --> 00:55:15.880 Want to call it. 984 00:55:16.159 --> 00:55:19.800 We live in next story. 985 00:55:20.320 --> 00:55:22.960 Yeah, well, well this one's pretty great too. I heard 986 00:55:22.960 --> 00:55:24.400 I heard a little bit about this, but I'll

let 987 00:55:24.760 --> 00:55:29.360 take it. Really fun experience for a lot of players. 988 00:55:29.719 --> 00:55:34.519 So this was fun. A new gotcha game came out 989 00:55:34.840 --> 00:55:40.599 Arc knights Endfield. So if you like fucking big titty 990 00:55:40.639 --> 00:55:43.960 anime girl PNGs, I guess this is the game for you. 991 00:55:45.480 --> 00:55:49.880 But The problem with the game is that there was 992 00:55:49.920 --> 00:56:01.280 a bug regarding connected PayPal accounts where basically people's entire 993 00:56:01.320 --> 00:56:05.239 balances were getting wiped like that, like upwards of like 994 00:56:05.760 --> 00:56:14.039 thousands of dollars of funds were disappearing from people's PayPal 995 00:56:14.079 --> 00:56:22.039 accounts and presumably from connected bank accounts. So uh, the 996 00:56:22.239 --> 00:56:26.960 dev said, Uh, we want to sincerely apologize to everyone 997 00:56:27.000 --> 00:56:32.559 affected by the PayPal payment issue that accured shortly after lunch. Apparently, 998 00:56:32.559 --> 00:56:35.079 all affected purchases will be refunded. We do not store 999 00:56:35.400 --> 00:56:39.199 players payment information. This issue only expected some players on 1000 00:56:39.280 --> 00:56:41.760 certain platforms when using PayPal. As soon as we became 1001 00:56:41.800 --> 00:56:44.760 aware of the program of the problem, we disabled PayPal 1002 00:56:44.800 --> 00:56:48.239 within roughly two hours to prevent any further impact. So yeah, 1003 00:56:48.360 --> 00:56:51.800 basically a gotcha game came out and instead of slowly 1004 00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:56.119 draining players' money over the course of several months, they 1005 00:56:56.159 --> 00:56:57.639 tried to take it all at once, so. 1006 00:56:59.559 --> 00:57:00.800 Be careful all out their kids. 1007 00:57:01.599 --> 00:57:09.519 Gotcha very good, very good, fantastic. 1008 00:57:17.519 --> 00:57:19.320 That takes to the pics as post office. 1009 00:57:19.800 --> 00:57:22.760 You can ask us questions that will answer on the 1010 00:57:22.800 --> 00:57:26.119 show by joining our discord Dethfixes dot com slash fans, 1011 00:57:26.480 --> 00:57:29.360 just like Costa did, who says, are there any games 1012 00:57:29.360 --> 00:57:31.920 you wrote off or otherwise forgot about that came screaming 1013 00:57:31.960 --> 00:57:32.599 back into. 1014 00:57:32.440 --> 00:57:34.320 Relevance for you suddenly? Uh? 1015 00:57:34.360 --> 00:57:37.039 They mentioned, uh no Rest for the Wicked, which came 1016 00:57:37.079 --> 00:57:39.559 out in early Access a couple of years ago. 1017 00:57:40.280 --> 00:57:40.599 Uh. 1018 00:57:40.639 --> 00:57:46.840 It was published by Private Division, which unfortunately uh let 1019 00:57:46.840 --> 00:57:50.920 go of all their games under financial strife from Take two. 1020 00:57:51.519 --> 00:57:51.760 Uh. 1021 00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:55.440 But Moon Studios, who developed the games and developed this 1022

00:57:55.519 --> 00:58:00.360 game are now self publishing it and and it's they 1023 00:58:00.400 --> 00:58:02.199 just put out a big update. It's been in the news. 1024 00:58:02.239 --> 00:58:03.480 I played a little bit last night and they had 1025 00:58:03.480 --> 00:58:07.239 a free weekend. I'm interested in it. It's it's interesting. 1026 00:58:07.280 --> 00:58:09.679 It's basically like it's an ARPG like at the Album's 1027 00:58:09.679 --> 00:58:11.760 Dot a RPG, but it's got. 1028 00:58:11.559 --> 00:58:16.440 Like Soul's esque combat. I've seen it. Yeah, it looks cool. 1029 00:58:16.639 --> 00:58:17.280 It looks cool. 1030 00:58:19.400 --> 00:58:23.519 So I Against the Storm is this one for me? 1031 00:58:23.559 --> 00:58:26.079 Because I remember when Against the Storm when it first 1032 00:58:26.159 --> 00:58:28.280 landed on my radar, I played the demo. 1033 00:58:29.239 --> 00:58:33.519 It didn't click. I bought it on sale, played it again. 1034 00:58:33.599 --> 00:58:36.159 I was like like, like, sure, surely you know ninety 1035 00:58:36.239 --> 00:58:38.719 five percent of Steam users can't be wrong, And it 1036 00:58:38.840 --> 00:58:41.320 just wasn't wasn't clicking with me, so I refunded it, 1037 00:58:41.920 --> 00:58:44.400 and then I just kept popping up in my feed 1038 00:58:44.719 --> 00:58:46.400 and I was like, sure, like there's gotta be something 1039 00:58:46.400 --> 00:58:48.880 that I'm missing here, And for whatever reason, the third 1040 00:58:48.920 --> 00:58:52.039 time was the charm, Like everything kind of locked into place, 1041 00:58:52.440 --> 00:58:55.719 and now it's like absolutely one of my like favorite 1042 00:58:55.760 --> 00:58:57.519 games that that's come out in the last couple of 1043 00:58:57.559 --> 00:59:00.519 years for sure, so like this this would be that 1044 00:59:00.559 --> 00:59:13.880 one for me. Let's see here, Uh y'all, y'all were 1045 00:59:13.960 --> 00:59:15.880 kind of on one because carry put out the clearing 1046 00:59:15.960 --> 00:59:17.960 call here. Mark says it's time to get ill. 1047 00:59:18.079 --> 00:59:18.679 Not a question. 1048 00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:22.280 Chris says water is nice, but not when it's plugging 1049 00:59:22.320 --> 00:59:24.840 your home. Also not a question, I point out for 1050 00:59:24.880 --> 00:59:28.679 the record, Uh, Mark did come back and ask what 1051 00:59:28.840 --> 00:59:31.800 game characters are most like T T and P people, 1052 00:59:32.280 --> 00:59:35.920 and as Jay Anton Castillo, Now, I'm not one hundred 1053 00:59:35.920 --> 00:59:38.920 percent sure who I think it's the villain from Far 1054 00:59:39.039 --> 00:59:41.199 Crist six that was played by John Carlo Espaci. 1055 00:59:41.599 --> 00:59:47.559 Yes, okay, a fascist dictator. 1056 00:59:49.639 --> 00:59:54.519 Of a small, not not South American country. 1057 00:59:54.960 --> 01:00:02.119 Yeah, another question. I have no to look you track 1058 01:00:02.159 --> 01:00:04.000 of video game characters like that. I don't My memory 1059 01:00:04.039 --> 01:00:05.880 is going to ship, so I don't really remember. 1060 01:00:09.159 --> 01:00:12.599 Carry Carrie does remind me often, like like if there's 1061 01:00:12.639 --> 01:00:17.960 a very enthusiastic like RPG party member, it always kind 1062 01:00:17.960 --> 01:00:18.599 of reminds me. 1063 01:00:20.920 --> 01:00:21.920 I've heard to an extent. 1064 01:00:22.599 --> 01:00:25.320 Well, I not not one specific character that I can 1065 01:00:25.360 --> 01:00:27.840 point out, but just that art type. 1066 01:00:28.199 --> 01:00:32.079 Yeah, is just reminds me of Carrie. 1067 01:00:32.320 --> 01:00:32.960 I'll take it. 1068 01:00:33.960 --> 01:00:36.199 Uh. Butcher Pete asks, when are we getting the D 1069 01:00:36.280 --> 01:00:39.840 and D actual play mini series? Dude, I would love 1070 01:00:40.159 --> 01:00:42.599 if we had the time. I would love to do something. 1071 01:00:43.159 --> 01:00:44.719 God knows, we fucking don't. 1072 01:00:44.960 --> 01:00:50.079 Brother. I am in two bands, three bands. Uh, I'm 1073 01:00:50.440 --> 01:00:56.119 involved in too much musically to really do a regular 1074 01:00:56.280 --> 01:00:59.199 actual play mini series. I would love that though, Like 1075 01:01:00.079 --> 01:01:05.000 I missed D and D a lot, But yeah, I'm 1076 01:01:05.079 --> 01:01:08.119 limiting myself to occasional one shots with my old crew 1077 01:01:08.159 --> 01:01:08.679 at this point. 1078 01:01:08.800 --> 01:01:11.840 Yeah, maybe one day we could see about. 1079 01:01:11.639 --> 01:01:14.000 Maybe doing like a yeah, like a one shot I 1080 01:01:14.039 --> 01:01:15.239 think would be fine. 1081 01:01:17.079 --> 01:01:18.559 Terrence, I don't know if you would be into that. 1082 01:01:20.159 --> 01:01:28.880 Or not. That means doing a tabletop RPG. Yeah, that's 1083 01:01:28.480 --> 01:01:30.559 that's That's about what I suspected. 1084 01:01:31.280 --> 01:01:32.400 That's about what I suspected. 1085 01:01:32.559 --> 01:01:37.920 So mad Coco g h asked, is there anything they 1086 01:01:37.920 --> 01:01:41.679 could do gameplay wise with Castlevania. Uh as with the 1087 01:01:41.679 --> 01:01:43.920 fan base one that Soul's games slap on it. I 1088 01:01:43.920 --> 01:01:47.760 wouldn't as I'm not a fan of the genre during 1089 01:01:47.840 --> 01:01:49.880 Castlevania into a no no. 1090 01:01:49.920 --> 01:01:52.400 Here's the thing I don't think. I don't think they would. 1091 01:01:52.559 --> 01:01:54.840 I feel like, if they're going to bring back Castlevania, 1092 01:01:54.880 --> 01:01:56.800 and as I believe we discussed last week, this is 1093 01:01:56.800 --> 01:01:59.840 a good year to bring back Castlevania in a big way, 1094 01:02:00.599 --> 01:02:05.679 given that it's the fortieth anniversary year, I feel like 1095 01:02:06.400 --> 01:02:11.400 Konami is probably smart enough to see the various other 1096 01:02:12.159 -->

01:02:15.800 Castlevania inspired games that have come out and. 1097 01:02:15.800 --> 01:02:18.159 Been massive successes. 1098 01:02:19.079 --> 01:02:22.199 Uh that I think they're probably just not gonna fuck 1099 01:02:22.239 --> 01:02:25.159 with what works, or they could pull a Konami and 1100 01:02:25.199 --> 01:02:27.079 completely shoot themselves in the foot. It's either going to 1101 01:02:27.079 --> 01:02:30.199 be one or the other. They're either going to They're 1102 01:02:30.239 --> 01:02:33.559 either going to just do a beautiful one to one 1103 01:02:33.639 --> 01:02:38.360 Symphony of the Night remake, or they're going to turn 1104 01:02:38.440 --> 01:02:42.079 it into an action RPG. I don't fucking know. Like 1105 01:02:43.679 --> 01:02:44.599 that might be cool though. 1106 01:02:45.800 --> 01:02:49.199 Here the thing I think actually doing like a Soul's 1107 01:02:49.239 --> 01:02:51.840 like Castlevania could actually be kind of kind of dope. 1108 01:02:52.679 --> 01:02:54.000 Yeah, it. 1109 01:02:55.559 --> 01:02:57.760 Would turn off a lot of people and would probably 1110 01:02:57.800 --> 01:03:01.079 not be very successful, and then they will bury the 1111 01:03:01.119 --> 01:03:06.119 franchise for another ten years minimum. It's like right back 1112 01:03:06.159 --> 01:03:07.280 to the Pachinka machines. 1113 01:03:07.280 --> 01:03:07.559 That's it. 1114 01:03:08.480 --> 01:03:09.280 But but here's the thing. 1115 01:03:09.320 --> 01:03:11.920 I like, if you do a three D game, I 1116 01:03:11.960 --> 01:03:14.360 don't think you can just do character action because, like 1117 01:03:14.519 --> 01:03:17.400 I said, I think that I think that the most 1118 01:03:17.400 --> 01:03:20.639 successful character action games are ones that have like a 1119 01:03:20.679 --> 01:03:24.679 certain style, certain panache to them, like a DMC or 1120 01:03:24.760 --> 01:03:26.679 like a Ninja Guide and stuff like that. And I 1121 01:03:26.800 --> 01:03:28.480 just like we kind of saw that with the Words 1122 01:03:28.519 --> 01:03:30.320 of Shadow and I and I don't think it played 1123 01:03:30.519 --> 01:03:32.239 too well. So I think if you're going to do 1124 01:03:32.920 --> 01:03:35.880 a third person action game, it would make sense for 1125 01:03:35.920 --> 01:03:40.039 them to lean into a soul style experience with like 1126 01:03:40.119 --> 01:03:43.559 Ball's hard combat, because that like that those games have 1127 01:03:43.800 --> 01:03:47.239 that sort of aesthetic anyway, that that kind of gothic 1128 01:03:47.280 --> 01:03:49.400 horror is aesthetic in a lot of ways to it. 1129 01:03:49.559 --> 01:03:55.679 So, oh, Dark Sides three kind of did that, Like 1130 01:03:55.760 --> 01:03:59.719 did Dark Size series did like three different genres. Dark 1131 01:03:59.760 --> 01:04:03.000 Sigh of three was the souls, Like, yeah, it didn't 1132 01:04:03.000 --> 01:04:06.559 really work out, It didn't really work out that well, 1133

01:04:06.599 --> 01:04:06.920 I don't know. 1134 01:04:06.920 --> 01:04:09.800 Actually four different genres hands because Dark Siders Genesis was 1135 01:04:09.800 --> 01:04:10.440 like a top down. 1136 01:04:10.440 --> 01:04:12.480 Yeah, it was a top down shooter adventure game. 1137 01:04:12.559 --> 01:04:19.400 Yeah, and that was goodparently. 1138 01:04:17.880 --> 01:04:22.159 Was like better than than three. Yeah. I don't know 1139 01:04:22.199 --> 01:04:23.000 what they would do. 1140 01:04:23.519 --> 01:04:25.800 Look, just make a remake of like she said, do 1141 01:04:25.880 --> 01:04:28.679 a remake of fucking Castle Sympathy in a Night with like. 1142 01:04:30.599 --> 01:04:31.480 Not sprite based, but. 1143 01:04:31.679 --> 01:04:33.800 You know, I just make it crispy. 1144 01:04:34.480 --> 01:04:36.000 Yeah, I don't know. 1145 01:04:36.039 --> 01:04:36.320 I would. 1146 01:04:36.760 --> 01:04:41.119 I've played Sympathy in the Night like ten times over 1147 01:04:41.199 --> 01:04:45.000 the last how many once? 1148 01:04:45.079 --> 01:04:46.679 I loved that game? You've never played it? 1149 01:04:47.079 --> 01:04:50.519 Nope, I'm not good at Castlevania style games, so I 1150 01:04:50.559 --> 01:04:54.760 am simply elected to not play. Though here's the thing. 1151 01:04:55.159 --> 01:04:56.920 Here's what I would do, though, if they if they 1152 01:04:56.920 --> 01:04:59.159 put out a Symphony of the Night remake, I would 1153 01:04:59.199 --> 01:05:00.800 give it a shot. Becau is. At this point, it's 1154 01:05:00.840 --> 01:05:04.920 been probably ten years since I've actually earnestly given a 1155 01:05:04.960 --> 01:05:10.239 Metroid Venus style game a earnest varsity try, and if 1156 01:05:10.280 --> 01:05:12.239 it's going to be with any of them, it would 1157 01:05:12.280 --> 01:05:14.079 be Symphony of the Night to do it with. I 1158 01:05:14.119 --> 01:05:14.760 think so. 1159 01:05:15.119 --> 01:05:17.920 But did you ever play metron Play? Are you didn't 1160 01:05:17.920 --> 01:05:19.519 play Metro on on switch. 1161 01:05:20.440 --> 01:05:21.480 Me I have done. 1162 01:05:21.920 --> 01:05:25.639 No, No, you don't like me, She's you just don't 1163 01:05:25.679 --> 01:05:25.880 like that. 1164 01:05:26.199 --> 01:05:27.199 Oh I don't like. 1165 01:05:27.119 --> 01:05:31.519 That style of game. Man, I'm not I'm not good 1166 01:05:31.800 --> 01:05:34.599 at two D action platforming. It's also why I haven't 1167 01:05:34.599 --> 01:05:38.559 played any fucking Mega Man. Like, yeah, you. 1168 01:05:38.639 --> 01:05:40.480 Playing fucking Castle Vania before a Mega Man if you 1169 01:05:40.480 --> 01:05:45.000 don't want to three of control. The Mega Man games 1170 01:05:45.000 --> 01:05:45.679 are hard at ship. 1171 01:05:46.159 --> 01:05:48.239 Yeah, here's the thing. 1172 01:05:48.239 --> 01:05:51.559 What I will say about all three series mentioned wonderful music. 1173 01:05:52.679 --> 01:05:55.480 Mm hmm, well's that's the part. You got a nail down. 1174 01:05:55.800 --> 01:05:56.039 Yeah. 1175 01:05:56.079 --> 01:05:58.199 So but yeah, like it. 1176 01:05:58.320 --> 01:06:01.039 Like I said, if I would bet dollars to donuts, 1177 01:06:01.119 --> 01:06:03.960 you get a soul's ish action game. 1178 01:06:03.960 --> 01:06:06.840 If they decide to go three, I. 1179 01:06:06.800 --> 01:06:08.920 Just feel like, I just feel like we're going to 1180 01:06:09.000 --> 01:06:09.440 go back. 1181 01:06:09.320 --> 01:06:09.679 To two D. 1182 01:06:11.000 --> 01:06:13.000 That would be that would be this. That would be 1183 01:06:13.039 --> 01:06:16.800 a smart thing to start with. But I think eventually 1184 01:06:16.840 --> 01:06:20.000 you have to you have to evolve it a little bit. 1185 01:06:20.119 --> 01:06:23.599 So Yeah, who did Who did Streets of Rage? Four? 1186 01:06:23.679 --> 01:06:26.840 They do? I need them to do a Castle Vania tonight. 1187 01:06:27.480 --> 01:06:31.440 That's why I want to do Castle Streets of Rage 1188 01:06:31.559 --> 01:06:33.039 for Lizard Cube. 1189 01:06:33.079 --> 01:06:36.199 Lizard Cube lizard Cuban, Dard Crush. 1190 01:06:37.559 --> 01:06:40.880 I think Lizard Cube was the ones that do the 1191 01:06:40.880 --> 01:06:44.199 the developer, Yeah, developer, yeah, get them to do it. 1192 01:06:44.840 --> 01:06:46.440 If they're going to do a remake of Castle, because 1193 01:06:46.440 --> 01:06:47.760 that would look amazing. 1194 01:06:48.719 --> 01:06:52.119 Ted, it would it would be it would be really stylish. 1195 01:06:52.320 --> 01:06:52.920 So yeah. 1196 01:06:54.000 --> 01:06:54.159 Uh. 1197 01:06:54.320 --> 01:06:58.480 Finally, T Wash asks which classic console do you wish 1198 01:06:58.519 --> 01:07:01.360 they made? I wish Nintended made a Wei Classic just 1199 01:07:01.360 --> 01:07:03.519 for we Sports to come back. 1200 01:07:07.079 --> 01:07:08.159 I want a handheld. 1201 01:07:08.719 --> 01:07:11.119 I don't want a classic console. 1202 01:07:11.880 --> 01:07:15.079 I want a classic handheld And like to be fair, like, yes, 1203 01:07:15.159 --> 01:07:17.079 do I have a game Boy Color within arms reach 1204 01:07:17.119 --> 01:07:18.079 with me right now? Yes? 1205 01:07:18.119 --> 01:07:21.000 I do, Yes, it's dusty, but yes. 1206 01:07:22.840 --> 01:07:26.920 But what I would want I would want either. 1207 01:07:26.760 --> 01:07:27.079 Like a. 1208 01:07:28.599 --> 01:07:33.599 I think a fucking game Boy Advanced Classic SP clamshell style. 1209 01:07:33.960 --> 01:07:35.800 I want something I can throw in my pocket. So 1210 01:07:35.840 --> 01:07:38.639 I want either that or I want to PSP Classic 1211 01:07:38.800 --> 01:07:41.719 because PSP was something where like that is a library 1212 01:07:41.760 --> 01:07:47.519 of games that for me is very appealing. A lot 1213 01:07:47.639 --> 01:07:52.679 of PSP exclusive, at least initially exclusive for a long time, grapgs. 1214 01:07:53.960 --> 01:07:58.400 I

would love the opportunity to go back and revisit 1215 01:07:58.440 --> 01:08:02.000 some of those, or just even visit them for the 1216 01:08:02.000 --> 01:08:05.960 first time. But I don't think. I don't think Sony's 1217 01:08:06.159 --> 01:08:08.920 gonna ever give me that. So they're gonna be like, 1218 01:08:09.000 --> 01:08:11.960 give us thirty dollars a month and you can access 1219 01:08:12.000 --> 01:08:14.320 it and it'll look like shit on your HD television. 1220 01:08:14.519 --> 01:08:18.399 That's not the experience I want. I think. I think 1221 01:08:18.479 --> 01:08:22.479 a handheld classic with like a built in library of 1222 01:08:22.520 --> 01:08:25.880 like fifty games, I think would be perfect. That's what 1223 01:08:25.920 --> 01:08:27.319 I want. 1224 01:08:27.479 --> 01:08:28.479 A switching emulator. 1225 01:08:28.520 --> 01:08:33.640 There you go, But I don't like That's the thing 1226 01:08:33.760 --> 01:08:36.880 is I can play. I can play game Boy Color, 1227 01:08:36.920 --> 01:08:40.079 game Boy game Boy Advance games on my switch absolutely 1228 01:08:40.079 --> 01:08:43.439 because I have the switch online. But again, what I'm 1229 01:08:43.479 --> 01:08:48.600 looking for is something small that is even more nondescript 1230 01:08:48.840 --> 01:08:51.640 than taking my switch somewhere, Like I was something that 1231 01:08:51.680 --> 01:08:55.239 like I can put in my pocket and just like 1232 01:08:55.760 --> 01:08:58.960 have with me. I can't really Like you can do 1233 01:08:59.079 --> 01:09:00.840 that with a switch. You can take your switch with you, 1234 01:09:00.880 --> 01:09:02.600 but like you better have a fucking carrying case for it. 1235 01:09:02.680 --> 01:09:04.680 Unless you're wearing Jinkos. You're not putting that chain in 1236 01:09:04.720 --> 01:09:05.199 your pocket. 1237 01:09:07.600 --> 01:09:10.800 I uh think I should come back though, So so 1238 01:09:10.880 --> 01:09:12.920 this one, So this is always a hard question for 1239 01:09:12.920 --> 01:09:16.319 me to answer because so like I you know, I'm 1240 01:09:16.359 --> 01:09:19.439 in I'm into the whole fucking emulation gimmick, right, So 1241 01:09:19.560 --> 01:09:22.039 like it like I don't need a classic console, or 1242 01:09:22.279 --> 01:09:24.079 like if I want a classic console, you know, I'll 1243 01:09:24.119 --> 01:09:27.199 just fucking dial up and VERNIIC and be like, hey, 1244 01:09:27.239 --> 01:09:30.199 give me your fucking bootleg game Boy Advanced sp that 1245 01:09:30.239 --> 01:09:31.840 I can load any game that. 1246 01:09:31.800 --> 01:09:33.960 I want to on there and it'll it's gonna work great. 1247 01:09:34.000 --> 01:09:38.800 So one thing, like one of the things that's cool 1248 01:09:38.840 --> 01:09:42.119 about the classic consoles is not only is it a 1249 01:09:42.159 --> 01:09:46.760 way to kind of nostalgically relive your childhood, which is 1250 01:09:46.760 --> 01:09:49.600 why these things are really popular, you can also be 1251 01:09:49.720 --> 01:09:52.479 used as a way to experience things that you missed 1252 01:09:52.600 --> 01:09:55.319 or that you never had the opportunity to experience because 1253 01:09:55.359 --> 01:09:57.439 a lot of stuff didn't come here. So one thing 1254 01:09:57.439 --> 01:10:00.359 that is fascinating to me is we look we look 1255 01:10:00.399 --> 01:10:04.119 at the Sega Saturn as like a failure of a console. Yeah, 1256 01:10:06.800 --> 01:10:08.720 what I'm saying, like, like the US centric view of 1257 01:10:08.720 --> 01:10:11.680 the Saturn is that it was a failed console, that 1258 01:10:11.680 --> 01:10:15.119 that console was like really successful in Japan because literally 1259 01:10:15.199 --> 01:10:17.159 three quarters of the games that came out on the 1260 01:10:17.199 --> 01:10:19.479 Saturn never made it to the US. 1261 01:10:19.600 --> 01:10:21.560 So that's a really good point. 1262 01:10:21.600 --> 01:10:26.159 I would love a classic Saturn with translated versions of 1263 01:10:26.960 --> 01:10:30.159 all those games that never made it over here in Japan. 1264 01:10:30.239 --> 01:10:33.359 Sega Saturn also had the best ad campaign with Sega 1265 01:10:33.399 --> 01:10:37.119 Testaan Chiro, so look that up if you're not familiar 1266 01:10:37.159 --> 01:10:37.439 with that. 1267 01:10:38.279 --> 01:10:41.239 But like I said, it's and plus the other thing 1268 01:10:41.279 --> 01:10:45.239 is two Saturn games are often very difficult to emulate, 1269 01:10:45.319 --> 01:10:48.239 Like it's weirdly one of the hardest consoles to emulate 1270 01:10:48.319 --> 01:10:52.399 well for whatever reason. So that would be pretty neat. 1271 01:10:52.399 --> 01:10:54.640 Like if Sega could curate like hey, like here's the 1272 01:10:54.680 --> 01:10:58.079 best US games, but also like, here's a large collection 1273 01:10:58.159 --> 01:11:02.239 of very popular Japanese Saturn games. I don't even even 1274 01:11:02.239 --> 01:11:04.279 be translated, like like if it's if it's not like 1275 01:11:04.319 --> 01:11:06.760 an RPG or something where like you need that where 1276 01:11:06.800 --> 01:11:08.199 you're reading a lot of text, I don't even give 1277 01:11:08.199 --> 01:11:14.800 a ship like I'll figure it out right, So but that, 1278 01:11:14.920 --> 01:11:16.479 but that would be pretty nifty. And then and then 1279 01:11:16.479 --> 01:11:18.279 the same thing you could do. It would be neat 1280 01:11:18.279 --> 01:11:21.399 if you did with Dreamcast. Dreamcast is a lot easier 1281 01:11:21.399 --> 01:11:27.479 to emulate. But again a console that I did not 1282 01:11:27.800 --> 01:11:31.439 experience at the time because I was a PlayStation kid. 1283 01:11:31.479 --> 01:11:33.359 But looking back on it. 1284 01:11:33.359 --> 01:11:36.359 It's like Dreamcast is really cool. Actually, I loved. 1285 01:11:36.199 --> 01:11:41.439 My drunk imported quite a few games too, like Guilty 1286

01:11:41.479 --> 01:11:42.960 Gear X was fun. 1287 01:11:43.000 --> 01:11:43.640 I imported that. 1288 01:11:43.720 --> 01:11:46.880 I imported a bunch of wrestling games Giant Graham two thousand, 1289 01:11:47.279 --> 01:11:48.319 Fire Pro Wrestling. 1290 01:11:49.039 --> 01:11:50.359 Yeah, I love my dream. 1291 01:11:52.600 --> 01:11:56.680 Uh Dreamcast moment at MAGFest this year, friend of mine 1292 01:11:57.239 --> 01:12:02.199 basically created truck nuts for your dream Controller sick of 1293 01:12:03.079 --> 01:12:09.560 in the VMD slot. I'll offend you guys a picture 1294 01:12:09.560 --> 01:12:10.079 of that one. 1295 01:12:10.279 --> 01:12:10.520 Yeah. 1296 01:12:10.560 --> 01:12:12.960 Interesting note, just going back and looking on the legacy 1297 01:12:12.960 --> 01:12:16.159 of the Saturn worth noting because, as you said, the 1298 01:12:16.199 --> 01:12:19.720 Saturn in the United States was an abject failure because 1299 01:12:20.119 --> 01:12:23.840 Sega Us did not launch that console properly at all 1300 01:12:24.199 --> 01:12:25.960 and really burned a lot of goodwill with a lot 1301 01:12:25.960 --> 01:12:29.560 of major retailers. But in Japan sold five point seventy 1302 01:12:29.560 --> 01:12:32.560 five million units, which surpassed the three point five to 1303 01:12:32.560 --> 01:12:37.239 eight million of its predecessor, the Mega Drive. Also worth noting, 1304 01:12:37.399 --> 01:12:40.640 it actually outpaced the Nintendo sixty four in Japan, which 1305 01:12:40.680 --> 01:12:44.319 sold five point five four million units. So truly, the 1306 01:12:44.359 --> 01:12:46.840 Saturn I think is the correct choice as far as 1307 01:12:46.880 --> 01:12:51.680 a classic console because here the thing about a lot 1308 01:12:51.680 --> 01:12:54.560 of Saturn games is they are very hard to come 1309 01:12:54.600 --> 01:12:57.399 by if you want actual copies of them too. I 1310 01:12:57.479 --> 01:13:01.359 own one Sega Saturn game. It's the Revolution visual enough. 1311 01:13:07.119 --> 01:13:10.159 Yeah, sat Saturn games are like crazy expensive, especially stuff 1312 01:13:10.159 --> 01:13:13.479 like burning burning Rangers and and ship like that Cancer 1313 01:13:13.600 --> 01:13:17.119 Dragon all that. All that is, by the way, fun 1314 01:13:17.239 --> 01:13:20.000 fun fact that this is. This is one of those 1315 01:13:20.000 --> 01:13:23.239 Phoenix down moments for me. So, like, you know, because 1316 01:13:23.239 --> 01:13:25.720 we always grew up or a lot of us grew 1317 01:13:25.800 --> 01:13:31.760 up with Nintendo consoles. When Microsoft started doing their four 1318 01:13:31.800 --> 01:13:35.000 button layout and it was flipped like people were just 1319 01:13:35.039 --> 01:13:38.760 like why did Microsoft do this? I just like, literally 1320 01:13:38.800 --> 01:13:42.720 within the past couple of months, I realized that Microsoft's 1321 01:13:42.760 --> 01:13:45.800 layout is actually correct because they were

using like the 1322 01:13:45.880 --> 01:13:49.079 Sega layout of ABC X Y Z, but they just 1323 01:13:49.119 --> 01:13:51.720 cut off the other two the the the Z and 1324 01:13:51.800 --> 01:13:54.039 the C buttons at the end. So like, if you 1325 01:13:54.079 --> 01:13:56.640 look how the Microsoft controller is laid out, it actually 1326 01:13:56.640 --> 01:13:59.680 makes way more sense than the Nintendo controller if you 1327 01:13:59.760 --> 01:14:00.640 if you just think through it. 1328 01:14:00.680 --> 01:14:05.000 Logically, as how those buts are positioned. So it's ant 1329 01:14:05.479 --> 01:14:10.359 strong actually, but Nintendo is Nintendo. 1330 01:14:10.439 --> 01:14:12.760 The bottom of the the south button is the south 1331 01:14:14.119 --> 01:14:19.680 that's always been stupid to me. I'm like, what the 1332 01:14:19.600 --> 01:14:23.800 bay never made sense? Yeah, it ain't sense to me, 1333 01:14:23.920 --> 01:14:26.560 because that's all like it happened. 1334 01:14:26.720 --> 01:14:29.079 I had I had a Genesis and and I had 1335 01:14:29.079 --> 01:14:31.800 the PlayStation. My brother got to say the Saturn, and 1336 01:14:31.920 --> 01:14:34.239 I got the Dreamcast and N sixty four when that 1337 01:14:34.279 --> 01:14:36.319 came out, that had that dumb fucking control with the 1338 01:14:36.359 --> 01:14:38.640 seed up down, left to right button and stick in 1339 01:14:38.640 --> 01:14:42.319 the middle. Nintendo was just bizarre with their controllers. We've 1340 01:14:42.319 --> 01:14:46.520 already discussed that they just want to be different for 1341 01:14:46.560 --> 01:14:49.840 no reason. But yeah, like a B A like when 1342 01:14:49.840 --> 01:14:51.960 you're doing what I'm doing, the emulation is like press 1343 01:14:52.000 --> 01:14:53.920 the B buttons. So I'm pressing the B button on 1344 01:14:53.960 --> 01:14:57.960 the Xbox control right, and that's the dumb. 1345 01:14:59.279 --> 01:15:04.199 I hate it. It's stupid. But we all we all 1346 01:15:04.279 --> 01:15:05.359 just got brainwashed and then. 1347 01:15:05.760 --> 01:15:08.439 Microft but but but again, like it never bothered me 1348 01:15:09.119 --> 01:15:11.560 on the Genesis controller because you look at and you're like, oh, 1349 01:15:11.560 --> 01:15:14.159 of course this makes sense. ABC like yeah, like yeah, 1350 01:15:14.279 --> 01:15:16.119 why wouldn't be like why wouldn't it be that way? 1351 01:15:17.279 --> 01:15:20.079 But yeah, but and the next box came out, We're like, well, 1352 01:15:20.079 --> 01:15:20.680 this is backwards. 1353 01:15:20.720 --> 01:15:21.560 This is fucking stupid. 1354 01:15:21.560 --> 01:15:25.279 What is Microsoft doing here, It turns out, is it 1355 01:15:25.600 --> 01:15:30.239 because I don't they read in I think that Yeah, 1356 01:15:30.239 --> 01:15:32.279 I think I think that literally is the reason. 1357 01:15:32.079 --> 01:15:38.039 Why B A B A And like I'm always like no, 1358 01:15:38.359 --> 01:15:40.960 that's wrong, always wrong. 1359 01:15:42.520 --> 01:15:44.319 When I was a kid, made perfect sense. Yeah, like yeah, 1360 01:15:44.359 --> 01:15:46.479 hold wide run be a jump, like yeah, this is this, 1361 01:15:46.600 --> 01:15:52.800 this all is uh, it's all very sensible. So well 1362 01:15:52.840 --> 01:15:55.279 that that is going to do it for us again. 1363 01:15:55.359 --> 01:15:58.000 Make sure you check us out wherever you find podcasts 1364 01:15:58.079 --> 01:16:00.800 or YouTube or all that jazz. Uh, look forward to 1365 01:16:01.880 --> 01:16:06.199 the Ballpit vod that I'll be putting up. Will also 1366 01:16:06.319 --> 01:16:09.720 be getting back to civilization probably with the next stream 1367 01:16:09.720 --> 01:16:13.479 that we do, continuing that campaign onward. So yeah, but 1368 01:16:13.520 --> 01:16:15.319 that's gonna be it for us to speak. Thank y'all 1369 01:16:15.439 --> 01:16:17.319 very much for watching and listening. We'll see you the 1370 01:16:17.359 --> 01:16:17.840 next time. 1371 01:16:18.520 --> 01:16:19.319 See