# Giant Bombcast 960: Norse Star

An episode of [Giant Bombcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/274450056), 29 Sep 2026, 2 h 25 min.

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It's Tuesday and we've got to talk about video games! We're talking about Ace Combat 8, Control Resonant, Final Fantasy XIV, Grubb and Dan get into Goof Troop for the NES, and then we explore if Well Dweller is this year's Silksong. We also find the time to get into the news and then all of your emails! Support us directly and get new episodes ad-free by signing up for Giant Bomb Premium at https://www.giantbomb.com/join Timestamps (note, timestamps on this free version may vary greatly depending on how many ads you receive): 0:00:00 Intro 0:33:04 Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve 0:36:41 Final Fantasy XIV 0:42:12 Goof Troop 0:44:43 Control Resonant 0:54:51 Well Dweller 1:00:52 Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave 1:01:44 Onimusha: Way of the Sword 1:03:44 SIFU & PACIFIC DRIVE CODE GIVEAWAY! 1:06:41 Game Informer's GTA VI cover story 1:08:24 Naughty Dog finally puts a window on Intergalactic news 1:14:19 A PlayStation controller that takes a credit card? 1:16:23 NIS America is talking to Sony about the future of PlayStation discs 1:20:14 Meta’s new VR headset looks like glasses, but costs $1,300 1:22:12 Halo is probably gonna get rebooted 1:28:55 EMAILS! 1:57:23 YouTube Super Chats 2:21:14 Outro

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Hey!
[0:01] Speaker 2: Hey!
[0:26] Speaker 3: Everybody, it's Tuesday, September 29, 2026. Welcome to the Giant Bombcast.
[0:33] Speaker 3: I'm the Big Dog, Jan Ochoa, host of this podcast.
[0:37] Speaker 3: Joining me, as always, co-captain of the ship and eater
[0:41] Speaker 3: of worlds.
[0:42] Speaker 2: Jeff Grubb. Thank you very much, Jan. Happy to be here.
[0:46] Speaker 3: Don't worry. I'm happy he's here as well. We've got
[0:50] Speaker 3: Dan the Franchise Reichert.
[0:53] Speaker 2: That's me. Hi, I'm Dan the Franchise. How are you doing, Jan?
[0:56] Speaker 3: I'm doing great because we're sailing the seven seas with
[0:59] Speaker 3: the master of the seas, the skipper himself, Jeff Bacalar.
[1:03] Speaker 2: What's up? Get on my boat, bitches.
[1:07] Speaker 1: Get that shirt in the store.
[1:10] Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
[1:12] Speaker 3: It's like the beginning of Clueless, right?
[1:15] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[1:16] Speaker 3: What? Doesn't she say, like, we're going shopping, bitches?
[1:21] Speaker 2: Does she? I don't know. That's Mean Girls.
[1:25] Speaker 4: That's the girl who gets run over by the bus
[1:28] Speaker 4: at the end.
[1:29] Speaker 3: Oh, right.
[1:30] Speaker 2: Spoilers for Mean Girls.
[1:32] Speaker 5: Are you getting on the boat or not?
[1:35] Speaker 3: You know what's crazy is that Mean Girls was a
[1:38] Speaker 3: movie early 2000s and then it became a musical and
[1:42] Speaker 3: then they made a movie about the musical which was
[1:44] Speaker 3: a remake of the original movie.
[1:46] Speaker 2: Yeah, that's always wild to me.
[1:48] Speaker 3: But we have the most musical man of games media.
[1:50] Speaker 3: With us, we've got the Cleveland streamer, the boy of
[1:54] Speaker 3: games media, Mike Minotti. See, it doesn't feel good. It
[1:59] Speaker 3: doesn't feel good.
[2:01] Speaker 4: It's funny you brought that quote up, because when I
[2:03] Speaker 4: was in Epcot on Saturday, somebody literally was wearing a
[2:05] Speaker 4: shirt that said, like, get in, loser. We're going to
[2:10] Speaker 4: learn about farming in the land or something. It was
[2:13] Speaker 4: a shirt for the land boat ride.
[2:15] Speaker 2: It was very good. Mike, not right now.
[2:18] Speaker 3: My bad.
[2:20] Speaker 4: I thought it was my time to talk for a
[2:22] Speaker 4: little bit.
[2:24] Speaker 3: That's not how this show works. How this show works
[2:29] Speaker 3: is that after I introduce you guys, I thank everyone
[2:32] Speaker 3: for watching at home and supporting us here at GiantBomb.com.
[2:36] Speaker 3: And Jeff Grubb, how can folks best support us over
[2:39] Speaker 3: here at GiantBomb.com?
[2:41] Speaker 2: They can go to giant bomb.com slash join, become a
[2:44] Speaker 2: premium member. If you do, you're supporting us. You're supporting
[2:47] Speaker 2: independent games media. You're ensuring you have a cool place
[2:49] Speaker 2: to hang out on the internet where people are cool.
[2:52] Speaker 2: Like you, you also get ad free versions of our
[2:55] Speaker 2: shows and, And thank you to everybody who supports us
[2:57] Speaker 2: because it also gets you premium exclusive content. We got
[3:00] Speaker 2: a whole bunch of stuff in the works, right, Jan?
[3:02] Speaker 2: We got sclusies all over the place. I actually need
[3:05] Speaker 2: to fix one of those premium sclusies. Kat Jervman, episode seven,
[3:10] Speaker 2: supposed to come out yesterday. I fucked up some of
[3:12] Speaker 2: the audio. I will get that up and out after
[3:14] Speaker 2: this podcast. Jeff Bacalar, how do you feel about Kat Jervman? Oh,
[3:19] Speaker 2: my God.
[3:20] Speaker 5: I think about it a lot to the point where, folks,
[3:25] Speaker 5: I'm not going to lie.
[3:27] Speaker 2: I think I want to do another one. Oh, okay.
[3:30] Speaker 1: Well, that game again, from this, from the start, just
[3:35] Speaker 1: run it back, baby.
[3:36] Speaker 2: I'm going to keep all my Dillo.
[3:38] Speaker 3: I mean, we could just relay baton over.
[3:42] Speaker 5: Listen, you guys are the triple a, uh, Blake club team.
[3:46] Speaker 5: I'm just down here in the minors playing single.
[3:48] Speaker 2: No, no, you're the premium. You're the premium. Yeah. You
[3:51] Speaker 2: are the premium.
[3:52] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[3:52] Speaker 2: I don't know.
[3:56] Speaker 3: You're like the Savannah Bananas right now, because I think
[3:58] Speaker 3: that is in higher regard to MLB for some people.
[4:02] Speaker 2: It's got more emotion, that's for sure.
[4:03] Speaker 5: I think as a premium product, it should be better,
[4:09] Speaker 5: and therefore more fun to play. I don't know, sometimes
[4:14] Speaker 5: I'll pop into a grub dealer, whatever it's called, and
[4:18] Speaker 5: I'll just... i'll i'll like wince because i don't like
[4:22] Speaker 5: seeing someone i uh respect getting uh kind of beat
[4:25] Speaker 5: up and i kind of thank you i can't look
[4:27] Speaker 5: at this rough.
[4:28] Speaker 1: Oh you're not built for mainline blight club.
[4:30] Speaker 3: It's yeah not gonna get easier yep it's not gonna
[4:32] Speaker 3: get any easier but it's just going to constantly be
[4:35] Speaker 3: an easy supporting experience over here at giant bomb.com slash
[4:39] Speaker 3: join if you're premium because not only do you get
[4:41] Speaker 3: cat jerfman you're getting another covert season of uh blight
[4:44] Speaker 3: club also known as Super Shark. This is the run. Mike,
[4:48] Speaker 3: don't worry. I hear it's going very well. The testing
[4:50] Speaker 3: is working. We've got all the top people onto it.
[4:54] Speaker 3: We got beakers now. We expensed beakers for all the testing.
[4:58] Speaker 2: We got beakers.
[4:58] Speaker 4: We got butts and honeydew. We're going to get all
[5:01] Speaker 4: the cakes ironed out. It's going to be great. Is
[5:05] Speaker 4: there a new one coming out today, Jan?
[5:06] Speaker 2: Is that right?
[5:07] Speaker 3: Yes, a new one is coming out. A new one
[5:08] Speaker 3: is coming out today.
[5:09] Speaker 2: Maybe this is the run, everybody. But don't worry.
[5:15] Speaker 3: We've not only applied science to This is the Run.
[5:17] Speaker 3: We've previously applied science to Portal Pals with Mary Kish.
[5:20] Speaker 3: You can go watch that where Mike Minani plays through
[5:23] Speaker 3: Portal 2 with our dear friend Mary Kish. And speaking
[5:25] Speaker 3: about dear friends, we did a premium series called Marry
[5:29] Speaker 3: Me Tomodachi with our dear friend Abby Russell. Go watch
[5:32] Speaker 3: those things. You also get ad-free podcasts. You can go
[5:35] Speaker 3: on giantbomb.com slash join or YouTube Premium. And also, folks,
[5:39] Speaker 3: like we've said, we always have a bunch of premium
[5:42] Speaker 3: stuff in the can. We're working on stuff. If you're
[5:45] Speaker 3: a premium member, you get access to the beta of
[5:49] Speaker 3: the game tracker that Chuck is building. We see y'all
[5:52] Speaker 3: rating games all the time. A lot of fun, cool
[5:54] Speaker 3: stuff over there. And, folks, I got a new premium
[5:58] Speaker 3: series dropping right now that we've worked on. It is
[6:02] Speaker 3: called Goop Troop.
[6:04] Speaker 2: Jeff... Grubb, do you want to talk about this? Yeah, yeah.
[6:08] Speaker 2: Dan and I decided to play through Goof Troop for
[6:10] Speaker 2: the Super Nintendo. What? That's up on the website right now.
[6:14] Speaker 2: This is a lie. It's not a lie to us. Jan,
[6:17] Speaker 2: not even a series.
[6:18] Speaker 1: It's a one-off full playthrough. It's live right now on
[6:20] Speaker 1: the site.
[6:21] Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right. No, they're messing with me.
[6:23] Speaker 2: Is that a shadow drop? Is that what you call
[6:25] Speaker 2: a shadow drop? I think it just worked out. It
[6:28] Speaker 2: just lined up. Just take a look at the site.
[6:30] Speaker 4: No, because I almost was in tears when I told
[6:33] Speaker 4: Grubb that I wanted to play it with him. There's
[6:35] Speaker 4: no way he would just go.
[6:37] Speaker 2: It's here.
[6:37] Speaker 3: No.
[6:39] Speaker 2: It's there. I'm looking at it. They don't like you.
[6:42] Speaker 2: I see this. We had some time for content. You're
[6:49] Speaker 2: busy at Disney. They're actually not lying. They're not lying.
[6:53] Speaker 2: I'm looking at it. What the hell? Two hours and change? Yeah, wait, Mike,
[7:00] Speaker 2: are you really going to sit around like this? What? What? Oh,
[7:05] Speaker 2: my God! Did you have fun? Huh? Did it feel good?
[7:09] Speaker 1: Yeah, Shinji Mikami made it.
[7:11] Speaker 2: It was actually a lot of fun. We played co-op.
[7:13] Speaker 2: We had a lot of good teamwork and stuff. The
[7:15] Speaker 2: goop troop. He was goopy goop, but I was diddy goop.
[7:19] Speaker 4: I joked about doing this with Vinny, and then when
[7:21] Speaker 4: I told Grub, I was just joking.
[7:24] Speaker 2: I want to play it with you, Fred. I would
[7:25] Speaker 2: never do that. Oh, my God. I need Vinny. We're
[7:28] Speaker 2: going to play Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers together or something. Oh,
[7:33] Speaker 2: my God. Dan is even wearing the happy birthday.
[7:37] Speaker 4: Mickey ears that I got him as a present.
[7:41] Speaker 2: Oh, Mike.
[7:43] Speaker 5: You know I would never do this to you. Mike,
[7:46] Speaker 5: I don't even understand what's happening, and I feel so bad.
[7:50] Speaker 2: What did I do? I.
[7:52] Speaker 2: I just want you to know I would never make
[7:54] Speaker 2: you feel like this.
[7:55] Speaker 3: Mike, I need to be clear. When I caught wind
[7:58] Speaker 3: of this and I was told, I specifically told them,
[8:02] Speaker 3: he's going to be so upset. Not mad.
[8:03] Speaker 2: He's going to be so upset. Jim was legitimately worried.
[8:07] Speaker 3: Mike was gone.
[8:09] Speaker 2: Mike went to Epcot, so we just had to make
[8:11] Speaker 2: some content without him. Grub, I need to know.
[8:13] Speaker 3: I need to know. Yeah.
[8:15] Speaker 2: You said you had a very important appointment yesterday.
[8:17] Speaker 3: I didn't know that you're single.
[8:19] Speaker 2: It lined up. It kind of lined up because I
[8:21] Speaker 2: did have an appointment, but then I just kind of
[8:23] Speaker 2: was like, and I'm going to be busy for the
[8:24] Speaker 2: rest of the day. And I kind of extended it. So, yeah.
[8:27] Speaker 2: You actually went through the whole thing. You got to credit.
[8:31] Speaker 1: Yeah, I took the speed run. We share a speed
[8:34] Speaker 1: run together now.
[8:35] Speaker 2: I gotta be honest, I was expecting to be way
[8:37] Speaker 2: more mad than obviously heartbroken.
[8:39] Speaker 5: Wait, because this is also me finding out about it
[8:44] Speaker 5: for the first time.
[8:45] Speaker 1: Yeah, we didn't tell anyone.
[8:47] Speaker 2: So you did this yesterday when he was still around?
[8:50] Speaker 2: When he was around? No, this was Friday when he
[8:53] Speaker 2: was at Epcot.
[8:54] Speaker 4: Oh.
[8:54] Speaker 2: I'm going back to Epcot. I'm leaving. Mike, I think
[8:58] Speaker 2: they did this, and you were back. I knew this.
[9:01] Speaker 3: I knew this would happen.
[9:03] Speaker 2: I just... This is... Man, when you guys said you
[9:05] Speaker 2: did this, I'm not going to lie.
[9:07] Speaker 4: There was some droning on about Prima or something.
[9:09] Speaker 2: Who cares? Am I right? And I was like, they're
[9:11] Speaker 2: all sitting here. I'm like, what the fuck?
[9:13] Speaker 3: What?
[9:13] Speaker 2: And I'm like, they're lying. They're joking.
[9:18] Speaker 3: Well, Mike, maybe this is a lesson to actively listen
[9:22] Speaker 3: to your co-hosts. I, uh.
[9:25] Speaker 2: Look, I just know going through Cyberdillo, I might be
[9:27] Speaker 2: lashing out. Dan will get his at some point.
[9:31] Speaker 1: I did bring this up to Grubb as an idea.
[9:34] Speaker 1: And he says, Dan, this might be the best idea
[9:36] Speaker 1: you've ever had.
[9:37] Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
[9:39] Speaker 4: There's not even like a funny name for it.
[9:42] Speaker 2: It's just like the love is as good as YouTube.
[9:45] Speaker 2: The video is called Capcom's Hidden Disney Gem. I mean,
[9:48] Speaker 2: we're serious. We're serious games journalists.
[9:52] Speaker 3: We talked a lot.
[9:52] Speaker 1: About our favorite Disney memories and stuff.
[9:54] Speaker 2: It's just like a couple of friends talking about Disney.
[9:56] Speaker 2: Who was goofy and who was Max? I was Goofy. Yeah. Oh, buddy. Oh,
[10:01] Speaker 2: my God. We did talk about my favorite Goof Troop episode,
[10:04] Speaker 2: which is Rex Lies in Videotape. Rex rhymes with sex there.
[10:08] Speaker 2: It's fun that they did that.
[10:09] Speaker 1: I bought a Goofy shirt. I'm wearing a Goofy shirt
[10:11] Speaker 1: in it.
[10:13] Speaker 2: I bought a Donald shirt that was actually a woman's shirt,
[10:16] Speaker 2: so it was too tight for me. I couldn't wear it.
[10:18] Speaker 5: This would be like if they all, like, I don't know.
[10:20] Speaker 5: I can't actually know. I don't have an analogy. That's
[10:24] Speaker 5: exactly right. I don't know if it's that dramatic, but sure,
[10:27] Speaker 5: you're in the ballpark. Man, I feel terrible.
[10:31] Speaker 3: Wow.
[10:31] Speaker 2: Who knows what else they're capable of?
[10:33] Speaker 3: I feel complicit. I feel like I helped do this.
[10:39] Speaker 2: Yeah, you did. You did.
[10:40] Speaker 3: No, I didn't.
[10:41] Speaker 2: Collusion.
[10:42] Speaker 3: You guys did this all on your own.
[10:46] Speaker 2: It's just mean-spirited.
[10:48] Speaker 4: Now I want to bring it back a little, because
[10:51] Speaker 4: I see some people in chat are like, they went
[10:52] Speaker 4: too far.
[10:53] Speaker 2: It's funny. Everybody! Let's be clear. I think this is
[10:57] Speaker 2: also very funny. If I didn't think Mike would understand
[11:00] Speaker 2: that this is very, very funny, we wouldn't have done it.
[11:03] Speaker 2: They know, but yeah. Trust me.
[11:06] Speaker 4: I am on their side. I'm like, wow, I can't
[11:09] Speaker 4: believe you did this. But also, that is pretty funny.
[11:12] Speaker 1: There was a time we did a replay episode of
[11:15] Speaker 1: Castlevania Symphony of the Night while Tim was like a
[11:17] Speaker 1: Gamescom or something. Tim Turi is a huge Castlevania fan.
[11:19] Speaker 1: It was not meant to be a troll. He just
[11:21] Speaker 1: came back and he was like heartbroken. Like, why would
[11:23] Speaker 1: you guys do Symphony of the Night without me?
[11:24] Speaker 2: That's my favorite.
[11:25] Speaker 1: So me and Hanson put together the Tim Turi replay
[11:28] Speaker 1: spectacular episode. where uh it was we set up all
[11:31] Speaker 1: these tim games in a row without telling him sat
[11:33] Speaker 1: him down to play and then we like brought in
[11:35] Speaker 1: his mom and surprised like into the studio and like
[11:37] Speaker 1: surprised him everything so i don't know maybe maybe mike
[11:40] Speaker 1: you'll get a.
[11:40] Speaker 4: Special yeah maybe there we go yeah yeah.
[11:44] Speaker 5: I'm more than happy to collude with you there there
[11:49] Speaker 5: is a co-op sega genesis game that i mentioned wanting
[11:52] Speaker 5: to play with mike minotti before so okay i just
[11:54] Speaker 5: don't want.
[11:54] Speaker 1: To do that saves kingdom hearts for me That's not
[11:58] Speaker 1: going to be fun for anyone So don't do it
[12:02] Speaker 1: without me Mike, I have ideas. Mike, I have ideas.
[12:06] Speaker 2: Yeah, well, don't worry.
[12:07] Speaker 5: Let's do the three of us. Let's do something. I'm
[12:10] Speaker 5: pretty after Thanksgiving.
[12:11] Speaker 4: I don't want to hear any more about how, like,
[12:13] Speaker 4: Grubbs should escalate on Cyber Thrill, the video game that
[12:16] Speaker 4: he brought in.
[12:16] Speaker 3: This was it. This was it.
[12:17] Speaker 2: Yeah, this was it. Except it didn't seem to have
[12:19] Speaker 2: impacted at all. No, no, I've already said, I said,
[12:22] Speaker 2: I'm lashing out. Like, this was an opportunity to get you.
[12:24] Speaker 2: Dan will get his. Dan will get his. Okay. It
[12:26] Speaker 2: does seem asymmetrical, right? Like, I feel like.
[12:30] Speaker 5: It seems like an act of war against Mike for
[12:33] Speaker 5: no reason. No, no.
[12:36] Speaker 2: I hurt people, hurt people, and I'm hurting from Cyber Dylan.
[12:39] Speaker 1: Chad does bring up, they did a film in 40s
[12:41] Speaker 1: of The Rock without me, so I'm already done.
[12:44] Speaker 2: When was that? I know the Nick Cage stuff. We weren't...
[12:49] Speaker 2: I mean, I like a different version of this company.
[12:52] Speaker 2: Are you Alex Navarro?
[12:54] Speaker 1: But it still happened to me.
[12:55] Speaker 2: I mean, that shouldn't affect us. I got to get
[13:00] Speaker 2: out of jail free card. It's like 2017. How is that?
[13:04] Speaker 2: No one cares. What do you mean?
[13:06] Speaker 4: Look, I got my wish of grub playing through Goof
[13:09] Speaker 4: Troop and it's now content on the site.
[13:11] Speaker 3: So it's great. For audio listeners.
[13:17] Speaker 2: Tremendous puzzles in that game. Two of the best.
[13:21] Speaker 1: Block sliding puzzles ever in gaming history. Much harder than
[13:26] Speaker 1: anything you've seen in Zelda.
[13:28] Speaker 3: Folks at home, you can support us hurting each other
[13:32] Speaker 3: if you go to giantbomb.com slash join.
[13:35] Speaker 2: That is premium only.
[13:36] Speaker 3: That is premium only. Jeff Bacalar, you know, for people
[13:40] Speaker 3: that want to sign up for premium now, we got
[13:44] Speaker 3: a little bit of extra for them. Why don't you
[13:46] Speaker 3: tell the.
[13:46] Speaker 2: Folks at home?
[13:47] Speaker 3: A little spice?
[13:48] Speaker 5: A little spice?
[13:48] Speaker 2: A little sugar? A little sugar on top? Yeah, yeah.
[13:51] Speaker 3: A little seasoning salt to finish it off at the end.
[13:55] Speaker 5: You know, we are growing through all the reasons why
[13:57] Speaker 5: you should obviously be a member of John Bond premium
[13:59] Speaker 5: and it's perks like this, in my opinion, because we
[14:03] Speaker 5: are very excited to let you guys know that our
[14:07] Speaker 5: pals at Kepler interactive have given us a 100 game
[14:13] Speaker 5: codes that we will be giving away with the next
[14:17] Speaker 5: 100 brand new subs starting like at the beginning of
[14:21] Speaker 5: the podcast we'll start it and if you are a
[14:25] Speaker 5: brand new subscriber you will get one of two games
[14:28] Speaker 5: which we will debut at the first break we'll run
[14:31] Speaker 5: the trailers for those games and we'll come back and
[14:32] Speaker 5: look Let you know how it works. But listen, okay? Listen,
[14:36] Speaker 5: this is how it's got to go. If you sign
[14:38] Speaker 5: up through YouTube, if you sign up through YouTube, what
[14:43] Speaker 5: is it called?
[14:45] Speaker 2: Members. Membership.
[14:46] Speaker 5: You must connect your Giant Bomb account to that. And
[14:51] Speaker 5: you can do that through our site. If you are
[14:54] Speaker 5: unclear on the instructions of how to do that, you
[14:56] Speaker 5: can always pop off in the Discord. But that must
[14:59] Speaker 5: happen in order for you to get your free game
[15:03] Speaker 5: code from your YouTube membership. So just keep that in
[15:06] Speaker 5: mind if you are a new sub signing up. Yeah,
[15:09] Speaker 5: thanks and biggest of shouts out to Kepler Interactive. We'll
[15:13] Speaker 5: tell you guys what those games are. At the first
[15:16] Speaker 5: break here today, one hundo coming at you hot and
[15:20] Speaker 5: fresh out of the oven.
[15:21] Speaker 2: That's right. Thank you. Yum, yum, yum, yum.
[15:24] Speaker 4: You're not going to get that code right when you
[15:25] Speaker 4: sign up because I had to send it out manually.
[15:27] Speaker 4: Though I think I just saw here my good friend
[15:29] Speaker 4: Jeff Grubb's going to be sending out the codes this
[15:31] Speaker 4: time instead for me.
[15:32] Speaker 2: Wow, that's so cool. Thank you so much, Jeff. Honestly,
[15:38] Speaker 2: that feels fair. Uh-huh. And that's the, it's actually a punishment.
[15:43] Speaker 2: We'll see how the executive functioning does with this. All right.
[15:46] Speaker 2: I got it. No, I'm doing it. I got a
[15:49] Speaker 2: system now. I can bump him out. It's great. He's
[15:51] Speaker 2: got a system. Okay. He's got a system. I love it.
[15:56] Speaker 2: Oh my God.
[15:57] Speaker 3: Fantastic. Thank you, Mr.
[15:59] Speaker 2: Bacalar.
[16:00] Speaker 3: Folks, and we will see what games those are during
[16:04] Speaker 3: the bricky break. Before we get to games, boys, how's
[16:07] Speaker 3: everyone doing other than feeling incredible betrayal?
[16:11] Speaker 2: I've got my family back. That's cool. Oh, yeah. You
[16:14] Speaker 2: seem much more, like, settled again. Yeah.
[16:17] Speaker 5: You look much better. Fall has also started, so I'm
[16:21] Speaker 5: in a good mood about that.
[16:22] Speaker 2: It was 50 degrees this morning here, Bacalar, and I
[16:25] Speaker 2: felt alive. felt alive, felt like I had energy again.
[16:29] Speaker 3: It's nice.
[16:30] Speaker 2: Uh, get fucked summer. Um, no, it's great. Everyone's back.
[16:33] Speaker 2: We're doing well.
[16:35] Speaker 5: Um, I've been, uh, interacting with a lot of people,
[16:39] Speaker 5: you know, we've got bombs on coming up. There's a
[16:40] Speaker 5: lot of stuff popping off and I'm starting to see
[16:43] Speaker 5: that people are putting, don't worry.
[16:46] Speaker 2: I'm a real person in their signatures now. Wow. And
[16:51] Speaker 2: that makes me just want to crawl into a big
[16:54] Speaker 2: old hole. Oh, as opposed to like an AI. Yeah.
[16:57] Speaker 5: It's just like a, it's just like a sort of,
[17:00] Speaker 5: Signal that, don't worry, you're not engaging with an AI bot.
[17:04] Speaker 2: Yeah. Isn't that cool?
[17:07] Speaker 3: For anyone currently looking for an apartment or any type
[17:09] Speaker 3: of housing, you are rolling the dice if you're talking
[17:12] Speaker 3: to a real person or an agent.
[17:14] Speaker 2: Oh, that sucks. Yeah.
[17:15] Speaker 3: So I thought I was talking to a real person
[17:18] Speaker 3: for one of these buildings I was looking at. It
[17:20] Speaker 3: was an AI agent the whole time. And then when
[17:22] Speaker 3: I get to the actual leasing office to have a
[17:25] Speaker 3: tour that I had scheduled for two weeks, no one
[17:29] Speaker 3: showed up.
[17:30] Speaker 2: Oh, man. So that was great.
[17:32] Speaker 3: And then when someone from the leasing office comes and
[17:33] Speaker 3: is like, hey, what are you here for? Do you
[17:35] Speaker 3: need to get in? Did you lose your keys? I'm like, no,
[17:38] Speaker 3: I have an appointment. I've set this for like two weeks.
[17:41] Speaker 3: They had no idea what I was talking about.
[17:43] Speaker 2: Cool.
[17:44] Speaker 5: Great it's working great it's everything's working great i do.
[17:47] Speaker 1: Like it and appreciate it when businesses will advertise that
[17:50] Speaker 1: like hey we don't use ai at all yes you
[17:52] Speaker 1: know like i i sure i appreciate just being able
[17:54] Speaker 1: to say like straight up hey we do not do
[17:55] Speaker 1: like i learned.
[17:56] Speaker 2: That's exactly what an ai business would say.
[17:58] Speaker 1: No it's like i learned i was at aw this
[18:01] Speaker 1: weekend and like aw is fully anti-ai like will not
[18:04] Speaker 1: use it for music art merch anything like that which
[18:06] Speaker 1: you know given the alternative like i just i like
[18:08] Speaker 1: companies taking a stance on that just being like we
[18:10] Speaker 1: do not fucking use this so Email signature is a little,
[18:13] Speaker 1: it's weird that that's necessary, but, like, I get it,
[18:15] Speaker 1: I guess, you know?
[18:16] Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, like, Dan, like, I think we talked
[18:19] Speaker 3: about it here on this or during the dump truck,
[18:22] Speaker 3: but fucking WWE putting out two AI t-shirts or maybe more.
[18:27] Speaker 1: Two 9-11 AI t-shirts.
[18:31] Speaker 2: What does that even mean? Jeff Backlar, let me explain
[18:34] Speaker 2: this company.
[18:35] Speaker 1: They fucking put out a Never Forget shirt that had
[18:38] Speaker 1: an American flag and the WWE logo on it to
[18:42] Speaker 1: profit off of the terrorist attacks of September 11th. But
[18:46] Speaker 1: then they had to take it down and put another
[18:48] Speaker 1: one up because the AI gave the flag the wrong
[18:51] Speaker 1: amount of stars and stripes.
[18:52] Speaker 2: I mean, to be fair, it's really hard to source
[18:54] Speaker 2: a PNG of an American flag. Right, right, right.
[18:58] Speaker 5: Who's the person being like, I'm going to show my
[19:00] Speaker 5: support for this country by buying.
[19:04] Speaker 2: A WWE 9-11 shirt? Email me. I want to talk.
[19:09] Speaker 2: I want to understand you, person.
[19:12] Speaker 3: Yeah, gosh, yeah. Speaking about AEW, I do want to
[19:17] Speaker 3: shout this out, but rest in peace to Pac- formerly
[19:22] Speaker 3: known as Adrian Neville in the WWE.
[19:27] Speaker 2: Way too young. Way, way too young.
[19:29] Speaker 1: It's insane. I saw him backstage hours earlier and it
[19:36] Speaker 1: was that night.
[19:37] Speaker 3: Tremendously talented wrestler. Fucking committed to the gimmick.
[19:42] Speaker 1: One of the best ever. One of the all-time best
[19:44] Speaker 1: high flyers.
[19:45] Speaker 2: Legitimately.
[19:46] Speaker 3: But also like strong as a motherfucker.
[19:49] Speaker 1: Yeah like in wrestling like it's just like it's so
[19:52] Speaker 1: rare to find someone that like no one has a
[19:54] Speaker 1: bad word to say about and like this month i
[19:56] Speaker 1: feel like between the butcher and pack it was like
[19:58] Speaker 1: two of the most beloved members guys big andy williams
[20:02] Speaker 1: fan yeah it's just been it's been really rough for
[20:05] Speaker 1: that locker room over the last month.
[20:07] Speaker 2: I'm sorry, what happened? We don't really know yet. It's not.
[20:10] Speaker 1: It sounds like TMZ is doing the TMZ thing and
[20:14] Speaker 1: reporting and stuff. It sounds like it was a medical event.
[20:16] Speaker 1: There's not foul play or trauma or anything expected, but.
[20:20] Speaker 2: He's.
[20:20] Speaker 3: Had a history of some medical-related stuff, so don't want
[20:23] Speaker 3: to speculate or stir the pot or anything, but yeah.
[20:28] Speaker 1: They're doing a tribute show on Wednesday, so yeah, tune
[20:30] Speaker 1: in to Dynamite Wednesday night. They're doing a tribute to Pac, so.
[20:33] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[20:34] Speaker 3: Yeah. Heart goes out to his family and, of course,
[20:37] Speaker 3: his co-workers over at AEW doing the impossible pivot. How
[20:42] Speaker 3: is everyone else? How's everyone else's weekend?
[20:45] Speaker 2: I got my van back in the garage after redoing
[20:48] Speaker 2: my laundry room. I cleaned it out and I put
[20:50] Speaker 2: up the most exciting thing to happen to this weekend
[20:53] Speaker 2: as I put a new cabinet up. That was actually
[20:55] Speaker 2: the old cabinet from the laundry room in my garage.
[20:57] Speaker 2: Now all my tools are in there. And I'm very
[21:00] Speaker 2: excited about it. It looks really sleek. Just go outside.
[21:03] Speaker 2: It's a real garage again. Admire it. Yeah, I'm just
[21:05] Speaker 2: opening it up. I'm like, oh, this is nice. It's
[21:07] Speaker 2: going to be organized for the one time in its
[21:10] Speaker 2: entire existence, but I'm enjoying that for the 30 minutes
[21:12] Speaker 2: it lasts now. Beautiful. Had a very bad weekend, but yeah,
[21:16] Speaker 2: that kept me pretty busy. Hell yeah.
[21:17] Speaker 3: Hell yeah. Folks, over the weekend, finally, it is here, gang.
[21:23] Speaker 3: Catch me if you Dan too. It's been revealed that
[21:27] Speaker 3: Dan and I had gone to New Mexico. Specific whereabouts
[21:31] Speaker 3: in New Mexico. Go watch the video, please. But, uh,
[21:33] Speaker 3: oh boy. So, so glad that that is finally out
[21:36] Speaker 3: and very, very happy with everyone's very kind words for
[21:39] Speaker 3: Dan and I.
[21:39] Speaker 2: Great job.
[21:40] Speaker 1: It was great. Dan with the edit was incredible. Like
[21:42] Speaker 1: it looks so awesome. Um, it's just very easy. Traveling
[21:47] Speaker 1: with Dan is very easy and that, uh, Dan will, uh,
[21:51] Speaker 1: go with the bit or create the bit. And for folks, Hey,
[21:54] Speaker 1: if you ever doubt yourself or you have a little
[21:56] Speaker 1: bit of anxiety, I understand. We all have that a
[21:59] Speaker 1: little bit of fear.
[22:00] Speaker 3: But to witness Dan look at all these lowriders and go,
[22:03] Speaker 3: I want to go in one of them. I'm just
[22:05] Speaker 3: going to ask that guy. And then immediately ask him,
[22:08] Speaker 3: and then get in the car. His testament, folks, hey,
[22:11] Speaker 3: just go try it. What's the worst thing that could happen?
[22:13] Speaker 3: The guy says no, and then we just keep walking.
[22:16] Speaker 2: I don't think he spoke.
[22:16] Speaker 1: English, and it still worked out.
[22:18] Speaker 2: And that's my new buddy.
[22:19] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[22:20] Speaker 1: Yeah, a couple new buddies in that video.
[22:21] Speaker 2: Yeah. Yes, yes.
[22:23] Speaker 3: Our last friend.
[22:25] Speaker 2: Wow. Wow. Out of this world. Good chat. Good chat
[22:27] Speaker 2: with that guy. Yeah. Yeah. His vehicle, it was legitimately
[22:32] Speaker 2: way cooler than I even could tell when you guys
[22:33] Speaker 2: were sending a couple of pictures here and there, a
[22:35] Speaker 2: couple of videos. That thing was amazing. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
[22:39] Speaker 3: That guy was super duper cool. Shouts out to Steve.
[22:42] Speaker 3: And folks, for premium members out there, I just got
[22:44] Speaker 3: to continue vetting through the footy, but I'm planning on
[22:47] Speaker 3: dropping all of the unedited footage. I'm just going to
[22:49] Speaker 3: slap it all in one timeline. I'm not going to
[22:52] Speaker 3: have any fancy edits. I won't even, I'll take out
[22:55] Speaker 3: all the color correcting. So if you just want to
[22:57] Speaker 3: put this on in the background and have footage of
[23:00] Speaker 3: Dan and I sitting in a car driving for 20 minutes,
[23:03] Speaker 3: it'll be yours for premium people only.
[23:05] Speaker 2: Okay.
[23:06] Speaker 3: So look forward later this week.
[23:08] Speaker 5: Oh, you're giving him raw? You're giving him the raw,
[23:11] Speaker 5: non-color graded? Wow.
[23:15] Speaker 2: They could color it however they want. Exactly. Exactly.
[23:17] Speaker 3: ODB was always my favorite member of the Wu-Tang Clan because, oh, baby,
[23:22] Speaker 3: I like raw.
[23:24] Speaker 1: It's the only song that'll play over everything in this video.
[23:26] Speaker 2: Actually, it's premium. We could do it. Yeah.
[23:29] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[23:29] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[23:30] Speaker 1: I forgot until I watched it how excited I was
[23:32] Speaker 1: to watch that car try to pull into the Sonic drive-in. Oh,
[23:35] Speaker 1: that was fun.
[23:37] Speaker 2: So dramatic. This is going to be fun. Hang on.
[23:40] Speaker 3: Oh, also, I've got a couple of DMs since we've
[23:44] Speaker 3: gone to New Mexico and some comments on the subreddit
[23:49] Speaker 3: and on the video. Shouts out to y'all if y'all
[23:51] Speaker 3: saw us or found out where we were and kind
[23:54] Speaker 3: of kept it quiet. Uh, cause Dan, someone, someone saw
[23:57] Speaker 3: your time during, uh, the, the race that you ran.
[24:01] Speaker 3: Cause we signed you up for one last minute. It
[24:03] Speaker 3: was like, Oh my God, is this Daniel Reichert is Dan. Um,
[24:07] Speaker 3: and he was very impressed with your time.
[24:09] Speaker 1: I'm glad that I got second place, even though I
[24:11] Speaker 1: missed the starting gun because I had to go take
[24:13] Speaker 1: an emergency shit.
[24:15] Speaker 2: And that was documented in the video.
[24:19] Speaker 1: So people could see that. But I literally was at
[24:22] Speaker 1: the starting line waiting for the pistol. And because this
[24:25] Speaker 1: was a sprung on me and I didn't have my
[24:26] Speaker 1: usual planning for a run, I did just have Buffalo
[24:29] Speaker 1: wings and beer the night before.
[24:30] Speaker 3: And, uh, yeah, to be fair, I told you before that,
[24:33] Speaker 3: but we still went, that was the only place open, right?
[24:36] Speaker 2: That was, yeah. Buffalo wild wings.
[24:37] Speaker 1: Like the only place open in Roswell past like 9
[24:39] Speaker 1: PM basically.
[24:40] Speaker 2: Um, yeah, yeah.
[24:42] Speaker 1: So if, if I didn't have to take that shit,
[24:43] Speaker 1: I might've gotten first place, but yeah. That was back
[24:45] Speaker 1: before my body exploded. Now I don't run anymore, but Hey,
[24:47] Speaker 1: back then I did great.
[24:49] Speaker 3: Well, you'll did it. You'll always have that metal.
[24:52] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[24:52] Speaker 1: I do have the alien chase metal.
[24:53] Speaker 2: I like that. It looks good. Yeah.
[24:56] Speaker 1: Um, can I tell a travel story involving will?
[24:58] Speaker 2: Yes, please.
[25:00] Speaker 1: Okay.
[25:00] Speaker 2: Is this the embargo travel story?
[25:03] Speaker 1: Just because the game we saw was embargoed. So I
[25:05] Speaker 1: wasn't even able to talk about us seeing a demo.
[25:07] Speaker 1: But this is one of the more memorable, uh, appointments
[25:10] Speaker 1: I've had at a show. So basically me and will,
[25:13] Speaker 1: we're going to gamescom and, you know, you get like
[25:15] Speaker 1: a ton of different emails and stuff for like parties
[25:17] Speaker 1: and different events and dinners and stuff like that. And
[25:19] Speaker 1: you pick and choose.
[25:19] Speaker 2: Okay.
[25:20] Speaker 1: Thursday, we'll do this.
[25:20] Speaker 2: Friday, we'll do this.
[25:22] Speaker 1: We got an email about like, do you want to
[25:23] Speaker 1: come to the monster hunter adventurers feast? And I was like, oh,
[25:26] Speaker 1: that sounds fun. I looked and they had this big
[25:28] Speaker 1: menu with like giant, like meat on bones and stuff.
[25:30] Speaker 1: It's like monster hunter meals and stuff. And that sounds fun.
[25:32] Speaker 1: Let's sign up for it. And then, uh, so we
[25:34] Speaker 1: sign up to go to this dinner on like Thursday
[25:36] Speaker 1: night or whatever. And then they said, great, we got
[25:38] Speaker 1: you RSVP'd. Hey, do you want to come check out
[25:40] Speaker 1: the game?
[25:40] Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, sure. Okay.
[25:42] Speaker 1: I'm thinking there must be like a new Monster Hunter
[25:44] Speaker 1: game or like DLC for whatever that last one was.
[25:47] Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, sure. Yeah, we'll come check
[25:48] Speaker 1: out the game. So we made an appointment.
[25:49] Speaker 2: Sure.
[25:50] Speaker 3: Great.
[25:50] Speaker 1: We'll do that before the dinner. So it says that
[25:53] Speaker 1: it's in Hall 4 at Gamescom. And there's like 11
[25:56] Speaker 1: halls there. So we go to Hall 4 in Capcom booth,
[25:59] Speaker 1: you know, Monster Hunter. I've played a couple, you know,
[26:01] Speaker 1: Monster Hunter games before.
[26:02] Speaker 2: Go to Capcom.
[26:03] Speaker 1: Say our names like, hey, Dan, Will, Giant Bomb, we're
[26:06] Speaker 1: here to see Monster Hunter. And they're kind of looking
[26:08] Speaker 1: at each other like, Monster Hunter?
[26:10] Speaker 2: What the hell? And yeah, Monster Hunter, you know, 5 p.m. appointment.
[26:13] Speaker 1: And they're like, yeah, we don't have it. And then
[26:16] Speaker 1: we look at the email and it says Hall 4,
[26:18] Speaker 1: but it's a different booth. Like, so we're like walking.
[26:22] Speaker 2: What the fuck?
[26:22] Speaker 1: This guy comes up and he's like, hey, big giant
[26:24] Speaker 1: bomb fan. And we're like, oh, hey, cool. And very
[26:26] Speaker 1: nice to meet you. But we're already like late for
[26:28] Speaker 1: our appointment. So I'm like having to do the nice like, hey, sorry. Like,
[26:31] Speaker 1: we should stay and chat for a little bit, but we.
[26:32] Speaker 2: Got to run.
[26:32] Speaker 1: We went to the wrong booth for the appointment. So
[26:35] Speaker 1: we walk away and we're like, man, is there another
[26:37] Speaker 1: Capcom booth? He comes back and he's like, I work
[26:39] Speaker 1: at Capcom. And we're like, wait, what the hell? And
[26:43] Speaker 1: he looks at our email and he's like, okay, wait,
[26:45] Speaker 1: that booth would be down there. And we're like, what
[26:48] Speaker 1: the fuck? So we walked down there. It's a Tencent booth.
[26:51] Speaker 1: So it is Monster Hunter Outlanders, which is a mobile game.
[26:57] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[26:57] Speaker 1: So Will and I already don't really know Monster Hunter,
[27:00] Speaker 1: and we don't really play mobile games. So we're like, oh, great.
[27:03] Speaker 1: They bring us into a room. It is a big table.
[27:06] Speaker 1: There is four developers standing up and three PR people.
[27:09] Speaker 1: And we're the only media. And so... They're like, what
[27:14] Speaker 1: do you know about Monster Hunter? And we're like, I
[27:16] Speaker 1: played a little bit. What do you know about mobile games? Like,
[27:18] Speaker 1: I played threes a bit 15 years ago. What are
[27:22] Speaker 1: your favorite weapons and stuff? And me and Will just like, oh,
[27:25] Speaker 1: my God, this is an hour long appointment. And we
[27:27] Speaker 1: did not plan on all this at all. And so
[27:31] Speaker 1: they hand us phones and it's a full on third
[27:33] Speaker 1: person action game on a phone, which I've never played.
[27:36] Speaker 1: So like fake analog stick and all this stuff. And
[27:39] Speaker 1: they're like, okay, we're going to have you fight the
[27:40] Speaker 1: elder dragon. And we're like, okay, what's that? Oh, it's
[27:43] Speaker 1: the final boss of the game. It is a full on,
[27:47] Speaker 1: like we walk in, it's like, it says Q.
[27:48] Speaker 2: And a on the screen.
[27:49] Speaker 1: They're handing us phones, seven people that all work at
[27:52] Speaker 1: the company and just me and will, and we just
[27:55] Speaker 1: have to make it through this appointment. And everyone was
[27:58] Speaker 1: super duper nice and everything. But then I beat the,
[28:01] Speaker 1: the boss and everyone's like, I, they're all like applauding
[28:04] Speaker 1: and stuff. And they're like, you're seriously, this isn't a joke.
[28:06] Speaker 1: You were the first person today to do this. And
[28:08] Speaker 1: they're like, that's amazing.
[28:09] Speaker 2: That's amazing.
[28:10] Speaker 1: And then we all are looking over Will's shoulder as
[28:13] Speaker 1: he's on his phone.
[28:13] Speaker 2: Great. in that sort of circumstance for sure.
[28:16] Speaker 1: This man is just sweating dying repeatedly to this dragon
[28:19] Speaker 1: while we're all just kind of like laughing.
[28:21] Speaker 3: At him oh man oh.
[28:27] Speaker 2: Poor will wow yeah we thought it was.
[28:31] Speaker 1: Going to be this giant demo the capcom booth and
[28:33] Speaker 1: everything playing this with a bunch of other media like
[28:34] Speaker 1: at a kiosk or whatever yeah it's very just like
[28:37] Speaker 1: interrogation room with me and will and like half the
[28:39] Speaker 1: team what like was there a feast.
[28:42] Speaker 2: Yeah, we went later. So that was great.
[28:43] Speaker 1: That was awesome. Everyone at the demo and everything was
[28:46] Speaker 1: super nice. And so we go there and we're like, oh, hey, yeah,
[28:49] Speaker 1: we all know each other now and had a great
[28:50] Speaker 1: dinner together and everything. But yeah, so that was our
[28:53] Speaker 1: Monster Hunter Outlander. So we're big Monster Hunter and mobile.
[28:56] Speaker 2: Yeah, that's funny. He should have been. Well, are you crying?
[29:01] Speaker 2: I'm serious. The moment we walked in. Yeah. Yeah. I
[29:07] Speaker 2: don't like those hour long appointments. Like even if it's
[29:09] Speaker 2: a game I love, like we're just like, yeah, all
[29:11] Speaker 2: the pressures, like they're going, we're going to watch you
[29:13] Speaker 2: play the game. That stuff actually is like, I'm good.
[29:16] Speaker 2: I'm cool. So for something I'm not into that had
[29:18] Speaker 2: to be a bit hellish.
[29:19] Speaker 1: And also just picture the moment where you walk in
[29:21] Speaker 1: and you think it's like, all right, we're just going
[29:22] Speaker 1: to sit here.
[29:23] Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't know it was a mobile game.
[29:24] Speaker 1: But then it is literally just you at a giant
[29:26] Speaker 1: like conference room table with all these people.
[29:28] Speaker 2: And like they're just all.
[29:29] Speaker 1: Looking directly at you, asking you questions about mobile games
[29:32] Speaker 1: and Monster Hunter.
[29:32] Speaker 2: It's like, oh my God. Okay. Incredible.
[29:35] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[29:36] Speaker 2: So I did great.
[29:37] Speaker 1: I was the first person to beat the Elder Dragon
[29:38] Speaker 1: and Will never did.
[29:39] Speaker 3: So. The more that I learn about Will, I'll go
[29:43] Speaker 3: back with some of these stories and think like, oh, wow,
[29:45] Speaker 3: he was sweating.
[29:47] Speaker 2: He was not feeling good during this. Uh-huh. Oh, poor guy. Well,
[29:52] Speaker 2: don't worry, Will.
[29:54] Speaker 3: Now, we all know the story of this.
[29:58] Speaker 2: Jesus Christ.
[30:01] Speaker 3: Well, Dan, you played a video game, so let's talk
[30:04] Speaker 3: about video games.
[30:11] Speaker 2: I want to talk about Epcot. No one asked.
[30:14] Speaker 3: Well, we know we.
[30:15] Speaker 1: Already did a bunch of Disney on the side.
[30:17] Speaker 2: Well, I mean, there's lots. I get it.
[30:18] Speaker 4: Everybody else talked about their weekend.
[30:20] Speaker 2: We're not going to ask Mike about it. No, let's
[30:23] Speaker 2: talk about video games. I didn't talk about my weekend.
[30:27] Speaker 2: I went to Chicago. Yeah. What the hell? I can
[30:29] Speaker 2: talk about my cabinet again. It was a really interesting story.
[30:32] Speaker 4: I met the Margaritaville University people and became friends with them.
[30:37] Speaker 2: But who cares? Don't worry about it. Wait, that's interesting.
[30:40] Speaker 2: It's weird. Thank you, Bacalar. Did you say Margaritaville University people? Yeah,
[30:45] Speaker 2: and if you have any questions about that, I'm not
[30:47] Speaker 2: answering them at this time.
[30:49] Speaker 5: What does that mean? I mean, look, I get it.
[30:52] Speaker 5: When you go to Epcot, all the times you go...
[30:55] Speaker 5: Something different must happen.
[30:57] Speaker 2: Yes, that's right. And this is what happened.
[31:00] Speaker 4: We were in line for beer and there's four women
[31:03] Speaker 4: in front of us all wearing Mickey ears with Margaritaville
[31:05] Speaker 4: stickers on them. So I inquired about that.
[31:08] Speaker 2: I learned all about the college program for Margaritaville. You
[31:11] Speaker 2: want to save it for Dump Truck, bud? Yeah, there
[31:15] Speaker 2: you go. That's a good idea.
[31:16] Speaker 4: Maybe they'll follow me back on my socials by then.
[31:22] Speaker 3: I don't know, Mike, do you want me to talk
[31:23] Speaker 3: about how I've collected another old man that gives me
[31:26] Speaker 3: shreds of wisdom?
[31:26] Speaker 2: Jan, for the love of God, this opening has been
[31:28] Speaker 2: so long. Can we get to the games already? I
[31:30] Speaker 2: went to Galloping Ghost. Galloping Ghost was awesome. Who cares? Yeah,
[31:33] Speaker 2: I played that.
[31:34] Speaker 1: You played that Armadillo game, or did you just get
[31:35] Speaker 1: a picture and send it to me? I got a
[31:37] Speaker 1: picture and sent you the Armadillo game. Yeah, we did
[31:39] Speaker 1: play the Castlevania Whip light gun game.
[31:41] Speaker 2: Oh, that's so weird. Yes, I played that there as well.
[31:44] Speaker 1: It's not great.
[31:46] Speaker 2: It's insane, though. Not super good.
[31:47] Speaker 1: I played Primal Rage 2. That was interesting. That's so
[31:51] Speaker 1: weird that's there. I love that it's free play. I
[31:54] Speaker 1: love that it's free play and you can just, uh,
[31:56] Speaker 1: walk like one, like what, $ 20 or something. You can
[31:58] Speaker 1: play whatever.
[31:58] Speaker 2: It's great.
[31:59] Speaker 1: Um, It's funny, I went out with Evil Uno and
[32:02] Speaker 1: Excalibur and a bunch of other AEW guys to the
[32:04] Speaker 1: bar beforehand. And Excalibur and Uno are masked wrestlers and
[32:08] Speaker 1: Excalibur is the announcer. And it's so funny because a
[32:11] Speaker 1: lot of them have AEW hoodies and stuff on. And
[32:13] Speaker 1: so we're ordering beers at the bar and the bartender
[32:15] Speaker 1: lady's like, you guys going to the show tomorrow? And
[32:17] Speaker 1: we're like, yep. And she doesn't know she's talking to Excalibur.
[32:21] Speaker 1: And she's like, oh, what matches are you looking forward to?
[32:23] Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh man, this is like the most
[32:26] Speaker 1: encyclopedic voice of AEW.
[32:27] Speaker 2: Like, I love that.
[32:29] Speaker 1: But yeah, Galloping Ghost is fucking great. Played Mortal Kombat.
[32:33] Speaker 1: Like the gimmick ones that were like, I feel like
[32:35] Speaker 1: Primal Rage, the Castlevania one. I wanted to play the grid.
[32:38] Speaker 1: We didn't get around to the grid. Lucky and Wild,
[32:42] Speaker 1: the one where it's like one person's a driver and
[32:44] Speaker 1: one person's the shooter.
[32:45] Speaker 2: That was fun. Those are always very fun. Typing the
[32:47] Speaker 2: dead cabinet. That was cool. Ooh, cabinet. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[32:50] Speaker 2: It was awesome.
[32:52] Speaker 1: Yeah, so I loved it. Chicago's a great city.
[32:54] Speaker 2: I like to play Lucky and Wild. That's what it's called, right?
[32:56] Speaker 2: Lucky and Wild. One player with like where I'm shooting
[32:59] Speaker 2: and driving. That's a good time. Multitasker.
[33:01] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[33:02] Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah.
[33:02] Speaker 3: Hell yeah. All right, boys. Well, Dan, you've been playing
[33:07] Speaker 3: a new video game that I'd really like to hear about.
[33:10] Speaker 3: You've been playing Ace Combat 8.
[33:11] Speaker 1: Yeah, I just started it last night. So I've only
[33:15] Speaker 1: done two missions and I have made the decision to
[33:18] Speaker 1: I always do expert controls because like I that's I
[33:21] Speaker 1: had Ace Combat 2 and played the shit out of
[33:22] Speaker 1: it on PlayStation 1. And I just got really used
[33:25] Speaker 1: to doing like not just yaw, you know, like you
[33:27] Speaker 1: do the full like turn. And so for the first time,
[33:30] Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm doing this full on flight stick style.
[33:32] Speaker 1: So I did expert controls. I have a, so I
[33:35] Speaker 1: got the thrust master. They have the HOTAS. It's the,
[33:38] Speaker 1: it's the eights combat eight edition one. So it's full
[33:41] Speaker 1: on like throttle and stick and everything. And it really
[33:45] Speaker 1: changes the experience of playing a game like this. When
[33:47] Speaker 1: you're trying to like pull up from like crashing or
[33:50] Speaker 1: you're trying to like kind of whip around and get
[33:51] Speaker 1: them to get a missile off or whatever. There is
[33:53] Speaker 1: something like I like a steering wheel for ports and
[33:55] Speaker 1: stuff like that. Like, I do think that adds to
[33:56] Speaker 1: the experience. But there is something about the flight stick
[33:59] Speaker 1: that I am really like. I set it up on
[34:01] Speaker 1: this little thing right in front of this big screen.
[34:03] Speaker 1: So I put my face two feet from the screen,
[34:06] Speaker 1: basically playing on this flight stick. And it is like
[34:08] Speaker 1: super intense and fun. The thing I don't love is
[34:13] Speaker 1: just like I don't need all this story. Uh, it
[34:17] Speaker 1: is very like, it was over 30 minutes of like,
[34:20] Speaker 1: I just want to fly the cool airplane. I want
[34:22] Speaker 1: to shoot the missiles. I like, I too is the
[34:25] Speaker 1: one that I played the most of. And I just
[34:26] Speaker 1: don't remember a bunch of story in that. Uh, and
[34:29] Speaker 1: people have tried to sell me on the ace combat
[34:30] Speaker 1: story before. Like, Oh, it's like metal gear. It's like
[34:31] Speaker 1: weird anime metal gear. And it's like, I just don't
[34:33] Speaker 1: know what it is that like, I think it's cause it's,
[34:35] Speaker 1: it's set in like a fake world. It's not real earth.
[34:37] Speaker 1: Whereas like metal gear is real earth. And so I
[34:38] Speaker 1: can like associate it with like, Oh, this is like
[34:40] Speaker 1: real stuff. It's weird that ace combat is like, these
[34:42] Speaker 1: look like real planes, but it's like a fake place.
[34:44] Speaker 1: So like, I just can't get into it.
[34:46] Speaker 2: And like, what no no distinction without a difference is
[34:49] Speaker 2: what we're all shaking our heads at but it's just
[34:51] Speaker 2: no no it's perfect.
[34:52] Speaker 1: Reasoning i mean well no but like in snake eater
[34:55] Speaker 1: it's like okay it's like okay that's lyndon b johnson
[34:58] Speaker 1: and russia and like these are real things so it
[35:00] Speaker 1: feels like it's like oh this could like really kind
[35:03] Speaker 1: of happen you know uh they're at least trying to
[35:05] Speaker 1: make it okay it's closer to happening than like a
[35:09] Speaker 1: fake world with our airplanes you know well i just
[35:12] Speaker 1: struggle to like connect with the story if it's all
[35:15] Speaker 1: just like a.
[35:15] Speaker 3: Fake what about gears though like in general i don't
[35:19] Speaker 3: care about the story at all i just think it's
[35:21] Speaker 3: fun to play like that's the thing it's like gears
[35:23] Speaker 3: halo like i've never cared about the story of these
[35:24] Speaker 3: but like and there's just a lot here there's a
[35:27] Speaker 3: lot of.
[35:28] Speaker 1: Story in this game and that's a tough thing with
[35:30] Speaker 1: a flight stick too is because like the prompts don't
[35:32] Speaker 1: like so it'll be like a guy will reach out
[35:33] Speaker 1: his hand it'll be like press a to to shake
[35:36] Speaker 1: his hand and like a is mapped differently on the
[35:38] Speaker 1: stick or whatever so I just, I kind of am
[35:40] Speaker 1: on the fence about skipping all the cut scenes going forward. But, like,
[35:43] Speaker 1: the actual flying around, the two missions I've done, it
[35:46] Speaker 1: looks incredible, plays incredible. Like, I'm really, really loving it. But, yeah,
[35:49] Speaker 1: I just don't, I can't get into the story stuff.
[35:52] Speaker 2: To be in your defense about the story, the chances,
[35:55] Speaker 2: I think maybe it's, you know, it's not a real
[35:57] Speaker 2: world thing. Also, I've heard from people that, like, really
[36:00] Speaker 2: tried and have none of those issues that the story's
[36:03] Speaker 2: a little bit lackluster this time. Oh, okay. And some
[36:05] Speaker 2: people are having a difficult time getting into it. I was...
[36:07] Speaker 2: I watched the skill ups review. I've read a bunch
[36:09] Speaker 2: of other reviews and not everyone feels that way, but
[36:11] Speaker 2: I've seen enough people be like, ah, I couldn't get
[36:13] Speaker 2: into the story, but there is a lot of it
[36:15] Speaker 2: and it's got vibes. Uh, and that's, that's the positive
[36:18] Speaker 2: stuff I was hearing from people who have a similar
[36:20] Speaker 2: feeling to you. And I expect I'm going to be
[36:23] Speaker 2: the same way where I just want to go on
[36:24] Speaker 2: these sorties and, and forget about the story.
[36:26] Speaker 1: Definitely during the stories. It's like, I am fully all
[36:29] Speaker 1: in on it. Like it's super intense and fun. And
[36:31] Speaker 1: then it's like every time I sit back in my
[36:33] Speaker 1: chair and I'm like, all right, this can be another
[36:34] Speaker 1: 20 minutes, 30 minutes, and then I can have fun again.
[36:37] Speaker 1: So I might start skipping. But very, very good game
[36:40] Speaker 1: so far.
[36:41] Speaker 2: Lovely. Lovely.
[36:42] Speaker 3: You know what is a good game? And it's not
[36:43] Speaker 3: necessarily a new game, but it is a new feature
[36:46] Speaker 3: on the website. Yesterday, Mike Minotti and Turbo Sean Sean
[36:50] Speaker 3: McDowell joined me in playing Final Fantasy 14 for Final Fantasy. Folks,
[36:56] Speaker 3: we lightly touched on it, but this is possible. And
[36:59] Speaker 3: catch me if you didn't, too. is possible because of
[37:02] Speaker 3: everyone's support last year during the Giant Bombathon.
[37:04] Speaker 2: That's right.
[37:06] Speaker 3: Thank you. Folks, take your days off now because the
[37:10] Speaker 3: Giant Bombathon is happening again, 2026, October 15th and October 16th.
[37:15] Speaker 3: October 16th, a dear friend, Mary Kish, will be joining us.
[37:19] Speaker 3: Two 12-hour days of streaming, but I played Final Fantasy
[37:23] Speaker 3: XIV yesterday. Last time I played it was maybe years ago,
[37:27] Speaker 3: but I think it was one of those dealios where
[37:28] Speaker 3: I continued to pay for my subscription. even though my
[37:32] Speaker 3: character was just sitting there in the wings. But let
[37:34] Speaker 3: me tell y'all, I had a fantastic time, a little
[37:37] Speaker 3: bit overstimulated in the middle and at the end there,
[37:40] Speaker 3: once I could see all the other characters and players,
[37:44] Speaker 3: because we just had a whole posse following me punch
[37:48] Speaker 3: a bunch of rats and cast spells at ladybugs. But
[37:53] Speaker 3: I'm very excited to continue playing FFXIV, and just want
[37:57] Speaker 3: to give people a heads up.
[37:58] Speaker 2: If you tuned into that. It's going to be a
[38:01] Speaker 2: check-in stream.
[38:03] Speaker 3: Uh, that's not the only time I'm going to be
[38:05] Speaker 3: playing because that would be absolutely insane to only play
[38:08] Speaker 3: an MMO in two hour increments every week.
[38:11] Speaker 2: Yeah. You'll be playing it for the next 20 years. Yes, yes, yes.
[38:15] Speaker 3: Uh, but we're gonna, well, you know, we'll, we'll try
[38:17] Speaker 3: and save any major big story stuff for, uh, like
[38:22] Speaker 3: those Monday streams. And occasionally I will just do a
[38:25] Speaker 3: one-off solo dolo stream, just doing maintenance in the game, uh,
[38:29] Speaker 3: But let me tell y'all, very, very fun. And Mike,
[38:34] Speaker 3: I could tell why folks kind of just, this is
[38:37] Speaker 3: their whole life sometimes. It's that constant drip feed of
[38:41] Speaker 3: dopamine of like, oh, I just did this task. Oh,
[38:43] Speaker 3: I could do these tasks.
[38:47] Speaker 2: You were going to say? I'm sorry. I thought you
[38:49] Speaker 2: were still going to say. Yeah, no, exactly. That's right.
[38:52] Speaker 4: It is just kind of one thing to another. There's
[38:54] Speaker 4: always a carrot on that stick. And right now for you,
[38:57] Speaker 4: it's like, well, I just got my class i'm gonna
[38:59] Speaker 4: unlock new abilities and i'm seeing more of this world
[39:02] Speaker 4: and with this level i get my chocobo at this
[39:04] Speaker 4: level my class becomes a job and then i get
[39:06] Speaker 4: this and then then you start getting invested in the
[39:09] Speaker 4: story and um it gets pretty wild from there it's
[39:13] Speaker 4: been fun watching the beginning of it uh through your
[39:15] Speaker 4: eyes again especially because you're starting in a different city
[39:18] Speaker 4: state for me there's three different city states you can
[39:20] Speaker 4: start in so you're like kind of first 15 level
[39:23] Speaker 4: experience is going to be pretty different from mine you're
[39:25] Speaker 4: in uh you're in this very piratey themed area uh
[39:29] Speaker 4: that is a lot of fun uh very pretty music
[39:32] Speaker 4: and it was fun to see so many of the
[39:33] Speaker 4: people in the uh giant bomb free company vinco just
[39:36] Speaker 4: kind of show up it's funny because like you were
[39:38] Speaker 4: doing a quest and i was trying to go where
[39:40] Speaker 4: you are i'm like man there's all these people here
[39:42] Speaker 4: doing emotes for some reason then i realized oh they're
[39:44] Speaker 4: here for jan that's awesome.
[39:47] Speaker 2: A welcoming committee, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
[39:49] Speaker 3: I feel very welcome. Shouts out to the giant bond-free company, Vinco.
[39:54] Speaker 3: On the Ultros server, I think I saw some inquiries
[39:58] Speaker 3: of how to get into that, and I think just
[40:00] Speaker 3: pop onto the Discord. There's lots of people in lots
[40:03] Speaker 3: of places, so I think you will get your answers
[40:05] Speaker 3: if you want to join the free company. But yeah,
[40:09] Speaker 3: very overstimulating, because for years now, Michael Haim has told me,
[40:13] Speaker 3: that this is one of the best or some of
[40:15] Speaker 3: the best stories in Final Fantasy, specifically in XIV. And
[40:19] Speaker 3: Sean echoed that. You echoed that yesterday. And it's funny
[40:22] Speaker 3: to hear all that and understand that. And then as
[40:25] Speaker 3: I am punching a ladybug for someone to summon the
[40:29] Speaker 3: car from Final Fantasy XV, and then something that looks
[40:32] Speaker 3: like a giant Gundam, and then just all these miscellaneous
[40:36] Speaker 3: pets around, it's great. I think we're all going to
[40:37] Speaker 3: have a fantastic time. That is Final Fantasy XIV.
[40:41] Speaker 2: I couldn't watch because I was busy doing something. on
[40:47] Speaker 2: friday on friday yeah oh my.
[40:50] Speaker 3: God it wasn't friday.
[40:51] Speaker 5: It wasn't mike and i feel like you're lying to
[40:54] Speaker 5: yourself okay it wasn't even an epcot Dude, you just
[40:58] Speaker 5: gotta be okay with it That they did it when
[41:01] Speaker 5: you were available Okay The further you come to terms
[41:06] Speaker 5: with that You're gonna be able to move on.
[41:07] Speaker 2: Are my friends psychopaths? The quicker It was Grubb's idea Wow.
[41:18] Speaker 2: You just gotta deal with it, man.
[41:20] Speaker 1: We were just in a Jason Discord channel.
[41:25] Speaker 2: We should have driven to his house and just did
[41:27] Speaker 2: it while he was filming. Yeah. Wait, where did you do?
[41:32] Speaker 5: Because I feel like there was a second where like
[41:36] Speaker 5: I was looking for someone and it said you were
[41:39] Speaker 5: in a thing.
[41:39] Speaker 2: They're in a call together. Yeah. And I was like,
[41:43] Speaker 2: what's that?
[41:43] Speaker 1: We were talking business stuff.
[41:46] Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. Mike.
[41:50] Speaker 5: I'm sorry, pal.
[41:51] Speaker 2: I mean, it's a really funny prank. I remember my
[41:56] Speaker 2: first time. Right. First time my friends lied to me.
[42:02] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[42:03] Speaker 2: I made it a bit for the Internet.
[42:04] Speaker 1: We didn't lie to him. We just didn't tell him.
[42:07] Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. You know, like, yeah. Yeah.
[42:10] Speaker 3: Okay.
[42:10] Speaker 2: Sure. That'll hold up in court.
[42:13] Speaker 3: But I have it on the run down here.
[42:16] Speaker 2: Goof Troop.
[42:17] Speaker 3: Boys, you talked about it lightly.
[42:19] Speaker 2: How was it?
[42:20] Speaker 3: Yeah, for the Super Nintendo.
[42:22] Speaker 2: We really just can't let this wound heal for even
[42:25] Speaker 2: a minute. It's worth talking about. It's a good game.
[42:29] Speaker 2: It was a lot of fun, yeah. If you watch
[42:31] Speaker 2: the video when the credits do come up and it
[42:33] Speaker 2: said Shinji Mikami, I can't help but laugh because I'm like,
[42:37] Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Mike told me that. Yeah, where did you
[42:40] Speaker 2: get this interesting info? Yeah, I was trying to keep
[42:44] Speaker 2: a straight face. It was, yeah, but it's a co-op
[42:47] Speaker 2: game and yeah, you play as Goofy and as Dan said,
[42:50] Speaker 2: Diddy Goof. Diddy Goof? Yeah, like Diddy Kong. Oh, okay. Yeah.
[42:57] Speaker 2: And and there's just a lot of like puzzles and
[43:00] Speaker 2: rooms where you are. You do need to work together
[43:02] Speaker 2: and you have a couple of mechanics. Like if they
[43:05] Speaker 2: throw a barrel at you, you can put your arms
[43:06] Speaker 2: over your head and you can catch it. They shoot
[43:08] Speaker 2: a cannon at a cannonball at you. You can put
[43:09] Speaker 2: your arms over your head and catch the cannonball. Then
[43:12] Speaker 2: you can use that to like throw the stuff at
[43:14] Speaker 2: buttons or at enemies or back at the cannon to
[43:16] Speaker 2: break it up or whatever. And then there's a handful
[43:18] Speaker 2: of these sliding block puzzles and it goes by in
[43:21] Speaker 2: a flash, but it like didn't overstay its welcome. But
[43:24] Speaker 2: there were a lot of like really high moments. So
[43:25] Speaker 2: you do feel like you get this complete experience. I
[43:28] Speaker 2: had a really good time.
[43:29] Speaker 1: Really clever boss fights. Also, I realized at some point,
[43:32] Speaker 1: this is just the upcoming Jonathan Blow game, but co-op.
[43:35] Speaker 1: Individual screens of these puzzles where you're pushing stuff around
[43:39] Speaker 1: and everything.
[43:40] Speaker 2: It's totally that. You're not wrong. He's already dead.
[43:43] Speaker 1: There were several times where I was like, how the
[43:47] Speaker 1: fuck are you supposed to play this solo? It's a
[43:49] Speaker 1: game that you really just got to get a close
[43:50] Speaker 1: friend and play co-op with and just have a great
[43:53] Speaker 1: time with a friend.
[43:53] Speaker 2: Uh-huh. I don't have any friends anymore. Hey, Mike, I'm here.
[43:59] Speaker 2: They've all betrayed me. You're my friend, Jen.
[44:01] Speaker 4: Jen, what if we just, what if me and Jen
[44:03] Speaker 4: or me and Backward just also play through Goof Troop?
[44:07] Speaker 2: Every permutation of two people. It's got my highest recommendation.
[44:12] Speaker 3: You know, there's eight of us in total. That's a
[44:15] Speaker 3: lot of different permutations.
[44:16] Speaker 2: It's a lot of Goof Troops.
[44:18] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[44:18] Speaker 2: Yeah. And then they vote on the best Goof Troop.
[44:20] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[44:20] Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Also, the text of the game bleeds together
[44:25] Speaker 2: in a way so that Goofy always looks like it
[44:27] Speaker 2: says Goopy. Yeah. And that's why we're the Goop troop.
[44:31] Speaker 1: All the Fs look like Bs, yeah.
[44:32] Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay.
[44:34] Speaker 3: I thought that's just like you guys were just covered
[44:36] Speaker 3: in Goop because of the slime of betrayal.
[44:39] Speaker 2: Sure, maybe that too. Slimy maneuvering, yeah.
[44:44] Speaker 3: Mike, I'm sorry for things you have no control over,
[44:46] Speaker 3: but you do have... Control overplaying. Control, Resonant.
[44:50] Speaker 2: Man, that was a good one, Jan. Well done. Thank you,
[44:53] Speaker 2: thank you.
[44:54] Speaker 4: Just played through the first few hours of this one.
[44:58] Speaker 4: Last night was definitely having a good time. Really good-looking
[45:01] Speaker 4: game on.
[45:02] Speaker 2: My computer anyway. Gorgeous. Looks really smooth.
[45:05] Speaker 4: All the fun details are showing up nicely. And, you know,
[45:08] Speaker 4: something about that Control on Wake Universe, it is all
[45:11] Speaker 4: just weird and fun. Yeah. And just, like, the way
[45:15] Speaker 4: that the weird alien extra-dimensional god thing talks to you
[45:20] Speaker 4: and that super just, like, bass sound. Every time I
[45:23] Speaker 4: hear them, I'm like, yeah, give me more of that shit.
[45:25] Speaker 2: I love that.
[45:27] Speaker 3: I specifically love when... God, what is he called? It's
[45:31] Speaker 3: not the operator.
[45:31] Speaker 2: The big, like... The board? The board, yeah. That when they.
[45:36] Speaker 3: they will occasionally split up a noun by like with
[45:39] Speaker 3: the slashes and be like, this.
[45:41] Speaker 2: Is what I like.
[45:42] Speaker 3: I'm talking about with this, like the good talking about
[45:44] Speaker 3: Jesse slash the operator slash blah, blah, blah.
[45:47] Speaker 2: Right. Absolutely. Dig that. I just want to talk like
[45:50] Speaker 2: that in real life now. Yeah.
[45:51] Speaker 4: I love like the kind of the slashes. Like there's
[45:53] Speaker 4: like three names for each thing at one point, like
[45:55] Speaker 4: when the names they give for, for, uh, day one
[45:58] Speaker 4: which is the name of the uh main character in
[46:00] Speaker 4: this game actually nobody can know that it's gotta look
[46:03] Speaker 4: that up hang on yeah but they're like like they
[46:06] Speaker 4: call them just like play your character at one point
[46:08] Speaker 4: i'm like oh that's slightly meta that's kind of fun
[46:10] Speaker 4: yeah yeah that's cute yeah yeah but i love like
[46:13] Speaker 4: the melee combat stuff where like you've picked different forms
[46:15] Speaker 4: of the weapons like my light attacks basically are like
[46:19] Speaker 4: this size so i have like decent kind of uh
[46:22] Speaker 4: sweeping with this, I can hit multiple enemies. Then my
[46:24] Speaker 4: heavy attack is like this drill that's pretty good, just
[46:27] Speaker 4: like drilling into them, right?
[46:28] Speaker 2: Ooh, you went drill.
[46:29] Speaker 4: Yeah, I went drill. I like that drill quite a lot.
[46:32] Speaker 4: You've kind of picked the combo ender. So that, like
[46:35] Speaker 4: the combat both feels satisfying. I also hear what some
[46:37] Speaker 4: people are saying where it's a bit simple, right? Like
[46:39] Speaker 4: it's not like some big, like, you know, here are
[46:41] Speaker 4: the big combos you're doing with your aerial juggles and then, right, right?
[46:45] Speaker 4: It is kind of mostly just attack people and dodge
[46:48] Speaker 4: when they're about to do their attack. And I know
[46:52] Speaker 4: they even kind of patched it before it came out
[46:53] Speaker 4: because there was a bit of a problem with the
[46:55] Speaker 4: enemies being a bit tanky, taking a lot of hits
[46:58] Speaker 4: to kill.
[46:59] Speaker 2: Even like now.
[46:59] Speaker 4: After that, I'm like, yeah, it does take kind of
[47:02] Speaker 4: the will on these guys for quite a.
[47:04] Speaker 2: While to take them down.
[47:06] Speaker 4: So it was always going to be a problem this
[47:09] Speaker 4: year with so many of these melee action games coming out,
[47:11] Speaker 4: especially this month where, you know, it's like part of
[47:14] Speaker 4: me is going to be like, it doesn't feel quite
[47:16] Speaker 4: as good as Onimusha. Which is very different, but it's
[47:19] Speaker 4: a game that has like five different parries and things
[47:22] Speaker 4: like that, right? This is largely, hey, spam square and
[47:26] Speaker 4: triangle and kill these guys.
[47:27] Speaker 2: But that's not like pushing you away at all, like
[47:30] Speaker 2: you're totally vibing with that?
[47:32] Speaker 4: Right, and I think part of the thing too is
[47:33] Speaker 4: I can already see, because there's an extensive skill tree
[47:36] Speaker 4: and things to unlock, and it's like, oh, I'm going
[47:38] Speaker 4: to definitely get way more tools and feel much more
[47:41] Speaker 4: powerful kind of as I get deeper into i think
[47:45] Speaker 4: it's a bit of one of those reverse difficulty curve
[47:47] Speaker 4: games where early on when you kind of just have
[47:49] Speaker 4: the basic tools you kind of struggle and then once
[47:52] Speaker 4: you you know you you get all that stuff and
[47:54] Speaker 4: you know it's a good reason to want to explore
[47:56] Speaker 4: the city which is fun because you will get those
[47:58] Speaker 4: upgrade materials and those levels ups and you will get
[48:01] Speaker 4: an actual like noticeable power boost when you are doing
[48:04] Speaker 4: those things.
[48:06] Speaker 1: I will say, if the combat stuff is pushing someone away,
[48:08] Speaker 1: if that is the main thing that's keeping you from
[48:09] Speaker 1: enjoying this, the assist mode in the options is really
[48:13] Speaker 1: extensive and cool.
[48:14] Speaker 2: Are these the difficulty sliders or the damage sliders that
[48:16] Speaker 2: we were talking about? Damage sliders.
[48:17] Speaker 1: You can just turn on invulnerability. You can turn up
[48:21] Speaker 1: outgoing damage, turn down incoming damage. You can change the
[48:25] Speaker 1: window for dodging and things like that. You can really
[48:29] Speaker 1: make it a smooth experience if you want to. I've
[48:31] Speaker 1: been going on default for all of the just general
[48:34] Speaker 1: running around and fighting stuff. But there are a couple
[48:36] Speaker 1: of those resonant boss fights where it's like, man, it
[48:38] Speaker 1: is like 15 minutes of wailing on this thing and
[48:40] Speaker 1: no checkpoints. And then you die. I will give myself
[48:43] Speaker 1: like three proper tries, you know, and then usually by
[48:47] Speaker 1: that point, I'm getting to the end of the fight
[48:48] Speaker 1: and then dying. And then I'll go in there and
[48:50] Speaker 1: I'll do a couple little changes, see if that fixes things.
[48:53] Speaker 1: And then once I go back to the open world,
[48:54] Speaker 1: I'll be like, OK, back to defaults. And like that's
[48:56] Speaker 1: I've been very happy with that.
[48:57] Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there are going to be people that
[48:59] Speaker 2: hear that and go like, oh, no, I want the
[49:01] Speaker 2: intended experience to be sort of like have its own
[49:04] Speaker 2: ups and downs and feel like the developer was really
[49:06] Speaker 2: being considerate. And it just sounds like maybe the game
[49:09] Speaker 2: doesn't quite reach that level of being able to justify
[49:11] Speaker 2: you ignoring that stuff. But if you are willing to
[49:13] Speaker 2: go in there and slide, move the sliders around, you
[49:16] Speaker 2: can tune it to your liking.
[49:17] Speaker 3: Yeah. It just depends.
[49:18] Speaker 1: Cause like people were saying the same thing about Mina,
[49:19] Speaker 1: the hollower. And like, I did find that fairly difficult,
[49:21] Speaker 1: but like, I never got to the point with Mina
[49:23] Speaker 1: where I was like, Oh, this is impacting my enjoyment.
[49:25] Speaker 1: So like I did kind of stay like, I'm not
[49:27] Speaker 1: touching anything. I think it's cool that all these modes
[49:30] Speaker 1: are here and all these options. Um, but yeah, it's
[49:32] Speaker 1: a game by game basis thing. And I did feel
[49:34] Speaker 1: like this one needed a little bit of that. but
[49:36] Speaker 1: I also heard they've already updated some of the balancing
[49:38] Speaker 1: and things like that and the skill tree, which were
[49:40] Speaker 1: two of my biggest complaints about the game so far.
[49:42] Speaker 1: So it sounds like they're very quickly moving on some
[49:44] Speaker 1: player complaints.
[49:44] Speaker 2: Right.
[49:45] Speaker 4: And like some of the stuff that like is just
[49:46] Speaker 4: good right away, the movement, very good. Good running around,
[49:50] Speaker 4: good running around and jumping. It just like very early on,
[49:53] Speaker 4: you get like a double jump and this kind of
[49:55] Speaker 4: airlift glide thing. And then you have two air dashes
[50:00] Speaker 4: right from the get-go there. So just kind of like
[50:02] Speaker 4: doing the rooftop running and, uh felt uh really good
[50:05] Speaker 4: there's even kind of this one like challenge thing i
[50:07] Speaker 4: got where it was just kind of running around the
[50:08] Speaker 4: rooftops i felt a little mirror's edge for a moment
[50:11] Speaker 4: even i'm like yeah yeah just uh just running around
[50:13] Speaker 4: here feels.
[50:14] Speaker 3: Fantastic yeah and then you you do unlock a couple
[50:16] Speaker 3: more mobility stuff as you progress through the game and
[50:19] Speaker 3: like even that is just like oh shit this sings
[50:23] Speaker 3: i know i've seen a lot of people complain about
[50:25] Speaker 3: the switch from being inside the fbc office to being
[50:28] Speaker 3: in an open world but i think like running around
[50:31] Speaker 3: the open world um does get better as you progress
[50:35] Speaker 3: through the story and everything yeah.
[50:37] Speaker 1: There are areas that have more of their own aesthetic
[50:39] Speaker 1: and everything i will say overall i think the oldest
[50:42] Speaker 1: house was a more compelling like place to set the
[50:44] Speaker 1: game but the running around is really good here so
[50:47] Speaker 1: i think the mobility is better in this one i
[50:49] Speaker 1: think the setting was better in the first one Yeah.
[50:51] Speaker 2: Yeah. I keep seeing clips of boss fights and the
[50:55] Speaker 2: game just has such a strong look. There's I mean,
[50:57] Speaker 2: of course, it's remedy, but the aesthetics are what are
[51:01] Speaker 2: attracting me to the game. And then hearing the running
[51:03] Speaker 2: around is like you guys are all approving of that.
[51:06] Speaker 2: I bet this game is worth me giving some time
[51:08] Speaker 2: to before the end of the year.
[51:10] Speaker 1: Mike, remind me, Mike, you said Mirror's Edge earlier, and
[51:13] Speaker 1: my instinct was to go, ah, Mirror's Edge. But then
[51:15] Speaker 1: didn't we do a stream, and then did I come
[51:17] Speaker 1: around on it? Yeah, you came around to it a bit.
[51:19] Speaker 1: You don't hate it anymore.
[51:20] Speaker 2: Okay, I don't hate Mirror's Edge anymore. Okay, I'll make
[51:22] Speaker 2: a note.
[51:22] Speaker 1: Thank you.
[51:22] Speaker 2: Good, gotcha. Mirror's Edge.
[51:25] Speaker 3: That's right. Specifically, I want to hear your opinion on this,
[51:29] Speaker 3: because our dear friend, and you reviewed the video game
[51:32] Speaker 3: for us, Jesse Vitale, put out a video saying that
[51:36] Speaker 3: Control Resonant It's basically a Kingdom Hearts game. And then
[51:42] Speaker 3: the more I thought about it, I was like, you know,
[51:45] Speaker 3: there are a lot of similarities in terms of like
[51:49] Speaker 3: some of the combat feeling a little floaty, some of
[51:52] Speaker 3: the running around being a little floaty. And I'm like,
[51:55] Speaker 3: parentheses positive floaty. Parentheses positive for you and me, for sure.
[52:00] Speaker 2: And then I'm like, okay, okay.
[52:02] Speaker 4: Boy, that's an interesting point of comparison, actually. There is
[52:07] Speaker 4: a whiff of Kingdom Hearts to all of this, actually.
[52:10] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[52:11] Speaker 3: You know, I could see Dylan putting on some mouse ears, right?
[52:15] Speaker 2: And look, I'm not all the way in. Maybe Donald
[52:17] Speaker 2: Duck shows up. Yeah. That's true. Maybe.
[52:20] Speaker 4: Goofy's too busy on that pirate island with his son.
[52:23] Speaker 4: I don't know about that adventure, but Donald's free.
[52:27] Speaker 2: Uh, fantastic. Fantastic. Yeah.
[52:30] Speaker 3: Um, I keep going back to control. Um, you know, had,
[52:34] Speaker 3: have a, we all have a bunch of stuff to
[52:36] Speaker 3: work on and like playing some other things, but like, God,
[52:39] Speaker 3: just the vibe.
[52:39] Speaker 2: Of the game. And like, great.
[52:41] Speaker 3: They, they handle like that needle drop of like, not
[52:44] Speaker 3: a licensed song or like a well-known licensed song, but like, uh,
[52:47] Speaker 3: dropping in a track that just takes over the ambient sound,
[52:52] Speaker 3: just playing really well. Like your handlers always saying, Hey,
[52:55] Speaker 3: I gave you a new song.
[52:56] Speaker 2: Here you go.
[52:57] Speaker 3: And it's like, OK, now I'm jamming around. I feel
[52:59] Speaker 3: good running around. It's good stuff.
[53:01] Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm glad that there are like dialogue options, because
[53:03] Speaker 4: a lot of the times it's like like Dylan. There's
[53:06] Speaker 4: an option for Dylan to apologize. And I'm always in the.
[53:09] Speaker 2: Back of my head.
[53:10] Speaker 4: Dylan, these people kidnapped you, imprisoned you and tortured you.
[53:15] Speaker 4: Don't apologize. Whenever there's like the apologize option, I'm like,
[53:19] Speaker 4: I'm not. No, I'm apologizing for nothing. Actually, these people
[53:23] Speaker 4: are psychopaths.
[53:24] Speaker 3: Yeah, I like how in one of those early ones,
[53:26] Speaker 3: Zoe just tells you to tell the guard to fuck off.
[53:30] Speaker 2: Yes. It's great. It's great.
[53:32] Speaker 1: I was like, this story is totally fine in my head, too, because, like,
[53:35] Speaker 1: New York.
[53:35] Speaker 2: New York's real. Even though it's, like, folded upon itself
[53:38] Speaker 2: a million times. It's like, yeah, but it's New York.
[53:40] Speaker 4: You do have to realize how weird of a hang-up
[53:43] Speaker 4: this is.
[53:44] Speaker 1: Mike, for the record, I 1,000% understand, and because I
[53:48] Speaker 1: can empathize with you, too, because every time my dad
[53:51] Speaker 1: doesn't like Star Wars because this isn't real, but then
[53:55] Speaker 1: loves Jurassic Park because, like, well, dinosaurs, it's in the
[53:57] Speaker 1: real world, and dinosaurs existed.
[53:58] Speaker 2: It's like.
[53:59] Speaker 1: It's that, and I realize this is some part of
[54:01] Speaker 1: my brain, a fat cell I need to digest that
[54:03] Speaker 1: came from my father, and then I'll just be normal.
[54:05] Speaker 2: But I haven't fixed that yet. I'm working on it.
[54:09] Speaker 2: All right, we'll get there. Don't worry, buddy. And then
[54:11] Speaker 2: you'll just be normal.
[54:13] Speaker 4: Could somebody just mod Metal Gear Solid 3 where they
[54:15] Speaker 4: change the name of Russia to Pretendo Land?
[54:18] Speaker 2: Let's get the end of play through that.
[54:20] Speaker 1: I would hate Metal Gear.
[54:21] Speaker 2: You're going to accept it. You're going to see how
[54:23] Speaker 2: the game is still good, actually.
[54:24] Speaker 1: If Solid 3 had a tail, I'd be like, that
[54:27] Speaker 1: doesn't happen.
[54:29] Speaker 2: What, he's a snake? What is this? God, is there
[54:31] Speaker 2: no character in Metal Gear with a tail? At this point,
[54:34] Speaker 2: I feel like.
[54:34] Speaker 3: I mean, there's that.
[54:35] Speaker 2: Monkey that Drebin has. There's the monkey that Drebin has. Oh, shit.
[54:39] Speaker 4: I mean, you know, there's the magical, levitating, psychic guy who.
[54:44] Speaker 2: Yeah, the banana machines. What about the guy that shoots these?
[54:48] Speaker 2: It's science. It's science, not fantasy. I'm fine with science. Oh, God.
[54:52] Speaker 3: I'm going to go hide in a cave. And then
[54:54] Speaker 3: perhaps I will see Jeff Grubb there because you have
[54:57] Speaker 3: been playing Well Dweller.
[54:59] Speaker 2: Yeah. You guys like Silksong? Would you like more of that? Yeah,
[55:04] Speaker 2: but not right now. It's busy.
[55:06] Speaker 4: We still need to sign a new Silksong out. I'm
[55:08] Speaker 4: drowning in games. You know how many games I'm in
[55:11] Speaker 4: the middle of right now?
[55:12] Speaker 2: I know.
[55:12] Speaker 3: Oh, God.
[55:13] Speaker 2: It's actually, I couldn't stop playing this when I'm like,
[55:15] Speaker 2: I got to review this other game, which I was
[55:17] Speaker 2: really enjoying as well. But go ahead, Dan.
[55:18] Speaker 1: Yeah, grab on before you kind of describe the game.
[55:20] Speaker 1: I just want you to know I started it last night.
[55:22] Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this is a perfect Steam Deck game.
[55:23] Speaker 1: I love the way this looks. I love the way
[55:25] Speaker 1: this plays. I fought a couple bosses and I'm like, oh,
[55:27] Speaker 1: this is awesome. And then I realized, like, hang on.
[55:29] Speaker 1: I'm like an hour in, and we're very close to
[55:32] Speaker 1: Castlevania coming out. Because I know what will happen is
[55:36] Speaker 1: that I don't want to get eight hours into this,
[55:38] Speaker 1: and then Castlevania comes out, and I totally drop off.
[55:40] Speaker 1: So it's like, okay, I'm going to drop off, basically
[55:42] Speaker 1: act like I played a demo, and get excited for
[55:44] Speaker 1: this after I'm done with Castlevania is my plan. But
[55:46] Speaker 1: it does seem very good. I forgot about Castlevania.
[55:49] Speaker 2: It's shit. It's very, very good. It checks all the
[55:54] Speaker 2: boxes of, hey, what makes a good Metroidvania where it's
[55:58] Speaker 2: got really great atmosphere. It doesn't overdo the talking, but
[56:01] Speaker 2: there's enough there where you can tell that there is
[56:03] Speaker 2: a world that they thought about. And that there are
[56:05] Speaker 2: characters there and they have a personality. You play as
[56:08] Speaker 2: a little bird in a world where a human queen
[56:11] Speaker 2: has taken over and she wants a gown made of
[56:14] Speaker 2: all of the feathers in all of the world. So
[56:17] Speaker 2: they've killed every single other bird in the world. And
[56:20] Speaker 2: your family is the last little bird family living at
[56:22] Speaker 2: the bottom of this well. And you go to go
[56:24] Speaker 2: find some food for your mom and you come back.
[56:26] Speaker 2: And then of course things, things go bad and your
[56:28] Speaker 2: brothers and sisters and your mom all get kidnapped and
[56:31] Speaker 2: you're on a journey to go rescue them. And the game, yes,
[56:36] Speaker 2: it is like gentle Silksong. It is not nearly as
[56:38] Speaker 2: punishing or difficult as Silksong, which I think is part
[56:41] Speaker 2: of the appeal of that game. But yes, I think
[56:43] Speaker 2: this is one where it's like, if you want all
[56:45] Speaker 2: of the look and feel and that atmospheric vibe, and
[56:49] Speaker 2: then you want to have some like boss fights that
[56:52] Speaker 2: are way more like... They just look crazy. They go
[56:56] Speaker 2: for their own crazy look. It's delivering all that stuff.
[56:59] Speaker 2: And then I'm just I can't put it down because
[57:01] Speaker 2: there's always that carrot to be chasing of, oh, I
[57:04] Speaker 2: just got this upgrade or I just saw that thing
[57:07] Speaker 2: back there. And if I take this upgrade I got,
[57:10] Speaker 2: I can go get that thing. And that's going to
[57:11] Speaker 2: be able to that's going to enable me to turn
[57:13] Speaker 2: on another one of these charms. You have charms you're collecting.
[57:16] Speaker 2: and you have another currency that you collect that enables
[57:18] Speaker 2: you to turn on more of them simultaneously. That's very Silksong.
[57:22] Speaker 2: Very Silksong, and there's multiple ways to find those. And also,
[57:24] Speaker 2: if you get regular currency, you can buy upgrades from
[57:26] Speaker 2: the little guy that lives in the tent that is
[57:28] Speaker 2: your bonfire or whatever equivalent. Yeah, I'm just... I was
[57:33] Speaker 2: expecting to turn it on and be like, yeah, this
[57:35] Speaker 2: is pretty cool. No, I turned it on and could
[57:37] Speaker 2: not put it down. It is just that sticky. He's
[57:40] Speaker 2: got a good look for this.
[57:41] Speaker 5: Yeah, I just caught the look of, like, the groundskeeper.
[57:44] Speaker 2: Yeah, yes. Oh, my God. And it does this great
[57:48] Speaker 2: thing where it's like, when you do fight these bosses,
[57:50] Speaker 2: they're almost echoes of, I think, human characters that have
[57:53] Speaker 2: been turned into these monsters. And it does the smart thing,
[57:58] Speaker 2: I think, for Metroidvania, which is when you beat the boss,
[58:00] Speaker 2: you get a little... tombstone and it's like here lies
[58:04] Speaker 2: this person and it just fills in the color of
[58:06] Speaker 2: this world without beating you over the head with a
[58:08] Speaker 2: ton of text about oh this is what this person
[58:11] Speaker 2: went through and we're going to do this big flashback
[58:13] Speaker 2: there are a couple of flashbacks but I think atmospheric
[58:16] Speaker 2: storytelling is so much more effective And it shows that
[58:19] Speaker 2: like you have to build out the world as a developer.
[58:22] Speaker 2: And they did that here. I think there are some
[58:23] Speaker 2: other games that have been inspired by Hollow Knight and
[58:25] Speaker 2: Silksong and Ori, clearly another one of very inspirational games
[58:30] Speaker 2: in this genre right now. And they do the work
[58:33] Speaker 2: of like, oh, we want to feel like that. And
[58:35] Speaker 2: they get close. This one is nailing it. This is
[58:37] Speaker 2: just it nails it in terms of when you play
[58:40] Speaker 2: the game, you're getting those feelings from both playing the
[58:42] Speaker 2: game and looking at the game and hearing it.
[58:44] Speaker 1: One thing I really appreciate is, you know, I love
[58:46] Speaker 1: Metroidvanias and I love both kind of map styles. Like
[58:49] Speaker 1: I like the old school Castlevania style where it's like
[58:51] Speaker 1: this is just blue squares, maybe the occasional red square
[58:53] Speaker 1: to indicate a safe spot or whatever. And then there's
[58:55] Speaker 1: the Hollow Knight type, which is more kind of hand drawn,
[58:57] Speaker 1: more detailed, more kind of granular stuff.
[58:59] Speaker 2: Squiggly. Yeah.
[59:00] Speaker 1: And you can literally just hit X on the map
[59:01] Speaker 1: screen like just fade between the two.
[59:04] Speaker 2: And it's like, that's great. It also like there's a
[59:09] Speaker 2: little guy that lives in your tent. And if you
[59:11] Speaker 2: are lost and you don't want to go exploring, like,
[59:13] Speaker 2: you know, the thing you do in a Metroidvania, you
[59:15] Speaker 2: look at your map. Oh, there is a door I
[59:17] Speaker 2: did not go through. I wonder if I can go
[59:19] Speaker 2: through that now. I mean, you know, I have a
[59:20] Speaker 2: terrible memory. I'm like, I'll go and check it out.
[59:22] Speaker 2: And maybe sometimes it's like, oh, I don't have the
[59:24] Speaker 2: ability yet. Maybe sometimes I do. But if you were like, actually,
[59:27] Speaker 2: I just want to know where to go, you can
[59:29] Speaker 2: buy that from the guy that lives in your tent
[59:32] Speaker 2: for like 400 coins or whatever, and be like, okay,
[59:35] Speaker 2: we're going to put a little spot on your map
[59:37] Speaker 2: so you can go find it Metroid Prime style when
[59:39] Speaker 2: you are exploring in Metroid Prime for a while. Yeah.
[59:41] Speaker 2: It gives you a lot of tools to play the
[59:43] Speaker 2: game the way you want. And it feels like it's
[59:44] Speaker 2: not being like, oh, you want to play on easy mode.
[59:47] Speaker 2: It feels built into the game. And like, there's a
[59:49] Speaker 2: little bit of a risk reward of spending some money
[59:51] Speaker 2: to do that instead.
[59:52] Speaker 1: And Mike, one of the first upgrades you get is
[59:54] Speaker 1: a quack shot plunger that lets you bounce off.
[59:56] Speaker 2: Yes.
[59:57] Speaker 1: You attach it to walls and you quack shot plunge
[59:59] Speaker 1: off it.
[59:59] Speaker 2: Oh, fuck me. Yeah. Yeah.
[1:00:01] Speaker 3: God.
[1:00:03] Speaker 4: That was one of the first favorite mechanics I had
[1:00:04] Speaker 4: in a video game. I remember the first time I
[1:00:06] Speaker 4: shot that plunger, I was like, this is the greatest
[1:00:08] Speaker 4: idea I've ever seen.
[1:00:10] Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great. And a lot of the platforming is
[1:00:12] Speaker 2: based on that.
[1:00:12] Speaker 1: Yeah, and you can only do it at least when
[1:00:14] Speaker 1: you first get it. You have to be standing on ground.
[1:00:16] Speaker 1: They're really clever puzzles even right at the beginning where
[1:00:19] Speaker 1: it's like, okay, if I lower this thing down, I
[1:00:21] Speaker 1: can shoot this plunger thing on it. But you can't
[1:00:23] Speaker 1: jump and hit it, you know?
[1:00:25] Speaker 2: That's awesome.
[1:00:26] Speaker 4: More games should take inspiration from Quackshot.
[1:00:28] Speaker 2: I agree. Maybe Goof Troop as well, perhaps. Oh, absolutely.
[1:00:33] Speaker 2: We're not talking about that. Yeah. Dr. Blow got that medal, apparently.
[1:00:40] Speaker 3: Dang, I don't need another game to play in the meantime.
[1:00:43] Speaker 2: People are saying this one's manageable. They 100%ed it in
[1:00:47] Speaker 2: 10 hours.
[1:00:47] Speaker 4: That's awesome to hear. I don't think we're talking about
[1:00:53] Speaker 4: Fire Emblem much more today, but I play the game
[1:00:54] Speaker 4: and I'm loving it. Not loving it, I'm liking it.
[1:00:57] Speaker 4: But even still... Like, every time I start up, I
[1:01:00] Speaker 4: almost feel intimidated. It's like, ah, this game is really,
[1:01:02] Speaker 4: really big. And I feel like it's one of those
[1:01:04] Speaker 4: baby moments. I'm like, I was just, like, going around
[1:01:07] Speaker 4: the map for the first time, kind of before my
[1:01:09] Speaker 4: first deadline thing. I recruited my first person. I've heard
[1:01:13] Speaker 4: there's a lot of people complaining about how kind of
[1:01:14] Speaker 4: useless late game recruits are in the game. And the
[1:01:17] Speaker 4: recruiting process is kind of annoying.
[1:01:18] Speaker 2: You know, that's true until, like, you are doing your...
[1:01:23] Speaker 2: second or third campaign. Sure. And then at that point,
[1:01:26] Speaker 2: it's like, I am rushing through so much that late,
[1:01:29] Speaker 2: that late, uh, campaign recruit who actually is the right
[1:01:33] Speaker 2: level right now is pretty handy sometimes. So yeah, on
[1:01:35] Speaker 2: your first run through that is true, but it's not
[1:01:37] Speaker 2: true in every way in this game. So yeah, I'm
[1:01:40] Speaker 2: enjoying any, it's, it's still somehow intimidates me for some reason.
[1:01:43] Speaker 3: Yeah. You know, speaking about like circling back to things, I,
[1:01:47] Speaker 3: I'm finding fire emblem fortunes. We've to be too intimidating.
[1:01:50] Speaker 3: So sticking with, uh, Star Wars Zero Company, and then
[1:01:55] Speaker 3: bouncing between Control Resident. But lately, I've been finding myself
[1:01:59] Speaker 3: going back to Onimusha, Way of the Sword, and just
[1:02:02] Speaker 3: doing boss fights that I really like.
[1:02:04] Speaker 2: That's my Switch 2 game. That's the game I'm playing
[1:02:07] Speaker 2: on Switch 2. Just because, like, that parry.
[1:02:09] Speaker 3: And then it's funny because in my initial playthrough, I
[1:02:12] Speaker 3: had a hard time getting the Ys encounters right. And
[1:02:15] Speaker 3: those are the ones where you hit the attack button
[1:02:18] Speaker 3: right before you're supposed to get hit. but now gang
[1:02:21] Speaker 3: fucking lightning, right? Like reflexes. I haven't really messed with
[1:02:25] Speaker 3: those much. I'm kind of all dodge and parry. Like
[1:02:27] Speaker 3: I've been intimidated too by that.
[1:02:28] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[1:02:29] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[1:02:29] Speaker 4: I haven't done a whole lot of those. I just,
[1:02:31] Speaker 4: I've been sticking with them like safer parries. Yeah.
[1:02:34] Speaker 3: Because, um, when you, you know, the game has been
[1:02:37] Speaker 3: out for a bit, but you do get an Oni
[1:02:38] Speaker 3: mode where you, uh, like juice up, you get like
[1:02:41] Speaker 3: a power, a power up, right? You get into this altered,
[1:02:44] Speaker 3: like rage state with Oni powers. And, uh, if you
[1:02:49] Speaker 3: can nail the Eason attacks there, you do way, way,
[1:02:53] Speaker 3: way more damage where you're almost, you get close to
[1:02:56] Speaker 3: one-shotting some of the bosses where it then only takes
[1:03:00] Speaker 3: like three hits to get their like stagger meter up
[1:03:03] Speaker 3: to get them to that stage where you have to
[1:03:07] Speaker 3: choose like a part to attack. It's really fucking good.
[1:03:10] Speaker 3: And I don't normally like bump the difficulty up on
[1:03:13] Speaker 3: a game, right? But here it's just been fun to
[1:03:16] Speaker 3: do with Onimusha Way of the Sword. Folks, I think
[1:03:19] Speaker 3: that does it for video game talk. We got a
[1:03:22] Speaker 3: lot of stuff also percolating in the background that we
[1:03:25] Speaker 3: cannot talk to you about quite yet. But folks, soon.
[1:03:30] Speaker 2: Stay tuned.
[1:03:31] Speaker 3: Stay tuned. Folks, we're going to hear from our dear
[1:03:34] Speaker 3: friends over at Kepler during the bricky break. And then
[1:03:37] Speaker 3: after that, we'll get to the news right after this.
[1:03:44] Speaker 3: Shouts out to our friends over at Kepler. And once again,
[1:03:49] Speaker 3: I'm going to toss it to Jeff Backlar to detail
[1:03:52] Speaker 3: the little code giveaway we're doing right now.
[1:03:56] Speaker 2: Oh, hell yeah. That's right.
[1:03:57] Speaker 5: We are excited to give away codes for Sifu and
[1:04:02] Speaker 5: Pacific Drive. Like I said, we've got 50 each of
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[1:04:21] Speaker 5: little little nice gesture really appreciate it from we fuck
[1:04:23] Speaker 5: with you yeah we bang with y'all yes that's that's
[1:04:26] Speaker 5: what the email contained the subject.
[1:04:27] Speaker 4: Line was that's actually written down somewhere grub offered to
[1:04:30] Speaker 4: play goose troop with them.
[1:04:32] Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah And they said, oh, that'd be really
[1:04:35] Speaker 2: funny if Mike's not around.
[1:04:36] Speaker 5: And yeah, so listen, again, I cannot stress this enough,
[1:04:41] Speaker 5: mostly because I don't want Chuck complaining to me.
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[1:04:53] Speaker 5: for getting that code. Again, new subscribers only, no matter
[1:04:57] Speaker 5: where you sign up. Thank you so very much. We
[1:04:59] Speaker 5: love you very much. Enjoy the games.
[1:05:01] Speaker 2: And thank you again to Kepler. Yes, yes.
[1:05:03] Speaker 3: And you will not immediately get your code because Mikey
[1:05:06] Speaker 3: still has to manually send that over to you.
[1:05:08] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[1:05:09] Speaker 2: Don't worry. We'll reach out to you. Yeah, you'll get
[1:05:12] Speaker 2: your code. We'll take care of you. We'll take care
[1:05:15] Speaker 2: of you. Don't worry. We take care of you over here.
[1:05:17] Speaker 2: What is this?
[1:05:20] Speaker 3: Oh, Mikey's going in mob mode. He's ready to escalate
[1:05:24] Speaker 3: and retaliate.
[1:05:25] Speaker 2: Hey, I'm Mobbing Mike Minardi. What's it to you? Hey,
[1:05:29] Speaker 2: we're mobbing here. It would be very funny if he
[1:05:31] Speaker 2: showed up with AJ and Chris behind him dressed up
[1:05:34] Speaker 2: in suits to break my kneecaps or something.
[1:05:36] Speaker 3: No, yeah, they're wearing tank tops, bowling shirts, and chains.
[1:05:41] Speaker 5: Mike, no offense, but I want you to be better
[1:05:43] Speaker 5: at that.
[1:05:44] Speaker 2: LAUGHTER Yeah, you'd think I would be better. I get it.
[1:05:53] Speaker 2: What can I do there, maybe? All right. What can
[1:05:57] Speaker 2: I do?
[1:05:58] Speaker 4: My Norse star for it is like what Tony tight
[1:06:00] Speaker 4: tips or whatever from the Simpsons, right?
[1:06:02] Speaker 2: Yeah, the Simpsons.
[1:06:03] Speaker 3: I thought you said your Norse star instead of North.
[1:06:06] Speaker 2: That's my ears. He's got a deeper voice, right? Yes,
[1:06:09] Speaker 2: the Norse mafia. There's Thor. There's Loki. Thor's like 11.
[1:06:14] Speaker 2: That is the Norse Mafia. That techno Viking from that
[1:06:17] Speaker 2: one internet video.
[1:06:18] Speaker 3: Yeah, right, right. That one Viking from January 6th.
[1:06:22] Speaker 2: Yep. Anyway, the news. All the stars. All right. Doesn't
[1:06:29] Speaker 2: Norse just mean northerner? Is that what the Norseman is? Okay.
[1:06:35] Speaker 2: There's no way to know. There's no way to know.
[1:06:37] Speaker 2: Don't worry.
[1:06:37] Speaker 4: Stay.
[1:06:38] Speaker 2: Welcome to the news, everybody. Yes. Wait.
[1:06:40] Speaker 4: No.
[1:06:41] Speaker 2: Let's do this real quick. Actually, since we went live,
[1:06:43] Speaker 2: I believe that Game Informer's issue about Grand Theft Auto 6,
[1:06:48] Speaker 2: the digital version, is up. People should go check that out.
[1:06:50] Speaker 2: It seems like they did a lot of great work.
[1:06:52] Speaker 2: And I will point out again, Marcus Stewart, who is
[1:06:54] Speaker 2: from South Florida, did the cover story. And so if
[1:06:57] Speaker 2: you are concerned about South Florida being accurately represented, I
[1:07:01] Speaker 2: believe he's the man for the job. So I'm excited
[1:07:03] Speaker 2: to go read that myself. Marcus is a cool guy anyway. Yes,
[1:07:06] Speaker 2: he is.
[1:07:07] Speaker 3: Marcus is sick as hell.
[1:07:08] Speaker 2: Love Marcus. We are all big fans of Marcus, absolutely,
[1:07:10] Speaker 2: and everyone over at Game Informer. The one thing that
[1:07:13] Speaker 2: has popped up that I've seen since this went up,
[1:07:15] Speaker 2: and I think it's happened since we've been here, so
[1:07:16] Speaker 2: I haven't seen a ton. I was yesterday like, oh,
[1:07:18] Speaker 2: there's advanced weather tech. And I hope there's actually hurricanes
[1:07:21] Speaker 2: in the game and there will be. So that's that's
[1:07:24] Speaker 2: the kind of stuff that like actually does get gets
[1:07:26] Speaker 2: it gets my goat a little bit where I'm like, oh, man,
[1:07:28] Speaker 2: I want to see what that would look like in
[1:07:31] Speaker 2: this open world and experience that. And kind of I
[1:07:33] Speaker 2: hope that there's systems involved, like battening down the hatches
[1:07:36] Speaker 2: or whatever. Oh, cool. Yeah. I kind of want to
[1:07:39] Speaker 2: see what that's like now. It's, you know, could just
[1:07:40] Speaker 2: be very. like a visual thing and maybe affect some things,
[1:07:44] Speaker 2: but I hope it's a little bit deeper than that.
[1:07:46] Speaker 2: And it sounds like they're going for a lot of
[1:07:47] Speaker 2: very simulated aspects to this game. So hopefully it.
[1:07:50] Speaker 5: Seems reasonable to expect a more kind of realistic impact
[1:07:53] Speaker 5: on your, on your play, you know, also nothing should
[1:07:56] Speaker 5: be insurable in the game.
[1:07:58] Speaker 3: Yeah. Right. Yeah.
[1:07:59] Speaker 2: Or it's just, yeah, extremely high premiums. Exactly.
[1:08:03] Speaker 3: Let me do insurance fraud in the game.
[1:08:05] Speaker 2: Huh? Yeah.
[1:08:06] Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
[1:08:06] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[1:08:09] Speaker 2: Man, it's weird that I think about Saints Row when
[1:08:12] Speaker 2: I hear the words insurance fraud first, but I guess
[1:08:13] Speaker 2: it's not that weird. It was a fun movie. Yeah.
[1:08:16] Speaker 2: They put in all of them and it was always great.
[1:08:18] Speaker 2: All right. So that's the one little tidbit from that.
[1:08:20] Speaker 2: If there's anything more, I'll talk about it on Game
[1:08:22] Speaker 2: Mess Morning tomorrow. But again, go read their story. Naughty
[1:08:25] Speaker 2: Dog finally put a window on getting more intergalactic news. Intergalactic,
[1:08:29] Speaker 2: the heretic prophet, the heretic prophet, intergalactic. That's coming out.
[1:08:33] Speaker 2: Beastie Boys. Beastie Boys. Yes, exactly. Very well done. The
[1:08:38] Speaker 2: thing here is they're not saying the game is coming
[1:08:40] Speaker 2: out in 2027, but they will fully reveal it in 2027,
[1:08:44] Speaker 2: and they'll be quiet about it for the rest of
[1:08:46] Speaker 2: this year. So nothing at the Game Awards or anything.
[1:08:49] Speaker 2: I'm of the opinion that this game actually probably is
[1:08:51] Speaker 2: coming out late next year. So they have um god
[1:08:54] Speaker 2: of war lao fei in february i want to say
[1:08:57] Speaker 2: pretty early next year yeah yeah pretty early next year
[1:09:00] Speaker 2: i think it's february and then they usually try to
[1:09:03] Speaker 2: have two big games a year at least obviously the
[1:09:06] Speaker 2: game will have to be finished they'll have to actually
[1:09:08] Speaker 2: get it done but it does seem like there's a
[1:09:09] Speaker 2: chance if especially they're fully revealing it next year It
[1:09:13] Speaker 2: could come out next holiday. What do you guys think?
[1:09:16] Speaker 2: And where's your sort of hype level, for lack of
[1:09:19] Speaker 2: a better word, for Intergalactic? I don't know.
[1:09:20] Speaker 3: I like space-themed stuff, especially if it's not like, I guess,
[1:09:27] Speaker 3: real space and it has like a fun twist on
[1:09:30] Speaker 3: the sci-fi element, perhaps like retrofuturism. I don't quite know
[1:09:33] Speaker 3: what they're going for in Intergalactic, but sometimes with some
[1:09:39] Speaker 3: Druckmann stuff can be a little bit, long of the
[1:09:42] Speaker 3: tooth you know.
[1:09:43] Speaker 4: Yeah i wonder if there will be a bit more
[1:09:45] Speaker 4: uh levity perhaps in in in this one no you
[1:09:49] Speaker 4: know it gets like maybe it's because again i am
[1:09:52] Speaker 4: right now in this boy lots of just melee combat
[1:09:55] Speaker 4: games this is kind of another one of those from
[1:09:57] Speaker 4: a publisher who recently has been specializing in third person
[1:10:00] Speaker 4: shooter stuff and said they're going the melee combat route
[1:10:02] Speaker 4: as well so i'm like okay how are how are
[1:10:04] Speaker 4: they going to make that interesting are they going to
[1:10:06] Speaker 4: have an interesting spin on that or Or are they
[1:10:08] Speaker 4: kind of just hoping for the presentation and the story
[1:10:10] Speaker 4: stuff to carry it forward again, which maybe won't do
[1:10:13] Speaker 4: quite as much for me. So I definitely want to
[1:10:15] Speaker 4: see more of the game. Late next year definitely seems ideal.
[1:10:19] Speaker 4: There's always a possibility it's even later than that. It's
[1:10:23] Speaker 4: just been so long since we've gotten a Naughty Dog
[1:10:25] Speaker 4: game that isn't just a remaster or a remake. Last
[1:10:29] Speaker 4: of Us Part 2 feels like forever ago.
[1:10:34] Speaker 2: I can't remember the exact verbiage around it, but there
[1:10:37] Speaker 2: were some interviews around the time when they were first
[1:10:39] Speaker 2: debuting Intergalactic about they were trying to use more open worlds, bigger,
[1:10:46] Speaker 2: wider open spaces that you're going to explore. And yeah,
[1:10:50] Speaker 2: then melee combat being very prominent here. So it does
[1:10:54] Speaker 2: feel like they're trying to do something different. I also
[1:10:57] Speaker 2: want to say that they... Maybe Druckmann himself or someone
[1:11:00] Speaker 2: else at Naughty Dog said they were inspired by some
[1:11:03] Speaker 2: of the more open games like Breath of the Wild, maybe.
[1:11:06] Speaker 2: And they're going to try to bring some of that
[1:11:07] Speaker 2: energy into this game. Obviously, we've not seen anything that's
[1:11:11] Speaker 2: going to be like, well, obviously, that's where they were
[1:11:13] Speaker 2: inspired by. But I kind of hope that they are
[1:11:15] Speaker 2: going to do something a little bit different on that front.
[1:11:18] Speaker 2: Just because for me, the Naughty Dog games usually miss, usually.
[1:11:23] Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm trying to think of, like, how the melee
[1:11:25] Speaker 3: was handled in The Last of Us Part II. Not
[1:11:27] Speaker 3: that Intergalactic would have the same combat system at all.
[1:11:30] Speaker 3: It was pretty simple there, but that way... Yeah, not
[1:11:32] Speaker 3: a lot to it.
[1:11:33] Speaker 4: Yeah, that game's focused largely on, like, the kind of
[1:11:35] Speaker 4: stealth stuff and even more the shooting, I think, than
[1:11:38] Speaker 4: the melee.
[1:11:39] Speaker 2: So, who knows?
[1:11:40] Speaker 4: You know, someone in chat said that he's mentioned Bloodborne
[1:11:43] Speaker 4: as an inspiration, so... I mean, you know, if it
[1:11:46] Speaker 4: leans more in the Souls category, I would definitely be
[1:11:49] Speaker 4: interested in that.
[1:11:50] Speaker 2: That sounds right. Yes. Being inspired by Souls was awesome.
[1:11:54] Speaker 2: I mean, that's just being a developer, especially like a
[1:11:58] Speaker 2: lead designer, is like you play a Souls-borne game, you
[1:12:01] Speaker 2: play Breath of the Wild, you play Hades. These are
[1:12:03] Speaker 2: the games that they've all played and get inspired by.
[1:12:06] Speaker 2: It's like, I wish our game felt more like this.
[1:12:09] Speaker 2: We'll see how much that actually manifests in the final thing.
[1:12:11] Speaker 3: My question is... will they actually have the Beastie Boys
[1:12:15] Speaker 3: song in it?
[1:12:15] Speaker 2: I hope so. Probably not. Yeah, I don't know.
[1:12:20] Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good, that's actually like a strange but
[1:12:25] Speaker 5: good question, I think.
[1:12:27] Speaker 2: Maybe they'll have Sabotage instead. That would be funny. Chunky monkey.
[1:12:34] Speaker 2: The trailer was like a bunch of, as you said, Jan,
[1:12:37] Speaker 2: future retro, yeah, future retroism. Yeah, retrofuturism, excuse me. And
[1:12:43] Speaker 2: it was like Porsche and like the spaceship was like
[1:12:46] Speaker 2: a Porsche branded. Yeah. Was there Coca-Cola? And then obviously Sony. Yeah. Yeah.
[1:12:51] Speaker 2: Like a Discman or something.
[1:12:53] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[1:12:53] Speaker 2: So I think they'll probably have some like needle drops
[1:12:56] Speaker 2: in there. Yeah. Presumably they licensed some stuff. I don't know.
[1:12:59] Speaker 5: I think I've not made room in my mind. To
[1:13:04] Speaker 5: be excited for this yet Do you know what I mean?
[1:13:07] Speaker 5: It still seems far out enough.
[1:13:09] Speaker 2: We can get on the other side of God of
[1:13:11] Speaker 2: War Laufey And then I'll be like Okay what's PlayStation
[1:13:14] Speaker 2: got next for.
[1:13:15] Speaker 3: Sure I definitely hope it is lighter in tone Yeah
[1:13:19] Speaker 3: sure I think that that is It has to be
[1:13:21] Speaker 3: I feel like they've already presented.
[1:13:24] Speaker 4: It that way It can't be It can't like equal
[1:13:26] Speaker 4: or somehow be darker Than Last of Us Part 2
[1:13:29] Speaker 4: Right at this point I don't expect them to go
[1:13:31] Speaker 4: full Uncharted again But you know got too many syllables
[1:13:35] Speaker 4: like what are we doing intergalactic the heretic prophet yeah
[1:13:37] Speaker 4: it does not roll like many people having to make
[1:13:40] Speaker 4: these decisions and you end up with a name like
[1:13:42] Speaker 4: that still like just yeah it sounds like those are
[1:13:45] Speaker 4: the two names they won and like we'll just use
[1:13:47] Speaker 4: both of them and now we have this jumble of.
[1:13:49] Speaker 2: Words sentence yeah just a sentence does does uh yeah
[1:13:54] Speaker 2: that's a good question chad Dan, does the real brands
[1:13:57] Speaker 2: help you center and be like, this could be a
[1:13:58] Speaker 2: real thing? Or is it too sci-fi? I was thinking
[1:14:00] Speaker 2: about this. I was thinking about this. Okay, I was
[1:14:01] Speaker 2: wondering now.
[1:14:02] Speaker 1: Because space exists and space travel exists. And from that
[1:14:06] Speaker 1: trailer I saw, it seems like it's just like humans
[1:14:08] Speaker 1: in space with Earth brands.
[1:14:10] Speaker 2: So, like, this all is fine. Yeah. No, I'm kidding.
[1:14:13] Speaker 2: This all is fine. This all can work and exist. Yeah,
[1:14:17] Speaker 2: it's okay. It's fine. Yeah. A PlayStation controller that takes
[1:14:21] Speaker 2: credit cards. A newly published Sony patent describes tapping a
[1:14:26] Speaker 2: card or phone against the controller to pay for games
[1:14:29] Speaker 2: and add ons, basically using an amiibo like NFC reader.
[1:14:32] Speaker 2: So instead of tapping your amiibo on there, you're going
[1:14:35] Speaker 2: to tap your credit card or your phone. and it
[1:14:37] Speaker 2: could just process the payment like that. I'm almost surprised
[1:14:41] Speaker 2: this hasn't happened yet here. Apparently, this did happen on
[1:14:44] Speaker 2: the Wii U in Japan. So it's happened before.
[1:14:48] Speaker 1: I'm only going to tap Amiibos on it.
[1:14:51] Speaker 5: Everyone, and again, I feel like some people assume that
[1:14:55] Speaker 5: I'd be the last person to endorse a thing like this,
[1:14:57] Speaker 5: and perhaps, and I like your instincts, right? But, A,
[1:15:03] Speaker 5: it's insane that it hasn't happened before. But we're always
[1:15:06] Speaker 5: last to everything because we're fucking morons. B, this will
[1:15:10] Speaker 5: be better. Look, you buy shit, this will be better
[1:15:13] Speaker 5: than entering your credit card.
[1:15:14] Speaker 2: It's just better. It's just better. It's just better.
[1:15:16] Speaker 5: I understand it feels icky and we have to just
[1:15:20] Speaker 5: understand it is icky, but it's also going to be
[1:15:24] Speaker 5: At the.
[1:15:24] Speaker 2: End of the day, it's not that different, right? You're
[1:15:26] Speaker 2: still pulling out your credit card and making a purchase.
[1:15:29] Speaker 2: I do hate punching my credit card in on my phone.
[1:15:35] Speaker 4: They definitely want to make it as easy as possible
[1:15:38] Speaker 4: so that you don't second guess or third guess that purchase, right?
[1:15:43] Speaker 2: I understand that's their motivation, but there's a part of
[1:15:45] Speaker 2: me like, yeah, that's easier for me, though.
[1:15:48] Speaker 5: The icky thing is how much easier it is, right?
[1:15:51] Speaker 5: It's both things. It's more convenient and it's easier probably
[1:15:54] Speaker 5: in a, you know, obviously a predatory way.
[1:15:56] Speaker 2: It's not the, it's not something I'm going to get.
[1:15:59] Speaker 2: I don't know. too worked up about yeah i'm not
[1:16:01] Speaker 2: yeah i'm not hot about it i'm just like i
[1:16:03] Speaker 2: know i can like those.
[1:16:04] Speaker 4: Call of duty skins right of course yes without a doubt.
[1:16:08] Speaker 2: I'm gonna go on a yeah i'm gonna stand in
[1:16:11] Speaker 2: front of activision for that um yeah this is the
[1:16:13] Speaker 2: thing where it's like ah yeah this is where sony
[1:16:15] Speaker 2: is innovating on fun ways for us to spend money
[1:16:17] Speaker 2: in a more easier way that's where their research and
[1:16:20] Speaker 2: development is focused and i do notice that but whatever
[1:16:24] Speaker 2: NIS America is talking to Sony about the future of
[1:16:26] Speaker 2: PlayStation discs at PAX West. Nippon Ichi software CEO and
[1:16:31] Speaker 2: NIS America president Kinzo Saruhashi told Kotaku that NISA has
[1:16:37] Speaker 2: discussed Sony's plan to stop manufacturing discs for new PlayStation
[1:16:40] Speaker 2: games starting in 2028. Physical limited editions are a significant
[1:16:44] Speaker 2: part of NISA's business. Saruhashi thinks Sony is hearing customer
[1:16:48] Speaker 2: feedback and said the discussion could change. A box to
[1:16:52] Speaker 2: download COD code is one possible outcome, but he says
[1:16:56] Speaker 2: it's not the only thing that's that they're thinking about
[1:16:59] Speaker 2: or that is being discussed. But of course, Sony has
[1:17:01] Speaker 2: not announced any changes to its plans. This is just
[1:17:04] Speaker 2: one more piece on the pile of there is an
[1:17:06] Speaker 2: ongoing conversation, not just from angry, loud fans about the
[1:17:10] Speaker 2: pushback of Sony moving away from discs. There are these
[1:17:14] Speaker 2: mid-sized and smaller publishers saying, who have made a business
[1:17:17] Speaker 2: model out of selling collector's editions that include a disc
[1:17:20] Speaker 2: to their most rabid fan base so they can create
[1:17:23] Speaker 2: the biggest profit margin possible. And this will affect them
[1:17:28] Speaker 2: because they're going to have a harder time selling collector's
[1:17:29] Speaker 2: editions that don't include a disc and a download code
[1:17:33] Speaker 2: doesn't have the same effect in a collector's edition. Do
[1:17:37] Speaker 2: you guys think when a publisher like this not just
[1:17:40] Speaker 2: gets involved, but it's out there publicly saying, yeah, we're
[1:17:42] Speaker 2: talking to Sony about this. This isn't good for us.
[1:17:45] Speaker 2: Does that turn up the pressure? I just don't know.
[1:17:50] Speaker 3: I can't tell with PlayStation and just like, sure, they're
[1:17:53] Speaker 3: talking to these devs that they're close partners with, but
[1:17:57] Speaker 3: I would have hoped that these conversations would have happened
[1:17:59] Speaker 3: much sooner before any of these big statements go public,
[1:18:03] Speaker 3: just because I think about how this also will affect
[1:18:07] Speaker 3: their partners down the line as well. Some people don't
[1:18:10] Speaker 3: want to download a game. Some people just hardcore just
[1:18:13] Speaker 3: want a physical disc still. Yeah.
[1:18:16] Speaker 2: I mean, that's gaming to a lot of people, is
[1:18:17] Speaker 2: the collection. Yeah.
[1:18:19] Speaker 4: I still just, you know, Sony seems to be more
[1:18:22] Speaker 4: on the ropes with this than they have yet. Just
[1:18:25] Speaker 4: like how much, you know, still kind of constant negative
[1:18:28] Speaker 4: feedback from players there is, and now some of the
[1:18:30] Speaker 4: publishers being unhappy. Yet I still feel like internally they're
[1:18:32] Speaker 4: probably thinking, we already have this band-aid halfway pulled off now.
[1:18:38] Speaker 4: Why are we going to put it back on now
[1:18:39] Speaker 4: just to rip it off at some point in the future?
[1:18:41] Speaker 4: I don't think that's the right way to look at it,
[1:18:44] Speaker 4: but I bet that's how they're going to look at it.
[1:18:47] Speaker 2: If they, you know, he's talked to, talks about other
[1:18:49] Speaker 2: solutions here. Can you guys think of any other solution?
[1:18:52] Speaker 2: Like someone chats, like, can Sony have the equivalent of
[1:18:54] Speaker 2: their game key card? Could they put it on a
[1:18:57] Speaker 2: USB stick? Is there some other physical form of media
[1:19:02] Speaker 2: they can put into a collector's edition? Yeah, right. And
[1:19:06] Speaker 2: it's just like, for me, if it's not a disc,
[1:19:09] Speaker 2: it kind of doesn't solve the entire problem because people
[1:19:12] Speaker 2: are going to have a collection of discs already that
[1:19:15] Speaker 2: they're going to want to work. So if you're going
[1:19:16] Speaker 2: to keep those as something that can work on a
[1:19:19] Speaker 2: PS six in some way by plugging in maybe a
[1:19:21] Speaker 2: third party disc drive, uh, then just keep putting them
[1:19:24] Speaker 2: on discs and they're not going to do that.
[1:19:25] Speaker 4: Imprint the game code onto a bar of gold or something.
[1:19:29] Speaker 2: Make it real. Oh, I like this. You could tap,
[1:19:32] Speaker 2: tap it on the controller, right? Yeah.
[1:19:34] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[1:19:34] Speaker 2: Yeah. And that, and that thing is some, maybe some,
[1:19:36] Speaker 2: you could, you could sell that thing. I mean, maybe
[1:19:38] Speaker 2: there's something to that. I don't know.
[1:19:39] Speaker 3: Get a bring back VM use, but for the PlayStation, I, I.
[1:19:45] Speaker 2: If they did that and they kept it just to
[1:19:47] Speaker 2: collector's editions or limited it to like their, their, the
[1:19:50] Speaker 2: partners like NIS who sell a lot of collector's editions,
[1:19:53] Speaker 2: I think they would still get the benefit of most
[1:19:55] Speaker 2: people shifting to buying digital. And that's the benefit for
[1:19:57] Speaker 2: Sony improving their profit margin. So maybe they'll find some
[1:20:00] Speaker 2: middle ground, but I don't know. It could be fun
[1:20:02] Speaker 2: if it's like something you tap on your controller. I
[1:20:04] Speaker 2: don't know if that would be the kind of thing
[1:20:06] Speaker 2: that would keep a lot of the people who are
[1:20:08] Speaker 2: mad now happy. So it might not be worth doing
[1:20:10] Speaker 2: the half measure in the, in the, in the end,
[1:20:13] Speaker 2: in the long run. All right, last week, everybody's talking
[1:20:16] Speaker 2: about it. Meta's new VR headset is going to cost $ 1, 300.
[1:20:20] Speaker 2: Looks like glasses, and it looks like glasses because it
[1:20:23] Speaker 2: has a little puck that hangs off and you put
[1:20:25] Speaker 2: in your pocket, and that's where all the processing is done.
[1:20:29] Speaker 2: It's coming spring 2027. It has a smaller field of
[1:20:31] Speaker 2: view because they are just glasses than the Quest 3.
[1:20:35] Speaker 2: Something like, yeah, roughly 70 by 66 degrees of your
[1:20:38] Speaker 2: field of vision versus the Quest 3's 110 by 96 degrees.
[1:20:43] Speaker 2: it works a lot like a quest. It will not
[1:20:45] Speaker 2: come with controllers, but the controllers can be added later.
[1:20:48] Speaker 2: So a lot of the games it's going to surface
[1:20:50] Speaker 2: will be just hand tracking games. And I don't know,
[1:20:54] Speaker 2: is this the thing that makes VR work for a
[1:20:57] Speaker 2: wider audience? Cause it sure doesn't feel like it.
[1:20:59] Speaker 1: Beat saber will be fine.
[1:21:00] Speaker 2: Beat saber does have a new version for this Tetris,
[1:21:04] Speaker 2: a Tetris effect connected.
[1:21:05] Speaker 1: Maybe we'll finally play Half-Life Alex.
[1:21:07] Speaker 2: Maybe. Yeah.
[1:21:08] Speaker 1: One of these, one of these, we're going to get there.
[1:21:11] Speaker 3: I watched, shout out to Norman Chan from Tested. I
[1:21:14] Speaker 3: watched the video that they put out on this thing
[1:21:17] Speaker 3: just because I was just curious what other people's take
[1:21:20] Speaker 3: on it was. And it definitely seemed like the gaming
[1:21:24] Speaker 3: aspect was being devalued here.
[1:21:26] Speaker 4: It is.
[1:21:26] Speaker 3: Just like unprioritized. So I feel like this is meta.
[1:21:30] Speaker 3: The future is for perfect glasses.
[1:21:32] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[1:21:33] Speaker 3: This is just meta trying to just, get you sitting
[1:21:36] Speaker 3: down and tracking that eyeball data and whatever you are
[1:21:39] Speaker 3: going to be scrolling through.
[1:21:40] Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I think they want to keep this
[1:21:43] Speaker 2: side of the business going because the pervert glasses that
[1:21:47] Speaker 2: don't have the full breadth of like what a quest
[1:21:49] Speaker 2: can do right now, they want to eventually get that
[1:21:52] Speaker 2: stuff in there. So they have to keep developing, developing
[1:21:54] Speaker 2: it for their $ 1, 300 glasses. And then eventually they'll try
[1:21:57] Speaker 2: to put it into the slim down. I don't know
[1:22:00] Speaker 2: how much those Ray-Bans costs, but like $ 700, whatever it is.
[1:22:03] Speaker 2: And they want to be ready for that when it happens. Yeah,
[1:22:07] Speaker 2: I don't know. Not for me. I'm just not interested
[1:22:10] Speaker 2: in the least. And then, all right, last story I
[1:22:13] Speaker 2: have here. Halo is probably going to be rebooted. That's
[1:22:15] Speaker 2: the reporting anyhow. So we know, we talked about it,
[1:22:18] Speaker 2: I think on last week's show, all of the rejiggering
[1:22:21] Speaker 2: of the studios under Microsoft and Xbox Game Studios. And
[1:22:25] Speaker 2: one of the big ones was Halo, not staying under
[1:22:28] Speaker 2: Halo Studios, going under a new studio under Activision that
[1:22:31] Speaker 2: will take the brand going forward. And then since then,
[1:22:35] Speaker 2: we've heard reporting that Halo, when this happens, the next
[1:22:38] Speaker 2: game will be a reboot. So I got a couple
[1:22:42] Speaker 2: of questions to you guys. One is, is that the
[1:22:45] Speaker 2: right decision? And if they do reboot it, should they
[1:22:47] Speaker 2: reboot from the beginning or should they just pretend like
[1:22:50] Speaker 2: four or five and six and infinite never happened and
[1:22:53] Speaker 2: all that stuff? And they just go back to like
[1:22:55] Speaker 2: Halo three where Bungie left off or reach or whatever
[1:22:58] Speaker 2: it is. and continue from there. What do you guys
[1:23:00] Speaker 2: think the right move is? You can start over. Six
[1:23:02] Speaker 2: and infinite. There was no six. Infinite was a six. Yeah, yeah.
[1:23:05] Speaker 3: I just.
[1:23:05] Speaker 2: Yes, six.
[1:23:06] Speaker 4: How dare you?
[1:23:06] Speaker 2: You're demerit. You know, I retire. Mike's right. I'm out
[1:23:10] Speaker 2: of here, guys. First, reboot can mean so many things, right?
[1:23:14] Speaker 4: A lot of times, people just make a new entry
[1:23:17] Speaker 4: that's kind of different, and it's still the same plot continuity,
[1:23:20] Speaker 4: and call.
[1:23:20] Speaker 2: That a reboot. So I don't know.
[1:23:23] Speaker 4: I definitely think that the whole kind of storyline... Focused
[1:23:26] Speaker 4: around the Cortana heel turn that nobody wanted. It's clearly
[1:23:30] Speaker 4: not interested anybody. And a lot of people maybe like
[1:23:33] Speaker 4: to pretend that that didn't happen. Like, I certainly think
[1:23:36] Speaker 4: this is not going to be a sequel to the
[1:23:38] Speaker 4: story of Halo Infinite. I don't know if you just
[1:23:41] Speaker 4: go back to one of the older games and are like,
[1:23:43] Speaker 4: we're in an alternate dimension now where that stuff didn't happen.
[1:23:46] Speaker 4: Maybe you just find a different pocket of this universe.
[1:23:50] Speaker 5: I mean.
[1:23:51] Speaker 4: it's part of me feels like this little crazy maybe
[1:23:53] Speaker 4: it doesn't need to star master chief everybody loved halo
[1:23:56] Speaker 4: reach there's no master chief in that maybe we find
[1:23:58] Speaker 4: some other spartan maybe somebody like the arbiter doesn't even
[1:24:01] Speaker 4: have to be a human there must be something else
[1:24:03] Speaker 4: in this universe that uh we can do i.
[1:24:06] Speaker 3: I think i'm with you mike i think that's a
[1:24:08] Speaker 3: direction i'd prefer over just going back to master chief
[1:24:11] Speaker 3: and cortana um like there has to be a group
[1:24:14] Speaker 3: of spartans i don't know what was that uh first-person
[1:24:17] Speaker 3: Clone Wars game or Clone Trooper game.
[1:24:19] Speaker 2: Oh, Republic Commando, right? Yeah, do that. Do that. There's ODST.
[1:24:24] Speaker 2: ODST was great.
[1:24:24] Speaker 4: There have been other characters and factions in this world
[1:24:28] Speaker 4: that's interesting for sure. I know Halo 5 had Locke
[1:24:33] Speaker 4: and Master Chief, and Locke had no movement going whatsoever.
[1:24:36] Speaker 4: So it's not some slam dunk. And it's scary when
[1:24:38] Speaker 4: you have this iconic character just be like, we're not
[1:24:40] Speaker 4: going to use him.
[1:24:43] Speaker 2: I think you're right.
[1:24:44] Speaker 5: He's not Halo. He's not John Halo. Halo's right here, folks.
[1:24:49] Speaker 5: It's right there in your chat. Halo are the friends
[1:24:52] Speaker 5: we made along the way. And I think it's.
[1:24:55] Speaker 2: Also, he's washed. It's like it's over for him, right?
[1:24:59] Speaker 2: I mean, come on. No one cares. We all agree
[1:25:02] Speaker 2: the story.
[1:25:02] Speaker 5: Is meaningless in these games. We all agree for the
[1:25:05] Speaker 5: most part. So you can kind of have any kind
[1:25:07] Speaker 5: of artistic narrative freedom.
[1:25:08] Speaker 2: That you wish. That's not real. Right. Right.
[1:25:12] Speaker 5: It's a, you know, so you can do whatever you want.
[1:25:15] Speaker 5: And I don't say that in a way to, like,
[1:25:16] Speaker 5: take a dig at the game. I just think that
[1:25:18] Speaker 5: is the least compelling thing about it.
[1:25:20] Speaker 4: Right? There's been moments where the story, I think, has
[1:25:23] Speaker 4: been interesting. You know, like, people do like Halo Reach
[1:25:26] Speaker 4: and what do you see? But not for a while.
[1:25:29] Speaker 4: Not for a while. Certainly not in these newer games
[1:25:31] Speaker 4: has the story been a highlight of the franchise.
[1:25:35] Speaker 3: Agreed.
[1:25:35] Speaker 2: Yeah. I think if they reboot it from the beginning,
[1:25:40] Speaker 2: they'll do it with Master Chief. Like you said, Mike,
[1:25:43] Speaker 2: they'll be too scared not to do it, but I
[1:25:45] Speaker 2: think you are still probably right. They get a cleaner
[1:25:47] Speaker 2: break and really make it their own if they went
[1:25:49] Speaker 2: in a completely different direction. The problem there is you
[1:25:51] Speaker 2: restart from the beginning.
[1:25:52] Speaker 4: How do you not make that feel like the eighth
[1:25:54] Speaker 4: or whatever remake of Halo 1 again, right? You got
[1:25:57] Speaker 4: to find some direction for that that feels very distinct
[1:26:01] Speaker 4: from that.
[1:26:02] Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe the movie is like a legacy sequel or
[1:26:05] Speaker 2: whatever they are calling them these days, where it is
[1:26:07] Speaker 2: a different character and it takes place so far removed
[1:26:09] Speaker 2: from all that stuff that it can use a lot
[1:26:11] Speaker 2: of those elements. But then, you know, there's always the
[1:26:14] Speaker 2: looming of like, when will Master Chief come back? But yeah,
[1:26:17] Speaker 2: when will Master Chief come? Yes, I think, yes, Sam
[1:26:21] Speaker 2: was nice in chat. A lot of people are saying
[1:26:22] Speaker 2: they're like, maybe the right move is to just go
[1:26:24] Speaker 2: back to Halo 3 and pick up from where that
[1:26:27] Speaker 2: left off and carry the story forward in a different
[1:26:29] Speaker 2: direction instead.
[1:26:30] Speaker 3: But Grubb, they finished the fight.
[1:26:32] Speaker 6: In Halo 3 that's always the problem that's the Avengers
[1:26:37] Speaker 6: endgame problem where you have to have that really big
[1:26:39] Speaker 6: boost to the one entry in your franchise by like
[1:26:42] Speaker 6: really emphasizing the finality.
[1:26:43] Speaker 4: Of it but that's a franchise there's gotta be a
[1:26:46] Speaker 4: next one oh no how do we get people excited about.
[1:26:49] Speaker 2: That no one ever learns that lesson I remember it
[1:26:52] Speaker 2: was a Tomb Raider like the fourth one or whatever
[1:26:54] Speaker 2: that was supposed to be the final Lara Croft adventure
[1:26:57] Speaker 2: and then the publisher forced them to make another one
[1:26:59] Speaker 2: right after that and they did not try at.
[1:27:01] Speaker 1: All Kojima has said since Metal Gear Solid 2 that
[1:27:03] Speaker 1: it was his last one directing and like every fucking
[1:27:05] Speaker 1: time he came back.
[1:27:07] Speaker 5: Just reboot it without the little grunt guys.
[1:27:11] Speaker 3: They're great.
[1:27:13] Speaker 4: I love killing those guys. They're my favorite people to kill.
[1:27:18] Speaker 4: I think the opposite. They seem like toddlers and I
[1:27:21] Speaker 4: feel like I'm just mowing them down.
[1:27:22] Speaker 2: What if they were yellow?
[1:27:24] Speaker 1: What if they were yellow and they wore like overalls?
[1:27:31] Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Then I'm killing them all a lot. And
[1:27:35] Speaker 2: that's fine. Yes.
[1:27:37] Speaker 5: We kill the minions here at Giant Bomb.
[1:27:39] Speaker 2: We kill all the minions. See a minion, kill it.
[1:27:42] Speaker 2: My favorite thing is like the minion people did address like, no,
[1:27:45] Speaker 2: the minions did not work for Hitler. And then everyone's like,
[1:27:48] Speaker 2: but isn't the whole thing is that the minions always
[1:27:51] Speaker 2: work for the most evil person. So you're saying that
[1:27:53] Speaker 2: Hitler wasn't the most evil person, Universal Studios.
[1:27:56] Speaker 5: Oh, man.
[1:27:57] Speaker 2: So yeah, they have a lot of fun over there.
[1:27:59] Speaker 3: Wow.
[1:27:59] Speaker 4: Wow.
[1:28:00] Speaker 2: That's incredible. Is that a Catch-22 or is that something else?
[1:28:03] Speaker 2: That's what the book Catch-22 is about, yes.
[1:28:05] Speaker 5: They literally put their hands up and run away from you.
[1:28:13] Speaker 2: The grunts.
[1:28:13] Speaker 3: The grunts.
[1:28:14] Speaker 4: How many years would it have to be for a
[1:28:17] Speaker 4: Minion movie to come out where Hitler being in it
[1:28:19] Speaker 4: is acceptable?
[1:28:21] Speaker 2: I'm sorry, what?
[1:28:21] Speaker 4: You're thinking like the 3000s? It's like, okay, the time
[1:28:25] Speaker 4: has passed.
[1:28:26] Speaker 2: We could put Hitler in.
[1:28:28] Speaker 4: I imagine they have him work for, like, freaking Genghis Khan.
[1:28:34] Speaker 2: Anyway, that does it for all the news stories. Over
[1:28:36] Speaker 2: to you, Jan.
[1:28:38] Speaker 3: I'm going to need to take a quick breaky break.
[1:28:40] Speaker 3: And then we'll be back with emails and YouTube Super
[1:28:42] Speaker 3: Chats if we have any. Maybe I'll ask someone else
[1:28:45] Speaker 3: to read those. I might put Mikey on a timeout
[1:28:48] Speaker 3: right after this.
[1:28:49] Speaker 4: I think you're all misunderstanding what I'm saying.
[1:28:55] Speaker 3: These are the emails for the show emails bombcastgiantbomb.com is
[1:29:03] Speaker 3: the email address to send your emails to you can
[1:29:05] Speaker 3: write in about any and everything and i will try
[1:29:08] Speaker 3: and get that onto the show thank you so much
[1:29:10] Speaker 3: for everyone for writing in uh i appreciate all of
[1:29:14] Speaker 3: the emails let's get to them max from the netherlands
[1:29:18] Speaker 3: writes in hey duders First of all, you guys have
[1:29:23] Speaker 3: been on fire lately and deserve a week, parentheses or more, off.
[1:29:27] Speaker 3: A week without any obligations other than the things you
[1:29:30] Speaker 3: want to do. With all the cool things you guys
[1:29:32] Speaker 3: are involved in, are there any examples of work you'd
[1:29:35] Speaker 3: wish reached a wider audience? Or is the love and
[1:29:38] Speaker 3: appreciation from the community worth more than an increase in
[1:29:42] Speaker 3: anonymous views? Love you guys and all that you do.
[1:29:45] Speaker 3: Max from the Netherlands.
[1:29:47] Speaker 2: Max? Yeah, more people, of course. I'll tell you, when
[1:29:54] Speaker 2: we do the social videos and sometimes they will go viral,
[1:29:57] Speaker 2: I don't feel anything. I thought I was expecting to
[1:30:03] Speaker 2: feel more accomplished, and it's like, no, that didn't happen. Well,
[1:30:05] Speaker 2: that's not what he's asking. No, no. I'm just like,
[1:30:08] Speaker 2: there are avenues in which more people... You know, obviously
[1:30:11] Speaker 2: that still helps and we're going to keep doing it
[1:30:13] Speaker 2: because it is valuable. But it's when I do feel something,
[1:30:17] Speaker 2: it is people showing up in this community and doing
[1:30:20] Speaker 2: cool stuff. And I would love a lot more people
[1:30:22] Speaker 2: to be involved in that.
[1:30:24] Speaker 3: Yeah, I like when I see the numbers of people
[1:30:26] Speaker 3: watching go up.
[1:30:28] Speaker 2: That's good.
[1:30:29] Speaker 4: I know that it's a trick because of the way
[1:30:31] Speaker 4: YouTube changed how it counts views, but I do like
[1:30:33] Speaker 4: how our views on YouTube.
[1:30:35] Speaker 2: Have gone up because of that.
[1:30:37] Speaker 4: I do like everything. Oh, man, everything reaches five digits
[1:30:40] Speaker 4: or more now.
[1:30:40] Speaker 2: This is great. That makes me feel better.
[1:30:43] Speaker 4: I think everybody watch Final Genesee 14.
[1:30:46] Speaker 2: That's all. I'll say that right now.
[1:30:47] Speaker 4: If that one doesn't reach enough, then I'll be sad.
[1:30:49] Speaker 4: But watch Final Genesee and we'll be good.
[1:30:51] Speaker 1: Everyone sign up for premium and watch the Goop Troop.
[1:30:54] Speaker 2: Goop Troop rides.
[1:30:55] Speaker 3: Whenever we do something that, like, requires a lot of editing,
[1:30:59] Speaker 3: I do get pleased. You know, I know that our
[1:31:02] Speaker 3: numbers aren't always da best, but seeing Catch Me If
[1:31:06] Speaker 3: You Dan 2 out on YouTube now, like, crack 20K by, like,
[1:31:11] Speaker 3: Monday was like, oh, look at us. That's great. I'm
[1:31:14] Speaker 3: glad about that. Also seeing folks that, like, know of
[1:31:18] Speaker 3: us through friends and our other appearances throughout the internet
[1:31:23] Speaker 3: when they come to watch our stuff and then they
[1:31:25] Speaker 3: start hanging out and stick around. I'm like, oh, that's great.
[1:31:28] Speaker 3: Do that some more, please. We love that. We love that.
[1:31:33] Speaker 3: Let's see. I don't have the emailer here. I'll go
[1:31:37] Speaker 3: look for that later. R from Co, Colorado, I'm assuming. Hello,
[1:31:41] Speaker 3: Giant Bomb. Long time listener. First time emailer. I appreciate that.
[1:31:46] Speaker 3: What each of you bring to the table and look
[1:31:48] Speaker 3: forward to all the content you put out. On to
[1:31:50] Speaker 3: my question. What game studio would you like to see
[1:31:54] Speaker 3: develop a game from a franchise that they were not
[1:31:57] Speaker 3: previously involved with? Example, Insomniac developing an Assassin's Creed game.
[1:32:02] Speaker 3: Thanks for all that you do. And the best of
[1:32:04] Speaker 3: luck to each of you are from Colorado.
[1:32:07] Speaker 2: Yeah. Go ahead, Mike.
[1:32:09] Speaker 4: I want tribute games to people who did that. Teenage
[1:32:12] Speaker 4: Mutant Ninja Turtles beat-em-up and then that Marvel one. I
[1:32:14] Speaker 4: want them to make a Simpsons beat-em-up.
[1:32:16] Speaker 2: That's all.
[1:32:17] Speaker 4: I want a new Simpsons beat-em-up in the style of
[1:32:21] Speaker 4: that classic Konami one.
[1:32:23] Speaker 2: I want a Bob's Burgers beat-em-up. That would be fun.
[1:32:27] Speaker 2: There should be a whole animation domination beat-em-up that has
[1:32:30] Speaker 2: all those Fox animated shows in one universe. PJs? Yes.
[1:32:37] Speaker 2: I want Enhance, the Tetris Effect people to make an
[1:32:42] Speaker 2: enhanced version of DDR. I want the screen to blast
[1:32:48] Speaker 2: me with way too much stuff when I'm trying to dance.
[1:32:50] Speaker 2: I think that'd be cool to see. Oh, that'd be good.
[1:32:52] Speaker 2: That'd be good. I want Housemarque to make a pinball game.
[1:32:55] Speaker 3: Oh, wow. Oh, shit.
[1:32:57] Speaker 2: That's nuts. That would rule.
[1:32:59] Speaker 3: I want IOI to make an Austin Powers game.
[1:33:03] Speaker 2: Yeah. Yes.
[1:33:04] Speaker 4: Yes.
[1:33:05] Speaker 2: God, that'd be so good.
[1:33:06] Speaker 3: After seeing them knock it out of the park with
[1:33:08] Speaker 3: 007 First Light this year, I'm like... Y'all could do anything.
[1:33:11] Speaker 4: It should be the same exact mechanics as that. It's just,
[1:33:14] Speaker 4: it's funnier and it's just all comedic bent to it.
[1:33:16] Speaker 2: But yes. Oh my God.
[1:33:17] Speaker 1: Team Asobi making a 3D Sonic the Hedgehog.
[1:33:21] Speaker 2: God, can you imagine? That'd be a good video game.
[1:33:25] Speaker 2: But like, what about a good character in a video game?
[1:33:27] Speaker 2: Like Astro Bot. They would make you do Astro Bot. Yeah. Sure. Yeah.
[1:33:31] Speaker 5: Like Astro Bot's good because you can like see him.
[1:33:34] Speaker 2: Yeah. And he's not like. Yeah, maybe just. Yeah.
[1:33:38] Speaker 3: The Pacopia team, sorry, I forget who developed it, making
[1:33:43] Speaker 3: an Astro Bot farming game.
[1:33:44] Speaker 1: Isn't that Omega Force? Isn't that the Dynasty Warriors people?
[1:33:47] Speaker 2: Oh, sure. I want to.
[1:33:51] Speaker 2: I want Aiden, or no, I'm sorry, the team that
[1:33:54] Speaker 2: did Street Fighter EX, Eureka, I want them to do
[1:33:58] Speaker 2: a Smash Brothers with all of the Nintendo characters that
[1:34:01] Speaker 2: aren't good enough to be in Smash Brothers. So like
[1:34:03] Speaker 2: Rusty's real deal baseball dog and stuff like that. Mike
[1:34:07] Speaker 2: from Star Tropics. Yes, exactly. Yeah, a little Smash Brothers.
[1:34:11] Speaker 2: And the team, and Skullamania's there, of course.
[1:34:13] Speaker 4: Skullamania's just part of the crew, of course, of course.
[1:34:16] Speaker 2: We all love Scullamania. Scullamania. You guys know Scullamania's backstory,
[1:34:20] Speaker 2: like the OC character from Street Fighter X? He is
[1:34:23] Speaker 2: a Japanese salaryman who went insane and decided to become
[1:34:26] Speaker 2: a superhero, and he doesn't have any powers, but he
[1:34:28] Speaker 2: just fights people. I like that. That's great. Yes, that's great.
[1:34:31] Speaker 2: And he just dresses up as a skeleton and fights Ryu.
[1:34:34] Speaker 4: Somebody in chat just said the Ace Attorney team should
[1:34:36] Speaker 4: make a Frasier game, and that's incredible.
[1:34:39] Speaker 2: That would be fantastic.
[1:34:41] Speaker 5: I think Telltale should make a episodic curb game.
[1:34:44] Speaker 2: Oh, my God. That's a good idea. Their first good game. Yeah.
[1:34:49] Speaker 5: Just like, you know, Susie will remember this.
[1:34:53] Speaker 2: That'd be incredible. That'd be really good. Chuck, make that. Yeah, Chuck,
[1:34:59] Speaker 2: do that.
[1:35:00] Speaker 1: That tells people making a Castlevania would be pretty good, probably.
[1:35:02] Speaker 2: That'd be neat. I would like to see that. Sure, sure, sure.
[1:35:05] Speaker 2: Didn't that basically happen? Right, yeah.
[1:35:08] Speaker 1: If anyone wants to post a McBain gif, go ahead, yeah.
[1:35:16] Speaker 2: Oh! My bad.
[1:35:17] Speaker 3: God, I'm trying to think of like... No, it was great, Mike.
[1:35:19] Speaker 3: What studio is really good at making like a third-person
[1:35:23] Speaker 3: fighting game or like a punchy game? Get the Hulk
[1:35:28] Speaker 3: Ultimate Destruction team to make a wrestling game.
[1:35:31] Speaker 2: Get those kids back together.
[1:35:33] Speaker 1: Wasn't that what they were trying to do with the fucking,
[1:35:36] Speaker 1: what was that?
[1:35:37] Speaker 2: Rumbleverse.
[1:35:38] Speaker 1: Rumbleverse was kind of like that.
[1:35:39] Speaker 2: And it was awesome.
[1:35:40] Speaker 3: God, Rumbleverse. I wish it was more of a thing.
[1:35:43] Speaker 3: Raimi writes in, oh man, do you guys remember how
[1:35:46] Speaker 3: crazy the launch for the PS2 was? My friend and
[1:35:49] Speaker 3: I waited all night in the freezing Alaskan cold to
[1:35:52] Speaker 3: get ours. Remember that year?
[1:35:53] Speaker 2: You do? Great.
[1:35:56] Speaker 3: Then I need to talk to you about your cholesterol.
[1:35:58] Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Get back in here.
[1:36:01] Speaker 3: If you're in the U.S., you've probably never had a
[1:36:03] Speaker 3: blood test for lipoprotein A.
[1:36:07] Speaker 2: Get one.
[1:36:08] Speaker 3: Ask your doctor. You only need it once. Because this
[1:36:11] Speaker 3: one is a number you really can't change. It's genetic.
[1:36:15] Speaker 3: If it's high and it is for one in five
[1:36:19] Speaker 3: of us, then that's good to know, since it puts
[1:36:21] Speaker 3: you at a higher risk for artery shenanigans. And you
[1:36:23] Speaker 3: can use that intel to be healthier, change the numbers
[1:36:26] Speaker 3: you can't change, and avoid a stupid stroke or heart attack.
[1:36:29] Speaker 3: Know the shape of your enemy, you know?
[1:36:30] Speaker 2: All right.
[1:36:31] Speaker 3: You guys are great. Thanks for being out there. And
[1:36:33] Speaker 3: why is Wolverine so sad? I don't think Wolverine has
[1:36:37] Speaker 3: embraced that he is a short king.
[1:36:39] Speaker 2: P.S.
[1:36:40] Speaker 3: My launch PS2 was faulty, but there was such a
[1:36:42] Speaker 3: shortage that the Circuit City in Anchorage, Alaska, wouldn't get
[1:36:46] Speaker 3: a replacement for months. Luckily, my roommates worked fine, and
[1:36:50] Speaker 3: we played the shit out of Tekken Tag Tournament.
[1:36:52] Speaker 2: For next year.
[1:36:53] Speaker 1: Rain yeah oh yeah slept on the sidewalk outside of
[1:36:56] Speaker 1: the best buy in overland park kansas in the rain
[1:36:59] Speaker 1: uh huge line out there some people brought tents and
[1:37:01] Speaker 1: everything super fun people were just like hanging out and
[1:37:03] Speaker 1: tossing footballs around oh yeah and stuff and yeah so
[1:37:07] Speaker 1: excited in that blue box i remember just being so
[1:37:09] Speaker 1: excited i got that and ssx tech and tag tournament
[1:37:12] Speaker 1: and time splitters were the three i got and just
[1:37:14] Speaker 1: had a fucking blast with.
[1:37:15] Speaker 4: It i i was i was kind of uh I
[1:37:19] Speaker 4: now recognize that PS2 is one of the greatest consoles
[1:37:21] Speaker 4: of all time, of course, but around launch, I was
[1:37:23] Speaker 4: sort of.
[1:37:23] Speaker 2: Today? Against it. Mad Hill? Today? Today, you realize? No, no, no.
[1:37:28] Speaker 2: At some point between it launching.
[1:37:30] Speaker 4: Me, I was such a Dreamcast fan, I was very
[1:37:32] Speaker 4: protective because I kind of knew Sega was on the ropes.
[1:37:35] Speaker 4: The PS2 launch was going to be much bigger than
[1:37:37] Speaker 4: I was just already kind of... I played Tekken Tag
[1:37:39] Speaker 4: Tournament 2 at a thing, and my takeaway was, boy,
[1:37:42] Speaker 4: this looks much worse... than Soul Calibur. It does, because, like,
[1:37:45] Speaker 4: that game was basically just using Tekken 3 character models
[1:37:48] Speaker 4: and things like that. And there was the Jaggies, which
[1:37:50] Speaker 4: was a talking point, but they were real!
[1:37:52] Speaker 2: The Jaggies!
[1:37:53] Speaker 1: The Jaggies were such a controversy, and, like, I think about, like,
[1:37:56] Speaker 1: this is well before social media and everything, and, like,
[1:37:58] Speaker 1: that would be the biggest fucking thing. It was so
[1:38:01] Speaker 1: big before social media, people were yelling about that.
[1:38:04] Speaker 2: Sorry, it was the Puddle News of the Day.
[1:38:06] Speaker 1: And, like, before Reddit, I remember being a thing, like,
[1:38:09] Speaker 1: where the fuck were people yelling at each other about this?
[1:38:11] Speaker 2: Like, Right. On forums. Yeah. Absolutely. Comment sections.
[1:38:15] Speaker 4: The launch lineup was not great by any means, really,
[1:38:18] Speaker 4: especially compared to a Dreamcast, even what the GameCube and
[1:38:21] Speaker 4: Xbox would have.
[1:38:22] Speaker 2: To be fair, Mike, Sony did do everything they could
[1:38:26] Speaker 2: to put Sega out of business. They designed that console
[1:38:29] Speaker 2: to fuck Sega.
[1:38:30] Speaker 4: And I was bitter about that for a while because
[1:38:31] Speaker 4: I loved my Dreamcast a lot. So it took me
[1:38:35] Speaker 4: a bit to get over the killing Dreamcast aspect of
[1:38:38] Speaker 4: the PS2.
[1:38:39] Speaker 2: Aw, buddy. Did I ever tell you guys my PS2 story?
[1:38:43] Speaker 4: No.
[1:38:43] Speaker 2: No, tell us. No, no, no. I pre-ordered one. I
[1:38:46] Speaker 2: was 18 years old. Pre-ordered one freshman year in college.
[1:38:51] Speaker 2: And I was.
[1:38:53] Speaker 5: Such a naive, stupid, stupid little boy. I brought it
[1:38:57] Speaker 5: to college with me.
[1:38:59] Speaker 2: Oh. And I'm like, oh, in a dorm.
[1:39:01] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[1:39:02] Speaker 2: And just was like, oh, I'm just going to leave
[1:39:04] Speaker 2: it in my room and... I think we have very
[1:39:06] Speaker 2: similar PS2 stories. It walked away in like four days. Oh, man.
[1:39:12] Speaker 2: I bought a PS2 for Shadow of the Colossus. Same thing. Yeah. Right.
[1:39:16] Speaker 5: And I like, I don't know, you know, obviously all
[1:39:18] Speaker 5: these years later, you're just like, what a fucking moron.
[1:39:21] Speaker 5: Why would you bring that? Like, it wasn't like an apartment.
[1:39:23] Speaker 2: It was a dorm.
[1:39:24] Speaker 5: Everyone gets into the, you know, uh, just didn't know, learned,
[1:39:27] Speaker 5: learned a hard lesson that week. And, uh, it took me,
[1:39:32] Speaker 5: so this is nuts. And then I, uh, we were back,
[1:39:34] Speaker 5: I guess, for like Thanksgiving break or whatever it was.
[1:39:38] Speaker 5: And I was freaking out because it came out in
[1:39:40] Speaker 5: October and I'd gone about a month without it.
[1:39:42] Speaker 2: And I'm upset.
[1:39:44] Speaker 5: And I was on some forum. Oh, that was like, uh,
[1:39:47] Speaker 5: people were updating, uh, this thread with new, uh, New
[1:39:51] Speaker 5: Jersey toys or Russ's. And I found one, I raced
[1:39:55] Speaker 5: over to one and I like begged the guy and
[1:39:57] Speaker 5: he kept saying, we don't have it.
[1:39:58] Speaker 2: We don't have it. And I'm like, are you sure?
[1:40:00] Speaker 5: I just, I just, I just read some forum thread
[1:40:03] Speaker 5: that said you guys have them. And then, and And
[1:40:06] Speaker 5: he's like, who are you little kid? And then sure enough,
[1:40:09] Speaker 5: a dude behind him took a big Brown box and
[1:40:12] Speaker 5: unboxed three blue boxes out of it.
[1:40:14] Speaker 1: Here you go.
[1:40:16] Speaker 2: And I was like, wow.
[1:40:18] Speaker 5: And that was, and luckily all my games were, uh,
[1:40:21] Speaker 5: were saved. They just took the console.
[1:40:23] Speaker 2: So I had, I think I had NHL SSX for sure.
[1:40:26] Speaker 2: Oh man. In time splitters.
[1:40:28] Speaker 5: And yeah, man, but it was, uh, not, not even young.
[1:40:32] Speaker 2: That's the story. I.
[1:40:34] Speaker 1: Uh, that same era, I remember I was in college
[1:40:36] Speaker 1: and I went home for winter break and I brought
[1:40:38] Speaker 1: my GameCube because I was working on like Metroid Prime
[1:40:40] Speaker 1: and a bunch of like Animal Crossing, a bunch of
[1:40:42] Speaker 1: like GameCube games I was like deep into. And I
[1:40:45] Speaker 1: went back home, back to college and I realized, fuck,
[1:40:49] Speaker 1: I left my memory card there. And so I just,
[1:40:52] Speaker 1: I don't know if I had text at the time,
[1:40:54] Speaker 1: but I got ahold of Kayla and I was like, Kayla,
[1:40:56] Speaker 1: you're the only one in that house that knows what
[1:40:57] Speaker 1: a GameCube memory card looks like. Can you mail it
[1:40:59] Speaker 1: to me at college? And then, I, you know, a
[1:41:03] Speaker 1: week later, whatever, I get a letter in the mail,
[1:41:06] Speaker 1: standard ass envelope, just licked and sealed, stamp put on it,
[1:41:10] Speaker 1: memory card sized hole in the corner of it, and
[1:41:13] Speaker 1: no memory cards.
[1:41:14] Speaker 2: Oh, man.
[1:41:15] Speaker 1: Yep, you're fucked on those saves forever. No more animal
[1:41:19] Speaker 1: chunks in town.
[1:41:20] Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
[1:41:22] Speaker 1: Like, not even a piece of paper around it or
[1:41:24] Speaker 1: bubble wrap.
[1:41:25] Speaker 2: Just in an envelope. Good to go. Wow.
[1:41:30] Speaker 1: Kayla, I'm so salty about that.
[1:41:33] Speaker 2: I guess on you, Dan, for not properly explaining what
[1:41:35] Speaker 2: she should have done there. This is all your fault. Well,
[1:41:36] Speaker 2: I made assumptions. Yep. Sure, sure.
[1:41:41] Speaker 3: Well, that was a very traumatizing memory, Dan and Mr.
[1:41:44] Speaker 2: Bacalar.
[1:41:45] Speaker 3: Speaking about trauma, Valerie from Denver writes in, and the
[1:41:49] Speaker 3: subject line reads, Traumatize me, Daddy. Hiya, Bombers. Obsession, Midsommar,
[1:41:55] Speaker 3: and Hereditary. have all legitimately traumatized me. I've had panic
[1:41:58] Speaker 3: attacks in each of them that I had to do
[1:42:00] Speaker 3: breathing exercises to get through and had nightmares about each
[1:42:02] Speaker 3: of them. I love it when this happens because it
[1:42:04] Speaker 3: makes me finally feel something again. I even have a
[1:42:07] Speaker 3: Midsommar tattoo. I attached a picture here for Jan. If
[1:42:10] Speaker 3: you're curious, what other media can you recommend that will
[1:42:12] Speaker 3: mentally scar me and or give me PTSD? Thanks, hugs, kisses,
[1:42:15] Speaker 3: Valerie from Denver. Jeez.
[1:42:17] Speaker 2: You i don't know if this is healthy i if
[1:42:21] Speaker 2: you're playing around in a safe space and you kind
[1:42:24] Speaker 2: of know what to expect i don't know it sounds
[1:42:26] Speaker 2: like they have a good grasp on it i.
[1:42:28] Speaker 1: Mean documentary about a dark subject that too they want.
[1:42:32] Speaker 2: Fiction it's really gonna depend on what the next words
[1:42:35] Speaker 2: are i mean i.
[1:42:35] Speaker 1: Mean it's a genuinely horrifying uh so i'm not gonna
[1:42:38] Speaker 1: recommend it it's uh yeah.
[1:42:40] Speaker 2: I don't know, I just feel like a panic attack's
[1:42:42] Speaker 2: a bad thing.
[1:42:44] Speaker 5: And you don't want to do that on purpose.
[1:42:46] Speaker 4: They must be having different panic attacks Than the panic
[1:42:48] Speaker 4: attacks I'm thinking of, I don't know In the movie
[1:42:51] Speaker 4: Drag Me to Hell or whatever You won't believe what
[1:42:54] Speaker 4: happens to the main character At the end of that one,
[1:42:56] Speaker 4: so that might upset you.
[1:43:00] Speaker 7: If you're looking for a video game Oh, Audition The
[1:43:02] Speaker 7: movie Audition Yeah, you know I think Yeah, go ahead
[1:43:08] Speaker 7: If you're looking for a video game and maybe less
[1:43:12] Speaker 7: of the horror realm, well, okay, one horror, one not.
[1:43:15] Speaker 2: Two recommendations.
[1:43:16] Speaker 3: Go play Mouthwashing. I think that may get to similar
[1:43:21] Speaker 3: levels that you are talking about. Email her. And then
[1:43:24] Speaker 3: the other one, go on an emotional roller coaster. I've
[1:43:27] Speaker 3: talked about this at length in the past.
[1:43:29] Speaker 2: And Roger.
[1:43:30] Speaker 3: That'll traumatize you in perhaps a different way.
[1:43:32] Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
[1:43:32] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[1:43:35] Speaker 2: I think if you watch, I don't know. I do
[1:43:38] Speaker 2: think it.
[1:43:41] Speaker 5: Has been aging in a really distressing way is Children
[1:43:45] Speaker 5: of Men.
[1:43:45] Speaker 2: I like that movie, sure.
[1:43:47] Speaker 5: Children of Men, if you take it at face value,
[1:43:50] Speaker 5: is becoming increasingly horrifying. And again, if this is your kink,
[1:43:56] Speaker 5: this is what you want.
[1:43:58] Speaker 2: There you go.
[1:43:59] Speaker 3: Bojack Horseman while we're at it.
[1:44:01] Speaker 2: Yeah, right? That's funny.
[1:44:04] Speaker 4: Requiem for a Dream's a classic kind of just.
[1:44:07] Speaker 2: Ah, it's a fun one. I mean, that's a fun one.
[1:44:09] Speaker 2: I think at the end it's pretty upsetting. I don't know.
[1:44:12] Speaker 1: That's Aronofsky's whole thing is that vibe.
[1:44:15] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[1:44:16] Speaker 3: All right, Valerie, I hope you are doing whatever you're
[1:44:19] Speaker 3: doing responsibly, please. Travis in Fargo writes in with five questions.
[1:44:23] Speaker 3: I choose one of them. Travis writes in, how was
[1:44:24] Speaker 3: your summer? Did you get everything done you wanted to?
[1:44:28] Speaker 2: God, summer went by so fast. I can't believe it's
[1:44:32] Speaker 2: fall already. That laundry room's still not fully done. I
[1:44:35] Speaker 2: got to attach the plumbing and the sink and stuff
[1:44:38] Speaker 2: like that. It's closed, though. All the stuff's in there now.
[1:44:40] Speaker 4: I still have a half-completed display case in my living room,
[1:44:43] Speaker 4: which I might get done with my brother's help tonight.
[1:44:45] Speaker 2: I don't know. I actually really enjoyed this summer.
[1:44:48] Speaker 5: This is the first time in 44 years that I've said,
[1:44:52] Speaker 5: you know what?
[1:44:52] Speaker 2: That was a good summer. Not a bad summer. I'm glad.
[1:44:56] Speaker 5: Thank you it wasn't too too hot uh we had
[1:45:00] Speaker 5: a kid go away for three weeks that was awesome
[1:45:03] Speaker 5: because we got to go away three weekends in a
[1:45:06] Speaker 5: row that.
[1:45:07] Speaker 2: Was sweet uh.
[1:45:09] Speaker 5: So it was you know yeah like it went by
[1:45:11] Speaker 5: fast that's what you wanted to do yeah good job summer.
[1:45:16] Speaker 2: Mine was really good.
[1:45:17] Speaker 1: Did a lot of fun things. It's kind of bittersweet.
[1:45:19] Speaker 1: Cause like a lot of the fun was like getting
[1:45:20] Speaker 1: really in on the, the marathon training and like pushing
[1:45:22] Speaker 1: myself farther than I ever have. And then now I'm
[1:45:24] Speaker 1: dealing with the kind of aftermath of that and the
[1:45:27] Speaker 1: injury stuff and everything. So, uh, Yeah, a little bittersweet
[1:45:30] Speaker 1: on that. Probably my last summer of running, so yeah.
[1:45:33] Speaker 2: Do you feel like any grief of like, oh man,
[1:45:36] Speaker 2: my running life is over and stuff like that? No. No,
[1:45:40] Speaker 2: that's okay.
[1:45:40] Speaker 1: With several doctors now telling me like, don't run, because
[1:45:42] Speaker 1: I was still going to run the marathon, which is
[1:45:44] Speaker 1: in like a week basically, and like every doctor was
[1:45:46] Speaker 1: just like, don't do this, you're going to fuck yourself.
[1:45:48] Speaker 1: For those that don't know, it's just like, it's not a,
[1:45:51] Speaker 1: I'm just dealing with some like pinched nerve shit and everything.
[1:45:53] Speaker 1: It sounds like I didn't have enough core strength really.
[1:45:55] Speaker 1: And so my back and my shoulders and everything really
[1:45:57] Speaker 1: had to compensate and nerves are all fucked up. And
[1:45:59] Speaker 1: so it's a very messy, I'm getting MRIs this week
[1:46:02] Speaker 1: and all that. Anyway, I'll be fine. But no, when
[1:46:05] Speaker 1: they told me like, don't do it.
[1:46:06] Speaker 2: It's like, all right. Yeah.
[1:46:07] Speaker 1: I was already feeling enough pain and everything that it
[1:46:08] Speaker 1: was like, I'm not going to just out of pure stubbornness.
[1:46:12] Speaker 2: Put myself through this, you know, like the fact that, yeah,
[1:46:14] Speaker 2: you know, the fact you've made the decision not to
[1:46:15] Speaker 2: do it anymore. Is that like, well, man, now part
[1:46:18] Speaker 2: of my life is missing.
[1:46:19] Speaker 1: Cause I, part of what I loved so much about
[1:46:21] Speaker 1: it was, was that when you have a goal, it
[1:46:23] Speaker 1: is like, it keeps you on track and you have
[1:46:25] Speaker 1: to do that and you have to stay in shape
[1:46:26] Speaker 1: and do all that. And so like, yeah, I think
[1:46:28] Speaker 1: it was like the day I decided I'm going to
[1:46:30] Speaker 1: not do this next year. I texted Hanson about like,
[1:46:33] Speaker 1: you know, Minneapolis is an incredible biking city. And so
[1:46:36] Speaker 1: I was like, it's like, Hey, do you like, do
[1:46:38] Speaker 1: you want to plan on doing like a hundred mile
[1:46:39] Speaker 1: bike ride in the fall or something like that? And
[1:46:41] Speaker 1: maybe next week I got a nice bike and there's
[1:46:43] Speaker 1: trails all around me. Like maybe next week.
[1:46:45] Speaker 2: Portland and be naked.
[1:46:48] Speaker 1: No, it's okay. I don't need my dong hanging out
[1:46:50] Speaker 1: or anything.
[1:46:51] Speaker 2: We did see naked people on a bike. I thought
[1:46:53] Speaker 2: we were going to, and then we did. We did, yeah.
[1:46:54] Speaker 2: You did, yeah? They just don't have public indecency laws
[1:46:57] Speaker 2: or something. I forget why it was okay. I don't care.
[1:47:01] Speaker 2: That's right. You're such a narc, man. The whole idea
[1:47:03] Speaker 2: is that men are allowed to take their shirt off
[1:47:05] Speaker 2: in public, so women were like, you can too, and
[1:47:07] Speaker 2: then that was that. And then Portland's like, well, what
[1:47:10] Speaker 2: about pants? Who's against this? Mike is. I'm not against it. Oh, yeah, yeah.
[1:47:15] Speaker 2: People being naked? You just complained about decency laws. What
[1:47:18] Speaker 2: do you mean?
[1:47:18] Speaker 4: It's just like living in one system for a long
[1:47:20] Speaker 4: time and just being like, oh, there's a penis.
[1:47:23] Speaker 2: Oh, man.
[1:47:23] Speaker 3: This past weekend, Mikey, in San Francisco was the Folsom
[1:47:26] Speaker 3: Street Fair. You would not have done well.
[1:47:29] Speaker 2: Folsom. Folsom.
[1:47:30] Speaker 1: Folsom Street Fair. I think I saw a Channel 5
[1:47:32] Speaker 1: video about that.
[1:47:35] Speaker 4: I'm getting concerned being portrayed as a Puritan here.
[1:47:38] Speaker 2: I think it's great that they all get naked in Portland.
[1:47:40] Speaker 2: That's fantastic.
[1:47:42] Speaker 4: I won't even play the, will somebody think of the
[1:47:44] Speaker 4: children card? I'm not going to do it.
[1:47:45] Speaker 2: I don't care. They'll be fine. I didn't see a
[1:47:47] Speaker 2: single child that entire weekend, actually. I don't think they
[1:47:50] Speaker 2: have kids in Portland. No, I don't think so.
[1:47:53] Speaker 3: My summer was, other than being in the hospital and
[1:47:57] Speaker 3: then still recovering from that, I think it was okay.
[1:48:02] Speaker 3: One of my best friends got married, had some very
[1:48:06] Speaker 3: good company this whole time, yourselves included. It was okay.
[1:48:12] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[1:48:13] Speaker 3: I'd say a three and a half out of five
[1:48:15] Speaker 3: for me personally.
[1:48:15] Speaker 2: Okay. Lake Michigan still exists and I enjoyed it quite
[1:48:18] Speaker 2: a bit. And that's kind of all I need for
[1:48:19] Speaker 2: my summer.
[1:48:20] Speaker 4: I had the, probably the New Orleans trip I did
[1:48:22] Speaker 4: was the best thing I did this summer. Of course,
[1:48:25] Speaker 4: our road trip out West was a ton of fun.
[1:48:26] Speaker 4: The Miss convention as well. it just felt like it
[1:48:30] Speaker 4: all went by really fast this year.
[1:48:32] Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
[1:48:36] Speaker 4: I didn't go outdoors enough. Like I should have been
[1:48:37] Speaker 4: like going out and walking more and things like that.
[1:48:39] Speaker 2: But yeah.
[1:48:40] Speaker 1: Walking is like that's the thing i'm doing now that
[1:48:42] Speaker 1: i'm not running it's like fucking walking it's great for
[1:48:44] Speaker 1: you walking it doesn't.
[1:48:45] Speaker 8: Beat up your joints right after this walking yeah unfortunately
[1:48:50] Speaker 8: yeah from what i can gather dan i hate to
[1:48:52] Speaker 8: be the bearer of bad news when i can gather
[1:48:54] Speaker 8: running is probably the worst thing you can do for
[1:48:56] Speaker 8: your body.
[1:48:56] Speaker 1: Yeah and again is that like people do this because
[1:48:59] Speaker 1: it's like an extreme challenge and stuff but it's like
[1:49:01] Speaker 1: it's fucking bad for you like and it's like i've
[1:49:05] Speaker 1: heard from people that do this you know i've done
[1:49:07] Speaker 1: several marathons that like They're very good at letting your
[1:49:10] Speaker 1: body know or letting you know what's fucked up with
[1:49:12] Speaker 1: your body. And so it's like, now I know I
[1:49:14] Speaker 1: really need to work on core strength. Now I know
[1:49:16] Speaker 1: I need this or like I needed to loosen up
[1:49:17] Speaker 1: my shoulders, neck and shit like that. Yeah. I, uh, Hey,
[1:49:21] Speaker 1: props to anyone who does it and does it well
[1:49:23] Speaker 1: and doesn't get hurt and stuff. But like, man, I
[1:49:25] Speaker 1: got to 16 miles was my longest run at the
[1:49:28] Speaker 1: back spasm a few days after that. And that's when
[1:49:30] Speaker 1: my body was just like, Hey, 16 is about where
[1:49:33] Speaker 1: we top off here.
[1:49:33] Speaker 2: You know, we got to chill out with all our limits.
[1:49:36] Speaker 3: Yep.
[1:49:37] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[1:49:37] Speaker 3: We should, we should, uh, yes, we should do a podcast.
[1:49:40] Speaker 3: It doesn't have to be the bomb cast or the
[1:49:42] Speaker 3: dump truck, just a one-off pod, just an actual big walk.
[1:49:46] Speaker 3: We all just call into a discord and we're just
[1:49:48] Speaker 3: going for a walk.
[1:49:49] Speaker 2: I'm, Oh, I like that. That sounds great.
[1:49:50] Speaker 3: And we just talk about, like, what do you see
[1:49:52] Speaker 3: on your walk? What's happening?
[1:49:53] Speaker 2: What's going on? We have a bird challenge. Yeah. Ooh, yeah, yeah.
[1:49:57] Speaker 1: We have coyotes running around right now. We're going to
[1:49:59] Speaker 1: attack a coyote on a stream.
[1:50:00] Speaker 2: There we go. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, right. Can I interrupt
[1:50:04] Speaker 2: with my own live email? No.
[1:50:06] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[1:50:06] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[1:50:07] Speaker 2: Yes. I think you're outvoted, Jan. It's a joke.
[1:50:11] Speaker 3: No.
[1:50:12] Speaker 2: On Metacritic, they have the top 10 highest rated games
[1:50:15] Speaker 2: of the year so far. Do you guys want to
[1:50:17] Speaker 2: try to guess them? You're going to need some clues.
[1:50:20] Speaker 2: The top 10 highest rated released games in 2026. So
[1:50:24] Speaker 2: this will include some games that got new versions on
[1:50:26] Speaker 2: new consoles this year.
[1:50:28] Speaker 4: I do know that one of them is some kind
[1:50:29] Speaker 4: of weird I Spy kind of game, basically.
[1:50:32] Speaker 2: Like a Where's Waldo-like. I cannot remember the name of it.
[1:50:36] Speaker 2: So there was.
[1:50:39] Speaker 2: Dan, you might have played this. And Roger's number 10
[1:50:42] Speaker 2: is the one I think you.
[1:50:42] Speaker 1: Guys might not get to play. That's what Jan mentioned earlier.
[1:50:45] Speaker 1: That's number 10.
[1:50:46] Speaker 2: I don't see any other game that could be in
[1:50:49] Speaker 2: my spot.
[1:50:50] Speaker 3: Trails 2nd, or whatever it's called.
[1:50:52] Speaker 2: Trails of the Sky 2nd. Yes, that's number 3.
[1:50:55] Speaker 1: Requiem.
[1:50:57] Speaker 2: That is not in the top 10. So the lowest
[1:51:00] Speaker 2: score on here, and this is Metacritic, is a 90.
[1:51:03] Speaker 2: That's And Roger. Nina the Holloware is on there. It's
[1:51:06] Speaker 2: number 9, also a 90. Boy, just that.
[1:51:10] Speaker 1: Ace Combat's doing well, I heard.
[1:51:12] Speaker 2: Ace Combat's not on here yet, but that might just
[1:51:15] Speaker 2: be a matter of... No, I don't think it's in
[1:51:17] Speaker 2: the 90s. I don't think it's in the 90s. Big Walk?
[1:51:18] Speaker 2: Dang it. BigWalk is number four at a 91. Cool. Wow.
[1:51:23] Speaker 2: Hell yeah. Okay, so let's see. I think there's one
[1:51:26] Speaker 2: other brand new release, and then the others are new
[1:51:31] Speaker 2: updated versions or ports for other consoles this year, and
[1:51:34] Speaker 2: I'll begin giving you guys good hints on those soon.
[1:51:35] Speaker 2: Is Mixtape still there? I know it's really high up.
[1:51:38] Speaker 2: Mixtape is not in the top 10. Oh, wait. Pacopia?
[1:51:42] Speaker 2: Pacopia is not in the top 10. Fire Emblem. No.
[1:51:45] Speaker 2: Fire Emblem, no. No.
[1:51:48] Speaker 3: First Light?
[1:51:49] Speaker 2: Oh, no. It is a game you guys should get,
[1:51:51] Speaker 2: but it's a game that we talked about a lot
[1:51:53] Speaker 2: and have stopped talking about. Not, I think, because the
[1:51:55] Speaker 2: game is in any way forgettable. Just, we stopped talking
[1:51:58] Speaker 2: about it. Right, right, right. It is an Xbox game. Oh, Forza.
[1:52:03] Speaker 2: It's Forza Horizon. I keep forgetting about Forza Horizon being
[1:52:06] Speaker 2: one of the best games of the year. Yeah, that's
[1:52:07] Speaker 2: really good. It is really good. Forza Horizon 6 is
[1:52:10] Speaker 2: also a 90. It is at number 6. Okay, so then,
[1:52:13] Speaker 2: let's see. Number 1 just got its update. It has
[1:52:16] Speaker 2: a new expansion that's coming out next year. Oh, so
[1:52:18] Speaker 2: Witcher 3? Witcher. Witcher 3 Wild Hunt Remastered is a
[1:52:22] Speaker 2: 94 on Metacritic, the highest rated game of the year.
[1:52:25] Speaker 2: Number two is one of my favorite games of last year.
[1:52:28] Speaker 2: Got a Switch release this year. Sektori? Sektori is a
[1:52:35] Speaker 2: 90 fucking four on it. Yes. Wow. That's awesome. Well deserved. Yes.
[1:52:41] Speaker 2: Well deserved. And then, yes, so I said Trails in
[1:52:43] Speaker 2: the Sky was number three. Big Walk is number four.
[1:52:45] Speaker 2: Number five is an expansion for a first person shooter
[1:52:48] Speaker 2: that kind of like everyone's like, oh, now this game
[1:52:50] Speaker 2: is great. Doom? Eternals? Doom, the Dark Ages, Revelations. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah.
[1:52:55] Speaker 2: Number six is Forza Horizon 6. Number seven is a 1.0
[1:52:58] Speaker 2: release that just happened. Seven. Control? Oh, Control. It's a mystery. Close. Nope. Oh, Valheim. Valheim. Yes,
[1:53:08] Speaker 2: Valheim is number seven. Number eight is one of the
[1:53:11] Speaker 2: best games of all time. Got a Switch 2 version.
[1:53:14] Speaker 1: Metroid Prime 4?
[1:53:15] Speaker 2: Nope. Dread? Is it Elden Ring? Oh, they're fuckers. It
[1:53:19] Speaker 2: is Elden Ring Tarnished Edition. Oh, that's right. Sure, sure.
[1:53:22] Speaker 2: And then number nine is Meet at the Hollower and
[1:53:24] Speaker 2: number 10 is And Roger. Do you guys want to
[1:53:26] Speaker 2: just throw out a couple games to see where they
[1:53:28] Speaker 2: landed on the list so far? Pocopia, you can mention that.
[1:53:30] Speaker 2: It was number 14. Where's Pragmata? Fire... Fire Emblem Fortunes
[1:53:33] Speaker 2: Weave is 15. Resident Evil Requiem is 16. That's high, man.
[1:53:37] Speaker 2: Desktop Explorer is number 17. I talked about that. Fields
[1:53:40] Speaker 2: of Mysteria, number 18. Densha Attack is 20. I'm looking
[1:53:44] Speaker 2: for Pragmata. Eugenics is 21. Lower on there. Ace Combat
[1:53:46] Speaker 2: is 22. 007 First Light is 23. Soros is 24.
[1:53:48] Speaker 2: I'm going to go to this next page and then
[1:53:49] Speaker 2: look for Pragmata. Oh, Nioh 3 is 31. That's above there.
[1:54:01] Speaker 2: Mixtape is 32. Where did you say First Light was?
[1:54:05] Speaker 2: Did I say like 2022 or something? Something like that.
[1:54:09] Speaker 2: It's 23. All right. I'm going to control F for Pragmata. Wow.
[1:54:13] Speaker 2: Pragmata is 44 behind Onimusha at 42. Oh, okay.
[1:54:17] Speaker 1: That's so good.
[1:54:20] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[1:54:20] Speaker 4: Now I'm like, what was this game that I kept?
[1:54:21] Speaker 4: Because I would look at this every once in a while.
[1:54:23] Speaker 4: I'm like, it kept telling me like one of the
[1:54:24] Speaker 4: best reviewed games of the year was some.
[1:54:27] Speaker 2: Is that maybe on OpenCritic? Oh, maybe it was just OpenCritic.
[1:54:32] Speaker 4: Right, and like, we don't consider this an important game
[1:54:35] Speaker 4: for some reason, which is weird. Because yeah, on OpenCritic,
[1:54:40] Speaker 4: there's a game with a 90 rating on 39 reviews
[1:54:44] Speaker 4: called Schrodinger's Call. I don't really know what that is.
[1:54:49] Speaker 2: It's not real.
[1:54:50] Speaker 4: Oh, that's Lost and Found Co. is the one I
[1:54:51] Speaker 4: was thinking of.
[1:54:52] Speaker 2: It's got a 90. Yeah, right, yes. That was like
[1:54:55] Speaker 2: number one for a long time.
[1:54:56] Speaker 4: Right, and it's just some kind of Where's Waldo style
[1:54:59] Speaker 4: game as far as I can tell that people who
[1:55:01] Speaker 4: play it seem to really like.
[1:55:02] Speaker 2: Okey dokey.
[1:55:05] Speaker 3: Thank you for that surprise email, Mr.
[1:55:06] Speaker 2: Grubb. Thanks, guys.
[1:55:09] Speaker 3: A lot of kind words from the travelogue from Catch
[1:55:12] Speaker 3: Me If You Dan 2. Thank you, everyone, for sending
[1:55:14] Speaker 3: those along. Last email from the show before we get
[1:55:17] Speaker 3: to Super Chats. Tom from Vallejo writes in, Hey Bomb Crew,
[1:55:20] Speaker 3: at Anime Expo 2026, I met Oni Giri, a VTuber
[1:55:25] Speaker 3: who does cooking streams. So naturally, I brought up Dan
[1:55:28] Speaker 3: and his food slash cooking exploits. She finds them hilarious
[1:55:31] Speaker 3: from what I told her and wants to know more.
[1:55:33] Speaker 3: So I'm here trying to make that collab happen. What
[1:55:36] Speaker 3: are some far-fetched collaborations you guys want to do that's
[1:55:39] Speaker 3: typically outside of your wheelhouse if you could collab with anyone,
[1:55:42] Speaker 3: both realistic and unrealistic? Been listening since 2018. Hopefully when
[1:55:46] Speaker 3: my emails get read one day, it'll be a huge honor.
[1:55:49] Speaker 2: Thanks, guys.
[1:55:49] Speaker 3: Here you go, Tom. Tom from Vallejo.
[1:55:51] Speaker 2: There you go. You think we can get Guga, Jan?
[1:55:56] Speaker 3: Uh, yeah. I'll say we could get Guga.
[1:55:59] Speaker 4: Guga's kind of the steak guy on food YouTube, right?
[1:56:03] Speaker 3: Learned about picanha from him.
[1:56:05] Speaker 4: Yes, he's a big proponent of picanha as Guga.
[1:56:07] Speaker 2: Dave Letterman. Yeah, there you go.
[1:56:12] Speaker 3: Sure.
[1:56:12] Speaker 2: That'd be fun.
[1:56:15] Speaker 3: Any other big collabs, gang? People outside the wheelhouse. Don't
[1:56:19] Speaker 3: have to be in games.
[1:56:22] Speaker 2: I want to talk to Al Gore about inventing the internet.
[1:56:25] Speaker 2: What was that like? Yeah.
[1:56:28] Speaker 3: My pie in the sky goal. And I feel like
[1:56:30] Speaker 3: this could potentially do this. I want Pablo Torre. We
[1:56:34] Speaker 3: need to get Pablo Torre on something. He's the smartest
[1:56:37] Speaker 3: man on the Internet.
[1:56:39] Speaker 2: He's very cool. Yes.
[1:56:40] Speaker 3: Be my big brother, please.
[1:56:42] Speaker 2: Oh, technology connection. Oh, yeah. Good call, man. That's a dude. Oh, yeah. Okay. Okay.
[1:56:51] Speaker 2: All right.
[1:56:51] Speaker 3: Bombcastgiantbomb.com is the email address. Send your emails to, you
[1:56:55] Speaker 3: can write in about any and everything and we appreciate
[1:56:57] Speaker 3: it all.
[1:56:58] Speaker 2: So Dr.
[1:56:58] Speaker 1: Ryan just said Nathan Fielder and I, yes, but also
[1:57:01] Speaker 1: what the fuck would that even be?
[1:57:02] Speaker 2: Yeah. I'd be scared.
[1:57:04] Speaker 1: I just want to shadow him for like a year,
[1:57:06] Speaker 1: you know?
[1:57:07] Speaker 2: Yeah. And if we had Pablo Torreon, would I have
[1:57:09] Speaker 2: to do the hand to head thing? The mono thing?
[1:57:12] Speaker 2: The monopole?
[1:57:13] Speaker 3: Uh, no, he would have to maybe do it to you. Um,
[1:57:17] Speaker 3: I would have to do it to him as my elder, respectfully.
[1:57:21] Speaker 2: Oh, okay. Understood. Yes, yes, yes.
[1:57:24] Speaker 3: Mike Minotti hit me with some YouTube super chats. If
[1:57:27] Speaker 3: we got any.
[1:57:28] Speaker 2: All right. We do. We do. Thank you so much, everybody.
[1:57:31] Speaker 4: Migsy says, Jeff Bacalar, don't forget to wake up Green
[1:57:33] Speaker 4: Day with Ska.
[1:57:36] Speaker 3: Oh, because September's ending.
[1:57:37] Speaker 2: I'm sorry? That's okay. I was like.
[1:57:41] Speaker 4: Sometimes I say these and I'm like, boy, I hope
[1:57:43] Speaker 4: the person this is directed at understands it.
[1:57:46] Speaker 2: Don't forget to what?
[1:57:47] Speaker 4: Don't forget to wake up Green Day with Ska.
[1:57:50] Speaker 2: With Ska? Yeah, because you've got to wake me up when...
[1:57:53] Speaker 2: September ends. Oh, gotcha, gotcha. But why Ska? Because you
[1:57:58] Speaker 2: like Ska. I don't know.
[1:57:59] Speaker 1: I think it's the joke.
[1:58:00] Speaker 7: Oh.
[1:58:01] Speaker 1: Ha. Max. Summer's saying it's the least authentic reaction ever.
[1:58:09] Speaker 2: Nope.
[1:58:09] Speaker 3: That's a real laugh from him.
[1:58:10] Speaker 1: Sometimes he's never laughed harder to be clear.
[1:58:14] Speaker 5: I do like Scott Scott's back in a big way,
[1:58:18] Speaker 5: but also.
[1:58:19] Speaker 2: Why male models? Are you serious? I just told you.
[1:58:25] Speaker 4: Max Dot Circuit says, Mike, you see newfound glory at Epcot. No,
[1:58:30] Speaker 4: for the Food and Wine Festival concert series, there was
[1:58:32] Speaker 4: a band called Element, I think, and I saw them
[1:58:36] Speaker 4: rehearsing as I walked by, but I did not watch
[1:58:38] Speaker 4: the concert.
[1:58:38] Speaker 5: Oh, we can't hear newfound glory without saying, rest in peace,
[1:58:41] Speaker 5: Jack Gilbert.
[1:58:42] Speaker 2: Very sad.
[1:58:44] Speaker 4: Alex Agogo says, YouTube wouldn't let me call Jeff Grubb
[1:58:46] Speaker 4: the thing I wanted to call him after what he
[1:58:48] Speaker 4: did to Mike. He deserves cyber... Dylan.
[1:58:52] Speaker 2: Yeah. Good news. Grub. Yeah.
[1:58:54] Speaker 3: Good.
[1:58:55] Speaker 1: Right.
[1:58:55] Speaker 2: Good news. I'm getting cyber Dillow. Cool. I think it
[1:58:59] Speaker 2: fits the crime.
[1:58:59] Speaker 4: I think as a, uh, yeah, I think as recompense
[1:59:02] Speaker 4: for this, I should be allowed to have one more,
[1:59:04] Speaker 4: one March Simpson.
[1:59:05] Speaker 2: Hey kids, can we lighten up.
[1:59:07] Speaker 4: A little during grub a little tomorrow when you're being
[1:59:09] Speaker 4: extra sad and, uh, upset at the game?
[1:59:12] Speaker 2: Oh yeah, definitely. Okay.
[1:59:13] Speaker 1: Now we'll know if karma is real Mike. Cause you know,
[1:59:15] Speaker 1: if it is, you'll win blight in the bank at
[1:59:16] Speaker 1: the bombathon this year.
[1:59:17] Speaker 2: Right. Oh, that's true.
[1:59:18] Speaker 3: It's true.
[1:59:19] Speaker 2: Oh, Antonio Morales says that this counts.
[1:59:21] Speaker 3: Spoiler, it's not real.
[1:59:22] Speaker 2: It's not a thing. Spoiler. Sorry, Mike. It's real.
[1:59:25] Speaker 4: Antonio Morales says, does this count as grub escalating?
[1:59:29] Speaker 2: It's something. It's not de-escalating. That's for sure. I met
[1:59:33] Speaker 2: Antonio Morales at All Out. He was very nice. Very
[1:59:36] Speaker 2: nice to meet him. There we go. Shout out to
[1:59:38] Speaker 2: Big Tony. Did he live up to the name Big Tony?
[1:59:41] Speaker 2: He was big.
[1:59:41] Speaker 1: He was significantly taller than me.
[1:59:43] Speaker 2: Yes, yes. Hell yeah. Bigger than Biggles Jan?
[1:59:47] Speaker 3: Yes, that's my favorite thing to come out of Final
[1:59:49] Speaker 3: Jantacy is naming the Lollapal Biggles Jant.
[1:59:55] Speaker 2: Very good. All right.
[1:59:56] Speaker 4: Thank you, MattoFit, for joining Giant Bomb Premium on YouTube.
[1:59:58] Speaker 2: Appreciate that.
[1:59:59] Speaker 4: Zombie Porn says, Mike and Sean should play the new
[2:00:02] Speaker 4: Pokemon games without Jan in retaliation to Jan orchestrating the
[2:00:06] Speaker 4: goof troopening.
[2:00:07] Speaker 2: That's a good point. Why am I catching a stray?
[2:00:10] Speaker 4: Apparently you have some bigger role in this than I understood, Jan.
[2:00:14] Speaker 3: I was told to read the lines.
[2:00:16] Speaker 2: He was clued in.
[2:00:17] Speaker 1: He could be tried.
[2:00:21] Speaker 2: I think I mentioned it on a recording of a
[2:00:23] Speaker 2: show that won't come out for a very long time. Also,
[2:00:26] Speaker 2: Chuck and Bailey know. So they didn't tell you either.
[2:00:29] Speaker 2: So you can't trust anyone. I didn't really know. She
[2:00:33] Speaker 2: was there.
[2:00:35] Speaker 5: Mike, you realize this is just validation of the father-son relationship.
[2:00:41] Speaker 2: Yeah, you never.
[2:00:43] Speaker 5: That's why they never told me. Because how could I
[2:00:45] Speaker 5: keep it from my son?
[2:00:46] Speaker 4: That's why I only sent you a picture, a special
[2:00:49] Speaker 4: picture from Epcot and nobody else.
[2:00:50] Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you.
[2:00:53] Speaker 3: I was hoping you were having a good weekend and
[2:00:54] Speaker 3: you didn't say anything about it.
[2:00:56] Speaker 2: We did have a good weekend. No one asked.
[2:00:58] Speaker 4: Antonio Morales says, send Dan away for Catch Me If
[2:01:01] Speaker 4: You Can 3 in December, then go to AEW Worlds
[2:01:04] Speaker 4: and without him in Minnesota and hang out with new love.
[2:01:07] Speaker 2: That's pretty good. I'm already on top of that.
[2:01:13] Speaker 4: Last Geek says, did Dan play the arm wrestling game
[2:01:15] Speaker 4: at Galloping Ghosts? I beat the hardest difficulty, but I
[2:01:17] Speaker 4: think I hurt myself.
[2:01:18] Speaker 1: I didn't see that at Galloping Ghosts. If it's the
[2:01:20] Speaker 1: same one that's in Japan at some arcades, I've done that.
[2:01:23] Speaker 2: It's really cool.
[2:01:24] Speaker 5: Did they have that quick shot game with the cup
[2:01:27] Speaker 5: breaking up there?
[2:01:28] Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
[2:01:30] Speaker 1: I didn't see that.
[2:01:31] Speaker 2: That shooting gallery game? No, I didn't see that. Quick shot?
[2:01:34] Speaker 2: Quick capture. Quick capture.
[2:01:36] Speaker 1: I need to go back because we played stuff for
[2:01:39] Speaker 1: like a bit and then we wound up going to
[2:01:40] Speaker 1: the brewery across the street because you can't drink at
[2:01:42] Speaker 1: Galloping Ghost and then we just wound up drinking all night.
[2:01:44] Speaker 1: So I do need to go back and play more
[2:01:46] Speaker 1: stuff there.
[2:01:48] Speaker 4: Quick and Crash is what it's called.
[2:01:50] Speaker 2: Quick and Crash. Thank you. Quick Shatter. Turbo Sean. Turbo
[2:01:53] Speaker 2: Sean Shatter. Yes, thank you. Thank you, Chat. Let's see
[2:01:57] Speaker 2: here now. Last Geek. Also.
[2:02:00] Speaker 4: Oh, wait, before I get to that one, Eggie says,
[2:02:02] Speaker 4: has Grubb decided what class he's going to level first
[2:02:04] Speaker 4: in World of Warcraft Forever? I like level first as
[2:02:07] Speaker 4: if there will be more. Yeah, is there a class
[2:02:09] Speaker 4: you'll eat? Do you need me to go through them
[2:02:11] Speaker 4: real quick for you? No, I'm not going to play
[2:02:13] Speaker 4: this game.
[2:02:13] Speaker 2: I'm good. You are playing it for content. Of course
[2:02:16] Speaker 2: you are. There's the priest. There's the warlock, mage, paladin, warrior, hunter, rogue.
[2:02:24] Speaker 3: Guys, we have the chance to do the funniest thing.
[2:02:28] Speaker 2: We all play WoW without Mike.
[2:02:31] Speaker 1: CJ, you understand now, Jan.
[2:02:35] Speaker 2: Yes.
[2:02:36] Speaker 4: Nobody's going to like watching you guys play WoW without
[2:02:39] Speaker 4: me to give you some semblance of what's going on
[2:02:41] Speaker 4: and what you should be doing.
[2:02:42] Speaker 1: I did a WoW series on Giant Bomb. It was
[2:02:44] Speaker 1: not very popular.
[2:02:45] Speaker 4: Yeah i tell you what this one will be better
[2:02:48] Speaker 4: i'm just saying it i promise this will be better
[2:02:52] Speaker 4: than a 30-day trial of bullshit or whatever it's.
[2:02:54] Speaker 2: Called uh what's the dumbest class what's the one that
[2:02:59] Speaker 2: could be the most annoying.
[2:03:02] Speaker 4: Um i i want to give you one that's not
[2:03:04] Speaker 4: too like futsy like i don't know if you're gonna
[2:03:06] Speaker 4: like being a hunter and having to worry about your
[2:03:07] Speaker 4: pet and ammo For example, you might like being a
[2:03:11] Speaker 4: warlock because you have a pet, but it's not too much.
[2:03:13] Speaker 4: And your pet's just a little imp guy or it
[2:03:15] Speaker 4: could be a sexy succubi. You can have a succubi
[2:03:17] Speaker 4: pet later.
[2:03:18] Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll be a warlock then.
[2:03:20] Speaker 4: We'll figure it out because races can only be certain classes.
[2:03:23] Speaker 4: And that's actually a big important thing, too, is that
[2:03:25] Speaker 4: that's your starting area. It's always talking about race. That's
[2:03:28] Speaker 4: something I realized, like talking about MMOs with like a
[2:03:32] Speaker 4: not MMO first crowd is like talking about races is
[2:03:36] Speaker 4: obviously like kind of weirds people out. Like that's just
[2:03:39] Speaker 4: very much a part of the vernacular in the games.
[2:03:42] Speaker 5: Right.
[2:03:42] Speaker 2: It's like pick your race.
[2:03:43] Speaker 1: Next on the soundboard.
[2:03:48] Speaker 2: It'd be weird if I still chose white.
[2:03:51] Speaker 4: You can still just be a human.
[2:03:52] Speaker 2: Yeah. Last geek says your shirt is cool. Oh, thank you.
[2:04:01] Speaker 2: That's genuine. It's nice. Nice. Does Dan think a goofy
[2:04:06] Speaker 2: movie is real because they go to California?
[2:04:11] Speaker 1: There's pros and cons to that argument there. Like, yeah,
[2:04:13] Speaker 1: it's real because they go to California, but they're dogs.
[2:04:15] Speaker 1: But it's woke.
[2:04:16] Speaker 4: Is it more real than DuckTales, which just takes place
[2:04:19] Speaker 4: in some place called Duckburg, which is not real.
[2:04:21] Speaker 1: Goof Troop is more real than DuckTales.
[2:04:24] Speaker 2: All right. Where does Darkwing Duck happen? Is that like Chicago?
[2:04:27] Speaker 4: Darkwing Duck happens in St. Canard, another fake city.
[2:04:30] Speaker 1: Okay, that's not good.
[2:04:31] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[2:04:31] Speaker 2: There you go.
[2:04:32] Speaker 4: I hope you're all impressed that I had that one
[2:04:34] Speaker 4: in my pocket.
[2:04:36] Speaker 3: What about the Mighty Ducks cartoon that is based off
[2:04:39] Speaker 3: of the Mighty Ducks.
[2:04:41] Speaker 2: Hockey team?
[2:04:42] Speaker 1: But the Mighty Ducks movies are just like around here.
[2:04:46] Speaker 1: There's like filming locations. The cartoon's very different. They're crime-fighting,
[2:04:50] Speaker 1: hockey-playing ducks.
[2:04:51] Speaker 2: Oh, they're crime-fighting? They're cops? They're real ducks. They're chute ducks. Yes.
[2:04:56] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[2:04:57] Speaker 2: Wow.
[2:04:57] Speaker 5: Okay.
[2:04:57] Speaker 1: That is totally different. We don't have those here.
[2:05:01] Speaker 4: Big Z says, Jeff Backler for Casino Week. Are you
[2:05:04] Speaker 4: sending Jeff Grubb to Vegas?
[2:05:06] Speaker 2: Send me to Vegas. Don't send me to Vegas. I'll
[2:05:09] Speaker 2: send that one out.
[2:05:10] Speaker 5: Obviously, we can't send Jan to Vegas.
[2:05:12] Speaker 2: Grubb, I feel like you... Have you been there? Just
[2:05:15] Speaker 2: for work A couple of times Yeah How do you
[2:05:18] Speaker 2: do there?
[2:05:18] Speaker 5: How do you Not gambling wise.
[2:05:20] Speaker 2: I think I can handle Vegas Yeah I would probably
[2:05:22] Speaker 2: just like Go to a blackjack And poker.
[2:05:25] Speaker 3: Tables though Okay Here's my pitch Here's my pitch We
[2:05:27] Speaker 3: send Will there And then we give him Five hundred
[2:05:31] Speaker 3: dollars Okay And then he has to make A thousand
[2:05:35] Speaker 3: dollars Oh Okay.
[2:05:36] Speaker 4: Yes we can That'd be fine Or he just has
[2:05:39] Speaker 4: to profit He just has to profit I guess We
[2:05:42] Speaker 4: could just send Bacalar And like chuck to atlantic city
[2:05:45] Speaker 4: or something right that's probably not very far from you.
[2:05:47] Speaker 5: No i'm not going to atlantic yeah he's not allowed
[2:05:49] Speaker 5: back in atlantic city i would rather fly to vegas
[2:05:52] Speaker 5: than go to atlantic city.
[2:05:55] Speaker 1: I pissed my dad off this weekend because he always
[2:05:57] Speaker 1: like he's like he can't believe like dan luck he's
[2:05:59] Speaker 1: like god of course dan luck of course and he
[2:06:01] Speaker 1: loves uh gambling and my flight was early on sunday
[2:06:04] Speaker 1: and so there's a bar near my shitty like roadside
[2:06:07] Speaker 1: hotel called the possum pub And I went there and
[2:06:09] Speaker 1: they had a slot machine there. And so I'm just
[2:06:11] Speaker 1: getting drinks. Like it's like three in the morning. And like,
[2:06:13] Speaker 1: I'm not a big gambler. And I just walk over,
[2:06:15] Speaker 1: I put a $ 5 bill into a slot machine, pull
[2:06:17] Speaker 1: the thing. And it's like a $ 100. And I just
[2:06:20] Speaker 1: cashed out and got a free a hundred dollars. And
[2:06:22] Speaker 1: I immediately text my dad. So he sees it right
[2:06:24] Speaker 1: when he wakes up and it's like, God damn it.
[2:06:25] Speaker 2: So, I'd do all right. Did your dad ever hear
[2:06:28] Speaker 2: about me winning 10,000 for hockey that one time?
[2:06:30] Speaker 1: I told him about that, yeah. That was one of
[2:06:32] Speaker 1: the wilder things I've seen.
[2:06:33] Speaker 2: That story, man. That's so stupid. That thing is the greatest.
[2:06:38] Speaker 5: People just don't believe it when they think I'm fucking
[2:06:41] Speaker 5: blowing smoke, and I'm just like.
[2:06:42] Speaker 2: Oh, man. But you got to see it, so you know. Yeah.
[2:06:45] Speaker 3: Oh, I.
[2:06:46] Speaker 2: That's when I'm just like, it's over, man. You got this.
[2:06:50] Speaker 2: There's no way.
[2:06:52] Speaker 1: The thing I remember most is just like, and I
[2:06:55] Speaker 1: could totally empathize with grub here is like, he knows
[2:06:57] Speaker 1: that you're just going to have to wait to find
[2:06:58] Speaker 1: out if you won this. And it was a matter
[2:07:00] Speaker 1: of like minutes. And it's probably like five minutes, 10
[2:07:02] Speaker 1: minutes or something. And you just left your phone with us.
[2:07:04] Speaker 1: And you just go sit at the bar and just
[2:07:06] Speaker 1: immediately start talking to a random guy there. And I'm like, Oh,
[2:07:09] Speaker 1: he just, he needs to just pass time. Otherwise his
[2:07:11] Speaker 1: brain is going to.
[2:07:12] Speaker 2: Be like, ah, I need to go somewhere else. Exactly.
[2:07:14] Speaker 3: Yes.
[2:07:14] Speaker 2: And I was going at that guy.
[2:07:17] Speaker 1: I kept turning and looking at you and you were
[2:07:18] Speaker 1: very animated.
[2:07:19] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[2:07:19] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[2:07:22] Speaker 4: Uh nixie says i found my first from soft game
[2:07:24] Speaker 4: that i played beaten at a thrift shop today and
[2:07:27] Speaker 4: chanted arms i think the first from soft game i
[2:07:29] Speaker 4: ever played but didn't beat was cookies.
[2:07:31] Speaker 1: And cream hell yeah yeah wait i think it might
[2:07:34] Speaker 1: be i might have been saying it wrong all these
[2:07:35] Speaker 1: years i think it's the adventures of cookie and cream
[2:07:37] Speaker 1: let me make sure so we can.
[2:07:38] Speaker 4: Yeah i think you're right i think cookies is not
[2:07:40] Speaker 4: it's it's kind of messed up I don't know why.
[2:07:42] Speaker 4: The Adventures of Cookie? Well, no, the Rabbids are named
[2:07:45] Speaker 4: Cookie and Cream.
[2:07:46] Speaker 2: I get it. And they have adventures.
[2:07:47] Speaker 4: I guess the Rabbids, they wouldn't be Cookies.
[2:07:49] Speaker 2: Oh, man. I thought you were talking about Rabbids for
[2:07:52] Speaker 2: a second. No, these are the cool ones. These are
[2:07:54] Speaker 2: way better. We like these guys. We like these guys.
[2:07:57] Speaker 4: The Mixie says, could Activision do a Metal Gear Solid
[2:08:00] Speaker 4: 2 surprise for Halo? I think that if you do
[2:08:02] Speaker 4: a bait and switch and make people think it's a
[2:08:04] Speaker 4: Master Chief game, then switch it, then people will be upset.
[2:08:06] Speaker 1: Can you imagine if we had social media when Metal
[2:08:10] Speaker 1: Gear Solid 2 happened?
[2:08:12] Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
[2:08:12] Speaker 4: I mean, we had the message boards, and they were
[2:08:13] Speaker 4: pretty interesting then.
[2:08:14] Speaker 2: So we had that. That was fun.
[2:08:17] Speaker 4: You must be able to still find old IGN message
[2:08:19] Speaker 4: board posts from there.
[2:08:21] Speaker 2: Oh, that stuff is preserved somewhere, yeah. The vestibule.
[2:08:25] Speaker 4: Last Geek says, if all of Giant Bomb took a
[2:08:27] Speaker 4: week off, who would you have sub in for you
[2:08:31] Speaker 4: for the week?
[2:08:33] Speaker 2: People who are objectively worse than us, so when you
[2:08:35] Speaker 2: guys like them better. Oh, no, they'd be bad. Maybe
[2:08:38] Speaker 2: we'd be better to have, like, really cool people on
[2:08:40] Speaker 2: that just couldn't do this. Can we just, you think
[2:08:42] Speaker 2: Vitalik could just do everything by himself? Yeah. Just all
[2:08:45] Speaker 2: of it.
[2:08:46] Speaker 1: One man show with puppets.
[2:08:48] Speaker 2: Yeah. Himself and hand puppets, yeah. Chad says windbag.
[2:08:53] Speaker 5: Oh, man.
[2:08:53] Speaker 2: That just does it all. Yes.
[2:08:55] Speaker 1: I was watching him last night. He's still doing it.
[2:08:57] Speaker 1: He's killing it.
[2:08:57] Speaker 2: Yeah. I love the windbag. Shout out to the windbag.
[2:09:01] Speaker 2: Shout out to the windbag.
[2:09:02] Speaker 3: Friday night forking. Nothing bad can happen. I still fucking
[2:09:05] Speaker 3: say all of this shit to myself all the time.
[2:09:07] Speaker 2: Yeah. Body-ody-ody.
[2:09:09] Speaker 3: Yeah. I miss my mom for this.
[2:09:11] Speaker 2: Betty and Gerald, right? Was that the two old people? Oh,
[2:09:15] Speaker 2: my God.
[2:09:15] Speaker 3: I remember that.
[2:09:16] Speaker 2: Yeah. Nothing bad can happen. I think that's the answer.
[2:09:21] Speaker 3: Okay.
[2:09:22] Speaker 2: There we go.
[2:09:23] Speaker 4: Tickwid says, hey, Dan, while you were looking, we collectively
[2:09:27] Speaker 4: decided that the minions are actually historical fiction. Does that
[2:09:31] Speaker 4: make them consumable media now? I mean, you hate you
[2:09:34] Speaker 4: don't like anything historical. You hate the powder wig stuff.
[2:09:36] Speaker 2: You tell me all the time.
[2:09:38] Speaker 1: I mean, there's a point like history starts getting interesting
[2:09:41] Speaker 1: in like the 60s, I guess. right like just i'm
[2:09:48] Speaker 1: not even talking about history i guess i guess i'm
[2:09:49] Speaker 1: just thinking i start liking movies in the 60s so
[2:09:53] Speaker 1: i guess i don't really pay attention to any history right.
[2:09:56] Speaker 4: Well yeah yeah we know it's like.
[2:09:58] Speaker 1: You're like oh easy rider and like the 70s you
[2:10:00] Speaker 1: start getting clockwork in 2000 2001 was in the 60s
[2:10:02] Speaker 1: so like i think i'm just confusing movies with history
[2:10:05] Speaker 1: so i think movies get interesting in the 60s history
[2:10:07] Speaker 1: i just don't really i don't know shit about history
[2:10:11] Speaker 1: We know.
[2:10:11] Speaker 2: We know. We'll move on. That's okay.
[2:10:14] Speaker 1: I just don't find it interesting now.
[2:10:16] Speaker 2: Yeah. Tyler James Bassett asks... It was my minor in college,
[2:10:21] Speaker 2: by the way.
[2:10:22] Speaker 1: I was a history minor.
[2:10:23] Speaker 2: Don't tell us that. It makes it worse. That's just...
[2:10:27] Speaker 2: I mean, that's just... That was. That's your history minor.
[2:10:30] Speaker 2: Hell yeah. I have not felt.
[2:10:32] Speaker 4: I've never felt worse about the college education system than
[2:10:35] Speaker 4: I do in this moment. Secondary education. Actually, I want
[2:10:38] Speaker 4: to go find my diploma and burn it now.
[2:10:40] Speaker 2: When you said that, actually. Dan's right.
[2:10:42] Speaker 4: Ugh.
[2:10:43] Speaker 2: It's just pretty. I mean, come on. It's a sham.
[2:10:46] Speaker 2: Let's go. Yeah.
[2:10:47] Speaker 4: Tyler James Bay says, is Dan the Shane Douglas of
[2:10:50] Speaker 4: Giant Bomb?
[2:10:51] Speaker 2: What do you think they mean by that?
[2:10:52] Speaker 1: Well, because the franchise is his nickname. I just think
[2:10:54] Speaker 1: it's a cool nickname. I kind of hate Shane Douglas, actually.
[2:10:57] Speaker 2: I always thought he was really like a bad dude, right?
[2:10:59] Speaker 2: I don't know.
[2:11:00] Speaker 1: He's not like a notorious, especially in the annals of
[2:11:02] Speaker 1: wrestling history, not among the worst.
[2:11:04] Speaker 2: He was just kind of a cringy, just, I don't know.
[2:11:07] Speaker 2: He's kind of a try hard, you know, like, yeah,
[2:11:09] Speaker 2: he's important to history.
[2:11:11] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[2:11:13] Speaker 4: Uh, Migsy says, Dan Reichert, same thing happened to Patrick
[2:11:16] Speaker 4: with his mom. This is referring to the memory card
[2:11:18] Speaker 4: in the envelope.
[2:11:19] Speaker 2: Ah, yes.
[2:11:20] Speaker 3: Oh.
[2:11:20] Speaker 2: Yeah, which, yeah, disaster. Oh, this is, this is interesting.
[2:11:24] Speaker 4: Teaknut says, Mike and Jan should get Mary and Fawn
[2:11:26] Speaker 4: Fantasy 14. It would be the social event of the year.
[2:11:29] Speaker 4: What if that was a Bobathon incentive? Jan and I
[2:11:33] Speaker 4: will get married in Final Fantasy XIV, which is a
[2:11:36] Speaker 4: thing in that game. I've seen like weddings in that
[2:11:39] Speaker 4: game and it freaked me out how it was like
[2:11:41] Speaker 4: pomp and circumstance.
[2:11:43] Speaker 2: It was crazy.
[2:11:44] Speaker 4: It's not just like, oh, we're doing this completely through
[2:11:47] Speaker 4: role playing. There is like a system in the game
[2:11:49] Speaker 4: to give people a ring. There's like a cut scene.
[2:11:51] Speaker 4: You get a title or something like you get married.
[2:11:54] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[2:11:56] Speaker 4: Triple shot chances what am I on this show a
[2:11:59] Speaker 4: cuck look if you want to marry Jan you.
[2:12:01] Speaker 3: Go ahead folks for the right price you too at
[2:12:04] Speaker 3: home can marry me in Final Fantasy 14 you know is.
[2:12:10] Speaker 4: That kind of a dowry they're giving us money Perhaps.
[2:12:14] Speaker 4: Is there a level cap for getting married yet to
[2:12:17] Speaker 4: be a certain level?
[2:12:18] Speaker 2: I don't know. Yes, you have to be 18.
[2:12:21] Speaker 3: This is where we do a dating show where it's
[2:12:25] Speaker 3: like Mary Jan or something.
[2:12:27] Speaker 2: Oh, that'd be actually. Whoa. Oh, imagine we like got
[2:12:30] Speaker 2: community members. Everyone is. We did the bachelor. Final Fantasy
[2:12:33] Speaker 2: 14 with Jan.
[2:12:36] Speaker 3: Actually, let's table that idea.
[2:12:39] Speaker 2: More dating shows on Giant Bomb. Let's table that idea.
[2:12:41] Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
[2:12:42] Speaker 3: The more I get acquainted with Final Fantasy XIV.
[2:12:44] Speaker 2: Yeah, because you can have roses in the game. Imagine
[2:12:45] Speaker 2: if you gave me the roses and you had to
[2:12:47] Speaker 2: give them to me.
[2:12:49] Speaker 3: I see perhaps maybe the worst name. Mary Jan Kill?
[2:12:52] Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh.
[2:12:56] Speaker 3: All right.
[2:12:57] Speaker 4: Next up here is from TheLastGeek who says, how about
[2:13:00] Speaker 4: a Bombathon incentive where Giant Bomb hikes the National Park
[2:13:05] Speaker 4: in Australia?
[2:13:06] Speaker 2: That inspired Big Walk.
[2:13:08] Speaker 4: I mean, incentives that require us to have to have
[2:13:11] Speaker 4: very expensive flights are probably not going to.
[2:13:13] Speaker 2: Yeah, is that what you cost to get eight guys
[2:13:15] Speaker 2: to Australia? Yeah, that's right. Four million dollars!
[2:13:18] Speaker 4: Yeah, that one might be a little rough, unfortunately.
[2:13:22] Speaker 2: One day I would love to go to Australia. Oh yeah, yeah.
[2:13:24] Speaker 2: Me too.
[2:13:25] Speaker 4: Jan, I was going to tell you to do this
[2:13:26] Speaker 4: too before your next one. Last Geek says, Jan, please
[2:13:28] Speaker 4: turn off nameplates for people not in your party in
[2:13:30] Speaker 4: Final Fantasy XIV. You can't be in Limso with all
[2:13:33] Speaker 4: that nonsense.
[2:13:33] Speaker 2: Thanks. Love you. So, yeah.
[2:13:35] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[2:13:35] Speaker 4: You can, like, make it so you only see nameplates for, like, yeah,
[2:13:38] Speaker 4: your friends or people in your party.
[2:13:39] Speaker 2: So, yeah.
[2:13:39] Speaker 4: Just any random that walks by isn't clogging up your screen.
[2:13:43] Speaker 2: Okay. Colton Collins says, tism stimming time.
[2:13:51] Speaker 3: Meep.
[2:13:51] Speaker 4: Morp.
[2:13:52] Speaker 2: Zeep. Thop. There you go.
[2:13:55] Speaker 4: I guess I'll just read it.
[2:13:56] Speaker 2: I'll just read anything. No, don't ask.
[2:13:57] Speaker 5: You're like Ron Burgundy.
[2:14:01] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[2:14:02] Speaker 4: Migsy says, why is Giant Bomb a magnet for Jeffs?
[2:14:06] Speaker 4: Because they have nowhere else to go.
[2:14:07] Speaker 2: Yeah. It's like that Norm joke about the moth. It's
[2:14:10] Speaker 2: like the light was on. We just arrived here.
[2:14:14] Speaker 5: It's because no one is named Jeff anymore. And all
[2:14:17] Speaker 5: the elder millennials named Jeff.
[2:14:21] Speaker 2: We've been in the support group and then we kind
[2:14:22] Speaker 2: of help each other out. Yeah. That's it. We all
[2:14:25] Speaker 2: go to the meeting.
[2:14:26] Speaker 1: Hey, Jan, you guys mentioned The Bachelor just reminded me
[2:14:30] Speaker 1: of something. Jan, do you want to read the casting
[2:14:32] Speaker 1: call for the thing I just put in All the Stars?
[2:14:34] Speaker 1: I saw this last night.
[2:14:36] Speaker 2: Oh, it's, okay, okay.
[2:14:38] Speaker 3: This one right here?
[2:14:39] Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you want me to read what the picture says? Yeah,
[2:14:42] Speaker 2: the picture.
[2:14:43] Speaker 3: Now casting, do you think you're an escape artist? Can
[2:14:47] Speaker 3: you survive, scheme, and be the first to escape and
[2:14:50] Speaker 3: win a $ 100, 000 prize? Looking for bold, skilled, and charismatic
[2:14:54] Speaker 3: individuals who will live and compete inside a real decommissioned
[2:14:58] Speaker 3: prison that has been transformed into the setting for this
[2:15:01] Speaker 3: extraordinary competition? Apply now. And then there's the website.
[2:15:06] Speaker 5: I love this is your hobby now.
[2:15:08] Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
[2:15:09] Speaker 1: I want to get on the show where they put
[2:15:11] Speaker 1: me in a real prison and I have to escape.
[2:15:13] Speaker 1: I absolutely want to do that.
[2:15:15] Speaker 3: Oh my God, and then Dan will do it prison
[2:15:17] Speaker 3: break status. I'll get my back tattooed with the schematics.
[2:15:21] Speaker 2: Okay, okay. Yeah, there we go.
[2:15:22] Speaker 1: Oh yes, I am reaching out. I am trying to
[2:15:25] Speaker 1: get on the prison break show.
[2:15:26] Speaker 2: And Chad's very excited about you being put in prison.
[2:15:28] Speaker 1: I can bug SU producer hero on Instagram and say
[2:15:32] Speaker 1: you want Dan Reichert on this show. I would love
[2:15:34] Speaker 1: to break out of prison.
[2:15:35] Speaker 2: TV's Dan Reichert.
[2:15:38] Speaker 4: Migsy says, Jeff Grubb is upgrading to the ACES app.
[2:15:42] Speaker 4: Xbox Alley X from the Asus ROG Alley 2013, a mistake?
[2:15:46] Speaker 4: Just double-thinking my decision. I mean, 2013, it's gotta be
[2:15:49] Speaker 4: a pretty big upgrade.
[2:15:52] Speaker 3: 2013?
[2:15:52] Speaker 2: That can't be right. It's 2023. Oh, okay, okay. Did
[2:15:55] Speaker 2: we have these in 2013? Okay, so I'm proud of it.
[2:15:58] Speaker 2: I have that original one. That Alley X is from... Wait,
[2:16:02] Speaker 2: there was two? Yeah, so he's talking about, so there's
[2:16:05] Speaker 2: the original one, the Roger Ally. I think, Jan, you
[2:16:07] Speaker 2: had one as well. Like, we talked about it for
[2:16:09] Speaker 2: a while. Maybe not. But we definitely talked about the
[2:16:11] Speaker 2: Roger Ally a lot. And then they had the Ally
[2:16:14] Speaker 2: X with Xbox. And that is more powerful. They had
[2:16:16] Speaker 2: an X? Wasn't that last year? And then they did
[2:16:18] Speaker 2: the Xbox X. Yeah. Yeah.
[2:16:21] Speaker 1: I use the Xbox X every once in a while.
[2:16:22] Speaker 2: It's pretty solid.
[2:16:23] Speaker 1: Like, I actually do like the form factor quite a bit.
[2:16:25] Speaker 2: If you already have an ally, though, it might not
[2:16:28] Speaker 2: be a huge noticeable upgrade. Some games will run better,
[2:16:31] Speaker 2: and some games that don't run on the ally might
[2:16:34] Speaker 2: work on the Xbox One. But, God, if you can
[2:16:37] Speaker 2: hold out, I don't know. It depends on the price.
[2:16:40] Speaker 2: If you're paying a difference of $ 500, no way. If
[2:16:41] Speaker 2: it's a difference of $ 200, $ 300, go for it.
[2:16:47] Speaker 4: Last Geek says, Jerf, my birthday is on Sunday. As
[2:16:50] Speaker 4: the most dadly of the crew, can you tell me
[2:16:52] Speaker 4: you are proud of me and trying to be a
[2:16:54] Speaker 4: video game YouTuber isn't a waste of my time.
[2:16:57] Speaker 2: Thanks, Dad. Oh, buddy. Who's Last Geek? Last Geek.
[2:17:03] Speaker 5: Listen, I am proud of you, Last Geek, because you're
[2:17:07] Speaker 5: doing what makes.
[2:17:08] Speaker 2: You feel good.
[2:17:09] Speaker 5: And I think that's awesome. It's not a waste of
[2:17:13] Speaker 5: time if you're able to make it happen. Putting the
[2:17:16] Speaker 5: best version of yourself out there, and that's important.
[2:17:19] Speaker 2: You know? And listen to your gut. I trust your gut.
[2:17:22] Speaker 2: I trust your judgment. You see value.
[2:17:24] Speaker 5: You understand Giant Bomb's worth your time and money. So
[2:17:28] Speaker 5: I know that you'll know when the time to maybe
[2:17:31] Speaker 5: make a change is there.
[2:17:34] Speaker 2: Just listen to your gut. Listen to your body. It's
[2:17:37] Speaker 2: the right move. Happy birthday, bud. Listen to your body,
[2:17:40] Speaker 2: yaddy yaddy. Get a real job! Whoa, Mike. Mobius says, Mike,
[2:17:46] Speaker 2: it was nice that you updated your website during the break.
[2:17:49] Speaker 2: Is this... a reference to my very old give Mike
[2:17:52] Speaker 2: Minotti a games journalism job or whatever from forever ago?
[2:17:57] Speaker 2: Because you guys made me mouth Goof Troop. What did
[2:18:00] Speaker 2: you do? That's how he got his job in this
[2:18:04] Speaker 2: industry in the first place. Yeah, I had a website.
[2:18:06] Speaker 2: It was a WordPress. Give Mike a job or something.
[2:18:08] Speaker 2: And then he emailed Dan Shue every day or something. Oh, wow.
[2:18:13] Speaker 4: I can't imagine what else that would be a reference
[2:18:14] Speaker 4: to Mobius, right? But that's pretty deep Mikey lore. Maybe
[2:18:18] Speaker 4: you're up on.
[2:18:18] Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know what other websites I'd
[2:18:21] Speaker 2: have that I updated during the break.
[2:18:22] Speaker 4: Antonio Morales says, Dan was real nice. I told him
[2:18:26] Speaker 4: a Blake Clark recommendation and he asked me for a picture.
[2:18:29] Speaker 4: Love meeting my fans.
[2:18:30] Speaker 2: Oh, how nice. How nice.
[2:18:32] Speaker 1: He did give me a picture.
[2:18:33] Speaker 4: Bigsy says, Mike Minotti with three wild games in service now.
[2:18:37] Speaker 4: Doesn't that make it U-O-W now? I think they're trying
[2:18:40] Speaker 4: to say universe of Warcraft.
[2:18:41] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[2:18:42] Speaker 4: It doesn't quite have the ring to it as WoW does, huh?
[2:18:46] Speaker 2: World's a good word. World. World of tanks. World of
[2:18:50] Speaker 2: war tanks. Yeah. I've felt this one.
[2:18:54] Speaker 4: Jonathan Nias says, makes me nervous every time Grub says jiggering.
[2:18:59] Speaker 2: I can feel the room get a little chilly every
[2:19:01] Speaker 2: time I say it. Every time. It's like when I
[2:19:03] Speaker 2: talk about that Super Nintendo game, Terranigma.
[2:19:05] Speaker 5: Hey.
[2:19:05] Speaker 2: Yeah, like a sharp intake of breath every time, yeah.
[2:19:08] Speaker 3: Yeah, every time they say clanker in Star Wars Zero Company,
[2:19:11] Speaker 3: I'm like, y'all need to lay off, guys.
[2:19:14] Speaker 2: I am surprised how much that's begun to feel like
[2:19:16] Speaker 2: a real slur. I am like, that's crazy.
[2:19:18] Speaker 1: There was Halle Berry's glistening face. back torso uh during uh.
[2:19:24] Speaker 8: Oh yeah that was a close call that wasn't even
[2:19:28] Speaker 8: a close call that was just the word oh yeah but.
[2:19:32] Speaker 4: It's a close call in terms of like you're you're
[2:19:34] Speaker 4: lucky we understand dan i.
[2:19:35] Speaker 1: Mean it was very literal what i was describing but
[2:19:38] Speaker 1: yes one to the other it was a navarro style
[2:19:41] Speaker 1: slip yes.
[2:19:42] Speaker 4: And that was like an oldie like that one's gone
[2:19:44] Speaker 4: away it took me a bit to register like oh man.
[2:19:46] Speaker 2: I remember that one yeah yeah wow.
[2:19:49] Speaker 5: You don't understand what close call means though I guess.
[2:19:52] Speaker 2: Me? Oh, Mike.
[2:19:53] Speaker 3: Like, he said it. Yeah, the word just came out.
[2:19:56] Speaker 4: It's a close call in the sense of, like, you know,
[2:19:58] Speaker 4: you're right, you're right, you're right. Fine, I'll take it,
[2:20:00] Speaker 4: I'll take it. I like how somebody said that Jackie's,
[2:20:03] Speaker 4: when we were talking about PS2, sounded like a slur.
[2:20:06] Speaker 2: Yeah. The Jackie, it was a... I never liked calling
[2:20:09] Speaker 2: the guys in Banjo-Kazooie Jiggies. That doesn't sound good.
[2:20:12] Speaker 3: No.
[2:20:13] Speaker 2: What are we doing, man? I don't like it. What's happening?
[2:20:18] Speaker 3: Next Super Chat if there's another one.
[2:20:20] Speaker 2: There are no more Super Chats. We did it. Thank
[2:20:22] Speaker 2: you so much, everybody. Appreciate it. Wow, thank you so much.
[2:20:25] Speaker 2: That's awesome. Can I have you explain something to me
[2:20:27] Speaker 2: real quick? I put a link in chat to an
[2:20:29] Speaker 2: Instagram post of a guy in World of Warcraft going
[2:20:32] Speaker 2: over a hill, and he sees a giant, like, parade
[2:20:36] Speaker 2: a march of i guess other players going to attack
[2:20:39] Speaker 2: someplace is this what world of warcraft is really like i.
[2:20:42] Speaker 4: Mean this looks this is intense uh looking to me
[2:20:44] Speaker 4: i've never seen quite this many people marching but back
[2:20:47] Speaker 4: in vanilla like i.
[2:20:49] Speaker 1: Know about this the leroy jenkins right that well that's
[2:20:52] Speaker 1: not this video oh that's the most modern internet thing
[2:20:55] Speaker 1: i know that's from like 2005 it was viral 21
[2:21:01] Speaker 1: years ago it went viral I know.
[2:21:03] Speaker 4: I met Leroy Jenkins at the World of Warcraft movie
[2:21:05] Speaker 4: premiere and he said the thing and I'm like yeah
[2:21:07] Speaker 4: he said.
[2:21:08] Speaker 2: The thing okay alright.
[2:21:10] Speaker 4: Weskeek says thanks GB crew great show thank you Weskeek
[2:21:13] Speaker 4: appreciate it.
[2:21:13] Speaker 3: Thank you Weskeek boys what do we got going on
[2:21:16] Speaker 3: for the rest of this week game this morning is
[2:21:18] Speaker 3: popping off Wednesday Thursday Friday right Greg.
[2:21:20] Speaker 2: That's right gonna have a lot of the crew on.
[2:21:22] Speaker 3: Beautiful beautiful beautiful on Wednesday Wednesday Jeff Grubb, I pray
[2:21:25] Speaker 3: for you, my dear friend.
[2:21:27] Speaker 2: Grubberdillo. It just is what it is. That's fine. We'll
[2:21:30] Speaker 2: get through it. It's going to be a slog. It'll
[2:21:32] Speaker 2: take some time, but we'll get through it. And Grubb,
[2:21:33] Speaker 2: don't worry.
[2:21:34] Speaker 1: If you don't get through it, I do have a
[2:21:36] Speaker 1: couple hours slot during the Bombathon for you to do
[2:21:38] Speaker 1: it in person and celebrate. You can pack the Armadillo
[2:21:41] Speaker 1: suit and everything. It'll be great for everyone in person.
[2:21:43] Speaker 2: That'd be crazy. Okay, cool.
[2:21:45] Speaker 3: Fantastic. Folks, we've pushed Voicemail Dump Truck to a little
[2:21:50] Speaker 3: bit later in the day. That's going to be at
[2:21:51] Speaker 3: 12 p.m. Pacific, 3 p.m.
[2:21:53] Speaker 2: Eastern.
[2:21:55] Speaker 3: Plan any more time to get your calls into the truck.
[2:22:02] Speaker 2: Goop Troop.
[2:22:03] Speaker 3: We have some loose plans happening for UPF, but that's
[2:22:07] Speaker 3: also going to be at 12.30, 3.30 Eastern, and later
[2:22:12] Speaker 3: in the day. This is for the premium peeps out there.
[2:22:15] Speaker 3: You know, Chef Grub, you have come across a portal.
[2:22:21] Speaker 3: that might lead us to a hellish dimension for the
[2:22:24] Speaker 3: Giant Bomb Home Video Club. Folks, that's for premium people.
[2:22:28] Speaker 3: That's happening at 3 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m.
[2:22:33] Speaker 2: Eastern.
[2:22:34] Speaker 3: Gang, premium people, that's not where it ends. Kat Jervman,
[2:22:37] Speaker 3: new episode, supposed to drop yesterday. I fucked up something
[2:22:40] Speaker 3: in the edit. I'll go fix that. That'll get posted
[2:22:42] Speaker 3: later today, as well as another episode of Sewer Shark.
[2:22:46] Speaker 2: Gang.
[2:22:46] Speaker 3: We're recording stuff all over the place, just like the
[2:22:50] Speaker 3: new premium one-off, the one-shot.
[2:22:53] Speaker 2: Goop Troop.
[2:22:54] Speaker 3: Now out on the website. Dan Reichert, Jeff Grubb playing
[2:22:59] Speaker 3: through Goop Troop.
[2:23:00] Speaker 2: Goopy and Diddy.
[2:23:01] Speaker 4: Hey, instead of that, or maybe on top of that,
[2:23:04] Speaker 4: don't forget there's the BlizzCon travel along with me and
[2:23:07] Speaker 4: my brothers.
[2:23:07] Speaker 2: And coming soon, AJ's working on it right now.
[2:23:10] Speaker 4: Is our Disney show. travelogue as well, and that's going
[2:23:13] Speaker 4: to just be on premium. So another reason to be
[2:23:15] Speaker 4: on premium if you want to watch me and my
[2:23:16] Speaker 4: brothers gallivant around Disneyland.
[2:23:20] Speaker 3: AJ, you might be listening to this. AJ, since it's premium,
[2:23:22] Speaker 3: go hog wild with the licensed music. I don't care anymore.
[2:23:25] Speaker 3: No one's going to clap us.
[2:23:27] Speaker 2: I guess you should make sure he knows that there.
[2:23:30] Speaker 3: And speaking about premium people and getting extra bonus content
[2:23:34] Speaker 3: and footage, folks, look forward to later in the week.
[2:23:36] Speaker 3: I'm just going to be dumping all of the raw
[2:23:39] Speaker 3: Footy from Catch Me If You Dan 2.
[2:23:42] Speaker 2: That's right.
[2:23:42] Speaker 3: You too can just witness Dan and I talking and
[2:23:46] Speaker 3: just driving for several hours. A lot of fun B-roll
[2:23:49] Speaker 3: over there. A lot of stuff did get cut from
[2:23:51] Speaker 3: the vlog. So fun stuff indeedy. And also go watch
[2:23:56] Speaker 3: Catch Me If You Dan 2. Please, please make me
[2:23:58] Speaker 3: a happy boy. Go thumbs up that video. Go comment
[2:24:02] Speaker 3: on that video. Please, please for engagement. Boys, did I
[2:24:05] Speaker 3: miss anything? We got anything else going on?
[2:24:08] Speaker 2: I'm looking at the comments on Goof Troop, and there's
[2:24:12] Speaker 2: two genres. It is I Cannot Believe This Betrayal and
[2:24:16] Speaker 2: The Two Best People to Play This Game. The two
[2:24:18] Speaker 2: best Disney fans finally are playing Goof Troop. Those are
[2:24:21] Speaker 2: the two comments.
[2:24:21] Speaker 4: You guys couldn't sing 10 seconds of that theme song
[2:24:24] Speaker 4: if you wanted to.
[2:24:25] Speaker 2: Goof Troop! Goof Troop! Goof Troop! Goof Troop! Goof Troop!
[2:24:31] Speaker 1: It doesn't need a real good time at some point. Yeah.
[2:24:36] Speaker 2: Father and son, I want to teach you right from wrong.
[2:24:41] Speaker 3: And folks, once again, a reminder, October 15th and 16th,
[2:24:46] Speaker 3: we'll be doing the Bombathon once again from MainGearHQ. two
[2:24:52] Speaker 3: 12-hour days of streaming. Look forward to it. Take the
[2:24:54] Speaker 3: days off now, gang, because on October 16th, our dear
[2:24:57] Speaker 3: friend Mary Kish will be joining us. Until then, we'll
[2:25:00] Speaker 3: see you next week for another episode of the Giant Bobcast.
[2:25:02] Speaker 2: He's been Jeff. He's been Jeff. He's been Dave. He's
[2:25:04] Speaker 2: been Mike.
[2:25:04] Speaker 3: Shouts out to Turbo Sean Sean McDowell for editing and
[2:25:07] Speaker 3: producing the show.
[2:25:08] Speaker 2: Shouts out to Will. Shouts out to Big Daddy Cool.
[2:25:11] Speaker 2: Big Daddy Cool is super Big Daddy Cool today. I'm
[2:25:13] Speaker 2: so happy with him. Super duper cool. I've been your host,
[2:25:16] Speaker 2: Janet Cho. We'll see you next week for another episode.
[2:25:18] Speaker 5: Good.
[2:25:19] Speaker 2: Woo! Alphabetical.

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