CSB369: FFXIV Liveleaks

Hello good afternoon Willie how are you sleep regression sleep sleep regression sleep regression sleep Oh, it's fucked that's you know what reminder I Went from being a scrub to hitting master rank with bison because of sleep regression So we'll use this this baby as a stand-in So I was I had you know just it's fucking 2 a.m. And I got in the fucking nowhere to be because this motherfucker Just looking at me like ah All right, says the kicks. Yeah, it's a kicks. Well, I mean we're doing it We're keeping her in in the dark in her room and trying to you know minimize, but boy. Oh boy Does it just feel like it's like hey, I know it's nighttime, but it's not the day continued. You just don't know it yet Inside baby's head it is still daytime Everything continues as normal and you and you your weak fucking need for sleep is some bitch made shit You better fucking step it up because I'm bored down here like okay, so at the same time Tiny tyrant person, you know being anthropomorphized in this this adult speaking conversation You what are we talking ten months? Less but Okay, yeah, yeah literally sleep like 14 hours a day Like like literally like not exaggerate like girl you sleeping all day So yeah, you can pick when we that's not you want to be away. She's she's not a big She's not a big big sleeper. She's she's a she's a nap napper and she's taking her like I was also not a big sleeper yeah, she's taking her little nap naps and Like we can force and manipulate to try to be like no we're gonna crunch these five naps down into three You know and like we were kind of like stretching out wake windows and there's moments where it's like okay eyes are being rubbed and Starting to get tired and we're like Not yet We're not finished yet like infant child can stay at 99% being almost asleep for An entire calendar day. I mean the funniest thing is just watching like if I can replicate this Like if this is a rattle and it's just like it's like I'm half asleep and dead and I'm just going Yeah, and I'm not my heart is not in it my soul and my spirit is not in it But I'm still trying to play because this is in my hand and that's what I'm supposed to be doing So I've got one for you because they they so my guy still does this he hates like so much He is asked to go to bed twice In his entire life Who said mommy daddy? I want to go up straight up. Okay go go to bed. I'm like twice. Yeah About about 30% of the time Okay, we're curious George You know Pete the cat, you know, whatever whatever the book is, you know some hugs and kisses with mama Okay, bam full song number Full number, okay. All right. You're done. Okay good. All right. We're we're snuggling your fault. You're going okay Quiet deathly quiet for 40 minutes Okay, and then and and so here's my favorite part That Wakes up mom and dad who fell asleep waiting for him to fall asleep Right. Mm-hmm. And then and then my the real follow-up when he's like, you know rubbing the eyes When he really wants to go for it, you know what he does? Oh The head the hits the hits Slap in his cheeks Straight up slabbing his cheeks his forehead like no no stay awake and you're like It sucks like the So the craziest part and like I see why the word regression is used because it literally is going backwards in progress Because like she was starting to get to a point where she would wake up when things are going fine and She would like not even start crying right away I'd be looking at the monitor at like, you know, whatever like two in the morning and She would kind of go like mmm. She'd stir and then kind of wake up Look at her hands for a bit and then turn on her side and kind of like just go and go back out and I was like you're getting it that's good That's that's what we do is getting made on sleeping through the night Yeah, you change your position get more comfortable kind of look at your hand a little bit do what you got to do Get your brain off of it and then try to settle in and we actually saw that you know and then somehow it just turns into Go fuck everything fuck all of this and what yeah because So we're just like doing like hey gonna come down try to do a hold till she draw drifts off and then transfer and It fails naturally and then every hour got to go back down and it's just kind of like there were I Would say probably 50 or 60 nights That I was like Fuck it. I don't even care. I'm just gonna put him in my arm. You just got it. Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, and just fucking watch TV in play games. There's still page wakes the fuck up Transfer him back over sleep for two hours and Then just go about my rest of the day as a scorched freak cuz getting up and down and up and down and up and down Not no and the trend failing the fit transfer failure Transfer twice. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah used to attempt to transfer third time. I'm wasting my time I'm wasting major time. I'm wasting the baby's time. Fuck it. He's not gonna transfer I do I do I do three transfers The thing is is but like I don't count it if I like okay There's a botched transfer and then like a you know what I mean and then a failed transfer like I I did yeah No, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I did I It's there's a difference the one that got me the most dude It made me so mad and mad enough to scream but it's two in the morning and it's in a dark room with your child So it's your fault. Oh don't yell you'll you'll defeat the purpose, of course is when I forgot I would I would transfer and he'd be perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect And then I would slide my hands out and then his feet would drop in his ankle You forgot the feet yeah, no the transfer that's the thing is like the trend like for anyone like you have to understand Getting the baby from your arms down into the crib like softly enough that it doesn't wake them up It is it there's such an art to this and it's so delicate and In particular getting it into so what I do is I go a little bit that head first because that's where the weight is and then you Unfold you unfold you know the the burrito And then your head the thing is that you get your hand down You have your head kind of your hand stuck underneath and pulling the hand out You got to be careful about that because it kind of like that's friction. That's noise. That's where she they feel it, etc But the but yeah the botch transfer is where exactly you do something that makes noise You know and then they're like my fault you completely woke them up with that and now you fucked up Right a regular fail transfer is you got them down and you're walking away, and then they're just like I know I'm kind of still up though You know um Yeah, so that I'll do the yeah about three times until it's just like fuck this you got it you fucking I have I have paperwork I can catch up contact naps and stuff are a part of it, too That that you know or just like that waiting until if she till she's like fully fully asleep, you know mm-hmm that dude Got a lot of contact nap time Like a lot and it's just a get it's a give-up nap, right? It's just a complete like alright whatever whatever was It's just like yeah fuck anything else. This is how you do it just it's not worth fighting it at this point But Yeah Yeah, okay, okay, it's dude It's one of those things looking for a light at the end of the tunnel It's one of those things that when you're in it you're like Get me to that fucking toddler stage. Well, they'll just go to sleep, but now I'm like Oh Look at I have this and yeah, yeah, that just fulfill that role like exactly it is no you see It is currently infinite crash out works But the things like like for example, I do like I said the I do a nighttime bottle, you know and That's that's a that's a big deal and like It is one of those things where I like I want that to continue as long as possible And it is not going to I'm aware of the fact that there's going to be a full unlike last night For example, she just skipped it, you know, yeah, but it is one that I'm like, okay Like if I can get that in there, that's some that's that's a that's a nice that's a nice nightly moment That's a nice routine, you know, you never know what time is the last time you're gonna do something. That's that's I guess That's the thought right But I don't want to hear that shit right now right now What the last bottle was? Right, but then it came and went and it was only it was like a week later by the time I was like, oh We're full on to sippy cups now the the bottles are gone And again, I am we're looking at the calendar and we're aware of the fact that like okay It's certain milestones certain things happen and that certain ages certain daycare things happen and stuff And you got to figure this stuff out But you know and there are little feelings like that like for example, you know the the snoo which we discussed on this show before the The the rocking white noise kind of little bassinet, you know super useful. That's only for the first six months Yes, and you will pay for it when that six months is over we're describing right now, but Me and Paige made this decision and you and punch mom definitely made the same decision Which is but that first six months is when I needed to help the most you're buying time you're buying you're investing in the future with dividends I am Sewing now and must reap later. Yes, but I don't want to reap right now. It's hard right now You are you are fucking crow countrying you are reaching into the fucking future and ripping resources out, you know, but But the idea of The the the whole like snoo setup thing is that like yeah after and at six months like her head is touching the top of it And her feet are touching the bottom. It's just goofy to even continue trying to fit. Yeah Too big big baby. So yeah, we eventually it's like, okay Well, that's pack this thing up and you know move it out of the room and downstairs And then there's like a space there where that used to be a baby now and like, you know punch mom's like oh You know and we're like oh, yeah, like this part of the room That was where she was and like now time has passed and she ain't there anymore and that's a thing, you know like there's these moments and I Know that those are gonna start increasing and hitting and you fuck like literally whatever cats in the cradle the entirety of every piece Of media I've ever experienced about anything relating to this has been happening and hitting like at some point Guy's gonna have to go sleep in his own room and when that happens The sleep we're gonna get is gonna be so good. So this is so good Well, so and this is where our paths branch because we're already there Right, you're already there. We're already there, but we're doing a different thing, right? Like we went straight real just we went straight out of snoo into you're in your room, you know and It's but of course this is the thing where When there is a regression it's not a like turnover and let's solve this problem. It's a Here we go That was not that was well, I was just never gonna happen Waking up at night. I needed mama needed mama in one second not five seconds Yeah, not ten seconds now what we are what I did learn as a result of our setup though is there's some tech I mean baby monitor microphone, right? You make a little help. Yeah a little bit of like hey, you can hear my voice. Okay, cool You know throw in a little Wheels on the bus coming out through the the microphone, you know just to just to distract the like where we're the fuck you at moments Yeah, it does work and there's a there's a like a looking around for the it's like voice of God almost like a what yeah a little bit Where where's that coming from? But like it does delay and calm the The fret down a little bit we we have too much self aware You know almost three-year-olds author So when we've tried to use that to get him to go back down to his nap because like you know naps like an hour and a half But it'll he'll pop up after 40 minutes. He's too aware Mm-hmm, so he'll be you'll be like I'll go back to sleep, honey, and he's like where are you I Want you here now? Literally like the concept of your yeah, okay, so like no, it's not it's not enough not enough Yeah Fucking getting my voice into trying to hit miss Rachel fucking pitches No, that is a it's it's not doable Yes Decisions will he just you know, yeah, I was scrolled through tech talk and I hit Rachel and and she just looked at me and went Hey, you're doing a good job Oh Yeah Anyways, there's your does your dad slop for the for the for the podcast your weekly Not exactly there was a bit there was a dad There was a dad moment that got clipped out and is making the rounds My little guy, do you know what he did? Where is it? Where is it? Oh, it's on it's on blue sky It's on the subreddit know where is the object that should be kept under glass and lock and key protection trash dude it died Okay It's it was a dandelion. It's ephemeral. Yeah, I know but you put it in a thing for a minute. All right Well, you know man's plenty dandelions out there. It's the thought. Yeah, it is Of course, but that's my point. That's my point exactly But yeah, my little guy was picking flowers for me and was hanging out waiting outside the office going Wait for dead. I'm gonna give him this flower. That's that's that's Shut the fucking stream down everybody go away Yeah, urgent business is occurring. I also I also encountered the first example of the the nightmare Which is hanging out in the kitchen two three days ago And I was making a coffee and he said dead. I don't make your coffee and I went why he went When you make your coffee you go dad show and I don't want you to go dead Yeah, that's right, that's right I'm tell you know, I mean look, I don't know how well people Caught it wouldn't be when it occurred but like some of her first laughter started occurring just off mic And I was like, uh-uh Shut the fucking stream dad be right back And I hit him with the shut the fuck up be right back screen Lucky We're so lucky cuz our kids are like over there. They're right there. They're right there. They're like that way Yeah From us or 30 whatever it no right and that's and this is that's gonna as time goes on that might become a problem Right like I am within air shot Fuck your show dad Yeah, come on. We need to yes and I like for example like my dad missed out on Fucking most of it cuz he was at work My dad worked six days a week and he left at 5 30 in the morning and he got home at 6 p.m and something that I remember Thinking about a lot was the fact that like there is the effect of like like oh shit Dad's coming home, you know like big hug like yeah excitement, right and I know that I've every time I've seen stuff like that. I've always felt like I'm like, oh, that's a that's a cool thing and It's wholesome and I know that like that's not the type of situation I have set up here, but it's like no, that's not true actually because you still do that You come in coming from where I record coming from the studio down into the room You get the same effect, you know and or even just waking up in the morning after cuz doing the night ship You get the same effect of like So it doesn't matter if it's like working at home or not actually because it's the point is is that If you're not seeing them, you're still gonna get that effect period, you know, so that's cool I'm glad that that is not something that's been robbed From this but no super lucky being with this with this very very lucky and again a couple years time We'll see what's happening when Yeah, I'm getting my shit echoed back at me. I like I don't need to hurt her to a just reflect her Any of the things happening up here Back in our direction you want to hear the ultimate mm-hmm. I came over here to set up You know turn a game on and get the settings right before I was gonna stream later that day, right and Pages asleep. She was sleeping in cuz she had a rough night So I was like, all right, bud. You want to come over to me? You want to go to the office set up dad show? He went, yeah right come over the office and He runs to this chair before I can get to it and climbs into it and goes When's my show? Dad show is do da and I'm like I Wanted to say fucking No, never I want to talk into it And points of the mind was like grabbing the microphone. I'm like, okay, okay. Here you go. What do you got? And he says you're on the bike, what's your pretty tricky I don't know Nice hot seat, let's go. All right. All right. It's tough to do in Tristing well, that's one of my favorite things Paige did was things aren't hard. They're not too tough. They're just tricky So he'll be going on he'll be going to like put his shoes on and he'll have like a trouble because it's like a new pair of shoes I'm like dad that can you help me my shoes are being pretty tricky tricky. That's good. That's good So hey look dad slop is a segment, but it is also a genre It is a genre now and I am very invested in it Because yes, it is different and it's good It helps taking the internet by storm in a way that I wish everyone would just be quiet Pragmatis out this week. Yeah, and I mean to be perfectly honest like the It helps when the the dad slop as I'm describing is also a very good game to play so Hold on we were both sponsored to play Pragmat last week and run tiktok ads for it hashtag sponsor currently I would say quite Generously sponsored They are However, I will say that the I played the demo before that happened and I also did yeah And I like the demo was very very much impressed by it there and The fact that they sent a fucking Microwave to my house The fucking giant there's the whole press kit thing. That's just insane and Like I'm like what is this and it opens up and goes Fuck it and it's like it's insane light and sound setup thing to just give you some key chains and some stickers I'm really glad I passed on that It's it is the size of a microwave you press a button on it. It lights up and goes That's ridiculous and then you get some markers and some key chains and some stickers and there it's cool little merch But I'm like this is insane I feel I feel like every time I have to have that discussion with somebody like oh, we want to sign up for the Event or the the press kit and I'm like nah, just send me a code Yeah, for me it don't you know I don't I I don't want it for me It depends on if I think I'm gonna care right and in this case. I'm like I like this This is gonna be cool. I think I'm gonna care and like for example. I will metaphor right that was worth it There was some box back there. Yeah, the metaphor one was super dope, right? I'm happy with that. All right Yeah, I mean the the end state of the metaphor Special edition press kit is it's literally just sitting behind me in this room in the corner Yeah, yeah, no to be fair fill space. Yes the the I got rid of the box and stuff after a point. It's just a jacket the Ghost of Tsushima box has become a crate for like putting some pictures on and stuff It's like it's literally like next to my TV as just a little like yeah, we put a Like little board on it and pictures and stuff But in any case some of those this is one of those ones where you're like for what for what comes in it This is insane game itself How so yeah, did you do anything beyond that at that first two hours? No, I did not okay I have a lock I have a lock going on and pragmatis seems super hot So I figured you know what it can keep a week or two. Okay. Yeah. Yeah That being said that first two hours was super solid. Yes, including going through the demo area again. Yeah, it's completely different Yeah, I was going to say you fought the boss in the demo But the area leading up to it and everything around it was not at all the same Yeah, it's the same like architecture But you go through the rooms in a different order and fight different enemies and the demo gives you an impression of what the bonfire Sort of system is but it's not that at all Yeah, and it's not but it's not what you thought like it's it is a come back to a checkpoint like and and He'll up but it's really a full-on return to base And do everything in your little hangout club space and do do the do the little social events with Diana hang out with And and talk to cabin who's a freak and I hate Okay, cabin I was I I'm like Squinting at you because I'm like, how do I know you're not connected to Edis? There's nothing here that says you're not connected to the evil AI system that's destroying everything in this game that we're trying to kill and and then cabin cracked a joke or two and his hat came on and He had a bingo system and I was like, okay, cabin you're in so I don't think Cabins like nefarious what I do think is that I don't know I still on settling is still like it I like how his face goes from Tate to Yeah, so he goes from side-scrolling mode to fucking Virtuiter And I did know that I was like I was going through my menus and I heard Mega Man sound effects going on Oh, I didn't hear that Interesting like I turn and he was playing the prog mod a version of Mega Man on his own face Shit, I gotta see that okay, okay, I was looking at Diana. I'm like this is a send up to rock and roll like It is roll in a blue bomber jacket Yeah, I mean you can you can put all you can put as much of that on On the game as you want and not to mention the fact that you're on you're dealing with the moon, you know but What I do really like actually and was not expecting Given the setting given the system given what it all is it's so simple and like so far almost like light on It's light on like some of the lore for now it's light on a lot of things the premise is like Overwhelmingly simple that intro sets it all up. You're right the AI Oopsie there was a quick and and the most important detail in the background is there's a giant 3d printer Yeah, that's a 3d print anything you could 3d print anything and then there's these 3d printers that are human sized that are all around the base Printing out enemies 3d printing human sized robots that don't like you, you know, and you're like, okay go. That's it But you know, you kind of just are like, okay, you meet Diana you hang out you have established a little little fun relationship and chatting with her she's a goober and She's great. I have it's been a while since I played a game in which I'm like whoever wrote this slash directed it has kids For sure. I saw because I saw there's a couple moments one where it's like she's walking and it's like that like you've been walking for a little while now But you don't quite have it down yet quite got it and there's those steps of uncertainty where you're like you're gonna fall on your face any second now Yeah, I mean is when she goes, oh kitty and nearly kills herself. Yep launching into a death exactly infinite pit a million percent Right not to mention but kitty and like I have I have legitimately gone through this identical scenario not to mention Uh, see you being like yeah, I don't like kids. It's like yeah, we'll see about that idiot Also like you you're hanging out with your crewmen like ken and uh, I forgot what the other one's name was The guys who don't pull their masks up. So, you know, they're gonna die the ones the ones without faces exactly and uh, You're like Hugh is not a protagonist's name But it's a dad name. Yeah, and that's what's important here, right? There's a very very clear energy to that that is that is paternal Um, and what what one of the big things that did it to you was like when he was like he was he was holding her or something And she kind of did this at one point like from the side she kind of did like that like on his face And it was like it was one of those things where I was like that happens all the time Yeah, that's super real Right. She kind of just like touching my face in a way that would be wildly like aggressive or weird if an adult did it Ah, but you're cute. You're just a baby. You're just a baby. I saw I saw um In death stranding as well. Bebe did that and that that thing with and I was like, yeah, the face grab is super real Um, no, it is it is cool to have that aspect to it It feels a lot better that she's on your back Behind you and not like in front Even though it's a robot child admittedly version of the game where she was like running around and it just caused like the player to accidentally shoot her like a hundred times I mean, there's no tactical role to worry about so you're not going to like bonk every time But yeah, it does feel interesting to kind of like I'm like, okay This between this and the way I saw that that intro to death stranding to None of that unease, you know um and then uh, but like yeah, you have this and you have donkey kong and you've got uh, uh Death stranding and you're just like, okay, we're in an era right now. We're in an era of like dad's love Abbey's legacy continues to becky or not We will pay you to use tinder. We will fucking pay you get on the apps kids So one of the things of note, uh, so first of all, I want to point out I've seen people say dad's space This is the this is the best This is the best fake name for the game genre. I've seen solid. That's what space is a plus uh But I've seen like a fair amount of discussion and I felt it too where like We had the the era of the sad dad Sad dad era Like like like emphasized by like joel and kratos. Um, and it There's there's this weird like there's a type of guy out there who fantasizes about defending his family Let's go Yep, yep Kill anyone to defend my boy. I kill anybody who looked at my daughter and say, okay Well, would you pick them up from school and go to their soccer practice? Running through your head. You're like, what are you thinking about just hands over the go over the wheat? Hi. Uh, hi. Yeah Right. Yeah with gladiator music You know thinking about the roman empire specifically so that you can draw thrust at the enemy and like and those child in hand Those games like particularly the last of us like plays directly into the family the the the family revenge family protector like power fantasy Um, you read my mind on this go go donky kong And prog mata do not yes donky kong and prog mata are You and your buddy Going on an adventure and oh, I want to keep them safe But it's not about oh get on like Hugh isn't going. Oh kill any robot that looks at that like no, that's fucking weird Right and and and I'll even say instead. He's like going get behind me get behind me I need to protect you and there's and there's obviously those moments of like and then you kind of see like oh How's it gonna handle something like oh they're being taken away or being threatened, right? But something that is in the former category is gonna make it all about that energy the like They're like warrior revenge just larp dead energy in a way And there's a huge difference between how that feels especially beforehand playing it as someone who did you know when you don't Advocate or anything like that and I remember when I played last of us one I didn't like ellie at all I thought ellie was really annoying. Okay, and she pissed me off. Okay, because I was in my 20s. Okay And I I nicknamed ellie garbage. I do remember that referred her only as garbage, right? Right But then I got to the last scene in the game And that was like yelling i'm gonna get you garbage and then I went into the room and I just started Shooting every doctor in there. Yes going you don't get to do this right right right? Yes, and then it's like okay So it was in there So I like it was it was in there underneath. I really liked ellie so I all the annoyance I didn't I didn't have but I was fine with you know from the jump. I was like, okay. Yeah This energy works, but um, that's my garbage That's mine, but there is something different. There is something different to the like you said like yeah it's the the revenge fantasy and or the like Save them fantasy, you know, it's the it's the mad max Loan warrior nothing to lose a male exactly just going right right versus the one where it's like actually Do it now here. They're here. Take care of them now And you know while while adventure is happening um I think I think the best summation of that attitude was like would you kill somebody to save your family? Yeah, absolutely Would you suck a dick? I All fours get the spit out just I mean because and and not only that right but think about the whole like Protagonists that are like good at at fighting and good at adventuring but bad at being parents, you know your joe toro the ideas your joe your joseph's and your um Your goku memes and it's like okay, but what if like you had to really do a bunch of all the things you were doing all those adventures? With the kid in your hand or like with you, you know, well, don't ask goku that But that's you know, like he's the word. How does that change the entire adventure if you even if like, um Gohan was there With goku from fucking rad. It's all the way through namaic, you know, and there was no division and split up there What if so? Yeah, pragmata also has some of that where it's like well diana can can help you She had she has to help you in fact Because you're a team and it's like when I do dishes now My dude I don't have to bend down to get my dishes anymore by the way. Okay. Okay My little man goes in and the only thing I do Is like okay steak knives Dad dad takes all the steak knives out first Because they're sharp, you know But then I do that and then he hands me every fork and every knife and every spoon And then he gets distracted when he gets to the spoons because spoons make great drumsticks. They do they really do But then he hands me every plate and every glass in that dishwasher Nice, okay, it's like he's hacking a robot for me to shoot. You got a little opera. That's cool. Okay So start them early start them real early. This kid puts his clothes in the washing machine He does his dishes. He puts his dishes away in the sink He helps his mom make muffins. Oh, I mean dude when I said she like really responds to sound Yeah, she's clapping Like three months ahead of schedule She's Really really ahead on that. Yeah before I forget this is really important because I know I know your personality Some milestones they will be way ahead And some they will be way behind unless they're like a year behind on those milestones Fucking don't worry about it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're all their skills are lopsided There's no like normal child for their milestones. Yeah, except for like the really basic ones like, you know walking and talking and some And some of it's just kind of random in the sense that like, you know, um, because yeah We we talk about like tummy time and like how that strengthens the back and it's really good and everything And like she got really really good at it. Um And like now she's just like hating it and just doesn't want to do tummy time anymore. Oh, yeah And it's like, oh, I like tummy time too. Yeah, and like, you know, this is how like you can like and tummy time then leads to crawling You know, but it's like she's kind of like like pulling back from that While also like getting more confident about like being more standing up and you know And like having these and sitting down and balancing and things like that. So yeah It's all like kind of swerving and ultimately it's kind of like, okay. I didn't care Um I'm not I'm not caring about like that milestone as much as I'm going I noticed that she's old enough now to look around the room and want to get to stuff And is frustrated that she can't get to it yet. So I'm like, uh, I can see my body isn't doing it. Well, how do I do it? Exactly. I'm like, I I can see that you're getting frustrated at your limitations And you want to be able to move over there. So let's try to encourage that, you know Um, that's the speed at which I it makes sense to go for me. You know, I'm gonna hold up my hand There's a comment that I just saw that I want to respond to because I think it's funny Uh, uh, someone says don't forget about the gifted child to burnt out adult pipeline And someone says has Pat ever talked about that? I would love to hear his thoughts. Most of you weren't gifted Your parents just gassed you the fuck up I Probably sorry by the numbers sure sure. I mean I got I got the I got the records to prove it. I literally skipped a grade. Yeah, me too. But so, you know, like But um, but yeah, no, yeah most most of you weren't gifted you you were just like Normal and your parents like gassed you up and didn't teach you to work hard You learned that you had to work hard one day and you were like, oh this sucks And how were you rewarded where you were awarded by being told that like wow, you're so smart or were you told like that? You worked hard you worked really hard. Yeah. Yeah, I was told man. You're so smart. You're smarter than the other kids You're better. I'm like, oh, okay Wait a second. I didn't just get a hundred without trying this time What happened? Does that mean I'm stupid? Yeah, exactly She's like, hey So, um The the the take the take is back to it now Uh, you're running through and I don't know if you got um Uh, okay, so did you get to the area the second area of um, yeah, okay The new york area. Exactly you get to the city, right? And shit opens up you start to see like this wider zone You start to see the environment in pragmata that is from the trailer where you see them in the city Because I was like, oh, yeah, the first promotional material looked like in town square time square And so you got to that sort of area and see what's going on. Um, something really cool about uh, The passage of time in our era is that new things that can be used in fiction Uh are very, um Contemporary like If you've ever seen something 3d printed Then you might have seen how something looks when it goes wrong Or when it's in the middle of printing and how fucked up and stringy it gets I think when I when I I'm really glad I was able to get to the new york section. Um during the uh sponsored segment Because the art style at the beginning of pragmata Is pretty Stop it's sterile. You're in you're in a space station. Really good reflection work. Yeah But like you're in a few fucking spacesuit and you're in fucking space and there's robot and it's and it's clean space It's not space that's been it's been abandoned for a long time. Yeah But you get to that new york section and the first thing you discover is the robots are starting to look deliberately non-standard So I'll describe them. Yeah, but also You get this capcom team's opinion of what they think about ai generated slop Because you are walking through a 3d printed slop space Where everything looks really pretty from a distance until you get close and everything's mashed together like shit I mean and nothing's contiguous properly You look through a window right before you get there and you see a taxi a new york city yellow cab being 3d printed You're like the fuck is that? You know and then you see its application or it's just like yeah This is a basic scanned vibe of what new york is right? And the idea that um well sure because this data was probably just like Oh, I don't know we sent in some google cabs to do google earth And then they just took all that uploaded it and now we spat it out on the 3d printer and like filled in the blanks with what ai thinks Some of the printings have also failed So you're seeing this really kind of interesting thing of like yeah, it looks you're just parts of the city that are Breaking into the space the station underneath it and you're just kind of printing out onto the space above and you see where the Errors occur it looks like 3d printing mistakes That's a new thing really it's really interesting That's a new thing that i've never seen in any fiction before because it's it's like this is all this is now That we know about 3d printing that we could use that right there's a new medium and there's a with a new medium comes new techniques sounds and visuals and errors And the way the stringy parts of the of the of the material kind of like rip into these Fabricy like sinews, you know is like oh fuck That's someone that's looking at when printing goes wrong And then you can use that to like give a kind of like horror you fucked up effect Especially like the areas where you're not supposed to go yet It's not just like a like oh it's like it's giving the same energy of like a crystal that says break this later in the game to get through yeah, but It's fucked up 3d printed. You know, I'm really happy to see that 3d printed progression blocking bullshit because like oh Oh This is this is a larger scale of exploration than I was expecting and then I finished that section and it was like you got 52 percent of the shit in this level and i'm like i've what I didn't see enough room for 48 percent more level I found a couple of corners and Areas that were tucked around that you could admit you can miss running through it. Yeah I found an invisible wall which made me want to shit Because it's it's interesting how sorry Illusory wall not oh, yeah. Yeah, okay. Okay, because because yeah I get the impression that based on that opener area that it's still Excuse me. It's still very it's a linear game You're going in a linear path but like There's moments where doors lead to doors lead to corners And those corners lead to pits that lead back up to the path you were on and you can kind of like Run in circles around these areas a little bit and yeah, it opens up a little bit more so far in the second part um Gameplay wise of course, uh, because we weren't you know, we've been talking about like the setting and and diana and stuff But like the core loop of just like it's third person shooting over the shoulder feels good Uh, you jump and shooting feels good. The hacking also feels good jumping feels amazing Jumping feel so one of the so this is one of those fun things where they they had me add copy Um, make sure to say it's by people who made devil may cry and resident evil like specifically the team right And like, you know in the opening credits you see jun. Takuchi is a producer jun. Takuchi is a monster producer He just does like he's produced like all the resident evil games like damn near everything that's come out of Capcom But then I'm like well, I where's the devil may cry stuff and then I'm like oh Enemy attacked me and I hit jump and Hugh jumped 15 feet straight up in the air with an invincibility Frame on his startup and I'm like that's the devil may cry one I described it to reggie as basically from the people who brought you Dante and blanka's jump arc Right, that's so specific Dante and blanka have the same jump. It's really high really fast It doesn't go very far forward and then they drop like a brick And it gets you the fuck out of the situation and then drops you back down And it's really tricky to deal with if you're you know trying to if you're defending against it But like I really enjoy that into a hover and then you boost with him forward and it's like it it's just it's nice You know, he's got a nice little nice little movement a thing going and then you jump and then you aim down the sights And that's some bitch starts floating in the air and you're like But also I was like, okay I got a dodge or two dodges and then I you know you go to the upgrade thing and it's like You may upgrade from one dodge to two dodges and I'm like, oh, okay I guess that's the limit of how crazy the game will go No, because then I got like one level further and every single thing in the entire hub said no We unlock more levels of every single ability in the game and there's way too many of them for you to buy So I didn't spend something I haven't seen in a game in a long time So I didn't spend my money on that interestingly I went a different way where I I was like I see they unlock you get a special currency And there's a whole big build up for when you get that fucking super currency because I didn't get that that new currency You pick up that you open up the chest and it's like You know and you're like, yeah And you get it and it's like you now have access to dad dodge Dad time, you know, which is last second dodge into boom Right or Do the boss take down qte on regular enemies on anybody? Yeah, it's it's so you there's too much That you don't have enough to buy all the upgrades like not even close like I you know I finished two levels and I had enough to get like One of the two of the cheaper upgrades I would have had to save up for any of the others, right? That's awesome. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm pick. That's awesome that I have to like really be like, okay. Do I want dad time or Critical hits on regular enemies because those are both really really really fucking good Do you want to spend your currency on just restocking your shotguns? Uh, you know, or do you want to put them towards like? Yeah, like any of the other Stacks of upgrades or so. So like one of the things that I did I'm like, oh more mod slots I will have as many mod I will buy mod slots until I run out of like slots that I can equip because these These upgrades are really powerful. They're really powerful and they're on all the time Did you notice that when you got mod slots and mod upgrades? That every time you saw a percentage that some bitch had two digits on it Every time you get a modification it's minimum 10 percent. I talked about it And I was like, but you know else I noticed you know what else I was like, hey, I unlocked the shotgun now the shotgun is available every time I want to leave the the hub I can start with a shotgun somebody described it as dark souls one spells Oh Preparing you're leaving the bonfire with all you're gonna have and then you can find more out there, but that's what you're leaving with Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Okay, but more than that I unlocked that and a little cutscene happened of like a locker opening up and Like the whole thing of the you know the the locker and like where is that? Right. I'm like looking around like where was that in the room? I'm like, oh, it's the set of like A hundred lockers next to the tunnel exit. Oh Okay, it's coming out of those and printing and so like Every single one of those fucking things is a hack or an upgrade or a weapon or something Significant right and it's a huge line on both sides. Okay. Okay every yeah, that's that's your so you're like Oh, there's gonna be some fucking guns in this game And the thing is is we're on a almost vanquish like system of like you get four slots And you can carry one of each category in each slot So you're not gonna quick switch into everything every way you want all the time all at once You know you have your damage slot. You have your utility slot. I didn't get the bottom I don't yeah, whatever that's gonna be exactly and then obviously there's your default gun, which we'll never leave um so basically after you go through some of that new york section so you get introduced you get your shotgun you get your um Your your net for you know locking things down your next upgrade after that you get a um Basically a grenade that replaces your net on the ground So like okay, just spreads the enemy out knocks them down and then your shotgun replacement becomes sniper Right, just laser pierces through enemies multiple in a row. Bubba. Bubba. Bubba takes a long time to charge it up But you has it's you has its utility Uh Not long after that You are you start seeing so I mean here's the thing is like the game As it's a capcom game has its moments where you're doing this running around and you're shooting and stuff and then it goes For this part you're playing resident evil You're in a hallway and the enemies are coming at you and they're going In your face and you don't have the room to dodge actually And when you run out of bullets you can reload But you're reloading one bullet at a time and that takes forever and it takes forever. Yeah, right So i'm like, oh You have a big guy and two small guys and some floaters around Zapping at me in a tiny little hallway. That's a it's a problem This is an re moment in a not re game You know you so it can switch into that when it wants to which I thought was really interesting Um not to mention you need a little bit of room to like hack While things are coming at you from left and right and stuff and then you start being like, okay Fuck this just go straight to the to the target. I can't be going through the the extra relays, you know Yeah, one of the things that I really liked was Uh, I just I unlocked the uh, I forget what it's called but the multi-target multi-hack multi-hack And it's like I get three of these. Yes, and I'm like this might as well be Incredibly good grenade in any other game. How hacking it. I'm like, ah, I got this big fucking mess I need it to stop But don't don't accidentally use it by just panicking and automatically running through the yellow object on your way to the green Giving yourself powerful hacks makes the hacking mini game Harder against normal enemies because you have now put obstacles in your brain to avoid It's really smart. Yeah, it's really really smart and it feel again I can't say enough after we talked about it before it feels good to do the game inside the game It doesn't feel bad. I hate when it on the deep head right smart feels good to do that. Um Now there's a moment that occurs where Uh, the second category of flyers drops in and starts shooting missiles at you Okay, and so you fucking you got to take some time to time shoot those missiles out of the air while the rest of the thing Is coming right? Um the missiles, however, if you aim Diana at them can be hacked And that's cool Do you then have Diana hack the missile? and You return to sender that shit Back to where it came from right awesome, but the moment that you hack it. This is and this is like to lay this out um There's something that happened in my brain and like, uh, you know, I'm like, I'm not I can't I'm not going to go to I elaborate into it because sponsored streams. I'm not going to bring up the other whatever properties and games, etc You're playing the whole game and you're aiming at things and there's a grid and then you're looking at nodes that are blue That you're trying to move through to get to a green one to activate the the the the crit When the missile comes at you you're looking at four rotational nodes It's like, you know the you know the elevator switches that rotate right? Yeah You're looking at that and like three of them are already blue and one of them is orange And you have to switch to turning that one into the correct location and your brain goes from Seeking out blue to needing to ignore all blue For that missile hack moment and I go Icaruga Right the moment you switch popularity in Icaruga and you say your Black dots are now hostile and white dots are are friendly and then you switch it back And then white dots are hostile and black dots are friendly and you're like that exact moment happened when hacking and I was like I've I know this little tingle in my brain of needing to turn the colors that I was seeking out into colors to avoid Right So that felt really cool as well in the middle of the fight Uh, you get these larger enemies that's come out and they're moved. They're like tightening They're basically like hey remember the creepy titan effect like yes That's gonna be a part of this here and they're a problem And they represent things that should be dealt with Until things that should be dealt with even more than those things start to show up And now you have a list of priorities to go through And basically where I took it to was after that first boss where you get a really awesome fight against the demo boss Where you it's the like it's like a metal gear and you're dashing out of the way and hacking and it gets her fucking Uh, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, uh, whatever a rage of the dad Diana trigger Diana triggers what I was calling it her dt, right? Yeah. Oh Okay, dt perfect. Yeah, so she pops her diana trigger and then you deal with the with the thing So what comes up next is you get a an exam room You know, it is a it is a series Of waves and there's a bunch of them and there's things in there and they come at you and you need to prioritize immediately And it's the first like Okay Now this is not the re little hallway section that we're doing We're in a room and we're controlling a way a hoard a wave coming at you and Choosing what to ignore on the ground what to pick up when to switch to what it's like I started to feel all of that as I was going through it and like I died I think twice and then came back through at the third time and just like I put down the sniper picked up the shotgun dealt with these things up front Take out the fly etc And then as you're just prioritizing and then I saved up enough to deal with the big guy at the end Then you're like this game when it's flowing and you're aiming and you're returning to sender and then excellent. Oh my god It feels so good. It feels fantastic, man. Also. I want to give Uh, the developers of the game a little golf clap Uh for two things about the naming conventions in prog moda first of all Having this game come out on the moon Like a week after a new moon mission Good one Good time unintentional, but What a bit timing. Yeah unrelated, but oh good one, but also, uh calling diana diana That's a plus. What's the bit? Diana is the goddess of the moon and childbirth. Okay, sure. Yeah. All right. That works That's great She's literally the moon baby god moon child. Here's your moon, baby um Yeah, I mean and she's also the hunter Okay, I mean diana can hunt um Oh, it's so it's our big Artemis. Yeah, okay. Like yeah, yeah. Yeah. I got you. I mean they easily could have been but also Artemis Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah It's just happened Yeah, I It could have easily been like a kid named luna or something but that that's why you're going up to that's why the company is called delphi This is the oracle Cool, cool. Cool. Okay. Okay. Wasn't piecing that together um What I was about to say just before that fuck was uh, oh, yes, um something that I found that was uh, initially tricky was like Uh, the fact that I'm like, oh fuck. I'm out of bullets and now I'm waiting to reload and and all this is taking time And then I kind of realized in that last like phase that challenge where it's like the time where you run out of bullets Is actually the time it takes to manage everything else happening on the screen So as those as those shots are coming back you can look around decide what to switch up to Hack anything that you need to hack right away and position for the next Re-engage moment after your bullets have you know reloaded now woolly. I don't think you played Call of Duty modern warfare No, I played advanced warfare But if you had played call of duty modern warfare and maybe advanced warfare, I didn't play that. I don't know if it's there But pragmata agrees switching to your sidearm is faster than reloading Yeah, your your default pistol Reloads whether you have it in your hand or not Which took me some getting used to I hope you're you've got a sidearm and that you're not empty right, yeah Because you got to choose one to spend those shotgun bullets, which is another resident evil moment Right. Yeah, how many you start with four? That's enough for like one and a half encounters. Yeah Straight up. Did you waste your shotgun on all the grunts? Well too bad. No. No, I had the shotgun. I uh, I uh Fired it four times at the wall So that it hit zero instead of reloading And then killed myself on the next encounter to get the checkpoint reloaded and went only for big boys Furthermore you start shooting at not the weak point on things and realizing you're an idiot because There's glowing things you should be shooting at to make this encounter easier And if you can line them up even better, you know Um Yeah, no like I I I did appreciate just like each subsequent enemy that got introduced became the new problem priority That you need to shift up the list and it's like you see that deal with that. Um, which Is a little vanquished like? Um, I mean the most vanquished like thing about this is the suit of arbor is the suit. Yeah for sure Uh, but there's a little bit of that too of just like it's almost like in vanquished when you're hearing You know and you're like stop where what? deal, you know Not to mention running up to the thing and qte and get and stuff too as well Uh, yeah, I say one of the things that I found very charming I thought I was psychic at a moment in this game Because I was you know in one of the first areas and you walk back to the tram to pick up a collectible And like two robots start coming out of the printers And I'm shooting at one robot and then I just dodged To the side and the second robot that I forgot was there swung at air and I'm like, oh my god How'd I know how to do that? That's crazy and chat had to tell me diana told you when she did I hadn't even noticed But diana like literally yells watch out Okay, I just reacted without thinking and I'm like awesome awesome Okay, I was I because I didn't notice that either but um something I was worried about often was is there one behind me Because sometimes you're dealing with the thing in front and you're doing the hack Yeah, she'll give you a heads up if something's readying up a swing. Okay. Okay Because yeah, like there's there's times where they are behind you and you're not always getting an audio cue If you're especially if you're locked into the hack moment, you know, I fail You know the the stompies the big guys with the tummies they stomp I failed one of those and the next time they got ready Dino's like jump you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah that I've been like, oh, thanks. Oh, that's cute 100. Yeah No, it's cute that you did that. Thank you. It's great. It's great I wish ashley in re4 had told me that somebody was sneaking up behind me That would have been very that would have been more useful than you hiding in a trash can ash So something else that I have that happened too was uh an enemy. I was in the middle of hacking um I was shooting And I hacked it and it died And then I aimed at the next enemy and then the hack line went to that enemy instead So You don't lose The hack for killing the thing you're looking at It applies to the next thing that you aim at and it and it and it Yeah, and it just kind of like transfers over right? It's like there's a moment I have to go back and look but I basically feel like I What I thought I saw happen was I was shooting and then it goes down and then um I the line that I completed the hack on I turned to the next thing and it went into that and then and then that thing credit instead I think that's what I saw happen in which case. It's like that's interesting because You have a a transfer moment that's possible um No, I I fucking games just super solid. Yes Uh so solid in fact that I'm going to continue playing it So people have been at Pete, you know, it's you know, it's a really positive sign for your sponsored stream when you're like, thanks capcom All right, that's gonna be enough pragmata for today And then every single day since you get a couple copies. When are you gonna keep playing pragmata? When are you gonna keep when and the answer is for me is next week? Because I have a very busy week this week that you should check out. Yeah, and to be fair any time of thing is brand new You can expect that that's gonna be the case. Yeah, this is this is gonna keep. Have you heard about lunatic mode? No Nice name. Luna is the god hard equivalent. Okay. Um it's harder And they unlock more of the system for you at the very beginning of the game. Yes, okay Like they just they just open up the store Like much much earlier to be like deal with the problem you're doing you had to unlock this by beating the game So what do you fucking want to use to go through hard mode? Great. Great. Great. Yeah, I'm I'm envisioning Really great hacks really great items and mods, but like Resources becoming the problem, you know um Because that little pew pew gun at the end of the day You're gonna need to rely a lot on that thing when you're out of your good shit, you know um I did find like you always kind of you're running by them and you're like, okay I remember this room had a couple things but I ran empty in a few encounters and went stop go back and pick those up And then move forward, you know, which Again re right? Yeah. No, it's like listen. No, you can only hold four shotgun shells at a time But I passed a shotgun power up in that room I picked up I should go and get it. I picked up a multi-hack, but I left a disarm on the ground Oh, you gotta keep that. Yeah, let me go get it. I will say Well going into that first boss fight that Somebody in my chat described it as a boss pond rather than a boss fountain It is Ridiculous It is a giant circular room with like a dozen visible unreal tournament style weapon pickups Go get the loading on the ground. Like it's I fucking wonder what's gonna happen. Yeah, but also get used to Picking up things on the fly while the action continues. You know, it's like this is what I have now Yeah, and and what and also here's the boss is shooting a Fucking circus of missiles at you. You can't really do much right now Might as well take it the chance to evade and go reload, you know, go pick up new shit plan So there's gonna be these breaks in the action where you gotta like reassess and Start up your next hacking plan. You can put the hack node right before The the final the final point and then choose to use it later You know, if you if you change your attention to look back at something and then look back at the thing You were in the middle of hacking it'll be where it was. Yeah, you know, so like that's I can only imagine how this hacking is going to get insane towards the the you know, I really like, you know Uh, I had this happen a couple of times in which I had to Cancel the hack I had to start it over And if you're pointing you're gone at someone and you're hacking them you have to start the hack over Like not fail it like I locked myself into a corner. Okay Um, you have to hold the touchpad You have to hold it to cancel the hack And it's really awkward. Huh And that's definitely on purpose Not failing but stopping and starting it because like because you can't You can't like you can't you have to pick a thumb to fucking let off the fucking Or aim And it's like no you fucked it Get ready to crab claw this shit. Okay I mean, I yeah, I found myself getting cornered in a couple moments Where I was like I have nowhere to go and there's a big boy and a dude about to slash me and I jumped float Dashed out kind of thing and and you know, uh, I haven't found myself having to do that yet, but that's an interesting That's an interesting decision. Uh, yeah, really fucking cool game so far, man That is um, and I also heard it's not very long. So, you know, we'll see it's 20 25 Okay And then another you know 15, I guess if you want to hit lunatic mode, which is the length of all capcom games I don't know if you've noticed that um, but like cap if you're shooting a gun in a capcom game It will take you 20 to 25 unless it's you know A classic reasonable game then you now blow through it in a single sit down Is that also the the the main campaign for monster hunter? Uh, no, uh before before the real mode starts. Yeah, I would say so Uh, and it's re9 was that as well. Okay, but re9 and I assume prakmata are built to like now. I'm gonna do it again I'm just I'm I beat it. I'm gonna do it again right away The only the other the only thing I'm kind of looking at that. Uh, it's like happening is like you're you're spending those um cabin tickets cabin coins on You know, uh, I guess like model viewers and you're filling up the room with gifts you're giving dianon stuff and I'm like This is clearly a game where cosmetics can go far and absolutely You know and uh, they gave you a taste of that in the dlc And I was like kind of hope not in the in the demo and I was I was hoping we'd get some like right off the bat You know because I can see there's that like hey put her in a bunny outfit Like like costume or you can get hue to like have um His suit be a little more halo looking I think or have little little cat ears on it or or so Um, but I'm hoping we get some cool cosmetics because I mean we already know the mega man one Like they literally showed that in the fool's bit man, man Cat armor, excuse me Um, yeah that game that game is fucking great. Um And no, and yeah, I read you walked away going like I'd love to see more of that. That was super fun to watch. Yeah It's super good. Uh, so I guess I'll take it from there. Take it away. Wally. Okay guy who works over at woolly versus correct The you know, okay. I wanted to bring this up too. It's just a little tag on from the conversation we had two weeks ago About uh river city girls and the endings Yeah, uh, I'm we're the only people who liked that ending so it turns out so here's the thought right because it turns out that like a uh For a for a lot of folks that hated it it was based on They felt it came out of nowhere and it invalidated everything they did nowhere though and it felt like there was kind of um A bait and switch right? Um, it turns out there's some obscure um There's an obscure kunio game where these characters existed the game in which those girls are listed as their girlfriend And then they got retconned out of existence. Yeah, they got retconned out of existence, right? Therefore making their their Them and then the rivals have an actual like reason to exist in this and hate each other in this setting Which is a cool little detail, but I think for that type of ending to work where you're going everything you thought was one thing is actually a knot and it's kind of nuts your kind of nuts As long as it's hinted at in interesting ways on the way there I think that would be much better received than the idea of feeling like you just got the rug pulled You know because I love the idea of everything I'm hearing about that But I think to give people a to to not receive it the way they did based on the conversation We had you gotta like give something that you can look back and go remember when this happened Didn't you think that was a little bit weird and then you just kind of look past it That might be something that kind of like, you know plants a breadcrumb for you Mm-hmm. I gotta hold on my hand. So you didn't play River City girls, right? I did You did okay, because but I didn't I didn't first I didn't do the secret ending I just did I did I did a main run a one a single run the first thing that's your hint Uh that the river city girls are not their girlfriends is that they literally aren't They're the wrong girls from previous games Those are not That's not a kunio and riggy's fucking girlfriends And the second one is every single villain in the game is like who the fuck are you? Where is girl? Where are their girlfriends? No, you're not Who are you like the whole game builds up to it? Oh? Okay, well then never mind fuck that. Okay. No Like the other then yeah, okay, then they go. Yeah, we are and like you got all the villains or jerks Like no that all right, then that's exactly what I meant if they're I don't remember But like if that's what's been happening the whole time then that's exactly I know so I I'm like absolutely baffled by people not liking the ending because It did it was it was built up to that. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, great No, because that that's how you make that that that shit work, you know um I feel like The because because basically reading the most charitable interpretation of that you go Oh, I remember how I felt at the end of fucking bayonetta three where the fuck did that come from? Oh, yeah, no, I know. I know I know when we're gonna, you know Yeah, it turns out you were dumb and wrong It turns out that that there's alternate realities being teased the whole time and like I mean the kind of work is there's sireza and everything And that's we'll get there There's not much to say it's just they did an interview and camea said that they hinted at the alternate realities in previous games So there was signs like the moon being destroyed in bayo one But then it's back in two So there's reasons to believe that like you were no longer looking at the same bayo What's the ending of bayo two balder going back in time to do bayo one? Are you saying the balder went back in time in bayo two to do bayo one in bayo two? Why do you do that? You lie? No lie. I also I I just I'm not even there I take no issue with him saying that like this is what you can go back to the old games and see A hints of that like uh, there is an idea that alternate sure fine. It doesn't make it good It's like no you just didn't understand it Well, you're explaining a bunch of shit that I had no complaints over at all I actually think like vial is like absolutely Garbo fit at the end of the game is a bigger problem for your story than any of this multiverse shit I mean, yeah, I just you you showed us the future of the witches and my fit is trash You you leaned into the multiverse setup here and it wasn't that great So it doesn't even though there were hints at it in the past it doesn't make it better received unfortunately. It just Felt like shit So the main the main heroine of the season go the series going forwards gameplay isn't finished So let's patch it fixed later because it sucks Um Yeah, no it is it is like addressing like an it it's addressing a gravy Complaint as opposed to like the meat and potatoes of what Everyone disliked which is well you see this is how I made the gravy bro. I'm complaining because your shit is overcooked Yeah, well, um because underneath that meat and potatoes is shinzo abe How'd you get into my dinner his ghost is so strong The fact that that comes up Oh fuck anyways the the the whole thing with The whole thing with river city girls like yeah, if that was telegraphed then that's exactly it. I have no there's no issues that that that's It's hilarious Uh beyond that, um, yeah, no the only other thing was All right wrapped up soul reaver one Hit the credits Woolly. Yeah I want to I want to describe the event that occurred. I was playing I think was a pro model that was doing at the time And someone came and chatted like woolly just beat soul reaver one and the very next comment underneath it was somebody went Already and I went yes, that's the soul reaver one experience You think you're building up to like the 80 or 70 percent mark and then the game just goes Over with a cut scene and a clip hanger and you're like I can't believe this It really does between that and excuse me if we're talking about cut content It really does feel like they ran out of time and money They guess I can tell you with absolute certainty They ran out of time and money. Yep, right cut human era Area that like it's not cut, but it was meant to be more Cut boss fight that is apparently in the remaster Hey, did you know hey you remember when you got that fire soul reaver? Did you think it was weird? There was only the one element Oh Yeah, okay, but it's supposed to be like eight of those man to be fair though I hit the credits with half of my spells not being there Sure the glyphs were like all were you could have gone a little further and and to be honest Most of them felt worthless like there was a really the fire one was great Oh totally the others didn't fucking do anything really and that was that that is a that is a Halo two ass Scenario so I knew like what I knew the game was short But I also knew like hey cliffhanger shit come in the fuck up because of previous conversations and read That conversation vividly. I'm like you're gonna do the second one. You're like, I don't know I don't like to promise and I'm like this one ends What with the fucking expectation? That you're gonna keep trucking because it just fuck cuts the fucking page in half and and so You know while I was more or less like prepared for that like yeah, reggie's just there like pogging out like what the fuck Do you mean the credits are rolling? You're like welcome to the 1999 experience? You know if you flip a coin enough times will it land on its edge credits what? Uh, here's what I will say is finding out that like the the how I said how long did you have to wait? In 1999 and the answer was two years Right, so I'm like, okay fine. That's fine console though. Yes, and also two years after 1998 time That's like 13 years now The speed at which amazing shit was coming out back then that's an eternity, you know But no, I I'm like, all right. They did get to the second one within a reasonable time frame here um, but guess what? So river too also All right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I can see so here's the thing is I was looking at the As you're walking down that final stretch of the game You're looking into the future You know you're looking to the past and then you're seeing these scenes replaying and then you start looking into the future and I'm going Are you showing me Are you showing me the sequels right now? Are you setting up moments that you're gonna have to come back to? You know woolly. Mm-hmm If you were playing legacy of kane in 1999 and you're like, oh my god, this cliffhanger is crazy. I can't believe it but Like six months later They announced soul reaver two and it's out a year later in 2001. Mm-hmm. You're like, oh, okay, that's not but then you finish soul reaver two And the same fucking thing happens. Oh, I can't believe it Oh, when's the next one? I can't wait when you think defiance comes out Oh That I guess that was a bit more of a stretch when one one. What do you think? 2005 three three. Okay. Okay So like each time it happened you're like, oh Can't oh, it's there it is right right right. Okay the a whole trilogy of games Sorry a whole a whole tetralogy of games Like an eight year period because uh blood omen, uh was um Blood omen was 96 96 yeah, so 90 so in a nine uh four in a seven year span They released the tetralogy of games and then Uh defiance does wrap it up But then they you know, they open you know, they open it up for the future and um You're like, I wonder when the next one's gonna be in about 18 months, right? And that's where I've lived for my entire adult life and there we are yeah what I will say is knowing that looking at this with the lens of of you know late 90s early aughts as the You know how you're supposed to keep play it it is um It is really there's a lot there that is uh Incredible for the time The thing that I remember the most though is the this is the the the ammunition that was used in the war of This versus ocarina of time Ridiculous comparison and that's it now and now like that's insane that you cannot The structure I can see it but you like Structurally it shares like I'm gonna go to a dungeon. I'm gonna do a puzzle. I'm gonna get a puzzle puzzle third. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah and it was mature and violent and had voice acting which But like it's it's a it's a small game with a small scope And it and it does a couple things that are impressive But it's not like this mechanical master class that ocarina was like like ocarina is like you finish The daiku tree and no jabu jabu's belly wraps up and then we end the gate roll credits there You don't even get to adult You know In in in direct comparison here. I'd say so Yeah, that that feels silly. Um all not to mention that like There's no Real other like you're not really going about and like talking to there. There's no other like towns villages people etc Whatever going on you're doing the puzzle rooms. You're you're killing the enemies you're meeting your brothers And michael bell are just gonna monologue. They're doing it. Um It is funny though seeing this with the lens of the past in the in the chat next to us at the same time Because i'm appreciating it and like what it's doing and keeping in mind that like yeah I get voice acting at a premium back then Uh, but at the same time there aren't your childhood memories of this game Are way longer and more in depth and have more plot going on than the reality of what we experienced, right? Like for example, this is a really good example I'm streaming and somebody goes will they just beat the silent cathedral and i'm like I thought that was gonna take him like multiple Fifty yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it took me like eight hours. Yeah. Yeah, and I felt that oh, I was stupid I felt that the whole time watching as we're going Encapsulated in these big moments where for example Walking into the final room with kane, right? Folks are like Best monologue incoming It was like pretty good. It was all right. You know, I mean, it's fine. It's just well So the reason why it was the best Is that your choices of monologues were yeah, you're solid one and nothing and When you got this monologue you were also On summer break in your friend's house with a sleepover And you just had pizza and you had some seven up and you're getting super hyped up for this sick Final battle that's about to happen because you rented the game for the weekend Right, so you're having all of that and i'm like, yeah, i'm not there right now That's not where we are, but I can't fight that memory. You know It's um it is it is kind of like yeah, this is this is basically introducing these characters um And kane really has like two moments one where you fight him and then he kind of goes like Ah, i'm doing something with the solar eaver and disappears on you and then the second time where he sets that up and talks about viewing the future and Mobius gets introduced and then he rage quits to the time stream, which is the funniest shit ever Like fuck alt f4. I am jumping into the live stream and you will come find me. You know, it's hilarious shit um But and then they're suddenly telling you that I hope you are excited for the the timeline of the games to get Super fucking confusing um Super confusing man looking forward to it, you know, but but this this being said uh uh Keeping a lot of that in mind. I i'm I see the potential here for this to then Tighten up some of these mechanics Expand the whole like how to kill the enemies bit and you know, maybe making the shadow realm a little more interesting with stuff and then fucking pausing pausing and thinking and turning and pushing and spinning and blocks because Oh boy, this is a puzzle game with 3d fighting graphics happening around the puzzles absolutely As is a video game an idos video game at the time um Anytime I thought like there might be one moment. There's the moment where you fight du ma And he gets up you pull the stakes out and you're like, oh here we go. It's a fight fight. It's like it is not It is a lead him to the furnace moment There but his ai kept breaking so I had to like run back and kite him and it was actually a port showing so do ma rules Like do ma is like a really good example of all the problems we're talking about in soul river the setup for do ma As the biggest and healthiest of the vampire lieutenants whose enemy whose children you've been fighting the whole game Was so tough that he's the only one that the humans of the time were like fuck that one And staked his shit to the wall and they but couldn't kill him And he's so you have like I have to allow my enemy to Like heal up so I can actually kill them Cool idea very awesome setup I think trick him to fall into the furnace. I mean they like like he does do the ha ha ha laugh when you swing at him, right? Um, so there but but ultimately I think what's a little strange too is that like the only fights that are not puzzles in the game Are the cane fights? But those aren't really fights either as much as they're like run up to him and get a swing He's gonna do a thing in the corner. Go get just do it fast Just do it and it's like it's not about solving How he's gonna zap you or what it's just like no to just get there faster You know no you can feel how every single part of this game was built out of the old versions of tomb raider Definitely gun It's not a good bunch of ways to fight But a bunch of these enemies but around that one of those last puzzles where you're pulling the the one block From the to open the one door and the two block to open the two door and you're switching the sides with them and getting the you know I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're tomb raiding for sure Um, I still do think though that like again the idea of how you kill enemies and have to take their souls and that that whole thing Is very unique for the time and yeah, that's that's that's very unlike any other thing Uh, and that's the most unique bit it has going for it. I um Um Some of the platforming is dodgy, but like it's fine um You have I really only learned that we're talking to somebody in their life legacy and cane So we were so much better than zelda because you actually have a jump in that game Fuck off with that shit, dude That zelda not having a jump actively made platforming work way better Because i'm doing the thing that I only learned at the end which is hold hold a slow walk to approach an edge and you won't fall off of it right um and you uh, and then i'm like the problem i've been having was like walking to these edges and trying to get the high jump and Floating down to get fucked over on just being able unable to grab the ledge and moving up Ah the games from 99. What do you mean? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, no a jump button feels good in combat And and the ability to do that running around the map is something that feels good in video games regardless But getting used to it and good getting used to the weirdness of like run to the edge And you'll jump off of it and zelda was strange But I ultimately got what they were going for and why you know and I tell you what though legacy of cane defiance did Genuinely change a lot. You have a high time in that game. Mm-hmm um and air combos Wow, okay, they straight up were like We we played a bunch of dmc one So I mean combat in this first one as basic as it is the little stinger input and sidestepping Was was interesting. I'm like, oh you can back step you can dash in and slash or you can swing around them If you dodge when they're attacking when they attack you and get to the side And that's more engaging than I thought, you know while you're locked on so they had like yeah like soft lock controls and strafing that kind of worked out um Yeah, it was just uh, you know, it's just all that and the puzzles and everything in the end were just like a Ultimately, I get what you're going for I'm looking for I want to see the the step up from this and yeah Maybe we can start to walk away from put block pushing a little bit and get more towards the other interesting things With these games and and if you're gonna keep block pushing you can make the blocks go faster You know, you don't have to make them go cube by cube square by square one at one push at a time So i'm looking at like defiance footage and I can I can still see the fucking The rooms are still made out of the grid Okay, great Uh The other thing too is a but raziel has million stab with the soul reaver. Okay So fuck it. You also do feel like you're running through a giant cave for most of the game like rooms Just connect to rooms in a way that like um, you're it feels like you're in one big complex as opposed to like Well, don't you understand? It's been so long that the earth has shifted and Cities are gone and the landscape is barren So yeah, nozgoth feels like you're in an ant colony Yeah, and that's a weird feeling right? There's a couple moments where it opens up But for the most part the whole thing feels like you're running through an underground ant colony Um, which you know like metroid games have those moments, but they there's ways to kind of like Oh break it up a little bit in presentation. I supposed to feel more like, you know, you're traveling zone to zone Um, so i'm looking forward to see how they do that It does help to shoot the blocks and push them faster that you get later on Uh, but it's still pretty slow, you know anyways The plan and I said it at the at the end there was actually going to be hit credits Jump right over to two in that collection and hit the start button however And that got people excited and I but I gotta say Pragmata has struck my interest Pragmatas here So I want to play some of that because I really really enjoyed it So we're gonna play some pragmata before we continue doing anything else Um, and in the meantime ace attorney continues as the other LP we're playing right now. Mm-hmm Uh, yeah, that's over on willy versus This week, um, I'm gonna do some more of that and then on saturday. I'm going to see if it's possible I think we're gonna do a strive 2.0 stream and to try to get a guest in but i'm gonna wait for confirmation How about you? All right, so before I get into anything I'm turning 40 years old tomorrow So I'm having what page and page came up with this idea to call it the half dead marathon Because I am turning half dead And by the end of the day, I will also be half dead. Okay, so that means that by 80 Like zombie must die. Well, no, I think you just entered like unlife zombie mode. Oh, um, like lichdom lichdom begins. Yes lichdom's all right Oh people people people knock on it, but Well the whole time with with this cane thing. I was like Oh, so That's that's daddy and then y'all are looking up to and it's like no no no that was necker daddy actually and And then now he's like now he's necker or puzz daddy It's a shame like very little in the legacy of cane series can live up to like all right cane You can solve the world and he's no Don't want it. Well, but now the Well, but now the implication is because I seen shit though And i'm like what you see cane stare it in this fucking room of portals You've been looking at stuff what you see that made you choose to go fuck it. I'll tell you right now The most interesting discussions between raziel and cane is You don't know what i've seen and raziel going you're fucking full of shit You didn't see shit You just didn't want to sacrifice yourself and then raziel goes Rather, uh, kane goes nah, you just didn't look long enough Yeah, and fuck you. It's it's a great. It's a great like clash of ideals because like I You don't know which of them is right until the dead last moment. I don't know what you saw, you know, um But yes tomorrow april 22nd 2026 at 10 a.m. Pacific. That's one 1 p.m. Eastern. I'll be starting a Long stream until 10 a.m. The next day I'll be catching up on ff 14 7.4 Then i'm going to do a full run of symphony of the night including the inverted castle And then with the time we have left i'm going to play a game I got on my birthday 25 years ago called shining force 2 which is the best and i'm going to play that until You got a speed run this roll down the hill Because you are now on the other side of the hill oh it commences And uh by trying to murder yourself Oh come on life on stream So this stream ends today for good reason. I concur with yeah, no, I have a hard out today because I've had nap times ordered by wife That's that's that's good nap. That's good I can't wait until it's literally like 3 34 o'clock in the morning pacific And i'm playing shining force 2 and someone comes in and goes this is an old fire emblem and I just like I've been streaming for 18 hours. I just lose it like i've never fucking lost it before No, it's not like fire emblem shut up At the stroke of midnight like you're gonna get like reboot like enzo like the light's gonna shine down and just pass over you And yeah, actually nothing will change. It'll just yeah, nothing Um, uh aside from that. I also played progmata all caps All all caps do not you capital p only how dare nope Also make sure to have the Hashtag progmata in the title all caps again All caps from the creators weird ask honestly But hey fuck it. Hey you need to stop fucking around and do what it says and don't even do it as a bit No, we can't shut up Shut up stop No, you didn't respond to that text I think the answer is yes. I think it is a yes a little bit Well, that I mean that was literally in the middle of said regression and freakouts that were happening However, um not even as a bit That one oh in the parlance Um progmata school. I also uh continued to play some kingdom hearts too Uh of note so I I blew through kingdom hearts one in um in eight days, right? That's that's the fastest Like completion I ever did for anything considering its our count, right? Uh, I am on track to taking five times longer with kingdom hearts too. There's a fraction joke somewhere in there that I don't feel like making it Yeah, bro. Yeah. Oh Kingdom hearts 39 over eight I don't know anyway So welcome to the old age to the old age welcome to the old age so Uh somebody in the youtube chat was tracking it, but could somebody in the chat right now hit me hit me with the death number I think it's I think it's like 70 Something it's up there um I have never been more glad to waste the chat's time banging my head on bosses that I Pretty sure I can't beat right now Oh, you try to clear sephiroth on camera Oh, I did clear sephiroth on camera. Oh, okay Oh for for one In fact, there's a funny moment that you can only get in a vaude Right when you're watching like the youtube upload because there's a moment where I go I got a text from my wife. I'm allowed to do one or two more tries of sephiroth But there's like three hours left of the stream Okay, this is important you went to bed assuming I would yeah, yeah That was seen and regarded as the The ultimate go fuck yourself level difficult thing at the time and I remember everyone talking about it I remember about the life bars going around of me just instantly dying in one second However with 2026 brain and time and with You having oh, he's hard as fuck so but does he compare to dodging waterfall dance and You know, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. He's hard as fuck. Okay. Okay sephiroth one in kingdom arts One sephiroth in kingdom arts one is is hard as fuck post souls game world. It's still okay cool It he he is like What's a good comparison Like playing through the entirety of devil may cry one and then the final boss is virtual three from dmc three as a jump Okay, okay, okay a a full different games level of Of fuck you get good, but I but I guess I'm just wondering if your reaction has been honed over time So that what once was my reactions are probably a little slower, but I'm a lot better at figuring out how to do it But yeah, no, it's he's brutal shit um and um I mentioned absence to the lets last time in kingdom hearts too where they just let you fight some of the organization members Whenever the fuck you want D Uh, I I think I'm near 400 deaths. I would put like 95 percent no 99 of all deaths in my kingdom hearts to lp to me going Yeah, I bet I can get this boss now I don't have to come back later But you can just level up get stronger and come back and do it easier Yeah, but but what if I could do it now? Okay, okay? It is a game. Yeah, of course. I could come back stronger Yeah, okay. It is a game where you were that that is a thing. Um, and in in in one particular, uh, uh, uh, sundary, uh case I had to come back like a while I I I thought lark seen 200 times and lost Left came back stronger lost 50 more times Had to leave And came back stronger and then finally put it away. How long were those attempts on stream? Each attempt was and I shit you not the first hundred Maybe eight or nine seconds long Okay Like like like when I when I say okay, okay, okay this shit whooped my ass I'm I'm talking about From game over screen to back in the fight is 10 seconds and the fight is lasting One second like like dying to the first move So this was not my titling of this entire stream is dedicated to No, this was like This was like I I died maybe a dozen times Walking forward which kills you And then going okay Don't do that and then I got to see a move and it killed me But then the next 10 attempts I learned how to block that move and now I'm getting Six seconds into the fight But this is only happening because you're doing it underleveled because I'm doing it way Underlevel because single strikes are killing me outright, right? Okay, uh, and then that three hour session of just banging my head on it I got to the second phase And then I'm looking at this I'm I'm looking at the second phase and I I felt something that I have not felt in a long time Which was the phrase what do you even want from me here? You know when there's so much On the screen and there's so much damage That you you can't even like what do you what do you fucking want me to even do what like do you want me to do? What the fuck that's when I left the expedition is cleared from the canvas Yeah That sentence we'll see no no no I don't I don't mean that because that is what do you want me to do? Oh you want me to be better No, I'm talking about I can't even see where you want me to stand Okay, I like there's so much here um so, uh, I've been playing on critical which is the hardest and Man that game's incredible that game's just incredible. It's keen hearts, too is absolutely incredible It's a fucking incredible action game. It's a great rpg and at constant constant charming slash Funny moments with sorra donald and goofy In particular one which is like a foible of translation Where they're reading out like a a blackboard and there's something written on it in english And they are like sounding out the letters Because none of them can read And In japanese it's still written in english which explains why they're sounding out the letters in english But when it got translated it's like donald can you not fucking read is any amazed with a spell book? Oh, so the bit is meant to be there in japanese reading english It's not supposed to be a bit. It's supposed to be there reading an english piece of text and and doing the thing where they're like I speak japanese. I don't understand this but in english. It's like a single word and they're going d Oh, and you're like, oh my god, man Amazing um It's really funny. They should have changed the texture on the wall to be A made-up language or japanese and not just readable by the player uh going back to those boss difficulties. What is the Everything you're describing are all optional challenges. What is the level of the? hardest mandatory thing By comparison I'm I'm pretty good at action games the mandatory stuff hasn't really slowed me down at all Okay, the the gap between the easiest of the optionals and the final The mandatory stuff in kingdom hearts one didn't really slow me down at all either. I'd say It's a nice five or six Like good good action good action game, you know, like it's not it's not free but like yeah, you and I play this Shit, um, but then when you get to the stuff that it's like, hey, do you want to fucking fight something Because because i'm like the moment you're describing i'm just thinking of like, you know You get to you get to parts of a silk song where you're like, I can't move that fast and the game is like, yeah, you can Yeah, you can you know, no there is a there is a Has them in between stuff that's that's optional and stuff that's not right right and the stuff that's optional in in Uh, uh two goes on and on and on and on and on I I think it has It's got like 25 optional super bosses Which is enormous that is like really legitimately ridiculous Um and they're all Fucked up like that So like the the I was talking to chat and like the way that the the the playlist is gonna go is like parts One through 30 are gonna be like playing through kingdom hearts, too and parts 31 through 60 Is beating optional shit Yes Cool, uh, yeah, what an incredible game. What a what a fantastic stellar game Uh me and Paige we're going to watch more one piece But we fell asleep uh four or five nights in a row putting the baby to sleep Yeah Just just like okay, okay, we're gonna we're gonna get them down and and then we're gonna go downstairs and we're gonna watch one Yep, yep I mean, I you know like one I'm I'm I can say that like you're struggling to figure that end of it out right now and um punch mom has indicated an interest in potentially Coming back to do some delta rune, you know, but Gotta figure this shit out. Yeah, so it's it's it's It's really funny because there was one night when I'm like, all right. I think I think he's out I think he's he's out and I look over And he's looking back at me And I'm like god damn it man. He goes hi like hey, yeah, and then from the other side of the bed I hear All right, she's done She's she's she's cooked. She's out And then I'm like, all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna wait for him to fall asleep and I'm gonna go downstairs I'm gonna play it's tomorrow What happened? Do you ever have you gotten the like it's it's dark but like whatever the whatever source of light exists In any way shape or form like she's Raining to fucking stare at it. Okay. We have this thing where I'm like I have to turn you away from the light and you are like looking through my body At anything you can focus on because like you just refuse to just let in the sleep, you know, anyway All right, uh, so let's see. I did uh, I did some kingdom hearts. I did some I did some Pragmata I went and played some rondo blood and I was like I could bang out rondo blood in one stream Fuck no, I can't excuse me. That's chi no rondo. Shut up. I don't want to fucking do this I can't fucking tolerate this Not doing it not fucking doing it That's the fastest I was ready I was ready Well, as soon as as soon as you did this at your hand I knew because you do that move every time I'm so sick of it That is the fastest I didn't even get to the All right, all right I'll just you next time. I'll just I'll just raise an eyebrow. I'll yeah, fuck. I'll just I'll just do this Oh my god, you know, uh, fuck that dude. Anyway, so I was like, yeah, I could beat rondo blood Four or five fuck no, I can't oh my god. That's so that keeps so hard That games it's so good. It's everything good about all castlevania games and it is so hard Um, it's crazy. I don't so I I can't guess what I don't know a ton about castlevania But from what I have played does anything or does anyone feel as insanely powered as you feel as alucard at the end of symphony uh Richter if you play ricktermode in symphony of the night feels fucking busted julius in julius mode Feels fucking busted, but in their own core game Okay I mean that's some of the I mean soma some of them like the the metroid ones Yeah, okay. He's not he's not he's not a standout feeling of like you are fucking Unstoppable like your yeah, okay, so the strongest castlevania character In the action games by an order of magnitude is in rondo of blood and her name is maria renard Uh, and she can shoot a bird at you Uh, and the bird Has similar timing to the the whip, but it hits on the way out and the way back Which makes it one million times better than the whip She also has a double jump and a slide in that game that rickter doesn't have So maria is like baby mode by comparison Uh, she she is super super super super tough compared to rickter Also going through rondo of blood is really fun because like maria has her own sub weapons like The cat from vampire survivors and the turtle From vampire survivors and the dragon from vampire survivors And then rickter has The santa water from vampire survivors and the cross from vampire survivors I had forgotten just how like one pixel off a lot of that vampire survivorship was As long as the the gameplay is different. It doesn't fucking matter But yeah rondo is great rondo super. Hey buddy. Hey, bubba Hey, give me a hand. Um, and last but not least I was approached for another sponsorship. It was a big sponsored week I was approached by uh, uh, uh, wolf gang. Sorry wolf gang not not wolf gang wolf gang and miran Out of sweden and romania to check out their game dinastier Uh, which you can check out on steam right now. It's on sale for the the the steam medieval sale Which is they're independently made uh Your self-described euro jank action adventure game self describes self described every email I have about this game Has the word euro jank in it. Nice. Okay. All right. Um Uh and uh, they basically said hey, we're big fans of the show The only one we want to sponsor to play the game is you You're the whole market. Let's go. You're all the marketing the word euro jank spells it says a lot and I'm like That's a lot of pressure That's a lot Uh, it's a very indie game. Uh, it's made by these two guys. Uh, I have a I have a video up on uh, uh, Vaude up on the channel. There you go. Uh, it is a it is a I don't want to put this It's it's it's very much like a kind of mix between like a dark souls and like a kingsfield and like a like a gothic Where it's like everything Is unexplained And also everything kills you. Where's the camera? Uh, it's behind your back like a dark souls. Okay Uh, and I played it for a little while and had the wonderful experience again No pressure of both of the developers being in chat chit chatting the whole time Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Including when I fell through the goddamn earth and died And they're like adding it to the List and then I'm like I at one point an npc offered me like A mystery gift for my broken sword, which was my only weapon So I traded away and then couldn't attack And then one of the devs in the chat was like ha ha you fell for it now you have to find the currency to Buy a new weapon Without being able to fight anything. Oh we got on some fear and hunger shit. Okay. Yeah like laughing at me. Okay Jesus Christ all right, and then I finally found one out in the world and bought a sword went to go fight a boss And that boss kicked my fucking ass Uh super interesting game very indie very euro jank Uh, you can check it out now steam Made by fans of the show Thanks for the spawn Did you you know how you know they're real fans of the show because the the email that came in was like oh, man I I really want you to take a look at this. I've been watching you since you know what? Let's for our own old man sanity call it the apartment days. Okay. All right. Okay. Got it. Oh All right Just talking about the sponsorship stuff, but like One of the things I just saw I remember reading was like do not say thanks for the sponsor Thanks or thanks for the spawn and I'm like, it's any is this a real case that happened Do people have you ever heard anyone say shout outs to whoever for the sponsor? Anyway, oh, that's cute Patch notes version 8.9.9.1 the pat patch Hey Added auto exposure settings to make dark areas more readable That's one of those things that comes up that I guess you only see it once on once it's on stream and it's through video compression Game was really super dark when I played it Yeah, I I it is nice to Have those again he kita style like whatever use happening live on twitch. Okay. That's that's what's being addressed next cool Reminds me of when I was playing a hat in time and I got some kind of fucked up sequence breaking nonsense that they had to fix because I broke it in a highly public setting uh AGDQ where they're watching uh, I think it was double dragon and there's like oh god. Oh no. 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Thanks aura frames Okay What is going on this week? I have two remaining things to say one is I still got that birthday stream tomorrow at twitch.tv slash path stairs at youtube.com Slash path stairs that starts at 10 a.m. Pacific. It's gonna go for a while Go to it. Good. The second thing I have to say Is uh, will he get your hourglass? Oh That one's too big All right, I'll use my child's hourglass What topic are we entering here? So the other thing oh, I can't see it The other thing that I did this week Is I'm back into 14. Yeah, all right. Here we go Long and short of it. Yep Is that uh, I I have not played that game seriously, uh for About 18 months Something like that. Okay, like I've been out um And I went back to the recent patch and I'm doing the newer patch tomorrow Uh, but what's more interesting and they were good Um, but what's more interesting to me than that is why I left this part to technically be news Is that the keynote is on friday and the keynote is when they're gonna announce the next expansion and all that But of note is that the keynote is more than twice as long as it usually is And we are now in interview season where There's implications and have statements about what's going to be Incoming is this the live leak or live letter? Was it called? No, no, it's the keynote. It's for fan fest It's the he comes out on the stage and gives a gigantic presentation. It's not the ff 14 live leak Yeah, that's different. That's that's highly different um, okay, uh and um Uh, usually those are an hour long and they start with the trailer and they go we're gonna go here And whatever right this one is two hours plus And the reason of why it is a special note and what has gotten me back in Is because interviews in which yosgp talking and the osgp is one of those producers that like deliberately Like under sells things Nothing is ever bombastic. Everything's always please have reasonable expectations. Sorry. Hold on. Uh doorbell gotta go Can't stop this All right, we are back. Well, did you did you fake a doorbell to get out of this conversation? I did not and I turned this sideways to as a side of good faith Yeah, here we go. Yeah. All right. We are resuming all right um Anyway, the point being is that Yoshi P has stated in I'm using a tiny one. No, I know but I'm just making sure that I switched it back to the right side and not to Ah, whatever. Okay. Um Yoshi P has said that the upcoming changes Are the largest that have had to the game since a realm reborn the only difference is that this time they are not Rebuilding the client from scratch Hmm, but that is the level of systemic change to expect for the game going forward and not just the plot resetting But system changes Like so an example he brought up was Uh, there's a there's a thing where if you do what's called an extreme trial Which is you know a boss fight against the famous summoner, right? And you do it with your your bros and you know, it'll drop weapons and it also rarely drops mounts, right? But If you don't get lucky It also gives you a token every time you beat it, right? And then you can cash in the token 10 for a weapon 99 for a mount and that's how it is So that gets people running these things over and over and over because if they're just really really really unlucky You get up your tokens and you cash it in Um, and in response to that he says, oh, yeah, no that system is going to be gone That's going to be replaced with a completely different thing And goes on to say we have taken a very long look at every single system that currently exists in the game And whether or not it should be there and if it it should should we change it? As well as in one of the interviews describing how the data center situation will be solved Which probably means that it's going to be like a a matchmaking across every player Simultaneously instead of being siphoned off into different data centers um Yeah, this is this is like specifically, you know what this reminds me of The only other time I have ever seen this type of developer call their shot like this is when Uh, it's sueno came out and said devil may cry five will exceed all all expectations Yeah from a guy who's very quiet and doesn't brag Do you got that? Do you got that second? Um, um our glass around? The big one. Yeah Yeah, I do. All right flip it over for a second All right. No, no keep the other one going Or no, you can pause that one actually if you need to okay. All right, so what yeah, we can pause that Um, it's just funny because this reminds me of when I was on stream with bricky And was we're playing 2x ko And how come you get the big hour glass say again How come you get the big hour glass? I'm giving you the big one here too. I'm a polite. I'm giving you the big one. I'm giving you your Oh, you gave me the big one. Okay, because well, that's you we're gonna just go off of your mortal combat um, so I was playing 2x ko and uh, when we were doing we're doing the uh, the the the twitch rivals and like, uh, We were talking about some of the new stuff that was coming to the game and he went uh, and I was like, oh, yeah And here's a big something that's a big deal is they announced duo finder Is coming to the game. It's a big deal. Right. So new fuses new character, etc. All that stuff is great But duo finder is going to be a thing where you just queue up and it's going to find you somebody to team up with That's a great that right honestly. That's fun huge Huge right play with some some pros or some trash. You just gotta make do local duos and the ability to right so that's that's that's great and bricky just went Uh, that's not a feature And I was like, fuck me This is yeah, this this revolutionary awesome new announcement is like well, no shit How is that not already a thing and you're like this is totally going through that and this is where we are This is how far back we are. Yeah, it's fucking stone age It's it's a ps3 game built on spaghetti code. Yeah, so the so I haven't been paying attention the dawn trail um The dawn trail. What do you call it? Um patch cycle has been about cleaning up technical debt It's like hey this this system over here Sucks shit. We're gonna we're gonna clean it up old things that are there holdovers that have not been addressed for years Like one of the things that's gonna happen in the patch that comes out in two weeks Is they're gonna make it so that if you make a full set of like a full outfit glamour, it's gonna count as one item In your in your storage, okay Right, which means that people will be able to store Like 10 times it didn't count as one before no it didn't So one of the one of the things people want out of a glamour system is the way wow does it Which is anything you have ever put on your fucking character ever stays in a big list that you can get to pick FF 14 system is super complicated and relies on you keeping the item and putting it into the fucking whatever That's fucking it's a mess right So hearing that they are so that that what was known like a year ago is that 8.0 will be the big combat overhaul Where they're gonna like look at and fuck with every job from scratch But now they are talking about no apparently it's the overhaul overhaul where they are looking at everything And seeing what needs to stay the video game what needs to be changed into a different game, okay And you said a realm reborn levels of change Yes He said the only reason we wouldn't call it as big of a change is we are not rebuilding the client from scratch Okay, like this is this is really really big big talk From a guy who is always careful to manage reasonable expectations and go maybe we'll get to it later Maybe when we you know that kind of Discussion for a live game. Well, okay, and if and if this if the the extra muted Like reasonable take is actually underselling the the level of change here You kind of have to wonder then like why not rebrand? At a certain level right well I have a sneaking suspicion that they're gonna call the next expansion a realm rejoined which would be Uh a play on a realm reborn, but also a thing But um Yeah, no, I I expect so for people who play ff 14 This means the the they have essentially said that the two-minute meta is going to be destroyed Which is great because every job in ff 14 relies on a two-minute timer And every single job is build your meter then spend your meter Did that like the identity between those has like kind of fallen away Did that smiling old guy that got cooked in the in the realm reborn reveal ever come back? Uh, okay Well, I'm I'm gonna go I'm gonna go with Yeah Okay I'm gonna go with kind of Kind of okay. All right. Should I have not asked I I don't know No, that's you you're you were asking a 10 year old question. Okay I just remember because when we were working at the fucking company and they had their people were testing it And they left their shit on idle. I just had a million screens of that old guy getting Yeah, and then the little makes a minor mistake None of the fucking gets dragonballed out of existence Um, so I'm catching up because I want to be current for when they announced the thing, right? Um, and the other statement that uh, I actually really liked which was they said that normally the the live let the Keynote is two hours. Sorry. Normally the keynote is one hour But they have five hours of shit they want to talk about So they're actually going to split it into two at the north american one two at the european one and two at the japanese one Which is way way way more than they ever talk about an expansion They usually just give you the trailer And then go you're gonna go to this location and then they talk for half an hour about the new class So you were out up until this point large-scale systemic changes you were out prior to this I was out and one of the reasons I was out And like some of this is gonna fly over your head But like for people who know I have been playing ff 14 very strongly since April of 2015 we are now coming up on April of 2026 with a year-long break. So I played it solid for 10 years There is only so many weeks in a row. I can get 450 tomes before lockout There is only So many ex trials I can do to get 99 fucking totems to get the fucking bird dog dragon whatever There is only so many times I can learn a two-minute rotation within the first week Of playing the game in the expansion and run that rotation for a 23 month period Without any changes whatsoever. There are lots of little mechanical things that have been exactly the same since 2013 Mean that's too long Meanwhile skill issue says dragon ball xeno verse two players as they pop off at the final dlc announcement For a game that's been running For probably just as long. I think 2016 was the launch of xeno verse two Yeah, so so yeah Get good as I'm gonna check out the live letter on Friday morning, and I am expecting big changes Um, I've been I have been told there are big changes coming and I believe the person who said it So if there are not big changes coming get ready for me to be pissed the fuck off the following tuesday Where I will rant and rave about how I got fucking hoodwinked But ultimately the changes are not what you needed. You just needed new interesting things to do I do need certain changes. Okay. Okay like I The the the I will very shortly The weekly grind like the nature of what you get and how you get it and how fast you get it has been the same since 2013 It's literally been identical for for fucking 13 years. That's ridiculous The what's called the two minute meta and what's called homogenization? Yeah, what is that which is So do you okay? Our glasses out. Do you want me to tell you what the two minute meta is go for it? Okay The long and short of it is that long time ago a long long time ago. Well, they Classes got buffs that would apply to the rest of the party, right? So jr. Goon had one that would like up the critical rate of other people on the party And by 10% right, you know a damage buff for everybody and it would have a 90 second cooldown Right simple barred would have one that was 60 seconds Dancer would have one that's two minutes whatever so everyone's rotation should last about that long What happened was is you had like 14 classes and it turns out some classes have wrote to have Moves that line up More readily with each other So hey turns out I forget what the numbers were but there was like a 90 second meta at one point where it's like Hey barred and machinist And astrologian and this they all line up. So they're the ones you want to take So they went okay and over 10 years They've said well, we don't want dark knight or warrior or barred or Summoner to be left out. So let's nudge their numbers over here here Now Everyone's buffs are on a two minute timer. Okay, okay, which means every rotation is now built with the assumption that everyone's gonna burst At one minute and 45 seconds to two minutes and 15 seconds And all those buffs have to line up at the two minute mark so that everyone's doing the most amount of damage when everybody's buffs are active Okay, and there's two problems with this one It makes every single fucking class feel exactly the same right because every class is on a rotation that lasts exactly 120 seconds But two it means that if anybody makes a mistake And is three seconds behind The whole fucking system starts to come apart during the fight And now no one's shit is lined up and it sucks Oh, and there's no accounting for like a slight lag or Slight delay faster. Got you. Okay. So everyone's so 20 minutes. So two minutes becomes the Skill points to pull out everything from yeah, okay Right, they've designed fights around the fights pretty normal and mechanics aren't too strict But at one minute and 50 seconds into the fight, there's a really complicated math component That you have to run your burst while managing and stuff like that It has been the the the two minute meta has been the two minute meta for like six years I see and it has it has led to every tank feeling like variations on Tank it feels like every healer is variation on healer, you know like Do you like to say me in the in in there? Yeah, and now every tank is coke Do you want diet coke or coke zero or or crystal, you know, right? So I am fully expecting the destruction of what's called the two minute meta I don't know how they're gonna do it. Here's your new overwatch hero It's a fusion of all previous abilities from a bunch of different characters And together or whatever Hey, congrats. You want to play tank every tank is either Ryu Ken Akuma or Sean sure Yeah, and hope and hope that your tank isn't the Sean This so this cycle So do you break that and not have the whole system be destroyed because the reasons why it exists do make sense But they do so there's there's a couple ways you could break it You could just not have party wide buffs anymore outside of bard and dancer Just like the only people who can buff the party Are the guys whose entire job is dedicated to the party Right class that that would just kill that shit right off the bat class fantasy I've heard this terminology before so like like The hero fantasy is not specific to mmo. No, no, no, I've heard this in shooters I've heard this in other things as a game design term for like the the hero fantasy the think fantasy it works for fighters too Yeah, it's like it's like what the what the idea of playing this character supposed to feel like Right the goal ultimately. Yeah, it's the phrasing is a really good example and 14 that I can explain because I play tank Is that tanks want to feel fucking invincible you want to be standing at the front and just fucking oh you can't get Right But now every tank has been built off what's called the like warrior template So every tank has like a burst phase and they have like a one move that protects the party But all four tanks have one move that protects the party on a 90 second cooldown So now all four tanks feel the same including paladin the one with the fucking shield No, the one with the shield Should be tougher but do less damage because they have a fucking shield The paladin's fantasy is to be invincible Can't have right can have geefs SPD doing the same damage as other command grabs from other characters. No, it's geefs spd. It's big. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, okay Anyway, so that's that's why I'm getting back in so uh, you are either you I'm sorry woolly Next week I will be using the big hour glass I'm giving you the big one like you're yeah, I know but I'll but you know, I'm on the honor system here All right, I'm using it on myself so that you don't have to okay Um, well if so I'll either be thrilled or pissed as fuck. Hey no in between You know if I were truly going hollow and dead faced and whatever else people say I wouldn't have asked you about what the two-minute meta was Yeah, so it's fine. But you could even somebody who doesn't play you can see how the two-minute meta kind of Of course you're it's it's a yeah, it's a it's a it's a um sliding scale balancing problem where Things and this I mean this applies to all genres where like the standardized thing based on the meta that develops Becomes what everyone has to adhere to and now you've brought in a feeling of sameness that kills the fun Of multiple characters. So just everything gets bland as a result even though they start that way They chased short-term solutions because like you know three expansions ago. They're like damn it Samurai doesn't fit in the two-minute meta and samurais don't you know aren't oh, so we'll make well we'll improve samurai And anyone samurai fits in the two-minute meta and anyone who gets released that doesn't fit into that gets ignored immediately I assume like just no one who's taking the game seriously is going to even look twice at that right so yeah, yeah it's uh, so I I would and and the other thing and this is more specific There are people that have been playing ff 14 in its current state for 13 or 14 years And everybody has the version of their class that was like the most fun to play And none of them were the one that exists now Uh, okay So like my favorite version of dark knight Was the first one in 2015 That was 11 years ago So there's a possibility that you can win back some people that have been fucking out for a long time if what they do now is good Okay And my last thing i'll say is i miss bane on scholar that was more fun than anything they have now i don't give a fuck Bane on scholar was so fucking awesome I feel like it's weird that these big changes didn't line up with the story reset and it probably would have been a good time You know what man? You know what? Yeah So yeah, so let me tell you something. Let me tell you something Dawn trail was pitched as the start of the new like a you know the new a plot And it fucking wasn't it was it was an intermission I'm on i finished patch 7.3, but i didn't see the final cut scene The start of the new a plot Is in the next cut scene like it's literally So it actually was a waste of time Yeah, okay, but that is over a year into the expansion It's a beach episode it's filler Sixty years like you would have expected this level of big change to be with dawn trail because that's when the graphics changed But no this was the intermission And the next one which will have all the mechanical changes is the start of the new a plot Four years of filler. Jesus Christ Well, so so I'll so you probably don't get that so what happened was is end and walker was the Everything is wrapped up in a neat little bow perfect main campaign And then and walker 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Was a side story that had nothing to do with dawn trail And like if you enjoyed it you enjoyed it, but it didn't really It wasn't the start of it wasn't it was not an off ramp to something new right Honestly somebody in the chat says not so he says the avengers end game problem. It actually is actually very similar to that Where they built up to this perfect ending and then they're like, well, what do we do now? And then they just kind of flail around with the falcon and the winter soldier for fucking four years But it also sounds like what people Used to talk about with like I guess burning crusade and some of that like stuff that wow went through Well, yeah, no wow I also had that problem you beat the lich king and you're like, hey, guess what that was the fucking goal from day one And I so I thought like, you know, you would learn from the lesson of the previous all-in-one mmo platform You know that was that you took all the attention from like that was the lesson to learn specifically was whatever wow did wrong What wow did was every single time you killed a big bad. They said actually there was another big bad behind them Okay, and that obviously can only go so many times before it's absurd. Okay Ff for ff 14 So i'm calling my shot because I don't know I Am going to assume That the new a plot is basically going to be you didn't get everybody that could have been a problem Okay, there there are that you didn't kill everybody therefore We will continue to have problems now this timer is still going however There's another timer and that's the page timer Which says we've got half we've got half an hour left. I'm afraid of my wife. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go All right, so You know I can hear you winding down there. I think uh, yeah, by the way gentlemen specifically and and and gay ladies The mother's day also applies to the mother in your house That counts It's not mother's day. Is it just for your mom? It's for moms Yeah, who do people not is this what why is this obviously I've seen I've seen mistakes be made. Okay That's a that's a that's a fucking no duh You know when we were at the hospital and all that pregnancy stuff was happening. I had this moment or I was like, oh this looks hard This looks pretty tough Are you making an announcement to yourself pat? Was that an announcement for you was that uh You know You're on an airplane in the sky the person complaining in the luisi k bit. I was the one complaining. It was me Okay, all right all right, um Well, look, uh, we already talked about uh bayonetta 3's ending We talked to just stop kamia from can we just block kamia from talking? I mean I feel like I feel like the uh The I assume he's he's more relaxed now that he's Out and about and doing his thing and he's got like okami to work on Yeah, but um, which i'm looking forward to Yeah, that'd be that'd be cool Do you think it'll be okami's 4 5 and 6 or just okami? I imagine it'll be okami 4 5 and 6 actually okami 4 was okami den so this will be okami 5 6 and 7 Yeah, you're right Devil may cry season 2 trailer I so I am going to be strong woolly. I'm not going to hate watch this because I'm I was looking at the picture on the subreddit And they are fucking up jackpot in the preview picture in the thumbnail It is it is wrong it is incorrect Here's what I I just watched it and I realized I'm like, you know I'm a huge fan of johnny young bosh and I love hearing him work In whatever so I'm going to look forward to hearing his performance and uh, and that's it and we'll see what happens The I'm just a man though. So don't don't take my word for it too strongly that I'm not going to hate watch it I'm only I'm only a man I'm not made of stone. I touched on it earlier, but dragon ball is fucking crazy, man Like I just can't believe how resilient this these game platforms have been Because xeno verse 3 has been announced, which is the age 1000 thing that they they teased some time ago Um, which just looks like a whole like you want to talk about a fantasy Like here's a whole like insert your dragon ball character into a future timeline thing and go play as them in this world and do the thing but xeno verse 2 which has been around since 2016 is like I didn't hear no fucking bell And of course there's one piece of final dlc coming for that because that's been just consistently updating and dragon ball fighters Is also getting one more character because they're like don't forget us because dragon ball fighters from 2018 Is also still fucking getting updates. There are literally millions of people out there that will overhear any question and just scream out Goku yes, and there is a dude. I'm talking about where you want to go for launch calm down There is a video of an auditorium full of people losing their minds at daima ssj for goku being announced And yeah, he's also druffal monger already got a fucking tifa video out bro. You are you are crazy It's the funny thing but you can see the cracks are beginning to show though because You are because people if you look at some of the effects on daima Super Saiyan for goku You can see stuff being reused from other characters some of the moves some of the animation some of the flips and effects of explosions are Assets that were previously in the game. So You know you you can see that it is still like yeah, they're doing their thing Ender they're using what they already had But this is also in a world where fans are adding dio and fucking yugi. Yeah, you never know You don't know anything anymore So that's what's going on There was also The Uh, oh just I guess an update but we talked about the mass effect rewrite occurring Um and the showrunner or the co-showrunner daniel kasey Basically came out to dispel this this news and say that um The whole thing about mass effect being rewritten as a show for non gamers Is not true Or okay, he doesn't know where it came from and at no point has that been said to him is is the quote Okay, that's great. Why uh, is it taking so long? I don't know. Oh, okay So here here's here's my opinion and this isn't fair but when somebody goes that's Definitely not the reason and people go. Oh, so what's the reason then? I'm not gonna tell you. Well, shut up Oh, I don't care. Well, you have to was the was the um was the um The the genesis of this of this rewrite rumor was because of the how long it's taking I don't know. Okay. If it's if it's not if it's completely fake then the genesis was someone's ass. Yeah, um Right, but Uh, yeah Saw those street fighter rumors that they might not be real. So, you know, we'll address that maybe when something a little more Concrete drops or something else comes out to say Um, there's also not fucking teef is coming to street fighter six. It's gonna happen Oh I'm a dumbass whichever pick your poison. I mean tekin would fucking die another death if so, but I don't I don't think that That list is real because haggars on there and there's like that's just a shitty pick It's also the bit that they run that they can never be in the same game with geef. So, you know, yeah, yeah Um, I don't yeah, it sounds like a fake list. I'm not even I wasn't even gonna be you know, whatever Um, what else do we all have lists of we have the elden ring movie cast which I don't really recognize anyone on it So don't have much to say about it. It's two people. I recognize nick offerman as the mustache guy from all that stuff Parks and rec and uh last of us. Did I not notice his name on that list? Let me look at that again. Oh shit. Okay, interesting Oh, yeah, there he is and I rest I I um recognize peter sarah finnewitz Peter sarah finnewitz voiced mild mannered pate in dark souls two Ah Peter sarah finnewitz will be playing patches cool just flat Okay, that's dope I don't know what this should be or how this happens. It should be anything but about the the the tarnished That's basically what I was gonna it should be like Anything the only way I could story of elden ring the only way I could see this not the only way but one of the most Clear ways to make this kind of thing work as a elden ring film project with how complex a souls game is in general Is to just pick a small specific plot subplot somewhere with someone and just zoom in on that While the game you know in the world, you know happens in the background, you know, do not do this massive like cinematic Um retelling of the intro all the way up until the the the final moments, you know in the urch tree like just Okay, well i'm looking at a picture of the the lady playing marica and she's not strung up long across She's walking around with fruit behind her so it's not gonna be the fucking game Unless they do that because that's probably gonna be about the shattering because they do that because there but there is like, you know A like exact ass way of looking at things going no it's got to be big and bombastic and it's got to deliver all the crazy bells and whistles That everyone expects from what this game is and we got to make it even bigger Big big big big fit the whole thing in big and then get shadow of the urch tree and big and Yeah, you're just kind of like it's a fucking single movie script, man You know like 4 000 locations in that game Basically what I can't think of here's the thing I realize when I can't think of a Like when I look at a franchise or an ip of some kind that I go, I don't know why this movie should exist The only solution I can come up with for like how to probably do that well is to do a dread right To just pick a location Thing go Yep, yeah, just zoom in super far and make a dread situation happen and let the let the thing You know how you like and and recognize happen in the background that can work in almost anything Just do vike story, man um Three fingers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. May chaos take the world. Sure. Yeah, sure and then he gives up Okay More casting news. That's not the only one the netflix live action Gundam cast has been announced. Have you seen this? I saw starring sydney sweeney Yeah To which I read and I read again of The what is it the zeon royal family? She can play uh, what's her name? Um, not gama. Um, gama's the bitch. Um Killia lady lady lady cilia. Yeah, you can yeah. Yeah, you know, um, she can be a ham on karn She can be a lot of people But one thing is for sure is I just look at her and I I'm just like Yeah, I don't know if you've ever seen the bit but like what the fuck is a polar bear doing in arlington texas? If you've ever seen that meme and it's just like it's just a picture of a polar bear in texas and everyone's like the fuck like Why are you here? And it's just like I don't Like all right, I guess sure So I'm gonna say the same thing that I say every time But this time it has a nice little meme to go along with it much like when we heard Akiro was gonna be made into a hollywood movie My body soul and brain all went Yeah, it's just we need a star and scar joe is unavailable so To this who else we got I say I genuinely don't believe americans can make a ganda movie that isn't just wow cool robot Jett like I don't like I don't believe they can do it. Um, it's gonna be fucking wow cool robot the movie Yeah, I I because I I have not heard that you know, uh told me no will be there in the room with a gun right so um If they're willing to you know wheel him in there And and load it load a pistol and have him point everybody was in the room with the american staff of Gundam with a gun He would hold it and put it down on the table and go I should not use this gun and somebody from the staff would pick it up and go wow cool Man Yeah All right, well whatever g savior two here we go Here we go I um I I look forward to Sydney sweeney in A spacesuit outfit. It's gonna be sailor dude being Hey, are they even gonna try an amaro thing? You think they're even yeah, yeah, they might they might not it's gonna be erin rogers Like if she because because if she's titular star character star name star power, etc That makes me think instead of going like Sela is the main character of the story or anything like they would have cast a big name for amaro and a big name for char I'm expect. I think this is probably just a brand new random fucking I fucking hope so, you know Um, they won't even be brave enough to give the gundam pilot severe autism and gender issues I Uh, you know what? I'm If they say camille badan coming in as the main character of the fucking Gundam movie Gonna fight a bunch of cops for saying his name's a girl's name And then freak out on a date because he's got autism Fuck yeah, i'm in you're not gonna get that you're not gonna. No, no They'd never they'd never not for nothing You should have seen my fucking face when he's on the date and he's like sorry. I'm awkward with girls because of the tism Netflix from the 70s netflix would fucking never Um Yeah, um and then also on this list, um The dude playing ken in the street fighter movie isn't it too as well. So Too soon too soon to say what that means, but That was the 80s whatever the guns old it's old enough for me to have been dead uh once again polar bears in arlington, texas Was i dead before i was born? I'm going okay It's a question of language Because whatever the things that make up your even the sperm that begins to be you no no i was alive I was just an egg The things that eventually but but those things have to come together the materials that come together to make you Yeah, but like, you know i was a egg well But no because that egg didn't always exist, right at some point the proteins existed for a while It did but at some point it had the proteins and and enzymes and everything that come together to make it So well, so the thing is you come together to temporarily be a ship of theseus But then you eventually break apart and stop being that But like the the first thing that is pat at some point and the last thing that'll ever be pat Like that already existed from the beginning and continues to be online is the pat that i am now like 10 minutes ago. Yeah, so then you You've spent most of your existence being dead but parts of you existed in Oh, no, that's all i don't want to talk the wood of theseus continued to exist Elsewhere and and it is currently a ship for this brief moment in time But then it'll did you watch uh the second season of fallout no Because there's a ghoul of theseus thing going on in there interesting cool. Okay Pieces and parts of others coming through Yeah, yeah nice. Okay. Yeah, um You asked a question Yeah, i don't know I shouldn't have asked that question. That's too hard Yeah, if none existence is death and yeah, you start dead you come alive and then you can go back to being dead Na na mi Okay Simon and soma so fucking stupid I've been thinking about that all week Yeah, but the whole like wanting to be a mortal thing is like aging poorly because now you're joining the likes of fucking Peter teal and yeah, right and that dude who or that or who injects his Kids blood into his body and or these shitheads that are like, can you believe i'm? Actually 30 i look exactly 17 and i'm like you look like you are fucking A hard 30 and you're just wearing too much. Yeah and phase. Yeah, so so it was cute You know 10 years ago making the joke ha ha and now it's like no There's people that are like vampiring their children to live forever So all of a sudden hey, how's that immortality bit looking your legacy supposed to continue on through your children because your children are better than you So, you know It ain't uh, it ain't all that it was cracked up to be Um Anyway, the only other thing i was gonna i was gonna Get into there is uh Wherever you go there you are time is a flat circle. Hey, let's talk about an ign review Okay Uh, i saw that bit with the people talking about mouse pi for hire and um It was uh pretty weird and and Just a strange way to go talking about this game being too full of cheese references and Having you kill too many people and that not being real noir enough for noir and it's just a strange you know what? Strange way to go about it 40 tomorrow. I am i'm checking out of review discussions out of with one exception That god hand review is pretty fucking funny Now to be fair once again, not only are foundational bits of of this career built on review review And the silliness of of the old ign Reviews but also We have not talked about anything like this in at least five years. It's so tiring It's it's always just the most neck beard mouth breathing fucking weirdos going but i like that game Who gives a fuck and there's like a culture element to What fucking oh my god, who gives a shit it's funny. It's your toys It's your toys We're all just playing with this a toy podcast Yeah, I like my toys lot. Yeah, but like holy fuck Well, this is Okay, you are currently feeling the exhaustion I feel around watching uh award shows and and and trailer shows and um The delay news and whatever something but what if there's a new toy? What if a toy gets delayed? I don't like it when toy gets delayed. I want the toy now who cares just wait. It's fine No, I could be dead tomorrow. Well, then you won't get to play it No My toys, you know um No, there was a point. I forget what it was, but I would like I don't care about any review anymore because I don't trust anyone's opinion but mine You know what I mean Yes, and not like you tell me about a game and you say it's good and i'm like fuck you No, no, no, I but it's like I haven't given fuck about reviews of any kind of the but that stuff for a very long time But the reality of like but i'm like but it is true that this week when Pragmata was getting a lot of good reviews and people started talking about that. I was like, oh, that's cool. Good to know I like you know So you kind of so you so finding emotion So suddenly there's like you do put some weight on this thing that you weren't thinking about before otherwise And it's like, okay. I guess there's a thing here that is a you know Um also every review that is on anything other than a five point scale is wrong Five point scale is the best scale. Well, but now we get into the fucking should this be a we're not doing it but just the the should this be a critique of Of a media or should this be a buyer's guide? You know So I mean considering everyone's broke now. Yeah, I think it should be a buyer's guy I think it can be either but you should set out it should be clear what you're going for from the outset You know because people come in looking for different things so Um, you don't I imagine watch um Fucking tim rogers to find out whether or not you should buy the game. He's reviewing No, I don't watch tim rogers because he hasn't put out a video in like 10 years Sure But the point even back then when you made articles before videos even existed No, I watch or read tim rogers because I want to see a crazy person be crazy at me Nothing about what he was doing had anything to do with whether or not you should purchase the product You know, like you think I give a fuck about toka meki memorial. Absolutely not. Let's sit down and get some popcorn Tim's just gonna go nuts at me insert coin catamari damashie review a billion years ago Do I want to buy this game? I don't know But if you ever go to japan There just tell me about you're invited to go spend the night on his couch Um I was better than other people who decided to actually watch only two pieces of the cyberpunk review Do you remember that When the cyberpunk review oh, and then you could choose to to go around he's like only watch two and then after you watch all six He's like I fucking lied. I you were supposed to watch all six well like No, I knew it. Okay, because but no because like like I I could out hipster what you just said by saying i'm like I only I read his stuff back in the day I didn't really get into watching the videos that much later. Yeah, you know I I mainly know I think you're better than me because you can read Like to be that I remember reading the insert coin articles and then the the six red coins and stuff like that Oh, by the way before I forget, you know, you got to go through your tick tocks and manually disable a i remix on every single one manually I don't what So a tick tock is implementing a new feature called a i remix where people can go to any video that has this the feature turned on And use ai to remix it and make people do whatever it wants tick tick tock is not on my phone I'll be okay. It's not on your phone. It's not on. No, you don't have it. I do not you have no tick tock anywhere I do not have tick tock installed on my phone. I I'm not on that's We're fine Doesn't csp have a tick tock account. Yeah, uh other other folks are doing that and uploading to it Okay, tell them to turn off the ai remix. Okay. All right Um, what does that do? It will allow people to use ai to remix any video that doesn't have that feature turned off and you're opt in automatically Because you have to turn off every single video manually There's no batch thing So I had to spend like two hours the other night just going through every single fucking video go Off off off off You know, I had a good conversation with my mom the other day and it and it felt like she did seem to understand Because something I'd been telling her about in advance finally started coming true Which was Describing the fact that like you're gonna see this thing you're this ai thing you've been hearing about is going to go from something You don't understand that is over here to something that it's going to be harder to avoid Than it is you're going to know what it's doing Yeah, not doing and you're going to get pissed off and you're and like you're at first now You're currently confused how to opt in and now and then you're going to be confused about how to opt out And like it's happening before our eyes and like she kind of gets it, you know Um, let's take some letters All right, we got time for one letter go down to castle super beast mail gmail.com. That's castle super beast mail gmail.com Um, all right cog says recently I saw a trailer for a game called kiln by double fine And it starts seemingly showing off a pottery building art tool as its main gimmick then it shows pottery functions Uh as armor for a pvp 3d platformer arena brawler functionally if psychronauts was pvp It got me thinking back on double finds catalog and wondering how they're still in business as a world Where high-fi rush still cancels your studio besides brutal legend I'm not sure if any of their games sold well and if they've put out a game that has played as well or better than any others that Other genres have attempted My question is are there any media companies that continue to survive purely off of pedigree? Inflated or undeserved despite the actual output being awful I legitimately don't understand how double fine continues to exist every single game They've ever put out was like a critical failure and brutal legend is the so not a critical failure commercial failure and brutal legend Could have been We could up be up to brutal legend five by now if it had been anything other than the world's shittiest rts Wasn't everything after brutal legend crowdfunded? Uh not all of it So it was like kind of indie thing because I thought broken age psychonauts and so on I thought all of that was crowdfunded. You're thinking you're forgetting the the mech game they did and um There was another one big chalice Okay, because if they were crowdfunded then that's the answer Yeah, also psychonauts two was not crowdfunded. You might think it's crowdfunded because they held a crowdfunding thing for it And took money on fig fig But then they got uh bought out by microsoft and then completely ran out of money And then microsoft had to bail them out to finish psychonauts two um because much like brutal legend they not brutal Uh, um broken age. They just can't plan for shitt When you're an industry name you can definitely get like you can go around and talk to people and get favors done and pull strings for sure but um The I would say that a trail of lots of crowdfunding projects does indicate like This is the only way this place will stay open and if any of those like, um You know in a lot of cases I My my real my bigger thing question here. My answer to this question is quantum dream Right Quantum dream is one where like they have these huge like like i'm sure like detroit was probably massively exactly, but in terms of just like, um I guess the critical acclaim aspect of that, you know, I think the only one I can think of that is living on its pedigree alone is vanillaware Every vanillaware game that has come out It has been like We have completely run out of money So if this game doesn't do well, we are all going home with our shittin a box So I can't prove it time they say we barely made enough to keep doors. I I can't prove it But I I in my heart believe that vanillaware is not real It is just george when he wants to release a game Opens it back up and says vanillaware exists And then when the game is out he shuts it down again and it goes back to not existing Yeah, it's crazy every vanillaware game is like we have completely run out of money And and hopefully it does well or else the company is going under and then the it does Just well enough To fund one more I I bet you it's just him and it it complieses ceases operations as soon as yeah It's george and ten monkeys with typewriter every time, you know, and you just see the log go and go Oh, wow game company and it's like nah, nah like they've been gone and they came back all ready Happy pre-birthday don't die I won't die. I promise. No, you can't I promise People who don't know no no no no no no no that'll age badly when I'm dead You You You