Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream

This is a headgum podcast. Matt, we're talking Tomodachi Life this week. I'm actually like really tickled by this game. I know. It's a very silly time. I'm having a nice time with it. I did it a little something. Well, what'd you do? You got that grin. You got the devilish grin. I, well, buddy, I made you in the game. What do you mean you made me in the game? I fabricated a me that looks like you and I named him Weiger. So you're in the game. I also made a Heather. Heather gave you the nickname Tiger. So you go by Tiger in the game too. I guess I missed the text where you asked my permission to do this. Because it just feels like you just thought that was an acceptable thing to do is to use my name and likeness and try to recreate my personality and AI version of it, which maybe is some comment you're trying to make on me, how I'm like an AI, which ha ha, Matt, never heard that one before. No, I was just, I just can't, I can't fucking believe what an invasion of my personal space and my privacy. No, I'm, I thought we were friends. We are. And I'm actually, I'm so sorry if I overstepped in some way. I wasn't trying to make fun of you or anything like that. I just thought it'd be funny to have people I like in the game and see what else they get up, you know, what they get up to. Let me guess. You gave my character a real big ass. He's got the biggest ass of any me in the game. Well, you tried to install a mod doing big in the ass because you're like, that's the only way you can represent Weiger. You got to get that big back door. He's got that wagon. I did give you something that I didn't, I forgot to tell you. Yeah. I was, I found maracas and I gave you maracas. And so sometimes you're just walking around doing maracas. Great. So you got me doing cultural appropriation. Cool. That's a great look for me. It's going to help my career. How dare you? How dare you? I just, I thought it would be funny people, you know, are making and I'm not crying or anything. So that I'm not scared that I'm being yelled at by a fellow adult and friend. And I thought, I thought it would be funny to put my friends in there. I'm sorry. I fucked up. I fucked up and I'm sorry. Fuck. I'm going to delete the game. I'm going to delete the game. I'm going to remove you from it. Yeah. You know what? Right now, what I want you to do, you have your switch to with you. I thought those crocodile tears would maybe get you to. No, no, no, no. That's, that's, I'm calling it. I'm calling it and raising. You have your switch to right in front of you. Power on the game. I can, power on the game. Okay. I'm not trying it on. I don't watch you in the game. Delete. They're fine. Delete my character. I want to watch you delete my character. Okay. Here we go. I'm going to go hover over you. I'm going to grab you. First of all, I'm going to pick you up. I'm going to drop you first. Don't do that. Add insult to injuries. I ain't fucking hate your little me. And then you know what? Here, delete, remove. God. Good, good. Wait, what's happening? What's happening? Nick, where are you going? I deleted the game. I deleted the game. I deleted the game. I deleted the game. I deleted the game. I deleted the game. I deleted him for real. We waste hours creating me's and making an AI voice pronounce things as we discuss sight geisty social sim Tomodachi Life Living the Dream this week on Get Played. Wow, it's Get Played, your one stop show for good games, bad games and every game in between. It's time to get played. I'm your host Tiger Weigar along with my co-host, Mr. Games Maddapadaka. Hello, everyone. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Get Played as you may have inferred from her absence, given the usual intro, Heather is out this week. Heather's out this week. She has diarrhea, so pray for her. Pray for good luck with her diarrhea. Yeah, there was- We're all hoping she pulls through and has less diarrhea. That text that I lied about before, a couple weeks ago, where I said that Shakira Miyamoto was running around holding his butt like he was about to shit himself, was actually about it. That was actually about Heather and you were covering for her because you're a good friend. Now we can just say it's the thing she's been dealing with. I've had diarrhea. I was going to say, not to blow up any of our spots, we also have diarrhea. Yeah. Matt and I have diarrhea. We're okay. We're okay. We're powering through it. Yeah. But then see, that makes us look like we're like, oh, we have diarrhea and Heather has diarrhea and she can't be here, which I'm not trying to say. No. I think my diarrhea is less severe, but I do have it. Yeah. Yeah. No, I didn't mean to make it seem like we're tough guys that are powering through diarrhea. Certainly not. No. Every episode of any podcast is somebody's first. So there's a good chance this could be somebody. Someone watched a clip of Chris Pratt and Charlie Day talking about the Mario movie. Yeah. And then we're like, oh, let me check this thing out. Guys are immediately talking about diarrhea. The fuck is this? Look, we're just being silly with it. We're just being silly. Nobody has diarrhea. Nobody has diarrhea except someone does. All I'm saying is diarrhea. We're just going to tell you who it is. Yeah. It's me. Our producer, Michelle Chen, Ranch is here. Hi, Ranch. How you doing? I'm good. Ranch, we were talking before we started and I never, I never engage with our social media because I don't need, I don't have room in my life for any of you psychopaths. But yeah, the, my understanding is that there were some comments on a clip with our guest last week, Siobhan, where Heather was talking about her Baldur's Gate experience and people were really bickering in the comments. Yeah. People were bickering in the comments. I got in there as well. It just all in good fun, of course. There was, I think, I think people were misinterpreting. Here's what I think happened. Yeah. And I know you talked to this, Ranch. This is what I think happened for a second. And I'm sort of doing what the clip is accusing me of and how is it accusing us of in some ways. I think there are fans of a certain online community, I won't say what, that are very protective of the people in that community. So I think there was another parasocial thing happening where they were protecting the honor of somebody that they know against somebody they don't necessarily. Kind of a Malady sort of approach. Well, it kind of gives that vibe. Okay, got it. I'm just saying, I think if you're ever about to leave a comment on a social media post for a podcast, calm the fuck down and be normal for a second. Yeah, Siobhan is our friend. Yeah. Just having fun. And Siobhan is our friend to the point where if something was amiss, she'd be like, hey, knock it off. She may have told Matt to cut the shit earlier before we started recording. Was I being a stinker? Yes. Did she tell me to stop? Yes. Ranch, you have to, do you have control of accounts? Does Matt Magic have accounts? Who does this? You do. We both have it. You both have it. But you have to sometimes get up and get in the comments and deal with some of this. Oh yeah. I mean, if anyone comes for you guys, I'm ready to fucking throw down. That's nice. Ranch is our strongest soldier. Absolutely. Powering through diarrhea. I did hear, I was told that there was some sort of, because I don't remember exactly the context of this Baldur's Gate discussion was, but it's a game I know well. I've played through multiple times. But I guess there was something about what, whether a section of the game was the underdark or the shadow realm. And that was a little bit of a debate. Yes. I said it was the underdark, but some people were saying like, he's wrong. It was the shadow realm. It may have been ambiguous about what part of the game we're discussing. Either way, I'm just going to, my position now is that they're the same. The underdark is the shadow realm. Yeah. The underdark is the shadow realm and Baldur's Gate 3 actually, it's actually really easy too. It's actually really easy and I've never played it. And I've never played it. And I know that it's easy and I know that the underdark is the same as the shadow realm. Yeah. And there's actually not that much to do. There's not much to do. And it's pretty limited in scope. Yeah. As is my understanding. Again, I've never played it. Yeah. No, no, no. Should I make this a clip? No. I can't stand going viral. That's just what the clip needs to, it's like actually we removed the women. Look, we got it right this time. Yeah. Just me and Matt, suckling the score. We've, I had a situation earlier today. You had a situation? I had a situation. I left my phone in Uber. Y'all ever done that? Absolute fucking nightmare. That seems almost, I don't know how the story wraps up. Don't spoil it yet. That seems impossible to overcome to me. An unsolvable problem. Because you use the phone to get the Uber. Yes. And then Uber go away, keep phone, no more phone. Yeah. Thankfully, and this is the other thing, then I'm like, well, I'll log into my Uber account on my laptop. Two factor. So it was a whole ordeal. I did find a way to contact support and then you can file a thing where that you could say that this ride has a, you know, I was on this ride and that's where I left my phone. I also, the thing that actually was my salvation was not the Uber support, but find my iPhone. I was able to, I guess if you mark lost phone in your iCloud, you can then go and like put a little message that pops up. I don't know. I just, I had never done this. So I didn't know how to do it because I usually don't lose my phone like a fucking idiot like I did today. So I just put, I just put like, Hey, here's my email, email if, email if phone found and then the driver was kind enough to email that address. I used Heather's phone who has with. And I used Heather's phone to call this guy and then arranged a drop off. But it was a whole thing of like, like I'll be here at this time. I was like, all right. I guess it's 1989 again. That's so crazy. I've been like this, I mean, I understand the need for two factor and stuff like that. But like there are so many now because like if this, I guess I'm thinking of like an older time where like it just, this, the time that I'm thinking of this wouldn't have happened. It just wouldn't have happened. It wouldn't have happened. None of this would have existed. Right. But like I just the other day I had to call my vet because. Uh, your cat, your cat kicked the dog off the table. My cat did have diarrhea. And I'm calling my vet because I mean, why did I go down this train? I had to collect a sample and bring it back so they could see if anything was wrong with his diarrhea. Because your cat had too much lasagna. And so. Yeah, a little too much lasagna. We were learning that he's actually lactose intolerant. Got it. So you can't, it's one of his favorite foods, but you just can't endure it anymore. Yeah. And you know, this is another thing that I was trying to call in on. I was calling in from a crate that was on its way to Abu Dhabi. Oh, you got crated? I got crated. Oh man. Uh, but I'm calling because they close at six. It's 5.57. I live about, I mean, I live close to it. So I, I was on my way over there on foot because I was like, it's close enough I could get there faster than in a car because of other time it wasn't trafficking stuff like that. I'm on the phone. I'm the AI assistant for the fucking, for the small, for the better practice. Yes. And I'm like, I understand the need for this kind of cause it's like, they can't be taking calls all day and there's like people there helping with things happening at the store. But usually you can bypass stuff like that by like saying like, I want to speak to like representative or whatever. This fucking, this is different. This fucking Emily is her name. I'll put her on blast. She's not real. But the AI assistant is like, I am the representative. Before I contact the front desk, why don't you, why don't we see if I could help you? Oh boy. That's rough. I'm just like, they're about to close. I'm carrying a hot tube of diarrhea. Right. Like I just want to make sure that somebody's there so I can hand this off and I'll have to walk back home with it. You know what I mean? This puppy is scorching my palm. I'm going like, you're playing hot potato with this thing. I just can't get somebody on the phone. So I just hope somebody gets over there. And I get there as they're closing the door. And I just like, I got it. They're like right on time and they took it from me and it was fine. But I guess I'm just like, there used to be a time where like you could get things done in an easier way without technology that's supposed to fucking help. Right. And it just requires a little bit more planning. Yeah. And now there's this like unnecessary roadblocks for like, you should be able to like do something, type in a code or something. That's like, I don't have the two factor. Here's a code that's my code. Right. That works. Well, I found out, I found out. So there is a way like I found out. So now I know that you can link other accounts to it and that can be another way, another method of two factors. So I see. Yeah. It's going to, it's whatever. It's fine. But yes. You got it back. I got my fucking phone right here. You didn't try to, oh, he, oh yeah. I forgot you handed it to me. No, he handed it to me. The man was lovely. Yeah. And it was, you know, an expensive mistake because besides the pain in the ass of trying to deal with this while I'm, I'm working in the office, it's also, I'm like, I felt like I tip the guy 50 bucks. Yeah. It was like, this was like huge pain in the ass for you. I'm sorry. Because he's not being like, he's not like. No, it's not a fair for him. Yeah. Right. Exactly. So you, of course, you did that. That's very nice that you did that. But yeah, then I'm just like, well, I spent 50 bucks because I fucking left. Our Uber's already so fucking expensive, right? It's so expensive. I had that. It's just a fine. I have assessed myself basically. I imagine, I imagine the phone was in the Waymo. You'd never have it back. Could you get it out of a Waymo? You must be able to log in some other way, but I wonder who knows. Why don't you leave it in a Waymo and see? I'll do that. I'll definitely do that. I was in a Waymo that was behind another Waymo. You ever had that experience yet? Oh yeah. They're kind of like coordinated. They're like, hey man, what's up? I can't wait until they're ubiquitous. Can't wait until they're everywhere. Yeah. They just started going on the freeway, you said, right? Yeah, I've been on the freeway in a fucking way. Is it scary on the freeway? No, man. It's a dream. Oh man, he loves it. I love it. Got his feet up. You picking tunes on the damn thing? Yeah. We'll go put it up, mess with a Spotify playlist. Yeah. What on some jazz funk or something? Ooh. You dancing back there? Yeah, I'm having a party of myself. I could do anything back there. You're doing the cabbage patch like this? The Tarleton? It's back. It'll be interesting to see, because it's the same way that people think of Mozart and Bach and Beethoven as contemporaries, but they live centuries apart. It's like... Oh. Because you just sort of like, oh yeah, these classical composers. They were like, well, yeah, they all were kind of in different eras. But I think the... There will be like a future when they're like trying to represent the 20th century. And it will be like a movie set in the 1980s, but someone will be like doing the Charleston. Because they're like, oh yeah, he's been doing an old-timey dance. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. A completely invented reality. Somebody in black and white will be like, I have Riz. Yeah. Yeah. This guy in World War II is doing the running man. The fuck is up with that? He has an iPad. And then he just said, this is the old one. We're just describing like an AI-generated movie. It sounds pretty good, honestly. I'd watch it. That I'd... Look, Heather's not here. Heather's not here. I feel like... Wait, were you going somewhere with that or did you finish? I finished. I guess my broader point was that you used to be able to just get things done without like a technological roadblock. Right, everything's so annoying. Yeah, everything's so... I don't even get what you're saying. 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Quince.com slash get played. We have a fun game to talk about. We do have a fun game to talk about. Right now we have some other games to talk about. It's time for the question we ask every week on this podcast. What are you playing? Where is the resident merchants? Usually, usually they're here first. Yeah, they're usually just already in position when we got. I guess I guess I was kind of hoping that I would will them. Yeah, into walking into the studio with my intro, but I guess they're just not going to show up. Well. We're going to have to talk about this. This is I'm checking. I'm checking. I'm checking on acceptable. I'm checking the group text. Trapped in a TJ Max dumpster. I guess that's a fair excuse. Follow up text. Don't come looking for me. OK, well, I like it in here. Godspeed Resident Evil Merchant. Maddapadaka, what are you playing? I'll tell you what I'm playing. Well, I feel like we had talked about this the next couple of weeks. So I'm just going to say my I'm Thor came and I'm very excited about it. I'm Thor plays explain to people whether I'm Thor is it is a Android based handheld that is it's a dual screen situation. So you can play DS and 3DS games on it, but you can also play all sorts of games. You can have some light steam games on there. You know, your Bellatros, your stuff that I'm playing on. Steam anyway, you know, nothing, nothing too intense. I don't think it could run Claire Obscure Expedition 33 or something like that. But you can download your Steam library there. You can also, you know, you have access to whatever games are on the Google Play Store. So that's that's a possibility to. But you can install all these like emulators and stuff like that. And they all run really well. But I feel like in the coming in the coming weeks, we'll like do like a deeper dive into it. So I don't want to say too too much about it. But I have it. I mean, I will say it seems like a really sleek piece of hardware. I've seen some of the the photos and footage that you and Heather, who also has one of these doodads, because both of course you both do. Yes, you're both early adopters. The it seems like there's a lot of tinkering involved. A lot of tinkering, which and that's the thing. Like when it's something like, oh, I got to spend a bunch of time configuring this thing is like I do. There's a part of me that does really genuinely enjoy that. But there's another side of me that's like, I've kind of played video games these days. Yeah. I mean, I did like while I was setting it up, my wife was like, so what gave her you playing? I was like, oh, no, no, no, no. I'm in menus. I mean, I mean, folders here. Okay. I'm in the I'm in the weeds because you have to set up, you know, like a file directory for your ROMs and things like that. But I think that stuff is like when you have the time to do it is more than half the fun setting something up. Um, I'll tell you what I've been playing on it real quick. Been playing an old favorite of mine, NBA Street Volume 2. Wow, let's go. Just doing some pickup. Cause like I'm not a big basketball guy. I don't watch basketball. Don't follow it. Um, I like the vibe of it. It seems like something I'd like to participate in. Um, not playing it, but you know, the culture of enjoying it. Hop on board. It's a very fun league to follow. I love that orange ball. Orange ball is great. I like the squeak of the sneakers on the, on the ground. You seen the WNBA ball? What color is it? It's orange and white. It's great. They got a different one. They got a different one. Yeah. It looks a little different. Listen, you ever see the old ABA ball that was back in the 70s? No. That was my favorite. It was a red, white and blue ball. That's pretty awesome. Well, that's, I see that I'm thinking of the globe trotters. Yeah, it is very globe trotters coated as well. But I, I mean, yeah, I agree. The orange ball is good. Well, real quick, globe trotters tangent. Yeah. I had an opportunity to see the Harlem globe trotters when I was a kid and I got the flu and I couldn't go. But my brothers still got to go with my uncle and they, I was like, like, just go. I'm like, so sick. I'm thinking they're going to go, they're not going to have that much fun because I'm not there. Yeah. They came back. It was like the best day of their fucking lives. Did you ever ultimately see the globe trotters? I've never gone. Oh, Matt. I mean, next time they're the globe trotters are in town, we should go because I will say I as a kid, me and my brother got to go see the Harlem globe trotters and it was the best show I've ever seen. It was so entertaining. I would love to go. I want to see that. I want to see Monster Jam. I want to see like all this like stuff that I didn't get to see when I was a kid. I might go to Disney on ice. How fun is that? I won't. But hey, baby. Glob trotters are great. I would love to see it. I would love to see it. I'm playing that. That game. Do we need to give context to the Harlem globe trotters? People know what the globe trotters are. They are Marty Supreme. The Harlem globe trotters were a funny basketball team. They're like a comedy basketball team. They always play the Washington Generals. They're a touring team and they do a bunch of like trick shots and and and like they have skits basically where they'll like bring a ladder on the court or pull down a referee's pants or throw a bucket in someone's face. But instead of water, it has confetti. And they used to like be on TV shows. They go on as themselves. They go on as themselves and they think they're going to Harlem globe charters cartoon at a certain point. They're they're great. They might have interacted with Scooby-Doo at one point. So that my context for them was seeing them in other things when we're like, wait, those guys are funny as fuck. I want to go see that. I forgot they're in Scooby-Doo. But I never got to. Yeah, I never got to see it. You missed you. You missed out. I got it. Look, because like, are they still doing it? Yeah, they're still doing it. That's different guys, I would assume. There's a lot of turnover, but like every time like I feel like I go I go to a good amount of live basketball and oftentimes sometimes at the arena, every so often it'll be like, oh, the globe charters are coming down every time. I was like, fuck, I should go see the globe charters and they never make time for it. But next time I'm going to pay attention. I would like to go. That would be my very first live basketball game. It's a blast. Ranch, you ever seen the globe charters? I've not. Wow. Group outing. You can come to Ranch. Yeah, you can come. Heather, we'll get her a ticket anyway. Heather will want to see the globe charters. Heather's going to want to see it. Yeah. Look, all four of us, we've been having a fucking blast. They might throw us to the ball. They might let us do one. It's one of those things you see like, like, because ostensibly me being someone who's in comedy and then you see something like this is like, these, this, what they're doing is so much harder because they have to do feats of athleticism, but also they have to make kids and old people laugh and everyone in between. Like that's so fun. It's so much easier to have your audience of your core audience of irony poison to online people that you can kind of cater to with inside jokes versus like, hey, I've got to appeal to everybody. Yeah. You know what everybody likes? Seeing a referee's pants pulled down. That's fucking so funny. That's why I mean, we talk about this, I think a lot off pod, but like the, like, I think Jackass is the funniest thing. It's so funny. And it's funnier than anybody will ever be. And it's like guys getting fucking spanked on their butts. Makes a dumb guy laugh, makes a smart guy laugh. It's so, I mean, it's more than that. It's also like people like stapling their nuts sacks to their legs. Yeah, sure. But it's like, it's fucking funny. But I'm playing NBA Street Volume Two. I forgot just through osmosis. Like as a kid, you pick up so many like, like I know who Alan Iverson is because he was like objectively very famous when I was a kid. AI, the answer. Yes. The only good AI. Yeah. Maybe. I don't know. I don't know what he's been up to. He's not canceled. He's not canceled. Okay. The only good AI. But you know, obviously you have Shaq, you have Kobe, you have like, like, that's like the roster of players from that time that I was like, oh, like, I just like remember all these guys. Like it's it's it's in obviously Shaq is like still very famous. But I've been enjoying that. It just plays so great. It's like such a funny, fun game. You're doing little trick shots and stuff like that's three on three street hoops. And it's fast. You can just pick up and like play a game for like under 10 minutes and like you're just like shooting buckets and it's a lot of fun. It's it's interesting because it's like very, very NBA jam, but it's also got like a Tony Hawks pro skater element of like you're doing tricks and a big part of what you're you're not just going for points in the basket sense. You're also going for points in the like multiplier sense of like I'm going to do this crossover dribble, you know, I'll do this spin move, etc. And I'll finish with a Tomahawk dunk and that combination will get me a bonus. So I'm doing that and I'm playing. But also just real quick and I'm using because we both spent a lot of time with the NBA Street franchise and I also I am someone who does love basketball and usually I'd play like more more Sims, although they don't really play sports games at all anymore. That was one of the the action arcadey sports games that like NFL Blitz of the year is like, man, they just kind of nailed the feel of this. And they made two of them and then it just went away. I think they did do a third one, but they did less. I think it was less. I mean, I'm a misremembering it. Well, I mean, if like I'm part of the core audience and you don't remember the third one, that's part of the problem. I remember that the GameCube port for three had Mario in it. Okay. Yeah. It was also part of a brand that's defunct that you and I both like. No. EA Sports Big. It's EA Sports Big. EA Sports Big. I don't know how they landed on it, but it's so funny. You know that thing people say? Like you won't know that I won the lottery, but there will be signs. When EA Sports Big comes back, that's how you'll know. That's what I'm putting all my money in immediately. We're bringing back EA Sports Big. Not really clear what it means, but I just like it. Yeah, it's just big. And like the big gets really big on the screen and it's really fun. I'm doing that and to test out the both screens or touch screens, by the way, so you can be touching with a stylist on both screens. I've been playing WarioWare Touched for the DS. Good game. Now look, well, hang on. Good game. I think it might be a perfect video game. I think it's so fun and so funny and so intuitive. It really teaches you like, I don't know, it's like it expects you to sort of figure stuff out in a short time limit, but like you can almost always figure out what they want you to do. And it's just just constant movement because it's moving to the next mini game so quickly that you don't even have time to even think about like the prompt of the last one, which was like snippet and it's a fucking snot bubble falling out of somebody's nose and it wants you to cut it, I guess, so that it goes back up their nose. Like that's just not how anything works. It's very, very funny game. Those are the two things I'm playing on that. I'm hoping to get back to Resident Evil 7 Biohazard because I keep now getting into I've been getting TikToks fed about it and every clip of it I see is very, very scary and I want to I'm going to move to get a little bit scared. Yeah. That's what I'm playing. Nick, what are you playing? I just just real quick on NBA Street and I was I was buried in my Wikipedia for a second because I was trying to get some context. There was yes, you were of course correct that there was NBA Street v3, which I did not play. There's also NBA Street Home Court, which I do not remember. It was the PS3, Xbox 360 version that kind of came and went. And I don't know how much it was like the gameplay resembled the original, but it seems to have been fairly well received, at least by critics. And then also in development and I missed this, but coming 2026, NBA the run. So it's not the. Oh, wow. The EA Sports Big, you know, NBA Street exact thing, but I think it is a similar sort of concept. Spiritual sequel. Spiritual sequel. And you kind of see there we see that we got like Anthony Edwards and Luca and Lamello all is kind of in there in more in street. Bowling car. Okay, I can get into that because I mean Cooper flag on the cover. Wow. That I think if I didn't get into three, it was because, you know, I was a teenager and I was basically if I wanted a new game, I had to wait. Right. So I got NBA Street Volume Two after playing it at my uncle's house like on like as a PlayStation Grace hits, which was their budget or, you know, their reduced price brand, which they don't do anymore. No, they used to have it was it was the green stripe. I think we're PS one and then the red stripe. Yeah. Yeah, those those red stripe boxes. I remember. Yeah. Very well. But that's what I've been playing. Nick, what have you been playing? Matt, thank you so much for asking. For the second time. And this time I will reply that I've been playing vampire crawlers. Now, vampire crawlers is this rogue light dungeon crawler deck builder that plays at hyperspeed. It is the same developer world and aesthetic as vampire survivors, which is the trailblazing micro genre creating. Auto shooter and from Pankle from Pankle. So that game really got vampire survivors really got its hooks in me right away and playing vampire crawlers. It's so fun immediately that he got mad. I was like, they did it again. Yeah, they fucking do it again, but it's not the same gameplay. It's instead, you know, it's played in first person and it's tile movement like an old school 90s PC RPG tile movement in first person or like a fantasy star would have those first person dungeons. And then you would get to when you get to a square, you know, you can you can turn 90 degrees or you can side a sidestep or what have you certain squares, you will see enemies in the in the future in the distance. When you get this, get in the same squares, then the same tile as them combat automatically in in soos without any sort of like big like like battle starting animations or it just like gets right into it. And that just sort of speaks to like at every opportunity, it's just accelerating. It's just making it's just taking out all of the dead space that would normally be in one of one of these dungeon crawler RPGs. Then you get into combat and combat itself is is you're basically have a mana pool of how many decks you can play, of course, or how many cards you can play in your deck, rather, in a certain hand. And then you have a each card, of course, has a different mana cost. So summer zero cost, summer summer, you know, whatever. I don't know if I spend a fucking mana works. Things things cost different amounts. We understand this concept. Mana is not health. Mana is not health. It's different. You do have health. You do have health, which I'll get to. Anyway, so you're going through these and these battles are are effectively kind of playing themselves. Like it's like it's like you are making more decisions than you are in vampire survivors, but still ultimately, it's like I'm I've got three mana. I've got a zero cost card, a one cost card, a two cost card. Well, I'm going to play out my hand. Maybe the order in which I play the cards is somewhat determinative for whatever reason, maybe I want to play this one that gives a boost to all damage before I play the thing that throws the the Santa water or I love it. It's called Santa water. I love that they didn't change it. I love it. Santa water. Maybe top five video game inventions. What do you like better, Santa water or King Bible? They're both good. King Bible is really good. King Bible is really good. I guess I like Santa water a little bit more because King Bible. I know there's the King James Bible. Yeah. So that's already similar. There's nothing like Santa water. Yeah. Santa water is like kind of like what the fuck is going on here. I love it. Drink it. Instead of burping, you say ho ho ho. I guess because it's an Italian developer, maybe Santa, how you say saints, maybe? Oh, maybe. It's like saint water and maybe holy water is called saint water. I don't know what it is. Yeah, of course that's what it is. However it comes about, whatever the etymology of it, I love that it's called Santa water. I love that they're sticking to their games. It's great. Yeah. I love it because also I mean, I know it is probably, you're right, it is probably saint. But I've said this before on the show. I think Santa is really funny. Santa is really funny. This is an idea. Santa is hilarious. I agree. Do you like Santa ranch? Kind of a met on Santa. Sounds like somebody grew up on the naughty list. If you saw Santa right now, wouldn't you think that was funny if you just walked by? I guess it'd be funny. Santa, when they like, she hates the guy. It's like, it's like seeing an Elvis impersonator on the Vegas trip or something like that is that if you ever see a Santa like in the wild, everyone's like, it's fucking Santa. They're so excited to see Santa. Yeah, he's like Austin Powers to me. Or there's a guy and, and, and, you know, he passed away, but there was that guy who used to walk around Hollywood just in Jesus cosplay. Oh, yes. And like, I was like, everyone was so excited to see Jesus. That guy was great. I would see him everywhere. Yeah. Oh, ranch loves Jesus, but hates Santa. I'm starting to figure out what the problem is. So. It's this rapid pace of battles. You're navigating these. It's weird to even call them mazes because it's just sort of you're deciding which tiles you're going to go to and that eventually you can descend to a different level. Some tiles have treasure chests, which have a similar sort of. You know, opening sort of flair animation effect as you get in vampire survivors and some sort of bonus inside. Other ones have like shit. You can dig up or they, they're it's whatever. It's it's it's really well paced. It's really compelling. It's easy to get through a run. I don't mean in terms of completing a run, but just like in terms of duration, like what you're saying about NBA Street, volume two of those all being like eight minute matches and eight minute games, it's the same sort of thing. And then there's also a town hub, which is a little bit distinct from what's in vampire survivors where it's all through the UI. There's actually a town hub that you can upgrade and unlock things as you progress. And, you know, it's that that's just a fun like aspect of the the metagame. I just can't do this right now. It's just this thing would take over my life so easily. Yeah. It's like I snorted a line and I'm like, I could keep snorting lines. And then that could just be my could just be a cocaine guy. Yeah, guy who does cocaine because that's what would happen to me. I have that addictive personality. Yeah, I'm playing this. I love it. It's such a cool design. I'm so impressed by it. I'm so glad I bought it just even just to support these developers who do not need my support. This game is a sensation already. It's it's overwhelmingly positive in the steam store with a whole bunch of sales. But it's fucking. It's it's just too much. Yeah. And I've got that and I got Slay the Spire 2 and then I've got like this is this year for games already. It's like I haven't played Pragmata. I want to play Pragmata. Yeah, I haven't gone around to Resident Evil. I want to play fucking the new Resident Evil. So I can't I can't do Vampire Crawlers. No, but I love Vampire Crawlers. Yeah, if you got to Resident Evil, I feel like you'd take it down in a weekend. I feel like it's short enough where you're like, and you know how to play those games. Like that's like, you know what you're doing. Playing on easy. I think everybody should just play games on easy. What are we doing? You can play games on easy. I do all my games on easy. It's fine to play games on easy. There's a story mode exists for a reason. What am I trying to do? Who am I trying to impress? You trying to impress? You guys, the listener, I gesture to the camera like they're alive. No, I'm not doing it. I'm doing it for me. Yeah, that's my stuff. Right. But I haven't bought it because I'm worried that I'm going to it's going to take over my life as well. We represent different ends of the gaming spectrum here. You're playing games on easy. Heather is not only playing games on maximum difficulty, she is trying to customize or mod the difficulty so that you can add more more handicaps for herself. If all games were on easy mode, Heather would stop playing games. Rachelle, are you playing anything notably notable recently other than Tomodachi Life? I actually redownloaded Hollow Knight. Wow. The first one. Whoa. Because my roommate blasted through it and then beat a part that I never was able to beat and spent two weeks on. So I redownloaded to try to beat it and call us three specifically. Okay. Wow. And I still haven't beat it. Wow. I never fucked with any of that stuff because I was just like, just get me. Get me to credits, baby. I'm just trying to get through it, but there's all this optional stuff. I've been sort of thinking about Hornet and I've been missing her and I kind of from Silk song from Silk song and I kind of want to go back and because I never finished it. And I was saying that it was like maybe one of the best video games ever made. You are also, but then again, we've established your guy who sometimes the challenge of a video game is not what necessarily keeps you playing. Yeah. Unlike some people. And so maybe a game is challenging as Silk song. You're kind of like, yeah, I get it. But do I want to dedicate this much of my life to trying to beat this one challenge? I think I would have to relearn how to play. Right. But I think I would like to get back in there because I'd like that monkey off my back, I think. Yeah. It's very satisfying to finish a really difficult game or a game that you played and then returned to and like I finally finished this. Like what I do with Super Meat Boy would kind of checks both boxes or with a Sekiro because you know, beating Sekiro is like very satisfying. And you did do it. I did beat Sekiro. Yeah. Yeah, you did. But I've never played Baldur's Gate 3. No, no, no. It's basically not even a real game. I think. Yes, yeah. It's a game for, I think, babies. But Ranch, so do you think, have you made tangible progress? Do you think you're improving in this Coliseum? I'm considerably worse now than I was back then. Yeah. So now I'm working back up to be where I was before. Got it. Because I also kind of had to relearn how to play. Yeah. And I did also read down with Silk Song because I was like, OK, I'll get back into it and it was immediately too overwhelmed to play it. That game is like, you always thought, oh, you thought Hollow Knight was hard? Guess what? Very good sound effects. Those were not added in post. Matt is doing these with his mouth. I know you're probably like listening to this and being like, OK, so they open up the sound effects library. They forked over the cost of licensing some explosions and gunshots. But no, Matt is creating all those from whole cloth. I ran out of. I ran out. You're doing great. I only did like five. I liked them. I was getting scared. You thought it was happening. I was going to duck for cover. Yeah. I you will you will love Vampire Crawlers. I'm going to get it. It's a very, very effortlessly playable game. I wonder how it runs on the aim floor. I'll have to test it out. I would imagine it probably can handle it. Yeah. I mean, look, it's it's definitely trying to. Do that retro. I guess it's maybe even more of like an eight bit aesthetic of of of Vampire survivors as it's definitely that, but just like in first person mode. And it feels like the sort of thing that would is not too taxing on the hardware. Unless unless it's doing something. I guess one thing that happens with Vampire survivors just because they're generating so many enemies and there's so many effects on screen, even though the graphics are fairly simple, it can be a bit of a resource hog. So I, you know, there is a lot happening in this game. So maybe at some point it could would overload. But I think it would run fine. All right. I don't know if I can. No, I'm going to check. I'll I'll check it out in our report back. Wow. But a silk song or I'm sorry, not silk song. Hollow Knight, you're enjoying. Yeah, all. Yes. Yes, I'm just currently mad. Yeah, right now. Damn, I wish you luck in that. Yeah, me too. Godspeed. And God have mercy on you. Yeah, I mean, God have mercy on you. 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Honestly, maybe I could, but I thought, well, if I'm going to get into it, I might as well just wait for the new one. And then it wasn't really on my radar until a listener tagged us on Blue Sky on Instagram. Their handle, I hope they don't mind being doxed in this way, is that guy there. What's up that guy there? They go by Jay Dizzle, it looks like. They made us in Tomodachi Life, and they did a really good job rendering this. They did do a good job. So you use Mies in this game, if you're unfamiliar with it. So the Nintendo Mies have been created of each of us. Matt looks very cool, and Matt looks like Matt to me. Heather looks kind of like a librarian, and then I look like a guy who's been banned from the hentai section. You look great. Everybody looks great. It is like one of those things where you're making people, and we'll get into it. I've been making a lot of people. It's hard not to get really into making people, because the creator is so extensible and customizable. There's so much you can do. I definitely had some points while playing this where I was like, Weigar, the perfect as the enemy, the good. You just got to get this person on your island. And someone did, everyone's making everything. Someone made Verrong, and there's a good Verrong online. Hell yes. I've so far made... I made eight people from my island, and I'm going to just list them off now. I made my wife, Isabelle. I made Weigar, I made Heather, I made Rochelle, I made my two in-laws, because I thought I'd make my wife laugh and it did. I made my mom, and I made Hideo Kojima. What a crew. I feel like I did a pretty good job with him. That's a good Kojima, yeah. Check this out, right? Not bad. I made him pretty good. But this game, I was not prepared for how funny it is. It's funny. It sets up very similar to Animal Crossing New Horizons. Even some of the UI is very similar. Even some of the UI is very similar. And then also, again, the same thing. You have an island where, populated by various characters, the difference is that you don't have a controllable player avatar. All the mes are autonomous, based on prescribed personality traits and things that they develop over the course of the game. Over the course of gameplay. Also, you level up individual mes in addition to leveling up your island. Yes. That unlocks more and more things. And I don't know. It's so simple. But I'm like, man, this is a really fun social sim. It really is, because there's also a relationships aspect, too. You're making people, and the early part of the game, I think I got my island to level 11 in the last couple of days. I've been doing it. Yeah, you've been doing it. It's really easy to turn into a time sink. I wish I had more time with it. Because there aren't a ton of tasks to do, but things will pop up. You'll start making people, and the more people you make, the more your town upgrades. So then you're able to get a clothing store, and then there's a home renovation store, and then there's a custom... A place where you can make custom art in things like this. A place where you can make custom art in things like our food, and stuff like that. So the town opens up as you're adding people, and then as you're upgrading, you get the ability to add more people. Now I can just make people as much as I want, which I heard that you can make up to 70 people for... 70 people per island. Per island. Which, will I make that many? Who knows. You could do it. I could do it. It is funny to see if you can do it, but I want to base off all my... all my creations off of photos. So like, when I was making Hideo, I was like, okay, he has like a very specific hair cut and head shape and stuff like that. Let me do it, and then I was like, I kind of just like, I kind of like did what he does. I scanned him. I put him in the game. But you can... improve the relationships of the people on the island as well. Hang on, I'm sorry. I have to... I have to pause for a second. Keep this in the show. Where the fuck did these tiny grapes come from? This always been part of it? Okay, so here's the thing. Honey kind of skia, the wire queen... oversees... I believe it's her job, or her job in part to oversee kind of the art direction of the set here at Head Gum. There have always been grapes. And at a certain point, very large grapes got added. Now there are tiny grapes. All these artificial grapes, there's like one, two, three, four, five, six, seven bunches of grapes just on the... just as part of the main table rank. Yeah, what are they for? The freaking Dionysus podcast? Very smart poll. Hey, hey, you know... You've been reading books? I read a book. Wow, look at you. And there's another grape thing over at the side table. Grape crazy. I like grapes just as much as anybody else. I like them, I'd say, a fair amount. But the grapes situation... it's gotten a little out of hand. We call Anya the wire queen. I think she also needs to be called the grape ape. Yeah, she's the grape ape for sure. Anya, sorry, you're the grape ape. Sorry, Anya, you're the grape ape. I don't know what you want me to do. You keep adding grapes, and they're getting... I thought once they were big, that was kind of it. We have big grapes, very good. We're on our Jack Shepherd shit now, and we're going back. We're making them small. What's going on? I'm turning into Sebastian Madaskalco. You can't fucking do that. The grapes are already big. Now you've got small grapes in here. You can't fucking do that. I saw this thing he was doing. You see his bit about... Like laying out milk and cookies for Santa. Yeah, he thinks Santa's actually going to want a glass of red wine. And how about some lasagna? He's like, man, this is so good. I love this. He might be the Harlem Globetrotters of convenience. There's like... I would never... It sounds like you're making fun. I can almost guarantee you, if I bought a ticket to one of his arena shows, I would laugh my fucking ass off. We'd laugh our asses off the whole time. Yeah, and I'd be screaming. It'd be so fun. I would go to that too. I would absolutely go to that. But the grapes are out of control, and they really distract me. I feel like I have to... This is what I'm talking about. Mad is holding up the small grapes. These tiny grapes, and this won't be the clip. I was doing it for... I do, Ranch. What's this? There's another set. A second tiny grape to check. On top of the other green one. They're on top of the normal grapes. Sorry for interrupting. Please, very additive. What I want you to do, Ranch, is when you're scrubbing back through the footage, at the very least, get a screenshot of me holding these, send them to Anya and say, Matt's fucking furious. If you're like the size for our listeners, they could be earrings. If you want to have that sort of look, you could pull it off. They're really downscaled. I don't know what they're doing here. If I was in the Garden of Eden, all I'm saying is, these wouldn't do the job. Also, Anya's not been here in months. Where did these come from? Did she ship them out here? They must have always been there. These are new. Anyway, grape tangent over. Yeah. You know, when Heather's not here, we kind of have to, like, create stuff to do. You know what I mean? Kind of mix it up a little bit. We're talking about... We always got stuff to talk about. I know, but I feel like I'm floundering here. I was like, let me go on this grape thing. Then we'll get Sebastian in the mix. You're doing great. You can't fucking do that. He doesn't curse either, does he? He's fucking, fucking great. So, you can improve the relationships with people. When you're making the Mies, there's a menu that's like, does this real-life Mie have a family member on the island that's in their real-life family? You can select the... The relationship. The relationship, which is very helpful because these Mies fall in love. They do fall in love. And you want to make sure they're courting appropriately. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You can't have like... My father-in-law falling in love with me or something. You can't do that. No, we can't have things like that. No, you can't do it. So, you can make all those appropriate. I did pick... Look, it would have been really easy to let me have... Let me play the field in the Tomodachi Life. I made my wife. What am I gonna do? Not do that? Yeah. It's not a dating sim. In the game, I have an unrequited crush on my wife. It is... So, it'll show a diagram of... When it's two people talking, and it'll have two arrows going back and forth, and it'll say what their relationships are to each other. Right now, it says... Really likes, and it says crush also. From me pointing to my wife, and then from my wife pointing to me, it says, good friends. It's a nightmare. But you can do that. Those are your vows, right? Matt is my good friend. Matt's my good friend. It'll always be my good friend. But you can do... So, you can introduce... You can introduce everybody to everyone at a certain point. But I feel like the more people you start making, it's harder to keep track of who knows who and what way and stuff like that. But there might be opportunities for people to organically meet on their own too. I don't know if it's necessarily that, but you can drag people to meet people and stuff like that. That part of it's really fun. And they're all... And it's kind of like... I'm just using a recent game for comparison. But in the way that all the social stuff as your population grows, it's kind of like how in Mugenics you're trying to do the cat breeding, and it's very easy to lose track of... What do you have? A full house of cats? You're just like, who the fuck is what? It's... It does get a little bit overwhelming. I do think, though, that the more people you introduce to each other, the more opportunities for... like dynamic little events... Right. ...can occur, because I stumbled upon... Because I made all of us, and I introduced you... So you all know each other and me and Isabel. And my wife's not in the game, so I'm playing the field. Yeah, that's right. I did select your dating preferences to everyone. I love it. I paired him with my mother-in-law. Nice try. But the more people that know each other, they can have little meetings in groups. Right. So there's... The most frustrating part of this game, actually, is that you can't share the images from the switch. You can screenshot all day and record video all day, but you can't send the clips or anything anywhere. You have to have been playing in a capture card or something to even get them. It's just such a Nintendo thing. There's always some frustrations with this fucking company that makes these games that are so compelling. And in this case, organically viral and something where people want to share what they're doing. It's designed for that and then to have barriers to that. When basically every other platform is just built in. So these are all photos I took on my phone of my TV. And this is a group of me, Heather, my wife, Weiger and Rachelle all just sitting on the ground talking with each other and it says, it's a meeting of the SoftServe Ice Cream Society. Pretty good idea. Yeah, first of all, I'm the fucking chairman of this damn thing. Well, hold elections. But you can see stuff like that and then there's like, oh, Ranch, you had a dream in my game you had a bunch of cakes falling on you for some reason. I gave you a piece of cake and then later that night you had a dream of cake and where you're being bombarded with cake and it says, throw a cake on me, then do it again and again. That's the dream. That is the dream. Do you like cake, Ranch? What's your favorite cake? Of course, it's kind of the best one. We don't have time for this. It's kind of the best one. I like birthday cake. Probably after carrot cake, right? Carrot cake is not my favorite, but I like carrot cake. I respect all cakes. All cakes are good? All cakes are good. I thought you were going to say all cakes matter. You can't go there. No, some of them, some of them, some of them don't. But like, you can just monitor all like the... It's sort of on its own makes funny situations and I do think that like the game is funnier when you add people you know into the game because like there's a world where you can auto generate me's to fill out your thing which is what Heather did. And it feels like that's like your kind and you know, I understand why people do that and maybe you're just not interested in character creation but it does feel like you're kind of short changing yourself of one of the joys of this game. Yes, and so like, because in your opportunities where like one of your me's will be like, oh, I want to be friends I want to be friends with... Heather will be like, I want to be friends with Matt and what should I go talk to him with and there's like a list of things you can talk about or you can type something in and you have two opportunities to type something you can type it the one way and hope it spells it right or you could press on this like pair of lips next to the word and then spell it out phonetically and try to get it to say like word perfect. Right. Which the one good thing about this thing is that from what I understand there's not a language filter. It doesn't seem to have any content filter. Yeah, so you can just make it say like fucked up stuff or like nasty stuff or like kind of like horny stuff. I haven't tried any like slurs. No. I would imagine those are gated but who knows. Yeah, we'll find out. We'll find out, yeah. I have this clip that I'll play in a second I'm just kidding. But Heather asked what she should talk to me about This is Heather in the game. And I wrote I typed in Hideo Kojima and it's going to be funny and then they had a conversation about Hideo Kojima and I was like this is funny. And then you guys, you two became good friends because you guys were some of the earlier people on my island. So then you guys moved into a house together to be closer friends. That would never happen. But when you have me's move into a house so you guys are get played in the house. Wow, very cool. So the house is called get played and you guys live there. And the house is nice. We touched on this in the Japan episode a little bit but you and me and Heather traveling together and going to like restaurants together and shopping together and everything people were definitely trying to identify exactly what the dynamic was between us. And we landed on I think a lot of people's headcanon was Heather and I were married and you were our son. Absolutely. That seemed to be what made everybody the most comfortable. Yeah. And then this other screenshot that I have here is Heather being very excited saying Tiger got really excited when we talked about Varaugh. So like you can make all these like little funny moments for yourself and I'm just like kind of like laughing playing the game which is not a typical gaming experience really. There are moments where you're like oh you guys were having a conversation you two and made each other sad and Heather went and sat on her own by the beach looking miserable as hell so funny but I gotta imagine that like there is humor with the you know auto-generated me's as well. You can make them say whatever you want. Here's a question because so part of the setup there are some things that stress me out because this cannot be changed later. It was just things like what units do you want to use or whatever but still I was like Jesus fucking Christ. Yeah you're committed to this. I guess for life. But one of the things you get to do is decide what the people on the island are going to call you because you the player are a presence in the game and you have a hand that you can choose the skin tone of that represents your hand and I always mess that up for me it's a little tricky. You got you're going option one. I got some pigment. Yeah there is like a you never want to pick the one that's like too much because it doesn't seem right. But then the one I end up picking is always like I should have probably got the one right in the middle kind of where I need a little bit more. I'm also trying to be outside a little bit more. Hey give a little sun. Gotta get my vitamin D up. Thanks, Doc. Man I've been that vitamin D whole of myself. My wife called me a freaking endorian the other day. That's really good. It was really funny. I was like I'll show you I've been walking like three miles every single day. I get a lot of sun and I still end up with a vitamin D deficiency Yeah they gave me one. Isn't Mother Nature amazing? Isn't that like that we have evolved to turn sunlight into nutrients? Yes. What is that? Look we could be here all day. I am constantly fascinated at the dumbest shit alive. I think I told you guys this when I was watching The Pit with my wife who's in a hospital every single day at work. It's the one show we watch where I pause it and ask her questions. Yeah. They're like open somebody's fucking chest cavity. They're moving organs around. I pause and I go where's all the blood? I expected it to be wetter in there. It's dry. Yeah because the blood's in like veins and arteries. The blood's in veins and arteries. It's not just a bag of blood. I thought there at least be some kind of goo in there or something. I don't know if it's bone dry. I thought there'd be some sloshing around. They're wet but they're not like there's no liquid. Right. It's like a moist sort of thing. She's always teaching me stuff about how the human body works. It's fascinating. There's a pit episode where a guy is a perma boner. Did you see that one? I saw that. How is it? It's fucking crazy. Can you spoil it for me? How do they resolve his perma boner? I think I was watching a different show. It's a 3D episode. Yeah. I think they put a needle in his dick into like a vein or something. And they like took some blood out basically. Props that actor for staying hard for an entire episode. It was crazy because you'd never see an erect dick on regular television. Yeah I know. Those hogs are always flaccid. It was not one of the crazier things in this season. I can't remember if it was the first season or second season. But an old lady was like fucking backed up. And they like stick a finger in her ass and then she like shits all over the place. And it like blasts shit on a guy. Jesus. It's such a good show. Do they not have a better solve than just like putting a finger up there? That's the thing. I'm thinking of all this stuff like we're talking about like oh you need vitamin D here. You can go outside or you can take like a pill and like then be on it. There's some things that they're like there was something they did in the show where they like it's such a thin margin of error. Some guy was like misaligned in his spine basically from his neck. And he was in like such severe pain that like the options were to either do like a very risky surgery that would take hours and hours to solve his issue by snapping him back into place. But the margin of error was so high that like if it was done incorrectly he would be paralyzed from work. Oh my god. And they do it and it works and it's just like that just works. That's fucking crazy. That's so crazy. Doctors, you guys are great. We love doctors. Some of them. Not that fucking fouchy. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Ranch, you see any pit? I haven't seen any of it. Yeah me neither. Everyone who watches it says it's great and I know I can just watch it and then where I work I work on the Warner Brothers lot in Burbank. They shoot the pit and so sometimes you'll just see like Noah Wiley walking around. It's crazy. They'll always any opportunity be like George Clooney said that he likes the pit. That's so cool. He was like, ah who cares? He hasn't talked to me in like 14 years. He's like it's nice that I'm cool enough now for him to talk about me. He's so fucking mad. It's so funny. He rocks, I love him. But maybe I'll put Dr. Robbie in the... You can put celebrities. It encourages you to like have fun and then you can just go or like famous people and put them in the game. Which I will get to my island in one second but I do want to ask you because one of the things where I was going with this earlier one of the things they ask you in the initial setup is what you want the people on the island to call you. I chose Tiger which I'm just like hey call me Tiger and whatever fine. What did you choose? I chose Big Dog. Very good. You said it's that screen cap and I was like laughed out loud. It's so good. Because like yeah there are choices like that that you're sort of like I guess I think you can... I don't know if you can change that one. I know you can change the name of your island which I was just like I don't know what to call my island. I'm just going to call it Apidaka Island. That's just like what it is. Had to type in phonetically like how to pronounce my last name correctly. What was the first attempt? And I assume you had no problems. But I did like I did that and then I landed on Big Dog. Nobody calls me that. I just kind of thought it'd be funny to have them call me Big Dog. It's fun to be the Big Dog. And it does make me laugh every time. Yeah I think we this is added to your roster of nicknames. I don't know if you guys got to call me Big Dog. But I wouldn't say no. Mr. Games, the franchise, the finisher. Wait there's the Xbox kid. We sort of scrubbed that one. There's not enough room in the... That one's defunct. The artist formerly known as the Xbox kid is kind of good at all. And now the Big Dog. Or just Big Dog. Because you know what? I'm thinking of the shirts. And I know the shirts kind of went the wrong way. But I'm kind of bringing them. I'm trying to steer the ship. The shirts kind of went like anti-woke at a certain point. It was just like oh man I thought the fun of these were just stupid. Yeah I thought they were just supposed to be silly. But now with me being the Big Dog I'm taking it back. Yeah you're taking it back. You're not being like, Big Dogs only have two different restrooms. Yeah Big Dogs get a cold beer from their wife when they get home. I'm checking with the Big Dog company. What are those dogs up to? I mean well... They're being crazy. I picked Big Dog. I picked Apodaka Island like I said. And then it becomes a matter of I find this game the most recent comparison being Pocopia of this type of thing. And Pocopia to me even though I'm a big Pokemon fan I know Heather has put way more time into Pocopia because it scratched an itch for her that not that it didn't for me there's too much other things going on gaming wise. I find Pocopia so much more stressful because there's always a guy being like, can you give me a toy or some shit? And it's like but when somebody has an issue in Tomodachi life they're like I'm hungry and then just give them food and that's funny. I would get to inform you about the big dog Big Dog Blue Lives Matter shirt. It's a cop and it says Born to Protect. I gotta wipe my island I gotta call me something else. I'm taking it back. You're a different kind of Big Dog. They have a whole section called Patriotic which is just all their freedom is the greater good. Look they saw where the money was going. Land of the free home of the big. Freedom isn't free. They also have it and Matt this one I think is good. Doggers. Doggers is pretty good. It's the Dodgers logo with the big dog. It says Doggers. A lot of fun. I'm having a blast playing it. I do think that I want to make more people I know that I'll be able to make an apartment building. The terraforming stuff on the island is always the thing that stresses me out You'll get a notification from one of your me's and it'll be like have an idea maybe we can add some trees here and that will cost money so they'll show you where the trees could go and you just pay the fee to add the trees and that takes so much of the stress out of it for me at least because I'm just like oh you pick that's totally fine You start with a limited space and you can add to the island and make the island bigger that's when I start to get a little like can somebody just do this I don't want to make it bad I don't want to have an ugly road you know what I mean I don't want to fuck this up I want it to be nice You're worried about aesthetics I'm worried about aesthetics because right now I'm just trying to buy clothes that my little me's would wear I got you a purple sweatshirt and right now currently the shortest shorts that were available which are cargo shorts which are not particularly short I also made you a little taller than everybody else I'll take it Ranch is in the default clothing because I haven't found the ranch fit yet which is like a pattern sweater yeah I haven't got that yet they don't sell my chemical romance stuff I'm aware of they have real world items in the game in a lot of games there would be branded tie-ins but I don't know if I'd see I wonder how much of that Nintendo would be doing maybe I can make one maybe with the custom one maybe I can make a shirt that says MCR on it which I will do for Ranch so I didn't just get as much time with the game as you did and my island's population did not swell as large as yours but when I was trying to decide what direction to go I do wish Heather was here because I did this partly for her I decided to pay tribute to the OG Private Island no you didn't I made Little Saint James nooo that what you called your island first and habit of Little Saint James of course was Jeffrey oh my god and I did find myself at a certain point looking at photos of Jeffrey Epstein and like how tall is he from your camera roll right me and him and Malcolm Gladwell I tell you I saw Malcolm Gladwell in person like not long ago like within the last the list was out and it was public knowledge he was in it and I was with my old co-workers walked by him saw him tip typing away about some dumb shit the French fries used to be this way and they did stop doing it 10,000 hours ago shut the fuck up I was crafting a new pseudo-scientific theory just pulled completely out of his ass I walked past him clocked him immediately as soon as he turned to Gordon I was like guys that was Malcolm Gladwell he's fucking on the Epstein list my co-workers couldn't have been less interested I was like isn't he crazy he's in big trouble he's like you could just do anything now nobody was bothered by it but I thought it was funny to see him because he also looks like such a fucking loser yeah he's kind of got those vibes anyway I made Jeffrey and once Jeffrey was suitably leveled up you get to add a second and your island's like you get to add a second so of course I added Galein and I will say I think my Galein likeness came out better the Jeffrey Epstein likeness was a little tricky you didn't use wait hold on let's see what I have on my phone because I did take some photos I was also drunk that's another one you were gonna do that anyway I got home from work late I got drunk and I was playing more of the more of a Tomodachi life did you have a cocktail or a wine a little from column A a little from column B wait let's see did I take oh yeah I just have this one with the Jeffrey with the Jeffrey waving oh my god and so now everybody on your island oh yeah and then this other one I screen capped Little Saint James Island whoa cool name thanks Nintendo Little Santa James the so you did that did you add anybody else so I have those two and then as like those are the natural one too Robin of Little Saint James then I keep going and it's like who's the next move I went with Bill Gates that's an interesting one not the bill I would have gone with but Gates got a lot of reps in with Epstein and Gates was a lot more than reps Gates was spending so much time with Epstein that his wife left him his wife divorced him and said in the divorce that it was because of his association with Epstein that seems like he's doing some bad stuff so far the only consequence he lost his he got divorced and then like one Harvard professor got fired everyone else is just like a senator and like then who else is in trouble Prince Andrew Prince Andrew he's not one of ours he's not American Americans probably by different rules I should have made Prince Andrew that's what I should have made I have time to know well I'm Bill Gates and then I went with David Copperfield who's recently been more like a long time creep who had his own private island where he was doing some bad stuff but then had an association with Epstein that has continued the one thing I will say is that the moment that gave me and I wish I had screen capped this but the moment that gave me audibly the act was Epstein and Galeen Bonding because they are both ambitious and know what they want oh my god the one thing about this island this is sort of like if it can be done right let's do a little St. James right that's my approach I'm reclaiming it the same way you're reclaiming Big Doc on this island in the game adults cannot date kids that's a good rule it's maybe the most important rule I would say perhaps that should be a law perhaps it should be illegal to date a child I think it should but it makes a good point to say that but I got this item I was able to get an item and it goes called the kid-o-matic and it's like you can turn any character you've made into a kid I think it's a good quality Jeffrey at some point see how he likes it see how he takes his own medicine that's really really funny I will say I have boundaries this actually has a very poor taste I'm not going to put any kids on this island I'm just going to put all the celebrity friends all the school ones on mind because it's like I don't know any kids I only know adults of who else is gonna be funny to put out. I'll probably do my brothers next. And then, you know, any famous, maybe I'll just then start doing famous people. I have my nieces and nephews, they're teenagers now. And I feel like it's, you know, you, we all remember being kids and it's just like the age at which things are, like if they were younger, I'd be like, oh, they'd think it was cool. Now they might be like, uh, what's our uncle doing, putting us in this game this week? Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. So I don't know. Yeah, I put my in-laws in it and my wife immediately sent a picture of both of them to them and they thought it was so funny. It is funny. They're like, what are we doing in there? It's a very good bit. It's a very good bit. Ranch, you made an, we talked about, already talked about how your residents call you my god. What are the other details of your island? I'm in there and I've so far made seven of my closest friends. Wow. I have a couple more to go, plus Gerard Way. And it has turned into basically a bachelor situation where everyone has a crush on Gerard Way. Oh my God, wow. It's just what's gonna happen. Yeah, and I tried to nudge my character to, you know, befriend Gerard. Right. Hoping that would be the couple that starts. Yeah, for sure. To Mark's dismay. I approached Gerard and immediately upon meeting him, he said, sorry to interrupt Ranch, but can we pick this up tomorrow? Oh man. I don't even wanna talk to you today. That's rough. And then the rest of the day, he's like following, he's trailing Mark around. He's following Mark around and wants to be friends with Mark. That's, well, hey, look, when Mark's around, you're gonna wanna be friends with Mark. That's just how it's gonna go. That's at least my experience. Every time I run around Mark, I'm like, this is my fucking guy. And once Gerard Way wants a new bag. Mark makes bags. They're very cool. Yeah, very, very cool. What's the website? MrsMark.com? MrsMark.com. MrsMark.com. Wow. There is the whole thing of, I think that's why, it's like the Sims is the same sort of thing. And like the part of the fun of it is, you want certain things to happen. You're trying to engineer certain things to happen. And they don't always, sometimes they do, but sometimes they don't. And it's kind of fun when things go a little bit awry. Yes, I'm interested in seeing how. But I didn't think about building my own harem. That's an interesting. Yeah, I didn't think about that either. Yeah, where everybody's just like. Everyone's trying to date me? Yeah, that sounds great. That is really funny. Well, when you make you, when I made my first me. Yeah, I don't know if I'm gonna add myself to little sage James. You probably, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that just puts me on the file somehow. The one addendum to the actual list. Yeah, that's that guy doing there. Yeah, I thought I'd add myself. That's a funny kind of guy, a guy who wants to be important and so bad that he's trying to get himself in the Epstein files. It's like Steve Ranzizi's new move. No, I was on it. I went there. No, you didn't do. Why do you keep saying this shit? A plane again? Another plane lie. Okay, trust anything this guy says about planes. Oh, great. Now he works for air traffic control. I am gonna for sure keep playing this game because I'm having a blast with it. I wanna see how far it goes. I wanna make more people. I wanna see my friends getting in there, getting the mix. Cause here's, I mean, this is like the fun thing about like real life. When you have like a big event or something, like a birthday party or like a wedding or like anything where there's like multiple groups of people converging that you know separately and they're interacting with each other in a different way. It's kind of like, it's kind of interesting to watch who's talking to who, who's talking to who. Like, oh, my grandpa's talking with, you know, you or something. It's weird. It's funny. I chop it up with your grandpa. I mean, here's the thing. He'll talk to you for the rest of your life. Bring it on. I love it. Cause he also has stories that he'll just tell you again. But he's great. But the- This was years ago, but one of my brother's close friends weddings and his family or family friends with ours. So we were, my whole family was there. Their whole family of course was there. So there was like the rehearsal dinner. One of the people who was at the rehearsal dinner was the groom's grandfather. And afterwards, or the next day Nate's like, like, yeah, after the rehearsal dinner, me and his grandpa went out, we got drunk. It was fucking great. And I just think my brother's like fucking with me or whatever. At the wedding, my groom's grandpa comes up to me and is like, your brother's a hell of a guy. They just like partied like all night together. That's so fucking funny. My brother's just locked in with his grandpa. I'm gonna be fucking hammered. I'll just hang out with grandpa. Cause nobody- Not even his grandpa. No, because nobody drinks like somebody else's grandpa. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm loving it. I think the game is really funny and fun. And I do wish that like, it is kind of crazy that it's a Switch One game actually. It's weird that there isn't like a Switch Two enhanced version. I don't think there is. I mean, and- It probably runs better on Switch Two. Ranch, you are playing in a Switch One. And the- Yes. And the, I didn't let you vocalize, but yes you are. I'm playing it on your Switch One. Well, I wasn't trying to get that out of you. No, no, no. I don't need it. But yeah, it's very like, it's not super resource intensive, obviously. And it's using Mies. But so it's not like this doesn't have this like, it, you know, Mies date back to- The dates? Four generations ago? Yeah. I mean, so they've been around forever. They're really simple by design. I do kind of, I will kind of say, if there's something that doesn't keep me playing this game, it's just being on Switch Two. Yeah. Which I just like, I find rare occasion to power this sunbitch on. And I like also like, this is the kind of thing where I'm like, wouldn't I rather just be playing Stardew Valley on my PC? You know what I mean? If I'm looking for some sort of casual social sim game, wouldn't I rather just kind of be doing that? Cause it's kind of like PC game energy. You know what I mean? Yeah. And to that point though too, the game, as far as I can tell, has like a lot less going on than something like a Stardew Valley. Right, right. A Stardew you can really sink your teeth into. This, I'm just like, how can I make myself laugh in this second? Then I guess maybe I should just say like the Sims with mods or something. Sure, sure, sure. You know what I mean? Like it's a similar sort of like, semi-passive experience. You are making decisions, but the characters are, have their own lives, their own agency. That's been anything. Honestly, the game is like cute and fun. It's got funny stuff that happens in it. And some of that can be a result of your actions, but some of that is just like organically sort of happens. And I love those moments in games. So it's a really impressive design. I'm, I'm, as I already mentioned, the customizability of the me creator, but then also just like how many different options there are in terms of like, you know, any situation where you can pick a word. Yes. Like you have so many options. And then also a lot of times you can add your own as you were saying. And then personality attributes, things like that. It's not just like shy, happy, sad, withdrawn. Like it's not, it's not just like, it's like there's a whole bunch of options, a raft of options that you can make people really feel distinct from each other. You didn't make yourself. So you don't have an answer for this. But when I made myself, I like picked what I thought, because you get like a personality like chart and there's two ends of each spectrum. And so I tried to answer as honestly as I could like what I thought where I slotted in. In my result, outgoing charmer. I'd say that, that's you. Hey, I'll take it. Ranch, I just call Matt an outgoing charmer. 100%. To me. You're always out there chopping it up. Big smile on your face. I mean, it's interesting that kind of you both to say wasn't fishing for it, but I find myself sometimes, maybe as I get older, going in too. Where I'm just like, I don't have it today. I don't got it. I'm not trying to chop it up. I'm trying to chop it down. Trying to go home. No, I know that feeling. Sometimes you're just like, I'll talk an Uber driver's ear off. And then there are other times I'd be like, wish I was in a Waymo right now. So I just had my thoughts to myself. But it was funny to see. And so far, my island is full of other little psychos just like me. But it'll be interesting to make. I wonder if I should make an enemy. Like somebody I don't like and put them on the island and make it so that nobody's friends with them. But you can also add little lingo things. When you become friends, you can add a nickname that these two means will call each other. And so for me and my wife, I put what we call each other, which I won't say. Not that it's bad, but it's just private for me. Sometimes things are just for me. But I know it, I'm just gonna lie. Yeah, I know it and it's good. Yeah, and before anybody guesses, it's not fuckbot. That's not what my wife calls me. But you put that stuff in and then you see those characters calling each other that. And it's like, I don't know, it's sweet too. Like it is like a nice little cozy little thing. And I was not ever gonna play it until the listener made us. And I was like, I gotta check this thing out. It seems awesome. I'm glad we covered it. I'm glad I spent some time with it. And I'm interested in messing around with it some more. Before we wrap this up, I just wanna say, I just wanna throw in some details that Heather gave us about her island. I'm reading Heather's text. I named my island CIA Island and had the means referred to me as director of projects. Here's a quote, oh, I can totally see that. You speaking of the podium after overthrowing governments to victory. Impressive. A lot of this I think comes from that, the stroke set that was just showing at Coachella that was just projecting all the CIA assassinations and clues over the years. Link sounded really interested in overthrowing governments when we talked. There's actually, Link is in there. It's talking to whoever this is. Their favorite celebrity is Alan W. Dulles, who was director of the CIA from 1953 to 1961. Head of the Warren Commission investigating the death of JFK. My plan is to see if I can get them to plan a coup or 9-11. So there is something for everybody in this game. You can kind of just do whatever. And I'm just really looking forward to keep playing and see what else unfolds. Who else, what other little silly little interactions I can crack with my twisted little mind. You look fucking jigsaw. I'm like jigsaw, you know what? Maybe I'll make jigsaw. Can you make a, that would be, it feels like a fun game if you could make your own jigsaws. You could make your own saws. Like jigsaw was in it, but then you could make saws. Like make little like saw scenarios for them? Yeah, I'm like, I'm putting three guys in here and I'm gonna put a chain around each of their dicks. And they got it either. They gotta pull off one of their dicks because the key is inside of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The locks will break if they get hard. So they have to either jack each other off or cut their dicks off. I was like, I guess we'll just do the first one. Cause we're gonna get hard. Ha ha ha ha. Guys, I got a segment. And the segment is, oh no. What's going on? What's the issue? You seem, you seem like something's awry. We're gonna do the segment. I'm gonna find what I'm looking for. I forgot to dig up a file for this. Cause I can't remember if we did this segment pre or in the ranch era. Okay. And you can leave all this in. The segment is called, what's their age again? I sang a song, I have the file somewhere. I'll see what I can do. You'll find the file, you'll sing the song and then it will come right here. I had sang it already. I wasn't gonna try to sing it again. Oh, you were already saying it. I was too embarrassed to sing it. Okay, sorry, sorry. But the song's, it's a parody. And we don't really do stuff like that. No, we don't really do stuff like that. It's a parody of what's my age again like Blink 182, but it's specifically about this game, this segment, what's their age again? I remember correctly, it was in the episode we did about Super Mario RPG with Django Gold. That's the debut of it. And I did it on Zoom to a stranger. I can't remember if ranch was here for that or not. That does not ring a bell. I don't think so. I think that predates to Rachelle. I'll have to find the file. My life's ruined. But we're. It's a good song. But maybe, so here's what's gonna happen. You're either gonna hear the song or I didn't do it. And then ranch in post, if I don't find the song, you can put booing in right now. You ever think about if you were in a saw how you do? Cause I like some, a lot of movies I'd be like, okay, I'd be dead immediately. But when the saw is like, fuck, I crush a saw. Well, the punishments are often not actually escapable. They are like cut your own fucking leg off. Yeah, but I mean, like, I'll fine. I'll cut my own fucking leg off. But they usually bleed out and die. And they're not like, okay, I did it. Now you're free. I would do myself a tourniquet. I was in Boy Scouts. Oh, okay, okay. Kind of a circulation. I was like, I'm losing this leg anyway. I'm not gonna bleed out too. Not to reference another podcast. This is very producer benefit. No, this is what, this is the thing I'm most producer benefit about is when a saw is I'm like, I can do this. Which by the way, I watched a simple plan over the weekend. Cause I went and saw the new Bob Odenkirk movie, Normal at the Vista, took my family to the Vista. It was their first time there. We all had a blast. There was a Q and A with Bob. Everybody was happy. Everybody was like, this was a great LA day. We love it. And I was like, I felt like a million bucks. They showed a preview for, you know, they show old previews there at this movie theater. They show the trailer for a simple plan. All four of us sort of all look over at each other. It goes, that looks fucking good. That looks awesome. Sam Raimi film with simple plan. It's great. It's really good. So that night, Isabel and I put it on and we're just losing our shit. We're like, this movie's fucking awesome. It's really good. It's really, really good. And then that night, I listened to the blank check episode where they talk about it with Kevin Smith. And it's, I think, look, you wanna listen to a good podcast. That's a great episode of a podcast. Go check it out. Kevin's got approximately 1000 stories and they're all great, but it is the origin of Ben thinking he can get out of any, like, or he can get out of it. He would do that situation well. Cause like if this happened to me, I would do it right is basically what he says. And it's very, very funny. It's a good bit. But if you also haven't seen that movie, it's fucking incredible. It's really good. It's so, so good. It's basically like found money gone wrong. Yes. And it's just, it develops in every, is the most satisfying possible way. And all time, Paxton performance and an all time Billy Bob performance too. Everybody's just fucking great in it. Anyway. Now it's time to say the age to me. Are they 19? Are they 23? Is it Canon? Is it just a thought? Then match your research probably not. Can our contestants guess their age? What's their age again? What's their age again? What's their age again? I'm going to name some guys, some video game characters. And you're going to rant you can play this too. Cause I designed the game with you in mind. Cause you would, these, I picked characters you would know. Wow. And you have to tell me how old you think they are. And whoever gets closest, not prices, right rules. We'll get a point. Got it. How old is Leon S. Kennedy in, I don't actually, now that I'm thinking about it, I don't think you play this one ranch, but I think you can still get this. How old is Leon S. Kennedy in Resident Evil 4? How old is he? I'm going to say 37 years old. You're going to say 37 years old ranch. What about you? I have played this. Okay. Yes. You have. I'm going to say 33. Ranch is closest. Wow. He's just a young pup. He's 27 in Resident Evil 4. He's that young? Yeah. Cause I'd read some, cause he's in Resident Evil Requiem. Yes. And he's 51. So that was the kind of, I was trying to do the math backwards from that. Yeah. But I guess, yeah, that points to ranch. He's 51 in Resident Evil 9, which also takes place in the future a little bit. Oh, okay. So it's not contemporary, but like. I was off either way. You're off. Ranch gets the point. Wow. How old is James Sunderland from Silent Hill 2? And for the sake of the game, we're talking, we are talking about, we're going to talk about the original. I went to old last time. We're talking about Silent Hill 2, the original, like not the remake. Not the remake. Got it. It's true for both, but we're talking about that. I went to old last time. I'm going to err on too young this time. I'm going to say 24. Okay. I'm going to say 35. Nick's going to take this one. Wow. He's 29. He did all that. He's 29 and he did all that. Yeah, right. What the hell? He's crazy. So it's a tie game. Could be anyone's game at this point. How old is Alan Wake in Alan Wake 2? These are all kind of the same kind of guy. Yeah, right. There's the same kind of guy, the same sort of survival horror sort of genre. Hmm. Boy, it's a good question. He reads, I'm just going to go with my gut. He reads as 40. I don't think he's going to be that old because it's a video game. So I'm going to say he's 34. I'm going to say 37. Ranch is going to take this one. He's about 48 or 49 years old. Oh, so they age him appropriately. They age him appropriately. Yeah, because in the first one, he's in his 30s. And then after the time gap, or between one and two, and for how long he's in the realm that he's in or whatever, he's 48 or 49, it's said online. He definitely reads as a middle-aged guy. So there you go. Yeah. Hey, how about that? We represent all ages in video games. That's fun. And hey, you know what? He looks pretty good. Looks great. He's got cool hair, cool beard. We're wearing cool clothes. His personality's bad. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. All those shadows going, wake. Wake. Or just horny. He's looking good. Yeah, they're like shouting and they're like, oh man, wake. They're the cat calling him. Yeah. How old is Ada Wong in Resident Evil 4? Ooh boy. How old is Ada Wong? You weren't here when we did the Segment Dreamcast where we cast Gemma Chan as Ada Wong. I think we all got a little crazy for a second. We're all sort of banging our heads with mallets. I think it's possible Ada Wong, hottest character. Very, very, a very, very fetching video game character. Definitely up there with Amy Rose from Sonic the Hedgehog. And Pregnant Sonic. Pregnant Sonic. I'm going to say 23. You're going to say 23. Ranch, what about you? She was reading older in their dynamic, so I want to say 30. I think I got to give Ranch two points for getting it right on the top. Right on the dot. Wow, well done. Ranch is two points. So that means you have four points. Nick has one. Wow. Wow. I didn't have to give her more points. No, I think it's fun. If you get it on the dot, that's a new rule. I'm not going to do it. Never mind. How old is Claire Redfield in Resident Evil 2? Who, boy? 31. Nick says 31. 25. Ranch is going to take it. 19. She's 19 years old. At the time of the game in game, it's 1998. They somehow have it that she was born in 1979. Wow. She's 19 years old. Wow. How about that? We love it. And finally, Ranch is the winner, but here's the last one. Yeah, fine. Ranch won. How old? By a lot. Mary Kate and Ashley, and Mary Kate and Ashley, sweet 16 license to drive. Boy, I'm going to guess 16. Okay. Interesting. Ranch? 16. 15. The answer is 16. I go out the door with two points. I'll take it. Well done, Ranch. That says we get played. Our producers are for shout-out to Ranch, twitch.tv slash yard underscore underscore Sard. What are you streaming these days? Still on Resident Evil Requiem. Wow. We're on the spider part. Okay. No, I'm not touching it. Yeah. Yeah. My friend Joanna is going to come in and do it for me. Okay, great. I was speaking to Joanna. Plug your podcast. Oh, we can listen to the Defiles podcast, wherever you get your podcast, we talk about ghosts. A lot of fun. The music is by Ben Prunty. Ben PruntyMusic.com. Our artist by Duck Brigade Design, duck brigade.com, kinshipgoods.com for merch, and a bonus episode every Wednesday on our Patreon. Get played DLC. Matt, what are we doing this week? This week, we're doing another retro rewind. Heather will be back. Nick, you will not be there for this, but it is, we watched an actually insane video. It's a Sega Dreamcast summer internal video. So it's from the summer of 1999. Wow. It's an internal video from Sega that then was released online for some reason. And we had a time watching it. It is, it is crazy. I bumped a mist down on that one. I'll watch the video. I'll send you the video. Patreon.com slash get played. Who got played this week? I guess a bunch of me's. 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