CSB361: MILF Claire Redfield Is a Franchise Extinction Event

! Yo-Yo! Hey, Woolly. Yeah, as you can probably see I'm holding in my arms a significantly deformed Chinese canine and I would ask you if you could answer me a simple question. Is this an Xbox? That is in fact an Xbox. That is are you an Xbox caboose? That is you that can be defined as an Xbox. Is an Xbox. And and he is AI powered. Oh my god. So he is more Xbox than ever before. I'll tell you what I don't think that dog is powered by intelligence artificial or otherwise. Oh boy. Saddest ending. Xbox. Damn. That shit's over. Mega 64 undefeated. Undefeated. Yeah. Okay. Well, I guess the the the writing on the wall for you know Microsoft struggles with Xbox has been there and Phil Spencer stepping down this week was not something that surprised many people. No because he has done a really bad job. But the thought was that Sarah Bond who was the Xbox president was going to step in to fill the shoes up and coming right. She's got she's got ideas like this is an Xbox and this too is an Xbox. Found that out yesterday that this is an Xbox ad campaign. That was her. Sarah Bond's baby. That was her. Pushed. Pushed obsessively against all internal criticism and widespread internal hatred. Yes. Of the messaging. People people at the Microsoft at the people down at the tribe were not happy with the messaging of this too is an Xbox. I think it's not described as catastrophically brand damaging. Because the idea is of your just it's just all you're trying to do is push mobile. Right. You're just trying to push mobile. But in the process you're making it so that the hardware is is meaningless and does need to exist. And all the people working on the hardware are doing so ultimately for no reason. Did you read the whole article I sent you. I did. I did. I did. And the other stuff going on. Detail about that is like this is an Xbox is that that's supposed to push like the phone Xbox store experience. That doesn't exist. That did not exist. It was early. They pushed the the the marketing early for a product that was not rolled out yet. So listen this is like we it's been we've been watching this happen with with Microsoft and it's been insanely flying off the rails for a long time now. Not just because of the the future but also just everything with Xbox related. And it is really becoming clearer clearly more and more of a situation with video games in general as the whole as the waters are getting muddy to cross the board as they do with any tech industry. Right. The closer you are to putting out a thing that plays the video game the more likely you are to just take the generation and exist and win by just just be the thing that plays the game. And that's that's it. Just fucking just land there. And I think it'll be OK while everybody else tries to fucking do cartwheels and do tricks on it. I remember back in like 2000 and 12 or 2013. Matt and I did a little like podcast for like a newspaper. I think it was. And I described the video game industry as an industry of failure and that every company in the games business is constantly making catastrophic failures. And the only thing you have to do is not have a failure that sinks your company and you get to have all the money for like a four or five year period. Don't trip over your deck. Yep. I can't believe that like we just watched that happen like 15 times in a row over a 20 year period. Yeah. Genuinely unbelievable. Well because the thing is you're also in an industry and you're when you're at that you're in a C suite of an industry where like the bullets that are whizzing by are people that are trying to rush to be like I'm I've got the future. I know how I can steer the ship and I have a random ass direction that nobody asked for that I think we're going to pivot into because up and coming tech startups always kind of have this disruptive quality about them. So if every generation of console can be disruptive in some way then we can get all the money. You know. So like there's this massive long term thing of like you'd see these C suite people be like think about the disruption that TV did to radio and you know kill the radio start internet did to television. Right. And you're like yeah that was absolutely like massive economic like inversions of existing paradigms. Right. You know the car versus the the horse drawn carriage. Right. The problem with that is that ever since the iPhone and the iPhone was like the last the smartphone was like the last big thing like wow wow wow wow literally every single year there is something that is coming out to be the disrupting I'm the new big thing. And it's like broke between the internet and the television was like 60 fucking years gap and between the advent of the popular use of the of the internet and the iPhone decade minimum I think was maybe 15 years before the smartphone became totally ubiquitous. Right. Everybody's trying to get the new next big thing out every year and they're always not the next big thing. And they everybody needs to be the first there. And I need to be first so I can own the monopoly like that phone. Yes. I don't say smartphone. Absolutely. Have an iPhone and I said iPhone. Yep. Instead of smartphone first. Yep. But not only do you have to be first. Right. You have to be proprietary. And if possible you have to corner the market in such a way where like it's way harder to like make the new thing that doesn't exist and solve the problem that people didn't know they were they were having to solve the problem. People don't know they have. Right. And so you have to you have to put walls up and make things more annoying by forcing people to do things in a way that is like well you're offering the service to the problem that you actually created. Right. Cutting pieces, things into pieces, restricting it in different ways etc. As opposed to any one of those things that comes along and is like oh yeah this is just an analog replacement for that. You know it is so Xbox to finish the story because we like. Yeah we get distracted. What ended up happening was so Sarah Bond who people thought was going to step into replace Phil Spencer steps down as well. And basically left there they left their their notes saying that the it seems that the direction things are going in is like terminal for Xbox more or less. And what Microsoft did was they have the new head of Xbox is Asha Sharma who is an AI executive from Microsoft. So in and in her sort of opening terms. Work over at Metta. We're don't like we believe in creators and not just putting out AI slop. So she used the words AI slop. You know. But you have all that. But like you know the department you're pulling the person from. So that says everything you need to know of course. And then there's the part of it where like messaging wise. This always happens with how messy it is. But it's like Sarah Bond's like letter or thing went up like hours after putting up promotional material. Like there's a whole thing where it seemed like this was supposed to happen slowly and then in the course of 24 hours. It exploded and then I Jain got the story early. So they just panicked and did all that shit on Friday. But then there were still like automated posts coming out that Friday. It was fucking messy. So so all this to say if you're just cutting through the the CEO speak in bullshit and just getting to the bottom the brass tacks of it. It seems like Xbox is just going to pivot into some sort of extreme AI based brand. Whether that comes down to some sort of full. Like because I don't know. I don't know what you do with the existing services to incorporate it. But you have to do something to make the shareholders happy. And I I know that trying to have a game that is generated that people can play that just get formed out of absolutely nothing is currently being tested. We know that's a good thing. That shit is so fucking far away. It's like. But if you can convince people to pay money for it now that it's not far away. Is it that I follow this AI stuff and someone regularly and the baby in fact walked up to our babysitter and said. Mommy talk about the ghoul and dad talk about AI. Which is like all right. You don't have to read us to filth like that. That's that's that is your brutal that's soul core. Yeah. But one of the things that's been kicking around for a little bit is that. The transistor and microchip limit and energy draw requirements to hit the goals that AI requires for some of the generation that you're describing for like say a full blown video game. Probably exceed the total energy output of like the sun. Like like it's it's just like engineers. Not not computer engineers. Yeah. Engineers are like just looking at like the computational like like heat transfer math and they're like there's no way you could ever build this. But on earth. But Pat can I get your money out of your pocket. No before. OK maybe not you. But but but if I can get the money out of someone's pocket before the problem you described hits them in the face. OK what if instead of getting money out of their pocket you get the confidence in increased valuation out of the magic space that the stock market uses to create fake money. Bitch I'm pulling rugs. What don't you understand here. We are a rug pulling corporation and the latest rug is this entire fucking industry and we are pulling it and we are running. OK. If we can cash the fuck out before anyone has to pay the consequences that's like connected to what I'm doing here then we get the money in bounce. It's we've been doing this in crypto. We're going to do it here too. Right. I have been doing some refresher courses this morning on the history of Xbox and I got to tell you there's a lot of large scale companies in the games business that have made like cataclysmic errors. Right. I think that we you from like its core concept of this this core concept of look up look down look up look down being like physically unpleasant actually has like memories of the virtual boy of like this isn't a thing people actually want to physically do. Right. I think of VR headsets making you sick. I think of the cell engine. Right. And the over importance of the Blu-ray player yada yada right. I think Sony maybe not spending as much as they could have in network security at any point in the fucking consoles lifecycle. Right. These are big mistakes. But Xbox management has been absolutely astonishingly terrible from day one of that entire thing at almost every turning point that Xbox as a brand slash company could have made at any point that would have like really like done a big service to turn that ship around was the wrong move. But because the 360 era existed and they were the default in that era it feels fucking weird because instead of having this continuous failure there was a moment where they had it. This is a shining beacon. And then dropped it immediately after and never picked it back up. So there's a right good Sony misstep and there was a moment where they legitimately had it. So someone in the chat said the 360 feels. Oh, where is it? I just saw it. Well, it's gone. Anyway, the 360 feels like a miracle in hindsight. Like you were saying like, oh my God, how they how they bang it out. But I think the important thing to look back at that is that the 360 era with we in PS3 was a fake miracle. It was a sham. And that is the beginning. That is the second major failure of Xbox because they knew that those ROD had a 100% rate. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They knew that it was going to happen and it was going to cost them crazy dollars to fix. But were they on the map by the time that problem happened? Were they making money and were they in your house by the time that problem happened on the map and they were in your house and they said, you know what? We that was that was like a calculated plan where they're like, these things are going to fail. But if they do well, we can cash out and they spend a billion dollars fixing people's red ranks, but we'll still be in the house. You're there and people will have their so we'll take the hit. And that was a cataclysmic mistake. They should have delayed a year and had the fucking thing not die. But it was at least on purpose, right? Like that was a thing they did knowing them denying console exclusivity for Grand Theft Auto and Resident Evil 4 at the very, very beginning of the Xbox Lifecycle that could have. We would be wearing Xbox shirts right now. It would be a different world. Of course. It would be a different world. It's the FF7 on Nintendo moment. Yeah, always. What I will say, what I will say is like a lasting legacy is the shape of their controller persists and has become a norm. Right. The PlayStation controller has been around for a long time now that's in there. But like the Xbox controller is still something that people fuck with and use as a thing you're connecting to your computer. It's and every time you're seeing other controllers, whether it be a Nintendo Switch Pro controller or other consoles coming out, they're basing it on that shape now, you know. But before I forget, Genshin Impact, every Hoiou game would have changed the course of every freemium title in the world if it had been on Xbox. You've got. So we had Bomber and Peter Moore, Bomber, who had a fucking team so intellectually bankrupt, they couldn't come up with a better name than the direct Xbox. Yeah. And OK. And then they were afraid to put to have a number that was inferior to the PlayStation three. So they had to put they had to put three 60 instead of Xbox two. Yeah. Moore oversaw the creation and management of the Kinect, which was just a complete boondoggle. Then we moved to Mattrick, which almost killed the whole fucking endeavor with the online DRM fucking nonsense. Moving over to Spencer and and oh, I forget her name. She we just talked about it was. Otherly, she just left bond bond. Spencer and Bond were like, you know what we should do? We should tell people. Oh, Kinect was Mattrick. Oh, cool. We should tell you to buy an Xbox and then put all of our games on other platforms. And that will break it. Oh, yeah. You like like from you don't own the game you bought and you the disk means nothing to the console doesn't own the game that you want. And like I said this before, but it feels a little bit. There's moments where it felt like, hey, guys, hey, Sony Nintendo, come on, why don't we do this whole altogether thing? Come on, where I'm going to move. I'm going to start walking this way. Who's coming with me? Anyone? Come on. And it worked. Cross play is a thing. Cross play, sure. But beyond that idea, the thought that Xbox can become any console. And hopefully if the competitors agree, then PlayStation and Nintendo's can be anything as well, and together we will all just become PCs. I think it's so this is a position from the guy who shops up to the key party with no wife. I'll still put my keys in. And then I get the fuck out of here. Yeah, look, I just I guess the idea here is whatever direction serves whatever ship steering we see from this, even if they there's the direct quote says no, I slop even if it says this is that whatever. It's like, no, no, no, the person you put there has a background coming from the thing that is in the process of forcing everyone at Microsoft to use AI constantly, the thing that's firing the most people. Like you can't just bark a couple of words out in a public statement and then pretend that like your resume doesn't say what it does. So I just I'm just like fixated on like the idea of like walking up to a Nintendo executive and like, how about Mario on Xbox and like just seeing like your mouth. She's ghost just materialized. So. Like Nintendo has actually been incredibly like a fucking Ghostbusters. Even bankrupt. Yes, put Nintendo games on from years from years ago. Yeah, I can see a world where you go to the store and you buy an Xbox and what you're buying is a controller that are you frozen? You might be frozen. Oh, boy. Well, am I frozen? There we are again. Thank you. Thanks, Peter Teal. We appreciate it. Hold on a moment as we try to find our Pat. Thank you, Palantir. Thank you, persona. Big fan of what you got going on over there. Uh-huh. Let's see. We're still struggling to connect over here. Not sure what's going on. Going to take a second. Yeah. Yeah, persona. Taken over. Not the persona you like, everybody. Apparently, new Twitch partners are also being forced to use it. So that's a good time. Good stuff. Hey. Peter. Peter, are you? Are you disrupting the call? That's not cool, Pete. Come on. Hmm. Hmm. Okay. Looks like we're having more than just a regular issue here. So one second. I'm going to be right back and we'll try to fix what's going on. God damn it, Pete. There we are. Thanks, Peter. Yeah. God damn Peter. You talk shit about him and he immediately appeared. Oh yeah. Oh no, he's there. I can't see you. Well, that's not good at all. I'm just looking at me now. Well, I see you. How come I can't see you? I don't know. You're just a logo. Well, that doesn't seem right. Uh. You're just talking logo now. Okay. Let me see what I can do. I mean, actually being backlit by the orange. You are being backlit by the orange. That is odd. Okay. Well, what's going on here? I love the internet. Oh, there you are. There. Okay. I see what happens. Yes. Okay. I think the call, I think your call was audio call and then you had your video and then it turned my video off. All right. There we are. Okay. I'm going to go ahead. All right. So, yes, Peter teal will be in the tubes, disrupting us from here on out. I don't like that. His persona is truly the bane of our calls from here on out. However, I was in the middle of saying, I can see a future where you just go out and buy a controller that connects to game pass. Right. It's like you have an Xbox controller and it has a subscription to game pass on it. And that is where your money is going and just cut out every step in between because the earth you're standing on is already an Xbox. Oh, is that true? Yeah. Well, don't call it stadia. It's Xbox. And what a what a stupid fucking what a bunch of stupid morons. What a bunch of idiots. Everyone in the sea is a bunch of dumb idiots. What what a predictable way for things to go. It's it's just yes time marches forward. Why is it that anyone not in the C suite can be like, Wow, that's a really bad idea. You guys seem like you're fucking cooked if you keep doing this. And we get to go through like three years of Na Man. Na Man, it's working. And then a bunch of dick writers coming out like freshly, freshly dicked up. Oh, Na Man, just just believe believe in the tribe. As I said earlier, doing tricks on it. Crazy, crazy style. Building up fucking Tony Hawk special meter going with the type of tricks that you're doing on it. I would kill to to get feelers the way I used to back in the day where you could kind of see what projects are going on internally at different studios and like you can see. OK, what's your lead platform? How are you treating your ports? Are you even talking about Xbox? What are you talking about with that? Is it coming later? What? How is when you're planning a project right now, how are you treating the Xbox version of that? It says a lot about that, but I can tell you that somebody who works at Microsoft hit me up in my DMs last Friday and was just like, I don't know what the fuck is going on. I don't know who is staying. I don't know who is fired. I don't know if I kept my boss. I mean, they're still there and that's kind of impressive. Yeah, they are. They're also that rant was being watched over by a floating little drone that was scanning them. Yeah, that's that is that is some fucking writing on the wall. That is a that is a doomed switch up. Not the real news for Xbox fans is get ready for Sony to go back to being completely insane with no challenge with with no real competition with no competition. And the power of Kuduragi rises once again. If I worked in the Sony C suite and I was foreseeing the public and gaming podcast and all this just spending weeks just shitting all over me for closing down blue point without ever having released a single game. I would be kissing my little Xbox shrine for managing to drown that out completely without badly they're running their fucking show. Oh, my God, there's always there's always another hand and as much as you could just be like, OK, Sony, you can sit there and do your thing. No, no, because the story is is the there's always an update. And of course, upon hearing about Blue Point getting closed, I was like, wait, what? And inside you're like, we don't it's not it's it's you know, you didn't know for sure, but you know for sure that Blue Point shutting down means the end of Bloodborne remake possibility. Right. Like that is just that's just what that spells out. Well, the end of that was actually what was his name? Ryan Jim Ryan. Was that him? Yeah, it was Jim Ryan saying we need 14 live service games. Hey, I'm well aware that you guys do nothing but high end remakes of beloved classics. You guys are going to be making a God of War live service game. Just kidding. You're actually making the game called resume filler. And I just like I asked the question to, you know, my stream the other day, but it's just like how many examples of of like single player triple A platform IP spun off into multiplayer exclusive thing have fucking took taken off and succeeded in any way shape or form. Right. Great question. Because it it feels like that particular pipeline is off a cliff 100% of the time. Is is. Is that the fucking the Nosgoth energy every single time the Chinatown Wars energy every single time. You know, is there even one? It's crazy. So now, yeah, what happened is is is, you know, Blue Point who made the great shadow of the Colossus remake and the excellent Demon Souls remake, you know, and there were just everyone was like if anyone would would take on Bloodborne at six feet FPS for PS five or PS six, whatever you you're going to do, that'd be the team to do it and go fuck yourself. Nope, shut them down because of God of War live that nobody asked for. And this also like hand in hand with that was a the dude who was working on the fan made Bloodborne remake project. Yeah, said that he got a cease and desist after talking about it. He got a cease and desist from Sony in November 2024. And he thought, oh, that might mean they're actually doing something. Stop talking about Bloodborne. Yes. And you know, this and this is it's separate entirely from Bunlith with Bloodborne PSX, mind you. But and then he's then he stopped working on it and started turning it into his own project. And then the thought was like, yeah, maybe they're actually getting Blue Point to do something and like the just the most wasted fucking potential. And now, right, just to have because you got every shot needs its chaser. You get the post at from PlayStation Germany going, hey, guys, what games would you love to see remade on PlayStation? Oh, man, you gotta be. Yeah, you know what I can't believe that out of all these things to get canceled and all these fucking things that horizon multiplayer game somehow made it through the fucking layoff circus and is actually going to come out. Well, it's what the fuck is it even called hunters gathering horizon mobile dawn. Like, yeah, the phone thing. It's like somebody premier for premier for phones, you know, who thinks horizon is actually pretty cool. That game looks bad. OK, but you know, here's what I'll say about about phone game shit, though. Did you see the the thing overwatch rush? I didn't know that. So overwatch rush just got announced, which is a overwatch mobile thing. And they actually did the smart thing, which is not try to run overwatch on a phone, but they zoomed out to basically here's the storm angle, like mobile angle. And then you're playing overwatch for before from that angle. And like, yeah, OK, that's a smarter way to do it. And they have one of those horrible little videos where they have people going, all right, great shield. Yeah. Oh, no, here he comes and doing the shitty stupid fucking gamer gamer trailer voice acting or whatever. You know, that's always been unrealistic. But talking to like anti social Gen Z multiplayer phone gamers and expecting them to talk to each other is just like. No, man. I mean, they're not going to do it. Like, sure, you could you could open up the chat or you could just get my conf on fucking voice and just have that start playing through your ear. And you can get that you can get you can get that that that experience there, too, if you'd like, you know, in either case. That is. Yeah, I think that you. I gotta be honest. I don't know why that completely stun locked me. Yeah, for word loading up into a audio book, my audio book, mine, camp in your ear. Audio book version of mine, comp is just like all I could think of is like, man, really going for it. Yeah, this isn't this isn't that weak shit with the slurs. Like, if you're if you're gonna if you're gonna create the online gaming experience, then let's just start at the at the basics and build from there, you know, that's crazy. That's I just saw something dire in the chat and I there's no I'm gonna have to I'm gonna double check it League of Legends voice chat. Oh, yeah. League of Legends is apparently getting voice chat now. So like I said, I'm sure if you jumped on audible, if you just queued up the audio book, you'd probably get, I don't know, maybe seven or eight hours worth. Maybe you can listen to it in German with angry intonation, you know, and just just right in just right through the ears and then yeah, we could just we could just cut right to the source on it, you know. That's pretty incredible. After all this time, after all this time, now you decide, now you decide. Cancer decides to add AIDS DLC. Interesting. Well, anyway, so League has had voice chat, but you had to pre pre made group. Now, sure. Now. Open, open. Yeah, open. I bet I bet whoever was behind this was looking at fucking tech top compilations of valorant lobbies where everyone's an e-girl and an e-boy and going I bet League of Legends would sound like that if we turned on the voice chat. And they're wrong. You know, if you'd like a preview of what the Xbox marketplace might look like in a short period of time, you can go check out the games fest, the next fest lineup and scroll down to see how many Gen A I thumb title game thumbnails you see for indie games popping up there. It's a fair amount. And a bunch of them are labeled as a containing AI content, but a bunch of them are not because they know, you know. So I have a faster thing instead of doing that. If you want to get a good look at what's coming to the Xbox store marketplace, I'm going to need you to squat down and hold your hand underneath your asshole and push. Then I'm going to need you to stand up. Look at your hand. I don't want to. No, I don't want to. I had enough of that actually for for for a bit there. Here. Here. How was how was my week? Well, sort of an off of our opening source to Salvo story there. We had our first midstream crisis. We did. Oh, you did. I did. Oh my goodness. Midstream. There was a there was a cry for help and I went straight up. There was a got to go see what's going on. So we stopped and we went down to go see. And so, you know, like every moment that a baby is without a diaper is like a nuclear reactor uncovered. Right. You want to have it contained. You want to control rods in place. It needs to stay cool because the moment that shit is open to the air. We're all suffering for it. Permanent damage. Our lives are shortening. So you're playing we're playing fast and loose with with your life. You're playing risky. And this means, of course, that, you know, bath time is just one big risky exercise. And boy, have we been lucky until this point. So, so diaper Chernobyl has occurred. It's so it is luck, but you can mitigate that luck. Right. And the way that we have mitigated that luck timing simply is to mitigate that. To move our daily schedule for bath time around this. You know, it's a really, you know, what's the safest time right now? Because it was an unsafe time five minutes ago. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Well, we had a version of that that worked. This is we had a schedule that worked where it's because it's a two person operation. Between the keeping keeping her warm and doing the full transfer. But recently as sleep times have been changing and moving back earlier and earlier and it's like, oh shit, like the windows where I would be there are getting closed, closed off. Hey, you're you're turning into a different Pokemon. Oh, we got to read engineer the entire thing. God have fucking rebuilt it. And so right now that meant that a solo bath had to occur. And yeah, just we're hitting we're hitting we're hitting those those fun ones rolling the dice on that and it's it's not coming up. It's not coming up millhouse. Well, on the plus side, as long as you're in a bathtub, there's only so much that can go wrong. Yes. Yes. You it is mitigated by the baby tub and the whole process of course of like, I'll accept almost anything happening in this. Yes. Yes. However, however, it is just like there is a time limit that is going down because temperature is dropping and like naked baby is starting to get a little bit colder. And so you have to keep warm. But you have to also manage the the contamination and you have to decide how to and oh, you know, yeah, so eggs in the microwave. You leave it in too long and they explode. Sure, man, but I'm just it's just, you know, shout outs to to punch bomb for for, you know, being able to handle that. I ran in and let the loan the assistant and took care of us what I could in the in the initial emergency process. But we got to be prepared for these situations where yeah, we're ready for blowouts, but a blowout in the water is adds vectors to the situation that are up. Pleasant. What I can say is cool. However, is I, you know, I'm as she's getting older, we're looking at, you know, some of the milestones and things that are that are coming and going and changing. And some of that behavior certainly evolves like locking in hard on primary care caregiver mama, you know, and you're in that phase. Oh, it's it's it's here. That was that was I'm going to tell you, Willie, that was by far the hardest part. Yes, it is easy. For you. Yeah. Like like for mom, it's like, I mean, there's a lot of labor, but like also it's like, I'm, I'm this person's only person in the world. That's feel, that feels pretty good. But like for for you, yeah, this is definitely the hardest part. And of course, not just the your own like, not just your own situation, but like, you know, when mom needs you to step in and take care of something in a particular moment or whatever. And it's like, this is extra hard because of that. And you're just like, fuck, that's the worst feeling ever. And I've been talking, I've talked to, yeah. And I've talked to people about it. And they've said like, some, sometimes it's months, sometimes it's years. They don't, but like, there's a period of time that goes back and forth and things can change. It all just, you never know what you're going to get with that. Right. We have a friend is two and a half. And last this week, this week was the first time when he woke up from his nap. And I went to get him. He did not say, no, not you. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Right. This week, mom went and got him and he said, no, I want dad dad. Right. So that can be up to like fucking three years. So I've got some, I've got some in-laws that, you know, kind of was hearing about how they were in a situation very similar to what I'm describing. And then when their mother like got pregnant the second time and like while she's dealing with that most of the time, dad has to step in and basically become primary caregiver for the kid that is already there. And over that time they bonded more and then he was like, okay, now you're the person I want around. And now it's like when a boo boo happens and mom's like, oh, do you want me to kiss it to make it better? And he's like, no, only dad. I can kiss the boo boo. You know, so like it's fickle. It can swerve on a dime. We know this, you know, it is clear. Nonetheless, yeah, you've come to this pod and described those moments of just, oh, and they suck. I was going to, I'm going to tell you what was told to me, which is don't take it personal. Of course not. Of course not. However, that's, you know, when people give you good advice and your first thought is that's great advice. So I'm not going to take it. Can we move on to step two of the real advice? Yes, because it's like, don't take it personally. However, I am going to take it personally. What is the next step on this? And the next step on this is it will violently invert at some point for a while, right? Which, and then it then it will be like totally flipped and it can be that one can be for a really long time where they suddenly only want the one that's not around the one that's doing a nine to five. Yeah, the process of pushing boundaries and switching things up as you grow and become more and more aware is that you're going to do things like that, play with preferences, start playing with, yeah, exactly, noses and yeses and rejections. And so, you know, that I could, so I can see that being a thing. I also did like, I did kind of discover a solution of sorts. At least I brute-forced. Tell me of a cardboard cutout of Punch Moms Face that you wear. I don't wear a cardboard cutout of Punch Moms Face, unfortunately. We're not there yet. But what I do have is I got a dad concert that I can put on. And when stimulation needs to occur, when mom's out for a bit or whatever the case is, you know, I would do some songs, mess around, etc. And I realize if I can have like, we can go from playing with the toys and the rattle and all that to having the mirror at the same time while singing songs and you just got so much going on, you don't have time to be like, where's mom? Because you're just like super stimulated and she's yanking on dreads and everything's happening. And then eventually when she starts being like, okay, enough of this, I'm like, oh, we're over here now. And then I'm playing music and I'm singing along to it and we're moving and spinning. Just jingle the fucking keys, man. And I'm not on top. I'm bloating up albums and I'm just going top to bottom and I'm doing them and I'm putting on a dad concert and getting and mixing it up with rhythm and chuckles and tickles and all that. And there's so much stimulation happening that she can't even stop for a second to fret about what's going on. I'm going to tell you, I'm going to give you a pro tip and you probably already know this pro tip when they're in the crawl stage. You know what game they love even when mom's not around? It's a game called, I call Climb On Dad where dad lies down on the fucking floor and pretends to be asleep. Oh yeah. And then they just climb on dad and it's so fun for them and... No, she's, yeah, no, she's climbing the colossus and making her way up top and then holding on and then yanking some of these as hard as possible. And it's like, okay, okay, all right, no to that. Also loves grabbing beard, just loves just... Yeah, Paige had to stop wearing her pearls. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had hand earrings and I trim my beard. Well, there was a time where I had this much shorter than I otherwise could because yeah, no, hey, those tiny little fingies can really pull a follicle, huh? Yep, we are, yeah, we've already adapted, yeah, different chains and necklace things and all that exactly. I have like one that I keep that got a spin around and keep safe, but no, she's grabbing and yanking. The dad concert works, it worked pretty well, going to keep that up. And yeah, just like, just overwhelm the senses, flood the zone with too much stimulation to get upset at until eventually the tiredness kicks in and like, I kind of start turning the volume down a bit and like slowing the dance a little bit. And then you're starting to see the eyes kind of go mmm. And then if you go back to silence too quickly, you're hearing the mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, where's mom? Where's mom? It's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you need to start hearing still something a little bit that you're not used to and then eventually the pass out. I gotta tell you, that is not my experience at all. Every time that child has fallen asleep, it is because we put him to sleep. Like, like, like, if you did not like actively attack his ability to stay awake, he would just never sleep at one even once. Mmm. With a few exceptions in the car. Yeah. Right. Like that doesn't count. And then there have been some days where like you're running around to the park for four hours and then you bring him home and then you go to do the dishes and you come back and he's like fucking full out, full yam chit out on the living room floor. Just like, all right. It is a battle nine times out of 10. Like you can see the natural drifting off happening and then she's going, no, I want to stay awake. Has she done the thing where she pulls her own hair to wake herself up? The hands are going up and all over the place for sure. Yeah, she's not pulling her. She's not pulling to wake herself up. She's not doing that, but she is like just doing this and you know, like flailing and stuff. And it's again, it's it's little Mac about to go down in we punch out and then the foot stomp and get back up, you know, from the like she will like eyes open like like undertaker sit up almost. You know, like, I remember sitting there with my little guy at like 1am and like, man, why won't you go to sleep? And I'm like rocking in super hard. And then I finally got him to sleep and Paige was like, oh, you're going to go to bed. I'm like, no, I want to stay awake and play with my toys. Right. Don't worry. Got it from don't worry. Don't worry. Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I mean the absolute like horror movie moment love, like I said, looking through the, the, the baby monitor and getting your again, undertaker eyes open almost sit up moment. And you're like, and then they go back right back to sleep. You're just like, what the fuck? That's crazy. So I wear, we're in the, so he's a lot easier to put down now. He's a toddler. He spends more energy, but, uh, so our guy likes to sing himself to sleep. Oh, wow. He loves Christmas songs. So you were now in this place of like, we're all hanging out and he's like winding down and then he's like dead quiet for like 10 minutes. And then, you know, you, you, you turn your phone away and you text wife and she's like, and you're like, oh, is he asleep? I think so. And then just top of his lungs, jingle bells, jingle bells. Just screaming it as loud as he can. Singing the whole damn song. That will surely put me to put me down. Yeah. Okay. What happened to counting sheep? All right. Um, is overrated. So that was cool. I, uh, what else? Oh, you know, just saved the fighting games product design problem, you know, solve that. You did? How'd you solve that? Uh, played a game called crushing force. Okay. So I'm going to stop you right here. I, and I need to start. I think we need to start at something that really matters. The phrase crushing force for that game is maybe the most a plus title I have ever heard for anything phenomenal. It like absolutely a plus incredible. Shout out to cat. Cazacat couldn't be a more perfect name. Yep. It is, it is a sick title for exactly what you're getting, which is crushing force. Forces are crushing. No, I, I, uh, I saw, um, they, a comment, uh, describing, uh, the stream as the rent lowering shots in response to Evo Saudi Arabia. Yeah. The timing on that was pretty incredible. Yep. Yep. So, um, you know, in a world where we're reading articles about, uh, the, the FGC's product design problem and, and how to appeal issues. And in a time when we're getting, uh, Evo announcements for tons of new territories, multiple new countries all over the world. Oh, many. All over the world. We're talking about that later. Obviously. All kinds of new evil, et cetera, whatever. Fuck all that bullshit. The solution is right here before you. It's Cazacat's crushing force. It is a fight. It is a fighting game made in E.K. Men. It is pure. It is undistilled. And I had a great time. What's it pure and undistilled of? Uh, it's a, it's a, it's a, uh, fat for, uh, fighting game. Um, it is, it is a fat for fight, fetish fighting game. How fat, how far, uh, maximum there's a stage that is, um, that is a character that you're fighting on top of. And it's excellent. Had a great time. Um, the love put into the craft of every character, the artistry, the fact that like you're just looking at more characters in this game than 2x KO and Tokon. And Tokon announced. Come on. Right off the bat is what, what am I supposed to say? Like they're delivering and committing and doing an excellent job with it. Um, it is, uh, so E.K. Men is a Mugen based engine that, you know, stepped it up. And so you can hear a lot and use a lot and feel a lot of the familiarities to Mugen as you're playing it. And, uh, yeah, mechanically characters have shit going on. There's sauce. There's, there's combos. There's, you know, uh, every character. You got a lot of big, heavy hit boxes and you got a lot of like armor that really stood out to me when I saw it was like, man, the hit boxes in this game go crazy. Cause all the characters are huge, big buttons, big impact, lots of ground bounces, wall bounces. Um, you know, sometimes, uh, uh, damage over time mechanics. You know, um, in the form of flatulence, but you gotta, you gotta be aware of that. You gotta watch out for it and, you know, voice acting. I mean, just, just full commitment. And, uh, yeah, we had a great time running it. And I think that's what fighting game needs right now. You know, um, so I want to encourage everyone to check out crushing force. Um, and, uh, yeah, we're going to be popping that up on the channel. I mean, this week we ran the stream, of course, but, uh, the episode is going to come out very shortly. And, uh, it's just, you know, all this, all the, I'm just, it's all this yapping about fighting games and where we're just, just too much, too much. Enough of that. Enough of that. Fighting games have gotten too respectable. You know, we need to just sit down, get back to your roots, get back to the purity, get back to, to sprites, beautiful artwork. Also, these characters are legitimately like, have to be an Amugen style engine to fit on the screen. And just, and yeah, oh, like the, the Abigail head touching the life bar thing. You've got a giraffe girl whose head is outside the frame, you know, incredible stuff. And, uh, yeah, just get back to pressing buttons, man. You know, don't get, we, we, we're, we're the fuck are we? We're, we're lost. We've lost our identity. We've lost our way. And this, this how old last two weeks have been nothing but just floating above the earth, you know, floating in the, in the ethers, in the head. In the heavens and space and sky. And we need to be brought back down to earth. And what better way to do that than with the force of gravity, with a crushing force. Well, I gotta tell you, I said this on my stream and I'll say it here. Like you may in fact be fighting games as strong a soldier because like I was like playing the exact moment that you were playing this. I was playing the new Zah-um game. Oh, yes. And I was like, not only is Willie not playing this or that, Willie is playing a fat for fighting game, fetish game. About a fetish. That he doesn't even like. Yeah. He loves it because he loves fighting games so much. Yeah, the tech's legit. The tech is legit. Um, the move list is complete. There's a lot of matchups to learn there. Um, what the fuck are we wasting our time on? Like who cares? Like there's good games. We got matchups to learn. Show this to the Saudi royal family now. Oh, MBS could never. MBS obliterated. Obliterated by the mere idea of crushing force. Truly. I, um, yeah, no, it's straight up. I'm like, this is, I gotta find a main, you know? I'm, I'm, there's a couple of them in there. There's the rhino girl that looks really sick. Uh, there's the giraffe girl that looks really sick, but then towards the end, Jiggly was really fun. The bunny girl with the, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She's got the rapid input moves. You know, um, good times, man. Good times. It was, it was, it was really fun. Looking at a bunch of matches and I'm seeing like, well, I believe to be a huge amount of overlap between, um, body types, like genuinely. And then I'm like, then I'm like thinking in this like, because I don't have the trained I to tell the difference between Terry Bogard and Ken Masters of the fat for fighting game characters. Okay. I see. I see. Yeah. No, I don't have the training. Yeah. And, you know, neither do I. I mean, I can take my guesses, but whatever that's, that's neither here nor there, you know, and, uh, and look, you know, full credits like, you know, Reggie along for the ride, like came in, saw what was up and it's like, yeah, let's go. Let's, let's fucking learn it. And, um, you know, I got to say that, uh, some chat was pretty chat was pretty cowardly. Uh, chat was pretty, uh, you know, chat was more cowardly. Oh, Twitch. Definitely Twitch. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. You know, chat is like, is like a different planet. It is a different planet and their energy is kind of chaotic in a way that, that loses the plot sometimes. But, uh, nah, man, you know, people were off in their own world saying whatever the fuck. And I'm like, yeah, I ain't got time for that shit. We got to, we got to fucking lab right now. You know, we got to learn what's going on here. And, um, and that we did. So, uh, it was a good time. And I look forward to it. And again, just nothing but, um, sincerely fucking flowers to Kazakat and, and, and, uh, everyone that worked on that game. Cause the love is there. You know, it's committed 100% to its identity. It knows exactly what it is unapologetically and that's it rules. We also, is Lucario in this game? Uh, I mean, probably in a background, I'm pretty sure I saw a Gardevoir somewhere, you know, and look, if the rent comes next year or next month and it's a little bit cheaper, then that ain't bad either, right? Because we'll get to what's happening with Evo and the rest of this in a minute. Um, I also took a look at, uh, Romeo is a dead man, which I said correctly. That game overscreens fucking wild, isn't it? I haven't seen it yet. I didn't, uh, Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Hold on. Oh no. I did die. What, what do you think? I don't remember it. What was it? Oh, the melting face, the face. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, that's just crazy. Honestly, the, the use of, um, the use of, uh, uh, miniatures is incredible. Like they're committed to that in such an awesome way. I really loved how often I turned that stream on and just, I didn't know what you were playing and I caught it at a moment where I'm like, I don't, I don't know. What the hell he's doing? What is this? What the fuck is this? Because you were having an 8-bit tea party or some shit? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm like just the most unrepresentative moment I could have walked in on. But yet the most pseudo thing, right? Where it's just like, it's all over the place deliberately and you know, and it's very clear. Um, you save budget with style, you know? I, I, I don't, at any point, begrudge it for that. Um, and yeah. I mean, from what it showed off so far with that intro trailer and everything, like you just, all you get is vibes. And then once the, and you're like, maybe the game will give me better context once I'm actually playing it. And no, no, it is raw vibes. Like title screen, Romeo must die. Romeo must die. It's, it is Romeo must, it's just kind of, I, dude, I would play that. Yeah. Title screen is just a J-Wrap with like fish disappearing into voxels in a space tank. Um, and once shit gets up and running, you're like, wow, Suda really likes Rick and Morty. Like, Suda 51 fucking loves Rick and Morty, dude. Um, kind of nuts how much that is on its sleeve. It is unapologetically. Like there's a bunch of it that's like back to the future, but it's mostly Rick and Morty specifically. I thought when people are talking about Romeo as a dead man and it's like, do you think Suda's doing it too much? Um, I don't know. He doesn't know, he doesn't know how to hit and how to do anything but be himself though. Sure, but you, you know what I mean? Like, like his style is based around being wacky and crazy and out there, but I feel like it's always wacky and crazy and out there in kind of the same way. Okay, okay. I know what you mean. And what I'll say is, um, the thing that I want, that I'm, Silver case, Silver case is happening big time all over this game, all over this game. Sorry, I just saw like a text, but I have a, I have a video playing and I'm like, is that Silver case like dialogue boxes? Silver case shit is happening left and right and like people were pointing out. That's a poll characters and dudes and literally there is a titular, the titular Silver case is on a table at one point. Um, the sickest chapter reveals I've seen in video games. I maybe ever, I think my favorite, just this insanely raw, awesome, like, um, uh, Nolan-esque inception horn Blair alongside the untwisting of metal into a kanji form with a flower. It's so fucking cool. Um, but I think with the whole pseudo weirdness thing as you're touching on what you kind of want at the core of that, right? Is gameplay that's really fun, solid and unique each time. And I think so with like Shadows of the Damned, for example, um, that was one where like, you know, wild big boner shit, etc. A trailer gets your attention, you go, what the fuck is happening here? But then I think, um, you don't end up, the gameplay ends up being like more or less normal, right? It's fine. It's more, it ends up being more or less standard in that way. And I kind of think that's where I would point out my critique here with Romeo as a dead man is, um, the combat so far, I've played through like the first chapter. And, um, it's normal action game combat. Um, you know, you got a little, you got a couple, a little bit of variation on a melee swing. You got a light button and a heavy button and you can, you know, light, light, heavy or you can heavy, heavy, heavy or light, light, light. Um, you got a gun that you switch to and, you know, you've got a very just, and then, and then it's really cool when you get the fists out, but you can get a big sword or small sword, etc. And, um, it's not like it's the purpose of the game or his games, but you do want like, you know, if not like a skill tree that kind of opens up into options or something, you do want combat to get a little bit more involved and have more going on with it, right? Um, what I started to get a glimpse of is these, uh, the bastard system where you plant a zombie seed in the ground and then they get raised to be different types of assists. So, so one's one bastard zombie will be a shooter that just stands in the row and turrets. Another one will run and suicide bomb itself at the enemies. Another one will heal you in an area or something. And like you can, you can equip four of them to summon while you're fighting and they'll show up on the spot and help you and distract from the fight while it's happening, you know? So you have a little Pokemon system in the form of these like, uh, they're cyber men. Yeah, they're zombie cyber men and they have like, like armor on them and little like flourish pieces and stuff. Goofy Wild Shit. Um, so that's a little bit of a mechanic that is like, okay, that's a little bit more different. But, um, overall, and like the boss fights were, you know, so far I fought like two giant bosses where you kind of run in circles, avoid the floor patterns and drop them to the ground and then go melee. Um, it does feel like the weirdness of this, of the overall coat is a veneer and underneath you're going to have just an all right action game. You know? Yeah. And I would love to see the weirdness or something a little more extreme and out there in particular in terms of how you design your action game and what and why, right? Even if it's as simple as, I mean, you can't reinvent the wheel every time or so, but like even something as silly as like when you're playing God Hand and you got a roulette wheel of finishing moves and shit like that, you know, just things like that to kind of like spart to spruce it up or so. And just whatever the case is, I don't need. Still trapped in God Hand's shadow. I like, I don't want to just keep talking about character action game like routes for a game that's not going for that. You know, he's kind of opening up that, that conversation by making over the shoulder third person action games for like 15 years. You do have that. And when you play an action game that's like a tie into, you know, some anime or something like that, or even like an arena fighter, right? You end up, it ends up, you end up feeling kind of like you're playing almost like a my hero ones justice sort of game where you're like, yeah, I've got my dodge. I've got my quick attack. I got my heavy, you know, and then you can zone with this button over here. But my hope is after that first chapter that the combat opens up a bit more. But so far it's been pretty standard, you know, you have a giant super that you can do with each of your each state you're in. You can do like a jumping super, a grounded super or a gun super and it heals you. So like using that a little bit works into the gameplay, but combat you want to see a little bit more wild and crazy for a suitor. Wild and crazy games, certainly. But it was cool. It was cool. And you have to be down with the idea of, yeah, fuck the story. We're moving on, right? So like it's flipping through comic panels and just it couldn't like dismiss the setup any faster. You know, yeah, you used to be a cop. The setup. Yeah, you were a cop in Twin Peaks vibe, kind of a small town sheriff dude and your Romeo and then you fucking died. Some wild shit ripped your face off and super killed you. And your grandpa is Rick. And so he walks through a time portal and he saves you by turning you into dead man. A super powered zombie sword hero, sentai, Toku fucker. And now as you're in your zombie Toku powered up fucker form, you join the spaceship because it turns out that in an alternate reality, all like humanity and the earth explodes and is shattered across multiple dimensions and times and spaces. And you are traveling to go stop the you're being time copier, the time police and you're going to stop the source of it, which appears to be Juliet. This girl that you liked as a multi dimensional being that you have to fight over and over in the multiple dimensions. And Romeo and Grandpa together forever. Million years. Million years Romeo. And it's not Pickle Rick. It's jacket Rick because Rick is he's a sticker decal on the back of your jacket and he talks to you from the jacket. I'm a jacket mort. Yeah. So that's that. That's it's got style. It's got charm. It's got cool shit going on. And again, turn your brain off just and brace the vibes and let let the fucking edibles do their thing. That's all cool. And also it's having fun with mixed medium stuff and again, comic books and animation and eight break 16 bit whatever. That's all fun and dandy. Just I want to see what later game combat looks like because if you do end up seeing because I mean, I was thinking of Shadows of the Damned and, you know, I mean, well, killer seven, you're kind of going through and like your, you know, target shooting and stuff. But when he has a new idea for a game, it you kind of you kind of do wonder like he's having all these like incredible visuals and, you know, styles for designs and aesthetics and characters. But I do wonder if he's like and then when it comes to the gameplay, light attack heavy attack shoot dodge, you know, I just wonder if he kind of like kind of because even to some degree, like let it die is like, you know, fairly standard in that way. But you're trying to it's the it's the rest of the setup that you're trying to get creative. And my weird that I look at like Romeo is dead man. And I find it's like aesthetic to be like uniquely unappealing. Oh, yeah. Compared to all of Suda's stuff. Oh, maybe I think it's appealing. I think it's I think it's cool. I like what it has going on. It looks like it looks like a 360 game that would be in that pile that James would put down on a table and go. These are the really good ones along with bullet which and night and damsel or whatever the so so the funny part looks just like that. So the funny part is at when I was describing the combat during the stream at one point, I harkened back to the recent game I played wanted dead, which had the sword button, the gun button over the shoulder and you'd mix and match the two. And that had a skill tree that you slowly, you know, unlocked and had it's stuff going on there as jank as it fucking was. But yeah, that's that's it is I want I want gameplay to be as as wild and out there as as the the rest of it is. But I think it's I think it's it's interesting so far. Beyond that. Only other thing was I am getting my ass kicked in Act two of Mugenics. That shit is. I gotta go back to that. I'm just stepping it up in a brutal way. I'm encountering there's like I thought a boss and then I went to go look up online afterwards. I'm like, does anyone I'm curious about and like literally bosses that have not been logged yet because the game is too new shit like content. Yeah, I tried to look something up and discovered that like the game has so many items and so many enemies that like all the wiki resources are just barren. Yeah, I just too much. Look, I look like I think I fought something that nobody has like made reference to. I haven't even seen it written down. I looked up the name of a boss and it like it did not appear anywhere online. So that's where we're at. And but I've also in getting my ass beat. I have discovered a a a a couple of builds of like insane broken shit that that happened to like steamroll up some of the runs and I have seen a bunch of videos of people discovering interactions that just functionally act as automatic win buttons without even any player input. Yeah, I haven't seen so I haven't seen any videos of other people doing stuff, but I have just putting together. I want to my last run I got a soul jar, which was a jar that the person holding it when they die a copy of them goes into it. And then the next cat holding that item can summon a copy ghost of that dead cat for one turn. So then I had a mind control machine that is a side quest item that specifically takes control of non boss characters and makes them permanently charmed allies that join your team for the whole run. The whole run. Correct. Not that battle. The whole run. If they survive, they continue down the run with you. You are supposed to lose that item after the after the side quest, right? You can get it back in a randomized way very, you know, or so, but it's meant to just be like for this purpose. And then you lose you use it, you lose it, it's gone. I gave it to a cat that died holding the soul jar and like I was playing and like someone was like, you know, what if that was a thing? And I was like, let me investigate. And I did. And it died and the cat in the jar came back out with the mind control device in its hand permanently. So then I made sure that that cat had a teleport so that it could on turn one get anywhere on the map, shoot the mind control device and then disappear, turning something on the map into my ally for the whole run. I run that build into the sewers and I come across daddy shark. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Okay. You mind control daddy shark and daddy shark is a giant enemy with like 25 HP that if it is within range of anything, it instantly dies. I take that daddy shark all the way up to the boss and watch it one shot the boss and we're out. Busted shit, right? And I'm like, ooh, that felt good to put those dominoes in place and watch them all drop in the way that the end of an Isaac run where you're just shooting lasers out your asshole in 15 directions. Yeah. And floating when you've turned it into vampire survivors. Exactly. Watching that happen with like Game Start, Fat Shark eats everything game over run cell solved is phenomenal, you know. So like seeing that as a possibility is like, okay, okay, I'm getting my ass beat, but also I'm getting access to ass beating tools. If you if you fucking tweak it and force it to happen. So that that was a lot of fun. And beyond that, fuck the boss of the act to upper path is all I'll say the act to upper path has an asshole of a fucking boss that I'm getting wrecked to. But the music is so good that you're not even that mad because you're like, fuck, you're humming the theme as you're losing and getting wiped out. It's one of these moments where a single turn doing the wrong action or like not thinking ahead, like slipping up one turn is critical failure for notice this. The whole the whole. Yeah, I'll be like, yeah, I got the fuck. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, no, not not not feline invader that song is incredible, but the one that comes after that is it's anyway. So that that's pretty much it. That's where I'm at this week. You can tune in for a couple more streams tomorrow going to be resuming Expedition 33 with Reggie getting towards the end going to wrap that up soon. What about the the bonus shit? Oh, true. I forgot. You never did. I guess I'll see it with Reggie on stream for the first time then. There's some bananas shit in there. Yeah, Lore wise. A little bit, but it's not it's not no big revelation. It's more context. Right. Okay. But get you fucking balls ready. Okay. Okay. Yeah, I wanted to I wanted to do it, but I have not had the time unfortunately. So going to going to just, I guess if I still get the chance, I'm going to go back and do it on my own save, but might end up seeing the the drafts for the first time with with with him. We're continuing that tomorrow, which is Wednesday Thursday. We're going to reserve return to Absalom, which is a really cool beat them up that I played a little bit ago and I just felt like playing more of that. And then on Saturday, seeing as our fighting games have been our quota has been full for the week. We're quite stuffed. You got it. Yeah, we're quite we're quite stuffed. For this Saturday, I'm going to be playing. No, I am not a human. Oh, that one, the other one. Yeah, the one that is the thing that I asked about the one you played and everyone said not that one. This one is what you're looking for. It's just a bunch of those that are like highly similar. And it yeah, it looks looks stylishly creepy, so I'm curious to see how that's going to go. So that's happening this week over on Woolly versus on Twitch and on YouTube. You want to go into my week or do you want to take a break? We can keep going. All right. I want to take a break though. I got a. All right. Let's take a quick word from our sponsors while we're here. Bro, I love our sponsors. I want to kiss them. Yeah. Well, here's one that you actually can kiss. Hero forge. I can look at that. Here I am. Kiss me. Now. 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I defeated grandpa in Stardew Valley. What does that mean? Okay, so. So in Stardew Valley, the setup is that you work essentially for Amazon. And you're like, man, fuck this. I gotta get the fuck out of here. So you look into a letter your grandpa left you on his deathbed to open when you were tired with that dirty city living. And you open it up and turns you he has gifted you the land that his family owned in Stardew Valley. And you can go down there and start a farm and just give up on modern life and just return to homesteading. Oh, the plot. Okay. Which is the plot of Stardew Valley. Hidden on the farmstead in one of the corners is a is grandpa's shrine. And grandpa's shrine states, I will return on spring one of the third year. And it turns out that as you go through the daily life of building up your farmstead and becoming friends with the townspeople and exploring the mines. You are in fact accumulating favor for grandpa's judgment, which he will render upon you upon the first day of the third year. And on the first day of the third year, his ghost returns to tell you how he thinks you have been doing. I received four candles out of four candles and earned grandpa's approval, which he then announces he will now rest. I thought Cult of the Lamb was last week. Yeah, I know, right? Grandpa's approval is tracked by are you married? Do you have a kid? Did you upgrade your house? How much money have you shipped? Oh my God, even when in the grave, they're going to come back to bug you about grandkids. Oh yeah. Jesus Christ, it never stops. And if you get maybe two or three of the candles instead of all four candles, you can offer up a glorious diamond to grandpa's grave and he will return the following day to judge you again. I however completed my grandpa evaluation with flying colors. I think I got 18 out of 21 possible grandpa points, which is a hidden system. At which point I moved my grain silos in front of his grave and sealed him into the deepest corner of my farm. Yeah, okay. Never be seen again. Yeah, because I'm like, tell me you can fucking ghost vacuum this asshole. Well, he's been laid to rest and then like he gone. I literally put two grain silos in front of his grave so that he may never be seen again. Good. It's where all the pigs graze. So they're digging up troubles next to his corpse, I guess. Fucking coming back to push his bullshit on you is fucking checklist. That's crazy. However, grandpa does gift you one final item. He gifts you a fancy purple cat statue that just generates the highest level or in the game, which makes a radium farming like trivial because you just get a bunch of it every day now. That is two years of Stardew Valley and defeating grandpa's judgment is your soft end goal. Right? That is your like your overriding. Yeah, defeating the corporation must surely be the main point. No, that's a step along grandpa's judgment. Okay. So defeating the corp is one of the things that grandpa will judge you on. Right? Okay. So I finished year two with full greenhouse of ancient fruits, full barn of pigs and cows, full coop of ducks and chickens. I got a void chicken. I got a fucking dinosaur. I have fucking nine, nine, sorry, three sets of nine plots running star fruits on Junimo Huts. I have essentially wrung out all cohesive value of what I would consider Stardew Valley 1.0. Okay. However, you can then go to a different island and there's like a fucking sequel to Stardew Valley in there. And it's like there's straight up a new farm with new new crops and like a new end goal. Yeah, we're talking about this a little bit last week, but it's like the boat to the DLC that is either tropical or winter themed. Yeah. And I have like literally zero desire to engage with that at all. Okay. What about tropical wife? Maybe. Wife too? It's mainly just parents over there. Hey, if you're truly going to take in grandpa's footsteps, the final step is to fucking go over there and just pretend that you weren't the dude over here and just start, start afresh and don't tell nobody but nothing. So that's how easy it was back then. Stardew Valley is kind of one of the best to ever do it. I did add a couple of mods for convenience purposes. But like at its core loop, it is just kind of exemplary with only one real weakness in my opinion. And that is concerned ape is not a particularly talented writer. Sure. A significant part of the game is increasing your social relationships with people in town and they go up little hearts and you know there's a two start there's a two heart event to four heart event, a six heart event, etc. Right. And it's like where you learn something about the character that you go through like a goofy skit. They're, they're pretty fucking weak. As far as characters go. Like the most intensely I felt about a character was the shopkeeper Pierre. I hate him. I hate him so much. I want him to die like I would push him into a volcano. If I could. And the only reason is because his shop's not open on Wednesdays. Okay. Like that. Is that is that like church day type of thing. No, he does his shop just doesn't open on Wednesdays. Sometimes you need to get seeds to plant on a Wednesday and he's like, it's closed. So how much of the game is how much of the personality of the characters that matters in the sense is how much animal crossing is there to this or is it just about animal crossing level. Yeah. Okay. Okay. It's it's significant because I'm like, are you just, are you just like fucking can you just OCD the farm and like don't even fucking. Though when you when you get certain heart ratings of people they send you like recipes or like give you certain abilities to build certain things that that's how you get them. Yeah. Right. By becoming friends with them. The ability to like dye your clothes is unlocked through like a social event. Right. But more than that is that like the they everybody has like one line of dialogue a day and it's pretty standard. It's it's pretty normal. And what ended up happening is that I had a bunch of cows. So I made lots of cheese and cheese is a high value gift item. So I would just make my cheese for the day and then run into town with like 20 packages of Brie and just every single person I saw on the fucking street. Just handed them a cheese hand you a cheese and that's how I got like all of my good boy points. Is there a does it have one of those systems where high value things lower in value the more you sell them. No. Okay. No. No, what it has is certain people like certain things more. I like lots of people like rabbits foot but Penny doesn't like the rabbits foot for lots of the girls like diamonds. It's a Gus loves oranges. Right. But everybody likes cheese except for the kids. So just go into town and cheese cheese cheese cheese and then accidentally walk into somebody's house at 8pm and go through like four social events in a row that all suck and are all really weird. But as for the farming and progression and dungeon crawling gameplay. Fucking a plus like absolutely incredible game. Now as you feel satiated and don't feel the need to go check out New Island expansion. Do you also get drawn towards one of the clones. Yes. Okay. So that's the one with the one with the fighting. The one the one that. So one of the reasons that I'm not pulled super closely to something called Ginger Island which is the expansion content of stardew is that I'm actually being pulled towards an early access title called fields of mystery. I've described it to you before it's stardew but with like a 90s show Joe anime aesthetic. And it has the same kind of vibe of clearly made by stardew super freaks base features in mystery are basically all the things that I modded into starting. Like the way that like thought bubbles appear above people's heads when you can talk to them and stuff like that. The biggest difference is that it looks better it controls better. It has a million little convenience things but also unlike stardew the people writing mystery are significantly more talented characters will talk to you. Four or five six times a day depending on when you catch them when where they are what they're doing what day is it what festival is it where you are you on quests etc. And there's just a lot of like very well written dialogue which includes stuff like this morning I was playing it before everybody woke up. And on Friday nights they're running a poker game and a D&D session at the end. Cool. And you talk to them and they will run through maybe 15 to 20 lines of dialogue of you like checking in and be like oh what are you guys doing with the thing as opposed to when you go into stardew and you go to the end and everybody has their one line one day of dialogue and then you give them a piece of cheese and they go thanks. And as a result the the first one they have like way super more detailed like portraits but and they have like they have the animated like 90 style anime portraits where they do the mouth flaps and then the expression. But also way more writing and way better writing. That matters. Yeah like I like I mentioned that I know I'm in the minority but I truly I enjoyed running around P1 P3 P4 and P5 talking to the different people in town and if they had unique dialogue and stuff it was always fun to see like what was changing you know in each location and stuff there was there's a lot of missable dialogue based on what day or what season or what's going on so it's fun to just catch little things and and sometimes it's like little plots that progress with some of the characters. In the background you know somebody in the chat basically described it as Hades two levels of dialogue but with the farm wow that's a big like just tons and tons and tons and tons of yeah Hades is the king of the mountain on that. It's it's it's actually it's an early access which is actually fairly unlike me to play an early access game except these cozy games are early access until they start working on the next game. Like. 1.0 isn't 1.0 it's just another step in the chain. Right right right right. So I've been absolutely adoring that you mentioned you mentioned that the start of the game is you find an envelope from grandpa. Yeah that's that's in that's in a start yeah you're you're sitting is grandpa dies and gives you an envelope and says don't open this until you're sick of modern life. And then you open it at your desk it and Amazon warehouse and it says hey man come to start a valley there's a farm there for you. And what if you just never open it grandpa are you tethered to this mortal coil forever. Absolutely. And then you don't pass it off to your next of kids so that ghost is trapped forever. What was your plan. Like OK so do you know the game risk legacy. OK so risk is risk. And there's a version of it called risk legacy which is crazy because it has all kinds of rules that you can pass down that permanently affect the game as you as each time you play. So if you play with the same people and you can update things and permanently change the way that the rules work and runs work and stuff. And it has envelopes in it. And there's one envelope that just says do not open ever. What what do you do. It's an envelope that says the instructions on it do not open ever would open it right away. Right because because my brain is going to go well I'm eventually going to open it so I might as well just why does all just catch you. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I would sit there and let it I'd let it rot until an extreme moment of duress and then I'd threaten to open it with everybody going. Personalities right if you tell me never I mean what like what I actually hear is right now. Right to me I'm like it reminds me of my mental process of like should I get a Wii U and I'm using the Wii U specifically and the answer was I'm going to buy one before the fucking price goes down so I might as well go fucking stand in line. OK OK. I'm like oh so you gave me a nuke. OK good I have this in the pocket and it'll sit there. You know. And yeah it's hidden under the box as well so it's like you know that that is truly that is an experiment right there. You know and that's a personality test. OK yeah just sure. What else is going on. What's going on is that I hit another week of the backlog which has some overlap with you. I played Atlas ATL YSS. Have you heard of Atlas. Now I have. All right. You're going to punch that in here I'll get you. I saw that I saw the moments that mattered. Oh you saw it. Yeah so Atlas is a fantasy star online ish. World of Warcraft emulated dungeon crawling pseudo MMO which controls excellently runs incredibly well and apparently has tons of content. It is also made by an absolute like sexual deviant pervert who's just like Minda didn't go far enough. I need to have a full cadre of short stack furries available and I need a slider for these titties and this ass and these thighs and they got to go go go. I need to be able to turn every furry little character into a god damn African fertility statue. They're OK short stack with a capital stack. Mm hmm. OK. Really aggressive first impression. Like very aggressive and also you run into like Toriel slash Rawlsie but sexy as like the first talking character in the game. OK. And you're like OK. And then if you smack her butt you get an achievement because OK. Oh that's a mechanic. It's a mechanic. Yeah. OK. No no. And game plays great. Sounds great. Looks great. Of course. They wouldn't have it any other way. And it's and it becomes like is this adding to your experience detracting or you just ignoring you know the anthrogoon. I mean again it's it's when you see what is not for you but has an insane attention to detail for someone else. It's not for me but I can tell that it is for many. And you have to appreciate it. And that it's doing a good job for that many. Exactly. That's it. And to that I will give it a golf clap. Like this if you know that this is a 10 on 10 for the target then its accomplishments have been achieved. It set out what it did what it set out to do. Like good good for them and also good for the people that this is obviously for because they eat good buying this one. Yo. Furries don't fuck around Pat. They don't play. They come correct. Appreciate like Furries come serious with this shit. They stand on business. They've been here. I appreciate it because like it's it's bald faceness like shows off that the people making it are like really really passionate about what they're making. And you can like kind of feel that coming through the screen. And that's a million times better than even something that should appeal to me but is made soullessly. Yep. Yep. It's it's it's loud and proud said with the fullest chest. You know to quote Sonic Fox and don't you ever forget it. I also played something called Project Warlock to. I feel like I know what that is. It's a very solid boomer shooter that has classes and levels and that's it gives a really strong first impression and has got the juice. I don't think there's much more to say. Okay. Old fashioned doom style boomer shooter and it's got the juice. Oh yeah that's a boomer shooter. All right. Speaking of boomer shooters. Apparently something about Ultra Kill. Fraud fraud fraud. Yeah yeah yeah. What was that level eight of nine. Is it treachery is the last one. Okay. Now now. Does everyone going through Ultra Kill and keeping up with it because I coming back in these super distant ways. I mean it's okay. But I just like the story in Dash is. Sure. And those guys. But Hakita must know I'm assuming that everyone even those who are keeping up like is everyone coming back and just the rust is weighing you down. You are unable to keep up and survive. Then you must relearn every single time because I assume so. It came out and then I played it when I think the whatever level was the ocean level. I forget was that wrath. I can't even remember. And like if I had not restarted I would never been able to be like layer three. Like it is. It is. That game demands you to just go. Oh Cyber grind is that that's the the the lab basically the big environment where you just fucking go and go and deal with the waves. Yeah I wonder if that game has gotten less viable on controller. Because it was when I played it. I mean like every time I see it it's more crazy and more intense. If so it would be out of spite because again Hakita knows that we both want a controller supported world. And that's just not the way these games are intended. I would say that Hakita is a lot more friendly to that world than one day of Oshari. Has he been hostile online about it. He's been hostile to me personally. I don't know if you remember but when I was playing dusk. I was playing yeah I remember yeah and he came in to shit on me and I'm like there are bugs in here because you didn't test it with a controller. He's like yeah why would you. I'm like Dave. I have to say that like at first I didn't really get it but now I've become more and more comfortable when a game boots up and goes recommended or a controller. I go yes cool thank you. Yeah it's nice to see and to not have to worry about that part of it. Yeah project warlocks too is good. I played Rhapsody a musical adventure at Pages insistence. This is a PlayStation one game I just completely fucking missed. And it is awesome. It is from the 90s. Boy is it upon eachies first games. Okay this yeah here we go isometric. You can you can that like there's a chest that we found that had that literally sang a deep on eachie software like jingle. Yeah it has full blown musical sequences with voice acting. Which are very good. It features you playing as a young girl pining after a prince and her shitty little fairy sidekick. And as we're playing it the the the dialogue and the general thrust of the story is super funny super crass very. I don't have to describe it somebody in the chat was like did this get retranslated by whatever I'm like no this is just how the 90s were. It's very like Darian and Serena at the ice cream parlor and he won't stop calling her meatball head. Right right directs transliterations as opposed to translation. No no I mean in the tone of like oh I want to kiss every boy. Okay okay and like the fairy goes just show the prince a little bit of leg. No guy can resist a little bit of leg. Well I see here there was a DS re-release so you know maybe something got changed there but. Wow yeah no very blaster and past super impressive very charming one of the best CRT filters I've ever used. Nice okay like very very very appreciated. I think and then the last game I did on backlog was Xeno blade Chronicles X definitive because they finally put that fucking patch out for the switch to. Where'd you stop on that. I played Xeno played Chronicles X on the Wii U. For 90 minutes there was a video made for best friends video and then I went and played it at home and it then said use the Wii U game pad to use the map and I said no I will wait until they port this off this fucking system. I this is the third Wii U stab at a grave that you've done today. Yeah I don't know what's going on with you and this Wii U I or like sure it was a misstep the Wii was a hit the Wii U was a fuck and then the switch was a hit you know but like this is I don't these are strays that are aimed at dirt man. I don't care for the Wii U I don't know you're emptying the clip into the earth. So I don't know if you remember specifically that era of like where my eye are for the Wii U came from but it was like I had a line in the sand after buying the console and it was I will never use this game pad ever. Okay, I'm pretty strong zombie you. Mm hmm. And nothing in the whole history of that fucking thing caught like made a point to use it as well as zombie you and every time a game said you now switch to the Wii U game pad I said how about I turn this thing off. I will always I will always raise my finger and go Splatoon convinced me. Splatoon's gyro made it make sense even though very few us a little else did. So that patch is weird because it makes the game run way better on the switch to in docked mode and look way better. It makes the game run better but look way worse in handheld mode. There's some kind of FSR resolution scaling situation happening that sucks. Not really sure what's up with that. But as for the actual game weird game. Fucking strange game in the Xenoblade canon. First of all it's localized by Nintendo of America and not Nintendo of Europe like all the other ones. So whereas Xenoblade one two and three are just maximum British Isles with Shulk and Fiora and Roy and and Oye. You get to Xenoblade Chronicles X and it's taking place in space but in New Los Angeles with such characters as Doug and James and Sarah. Wow OK and all American voice actors and all American English. Is that the first time it's not British. Yeah it's the only one that's not British. OK and it's fucking super fucking strange. It's so bizarre. And this was before too. Yeah. Yeah this is this is actually the second one. OK. This is a fake MMO. This game is a fake MMO. Everything about it is a fake MMO. The way that your city hub is divided into districts like a World of Warcraft settlement. The way that every single spot on the map has some kind of collectible on it. The fact that the game to fully complete takes somewhere between two hundred and four or hundred hours. The fact that it has multiplayer missions like Monster Hunter for for high end content. For four players. It is a weird fucking super gigantic single player RPG pseudo MMO. But like I guess that's but that pseudo MMO thing like I'm thinking of Relink also had that like. OK. Strange multiplayer. Relink is pretending to be like Monster Hunter to some degree where you're going out on a mission. You do a level with a little group and there's a boss and then it becomes like big boss fights. This game has like a to the horizon level map. You know like just like epic distances kind of thing. Yeah. OK. It also has a really nice twist on the Xenoblade. Like how do you know when you load up a game and you get a look at like the class tree or like the skill list and you just go oh this is a big boy. Yeah. There's just like the menu has just too much room. It's a it's a big boy. There's a lot like you go to the party list and there's like oh pick your four man party. There's 28 slots on the reserve list for party members. OK. Yeah. I you're like oh. The the the first time I booted up Baldur's Gate 3 and they looked at the character creator I was getting stressed out like I was not streaming that part. Exactly. I just needed to take a look to see what I was getting into and I was getting stressed the fuck out. Yeah. OK. It has of no so it's a really cool RPG. I'm going to dig into it. And it's the anti B line game. People said hey man you have to be you try B line. Let's I'll pay it. It's like the game requires like map percentage completion to continue story events. Oh like it like it will be like get out there do more stuff kind of thing. But of note I need to get his full name because I always feel bad. Attack on Titan had a person do the music named Hiroyuki Sawano. You're familiar with Sawano right. Composer of the all the all the yeah yeah yeah sure. So they're the composer and kill the kill as well. Hell yeah. Oh my god oh my god. Oh god I hear it. I hear it. Yes the same high pitch the thing. Yeah. OK the the battle theme. Come in the yeah exactly the vocals kicking in and the she got a battle of yes absolutely vocals kicking in on both of them are the same kind. Oh fuck your mind got connections crazy. Holy shit yes OK. Xenoblade Chronicles X has a lot of like minor story events that are being absolutely carried by Sawano deciding to just drop this gigantic epic fucking track over like panning shots of like the cool environment. And it's really interesting because it's really like a thing that's more than the sum of its parts because you get you have a little tutorial sequence where it's raining and you get on top of a little mountain and the game goes look look at these places as it as the as the sun comes out and decent panning shots and they show you new LA and then the person is giving you like some boilerplate inspiring speech about making a way for humanity's future in space and then the music. Yeah. It comes like this really really like epic fucking thing and I'm like I'm looking at panning shots of a Wii U environment. Is there is there like a drum buildup that cuts off and then comes back in sharp with the drop. There is. Yeah. But on top of that. So what oh I don't know if this is in his regular repertoire. The New Los Angeles town music at night features the lowest energy out of place rapping since Iwatode dorm. OK now I remember back when you guys played it on the old channel there was a punchline about the bad rap. Yes. And that gave me the impression that this game had terrible music in it because all I knew was that there was this bad rap song and it was the punchline of the video. Well OK so here's the problem. Here's the problem. Do you like Iwatode dorm. I have had legacy problems with Iwatode dorm. So when you're when you go to New LA at night there is a track that's pretty good playing in the background but the primary vocals of it are a guy just going oh yeah yeah like non stop lotus juice in it. And there's a lot there's a in the battle theme has a sequence in which it's pretty fine. And then the guy just bust out on a whole different plan it. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah there we go there we go OK. It's it's this it's it's this stuck on a different plan like carpet. It's kind of an incredible soundtrack from what I could hear with occasional like. This is going to be I'm going to go for it occasional. Yoko Ono screaming. Oh no. Oh my god. I'm trying to enjoy the music. I'm going to kill this bit. Yep. Yep yep yep it's not that bad but it's the only thing I can get the emotional context. I understand. I understand. That game is fucking cool. That game is so cool. I'm so glad you can play it without the Wii U game pad. Very happy about salvaged. OK. All right. And people are unhappy about the the patch changing the way it looks in handheld mode and you can get a refund for it on the Nintendo eShop if you ask for it actually. I would prefer they fix it but I don't play that shit on handheld mode anyway so haha. So are refunds now available on all platforms as a functioning thing? Sony tells you they'll only do it once and that's a lie. Interesting. Nintendo will do it. I had to get a refund for Monster Hunter Generations X on the Wii on Switch because I bought it and then Capcom out of nowhere sent me a code and I'm like well I don't need to fucking buy it and I called them on the phone and they're like what's the problem? Like I have a review code but I already bought it and the guy was like that is the first time I've had to figure this out in the system. Interesting. It was actually very very clear. It's like I don't know how to file this but I'll talk to my boss and then they pulled it off my account and then I used the code. Nintendo will do it when there's a genuine reason and not just I don't like the game. It's like for example and this is none of our current sponsors and I won't use the sponsor's name but I've gotten a phone call from a sponsor that I have done in the past on my stream and they're like hey would you like to come back to our service? And I'm like and I will go like bro no that's me. That's my job and he's like what? It's like it's my job to get people to come back to your service. He's like I don't understand. He's like you guys paid me to get people to come back to your service so when you're asking me to come back to your service I actually talked to your boss in marketing to send me and he's like I don't understand. I'm like just hang up the phone buddy. Okay. I'm the ad. Don't add me. Sure, sure, sure. Very strange situation. I also started a new, I hope you didn't see this. I started a new series on my show this week. It's called premature epatulation. I did scroll by a logo. People hate the title. I'm very happy with that. Okay. That was on purpose. Okay so I say as I recall I just named the series Down the Woolly Hole. Yes. So upsetting your viewers based titling is clearly high in stocks. It works super well too because the whole stream people kept coming in going ugh. And they had the little green highlight that's like first time chatter. There you go. That's it. Ugh what is this? There you go. That's it. Glad you're here. Yep, yep. It works. Gotcha. So premature epatulation is for games that are either demos or in early access because they're not finished. Right. I'm going to play them even though they're not finished. And you might go no wait Pat it's not finished. I'm like eh it's time. You can't hold yourself back. Time. Okay. Which coincidentally lined up with Steam Next Fest. So there were some demos for a bunch of upcoming stuff that I played yesterday. Well as long as the repack the repack of Turi period is long enough. Hold on. Repattery period. Repattery as long as the repattery period is long enough then it'll be fine. Yeah. There shouldn't be any issues. Yeah. If it's early access games it can be anywhere from two weeks to forever. True. Okay. Well yeah. Alright. So I played Vampire Crawlers. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Hey did you ever play Slay the Spire? Yeah. Did you wish that Slay the Spire was about like 50 times faster? Yeah. Yeah. Then you should play fucking Vampire Crawlers. Yeah. And I also wish it like had more visuals going on. Yeah. Sick. It joins Vampire Survivors as game most likely to give your child brain damage if they see you playing it. I beat the demo. And in the course of the demo I went from having two mana and two cards per pull to having four mana and like six cards per pull including cards that drew more cards. So your all your moves are to be played and you just look at it go buh buh buh buh buh buh buh. Here's a turn. Deal buh buh buh. Deal buh buh. Deal buh buh buh buh. Like that's how fast it is. And from what I can gather at a glance these sprites are the exact same. They're exactly the same. Just you're looking at them way closer. The very beginning of the game in the title screen is Antonio in like the Green Hills area and then the camera like scrolls down and then zooms to the ground and then tilts up. And that's it. Oh my god. It's the same sprites. It's the same characters. The characters have fucking voice acting. Wow. Which is so weird. Wow. Okay so automatically that means Janny's on it. Yeah. It's got it's got polygons here and there. Ooh. Because you know yeah it's great. It's great. There's of note and it's not super useful at the very beginning but there's a if you hit square or X on your X-Box controller it plays all your cards from right to left. And that is for when you have some kind of synergy. Oh. Okay. Okay. And you're like I don't even care. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you're like the the Rube Goldberg whatever the Rube Goldberg machine. Yeah. And just your your order is set play. Or it doesn't even matter if you get your combo you're just like no I'm just going to win. Really great. Super cool. I played zero parades the new Za'um game. Yes. Very interesting streaming that game to an audience that is uncharacteristically aware of the reality of the company. There's an energy that they will never be able to defeat no matter what the game is or how good it is which is the situation and the vibes being permanently rancid as a result. Yeah. But I wanted to know. I'm curious. I'm very curious. Yeah. I wanted to know. It is a demo. It has much more voice acting than disco Elysium had when you when that game originally came out. Mm hmm. It. It is overwhelmingly the feeling of. Trying. Trying to bake a cake with most of the recipe and the head baker gone. Like but it desperately desperately wants to be disco Elysium too. And every little piece it just doesn't fit quite right. But the cake that the head chef that is now gone made is still on the table and you can look at it and dissect it and you're no no but they are able to look at what that what was made before. Right. Right. Okay. It's just. Okay. Interesting. Not there. And this is it isn't being colored by awareness. No I I can I can remove that. Mm hmm. Okay. So like one of the things that really stands out is that when you go and make your character you have three choices of agents and they're the same. They're the same three choices that they were in disco which is intelligent physical or emotional. And then you go into your faculties and there's 15 skills and those skills are coordination doppelganger instinct sensor shadow play blueprint cold read nerve etc etc etc etc. And you snap your points and then you go into your dialogue and then different parts of your thought bubbles will talk to you based on what scores you roll in behind the scenes things and then you roll to dice in order to do a skill check like it is over very well ming Lee like this is disco Elysium two in all but name. And it's interesting to hear that because like I remember the breakdown for that video that that leaked of the Kingdom of Locusts proposition and that did sound interesting in a way that was not just echoing the same thing right it was like legitimately there was the little Kuno story was something that sounded like okay this is actually taking place within the world you know with the characters you know but there was enough there that seemed like it was doing its own interesting thing. But yeah here the pressure is high to not only not fuck it up but to capture lightning in a bottle a second time. Right. And so the very first thing that talks is a gentleman named Pseudopod narrates to you in a fairly suspicious way compared to the ancient reptilian brain in which you don't know who your character is and you work through that through a series of dialogue choices and then you load into what is pretty much the same room in the whirling and rags. And you start examining a pair of pants in the in the bathroom and go through all these dialogues and your your health is fatigue anxiety and delirium and as they get high enough you can't do certain checks and it's just it's just not interesting. Interesting. There it feels like I asked for a coke and I got a Pepsi. That OK. Because that could that could have been a much harsher analog. No let me try it again. I asked for a coke. Arcecola. Is new coke OK. And I went. OK OK. Yeah. OK. So what's interesting what's interesting is that the passage of time means that there are always going to be people who will only have heard about disco Elysium as we talk about it after the fact because we're now years from it and there will be folks that are going to play this as the first time they're playing a game like this and their experience with it will be phenomenal. This will be incredible. It'll be mind blowing because it'll be the first to go at this type of game. Yeah. The script is also going to sound really weird to say it's too verbose. It's it's trying to be too metaphorical and to. To. Like the same conversation it takes twice as long in zero parades. OK. Also I'm going to send you a screenshot for my stream to really hammer home the first room that you load into is like the same like it's really. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. That's the same room. Holy fuck you're not even trying to pretend. Oh my god. OK. It insists upon itself. Wow. Yeah. OK. My expectation. Is that this and games like you know was the other one was last night or last. The one with the I think it's like the sex worker and like the leg under the sheets. Well in any case my expectation is that like you would get a game that was like you know functionally similar and ultimately fine but it would have it would lack the I guess the depth and like messaging and the you know what the boldness of what the fuck disco was getting at right that would be completely gone but it would just be a video game that is a functional RPG that has cool characters and you know a story that you you move through the emotions and go through that would be completely fine and you'd actually probably be like happy with coming out of nowhere coming out of left field but it would not have the depth that disco gets to so like disco has this overwhelming feeling of I'm going to tell you my manifesto and I put into a video game and now no one can stop me yep triple X night shift was what I was trying to remember yes and zero parades feels like I would like to tell you that I want to make disco Elysium too which is a very different place and I am the from and I am the license holder I own the IP okay interesting so very interesting very interesting I'm I'm gonna hold off also I played it for like 40 minutes and didn't get out of the first room like that's what I mean by like there might be too much dialogue also bad this is a this is a really bad sign I don't like the main character's voice oh that's narrates every single line of dialogue that's not good that's too British too raspy just doesn't have the the right I mean comparing it to the disco narrator is not yeah no but yeah um what else do we got we play I play densia attack okay the train jet set radio one last question just about the disco game was that the project that had Lenvarr brown the narrator attached or was he on a different one I don't know did you hear the disco narrator at all at any point it was a different party all right train attack densia attack this is train jet set radio what if you're playing jet set radio but you were a train you are a person on a train or you are a train you're playing a train sick you do flips in the air and change tracks and then uh let's get around the corner fuck yeah and multi-track drifting yeah absolutely multi-track drifting cool aesthetic cool uh visuals uh minimal story uh really cool um uh I'm sure you would like it um I had the same exact issue with it that I had with jet set radio and jet set radio future and bomb rush cyberpunk cyberpunk or punk cyberpunk cyberpunk which is don't like how it controls at all it controls like those games okay put on a track oh yeah I'm seeing this this is yep absolutely um did you like how no you didn't like how sonic skated on rails either did you no I don't that is kind of a line in the sand for me like for me like every time someone's a man I love modern sonic I'm like I also like to to play with like my toddlers loop-to-loops and see oh wow it's going around crazy I jumped on a pad and sonic went fast in a circle oh you fucking morons um someone didn't like rc racing in yak is a zero I also played the eternal pocket circuit for life bitch I played the eternal life of goldman um which is in the running to dethrone cuphead as game most obsessed with 2d animation um the eternal life of goldman is the best looking 2d game I have ever played full stop um it is absolutely gorgeous every single individual element has more work put into it it is it is like the 2d side scrolling equivalent of like a persona interface yeah okay but for literally every single detail every menu every character interaction yeah that's a same background element how many years how many years frame by frame but a while and it's it's ridiculously gorgeous um it is not what I thought it was going to be at all in terms of narrative or gameplay so straight off the bat it's the the core jump jumping around gameplay is hey bro do you remember that duck tails game this is duck tails as fuck yeah yeah uh do you want to do you want a modern duck tail where you play like an 80 year old invincible jewish guy uh named goldman uh here you go defeat the deity I don't know what the story's about uh but it's ridiculously gorgeous and I want to play as this old man running through this incredible environment um as for the actual narrative this is using the princess bride as um okay uh as as it's like narrative um focus so there's goldman's story which is him going through the island and going on adventures uh but underneath goldman's story is that uh you are following the story of goldman is a mother telling their child about the eternal life of goldman right okay so it's being narrated like the princess bride okay um um and uh the kid is extraordinarily ill and they're in the hospital with what don't know probably cancer it's probably cancer um and uh that's that's your like narrative setup right uh when that will include things like goldman jumping off a cliff and just fucking dying and just like hitting the ground and splatting with like a sickening thud which will you'll get a little bit of a prince of perjolite no hey that didn't happen you told me goldman was uh and then like goldman that's not happened to his body um but there was like a little turn in the narrative that uh right when I stopped that I'm like okay there's definitely more going on here than I thought there was so you find a uh sorry goldman finds a documentation about uh sterilization to which the kid cuts in and says hey what's that word mean I heard that the nurses in the hallway laughing about it and they get into a very awkward conversation about whether or not some people do or do not want kids uh at which the kid goes well why wouldn't anyone want kids what because they'd ruin their life and then mom snaps and says you promise me you wouldn't bring that up didn't you promise me we're not going to talk about that and it gets really tense and it gets really weird and then they drop it interesting like like I've never heard like like a parent in a game snap at a child and refer to like an earlier fight interesting like it's very very very interesting um so there's a lot going on with that game okay and that's all you saw in the game okay super cool narrative now you'd like I mean the art on its own is like yeah that's fucking the attention is pulling me in for the artistry of it but uh that's a that's a fucking breadcrumb right there yeah uh I also played a game called holston out of poland well I assume it's out of poland because it takes place in poland and everyone in the game speaks polish I don't actually know where the developer is but I think poland's a pretty good shot on that turns out brazil yeah it's possible it's called holson h-o-l-s-t-i-n uh it is a isometric survival horror with a old timey pixel art aesthetic kind of think of like a polish uh I can't remember the name of it you played it um um the doll game purple hair amusement park oh um um the crow country co-crunchy like a polish crow country uh or like signal us yeah um big ol bio goo infested a town causing bio goo problems um its main hook is that it's like isometric like a signal us uh but when you aim the camera the sorry when you aim your gun the camera zooms in to behind your main character shoulder like he's in re4 and it becomes a third person action game I like that okay okay only for those moments and then then you fight enemies like you're playing re4 nice um super cool like really really cool gimmick um I can never remember crow country's name that's a strange uh I have my brain always goes crow county for some reason yeah I played a game called wild blue skies which is star fox again but not star fox until and doesn't feel as good to play as star fox damn because until star fox returns there's there's room for star fox yeah I've played many games that are like hey remember star fox and I go I remember star fox playing better than this actually okay um and then the last one that I played on premature epatulation is called hark the ghoul uh which is another one of those fake ass playstation one Kingsfield games um or is a first person wander about with your melee in your souls like environment that is very depressing and sad and pick up items and wander around and find a useless shield kind of thing um did elden did elden ring scratch the souls like it's so hard that like kingsfield yeah we're returning to kingsfield right like that's what it is um when you start the game there is a visual customization uh toggle that they want you to go for which uh dramatically changed the look of the game you can make it look like a playstation one game with texture wobble and more pixelation you can make it look like an n64 game with overly smooth textures and slightly more visual clarity or you can make it look like the emulated version of that playstation one game on your pc monitor in 1997 with just the crt filter hell yeah uh all three of them are pitch perfect I played it in all three modes and man it really looks like a playstation one game or an n64 game or a pc game from 97 uh this trailer just ended on a character called scat sage oh I didn't meet scat sage on the demo um what was the it's really good okay okay scat sage aside what was the um what was the star fox like uh in a wild boos guys okay um it's really good it's also really strange it does do some things very differently uh when you sit down on your bonfire equivalent which is a tree and save and heal enemies don't come back to life oh like they stay dead okay um and the leveling in this game is not more damage more health more whatever it is run faster jump higher swing faster so more attacks not stronger attacks I got um I got the run upgrade I sorry I got the first run upgrade and it made the difference between you know because in the first person comment you're like shimmying back and forward it made the difference between getting hit by 50 or 60 percent of an enemy's attacks to getting hit by zero and getting the jump upgrade let me jump so much higher that I was able to get onto the rooftops in the hub and find parts of the of the level that were inaccessible to me okay so your footsies get better feels like it feels like upgrading your physical stats in deus x one if that if that works for you it doesn't thief but okay okay yeah your your your your improvements are literally your physical it's not your number going up it's like you're physically playing as your character feels yeah yeah cool okay uh super cool uh demo was really long um and it is also in a more blood-borne aesthetic so you get a gun you get a whip like I got a whip and it worked like a cast of any whip you can pull items to yourself it's it's fucking awesome uh and that's it for me this week sorry last week um this coming week uh I'm not doing shit all tomorrow um Wednesday Wednesdays are busy um however Thursday the 26th I will play a couple more of those next fest demos but more importantly than that resident evil nine comes out on Thursday at 9 p.m pacific oh that's so i'm gonna fucking do that shit um and then on sat or sorry Friday this is resident evil nine and then on saturday it's resident evil nine and then on monday it's resident evil nine and next Tuesday we'll do the podcast and if i haven't beaten resident evil nine by then it's more resident evil nine after the podcast and so on and so forth it's kind of like a thing for me it is ladies uh resident evil games yes it's um it's a religious event but as one of the guys who's been covering this for like the longest and like actually like people were asking me all sorts of questions about resident evil storyline and I was like stupid it's dumb and bad actually there's a great thread I saw on the subreddit which like what resident evil games should I play to get ready for resident evil nine and my response was don't worry about it like there will be yeah nothing in this game that will confuse you for even one second if you haven't played any of them um you have the full wiki in your head and you hate that shit and it's dumb as hell but nonetheless it is in there it's in there and like every time I think about it I'm like oh I'm wasted so much time learning any of these details they're so pointless and they matter so little uh and they they fucking they retcon that shit like it's like for funsies like they don't give a fuck um like sometimes there's some fun details like r e four remake uh sorry no re three remake you can find a photo of the umbrella team that developed the nemesis right and it's like a bunch of morons and lab coats going yeah we made the nemesis in the europe lab and if you look carefully you can see one louise sarah in that photo which then makes you understand more as to what louis is talking about when he's like yeah I've done a bunch of stupid shit when you meet him in re four because he beat he built nemesis which then changes his character because when he dies you're like okay well you you invented the nemesis you can get yours as you fucking asshole and as a proof positive of me wasting my time I said louis sarah and your face didn't move at all correct because you forget who that is and that's fine that's who fucking cares sure in fact I uh my brain went to the next question which was uh do you think the remakes stop at a point and if so where would that be or do you just stagger them long enough that they can continue to exist okay so they're not going to go back to re one that moment is passed they did re two they did re three they did re four yeah the next one would be code veronica actually and dusk golem says that code veronica is the next one to come back I I imagine up to six is the place to to do I don't think six is remakable it's too big uh I also think they would run into a slight issue which is remaking resident evil five for the year 2027 28 every time this comes up I just start to workshop like there are so like because we had the discussion last week about like what they're they're gonna they're gonna make kratos into like a pussy that loves women in the god of war remake and it's gonna and it's gonna actually screw up the storyline of god of war 2018 right but remaking five five is like legit the most racist video game I've ever played my life unless you count like custer's revenge right five is crazy five is absolutely out of control it's also like really good um and I was like I was like workshopping it and I'm like I think the they can either put like a big old like this game was made in the the but that doesn't work because it was crazy back then it was Majini's Majini's in 4k pat it's the only way Majini's in 4k you can't hide from it you can't run from it I think there's a way around it and I think I think all they need to do all they need to do is change like two lines in one note so one of the things that's crazy is when you find the hut people um and they've degenerated into subhuman monsters throwing spares at you you're like okay right like oh wow literally through the spares yep um and then you find the note and the note says I remember this note that they are they were a peaceful village and they were like poor but relatively modern but then when they got sick yes they started to grab the ancestral weaponry to implements and it devolved them into a feral state there you go that's the the one where you're like oh the tradition did think about this and then they chose like the wrong path and you know what yeah that little lot let little text you add that context that that totally flies and everybody it made it worse everybody takes the moment to stop and and learn context so here's what you do here's what you do right you write that this was at these were actually that so what what the the people who worked for Tricell did when they arrived is they displaced the native residents and took their land and lived in their area because they had to work at the local tricell facility and some of those employees got tested on without their knowledge and those white european tricell employees upon being infected with the megini parasite sought out nearby mud and clay and primitive weapons and the megini virus made them blackface themselves i see and now when you go to the marsh yes what you're actually doing yes yes of zombies zombies that are black faced up yes right right right right correct yes um are they zombies they are um megini well so it was quote they're quote they're not zombies they are okay parasitized well what and some of them might not even be parasitized you know but uh okay i see what you're saying i see what you're putting down there i honestly i legitimately don't know what they could possibly do with re5 it's in all honesty i remen it's only more racist i remember a time where there was a moment where we were looking at capcom's output and there was a real chance that this company was committing to the world tour of what culture and race do we go to to make the scary monsters next there was a moment where you go four five are we seriously just picking a new country and culture to go fucking do this to every time um you you you you forget because you're not super super into it right because the world tour continued for many years well so they've hit it they've hit every continent up at this point almost right six was eastern europe and china china's in six i didn't know that okay let me let me go check when did i oh when i was doing oh wow uh when did resenival eight come out i didn't know that interesting um resenival eight came out in 2021 so in 2020 or 2021 it's bro it's not called the c virus it's the c virus it's not called the c virus dude let me tell you more in 2020 and 2021 when i was doing the resident evil marathon on my channel i got to resident evil six in which china is ravaged by the c virus and i i'm just like hands on my fucking top my forehead just like oh like the whole time like the whole time because it's it's non-stop like you see you see the like canisters of the virus like explode through like fake Beijing and turn everybody into c virus monsters oh boy and there's a lot of dialogue about how we have to stop the c virus from hitting china okay does someone on the creative team decide to make monsters and zombies that are culturally themed yes okay there are um oh what are they called i forget but there are some parasitized goons uh that are uh supposed to be working formerly working for the triad um and they have like uh the face changing masks that chinese magicians use okay and they're goons okay um and they turn into bucks they turn into locusts which is which is more appropriate for that that era um so you did you did china in re six then she was the name i was trying to remember if they yeah if they use that at some point r e seven goes to the far off nightmare country of louisiana yes of course where mold it so you know mold is the big enemy in re seven is it okay yeah well it's it's no longer viruses it's mold it's mold okay and one of the reasons they put it in louisiana is that mold is a regional problem to louisiana because of the moisture um i remember i remember seven was like now we go down south so yeah and then we go to eastern europe for resident evil eight village in which you fight well what would you fight in eastern europe oh that's right vampires were wolves fish people okay in smith all right and now resident evil nine is back to america specifically back to racoon city okay but there's more places we could be going you know there are more australia australia south america south america has been done uh south america did happen oh okay yeah it didn't really it was it was not a big deal they didn't really go crazy on anything south american okay you can you can hit up some you know native areas you can you can go i mean so western europe has been untouched um india hasn't happened south america has been mostly ignored caribbean yeah antarctica has been done antarctica really okay all right yeah okay um but um yeah world tour we need russia russia has happened there is a brazilian game that takes place in russia um but yeah no uh the world wind tour continues okay okay and because you have to build up to a village people boss fight of just all of them at once coming at you like a door has to open oh i forgot that spain is in western europe a tour has to open like the street fighter cartoon and just the whole world comes at you and leon has to if you if you can believe it okay after re5 the ethnic considerations of various regions was handled slightly more intelligently right like because you got to make different kinds of zombies you have to like like you can't keep you can't just do like zombies on you gotta you gotta keep it fresh and interesting by adding different yeah so like the re9 zombies are kind of like rage virus kind of kind of thing going on along with your big monster there's many there's gonna be a couple big monsters in that game okay because yeah you gotta add different flavors to it um but it you know it seems like for a while those flavors were particular types of spice and you know you can you can find better ways to go about that so that's interesting so like we're gonna go back to resident evil uh racking city which if i had to guess and i put it in the emote mode because there's actually spoilers everywhere that means that there will be some very very old monsters from 20 years ago that will make a reappearance in this oh yeah true why else would you go all the way back to the fucking police station and raccoon city but also monsters plus time means who knows what happened yeah probably a bunch of goo mm-hmm there's one particular big pile of goo that i actually expect to have managed to exist in some kind of goo form for like 20 plus years well whatever you're talking about capcom has felt it emergent enough to put out a thing saying hey please don't fucking spoil people yeah um so uh yeah it's uh it i guess it's significant and or um where you're getting your shadow moses uh uh chapter of they also did did you know this all the spoiler stuff so first of all i as the guy who knows a lot about resident evil and you could fucking tell me anything i'd be like yes sure whatever like the propensity to the propensity to like say something and it be a lie or true or for me to go yeah that figures unsurprising on the plus side of the streaming embargo has been moved up so uh that's very helpful actually okay i if i had to guess i would have mentioned that like monsters are not really uh a spoiler as much as like i'm dying this game well i was gonna say like a a returning character or obscure pull from this massive timeline showing up so that so i mean i could shoot my shop but like there's gonna be a long-standing character that fucking dies in this game for sure mm-hmm and people are gonna lose their mind which means that if you don't want it spoiled by it um go off the internet and um play the game as fast as possible and it will be all the middle aged woman off camera you know woolly i would like to tell you something now now i have pulled i have woolly i'm gonna pull something out and you're gonna get okay we're gonna we're gonna fuck the rest of the news we're gonna deep dive on this okay because you gotta you gotta know about this so one of the things that has been very strange about the Resident Evil franchise is that girls don't tend to come back per game outside of rare scenarios right tend to have a new girl but the guys will come back a little bit more often chris has more games than cheva leon has more games than claire right eight eight is a staple though right eight is a staple and eight is eight has really kept that shit on lock right mm-hmm so over the years they've had to get super creative with what the fuck is going on here right um so here's the following well gel was infected by the t virus then cured in Resident Evil 3 blog then later experimented on by wesker for multiple years with urborus and various wait that's the blonde yes now she's blonde which means that gel will no longer age at the same rate yes right she's been preserved in time claire uh was the main character in with leon in Resident Evil 2 which takes place in 1998 um and thus she would be you know 20 years older now uh she was the main character of Resident Evil revelations 2 along with barry's daughter uh barry's daughter is 10 ish years old in re1 so hey how come re revelations 2 takes place and claire looks so young and and moira's only like 18 oh because it doesn't take place in modern day unlike almost every resident evil game that takes place in modern day resident evil revelations 2 came out and it actually took place a couple years ago so you could be like well claire's still in her 20s okay same thing with code for onica x um for resident evil uh four uh aida is still there she's hot for Resident Evil 5 sheva will never ever come back and jill's a mutant for resident evil 6 hey look aida's back again and she looks better than ever and there's two aidas because one of those aidas is actually an experimented on woman that was dating the villain and he was so obsessed with how bad he wanted to fuck aida wong that he invented the c virus to turn his girlfriend into aida so that game has blue aida and red aida the one that blew up in china was made to turn people into aida wong yes okay that's right okay and you take care of her yep and then you have re7 which places you play chris in first person and his head looks weird and then you play eight which you're playing as a then but chris is also there again and he looks the same as he did and uh sherry was in six and but she's 20 something because it was that many years after raccoon city right but you see sherry also ages slightly more slowly because of the g virus the virus there's a virus that you didn't know about there's always the yeah okay it's the embryo but still okay there's a virus there's a virus there's a virus yeah you gotta slow down yeah yeah yeah okay okay now even though jake mueller has jake yep has powers from wesker being wesker sin wesker sin he's still ages at a normal rate and scars because he's a man yeah dudes absolutely okay i grew up her cut so this is all the setup so a portal opens up and young claire walks out okay a f***ing wormhole okay so sherry berkin was about 12 or 13 and we're unable to which is 20 years ago perfect sherry berkin therefore should be in her early 30s she is portrayed in the new re9 trailer from the backs you can't see her face you can't tell how old she is but she appears to be younger than her 30s sure leon also you saw looks killer kill it leon absolutely yep and so one of the details in the re9 trailer that if you are a freak like me or dusk golem or susie or whoever would frame by frame the trailer and then read emails off people's computers in the background you because you've completely wasted parts of your life finding out about res evil you find out that the reason why leon is covered in a black rash and the reason why he wears gloves in re9 is because he is suffering from something called raccoon city syndrome oh city syndrome raccoon city syndrome okay okay okay okay okay disease that affects survivors of the raccoon city incident such as leon and adawang claire redfield sherry berkin albert wesker um as well as at least elissa ashcroft from outbreak right who is grace's mom the new character right so raccoon city syndrome you can actually look at the symptom list yeah um had basically covers your body with a black rash you get sick and then you just pop right raccoon city syndrome is caused by long term side effects of incidental exposure to aerosolized t virus let's go which means the reason why your characters in resident evil managed to get all the way through it without turning into a zombie is they are somewhat naturally immune to the virus in the first place because there is so much virus going around that they are literally breathing it in yes instead of just getting bites right kind of makes some of those characters less heroic because your circumstance like they were able to shrug off a bite or a cut whatever but regardless they are going to use raccoon city syndrome to explain why alissa ashford looks like she's 30 even though she's like 55 fucking years old why claire has never aged why leon has barely aged why adah has barely aged well because you see the t and t virus stands for tight stands for tyrants you got to keep it tight it stands for tyrants it's the tight fire oh my god the fucking backflips we will do to get away from a middle aged woman and we are terrified we have one fear one fear in life and it is a woman that is 31 years old i my nightmares are haunted says capcom i'm 31 year old every time i can because they let it slip once they let it slip once they were asked so everyone saw that adah was like first fall she looked great in r a six and she had a much bigger ass and bigger boobs and she like it was ridiculous the real the real one or the or the c virus okay the c virus one actually i believe had like a smaller ass and a small that's funny that's pretty funny okay so the director was asked because everyone was joking in like reasonable freaks everyone was joking was like well just chinese women just age better like like that's it like like the the chinese equivalent of black don't crack right yeah yep yep um that goes for a while and then there's a sudden if sheva comes back i expect her to look exactly the same yeah around like 70 it goes what you go into granny mode turn into the goblin you go into granny mode but like up until that point you're pristine right so that's what that was people joking around and then the interview with the director for reasonable six came back out in which the interviewer asked hey what's going on with adah wang she looks great especially compared to leon who looks pretty old in that game leon and re9 looks younger than he doesn't six which is really funny because it's like 10 years later um and the response from why does adah look so young in re6 was we originally considered making her look her age but instead we decided to make her beautiful so yep so these are the kinds of joys you can get if you just waste tons of your time right i mean that that's all i mean you when you're honest you're honest when you say it you say it and especially when you don't think about what you're not saying you know those are the moments so i'll go one step further resident evil is a bizarrely aromantic sexless game franchise hold on a minute hold on a minute but i was made to learn that wesker had the hots for uh what's her face um yeah yeah because she was 18 and he perved on her at her high school fucking uh volleyball that's our basketball okay okay that's how that happened and in resident evil zero you can unlock a mode in which you play as wesker who wasn't there and dark rebecca in which she wears a short skirt and a mind control wow okay now now sidebar um do any of those cg movies show you older women no not even in the movies okay okay this can't be the only yeah here here's here's the fucking here here you go because i here's wesker's fucking goon fantasy yeah okay okay yeah yeah and she's crouched over doing the gill thing that is a fetish outfit gotcha okay yeah wesker's a creep okay um so but but this is a sexless universe yeah so it is a bizarrely sexless universe in which never no one ever gets together ever everything's always left and ah maybe later right etc right no way friend uh and the reason for that being after you go through all of this is that it's working on idle universe rules characters and res girls and resident evil have to stay young forever and they have to stay single forever yes yes availability availability truth even though they're not real okay okay okay unless they're evil though unless they're evil so in the cg movies evil woman get pregnant in in the cg movies wait what who are you referring to i don't know i'm just i'm asking oh right okay there's one girl who gets pregnant in resident evil yeah and she's very bad yeah okay there you go right person i was just i was feeling i was feeling my way through this this dark cave you know um that's that's a that's a whole that's a mess let me tell you that one that one's a mess there's a lot of it's of course old baby situation of course yeah but i'm like it's resident evil there's monsters just human so somebody somewhere is going to be fucking around with someone pregnant to make a baby that's all fucking orphan of course actually just a totally normal pregnancy except for the mold it's it's it's complicated okay um anyway um the only the only woman who ever looked her age in the entire resident evil his story ever was annette irkin sherry's mom and she dies what about well lady d she does not look her age oh she's like she's billions okay okay okay never mind so she's middle aged when you turn when you turn like 800 you finally look 45 yeah okay all right so yeah no it works on like it works on like idol rules like the girls got to stay young oh right unless you get graduated in one of the cg movies which are not nearly as gripped by ninti by capcom's departments there is a single phrase from leon in which he talks about he's talking to eta and he makes reference to that night we spent in i want to say istanbul and that's it that's all you get the whole series okay okay so if anything canon ever occurs someone will have to come out shave their head and offer a tearful apology and people will have to graduate out of the story something like that yeah okay so yeah resident evil canon is the worst it's it's the worst it's all least consistent shittiest and all i did was ask where the remakes were going up to you and now we're locked in cvx we're locked into uh features the um you know they're kind of fucked on this i gotta tell you i gotta tell you because i well because i just as a parallel with capcom beauty standards i appreciate the joke that is chun lee's makeup is getting more defined yeah and that's it that's it um so because like re5 is like attack of the of the black people and that's that's bad i specifically i remember showing you that trailer because you hadn't seen it and i was like you got to see this and more importantly i gotta see you see this um and the phrase that came out of your mouth was scary black people oh no they're the worst because it was that shot of like the skinny guy like like lyric that was that was exactly how it was framed and then later when i discovered that that trailer was making the rounds in church and parental emails as the first trailer looks like blackhawk down it's exactly and they're going look at look at what the video games are doing look at what they're trying to do look look at what's happening they're training the kids and this is what it is do you remember me going to bat for that game and being like no it's like spain and they made fun of spain and then and i played it and then fucking marsh level happened and then i went on twitter and it was like fuck you capcom you've made me look like the stupidest fuck i what i think i remember is the day that like the trailer came out again from a newer event and that mob scene was the same except at the front of the mob was a light skin dude it was sada wusane and m&m there was a white guy and a light skin dude at the front of the pack yeah and then there was the rest and it's like okay all right there we've done it we took the slider we got one to four randomly generated across the crowd and go so yeah they're kind of fucked so we're you know they don't know what to do with re five because that's crazy but our code veronica x doesn't save you either because code veronica x's villains are two uh blonde blue eyed white british shitheads uh that are uh um a um brother sister twin duo that are incestuous and cross dressing so it wasn't handled with a lot of class back then okay i can't imagine the level of class it would be handled with now i mean that sounds like big evil big rich evil yeah yeah yeah i get it that laugh literally i'm fucking god damn alfred you're the fucking worst okay anyway yeah resident evil is terrible uh it's my favorite uh and the scariest virus to capcom of all menopause can we squeeze in a new story or two yeah uh okay so we did cover xbox and we did cover blue point um we did cover oh we didn't touch on it but uh another shutdown was the um uh fire axis uh x employees were working on um something so there was uh yeah yeah there was a team that was working on what was it called midsummer studios they're working on a project called burbank formersive xcom and midnight suns uh devs uh yeah that got shut down before their first project uh saw the light of day so so the timeline of crash is now just like it's just accelerating we're getting faster and faster as we get closer to made in heaven and uh what i will say is um i can't believe i'm unabashedly ridiculously hyped for ava directed by yoko taro that is the sickest fucking thing i i can't believe i've never would have seen coming and simply seeing that name alongside keiichi okabe on the fucking music and then just that little shot with the with the with the instruments with the k on them and i'm like this is the this is the most perfect pairing i can't believe like i have immediate faith in whatever the fuck he's doing that sounds incredible what a good idea if we're gonna franchise forever a million years never stop okay give it to someone who's got something to say there's so much that about the way that event went down so genius and so genuinely incredible so there was a 30th anniversary evangeline event and at the 30th anniversary evangeline wow we're just going all in on my hyper fixations today um things happened the 30th anniversary of angeline event they showed off you know art and music blah blah but they also showed off a little animated piece featuring oska yeah yeah okay let's let's hear it let's hear it let me smell the room let me smell the room genius about that pulling this out yeah uh huh let me is that all that got out to most countries was the screenshots of nuclear nuclear screenshot it was it was so there's a four-chan post about rave best girl oska best girl no and a guy with gendos avatars goes you fucks have been arguing about this for 20 years that post is now 10 years old of course so it's now 30 years and i see people in the chat going oska fucking one and that's because they don't pay attention so immediately the counter argument began you think you could fool me with this uh what happened was is those screens got out and those screens are oska and shinji on a date oska and shinji being married oska and shinji holding their new child happily ever after and you're like whoa my god but what actually is the video that those are taken from that is during human instrumentality when oska sees a version of her life of what could have been a happily ever after that's very simple and clean and goes check fuck that is not appropriate for her future correct so seeing that screenshot and going oh my god and then immediately right underneath it it's like context you assholes this is a revision she rejects and while people were sifting through that that's when they announced there was a 30th anniversary evangeline project featuring yotaro and okabe and i'm sorry i forget the name of the director but i mean we are we are approaching naru saku levels of denial hey have you heard of the um the the the conspiracy behind naru saku that like sakuro was made more intolerable in the anime compared to the actual manga pages like little things where instead of asking about the team she asks only about sasuke and shit like that i did not hear about that and i read pretty far in and i did i felt they were pretty much the same character is that true yeah there there are little bits and pieces uh in the official like anime and the filler that makes her more intolerable because the anime studio is biased against her i would i'd be curious to see the scene because there is the moment that is the clearest you belong to the streets you know and i'd like and i'm i'm wondering if that's treated any differently because that's the ultimate in fucking dust off hit the old trail kick rocks and uh that's i can buy into that conspiracy i can buy into that sure so yeah there's gonna be an evangeline a thing and it's being handed to the person who i would be most interested literally seeing tackle evangeline i have a suspicion and that suspicion will be that it will barely or not at all feature even one character yeah yeah yeah and galeon it's so exciting it's so exciting to think about something ava that is just fucking way out there that has nothing it's right it might be or it might not i don't know but what interests me is the simple idea that like this creator actually went i've got something to say i have an idea for this and i'm like you do like your of the things that you'd pick up and want to like move forward that's a big step it's you know like i'm sure he's got ideas and games and all kinds of stuff but to be like i have a chapter of ava that i think is interesting and worth telling and to and to do that like that is in and of itself reason for me to be like yep i want to know what you want to do with this like there are three places that i can see tarot thinking it would be fun to place an evangeline um new project uh one of which is in episode one of eva in which shinji doesn't get injured he just gets fucking killed by the by the angel and dies like do you think a retake situation okay the second is following no currently existing named characters in the 13 year gap between 2.22 and 3.0 and the other is in the sea of human instrumentality from 26 so here's the question instrumentality is that the coward's way out yes for every single story because it feels like that's your one-year war for gundam parlance alternatively what you can do you can make any story told in the instrumentality for any alternate reality alternatively what you can do if you're really ballsy is you can have a unnamed character from the background of the train station from 3.0 plus 1.0 and have the first scene have them see shinji and marie walk away and then follow this new character through a 26 episode story that doesn't feature an evangeline at all well we know there's a robot screaming at the end of that trailer there is a robot screaming at the end of it right that's the last shot of the final episode i he yoko can also just shoot us many years past any of that right you can just fucking well there's overgrowth on the instruments right there's i haven't actually seen it oh okay so there's a shot of a piano and a violin and a cello and they're all overgrowth with with leaves and shit in a destroyed environment which is it's near-esque in that like time is passed over tech and then after you know the text goes by the last thing you see is a fucking ava going off so i mean i'm fully committed to the idea of just jumping someplace sometime somewhere what's the name of this i'll just watch it the right the fuck now it's a minute long right uh yeah i mean you have a teaser pv yeah i because so i don't know if you remember but i made like a thread based off of like the 3.0 1.0 like uh poster which was shinji standing on a train track okay and i made like a like a 40 50 tweet like rant that basically described the entire plot of the movie from start to end and i was completely right 100% okay because i'm obsessed okay and i'm inside ono's brain uh so uh yeah let's just sound a water dripping paradise grave here song of misfortune don't i don't have the translated the text on the i didn't see the translated text for what the statements are in the trailer so there's some japanese destroyed violin destroyed piano time is passed building destroyed cello destroyed school all the instruments from um death and rebirth circular area concert hall oh complete original anime series move the timeline forward in a in a dracon guard to nier s quay fuck it sure why not i can see that i can so i'm down that is a black ava which either means it is a new one or its unit four uh and it says completely original which to me says we are going to have some point of divergence that will be around first impact sorry second impact something about second impact will be different and therefore not focus on gendo and uh uiikari uh divergence point versus moving what exists forward is less interesting because it's all it's just another version of instrumentality in a way of like all what ifs and i'd be down for less of a what if and more of a like here's this is this this happened um i also feel like showing the overgrowth on the instruments that they that the kids played is kind of showing that time passes from from that the the concerto death and rebirth all with all of them playing so i'm gonna summer vacation paradise grave well you hear is a song of misfortune and the question how do you move past the end of ava though i have no fucking idea but i'm curious to see if yoko has an answer to it because that's a really interesting question i'm very excited for this sounds like it's talking about second impact because that's when the climate change hit the planet in that show um again i think if you alternate timeline it's the same level of like not cop out but instrumentality is a cop out so it's like that where you're like okay it's just an alternate story right but the end of ava leads to multiple loops of identical stories with changes so you can just be like this is one of this is this is attempt four of end of evangeline with kairu calling out of that fucking box i mean again if you want to move past the train station you can right you can choose that and go we're locking into this we're locking into um shikinami uh uh timeline um and just go the camera stays here yeah and just run run the clock on it um and again i'm like i don't figure yoko taro picks up the pen on something like this without some profound thought so i fully expect this to be an alternate history which will feature um shinji in the first episode and then he will fucking die like like not like not as a as the guy who gets in the robot just like shinji where are you going i'm gonna go this way and like a car falls on him and he's like pulverized into the fucking goo and um one because it's taro and he thinks that's funny and two because that will cause the fucking thing to explode across the internet it would um also uh prepare yourselves for your uh to be in plug suit crossover merchandise and and artwork i gotta be honest i'm kind of shocked i haven't seen a piece of art of that today it is happening as we speak it is literally like jerking off too hard to get their hands steady no you deny you are underestimating the power of the artist with one hand the artist with one hand has an arm free and the reference material is already pulled up i think it's happening as we speak sir um this is very exciting i'm very very i'm very very just for to be so it could be three c we just saw a trailer we just saw a trailer that is like the near timeline recap here's all the things that happened and then also all of these guest uh uh uh cameos don't forget those to be continued so near vangelion uh i am watching with great interest i'm studying its career with great interest and yeah okabe is fucking goaded on the music done and done um um beyond that uh i touched on it a little bit but effectively evo has announced their plan for 2026 through 2020 2030 uh the idea is they're going to be expanding into nine tournaments a year in five new countries and uh it's going to be all over the place and people have been wondering where's evo going to be taking place next and you know they announced of course there's vegas and then they eventually announced japan been the past and then they kind of said oh we're going to france and people were like oh there's some mystery countries is it going to be where is it going to be and they were playing very koi and then uh they didn't announce saudi arabia back last time when they were doing the new list of locations right never went ha but in the back of your mind you're like okay but it's coming though let's not mince words you don't buy your toys to not play with them um and so with yesterday's story they then announced uh evo nine tournaments and you're getting vegas japan europe singapore morocco brazil china middle east mexico where's it going to be in the middle east well it says middle east oh that's crazy i mean there's a flag but it says middle east so who knows it could be anywhere um and it's kind of just like it's interesting to watch like because when you see that type of reveal and i mean it was france before but it said you're up on the the thing here it is interesting because like you're go oh so you know how people feel about this you're well aware you didn't just buy this and not know and everyone's been pretty vocally you know uncomfortable with saudi arabia's purchasing of half of evo and you know fine and game people have been uncomfortable i know at least a couple that are like hell yeah and so knowing that everyone's got their eye waiting to see waiting for the inevitable because you know there's been events that have been happening around the evo timeline as well and invitations and so on it's like here is the scattershot announcement it's international it's going all over the place so why wouldn't it come here and it's like right you the distraction method by being everywhere is how you don't focus on the the one and why would you because it's worldwide it's everywhere now you know and it's interesting because it's in terms of marketing right you you you your strategy gets to be like you you announce the thing you've always wanted to but you make it exciting for people that have wanted access to a big event so people in singapore morocco and brazil and you know china are like mexico are popping off they're obviously like yeah that's awesome we get a tournament that we didn't have before that's super cool but all of that is like you're willing to spend the money where if you really could get what you wanted you would just go vegas japan saudi arabia but to soften the blow and to continue the washing you have to put more out there right i think there's more going on then of course well there's more than that yeah of course on a second layer i would say this is all me just speculating and thinking about what i what my impression is of it but i would say that like the second layer of it is um you know when bobby kottick buys the name guitar hero you got to put out a whole lot of guitar hero to make as much money back on what you spent your money on otherwise it's a bum investment so you don't buy the thing to keep it the same you got to do more you got to spend more you got to potentially spread it thin to blow it up and do what you think is going to expand it and the effect that likely has is you make i guess a lot of less significant smaller events that probably don't mean as much to the scene in the sense that you can't really center it around a main one people are not going to be able to certainly travel to multiple it's like what this does is create a series of less important things you know and again you don't want to the benefit and you have this as a side effect as well while again people in these different territories are having access to an event that they never had before so that's a positive right but i also know that if you look at evo japan and the way and like evo like and in europe and stuff like that with like uh france it's like it's not vegas sized as of an event it's a much smaller more you know transmittable transferable ballroom based major so that's probably going to be the way things look going forward every year and the idea of nine events nine evos a year means almost one a month um it's just a weird it's never gonna not be happening thing to do for what used to be like a major event and then you also have the like and we're going to get involved with the you know smaller things as well my end statement is as always support your locals because when they're done playing with their toys that's all you got left so uh i had two questions right when this happened the first of which is like oh they just want to kill every event that they don't own by flooding they're basically have a ball in every in every town it depends on whether arc uh revo um arc arc tour and tech end world tour and capcom pro tour like attach to those events or continue to do their own thing but but like they want they want to be the show in town every day yes everywhere um and the second a lot of money you want to you want to yeah was my was i think is the most important thing because we're talking about evo which is the biggest event and it's once a year is which is the real one because one of them is going to be the real one with the real winners of the real biggest tournament and why am i speaking suspicion where that one's gonna be so the one that will have the most money and the one that it's most centrally located on the world so so so as i described evo japan bit smaller evo france niece bit smaller a lot of these events bit smaller vegas has a contract right whenever they do these these these deals for a tournament you don't just go hey can we come back next year sure thing here you go sign the the paper no you agree to a major event for a extended period of time so that you can guarantee this weekend is going to be safe for you going forward so evo exactly so so evo's probably you know they left the mandalay bay um they were in caesars palace you know before that uh they're probably going to be locked into the vegas convention center yeah for however many years and that's the biggest venue you can get in in vegas and in the city so that seems like it would be the place that has the most standing to be the big one unless you own a country and you're willing to fly everybody out just to do it um there is probably discussion of an evo arena built into the line i think what we're gonna see is that the saudi arabia evo is going to in actuality be the most moneyed invitational ever in which they will just grab hundreds of good competitors and offer them to go out you are correct in that it will be the most moneyed and it will be it'll walk in and it'll attempt to become the capital the finals right the world finals there's a thing at the bottom of the graphic that says like world finals event or whatever that's just kind of listed on the timeline yeah but i don't think it's going to be invitational because if you look at the re-add comedy festival and the other stuff they're doing they want tourists they want people coming through so it's likely going to be the open event as it always is but there's going to be a definite like incentive behind the scenes i'm sure and tons of cash to get a lot easier for a lot of american competitors to drive to vegas than it is to fly to saudi arabia so there will be the facilitation of competitors who are known i'm sure to be able to make it out there to make it a competitive event i wouldn't be surprised this is all just random speculation guessing as things go but this is the thing it's like evo is coming out to try and kill all non saudi arabian owned fighting game events just straight they're trying to walmart their way into fighting game events which is like this seems like a no offense to anybody who works on this this seems like a massive fucking waste of money um because if it gets too bad and it gets too bullshit then people will just go back to their fucking local town meetups and shit right like i mean but that's same for golf same for wrestling same for you know hey woolly i have a question say you're gonna have evo in saudi arabia right now saudi arabia is not the most progressive country in the world right it's not how are you going to have a guilty gear tournament or tech intern in oh uh no that country at all no no no that's easy that's easy if you're um if you're visiting if you're outside it's the same way that uh uh comedians for example jessica kirsten who's gay went to the committee the re-ed comedy festival and was able to perform and make jokes about her identity and so on and not get flack for it it's like no if you're a part of the thing that is helping the image yeah if you're if you're if you're a part of the the the wash then you're you're good that's that so you get you get a little piece of paper that says you're one of the good ones yeah yeah you're you're part of the wash you're part of the wash it's all good so that's that's totally fine the the content to so on etc yeah that's all fun you know um i hope the competitors that take money to fly out there get paid big for the shit they're going to deserve a leave receive after they go well they they they do and and you know there's i mean so there's that there's that discussion that always happens which is like yeah there's a lot that they are getting and when you have like the comedians that are already fucking multi-millionaires going out to the re-ed comedy festival you know it's like yeah you guys have what you have and there's a difference between that and some random fgc person who has life changing money they're going to get from this or whatever so everyone make your own decisions and do what you want to do like it's it's you know i don't remember where i saw it there's a there is a difference i would say between the two i don't remember where i saw it but i remember when people were talking about like i think it was burr going out there which was the comment like it's crazy how being a millionaire can make you such a whore burr you already have millions yeah suddenly you become desperate for more millions and burr was the was the crazy one because it was like you are previously specifically called this out directly so what the hell you know but anyway i mean look ever again it's it's everyone you you do your thing i'm you i you make your decisions you you go as you are comfortable in as you see fit it's it's it's obviously as well like for people that i know that are like f can spend a lifetime trying to like get you know that working with fighting games and get it and and get into you know the the peak of it which is like again evo the big thing and then kind of just having it all sort of turn into this and stuff it just sucks because everything is out of everyone's control and there's just you're kind of like well i don't know how this happened but here we are and i don't know how long this is gonna last but potentially forever or until they get bored and this is just the the how we deal with it in the meantime and you know um i think that like i think that well just the difference between something being owned by individuals versus being owned by a nation by a government by a country we can there's going to get a different thing like we can remove the the Saudi Arabian like the ethical dilemma here like let's say this was just a company let's just say this was like that'd be i wouldn't give a shit that'd be completely different let me stop let me just finish this okay let's say um i don't know some esports company you never heard bought evo and just started flooding the channel with evo's right that's all so bad because it's trying to muscle out other events and have a monopoly on events in the in the effect that it has on evo yeah that that like that's also materially poor regardless of any other ethical consideration etc yes there's a difference but regardless but yes there is too much of that is just not great which again hey guitar hero fucking four times a year until you realize uh oh there's this brand is going to die time to make more guitar hero to get as much money out of it as possible before it completely dries up i foresee um this massive back and forth between people who take massive payouts to go down there and good for them saying why are you hating on me i just wanted the money and i was like but the money is to insulate your heart from people hating you that's the purpose of the money like you can't have both of the things like be be an adult and if you're gonna take your money take your hate with it that's the deal that you're making people like i'm i'm just everybody is going to do what they feel comfortable with and if you are drawing a line or not drawing a line i'm not it's the same we did this a month ago i'm not going to sit in the tower and yell anybody about players going and doing their thing it's like if you do it you do it that's fine i know people that are going to do it whatever and i know people that already did it and it's like yeah okay do your thing i'm i speak for no one but myself and i'm not talking about you high and i'm talking about me i'm saying that it's so embarrassing when you see somebody take money for something that's morally questionable and go why are you guys oh what the fuck right right right i hate you for any reason i want yeah i i think you can't tell me not to hate i i think the the the bill burr and like the kid the comedian stuff like the response there you can see how that's gone and um it it's really rough especially for him and like the what's the big deal and everyone being like dude come on you you know yeah it's embarrassing that's what i mean by like being adult and take your lumps like it's embarrassing yeah like and i'm not gonna tell like okay let's say let's say the difference uh let's say jimmy fighting games right that i know has been offered a million dollars cash no taxes whatever to go down and compete in the Saudi Arabian Evo right and he goes man i gotta take the money and like i go i'm not gonna tell you what to do because that's your own decision and that's a lot of money i would never tell you what to do but when you come back it comes with it on you for it it comes with the day of the rest of your life and you say stop that i'll say i didn't tell you what to do you don't tell me what to do either it's and what i'd say too as well is that uh the difference like bill burn particular got more of it than say like pete davidson who uh i think his statement because people people were like pete didn't your father die in 9-11 isn't that something and he said yeah i saw the numbers and i went that's crazy i'll do that and everyone's like oh that's so much more okay he just literally said that's so much more he straight up just said i saw the number and went holy shit i'll i'll do that yeah absolutely but i want the money and like end of discussion okay end of discussion there's nothing else to say there you know i'm gonna judge you in my heart but at least we don't have to do a dance what that that's it that's it like i got i'm like i got nothing like you see you there you are that's what it is and it's it's that simple you know the dance is so annoying it's so so um yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's it we don't uh you know me i don't like the ambiguities to the point you know uh but yes i i i i feel like the effect on the smaller events and the effect on the tours and all that stuff i i i i think the effect on those is obviously poor i think it's not a fact general generally i think the effect on the community will be significantly negative because the conversation we're having now is going to be made writ large and you are going to have yeah like let's just know it's competition standpoint you're gonna have competitors that might have one not go for moral reasons and then you have to go well was it a legit event because these people didn't go no the event is the one with the most high level competitors that is a that is not a coming conversation it is active it is happening right now as like yeah the the community is going through that right now absolutely let's say um world's best street fighter six player by most metrics doesn't go but he does go to ceo guess what ceo is now the new evo because the winner of that street fighter six tournament is probably the best one or capcom cup or you know whatever right but but the the strategy and the like this this really like this thing that the conversation we're having the word like this sucks and you care about the if you care about the the the games in the genre and whatever's going on then you know the impact it has is negative but on the higher level of it it's just like yeah but you ignore it and too bad and we just move on right that's been the strategy so far and that continues to be the strategy so ultimately it'll be like oh yeah well that player didn't go so fuck them and then this person's the champ and then they'll just and like whatever that that thing you're describing is of like we know in our hearts or whatever it's like yeah but your heart has no no value right what does have value is the goal that this person is standing on as they want first place and that's it the 10 events thing is crazy because i've been running the math in my head it's like the olympics coming out and saying by the way olympics are going to be happening every six months yeah in a different country forever and you go uh fuck that i don't have shit about that like yeah ridiculous no you can just like if you just want to talk about the fact that there's that many of them you know but but really like as far as like the marketing goes the brilliance of the move that is bringing more events to people in places that didn't have access to them large-scale events and giving those people a reason to be like no i'm super happy about this and i support it it's like that's a brilliant move you know what because it is a you you have that benefit you're bringing clearly for people internationally that is like yeah unquestionable you know what it reminds me of it reminds me of and this is kind of a global political situation right um so like let's say brazil brazil doesn't have an equivalent evo so you would go hey brazilians don't get excited for the gigantic event that's coming to your country is a never before seen event that's that's unique and is right yeah that's ridiculous right that's a fucking ridiculous thing to say that's too much pressure to put on any individual person do you have any idea how insane kof grand finals in evo mexico is going to go right and similarly it reminds me of when the g8 went to china a couple decades back and said hey you got to get your pollution shit under control and the official chinese response was all your countries got to have their industrial revolutions and go crazy with it and become the g8 but now that it's china's turn no no china climate's a problem that's not fair and they're kind of right mm like that's not fair and you can go well canada says the climate is really bad right now and we have to change it now and china gets to go we don't care actually but my hypocrisy is special pat um so they outpaced us on green energy anyway so so in conclusion play crushing force yeah crushing force crushing force shut the fuck up is the new you cowards and play crushing force you know you know what they're never gonna play at fucking Saudi Arabia evo they're never gonna have a full blown tournament of that fucking sailor moon game from hell uh uh the oh um yes yeah fighters s or whatever say yeah yeah yeah yeah sure dong dong ain't dong dong ain't making it that ain't running you know um yeah solved we have i solved this this entire well that you actually kind of solved it before solved it yesterday before you knew you're thinking ahead okay and just a couple other things toby fox might have something to do with toy story five he might be fucking with you though that like that's a definitely it's toby fox so the possibility is always there hold on a second brb excuse me uh yes toby fox might have something to do with the toy story five and we don't know what the fuck that is but he tweeted out uh the trailer and quote above it said uh let me just get the exact wording super excited for this finally being announced can't wait for you guys to see what we have in store for you this time yeah he sounds like he sounds like he's he's he's fucking around sounds like a troll but i don't know i don't know what the fuck that means that being said um even though toy story could have easily ended at three and would have been fine uh i do i don't know if you saw the trailer but i do have to say that i was like okay why are we coming back again and then oh yeah yeah i look fucking toy story are we doing another one and then the kid pulls out a ipad and locks in on a tablet and i go oh oh yeah yeah yeah no no no no no no no evil will they i will say this and i'll be saying this every time it comes up for years and years and years i genuinely believe that ipad children are the like smoking hazard of our generation yeah we already know the studies like this is fucking cooked man if you're not if you're not making an attempt to minimize or at least control the amount like it it has an effect we know this the data is there for sure um watching the eyes fucking dilate when the kid picks up the ipad in the trailer too as well and like drop all toys you're like that is a villain that the toy story has to defeat oh my god somebody in the chat just said led to asbestos to micro plastics to screen time man oh man i'm curious because because i'm imagining it's not just like like if you're gonna pull toby in for some reason i i'd imagine it's the software running on the ipad right like the little frog uh a tablet is gotta have some games on it and you're gonna need roblox and you're gonna need i have a nightmare image in my mind of scrolling through tiktok and seeing toy story five clips with motherfucking subway surfer the message of the movie my god we're totally heading there oh jesus christ joys is right forever man by the way willy you're doing a great job uh you're doing excellent with your with your baby and um you're sometimes it's gonna be hard like with the the almost no screen time kind of thing but then you know what's gonna happen you're gonna bring that baby out and they're gonna hang out with other babies and you're gonna look at those other babies and you'll be able to tell from a distance which kids of those are yep yep you can see it it's crazy no the tight rope the tight rope is you want to minimize but not to the point where they're so outside the norms and ostracized that you don't want to have the kid you don't want to have your child be the only kid in class i hadn't had and watched the Simpsons that week that was an un unable to make friends and and exactly right so you have to keep it within the lane that's the that's the trick you know for sure like i was i was playing uh i was playing blocks we were at a family event like you know like an early learning thing for for the babies at our local elementary school and my boy was going through the shapes and he was like is this a pentagon and i'm like nobody it's octagon because it has eight sides we're going through that right and then a five-year-old next to him picked one up and said is this a pentagon and it was a fucking square dude and i was just like man and it's in kindergarten this is dire but the other thing i've had though a couple you know days ago i was talking about this exact thing and i was like but you know what else though here's the other problem me woolly i fucking love screens dude so screens rule they're my whole life dude i have built a fucking career and house and family on screens screens are awesome so we've had the discussion right me and page are constantly going over this we're like okay how much screen time is appropriate for what age for blah blah blah blah right what type of screen time like you know i'm not going to let my kid play reasonable nine at age 10 like my parents would have you know why it's that that's not appropriate for children i should not have been allowed to play reasonable 211 that's fucked up you gotta check et cetera et cetera et cetera right and it's like how much okay if your tours are done and your homework's done and you had dinner with the family half hour hour like we'll figure it out right but hey dad how come i can only get an hour but every single night after i go to bed i know you're playing like mmo's for three hours oh oh smoking cigarette parent do as i say and not as i do and the answer the answer is going to have to be no i wasn't that that's you oh the house of cards you build oh the house you build on the sand sir and the tide is coming no the tide is coming in that's that's dangerous right that's that's really dangerous right um and the answer will actually probably be um it's for work yes yes now you're fucking cooking now you're thinking with portals it's for work it is for work correct and you go i me and your uncle woolly got one in a million shots and we got really lucky and so we got to turn this into a profession but you probably won't get that lucky because i raised you better and you're not nearly as traumatized therefore you're not as funny um and um you're gonna be a doctor so uh get back to your medical textbooks okay well now not no you're not now you're losing me now you're turning into my dad now you're losing me i don't like that last part we don't need that okay so so me and i have talked about this he doesn't have to be a doctor okay okay he doesn't have but if he's not a doctor you can marry a doctor when you tell your kid they've got to be a doctor or a lawyer you turn out like me so that's not true no but sometimes a lot of doctors and lawyers got told by their parents that they were going to be doctors and then they just they did it yeah they just did it no i i okay like when my dad did that and i was like with what authority like you know it was like okay yeah uh huh word cool got you love and support your children so that they trust you when you tell them they should become doctors i uh i have my i have my particulars and they're my they're my own hangups on that but it's the same as um what are you doing cut your hair you'll never get a job that way yeah right you know and it's like motherfucker i'm not working anywhere that has an issue with my haircut no like i'm not getting that job you know and yeah unfortunately in a million other realities i would have to fucking suck it up and eat shit and then eventually go damn i guess they were right but in this one in this one i'm kind of fucking crushing it so i'm gonna stand on it right now and be like yeah how about not you know um i i fucking hated that that qa uh life i was for i was i was stuck in for a while and that shit was torturous at times uh it was a job however yeah but one thing they did get right was the slogan your parents were wrong they were rolling with that for a while for game testing it was the idea that like oh i mean that doesn't really fit for the guy who's just not getting promoted and testing for like 10 and 15 years because that's no no no i suppose not but the idea for you it was true it that's it my timeline for you it was for my timeline it worked out bro my mom still does not understand even this podcast internet radio show i keep telling her it's a it's a radio show and then she goes like on the radio i'm like no on the internet like the rain like god damn it like god damn it um okay i wanted to briefly mention uh two cool things one the folks that made the fighting game uh checkmate showdown which was that chess and fighting game at the same time thing bad res games they're based on material nice folks um they had announced their next project which is called a fighters nova uh mindara and it is an rpg that is like um almost like running around a world sakin densetsu style getting into fighting game fights as with the dialysis to spell this i'll send the trailer over here uh there's a kickstarter they're running yeah as always try it like check it out see if you're interested but whatever uh i i i i leave it up to your discretion um but yeah it is a tag-based uh you and a partner and your team going into fighting game fights which is almost like you know tales games you get into like side view action juggling sort of systems um but yeah they they decided to go from checkmate showdown as a like prototype for fighting game mixed with chess into now very interesting concept open rpg yeah so virtual quest tried it and failed let's see if they can manage yeah again they're uh they're i i i i believe you know they have they have some fun ideas and the character designs that they're showing off so far are pretty cool um they got they got some nice art going for it so i'm hoping for good things uh wanted to give that a shout out um and we don't have the time to get into it this time maybe so maybe for next time but uh the trailer for the follow-up to r r r has been released and it's called varanasi to the world so we can talk about that i'm gonna i'm gonna click to a random moment and hopefully something cool is happening oh oh yeah you you're gonna see some shit oh that's cool you're gonna see some shit this thing is the most ambitious film i have ever seen a trailer for in my life like our r r was like kicking dust putting together fucking a hut making k it's the it's working in caves compared to what's going on here varanasi is so insanely ambitious i can't believe it very crazy i don't know what the fuck is going on you can't possibly so you're gonna need to take it in um there's wild shit happening in this trailer and i'm i'm i can't wait the establishing if r r r started up an mcu of sorts with like the way that ended and the characters that like had their awakening moments this is taking that and trying to tell the everywhere all things all times story um it is the it is the omni movie wild shit uh all right let's take some letters hey if you want to send a letter send it to castle super beast mail gmail.com that's castle super beast mail gmail.com there is one over here coming in from um name not given but uh hello papa chewie and father fuckface the the analog balochro from a couple episodes ago reminded me of some of the goofy names people use for dps meters in ff14 the game does by default log every instance of incoming and outgoing damage in the chat window under dedicated tab it's not a dps meter though it's just a chronological list of the actions taking place yeah it's just an event log scrolls too fast for human eyes to interpret so instead people use third party plugins uh to see the average dps and it's against to us to speak of them so people jokingly refer to such plugins as my abacus or my cousin excuse me since theoretically you could be doing the math yourself really fast in your head but you're obviously not uh are there are other examples of dumb cover words for things that that aren't explicitly said yeah i felt really stupid i was talking to um god who was it was max and kenny and steve a million years ago on their stream and i was abacus abacus um and kenny was telling a story for like fucking 15 minutes about a day that he was trying to find the ice cream man and he was like really deep into the story and i was like kenny what the fuck why do you want ice cream so bad and everybody was just like he's talking about drugs pat he's trying to buy but oh yes oh drugs i'm i am hip with it i am yes one okay so this is before i moved out to british columbia before i started doing drugs right i would like one weed please well i have gone to the store and bought one weed but i want it to be an illegal weed no no i want weed in the can weed in the can is the best had weed in the can uh it's great it's like a coca cola that just makes you feel real good we got him um yeah see that's funny because like just like you just ask reggie a question and see what kind of answer you get yeah um i refer to uh because for them it's at this point it's whatever but when i i'm focusing on youtube on on let's play stuff and i don't want to have conversations with chat logs people can't see because people would get annoyed about like a one-way thing and i don't want to have the chat then rolling through the vaude as much and again it's fine if you do it whatever i just i i like the clean lp thing and i think other people don't want that want that therefore i'm like time to times i refer to the universe or shivers you know as a as a thing and and ultimately you know you want to repeat the question back if anything and such that it doesn't detract because you don't want to have the one way conversation and yeah that's why i put that shit up on the fucking side so i don't have to do that is so annoying that is the easy way to do it that is easy and you know what youtube doesn't show up there because of twitch rules um so i will when i respond to youtube uh i just don't include the question because youtube questions are terrible they're awful uh twitch does not like the idea of displaying both chat youtube chat they don't like that oh they're not those rules changed today they just changed that literally today literally just crazy talk is undefeatable get the fuck out get the fuck out you can do mixed chats now that's crazy oh my god see now i gotta figure out how to do that fuck i don't know how to do that oh my god um all right and uh let's take one over here um hello vagabond woolly and monster pat normally um all four creators branching out and trying new things that said are there any creatives who you actually want to be typecasted or pigeonholed into a specific type of creative output uh for me the answer most of my life has been guy richie i think he should only make movies about london gangsters and intersecting plot threads i know sherlock holmes have some shooters but i'd rather watch snatch lock stock and two smoking barrels and the gentleman basically any day of the week yeah that is that is a great answer um you could have said yoko taro up until today but that doesn't apply anymore but yeah i think guy richie is a great answer i think that one dieskay ishawatari should never be allowed to make anything but a fighting game for as long as he lives it doesn't have to be guilty gear but it must be a fighting game yes but are you lying i'm not lying okay it has to be guilty gear doesn't it it does have to i would prefer it if it were guilty gear personally um dieskay's blaze blue you know what fuck it blue's got some stuff demon and baby yeah um all right last one uh dylan says there are australis pat and regulus woolly dylan here i feel a strange obligation to mention this given that woolly didn't know dino crisis three existed as is the case for many pat neglected to mention but dino crisis three takes place in the far future 2548 and it takes place in space as a result all dinosaurs are weird mutant alien freak versions of popular dinosaur species which in itself was cool as fuck this makes it all the more depressing the game is complete ass given what they were willing to do with setting up the setting of the enemies what are your examples of a cool as fuck concept or something like that that fall fell flat for unrelated reasons being brach dino crisis i didn't know that that's cool that's crazy they fucking jason and spaced it i think that zeno blade chronicles x is a really cool take on the zeno blade idea but they put it on the we you and therefore it was bad so i'm glad that we can see that take now off of that piece of shit i'm just shooting a grave and i don't care so reminds me that guy who goes and dances on lindenby johnson's grave every day so once upon a time there was a game named chrono cross this should have just made it its own thing and chrono cross was brave enough to try a couple of things and some of them worked and some of them didn't but i like remembering the things that did and then there was radical dreamers which was only available on a hotel tv super nintendo so you know that happened too i suppose chrono cross deserves justice man no it doesn't it could have been it could have been it wasn't but it could have been oh by the way we didn't talk about this but they were re-released final fantasy 7 today on on steam and it's a new version by dot emu it's a completely busted piece of fucking shit so i could continue pretending i didn't hear that news and we can just live our lives yeah absolutely perfect all right see you next week you