The Ayn Thor Gets Played

This is a headgum podcast. Oh, I'm sorry I'm late, Matt. I'm sorry I'm late. As you can see, I'm in full traction. Yeah, it's okay. What's going on? Are you okay? I fucked up. I fucked up bad. You did. Yeah. So, I love this little machine-neighing door, right? Yeah. I love it. It is so good. And I can't wait to talk about it. But I was like, what if I could fold in half? You thought, what if you could fold in half? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, you know, it's- Which way? Well, I tried one way and it didn't work, so I tried the other way and that definitely didn't work. Oh, hell. So, I was like, you know, it was nice about this little device. It's a screen that's protected when it's asleep. I was like, my screen's never protected. I was going to stop you right there. Last night when I go to bed- You don't have a screen? Last night, my eyes are my screen. My mouth is my headphones. I'm so sorry. So I, last night before I go to bed, I was like, you know what? I'm going to try and close up. Mm-hmm. So, I folded. I heard a crunch and a pop. Oh, God. And I was like, oh no, the hinges don't go that way. Yeah. So I tried the other way and I heard a pop and a tear and a juice. And a juice. I heard a juice. Anyway, my, my, my, my, my, my mirror, my mirror brings me to the hospital. Yeah. And she, she, they said that I'm lucky to be alive. Yeah. It's like, I don't think you're supposed to bend all the way in half. Like, you could like get close, like touching your toes as close as you can get to bending fully in half. They do it in Cirque du Soleil all the time. They're folding it in half. Oh, I'm so sorry. They're folding it in half willy nilly. Yeah. What it turns out, you need to be trained for that. Yeah. You can't just see, you can't just see a handheld video game device and say, that should be me. Yeah. Yeah. You're not typically supposed to do that. I guess I've never tried it myself. They said I, I dislodged my stomach and it is now inside my rib cage. Heather. I'm not the force of me trying to close. You have to just be more careful. I can't, you know, Nick's not here this week. I have butterfied my, my pelvis. Jesus. So when I tried to fold the back way, you tried to go the other way. Well, I tried the first way. I tried the way I would think we would all try. You tried to do like, like an evil dead creature or something. I tried the first wave. Like front, front, head to knees. Yeah. And that's why I heard the snap and a pop. Yeah. Then I was like, oh, okay, that was my hinges. That's not going to work. So I tried the other way. You don't have. That's how I hurt the juice. Yeah. I, I butterfied my pelvis on that, on the, on the reverse fold. Heather. The bones are in the wrong way. The bones are in the wrong way. They're in the wrong places now. My stomach is under my rib cage. I, I, in the, in the force of trying to fold, I collapsed my lower intestine and it's now at the tops of my legs. I think I know what you did wrong. What? You're focusing on folding. You picked two different ways that didn't work. Right. You need to fold in. I got fold in. You got to fold. Hold on, man. I got it right now. I'll do it right now. Oh, God. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, please. You were right, man. That's the way I fold. We emulate yesteryear and visit the future of portable devices as we discuss the EIN Thor. This week on Get Played. Welcome to Get Played, your one stop show for good games, bad games, and every game in between. It's time to get played. I'm your host, Heather Ann Campbell. Along with my fellow host, he's not here. Tiger Weigur. It's been a long day without you, my friend. It's been a long day till I see you again. He's smiling. I don't even know that song. Why do I know that? Because you know it in your heart. I'll just tell you, and this is, of course, Mr. Games, the franchise, the finisher, Matt Apodaca. Hello, everyone. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the premiere of Video Game Podcast, where this week we're really excited to talk to one another about something that Matt and I share in common. But what were you about to say? Have you seen one, if not all of, the Fast and Furious movies? I've seen the one where the guy's dead. So you've seen the one where the song is from. It is? Yeah. So like the, or did you see the one after it where he's not in it? Or you saw it where he's in it? I saw the one where he says goodbye via CG. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. So they have their one last sort of race down PCH, I think, or something, they go different ways, and that song is playing. And I love those movies. I love those movies forever. I mean, I think, so I've seen that one. I've seen the one where they drive through skyscrapers. That's the same one. Same one? I've seen one where they go to space. That one's different. Okay, I've seen that one. Yeah. I've seen the first one. You should watch all of them. Varying degrees of good. Is the one where they drop out of like the B-52, is that another one? That is a different one as well. I've seen that one too. Maybe I have seen all of them. They're great. They're really, really fun. They play a role. That moment in that movie where they're driving away and they're playing that song, I think I cried out loud. I did too. I was like, I cried. I cried and I'm not, I didn't even know the guy's name. Yeah, Paul Walker. I didn't know Paul Walker's name. And I was like, I feel like I'm going to die. I'm so sad about this. Yeah, it's tough. It's, and because you know what? It's sad. It's a very sad thing to have. Brothers saying goodbye. Friends. Don't even let me start it. I only got brothers. Friends like this. And then they got to say goodbye. Yeah. That's tough. It's tough stuff. That's really hard. Because friends is brothers. Friends. That's right. Comrade. That's right. Comrade is friends. Yeah. Yeah. Like if you ever have to say to somebody, I'll see you on the other side, brother. There's a tear coming out of your eye. Desmond from Lost. He's all lost, right? Is that hand? No, that's Charlie. Okay. Which one's Desmond? That's not baseball. Desmond is... I've seen all of Lost. Okay. Desmond is the guy who's in the hatch actually. Oh. And he's like the hottest person that's ever lived. Desmond is the guy who does the record. Yes. And he says, I'll see you in another life, brother. It's fucking good, man. Good stuff. And then he dies? At some point, I think he does. But does he die after he says that line, or does the other person die? No, he says that. It does look like a refrain that he hits people with pretty often. Well, if he says that right before he dies, that's killer. That's pretty good. Yeah. It is good. What would you hope, if you had the bravery and courage to articulate like a really noble exit line, what would you hope yours would be? I'm not shitting. Like I'm not shitting. Brave. Like if you know you're going out and you have the wherewith it, because I know in real life, mine will just be, no, please, no, don't let me die. Not like this. But if you could like be awesome, what would you want to say? I always think about the what Kratos says, I think in Ragnarok. What the fuck? First off, spoilers, I guess he's going to die. No, he doesn't. He doesn't know. He says this as a thing because Freya at some point says to him something about because I think early on in the game, they read a death prophecy, right? And Freya says something about like, because he's asking her about it and like what the implications of that would be. And she's like, oh, but I sense that you eventually dying is not what your concern is. And why is that? And he says death can have me when it earns me. Oh, man. I'm in the forest when he said that. I do remember that moment. It's fucking good. It's like right before they get to like her wedding area or something and free her from a curse. Yeah, they're about to fling the garter. Yeah, that's what they're gonna fling the garter. I think the nastiest thing that they do at weddings. What? The nastiest thing they do at weddings. Fling a garter? I just think it's so like. That didn't happen at your wedding. It didn't happen at my wedding. Or mine. We stopped because we were like, we're not doing any of the dumb shit that people do at weddings. No, no, no. It's whack crawling under the dress. What? We all know what that looks like. I have not seen that. I've seen it. Is that just like a pornography talk? Well, let me find it and it's like, okay, you're simulating eating out your wife in front of everybody. It's fucking gross. Wait, I think you've watched the video that is not about a wedding. I feel like I've been to weddings where they're like doing that. I'm not sure it's a simulation. I think you're just watching it. They're like, uh-oh, I can't find it. What? Do you guys know about this? I have seen this in person. So, so a guy goes under a dress and then he pretends to eat out his wife. That's not what he's actually doing. But like the. With a garter belt? It's a, it's addition by subtraction. It's sort of like a, or like a A to C kind of where you're sort of like, oh, he's under the dress. Is she squatting? She's on like a chair. So, oh, so she's on a chair and he goes under the chair? Under the chair to get the garter on the leg to then fling it out at his homie. Why does he go under the chair? Is it like a stool? No, I'm describing it wrong. And I'm just, we're just never going to, we're just never going to. Is he face up? Like holding her ass? No, no, no, no, no. So he was like, let's see. He uses his teeth. Yeah, it's his teeth. What? He's eating her teeth? No, no, no, no, no. With his teeth? No. What's happening is she's on the chair. She's seated like this. She's seated like this. Dress is out. Puffed out. Maybe legs up. Legs up. It's some way. Legs up. But not like gynecologists. Not like in stirrups or something. Okay, okay. So legs lifted. Legs maybe to lend a hand to assist in getting the garter. Oh, okay. Okay. But he's like crawling under there and he's like, I'm going to find this damn shit. Hold on. Does he come in from the front or the back? Like is he sliding? Yeah, he sort of does a Danny Zuko like under the tee bird. No. I'm one of those rolling boards. Well, now it's dead serious. No, no, no, no. Which way does he use to come in from behind or in the front? I don't want to have to act it out. I don't want to act it out. I don't want to act it out. I don't want to act it out. I don't want to act it out. I don't want to act it out. He's like, so he would basically be like... It's an audio medium. Oh, let me... Okay, yeah. So he would be like, maybe get down on one knee kind of. Oh, in front of her. In front of her. Okay. And then maybe put the dress over and be like, where is this dancing? Like he's delivering a baby. Kind of, but the baby is the garter. And he's going to pull off the garter and then he comes back out from under the dress and he's like, ta-da. Yeah, maybe he got in his teeth and then he flings it at his homies. But he's got it in his teeth. He might have had it in his teeth. The implication being he bit it off her leg. I'm just saying, that's what it seems like it's weird to do then in front of your family. No disrespect if you did it at your wedding. You're nasty. I don't have any judgment for this tradition because all marital traditions are strange. Yeah, dancing with your parent? Very weird. Very strange. I did not dance at all at my wedding. We didn't do it at mine. We had live band carrier. No dancing. No. We went straight from the ceremony to a nice dinner because our guests were like, we're going to have a nice dinner because our ideal paradise was sitting down. Dinner is the most important part actually. Yeah. Okay, well. Yeah, so. Jesus Christ. This is the wedding. How did we get here? I don't even remember. We were talking about Nick in some way. No. Nick is gone and you were like, oh, we did see you a long time since I've seen you, my friend. Fas and the Furious. Fas and the Furious. How did we get here? How did we get to a wedding and eating out your wife in front of your family? I don't remember. I think I have to go to the hospital. In addition to Rains being over there, we have sitting in with us, a new headgum freelancer, Sean, say hi, Sean. Hi, Sean. Hi, Sean. Sean was the one that gave us the, if you were listening and you were like, whose voice told us that it was the teeth? That was Sean. Yeah. I saw it once at a wedding and I'm gay now, so just put two and two together. This is why I'm trying to stop this. We can't keep going on like this. No, it's just a strange thing to do. It's strange. I don't like it. It was awful. Yeah. I think a conga line is the best we can do. I bet it's a lot of this too. No, that's worse. Yeah. I bet it's a lot of the family going, whoo. Yeah. Like that fake wooing, which really grinds my gears. Yeah, because it's like sort of like everybody's in on it. Like there's going to be fucking later and you're like signing off on it kind of. It's sick and it's nasty and nobody should do it anymore. Yeah, like it's okay to be like woo, but if I were to be like, like you're eating her out, then like I'm in trouble. Yeah, then everyone's kicking me out of the wedding saying I ruined it. That's on video, Heather. How could you do this? We didn't have a videographer either. We didn't either. We were like, this is for us. Did my aunt surreptitiously hold up a phone during the ceremony even though we told everybody not to? Absolutely. I was at your wedding and I did not videotape it. Because we had Jacob Waissaki tell everybody, put their fucking phones away and everybody, but my aunt listened. Well. Anybody know what? Now I have a video of the ceremony. I guess that's nice. And it is nice. Yeah. Weddings are very funny, but you know what else is fun? What? Video games. Our fun and our co-host, Nick, is out of town right now. He's doing a Doughboyz live show. That's right. So he's not injured. He's not sick. He's just, you know. He's just in the worst place you could be. Orange County. His hierarchy of shows is that typically the other show has to take a little precedence once in a while because it is the boy that keeps the lights on. Unless we're going to Japan and then he'll say, fuck you. Yes, that's right. That is true. They have to delay a major part of the show until later. Everybody's mad. So if you like our show better than Doughboyz, figure out how to get us back to Japan. Figure it out. Figure it out. Actually, there's a lot you could be doing, a little more you can be doing. The listeners aren't really holding up there into the bargain here. I think that's not true. They're doing a great job, but from my understanding, podcasters are supposed to be really rich. And I'm not really there yet. I'm trying to get rich. Really there. I'm not there yet at all. So listeners, start making me rich. Yeah, start making us rich. This is 1-800-GET-PLAY. That's right. Yeah, so you're actually, what you're doing now is that you're being charged per minute for listening. Your donations are helping keep us make the shows that matter to you. Yes. And you know what? Today we're going to celebrate that by talking about an extremely optional niche device. I think that the people who listen to this show want us to talk about niche devices. I think so. Or they would have stopped listening to me talk about Sega years ago. Well, yeah. And this is, I mean, we'll get into it. By the way, the burn last week that you guys got on me about how I was, my family and my thing was all about, we were all secondary devices. So you're teasing a future burn, actually. This episode comes out first. This comes out, this will be out before that. Then let's cut it. You sure? Yeah, I don't want to tease a burn in reverse. It stung me so much I thought thinking about it all day. We could leave this part in so people would be like, can't wait to hear what this burn is and then you can hear the burn on Patreon.com. Look, they're trying to make us rich. Oh, wait, it's a get Patreon? Yeah, that was on the DLC. Oh, you're right. All right. We can keep all this in. We can keep all this in. We have to keep this, but we can't say what the burn was. Yeah, it was a great burn that made me go home and think about my entire life. I felt really smart for nailing it. It was nailed. It was nailed. I don't usually do stuff like that. I went home and I was like, I joke about my status as the other type, the non-mainstream type, but until you illustrated it with that burn, I was like, oh, my whole life has been the other type. It's never because I'm ironically chasing something that I think is of lesser quality. It's not like I'm super into really, really cheap wire-foo Hong Kong movies. No, sure, sure, sure. I'm chasing something I think is actually good. I like mini-disc because I was like, oh, man, portability, fucking form factor. The whole thing is like a great, it's a re-recordable CD package. Incredible device. Nobody fucking wants a fucking mini-disc player. I have a friend in my improv group that she would always come to us. We'd be like, have you seen this show? Have you seen this show? It would always be some show we've never heard of. Then they ended up being popular shows like Dairy Girls and things like that, but she was the only person that was watching them. For a while, we would say that she had different TV than everybody. It just seemed like you have different TV. We don't know what you're talking about. To the point now where she'll mention a show, and even if it is super popular, like Severance or something, we're like, what are you talking about? That's crazy. That's great. Fun to have little bits. Yeah, it's fun to have bits. Fun to have bits. With your friends. Yeah. We're going to maybe, hey, maybe we'll stumble upon a few today. Maybe we'll come up with some new ones today. Without Nick here, I expect this to be a serious show. Yeah, I sort of behave more when Nick's not here. Because I don't have ... Your brother. Yeah, I don't have my brother in arms. You don't have to, the comrade. Yeah. I'm going to go buy five and then it turns into a clasp. 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That's all right. Yeah, no, we're good resident merchant. You don't have to. No, I can do it. I can stay. I can inject wisdoms and soundbites. No, you know what? What are you guys talking about this week? We're going to end up talking about the Eintor handheld. Yeah, it's a it's a it's like a small emulator device runs Android. I can do it. No, it's okay. You know, I can do it. Let I'll give me one of them. Give you one. Yeah, give me one. No, they're extremely hard to come by, my dear. My dear. Matt, it's been a long time. I want you to know, I just learned how a wedding works. And I'm really excited to get your garter belt if that's what you need me to do. I'm already married. Don't intend to do it again. What about you? Heather, do you want me to wed you? No, I'm all right. Thank you so much, resident evil merchant. That's okay. That's okay. I feel like I got to feel for time since next night. You actually don't have to do that. We're trying to be good. What is your favorite TV dinner dessert? Oh, recently, like, like, so in a TV dinner, the little, I feel like it's typically brownie. You got cobbler. Oh, it could be cobbler. You've got brownie. You've got apple pie, but it's deconstruct. So it's like what? Just the skin in a pile. It's apples and then crust, but in the wrong order. So it'll be like, okay. Yeah. What's your favorite? Rich. What's your favorite? Brownie. Yeah. Yeah, I like the brownie. The brownie is probably, because I think it probably is the one if you're heating up a TV dinner heats up the best. Mm-hmm. Just, see, Nick's not the only one that needs to talk about food is I'm just demonstrating my real ability for the role. He's not the only one that needs to do it. Yeah. No. Anybody can talk about food. Anybody can talk about food. I like, I like the cherry cobbler. What was the thing I heard about? Now we don't have time to get into it. What is it? What? I thought I heard something recently about RFK cutting off an animal's penis or something. It was a squirrel. A squirrel, right? He cut off the penis of a squirrel. But from my understanding, from what I've seen of squirrels, they're not just out. So you have to like, will it out in some way? He jacked it off. That guy needs to find the line. Yeah, you know what? I would say to be polite, he's a little bit too strange. Yeah, he's, I agree. He's like a... He needs to pick one. Yeah, I don't approve of any of that behavior. And I share vocalization with that guy. So... Yeah, yeah. I don't know there because apparently that's off limits. What is? Making fun of his voice. Is that off limits? To Fendi God, who you are. If I say that I sound, you know, in the neighborhood of the guy... Yeah, that's fine for you to say. That's not fine for me to say. It's not fine for me to say what I would say about it. I was there first. You were there first. But he maybe he also has La Plaga. You know what? I think if any living person has it, it might be him. It might be him. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you cut off his squirrel's penis. Who knows when it comes next? It was actually a raccoon's penis. A raccoon's penis. And he wanted to study them later. Study! He's like for sure... Doing a lot of heavy lifting. He's for sure... You know what's so crazy? What? Like just to think about like... How do we know that about that man and he still has a job? He tells people this. He tells people. You know like... I'm trying to... How do I explain this? JFK. JFK? Blown away. What else do we have to say? I just think like you take somebody like him and was he like a perfect guy? Probably not. He probably if he had lived, he probably would have become like an annoying president in the way they all do. But he's this sort of like platonic ideal of like the Democratic Party and he was like this lady. It might not be his way. That's okay. His sin is that he was horny. Yeah, he's a horny dude. That his head wasn't very solid. But... Whoa! People are mad at him for it. I think people would have been so upset if he'd been shot and nothing happened. It's not funny. But you get... You do... You have him and then you have his other little family members and they get worse and worse as time goes on. Hold on, hold on. His first brother is an enormously positive force for change. Yes, absolutely. He gets killed. He gets popped too. Yeah, he gets popped in the 60s because he is preaching that the poor need to be represented by government. So you got those two guys. And you got those two. You got those two. They get popped. Yeah. Then after that, they get a little bit worse. Then you have the one that gets in the plane crash. Handsome. Yeah. And then they just kind of like keep going on and on and on. And now we're at this one and we're like he's... He fucking sucks. They're like snokes. They're like snokes. He's been replicating versions too many times. Yeah, absolutely. Maybe you'll hear a little bit more about Snoke in the coming weeks. Yeah, maybe. I think you have a question to ask me. How is this feeling? You like this banter? I want to go back to normal. All right. Well then, Matt, I got one question for you. What are you playing? Merge, thank you so much. I'm playing... Merge out! I forgot that you now have a catchphrase. Merge out is pretty good. Of like the sort of new... Because you know, not that it's the same every week. We always get something. We always get new information from the merchant. Yeah, yeah. But the fact that he kind of debuted a catchphrase, I think last week... Was it? I think it was. And then we didn't really comment on it. But now that we've heard it a second time, he kind of just added it in on his own. We kind of... I kind of liked it. He didn't have to ask us. He also is third person in his own name now. The Merge. I mentioned last week that I'm playing Max Payne. I always stumble slightly when I'm about to say Max Payne because I'm very close to calling it Mad Max every single time. Because very much like Mad Max, this Max is pretty upset. He's actually pretty mad. Great. You could call him Mad Max also. But his name is Max Payne. Right. Do you think he's short for Maximilian or Maximum? I don't... I mean, Maximum Payne sounds like a kind of video gamey thing. Maximilian Payne does not... You'd be like... Hey, there are Maximilian Payne. Yeah, that sounds like he'd be like Glorikrov's landowner. Yeah. So I'm playing that. And I mean, I'm playing... The thing about this device that we'll get into, the Aint Thor is that I'm popping in and popping out of a lot of stuff. Oh, okay. Right? So when you were gone the other day, I was talking about playing WarioWare Touched on the DS, which I described to Nick. Maybe I'll get your opinion on this if you'd care to share it. I think it's a perfect video game actually. It's an incredible game. I think of WarioWare packages. It's just great. It's really, really fun. Is that the one... Or is it the first WarioWare where you have to pick a nose? Yeah, this is the one that I described to Nick because I was like, you see this and then, if you guys don't know, Ranch and Sean, it's a DS game, so it utilizes the two screens. The second screen is a touch screen on the DS typically. The game will be on both screens and you'll have to interact with the bottom screen to progress into the mini-game. And they're like 10-second-long mini-games basically. And in one of them, like a snot will drip from the top screen to the bottom and it'll say snip it. And so you have to cut it and then when you cut it, some of it falls down, but then the rest of it goes back up with the nose and that's how you beat that game. What I like about this version though is that, I mean, these games in general, these WarioWare games, is that they don't teach you what you're supposed to do kind of and so you kind of have to guess what the solution is. Yeah, it'll be like jump and you're on a bike and you're like, what the fuck? And then all of a sudden, a log will roll across the screen and you'll be like, oh shit, and you press a button and then it'll be like, good job. But like because you've played video games before, they're intuitive in some way, but the DS technology was so new that a lot of them you're like, wait, what the fuck am I supposed to do? Oh, okay, okay. Like there's a plate spinning one that they don't have like two, you know, long sticks and plates spinning on top of them and they'll start to wobble and you have to figure out which one you have to tap on the screen to get it to spin a little bit so then you can address the other one. It's such incredible game design that I am just like, every game should be WarioWare. I think it should be in the conversation with like Tetris. Like I think it's like that good. It's a great, it is a great set of games. And it's also great that it is like spinning plates isn't funny. But the context of telling you to do it on a video game is funny. Yeah. It's like, it'll be stuff like fix the sofa. It'll be like stuff you would never think you have to do in a video game and the sofa will start leaning and pillows will start sliding. Yeah. And you'll like put them back into place and they'll be like, good job. My favorite one of these, I haven't seen all of them yet because I'm like burning through them. They're so fun because I remember I had like a sick day when I was a kid with the DS and that was like one of the games that I had. And I just like tore through WarioWare in like a day. I felt like so sick, but I was like, I just have to do something. Right. Ripped through all of it. Right, right. There's one where it'll be two sort of like muscle guys and they'll have like a piece of gum or like some sort of like string in their mouth. Like sort of lady in the tramp style. And the prompt will say tickle and they'll be standing there. And then one of them will raise their hairy armpit and you got to tickle it. So then they like and then like let go of the thing that they're holding their mouth that snaps the other one in the face. They're so stupid. Yes. How are they coming up with this stuff? It's great. I wish that was my job. I could do that all day. Come up with WarioWare. It feels like the egg sketch from I think you should leave. That's what it feels. That's perfect. That's a WarioWare game. Now you're looking at a nude egg. The hell? So I'm doing that and I've been playing a lot of Deep Rock Galactic Survivor on by Aint Thor actually which is a Steam game. Okay, wow. Which we can get into that later. That's a game I know Nick really likes too but I hadn't played it since it released in 1.0 so there were some changes made to it. And that to me is like a game where like TV's on. I'm just doing that. It's like Vampire Survivors but you're like mining for materials also so you're like going around and they're killing a bunch of big alien bugs and stuff and you're just moving and then you're upgrading weapons as you go along and it's so, so fun. Okay. And then you get experience points and those are like populated on screen as like light blue like balls and then you get them and then you can upgrade the weapons and you're kind of just like well this is all video games need to be actually. I don't need much else. Just movement and fun and I love it. That's great. And you can upgrade your movement speed to pretty fast actually. Not fast enough probably. Probably not fast enough. But from where you start to where you can end up. I watched a speed run of Sonic Frontier's first boss and it just looks like a Dragon Ball anime. Like there's no, it's just pure kinetic energy and it was so beautiful. I should have recorded my speed run of putting it in and turning it off. Unbelievable. Unnecessary. Heather what are you playing? My month of Pokemon continues. And I've hit a wall in the card game pocket. Okay. This last season just ended and I've hit Master Ball the last four seasons I think three seasons and this time I didn't get past Ultra 2 which is, then I would have to progress through Ultra 3 and Ultra 4 in order to hit Master Ball. I hit, like I have all of the cards necessary to make all of the decks. I'm following leaderboards. I'm making decks that are the meta of the current season and I could not break down through, it was either tremendously bad luck because it's also, it's not that complicated a game to play. Like you know what your strategy is with any particular deck. Uh huh. Fucking get killed. And so next season, because they also start you two levels below where you, where you began. So this season I started at Ultra 3 and I lost my way to Ultra 2. Like didn't even win enough to stay in Ultra 3. So next season I'm going to start below Ultra Ball which I haven't even seen for like five or six months now and that's humiliating. It's humbling. Question for you. Yeah. Not to jump ahead but because this is an Android device, the Aintelwork. I could play it on that. You could play it on there because it's in the Google Play Store. Yeah. I hadn't thought about giving that a go. No, because I really like the fact that it's on my phone all the time. I know that you can play Slay the Spire 2 on this thing. Yes. Which is nuts. That's a game that Nick plays on an iPad. I've been thinking about getting Marvel Snap on there but I can't do it. I can't. You can do whatever you want. No. Magic the Gathering Arena? No. So I'm playing, you know, Pokemon in the Card Game Pocket and Losing which is just real humbling. Got to get back, got to get my brain around this next deck that just launched today. New booster, got to figure it out. I continue with Pokopia. I am now at level nine on Bleak Beach. I don't remember where I was the last time I recorded. Matt, I'm beginning to worry that I'm like detrimentally addicted to Pokopia in the way that like... I saw you googling how to get the Ditto Eye surgery. I want it. I want to look like Ditto. So Doc, what I'm looking for is I want them over here. I want them wide and small. Can you make them wide and small? So but like because you told us that you finished it, you rolled credits and then you told us the story and I was covering my eyes because I thought it was going to cry when you're telling us. It's a credible story. So now in post game you just have to... So there's 300 Pokemon to find. I've found about 165. So I still have a substantial amount of the Pokedex to fill out. I've heard that if you finish the Pokedex, something else happens. There's also rumblings of DLC. I'm like, this game is going to fucking ruin me. So when I used to play Fortnite, and notice I just said used to play. I used to play Fortnite. So I still play Fortnite, but Pokopia is in the way. When I played Fortnite at the height of Fortnite addiction, if I played something else, I'd feel like I was wasting my time because I wasn't playing Fortnite. Now if I play anything but Pokopia, I'm like, well, this is a waste of time. I don't need the story of this PSP game that I've never played because I should be building buildings for the fucking Pokemon in Pokopia. And then also deeply inspiring, if you follow any of the Pokopia social media stuff, you're looking at people. There's somebody who's built a one-to-one recreation of Shinjuku, like skyscrapers. That makes me want to throw up. I love it. It's not for me. There are people who figured out how to make the water float. There are people who've made machines in it, like functional machines. There's somebody who's made an automated farm. So you just go up and you press a button and it automatically cycles through all of the food and brings it all to a central location so you can suck it all up. You'll see people who've created family marts and restaurants and one-to-one recreations of their favorite bar. And it's like, man, I am only at the surface of what I can do with this game. It's the same thing that was happening with Animal Crossing and in a large degree, Tears of the Kingdom too, where people were building machines and stuff like jets and whatever. I'm just like, what about playing it normal? I saw a meme that was how it feels to go back to Animal Crossing after Pokopia and it was just a plate of white rice and plain chicken. That's brutal. Because there are prefabs in Pokopia. So if you want to go the Animal Crossing route, you could just play it as Animal Crossing. But you could also build whatever you wanted in your entire life. I have to get back in there. I'm going to try and build a block that's Amsterdam is my next goal. I want to build a canal. And then I was like, the buildings in Amsterdam are sort of blocky at the top. So to look, I can make a very Amsterdam-esque strip and see if I can build out like a canal street. The enormity of the game is staggering to me. Because even if the game was just that one first area, I'd be like, hey, you know what? This is pretty good. This is nice. Yeah. But you haven't even opened up all the areas, have you? No, I think I've opened up two additional ones. Dude, there is a fucking area that is hypnotic. Yeah. That I don't want to spoil for you because when I got there, I was like, whoa, wow. Is the Pokémon Hypno walking around? No, Hypno's not walking around. I like him. The one that's walking around in the area is Tinkaton. Is that the little? The one with the hammer? So that one is already there when you open up that area. And she's done some great work. You know what? I'll be the judge. Yeah. So I got to get back in there. I love seeing that. You showed us one yesterday, a screenshot of Charmander saying, I tripped and it made us all sad. It's a great game. Great game. Sean, do you play any games? I do play video games, yes. Yeah. What kind of games do you play? I'm a big rogue-like person or a deck builder, give me a deck builder. So I've been playing a lot of Slay the Spire 2 recently. I'm like Ascension 8 with most characters. It's been taken over my life in that regard very much. Nick's a huge Slay the Spire guy, but if he was here, he'd have more interesting questions about it. Yeah, he'd have follow-up. Well, he's not, so I don't know what we're going to do. But my friends have also been getting back into Fortnite, and so I've been also kind of being forced back into Fortnite as well. Fortnite's a great game. It is, except I play it on the Switch One in my room that has really bad Wi-Fi. You're loping bastard. So it's basically, it's truly like I'm playing like textureless. I'm shooting into white void most of the time. I'll shoot and then the person will be already on me with a shotgun when they were like leagues away. So I'm playing on hard mode for sure. Wow. That's crazy. It's really tough. Ranch, have you gotten any further in your replaying of Hollow Knight? I have not yet beat Colosseum 3. I'm about to delete it off of my Steam page because I'm so pissed off. So then I'll try a little bit of Colosseum 3 a couple tries and then I'll get mad and go back to Tomodachi Life. I was going to say, has anything else progressed with Tomodachi Life as far as your relationship with Gerard Way? I have finally been able to force us to be crushing on each other. Wow. He's not yet asked me to move in with him. That's tough. So I am waiting for that and I'm also waiting to get married. Apparently I can have babies. Yes. I've seen this as well too. It's speaking of that. So on my island, it's kind of a slow burn. I had to get my character, the me that I made of me had a crush on my wife. That was not reciprocal right away. It said I had, I thought I was crushing and that Isabel saw me as a good friend, which was brutal. But then I added Hideo Kojima to my island and that he also had a crush on my wife. Oh no. And then Hideo and the me that I made of me became like best friends. And so these two best friends, there's drama on my island. Wow. These two best friends had a crush on the same girl, but guess who has a crush on little old Maddie? My wife. Hey. My wife's got a crush on me now. That's great. Pretty good. That's great. So we'll see if it happens. We're poof. Yeah. Lucky. Really funny game. Yeah. Really, really funny. I wasn't here for your record. I did play the game for a bit and I told you guys I named my island CIA island. And I had everybody talking as if they were in a PSYOP. And it would be like, do you want to talk about overthrowing governments? Yeah. I love to talk about overthrowing governments. What is your favorite part of overthrowing governments? It's like that all the time. You did really good. It's an extremely funny game. The funniest choice they could possibly make was giving no language filter for that. It's so funny. Yeah, it's really funny. Hola, buddy. One in five Americans have learned a new language on their bucket list. If that's you, make 2025 the year you finally check it off with Babble. The language app that makes grammar fun is actually worth your money. Precious time. Learning into language with Babble is all about small steps, big wins and progress you can actually track and feel. 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Sponsored content. Like we're just talking about this as enthusiasts because we like it. Well, it is such a pervasive machine right now in this moment that it feels like we're talking about the release of a game system. Like it is the number one most popular emulating handheld right now. The second thing I want to note is that since ordering mine, I ordered it back in February because I got nervous because they had posted that in the coming waves that they would be increasing the price. And since then, they've increased the price, I think two more times. So there's been three price increases since I got mine due to the RAM shortages. Right. Like people need to render boobs on Winona Ryder. Yeah. Yeah. So they're like, what if they were even bigger? What if I looked like Family Guy? What if, oh man, what if you took this anime girl, Grock, and you put her inside of a nude bikini? Yeah. What if I was on a movie set where they were filming a Dragon Ball Z live action movie with Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, The Rock, all these guys and they were like happy to see me. What if that happened? You fucking loser. I think that there's probably... Bullying needs to come back, I think, unfortunately, in a significant way. I think there's probably creative applications of AI. It's just that right now it's in the toddler stages and everybody is still like clapping their hands because they fit the block inside of a block. And it's like at some point, somebody will build something with it, but until that happens, it can't even count. I think there needs to be... Like it literally can't count. Like a moratorium on idiots using technology until it's ready for everybody to use it. Because these are the people that are using it first, people who are uncreative and uninteresting. Well, it's also interesting, as long as we're doing this sidebar, when the internet first dropped, the barrier of entry was that it was difficult to do. To explain the language of HTTP, to build your own website involved actual coding, to get an old computer online with a modem and to articulate that process to yourself was a high bar of entry. That was not something that my mom was like, oh, I want to do this. Because with AI, you can just see this little prompt and you can just say, what if my butt was big and it can do it and then it's done. And now we're draining lakes because now I have a big ass in a picture. I wish that it would become conscious so that it could be like, no. No, I'm not doing that. That's a lie. Get off, you corny weirdo. I have a family member in a family group chat that'll take a photo that was put in the family group chat and run it through GROC or some shit to make it like it's a video and we're dancing and it's always horrific. And I'm always the first person in there to be like, you're a loser. This sucks. I hate it. And everybody laughs. It's weird to me about the drive to make it make pornography is that there is literally infinity pornography now. It's not like we live in a puritanical world where you can't go online and search for anything you could conceive of. It's specifically they're like, no, I want to see a girl. You could Google for the things that they are trying to make and find it instantly. It's weird. I think there might be some element of like a sort of new level of misogyny happening there, though where there might be like, you know, I want it to look a little bit fake so that they're actually I'm not jacking off to a woman. Maybe. I'm now jacking off to this completely artificial being and I don't have to deal with. Um, the like the sex work aspect of it at all. I do wish that that was. Like, I wish that that went all the way. Yeah. So that these guys were like, what I'm what I'm really jacking off to is photons. Like what I want is a specific pattern of light. Yeah. To get my dick. Yeah. It's so great because I didn't think there's like a like I am now devaluing a human woman out of this experience and I'm replacing her with a creation of my brain because what's better than what I could come up with me a man. You don't read. It's so lack. So that's the reason that I and Thor has gotten expensive. Yeah. Uh, and I think it's gone up by like, I think almost $200 at this point. It went up the day after I bought mine because you you've been talking it up for a while and I'm looking at it and I keep texting the thread like, should I get it? Should I get it? I don't need this. Maybe that's how I was before I got it. And then I was like, you know, it's probably going to get more expensive. Everything is getting more expensive on the tech front. I'll just buy one used on eBay and lo and behold, got mine the next day. Yeah. FedExed and it was the same. Now the same price is a brand new one. Yeah. Which is also got a long line. Like if you if you buy one now, it's got like a three month wait or something. Yeah. In the late summer. But boy, oh boy, what a delight the device is. Yes. And as with all emulators, the first game that you play on an emulator is set up the emulator. Yes, absolutely. And I should note that we both have them sitting next to us very patiently. Um, it will, well, you know, let's talk about our stylist. Okay. Because you had, you'd said, oh, I like your stylist. I'm jealous of your style. Yeah. I'm going to get yours. This is the official Nintendo switch stylus. Yeah. Uh, it is, uh, kind of a heavy, heavy metal, uh, item. Yeah. Here's, wait, does this cap come off? You got one that looks like a pen. Mine has, uh, a couple of different things. You could swap out some of the heads and then you can remove, uh, you can unscrew part of it and there's a separate, there's another tip as well. Holy shit. And then the other like a Swiss army knife. Yeah. And then the other one, uh, is a pen actually. Wow. It's the most useless, uh, part of it. I think. All right. Well, I like your stylist. I think you did a good job. I like yours too. I like yours because it's a little bit smaller. Yeah. Mine is, mine looks like a Nintendo, you know, would make this. What I find really interesting about it, it has a slight protrusion, protrusion, protrusion on the end of it, which implies to me that you would slide it into something and it would lock. Yes. But what does Nintendo make that does that? Why is there a switch that in theory, a switch pen, an official Nintendo, not like Nintendo licensed an official Nintendo switch pen that has a divot in it that looks like it would lock it in place inside of a switch. They're playing, they're playing 40 chess. They're fucking with us. I got this one though to match the aesthetic of mine. It's a white one. I have the white aim for, I thought it would just go, uh, a little bit better. I've thought about installing something on the lid of mine to hold my, my stylus in place. That is the issue is that because it doesn't have a built in slot for it, you are going to be carrying around a few different things when you're bringing it places. But that so far is the only complaint I have about it. You got the entire accessories kit. You got the case for it. Yeah, mine came with a sort of like plastic clear case that goes on it on, on the outside of the clamshell and it has a hole for the vents, which is helpful. And then I also have a hard shell case for it that zips up. I don't have that with me. I have like a little, it also came with a bag and a lanyard. So like I have like a little pool string bag that I put this, I put it in when I'm putting it in like a travel to go sort of situation. And you also got the white one, which looks very, very DS light. Yes. Very nice colorway. And it also came with a grip to give it more of a controller. Do you have the grip with you? I don't, I didn't bring the grip. That's too bad. Because it didn't fit in my, it didn't fit in my little purse. Whereas mine is the Famicom colorway. Yes, it was very nice. Super Famicom colorway with rainbow colored buttons and a slightly gray cassette futurism aesthetic to the, to the outside of the case. Yeah. Your preferred computer colorway. It is. It is. Look how similar. Yeah. That's really good. It's pretty good. I have a Macintosh phone case and the colors are in the same neighborhood. In this, yeah. It's definitely the same family. Give me this fucking beige gray on every device in my life. Yeah. Give me headphones in beige gray. You want to work at Lumen. You want to work at the Severance office. Lumen is too, too gray. Too gray. Lumen is gray and blue. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And I want beigeish gray and orange. I see, I see. Orange is the colorway of the cassette futurism of my love. Well, maybe they'll have a, maybe they'll do it. Maybe they will. Season three, give us beige. This thing, yeah, so as mentioned, there are two screens on it. Both are touch screens. Yep. And it can, there's different ways to go about setting it up, which I think is fun, because like it comes with a stock Android OS that you can use out of the box, not use out of the box, but you could use it like that and be completely fine. Yeah, you can, you could set it up essentially like an Android phone. Yeah. Because it's also wireless. You could download your emulators from the Google Play app store and you could run the machine like that. Or you can reskin it with a new front end. Yes. Which is something that both Matt and I did and I think a lot of the community has been doing. Yes. With the most popular front end being Cocoon. Yeah. There are enormously helpful setup videos. I'm going to shout out, is it Retro Gamecore? Retro Gamecore. Has an incredible setup video. I've watched a lot of his videos. I don't know him, but I know him by first name Russ. Uh-huh. I've watched a lot of his setup videos and I'll watch a lot of his videos when I'm getting excited about maybe getting one of these damn things. He does great work. Yeah. And like this, the setup video for this is two hours long and he's going painstakingly through all the steps and like what you need to do. He avoids the sort of more gray areas of setting up a device like this. Yeah. This thing can emulate the switch. Yes. Um, which for me is unnecessary. Yeah. Because I have a switch. Yeah. I have a switch too. And if I want to play switch games, I can just play them on the switch. Yeah. And I'll say, I did set it up and I was like, you know what, let me see what it's like to do my favorite Super Mario 3D world. Mm-hmm. And it doesn't feel as good for some reason. I think there is like a sort of a latency that you don't get on a Nintendo product. So I'm like, I'm going to probably just uninstall that stuff honestly because I'm like, it's not even, I'm not even, I'm not, that's not what I'm here for with this. Right. Whereas with the older systems, you can actually create, you can run the emulators several frames ahead of your input so that your in, so that any microscopic lag that might occur when playing these older games has been eliminated by technically running the machine ahead of where you are actually playing. So Sonic, for me, always my first test case, Sonic feels exactly like Sonic on the, on the device. Whereas I think there's still some lag on the Switch version of Sonic 2. Wow. Like I think that there is a nearly imperceptible button lag because I'll play it on my CRT and then I'll play it on the Switch and I'm like, it just doesn't quite feel exactly the same. Yeah. And on this, feels exactly the same. The game I tested on it first, because I kind of knew that it could run, we both have the, the Max versions, I believe. Yeah. Max Pro or whatever. Yeah. That have the highest specs. Yeah. So my understanding with that, I was like, well, this is going to basically run anything I want. It can run Steam games. Yes. Like legit Steam games. Yeah. And so I was like, okay, I want, because I have a bunch of things like this. Yes, you do. I mean, one, I have a bunch of DSs that are regular that I've modded. I have the analog pocket, which I think is different enough. You can emulate stuff on it, but I think it has a different use case. I have a Retroid Pocket that is a handheld emulator device and I have two Anvernik devices that are also emulator devices. What are the names of the little guys in Elden Ring that sound like Anvernik but aren't Anvernik? Oh. Because every time I hear Anvernik, I think, oh, it's the- Anvernik, right? I know what you're talking about. Are they the little pots? No, they're like, they're like a guy with like an alien head and they just kind of shuffle around and don't do anything. They're in the area with the trumpet players or maybe they play the trumpet. There it is. Albin-aric. Albin-aric. A-L-B-I-N-A-U-R-I-C. That's always what I think of when anybody says the other word. Elden Ring, that's good shit. Yeah. We haven't even talked about that they're making the movie. Yeah. Looks cool. Peter Serafenois is in the cast list. You think he's the loathsome dongater? I don't know what. He's too tall for that. He's too tall. He's fucking big. He's a big dude. He might be too tall. Nah, he's great. But anyway, what was I saying? You were testing it on, I guess, a resource intensive game. Because I got into these handheld emulator ones because obviously the Anbernic ones have a specific use case too where they're designed to be like a Game Boy Advance SP or a Game Boy Advance or those are the ones that I have. They could run up to like PS2 but they don't have analog sticks so I'm not really trying to do that on here. But the Retro-Pocket one did have analog sticks and I was like, I want, and that one was, now that one's like two or three years old or something now maybe. They iterate on these things really, really fast. I was trying to run some games on it that just didn't really work. When I was setting them up on my Steam Deck, I was like, it's kind of a little too much to set up on a Steam Deck kind of. The first game I played on this thing was Beautiful Joe for the GameCube. Because I was like, that game has a specific rhythm and I'll know if it's off immediately because it's just all punching and kicking. It's fast. So I booted up and there's no issue with it at all. Then I'm just kind of locked into playing that for like an hour. This fucking rules, I love this game so much. One of my favorites from being a kid. I have to get back to it because that's the thing. I've been popping in and out of stuff because now then, that was the first thing I set up because it was kind of one of the easier... I have not yet set up GameCube because I'm of course Sega Forward. So the first thing I did was set up every Sega system, which also is sad because it has an end date. You can set up every Sega system. Yeah, you were done long before me. And it's like, well, that's all of them. That's they're done. And then I set up the DS. I set up Super Nintendo. I set up the other systems. But my first priority is, I gotta set them all up. I have to. My boys. I haven't set up any Sega on mine because I need... That's insane to me. I know, but because I didn't grow up with Sega and the only Sega stuff that I've played is has been ported or stuff we've done on the show. So I'm going to need the Rex. I'm going to need... Great. You're going to have to tell me what to do. I also set up PSP. It runs wonderful on it. I didn't have that much PSP on mine because I had a PSP that I didn't play that much, that I only played a couple of games on. So I have those, but I didn't go too deep into the library. For the amount of space I have on here, it would seem like the one that I got was maybe overkill. Well, I also... So when we first got the machines, I made the mistake of putting every Super Nintendo game, every Game Boy Advance game, every Genesis game. I put all the library, the entire libraries on the thing. And part of the setup is also scraping for artwork, scraping for titles, organizing your library. And about a week into it, I was like, this is stupid. I'm never going to play Ken Griffey 92. And every time I open the app in order to look through a Genesis library, I'm looking through a thousand baseball games I'm never going to play. So I cleaned the entire system out and then rebuilt a curated library. So I have about 500 games on the system right now. And that's curated. That's deeply curated. That's like top 50 of each system. Or 32X's entire library. Because yeah, I... Because did you install stuff straight onto the system or did you do an SD card into a computer? I did SD into a computer. Okay. I figured I had enough space on the device. So everything that I installed, I did natively on the thing. And it took fucking forever. That's insane to me. It took a long time. No, I followed the Retro Game Core guide, downloaded the file structure that he offers. Because he's like, hey, why not make a library that you can then use on any device in the future? And I was like, that's great. And I made my library on my home laptop and then installed it to this. And I was like, I don't need 15,000 games on this machine. I'm never going to make my way through it. So then I cleaned it all out and rebuilt. And then I'm going to copy and save the curated library that's here back onto my computer at home. Okay, great. Because I also run, what is it, emulation station on my computer at home. Yeah, I was going to do that. And I was like, I'm going to buy a micro-USD card when it has a terabyte of space on it. I was like, I'll just do it like this. But because of that, mine is extremely curated. Because I spent the time to be like, well, what games am I going to play on here? What are the games that I would want to emulate or have available to me at any given time? So mine is like, it's a smaller library than yours, certainly. But it has stuff on it that I'm like, I'm going to play Kingdom Hearts 2 on this thing. For sure. And I will complete it. I'll play it at some point all the way through on this device. I've only downloaded three PS2 games. The other thing that I'm doing in terms of curation is that I am leading with games that are either translated that have never been translated before. So for example, my PSP lead game right now is Gundam Game that never came out in the West. All of the menus are translated. All of the buttons are translated. The dialogue is in original Japanese. It's a third-person fighting game. So not fighting, but you are third-personing a mech. You choose from a menu of mechs, and then you go out onto a field and you kill people. So I choose Char. And you're fighting against other eras of Gundam, which is really cool. But it's also playing the original 1970s theme song because I'm Char. Feels great. Yeah, that's awesome. And most of my curated library is a lot of stuff I've never had the opportunity to play or games that I love that I've found undubbed copies of them. For example, Final Fantasy X, which I've talked about on previous weeks, or The World Ends With You, where the voice acting in the actual release is like, shut up. I hate this. I don't want to talk to anybody. And then in the Japanese one, it's like, Urusai. It's just like clean, regular, normal talking. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah, so that's a lot of my library stuff I haven't yet played ever. That's very interesting. Or Shenmue Undubbed. Yeah, let's fucking go. So yeah, I have DS, 3DS, GameCube, PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, and PlayStation. That's about it. But then I have, I installed an app called Game Native, which is I was able to then from there to log into my Steam account and download games natively from my Steam library. I did a little research and was like, okay, it's not as powerful as a Steam Deck, but it can do the types of games that I play on Steam that are over, where the Steam Deck is a little bit overkill. Kind of like your ball pits or your Bellatro, or what I've been playing, the Deep Rock Galactic survivor. Well, what makes it more attractive than the Steam Deck to me is just the form factor. It's the size of a portable device. The Steam Deck, when it came out, we were like, this is the largest thing I've ever held. It is still an enormous machine. I could do a kickflip with it. Yeah, you could ride it like a skateboard. Whereas this is, this feels like it's supposed to be a portable device. This feels like what the next DS would feel like. You know what I mean? It's extremely premium. That's another thing that this one has over the Anbernic devices or the Retroid Pocket device that I have is that those feel like toys. Those feel cheap. This feels extremely premium. It's dual OLED screens. So it's also very shiny. Very shiny. Now you talked to me about front ends and you said, what's going on with your front end? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, let me tell you what I've got installed on mine. I have master system. Also my systems are organized by release of system date. So I have master system Game Boy Game Gear, Super Nintendo, Sega, Sega CD, Sega 32X, Sega Saturn, PlayStation Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS and PSP. Okay. And so do you have those? Those are just tiles like you could click on that tile and play the game or those are folders? No, these are folders. Okay. So that's why yours is like that. So I have all of my, the top 50 Super Nintendo games of my time. Yeah, I've been thinking about sort of redoing mine because I do like the idea of the folders, but I have all of mine out like a DS menu or a 3DS menu where I can click on any of the tiles on here and boot one and start playing the game. I think unfortunately my library is just too big to accommodate that. Yeah, for sure. But I also really like, so I'm running Cocoonix as my front end on Cocoon, which is a skin that you can then download from inside Cocoon, which has this gorgeous museum like display tiles for all of the games. So for example, if you hover on Sega CD, it'll show up at the top, Sega CD art, the Sega CD logo, and then it'll say the Sega CD plays CD based games and adds hardware functionality such as faster central processing unit and graphic enhancements like sprite scaling and rotation. It lists the, the, the era that it came out. So it's 1993. And then the main benefit of CD technology was greater storage. But if you click on PlayStation, it'll be like 1994. Like it'll show a highlight game also. So for like the PlayStation, it's Castlevania Symphony of the Night. If you hover over Super Nintendo, it's Chrono Trigger in really gorgeous splash art. Yeah. It's, it looks, it looks like it's a real thing. It looks real. Like that looks like it's a real device. It doesn't look, I'm showing it, I'm showing it to our producers. It looks like a real device. Yeah. I'm running with the theme Float UI OLED. And it just kind of shows like if I'm hovering over a game, it shows the game like on the top screen in like a big, in a big way. So you can see what it is. So you can effectively look at the top screen and then not really pay attention to the bottom screen. That's gorgeous. Yeah. Dragon Quest nine Sentinels of the Starry Skies undubbed. It's, what's really cool about it to me though too is that like on a DS or a 3DS even, you know, there is, it's, the screen is not the full size of the, of the machine. Like it'll be like the screen is part of it and then there will be like usually like a bezel of some kind or, you know, it'll be built into something holding the screen. Yeah. And the screens will be similar size. The top screen is the, is the whole thing is screen. Yeah. And if you install widescreen at like widescreen adaptive emulators on certain 3D games, it will also fill that top screen in a way that the original game was unfilled. So for example, if I'm playing Final Fantasy 12 undubbed, you can see the entire top screen will be widescreened because apparently there was a widescreen mod for that game. Wow. But if I don't like, if, if, if you don't want to force the games into a widescreen mode, you can also play them for three. The thing about mods in this thing is that like that's sort of like where I tap out. Oh really? Cause like I kind of want to just play the games. Like if there's any sort of like friction, I'll just try to find a way to play the game. But like setting up like, I know that you can set up like shaders for, or there's like a, there's a, um... Matt, you didn't, you didn't set up your shaders? I don't think I did. No. Matt, Matt, the shaders look so beautiful. On a lot of them, I was kind of like... Matt, hold on, Matt. It looks good enough to me. Like I'm playing Max Payne on this thing and it looks fucking awesome. Matt. But the, um, on the 3DS one, you can upscale them. You can upscale the resolution. It kind of looks like what the Switch games look like, which is kind of like polished, but shitty. Um, and the 3DS kind of like makes the thing chug a little bit. Matt, look at how beautiful. No, yeah, that's really nice. Matt, look at that. How far do you think you're going to get into Final Fantasy Tactics Advance was what you're showing behind the screen? This was of course the very first Game Boy Advance game that I downloaded. It is also the game that when I started up the system to show off the shader, it was already in, because also there is a function on the device where you can save your state and auto load it when you close out a game. Yes. So instead of having to like wait for a save point, you can just like, oh, the next time I pick this up, I'll be where I am. I'm never going to beat this fucking game, man. Well, it's funny because when I was installing 3, um, uh, Game Boy Advance stuff on it, you know, I just got that Game Boy Micro in Japan and I'm kind of like, am I going to play Game Boy Advance things on this? Probably not. Right? Like I have the Everdrive cartridge. I have that. It's gorgeous. But I wish there was like a, I wish there was like a device. I'm inventing something. I'm in my inventor bag for a second, if you will. I'm sort of like, um, Wayne Zelinski in this way. Okay. I don't know who that is. From Honey I Shrunk the Kids. Except I'm not going to invent a shrinking machine and ruin my family's life. Okay. I'm not going to make the baby really big. There's a fucking TV show right now called Miniature Wife or something like that. I can't get into it. And I was like, first off, how could you not call this Honey I Shrunk You? That's fucking perfect. Honey I Shrunk You. When I heard about this miniature wife shit, I was like, this is like one of those shows my friend watches. Like what the fuck is that? Some quibby ass show. There's probably like talented people that work on it. And there's talented people on the show. Matthew McFadden. Yeah. Elizabeth Banks. Yeah. Good stuff. Fake ass show. It doesn't seem real to me. Sorry. But maybe it's great. Maybe it's great. What were you about to say? I'm inventing a device. Before you do. I'm in my Wayne Zelinski bag. Just add, just do this for me. I'll do the textures. Just do LCD shader for Game Boy or NDS games. And then do plain scan lines for the older games. And it'll tell me where to put it. What? It'll tell me in the folders where to. Put what? Huh? Because I have to download a patch or something. No, they're all there. They're already. I'll do it within the emulator. They're already in there. I do it within the emulator. All you have to do is click on the shader. I'm thinking of this one, this resolution pack for Pokemon Ultrasun. No. Ultrasun runs a little shittily. It runs fine, but there's a thing you can add to it. That's the stuff that I'm talking about where I'm like, I'm not going to do all that. Yeah, I'm not doing any of that. Yeah, that seems like a little too much. Or like adding cheats or something. I'm like, I'm not doing anything. Just add scan lines. I'll add scan lines. And add LCD shaders. I'll do it. That's it. Yeah, that's it. You don't need to add, like there's a lot of CRT emulation stuff on this that'll make the screen slightly rounded like you're looking at an old 1970. Don't do any of that shit. But you do need scan lines because as we talked about in last week's episode, a CRT had built in features that would soften the sprites. And if you're just looking at the raw sprite art, you're looking at the paints instead of the painting. Incredible. I want, my device doesn't make any sense. I don't know why I'm going to say it. What is the device? What is it? I want to be able to have like an emulator device like this, but then have like a Game Boy Advance cartridge with like Wi-Fi that then I could send my save on a device like this to the cartridge so that I could put my save and progress on the cartridge. If I wanted to use like an actual device, like if I wanted to put the cartridge in a Game Boy like the Game Boy Micro and continue my game from the emulator, I'm sure there must be a way to do it with the emulation technology. I think you can do it. Yeah, because I have it. I'm working with an SD card, but it kind of seems like it might be a little above my pay grade. I want to be able to send it. Couldn't you use EverDrives that have SD card slots? Yeah, that's like what I have. And then you would save the game on your SD card and then put it into your EverDrive. I think so. And then the save would already be on your EverDrive when you put the card into your Game Boy Advance. Yeah, that's already, I think, three, two steps. Okay, great. I want to be able to like click something. Okay. And have it like. Gotcha. Have like a light sort of like indicate that it got sent over. For a human being who spent two hours setting up the device minimum up to like I took two weeks to set up my fucking device. My wife was getting mad at how much time I was spending on this fucking thing. Also, my wife, my wife was like, what are you playing? And I'm like, I'm still setting it up. And she was like, what does that mean? And I was like, I got to set it all up first. I got told I was too addicted to the game. The game? Yeah. And I was like, baby, I'm not even playing. So just setting it up. And I would like come in when I'd be so proud when I troubleshot something, got it to work. And I'd be like, hey, look, look, so these are the voices in this. Yeah. Where originally I could only play it in English and now I can play it and she'd be like, that's great, baby. Yeah. The light would leave her eyes and she would look back at her laptop to keep working. Yeah. Yeah. No. When I start saying stuff like that, my words have Medusa powers and they turn my wife into a stone statue. By the way, I should say that all of the undubbed and translated ISOs for these games or the bin and queue files, all of that's all already done. Like you don't have to apply any hacks or cheats. Yeah. You just get the... Or translated version. I don't think that we should say how to do that on the show. Yeah. Just that you can do it. You can do it in the same way. You could take coffee to your room. You could take coffee to your room. Yes. And that would be a great thing to do. Take coffee to my room. When I'm at home, I don't do that. What does that mean? You're already in technically your room. Yeah, but your room, like your bedroom is like separate. Oh, you don't bring coffee to your bedroom? Neither do I. I don't typically... I'm not bringing any food in there. I don't like food in my bedroom. No. I'm not a... I like to close... Like my door is in close proximity to the kitchen. I'm closing the door, so I'm not getting food stinking there. That being said, if my wife is having kind of a sleepy morning, I'll make her breakfast in bed. I'll come in with a tray. Yeah. I'll give her breakfast in bed. She can eat in there. Yeah. But I don't like eating lying down. No. It's confusing my body. Yeah. I think it's dangerous. But she's like, oh, thank you so much. And she can drink her tea and read a little book or something. Yeah. And I'll sit there all proud. Like, I'll be like, how's that croissant? She'll be like, that's so great. Thank you. And I'll be like, yay. Do you want to see my LCD shader? And she'll be like, light leaves her eyes. Yeah, sure, baby. Thank you. I think I'm going to go back to sleep actually. Faced down into a pancake. When I got my Macintosh, my original Mac, finally online, which was like an enormous feat for me when I finally got it online, I ran to get her and I'm like, I did it. I did it. I got my Macintosh online. And she's like, what did you do? And I'm like, I got the weather. And she's like, that's great. I'm like, I got it though. It works. And she's like, I just went outside. That's great. I went outside. It's great that you got the weather. I got the weather. I got the weather. I got the weather. I went outside. It's great that you got the weather from your 1985 Macintosh. That's so funny. Our wives are very special. They put up with a lot. Yeah. I also have to talk about, we talked about the feel of it. I wish I brought the grip because the grip doesn't add that much. Well, it adds enough that it doesn't then fit in my bag. Okay. But it's the grip is comfy. It's helpful. It feels good. Okay. I like that. But even holding it just like this, it isn't too uncomfortable. Either it's big enough. I like the form factor on it a lot. I do wish that the L1 and L2 buttons were a little bit wider because I find that the L1, L and R1 button is too skinny. Yes. I need it to be a little bit chunkier. I wish that they were the same size as the L2s. I've seen a common complaint about the device actually being that they don't like the movement of the L2 and R2 buttons because it pulls down and doesn't click in. But I've seen that there are caps to put on it or something that then somehow simulates that feeling more or something. Okay. I'm not into hardware modding this in any way because I think it's a otherwise really perfect device. The thing that I will say too is that I love the buttons feel perfect. The buttons are clicking. They feel exactly clickier, squishy enough. I like that the analog sticks are inset instead of on top sticking out. I do think that it's cool that they're in a hole. They're kind of just down there. I guess the game that I'm playing on here the most right now is Max Payne. That probably will be the first game I finish on it, which is very funny to me. You're showing me nights into dreams. As if to say, see, you could play it. But I'm going to say this as kindly as I can. I'm good. Look at that art. That is great. I've got Magic Night Ray Earth for the Sega Saturn and the splash page is just so beautiful. What is the name of the night sky? Night sky? Yeah. It's Naja. Naja? It's Naja. Naja's last name. Yugi Naja? Yuki? Well, I can't think of it. Yugi? Yugi Naga. It's like it's not like Yugi Naka. Fucking god damn it. Hold on. The man who's in prison? Yeah, that's the guy. That's the guy who made nights. Oh, he made it. So he named him after himself, his first of many crimes. What? No, I'm saying not who made him. What the character's name is? Nights. His name is Nights? What are you asking me? I'm asking the character in Nights into Dreams. The purple thing. What his name is? Nights. His name is Nights? That sucks. One of my favorite parts of this is that on the PlayStation 1 and the original Saturn, I know this is all old hat for people who've been emulating for a long time, but if you're new to it, there are corrective geometries that you can apply to these old games. So PlayStation 1 games had very wiggly polygons. Like the characters would kind of tremble while they were standing still because the geometry of the polygons was just slightly adjusting the entire time. And there is a smoothing that you can add. So you're not adding any polygons. It's just that they're locked in place the way that they should be. Makes old games look so good. I'm very impressed by this because as somebody like I said who has had many of these devices and have wanted to basically do exactly this and haven't really been able to accomplish it, thus having multiple devices that do all of this, I kind of think this is the last one I'm going to need. Yeah. I don't know what else I would need to do because I don't, like a switch is already handheld. Yes. I'm not going to need to emulate a switch in 20 years. It's already handheld. A Sega Saturn? Not handheld. Not handheld. I still have my Saturn. I still have my CRT. Do I have a sort of a sadness about the idea that I would be maybe beating some of these games on an emulator instead of the actual hardware when I have the hardware and an optical drive emulator? And it's sure. But can I bring my Saturn to work? No. Can I play this at lunchtime? Absolutely. Right. So as a working adult, this is the machine that's best for me. And it folds up. Like it's not small by any means, but it's not big either. It is about as portable as you'd want something to be. And like, yeah, like I don't think I'll need to buy another one of these. I could watch Netflix on this dumb thing. Okay. So this is actually something I forgot to even mention because it has the two screens. You're probably, the listeners are probably like, what about games that only have one screen? You could use the bottom screen to do whatever the fuck you want or you could turn it off. You can play tutorials of how to play the game that you're playing on your top screen simultaneously. Or you could watch Squid Gamer some shit. You could do whatever. Who cares? You could do that. You could also like install apps. Yeah. Like I installed a PlayStation remote play app, not the one, like not the one that they put out. I spent money on one that people are like, this one's like $6, but it's better than the one that PlayStation put out. So you're playing PS5 games on that thing? I could. I haven't done it yet, but I set it up and it worked fine. Wow. But like I'm playing them remotely. That's why I'm kind of like, this is kind of the only thing I need now actually. Like if I'm going on a trip, which I am soon, this is coming with me. I'm in this really difficult place because the only game I actually want to play is Pokopia. It's Pokopia, yeah. And it's the one thing I can't play on this device. You couldn't emulate it on here if you wanted to. So I'm in a bind. You could bring the Switch to you also. I'm about to go on a trip and I am going to bring a video game with me and that game is going to be Pokopia. But this thing is small enough where I'm kind of like, you could probably just put it in your bag too. I'm in two systems that seems insane, but also this is... It's small enough. ...30 systems. Yes, exactly. But I'm not going to... The thing is, when I go home tonight, I have this delicious device. It's all set up. Well, don't eat it. Looks tasty. No, you're not supposed to eat that. It's ice cream sandwich sized. If I got an ice cream sandwich this big, I'd be like, let's fucking go. An ice cream sandwich the size of a normal sandwich? So I'm going to go home tonight and while I've... I've talked about some of the games that I've been playing and dipping into on this machine, but the truth is that as long as Pokopia has its claws on me, all I'm wasting my fucking time playing any game that isn't my guys. I got to save my guys. They built buildings for you overnight. So you have to see what they've done because they're so proud. You have to come back the next day and be like, what'd you do? And you're like, hey, it looks pretty good. That actually just filled me with such sadness because I'm like, my guys are probably bored. I haven't told them to do anything in a little while. You got to tell them to do something. I got to tell them to put the guys to fucking work. Also, there's events. Pokopia has events. Right now, there's a Sableye event where Sableye's in the game and he's doing like a treasure hunt. I like treasure. There's a lot of treasure in this game. I did boot it up the other night. How are we talking about this again? I can't stop thinking about it. Two new guys populated in the main area and two little bushes are shaking around. Who is it? I get Venonat and I'm like, oh, great. Venonat's here. I love Venonat. Get the next one. Oh, now Venomoth is here. I got him both. Oh, nice. One, two. That's great. I like also that some of the Pokémon only appear at night. Some only appear during the day. It's nice. It's great. It's like, I'm really there. Put it in my glasses. Don't let me look at anything else in the world. That is the first thing you've said that has made me realize you do have a problem, actually. I don't want to go to work because I want to play Pocopia because it satisfies. I just want to bang on this drum all day. I've talked about this on the show before. It makes me feel like I've done something. When I go to work, the reason I don't have guilt or shame at the end of the day is because I've accomplished something. I have this thing in my brain that's toxic capitalism. Pocopia, when I play it and I build a little building, I've satisfied that guilt and shame of my day and I feel like I've accomplished something and then I'm free. I love it. I love it. If I could be paid as much money as I get paid to work to just play Pocopia, I would quit everything. I wish that life for you. I do too. Well, we love the Aintor. I feel like we've said everything we could say about it. Yep. Shall we do a segment? Oh, segment. It's time for the question block. I don't want to do that anymore. I don't want to sing segment. You almost never do except today and last time. I don't want to do it. I don't like it. You don't have to. Nobody's making you do it. You decided to do it. I don't want to do it. I don't like it. If you don't like it, you don't have to do it. I'm not going to do it anymore. You don't have to take coffee to your room. Great. Let's try a different way. Okay. So this is a segment? Yeah. All right. See, I didn't do anything. I kind of thought you were going to do it again. Nope. It's time for the question block. See, I don't mind doing that. That'll do. That works. Also, I liked segment. I like it. I don't mind it. I think you're judging it because it's you. You're supposed to do it. There's also the other version, the old Sega, because there's two Sega's. There's the Sega, and then there's also Sega. That's pretty good. Because you could do segment. Here's my impression of Sega. Don't you fucking dare. We are the only people on this show. I'm doing it. Silence. Fuckin' Jesus. This first one is from Speedboat Jones. What's up, Speedboat Jones? They write, what is the most Chicago Pokemon? Now, I think I have an immediate answer for this. It might be rude. Okay, what is it? I think it's Snorlax. I don't think it's Snorlax. I think it's Gerter. Gerter's pretty good. Gerter is just like a fucking blue-collar Pokemon doing the work. Can I tell you why I think it might be Snorlax? Sure. Picture the Superfans. Yeah, it looks like Superfan. He kind of fits in right in there. You wouldn't bat an eye if Snorlax was also saying dub bears. Yep. I think maybe both of them are Chicago Pokemon. They're kind of Chicago. Is there a... Trubbish, ironically, is from France, apparently. Yeah. Because he's from the French Pokemon game where the Eiffel Tower was there. But in Pocopia, he talks like he's like, yo, you want to check out my bedroom, yo? And I'm like, whoa, that's how Trubbish talks? Yeah. He moved. Timothy Chalamet. Yeah. What's your answer, Snorlax? My answer is Snorlax. I think... I'm happy with both of those. Is there an Italian beef Pokemon? I don't think so. There should be. They should have more Italian Pokemon. Where? Yeah, they should, but I guess they don't want to step on Mario's. I guess that's true. Yeah, they can't really... That's the one region that they're not really trying to do it. Where is the soft serve Pokemon from, do you think? Because soft serve Pokemon is... Something vaguely European about it, wouldn't you say? Yeah, he's like a gelato, maybe. Yeah. So maybe he's Italian. Maybe he's Italian, and then his family moved to Chicago. I don't think the ice cream moved to Chicago. Why are they all moving to Chicago? The question is, which is the most Chicago Pokemon? I was just having a tangent about ice cream Pokemon. Uh-huh. What about keys? What about clefkey? Where's clefkey from? That's from one of the DS ones, I think. No, I mean, where is he from? If Snorlax is from Chicago and Gerders from Chicago and ice cream Pokemon's from Italy, then where's clefkey from? Keys is they're from Louisiana, but then they moved to Chicago. What the fuck? This next one is from Vic Strong. Hi, Vic Strong. Vic writes, do you make clefkey? Is it a conscious decision to bounce off a game or does it just kind of happen? I think, oh, I have the answer for this. What's your answer? Well, they continue to say, if both, which one more frequently and what are some common reasons? Okay, I would say more often than not for me, it just kind of happened. Yeah, same. In the same way that when I go to the movies and I usually enjoy myself, it's because I am sort of filtering all my... I'm curating my entire life, so I'm not going to go see a movie I don't think looks good. I'm not going to start a video game that I think looks bad. You know what I mean? For this show sometimes. But for a video game to lose me kind of, it's not necessarily that I'm not enjoying it anymore. It's usually that something else that has my attention, that's jingling its keys a little more in my face, got my attention. It's happened to you very recently. Yes. I mean, Pokopia is the game that took me away from God of War Ragnarok, which I was deep into a playthrough of. I was like, oh, finally I'm clearing this off. God of War Ragnarok was because I fell off of Final Fantasy Rebirth again. And that was always because I'm trying to fucking 100% each region, which is not the way to play that game. But I cannot leave these people in distress. If somebody asks Cloud, hey, can you go find me this part so I can build a windmill? I'm like, Cloud can't just be like, no. Yeah, my Cloud can. He was just like, I don't got time for all your bullshit. But also, I just fell off of Fortnite because Pokopia is so good. Well, I feel like you'll get back into Fortnite. I will, for sure I will. But I can't believe that it's Pokopia that finally got me off that game. That just generally is not your type of game really at all. It's not my type of game at all. No combat. And also, I wasn't even looking forward to it. It was only when the reviews were like, this is the best Pokémon game that ever came out that I was like, Pokopia? Yeah. Fine, I'll try it. God, it's so good. This next one. Can we get the fuck out of here so I can go play that game? Yeah, let's do it. This next one's from Mort. Hi, Mort. And Mort writes, if you had to fight with a Pokémon, you'd have to go to the game. Fight one animal. What's the biggest animal you think you could take down in a fight? Hand to hand combat, no weapons. Alternate question, same thing, but for Pokémon? Maybe we answer the Pokémon version because that's less likely. I don't want to fight an animal. I don't think I could take down any Pokémon. They all have fucking moves and many of those moves like set you on fire or like drown you? I think there's a whole class of Pokémon that I could take down. I could take down Magikarp. Magikarp, easy work, Caterpie, any sort of like... Caterpie can like paralyze you, can't it? No. Well, like a poison sting or something, but that's good luck doing that from under my fucking shoe. It's big. It's not small. Yeah, Caterpie is big. Caterpie is big. I'm gonna... It's like the size of the table. I'll stone cold stun it. No problem. I am not taking... That's the bottom line. The only one I'm taking on is fucking Magikarp. I'm just kicking that fish. Eevee? No way! Oh, you don't even want to know what I'd do. Eevee has bite. I could throw it. You can't... It's huge. A Drown Eevee? Have you seen how big an actual Eevee is? I'm only naming Gen 1 ones. That's what I have in my head right now. I don't think I could take down a Drowsy. I don't think I could take down... Hypno. Mr. Mime, no. They put me in a box. Magmar, couldn't do. Electabuzz, no. Pikachu would fucking kill you. Squirtle would drown me. You can't take on anything except Magikarp and... I'd kill Eevee so easily. It would be like RFK with a fucking raccoon. I'm gonna study this later. Study it. You know those things you get in museum gift shops, like those plastic squishy things that are filled with water? I feel like you could do that to a Dratini. I feel like you could pop a Dratini pretty easily. I just looked up whatever Dratini. It's like a worm dragon. You could pop a Dratini. I kind of feel like... Cubone? What? There's no way he comes armed, doesn't he? Or is Maruak the one that has the arm? No, he's got a little bone too. He's got a bone. Yeah, he's got a bone. Oh, Oddish is toast. Oddish is toast. Oddish is fucking toast. But no, no, Oddish is poison. There's no way. I know, but there are po- I'm not getting up to any of these fucking Pokemon that can paralyze me, poison me, electrocute me. There are plants in life that can poison me that I don't- And I'm not fucking kicking them with my shoe! Yeah, I guess you're right. Diggle it. Diggle it? I'd fucking toss dynamite down the whole next. Jesus Christ. I would... I'd fucking demagnetize magnetite. I bet I could take a gimme ghoul. Yeah. That's the treasure chest one. And I feel like I could probably kick this shit out of a box. What's the... There's like a... there's a horse one that's not... Ponyta? No, that's not Ponyta. That looks like a stuffed animal horse kind of. Rapidash? No, not a fire one. It's like a brown horse. I don't remember what it's called. A brown horse? Yeah. Giraffig? Just shoot it. You shoot the horse? Well, I have experience with it. I don't want to do this to any Pokemon. Yeah, I don't want to do it to anybody. I want to be their friend. This next one is from when the pony dies. Hey, speaking of... Hey, okay. When the pony dies. For those playing the Switch 2, what's the percentage of time played handheld versus docked? Oh, man. I am truly 50-50 because I'm bringing it to work to play Pocopia on lunch. And then as soon as I get home, I want to see those boys on big screen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It is far... So the Switch 1 I played a lot more docked than handheld, but I didn't like the way it felt handheld. It felt wiggly or broken in some way. I was always afraid of the Joy-Cons. Even though they slid in or whatever, the Switch 2 feels more solid to me. How about you? I would say I'm maybe 60-40 handheld. Oh, wow. I play a lot of handheld because I'll be playing next to my wife while we're watching something on TV or something. But there are some games that I will only play handheld. When I was playing Silk Song, I was mostly playing that game on handheld because it being big on the TV would stress me the fuck out. I felt like I was... Because I was holding it, I was more in control of what was going on, which is ridiculous. But this is my truth. And I appreciate everybody writing your questions. That's it for the Question Block. That's it for this episode of Get Played. Our music is by Ben Prunty. Our art is by art. Our art is by art. I'm some kind of fucking idiot. 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